With the extraordinarily auspicious fatality which has made "Queen's weather" so trite and proverbial an expression, the sun splendidly burst forth at the moment of her landing, and continued to shine throughout her progress through a portion of the New Town of Edinburgh; its bright freestone streets and terraces sparkling in the clear, sunlit air--past her ancient Palace of Holyrood, and so through fertile Lothian to the mansion of the princely head of the old Border House of the Scotts. When the customary ensign was hauled down from the top of the rugged Castle Rock, and the Royal Standard was hoisted in its place, the streets at once filled, and the loyal shouts of the crowds, who hastily assembled in no small force, sufficiently atoned for the absence of those whom the somewhat unexpected arrival balked for this one day of the delight of expressing their devotion. [Sidenote: FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF SCOTLAND.] The impression which her first view of Edinburgh made upon the Queen was very striking and most favourable. She thought it "beautiful, totally unlike anything else she had seen." Even Prince Albert, a great traveller while yet in his teens, and who had visited very many great and renowned cities, also said it was unlike anything which he had witnessed. The massive stone buildings, with not a solitary brick used in their construction; the great dorsal fin of the High Street; the magnificent situation of the Castle; the Calton Hill, guarded by mediaeval battlements and crowned by Choragic temples, with the noble back-ground of Arthur's Seat overtopping the whole, together impressed the youthful tourists as "forming altogether a splendid spectacle." As the carriages drove through the city, the Earl of Wemyss, who marched by the Queen's side in his green uniform of a Scottish Archer of the Guard, pointed out to Her Majesty the varied objects of interest on the line of route through the eastern portions of the city to the Duke of Buccleuch's palace of Dalkeith. When they got into the open country, she was further astonished to find that not only all the cottages, but even the fences dividing field from field, were also built of stone. The peasants by the wayside were equally objects of curiosity and interest, as they had "quite a different character from England and the English." The close caps--_Scottice_, "mutches"--of the old women, and the long, flowing hair, frequently red, of the handsome girls and children, were equal novelties to the royal "Southrons." The Prince was struck with the resemblance of the country people to Germans. Other Scottish specialties appeared at the breakfast-table at Dalkeith, in the form of oatmeal porridge and "Finnan Haddies"--the first of which, at least, found immediate favour with Her Majesty.