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THE Queen gave a state ball at Buckingham Palace, on Wednesday evening, to a very numerous circle of guests. The invitations exceeded eighteen hundred, and included most of the distinguished foreigners and the English gentry in town. The Queen and the Datchess of Kent wore dresses of English manufacture: the Queen's was of white crape, ornamented with bugles and frosted grape-leaves in black crape. The whole of the state-rooms were opened, including the throne-room, the white, and the green drawing-room; and were rendered fragrant by a profusion of rare and beautiful flowers.
Earl and Countess Grey, Sir Robert and Lady Peel, and General Sir Charles Napier, joined the Queen's dinner-party yesterday evening. Prince Albert on Tuesday carefully inspected the lodging-house for the working classes erected by the Metropolitan Association in the Old Pancras Road. On Saturday, he visited the studio of Mr. John Ternouth, and examined his cast for one of the entablatures of the Nelson column; on Tuesday, inspected several of the works executing for Stimmerly's art-manufactures; on Wednesday, visited the Botanical Gardens in the Regent's Park ; and yesterday presided over a meeting of the Fine Arts Commission.
The Lord Chamberlain has issued orders for a Court mourning for the Grand Duke of Hesse; to commence on the 6th instant, to change on the 9th, and to end on the 13th.
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