The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-22 00:00:00

VISIT TO

HER MAJ EST Y'S
GERMANY.
MAYENCE, SUNDAY, Aua. 17.

The Queen and the Prince are taking a day's rest here,
after the almost_ incessant locomotion a►►d excitement of the
last week. To-morrow morning they start at 7 o'clock for
Wurzburg, where it is expected they will arrive at about 8
o'clock in the evening. They will go to the palace of the
King of Bavaria, where they will remain for the night, and
early the next day they go to Coburg, which, after another
tedious day's journey, they are to reach on Tuesday evening.
Her Majesty attends Divine service this afternoon at the
English church, where service will be performed by the Rev.
Mr. Dunnage, the English chaplain. In the evening the
royal part• dine again with Prince William of Prussia, at
the Government-house.

There is very little stir in Mayence to-day. A few people
stand arnivid the flott.l de L'Europe, staring at the sentinels
on duty, and hoping to catch a glimpse of the Queen,. and
there have been one or two arrivals, among them the Grand
Duke of Hesse Darmstadt, who at once proceeded to visit
her -Majesty at her hotel. In other respects the town of
Mat cocc is as quiet as so pretty and populous a place can be.
But the ordinary habits of the people are those of an English
holiday. Tney are to be seen, as in most German towns,
strolling. about the streets, on the quays, arid especially on
the briape of b ats, as gay and as idle as if life were made
for I.leasure alone. Yet there are Front's enough that the
populution are not idle. The shops are not very inferior to
those in the largest cities, and the buildings are on a
magnilweat scale. The new fortifications, too, which
are ri,.)%v builitin.g along the left bank of the Rhine, are
very tine specimens of workmanship. An additional
air of gaiety t givm' to the streets by the presume of
the lit,tr:aii and l'rtts sari troops, whose glittering uniforms
of mingled white and blue mix prettily enough with the
general costumes of the people. One thing strikes a stran-
ger in MAyenee—the excessive cleanliness of the town.
Anything in.-ire beautifully white and pure cannot be con-
ceived. Tao limiseq, the pavement, all seem as if they had
been specially prepared for the occasion. It reminds one of
some of our best English watering-places. Mayence, too,
is full of associations ; hut the chief interest to stringers
consists in its being the birthplace of Guttemberg, Thor-
waldseu's ~tutue of who'll is erected in a conspicuous place
in the city.

The following speech, delivered by the Bing of Prussia,
in proposing the health of her Majesty after dinner at
Brilhl on Tuesday, the 12th instant, will be interesting
to the reader ; but, in order to enable him fully to under-
stand the sentiment conveyed in it, it may be mentioned that
it was formerly the custom of the German armies, after having
won a battle, to fire, on the very field of battle, a round of all
the artillery as a proclamation of victory. This was called
" Victoria Schiessen.' The custom has grown into desuetude,
but the term remains, and the word " Victoria" is, therefore,
in the Getman language and poetry especially, consecrated
to victory, and associated with the idea of a song of triumph
after battle. Indeed. the word is only used in Germany in
this selie, except as the name of the Goddessof Victory. The
object of the King in wording the toast as he did, was to pay
a delicate compliment to the Queen of England, and the ori-
ginal, of which the following is a translation (by a German,
let it be observed), is considered to have effected that ob-
ject.- It is also a very excellent specimen of good racy Ger-
man diction :

"Gentlemen, fill your glasses to [the brim 1 There is a
word which inspires with unspeakable delight every British
an I German heart. That word resounded once over a field
of battle, after a fierce st7uggle, as the symbol of a brothe,r-
hood in arms, which had been blessed with success. This
day that word resounds, after 30 years of peace, that happy
fruit of the arduous work of those days, here in the German
lands, on the banks of the beautiful stream of the Rhine—
that ward ' Victoria

" Gentlemen, take your glasses, and empty them to the
last drop The ...I.ject of the toast is, ' Her Majesty, the
Queen of Great Britain and Ireland. Long live Queen Vic-
toria avid Ler not illustrious Consort I' "

Atneog tioise who dined with the royal party while with
the King of Prussia, was the celebrated Baron Humboldt.
Baron liolow was to have been present also, but was pre.
vented by very serious indisposition.
The route of her Majesty from the time she leaves the
Rhine will ba through a country where, in consequence of
the peculiar dislike of the German people to anything like
rapidity of communication, there will be considerable diffi
cultv in sending early intelligence. It is more than probable,
therefore, that some two or three days may elapse after the
present publication before any account can be received in
London of her Majesty's further movements.

DARING ATTFMFT AT HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—AS
Mr. Raynor, of Waltha:nstow, was walking along the roar,
between the Infant Orphan Asylum and Wl.ip's-crosv, on
Toe-thy evening, about half-past eight, he was suddenly ac •
c aped by a Irian presenting a pistol at him, demanding
money ; but Air. R. making some resistance with his urn.
brae, and at the same time calling loudly for the police, the
fellow ran off into the wpod. The horse-patrol coming up soon
after, made diligent search, but did not succeed in apprehend-
ing the offender.