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SATURDAY.
The Queen held a Privy Council, at Windsor Castle, at three o'clock yesterday afternoon. The Council was attended by all the Ministers ex- cept Lord Palmerston, and Sir Charles Wood—the Minister who is said to have declared he would never sit again in Council with Lord Palmer- ston.
The Queen "having been" pleased to appoint Granville George Earl Granville to be one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, he was sworn in accordingly. "The Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord John Russell, and Earl Granville, had audiences of her Majesty. Earl Gran- ville received from the Queen his seals of office as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Earl of Westmoreland had an audience of the Queen."
The movements of the Cabinet Ministers on their departure from the Privy Council are also minutely chronicled by the Court newsman, from whom we have just quoted- " The Lord Chancellor, Sir George Grey, Earl Grey, the Marquis of Clan- ricarde, the Right Honourable Fox Maule, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Westminster, Mr. C. Greville, and Lord Edward Howard, travelled from Lon- don by a special train on the Great Western Railway to attend the Council; Lord John Russell travelled from Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park ; and the Marquis of Lansdowne and Lord Seymour arrived from Bowood Park, Wiltshire. The Right Honourable Henry Labouchere came from Stoke. "After the Council, the Marquis of Lansdowne and Lord Seymour returned to Bowood, Lord John Russell returned to Richmond, and the Right Honour- able H. Labouchere to Stoke.
"The Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, and the rest of the Ministers and officers of State, returned to London by special train on the Great Western Railway, taking their departure from the Castle at twenty minutes past four o'clock."
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