be court.
Tme quiet at Windsor Castle has been unbroken.
The Duke of Cambridge visited the Queen on Wednesday morning, and remained to lunch with her Majesty and Prince Albert. The newspapers report that the subject of the Royal conference was an ap- proaching marriage between the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, the Duke's eldest daughter, and the Hereditary Granduke of Mecklen- burg-Strelitz, the eldest son of the reigning Granduke, George V. The Princess was born on the 19th July 1822 ; the Prince, on the 17th October 1819.
Other visiters at the Castle have been Prince Esterhozy, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Wilton, (on his return from Saxony.) Sir Henry Wheatley, and Captain Francis Seymour of the Scots Fusileer Guards. The Queen Dowager, attended by her suite, and accompanied by a select party who are on a visit to her Majesty at Canford House, ho- noured the Earl of Shaftesbury with her company at St. Giles's House, near Cranbourn, on Monday last. The Dutchess of Cambridge and the Princess Augusta attended the opera at Covent Garden Theatre on Tuesday. The Hereditary Prince of Mecklenburg-Strelitz went to see the model of St. Peter's, in Pall Mall, on Thursday.
The Morning Herald announces that the Queen is in "that delicate and interesting situation, the intimation of which cannot fail to be received with the most heartfelt interest by every loyal subject in the dominions of her Majesty." " Her Majesty has not taken any eques- trian exercise for some time past." It is reported that preparations are making at Brighton Pavilion to receive the Queen and Prince Albert, with the infants, by the 1st of November. The Brighton Guardian denies that the Court will visit the watering-place before Christmas ; but the balance of probability seems to lie the other way. The new Royal stables and riding-house at Windsor have been com- pleted, for a sum within the Parliamentary grant of 70,0001., according to the original design of Sir Jeffery Wyatville.
Prince Albert, as President of the Royal Highland School Society, has presented 100/. to that charity.
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