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

rriE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVEN. AUGUST 29, 1865

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(PEUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

ARRIVAL OF THE FRENCH FLEET AT
PORTSMOUTH.
PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 29, 11.45 a.m.
The French fleet is now in sight.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF BOSTON.

The Inman steamship City of Boston, from New
York on the morning of the 9th inst., arrived at
Queenstown at 4 50 a.m. to-day (Aug. 29), with
297 passengers and $130,170 in specie. She landed
56 passengers and proceeded at 5 a.m. for Liver-
pool. All well.

THE PRINCESS MURAT.
NEUFCHATEL, AUG. 29.

Princess Anna Murat has almost entirely re-
covered from the effects of the late accident.
Countess Montebello and Madlle. Bonvet are pro-
gressing very satisfactorily. Dr. Nelaton left Neuf-
chatel on the 27th, considering that his presence was
no longer necessary. The Empress will probably
return to Paris on Thursday.
President Shecnk, in the name of the Federal
Council, has requested the French Ambassador at
Berne to express to his Majesty their great regret
at the unfortunate event which cast a gloom over
his journey.

lIAMBURG.

HAMBURG, AUG. 28.

General Von Manteuffel arrived here yesterday.
He will visit the authorities and proceed to Kiel to-
day.

FRANCE,
THE EMPEROR IN SWITZERLAND.
BERNE, Aug. 27.

Intelligence from Neuenburg states that the
sufferers by the recent accident are mostly in a fair
way of recovery. The worst injury appears to have
been sustained by the footman, who, it is said, may
possibly have to submit to amputation. The coach-
man, also, is more seriously hurt than was at first
supposed. It is gratifying, on the other hand, to
find that the statement of General Fleury having
broken a leg is not confirmed.
The Emperor left the day before yesterday at
9 a.m. for Fontainebleau, leaving the Empress at
Neuenburg for a few days, at her own request, to
look after the injured ladies. The deputation from
the Bernese State Council was received by his
Majesty immediately before his departure. The
Emperor thanked, through their medium, the in-
habitants of Neuenburg for their kind reception
under such painful circumstances. It is said that
the well-known Swiss Colonel Denzler accompa-
nied the Emperor to Fontainebleau.
An accident of the same distressing character as
that upon the Matterhorn occurred in the Swiss
Alps on Wednesday last. A Herr Hopfner from
Dresden attempted the ascent of the Ditlis at
Engelberg with a guide, when both unfortunately
perished. The bodies were recovered the evening
before last and brought into Engelberg.

A telegraphic despatch from Brest states that the
French squadron left that port early this morning
for Plymouth. The Reine Hortense, having on
board the Minister of Marine, accompanied the
squadron.

Two Arab convicts effected their escape from the
bagne of Toulon on the 14th inst., and, notwith-
standing all the efforts of the police, have not yet
been captured. The Bedouins who are prisoners at
Toulon persist in maintaining that their fortunate
companions have taken their flight on the hippogriff
of the Prophet.
The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the
following as the atmospiieric situation yesterday
—" The gale which we signalised on Saturday
as existing in the north of England and Norway
is raging this morning in the Baltic with a vio-
lence which is very rarely experienced at this
season of the year. The tempest is violent from
the W.S.W. at Libau ; this morning it snowed
at Helsingfors ; on Saturday evening the wind
was violent at Stockholm. The barometer has
fallen to 740 millimetres at Haparanda (Gulf of
Bothnia). To-day the pressures are still strong
over France. At Paris, however, the barometer
is falling slowly and the sky is becoming covered
with clouds from the W.S.W. It appears therefore
that in the Channel at least the winds, N.E. this
morning, will before long blow from the W." In
Paris yesterday the weather was exceedingly fine.
At 3 in the afternoon the thermometer marked 24
cent. (78 Fah.)
The Courier du Bas-Rhin has received the sub-
joined note from the mairie of Strasburg :—" After
the death of a native of this city, who has just ex-
pired from an attack at Bonn, the inhabitants of
that place, by a spontaneous movement, organised
the funeral cortege of the unfortunate Ott, and an
imposing procession rendered the last honours to the
deceased. The mayor of Strasburg has written to
the burgomaster of Bonn to offer the expression of
his gratitude for the manifestation of sympathy."

Another instance of the extortionate demands
made on the relatives of persons who happen to die
in furnished hotels has just been brought before the
Imperial Court of Paris, on appeal from a judgment
of the Civil Tribunal. In 1864, Count Del Aguila
Rosario, of Seville, then suffering from pulmonary
phthisis, was brought to Paris by his family in the
hope of obtaining relief through the means of the
eminent physicians of the capital. The family took
up their abode in a richly furnished apartment, in
the hotel No. 12, Boulevard Malesherbes, kept by
M. and Mme. Pelloux, the rent of which was I,loofr.
per month. Notwithstanding all that science could
do, the Count died there in September last, and his
body, having been embalmed, was sent to Spain to
be interred in the family tomb. The Countess and
family then prepared to return home, and had paid
all their bills, when M. Pelloux refused to allow
their effects to be removed unless a large sum were
paid as compensation for damage done to the fur-
niture and for loss of custom occasioned by the
death of the Count in the hotel. The Countess, in
her affliction, being anxious to avoid all litigation,
at last consented to pay 2,400 f., but feeling that
she had paid far more than she ought, and that
500 f. would have been ample compensation to the
hotel-keepers, she subsequently commenced pro-
ceedings to recover 1,900 f., as unduly paid. The
Tribunal, considering that 500 f. was a sufficient in-
demnity, gave a judgment condemning the defendants
to return 1,900 f. to the plaintiff. Against that deci-
sion the former now appealed, and pleaded that the
sum they had received did not cover their losses.
They alleged that the furniture in one room was so
soiled that it was indispensable to have it newly
upholstered at a cost of 618 f. ; that the damage
done to the bedding and the decorations of the
chamber during the process of embalming by the
arsenical process amounted to 650 fr. ; that the ac-
count for breakage was 335 fr., and that, owing to
the time -necessary for the repairs, they had lost a
month's rent of 1,100 fr., making a total of 2,793 fr.,
whereas they had consented to accept 2,400 fr. The
counsel for the countess proved that the above items
were extravagant, and maintained that the 500 fr.
were a sufficient indemnity. The Court, taking that
view of the case, confirmed the judgment, and con-
demned the appellants to pay all costs.
BOURSE, Aug. 28.—Two o'clock.—The good dis-
position manifested on Saturday continues to-day ;
the opening takes place under the most favourable
auspices. Stocks and Shares have, it is true, slightly
retrograded on the highest prices, in consequence of
hasty realisations of profit, but the good feeling of
the market remains the same. Threes, for the Ac-
count, after being done at 68f. 70c., are now quoted
68f. 62ic., with an advance of 10c. Italian Fives
are particularly demanded at 66f. with an ad-
vance of 20c. This Stock has been quoted as high
as 66f. 15c. Credit Mobilier have risen 7f. 50c.—
to 812 f. 50c. after doing 815 f. Spanish Mobiliers
are at 507 f. 50c., with a further`advance of Bf. 75c.

THE QUEEN AT COBURG.

(1 rom the Times Correspondent.)
COBURG, Aug. 24.

Almost exactly in the centre of Germany are
situate the town and castle of Coburg ; all round the
lovely hills of Franconia extend in a wide, verdant,
and well-wooded circle. A cheerful country, a cheer-
ful people. Apparently a pleasant idyl in the midst
of this restless, excitable; and go-ahead age of ours.
And yet there has been a good deal of history's—
troublesome history's—business transacted in this
tranquil corner of Fatherland. Hence proceeded
the Franks, bent on conquering France, and giving
a new name and dynasty to the Romanised Gauls.
Here was the Home of Charlemagne, here his be-
loved castle, where he would receive foreign em-
bassies in regal pomp, and, in friendly intercourse
with scholars and clerks, rest from conquering the
solid Saxon of the north, and the fiery Celt and
Moor of the west. Here, for an entire century, was
the seat of the early Emperors of Germany, the re-
cruiting ground of their hosts, the starting-point of
so many famous expeditions to the promised land on
the other side of the Alps. Hence Henry IV. went on
his humiliatingpilgrimage to Canossa, to beg pardon
of the Pope, whom he had vainly striven to reduce
to the estate of a simple bishop and subject. He,
as his predecessors, had attempted too much. In the
rashness of their sanguine temper, and flushed with
the success of their royal race, they would have
liked to curb their haughty vassals at home, laying
low at the same time the rising ambition of the
Holy See. The plan miscarried, and the establish-
ment of the Papacy as a secular, powerful entity,
together with the breaking up of Germany into a
legion of semi-independent States, was the conse-
quence. Is that not a pretty handful of events to
occur in a silent glen or two ?
With the fall of the Franconian Emperors and
the advent of the Suabian dynasty, empire for ever
departed from the Franks. Of all German countries
their own now became the most divided. Nearly
every town of any pretensions to size and means be-
came republic by itself ; nearly every knight a Sove-
reign in his own right.
Coburg is but a little pearl in the rich array of
cities studding the valleys of the Maine, Saal, and
Itz. Like the rest of Franconian territories, the
ancient fastnesses as well as the diminutive town
at its foot, which have borne the name of Coburg
for the last 700 years, belonged to many a princely
house in the course of time, passing from hand to
hand by marriage, inheritance, or war. About 500
years ago they fell to the Dukes of Saxony,
being the dowry of a fair Countess of Henne-
berg, and transferred with the young bride,
together with her treasure and trosseau, ac-
cording to the habits and customs of the time.
Three hundred years later they were settled in per-
petuunz on the Gotha branch of the numerous and
many partite family of the Saxe. Of the ancestors
of Prince Albert, who held possession of the burgh,
many seemed to have lived for a time in what was
long considered an outlying territory by princes
habitually residing at the terrible distance of a
hundred miles off at Gotha, Weimar, or thereabouts.
Still, being situate in a wealthy neighbourhood, and
a strong place enough, until the invention of gun-
powder made an end of the old fastnesses, Coburg
was always regarded as a most valuable piece
of property by its Gotha masters. Such, I
dare say, thought it also Elector John Fre-
derick, surnamed "the generous" by grateful his-
tory, the friend of Luther, and disinterested pro-
moter of Church reform. It was he who shel-
tered the audaciohs monk within the walls of his in-
accessible stronghold, while the new denominations
he had established were handing over their " con-
fession" to Emperor and Parliament in the cele-
brated session at Augsburg. The act and his sub-
sequent conduct in the interest of faith and truth
cost John Frederick one half of his possessions ; but,
as he often said during his captivity, which lasted
full five years, he was quite ready to lose his head
into the bargain, could the sacrifice benefit the good
cause. In the Thirty Years' War the Government
was occupied alternately by the Swedes and Ger-
mans, besieged in vain by Wallenstein, and, a ruse
de guerre coming conveniently to his aid, taken at
length by one of his Generals. Peace restored the
castle to its former owners, when its role in history
came to a close. The part it now plays is the more
modest one of a fine, old, well-preserved invalid, the
delight of travelling visitors, a surviving actor of
past events, and silent witness of those present and,
let us hop; many to come.
The valley of the Itz is just wide enough and the
ridges encompassing it are just sufficiently high to
combine the bolder beauties of the mountain world
with the more rural and unpretending attractions of
au undulating plain. You feel yourself in the hills
and may climb in scraggy woods, without losing
sight of fields, farms, and pasture land. You have
to ascend some 500 feet to get to the top of the
broken, varied ridge, but on arriving at one of the
numberless points de vue find yourself on a smooth
plateau, or on some jutting headland, descending in
gentle slope to the village on its skirts. Nature
made easy is the pervading character of these plea-
sant districts. No country can be better fitted for
parks, and few have had their natural features im-
proved with more careful and aesthetic refinement
than this little Duchy, and more particularly the
parts of it in the immediate possession of the Dukes.

As you saunter along amid oaks and beeches up
the side of the Bausenberg, you are at a loss to de-
fine the exact boundaries between the original copse
and the gardener's park. Past many a lovely view
down the shaded glades, and here arid there an open
glimpse at the valley and the town, you reach a
strong wall, apparently in the midst of the forest,
being the first or outer enclosure of the old castle.
A few minutes' walk will bring you to the moat,
protecting the second wall, which, in due succes-
sion, is followed by the third • and last. They are
solid works in a state of perfect preservation, and
must have been formidable impediments in pre-
artilleristic times. The inner circumvallation, with
rampart, bastions and the traces of an ancient glacis,
would make a respectable fort even now ; or, at
least, might be easily turned into one. There are
cannon disposed on the works, mostly of curious

shape and workmanship, some of them exquisite
models of the founder's art. The first piece of
artillery meeting your eye near the principal gate
has a little figure of Luther on the barrel kneeling
opposite that of the Pope, and boxing his ears with
equal satisfaction to himself and effect on the victim
of his wrath. (!) There were no woodcuts then, no
Punches and Funs, and caricatures to be embodied
at all had to be cast in bronze.

The castle is a very extensive conglomeration of
palatial, military, and other buildings, dating from
various ages, and unlike in size and style. The
whole, however, looks rather like a mediaeval man-
sion-house than a fort. Some enormous piles, with
slanting roofs in the ordinary fashion of the age,
will remind you of patrician buildings you have
seen at Nuremberg or in some other neighbouring
town. They are disposed on the level summit of
the hill without much symmetry, divided by spacious
courtyards, and connected by buildings of inferior
quality and size. The northern wing alone has any
pretensions to external ornament ; but even here the
inside is so incomparably superior to what the flattish
aspect of the front promises that I should be
damaging the reputation of the venerable old keep
by dwelling too long upon the pattern of a fine but
rather solitary porch, or making too much of it.
Were Coburg the hereditary seat of a line of
mighty conquerors, or had it begun giving kings to
the world as early as five centuries ago, no more
palatial hall would be needed to represent old family
pride, wealth, and influence. They must have been
valiant and successful seigneurs indeed who con-
trived to erect such a structure and amass such
eloquent proofs of opulence in the retirement of a
Franconian schloss. You are amazed to find such a
number of lofty Gothic rooms in a palace scarce known
to the foreign tourist. You wonder at the highly-
finished carvings in wood—statuary work in oak
one might call it—covering the doors, wainscoting,
and ceiling of many of the apartments formerly in-
' habited by the noble owners. You like to look at
the stately rooms where the ancestors of the de-
ceased Prince, who was destined to marry the
Queen of England, were leading a quiet and com-
fortable life centuries ago. You admire the num-
ber and value of the family pictures, dating back as
far as 200 years ago, the portraits of the great men
of the Reformation filling some of the rooms, and
the very creditable frescoes adorning the walls of
others. You are agreeably surprised to discover a
large and remarkable armoury in what is but one
among the many seats of the royal and ducal house
of Saxony. In Germany, I am told, there is no-
thing to compare with this collection of swords,
pikes, helmets, hauberks, and cuirasses from the 13th
to the 17th century. Indeed, a good many men
might be clad in coat of mail from the treasures of
Coburg Castle. Breastplates, casques, and the
whole accoutrement of chivalry are exhibited in long
rows, including every size, kind, and taste, and
calling back to memory the glories of a time when
war was the rule and peace the exception. Swords
and elegant blades from Italy and Spain, as they
shine and glitter on the wall, try hard to convince
you that there may be luxury even in death ; a
proposition which, perhaps, is rather supported
than otherwise by contrasting it with the execu-
tioner's axes exhibited in another part of the hall.
There is a broadsword which. saw the heads of no
less than 101 people (let us hope they were all
criminal enough to deserve punishment) roll in the
dust under its deadly blows ; the axe with which
the wicked Grumback, who stole a couple of Saxon
princes, was quartered ; and many more lions in
the carnificial and torturer's line.

A separate room contains a collection of 800
muskets, fowling-pieces, and rifles. As my cicerone
solemnly assured me, each of them is a priceless
curiosity. They certainly looked exquisite weapons,
belonging to all ages, and including specimens
from the clumsy arquebuss and firelock down to
the rifles of these latter days. I regretted I was not
capable of appreciating the eulogiums of my admiring
guide. A most interesting collection of mediaeval
carriages, chiefly bridal cars of heavy yet fantastic
form ; other collections of the most celebrated en-
gravings of ancient art, of coins, autographs, and
objects of natural history—each of them large and
remarkable enough to do honour to any regal
palace in the world—complete that portion of the
furnishings which, above all others, bears witness
to the quality of the men that took delight in bring-
ing together, owning, and using them. When I
have added that among the rifles the most highly
prized is the one which did such formidable execu-
tion in the hands of Andreas Hofer, the leader of the
Tyrolese people's campaign against the marshals
of Napoleon I. ; that among the coats of mail is to
be seen the cuirass of Thomas Munzer, the captain
of the infuriated serfs in the Peasants' War ; that
there is the veritable bedstead of Luther, still stand-
ing in the same dark and narrow alcove in which
he slept during his sojourn here ; that Gustavus
Adolphus bequeathed to the fort and his illus-
trious friends inhabiting it a sword and a bumper,
when one fine morning, 225 years ago, he bade
them adieu in the Castle Yard, and rode down the
blossoming avenue to fight the Pole, the Spaniard,
and the Walloon, then serving the Kaiser ; that the
prows of the Christian and the Gefion, taken by the
•reigning Duke in the Danish campaign of 1848, are
exhibited along with trophies of older date; and last,
not least, that the collection of autographs, being
greatly increased by the donations of Prince Albert
to his ducal brother, contains, I am told, the sign
manual of nearly every man of first-class notoriety
Great Britain produced in modern times, enough
has been said of the relics and other objects of par-
ticular interest to give an idea of the accumulated
treasures of histow deposited at Coburg.
We ought not, however, to take leave of our
friendly guide, who has shown us over the castle
with pleasant loquacity, without pulling out our
note-book again, and duly entering the fact that
Luther thought but indifferently well of its qualities
as a habitation and dwelling-place for Christians
and pious people. In the 119 letters he wrote dur-
ing the six months he resided up here, A.D. 1530,
earnest complaint is made repeatedly that the devil
is haunting the premises with a numerous host of
attendants and underlings. In an epistle to Me-
lancthon, his friend and fellow-labourer in the vine:-
yard, he, however, gives a more worldly version of
his state of mind, saying he feels very dull, and ex-
pressing a desire to leave as soon as possible. It is
but natural he should have been anxious about the
future, while such great events were being consum-
mated at Augsburg, and he not in the midst of his
friends ; but if he felt the time hanging heavily on
his hands, though in those very six months he com-
pleted a most powerful and spirited version of the
Psalms, finished his translation of Jeremiah and
Ezekiel, and rendered the fables of Esop, it is said,
into very readable German, his industry certainly
kept pace with his ardour and honest piety. It was
also here in a leisure hour he composed the text and
music of the impressive chorale " Ein feste Burg
ist unser Gott," and wrote the almost equally popular
letter, so full of wisdom and fatherly kindness, to
his little son Hans. In addition to his more serious
occupations, he would, it is recorded, fence, wrestle,
and practise archery with the 12 men-at-arms, to
whose charge his safety had been committed. In
bad weather he had recourse to his lute or the
turner's lathe to while away the time—the enemy.
And yet he felt dull.
Coburg, a town of some 12,000 inhabitants, seems
to be a well-t3-do place enough, having lately come
into vogue among tourists, and attracting an over-
growing number of visitors, who stay a week or
two, passing their villeggiatura in this beautiful
neighbourhood. There is also a good deal of in-
dustry in the adjoining parts of the Duchy of
Meiningen and of Prussia, which has helped on
the place, and made it the centre of a busy little
world of its own. Export breweries, cotton spin-
neries and mills, rifle works, and very large toy
and wicker work manufactures are flourishing in
the vicinity. With all these props of culture and
the additional advantage of having long held rank
as the leading town of the district, one cannot fail
to observe the disproportion existing between the
material resources and the intellectual and artistic
activity of these lilliputian townships of Germany.
There is a daily paper, three political weeklies, a
public library of 50,000 volumes, a private circulat-
ing library of as many, a respectable publishing firm,
and four booksellers besides ; an excellent grammar
school, a good theatre, a reading room, a freemasons'

lodge, a bank, a Turner society, some other societi e
and such a number of pleasant beer gardens, what'
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, none 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 wasborn. 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 medieval 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, a
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 the town.

The 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 have left Claridge's Hotel for Ventnor,
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 her way to Geneva.

The Baroness de Budberg," sags the Nord, "has
left Trouville for Bade; in consequence of news received
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 1180
been erected in the parish church of Basford, near Notting-
ham, a church in which his grace took a deep interest. It
is to be unveiled with much ceremony on Thursday, the
31st inst., when a sermon will be preached by the Bev •
Henry Mackenzie, M.A., vicar of T) dd St. Mary, and sub
dean of Lincoln Cathedral, formerly vicar of St. Martin's'
in-the-Fields, London. After the ceremony there will be
a public luncheon, with a large number of the gent*. 01
the neighbourhood have promised to attend.
THE NEW WHIPPER-IN TO THE HOUSE OF Ca 11"
MONS.—The Hon. F. Lygon, M.P. for West
Worcestershire, will, it is understood, be one of the
whippers-in of the Conservative party in the new Dolt
ament, in the place of Mr. Henry Whitmore, who Las I°°
his seat for Bridgenorth.
PARLIAMENT AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.—No
less than 283 members of the new House of Conl-i
mons, or somewhat more than two-fifths, have b2f:
brought up at one or other of our public schools.
total is made up as follows, on the authority of Mr. 11_,,,P":.
wicke's " Shilling House of Commons :"—Etonians, d
Harrovians, 61; Old Winchesters, 16 ; Rugbwans, 28 ;,u;1;
Westminsters, 23 ; Carthusians, 10 ; Merchant Taylors:.
andp
Shrewsbury, 5, St. Paul's, 1. It is just possible
besides the above there may be one or two old Eton _0 _
Harrow men, but who are not known to have been at those
schools.