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Tux Queen and Prince Albert visited the Camp on Thursday ; but the rain prevented the troops from completing their evolutions, and obliged the Royal visitors to take shelter in the pavillion. The Queen did not re- turn to town until the rain bad ceased.
The Prince and Princess of Prussia arrived in town on Monday, on a visit to the Queen. They were met by Prince Albert at the Bricklayers' Arms station, and conducted to Buckingham Palace. The Queen's infant son was christened on Tuesday, the anniversary of her Majesty's coronation. The private chapel of Buckingham Palace was selected as the scene of the ceremony, and prepared accordingly.
" Two rows of chairs of crimson satin and gold were placed on each side of the centre, for the use of the Queen, the Sponsors, and the Royal per- sonages invited to be present. The principal compartments or pews two on each side of the chapel) were appropriated to the representatives of Foreign Powers connected with the Royal Family and the Sponsors, and the Cabinet Ministers. The altar was lined with crimson velvet, panelled with gold lace ; and on the communion-table were placed the golden vessels used in the sacrament, with salvers and two large candlesticks. Seats of crimson and gold were placed for the officiating clergy. The font was placed in advance of the haut pas : it was a most elegantly formed tram, of silver gilt; the rim was formed of the leaves and flowers of the water lily, and the base from which its elegant stem sprang was composed of infant angels playing the lyre ; in the front were the royal arms. The font was placed on a fluted plinth of white and gold. Over the altar was a fine piece of tapestry repre- senting the baptism of our Saviour. The chapel was brilliantly illuminated by large globes of light constructed on a scientific principle, so that no ori- fice is visible, these globes being also inserted in the roof.'
Soon after six o'clock, the Cabinet Ministers, the Belgian, Dutch, Prus- sian, Hanoverian, and Saxon Envoys, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, and the Bishop of Oxford, arrived and took their allotted stations. Hardly had an hour elapsed, before the Sponsors, preceded by the Lancaster and Chester Herald, entered in procession : they were the King of Hanover, the Princess of Prussia, the Princess. Mary of Cambridge, and the Princess of Hohenlohe Langenburg. Then came the procession of the Queen ; conducted by the Garter, Kerrey, and Clarencieux Kings of Arms ; and including Prince Albert, the Royal Children, the Prince of Prussia, the Queen of Hanover, and the Royal personages now visiting the Queen. These being ranged in due order, the service was opened with the Eighty-fourth Psalm, the music com- posed by the King of Hanover - and then the infant prince, dressed in Honiton lace and white satin, carried by the head-nurse, and attended by Lady Caroline Barrington, was borne to the font. The Archbishop of Canterbury read the service ; and, on the usual question being put to the Sponsors, the King of Hanover gave the name of the child—" Leopold- George-Duncan-Albert." An anthem and chorus closed the ceremony ; and the several processions departed in the same order as before. The Court chronicler does not fail to record, that her Majesty's dress consisted of white gros de Naples, sprinkled with silver stars, and trimmed with Honiton lace and white silver ribands ; that she wore a diadem of diamonds, in the raised centre of which shone the Koh-i-noor ; and that the "George" sparkled from the riband of the order of the Gar- ter, while the Garter itself was worn as an armlet.
After the ceremony, the Queen entertained her Royal guests, her Mi- nisters, and the Great Officers of the Household, at a state banquet. The " christening cake "—formed of three stages, gaily adorned with wreaths of roses and pearls, and crowned with a golden cup of flowers—was a con- spicuous ornament of the table, and placed opposite her Majesty. A great company of persons of distinctionjoined the other guests in the evening. Her Majesty gave a state ball last night, at Buckingham Palace. Nearly two thousand invitations were issued; and most of the persons of distinction now in London were present. The Queen opened the ball with the Prince of Prussia, Prince Albert dancing with the Queen of Hanover. Supper was served at half-past twelve; after which dancing was resumed.
The Queen and Prince Albert have been at the Italian Opera, the Princess's and the French Plays; and at the Botanical Gardens in the Regent's Park. On Thursday they were present at a concert given by the Duchess of Gloucester.
The King and Queen of Hanover have visited the Houses of Parlia- ment, Westminster Abbey, and Windsor Castle. The Queen of Hanover visited Kew on Sunday, and strewed immortelles on the tomb of the late Duke of Cambridge in the village churchyard. Prince Albert and the Prince of Prussia have visited the funeral oar of the late Duke of Wellington. The Prince of Wales is undergoing the juvenile disease of measles. The Queen has been unremitting in her attendance, and by the latest ac- counts the patient was doing well
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