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THE customary routiue of daily walks has been somewhat varied this week. Prince Albert has been out shooting; and on Thursday the Queen, Prince Albert, the children, and the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, diverted themselves at the frozen lake of Frogmore; Prince Albert and the gentlemen skating and playing at hockey, while the Queen and her ladies looked on.
The Queen has received more visiters than usual: Prince Lowenstein, Che- valier Bunsen, and Sir George Grey, arrived at the Castle on Monday; Lord Edward Howard on Tuesday; the Dutchess of Sutherland, Lady Caroline Leveson Gower, and, Sir John Hobhouse, on Wednesday; and on Thursday, the Duke and Dutchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, and the Earl and Countess of Lincoln, joined the Royal circle.
Yesterday, being New-Year's Day, the Royal bounty was dispensed to upwards of seven hundred of the poor of Windsor and Clewer. The Queen, Prince Albert, the Duke and Dutchess of Cambridge, the young Princes and Princesses, and all the Castle Visiters, attended in the New Riding-school to witness 'the distribution. The comforts distributed con- sisted of bread, meat, plum-pudding, coals, blankets, red cloaks, and flannel.
The Queen had a-dinner and an evening party. The guests were enter- tained with the recitation, by Al. Brasseur, of Racine's tragedy of Atholie, with Mendelssohn's music.
Tito Duke and Dutohess of Cambridge have both visited the Dutchess of Qloucester during the week.
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