POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY.
The Royal Family left Balmoral on Thursday morning, for England. The route indicated last week was not followed: the alteration is imputed to the prevalence of cholera at Perth; a case having occurred in a house just opposite the hotel at which the Queen would have stayed. No stoppage was made at Perth; but the whole route was rearranged, and it was re- solved to proceed at once to Howick, the seat of Earl Grey, in Northumber- land. The journey from Balmoral to Cupar Angus—forty-nine miles—was performed by post; and the Scottish Midland Railway was reached at that little town by about three o'clock pp. „Lord Duncan and a lsody of the Railway Directors received her Maseali, "aisd proceeded in the train as,far as Edinburgh. The train stopped at Perth only to take iu water, but a military guard of honour was drawn up at the station, and a great concourse of citizens had gathered to give a passing salute.
At Edinburgh, no longer stay was made than was necessary to change the engine and transfer the official conduct of the train; the Queen and Prince Albert observing to the Lord Provost that they regretted their stay was so short in his beautiful city.
At Berwick-on-Tweed—reached about eight p. m.—the Queen was re- ceived by Sir George Grey and the Directors of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway; and the Mayor presented to the Queen, through the door of her carriage, a loyal address; which was acknowledged by "a bow." The Little Mill station, one mile and a half from Howick, was reached at twenty minutes before nine in the evening; the train having been almost continuously illuminated after dusk by bonfires, which were lighted in vast numbers in the fields on its track and on commanding points at a distance. The Queen was received at the station by the Honourable Colonel Grey and the Honourable Captain F. Grey, R.N.; and at once proceeded in Earl Grey's carriages to Howick: there the Earl himself stood ready to receive her Majesty. The Queen sat down to dinner in her travelling dress; Sir George Grey and his lady being the only guests in addition to Earl Grey's family. After dinner, Sir George presented an address from the ancient borough of Alnwick; and her Majesty retired. The Queen and Prince Albert were out walking early on Friday morning, accompanied by Earl Grey; and they planted an oak sapling. The travellers left Howick at eleven. At the station stood the Lord Mayor of York and the other Directors of the Railway, with maps of the line very handsomely bound and decorated, for the Royal use on the road. The carriages started at half-past eleven, and arrived at Newcastle twenty minutes after twelve. Here the arrangements for the Queen's reception were made on a scale of grandeur, and more than 60,000 persons are said to have crowded the points of view, as the train drew up on the centre of the high-level bridge: here was the usual display of triumphal arches, soldiers, addresses, loyal folks, flowers, &c.; all hastily but cordially acknowledged. So on to the end. Darlington, at a quarter to two--flowers and Mrs. Kip- ling the Mayor's lady. York, about three—Lord Mayor and Corporation, robes, flowers, and addresses—holyday to the ancient Royal School at York by Royal request. The party stopped here for about half an hour; joined by the Archbishop of York in the refreshment-room of the station. Nor- manton, about four. Derby, six—Corporation address, and passing ameni- ties with the assembled gentry. Here the party stopped for the night, and the Queen proceeded in the Sheriff's carriage to the Midland Railway Hotel.
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