The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-25 00:00:00

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The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday in the
Royal Gardens of Buckingham Palace.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horseback
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Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz,
visited the Queen yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess
Royal, and the Princess Alice, accompanied by the Dowager
Lady Lyttelton, were taken an airing yesterday in a carriage
and four. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred was taken an
airing in the Royal Gardens.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Countess
of Mount Edgecumbe, Hon. Miss Kerr, the Marquis of Or-
monde, Colonel Buckley, and Colonel Wylde, honoured the
French play with their presence yesterday evening.
Yesterday was the birth-day of his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge. In the forenoon her Royal highness
the Duchess of Gloucester paid a congratulatory visit to the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. His Royal Highness
Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Wylde, also arrived at
Cambridge House, to pay a visit of congratulation to the
Royal Duke.
During the day several of the Foreign Ministers and many
of the nobility and gentry called and left their names at
Cambridge House.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester and his
Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, dined with
the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge yesterday.
In the evening his Royal Highness's tradesmen illuminated
their houses.
A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock yesterday after-
noon, at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were—
Sir 'lobed Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chaneel-
lor, Lord Wharnclitie the Duke of Buceleuch, Earl of Aber-
deen, Lord Stanley, gir James Graham, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Earl of Haddington, Earl of Ripon, Lord Gran-
ville Somerset, the Earl of Lincoln, and the Right Hon. Sid-
ney Herbert.
The Council sat two hours.
The Chairman of the East India Company and the Deputy
Chairman had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yes-
terday, at the office of the Board of Trade.
A Deputation of Plate-Glass Manufacturers had an inter-
view yesterday with Sir Robert Peel, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and the Chairman of the Excise, at the official
residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-
street.
A Deputation from the Hull and Gainsborough Railway
Company, consisting of Mr, John Chapman, Deputy Chair-
man, and Mr. Morley, with Mr. Leech and Mr. Ord, trans-
acted business at the Board of Trade yesterday. Mr. Chap-
man presented a petition from the City of Lincoln, signed by
the Mayor, Aldermen, and inhabitants, in favour of the Hull
and Gainsborough Railway.
The Rev. Dr. Collier had an interview with Lord Stanley,
yesterday, at the Colonial- office.
The Belgian Minister and the Russian Minister trans-
acted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Lord Colchester had an interview yesterday with the
Earl of Dalhousie, at the Board of Trade.
Dispatches from the GOVerflOr of Sierra Leone, and also
from the Governor of Gibraltar, were received yesterday, at
the Colonial-office.
Dispatches were sent off Yesterday evening from the
Colonial-office for the Governor of Hong-Kong.

Mae MAJESTY AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT.--We
are not without confident expectation that the Queen will
still continue to pay her annual visits to Brighton, and we
form this opinion upon authority that we are assured cannot
be questioned. Her Majesty, it is known, made a purchase
of Osborne House, in the Isle of Wight, with its park and a
portion only of the demesne, last year, of Lady Isabella
Blackford, conditionally that she was to have the benefit of
one year's experience, and then have the option of declining
it upon plying one thousand pounds. :This period will ter-
minate early in May. In the meantime, her Majesty has
already signified to Lady Blackford, through her solicitor,
that it is not her intention to become the purchaser ; the
reason (as it is conjectured only) being that it is not altoge-
ther so full of accommodation as her very large establishment
would require. This statement will receive positive confir-
mation from the fact that her Ladyship has already in-
structed Mr. George Robins to sell Osborne House, with the
ornamental park and extensive gi ounds, together with the
large domain, which is distributed into pleasure farms around
it, and that the auction will speedily be announced to take
place in the month of June. The purchase money to have
been paid by her Majesty for the mansion and park and a
farm or two connected with this delightful property was
twenty-eight thousand pounds.—,Brighton Herald, FeV, 24.