Clo Court.
THE King and the Queen have been confined to the Pavilion during the week, but we are happy to find, by the weather only—which, indeed, has offered few inducements to go abroad, in London more than in Brighton. Their Majesties, though kept from out-of-doors exercise, have not, it would appear, suffered in appetite or digestion in conse quence ; for the dinner parties have been as numerous and as splendid as ever they were. There is another cause than the weather assi4ned by the Brighton Gazette, but, in the absence of an official bulletin— though the Gazette is generally well informed—we hesitate to believe it. Our contemporary says, that a number of the inmates of the Palace, and among them the King, have been vaccinated during the week. It is just within the limits of probability that his IV ajesty may not have been vaccinated or inoculated in his youth; but sin h a piece of neglect is not very consistent with the careful and busint ss-like cha- racter of his Royal Mother. Among the attendants of the Palace, Lord Errol and Lady Falkland are said to be confined to bed, by attacks of rheumatic gout; and indeed, of the whole suite, Lady Mary Fox is described as the only one who is in perfect ht alth. Her Majesty's private band, the Brighton Gazette also reports as on the sick list—From grave to gay! Touching the Lady Falkland, there seems to be some mistake, for the Court Circular reports her as in regular attendance at the Royal table ; and Lord Errol is described by another authority as walking about the Steyne—not the usual plactice of a patient suffering under rheumatic gout. In one thing all accounts agree, and that -is the main point—that the King and Queen are well : may they remain so for many years !
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