SIR court.
THE Queen held a Privy Council, at Osborne House, on Tuesday. A form of thanksgiving for the abundant harvest was ordered; and it was directed that Parliament be further prorogued from the 12th October to the 11th November.
Lord John Russell has been a visiter at Osborne: he arrived on Satur- day, and returned to Richmond on Tuesday. Prince Albert came over from Osborne on Monday, to lay the first stone of the Portsmouth, Portsea, and Gosport Hospital. The ceremony was rendered as imposing as possible, by the presence of the Dockyard author- ities, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Portsmouth, and a large party of visiters; a guard of honour attending, under command of Lord George Lennox. At the close of the proceedings, Prince Albert returned to the Isle of Wight.
The Dutchess of Kent arrived at Frogmore on Tuesday, after her visit to the Queen at Osborne. On the following day, her Royal Highness came to town, to call on the Queen Dowager at Marlborough House.
The Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Duke of Saxe Meiningen, and the Dutchess Ida, Prince Gustavus, and the Princesses of Saxe Weimar, went on Wednesday to see the New Palace at Westminster. On Thurs- day, her Majesty, the Duke of Saxe Meiningen, the Dutchess Ida, and Prince Gustavus of Saxe Weimar, left London for Osborne, on a visit to the Queen.
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