gbt Court. THE Court remains in the enjoyment of country-life
at Windsor. The Queen and Prince Albert and the Hereditary Prince and Princess of Saxe Coburg Gotha take out-door exercise daily ; now walking in the grounds, now riding on horseback, in pony-phaetons, or four-horse car- riages. The Datchess of Kent usually Joins the dinner-circle in the evening.
The Duke of Cambridge arrived at Windsor Castle on Monday ; travelling from Paddington to Slough by the Great Western Railway. The Princess Augusta and the Princess Mary of Cambridge arrived at the Castle on the same day. The Duke returned to town by railway on Wednesday, and the Princesses returned to Kew.
On that day the Queen Dowager left Bushy Park, on a visit to the Queen at Windsor ; and she returned to Bushy Park yesterday. The Queen gave an audience to Sir Robert Peel on Tuesday.
The Duke of Sussex entertained a select party at Kensington Palace on Sunday. On the same day, his Royal Highness received a visit from the Duke of Cambridge.
Prince George of Cambridge left town on Monday, to join his regi- ment at Leeds.
The Queen has accepted a singular present from Captain Luke'', of the ship Victor, which he brought for her Majesty from Java : it is a diminutive horse, no more than twenty-seven and a half inches in height, of a dark brown colour, well formed, and very quiet and playful--
" The captain," says the newspaper story, "brought the horse with him, inside a cab, to the Mansionhouse upon his arrival in London upwards of two months ago, and galloped it up and down the saloon before the Lady Mayoress and some of her friends. Upon taking leave, Captain Lukey whipped the little animal up and ran down stairs with him, amidst great laughter; and, depositing him in the cab, drove off to the West end of the town. The captain, in speak- ing of it at the Mansionhonse, said it would carry him in harness at the rate of ten miles an hour."
On Monday, when it arrived at the Castle, and on Tuesday, the little horse afforded amusement to the Queen and her guests, being paced up and down in the quadrangle and on the terrace.
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