THE QUEEN returned to Buckingham Palace, from Osborne, on Thurs-
day afternoon. In the evening, her Majesty, with Prince Albert and Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, went to the Italian Opera. During her stay at Osborne, the Queen found means to display the great interest she takes in all matters connected with the war. On Sa- turday, she inspected the Barracks at Parkhurst. On Monday, she visited the Cormorant, a ship fitted up to carry a detachment of the Seventeenth lancers to the Crimea. After inspecting the horses in their stalls on the weather-deck, she proceeded to look at those below. From the Cormo- rant, her Majesty visited, in succession, her new yacht the Victoria and Albert, and the war-steamer Imperieuse, lately damaged in the Baltic by a collision with the Tartar. Prince Albert and the Princesses of Hohen- lobe accompanied her Majesty. The party were nearly two hours afloat. On Tuesday, Prince Albert inspected the new works at Sconce Point
Yesterday, at a Court held in Buckingham Palace, Count Persigny, the French Ambassador, had his first audience of her Majesty, and pre- sented his credentials. Sir Richard Pakenham, British Minister at Lis- bon, and the Earl of Clarendon, had audience of the Queen. The Duke and Duchess de Nemours 'visited her Majesty.
The Queen gave the second state ball of the season last night. Nine- teen hundred invitations were issued, and a most distinguished company assembled. The Queen opened the ball with M. de Persigny. The his- Varian of the important incidents of Court life records, that her Majesty wore a dress of white tulle over white silk trimmed with bunches of lilac flowers and leaves, and green rosettes ornamented with diamonds; and that her Majesty's head-dress was also of lilacs and diamonds. The Duchess of Cambridge wore a white silk dress, a diamond tiara, and white flowers. The Princess Mary of Cambridge was also dressed in white, like the Queen, but trimmed with grape clusters and leaves instead of lilacs, and head-dress to correspond. The Princess Adelaide of Hohen- lobe wore white satin trimmed with red roses.
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