The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-22 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Tuesday.
The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses the Crown Prince and Princess Prussia,
drove in the grounds this morning.
Their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena and
Princess Beatrice went out driving.
To-day was the anniversary of the birth of her
Royal Highness the Crown Princess of Prussia
(Princess Royal).
At seven o'clock in the morning the choir of St.
George's Chapel, under the direction of Dr. Elvey,
performed a serenade under liar royal highness's
indows.

The Prussian Ambassador and Countess Bern
storff arrived at the Castle.

Lord Methuen and the Hon. Mortimer Sackville
West have succeeded Viscount Torrington and
Major-General F. Seymour, C. 8., as lord and
groom in waiting.

The Prince and Princess of Wales in
Suffolk.

LONG MELFORD, Tuesday Evening.
This afternoon their Royal Highnesses the Prince
and Princess of Wales paid a visit to Lord and Lady
Alfred Paget at Melford Hall, near this town. Mel-
ford is a long, straggling village, so long that it has
come to rejoice in the name of Long Melford. Yes-
terday its one great street was alive with visitors
from the surrounding country side, and banners and
devices without end adorned the homes, while three
triumphal arches we: e erected at various points.
The first of these arches—which were wreathed with
evergreens, while they were hung with lamps, by
which they were illuminated at night--bore the word
" Welcome'," surmounted by a crown ; the second, a
little farther on, had the somewhat lengthier senti-
ment, " God bless the Prince and Princess of Wales,"
in brilliant silver-gilt letters surmounted by the Prince
of Wales's feathers and a bust of the Princess ; the
third had for its motto the venerable sentiment,
" God bless the Queen," with the letters "V. R."
on one sub-arch, and "A. A." on another. This
arch was at no great distance from Melford Hall,
the goal of the royalvisitors' journey. To attempt to
recapitulate all the mottos and banners which the
loyalty of Melfordians led them to produce would be
an endless task ; but we may select a few which
will serve to express the general feeling which ruled
the hour :—" England's Hope and Denmark's
Pride," " Long live England's future King," " Long
live our future King and Queen," " May they live
long to reign over us," " Welcome to this loyal and
ancient village," " Long life and happiness to Eng-
land's Hope and Denmark's Flower," &c. Although
the display was on the whole an imposing one, it
was carried out under no ordinary difficulty, as from
the inclement state of the weather up to this morn-
ing every one had to go to work well at the last mo-

ment. The general result was, however, very good.
At the railway station also great preparations had
been made. The platform and offices were carpeted,
and the waiting-room and office were provided with
seats, to which a favoured few were admitted by
ticket for the purpose of witnessing the arrival of the
Prince and Princess and their suite, who were due
by train from Cambridge via Haverhill, at 3.42
p.m. The railway station, it should be added, was
also gaily decorated with evergreens, &c.
At Melford Hall a gas device was erected over the
principal entrance, representing the Prince's plumes,
with the letters " A. A." on one side, and " A.. E."
on the other. This entrance led almost immediately
into the ball-room, a beautiful apartment 42ft. by
28ft„ and lofty in proportion. The room was bril-
liantly lighted, and was hung with flags, and some
fine old tapestry, while antlers, savage implements
from the South seas, and blooming plants, were

tastefully grouped about. When the last finishing
touches had been given to the decorations, and
when the room was lighted as the shades of even-
ing fell, the general effect was very fine. The bed
,provided for the Prince and Princess was a very old
carved oak affair, in wiaioli tradition stafes— al thon gh
not very positively—that Queen Elizabeth reposed
when she visited Melford nearly three centuries
since. Be this as it may, the Prince's dressing-room
was actually occupied as a sleeping apartment by
the great Tudor Queen, who seems to have been
rather fond of visiting her loving provincials.

Among the party staying at the hall and invited
to meet the Prince and Princess were Lord and Lady
Proby, Lord and Lady Suffield, Viscount Hinchin-
brook, Major-Gen. Lord Geo. Paget, Lord Berkeley
Paget, Mr. Win. and Lady Parker, Major Teesdale,
and the Hon. Mrs. Coke (Lady in waiting to the
Princess). A party of 16 sat down to dinner on the
arrival of the Royal visitors, and a corresponding
number will form the dinner party to-morrow
(Wednesday).
The guests bidden to the ball which followed the
dinner this evening numbered about 120, anl com-
prised Marquis and Marchioness of Bristol, Lord and
Lady Aug. Hervey, Lord and Lady Alfred Hervey,
Sir C. and Lady Rowley, Lord and Lady Henniker
Mr. and Lady Florence Barnardiston, Lord Thur-
low, Sir C. and Lady Callum, Mr. J. Gurdon Re-
bow, M.P., and Lady Georgiana Rebow, and repre-
sentatives of other county families.
Dancing commenced at ten p.m., to the music of
Winterbin's band, from Colchester.

The visit of the Prince and Princess being of a
strictly private cliaracter, an address which the
Mayor and Corporation of Sudbury proposed to pre-
sent was declined with thanks by the Royal visitors,
Lord Alfred Paget undertaking, however, to ex-
press the loyal feelings of the burgesses to their
Royal Highnesses.
To-morrow (Wednesday) the Prince of Wales
proposes to shoot in Spelthorne Wood, and if time
permit also in Lineage Wood. There is a good
supply of game, among which a considerable
amount of destruction will probably be dealt.
Spelthorne Wood is some 70 or 80 acres in extent,
and Lineage Wood comprises 150 acres.
The noblemen and gentlemen who are expected
to shoot with the Prince are Lord Proby, Major-
Gen. Lord George Paget, Lord Berkeley Paget,
Lord Alfred Paget, Lord Suffield, Viscount Hinchin-
brook, Major Teesdale, and Major Barnardiston.
As before stated, the Prince and Princess of
Wales arrived to-day by the ordinary train from
Cambridge, due at Melford at 3.42 p.m. They were
received at the railway station by the Sudbury
Volunteers (under the command of Capt. Sir J. W.
Parker), who served as a guard of honour for the
occasion. The Long Melford squadron of yeomanry
cavalry discharged the duties of a mounted escort as
the Royal visitors made their way through Mel-
ford's crowded street to Lord and Lady Alfred
Paget's hospitable mansion. The cavalry troop, a
brilliant little corps, was under the command of
Major Barnardiston—the other officers of the corps
being Captain Ord, Captain Paley, Lieut. Burke,
Lieut. Majendie, and Cornet Blake. The Loyal
Protector and Loyal Benevolent lodges of Odd
Fellows, as well as the two Foresters' courts at Sud-
bury, also joined in the universal demonstration of
loyalty, and accompanied by bands of music and
displaying their insignia, passed through the street
—we cannot say the streets, seeing that Mellond has
but one great thoroughfare.
The railway station, to which Mr. Rose, resident
engineer of the Great Eastern Railway Company,
gave his personal attention, presented quite the ap-
pearance of a conservatory, so great was the display
of shrubs and flowers which were arranged under the
care of Mr. Barrett, of Bury St. Edmunds; while
the drapery, &c., in the waiting room, were laid
down and draped under the direction of Mr. Wheeler,
of Sudbury.
The train bearing the royal visitors arrived with
very commendable punctuality, and the Prince and
Princess were received by Lord Alfred Paget, Lord
Suffield, &c., and were escorted at once to a carriage
drawn by four handsome greys, which was in wait-
ing to convey them to the hall. The cavalcade at
once started, and amid the cheers of the populace
who lined the street the Prince and Princess passed
rapidly on to the hall, where they arrived soon after
4 p.m. The Prince and Princess must have been