The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-25 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, July 24.
The Queen drove out early this morning.
Dr. Jenner arrived at Osborne on Saturday, and
returned to London yesterday.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.
FOWEY, -July 23.

The whole of Friday morning was passed by the
Prince and Princess quietly at Mount-Edgcumbe.
In the afternoon they made a short excursion in the
yacht Princess Alice up the Tamar, and at 8 o'clock
they went on board the Osborne, which lay at an-
chor in Baron Pool. Secret though the movements
of the Royal party had been kept there were hun-
dreds of boats crowded with people drawn up beside
the landing-place at which they had come on shore
on their arrival at Plymouth, and from which it in
some way became pretty generally known they were
that evening to take their departure. The Prince and
Prindess were accompanied as on previous occasions
by Gen. Knollys, Major Grey, Lady De Grey, and
the other members of their suite. The Duke and
Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke of St. Albans,
the Duke of Somerset, Earl De Grey and Ripon, and
Lord and Lady Templetown were also of the party.
When their Royal Highnesses appeared on the
landing-place they were loudly cheered ; nor did
the cheering entirely cease until they had quitted
the barge which took them on board the Osborne.
In addition to the distinguished persons whose
names have been already mentioned, the Prince and
Princess entertained at dinner on board the Royal
yacht Capt. Le Bris, commander of the Magenta,
and one or two of the other French officers staying
in Plymouth.

Captain Darcy, commander of theVoorne, lizAtl
also the honour of receiving an invitation. During
dinner the band of the Magenta played on the fore-
castle, with charming effect, severalairs selected from
some of the most popular operas. About 10 o'clock
the yacht was brilliantly illuminated, and as the
night was as calm as it well could be, and there was
not the smallest ripple on the surface of Barn Pool,
few sights could be more tranquilly pleasing than
the glittering waters and the reflected light on the
verdant slopes and wooded heights of Mount-
E dgcumbe.
At 3 o'clock yesterday morning the Osborne
weighed anchor, andset out for the Cornish coast. It
would seem somewhat strange that this should be the
first visit of the Prince to a county so picturesque,
and with which he is so intimately connected.
It is true that some 20 years ago he honoured
more than one port in Cornwall with his presence,
but then it is to bo feared his thoughts were of
other things than the beauty of its scenery or the
loyalty of its inhabitants. In 1846 it was that her
Majesty and the late Prince Consort, bringing with
them his Royal Highness, entered the same harbour,
and visited the same scenes which he yesterday
visited with the Princess of Wales. Since that
time the warmly manifested attachment of the
Cornish people to the Throne has undergone no
diminution, and the congratulations which they
then offered to her Majesty on the birth of a Prince
they were ready with equal warmth to repeat yes-
terday to that Prince himself.

His Royal Highness might have selected many
larger and more important towns than Fowey for
making his first entry upon Cornish soil ; for, to say
truth, its importance is not great in that sense
which makes those great hives of industry in Lan-
cashire so proud. But then Fowey is a place of conse-
quence in that sense which causes the highland laird
to look down upon the wealthy sons of commerce ;
or the Irish gentleman with a pedigree stretching
back to the days of Brian Boroimhe, or it may be
further, to prefer gentility and starvation to vulgar
opulence. Not that it would be fair to insinuate
that Fowey has been driven to make the choice, for
there is less of poverty in it, their relative popula-
tions being taken into account, than in many a town
which can boast of its wonderful prosperity. When
Manchester was unknown Fowey was a place of
note. Leland in his "Itinerary" describes it as a
town " the glorie of which rose by wars in the
reignes of King Edward I. and 111. and Henry V."
" The shippes o Fowey," he adds, " sailing by Rye
and Winchelsey, would vale no bonet, being re-
quired, whereupon Rye and Winchelsey men they
fought, when Fowey men had victory, and then rose
the name o the gallaunts o Fowey.' " " The
Frenchmen," "he goes on to say, " diverse times
assayled this town, and last most notably about
Henry Vl.'s time, when the wife of Thomas Treffry
the second, with her men, repelled the French out
of the house in her husband's absence, whereupon
Thomas Treffry builded a right fair and strong
embattled towcr in the house, and in a manner
made it a castelle." Fowey then, safely intrenched
in its historic renown, can afford to look down with
the contempt it evidently feels on those who, when
Garibaldi set sail from it on the occasion of his re-
cent visit to this country, spoke of it as the " back
door of England." Fowey, too, though it has little
more than 1,500 inhabitants, was once a Parliamen-
tary borough, and was, like many other boroughs,
disfranchised in 1832. But, apart from the
historic recollections with which it is asso-
ciated, it has claims to notice which no Par-
liamentary action is ever likely to destroy. It is
delightfully situated on the southern coast of
Cornwall, about mid-way between Plymouth and
Falmouth, and about half a mile in from the open
sea. It possesses a miniature harbour, all but com-
pletely locked up by a series of small green hills
charmingly grouped. At each side of the entrance to
this harbour, which, though small, contains a large
draught of water, two strong towers were in the re-
mote days of Edward IV. erected, and a stout iron
chain constructed, which was to be drawn from one
to the other, with the view, no doubt, of more effec-
tually securing the town against the attacks of the
French. To-day the towers are ruins, and of the
chain there are only two links in existence, which are
carefully preserved in the grotto at Menabilly, the seat
of Mr. W. Rashleigh, the representative of a family
who, with the Treffrys, have from time immemorial
been distinguished in the history of the locality, and
have frequently been its representative in the House
of Commons. The harbour itself is not more than
a quarter of a mile wide, and snugly nestled under
the hills ; on its north side is Fowey, while on its
south side, and almost immediately opposite, is
situated the little town of Polruan, which, without
any greater pretensions than Fowey on the score of
size, and with less on many other grounds, used in
better times also to send its representative to Parlia-
ment. The struggle for pre-eminence would seem to
have been highly injurious to both places, and has
ended in their being deprived of that political im-
portance to which each, no doubt, conceived itself
to be justly entitled.

Into the pretty haven which divides them the
Osborne steamed at 6 o'clock yesterday morning,
having just occupied three hours on the voyage
from Plymouth. The hour was early, but not too
early for the loyalty of the good people of Fowey,
who were ready to give the Prince and Princess a
salute which, if they were still asleep, must speedily
have awakened them from their slumbers. In ac-
cordance, however, with the wish of his Royal
Highness, the salute was postponed until 2 o'clock,
when it was thundered forth by the Fowcy and
Polruan batteries, served by the men of the Naval
Reserve, of which force, mythical though it may be
in the eyes of General Peel, there are something
like 100 members stationed in this quarter. Shortly
afterwards Lord Portman, Lord Warden of the
Stanneries, accompanied by Mr. Lowry, Vice-
Consul for Sweden and Norway, went on board the
royal yacht, and to them it was notified that the
Prince and Princess would land at 11 o'clock. Pre-
cisely at that hour their Royal Highnesses and suite,
with the Duke of St. Albans, and the Duke and
Duchess of Sutherland, who reached Fowey in the
Undine a few hours after the arrival of the Osborne,
entered the barge which was to convey them on
shore. From the moment they did ao until they
reached the landing-place the crowds assembled
there—for the inhabitants of Fowey turned out en
masse to meet the Prince and Princess--cheered