The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-22 00:00:00

THE PENINSULAR MAIL.

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Tagus has arrived with the above mail and 21 pas
sengers, including five officers of her Majesty's ship
Perseverance, lost off the Island of Majao. She
also brings £1,344 in specie and general cargo.
The English squadron, under Admiral Stopford,
arrived at Lisbon on the 14th inst.

At Lisbon, on the 17th inst., Exchange on Lon-
don was quoted 542; Paris, 5.28 ; Amsterdam ,
4217; Hamburg, 48 ; Genoa, 5.27. Rentos, 3 per
cent., 46/ ; Coupons, 454; Deferred, 371 ; Bank of
Portugal Shares, 560 ; Commercial Bank of Oporto,
260; Mercantile Bank, 260 milreis.

THE E.ll PRESS OF THE FRENCH IN SCOTLAND.

EDINBURGH, WEDNESDAY.

Yesterday morning the Empress Eugenie and
suite paid a visit to the Abbey of Melrose, and the
house and grounds of Abbotsford. Like all the
previous movements of her Imperial Majesty, her
journey to Melrose was kept strictly secret, so much
so that when she was seen to drive to the station, a
large number of persons ran to the Glasgow side of
the general terminus, in the expectation that her
Majesty was about to take her departure for Hamil-
ton Palace. The Imperial party travelled in a first-
class carriage by the ordinary passenger train,
leaving Edinburgh at 11.25 a.m., and returning
in the same private manner about 6 o'clock. At
all the stations on the homeward journey, however,
large numbers had collected to see her Majesty, who
was everywhere greeted with loud cheers. Hav-
ing paid a visit to the far-famed and interest-
ing ruin, Melrose Abbey, round which the Em-
press was conducted by the usual garrulous guide,
the party drove to Abbotsford. In the grounds of
the house, rendered classic by the residence of
Sir Walter Scott, her Majesty lingered a consider-
able time, and was then taken through the house
of the great novelist, the library, the armour, the
personal relics of Scott, and the many curiosities
of the place being pointed out by the persons in
charge. After a drive along a portion of the banks
of the Tweed the Imperial party returned to Edin-
burgh, where her Majesty was eagerly greeted,
and perhaps somewhat rudely surrounded, by a
large concourse, which the railway officials had in
vain tried to prevent from crowding the station
platform. The time of her Majesty's departure
from Edinburgh is not yet made known, but it is
expected she will to-day visit the Duchess of Buc-
cleuch at Dalkeith Palace, and to-morrow (Thurs-
day) leave Douglas Hotel for Hamilton Palace.
At the meeting of the Magistrates and Council
of Edinburgh, on Tuesday, the Lord-Provost moved
the following resolution which was agreed to
xnanimously :
,4 That an address be voted by the Lord Provost, Magi-
strates, and Council, and presented to her Majesty the
Empress of the French, offering, on the part of the citizens
of Edinburgh, an expression of their sincere respect, and
their congratulation on her Majesty's arrival in this city;
their cordial desire that her visit to this country may con-
duce to her health and happiness ; and their earnest hope
that this visit, though unofficial and not in state, may tend
to maintain and promote peace and goodwill between two
great and neighbouring nations of Europe."