The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-07 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY.

ROSENAU, COBURG. Sept. 2.

The King of Prussia visited the Queen on Mon-
day afternoon. The King arrived by special from
Baden, soon after five o'clock. at Oeslau, where
Prince Alfred and Prince Louis of Hesse met his
Majesty, and accompanied him in the Queen's car-
riage to the Rosenau, where he was received by the
Queen, and Princess Louis of Hesse, Princess
Helena, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice.
The ladies and gentlemen in waiting were in
attendance.

The King remained with her Majesty till half-
past seven o'clock, when his Majesty took leave of
the Queen, and drove to the railway station, accom-
panied by Prince Alfred and Prince Louis.
His Majesty was attended by only an aide-de-

camp.
The Duke of Coburg has arrived at the Kellen-
berg, and with the Duchess visited the Queen this
afternoon.

Prince Alfred left yesterday morning, attended
by Major Cowell, for Hummelsheim, on a visit to
the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Altenburg.

Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess
Louis of Hesse spend the greater part of every
day at the Rosenau with the Queen.

The Queen, with the junior members of the royal
family and suite, will to-morrow night embark at Antwerp
on board the royal yacht, and leave for this country early
on Wednesiay morning.

His Majesty the King of Hanover is expected in
London in a few days, from Hanover, for a short stay.

The Emperor of Austria arrived in Vienna on
the sth. Great preparations were made to give him a grand
reception. The corporation gave unlimited credit to the
burgomaster, in order that nothing might be spared; and
the day was kept as a general holiday.

A matrimonial union is contemplated between
the Princess Ann, of Hessen, born in 1843, and Archduke
Ludwig-Victor of Austria, born in 1838, younger brother
of his Majesty the Emperor Francis Joseph.

The Archduke Joseph of Austria was betrothed
to the Princess Clotilde, daughter of Prince Augustus of
Saxe-Coburg•Gotha, on the 22d ult.

The Princess of Leiningen will quit Osborne in
the royal yacht to meet her Majesty at Antwerp. And the
Court will remain at Windsor until this day week, when
the Queen will proceed on her journey to Scotland.

The Duke of Leinster is prolonging his visit to
Mr. George Repton, M.P., and Lady Jane Repton, at their
seat in Bedfordshire.

The Marchioness of Salisbury and family re-
turned to Hatfield House, Herts, from passing several weeks
at Bournemouth, on Friday last. The noble marquis has
also arrived at Hatfield.

The Earl and Countess of Zatland left their
residence in Arlington-streer, Piccadilly, on Friday, for
Upleatham Hall, near Gainsborough.

The Countess (Dowager) of Lichfield and Lady
Gwendolena Anson have arrived at their, house in Hill-
street, from a tour in Switzerland.

Lord Londesborough has returned to Thomas's
Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Scotland.

Major the Hon. Augustus H. Anson, V.C., has
returned to London from a tour in Switzerland. The pre-
cise day is net yet fixed for the marriage of the hon. and
gallant major and Miss Claughton, niece of the Earl of
Dudley.

The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart,. M.P.,
has left the house in Whitehall-gardens, for Drayton
Manor, Staffordshire, for Fartridge shooting.
HEALTH OF EARL BEAUCHAMP.—The state of
Lord Beauchamp's health has been such as to give his family
the greatest anxiety, but it is with satisfaction that we feel
ourselves enabled to say that the symptoms are not, now so
immediately threatening IForcester Journal.
THE DUKE OF ATHOLE.—The Grand Master of
the Grand Lodge of Scotland, his Grace the Duke
of Athole, is so seriously ill that no hope is entertained of
his recovery. His disease—cancer of the nape of the neck,
which no skill can arrest or cure—makes rapid progress;
and his dissolution, it is feared, cannot be many days pro-
tracted. The Duchess, and their only offspring, the Mar-
quis of Tullibardine, are in attendance upon the unfortu-
nate sufferer. The Duke is in the 49th year of his age.

EDINBURGH LADIES' GIFT TO THE PRINCESS OF
WALES.—The gift of the ladies of Edinburgh to the Prin-
cess of Wales, subscribed for on the occasion of the marriage
of her Royal Highness, is now ready for presentation. The
subscription was instituted a week or two before the Royal
marriage by Mrs. Henry Graham Lawson, daughter- in-law
of the Lord Provost, and carried out with great spirit, the
proposal having met a most hearty and unanimous response.
Instead, however, of making an immediate purchase of
piece of jewellery, it was resolved to delay the presentation
till the Princess should visit Scotland, and to employ the
interval in the preparation of a work of native art. A de-
sign for a magnificent jewel casket, Scottish in its materials
and decoration, was submitted to the committee of ladies by
Messrs. Mackay, Cunningham, and Co., her Majesty's gold-
smiths for Scotland, and obtained their approval. An ela-
borate and beautiful work has now been produced, exhibit-
ing excellent taste and finished workmanship. The cask et
is 13in. long, 7f broad, and 10 high. It is wrought in gold,
inlaid with upwards of 1,000 Scottish pebbles, representing
all the varieties found in Scotland. In the front is the shield
of Scotland enamelled in heraldic coleur,s, forming the centrb
of a panel composed of Scottish pebbles in relief. A flat-
tened etch of bloodstone surmounts the panel, in the key of
which is the crest of the Prince of Wales, and the motto
" Ich Dien" inscribed on blue enamel on a gold riband.
The arch is supported by pillars formed of pebble with gold
capital bases, and the panels formed above the arch are
filled in with red Campsie pebble with gold scrolls in relief.
At the lower corners ofthefrontare Scottish pearls obtained
near Taymouth Castle. Between two gold cords above the
near panel and carried round the four sides is the inscrip-
tion, " Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, from the
Ladies of Edinburgh—Charles Lawson, Lord Provost::
Over the inscription is a border of bloodstone with a Runic
scroll in relief, relieved by central bosses of Scottish gems--
namely, cairngorm, amethyst, aquamarine, and garnet, and
surmounted by a pierced rail of Scottish thistle. At each
corner of the casket, on pillared niches, are unicorns ecy'ant
in dead gold, supporting the shields of arms pertaining to
the Scottish titles of the Prince of Wales, as Duke of Roth-
say, Earl of Carrick, Baron Renfrew, and Lord of the Isles,
the shields enamelled in heraldic colours. The top of the
casket, which is its most attractive feature, is composed of
four panels of Scottish pebble in mosaic, forming a broad
outer border, and of six inner panels of pebbles set in high
relief. In the centre, set on a splendid white cairngorm, is
a jewelled crown with pearl arches, surmounted by the
Scottish lien, "in defence." The ends of the casket are
filled up by Scottish pebbles inrelief, withalarge cairngorm
in a richly pierced setting in the centre. On the back the
Edinburgh arms, enamelled in heraldic colours, form the
centre of the panel. The gold framework of the casket is
enriched throughout with Runic, Celiic, and Gothic en-
graving. The gift, it is understood, will be presented to
the Princess in Holyrood Palace on her return from the
Highlands.
THE QUEEN AND THE WARWICKSHIRE MAGIS-
TRATES.—It will be in the recollection of most of
our readers that a county
meeting of the Warwickshire ma-
gistrates, presided over by Lore Leigh, was held at War wick
a few weeks ago, to express to her Majesty their disappro-
bation of such exhibitions as that at Aston-park, which re-
sulted in the death of the Female Blondin, and to promise
to use their influence to prevent such exhibitions in War-
wickshire for the future. The following reply has been
received from her Majesty :—" Abergeluie Mains, Ballatch
dear Lord Leigh—l have received from
comymands of the Queen to express the gratiti'
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cation with which her Majesty has heard that the =ogle'
trates of the county of Warwick have unanimously resolved
to exercise whatever influence they possess to prevent the
repetition of such dangerous and degrading exhibitions s 5
that which lately ended fatally to the poor woman exhibit-
ing.:-Sincerely yours, C. B. Plum's —The Lord Leigh."'

THE LATE LORD CLYDE.—It has escaped -the
chroniclers (says the Army and Navy Gazette) that
Lord Clyde was commissioned by her Majesty to proceed to
Potsdam with the insignia of the honours bestowed on the
Crown Prince of Prussia, previous to his marriage with
the daughter of Britain. Before starting on his mission be'
went down to Windsor to receive instructions, and on leav-
ing he was told the orders and badge, &c., would be for-
warded in a box to his address in London. The box, With
the Windsor seal, duly arrived, and Sir Colin, attended I)9*
his then ever-haunting umbra, proceeded direct to Baby,
where ho was welcomed with all proper marks of respect.
The hour was officially announced for the interview at
which the Crown Prince was to receive the representative of
the Crown, and Sir Colin, in full uniform, went to the IxX
to take out the badges and insignia given to his charge•
The amazement—we won't say dismay, for it is not a word
suited to the man—of Sir Colin may be imagined when he
discovered that ho was indeed in the wrong box, and that
he carried so carefully along with him a plum-cake and
some other little tokens of affection sent by the Princess
Royal to her betrothed, which bad arrived before the
Windsor officials had packed up the more stately, but per-
haps less welcome, offerings. In a day or two the box carnet
and the mission was duly performed.
By the appointment of Major-Gen. Sir Robert
Percy Douglas, Bart., to the command of the Cape, in tsuc•
cession to Lieut.- Gen. Wynyard, who has returned home,
the very desirable post of lieut, governor of Jersey is ren-
dered vacant,—driny end ,tl'avy Gazette,