The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-28 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

The Queen in Germany.

ROSENALT, COBURG, Aug. 24.

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Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by her
Royal Highness Princess Helena, attended Divine
service in the chapel at the Kallenberg yesterday,
where the service was performed by General Super-
intendent Meyer.
Her Majcsty and the Princess remained for
luncheon at the Kallenberg, where the Duke of
Coburg and the Crown Prince of Prussia had ar-
rived that morning.

Her Majesty and tho Princess afterwards visited
the Prince and Princess Augustus of Saxe-Coburg
at Coburg.

Foreign Courts.
PARIS, Aug. 23.

A communication from the Camp of Chalons,
dated the 25th, says :—" The Emperor was present
yesterday at a second grand series of manoeuvres,
under the orders of Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers.
An immense number of persons from the surround-
ing neighbourhood were assembled, and saluted
with the loudest acclamations his Majesty and the
Prince Imperial, who was on his pony. This morn-
ing his Majesty was present at the target practice
of the artillery and infantry. To-morrow at nine
o'clock will take place the grand review, at which
the Emperor is to distribute the recompenses
awarded on the occasion of the 15th, and in the
course of the day his Majesty will leave the camp
for St. Cloud."

King Leopold and the royal family of Belgium
went to Bruges the morning before last, and re-
turned to Ostend in the evening. Count de Flandre
took his departure the same night for Tervueren on
a shooting excursion.
The Prince and Princess Ypsilanti have arrived
in Paris from Ems and alighted at the Hotel St.
James.

BERLIN, Aug. 25.

It is generally expected that the King will re-
turn from Baden-Baden to Berlin on Monday next.
Gen. Bogen, one of the generals in the suite of
the King, and son of the late Field-Marshal and
Minister of War, will, it is affirmed, proceed to the
Hague as Prussian Minister. The general has not
hitherto filled any diplomatic appointment.
VIENNA, Aug. 24.

A grand national festival was celebrated on the
Prater, at Vienna, yesterday. Half of the popula-
tion of the capital assembled, and cheered most
heartily when the military choir sang the national
songs, which were joined in by many thousands.
The archdukes were present, and were received by
the people with great enthusiasm. During the
evening the chief burgomaster, Dr. Zelinka, sent
the following telegram to the Emperor, at Frank-
fort :

" Hundreds of thousands of the inhabitants of
Vienna assembled to-day at the festival of the peo-
ple, joyfully waft a cheer to their most gracious
Emperor. May your Majesty graciously permit
that the burgomaster of your capital and residen-
tial city, in the name of the assembled population,
may respectfully express their unanimous wish
that Almighty God may watch over each step of
our beloved Emperor, and that the great work
now begun may be blessed with a happy issue."
At ten minutes past nine the same night, the
Emperor's answer was received as follows :
" I send thanks,and a hearty greeting to those
who are so happily met together to-day, to those
who think of me, and to all tho inhabitants of
Vienna.

"FRANCIS JOSEPH."
BERNBURG, August 22.

The Duke of Anhault-Dessau-Cothen, as actual
Du.ke of Anhault, took possession of the country
lately belonging to the now extinct Anhault-Bern-
bug line to-day. The ducal commissary accom-
plished the important act by administering the oath
of fidelity to the mtrmbers of the Supreme Council,
and by the publication of a proclamation, signed
by the Duke. The oath was administered to the
troops by Major-General Stockmar. For the pre-
sent the existing authorities will continae to act.

Her Royal Highness the Princess George of
Saxony will leave Scarborough next week on a tour.
Baron Gersdorff, long resident in England as Saxon Minis-
ter, will accompany her royal highness. Baroness Biome
(wife of the Hanoverian charge d' ahraires), who has been
staying with the princess, is not expected at te Hanoverian
Legation until the departure of her royal highness on her
retnrn to Germany.

The Duke and Duchess of Montrose will return
to town at the end of the ensuing month, from Buchanan
Castle, Stirlingshire, on their way to Paris, where they will
stay a few weeks before the marriage of Lady Violet
Graham.

The Earl and Countess of Derby will entertain a
large circle of friends at Knowsley, the week after next.
His lordship has been unable to avail himself of invitations
to the North in consequence of his strong desire to person-
ally fulfil his duties as chairman of the Lancashire Relief
Committee. It is doubtful, although in excellent health,.
whether the noble earl will leave Knowsley for any change
of scene while his duties require his presence in Lancashire.

The Earl and Countess Grey are staying on a
visit to tho Right Hon, Edward Ellice, at Glenquoich,
N.B.

Earl Granville, the President of the Council, who
is in attendance on the Queen during her Majesty's stay
in Germany, arrived at Coburg on Monday, from Frank-
fort.

The Earl and Countess Russell, Lord Amberley,
and the other members of the noble earl's family, arrived
at Loehearnhead Hotel, Perthshire, on Tuesday last, and
left on Wednesday for Callandar and the Trossachs.
Lord Londesoorough has left Grimston Park,
Yorkshire, for his shooting quarters in the north of Scot-
land.

SENSATIONAL ART.—Wilkie's "Distraining for.
Rent" and "Chelsea Pensioners," AI illais's "Fire-
man," Wallis's " Chatterton," Maclise's "Wellington and
Blucher," Martineau's "Last Day in the Old House"—to
take examples from the chance supplies of memory—aro alt
pictures (according to an able weekly critic), which depend
for much of their effect on sensational elements, but which.
no one, nevertheless, would think of calling sensational.
In like manner, in literature, the Waverley novels and
Shakspare's plays contain far more striking points and
moving incidents than the very best-devised melodrama.
Their popularity with the unthinking, as Charles Lab
i
pointed out admirably in the case of Shakspeare, rests n-
deed, in no small measure, on these elements. Yet we
give the name sensational, not to the .6 Heart of Mid
Lothian" or to " Othello," but to the dramas of the Vic-
toria or Miss Braddon's novels. So again, whilst Millais's
"Fireman" would be spoken of simply as a powerful dra-
matic scene of physical emotion, his "Nun's Rescue" ;vas
More decidedly, and less
at once recognised as belonging to what we might now
term the "Aurora Floyd" style.
excusably ouch, considering the subject, was his Moon-
light scene from Keats in this year's Exhibition. And
even in case of a genius so magnificent as Scott's, one or two
of the later novels, as "Anne of Geierstein," written when
that noble hand had lost much of its cunning, are not frco
from distinct sensationalism.

THE SEIZURE OF ILLEGAL NETS AND OTHER
ENGINES.—Froni a return just made by the county
police, it appears that between last May and the present time
1,510 illegal nets, 79 other engines, and 71b, of salmon roe,
of the estimated value in the aggregate of £653, have been
seized by the police in the counties of Cumberland and
Westmoreland, under the authority of search warrants
granted under the provisions of the act 24th and 25th Vic. ,
cap. 109. Since the return was made some more nets have
been seized at Penrith. The circumstances connected
therewith were fully explained to a full bench of magi-
strates, in petty sessions, on last Tuesday. They unani.
mously condemned them as illegal, and ordered them to be
destroyed.

1,,
111 E, IiARVEST IN LINCOLNSIIIRE.—Owing to
the showery, unsettled state of the weather during
the past few days, harvest operations in this county have
been impeded. A great deal 'of wheat has already been
secured in fine condition, and the yield is much greater
than that of last year. Fully two-thirds of the corn is cut
and now lying in the fields. A few days of line sunshine
would at this juncture be of immense value, as the farmers
would be enabled to get it into stack. A very large breadth
of barley has fallen to the sickle, and very high prices are
being asked for malting sorts, on account of their superior
quality. The yield will be very good indeed. Oats are
turning out exceedingly well, and the quality of the grain
is splendid. Beans will only be a moderate crop. Althuuo
the recent rains have checked harvest work, the moisture
has been of great value to the pastures and inaugolds.
Potatoes continue good,
Turnips are thriving rapidly, and the crop will be heavy.