The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-17 00:00:00

VISIT OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA TO
QUEEN VICTORIA.

COBURG, Ocr. 13,
The King of Prussia paid a visit to the Queen at the
Palace at Coburg, yesterday morning.
His Majesty, who travelled incognito, attended by his
aide-de-camp, Major von Rauch, arrived shortly after six
o'clock a.m., and was received by Lieut.-General the Hon.
C. Grey, Colonel the Hon. Sir C. B. Phipps, and Lieut.-
Colonel Du Plat, and by the gentlemen in attendance of
the household of the Duke of Coburg.
His Majesty breakfasted with the Queen, and the!r Ma-
jesties, accompanied by the Duchess of Saxe Coburg and
Gotha and Princess Helena, drove quite in private to the
Festung, or Citadel, where the royal party spent some time
in examining the different objects of interest.
The King took his leave at about 12 o'clock on his return
to Berlin.

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—The Lord Chan-
cellor, who will be accompanied by the Duke of Newcastle,
Lord Stanley of Alderley, and other Royal Commissioners,
will attend in the House of Lords on Friday next, the 24th
inst,, for the purpose of further proroguing the Imperial
Parliament. The day to which they will further prorogue
is Thursday, the 13th of November.
DEATH OF SIR ANDREW LEITH HAY, OF RANN ES.
—This gallant gentleman, who bore a somewhat prominent
part in the Peninsular War, died at his seat of Leith-hall,
Aberdeenshire, on Monday afternoon, in his 77th) ear. Sir
Andrew joined the army at the beginning of the present
century, and quitted England for Spain in 1808 as aide-de-
camp to his uncle, Major-General Leith, who was at that
time sent out to watch the movements of the French forces.
In this position he attained his captaincy, and was present
at most of the chief engagements in the Peninsula. He
fought at Corunna under Sir John Moore ; took part in the
battles of Talavera, Busaco, Salamanca, Vittoria, and was
present at the storming of San Sebastian. At the close of
the war—previous to which time, however, he had received
the order of knighthood of Charles 111. for his services in
Spain—he was appointed Military Secretary to General Sir
James Leith, then Governor of Jamaica. About 1830 Sir
Andrew returned home, and for some time occupied him-
self with literary pursuits, publishing his work on the
Peninsular War, with illustrations from his own pencil,
and which obtained considerable popularity. Turning his
attention then to political matters, flir Andrew, after a hot
contest, won the seat of representative of the Elgin Burghs,
at the first election after the passing of the it eform Act.
Being a ready speaker and a good man of business, he soon,
after entering Parliament, had tha post of Clerk of the
Ordnance conferred on him by Lord Melbourne. At the
contest of 1848 he lost his seat for the Elgin Burghs, the
Hon. George Skene Duff being returned. Since then the
deceased gentleman confined his attention mainly to matters
local to his native county, Aberdeen. Only a few months
ago he received from the neighbouring gentry of the shire
the highest honour they could bestow, that of Convenor of
the county, and as such Sir Andrew presided at an impor-
tant meeting so late as Tuesday week. He was out enjoy-
ing a ride in the forenoon of the day upon which he died.
Disease of the heart is und)rstood to have been the cause
of his sudden death. He is succeeded in his estates by his
eldest son, Colonel Leith Hay, 93d Highlanders.

PENARTH HARBOUR AND DOCK.--A special
general meeting of the shareholders of this company was
held at the offices, Penarth, on Monday, Mr. Crawshay
Bailey, M.P., in the chair. The chairman explained that
the object of the meeting was to authorise the directors to
raise the additional capital of £390,000, for the completion
of the docks and railway, by preference shares. The chair-
man then moved the following resolution, which was
seconded by Mr. H. Jones, and carried nem. con.:—" That
a preferential dividend of 5 per cent. per annum be attached
to the £300,000 capital authorised to be raised by the direc-
tors in 3,000 shares of £lOO each at the special or extraor-
dinary general meeting of the company held on the 16th
day of June, 1862, from the date of the issue of such share=
up io the expiration of two years from the Ist day of Jan.,
or the Ist day of July, as the case may be, after the open-
ing for public traffic of the cmpany's dock and the railway
leading thereto."

ARRIVAL OF THE PETERHOFF.—A despatch re-
ceived in Liverpool yesterday announces the arrival at
Queenstown of the screw steamer Peterhoff from Nassau,
with about 1,500 bales of cotton on board. The Peterhoff
is one of Mr. Z. C. Pearson's "blockade breakers ;" and in
addition to her cargo of cottoa she has on board the family
of the late Bishop of Nassau.
A TIGER-KILLER IN REQUEST.—Wire have been
informed by some of our Saturday excursionists to Siran-
goon that the tigers are again in that neighbourhood in
considerable numbers. The natives in many cases report
having seen them, and their footprints are by no means
uncommon in the pepper and seree beds of the Chinese
planters. We had an interview with Mr. Carroll, our re-
puted tiger-killer, who has once more taken up his abode at
6frangoon, and he ussures us that he only awaits full moon
to commence his watch for them. We fear, however, that
Mr. Carroll's ardour in the hunt is not v hat it used to be ;
either he considers the inducement offered by the Governor
s
insufficient, or sport of lwthP" nature ha proved more re-
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