be grourt.
THE Queen appears now to have quite recovered ; having resumed her oat-door exercise. Her Majesty took the first airing in a close car- riage on Sunday ; on Tuesday, the Prince drove his consort out in an open carriage ; they walked in the grounds on Wednesday ; and since that, drives and walks have occurred every day. The ceremony of being churched was performed on Wednesday.
Her Majesty was visited on Tuesday by the Queen Dowager ; who took luncheon with the Dutchess of Kent, at Frogmore, and was accom- panied by the Dutchess to the Castle.
Monday was Prince Albert's birthday—the twenty-fifth ; and it was parked by the usual amenities. Betimes in the morning, a military band played music under his window, (or, as the Court Circular per- sists in calling it, a "serenade ") ; the Dutchess of Kent came to break- fast at half-past eight o'clock ; in the afternoon dined at the Castle, a concert being performed during the repast ; at night, the Eastern Ter- race, the Gateway, and adjacent grounds, were illuminated with some twelve or fourteen hundred lamps, there was a brilliant display of fire- works, and a royal salute added thunder to the closing splendours. [In London, and about the country, there were also the customary hoisting of flags and firing of guns; and the clubhouses, theatres, and royal tradesmen's shops, were illuminated.]
The Queen gave audience, on Wednesday, to the Judge-Advocate- General, who submitted the proceedings of some courts-martial.
Prince Albert gave audiences, on Monday to the Earl of Jersey, and on Wednesday to M. De Bjornstjerna, the Swedish Minister. On Tuesday, his Royal Highness inspected the Fusileer Guards.
The Prince, attended by Mr. Anson and Cclonel Wylde, left the Castle early on Thursday morning, for the Farnham station of the South-western Railway ; by which he proceeded in a special train to Gosport. He arrived at the terminus by a quarter to eleven o'clock ; and walked to the Royal Clarence Victualling Yard ; where he was re- ceived by Admiral Sir Hyde Parker. In his barge, the Admiral con- veyed the Prince on board the Black Eagle Admiralty steamer, which at once started for the Isle of Wight ; the ships in harbour firing a royal salute, hoisting the standard, and manning their yards. Having landed at Cowes, the Prince went to Osborne House, to transact some business connected with the Queen's intended sojourn there. He embarked again about a quarter to three ; boarded the Collingwood, and took lun- cheon with Admiral Sir George Seymour ; returned to the Black Eagle; entered the harbour at a quarter to four o'clock, amid salutes and the greetings of a great concourse that had by this time assembled ; disem- barked at the Victualling Yard ; and entered the train, on his return to Windsor, a few minutes before five o'clock ; arriving at the Castle by seven.
The Duke of Cambridge went to the Suffclk Street Water Colour Exhibition on Thursday.
Yesterday, the Dutchess of Gloucester arrived at Bushy Park, to pay a visit to the Queen Dowager.
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