The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-01 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, July 31.
The Queen and Princesses went out early this
morning.

Prince Leopold also drove out.
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Prince Arthur's Visit to South Wales.
SWANSEA, Monday Evening.
His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, accompanied
by his suite, passed this town at about four o'clock
this afternoon, on his way to inaugurate the Welsh
national memorial to his beloved father, the late
Prince Consort. The inauguration does not take

place until Wednesday, and it was hardly expected
that his Royal highness would visit the principality
until Tuesday. It appears, however, that the visit
is not to be confined to Tenby, but that the Prince

will embrace the opportunity of his journey into
South Wales to inspect some of the " lions" of the
principality, and will spend a day at Pembroke,
where the Royal dockyards and shipping will be

inspected. The arrangements for his Royal High-

ness's visit to South Wales, as at present

divulged, are as follows :—The journey westward
to-day terminates at New Milford, the terminus

of the South Wales section of the Great 'Western

Railway. The station is close by the side of
the far-famed haven, in which two or three
fleets might be safely harboured, and passen-
gers arriving there by train can at once walk on
board steamers lying alongside the station for Ire-
land. His Royal Highness, however, is not bound
at present for Paddyland, but merely crosses the

haven for Pembroke, where he is to-night the guest
of the captain superintendent of her Majesty's
dockyard.

His Royal Highness travelled the whole journey
from Reading by the ordinary Great Western ex-

press train, taking the route via Swindon, Glouces-
ter, Chepstow, and the South Wales Railway. His
Royal Highness, with a limited suite, occupied a

Royal saloon carriage. As the arrangements were
only known to the railway officials at Gloucester
and other stations on the route, no popular feeling
was evoked. His Royal Highness may be said to
have commenced his journey into Welsh territory
when he crossed the river Severn at Gloucester this
afternoon, and left ancient Glevum behind him.
The South Wales line here joins the Great Western
proper, and traverses a highly interesting district,
passing many a turreted castle and ruined abbey,
and has for a considerable distance the waves of the
Bristol Channel on its one side and the Welsh moun-
tains on the other. The weather was, however, un-
favourable for a considerable portion of the journey,
the atmosphere being thick and rain falling. Passing
Grange Court, the junction of the Hereford, Ross,
and Gloucester line, the express train rapidly brought
the travellers to Markham, between which place
and Chepstow the line runs frequently on the mar-
gin of the Severn, which has by this time rapidly
widened. Here some fine water views were afforded,
and among other curiosities the travellers might have
caught a glimpse of the fisheries, so celebrated for
their large captures of Severn salmon. At Lydney
there was a hurried stoppage. Wollaston Station
was passed, and the train reached Chepstow at 1.45.
Here his Royal Highness had a hasty glimpse of

Chepstow Castle as the train moved slowly across
Brunel's curious bridge over the Wye—one of the
first of such erections in which the tubular principle
was combined with the ordinary supporting plan.
This station is a favourite and convenient resting-
place for Welsh tourists, for independent of the
attraction of the ancient castle itself—a massive
fortress built in the time of William the Conqueror
—there are at convenient distances the famous ruins
of Tintern Abbey and the Wynd Cliff, from which
some of the most beautiful prospects in the kingdom
—some travellers add "in the world"—are to be
seen. Passing onwards from Chepstow towards
Newport (the next station at which the train stopped),
Caldecott Castle was visible amongst the trees, and
the Roman city of Caerwint is distant about three
miles from the railway. The next station was New-
port, and hero the train stopped for 10 minutes.
Lord Llanover was here in waiting to receive
the Royal Prince, and welcome him to the land of
the leek, the borders which his Royal Highness was
now passing. Monmouthshire is a border county,
but the line soon passes into Glamorganshire, the
first of the Welsh counties. The town and port of
Newport at which, as already mentioned, a short
halt was made, is a fast increasing place. The rail-
ways bring down large quantities of coal and iron
frog the rich mines on the hills to the ships lying in
Newport docks. Cardiff, the next station, is a town
and port of the same character as Newport. This
is the capital of Glamorganshire, and there is an
interesting ruined castle in the middle of the town.
In point of population, however, Cardiff cannot ap-
proach Swansea.
From Cardiff to Bridgend the scene changed, the
line passing through a beautiful undulating country,
up the Ely Valley, and thence to Bridgend, a dis-
tance of 20 miles, the line crossing the little river
Ely 16 or 17 times. The line now takes its course
seaward again, and crosses the marshes and sands
between Pyll and Port Talbot to Neath, a busy,
thriving, coal-exporting place. At Neath the Vale
of Neath Railway joins the South Wales line, and
brings large consignments of minerals to it. The
Vale of Neath is also famous for its romantic
scenery. There is an old abbey at Neath, but it
seems quite out of place in the midst of flaming
fiery furnaces and thick smoke.
The most striking feature on approaching Swan-
sea is the dense atmosphere caused by the accumula-
tion of copper smoke, which (as the wind sets in)
hangs about in the valleys, or as a pall covers
the sea, the peculiar characteristic of this
smoke being its disinclination to dissipate like
ordinary coal smoke. It is this which makes
Swansea an undesirable place of residence, although
there is close at hand a sea beach that has been
likened to the Bay of Naples (perhaps it is meant
after a volcanic eruption), and bathing machines
ply on the strand for the accommodation of such
visitors as may be induced to try the locality for
change of air and scene. The train with the Royal
visitor did not run into Swansea, but stopped at the
Landore junction, and thence proceeded on its way,
ascending a sharp gradient through a dark tunnel
rejoicing in the Welsh name of Cwmbrla Tunnel,
And then down another steep gradient to Loughor,
crossing the estuary of the River Llwychr by a long
wooden bridge, and thus entering Carmarthenshire.
The next portion of the line traversed was a long
flat on the border of the sea shore, the sea being in
some places shut out by a sea wall, on which the
railway is carried. Llanelly, Pembrey, Kidwelly,
and Ferryside Stations are close to the sea shore,
and the line then runs up the River Towy to Car-
marthen. A few more stations were passed and the
travellers entered Pembrokeshire, passing Haver-
fordwest and a few minor stations to the terminus
at New Milford.

NEW MILFORD, Monday Evening.
The Prince arrived here at seven, and immediately
crossed the Haven to Pembroke Docks, where he
was received by the dockyard authorities, and wel-
comed by a Royal salute.

The Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, with
the Princesses their daughters, have left Darmstadt
for Switzerland, where they will remain some

weeks.

The Princess Mathilde and the Princess Charlotte
Bonaparte have returned to Paris from Dieppe.
The Princess Mary of Leuchtenberg, wife of
Prince William of Baden, has just been safely con-
fined of a daughter.
M. Boudet, Minister of the Interior, has left Paris
to wait on the Emperor at Plombieres.
M. Fould, Minister of Finance, has returned to
Paris from the south of France.
The Marquis and Marchioness de Chasseloup-
Laubat have returned to Paris from Dieppe.
Marshal de MacMahon, the Governor-General of
Algeria, returned to that colony in the evening of
the 26th July on board the Panama steam-frigate.
DEATH OF MRS. FREDERICK PEEL.—We regreto
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announce the demise of the above lady, which took place
at five o'clock on Sunday evening, at Ilighurove, near
Pinner, in the 30th year of ber age,