The Royal Family left Buckingham Palace, for Osborne, yesterday afternoon.
Lord Stanley, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, arrived at his father's residence yesterday, from his Indian tour.
The Yorkshire deputation got hold of the man himself yesterday-Sir John Pakington, her Majesty's Secretary of State for Colonial Affairs; and in a conversation long and animated, he was subjected to a York- shire hug from several vigorous men of business. He bore the process well and profitably. The deputation told him. that the things wanted- were ships and money to carry out 11,000 men at least, within two months. He confessed to having in hand 318,000/. of Australian money for emigration purposes. As to shipping, "he understood there was a ge- neral scarcity." But the deputation told him that he must no longer confine the official activity to London and ,Plymouth, but must extend it to all great ports, even admitting foreign ships if necessary. Sir John took to his lesson kindly; and the deputation left him with thanks.
Lord John Russell has issued his manifesto of policy, in an address to the citizens of London, occupying a column and a half of today's Globe. It is a multifarious document, whose main features ;are, that he re- fers to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's financial statement for the most conclusive proofs of the wisdom of the Free Trade policy, gingerly avoids the Papal aggression and its present developments, and recommends a "cordial union" of the friends of progress.
The Globe says that the Liberal Members are not to be opposed by Con- servatives, and hopes they will not be so by other Liberals.
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