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QUEEN Victoria's well-known hardiness and usual promptitude of reap- very have not yet enabled her to venture abroad. She has received daily visits from the Dutchess of Kent, and had visits from the Dutchess Of Gloucester and the Dutchess of Cambridge on Friday and Saturday. All the members of the Countess of Neuilly's family have successively visited her Majesty this week. Prince Albert attended on Wednesday, the day observed for the Q birthday, on the parade of the Royal Ease Guards, and was received by the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Wellington, as Commander- in-chief, with a brilliant staff.
Her Majesty's guest the Queen of the Belgians has received visits at the Palace, from the Dutchess of Kent and the Dutchess of Gloucester, and from the members of Count Neuilly's It is understood that the Court will proceed to Osborne on Wednesday the 22d instant, and return to Buckingham Palace on the 18th of June ; and that the christening of the infant Prince will be solemnized on the 22d of June.
The Queen's birthday was celebrated on Wednesday, with a loyal em- phasis obviously referring to "the recent happy event in her family." The Ministers gave a round of official banquets to official colleagues, as- sistants, and favoured Parliamentary supporters ; the citizens blazed out with unwonted force of illuminations ; and the millions who went forth in the evening to criticize and admire, were delighted with the spectacle and pleased with its prompting sentiment.
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