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THE Queen gave the most splendid ball of the season on Monday night, at Buckingluim Palace. The company assembled between the hours of ten and twelve. The Princess Augusta, the Dutchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Sussex, the Duke of Cambridge, the Dutchess of Kent, the Duke de Nemours, the Duke of Saxe Coburg, the Prince of Leiningen, all the Foreign Ambassadors, and the prin- cipal English nobility and gentry, were of the party. The Queen opened the ball in a quadrille with the Duke De Nemours. Her Nlajesty afterwards danced with Prince George of Cambridge, Lord Einlyn, Lord Ashley, the Prince of Nassau, and Prince Chtistiun of Holstein Glucksbuurg.
On Tuesday evening, the Queen went to the Italian Opera.
On Wednesday, her Majesty graced with her presence the ceremony of christening the infant daughter of the Duke of Sutherland. The Queen stood as godmother to the child, the first time she has person- ally honoured any of her subjects in that way. After the christening, the Queen paid a short visit to the Queen Dowager at Bushey Park. There was a dinner-party in the evening at the Palace ; including the Doke De Nemours, the Dutchess of Sutherland, Lady Louisa Jenkin- son, Lady Mary Talbot, Lady Ann Fitz william, Lady Fanny Cowper, the Duke of Argyle, and the Earl of Ilchester. Yesterday, the Queen held a Privy Council. Proclamations were issued for a new coinage of gold and silver. The Duke of Cambridge gave a grand dinner and the Dutchess of Gloucester a bull on Thursday.
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