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Are event probably unparalleled in the history of the British Court comes under notice this week—the Queen received some of her wounded Guards at Buckingham Palace. On Tuesday, thirty-two Grenadier Guards, wounded at Alma, Inkerman, and in the siege operations, were drawn up in the grand hall of the Palace, under the orders of Colonel Wood ; and there, accompanied by Prince Albert, the Colonel of the regiment, and the young Princes and Princesses, the Queen saw and showed a warm interest in the gallant fellows. Again on Thursday, her Majesty received twenty-six wounded men of the Coldstreams, under Colonel Gordon Drummond, and showed the like interest in their condition. The Queen and Prince Albert drove out in a sledge, on Monday, Wednes- day, and Friday ; and on Wednesday the Princess ltoytil and Prince Arthur took the same exercise. Prince Albert skated in the garden of Bucking- ham Palace on Thursday.
On Monday, Prince Albert visited some wounded men of the Grena- dier Guards at the Wellington Barracks. He afterwards presided at a meeting of the Patriotic Fund Commission.
Twice this week, the Queen, Prince Albert, and some of the children, have visited the theatres; on Tuesday the Olympic, on Thursday the Haymarket
The guests of the Queen have included Prince Nicholas of Nassau, the Portuguese Minister, the United States Minister and Miss Lane, Earl Grey, Lord and Lady Canning, Lord and Lady Wodehouse, Lord Seaton, Lord and Lady Palmerston, Lord Panmure' Mr. Speaker, the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Lord Harding; Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone, Major Arthur Hardinge, Major-General Simpson, Earl Gran- ville, and the. Earl of Aberdeen.
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