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Tax Court life at Windsor has been little varied; but the Queen an& Prince, and the Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha, their visiter, have taken advantage of the fine weather for frequent out-door exercise. The Queen held a Privy Council on Saturday ; which was attended by Prince Albert, Lord Wharncliffe, the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Buccleuch, Sir James Graham, and the Earl of Haddington. A proclamation on the subject of the riots was ordered to issue.
Among the visiters at the Castle have been, the Duke of Wellington, Baron de Moncorvo, (the Portuguese Minister,) and the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer. The Duke of Wellington arrived on Monday and departed on Wednesday. The Hereditary Prince and Princess of Saxe Coburg Gotha left Windsor Castle on Monday, for Dover and the Continent. The Duke accompanied them to town by the Great Western Railway, and after- wards returned to the Castle ; first visiting the new Houses of Parlia- ment and the Reform Club, at the latter of which he subscribed for a copy of the view of the kitchen.
Wednesday was the birthday of the Dutcbess of Kent ; when her Royal Highness completed her fifty-sixth year. The Prince of Lein- ingen arrived at Frogmore on a visit to the Dutchess, on Monday. The Queen Dowager left Gopsall Hall, the seat of Earl Howe, on Thursday, for Bushy Park ; reaching London by the Birmingham Rail- way.
The Duke of Cambridge visited Sir George Scovell at Sandhurst, on Monday ; proceeding thence to Bagshot Heath, on a visit to the Dutchess of Gloucester ; and returning to town next day. On Tuesday evening, the Duke and Dutchess and Princess Augusta of Cambridge went to the Surrey Zoological Gardens.
The Queen is about to send to Berlin a magnificent piece of plate, as a present to the King of Prussia- " It consists," says the Morning P. a, "of a splendid group of figures in frosted silver ; the elevation upwards of three feet. The whole represents an equestrian figure of St. George attacking the Dragon, &c., all of proportionate height, on a base, alho of silver, richly sculptured, and bearing shields; the first representing the Imperial arms of Prussia, the ',eat those of the Queen tied Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales ; the fourth is the inscription, 'To com- memorate the occasion of the visit of his Majesty to this country, the 234 of January 1842."
The Queen has given a richly-wrought silver-gilt cup, spoon, knife, and fork, to the infant daughter of Madame Van de Weyer, for whom her Majesty stood sponsor. The Queen Dowager has transmitted 10/. towards liquidating the debt for the erection of schools in connexion with Bishop Ryder's Chttrch.
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