The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-21 00:00:00

Her Majesty has visited many places in the me-
tropolis and its neighbourhood during the past few
days, and has also paid short visits to some of the
seats of the nobility. On Tuesday her Majesty
honoured the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury
with a visit at Hatfield, and remained to luncheon.
The Queen returned to Claridge's Hotel in the
evening, and afterwards visited the Royal Italian
Opera.

On Wednesday her Majesty left the Great Western
Railway Station at Paddington on a visit to the Earl
and Countess of Warwick, at their ancient seat,
Warwick Castle. The Netherlands Minister (Baron
Bentinck) and Lord Llanover met her Majesty at
the London terminus, and accompanied her on the
journey. On arrival at the Castle her Majesty was
received by the Earl and Countess of Warwick, and
was conducted over the building and grounds. Her
Majesty partook of luncheon during her stay, and
on her return to town paid a brief visit to Oxford,
where some of the colleges were inspected, and
afterwards the Queen honoured the vice-chancellor
with a visit, and partook of dinner with him. The
royal traveller reached Claridge's Hotel at 11 o'clock.
Yesterday morning her Majesty went to the French
Gallery in Pall-mall, and also honoured Messrs
London and Ryder, of New Bond-street, with a
visit, for the purpose of inspecting the beautiful
Leonora Cup for Goodwood Races. Her Majesty
visited Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar,
the Marchioness of Ely, and the Dowager Countess
of Jersey during the day, and in the evening dined
with Madame Sandbach at Princes-gate.
It is anticipated that the Queen will leave Wool-
wich for Rotterdam to-morrow in the royal Nether-
lands steam-vessel the Cyclops. The Prince of
Orange will remain in this country for a short time,
and will probably proceed to Scotland during the
shooting season.

The Prince and Princess of Wales in
Devonshire.

PLYMOUTH, Thursday.
Among the visitors to the Agricultural Show
during the time the Prince and Princess of Wales
remained on the ground yesterday was the Earl of
Morley, Lord Vivian, Lord Templetown, the Earl
of Shrewsbury, Lord Tredegar, Lord Falmouth,
Lord Berners, Sir L. Palk, Sir S. Northcote, Gene-
ral Alexander Hood, Sir M. Lopes, and Mr.
Waldegrave Leslie. Several of the number had
the honour of being present at the luncheon, of
which the royal party partook in the tent of the
council of the society. The chair was taken
on the occasion by Sir E. Kerrison, President
of the society, on whose right sat the Princess of
Wales, the Prince, with the Earl of Mount-Edg-
cumbe and Lady Dalkeith, occupying seats on his
left. After luncheon the Prince and Princess drove
rapidly off the grounds, and proceeded to Saltash,
where theyspent a short timein inspecting the Royal
Albert Bridge, the wonderful iron structure combin-
ing the tubular and suspension principles, at the
ceremony of opening which, in 1859, the late Prince
Consort attended. The Princess and the ladies of
the party then returned to Mount-Edgcumbe, and
about 5 in the afternoon the Prince paid his expected
visit to the Magenta, French man-of-war. She and
her companion ship La Flandre had been lying at
their moorings all the morning exhibiting the slightest
possible symptoms of life. As the time, however, for
the visit of his royal highness drew near evidence of
increased animation became observable. The crews
of both vessels bustled about with all that nimble-
ness and alacrity of movement which distinguishes
the Frenchman, preserving at the same time the dis-
ciplined order of the service to which they belong.
A salute of 21 guns from the neighbouring battery
told of the embarcation of the Prince on board the
Osborne, and immediately afterwards she was seen
steaming from beneath the wooded shelter of the
heights of Mount-Edgcumbe. For some 10
minutes before the yards of the two French ships
and of an Austrian man-of-war, which has also been
anchored for the last few days in the Sound, were
fully manned. The report of the guns was the
signal for yachts and boats innumerable to come
glancing through the water from every part of the
Sound. Through their thickly clustering num-
bers the Osborne made her way swiftly and grace-
fully, the Royal Standard floating at the main.
As she neared the Magenta few scenes could be
brighter or more lively than that by which the
Prince was greeted. The sun shone out brilliantly,
but the heat was tempered by the gentle breeze
which blew inland. Flags fluttered gaily on all
sides, and a landscape most picturesquely varied
bounded the view. His Royal Highness was re-
ceived by the French crews with a salvo of artillery
which was absolutely deafening, and which for a
moment caused everything to be hidden in a cloud
of smoke, and with a round of cheering so well sus-
tained and so hearty that one might have well be-
lieved it to proceed from English throats. The Prince
who had all the time been standing on the paddle-
box of the Osborne, then descended, with Sir C.
Fremantle, the Port-Admiral, and the gentlemen of
his suite, into a barge, and was rowed alongside the
Magenta, the Duke of Somerset and Lord de Grey
and Ripon following in his wake in the Admiralty
pinnace. The royal party, on gaining the deck of
the Magenta, were met by her commander, Capt.
Le Bris, and were conducted by him over every
part of the vessel. They remained on board for
about an hour, and the Prince on leaving expressed
to Capt. Le Bris the great pleasure he had derived
from the visit. He immediately afterwards went on
board the Osborne, and steamed back to Mount-
Edgeumbe, amid a repetition of the cheering and the
saluteswhich had marked his arrival. Then was there
a lively scene on the deck of the Magenta, and, in-
deed, throughout the whole ship. The sailors, re-
lieved from the duty of manning the yards, came
tumbling down the rigging with celerity, all making
for one point. The cause was soon apparent, for at
this point a portly man was serving soup and bouilli
with a good-humoured smile and praiseworthy expe-
dition
Upon these good things the sailors did rapid
execution.
They are a remarkably fine body of men,
the great majority of them being under 30 years of
age, and are already great favourites with the inha-
bitants of Plymouth. The crew of the Magenta
numbers about 800, and that of La Flandre about
700. Both vessels are irou-plated rams, and are
furnished with 190 and 120 pounder guns, Since