3 JANUARY 1857, Page 6

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Tax QUEEN held a Court and Privy Council at Windsor Castle on Monday. Lord Vivian was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Cornwall, and took the usual oaths. At the Court, her Majesty gave audience to the Turkish Ambassador, the Earl of Clarendon, and Earl Granville.

Her Majesty has walked out several tunes this week; Prince Albert has been shooting with the Prince of Leiningen ; and the young Princes have attended Mr. Faraday's lectures at the Royal Institution.

On Thursday, the Queen's annual gifts were distributed in the Riding School to six hundred poor persons ; the Queen, Prince Albert, the Leiningen Princes, and the whole of the children, being present.

Yesterday, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, came to London, visited the Duchess of Gloucester, and went to the Photographic Exhibition.