The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-27 00:00:00

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

PENZANCE, July 25.
Shortly before 10 o'clock yesterday morning Mr.
Boase, the Mayor of Penzance, at the head of the
Corporation, went on board the Osborne, and pre-
sented the following address to their Royal High-
:,esses the Prince and Princess of Wales :

"May it please your Royal Highnesses,--We, the Mayor,
Aldermen, and Burgesses of the borough of Penzance, and
the Magistrates, Clergy, and inhabitants of the adjacent
district, desire to approach your Royal Highnesses with
the sincerest devotion and respect, and to offer you a
hearty welcome to our town and neighbourhood.
" It is, indeed, with feelings of pride and pleasure that
we, one and all, hail the presence among us of our own
Duke and Duchess, the Royal pair in whom, under Divine
Providence, the nation's hopes are centred ; and we ven-
ture to express a hope that the visit of your Royal High-
nesses to Mount's Bay will have so far contributed to your
gratification as to induce you on many future occasions to
come and receive the affectionate homage of this part of
your Royal Highnesses' duchy.
" Wo rejoice to recognise in your Royal Highnesses those
exalted virtues which in our beloved Queen and in her late
lamented Consort have added so much additional lustre to
the throne of these realms, and pray the Almighty to
shower on yourselves and your royal children His choicest
blessings."

This address the Prince graciously received, and the
Mayor, accompanied by the other civic functionaries,
returned to Penzance to be in readiness to meet the
royal party on their arrival on shore. It was not
until after 11 o'clock that the Prince and Princess
left the Osborne, and it was nearly half-past 11
before they reached the pier at which they landed.
Long before that hour the pier, which is about half
a mile long, and all the approaches to it were
thronged with people. Long before that hour, too,
every ship in the bay, and for that matter every
sort of craft that could aspire to float on its service,
had their full complement of bunting flying. On
the arrival of the Prince and Princess at the
pier they were received by the Mayor and Cor-
poration in their civic robes, by Lord Vivian,
the Lord-Lieutenant of Cornwall, and the High
Sheriff (Mr. Williams). Both sides of the pier
were lined by the local Volunteer Corps from Pen-
zance, Falmouth, and Camborne, amounting to
about 800 strong, and under the command of
General Tremenheere. The right-hand side of the
pier, leading to Penzance, is bounded by a wall ; the
left, which is open, was yesterday bounded by ships
drawn close up to it, some of which had every yard
manned, all floating as large an amount of colours
as they well could carry. At the end of the pier
five or six carriages, the majority with outriders in
scarlet liveries, were provided by Mr. St. Aubyn,
and in the first of these the Prince and Princess,
with Mr. and Lady E. St. Aubyn, took their places.
The Royal suite, together with the Duke and
Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke of St. Albans,
Lord and Lady Vivian, Lady Audrey Townshend,
and Mr. E. St. Aubyn occupied seats in the remain-
ing carriages. The Prince and Princess were
loudly—very loudly—cheered when they landed,
nor did the cheering for a single moment cease
while, headed by the carriages of the Mayor and
Corporation, the procession proceeded through the
town of Penzance. The reception given to their
Royal Highnesses was not less tasteful than it was
enthusiastic. Triumphal arches, not tarnished and
meagre, but green and fresh as the finest July ver-
dure could make them, and with baskets of flowers
ensconced in evergreens pendant from their centres,
were erected at intervals, not few, but frequent.
In the principal street along the route a crown
of various colours, suspended midway by means of
cords attached to the roofs of the houses on each
side, and having folds of muslin picked out with
crimson rosettes flowing from it so as to form an
archway, was conspicuous for the prettiness of its
design. But, independent of the arches, the streets
of Penzance were one blaze of colour. There was
scarcely a house along the route by which the
Prince and Princess passed which did not display a
flag, or which was not more tastefully ornamented
with wreaths of evergreens and festoons of flowers.
The whole line, too, was flanked by people, all in
holiday garb, who made every manifestation of being
as heartily glad to see the Prince and Princess as
they appeared to be gratified by their reception.
At the south-western end of the town the Mayor
and Corporation of Penzance ceased to head the
procession,. but not until the Princess had graciously
condescended to name 'a new street, which has just
been opened at that point, the " Alexandra-road."
The route of the royal party then lay for some three
or four miles through a most charming country.
Skirting the pretty fishing town of Mewlym, whose
inhabitants had also prepared their triumphal arch,
with the words " Ich dien" wrought in flowers,
and who were at their posts to give the Prince and
Princess a cheer, the procession dashed along at a
rapid pace over a well-wooded hill and dale, closely
followed by a cavalcade of stout and loyal Cornish-
men mounted on sturdy steeds. It was a pretty
sight to see all along the route, standing on the
roadside, but more frequently on the fences, topped
with wildflowers and brier, groups of little children
holding out their flags and making as good an
attempt at a cheer as their unformed voices
would allow. At Taraiffe, the property of Mr.
Legrice, ex-Sheriff of Cornwall, the effect produced
was especially pleasing. Here for the space of a
quarter of a mile a complete archway is formed of
ancient elms, which barely permitted the sun to
dapple, through their foliage, the roadway with the
light. Between the trees were several groups of
girls, and women too with infants in their arms, all
come—the statement would probably be incorrect
in the case of the infants—to give welcome to the
Prince and Princess of Wales. At no point of the
route was the roadside untenanted for more than a
few hundred yards, while every small hamlet had its
flags flying, and many their triumphal arches be-
sides. When the royal cortege hadreached somefour
or five miles from Penzance the scenery began to
undergo a complete change, but not so the warmth
of the welcome which the Prince and Princess received.
That continued to be as hearty as ever, although
there was no longer any foliage to set off the efforts
of those by whom it was rendered. The mining
population in the vicinity of St. Just have no trees
mingling their branches across their roadways, or
approaching so close to one another that a series of
wreaths and flags could be suspended between them,
as was several times the case nearer Penzance. But
they have good lungs and loyal hearts, and they did
not yesterday fail to make a good display of both.
In the village of St. Just itself, which is situated
about seven miles west of Penzance, and which com-
mands a fine view of the Bristol Channel, neither
flags nor triumphal arches were wanting, nor chil-
dren, nor cheers. All about it the land is barren,
and it naturally grows wilder and more barren to-
wards the cliffs of Botallick, which are about two
miles further on. These cliffs, which are lofty and
irregular, jut , boldly into the sea. At the base of
one of them, or nearly so, is the entrance into
the celebrated Botallick Mine, to see which was
one of the main objects of the excursion of the
Prince and Princess from Penzance. Some way
in from the cliffs is the " accompt-house," a tole-
rably spacious building, in which the financial ,

and other business connected with the mine is
transacted, and here it was that the Prince and
Princess, after the drive across country which has
been described, for the first time alighted. The
front of the house was of course decorated, and by
no means sparingly decorated either, but liberally
and well, with evergreens twined into arches. All
about it, grouped on the cliff, and lining the road-
way in dense masses, were hundreds of well-dressed
people, who eagerly looked for and loudly cheered
Prince and Princess. A body of Volunteers, under
the command of Colonel Gilbert, lined the ap-
proaches to the " accompt-house," which was
reached by the Royal party shortly before 1 o'clock.
Here some time was occupied by them in changing
their dresses with a view to visiting the interior of
the mine. After the lapse of about half-au-hour
the Princess came out most becomingly arrayed in
a fine white flannel cloak, which completely enve-
loped her, and which was trimmed at the neck with
blue riband. A white straw hat, having also a band
of blue riband around it, completed her outward cos-
tume. The Duchess of Sutherland, Lady Vivian,
Lady de Grey, Lady E. St. Aubyn, and Lady Au-
drey Townshend were similarly attired. The Prince,
the Duke of Sutherland, the Duke of St. Albans,
and the other noblemen andgentlemen of the party,
had on white flannel tunics, white trousers, and low
white hats, or what might very well pass for such in
a mining district. Assembled together they looked
very much like a group of devotees bent upon a pil-
grimage to some holy shrine. At the door of the
accompt-house the Princess and the Duchess
of Sutherland took their seats in a small donkey-
carriage, and were drawn very gently down the
somewhat rugged path which led to the cliffs.
The rest of the party walked behind them. When
they came to the wooden platform which leads from
the jagged heights to the entrance to the mine, at
the base of the opposite cliff, the Princess and the
Duchess of Sutherland alighted, and having de-
scended a little further down by means of the arti-
ficial aids in the shape of timber structures em-
ployed all round, they could see below the doorway
leading to the subterranean recesses which they were
about to visit. From the platform on which they
then stood a narrow way, constructed of timber, and
looking very much like a miniature railway, ran
down, with an incline of about 32 degrees, to the
entrance of the mine, and thence on deep into the
bowels of the earth. On this way a low car, covered
with crimson cloth fringed with orange, was placed,
with grooves, not wheels, to fit the rails. To the
back of the car a stout metallic rope, which could
be let out or drawn up at pleasure by means of the
machinery higher up the cliff, was attached. The
Prince and Princess, together with the Countess do
Grey, and Mr. and Lady Elizabeth St. Aubyn, hay-
ing taken their seats in this car, the rope was gradu-
ally let go and they glided gently down the shaft
through the doorway, each of the party being pro-
vided with a lighted candle, to a depth of more than
200 fathoms beneath the sea, under which the mine
extended for a distance of half a mile. When the
Prince and Princess had got to the bottom, the car
was palled up by means of the rope, and the Duko
and Duchess of Sutherland and other members of
the Royal party descended into the mine, the pro-
cess being repeated until the whole party had got to
the bottom. While all this was taking place every
ledge of rock on the precipitous cliffs above on which
a human being could find a footing was tenanted by
hundreds of people, young and old, some of them
apparently in position& so dangerous that on the
slightest movement they must tumble down headlong.
Botallick Mine has long been famous in Cornwall for
its tin and copper ore, the latter being found chiefly
under the sea, while the former is developed inland.
The Prince and Princess spent about an hour yes-
terday in examining its dark and rugged avenues,
over which they were conducted by men experienced-
in its devious ways. Their Royal Highnesses, when
they returned to the light of day, again got a tre-
mendous cheer from the cliffs all round, and ex-
pressed themselves as being very much pleased with
what they had just seen. They then climbed upthe
ascent to the accompt-house, where their mining
garbs—and the Princess need scarcely wish to look
prettier in any other,— were exchanged for ordinary
costume, and where they partook of luncheon.
After luncheon the Princess returned to Penzance,
where she found a crowd as large and as eager to
cheer her as that which met her in the morning.
She was received at the pier by Mr. Sirratt, one of
the officers of the Osborne, on board of which she
was at once conveyed.

The Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Duke
of Sutherland, the Duke of St. Albans, the Earl of
ktount-Edgcumbe, and Major Grey, drove to the
Land's-end, and on their return joined the Princess.
Their Royal Highnesses were in the evening the
guests of Mr. and Lady E. St. Aubyn, at St.
Michael's Mount.

Mount's Bay was last night extensively and bril-
liantly illuminated. At all the hill tops from Point
Cuddan to St. Clements fires were lighted. Pen-
zance was a blaze of light, and numerous lights
thickly clustered round the base of Mount SL Mi-
chael made its grim old sides look radiant for once.
The Prince of Wales slept on board the Osborne
last night, and started for the Scilly Isles early this
morning. It is expected that he will on his return
pay a visit to Falmouth.

FALMOUTH, July 2G.

The Osborne paddle yacht, with the Prince and
Princess of Wales, arrived at Falmouth from
Mount's Bay at 2 p.m. on Wednesday. On the
vessel anchoring near the Prince of Wales's Break-
water the Mayor and Corporation of the town, and
the chairman and directors of the Falmouth Docks
Cjmpany, were received on board, and addresses
of congratulation were delivered to the Prince from
each body. Soon afterwards the Prince and
Princess, accompanied by General Knollys and
the Duke of Sutherland, landed at the Dock-
stairs, and entering carriages prepared for the occa-
sion, drove round the Castle of Pendennis over the
new road which has been lately opened, accom-
panied by the Mayor and Corporation, the direc-
tors of the docks, the commanding officer of the
garrison, and other official authorities. On return-
ing to the docks, they re-embarked and proceeded
on board the Duke of Sutherland's yacht, the Un-
dine, and at half-past 3 p.m., the latter steered up
the river, intending to go as far as Malpas, within•
two miles of Truro, the Osborne awaiting the re-
turn of the Royal party. The-day was exceedingly'
fine. All the shipping, foreign and English, were
dressed in colours, and the assemblage was immense
from every part of the country. The yacht received
a royal salute from the garrison on entering the
port, and the welcome the Royal party received was
of the most enthusiastic character. A large fleet
of steamers and pleasure boats accompanied the
yacht from the bay to the anchorage.

The Marchioness of Hastings has arrived at the
St. George's Hotel.

_
The Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare and
family leave town on Monday next for their seat in o'o
county of Kildare.

The Earl de Grey left town on Tuesday evening
for Studley Park, near Ripon, Yorkshire.
THE FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE MATTERHORN.'"
The Dumfries Courier, in noticing the accident c°
the Matterhorn, whereby Lord Francis Douglas, together
with two tourist companions and a guide lost their live*
says:—" Lord Francis William Bouverie Douglas was born
on the Bth February, 1847, and was thus little more than 1
years of age. He was a most promising young nobleman
having been highest in the list of competitors at Cheise°
iu April last for direct commissions in tho army; then
were 119 competitors, and he headed them by the extr'
ordinary number of 6,597 marks, making 500 marks ILO
than any other competitor. Lord Francis had upon sever*
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previous occasions visited Switzerland, and even et hre
early ago was an expert and courageous member of t_
Alpine Club. He had been making a tour after his ardneus
course of study,.and the ascent of the Matterhorn was the
last adventure which be had planned previous to his return
19th
to Glen Stuart, which ho had arranged to do on the i',„
inst., when his young life was brought to a sudden close 70
the awful manner above described. The sad intelligenrry'
reached Glen Stuart, a seat of the Marquis of Queensb°s
in this county, on Wednesday last, where thare vreade
family gathering, and great preparations had been ul ig.
for celebrating next day the majority of the noble n'arci,alirt-
The scene of festivity was at once turned into one 0'
rending grief, and Lord Queensberry hurried off tend,i
zerland, and was expected to arrive ut Zermatt on 01.,ut0
last, on an errand of fraternal affection which the ace' It
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