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Among all the occupations of the morning, the Queen still finds time to continue taking lessons in sieging from Signor Lablache, who had the distinguished honour of teaching her Majesty for some time prior to the Accession. The Queen is also in the habit of performing pianoforte duets with such of the young ladies in waiting as are musical; but her Majesty seldom plays alone.—Morning Chronicle.
It has been ascertained by Sir George Smart, that accommodation can be made in Westminster Abbey, at the Coronation, for four hun- dred vocal and instrumental performers ; among whom will be a num- ber of our principal singers, females as %veil as males, together with the members of the three choirs. The music selected for the occasion will be Attwood's anthem, " I was glad," composed for the coronation of George the Fourth ; Sanctus and Responses to the Commandments by Sir George Smart ; Handel's anthem of " Zadock the Priest," and "The King shall rejoice ;" Boyle's Te Deum in the key of A; new anthem by Mr. W. Knyvett, "This is the day that the Lord bath made," the words selected by the Bishop of London ; and the Halle- lujah Chorus from the Messiah. The rehearsal will take place on Tues- day the 26th of June, at half-past ten o'clock. A performance will be given in the Abbey on Monday the 2d of July, the profits of which are to be appropriated to charitable purposes; the rehearsal will take place on the Saturday preceding. Sir George Smart has been applied to for conducting it.—Morning Post.
The Ftankfort journals state, that the Austrian Embassy Extraor- dinary to the Coronation of the Queen of England was to leave Vienna on the 26th, and would pass through Frankfort. Prince Schwartzen- burg is to be accompanied by four Chamberlains—the Landgrave of Furstenberg, Count Charles de Gruntie, Prince de Windiscbgratz, and Count Alexander Erdody. Prince Schwartzenberg is to have the honour of presenting to the Queen the Grand Cross of the Royal
Order of St. Stephen of Hurgary, set with emeralds and rubies, and surrounded with brilliants.
The Marquis Palmella is to be the Portuguese .Ambassador at the coronation of Queen Victoria,
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