31 DECEMBER 1853, Page 2

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AT a Privy Council held at Windsor Castle, on Thursday, Parliament was ordered to be further prorogued from the 3d January to the 31st January ; then to meet for the despatch of business. Lord Aberdeen, Lord Gran- ville, and the Lord Chancellor, had audiences of the Queen.

Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and Prince Alfred, skated in the Home Park on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday ; the Queen looking on, accompanied on the last day by Lord and Lady John Russell. The Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg left the Castle on Tuesday, for Lisbon.

The Duke and Duchess de Nemours, Lord Clarendon, Lord Granville, and Lord Raglan, have visited the Queen this week.