The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-04 00:00:00

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO DUBLIN.

The Queen and Prince Albert, according to present
:Arrangements, will leave town on Tuesday, the 12th
inst., for the purpose of honouring the Exhibition at
Dublin with a visit.
Her Majesty and the Prince will travel by the London
and North-Western Railway from the Euston station
direct to Holyhead, at which port the Victoria and Al-
bert Royal yacht will arrive on Monday next to be in
readiness to receive the Queen and her Royal Consort
and convey them to Kingstown.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
Prussia, if in England, will accompany her Majesty ;
but, owing to the illness of the Grand Duke of Saxe
Weimar, some apprehension exists that the Prince and
Princess may be summoned to the Continent during the
present week.
Her Majesty, it is anticipated, will sleep on board the
Royal yacht in Holyhead Harbour on the night of her
arrival at that port.
The return of the Court theon is
st. not expected to be
delayed beyond Saturday, l6th in

CABINET CourraL.7--A Cabinet Council was held on
Saturday at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The
Ministers present wpre—the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord J.
Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke
of Argyll, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Pal-
merston, the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of Newcastle,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham,
Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and
Sir William Molesworth. The Council sat three hours
and a half.
ENORMOUS MAILS FROM AUSTRALIA.—On Saturday
morning a umber of boxes and bags, containing letters,
arrived by t nhe Melbourne from Australia. The weight
of those boxes and bags was 121 tons. They were in
number 30 boxes and 217 bags. A good deal of curi-
ooity was excited in the arcade of the General Post
Office, by the appearance of the empty boxes when piled
up and deprived of their contents. The bags and boxes
were delivered at the Post Office at five o'clock in the
morning
• 0. and simultaneously with them arrived the
American, East Indian, and West Indian mails. We
were informed by the officials that this was the heaviest
morning they have ever hail at the office ; and, consider-
ing the number of letters which must be sorted and
placed in their proper divisions, it is no wonder that the
Post Office officials should have been greatly fatigued.
In the interior of the office, however, everything was
conducted with order and regularity, and the immense
mass of correspondence was despatched in a systematic
and business-like manner.

THE MAILS TO THE NORTH.—A further acceleration
was made on the Ist inst., in the day mail to Edin-
burgh, by which the inhabitants of York, Durham,
Newcastle, Berwick, and all intervening towns
receive their letters about an hour-and-a-half earlier.i
By means, too, of branch lines, part of the benefit of
this acceleration will be extended to some important
places, including Sheffield, Leeds, and Bradford, which,
though nearer to other railways, will now be most ex-
peditiously reached by the Great Northern. This new
acceleration, in connection with that effected three
months ago, will expedite the arrival of the day mail at
Leeds by four-and-a-half hours ; at York, by more than
the?:
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