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QUEEN VICTORI.& has entertained a numerous and illustrious circle of guests this week at Windsor Castle ; including the Archbishop of Can- terbury, the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Lord and Lady Hardinge, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, the Earl and Countess of Bessborough, the Duke of Cambridge, the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, the Earl of Malmesbury, Lord and Lady Palmerston, Lord Drumlanrig, the Speaker of the House of Commons and Mrs. Lefevre. On Thursday there were more theatrical performances ; this time of a comic cast- 2'ender Precautions and the Bengal Tiger.
The Queen and the Royal Family have taken their usual walking and tiding exercise ; and Prince Albert has been out shooting. Her Majesty sat, on Thursday, to Mr. J. E. Jones, for a bust about to be executed at her commands for Mr. William Dorgan.
Prince Albert came to London yesterday, and presided over a meeting of the Governors of the Wellington College.