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THERE has been no vicissitude to diversify the accounts from Bucking- ham Palace : they have presented one unvarying story of favourable progress, till the issue of the last bulletin on Thursday, which an- nounced that " The Queen is convalescent : the infant Prince is as well as possible." And no more bulletins will be issued. Thursday, too, was the last day of caudle, which has been tasted by courtiers in- numerable ; while all Europe furnishes the names of the nobility and gentry who call daily to make "dutiful inquiries."
It is said that the Queen will remove to Windsor as early as her phy- sicians think advisable : and that the infant Prince will be baptized in St. George's Hall, with a splendour of ceremonial unknown since the days of George the Fourth.
The reports of the Queen Dowager's condition are more favourable. The last bulletin ran thus-
" The Queen Dowager has been able to take more nourishment during the last twenty-four hours, and her Majesty is somewhat stronger this mornin.g.
"DAVID DAVIES, M.D. "Sudbury Hall, 1Sth November."
The Dutchess Ida of Saxe Weimar arrived from the Continent on 'Wednesday evening ; and was met in London by her son, Prince Ed- ward, who came from Sudbury Hall on the same evening. Her Serene Highness visited the Dutchess of Kent, at Clarence House, and passed the night at Marlborough House. On Thursday morning, accompanied by Prince Eduard and the Duke of Saxe Meiningen, the Dutchess Ida went to Sudbury Hall, by the Birmingham Railway.
The Queen Dowager has sent a donation of 100/, to the Society for the civilization of Africa; and Earl Howe one of 30/.
The Dutchess of Kent visited the Dutchess of Gloucester on Monday and Wednesday. The Duke of Saxe Meiningen visited the Dutchess of Kent on Wednesday.
The Duke of Cambridge returned to town, from Petworth, the seat of Colonel Wyndham, on Tuesday. He visited the Dutchess of Glou- cester on the same day. The Dutchess of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness on Wednesday and Thursday.
Public meetings to vote addresses of congratulation on the birth of the Duke of Cornwall have been held throughout the country ; but in general they have offered no feature of interest. The Reverend Dr. Hawtrey, at a meeting in Eton, suggested that "Instead of throwing away money upon lamps and candles, and other similar modes of testi- fying the national joy, it would be far better that they should subscribe money to benefit those who really stood in need during the approach- ing winter." And he added, " It would be far better to give the poor something in the shape of warm clothing and bedding, than filling them for the moment to repletion." There appears a disposition in some places to act upon this hint.
On Saturday night between eleven and twelve o'clock, a man went to the Equerries-entrance at Buckingham Palace, with a box under his arm' rang the bell violently, and asked to see the Queen. He said that the box contained diamonds for the Queen ; that the possession of it would insure her the kingdom, with other mad sayings. It was clear that he was insane ; and he was taken to the Stationhouse in Gardiner's Lane, where he became very violent. On Monday afternoon, Mr. Hall, the Bow Street Magistrate bad him subjected to an examination by some medical gentlemen ; and he was temporarily imprisoned in Tothill Street Prison, with a view to his ultimate removal to Bedlam or Hanwell. He is said to have been in the service of the Honourable Mrs. Hood.
He was sent to Bedlam on Tuesday.
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