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The Court Newsman is like the Sun ; nothing is too great or too, small for his brightening influence. Be turns from the Queen's cold.
and the continued illness of the Dutchess of Gloucester, to chronicle the retirement of the Superintendent of the Silver Pantry,—as if, at the altitude from which he surveyed them, the superintendence of a pantry and of an empire were on a level with each other. To the re- tiring Superintendent, the King has, it seems, with thereat ristic gene- rosity, presented a piece of plate; and the Board of Green Cloth, not to be behindhand in the appropriate expression of their good-will, have given the Superintendent a second piece. The Sergeant-Footman, we are moreover told, died on Monday, and was interred on Saturday ; the whole of the livery in their undress attending the funeral. How happy are the members of a court ! Even he that keeps a door therein is cer- tain of being immortalized.
The King came to town on Thursday, for the purpose of holding a court to receive the Recorder's report. He returned to Wiedsor in the evening.
The Dutchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria took leave of Plasnewydd, where they had been residing for some time, on Mon- day, for Eaton Hall, the seat of the .Marquis of Westminster. On Tuesday morning, the Corporation of Chester and the inhabitants at large presented an address to her Royal Highness, to which she made a very gracious answer. Her Royal Highness end the Princess were present on Wednesday at the opening of the Chester new bridge.
Prince George of Cumberland, it is stated, is getting better. This is not the same illness of which we heard at the time of the Hammer- smith affair ?
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