gint Court THE Queen gave a concert in the grand
saloon at Buckingham Palace on Monday, to a party of nearly four hundred. The foreign visitors at the Palace, the Duchess of Kent, the Princess Mary of Cambridge, the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Henry of the Netherlands, the Archbishops of Can- terbury, Dublin, York, and Armagh, were present. Mr. Costa presided at the concert, and Mademoiselle Duprez was one of the principal singers.
A drawingroom was held in St. James's Palace on Wednesday. The Royal party have been to the Great Exhibition of Industry nearly every day, in the morning ; and frequently to the theatres in the even- ing—to Her Majesty's Theatre, to the Royal Italian Opera, and to the Princess's Theatre. At a numerous evening party given by the Queen on Tuesday, after a dinner party, Lord John Russell and his lady were present.
The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Prussian Prince and Prin- cesses, honoured the Marquis of Westminster with a visit to luncheon, at his mansion in Upper Grosvenor Street, yesterday.
In the evening, they went to Devonshire House, and witnessed the performance of the new play, Not so Bad as we Seem, written by Sir Bul- wer Lytton for the benefit of the Guild of Literature and Art.
The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary visited the Queen at Buckingham Palace, and the Duchess of Kent at Clarence House, on Tuesday. The Duke and Duchess of Nemours visited the Queen, and the Prince and Princess of Prussia, at Buckingham Palace, on Monday. The Prince and Princess of Prussia, with the Duchess of Orleans, and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, went over Westminster Abbey on Tues- day. Prince Frederic William is an active sight-seer, he went to Dul- wich College on Tuesday, and on the same day came back and studied the arrangements of our General Post-office ; on Wednesday he travelled to Wales, to examine the Britannia Bridge.
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