ebt 4EL ourt. TIIE Queen held a Privy Council and
Court yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. Sir David Dundee was sworn of the Privy Council, and took his seat at the Board. At the Court, Mehmed Pasha, the Turkish Ambassador, had an audience to present a letter from the Sultan to her Majesty. The- Marquis of Lz:nadowne and Lord John Russell had au- dience&
The Queen and Prince Albert paid a flying visit to the Queen Dowager, at Tunbridge Wells, on Saturday. The Queen's carriage left the Brick.- layer's Arms railway station at two in the afternoon, and reentered Buck- ingham Palace at half-past seven. Her Majesty took luncheon with Queen Adelaide, and drove with her and Prince Albert by the paths winds were her own favourites in childhood.
The Queen of the Belgians arrived at Buckingham Palace, from the Continent, on Monday; and remained a visitor to her Majesty till Wednes- day. During her stay at the Palace, the Queen of the Belgians exchanged visits with several of the Royal Family.
The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the Marquis of Westminster with their company at dinner and an evening concert on Wednesday.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert were at the Haymarket Theatre on Tues- day, accompanied by their Royal guest; and at the Covent Garden Opera on Thursday.
Prince Albert reviewed the Artillery Company on Monday; inspected the troops in Hyde Park on Tuesday; and reviewed his regiment of the Eleventh Hussars, on Wimbledon Common, on Wednesday. After the re- view of the Eleventh Hussars, the Prince sat down with a party of some three hundred gentlemen to a banquet given in a marquee by the Earl of Cardigan, the Prince's Lieutenant-Colonel.
The Dutchess of Kent visited the Queen on Tuesday and Thursday; but was "prevented by slight indisposition" from being at the Marquis of Westminster's dinner and concert on Wednesday.
The Queen and Prince Albert went yesterday to a grand fête given by the Dutchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House. The Duke of Cambridge acted as host in receiving the Queen at the door of the mansion.
Queen Adelaide returned from Tunbridge Wells, to Croydon, on There. day, with health much improved by her stay at the Wells.
The Duke and Dutehess of Cambridge dined with the Duke and Dutch- ess of Beaufort on Tuesday; with Mr. Vernon Harcourt and Lady (France4 Waldegrave on Wednesday; and with the Duke and Dutchess of Buccleuott on Thursday. They visited Lady Howard at Fulham on Monday, and Mrs. Lawrence at Ealing Park on Wednesday. They were at Covent Garden Theatre on Saturday; and at the Zoological Gardens, with the Princess Mary, the Princess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the Prince and. Princess Metternich, and a party, on Monday.
The Dutoheas of Gloucester dined with the Dake and Di:nohow Buccleuch on Tuesday.
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