The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-01 00:00:00

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HER, MAJESTY.

The Queen in Germany.

The Coburg Zeitung of Saturday last says :--
"We do not feel called upon to chronicle the
many proofs of benevolence and of exalted disposi-
tion which have come to light in the neighbourhood
of Rosenau respecting her Majesty Queen Victoria,
who is residing near us at that place. But one in-
stance during the last few days may be here men-
tioned. On the 26th instant, tho birthday of the
Prince Consort, the Queen sect for many of the
officials of the adjacent cistricts, and handed to each
of them a sum of money to be distributed among
the poor of the districts. How much unhoped-for
joy will thus be infused into many poor families we
need not mention."
The Vienna Abendpost of Friday writes as fol-
lows respecting the intended visit of the Emperor
of Austria to her Majesty at Coburg :
" The meeting which will take place within a
few days between his Majesty the Emperor and her
Majesty Queen Victoria is totally unconnected with
politics. It serves as a proof of the sincere friend-
ship which exists between both exalted Sovereigns,
and also between the Government of the powerful
insular State and of the invigorated imperia

realm."

Prince Arthur.
His Royal. Highness Prince Arthur, accompanied.
by Major Elphinstone, arrived at Woolwich at three
o'clock yesterday afternoon, and immediately pro-
ceeded to the Royal Arsenal, where arrangements
had been made to carry oat a series of interesting
experiments with Francis's corrugated iron military
waggons, which will also serve the purposes of boats
for the transport of troops or stores across a lake or
river. His royal highness was received at the
main gate by Colonel J. C. Kennedy, C. 8., Lieut.-
Colonel O'Brien, and Major Shervington, of the
Military Train Corps, and the party then proceeded
to the canal, near the Government practice range,
when one of the waggons, having been divested of
its shafts and wheels, was thrown into the water,
and his royal highness and the officers named hav-
ing entered the amphibious conveyance, it was easily
navigated by two men with oars.,.A second waggon
was then tested, and having embarked 16 men of
the Military Train Corps, with its own wheels, end
an additional weight of about seven cwt., was pro-
pelled with ease for a considerable distance, clearly"
proving the importance of the invention for military'
purposes, especially as a means of transport during
a period of active warfare in an enemy's country'.
His royal highness, who appeared delighted with
the experiments, returned to his residence at Green'
with-park at five o'clock, accompanied by Major
Elphinstone.

The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland are
at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland. The noble duke iS
in much improved health.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster
and Lady Theodora Grosvenor arrived at Grosvenor HouB°
yesterday, from Eaton Hall, Cheshire. The noble marquits
and marchioness will leave town either to-day or to-morrovr
for Motcomb Hoase, the seat of the family in Dorset.

Viscount Palmerston left London yesterday for
Wales.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston went yes-
terday to a private view of Sir Edwin Landseer's studio In
Onslow-square. The Duke of Wellington, Lord de Table'',
Lord and Lady Edward Thynne, Mrs. Lane Fox, &0., Wl°
also present in the course of the afternoon, to view the lions
upon which Sir Edwin is at work,
Lord and Lady Aveland and the Hon. Misses
Heathcote have arrived for the season at their family sot,
Normanton-park, Rutlandshire.
Lord Frederick Paulet and Colonel Augustus
Meyrick (of the Guards) have arrived in town.
The Hon. Frederick and Lady Elizabeth Villiers
have arrived at Ostesley Park, near Southall, on a visit to
the Countess (Dowager) of Jersey, from passing a few
weeks in Switzerland,

The Hon. Mrs. Abbott has arrived in town frota
visiting her sister, the Marchioness Townshend, at the Isla
of Wight.
The Hon. Adelaide Cavendish, the second daugh-
ter of the late Lord Waterpark, is engaged to be married
to Mr. Clowes, a wealthy widower, who resides near Ma
chester. Miss Cavendish was recently appointed !quid °
Honour to her Majesty.
The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., 11°5
returned to his seat in Northumberland, from visiting tbee
Hon. George Weldegrave Leslie and the Countess
Rothes, at their seat in Scotland.

THE patriotism of Cardinal Wiseman, as dis'
played at the Malines Congress, astonished all pre-
sent. He spoke out thorough British, both admiringly awl
affectionately of England, and had good word seven for her
Government and Parliament. —Court Journal.
Lieut.-General Sir Gaspard Le Merchant hag
recently returned to Malta to resume the Government of
that island.
THE COLONELCY OF THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS,
vacant by the death of Lord Clyde, rumour assigns to Sir
John Guise or Sir William Gomm, as the two oldest
Guards' Generals,
LORD CLYDE iS said to have left the greater part
of his fortune to a son of General Eyre.
Mr. E. G. Papworth is now engaged upon a bust
of Lord Palmerston.
THE Moons, CRlEFF.—Thursday and Fridal
being very wet, few sportsmen ventured out. Earl,"
on Saturday morning a severe thunder-storm burst over
the north-western district in Perthshire, which was over
lowed by torrents of rain that lasted for several hours, The
Turret, and other streams, were flooded to a great extent,
and the small hill burns were much swollen. On Thuri,"
day, his Royal Highness the Maharajah Dhuleep Singly
bagged to his own gun, on the Loch Kennard range,
Grandtully, 50 brace of grouse and a few hares and snipe.
Sir Hugh Hume Campbell, Bart., shot on the hill of Mon'
zie, in the afternoon, seven brace of grouse. The numerouo
sportsmen who are residing at Drummond Catatle have 150.°
cured excellent bags of grouse during the last 10 days. TO
sport at Glenartney, Longside, Lochearnside, &c., has been
good. Grouse are plentiful, and not the least symptoms t'f
disease has been among the birds. The Hon. J. C. Band°
and son left Corriemuckloch on Saturday for the season.'
Scotsman,

MARGARET, PEARL OR DAISY ?-44 No name bill
has been the occasion of more pretty fancies," salel
Miss Yonge," than Mapyapinis (a pearl), itself takeo
from the Persian term for the jewel, Mervaiid (child of
light), in accordance with the beauteous notion that ato
oysters rising to the surface of the water at night and open'
ing their shells in adoration, received into their mouths
drops of dew congealed by the moonbeams into the pure and
exquisite gem, resembling in its pure pale lustre nothing e 5
much as the moon herself, la gran .211argherita,' as Dante
calls her. The thought of the pearl of great price, and of
the pearl gates of the celestial city, doubt inspired tho
Christian choice of Margarita for that child of light of the
city of Antioch iu Pisidia, whose name as virgin martyr
standing in the Litany without any authentic history becomes
before the sth century, the recipient of the allegory of feral'
nine innocent and faith overcoming the dragon, even a.
St. George embodied the victory of the Christian warrior,
Greek though the legend were, as well as the name, neithet'
flourished in the Eastern Church. The Italians revel erica
for Margherita, or Malgiaerita, as they called her, was in'
creased by the penitence of Margherita of Cortona, W13.°61°
repentance became so famed that she was canonised;
for the sake of her humility the daisy became her especial
symbol, and took its French title of marguerite, which still
survives in England as magweed, the local name of the
cryso;nthentuntleueanthe2num, or ox-eye daisy. The flovei
of the virgin martyr is the poppy, in allusion to the dragoa''
blood, and the Illargarets of the days of emblems Wer°
divided between pearls and daisies. St, Louis is said i"
have had for his device a ring of fleur-de-lys and dai6ic,c
with the motto, Can we find love beyond this ring ?'
true,
this would prove that the daisy was Marguerite bef°r"
the time of the penitent of Cortona, and that the distinc'
tion was a late one. Margaret of Anjou assumed the dair'3l:
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with which the book given to her by stout Earl Talbot '
plentifully besprinkled. Marguerite de Valois, the 1:10%'!
and clever sister of Francis the First, was called
Marguerite des Marguerites, but the pearl was her device.;
DEATH OF A CELEBRITY.—We learn the deer
at Morn, of the naval architect Borgni, who nutlet
the first Napoleon had (in 1806) charge of the areenal
Venice, and built for him on those stocks a crack Italia',
frigate, the Bellerofonte, which had hardly been lauracber
when it was captured by the cruisers from Malta, and c
the name of Bellerophon, did duty as passenger ship
St. Helena.
RUSSIAN TOB,TURES.—The Czas cf Cracow rho
nounces the establishment of the torture in in
citadel of 'Warsaw ; an iron ring, which can be reduced
r' a
size by a screw, is placed on the prisoner's lloa'd 3res
tightened until the victim confesses. Rigorous reosu,,,,
are being taken in case a revolt should break out iu
capital of the kingnom. An order has been given to
ra
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va'..
saore the prisoners, in case an attempt be made to de
them.