The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-18 00:00:00

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A gentleman who arrived in London, on Saturday afternoon,
by the Triton, after a stormy tassage of fifteen hours, from
Ostend, witnessed the departure, from the ralace of Bruhl, on
Thursday morning at eleven a.m., of her Majesty and Prince
Albert, the King and Queen of Prussia, the King and Queen
of the Belgians, &c.. for Bonn, to embark at that town ten
Stolzenfeis. Her Majesty was in excellent spirits and
health. At Coblmtz the preparations to receive the royal
visitors were on the grandest scale. and a general illumina-
tion was to take place. 'the British royal steamer at
Cologne was to ascend the Rhine as far as Mayence,
there to wait for the return of the Queen after her visit to
Frankfort, on her way home home from the Coburg territory.
The weather in Germany and Belgium continued to be very
rainy. In the churches, in the last.mentioned country, prayers
were ordered for fine weather, and in some districts the bodies
of saints had been dissinterred, and exposed at the altars for the
cessation of rain. The utter destruction of the potato crop in
Belgium is a great calamity, and is equivalent to a failure of
the harvest. Apprehensions were also entertained of the fall-
ing in of the sand embankments on the line of railroad between
Liege and Verviers.
One of the most interesting events of the late inauguration
of the Beethoven statue at Bonn, was the presentation of the
degree of doctor of music to Ries, the father of Ferdinand Ries,
the pupil of the immortal composer. Dr. Ries is 90 years of
age, and was present at all the performances. On the day of
his receiving the degree, the patriarch dined with Wegeler, 80
years of age, another fast friend of Beethoven.
The English and French journalists present at the Bonn
festivities complain bitterly, and, as we are assured, not with-
out cause, of the want of courtesy of the Committee. The
banquet at the Golden Star on the last day was a scene of great
riot and confusion, and at one period threatened personal col-
lisions. The tumult arose from Professor Wolff, of the Jena
University, alluding to the Jews, in the course of the speeches
he made during the dinner, such being the order of speech-
making in Germany. Wolff is of the Hebrew persuasion him-
self, and although a most learned and eloquent man, is disliked
for that reason.

At the concert at the palace of Bruhl, on Wednesday night,
Meyerbeer conducted, and Liszt performed two pianoforte
pieces. Some conversation taking place during one of his
performances. amongst the royal personages, Liszt stopped
suddenly in the midst of the fantasia, and did not conclude it.
A similar occurrence took place in St. Petersburg with the
pianist, who received a polite intimation from the emperor to
withdraw from the Russian dominions. Staudigl, Pischek,
Martins (the great tenor, from Berlin), Millie. Tuchek (from
the same capital), and Pauline Viardot (sister of Malibran),
sung at this concert. Spohr, Balioz, and Fetes, were invited
to be present.
During the visit of her Majesty at Bonn the Queen walked
for half an hour in the garden of the house where Prince Al-
bert lodged whilst he pursued his studies at the university.
Obsen er.
TO THE DITOR tJF TrlE SUN

FlR,—May I beg the insertion of this letter in your valu-
able journal, arising from a report in Saturday's evening papers,
under the Ivati of Marlborough-street Police-court, of a
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fashionable female charged with being found insensibly drunk
at two o'clock in the morning in the Quadrant, Reg nt-street,
and who gave the name of Mary Dillon, of 20, Duke-street,
St. James's. Now, as there is no other house of that number
in Duke-street, St. James's, but mine, and as the report may
be of serious injury to me, allow Inc to correct such a false
statement by denying that any person of that name or charac-
ter ever lived in my house, or i: known to myself or at.) one in
icy establishment, and that, if the law can reach her f,r stieli a
gross falsehood, she iu.y depel.d on it I S:-Itll
1 remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
:J. TAYLOR
26, Duke-street, St. James's, Aug. 17, 164.5.