Tan QUEEN has taken a four-days trip along the coast
this week, in the Victoria and Albert, as far as Plymouth; returning to Osborne via Exeter, Salisbnry, and Gosport. The royal flotilla sailed from Osborne on Monday morning. It con- sisted of the Victoria and Albert, the Fairy, the Irene a Trinity yacht, the Vivid, the Black Eagle, and the Salamander. The Queen was ac- companied by Prince Albert, and five of their sons and daughters. Mr. Labouchero also attended her Majesty. They first entered the estuary of the Dart. The rain fell heavily ; and, the Queen remaining on board her yacht, Prince Albert went up the river as fax as Totness. When the weather cleared, her Majesty was rowed in her barge as far as Dittisham. On their return they landed at Dartmouth, and drove to those points of the coast commanding the best views of the bay. HIATik.g slept on board, the Queen sailed next morning for Plymouth ; and, says the courtly chronicler, "some members of the Royal Family experienced inconvenience from the boisterous state of the weather during kt.he pas- sage from Dartmouth." While at Plymouth, the Queen and Prince Albert visited Mount Edgecumbe, Keyham Yard, and Mount Wik ; and steaming up the Tamar, they landed, and drove through the grounds of Endsleigh Cottage, a summer seat of the Duke of Bedford near Tavistock. They also steamed up Catwater to Saltram, the residence of Earl Mor- ley, and drove through the grounds. On her way back to her ship, the Queen drove through Plymouth and Stonehouse. On Friday her Ma- jesty took the railway to Exeter, and thence to Salisbury. Here she slept ; and today, proceeding to Gosport, she was to land at Osborne,
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