Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-04-11 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

LORD PALMERSTON IN EDINBURGH.  On Good Friday, Lord Palmerston attended Divine service at St. Peter's Chapel, button-place, Edinburgh. The chapel was crowded. Shortly after two o'clock, Lord Palmerston, Mr. Cowper, and Mr. Ashley, accom ponied by the Lord Provost and family, drove round the Queen's Drive in two private carriages to Dunsappie Loch, where the whole party dismounted for the purpose of ascending to the summit of Arthur's Seat. They at once began to ascend the eastern slope to the summit of the hill. On reaching the crest of the lion's head the noble Premier seemed less fatigued than other members of the party who have not yet seen half his years. The Premier surveyed with great apparent delight the gorgeous panorama visible from the summit; and on being congratulated on his successful ascent, said he had been there a hundred times before. His Lordship, who contemplated the scene for a considerable time, expressed his admiration of it in the warmest terms. The party then descended the hill, and the absence of any appearance of fatigue on the part of Lord Palmerston was the subject of astonishment and remark on the part of the beholders. On re-entering the carriage, a number of young ladies—who happened to be enjoying the Good Friday holiday on the hill—gave his lordship a hearty cheer, which he courteously acknowledged, and re, marked--" We should have seen the ladies on the top oi the hill." The party then drove to Holyrood, where they were received by Mr. Matheson, of the Board of Works. Mr. Matheson first conducted his lordship through the State apartments and the rooms recently ceded to the crown by the late Marquis of Breadalbatie and the Duke of Argyll. The next place visited was the Picture Gallery of the Palace, where his lordship inspected particularly the portrait of Mary Queen of Scots, and the four curious historical paintings by Mabeuee, recently sent from Hampton Court upon the representation of a large number of the nobility of Scotland. Queen Mary's apartments were next visited, and his lordship inspected with great interest the staircase by which the conspirators entered the Queen's apartment, where she was supposed to have been at supper with Rizzi° on the night of the murder, as also the strains of blood on the steps, which tradition relates issued from the wounds of the unfortunate favourite. The party next proceeded to the Lord Provost's house, where Lord Palmerston, on bidding the Lord Provost fare-well, expressed his heartfeltgratification at the cordial reception he had met with from the public of Edinburgh, and the kind hospitality he and his party had experienced at the Lord Provost's hands—both of which he would ever remember vith the most pleasurable feelings. Lord Palmerston, having been mode aware that a servant who had been with llugald Stewart well remembered his lordship when he was under the professor's roof in early days, took occasion on Friday to pay her a visit in No. 1, Rankeillorstreet, and expressed himself as having been much pleased with renewing the acquaintance of the old domestic, " Peggie Forbes." Dr. John Brown bad discovered the existence of this old association, and with it a box of tools which were the property of "Young Maister Henry" of those days. The sight of them called up the memory of days long bygone, and the Prime Minister was anxious not to leave Edinburgh without expressing hislrind remembrance of her who in humble life had never forgotten him.  Mr. Fullom hae accused Miss Braddon of feting the plots of her novels, " Lady Audley's Secret" and " Aurora Floyd" from his ' Man at the Wbrld," and seems to have made out a strong case. Miss Braddon di flies the imputation, and says her works are " thoroughly original." IN