The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-05 00:00:00

HER. MAJESTY'S VISIT TO THE

CONTINENT.

GOTHA, SEPT. I.—Yesterday the Queen attended'
Divine service in the parish church of St. Augustine
here. It is an old and sim,, le looking Gothic building,
without any external ornament, standing near the centre
of the city. It was formerly an old monastic edifice, but
the greater portion has been pulled down. The interior
is fitted up with three ranges of galleries one above the
other ; the painting and ornamental portions being
somewhat gaudy and theatrical, as is the case in many
of the continental churches. The pulpit stands at the
east end : near it, on a level with the first range of galle-
ries, is the ducal box, fitted up with windows, Rue., like
the one at Coburg. The front of the galleries is orna-
mented with the arms of the Coburg and Gotha
families, and a variety of heraldic devices in white and
gold are displayed in various parts of the building. The
church also contains a fine organ, and at the east end is a
splendid painting of the Crucifixion, by Jacobus. Iler
Majesty and the Prince arrived shortly after eleven
o'clock, and were condu ted to the ducal pew by the
clergyman. With her Majesty came the Duchess of
Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Coburg, Prince Ferdi-
nand, and several members of the royal sulte. The Lu-
theran service was performed, the greater portion being
chanted, and all the congregation joining. In addition
to the organ, which was finely played, there was a lull
military band, with kettle-drums and trumpets ; and
although the music was, on the whole, %.,f a very high
order, the noise at times was overpowering, and spoiled
some of the most beautiful passages. The service ter-
minated at half' past twelve ; the Queen returned to
the palace in her carriage, and the ])uke and Duchess
of Coburg walked back on foot, without even a single
attendant. Her Majesty afterwards drove out to Mols-
dorf, one of the Duke's chateass, about twelve miles
from Gotha, thence to Ohrsdoz-f, a hunting lo.lgs, of
which a portion stands in the territories of the Duke of
Coburg, and a portion in those of Prince Hohenloe.
The royal party afterwards visited Tehterhausen, where
luncheon was prepared, and partaken of, and the Q teen
returned to Gotha to dinner.

In the evening the Queen and the Prinet paid a private
visit to the tombs of the Dukes of Gotha, where the
Prince's grandfather and great grandfather are inter red.
The burial place is a wood,d little island, in the centre
of the public park, and is reached through long hedge
rows of beech and poplar, quaintly cut and trlmm, d.
There is a very large sheet of water, well stocked
with water fowl, on the southern side, and a little
floating bridge carries the visitor over to the burial
ground in a few minutes. The little islet is
thickly studded with weeping willows and cypresses,
dipping. their long green plumes into the glassy lake
below. The pathways are bordered with flowers, and
in the centre stand, not marble mausoleums, but beds of
flowers perfuming the air with their fragrance, and on
the adjoining trees wreaths of fl ewers and imme:ttEes
and simple tablets, which indicate the names of the
sovereigns who sleep beneath.
The tawn has been a series of military bustle and
musical excitement since eight o'clock this morning ; a
grand musical feitival being arranged for this afternoon,
at which a thousand singers and performers are to assist.
Tho performance will take place in the open air, a large
amphitheatre in front of the palace, and below the ter-
races, having been prepared for the performers and the
audience. The grand business of the day will com-
mence at three o'clock, but the different military bands
and sangervereins, or singing unio:is, who are to take
part in the concert, are already mustering and marching
in from the surrounding districts.
RETURN OF THE QUEEN.

BRUSSELS, SEPT. 2.—The following paragraph is from
the forthcoming nuirber of the Politique :--
" A courier, who has arrived at Brussels, from Co-
burg, brings the positive intelligence that Queen Vic-
toria and Prince Albert will proceed direct from Co-
logne to Antwerp, and reach the latter city on Satur-
day, the 9th instant. Their Majesties the King awl
Queen of the Belgians, the young Princes, arid
all the Court, will meet the illustrious guests at
Antwerp, who will be accompanied by sever.,l
high personages from Germany. The Queen of
England and the Prince will be entertained at a
banquet in the Palace of Antwerp, by their Belgian
Majesties, who will remain there for the night. Qui-en
Victoria will sleep on board the Royal yacht the Vic-
toria and Albert, and leave early on the morning of the
7th. The banks of the Scheldt and the tower of Notre
Dame will be brilliantly lighted up during her Britannic
Majesty's embarkation, and there is some talk of n, fete
similar to the one ,-.hich took place at Cologne. Count
d'Arschot and Mr. Conway, of the royal household,
have gone to-day to Antwerp, in order to make some
arrangements with the local authorities respecting the
fete, the expenses of which will, it is said, be partly de-
frayed by the civil list."

HAMI3L ItG AND FLANDERS MAIL.

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BERLIN, AUG. 2S.—The King has conferred on Dr. Bun-
sen. the Ambassador and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court
of Great &Pain, the rank of actual privy councillor, with the
title of excellency.
Lviesic, AUG. 27.—The mortal remains of the eleven
victio s ref the deplorable events of the 12th of August, were
buried thi morning.
PosEN, AUG. 15.—1 t is generally reported that M. V.
Mmutoli, the president cur police, who, by his prudence
and humanity during the late troubles, did great service to our
town, is to succeed M. Niederotatter at Warsaw. This would
be a most happy choice of our foreign department, for it would
nut be easy to find another person so thoroughly acquainted
with all the affairs of Polard, and so able a man of business as
he. He is besides acquainted with the members of the Polish
Administration, and therefore well qualified to support the in-
terests of Prussia in the Polish capital. It is, however, a
question whether M. V. Minutoli may be disposed to accept
an office, which, at this time, is not an easy one.
BERLIN, Ann. 28.—The complaints made by the Saxon
Government of the accounts published in the journals relative
to the events at Leipsic, have led to serious results. Two
Prussian journals, those of Magdeburgh and Breslau, against
widch the complaints were especially directed, are said to have
been wz_rned by the Prussian Government with a threat that
their licenses would be withdrawn. If this news, which conies
fr m a very respectable quarter, should be correct, it must
excite some surpu ire, for these accounts had passed through the
hands of the Prussian censors, and:the writer ran hardly be
proved to have had any bad intentions, for they coincide with
those of almost all the German journals.
WURZBURG, Aria. 25.—A Ministerial rescript is much
talked of here, which, it is generally affirmed, authorises the
Post-office to open, in tl.e presence of witnesses, letters anti
packets when there is reason to suspect that they may inclose
prohibi,ed newspapers. In this manner the subscribers of the
cfo, t Journal, whose copies come together in one packet,
have been obliged, in several towns, to deliver it to the censor,
who then. at his discretion, keeps back the paper, or has it sent
to the subscriber. _ .

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COPENHAGEN, Atm. 30.—This forenoon the Karnlschalka,
a Russian man-of-war, passed this city, bound, it is said, to the
Mediterranean. _ .

A letter from Bormholm of the 25th says —" A Rus ian
fleet of four ships of the line (one of them can ying above 103
guns), three frigates, and two-brigs, and a Swedish frigate, have
arrived here during the storm which continued from the 20th
to the 23d, and on Saturday passed Hammeren, steering west-
ward. On the 20th, towards sunset, the whole Russian fleet
passed within cannon shot of us; nay; the largest ship of the
line, with the admiral on board, passed within the merchant-
men that were lying at anchor, on account of the storm. We
never before saw ships of the line come so near the land."
BERLIN, SEPT. l.—His Majesty the King arrived to-day at
Sanss.otici, on his return from Munich.
BRUSIEI s, SEPT. 2.—The average price of wheat last week
was 21f. 9.1 e., and that of rye 15f. 97c. Both may be im-
ported duty free, the export duty is 25 centimes per 1,000 kil-
logramntes.
I he Archduke Frederick of Austria left Brussels this morn
ing by railway for Germany.
A courier from Coburg has arrived at Brussels with positive
intelligence that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert will proceed
direct from Cologne to Antwerp, where they will arrive on
Saturday.
The King and Queen of the Belgians, with the young Princess
and the whole of the Coart will go to Antwerp to receive their
august guests, who will be accompanied by many persons of dis-
tinction from Germany.
The Queen of England and the Prince will dine with our
King and Queen at the Palace. The Court will pass the night
of the 6th at Antwerp, but Queen Victoria will sleep on board
the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, and put to sea very early
on the morning of the 7th.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BaUCSELS, SEPT. 3.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ••••••• • • • • • . •
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent •••• • • • •
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent -. • •
Ditto Three per Cent ••••••••• • • • • • • • • •
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ••• • • •
Ditto, ditto, 1840 ..
Ditto, ditto, 1842 •• • • ••• • • 101 %
Ditto of the City, 1832 . • • • • • • • •
Ditto, 1843 .. • • • • •• • .......... .... .. . 101%
Bank of Belgium ••• • • • .•• • • ••••• 705
—Brussels Papers, Sept. 4.
LIAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, SErT. 2.
Bills. Haney
kustrian 5 per Cents .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 114%
Bank Shares • • .• ..
Anglo-Russian Loan .••••••• • • • • . • . •
Russian 5 per Cent., llamb. Certificate. 113 112%
Ditto Ist series Inscription ••• • • . .• 105% 105%
Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th series.. 99%
Ditto, in Certificate.... • • • • • • 99%
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. ••• • • • 93
Ditto Stieglitz • • • •• • • • • • 91% 91%
Spanish New 5 per Cent • • . • • • • • 20% 20
Ditte, 3 per Cent ••••••• • • . . • .
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent • •
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent •• • 62%
Ditto 3 per Cent. • •
Polish New 4 per Cent. Joan, 1844.• . • 86 86%
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 p:a- Cent •• • ... 87
National Bank 5hare5................ ........ •• • . .
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, AUG. 27
5 per Cent. Metalllques ..
4 per Cent. ditto • • •• • • • • ••• • •• •• •• 101 34
3 per Cent. ditto.. • ..• •• ••• • • • •• 77%
Ditto, 1839 .. •• • .. .
Bank Shares • • • • • • • • • • • • • . 1618
Esterhazy's Loan .... •. • • . ••••••• • • • •

ItAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand .• • . • • ...... 213
Vienna—Milan ........................13314
Gloggnitz .. • • •• • • •• • • •• • • .... 1527;
Leghorn • • ..... ••••••• • • • • • • •• 122 N
—Allgemelne Zeitung, Aug. 30,
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, AUG. 30.

Bills. Money.
100y.2 99%

St. Schuld Sch., 314 per Cent ...• • • • •
Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent
Exchange on London, 2 months
I Universal Prussian Gazette, Aug. 31.

.... 6 258 6 24%

SCOTCH ACTS OF PARLIAMENT
The following is a list of the Acts affecting Scotland,
which have passed during the last session of Parliament.
I hey are as follow: _ . .

• -.,
1. Act for consolidating in one Act certain provisions
usually inserted in Acts authorising the taking of lands
for undertakings of a public nature in Scotland.
2. Act to facilitate the transmission and extinction of
Heritable Securities for Debt in Scotland.
. . .

RELATIVE CLOS].

RAILWAY

IN THE
PLINCIPAL CITIES AND T(

G PRICES OF

SCOTLAND, AND

3. Act to simplify the form, and diminish the ex-
pense, of obtaining infeftment in Heritable Property in
Scotland. _ _ _

4. Act for amending the laws concerning Highways,
Bridges, and Ferries in ScoVand, and the making and
maintaining thereof, by Statute Service, and by the Con-
version of Statute Service into money.

NAMES ow RAILWAYS

Sept.
4.

HARES

'OWNS. TN ENGLAND

5. Act to regulate the issue of Brink Notes in Scot-
land.
6. Act for amending an Act for making provision for
Parish Schoolmasters in Scotland.
7. Act to amend the Law of Arrestment of Wages in
Scotland.
8. Act for the amendment and better administration
of the laws relating to the Relief of the Poor in Scot-
land.

EXETER RAILWAY MARKET.—North Devon, 2 to
prem ; Exeter and Yeovil, to prem. ; Exeter, Trp-
sham, and Exmouth, to a; Exeter and Creditons, 91. per
share ; Eastern Counties, 211.
WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE —From 1810 to 1838 this
bridge cost in repairs 83,097/. 6s. 94d. From 1838 to 1844
the amount was 82,661/., and a further sum of 52,879/. was
required for further works. The property belonging to the
bridge only realises 7,464/. I Is. Bd. a year.
Mr. Stanton, M.P., has contradicted the report that
he is about to retire from the representation of Stroud.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT HORNSBY. —Yesterday Mr.
G. J. Mills held an inquest at the Nightingale, Hornsey, on
the body of James Bondy, aged fifty-two, a bricklayer, living
at Nightingale-place. On Monday night last deceased said he
was determine i on getting drunk, and did so. However, at
six next morning he went to his work at a house erecting in
Maynard-street, Crouch-end, and whilst walking along a joist
anti ruining a party wall in front of the building, he missed his
lio:d of the wall and fell a depth of eight feet to the ground,
and then rolled into a tank six feet deep, nearly killing a man
who was at work in it. Deceased was taken out insensible,
and died of concussion of the brain eight hours after the fall.
Verdict, " Accidental death."
SUICIDE FROM DISTRESS.—Last night Mr. Baker
held an inquest at the King's Arms, Kingsland, on the body of
William Blackman, aged 64, a labourer. The deceased lodged
at No. 6, Abbot. street, Kingsland, and had for a number of
years been employed on the road by the highway board of
Hackney parish, until about five weeks since, when he was dis-
charged, without any ostensible cause. The deceased had
made repeated applications to the board for work, but had
been unsuccessful, which had so pressed upon his mind that
for some time past he had been in a low and desponding state.
On Wednesday night he returned home, having been trying
the whole day to get some work, and went to bed. Not getting
up the next morning at his usual time, his landlady ,became
alarmed, and having in vain called to him through his room
door, she sent for a police-constable, who broke the door open,
when the deceased was found hanging by a rope fastened to
the bed-post, quite dead and cold. Vet diet—" Temporary in-
sanity."
A WATER• DRlNKER.—Yesterday a man named
John Harber, living in East-street, Regent's Park, undertook
for a wager of 20.. to drink a pail of water (four gallons) within
half an hour, which he accomplished, drinking it by a pint at
a time till he had swallowed the whole. He then declared that
he would drink 12 pints of beer in as many minutes; no one,
however, seemed to doubt it, and that part of his performance
was dispensed with.
FREEMASONRY. —On Wednesday evening a
crowded meeting of the members of the Grand Lodge of the
Order of Freemasons was held in their splendid hall, at the
Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields,
at which the Chairman (in the absence of the Earl of Zet-
land, Grand Master), Mr. Rowland Alston, Provincial Grand
Master for the county of Essex, presented, by direction of
her Grace the Duchess of Inverness, to the Freemasons of
England, the magnificent candelabrum which had been about
etgl-t years since presented by that body to his Royal Highness
the late lamented Duke of Sussex, while Grand Master ; the
Chairman, in doing so, pronounced an eloquent eulogium on
the character and virtues of the illustrious deceased Prince,
and adverted to the great loss the craft had sustained by his
demise, and handed in an appropriate letter from the Duchess
of Inverness soliciting their acceptance of so valuable a relic,
and it was also stated that her Grace had directed the cande-
labra to be purchased at the sale of his Royal Highness's
effects, at the cost of 5001., with a view to its presentation.
The valuable and highly-prized relic was received by the meet-
ing with the deepest enthusiasm, and it is unders ood that a
general meeting of the fraternity will be promptly called for
the purpose of passing an appropriate tribute of thanks to the
Duchess of Inverness.

THE GREAT BRITAIN.—A curious dispute has I
arisen in connexion with the wagers laid as to the time in which
this vessel would perform the voyage to New York. Fifteen
days seems to have been generally the period selected by the
betters; and the question now is, whether the time is to be
reckoned by the ordinary mode of computation or by calculat-
ing the actual time of sailing according to the ship's chrono-
meter. By one method, the length of the voyage will be less
than fifteen days, by the other it will be more. Thus, the
Great Britain sailed from Liverpool on the 26th of July at four
r. at. ; she arrived at New York on the 10th of August, at
three, r at. There is a slight difference in some of the ac-
counts, but this appears to be the correct one. The time be-
tween port and port, according to dates, would, therefore, be
14 days 23 hours. But New York is 74 degrees west of Green-
wich, which is equal in time to 4 hours 56 minutes. The dif-
ference between Liverpool and Greenwich is equal to 12
minutes, which, deducted from 4 hours 56 minutes, leaves
4 hours 4.1 minutes to be added to the 14 days 23 hours; mak-
ing the real time v. hich the vessel took to perform the voyage
15 days, 3 hours, 44 minutes. It is a nice point; but we
should certainly say that the `• fifteen days" taken as the basis
of the wagers, meant fifteen days of twenty-four hours each,
and taking the difference of longitude into account, the vessel
did not make the passage in fifteen of such days.—Liverpool
Courier.

IRELAN.

THE VFW, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING,. SEPTEMBER 5 1845.

Darwen, and 13:)1ton, 10147CANlonian Extension, 376,--:
Eastern Union Extension, 3;4 G.- a Grimsby and Sheffield,
:Quarter Shares, 4%z--Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction;
30—Hudderstie!d and Manchester Railroad and Canal,:3o
—Leeds and Thirsk, 21—Lynn and Dereham, 51/,—North
British, Half Shares, 10—North Wales, s—Oxford, Worm:-
1,2 r, aad Wolverhampton, 11—Armagh, Coleraine, and Port-
rush, 3—Bandon and Bantry, 21. Is. 31—Cambridge and
Lincoln, 4%—Coventry, Nuneaton, &c., 314—Derby and
Crewe, 514—Dublin and Galway, 6';i—East Lincolnshire,
3V,—East Coast, 33g—Glasgow and Dumfries, 23/4—Graad
UrTion, 755. 6d.—Great Eastern and Western, 3')4—Leicester
and Birmingham, 3—Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle
, unction, 7%—London and Birmingham Extension.
34—
London and Manchester (Remington's), 414—Manchester,
Buxton, and Matlock, 93/4—Nottingham, Erewash, &c., 5
—Nottingham and Mansfield, 31,,—Rugby and Huntingdon,
4—South Midland, 6YBp,—Sheffield and Lincolnshire June-
tion, 7—Staines and Richmond, 3%—Tean and Dove Valley,
33A—Trent Valley Continuation, 314—Wakefield and Brad-
ford, 84—West Yorkshire, 211/2—Welsh Midland, 5%—
York and Carlisle, 6%—lorkshire.and Glasgow Union, 44 Bs.