The following letter from the Queen has been received by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, and is published in supplement to the London Gazette Osborne, 26th The Queen is anxious to take the earlies opportunity of expressing publicly her heart felt thanks for the universal and most touching sympathy shown to her by all classes of her loyal sud faithful subjects on the present occasion, when it has pleased God to call from this world her dearly-beloved. daughter, the Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hoste, Overwhelmed with grief at the los dear child, who was a Uright example devotion, and moat soothing to the hhow entirely her grief The Queen's deeplyvw, thi 6 Grand Dake of Hesse, {s algo anxious to make known his sincere gratitude for the kind feelings expressed towards himself and his dear children in their terrible bereavement, and his gratification at the appreciation shown by the people of Eng-Iand of the noble and endearing qualities of her whom all now mourn.
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