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TINE Court has again gone back to Windsor Castle and has continued the quiet style of life in which it has lately indulged. Prince Albert went to see Captain Siborne's model of the battle of Waterloo, at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, on Saturday morning; and early in the afternoon, the Queen and the Prince, with a small suite, left Buckingham Palace for Windsor; travelling, in the usual order, by the Great Western Railway, and arriving at twenty minutes past two o'clock. The customary out-door exercise has been pursued, the Queen often Walking with the Prince_ On Thursday and yesterday, her Majesty took exercise with Prince Albert in the Riding-school. The Prince has also been out shooting in the preserves. On New Year's Day the work of charity was not forgotten. The Queen and Prince Albert took their station in a gallery of the Riding-school, and passed an hour in surveying the distribution of food and other comforts to tile poor. A table some fifty feet long was piled with joints of beef, nearly a ton in weight; another table was covered with plum-puddings, a third with quartern loaves. The Mayor, Magistrates, and Clergy of Windsor diistributed the Royal bounty; giving three pounds of meat to each man, two to each woman, and one for each child, with other gifts in proportion: to this way, meat, bread, pudding, potatoes, ale, and coal, were given among *30 families; and ISO families received each an excellent pair of blankets. Yesterday, Prince Albert gave audience to a deputation of the officers of St. Thomas's Hospital, headed by Sir John Pine the President ; who presented a green staff to the Prince, on the occasion of his becoming a coveraor of the Royal foundation. A great block of ice, beautifully pure and clear, imported from Lake Werth= in North America, was exhibited to the Queen and Prince Albert oa Saturday.
Among the visiters at the Castle have been Sir Henry Wheatley, the bench Ambassador, and the Countess of St. Anlaire.
The Duke of Cambridge visited the Dutchess of Gloucester on Tuesday tatd Thursday.
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