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TIIE Queen held her second levee of the season, at Buckingham Palace, on Thursday. Her Majesty was dressed in deep mourning for the Prin- cess Elize Hohenlohe Langenbourg ; intelligence of whose death she re- ceived on Wednesday. The Duke of Cambridge was present at the levee. Mr. Alfred Tennyson was presented, on his appointment to be Poet Laureate.
The Court circular has chronicled the last stages of the political move- ments in the highest quarter. On Saturday morning, the Queen took counsel with the Duke of Wellington, and later on the afternoon of that day with the Marquis of Lansdowne. On Sunday, the Marquis of Lans- downe was again summoned to her Majesty's presence, and on the after- noon of Sunday Lord John Russell had an audience. On Monday, Lord John Russell had an audience, to receive that commission for the return to office which he explained to the House of Commons on Monday evening.
The Queen held a Court and Privy Council, at Buckingham Palace, yesterday afternoon. At the Court, a deputation from the Corporation of Dublin, headed by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, presented to her Majesty an address on the subject of' the abolition of the office of Viceroy in Ire- land ; to which her Majesty made the usual acknowledgment of "a most gracious answer."
On Thursday, a deputation of ladies, consisting of the Misses Low- rance, Marshall, Cubitt, Witten, Simpson, and Fuller, had an audience,
to deliver to the Queen an address on presenting a carpet executed in needlework by one hundred and fifty ladies of Great Britain.
The Queen visited the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House, on Tuesday. On Thursday, her Majesty received a visit from the Duke and Duchess de Nemmus. On Tuesday, the Queen and Prince Albert took the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, to the Exhibition in Hyde Park.
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