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Tin hope of hearing the Tower guns announce the birth of a future Bing or of a sister to the little Princess Royal is now to be deferred, say those who are wise in such matters, to the middle of this month.
Meanwhile the Queen keeps well, and frequently takes exercise with her husband : on Saturday they walked in the gardens of Buckingham Palace ; on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, a carriage-drive was taken in the Park ; yesterday again, the Royal pair walked in the gardens.
The Queen held a Court on Tuesday, at which Lord Cowley, Sir Robert Gordon, Sir Stratford Canning, and Lord Burghersh, kissed hands on their appointment respectively to embassies in France, Aus- tria, Turkey, and Prussia.
Among the guests at the dinner-parties in the Palace have been the Dutchess of Kent, the Duke of Wellington, the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl of Fingall, Earl Delaware, the Duke and Dutchess of Buccleuch, and Colonel Dawson Darner.
The Dutchess of Kent has often visited the Queen during the week. On Thursday, her Royal Highness visited the Dutchess of Gloucester.
The Duke of Cambridge rode over from Kew on Saturday, to pay a visit to the Dutchess of Kent and the Dutchess of Gloucester. On Mon-
day, his Royal Highness again visited the Dutchess of Gloucester ; and -then went in the afternoon to Cheveley Park, in Cambridgeshire, on a -visit to the Duke• of Rutland. Through Newmarket, the Dole came to town on Thursday ; when he dined with the Nulli Secundus Club. 'Yesterday, he left town for the Military College at Sandhurst.
The Dutchess of Gloucester gave a dejeuner on Wednesday to the Royal Family, to celebrate the birthday of the Princess Sophia.
Among the guests were the Dutchess of Kent, the Dutchess of Cam- bridge, Princess Augusta and Princess Mary of Cambridge, Prince George of Cambridge, (who came to town from Dublin on Tuesday night) and Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthal. Prince Ernest visited the Duke and Dutchess of Cambridge at Kew on Saturday. On Tuesday and yesterday he visited the Dutchess of Kent.
The Queen Dowager continues indisposed ; and it is now becoming generally feared that her indisposition is serious. The Globe of last night openly confirms that fear- " The symptoms indicative of disease of the lungs, to obtain relief from which her Majesty visited Germany for the benefit of her native air two or three years since, with considerable benefit, have again manifested themselves In a more decided form. The accessions of fever and the frequent recurrence of a distressing cough, preventing sleep, so essential to the exhausted patien tt have reduced her Majesty's system to a state of extreme debilitude."
Yesterday morning, says the Court Circular, the Royal Family "re- ceived accounts of the health of her Majesty." The following is the last bulletin issued- " Her Majesty the Queen Dowager has had a restless night, owing to the severity of the cough ; and is this morning suffering from consequent ex-
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