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Tax Queen attended divine service in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, on Sunday. "The Chant, Sanctus, and Commandments, were composed by the Earl of Wilton, (we quote the Court circular,) mid his Lordship presided at the organ during their performance." It is not mentioned that this was his Lordship's first appearance in church since his marriage. After service, the Queen gave an audience to Lord Melbourne, and then took a ride in an open carriage.
On Monday, the Queen received the Lord Mayor and a Deputation from the City of London, who came to invite her Majesty to a dinner at the Guildhall ; and the 9th of November next was the day appointed for the entertainment.
Her Majesty, accompanied by Miss Pitt, Miss Spring Rice, the Countess of Charlemont, and Lord Gardner, went to the Italian Opera on Tuesday. The Diodes' of Northumberland paid a long visit to her Majesty on Wednesday. The Queen held a Court at the new Palace on Thursday ; when the Austrian, Prussian, Dutch, and Danish Ambassadors, had audiences Ott taking leave for a short time ; and the Ambassadors from Russia, Sardinia, Bavaria, and Spain, presented their credentials. ss The dinner company at the Palace this week has included the Duke of Sussex, the Duke of Grafton, Earl Howe, the Marquis of Hastings, Mr. Labouchere, the Marchioness of Lansdowne, Miss Spring Rice, Earl and Countess Cowper, Lord Melbourne, Lord Palmerston, Lord and Lady Seymour, the Honourable William Ashley Cooper, and Colonel Cavendish.
The Queen, it is announced, will go to 'Windsor Castle towards the end of the month, and after residing there for a few weeks, will spend some time at Brighton. The Times records an interesting and extraordinary fact— "On Tuesday, an olive, tree from Jerusalem was presented to her Majesty. It was planted in a box of clay from the Holy City ; and had a dozen healthy branches, all of which had burst from one small spot, about the size of a shilling, epsi.st as her Majesty had attained her eighteenth year."
This paragraph has been going the round of the newspapers-
" On Friday evening, as her Majesty?, accompanied by her royal parent, was having Buckingham Palace to take their usual evening airing, a respectably. dressed middle.aged man was ob.erved to throw something into the carriage. '11Sas immediately seized by two of the sentinels on duty at the Palace, and pm over to the custody of Police Constable Brown, of the A division, who lleivsyed him to the Stationhouse, where he gave his name Count Dernski. Upon him was found the copy of a petition in French, addressed to her Majesty, soliciting relief; stating that he had served in the French army ander Napoleon Bonaparte, and was now in a state of great destitution. On her Majesty's returning to the Palace, she immediately gave orders to Sir l'eftlerick Watson that the man should be set at liberty until inquiry could be ',Ade into his case."
It must be satisfactory to her Majesty's loyal subjects to know that it was "Police Constable Brown, of the A division," who had the cus- tody of the audacious offender.
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