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SATURDAY NIGHT.
The accounts of Queen Victoria's tour in Germany come down to Wed- nesday. Thus far her entertainment by the King of Prussia has been as pleasant as it was splendid. On her Majesty's arrival at the Palace of Eruhl, on Monday night, a wonderful concert was performed, by a band of six hundred musicians, composed of the bands of thirty different regiments: they played national airs of England and Prussia, and music by Beethoven and Meyerbeer. An enormous band of drummers also played the tattoo after the Prussian manner, with a skilful graduation of notes and an snowing crescendo.
On Tuesday, the King conveyed his guests to Bonn ; where they wit- nessed the inauguration of Beethoven's statue. In the evening there was a great spectAcle on the river—Cologne was illuminated, and the Rhine was made one vast feu-de-joie. As darkness closed in, the dim city began to put forth buds of light; lines of twinkling brightness darted like liquid gold or silver from pile to pile, then by the bridge of boats across the river, up the masts of the shipping, and abroad on the opposite bank. Rockets now shot from all parts of the horizon. The Royal party embarked in a steamer at St. Tremond, and glided down the river: as they passed, the banks blazed with fire-works and musketry; at their approach the bridge glared with redoubled light, and opening, let the vessel pass to Cologne; whose cathedral burst forth a building of light, every detail of the archi- tecture made out in delicately-coloured lamps—pinkish with an under- glow of orange. Traversing in carriages the illuminated and vociferous city, the King and his companions returned by the railroad to Bruld.
On Wednesday, the travellers were taken to see Cologne Cathedral—the still unfinished work of ages—by day.
This was the intended route of the Queen and Prince Albert: on Thurs- day, to the King's other palace at Stolzenfels; on Friday,: to Mayence; Saturday, to the King of Bavaria's palace at Wurzburg; Sunday, with the King; Monday, to Coburg.
The following intelligence has been received in London, today, by an Ostend steamer which made the passage in twelve hours-
., Coblentz, 15th August, 5 p.m.
"Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen Victoria has this moment passed by this place to the Chateau of Stolzenfels, on board a steamer, which also conveyed their Majesties the King and Queen of Prussia, the Archduke Charles of Austria, the King of Wirtemberg, &c. The reception of her Majesty the Queen Victoria was highly gratifying. The cannon thundered from the Castle of Ehrenbreitstein, (the Gibraltar of the Rhine,) and other forts, and the troops in garrison here assisted in the general joy."
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