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THE Queen takes short walks on the terrace of Windsor Castle ; but the veather, during the greater part of the week, has been too unfa- vourable to allow her Majesty to ride out as much as usual. The com- pany at the Castle, in addition to members of the Royal Household, has included Lord Melbourne, the Marquis of Anglesey, and the Ladies Paget, Lord Dunfermline, Lord Duneannoo, and Lady Fanny Howard.
The Dutchess of Gloucester gave a de:Joiner and ball on Wednesday, in honour of the birthday of the Princess Mary of Cambridge. QueenAdelaide left ttopsell Ball 31onday, and proceeded to lv
Beoir Cestle, attended by Earl Bowe, the Earl and Countess of Den- bigh, Lady Salmon, Miss Michell, and other members of her House- hold. At Leicester, which her Majesty passed through on her road to the Duke of Rutlend's, prel.arations had been made for a grand recep- tion. • Ca lain Eiteke, 31.P., at the head of a detachment of Leicester- shire Yeomanry, escorted the Queen Dowager into the town. Many persees frem the neighbouring villages were collected on the road. 'The Tim-II-Council of Leicester had resolved not to notice her Majesty ; but the inhabitants—thcse of Censervative politics, are presume— erected tiiituiphal arches of evergreens, set the church-bells ringing, fired off council, and nettle every kind of respectfhl demonstration in their power. On the arrival if the royal cortege at Belvoir, a salute of twenty-one guns was fired, and the British flag hoisted on the Castle tower.
The Duke of Rutland had invited a brilliant party to meet Queen Adelaide, including the Marquis of Exeter, Lord Burghersh, Lord Adolphus Eitzelarence, Mr. C. Stuart Wortley, and Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley, Lady Georgiana Curzon, Lord Forester, Lady Bar- rington, Countess Jerznyn, and Lady Mary Fielding ; besides Earl Howe, Earl of Denbigh, and other numbers of her Majesty's Household. Queen Adelaide returned to Lord Denbigh's on Thursday.
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