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THE London season for the Court terminated on Wednesday ; on which day the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal infants, left Buckingham Palace for Windsor Castle ; proceeding thither by railway.
The days preceding the departure of the Court were busily occupied. On Saturday, the Queen, accompanied by Prince Albert, took her fare- well of the Opera. On Monday, the Judge Advocate submitted to her Majesty the proceedings of some recent Courts-martial. In the even- ing there was a dinner-party : among the guests were the Lord Mayor and Prince Castelcicala. On Tuesday, Prince Albert was for three hours at a meeting of the Commissioners of Fine Arts.
On Wednesday morning, the Queen held a Privy Council at Buck- ingham Palace attended by the Ministers ; when her Majesty was " pleased to declare the Right Honourable William Lord Heytesbury, Lieutenant-General and Governor-General of that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland."
The Queen arrived at Windsor at half-past five in the afternoon of Wednesday ; and on Thursday resumed her drives in the Park in a pony-phaeton, driven by Prince Albert.
The Windsor correspondent of the Morning Chronicle announces that her Majesty's accouchement is expected to take place " at a very early period."
The Dutchess of Kent has returned from the Continent, apparently in excellent health. She embarked at Ostend on Wednesday morning, in the Princess Alice steamer, and arrived at Woolwich in the after- noon. She immediately set out for Frogmore, vid the Great Western Railway ; and reached her destination at half-past eight. The Dutchess visited the Queen on Thursday morning, and dined at the Castle.
The Duke and Dutchess of Cambridge gave a grand dinner-party at Cambridge House, on Thursday.
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