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Twa Queen held a Privy Council at Osborne on Monday afternoon. The formal prorogation of Parliament to November was ordered ; and audiences were granted to the Earl of Westmoreland and Sir Hamilton Seymour.
The Royal Family left Osborne for London, on their journey to Bal- moral,
before nine o'clock on Wednesday morning, and arrived at Buck- ingham Palace at half-past twelve. The Prince and Princess Hermann of Saxe Weimar visited the Queen in the hour during which she halted. The carriages were at the door, for starting Northwards, at half-past one. Excluded from the " dangerous " New Road by the parish authorities of St. Pancras, the cortege went to the Great Northern station by way of Bedford Square, Russell Square, Sidmouth Street, the Gray's Inn Road, and Constitution Row ; affording the treat of an unprecedented event to the now plebeian neighbourhood of King's Cross. The station was reached a little before two. The Great Northern Railway Company, under its Chairman, Mr. Denison, M.P., had made worthy preparations in honour of the first royal journey by their railway. Carriages of rich workmanship, and the most perfect drawingroom arrangements, had been provided ; a platform had been erected for the admission of a polite com- pany of favoured visitors to see her Majesty off; and a time-table had been arranged and printed, in which the exact moment of the train's arrival at every stopping-point was precisely act down. At the station Lord John Russell was already in waiting to join the Queen's party. The travellers having•entered their carriages, and Mr. Denison and his leading coadjutors having taken their places of watching responsibility, the train moved off at a few moments before two.
At Hitchin, which-was reached in about three-quarters of an hour, the engine stopped to " moisten its mouth." The station had been decorated in the most tasteful manner the company and the inhabitants could de- vise. In default of cannon, bands, or other noisy manifestations of loyalty, the people hit upon-a pretty method of showing it by singing " God save the Queen," led by the sweet voices of some children. As the Queen was now passing through this line of country for the first time, the people were everywhere alive to " catch a view." The farm-labour- ers were seen leaving their work and scouring the fields to reach a point of 'vantage; and " occasionally a stout old squire came rattling along on a good hunter, with sons and daughters all mounted, and drew up by the line cheering lustily. All the schools for miles round must have been present ; and wonderful ingenuity was displayed in combining gaily- coloured handkerchiefs so as to pass muster for flags and banners."
At the Peterborough station, the Bishop, Dr. Davys, the tutor of her Majesty's youth, awaited the arrival of the train, surrounded by a. group of his clergy. The Queen called her former preceptor to the window, and conversed with him some time. A little boy about six years of age, in full Highland costume, the son of the Earl of Aboyne, who has a seat in the neighbourhood, came forward to present a bouquet of flowers to her Majesty ; the Bishop lifting him up to the carriage-window. The Queen accepted the bouquet, and heartily shook the little fellow by the hand.
Boston was reached at half-past four ; and there the first official bow was made to the Queen by a municipal corporation. The train stopped but -a few minutes ; so Lord John Russell quickly presented the Munici- pality, and the Queen graciously received their address : the concluding passage of which is less hacknied, and more simple in its pious earnest- ness, than is usual with such documents- " We fervently pray that the blessings of Him by whom monarchs reign may for many years be vouchsafed to your Majesty, royal consort,-and child- ren ; and that, continuing to reign over a loyal, prosperous, and happy people, your Majesty may at some distant period, when called to lay down an earthly crown, receive a celestial diadem which shall never fade away." While the address was read, the line should have been "kept" by a guard of honour composed of a few of the Coast Guard ; but the enthu- siasm of the people exceeded their good manners, and they broke in a very disorderly way across the rail, rushed close to the royal carriage, cheering vociferously, and staring with all their might andmain, to the number of some hundreds. The Queen is said to have been "highly entertained" ; but the officials were shocked. Mr. Denison rushed in among the throng with great impetuosity, and by dint of physical force kept some sort of order at one side of the train; but the other side was left to the mob, and they made the most of their opportunity till the train moved away. Lincoln was reached at twenty-five minutes after five : the halt, and the presentation of the Corporation address, had no special incidents. The rest of thejourney to Doncaster was performed without a stoppage but at Bawtry, East Thetford, and some other places, the train slackened almost to a walk, in courtesy to the assembled crowds, who delight- ledged this travelling mode of royal salutation. station was reached at about half-past six. The town was in 'r of rejoicing. The Corporation-marshalled themselves an the delivered their addresses; Lord Milton and Lord Cathcart the Milittwandlhe Regiflars under 'their command; every'
inhabitant of the town, and all the populadrarelfithe country round, came to " see the Queen," and greet her with loudloyalty. In the court- yards:if. the station, theiasseradage wasamagged in the form of an am- phitheldre ; ilagoand trinmphil archespand in the later shades of evening a display of fireworks add frigeneralauthination, evidenced the congra_ tulasion-at havinrithe "Queeitila highemy "Me the North once more re- stored to old Doncaster. TheQueen meddler stay for the night at the
Angel Hotel. The townsmen were astir on Thursday morning almost with the rising sun, and by six o'clock the bells in the fine tower of St. John's Church were sending forth their joy-peal. The Queen sallied forth from her inn at half-past eight ; and at a quarter to nine the train was again in motion for the further North, good speed being shouted by thousands of hearty voices. The great morass traversed by the railway near to the Aire and Calder navigation was crossed at a slow pace, the engineer seeming to follow the pilot-engine with prudent and feeling steps. York was reached at about ten. York not being a " through" station, the train halted at the point of junction between the Great Northern line and the Berwick line. Mr. Denison here took leave of her Majesty, and transferred the responsibility of his charge to Mr. Leeman. From York the further journey-was over beaten ground. AtDarlington, the Bailiff was introduced to -her Majesty by Mr. Leeman, -while the engine went for its draught of water. Durham was passed without a stoppage ; at Newcastle, which was reached at noon, but a short stay was made ; and the -rest of the journey to Edinburgh was equally without incident. The train reached the St. 'Margaret's station :at half-past three • and in the midst of a guard of honour, commanded by the Duke of Buccleuch, the Queen entered Holyrood Palace -at a quarter to four. The journey had been so little fatiguing, that at five o'clock her Majesty drove through the streets of the New Town -for above an hour.
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