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THE Queen held a Court at Buckingham Palace on Monday. Her Ma- jesty gave interviews to the Marquis of Sauli, Sardinian Minister, to take leave; to Lord Ponsonby, on setting out for his embassy to St. Petersburg ; to Sir Hamilton Seymour, on his arrival from a mission to Lisbon.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the Duke of Norfolk with their company at dinner and a grand ball at Norfolk House on Tuesday. Her Majesty led off the opening quadrille with Lord Edward Fitz- alan Howard, Prince Albert dancing with Lady Mary Fitzalan Howard: afterwards the Queen waltzed with Prince Albert, and so entered into the spirit of the ball, that " from the moment she entered the room till she retired at midnight, she omitted to dance but once, and that when a polka was played."
The Queen and Prince Albert visited the Dutchess of Cambridge on Monday, and were visited by the Dutchess on Wednesday; on Tuesday, the Count and Countess of Neuilly, with the Duke and Dutchess of Ne- tnews, took luncheon with the Queen at Buckingham Palace; and on Thursday, Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippstahl was a visiter.
The Queen and Prince Albert were at the French Opera on Saturday and Wednesday; her Majesty and the Dutchess of Kent were there on Monday; yesterday, the Queen and Prince Albert heard Mendelssohn's Addis performed by the Sacred Harmonic Society.
On Saturday morning, the Queen and Prince Albert took their children to a performance specially provided for their entertainment by Mr. Mitchel at the St. James's Theatre; many of the children of the nobility receiving tickets of admission. The performances consisted of music, dancing by a juvenile ballet corps, and feats of athletic agility by M. Auriol and his son, the French clowns. The theatre was decorated with festoons of natural flowers.
Prim* Albert was present at the Waterloo banquet given by the Duke of Wellington on Monday : on Thursday, he dined with the Scots Fusilier • Guards Club. The Dutchess of Kent received a visit from the Dutchess of Gloucester on Monday; also visits from the Count and Countess of Neuilly, with the Duke and Dutchess of Nemours and the Duke and Dutchess d'Aumale, and from Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippstahl, on Thursday.
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