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regiments struck up ‘‘ God save the Queen,”’ and in a few 
moments King Louis Philippe appeared at the balcony, 
leading our Queen, whom he presented to the people, 
The enthusiasm with which her Majesty was received is 
said to have been extremely fine; even the troops joined in 
the repeated cheers which burst from the crowd assembled, 
and the voice of the King of the French himself was heard 
louder than them all, as he waved his hat and led each 
round of cheering. ‘The delight visible in the King’s 
countenance was unbounded, and evidently uncontrolable. 
He became young again, and trod, and spoke, and acted, 
as though he was the most delighted of the party. 
At eight o’clock the King led Queen Victoria and 
the Queen of the Belgians into the banquetting-hall, 
Prince Albert following with the Queen of the French, 
Nothing could surpass the magnificence displayed at this 
truly royal feast. The decorations of the hall, the costly 
vessels, plateaux, chandeliers, &c., of gold, were disposed 
in ‘the utmost taste. Queen Victoria sat on the right 
hand of the King, and, flushed with excitement, and undis- 
guisedly happy, chatted and laughed alternately with his 
Majesty and the Prince de Joinville, who sat on her right. 
Prince Albert was seated between the Queen of the French. 
and the Princess de Joinville. Her Majesty was attired 
in a dress of crimson silk, with a profusion of diamonds, 
and wore the insignia of the garter. In the evening the 
Ville d’Eu was illuminated, and the spire of the ancient 
collegiate church, adjoining the chAteau, was covered with 
lights to its summit. On Sunday, Her Majesty and 
Prince Albert and suite assisted at the Church service, 
which was read in a chapel prepared for that purpose in 
the chAteau, by one of her attendants, no chaplain having 
been appointed to the yacht or to attend the Queen in her 
excursion. The royal party walked through the grounds 
of the Palace, but did not make any public appearance or 
take any other recreation, keeping the Sabbath strictly. 
On Monday, the Royal Family of France, the Royal 
visitors, and their respective suites, with the Ministers, 
guests, and officers, residing at the court, left the chateau 
to proceed to the forest, about five miles from the town, 
extending upwards of twenty miles in length, and having 
amain breadth of two miles. The ‘Mont d’Orleans,” 
where the féte was held, is a hill embosomed in the forest. 
The advance of the royal party consisted of horsemen, the 
foremost being Prince Albert, having on either side the Prince 
de Joinville and the Duc d’Aumale, the Duc de Mont- 
pensier, the Prince of Saxe Coburg, and the other Princes, 
allin plain clothes, Prince Albert alone being distinguished 
by the ribbon of the Garter. Six chars-d-banc contained 
the rest of the company. In the first was seated his 
Majesty the King of the French, having our Queen at his 
right. The Queen of the French and the Queen of the 
Belgians occupied the second seat, and the third seat was 
filled by the Princess de Joinville and the Duchess 
Orleans, the latter in deep mourning. In the first seat 
of the second char-u-banc M. Guizot sat, between the 
Earls of Aberdeen and Liverpool. Lord Cowley, and the 
Other lords and official personages, occupied the other 
vehicles. The young Count de Paris and the Duc de 
Chartres were conveyed to the Mont d’Orleans by attend- 
ants, and by a different direction. Nothing could exceed 
the enthusiasm of the people as the royal party passed ; 
they hailed the appearance of our Queen and Prince with 
all the joyousness of the French character, and their own 
Sovereign seemed enchanted with the reception given 
everywhere to his guests. His Majesty, in fact, is said 
to have become twenty years younger since the arrival of 
Sur Queen. His own subjects hardly recognised in the 
light, exhilirated, and enthusiastic cicerone of the fair 
Sovereign of England, the serious, anxious Monarch of 
the French nation. As the cortége proceeded slowly up 
the hill, an English party approached, and one of them 
having shouted ‘God save the Queen,” his Majesty 
Waved his hat, and turning round, cried also aloud, with 
all the fervour of deep sincerity, and in English, “ 4h/ 
God bless her.” Arrived at the top of the hill, which 
they did about four o’clock, the royal party entered the 
tent, and partook of a déjeuner. he King then led her 
ajesty round the green platform, thus exhibiting him- 
Self and his royal visitor freely and without restriction to 
the crowd which circled the enclosure. The two other 
Queens and all the Princes followed ; the band, during 
the promenade, playing ‘‘ God save the Queen,’’ and the 
Spectators cheering to the echo. The royal party then 
laughing, ‘‘ Ah! there is nothing of ‘ Majesty’ necessary 
here.’ * But you will not have room beside the Queen,” 
replied the Prince. ‘‘ True,’’ said the King, ‘‘ I am a 
little stout, but I will sit sideways,’”? and he insisted on 
placing Prince Albert betwixt himself and her Majesty ; 
and, thus sitting three abreast in the first seat of the char- 
a-bane, they proceeded to Tréport. They were cheered 
vehemently wherever they went. At Tréport it had been 
designed to inspect the vessels in the port and road, but 
the tide being low, and the sea running rather high, the 
excursion was postponed. The Royal party drove to the 
jetty of Tréport, and returned to the palace to dinner. 
In the evening there was a concert of vocal and instru- 
mental music. On Wednesday, the royal diversion con- 
sisted of a drive through the forest of Eu, and a cold 
collation at St. Catherine, distant about twelve miles. 
Passing along the same road as that which they took on 
Monday to the féte champéire, until they got embedded 
in the forest, they then turned into what is called the 
Route Madeline, and halted at those points which afforded 
the best points of view. During the drive, than which 
few could be chosen more diversified, her Majesty seemed 
chiefly struck with the aspect of the town of Eu, crowned 
by ils church, palace, college, and other edifices, which 
are seen to great advantage from the hills leading to the 
forest. The Queen turned several times to gaze at the 
several objects that most forcibly struck her, and 
expressed her pleasure at what she saw to the Queen of 
the French, who sat beside her. In this excursion the 
Prince de Joinville, the Duc d’Aumale, the Duc de Mont- 
pensier, the Prince Augustus of Saxe Coburg and suite, 
led the van on horseback, and Prince Albert and the 
King of the French occupied the first seat of the first 
char-a-bane—the three Queens of Great Britain, France, 
and Belgium, being seated in the second banc. 
the first seat of the second char, M. Guizot sat, 
as usual, with Lord Aberdeen on his right, and Lord 
Liverpool on his left. The remaining carriages— 
six in all—contained the other guests, strangers, and 
officers staying at the chateau. In the evening there was 
a vaudeville, M. Ancelot, the directeur, having arrived to 
superintend its performance. On Thursday morning, 
about 8 o'clock, her Majesty and Prince Albert left the 
chateau, accompanied by all the members of the Royal 
family, and proceeded to Tréport, where they were 
received with the greatest enthusiasm. The King of the 
French, the Dukes d’Aumale and Montpensier, with M. 
Guizot, and others, accompanied the Queen on board the 
yacht; and, on taking leave of her Majesty, were saluted 
with a Royal salute from all the English ships. The 
yacht then got under weigh, attended by the St. Vincent 
and four steamers of war, and escorted by the Piuton, 
Napoleon, and Archiméde, French steamers. The Prince 
de Joinville accompanied her Majesty in the yacht. The 
Queen’s steamer soon ran all the others out of sight ; and 
arrived at Brighton about half-past 3, exactly 6 hours and 
10 minutes after starting (75 miles); she brought-to a 
quarter of a mile off the pier, the water being too low to 
permit her coming alongside. Her Majesty’s barge was 
lowered, and soon reached the pier ; but the time of land- 
ing being much later than was expected, the alterations 
made at the pier to facilitate the landing of her Majesty 
left the barge much below the lowest point to which the 
platform could be carried. The Queen became rather 
nervous at the delay and alterations necessary, and the 
cheering added to the excitement. Her Majesty waved 
her hand, and the signal being at once understood, the 
cheering instantly ceased, and the boats which were 
crowding round the royal barge kept off. In a short 
time the arr ts were 1 and the whole 
party landed in safety. On reaching the entrance of the 
pier her Majesty was loudly cheered by the assembled 
thousands on the cliffs and beach. Her Majesty acknow- 
ledged the hearty greeting of her subjects by repeatedly 
bowing. The Prince de Joinville was also loudly cheered. 
Her Majesty and Prince Albert appeared to have borne 
the voyage without the slightest inconvenience. At the 
end of the pier esplanade her Majesty and the two Princes 
got into a close carriage, surrounded by a guard of honour, 
and drove off to the Pavilion. It is said that her Majesty 
will remain at Brighton until Monday next, when 
she will go to Ostend on a visit to the King and Queen of 
the Belgians, accompanied by the Prince de Joinville, 
Among the other incidents of her Majesty’s visit to France, 
iti ioned that M. Paul de la Roche, and other 
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€ntered the reception tent, where a few presentations were 
Made, Her Majesty, during the sé/e. was remarked to 
Caress the two young Princes, the Comte de Paris, and 
the Prince de Wirtemberg, the son of the late Princess 
arie, most affectionately. ‘The Royal party returned to 
the chatean at five o’clock, being cheered again on their 
Toute with increased enthusiasm. In the course of the 
evening a concert was given by the professional persons 
Who had been summoned from Paris for the occasion. At 
N€ close of the performance the King requested the 
Musical party to join the general company. On Tuesday 
Morning Prince Albert, attended by the French Princes, 
Teviewed the Ist Regiment of Carabincers, in a plain dis- 
ant about four miles from Hu, in the direction of Dieppe, 
and afterwards inspected the infantry barracks. In the 
afternoon the Royal party visited the ancient collegiate 
church of Notre Dame, which adjoins the chateau, and 
Which is dedicated to St. Lawrence of Dublin, its founder. 
aving inspected the several chapels, the architecture of 
ie interior, and the stained glass windows, they descended 
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to the crypt and examined the monuments of the Counts 
the They then proceeded to Treport. The King of 
the French having handed Queen Victoria into the char- 
i ‘ane, moved to Prince Albert to follow. His Royal 
Kjenmess said he could not precede his Majesty, the 
ing, with the utmost grace and humour, exclaimed, 
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artists were sent for by the King to make sketches of the 
different scenes for the Royal Gallery at Versailles. The 
Royal landing at Tréport was confided to M. Jugelat, the 
landscape and marine painter, who had at the King’s 
command come down from Paris expressly to paint it. 
This picture is said to be already finished, and is described 
as a beautiful work of art. The point of view is taken 
from sea, looking into Tréport, as the Royal barge of the 
King approaches her Majesty’s yacht. The barge having 
come alongside the yacht on the seaward side, made this 
necessary, but that very necessity has contributed to 
render the picture more effective than it could have been, 
had the point of view being taken from any other quarter, 
The picture is about 18ins. long, and a foot high. It has 
been submitted to the King and French Princes, who have 
all expressed their approval of it. Among the numberless 
questions to which her Majesty’s visit has given rise, not 
a few have been mooted respecting the supposed incapa- 
city of the Queen to leave her British dominions without 
the sanction of an express act of Parliament. Some have 
maintained that the Prince of Wales, and not Her Majesty, 
ig the person affected by this restriction. It appears, 
however, that the third clause in the Act of Settlement, 
which enacted ‘‘that no person who shall hereafter come 
to the possession of this Crown shall go out of the domi- 
nions of England, Scotland, or Ireland, without consent 
of Parliament,’? was repealed very soon afterwards, in the 
first year of George 1. (1st George I. c. 31), “ whose 
frequent journeys to Hanover,’’ says Mr. Hallam, ‘ were 
an abuse of the graciousness with which the Parliament 
consented to annul the restriction.’’ The last instance 
upon record of a British Monarch leaving England for the 
Continent, was in 1821, when George IV. visited Hanover, 
Upon that occasion a commission was issued under the 
Great Seal, appointing certain official personages “ His 
Majesty’s Guardians and Justices of the United Kingdom 
of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Lieutenants in the 
same during his Majesty’s absence from the said United 
Kingdom, or till further signification of his Majesty’s 
pleasure ;’’ any four or more of whom were empowered 
to act for the Sovereign during his absence. 
The Harvest.—The favourable and steady change in 
the weather for the last fortnight has had a beneficial 
effect upon the crops throughout the United Kingdom, 
and the harvest has nearly all been housed. The reports 
received on Wednesday, from the agricultural districts, at 
Mark-lane, were most cheering, and, on the whole, the 
harvest has been far beyond the expectations of the 
agriculturists and factors. Seldom has such weather been 
known at this season, the temperature during the last 
week varying from 70° to 75°, and occasionally as high as 
87° in the sun; the average state of the barometer has 
been 75 to 78°, unattended with rain or storm. In 
Middlesex, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Wilts, Berks, Bucks, 
Herts, Bedfordshire, Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, 
Leicestershire, the Home and the Midland counties, 
the fields are open to the sportsmen. In Yorkshire, 
Durham, Cumberland, Northumberland, and the whole 
of Scotland, the harvest will be over by the end of this 
week or next. In Hampshire, Gloucestershire, and 
Wales, the crops have been most abundant, and all safely 
stacked. In Scotland the Barley and Oats are extremely 
fine and full, and the average is far above what was anti- 
cipated, as in the Highlands they expected rather a failure. 
The accounts from every province of Ireland are most 
satisfactory, and the greater part of the crops have been 
housed. The Turnip and Potato crops, both in Eng- 
land and Scotland, which were rather threatening in conse- 
quence of the excessive rains, promise to render a good 
return, as the sudden change in the weather has had a 
beneficial effect on the fields. From the Hop districts 
of Kent, Worcestershire, &c., the Bines are reported 
to be looking extremely fine, and will return more 
than an average. The duty is now estimated at 
150,0007. One packet of new Hops sold as high as 
87. The speculators and millers in Mark-lane are cau- 
tious in not making large purchases. The importations 
of foreign wheat, in consequence of the duty having fallen 
to 14s., have been rather larger than last weck, being 
60,432 quarters, barley 7,826, and oats 2,670. English 
wheat 5,680 quarters, 6,720 sacks of flour; Irish oats 
14,300. ‘The prices generally having declined 2s. to 3s. 
per quarter on wheat, Kent and Essex is at 36s. to 56s. ; 
Norfolk, 40s. to 54s. ; Suffolk, 36s. to 54s.; flour, 40s. 
to 45s. 3 ditto fine, 46s. to 52s. Notwithstanding the fall 
in the market, the bakers throughout the metropolis still 
charge’ $d. for the first quality and 73d. for the second 
bread, per4lbs. The price of bread in Paris is for first 
quality, 6d. ; second ditto, 5d. per 4 1b. 8 oz. 
Bristol.—Information has been received of the total 
loss of the Queen steamer, belonging to the Bristol Steam 
Navigation Company, on Saturday night. She had only 
been built about four years, of 500 tons burden, and 180 
horse-power, and is one of several vessels which the Com- 
pany have lost within the last three or four years. It 
appears that in proceeding down the Channel they had 
the weather fair and clear, until they were abreast of St. 
Ann’s, when there came on suddenly a thick bank of fog ; 
they never saw anything after until they struck on the 
north-east side of Skokham Island, at 11 p.m. The Cap- 
tain reversed the engines, and backed off, when they 
directed their course for Milford, thinking to save the 
ship. About the distance of one mile from the island 
they saw a sloop, and called her alongside to assist. At 
this time there were ten feet water in the hold, and the 
vessel was fast settling forward, when the Captain put the 
crew and passengers on board the sloop. In about a 
quarter of an hour the steamer sunk in 16 fathoms. All 
the crew and passengers were saved excepting one, but 
they lost their clothes and luggage, and nothing was saved 
of the ship’s property but the plate, two compasses, and 
the boats. The ladies were nearly all in their night 
clothes, and arrived in that state at Milford on Sunday 
evening; the fog being so dense that the sloop could not 
find the harbour. It wes most fortunate that this little 
vessel hove in sight before the steamer sunk, as all hands 
would otherwise have been lost. ‘There were about 20 
cabin passengers and rather less than that number on 
deck. “It is remarkable that in all the wrecks of steamers, 
attended with loss of life, tbe vessels have been backed 
off and sunk in deep water whereas in the case of the 
Columbia, recently Jost on the coast of America, she was 
allowed to remain on the rocks until all hands and a 
great portion of her cargo had been saved, 
Carlisle-—Mr. Stephenson, the Civil Engineer, was 
lately engaged by the corporation of Carlisle to give an 
opinion on the long-disputed question as to the best 
means of introducing water into that city. He estimates 
the expense of the works at the large sum of 30,000/. 
Carmarthen.—A reward of 5002. has been offered for 
the discovery of the persons who, on the night of the 
23rd ult., attacked the house of Mr. Edwards, of Gally- 
wernen, in the parish of Lianon, in this county, as 
noticed in this paper at the time——The Welchman news- 
paper publishes a letter from Rebecca, in which she 
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