The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-02 00:00:00

THE COUR7'.

Her Majesty and the Prince Consort left peutz at ten
o'clock yesterday morning, and took leave of the Prince of
IT6lienzollern Sicgmaringen and Count Alexander Mens-

d'wff

At Verviers, her Majesty was met by the Duke and
Duchess of Brabant and the Count of Flanders, who ac-
companied the Queen and Prince to Antwerp, and went
with them on board the royal yacht. The royal party ar-
rived at Antwerp at half-past three o'clock, and were con-
veyed from the railway station in the carriages of the King
of the Belgians to the Quai, where his Majesty's barge was
_ _

likewise in waiting ; and her Majesty and the Prince Con-
sort, the Duke and Duchess of Brabant, the Count of
Flanders, and the ladies and gentlemen in attendance, im-
mediately embarked, and proceeded on board the royal
yacht Victoria and Albert.
At a little before five the Duke and Duchess of Brabant,
and the Count of Flanders took leave of her Majesty and
his Royal Highness, and the yacht immediately got under
weigh, and steamed down the Scheldt under salutes from
the forts.

The Victoria and Albert cast anchor off the village of
Fernoos, at about eight o'clock.
At three o'clock in the morning the anchor was again
weighed, and the yacht proceeded upon her course for Eng-
land. The wind had blown very strongly with occasional
storms of rain during the day, and her Majesty had in con-
sequence determined to land at Gravesend ; but the
weather moderated during the night, though there was a
stiff breeze, and at a very early hour in the morning her
Majesty's orders were given to steer for Dover.
The yacht having arrived at its destination at about ten
o'clock, and a special train having been kept in readiness
by the attention of the directors of the South Eastern Rail-
way, both at Gravesend and at Dover, her Majesty landed
at about twenty minutes past eleven o'clock, and proceeded
by railway to Portsmouth. The train was brought into the
dockyard, where her Majesty was received upon her ar
rival by Admiral Sir George Seymour, Rear-Admiral the
Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.8., and Major-General the
Hon. Sir James Scarlett, the Lieutenant Governor.
Her Majesty, with the Prince Consort, immediately em-
barked on board the Elfin, and proceeded to Osborne.
In attendance upon her Majesty were tady Macdonald
(Lady of the Bedchamber), the
_Hon. Caroline Cavendish
(Maid of Honour), Col. the Hon. A. N. Hood (Equerry in
Waiting), and Col. the Hon. Sir C. B. Phipps.

OSBORNE, SEPT. 1.

The royal dinner party yesterday included Prince Alfred
and Princess Alic,e, Lord C. Barrington, and Lieutenant
Cowell.

Major-Gen, the Hon. C. Grey and Lieut.-Col. Ponson-
by have succeeded ColOnel the Hon. A. Hood and Captain
Du Plat, as Equerries in Waiting -to her Majesty and the
Prince Consort.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lord Stanley ar-
rived in town yesterday, from Hughenden Manor, High
Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of the West India Islands.

THE QUEEN'S JOURNEY TO THE

NORTH.

The Queen will leave Osborne on Monday next for Leeds,
where she will open the Town-hall on the following day.
The Queen, accompanied by the Princo Consort, the
Prince of Wales, and the Princess Alice, will leave the Isle
of Wight on Monday morning, and take the railway in the
Clarence Victualling-yard, at Gosport, where a special
train, under charge of the directors and officers of the Lon-
don and South-Western Railway, will be in readiness for
the Royal party at 9.45 a.m. Pausing only to take water
at Basingstoke, the train will leave that place at 10.51 a.m.
and_arrive at the Falcon junction on the South-Western
Railway at 11.59 a.m. After changing engines here, the
Royal party will proceed over the Richmond branch of
this railway to the Kew junction, passing Wandsworth at
11.56 a.m., Putney at 11.59 a.m., Barnes at 12.1. p.m.
Chiswick at 12.4 p.m., and arriving at Kew at 12.10 p.m.
The directors and officers of the North and South-Western
Junction Railway will here take charge of the Royal train.
Crossing the Thames at this point, the Queen will pass the
following stations in succession :—Acton at 12.20 p.m.,
Willesden junction at 12.25 p.m., Kilburn, at 12.30 p.m.,
Camden goods station at 12.35 p.m., Camden-road at 12.38
p.m., and arrive at the King's-cross goods station at 12.45
p.m., • having thus completed exactly 100 miles of her
journey in three hours. After a delay of 10 minutes to ex-
change locomotives, and allow the directors and officers of
the Great Northern Railway to assume the responsibility of
conducting the train henceforward, her Majesty will pro-
ceed on her journey northwfird, passing Hornsey at 1.4 p.m.
Colney Hatch at 1.7 p.m., Barnet at 1.11 p.m., Potter's-bar
at 1.16 p.m., Hatfield at 1.22 p.m., Welwyn at 1.27 p.m. ,
Stevenage at 1.24 p.m., Hitchin at 1.37 p.m., Arsley at 1.44
p.m., and arriving at Biggleswade at 1.48 p.m. 41
miles having now been run over this railway the boiler
will be fed during a three minutes' detention of the train,
which, again in motion, will pass Sandy at 1.56 p.m.
St. Neots at 2.4 p.m., Offord at 2.9 p.m., Huntingdon at
Q... 1.2 n_m___ Iloljue at 2.28 and arrive at the cathedral city
Royal party will partake of luncheon at the station hotel,

where half an hour will be passed, 1761 miles of the day's
journey having been accomplished. The train will leave
Peterborough at 3.7 p.m., and, passing Tallington at 3.20
p.m., Essendine at 3.26 p.m:, Little Bytham at 3.30 p.m.,
Corby at 3.38 p.m., Great Ponton at 3.45 p.m., Grantham
at 3.50 p.m., Hougham at 3.59 p.m., Claypole at 4.4 p.m.,
will arrive at Newark at 4.11 p.m. The boiler having been
here replenished, the train will again go forward, passing
Carlton at 4.22 p.m., Tuxford at 4.30 p.m., Retford at 4.41
p.m., Sutton at 4.46 p.m., Ranskil at 4.49 p.m., Scrooby
at 4.52 p.m., Bawtry at 4.55 p.m., Rossington at 5 p.m.,
and arriving at the principal station of Doncaster at 5.7
p.m. Thenceforward to Leeds there will be no stoppage.
The train will pass Arksey at 5.14 p.m., Womersley at 5.26
p.m., the Knottingley junction at 5.35 p.m., Pontefract
at 5.36 p.m., Wakefield at 5.49 p.m., Ardsley at
5.59 p.m., the Wortley junction at 6.8 p.m., Holbeck at
6.10 p.m., and arrive in the Great Northern station at
Leeds at 6.15 p.m., thus accomplishing the distance of 2921
miles, exclusive of stoppages, in 71 hours. At Leeds, the
mayor (Mr. Fairbairn) will be in attendance to receive her
Majesty, and conduct the Royal party to his residence,
without the confines of the borough.

The Royal progress northward will be resumed on Tues-
day at 1 p.m., at which hour her Majesty will leave the
station of the North-Eastern Railway, under charge of
the directors and officers of that company. Passing
Headingley at 1.10 p.m., the train will proceed by Hosforth,
Arthington, Weeton, Parmal, Starbeck, Ripley, and Woo-
mald-green to Ripon, where the Royal party will arrive at
1.52 p.m. Thenceforward Her, Majesty will proceed direct
to Darlington, passing in succession the following stations :
—Melmerby, Baldersby, Topcliffe, Thirsk, Otterington,
Northallerton, Coulon, Dalton, and Croft. At Darlington,
where the Royal party are timed to arrive at 2.43 p.m.,
Her Majesty will be joined by the younger Princes and
Princesses of the Royal Family, who, in a special train
under conduct of Mr. Leith, superintendent of the Great
Northern Railway, will leave London on Tuesday morning.
Leaving Darlington at 2.48 p.m., the Queen will pass
Aycliffe at 2.57 p.m., Bradbury at 3.3 p.m., Ferry-hill at
3.7 p.m., Shincliffo at: 3.13 p.m., Sherburn at 3.16 p.m.,
Loamside at 3.21 p.m., Fence Houses at 3.24 p.m., Pencher
at 3.27 pan., Washington at 3.30 p.m., Pelaw at 3.37 p.m.,
dateshead at 3.43 p.m., and arrive at Newcastle-upon-
Tyne at 3.46 p.m. After six minutes' delay the Royal
train will again proceed northward, passing Morpeth at
4.15 p.m., and arriving at 4.40 p.m. at the Bilton junction,
where the boiler will be replenished. Again in motion, the
train will pass Falloden at 4.57 p.m., Belford at 5.8 p.m.
and arrive at Berwick-upon-Tweed at 5.31 p.m. The
directors of the North British Railway will here assume
charge of the train, and conduct Her Majesty forward to
Edinburgh. Passing Grant's House at 6.3 p.m., the
will stop for five minutes at Dunbar, leaving that place at
6.26 p.m., and proceeding thence, without further interrup-
tion, to St. Margaret's, where Her Majesty is timed to
arrive at six minutes past 7 o'clock, the total distance of
224 miles being performed, exclusive of stoppages, in little
more than 5i hours. The passage to Holyrood will be de-
prived of much of its usual (picturesque character, owing.
to the lateness of her Majesty's arrival in the Scottish capi-
tal, but this, it will at once be seen, is an unavoidable
necessity.

" The journey from Edinburgh to Balmoral will be com-
menced on Wednesday morning at 9 a.m.,'at which hour
the Queen will leave the St. Margaret's station, under con-
duct of the directors and officers of the Edinburgh and
Glasgow Railway. The train will arrive at 9.51 a.m. at the
Larbert Junction, where the directors and officers of the
Scottish Central Railway will be in attendance. Thence-
forward her Majesty will pass through Bannockburn, Stir-
ling, the Bridge of Allan, Dunblane, Auchterarder, and
Forteviot, to Perth, where the train is timed to arrive at
11.10 a.m. After a delay of five minutes only, to take in
water, the Queen will proceed, now under charge of the
directors and officers of the Scottish North-Eastern Rail-
way, via Coupar-Angus, the Meigle junction, Glammis,
and Forfar, to the Bridge of Dun, where the train will ar-
rive at 12.38 p.m. Thenceforward there will be no stop-
page until her Majesty reaches Aberdeen, at which point
of the journey the directors and officers of the Deeside
Railway will be in readiness to conduct the train to Ban-
chory, where the Royal party will arrive at 2.35 p.m.,
thus
performing a journey of 1761 miles, exclusive of stoppages,
in 5 hours 15 min.

The Queen will lunch at Banchory, and make the journoy
between this station and Balmoral by road in three easy
stages, arriving at her Royal residence in the Highlands at
six o'clock.

The railway journey throughout will be under the sole
direction of Mr. Seymour Clark, general manager of the
Great Northern Railway Company, whose carriages will
run through the whole distance of 694 miles.

LIVERPOOL, SEPT. I.—The screw steamer Vigo,_ belong-
ing to the Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Com-
pany, sailed to-day for New York, with a mail, cargo, and
315 passengers, of whom 105 are first cabin. On Sunday
next the royal mail steamship Persia sails hence for the
same destination.

SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAI