18 JUNE 1859, Page 5

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The Queen held a Drawing-room on Saturday at St. James's Palace. It was very well attended. On Sunday and Tuesday Lord Palmerston had audiences of the Queen, and on Monday morning Lord Brougham visited Her Majesty, and Lord Clarendon had an audience. The Court went to Windsor Castle on Tuesday ; and on Thursday, ac- companied by the Prince Consort, the Princesses, and a great company, Her Majesty attended Ascot Races. In the evening the Queen gave a dinner to a large party in St George's Hall.

The list of the guests of Her Majesty includes the names of the Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Alice, the Princess Mary of Cambridge and the Duke of Cambridge, the Maharajah Dhuloep Singh, the Prince and Princess de Chimay, Countess de Caraman Chimay, the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, the Duko of Beaufort, the Duke and Duchess of Bucelcuch, the Duchess of Sutherland, the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, the Marquis of Exeter, the Marquis of Aborcorn. Earl de La Warr, the Earl and Countess of Elgin, Lady Geraldine Somerset, the Earl and Countess of Donoughmore, the Earl and Countess of Lichfield, the Earl and Countess of Mount Charles, Lord James Murray, Lord and

Lady Stormont, Major-General Lord W. Paulet, Sir Edmund and Lady Filmer, Major-General Dixon, Mr. and Miss Ricardo, Mr. J. B. Stanhope, Lord and Lady Gough, Lord and Lady Stratford de Redeliffe, Lord and Lady De Ros, Colonel Macdonell, C.B., Rifle Brigade, and Major Elphin- stone, R.E.