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THE King' went to Kew on Monday, and dined with Lord and Lady Errol. On Tuesday, he was visited by the Dutchess of Gloucester, at Windsor Castle. On Wednesday, he came to town. His Majesty gave audiences to Lord Melbourne, Lord Palmerston, Lord Glenelg, and Sir Hussey Vivian ; and received a visit from the Princess Sophia. He returned to Windsor in the evening, attended by Sir Herbert Taylor. The Queen left Windsor Castle, for Oxford, on Monday. Her Majesty was accompanied by the Dutchess of Saxe Weimar, Prince
George of Cambridge, Lord Rowe, Lord Denbigh, the Honourable William Ashley, and a numerous suite in several carriages. She was escorted into Oxford by Lord Norreys's troop of Yeomanry Cavalry,
and took up her abode at the Angel Inn. The first place her Majesty visited was the Theatre of the University; the floor of which was filled with Masters of Arts, the lower gallery with ladies, the upper by the Under Graduates. The latter were, as usual, very noisy; calling for cheers for the Ladies, Wellington, Peel, Eldon, the Bishops, Church, and King ; groaning at Brougham, Russell, the Ministers, and Lord Radnor and the Dissenters, but cheering Lord Radnor and the Fox. hounds. A platform was raised for the Queen, and an address delivered to her by the Duke of Wellington, as Chancellor of the University. The Queen read her answer in an inaudible tone. Degrees of Doctor of Civil Law were conferred on Lords Howe and Denbigh, Mr. Ashley, and Prince Ernest Philippstbal. Dr. Bliss, the Public Orator, went through the ceremony of delivering an address. The Convoca- tion being dissolved, the Queen went to the Town-hall, and received an address from the Mayor and Corporation. Her Majesty then went to dinner at the Angel, with a party of forty distinguished persons. After dinner, she held a Drawing-room,—the first, it is said, ever held by a Queen of England at a tavern. There was some slight rioting in the town at night. The next morning, the Queen received an address from the nobility and gentry of the county, headed by the Lord-Lieutenant. After- wards she visited the principal Colleges ; and lunched at Queen's, where an address was presented to her. At Radcliffe Hall, the Bishop and Clergy of the diocese were ready with their address; from which we give the following passage as a specimen- " In times like the present, when hostility has been declared against what- ever has given fixedness to the principles of our Christian faith, and peace and safety to those who profess them, it becomes our especial duty to acknowledge with humble gratitude to Almighty God your Majesty's stedfa.stness to the Scriptural doctrine of our Apostolic Church."
Her Majesty replied in a suitable tone; and went to dinner at the Angel. The Under Graduates drew up in a body in the street before the inn, and loudly cheered the Queen ; but there was some " fisty- cuffing " between them and the townspeople.
On Wednesday, the Queen paid a short visit to Blenheim, and then returned toOxford. Soon afterwards, she departed with her suite, for Strathfieldsaye, amidst the cheers of a considerable crowd. She was es- corted by the Yeomanry, under Lord Norreys's command, through Nune- ham to Walligford ; where an address was presented by the Mayor and Corporation, and the officers of the Berkshire Horticultural Society. At the village of Streetly, the escort of cavalry left her Majesty, though it had then become quite dark ; and the Queen, attended only by the Royal Household, proceeded to Strathfieldsaye. The loyalty of these warriors seems to have slackened just when their services would have been most acceptable. But so it was—they left the Queen to take care of herself as soon as the night set in. Soon after the cavalry departed, (according to the Morning Post,) " It became necessary to light the carriage-lamps; and, as the greater part of the road from here to Strathfieldsaye is solitary, it became darkness visible. At a place called, we believe, Beach Hill, there is a somewhat preci- pitous descent ; and a short halt took place, for the purpose, as it seemed, of putting on the drags. From this point the road becomes rather narrow—as it appeared to us, scarcely wide enough to permit the passing of two carriages. The Royal carriage proceeded much more cautiously and slowly than hitherto. When once it became completely dark, the most hilmble cottage on the road- side presented one or two lights, either at the windows, or in the hands of the inhabitants, who thus humbly and kindly testified their respects. About half- past seven o'clock, her Majesty's carriage entered one of the principal gates of Strathfieldsaye Park ; and soon arrived at the mansion of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, where her Majesty was to pass the night. Dinner was, of course, speedily in readiness ; at which the illustrious host and a select party were honoured by the presence of their Sovereign." Next morning, the Queen—" the Sovereign" of the Tory clique at
Strathfieldsaye—was escorted by the Hampshire Yeomanry to Black- water ; and then' proceeded through Hounslow to Windsor. She arrived safely, though without escort, at about five in the afternoon. At Windsor, says the chronicler of her Majesty's tour, " there were no external demonstrations of joy."
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