The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-08 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY.

ROSENAU, COBURG, Sept. 4.
His Imperial Majesty ,the Emperor of Austria
arrived at the Palace at Coburg at one o'clock
yesterday, where her Majesty the Queen, their
Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Louis of
Hesse, Prince Alfred, and Princess Helena had
proceeded previously.
The Emperor was met at the railway station by
the Duke of Saxe-Coburg, who drove with him to
the Palace, and was received at the entrance to
Palace by the Duchess of Coburg, who conducted
the Emperor upstairs, where his Imperial Majesty
met the Queen.

There were also present, Prince and Princess
Augustus of Saxe Coburg, with their son and
daughters, and Prince Edward of Leiningen.
A dejeuner was prepared for the Queen and Eta'
peror and the royal party, and another for the
ladies and gentlemen of the royal heusehslds.
The Queen was attended by the Marchioness of
Ely, Lady Augusta Bruce, and the gentlemen in
waiting. Earl Granville was else present.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Leopold and
Princess Beatrice came to the Palace from the Ro-
senau before the Emperor left.
Prince Alfred returned yesterday morning from
Hummelsheim.

Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse took leave
of her Majesty this evening on their return to
Darmstadt. Princess Helena and Prince Leopold,
attended by the Marchioness of Ely and Mr. Buff,
have been twice to the theatre at Coburg.
The Queen was to leave the Roseniu yesterday
(Monday), on her return to England.
The perfect peace and repose enjoyed by her Ma-
jesty at a place endeared to her by so many tender
recollections, and the respite (however short and
imperfect) from public business, have been most
soothing to her Majesty's feelings.
With the exception of passing visits from the
Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia, her
Majesty did not feel strong enough. to accept those
kindly offered by other royal personages assembled
at Frankfort.

In order to avoid the heat of the sun, still very
great during the day, her Majfisty will again travel
by night, but the fatigue of the journey will be
lessened by repose at Krauichstein, near Darmstadt,
where her Majesty intends to spend the whole of
Tuesday, on a strictly privtAte visit to her daughter,
Princess Louis of Hesse.

Her Majesty will leave Krauichstein at 10 o'clock
on Tuesday evening, and expects to reach Antwerp,
and to embark at once on board the yacht, about
half-past eight o'clock on Wednesday morning.
It is probable that the King of the Belgians will
pay her Majesty a parting visit on board before her
Majesty leaves the port.
.V 4 eather permitting, her Majesty may probably
arrive at the Nore late on Wednesday evening, in
which case she will land at Woolwich in the course
of Thursday forenoon, and proceed immediately to
Windsor Castle.

King Ferdinand of Portugal arrived at Coburg
on Friday evening. His Majesty was received at
the railway station by the Duke of Saxe-Coburg
and by the Prince and Princess Augustus of Coburg,
who were attended by the Court Marshal M. Von
Wangenheim and Major Von Reuter.

RETURN OF HER MAJESTY.—An official notifica-
tion having been received at Woolwich to the effect
that her Majesty and suite will disembark at the Royal
Arsenal on Thursday next, a number of workmen were
yesterday employed in placing an awning over the pier,
and making similar arrangements as at the recent royal
embarkation. The steam vessel Fairy, Staff Commander
Welch, tender to the Victoria and Albert, royal steam yacht,
is under orders to convey her Majesty and suite from the
royal yacht at the Nore to NV oolwich.
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland have
entertained a distinguished party at Aiwick Castle,
their princely seat in Northumberland. The guests of the
noble duke and duchess have included Lord Ravensworth,
Lord and Lady Lovaine, Sir Roderick Murchison, Sir Wm.
Armstrong. Dr. Wilson (Toronto), Dr. Bruce, Dr. Bence
Jones, the Mayor of Newcastle, Professor Owen, Professor
Tyndall, Mr. Gould (the naturalist), Dr. and Mrs. Lee, Sir
Edward Belcher, Colonel and Lady Florence Cust, Mr. and
Mrs. 'Michell, Mr. Hodgson, M.P., and Mrs. Hodgson,
Captain Grant (of the Nile source), Mr. and Mrs. Bell.
Several of the visitors left on Saturday last. The duke has
been in the enjoyment of excellent health since his arrival
at the castle.

The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort are expected
to arrive in town to-morrow from Badminton, Gloucester-
shire.

His Excellency the Netherlands Minister has left
London for the Continent on leave of absence. Chevalier
Mazel will act as chargé d'affaires during Baron Bentinck's
absence.
Earl Granville, President of the Council, has
left Coburg on his way to England.
The Earl and Countess Fitz william will entertain
a large party at Wentworth. House during the approaching
laces at Doncaster.

The Earl and Countess of Tankerville are enter-
taining a select party at Chillington Park, Northumber-
land.

The Countess of Glengall, who has been detained
in town by illness, is much better, according to the medical
report yesterday.

The marriage of Lord Londesborough and Lady
Edith Somerset, youngest daughter of the late Duke of
Beaufort, is fixed to take place on Thursday next, instead
of Alonday, the 14th, as originally intended.
Sir Henry and Lady Sophia Des Vceux are
expected to arrive in town to-morrow from Draklow, Derby-
shire.

1 THE GHOST CLUB.—Yesterday we announced its
a brief paragraph, the recent organisation of a Ghost
Club in the metropolis. In reference to this eccentric freak
of the time, the Court Journal has the following :—Among
the oddities of the day is the establishment of a ghost club
—not, as might be supposed, a club for the assemblage of
genial spirits, but an institution for the organised research
into the possibility of a traveller returning from those
bournes to which we all look forward with interest. The
club is in downright earnest, as may be gathered from the
fact that the committee advertise for a " Haunted House,"
one whose reputation is well authenticated. Doubtless the
answers will be numerous; and if, after minute research,
the committee of the ghost club succeeded in re-establishing
the responsibility of the hitherto supposed haunted man-
sions, by proving the charge unfounded, their labours will be
largely useful,as the number of so-called haunted houses that
are closed and have gone to decay in and about town, under
this mouldering and blighting reputation is ridiculously
large. We know of half-a-dozen such. The reader wishing a
pleasant drive out of the suburbs may choose Finchley road
and just betore the corner of the road made celebrated by
the halt of the Woman in White—namely, that diverging
to Frognal and to West Hampstead—they will see a stately
ruin imbedded in trees, quite in the ghostly style. This
place, we believe, bears the reputation of being the habi-
tation of a ghost, and is, doubtless, at the service of the
club, though the old keeper, who receives the gratuity of
the credulous inspector, pooh-poohs the idea, if not the
profit it raises. It has, however, its bit of real romance,
well vouched for by this cicerone—namely, the walling in
of a wife for two years, without her seeing a ray of light
from heaven er the aspect of her fellow-beings. This is
the story the person tells, and gives very minute particulars
of many other matters hi,ghy interesting to the gobeinou die
with the name of the Bluebeard, which is one not new to
fortune and to fame.

•
THE CLOTHES AT THE KITCHEN DOOR-OF
CAMFDEN HOUSE.—Referring to this point in the
late trial, the Examiner pertinently asks :—" For what
purpose are we to suppose the clothes were at the kitchen
door, assuming the hypothesis of guilt ? The counsel for
the defence laid great stress on the circumstance, and
harped upon the purpose, but without stating the purpose.
If Woolley was guilty it was a part of the comedy, or rather
the tragedy as it might have proved as regards the Temp/est
that he should appear as having fled for his life in his shirt
alone ; but having so to figure in a stormy wintry night, it
would have made little diNrence, in point of discomfort,
whether he left his clothes behind him in his bedroom or
stripped at the kitchen door; but to avoid all chance of dis-
covery, the former was the more natural course. And here
we must observe, that not least amongst the improbabilities
is the intentional exposure to weather in a winter night.
Bulwer says that nothing will tempt an Englishman to
risk catching cold, and certainly few would stand out in a
cold stormy March night, with no covering but a shirt, for
the chance of succeeding in a fraud not very gainful, and a
chance also of dying of influenza or rheumatic fever before
the booty could be realised,"

THE BARON DE BAZANCOURT'S second volume of
French military history of the Crimean expedition has just
left the press.
THE BRITISH MUSEUM will be re-opened on
Thursday, the 10th, after the usual autumnal cleaning.