The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-01-04 00:00:00

CHRISTMAS AT THE PALACE.

Wj NDNOR, Saturday, Jan. 1.
Her Majesty entertained on Friday • numerous hat of
distinguished visitors.
tieing New Year's-day, the band of the 2nd Life
Guards played a selection of favourite airs on the East
Terrace At 7 o'clock this morning.
Her Majesty's annual distribution of food and clothing
to about 700 poor persons of the Windsor and dower
leirislies took place to-day in the riding-huuse of the
Cimeile,
At a quarter past 10 o'clock the quern and Prince
Consort, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the
Princes. :thee, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, Princess
Helena, Princess lAmisa, the Duc:iess of Cambridge,
and Princess Mary, and the Duke of t'ambridge,
attended by the Ladies and gentlemen in waiting, pro-
ceeded to the Riding•house to witness the distribution,
which was under the direction of the Hon. and Very
Itcv. the Dean of Windsor, the clergy of Windsor and
Chewer, awl the district visitors for the relief of the
poor.
The members of the Clothing Club established under
Her Majesty's patronage received at the same time
articles of clothing according to the amount of their
contributions (as on former occasions) with the additions
provided by Her Majesty.
In the forenoon the Queen, with the Royal children,
accompanied by the Duchess of Cambridge, Princess
Mary, and the Duke of t7ailibridge, visited her Royal
Highness the Duelies. of Kent. at Frig:more.
Tile band of the 211,1 Life Guards wee in attendance,
and played during dinner

HA% clock's M trill . . . .1. Arthur Owen.
Selection, " 310ise" . . Rossini.
Waltz. "Ton . . .
Selection, . . . . Adam.
'• Ems" . . . .

A performance of clioral IllitlAiewasgiven in Mt. George's
hall in the evening by an in eliestra of nearly 1.50 per-
former,

The first part consisted of Mendelssohn's overture to
.11hrlir, the Prelndium and %medians in Beethoven's
31 nss (tlic violin iddigiini being played by M.
Remenyi, solo violin to Her Majesty), and the flank to
Per Frcio'hut: commencing wit& the chorus,
"Sec, 0 we, the shot his bride lath struck."
The second part comprised " Tin. May queen." it pas-
toral composed by V. illiam Sterndale Bennett, Mut.
Prof. Calash, to words by Henry F. thiirley.
The solo iwalb.ts were Miss Louisa Pytle,
Lasiadles. Mr. Sims RceVen, Mr. Whiffen, Mr. thaythson,
aimh Mr. Weiss.

Mr. Saws Reeves sang the air,—
"1.) meadow clad in early green !"

_
Miss luttiaa Pyne as the May Queen, song tbe
solu,— . .

With the carol in the tree
And the blooming of the lea,
And the riot of the bee.
Is my merry reign begun.
Mr. Weiss, as Robin Hood, sang the ballad,—
'Tic jolly to hunt in the bright moonlight
When a inan can couch in the six foot fern !
And the cold crimp air of the autumn night
1101.kec the outlaw'. faggot more clearly burn.
After prayer. (Heaven bleu I 9 the fat red priest
Talks big of his park, am he sits at his feast :
, There is not an Abbot from sea to sea,

il;.l:es7petli the best of his deer fur use !
The hand consisted of Her Majesty's private band
aided by several of the principal instrumentalists of the
Philharmonic Society, Her Majesty's Theatre, and the
Royal Italian (hers, Covent-Garden. The chorus
were *elected from the operas, with a numerous body of
anudeuni of the Sacred Harmonic Society, Exeter halL
The performance WWI conducted by Mr. Anderson, the
director of Her Majeaty's private baud, lir. W. G.
Cosine, the organist of Her Majesty's private chapel,
presiding at the organ.
SUNDAY, January 2.
The Queen and Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales,
; Princess Alice, and Princess Helena, the Duchess of
Cambridge. Princess Mary and the Duke of Cambridge,
I sad the Prince and Princess of Leiningeu attended
diwuritsieersiortn-iice.dthi:orhoerniionighianntdheirPerfrivaßite,Chthareilie, which
was
Windsor, who administered the Holy Sacrament.
The Earl of Malinesbury, the Ladies and Gentlemen
of the Court, and the domestic household were at the
service.
The Spanish Minister went to the Catholic Chapel at
Clewe r: „

ou New Year's morning the band of the Grenadier
Guards attended at Frogmore, the residence of Her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and performed at
Matinsle as follows :
Aria, '• G, Rest in the Lord" Mendelsaohn.
prayer, "The Conscript's Farewell" Lehner.
Chorale, "Sleeper, awake" Mendelssohn.
Frayer, " Masaniello" . . Anber.
Waltz composed by Her Royal Highness the Dualwies
of Kent.

Nourom T • .—lt will perhaps excite some
adoniilunent when it's stated that last week 10,746
turkeys were despatched se Chriatmas presents to the
metropolis, the greater part coining from Norfolk, and
being placed on the railway at Norwich. It is generally
ounsidered that a tut key with sausages, hamper, ear.
rime, no., wen 1:1, and 'them preemie, therefore repre-
sent an aggregate expenditure of £lO,OOO.
TUC 81111MA5IXt TELIONAPH lINYWNEN MALTA AND
SANDINIA.—A Malta correspondent, under dale el
Chri4ullu-dly. reports that telegraphic communienaile
continued totally suspended between the two iamb
sine. the 20th, and that the mperinteeding elsginuter "
Malta had left for Cagliari, in the Cana" "maw' "
the night of the 23rd, to undemm the *able as thialidar
where it is supposed the damage haa been