int Court.
TEE Queen remains at Windsor Castle. She usually rides out in the morning, and has small dinner-parties in the evening. The almost .constant guests at the Castle are Lord Melbourne, Lord Palmerston, and the Marquis Conyngham. Lord Holland and Lord Chancellor Cottenham are also frequently among her Majesty's visiters. The King and Queen of the Belgians left Windsor on Tuesday, for Ramsgate; at which place they arrived about eight o'clock in the evening. The Dukes of Cambridge and Wellington, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, and Sir William Curtis, dined with their Majesties at the Albion Hotel. The next morning Leopold and his Queen embarked in a Government steamer. The pier was crowded as they walked to the vessel, and the departure of the royal visiters was loudly cheered. They reached Ostend after a rather rough passage of seven hours. Peace be with them.
Mr. George Hayter has been at Windsor, taking the portraits of the King and Queen of the Belgians, and of Lord Melbourne. Mr. Hayter has received the Queen's commands to be at Brighton early in next month, to take a full-length portrait of her Majesty in the dress he wore at the prorogation of Parliament. The design "for the new Great Seal, which has been approved of by her Majesty in Council, has on the obverse an equestrian statue of the Queen attended by a page, and has the following inscription round the border—" Victoria Del Gratis Britanniarum Regina Fidel Defensor." On the reverse, the Queen is seated on the throne in her royal robes, aed wearing the crown ; in her right hand is the sceptre, and in her left the orb. Her Majesty is supported by two female figures, Reli- gion on one side and Justice on the other. Above is a Gothic canopy, and at the bottom is a shield of the royal arms, surmounted by the imperial crown. An embossed border of oak-leaves and roses en- des the whole. —Court Circular.
It is now fixed that the Court will remove to Brighton on the 4th of October ; to remain there till the City-dinner on the 9th of November calls her Majesty to town.
It will give all the Queen's loyal subjects sincere satisfaction to be informed, that" her Majesty has been graciously pleased to appoint Mrs. Ustonson to be fishing-tackle and net-maker in ordinary to her Majesty."
The Duke of Sussex is paying his annual visit to Lord Dinorben, at Kinmel Park,
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