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Tare Queen has resumed the habit of attending Divine service in pub- lic, which she had discontinued some time before her confinement until last week. On Sunday, her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Queen Dowager, and the Dutchess of Kent, were at the Chapel Royal.
The Queen has had dinner-parties daily at Buckingham Palace in honour of the King of the Belgians. The parties are on a small scale, and there is no talk of the grand entertainments which it was reported would have succeeded the christening.
The Royal West Pennard cheese was yesterday brought to Buck- ingham Palace for presentation to the Queen. Her Majesty saw the cheese privately, and was graciously pleased to express her approba- tion. His Royal Highness Prince Albert received the deputation, by whom it was brought, at one o'clock, and expressed himself much pleased and gratified with the present. We understand that the Lord Steward of her Majesty's Household has it in command to express to the parties by whom the cheese was sent her Majesty's gratification at the present.—Court Circular, Feb. 20.
The Globe favours its readers with the following early announcement-
" It is stated in circles likely to be acquainted with the fact, that her Majesty is again in an interesting situation,' at once exciting the hopes and sympathies of her loyal subjects."
The Duke of Cambridge and Prince George dined with Prince Esterhazy, the Austrian Ambassador, on Saturday. Prince George of Cambridge left town by the London and Birming- ham Railway yesterday morning, for Liverpool, on his way to Dublin, to join his regiment.
The accident to Prince Albert, and his rescue from the water by his guardian angel the Queen, have been magnified in some of the papers into serious events. This appeared in the Morning Herald of yester- day— " When Prince Albert broke through the ice on the lake in the gardens of Buckingham Palace, one day last week, his Royal Highness's situation was far more perilous than the public were led to imagine ; and had not her Ma- jesty and the Honourable Miss Murray been fortunately close to the spot at the time, there is very little doubt that the result would have proved fatal to the Prince. The water where the. ice broke was upwards of seven feet in depth, although close to the shore; and the sides of the bank afforded him no footing to enable him to extricate himself without assistance. The Prince was in the water for upwards of three minutes, and went twice under before he could grasp the hand of her Majesty. The Honourable Mr. Murray, the Master of the Househe;d, who was skating at a distant part of the gardens, hearing the screanWf a female—which were those of Miss Murray—[ Queens don't scream] hastened to the spot from whence they proceeded ; where he arrived just as the Prince had been dragged on dry ground by the Queen. It was supposed by the Prince that, during the time his Royal Highness was immersed, he must have swallowed upwards of apint of water." [No great swallow, after all, for a German.]
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