The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by the Princesses Alice
and Helena, visited the Countess de Neuilly at Claremont yesterday. In the evening she went to Covent Garden theatre.
There is a rumour here, that a marriage is intended between the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alexandrine of Prussia. This Princess is the daughter of Prince Albrecht, youngest brother of the reigning king. As her mother, a Dutch Princess, is divorced from the Prince, the young Princess Alexandrine lives under the especial care of the Queen, and is at present with her in Rome.
Professor Faraday lectured at the Royal Institution last evening be- fore the Prince Consort and a crowded audience, on Schonbein's oppo- site oxygen, which he described as a modification of oxygen possessing opposite properties to ozone, and therefore called antozone ; when these two varieties are brought into contact, simple oxygen is generated.
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