The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-01-24 00:00:00

Court lirtus.

DRAMATIC PERFORMANCIS AT WINDSOR CANTLZ.—
The fourth dramatic performance thia 'lesson took place
on Wednesday evening. The following warn the pro-
'rennin : . .

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A comedy, in two acts, by Mr. Tout Taylor (adapted
from 11. Octave Feuillet). entitled

THE HOUSE OR THE HOME.
Hat Horace Metope:l. M.P Mr. WigruL
Itherington. C. B
Frederick Wardour (Clerk to the Foreign
Orlice)
Lady Helen Chetwyod Min H.
The Hon. Mrs. Warden: (Illatitor to
Frederick) .
Hopwood (Lady Helen's Maid) MS. Lakilaw
After which • petite drama, in eae act, by Mr. Benjamin
'Jointer, entitled
ONE TOUCH OF NATURE.

Willion) Penn Holder
Mr. Beaumont Fittchar (a florist's. and
Dramatic Author) Mr. 111ilington.
Mr. Bel Ever Mr. W. H. Eburns.
Jones te., to the Adeiphi
Chao )
Mira CCOOinell Be
What taw wasaagemeot of Mr. George Ellis,
and
Under the direction of Mr. W. B. Doone,
Her Majesty'. Examiner of Plays.

Th. tinware arranged and tba marry painted by Yr.
Thomas Grim.

Shortly after eight o'clock the Queen and Prince 1
Consort, with the Prince of Wales, Princess Alice, the
Doke of Cambridge, Prinoe Arthur, Priheess Helena, I
Princess Louisa, and Prince Leopold, attended by the
ladies and gentlemen in waiting, and accompanied by
the dinner company, entered the theatre in St. George's
Hall, when the performance immediately comiuenced.
Her Majesty's private band composed the orchestra.
A large party of the nobility had the honour of being
present on the occasion.
The Queen and her Court will arrive in town for the
London season on the 15th of February. it is said.
ROYAL VISIT.— On Monday week, Her Majesty and
their Royal Highnesses the Prince Consort and Prince of
Wales visited the Windsor Royal Dispensary and
Infirmary. The Queen was attended by the Lord and
Lady in Waiting, and the Prince Consort by Colonel
Francis Henry Seymour. The visit being of a private
character, the only officials present were the hon. secre-
tary (the Rev. J. A. Miller), the house surgeon (Mr.
Gooch), and the matron (Miss Walton), by whom the
Royal party were received and conducted through the
wards and other apartments connected with this valu-
able institution. Her Majesty and the Prince made
full inquiries as to the number of patients, their treat-
ment, Ire., and on leaving expressed themselves much
satisfied with the whole arrangement of the establish-
ment. The Royal party afterwards drove to the model
cottages, erected by the Windsor Royal Society for the
improvement of the labourers' dwellings, of which His
Royal Highness is president. The Queen and the
Prince alighted from their pony carriage and inspected
several of the oottagers dwellings; these are about 50
in number, the whole of them being occupied; the
Royal visitors were much gratified on witnessing the
comfort of the occupants, and neatness of their apart-
ments. Mr. Bowers, the secretary, was in attendance,
of whom the Prince made numerous inquiries relating to
the working of the society.
OCTOONNAIIIANS IN *MS PESSAGS.—Lord Sinclair
is the oldest member of the peerage of the United King-
dom, having been borne in 1758, and, which is stranger
Mill, he has Imld the honours of the peerage for no less
than 84 years—a period we believe without precedent.
His Loadship is no long a member of the House of Peers,
having ceased to hold • Scotch representative peerage
at the late general election. The oldest members of the
House of Lords at this moment are Lord Lyndhurst and
the Earls of Stair and Guildford, who were burn in
1772; next follow the Archbishop of Armagh and Lord
Combermere, born in 1773; Lords Gonnanston and
Rem, and the Earls of Charleniont and Dundonald,
born in 1775; the Earl of Onslow, the Bishop of Exeter,
and Viscount Southwell, born in 1777 ; the Earls of
Beverley and Weavers, and Lords Brougham and
Arbuthnott, born in 1778; and the Earls of Strafford
and Radnor, and Lords Gough and Seaton, born in
1779.