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TIER Queen held a Privy Council and Court at Osborne House on Moe_ day afternoon; which most of the Ministers attended. At the Council the Royal Speech on closing the session of Parliament was agreed on. Mr. Matthew Talbot Baines was sworn in as a member of the Council, and took his seat at the Board. Lord Lansdowne had an audience at the Court.
Lord John Russell remained her Majesty's visiter till Tuesday.
The Queen and Prince Albert set out from Cowes, for their voyage to Cork, on Wednesday afternoon; leaving Cowes roadstead almost with the quietness of a private departure. The royal standard was hoisted on board the Queen's steam-yacht at three o'clock, and the squadron inns. diately got under weigh; passing rapidly into the Channel with a hie light breeze and a sky that promised a fine night. The squadron con- sisted of the. Victoria and Albert steam-yacht, commanded by Lord Adol- phus Fitzclarence, the two steam-sloops Stromboli and Sphinx, under Lord A. Beanclerk and Commander Hewlett, the Black Eagle steam-yacht, under Master Commander Cooke, and the Vivid steam-packet, an extraor- dinarily swift boat, under Master Commander Luke Smithett.
Accounts from the coast stations report that the fleet moved on straight for Cork, with rapidity, and did not anchor at Weymouth or Portland for the night. It passed some miles outside the Eddystone Lighthouse at day- break, and was seen a considerable distance out at sea off Falmouth, about five o'clock on Thursday. The voyage, if performed without hinderance, is about fifty hours' steaming from the harbour of Cowes to the Cove of Cork.
The Dutchess of Kent returned from Osborne to London on Saturday. She visited the Queen Dowager, at Bushy Park, on Wednesday. Yester- day her Royal Highness left London for Tunbridge Wells.
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