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Tar. @erg and the Royal Family have partaken of the pleasures of the season as well as her Majesty's subjects. They witnessed the distri- bution of the New-Year's gifts on Saturday. On Monday, the Queen was-present in the Home Park while Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and the Duke of Cambridge, skated on the ice, and the band of the First Life Guards enlivened the scene with music. On Wed- nesday and Thursday Prince Albert drove her Majesty in a sledge ; the Royal children following in a second sledge. The Queen and Prince Albert visited London on Tuesday ; calling on the Duchess of Gloucester, and inspecting the Exhibition of the Photo- graphic Society. Prince Albert also visited the studios of Mr. Bell and Mr. bailey: at the former, he inspected the cast of a statue of Sir Robert Peel, at the latter, a cast of Lord Mansfield ; both intended for the House of Lords. The Queen returned to Windsor by two o'clock, and Prince Albert two hours later.
The Duke of Beaufort bad an audience of the Queen on Tuesday, to deliver up the insignia of the Order of the Garter worn by his late father. Among the visitors at the Castle this week, have been the Duke of Cambridge, Mr. Gladstone, the Earl and Countess of Hardwicke, the Earl and Countess of Shelburne, and Sir Charles Eastlake.
The Marquis of Lansdowne was invited for Thursday, but was too unwell to obey her Majesty's commands. He was, however, expected at the Castle yesterday.
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