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THE Queen and Prince Albert came to town from Windsor on Mon- day. Her Majesty held a Court that afternoon, to receive Prince Henry of the Netherlands as a visitor at the opening of the Great Exhibition: On Tuesday afternoon, Prince Albert repaired to the London Bridge Railway terminus, to meet the Prince and Princess of Prussia, with the Princess Louisa and Prince Frederick William, and conduct them to Buckingham Palace. The Queen and Prince Albert took their friends to the Exhibition-building on Wednesday, for a preliminary view before the ceremony of Thursday. At her Majesty's dinner-party, Viscount Palmerston and many of the Foreign Ministers were present.
"The First of May" will henceforward be a red-letter day in the Court register, as well as in the popular almanack. On that day the Queen in- augurated the "Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations," which the Prince Consort conceived, and which now fills the world with the fame of its beauty and success. The Queen and Prince Albert with the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal rode in one carriage—a pri- vate carriage drawn by two cream-coloured horses ; their friends from Prussia and Holland rode in another carriage ; and the suite of attendants preceded them in seven other carriages. The inauguration is separately described below. Soon after the Queen had returned to the Palace, she brought the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal ta the front windows, and acknowledged with a beaming face both the pleasure of the ceremony she had gone through and her feeling of the attachment which the people had manifested. In the evening, the Queen and her party appeared at the Royal Italian Opera. The Queen and Prince Albert with three of their children, and the guests at the Palace, went to view the exhibition of pictures " for the Royal Academy in Trafalgar Square," yesterday at noon. In the even- ing, the Queen and Prince Albert, with the Prussian Princes and Prin- cess, went to the French Play. The Duchess of Kent came to town from Frogmore on Tuesday, and took the Princess Mary of Cambridge to the opening of the Exhibition of Industry. The Duke of Cambridge was also there. There has been 'much intervisiting between the Foreign Princes and Princesses at Berleingham Palace and the members of our Royal Family On Wednesday the Duchess of Orleans also paid a visit, and the Duke of Wellington paid his respects, to the Prince of Prussia. The Prussian Princes and Princesses with Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar went yester- day to Claremont, on a visit to the Countess de Neuilly and the members of her family residing with her. At a Court held by the Queen on Tuesday evening, M. Mussurus presented his credentials as Ambassador from the Sultan of Turkey, and Baron Koller presented an autograph letter from the Emperor of Austria.
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