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THE Queen held a Privy Council at Buckingham Palace on Monday af- ternoon. Mr. Rutherfurd, late Lord-Advocate of Scotland, now a Judge of the Supreme Court, was sworn in a member of the Council. Her Ma- jesty ordered the proclamation of a reward for the arrest of the witnesses who absconded from examination by the St. Albans Election Committee.
The Queen held her second drawingroom this season, at St. James's Palace, on Tuesday. The Prince and Princess and Prince William of Prussia, Prince Henry of the Netherlands, and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, were present.
On Wednesday, her Majesty gave a state ball, to which upwards of two thousand persons were invited. The throne-room was prepared as a second ball-room for the unusual crowd. The Queen opened the dancing with the Prince of Prussia for her partner in a quadrille, Prince Albert and the Princess of Prussia -vis-à-vis. After a state supper in the princi- pal dining-room, the Queen returned to the ball-room, and the dancing was kept up till two in the morning; Highland reels being performed to the spiriting music of "Mr. Mackay, her Majesty's piper." The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Prince ancl•Princests and
Prince William of Prussia, yesterday visited the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, at Stafford House, and took luncheon with them. The Duchess of Kent was of the party. The Queen went with her children and guests to the Great Exhibition of Industry on Saturday and on Wednesday. On the evening of Satur- day she was at Her Majesty's Theatre. Prince Albert was at the annual dinner of the Royal Academy on Sa- turday—in honour of Sir Charles Lick Eastlake, who then did the hon- ours of President for the first time.
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