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SATURDAY MORNING.
Queen Victoria's tour in Scotland is accomplished. Thursday morn- ing was fine, and Dalkeith Palace was in a bustle before daybreak with preparations for the departure. The Queen and Prince break- fasted at seven o'clock ; at ten minutes to eight they entered their carriage; and, followed by the suite, with an escort of Dragoons, they repaired through part of Edinburgh to Granton Pier. The prepara- tions were far less elaborate than on that day fortnight, when all Edinburgh was rushing out of bed or from the breakfast-table, and came too late to see the passing Sovereign on her arrival; but the worthy citizens had learned not to be belated, and the roads to the pier and the vicinity of the landing-place were crowded. Guards of honour, including the Body Guard of Royal Archers, were stationed on the spot. The Queen walked down the pier resting either hand on the arm of the Duke of Bucclench and the Earl of Liverpool. Several military, naval, and other gentlemen, with the Lord Justice Clerk, stood by to make their farewell obeisance. At twenty-four minutes to ten, under a salute of artillery, the Queen embarked on board the Trident steamer. Some gentlemen took leave of the Royal pair on board; among them Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, the commander of the yacht that brought them to Scotland ; and he said something that made them both laugh. In a quarter of an hour the steamer was under way in Leith Roads ; the Duke and Dutchess of Buccleuch and a hnstof people watching it, as, amid the salutes of the ships of war in the Frith of Forth, it passed swiftly out to sea.
The Earl of Haddington arrived at Woolwich last night ; all the au- thorities of the Dockyard were astir ; the place was illuminated and full of life ; and the preparations for the Queen's debarkation were so com- plete, that two false alarms of her arrival, at half-past ten and half-past twelve, caused no confusion. Bellringers at Woolwich, Greenwich, and Deptford, stood through the night to their ropes, feeling that "this day England expects every man to do his duty ": and thus all remained, awaiting the roar of cannon and the ring of bells to announce the Queen's return to English land.
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