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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Feb. 19.
Baron Gros, and Earl and Countess Russell,
arrived at the Castle yesterday.
Lord Russell had an audience of the Queen.
Baron Gros, French Ambassador, was presented to
the Queen at an andience by Earl Russell.
The Judge Advocate-General arrived at the
Castle to-day, and had an audience of the Queen.
The Prince of Wales, attended by Lieutenant-
General Knollys and Major Teesdale, went to Lon-
don this morning.

The christening of the infant son of Count:Gleichan
(Prince Victor of Hohenlohe) and the Countess
Gleichen took place in the Chapel Royal, St.
J ames's.

The sponsors were the Prince of Wales, the
Princess of Leiningen (represented by Mies Emily
Gore), and Captain William Frederick Seymour.
The child was named by the Prince of Wales,
Albert Edward Wilfred.

The ceremony of baptism was performed by the
Rev. Francis Garden, M.A., Chaplain of the Queen's
Household, St. James's Palace.

PRINCE OF WALES'S THEATRE.--We understard
that the Prince has honoured Mr. Fechter by expressing a
wish that the theatre of which this accomplished artist is
now lessee shall be re-named after his Royal Highness.
The Lyceum is therefore to be called in future the Prince
of Ws los's Theatre.

THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE LIFEBOAT
CAUSE.—II R. H. the Prince of Wales has intimated
through General Knollya his great pleasure in becoming
the vice-patron of the Royal National Lifeboat Inst tution,
and in contributing a donation of £3O for the purposes of
the Institution. The Prince of Wales thus occupies in the
Institution the place which the late lamented Prince Con-
sort, his father, filed since 1850 with so much advantage to
the cause of humanity. At that period the society pos.ses,.ed
twelve lifeboats, and its annual expenditure was about
£SOO. The Institution has now a fleet of one hundred and
twenty-three lifeboats, and its expenditure is £15,000
a year. These boats save every year on an average 350
lives from shipwreck on various parts of our coast. It is
worth recording that the lifeboat of the society at Padstow,
on the Cornish coast, was, with the permission of the late
Prince Consort, named the Prince of Wales. On the day
that the Prince attained his majority, on the 9th Novem-
ber last, that lifeboat was providentially the means of saving
a shipwrecked crew from a watery grave—a coincidence
with which his Royal Highness, as Duke of Cornwall, was
most pleased to be made acquaint d with.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge was
so far recovered from his recent slight attack of gout as to
be able to attend at the Horse Guards yesterday.

The Duke of Rutland, by thest late accounts re-
ceived in town, is better, but still there exists some anxiety
as to the condition of his grace.

His Excellency Mons. Antonia Flores, Minister of
the Equador, has arrived at Maurigy's Hotel, from Paris.

The Countess Blucher arrived at the Pavilion
Hotel, Folkestone, on Wednesday, and left on the following
day for Paris.

Tile Dowager Lady Poltimore has arrived at her
house in Upper Brook-street.

Lady Herbert of Lea, with the Earl of Pembroke
and sisters, is still at Rome, and is not expected home till
after Easter.

Count Baptiste Metaxa has arrived at the Colo-
nial-office with despatches from the Lord High Commis-
sioner of the lonian Islands.

The Right Hon. B. Disraeli gave a Parliamentary
dinner on Wednesday at his residence, Grosvenor-gate.
There were present the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of
Carnarvon, Viscount Exmouth, Lord Edward Thynne, Lord
Claud Hamilton, Major-General the Hon. George Upton,
Colonel the Hon. Charles Rowley, Sir James Elphinstone,
Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Sir Hugh Cairns, Mr. Ker Seymer, Mr.
Sclater Booth, Mr. Cavendish Bentinck, Mr. Drax, Mr.
Fitzwilliam Hume, Mr. Peel Dawson, and Mr. Ferrand.

DEATH OF THE EARL OF COITENHAM —We have
to record the death at Felcourt, Surrey, on the 18th instant,
of the Right Hon. the Earl of Cottenham at the early age
of 38. The deceased peer was the eldest son of the first earl
by the daughter of Mr. William Wingfield-Baker, and was
born in London in 1824. The late earl was Clerk of the
Crown in Chancery from 1818 to 1858, in which year he
was appointed a deputy •lieutenant of Surrey. The first
peer, the father of the late earl, was Lord Chancellor.

DEATH OF BARON REAP.—The Right Hon.
Baron Reay died on the 18th inst., at Plymouth, at the age
of 87. He is succeeded by his son, the Hon. Eric Mackay.
DEATH OF THE DOWAGER BARONESS HEADLEY
—This venerable lady died on Monday last at
Aghadoe, in the county of Kerry. Jane Lady Headley
was at least 95 years old, having been born in 1767 or 1768,
arid was the eldest daughter and heiress of Mr. Arthur
Blennerbassett of Ballyseedy, in the county of Kerry—a
branch of the Cumberland Blennerhassetts. She married
June 24, 1783 (as his second wife), Mr. George Winn, a
distinguished lawyer, who, for his services as Baron of the
Exchequer in Scotland, was created a baronet in 1776,
having succeeded to the Essex estates (at Little Warley) of
his cousin, Mr. Mark Winn, and also to the Yorkshire
estates of his cousin, Mr. Charles Allanson (whose name
he assumed) of Bramham Biggin. In 1797 he was created
Baron Headley, Allanson, and Winn of Aghadoe, and
died in 1798, leaving two sons and daughters. The eldest
son, Charles, inherited the ancient baronetcy of Winn in
1833, and at his death the title fell to his nephew, the pre-
sent Lord Headley, eldest son of the Hon. George Mark
Arthur Way Winn, M.P. for Maldon, by Elizabeth,
eldest daughter of Mr. Lewis Mejendie, of Hedingham
Castle, Essex. It is understood that the large property of
Lady Headley comes to her grandson, the present peer.

CITY SUBWAY.—The bill authorising the Me-
tropolitan Board of Works to make a new street
from Chatham-place to the Mansion-house contains a clause
providing that the Board may make under the new street
a sub-way, and permit it to be used for the purpose of laying
down gas or waterpipes or telegraphic wires, "cr for any
other works or purpose."
FESTIVAL AT MALTA.—The Roman Catholic fes-
tival in commemoration of the shipwreck of St.
Paul on the coast of Malta was celebrated on Monday ar d
Tuesday last by an illumination and the usual church cere-
monies. It was observed there was a marked improvement
on this occasion in the manner in which it was conducted, a
distribution of bread to the poor having been substituted
for the display of political devices and expensive triumphal
arches, which gave rise on former occasions to breaches of
the peace, in which the Italian Consul was insulted and
maltreated.

MR. SHERER, THE SCOTTISH VOCALIST.—On
Tuesday evening last the Polytechnic Institution
was the means of restoring to the publio Mr. Sherer, the
well-known illustrator of Scottish song. The audience was
large, but Mr. Sherer was apparently suffering from ner-
vousness. As this wore off, however, he became "himself
again," and sung the "Barring o' the door" and "Duncan
Gray" with his wonted spirit and power. The other songs
were "Come under my Plaidie," "My Spouse Nancy," and
"The brisk 3 oung Lad," in all of which most of the ad-
mirers of Scotttsh song have formerly heard him.
THE CASE OF MR. EDMUND O'ROURKE, OTHER-
WISE FALCONER.—The result of the proceedings
yesterday at the Bankruptcy Court in the case of Mr.
O'Rourke, otherwise Falconer, late of the Lyceum Theatre,
was an order from the Commissioner to Mr. Fawner to file
a balance-sheet, showing his liabilities, with all convenient
speed.

TAB DUCHY OF CORNWALL—Some interest is
taken at present in tte income of the Prince of
Wales from the Duchy of Cornwall, now that it has be-
come the duty of Parliament to make a provision for the
Prince, and the accounts of the Duchy for 1862, which
have just been published, throw some light on the matter.
According to these accounts the income derived from the
Duchy during that year by the Prince of Wales was £:r2,130,
that being the amount of "payments made to the trustees
and treasurer of his Royal Highness" for his use. The gross
receipts for the year were £63,004, coLsisting of £30,884 for
" rents and profits of courts ;" £2,432 for produce of the
royalties of coal mines in Somerset, £5,528 for royalties of
dues and rents of mines and quarries in Cornwall ; £350
for the receipts of wood sales; £16,216 an annuity from
Consolidated Fund in lieu of "Tin coinage ditties,
post groats, and white rents," and £7,592 for dividends and
interest. These receipts, however, are only the gross re•
turn, numerous deductions requiring to be made. There
is a sum of £7,853 for expanses of management ; £2,657 for
superannuation allowances, donations, and charities, law
charges, &c.; £4,462 for property tax, annuities in lieu of
estates surrendered, &c.; and Ll 5,499 for investments and
outlay fcr the benefit of the estate, of which £10,117 •is for
the purchase of leasehold interest in a property at Berk-
hatnpstead and expenses, making the total amount of de-
ductions £28,202, which, deducted from £63,004, the gross
receipts, as already stated, leaves a balance of £34,802. This
sum, it will be noticed, is considerably less than the amount
paid for the Prince's use, but the Council for the Duchy
had also at their disposal a balance of £23,801 from the
previuus year, or a total net balance of £58,603 ; so that
they were enabled to pay the above sum of £52,132, leaving
a balance in their hands of £6,473.
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