tbr Court. THE Royal Family has left Osborne for the
uncertain deep. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Duchess of Kent, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal, attended divine service at Osborne on Sunday : the Reverend Professor Sedgwick, on a visit from Cambridge, officiating. About ten o'clock on Moriday,the Royal Family embarked on board the Victoria and Albert steam-yacht, at Cowes, for a cruise.
The Royal yacht was accompanied by a squadron of war-steamers ; consisting of the Retribution the Odin, the Magicienne, the Sampson, and the Baracouta : the Admiralty yacht Black Eagle, and the steam- packet Vivid, also formed part of the squadron ; the whole under the command of Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence. The Duke of Northumberland and the Earl of Hardwick were to,have sailed in the Black Eagle. When the Queen got on board the Victoria and Albert, the royal standard was hoisted at the main, and the Admiralty flag at the fore. Many yachts were out, and plenty of bunting floated to the breeze in all quarters. The whole squadron set out with " ships dressed," and yards manned ; at West Cowes Castle the men were piped down. The Royal yacht made Dartmouth on Monday. Here Prince Albert landed, and visited the convict agricultural settlement at Dartmoor ; then Totness, Ashburton, and hincetown ; joining the Queen at Plymouth. The Victoria and Albert steamed into Plymouth Sound on Tuesday about two o'clock ; and moored in Barnpool, under salutes from the bat- tery at Mount Wise, Plymouth citadel, the flag-ship Impregnable, and the battery at Mount Edgcumbe. In the afternoon, the. Queen and her children paid a visit to the Earl and Countess of Mount Edgcumbe. -Early on Wednesday morning, Prince Albert and the children landed, and viewed the Breakwater ; returning to breakfast on board the Victoria and Albert.
The Queen visited Mount Edgcumbe in the morning, and Prince Albert inspected the fortificatiOns. In the afternoon, they, with the children and suite, steamed up the Tamar, in the Fairy, returning about seven o'clock. Between five and seven o'clock on Tuesday morning the squadron steamed away Eastward.
- The Royal yacht returned to the Isle of Wight on Thursday evening ; when the Queen, Prince Albert, and the children, disembarked and went to Osborne. The steam squadron went direct to Cowes.
• The Duchess of Kent left Osborne for Frogmore on Monday morning ; but returned to Ryde on Wednesday.
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