The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-26 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

The Queen in Germany.

E.OSENAU, COBURG, Aug. 23.
The Queen and Royal family have continued to
take walks and drives in the neighbourhood.
Her Majesty is everywhere received with marks
of affection and respect, but her privacy is nowhere
intruded upon.

The Crown Princess of Prussia has visited the
Queen, and has dined with her M. jaity every day.
The Duchess of Coburg has also dined with her
Majesty.

Prince and Princess Augustus of Saxe-Coburg,
with their son and daughters, visited the Queen
yesterday.

Foreign Courts.
PARIS, Aug. 24.
A letter from the Camp of Chalons, dated Satur-
day, says:—" On the evening of the races, after a
dinner at which the gentlemen riders and the officers
who won the races were present, the Emperor, the
Prince Imperial, his Majesty's Visitors, and the
other guests went to the theatre. The Emperor
and the Prince were received with enthusiasm. The
rain, which had returned, caused an apprehension
that the naance uvres fixed for the next day would
not take place, but fortunately those fears were
groundless. At about 10 the troops took up their
position for the sham fight at the north-eastern ex-
tremity of the camp, between the farms of St.
-Hilaire and of Jonchery. The Emperor, the Prus-
sian princes, Marshals O'Donnell, Itandon, de
M'Mahon, and a brilliant staff, among whom were
several foreign officers, followed the different move-
ments with great interest. Marshal Baraguay
d'Hilliers commanded the troops. The Prince Im-
perial, on horseback and in, uniform, was present.
An immense concourse of persons were assembled.
The departure of the Emperor from the Camp of
Chalons is, it is said, fixed for Wednesday.
The Empress honoured with a visit the day before
yesterday the Agricultural Exhibition now open in
the Zoological Gardens in the Bois de Boulogne.
Prince Napoleon arrived at Havre two days back,
and alighted at Frascati. On the following morn-
ing the crew of the Prince's yacht, Jerome-Napo-
leon, waited on his Imperial Highness to present
him with a beautiful model of that vessel, on the
scale of one-fiftieth, executed by the men them-
selves.

The Ost Deutsche Post of Vienna announces that
Queen Maria of Naples has become so ill since her
return to Rome that her medical attendants have
recommended another visit to Germany.

The Duchess of St. Albans and Lady Diana
Beauclerk remain the guests of Lady Molesworth, at Pen-
carrow, Cornwall.

The Duke of Hamilton arrived at his family
residence in Arlington-street, Piccadilly, on Monday night,
from Baden-Baden.

The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland have left
Tarbet House, for Dunrobin Castle, where the noble duke
and duchess will entertain a large circle of friends.
The Marquis of Abercorn is staying with a select
party of friends at Tandragee, on a visit to the Duke and
Duchess of Manchester.

The Marquis of Tullibardine, in consequence of
the serious illness of his father, the Duke of Athole, is ex-
pected to return home as soon as possible from Canada,
where his lordship has been serving with his regiment, the
Scots Fusilier Guards.

The Marquis Conyngham has arrived at his seat
in Ireland, after a cruise of several weeks in his yacht.
The Earl of Malmesburv, Viscount Ranelagh,
Hon. Colonel Lowther, M.P., Major-General Wood, and
Sir Henry Willoughby, M,P., have been among the guests
of the Earl of Lonadale at Lowther Castle, Cumberland.
The Earl of Strathmore and the Earl of Stamford
and Warrington, since the close of the York races, have
been staying at Glamis Castle, N.B.

The Earl of Crawford and Balearres has joined
Lord and Lady Lindsay at Dunecht, N. 8., from Haigh
Hall, Lancashire.

Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Redohire
and the Hon. Misses Canning have left Grosvenor-square,
for Pencarrow, on a visit to Lady Molesworth.
Viscountess Jocelyn and the Hon. Misses Jocelyn
left Walmer Castle, where they have been staying with
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, for Switzerland.
Lord and Lady Taunton and Hon. Misses Labou-
chere, Hon. Charles Howard, Hon. and Rev. F. and Eliza-
beth Grey, are staying at Naworth Castle, Cumberland, the
seat of the Earl of Carlisle.

Mr. J. and Lady Georgians Balfour, the Countess
(Dowager) of Ellesmere and the Earl of Ellesmere, and.
Lord W. Thynne, have arrived at Cawdor Castle, Nairn-
shire.

The Duke de Rianzare3, husband of Queen
Christina, has just leased the villa at Pau called Du
Bousquet.

THEODOR JENSEN, the Danish painter, is at pre..
sent occupied in this country painting the portraits of their
Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales.
A pamphlet is preparing by M. Thiers, urging
a strict alliance between France and Austria.

THE POET LAMARTINE has just had another sad
affliction befall him. His sister, to whom he was deeply
attached, has died, after a most painful illness. Mdme. do
Ligones was the wife of a former sous-prefet under the
Restoration. M. de Lamartine is at St. Point, whera he
has been ever since the death of his wife.

SERIOCOMIC ANECDOTE OF LATOUR-MAITBOURO,
whose leg was carried off by a round shot at the battle of
Leigzig.—" Amputation was immediately and successfully
performed on the ground, and 'he lived to fight another
day;' but his servant, who had accompanied him through
so many dangers, was quite overcome at the occurrence.
'Tiens-toi, camarade,' said the General ; pour ton soulage-
ment to n'auras jamais plus qu'une botte a frotter.' "

A STROLLING COMPANY—has been thus graphi-
cally described very recently by Mr. Frank Buck-
land.—The manager, I learned, had been proprietor of
several theatres, and had made some considerable sum of
money, but had lost it all by theatrical speculation : his
wife had once been a star of London theatres, and having a
magnificent voice, earned an excellent living. The pro-
prietor had married her, and was with his wile doing a good
business when, through simple hard work and over exertion
in singing, one day her voice broke down in the middle of a
song. and she lost not only her power of ever after-
wards singing, but almost of even talking, for the poor
thing can speak only just in a faint whisper. She
has besides this had a largo family of ten, seven being
alive. The eldest boy performs the "Cure," the
youngest, the baby, is huddled up into a corner while
the mother is playing the piano. The next principal per-
formers are a man and his wife, both of respectable parents,
and 1,1 ho, I was given to understand, were stage-
struck in their youth, ran away from home, and got mar-
ried ; years ago the wife took the part of " walking lady,"
that is, the lady who acts the part of " the beau, iful
daughter," and who does nothing much but walk about,
look graceful, and is made love to ; now, alas, she takes
the parts of old women " and mothers," and I regretted to
hear the market was overstocked with candidates kr this
character. The gentleman had once been " the singing
gentleman ;" he is now obliged to take almost any part
assigned him, and right well he does his duty, being, by
nature, a capital actor, and no disgrace to the London
boards. This company were in miserable circum-
stances; they had walked twelve miles, the morn-
ing of the play, with all their properties, and a few bits
of scenery, in a country cart; they had gone to
considerable expense in advertising all over the town, and
were in hopes of obtaining a success. When, how-
ever, the curtain drew up there were about 15 people in the
place, most of these being the average specimens of thick-
booted, grinning village boys, who were all clustered toge•
ther in cne corner sitting upon the witness-box, used on
county court occasions, like a lot of sparrows on a hedgetop.
The faces of the poor actors fell when they saw the house,
but they bravely, however, went on with their performance,
'• The Lottery Ticket." At the conclusion of this they began
the concert, omitting; With apologies, the " Red Earn."
Thew were but two persons in the reserved seats, which,
by the way, consisted of a sofa and some of the hotel aim
chairs. The peer manager's face brightened up a little
when our
party came in, for we added somewhat to the
appearance of plenitude of the room by our presence, and
did all we could to lead off the applause, which
the country boys followed willingly enough, but were
too shy to begin. During the acts we went down into
the street and finding a crowd round the door we paid for
and sent in all the people we could find—some four-and-
twenty altogether—in the hope that the room would thus
look a little lees deserted. All we could do, however, failed
to make the room look anything like full. The audience
were, I must say, excessively stupid, and were never once
thoroughly awakened except when the son of theold women
in tha play, who was suddenly made a lord, rushed into his
mother's cottage (the window of which was the natural
. window of the room, and looked very well), upset the
dumplings which had been prepared for his supper, tt,a:
smashed the plate on the floor in the mast lord-like st:ytlr;
This ``brought down the house," and almost the then

also ; all the clever sayings, jokes, puns, and joreiblo act"
11;' that prececiQ d this were quito and fell flat ur Ca tilt'