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Tan festivities attending the marriage of the Princess Royal have be- . All the foreign guests have arrived at Buckingham Palace : on 'day, the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha ; on Saturday, the Princess of Prussia ; on Monday, the King of the Belgians and his sons, the Duke of Brabant and the Count of Flanders, and the Prince William of Baden and Prince Albert of Prussia ; on Tuesday, the Prince of Prussia. The guests who had previously arrived were Prince Frederick Charles, Prince Frederick Albert, and Prince Adalbert of Prussia, the Prince of Hohenzollern Sigmturgen, the Prince of Leiningen, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, and Prince Henry VII of Reuss.
The whole of her Majesty's distinguished guests have attended the per- formances at the Operahouse in the Haymarket, and a state ball at Buckingham Palace. The gentlemen have shot and hunted at Windsor, and have visited the lions of the metropolis—the Bank of-England, the Leviathan,' the Crystal Palace, South Kensington Museum, and Wool- wich:to see the arsenal and witness a review on the Common.
The first theatrical performance took place on Tuesday. The play was "Macbeth," the afterpieee the farce of "Twice Killed." The Opera- house had been decorated for the occasion, and a very pretty effect was produced by festoons of brilliant artificial flowers hung on the panels of the boxes from the top to the bottom of the house. The Queen's Mx had been enlarged by the addition of other boxes in order to afford room for her distinguished guests. The national anthem was performed after the tragedy. The Queen and Princess Royal seemed to enjoy the farce far more than the heavier performance.
The state ball at Buckingham Palace, on Wednesday evening, was at- tended by nearly 1100 persons.
On Thursday, the Prince Consort went to Woolwich with the Prussian Princes and guided them through the laboratory and workshops of the arsenal. The whole party afterwards proceeded to Woolwich Common, where a force of Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery Marched passed in slow anduick time, and saluted in line. The day was very cold, and the Royal
spectators showed that they felt it. ....•
In the evening there was a second performance at the Operahouse. The pieces were the "Rose of Castille " and "The Boots at the Swan." The Queen and her guests again joined in the hilarity provoked by the drolleries of the farce.
The list of English guests at Buckingham Palace includes the names of the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Breadalbane, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord and Lady Palmerston, Lord and Lady Rokeby, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl and Countess of Darby, Lord and Lady John Russell, Sir George Grey, and Lord and Lady Stratford de Redeliffe.
It has been announced on authority, "that in consequence of the un- expectedly large number of applicants for tickets to view the Chapel Royal, St. James's, on the 27th, 28th, and 29th instant, the number is- sued having already far exceeded the extent of the accommodation which can be afforded with reference to the safety of the public, it has been found impossible to carry out the intention announced in the papers of the 5th instant, of opening the Chapel Royal on those days. Arrange- ments will, however, be made, as soon as possible after the drawingroom on the 30th instant, for opening the state apartments, together with the Chapel Royal, to the public for a month, when the tickets already issued for the Chapel will be available for both. Further regulations as to the issue of tickets will be published hereafter."
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