The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-29 00:00:00

lodge, a bank, a Turner society, some other societi e
and such a number of pleasant beer gardens, where
people will drink, chat, and, I am afraid, turn all
the world topsy-turvy in the liberal and progressist
ardour of their discussions, that one really does not
know how they possibly contrive to have the time
for making all the money, they spend so many hours
in applying to the intellectual and material enjoy-
ment of life.

AUGUST 25

The ceremony of " inauguration" of the monu-
ment erected in honour of the Prince Consort in
the Market-place of this town is to take place to-
morrow (Saturday). The programme of the fête
is already published ; the statue is on its pedestal,
and all preparations are made.

Her Majesty is still residing at Rosenau, where
she has been since the 11th. Princess Alice came in
yesterday by an afternoon train. The Prince and
Princess of Wales are expected to-day ; and, in all
probability, Alone of the members of the Royal
family will be absent from to-morrow's solemnity.
The Queen drove in yesterday from Rosenau.
Those who are familiar with the sight of her Ma-
jesty in England, and saw her yesterday in an open
carriage, as she went past the Schoss-Platz in
Coburg, assure me " that she has not for a long
time looked in better health, or borne a more cheer-
ful countenance." The change of air has been
evidently beneficial.
The English public cannot fail to sympathize with
the interest the Queen takes in the ceremony for
which the afternoon of to-morrow is appointed. The
monument is entirely her own work. Hers is the
'choice of the site, of the artist, of the style in which
the statue was to be done. All the expenses are
defrayed at her own private cost, though she has
accepted for that purpose contributions from the
Prince of Wales, the Princess Alice, and other
members of her family. The King of Prussia and
the King of Belgium have supplied bronze cannon,
out of which the statue has been cast. The corpora-
tion of Coburg, I believe, have built the pedestal
at their own charge.
I walked yesterday to the mansion or castle
which bears the name " Die Rosenau," the house
where Prince Albert was born. It is about four Eng-
lish miles from Coburg, across a plain bordered on
the right, as you walk towards it, by the last brows
of the hills of the Thuringian Forest. On the
highest of those bluffs stands a mass of buildings in
the shape of a fortalice, all walled round—barracks,
chapel, hospital, &c., conspicuous among which
two slender medmval turrets rise at either end.
That is " Die Coburg," the ancient strong-
hold of the ruling race, and from its com-
manding position it overlooks not only the
town that bears its name, but also the country for a
great many miles round. The approach to the
Rosenau is over extensive grounds laid out in
smooth lawns, and rich clusters of forest trees with
almost all the neatness of an English park. At the
gate, however, a sight perfectly characteristic of
this country, and for which you would look in vain
at the entrance of a squire or nobleman's park in
England, to say nothing of the abode of Royalty,
awaited me. The lodge, an extensive and rather
elegant building, is used as a public tea or beer
garden ; and there, at scarcely the distance of 100
yards from the mansion, groups of the neighbour-
ing peasantry and of pleasure-seekers from the town
were making merry . over their cans of beer, and
plates of their beloved schincken and cheese. The
Royal party at the chateau can just manage to keep
up an open way for the carriage between the rows
of tables and benches, and across perfect clouds of
smoke from the good people's pipes. All this is per-
fectly in keeping with that kind of family feeling
which binds the meanest German with what he calls
the " Landesvater." It is but justice to say that no-
thing could be more exemplary than the behaviour of
the feasting multitude. Here amid the crowd were to
be seen some of the humbler members of the Queen's
retinue, for the mansion at the Rosenau is small,
and the lodge, which has the dimensions of an hotel,
accommodates not only grooms and footmen, but
also followers of more distinguished rank.

Through the midst of this motley company I made
my entrance into the park, which is denied to no one.
At the end of a winding walk I was met by a tall,
stalwart warrior, all booted and helmeted—one of
the Duke's body guards, I suppose, who, with the
greatest civility, volunteered to take me to the vari-
ous spots from which I could obtain a full view of
the Schloss, without fear of intrusion. The castle is
built on the summit of a conical hill, of very mode-
rate size and height, but rather steep, the green
skirts of which put me in mind of those world-
renowned " slopes" which take up so much space in
the Court Circular. It is a squeezed-up tall build-
ing, with four of those pointed and battlemented
gables which look so quaint and picturesque in the
streets of old-fashioned German cities. Without
going in one can see that the old style of the build-
ing (for the mansion is ancient, notwithstanding
the white or rather light-yellow washing which dis-
figures it) must cramp and contract it uncomfortably
in the inside, and interfere with those arrangements
which the security of our own times has rendered
possible, and which luxury has made indispens-
able in a country residence. The Rosenau has
more the look of the ancient Burg than of the
modern Schloss. I should expect to find there
neither spacious halls, nor easy stairs, nor balconies,
nor large " French" windows opening out into the
lawns. It is more difficult to find fault with the
site of the house. Without being such an eagle's
nest as the Coburg—nay, embosomed as it is in
dense groves so jealously that you can nowhere
catch a glimpse of its cream-coloured gables till you
are within 20 or 30 yards from the house door, the
Rosenau enjoys a most extensive and charming
view,—in front, over the plain ;at the back over a
range of beautifully shaped hills, richly mantled
with wood to the summit, the central mass of which
encompasses the house and its park on three sides.
On one of these three sides, as I walked back,
ridge seemed to detach itself, which shut in the
plain with a semi-circular sweep, or gracefully un-
dulating line, culminating at the old fortress of
Coburg. At the foot of the hill, whereon the
fortress stands, lies the modern town residence of
the Duke, a small but not inelegant palace—the
main building rather too narrowly enclosed between
two wings—surrounded by lofty grounds laid out in
open terraces, which constitute the favourite pro-
menade of tile town.

Tho Grand Duchess of Oldenburg, accompanied
by the Princes Nicholai, George, and Constantine, and the
Princesses Catherine and Theresa, with a numerous suite,
have arrived in Paris from Salzburg.

Their Highnesses the Prince and Princess
Schwarzenberg hare left Claridge's Hotel for Ventnorr
Isle of Wight.
The Marquis Canavaro and son have arrived at
Claridge's Hotel from Paris.

Viscountess Royston was delivered of a daughter
on Sunday at the British Embassy, Paris. The mother
and infant are progressing favourably. . _

Lady Emily Peel has arrived at the Hotel Bristol,
Paris, from London, on hor way to Geneva.

The Baroness de Budberg," says the Nord, "1111
left Trouville for Baden, in consequence of news receive'
of the death of her sister, Madame de Knorring."

MEMORIAL OF THE LATE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE."'
A memorial window of the late Duke of Newcastle 10
been erected in the parish church of Basford, near Netti it
ham, a church in which his grace took a deep interest.
is to be unveiled with much ceremony on Thursday, the
31st inst., when a sermon will be preached by the Ile!
Henry Mackenzie, M.A., vicar of T) dd St. Mary, and stir
dean of Lincoln Cathedral, formerly vicar of St. 11/41arti°,5;
in-the-Fields, London. After the ceremony there killa
public luncheon, with a large number of the gentry °

the neighbourhood have promised to attend.
TIIE NEW WIIIPPER-IN TO THE HOUSE OF 61°)I;
MONS.—The Hon. F. Lygon, M.P. for WreSo
Worcestershire, will,, it is understood, be one of i,
whippers-in of the Conservative party in the new PBr.s;
ament, in_the place of Mr. Henry Whitmore, who has 1°

his seat for Bridgenorth.
PARLIAMENT AND TIIE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.--3°
less than 283 members of the new House of Cool'
mons, or somewhat more than two-fifths, have The
brought up at one or other of our public schools.
total is made up as follows, on the authority of Mr. %1.-;:
wicke's "Shilling House of Commons :"—Etonians, Mold
Harrovians, 61 ; Old Winchesters, 16 ; Rugkeans, 28
Westnainsters, 23 ; Carthusians, 10 ; Merchant Taylors'
Shrewsbury, 5, St. Paul's, 1. It is just possible aid
besides the above there may be one or two old
at
Harrow mon, but who are not known to I-lave been at WO
schools,