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THE Court has been very quiet during the week. There was a select dinner-party on Monday, and another on Wednesday. On Saturday and Tuesday the Queen and Prince Albert were present at the Italian Opera, Haymarket; and last night they attended the performance of Fidelio at the German Opera, Drury Lane. The Queen has taken less out-door exercise than usual.
There has been a frequent interchange of visits among the members of the Royal Family : on Monday, Prince Albert visited the Dutchess of Kent, and the Queen Dowager and the Dutchesa of Kent visited the Queen ; on Tuesday, the Dutchess of Kent visited the Dutchess of Gloucester; Wednesday her Royal Highness visited the Queen and the Duke f Sussex, and the Datchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cambridge visited the Queen Dowager ; on Thursday, the Dutchess of Gloucester visited the Queen Dowager, and the Dutchess of Kent visited the Dutchess of Gloucester ; yesterday, the Dutchess of Kent visited the Queen and Prince Albert, and the Dutchess of Gloucester visited the Queen Dowager. The Dutchess of Kent was present at the Italian Opera on Tuesday, and at the English Opera on Thursday. The Queen Dowager went to the Zoological Gardens on Saturday. The Duke of Cambridge has been very busy this week : on Tuesday he dined with Major Stephens in Great Cumberland Street, and after- wards went to Lady William Powlett's in Curzon Street ; on Wed- nesday, he dined with Colonel Fremantle in Taney Street, and after- wards weut to Viscount Beresford's in Cavendish Square, and then to Prince Esterhazy at Chandos House ; yesterday, he entertained a select party at his own residence, and afterwards went to the German Opera.
Jones, the boy who was committed to prison some time back for a re- peated intrusion into Buckingham Palace, has a third time defied the vigilance of the attendants and made his way into the Royal residence. He was liberated from Tothill Street prison, the term of his punishment having expired, on the 2d instant. Before he was released, it appears that Mr. Hall, the Bow Street Magistrate, conveyed an offer to him that he should be sent to sea. The offer was repeated to his parents, and they begged for time to prepare him for setting forth. Meanwhile, he still manifested an irrepressible desire to get into the Palace, in order to hear what the Queen and Prince Albert said, that he might write a book about it. Up to Monday last, his conduct is said to have been " unobjectionable"; for we are told by the decorous penny-a- liner, "that on Sunday last be attended a Methodist chapel twice or three times, and had frequently expressed his determination to join a teetotal society." On Monday evening, however, he was missing ftom home ; and about an hour after midnight, he was discovered peeping through a glass door of the grand hall of Buckingham Palace, in a pas- sage leading to the picture-gallery, by a policeman who has been set to watch the staircase and approaches ever since Jones's second entrance. He had already visited the larder ; and he was regaling himself with cold meat and potatoes. Jones was at once conveyed to the station- house in Gardener's Lane, and thence, at daytime, he was taken to the Home Office ; where he was examined by Mr. Hall, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment in the Tothill Street House of Correction, as a rogue and vagabond. When asked how he effected an entrance, he always answered, " Oh, by the door or window "; and no induce- ment could be found to make him more explicit. Jones is said to be seventeen years of age, very small in size, and dull and sullen in aspect. His father pronounces him honest ; but it is now said that his " curiosity " has always been remarkable. He has been employed as errand-boy to a druggist. His father is very poor, and his family are at present in great distress ; his brothers and sisters suffering from smallpox.
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