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QUEEN Vic-roma is now at Osborne again, having arrived there on Tuesday.
Before she quitted Babelsberg a festival was held there on the 27th in honour of the Prince Consort's birthday. His brother, the Duke of Saxe Coburg spent the day there, and dined with the royal family in the even- ing. There were illuminations at night, around the Chateau, and at Potsdam. The next day the Queen departed. The Prince and Princess of Prussia, and Prince and Princess Frederick William, and the Grand Duke and Duchess of Baden, accompanied her Majesty in the railway carriage a part of the way. Her Majesty breakfasted at Magdeburg, and here she took leave of the Prince and Princess of Prussia, of the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Baden, and of the Grand Duke of Sax. Weimar. At Brunswick, Minden, Dortmund, the stations and streets were crowded with people. At Dents the Queen was received by Prince Hohenzollern and Count Mensdorff ; and the town was illuminated. Here her Majesty remained for the night, and the next day attended divine service. On Monday she set out again; on her passage through Cologne the cathedral was illuminated. Reaching Antwerp on Monday night, she embarked for England. It was intended that she should dis. embark at Dover or Gravesend, according as the weather proved fouler fair, and trains were held in readiness at both places. The wind blowing roughly, the Victoria and Albert put into Dover, while the attendant squadron steamed off for Gravesend. The Queen and Prince Consort landed early in the morning, and proceeding by Hastings and Ports- mouth, reached Osborne about four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. Her Majesty held a Privy Council on Thursday, when Parliament was ordered to be further prorogued from the 19th of October to Thursday, the 18th of November.
Lord Stanley was sworn in Secretary of State for India. The new Seals of Office for the Secretary of State for India were approved by the Queen in Council.
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