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THE Queen continues to keep her case as little "interesting" as possible, by preserving unbroken health. On Thursday, her Majesty took her first drive with Prince Albert in Hyde Park ; and the ride was repeated yesterday. The Standard announces that the ceremony of "churching" the Queen is to be performed in Buckingham Palace to- morrow.
Prince Albert has still been sitting for his portrait to 'Mr. Lucas. On Tuesday, he received a visit from the Duke of Cambridge. On Saturday, he gave an audience to the Lord Mayor; on Wednesday, to M. Dedel, the Netherlands Minister.
The Dutchess of Kent has visited the Queen daily. On Sunday, Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthal paid a visit to her Royal Highness.
The Princess Sophia Matilda rode over from Blackheath on Thurs- day, and made visits to the Queen, the Dutchess of Kent, and the Dtechess of Gloucester. The latter has been visited by the Duke of Cambridge almost daily.
Saturday was the birthday of the Princess Mary of Cambridge ; and the Dutchess of Gloucester gave a juvenile fete at Gloucester House in honour of the day. The Princess Mary went to Buckingham Palace to receive the congratulations of the Queen.
Orders have been given for a Court mourning for the late Queen of Bavaria to begin on Thursday the 2d instant, to change on Thursday the 16th, and to terminate on Thursday the 23d.
The Queen Dowager's health continues to meed so decidedly, that "under the continuance of the present favourable symptoms" no more bulletins will be issued. The last was given on Thursday-
1," The improvement of the Queen Dowager's health, as announced in the last bulletin, has continued up to the present time; and there is every reason- able prospect of her Majesty's gradual recovery. DAVID DAVIS, M.D. •• Sedbury Hall, 2d December 1841."
Queen Adelaide has sent 1001. to the Lord Mayor for the distressed Spitalfields weavers, with her "best wishes for the success of the under- taking "—the subscription in their behalf.
The Duke of Sussex and the Dutchess of Inverness, who are making a visiting-tour in the North, arrived at Rafford Abbey, Nottingham- shire, on a visit to the Earl of Scarborough, on Tuesday last. A dis- tinguished party has been invited by the Earl to meet his Royal guest.
The baptisni of the infant Prince is not expected to take place until February, immediately after Parliament assembles. The ceremony will be performed in town.—Morning Post.
We have reason to believe that her Majesty has expressed a dis- inclination to perform any act in consequence of which the new-born heir to the Throne would be addressed by a title similar to that by which his illustrious father is designated and addressed. It is also said that both to the Premier and the Lord Chancellor this feeling on the part of her Majesty has been made the subject of a formal communication, for the purpose of ascertaining how far, with due regard to established pre- cedent, it can be acted upon in settling the style of the interesting sub- ject of the inquiry. "The infant Prince" is the appellation which is used throughout, the Household when speaking of the Royal infant ; and this title is understood to be that for which her Majesty has ex- pressed a decided preference.—Globe.
The Queen, we understand, has already sketched a lateness of the tifaut Prince, which will immediately be lithographed. The resem- blance is said to be perfect, and the circumstances under which it was made cannot fail of giving to it an interest peculiarly its own.—John Her Majesty, wishing to show an act of Royal clemency on the happy occasion of the birth of a Royal Prince, has been pleased to notify to the Right Honourable Sir James Graham, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, that those convicts who have behaved themselves well shall have their punishment commuted ; and that those who seem deserving of such a mark of clemency, and who are now lingering on board the hulks at Deptford, Woolwich, Sheerness, Portsmouth, Pem- broke, Cork, and other prisons, shall have their liberty granted to them. —Britannia.
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