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Tat QtrEmt, Prince Albert, and their family, have returned to Windsor Castle. They departed from Balmoral at half-past eight on Tuesday morning ; posting to Banehory, they there took the railway, and proceeded by Stonehaven Forfar, Perth, and Stirling, to Edinburgh. Although the distance traversed was 176 miles, the mean variation of the speed from the time-table was only •one minute. The train reached St. Mar- garet's station at a quarter past six. The Queen was received by the Duke of Buocleuch and other gentlemen of note : she drove immediately to Holyrood Palace ; and there the,Duke of Hamilton received her Ma- jesty in the vestibule. Resting for the night at Holyrood, her Majesty departed for the South on Wednesday morning at half-past seven. The route of theSal train in -returning was the same as in going,—the North British Railway as far as Berwick, the North-Eastern to York, tho Great Northern'to King's Cross ; where her Majesty arrived within half a sninnte of the time set down in the programme of the journey-6.25, The usual loyal manifestations were rife at the principal stations : at York, where the Queen took refreshment, the station was decorated; and General Arbuthnot, Sir Harry Smith, and the civic authorities, were in attendance. From King's Cross her Majesty drove to Paddington, for the Great Western Railway, and reached Windsor Castle at a quarter before eight o'clock.
The Queen has speedily returned to business. She held a Court and Privy Council yesterday at Windsor. At the Privy Council, it was or- dered that Parliament should be prorogued from Tuesday the 23d instant to Tuesday the 11th December. At the Court, the Turkish and Portu- guese Ministers, the Bishop of Sierra Leone, Earl Granville, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir Richard Palenham late British Minister at Lisbon, the Sheriff of London and the City Itemembrancer, had audience of her Majesty.
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