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THE Queen and Prince Albert have taken a trip to Claremont this week. They left Buckingham Palace on Saturday afternoon. The Princess Royal rode in the same carriage, the Prince of Wales and the suite followed in two others ; and the escort was a party of Hussars. The Royal couple were visited, in their retreat, on Monday, by the newly- arrived Prince Adalbert of Prussia, and on Wednesday by the Dutchess of Kent. On Thursday they returned to town in the same order.
The Princess Sophia Matilda visited the Queen yesterday. Prince Albert presided yesterday at a meeting of the Commissioners for promoting the Fine Arts.
The Dutchess of Kent went to Covent Garden Theatre on Saturday, to the Italian Opera on Tuesday, and to the Zoological Gardens on Thursday. The Duke of Cambridge honoured the French Ambassador and the Countess St. Aulaire with his company on Thursday evening ; yester- day he went to the exhibition of the Society of British Artists. Visits have passed between the Queen Dowager, the Dutchess of Cambridge, the Dutchess of Gloucester, the Princess Sophia Matilda, and the Princess Sophia.
Prince Adalbert of Prussia, attended by the Count de D'Oriola and Count de Bismarck, arrived at Mivart's Hotel on Sunday, from Rio de Janeiro. His Royal Highness had visited the Queen of Portugal on the way to this country. On Monday he visited the Queen and Prince Albert at Claremont. On Tuesday he viewed the works of the new Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey, and afterwards visited the Queen Dowager, the Duke and Dutchess of Cambridge, the Duke of Sussex, and the Dutchess of Gloucester. In the evening he dined with the Duke of Sussex ; being met by the Dutchess of Cambridge and a distinguished circle of guests. His Royal Highness embarked at the Customhouse on Wednesday, for Hamburg ; in order to attend a grand review of Prussian troops near Berlin, on the 28th instant.
The London Gazette of Tuesday last contained the following notifi- cation, issued from the Lord Chamberlain's Office- " Notice is hereby given that his Royal Highness Prince Albert will, by the desire of her Majesty, hold levees, at St. James's Palace, on behalf of her Ma- jesty, on Wednesday the 29th instant, and on Wednesday the 26th of April next ; both days at two o'clock.
" It is her Majesty's pleasure that presentations to his Royal Highness at these levees shall be considered equivalent to presentations to the Queen. " Addresses to the Queen may be either forwarded to her Majesty through the Secretary of State for the Home Department, or may be reserved until her Majesty shall bold a levee."
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