The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-04 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

The Queen in Germany.

On Monday afternoon the King of Prussia, o
his return from Baden-Bader, arrivcd at Cobourg
by special train from Lichtenfls, and immediately
proceeded to Rosenan on a visit to her Majesty the
Queen. His Majesty only remained at Rosecna
two hours, and at eight o'clock left the Coburg
Railway Station by special train for Eisenach,
whence he travelled to Berlin by the night train.
The King was accompanied by M. Bismark
Schonhausen, the President of the Prussian Cabinet,
who did not proceed to Rosenan with the King,
but remained in Coburg. He, however, continued
the j.::urney to the Prussian capital with his Majesty.
The news of the expected visit of the King of
Prussia was not known in Coburg till Monday
morning, but it was soon circulated in the town,
and an the arrival of the royal special a considerable
crowd had assembled at the station.. During the
short absence of the King at Rosenan, the curious
Coburgers had full opportunity to see the famous
Prussian Minister, whom they apparently regarded
with great interest.

The Emperor has, the Patrie states, accepted the
Grand Cross of the restored Mexican Order of Notre Dame
de Guadaloupe.

The Duke of Newcastle left town early in the
week for Clumber, Notts, on his way to Scotland.

The Duchess (Emily) of Beaufort and Lady
Edith Somerset will return to town on Monday next.
The Marquis of Tullibardine has arrived at
Dunkeld, N. 8., from Canada, where his lordship had been
doing duty with the Scots Fusilier Guards. The noble
and gallant marquis has returned home sooner than was
expected, owing to the precarious state of the Duke of
Athole.

The Earl and Countess of Yarborough are pro-
longing their visit to the Earl and Countess of Eglinton at
Eglinton Castle. Ayrshire.
The Earl and Countess of Rosse have arrived at
Brighton from the Continent, to pass a few months there,
as usual, before taking up their residence for the winter at
their seat in Ireland.

Viscount and Viscountess Ingestre and family
are prolonging their sojourn at Brighton.

Lord Londesborough is expected to arrive at
Grimston Park, Yorkshire, on Saturday next, from his
shooting quarters in Scotland.

The Hon. Frederick and Lady Elizabeth Villiers
have left Osterley Park, near Southall, where they have
been visiting the Countess (Dowager) of Jersey, for Selby
Hall, their seat in Northamptonshire.

Sir Ed win Landseer left town on Wednesday for
Scotland, to pass a few weeks in the Highlands.

LAMARTINE'S NEW LOVE STORY, "Fior d'Aliza,"
says a Saturday Reviewer, is the history of a girl
in the neighbourhood of Lucca, with whom and whose
family the author states himself to have been acquainted.
He describes her childish grace and virgin modesty as she
bent like a Madonna over a little infant that the poet could
not have believed to have been her own. An aged woman
in a neighbouring cottage and a blind old man tell the wan-
derer who this lovely young mother is, and all the woes
she has experienced. She was brought up with a cousin
who was as innocent and as simple as herself. The children
played together from the cradle, and picked 112 sticks and
chesnuts together, and tended the same goats and kids on
the hill-side. At last, one evil day, when Fior d'Aliza was
twelve years old, a fierce ruffian saw her, and loved the
pretty child, and determined she should grow up to be his
wife. So, like all ruffians in poetry, he set to work to ruin
the family whose daughter he meant to appropriate. J 3
got a lawyer, even more vicious and de\ ilish than himself,
to set up a fictitious claim, and take away from them three-
fourths of their little property. But they were good, honest
creatures, and acquiesced in the poverty sent them. 50
something more was to be dune that they might be brought
into the frame of mind in which they would part with their
darling. It had been arranged that a great chesnut tree,
from which the family derived their principal support,shonld
belong partly to them and partly to the fictitious claimant:
invented by the wily lawyer. Only the boughs that
looked to the south were the property of the friend, °f
Fior d'Aliza. But a lawyer who can make successfUl
claims in this easy sort of way can also make law at hi,
pleasure; and he asserted that his clients had a right at
any rims to three•fourths at least, or perhaps the whole, cf
the trunk of the tree, and he sent his myrmidons to cut this
trunk down. Stung by this insult to the beloved and
sdcred tree, and by the prospect of utter destitution im-
pending over his family, Hyeronimo, Fior d'Aliza's play-
mate, rushed at the wood-cutters, and drove them off with
an axe. And soon a fresh attack and a new insult drove
him to another and a more fatal deed of violence. The
goats of Fior d'Aliza strayed into the maize of the supposed
owners of what had been the land of her friends, and were
instantly shot by some watchful policemen stationed there-
Hyeronimo seized a gun, fired it at hazard into the maize,
and killed the sergeant of the police. He was instantly
arrested, and carried off
.to Lucca, But Fior d'Aliz3t
though hardly more than a child, determined to follow him,
and rescue him if possible. She dressed as a boy, and
taking a musical instrument with her, set off on her journey
Fortunately she was taken up at once by a wedding party
going to Lucca, and in want of a musician. Still wore
fortunately, this wedding party came from the household
of the keeper of the very prison in which Hyeronimo was
confined ; and most fortunately of all, this keeper happened
to roe in want of an assistant, and he appointed Fior d'Aliza
on the spot to the vacant place. She had thus constant
access to her friend, whom a common misery turned at
once into her lover. A kindly priest, entrusted with their
secret, managed to marry them in the chapel frequented
by condemned prisoners, and then, on the morning of
the execution to which Hyeronimo had been sentenced,
Fior d'Aliza opened a way for her lover to leave the prison,
and herself took his place. She was led out to execution,
and was on the point of being shot when her sex was dis-
covered. The Duchess of Lucca steps in as the kindly
deity of the story, pities and helps Fior d'Aliza, and gets
the sentence of Hyeronimo, who gives himself up on seeing
Fior d'Aliza's danger, commuted into two years' imprison-
ment. The period of his sentence happened to expire on
the very day when the wandering poet heard the story told
him, and the tale ends with the wild joy of the couple thus
restored to each other, and with the triumph of the old
people blest with this sweet reunion, and also with the
restitution of their property, which the wicked lawyer is of
course obliged to give up.

PRESIDENT LINCOLN.—A Washington corres.-
pondent of the New York Times Writes--. 6 I see
the President almost every day, as I happen to live where
he passes to or from his lodgings out of town. Mr. Lincoln
never reposes at the White-house during the hot season, but
has quarters at a healthy location, some three miles north
of the city, the Soldiers' Home, a -United States benevolent
establishment. I saw him this morning about half past S
coming in to business, riding on Vermont-avenue, near 1.,"
street. The sight is a significant one. He always has a
company of 25 or 30 cavalry, with sabres drawn, and held
upright over their shoulders. The party makes no great
show in uniforms or horses. Mr. Lincoln generally rides a
good-slz-;c1 easy-going grey horse, is dressed in black, some-
what rusty and dusty ; wears a black stiff hat, and I,oks
about as ordinary in attire, &c., as the commonest man. A
lieutenant, with yellow straps, rides at his left, and follow-
ing behind, two by two, come the cavalry teen in their
yellow-striped jackets. They are generally going at a slow
trot, as that is the pace set them by the dignitary they wait
upon. The sabres and accoutrements clank, and the entirely'
unornamental cortege trots slowly towards Lafayette-square.
It arouses no sensation ; only some curious stranger stops
and gazes. I saw very plainly the President's dark brown
face, with the deep curt lines, the eyes always to me with a
deep latent sadness in the expression. Sometimes he comes
and goes in an open barouche. The cavalry always accera"
pany him with drawn sabres. Sometimes one of his sons/
a boy of,lo or 12, accompanies him, riding at his right 00
a pony.'

WRECK OF THE BARON Oar STEAM-VESSEL IN
THE THAMES.—Yesterday afternoon, about half'
past 12 o'clock, the iron paddle steamship Baron Osy wag
proceeding up the river, laden with passengers and general
merchandise from Antwerp, and when in Limehouse-reacbt
nearly opposite the Commercial-dock pier, a small craft was
somewhat in the way, and the steamer diverged towards the
Middlesex shore, when the fore part of her keel struck
heavily upon a hard substance, breaking her iron platen,
and causing the water to rush into her fore cabin and
ma-
chine room. Immediately atter she struck the vessel turned
round, and her stem rapidly sunk. The utmost alarm pre-
vaile.l amongst upwards of 100 passengers who were on
board, but fortunately the Naiad, Woolwich steamer, CaO•
Robinson, cams near at the time on her up passage, and
the captain having witnessed the accident, promptly landed
the whole of the Naiad's passengers at the Commercial-deelc
pier, to continue their journey by the next boat, and wen
to the assistance of the Baron Osy. The whole of the Pas'
sengers of the latter vessel and a large amount of luggage
were rapidly transferred to the Naiad, and conveyed to the
St. Katharine's docks, the Naiad immediately returning
with a numerous body of man to assist in removing to
cargo from the wreck. At 8 o'clock last evening the BareO
Osy had been secured in the position where she now re-
mains. Her fore cabin, engine.rooms, &c., are entirely under
water, and a considerable amount of property is still in the
vessel, the stern of which has been well lightened, and eh®
is surrounded by barges, &c,, and guarded by the Tharae7
police, the wreak having been taken possession of by tnu
Thames Conservancy,