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NOTHING has occurred this week to vary the usual routine of Court life. The Queen and Prince Albert attended service in the Chapel Royal on Sunday. When the weather has been favourable the Queen has taken out-of-door exercise ; either walking in the gardens of the Palace or riding in an open phaeton. On Wednesday, the Queen and the Prince rode on horseback in the riding-school at Pim- lico. There were evening parties at the Palace on Monday and Thurs- day. On the latter occasion Sir Robert and Lady Peel were among the company invited. On Tuesday afternoon, Prince Albert visited the Surrey Zoological Gardens. Yesterday, his Royal Highness went to a stag-hunt at Stanmore with the Queen's buck-hounds. The Morning Post says it is the intention of the Queen Dowager to give a series of dinner-parties at Marlborough House, before her de- parture for Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire ; where she purposes to pass the Easter holydays. The Duke of Cambridge went to the Haymarket Theatre on Tues- day evening. Baron Knesebeck and Major Stephens were in waiting on his Royal Highness. The Courier of last night contradicts the announcement made by the Ministerial papers of the Queen's " interesting " situation. The Globe has the following announcement of musical honours con- ferred on the Queen and Prince Albert-
" A compliment, as unexpected as it is flattering to the illustrious persons interested, has just been conferred on her Majesty and Prince Albert. A representation having been made of the refined taste her Majesty displayed in music, and the Prince in musical composition, the Council of the celebrated Academy of St. Cecilia at Rome have caused the names of her Majesty (La Regina d'Inghilterra) and Prince Albert (11 Principe Alberto) to be inscribed in its list of honorary members. This Academy was founded in 1584 ; since which it has conferred honours on upwards of three thousand distinguished musicians, and is one of the most celebrated institutions in Italy."
The Carnarvon Herald says that a poor woman residing in Bangor lately sent a present to the infant Princess of a wooden spoon hand- somely carved. The present was accepted, and the acknowledgment of it was accompanied with a donation of five pounds. The perquisites and munificent presents made to the head nurse on the recent occasion of the Princess Royal's baptism are stated to have amounted in value to a considerable sum ; it would be invidious, perhaps, to mention what report ascribes to be the amount—Globe.
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