Vat eourt.
THE Queen held a Court at Buckingham Palace on Monday. The official notification of the death of the late King of Denmark was presented by Count Reventlow, who also presented his credentials from the present King. Sir Stratford Canning had an audience on returning from his mission to Switzerland, before going out to Constantinople.
Her Majesty gave a dinner-party on Thursday; at which the Duke and Dutchess of Saxe-Coburg, Count Arthur Mensdorff, the Countess Grey, Earl De Grey, and Sir Robert and Lady Peel, were guests. The Queen and Prince Albert, and their royal guests, went to the Ly- ceum Theatre on Saturday, to the French Plays on Monday, and on Wed- nesday to Balfe's opera at Drury Lane.
Prince Albert and the Duke and Dutchess of Saxe-Coburg and Count Arthur Mensdorff went over the buildings of the New Palace at West- minster, on Monday. On Tuesday, the Dutchess of Saxe-Coburg, accom- panied by Prince Albert, visited the British Museum. The Duke went down to Slough, with Count Mensdorff, to hunt with Prince Albert's harriers. On Thursday, the Dutchess, with her attendant suite, went and saw the Thames Tunnel.
The Queen visited the Princess Sophia at Kensington, on Monday; and the Dutchess of Sutherland on Tuesday, at Stafford House. The Dutchess of Kent arrived in town from Frogmore House on Wed- nesday morning; visited the Queen, and partook of a dejeuner with the Palace guests; and returned to Frogmore in the afternoon.
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