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THE Queen and Prince Albert returned to England on Thursday. Preparations for their reception were made betimes at Woolwich ; offi- cial personages were assembled, and troops were drawn up at an early hour. At half-past ten o'clock, a gun announced the approach of the Victoria and Albert ; and the sound was instantly echoed by the roar of salutes and the National Anthem from the military bands. At a quar- ter to eleven o'clock the yacht was moored off the dockyard; and the Queen was seen under an awning on deck, in conversation with Prince Albert, Lord Aberdeen, and Lord Liverpool. An Admiralty barge, bearing Admiral Sir William Gage and Admiral Sir George Seymour, pushed off; and it was entered by the Queen and Prince, the principal persons of their suite, and Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence ; Sir William Gage steering it to the shore. At the landing-place, her Majesty was received by Captain Sir Francis Collier, Superintendent of the Dock- yard, General Sir George Murray, Master-General of the Ordnance, Lord Bloomfield, Lord Jersey, Lord Delawarr, and other distinguished naval and military officers ; with some of whom she chatted as she passed to her carriage, leaning on Prince Albert's arm. A large con- course of spectators contributed the due amount of cheers during the landing. Besides the carriage which contained the Queen and Prince, four other carriages and four conveyed the suite. A party of Light Dragoons guarded the cortege to the Great Western Railway Station at Paddington ; where the chief officers of the Company were in readiness with a special train. From Slough the carriages were escorted by a party of Life Guards to Windsor ; entering the Castle at one o'clock. The Princess Royal and the Princess Alice were conveyed to the Castle, from Brighton, on the same afternoon, by the Earl of Hard- wicke, Lord-in-Waiting, and Dr. Preatorias.
The Prince and Princess of Hohentobe Langenbourg arrived from the Continent, at Frogmore Lodge, on Saturday, on a visit to the Dutch- ess of Kent; having landed privately at Woolwich on the same day. The /Nachos of Gloucester drove to town, from Kew, on Tuesday,
to be present at the marriage of the Marquis of Ormonde to the daughter of General the Honourable Sir Edward Paget, the Governor of Chelsea Hospital. The Dutchess was among the guests at a dejeuner given by the General. Her Royal Highness returned to Kew in the afternoon.
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