11 SEPTEMBER 1841, Page 4

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THE Court history has been filled during the week with the dry record of Ministerial movements and arrangements: its proper subject, the daily life of the Royal circle, has been neglected.

Yesterday, the Queen and Prince Albert left Claremont, where they haire been staying for some time, and repaired to Windsor. Their 'sojourn at Claremont seems to have been marked by unusual quiet and the absence of the customary gayeties. The Queen and Prince Albert rode out on Saturday afternoon ; but there is no record of any other • exercise taken by the Queen until yesterday, when her Majesty walked and rode out with Prince Albert. Prince Albert has been shooting in Claremont Park daily since Tuesday. The Queen gave audiences on Friday, to Lord Foley, who resigned his gold stick of office as Captain of the Gentlemen at Arms ; to Lord Forester, who received his appointment as Lord Foley's successor ; to the Earl of Suerrey, who resigned the gold stick of the Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard ; to the Marquis of Lothian, who received the appointment.

The Dutchess and Princess Sophia of Cambridge came to town from Kew on Thursday, and visited the Gallery of the New Society of Painters in Water-Colours; returning to Kew in the evening. Yester- day, the Duke of Cambridge visited the Society's Gallery.

The Morning Chronicle copies, without corroboration and also with- out contradiction, a letter in the Morning Herald which says that the Princess Royal has been ill. In the beginning of the week the infant was so much indisposed that Dr. James Clarke called in the additional aid of Dr. Locock. The Court Circular makes no mention of the Princess's illness.

The London correspondent of the Dublin Monitor gives a very minute account of the Royal grief at plaing with the Whig Household- " There was a general gloom throughout Claremont on Thursday, (the 2d,) RS it was known that it was to be the last day on which the late Household would all meet together at the Royal table. During dinner there was a general gloom. Scarcely a word was spoken. The Queen retired much earlier than usual; and in the presence of the Ladies of the Household only gave way to those feelings of sadness and sorrow which she had up to that period succeeded in suppressing. It is needless to say that tears were shed in abundance by every person present, and the scene had more the deep and solemn character of an eternal farewell than that of a separation for a period. As if aware of some such circumstance, the gentlemen did not enter the drawing-room for some time later than ordinary, when her Majesty had so far recovered herself Its to receive them with her wonted composure; but her feelings again got the better of her usual firmness, when, on retiring for the night, she bade each of 'the members of the Household farewell.

"One word of comment after thus briefly alluding to—for it would be im- possible to describe—such a scene, would be the height of impertinence."

The Queen has subscribed 251. towards the Wilkie Monument ; and the Queen Dowager a like sum.

Her Majesty the Queen of England has sent the conductor of the Gazette Musicale a gold medal, with her portrait, in reward for the constant efforts made by him for the progress of music, as evinced by the publication of that journal, and of the collection of the classical chefs-d'oeuvre of ancient and modern masters. Mr. Schlesiner lately received, for the same reason, a similar distinction from the Empress of Russia.—Gazette Musicale.