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Tan Queen has been unwell. Her Majesty walked on the" beach on Saturday, 'when the weather was wet and windy; and to that probably is attributed the cold and toothache from which she has since suffered. On Monday her Majesty's walk was confined to the garden of Weimer Castle ; and on the subsequent days she remained within- doors ; till fine weather again lured her to a walk on the beach with the Prince 3 esterday. The young Prince of Wales has also been indisposed, but is now better. He was weaned just before he went to Weimer.
The papers report the first anecdote of the Princess Royal. Mr. William Hulke, a surgeon of Deal, is in daily attendance on the infants : his wife was confined of a son on the 21st, and the Queen graciously commanded that the child should be named Victor, after the Princess Royal, whose name is Victoria- " On Sunday morning, upon Mr. Hulke visiting, professionally, the Princess Royal, as usual, her Royal Highness, in a most graceful and artless manner, presented Mr. Hulke with an elegant gold pencil-case set with precious stones, and containing beautiful medallion portraits, in bas-relief, of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, entwined with the Garter. The Princess rose from her chair, (being at breakfast at the time,) and addressing Mr. Mike, said, 1 have something to present to you, Mr. Hulke, (handing the pencil- case)-1 beg you will give this to Victor 118 a present from me.'"
Prince Albert has enjoyed excellent health. On Wednesday he was taken by Captain Bullock, in the Queen's steamer Fearless, to see the Refuge Beacon, erected about two years ago by the Captain on Goodwin Sands. The Beacon consists of a mast with two elevated galleries, a chain-ladder, and basket-chair with ropes and blocks to help the exhausted. The Prince left the shore at noon ; boarded the little Queen's steamer Wasp ; proceeded in the Fearless to the Beacon; stopped off it half-an-hour, and saw the mode of use illustrated, but could not land on account of the height of the water ; and returned between two and three o'clock.
It is generally understood that the Court returns to Windsor today.
The Duke and Datchess of Cambridge, the Princess Augusta and Princess Mary, and the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg- Strelitz, left Kew on Thursday, for Badminton in Gloucestershire, on a visit to the Doke and Datchess of Beaufort.
Saturday was the birthday of the Princess Mary of Cambridge.
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