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'I'mx Queen has paid her long-announced visit to the Duke of Norfolk. Her Majesty and suite embarked in the Fairy steamer from Osborne House, at half-past twelve on Tuesday, and entered Portsmouth Harbour at one, under a grand salute from the ships and batteries. The landing-place and principal entrance to the dockyard were handsomely decorated; the latter being adorned with a triumphal arch formed of flags and evergreens, the whole surmounted by gilt crowns. The ground within the barriers was kept by a party of Dockyard Police. Her Majesty was received by Sir Charles Ogle, the Duke of Norfolk, Lieutenant-General Sir Hercules Pakenham, with the keys of the fortress, Lady and Miss Pakenham, and a brilliant staff. Conducted by the Duke of Norfolk, as Master of the Horse, through the throng, the Royal party entered three carriages and four, and proceeded on their route, escorted by a detachment of the Twelfth Lancers. The route lay through Havant and Emsworth; but at neither place, although great crowds of loyal subjects had assembled, was there any display of arches, festoons, or flags: it appears that the good people had an impression that such exhibitions were distasteful to the Queen.
On entering the county of Sussex at Emsworth Bridge, the troops were relieved by an escort of the Arundel and Bramber Yeomanry, commanded by Mr. John Abel Smith, M.P., his brother, Mr. M. T. Smith, and Mr. Mon- teflore. At Chichester, the authorities had done their best in the way of preparation; and almost every house was decorated, Opposite the Ca- thedral, on a platform adorned with tasteful devices, upwards of a thousand poor children were congregated, each with a small flag in hand, shouting welcome under the stimulus of prospective plum-cake. By the Dolphin Hotel there was erected a triumphal arch, adorned with flags and ever- greens. Near this spot stands the old cross; at which a band of musicians was posted, sounding a welcome in strains more enthusiastically loud than tuneful. While the horses were changed, the Mayor and Corporation, the Bishop of Chichester, the Dean, and a large number of the clergy, paid their respects to the Queen and Prince Albert. At Ball's Hutt, a second troop of Yeomanry, headed by the Earl of Surrey, Mr. T. Evans, and Mr. Grey, relieved the first. Here the Duke of Norfolk, now in his capacity of host, accompanied by the Duke of Wellington and some of the chief guests from the Castle, joined the cortege, and rode with it during the re- mainder of the journey. On entering the town of Arundel, the Royal party drove through a triumphal arch in Maltravers Street; and were re- ceived by the Mayor, Mr. Edward Howard Gibbon, (York Herald,) the Aldermen and Council, and the Vicar. The ceremony of presenting the mace having been gone through in the usual form, the Mayor led the way ,trough the town, accompanied by the other authorities, to the entrance- gate of the Castle; where the Duke of Norfolk had caused another tri- umphal arch to be erected. Here a guard of honour, formed of the Arun- del and Bramber Yeomanry, under the command of Sir H. D. Goring and Mr. H. Gratwick, was stationed; and her Majesty was welcomed at the grand entrance by the Dutchess of Norfolk &satire immediate members of the family, a royal salute being fired as the Queen entered. The resident guests during the Queen's visit, and in addition to various members of the Howard family, are the Duke of Wellington, the Duke and Dutchess of Bedford, the Dutchess of Sutherland and Lady Caroline Leve- son Gower, the Earl and Countess of Arundel and Surrey, the Marchioness of Douro, the Marquis of Granby, the Earl and Countess of Ellesmere, Lord and Lady John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, Viscount Morpeth, Lord Brooke, Lady Napier, Colonel Bouverie, and Mr. Bickerton Lyons.
Her Majesty was conducted by the Duke of Norfolk,—Prince Albert escorting the Dutchess,—to the library, where the principal guests were assembled. In the state drawingroom, before dinner, the Mayor of Arun- del presented addresses from the Corporation to the Queen and Prince Albert.
In the evening, the Keep was brilliantly illuminated, and the town was one blaze of light; even in the by-streets the windows of the poor people were splendid with " dips." Three monster beacons on the adjacent emi nences tried to extinguish the moonlight.
By a joint arrangement between the Duke and the townspeople, provi- sion was made for giving a sumptuous dinner to every poor person in the town.
After breakfast on Wednesday, Prince Albert, accompanied by the Earl of Arundel and Lord John Russell, went to shoot in the preserve at Bury- Cpmbe ; where seventy-three head ofgame fell before the Prince's fowling-piece. The Queen did not go out till after luncheon. She then visited the Keep, guided by the Duke of Norfolk and the Duke of Wellington.
There was a party in the evening. The Queen received several of the guests in the state drawingroom, and then joined the general company in the. library. The chief amusement was furnished by the Ethiopian Se- renaders; and it has been chronicled that the Royal couple laughed heartily at the song of " Old Dan Tucker.": On Thursday morning, the Queen and Prince Albert, with some of the guests, went to visit Colonel Wyndham, and see his mansion at Petworth.
In the afternoon, the Royal party went into the Small Park; where the Queen and Prince Albert each planted a young oak-tree. After dinner, the Distin family played a tune on their Sax horns, and Miss KateRroder executed a fantasia on the pianoforte. Late in the even- ing there was dancing, in which the Queen joined with much spirit.
The visit terminated yesterday morning. Soon after ten, the Royal party took leave of their noble hosts, the Queen graciously saluting the Dutchess; and they set out for the Isle of Wight in the same order, and under a similar escort of Yeomanry, as on Tuesday. .The cortege arrived at Ports- mouth a little before one; and the travellers immediately embarked on board the Fairy.
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