Z4t Court THE QUEEN held a Privy Council, at Buckingham
Palace, on Wednesday evening. Mr. Denison, the Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir John M`Neill, and Mr. Frederick Peel, were sworn of the Council, and took their seats at the board. The Speech to be delivered by the Lords Commissioners to Parliament on the following day was submitted to the Queen in Council, and approved. The Earl of Clarendon, Earl Granville, and Lord Palmerston, had audience of the Queen.
Prince Albert visited Manchester on Tuesday, and returned to Buckingham Palace on Wednesday in time to attend the Privy Council. Her Majesty is now quite convalescent. She began to take airings in the garden on Sunday morning. On Monday she was " churched," in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace. The Duchess of Kent has been a frequent visitor. On Monday, the Countess de Neuilly and the Duke and Duchess de Nemours called upon the Queen. She was so far recovered on Thursday as to be able to encounter the fatigue of a journey to Osborne; whither Prince Albert and the children accompanied her. They left Buckingham Palace at half-past ten. On her way:, the Queen inspected a brass gun a present from the Sultan to her Majesty, and now in the Clarence Yard at Portsmouth. This gun is two hundred years old, nearly sixteen feet long, and carries a twenty-pound ball : it bears the inscription "A present from 11. 1. M. Sultan Abdul Medjid to her B. M. Queen Victoria, 1857." Her Majesty pronounced it very handsome." The Royal party reached Osborne a little after two o'clock. In the course of the afternoon, her Majesty walked and drove out in the grounds, accompanied by the Prince Consort.
The remains of the Duchess of Gloucester were yesterday deposited in the royal vault at St. George's Chapel, Windsor. The funeral was conducted, according to the desire of the late Duchess, in the " most private manner possible." The hearse, preceded by six mourning-carriages, and escorted by a troop of Life Guards, was conveyed to the Paddington terminus, and thence by railway to Slough. At the station there, the procession was augmented by the arrival of a number of officers of her Majesty's Court, and the carriages of the Queen, the Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. At a slow pace the procession moved to St. George's Chapel. The Duchess of Atholl WES the chief mourner, and when the coffin was placed near the altar she sat at its head during the performance of the burialservice. Prince Albert and the Duke of Cambridge sat in their stalls, each wearing the order of the Garter. The Prince of Wales, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, and a number of friends of the late Duchess, were present. In the royal closet were the Duchess and Princess Mary of Cambridge, and the Grand Duchess of Meeklenburg-Strelitz. The -Garter King stood near the coffin. The service was performed by the
Dean of Windsor. "
Prince Albert, who had arrived from Osborne, and the Prince of Wales, who had arrived from London, to attend the funeral, returned, the former to Osborne, the latter to Buckingham Palace, at the close of the ceremony.
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