The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-09 00:00:00

(From the Court Circular.)

HOLYROOD, AUG. 7.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort,
accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Princesses
Alice, Helena, and Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince
Leopold, arrived at Edinburgh at 10 minutes past eight this
morning, and immediately proceeded to Holyrood Palace,
escorted by a party of the 13th Light Dragoons.
The ladies and gentlemen in attendance were the Coun-
tess of Desert, the Hon. Beatrice Byng, Sir Charles Phipps,
K.C.8., Major-General the Hon. Charles Grey, Lieutenant
Colonel the Hon. D. de Ros, Major Elphinstone, and Dr.
Baly. The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert was in attendance
on the Queen as Secretary of State.
In the course of the morning the Queen, accompanied by
the Prince Consort and Princess Helena, drove to Cramond,
to pay a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.
The Lady in Waiting and two Equerries were in attendance.
Her Majesty returned to Holyrood for luncheon.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at
Holyrood at about three o'clock, to accompany the Queen
to the review of the Volunteers.

At half-past three the Queen, royal family and suite left
Hclyrood in three carriages to review the Volunteers.
The first carriage contained her Majesty, her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, her Royal Highness Prin-
cess Alice, and his Royal Highness Prince Arthur.
His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, in the uniform
of afield marshal, rode on the right of the Queen's car-
riage, and the Duke of Buccleuch rode on the left.
The second carriage contained their Royal Highnesses
the Princesses Helena and Louise, Prince Leopold, and the
Lady in Waiting. The Equerries rode on each side.
The third carriage contained Lady Augusta Bruce, the
Hon. Beatrice Byng, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, v.nd
Lord James Murray.

The staff preceded the Queen's carriage, and the escort
was formed of the 13th Light Dragoons.
The Queen was received with a royal salute. Affxr which
the troops marched past, and after re-forming in con-
tiguous close columns, they advanced, presented arms, and
gave throe cheers.

Her Majesty returned to Holyrood at abcalt six o'clock.
Tho Queen had a dinner party in the evening-. The fol-
lowing bad the honour of receiving invitations:—The
Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, the Duke and Duchess of
Buccleuch, Major-General Lord Rokeby, the Marquis of
Breadalbane, Lieutenant-General Sir George Wetherell,
Major-General Sir James Scarlett, Major-General Sir
Richard Airily, Major-General Cameron, Colonel M'Murdo,
and Major Elphinstone.

The band of the 13th Light Dragoons was in attendance
during dinner.

PREPAR 4 TIONS FOR THE PRINCE OF
WALES AT NIAGARA.

A correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer
gives the following account for the preparations for
the reception of the Prince at Niagara :—" It is un-
derstood that his royal highness the Prince of
Wales will, during his sojourn at the Falls, have
his quarters at the mansion formerly the residence
of the late Samuel Zimmerman, on the Canada side,
just in the rear of the Clifton House, which also
belongs to the estate of the same family. The
Zimmerman homestead has been chartered for the
personal use of his royal highness, while the cot-
tages attached to the Clifton Hotel have been
engaged for his suite and attendants. The house
in which the Prince will reside is a substantial
dwelling of stone, covered with cement, and stands
upon the highest part of a beautiful park
of twenty acres, commanding a full view of
the Falls and all the neighbouring scenery.
The grounds are surrounded by a fine hedge of
privet, rendered impenetrable by the addition of a
strong wire fence on the outside. From the emi-
nence upon which the house is situated, the ground
descends towards the Niagara River on the south,
first abruptly through a belt of forest trees, and
then gradually across a broad, smooth lawn, neatly
ornamented with shade trees, and containing a
fountain and a great number of gas light posts. In
the south-east corner of this park, and also upon
the highest point in the grounds, flag-staffs 85 feet
in height will be erected, from which., during the
stay of the Prince, the royal standard of Britain
will float. The flags are manufactured in England
for that purpose. The trees whocse tops and
foliage intercept the view from the parlours
towards the Falls are to be trimmed so as to
afford a full survey of the cataract. Over the gate-
way, which constitutes the main en trance to the
grounds of the estate proper, and which the Prince
must pass upon his walks or rides, a triumphal
arch is to be erected, fifteen feet in width and thirty
feet high, adorned with representations of forest
scenery and American life, and surmounted at the
summit by a splendid stufed deer, in the attitude
of flight, with upreared head and lofty antlers.
The construction of this beautiful piece of work is
confided to the same hands which . built the four
famous arches at the Campus of flay, at Ballater,
at Cloch Mac Creigh, and at thr3 suspension bridge
at Crathie, upon the occasion o'r the first visit of her
Majesty the Queen to Balmoral. No one more com-
petent could be selected for the task than the man
who has been chosen—Robir 'son the old superin-
tendent of the garden of Abergeldie, the residence
of the Duchess of Kent.

" The work of preparati on has already com-
menced; to-day the hedge is being pruned with tin-
usual care, next week the pa ,pering and varnishing
of the interior of the mansion will be begun,
.and
every portion of the premises, from the drawing;
room to the stable, will be swept and garnished
for the reception of the high-born boy,who for a few
short days will honour the jitaee with his temporary
use."

Yesterda NEW DRINKING Four/ram:— y a foun-
tain,opposite
de ofpolished
a granite base, on
was opened for public. use in the Strand,
Somerset House. It con
which there stand six richly decorated columns of brass
a superb entablEiture and cornice in
red and white marble ; these are surmounted by a dome in
upporting
terracotta, polished
enriched with shells and water plants, and the
whole work, which is 14 feet high, stands on three granite
steps, and is crowned by a rilded figure of a boy holding a
water-bottle on his head. The water flows in two jets from
a vase placed in the centre between the columns. This
fountain (the most expensive and handsomest that has yet
been erected in the metropolis) is the gift of Robt. HanburYt
Esq., M.P., who arrived on the ground at a quarter-past
two, and was met by the sculptors, Wills Brothers, and the
vestry of St. Mary-le-Strand, when, after an appropriate'
address had been given, the fountain was declared opened.
GOVERNAItIiT EMIGRATION.—The Government
emigrant vessel Hannah Moore, 1,130 tons, Capt. Michael
Murphy, belonging to Messrs. Wm. Roberts and Co., of
Liverpool, which sailed from Birkenhead on the 12th Feb.,
arrived at Sydney, New South Wales, on the 6th May, with 3
.
36 married couples, 126 single men, 99 single women, e
t
boys between the ages of 1 and 12, 28 girls between h
same ages, 8 male and 7 female infants—make r, a total of
,
371 goals, equal to 326} statute adults, under chi urge of sur-
geon-superintendent Henry Rickards. Two births and
three deaths (children) occurred during the voyf Lge.