Baroness Lehzen, who for a long time filled a strictly
confidential situation about the person of the Sovereign, having been the governess to the Queen in her youth, left Windsor Castle on the 23d of September, and Buckingham Palace on Friday last, for the Continent, on a visit to her friends in Germany. Dwarkanauth Tagore, who was recently invested with the freedom of the city of Edinburgh, was on Friday last admitted to a special interview with her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, at Windsor Castle, to take leave prior to his departure for Paris on his way to India. We understand that the conduct of the Queen and her Royal Consort was on this occasion marked by peculiar kindness, and that her Majesty signified her gracious intention of presenting Dwarkanauth Tagore with her portrait, accompanied by one of the Prince.— Times.
The Queen has sent 30/. and Prince Albert 20/, to the widow of Daniel Maclauchlan, who was killed by falling from a precipice on his way home from lighting a bonfire on Birman Hill, during the Queen's tour in the North.
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