The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-31 00:00:00

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THE QUEEN AT COBURG.

THE RosExAu, Aug. 27.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
Wales, the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, Prince
and Princess Louis of Hesse, and the Duke of Cambridge
arrived at the Palace at Coburg on Thursday and Friday,
and have visited her Majesty at the Rosenau.

Her Majesty the Queen left the Rosenau yesterday after-
noon, at half-past 3 o'clock, for Coburg, for the purpose of
inaugurating the statue of his Royal Highness the Prince
Consort, which her Majesty has presented to the town of
Coburg, the ceremony for the inauguration of which had
been ordered and approved by his Royal Highness the
Duke of Saxe-Coburg.

The Queen, the Royal Family, and suite occupied four
carriages. The first contained her Majesty the Queen,
their Royal Highnesses the Princess Helena, Princess
Louise, and Prince Arthur ; and the second their Royal
Highnesses Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice, tho
Duchess of Roxburgh and Lady Churchill.
Both carriages were drawn by four grey ponies, with
out-riders and footmen in scarlet, and with postillions in
the Ascot liveries.

The other carriages conveyed Miss Bauer, Major-General
F. Seymour, C. 8., Major Elphinstone, C. 8., Dr. Jenner, M.
Sahl, and Mr. Buff.

Lieutenant-General the Hon. C. Grey and Major-General
Sir T. M. Biddulph rode in uniform on either side of her
Majesty's carriage.
On arriving at Coburg, Count Keller, the Duke of Saxe-
Coburg's principal Equerry, conducted her Majesty to the
Market-place, where her Majesty was received by a guard
of honour, the band playing " God Save the Queen," and
the fortress saluting with a discharge of artillery.
The statue had been placed in the centre of the Market-
place on a granite pedestal, and is of colossal size, in bronze,
by Mr. Theed, of London, and cast at Nuremberg.. It re-
presents the Prince standing in the robes of the Garter,
with the collar of the Garter and the Coburg Order, carry-
ing a Field-Marshal's bitton. It was covered with drapery,
to be removed at her Majesty's command.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and
Prince Alfred handed her Majesty on her arrival from her
carriage, and conducted her up the steps of the Pavilion
which had been erected for the occasion, and in which was
assembled all the Royal visitors (with their suites) who at- •
tended the ceremony.

The Queen having advanced to the front immediately
facing the statue, the Burgomaster of Coburg stood forward
and addressed her Majesty in the name of the town.
The statue was then uncovered amid the acclamations of
the people, a flourish of trumpets, and firing of cannon.
The Coburg March was played immediately afterwards,
during which 200 young ladies of Coburg, dressed in whito
and wearing the English and Saxon colours, placed wreathe
at the foot of the statue.

After this the hymn " Eine feste Burg," composed by
Luther at Coburg, was sung, and the Burgomaster was sent
for, and her Majesty addressed a few words of thanks to
him.

The Queen, with the Duke and all the royal personages,
then descended from the pavilion to the foot of the statue
and placed her own nosegay there, and was handed back to
her carriage by the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Prince Alfred,
and drove round the town of Coburg, in which every house
was decorated in honour of the occasion.

Her Majesty returned to Rosenau at 5 o'clock.

THE RETURN OF HER MAJESTY.—We are in-
formed that the various statements as to the day the
Queen and princess will return home from Germany are
not to be relied upon. There is no doubt but that the
Queen and royal family will be at Windsor Castle about
the Bth or 9th proximo, and after a short residence at the
Castle will go to Balmoral.

His Royal Highness Prince George of Solms will
leave town this evening on a visit to Lord Lovat at Beau-
fort Castle, Inverness-shire.

The Duke of Northumberland is entertaining a
large family party at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland.
The Duke and Duchess of Manchester are ex-
pected home shortly from a tour in Germany.
The Duchess Dowager of Sutherland is expected
to arrive at Stafford House to-morrow from Vichy.
The Marchioness of Abercorn has been detained
at Tunbridge Wells from an attack of influenza. The
marchioness has been, since leaving town, staying with the
Countess of Mount-Edgcumbe. Yesterday the Countess of
Lichfield passed through town from the family seat in
Staffordshire, to visit her mother.

The Earl of Dalhousie is still receiving company
at Invermark, N.B.

The marriage of the Earl of Listowel and Miss
Bruce, daughter of Lord and .Lady Ernest Bruce, takes
place this morning at St. George's Church, Hanover-
square.

The Countess Arco Valley and family have
arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Aldenham Hall, Salop.
Viscount and Viscountess Ashbrook have left
Mr. Martin's seat in Westmoreland, for their seat, Castle
Burrow, county Kilkenny.

Lord and Lady Londesborough and the Duchess
(Emily) of Beaufort left Grinuton Park on Monday last
for Tulchan Lodge, his lordship's shooting quarters at
Glonisla, N.B.

Lady Granville Somerset and Mr. R. Somerset
have left Farrance's Hotel for Chevening, Sevenoaks, Kent.
The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli
passed through town yesterday from Hughenden Manor,
Bucks, for Raby Castle, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess
of Cleveland.

The Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P.,
and the Countess Frances Waldegrave are expected to
arrive in town early in the ensuing week from Ireland;
Mr. Fortescue and other members of the family were ex-
pected to attend the venerable Mrs. Roxton's funeral,
which, we believe, was appointed for to-day.
The Hon. Arthur Kinnaird has gone on a tour
to the United States of America till the meeting of Parlia-
ment.

DEATH OF SIR J. H. PALMER.—Sir John Henry
Palmer died on Saturday last at Carlton Park,
Northamptonshire, at the very advanced ago of 90 years.
The deceased, the seventh baronet, succeeded to the ba
ronetcy on the death of his nephew, Sir Thomas, in April,
1817. He married in 1808 Mary Grace, eldest daughter of
Lewis, second Lord Sondes, by whom he had a family of
six sons and three daughters. Lady Mary died in Novem-
ber, 1853. His eldest son, Geoffrey, succeeds him in the
baronetcy. The present baronet was called to the Bar at
the Inner Temple in 1838. The first baronet, Sir Geoffrey,
became Attorney-General and Chief-Justice of Chester
temp. Charles 11. Several of the baronets of the family
have represented their native county in Parliament.

Crystal Palace Autumn Exhibition of

Flowers.

If it were possible to paint the lily and gild refined gold
the Crystal Palace might be said to have undergone that
process yesterday by the annual autumn exhibition of
flowers and fruit, which took place under most favourable
circumstances. The flowers now in bloom in the delightful
gardens of the palace are to be seen in great perfection,
and rival in some respects those which constitute the spe-
cial " show" inside the building. Added to this, the rich
autumnal tints of the surrounding foliage give a most har-
monious background to the brilliant and varied colours of
the later flowers of the year. Special attention, however,
was yesterday directed to the show of flowers and fruits
which was displayed under spacious awnings ranged in the
aisle on either side of the central transept. The specimens
were certainly the perfection of floricultural art, and de-
served the favourable encomiums which were passed upon
them by the numerous visitors present. The dahlias must
be presumed to rank in the first place, although the asters
were certainly conspicuous for delicacy of form and
beauty of colour. The first prize in the former was awarded
to Mr. J. Keynes, of Salisbury, and very deservedly, for
the flowers exhibited by him were acknowledged to be
magnificent specimens. There was also a very beautiful
display by Mr. J. C. Perry, of Castle Bromwich, who
obtained the first prize in the fourth class (for amateurs
only). The roses and verbenas likewise appeared to great
perfection, and were very generally admired. With re-
gard to the fruit it need only be said that it was so pecu-
liarly tempting that it would have been somewhat dan-
gerous to have displayed it without the necessary safe-
guard of a barrier, especially as a great portion of the
visitors were of the juvenile class, who seemed hardly
content with feasting the eye alone, but who nevertheless
must be admitted to have behaved with exemplary self-
denial. On the whole, the show was an extremely satis-
factory one, and gave abundant reason for the opinion
that autumnal beauties from the garden are well fitted to
vie with the more familiar products of summer.

EXTRAORDINARY FEAT AT SEA.—The Mercantile
Marine Association of Liverpool has conveyed to
Mr. William Howatt, chief officer of the ship Mindanao,
Liverpool, of
an expression of its high appreciation of his suc-
cessful effort to save that vessel from the perilous position
in which she was placed off Cape Horn. Mr. Howatt dived
round the ship to ascertain the cause of an extensiVa
leakage, and found, several feet below the waterline, that
a bolt had fallen out of the ship's bottom. At great risk ha
succeeded in driving a plug into the hole, and therebY
stopped the leak, and the ship was brought in safety to port.
EASTBOURNE HOSPITALITY. The magistrates
have refused to continue the license of the Anchor
Hotel, Eastbourne, to Richard Hughes, the landlord, wh°
was lately charged with assaulting Mr. Pratt, a doorkeeper
at the House of Commons. It appeared that Hughes bed
previously been fined ££s for assaulting a young man lir"
had come to take his father's dead body from the house.--
Brighton Gnardian.