The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-29 00:00:00

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CONTINENT.

COBURG, AUG. 23.—There has been no incident in
connexion with the royal party lure to day that is
worth recording. After the little excitement of the fes-
tival yesterday they have settled down into quiet again.
After leaving the festival greund, they returnad to the
tow palace, 4shere there was in the evening a bail. It
was over at an early hour. Supper was served at halt-
past eleven, and the royal party returned to Ritsenau at
two o'clock. Her Majesty, the Prince, and the Duchess
of Saxe Coburg (the wife of the reigning Duke) drove
out to-clay for a short time. They came into Coburg to
see the museum and picture gallery. The rest of the
party dispersed on pedestrian excursions to view the
beauties of the surrounding scenery. This will in all
probability be the history of the movements of the Court
here fur the next few days—indeed, until Tuesday next,
when Prince Albert's birthday is to he celebrated. The
Court will leave the next day for Gotha, where they
will remain tour or five days, returning by way of Fulda
and Frankfort to the Rhine., on their journey home. It
is expected that there will be at Gotha a grand stag-
hunt, or rather a &like on a very lirge scale.
The place on which the festival was held yesterday
presented throughout the evening, and till a late hour at
night, the appearance of a fair. The whole meadow
glittered with lights, and there were long lines of booths
arid drinking tables all filled with merry people. An
odd and grotesque addition to this scene of nocturnal
revelry presented itself in the shape of al fresco cooking
places, where, on fires made of heaped fir branches, enor-
mous gridirons were continually covered with still more
enormous sausages, which were handed round among
circles of greedy purchasers, on whose faces the lurid
light of the fires produced an effect quite Rembrandt-
like. Then there was also a travelling theatre ala Ri-
chardson, where tumblers and posture-makers performed
their jests to a gaping audience ; and gigantic merry-
go-round-, with hobby-horses and carriages, mounted or
filled with people of both sexes, produced the most ab-
surd combinations of effect possible, as they whirled
madly round to the music of polkas and other airs
played by a capital band,. And although the people
were as merry as they could be, what made this
German fair so pleasing was, that there was no drunken-
ness or indecorum. The people here seem always to re-
member what is due to themselves. They do not, in the
midst of their enjoyment, lose by excess the faculty of
enjoying

The beauty of the neighbourhood of Coburg increases
upon you the longer you stay. From every point fresh
views open, and with the most delightful variety. Kal-
lenberg, the favourite palace of the teigning Duke, dis-
tant about four miles from Coburg, commands some of
the finest prospects. Like almost all palaces or " resi-
dences" around, it is perched on an eminence, which is
reached by winding roads through a plantation, quite as
beautiful as that which leads to Rosenau. The interior
of the palace is fitted up in the most elegant and at the
same time "comfortable" style. Indeed, it deserves to
be so eharact,rised more than royal residences generally.
There is no ostentation or display such as is met with in
"show places," but everything is of the most perfect
workrea;,ship, and in the most exquisite taste. This
sitatt.ier palace is not built on a grand scale, but,
like Rosenau, it has more the air of the residence of
a private gentleman. The architecture is an odd mix-
ture of the turretted style with the cottage ornis, and
the effect very pretty, although the materials are
in,ongruous. Hete the Duke and Duchess spend
the greater part of their time during the fine weather,
and a more delightful retreat could not well have
been selected. Like everything else in and around Saxe
Ccburg, it belie, the vulgar notions entertained in Eng-
land as to the German style of living and manners. This
Duke is fond of sporting. and keeps here a small pack
of hounds. The residence is full of evidences of his in•
clination this wuy. One room, for instance, is almost
entirely filled with emblems of the chase, worked into
all imaginable ornaments. The easy chairs are made of
antlers. Another room (the Duke's private study) is
filled with engravings of every sort of sporting, French
and English. The country, however, from being so
much waded, is not well adapted for field-sports gene-
rally ; but a large preserve of wild boars is maintained
at a short distance from Kallefiberg. Attached to the
palace is a neat private chapel, in which the English
spectator is surprised to see the crucifix on the altar, as
in Catholic churches. But this is a very general custom
in the Lutheran churches of Germany.
To-night the Queti and the chief visitors at Rosenau
attend the theatre in Coburg. The performance will be
Sehilier's Bride (9r Mes, ina. The Duke of Saxe Meinin-
gen is expected to join the dinner party to-day.