The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-07 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Jan. 6.
The Queen and Princess Helena drove in the
grounds yesterday.
Princess Louise rode on horseback.
Lady Churchill and the Hon. Emma Lascelles
have succeded the Dowager Countess of Mount-
Edgcumbe and the Hon. Lucy Kerr as lady and
maid of honour in waiting.

The Prince and Princess of Wales at
llolkham.

HOLKIIAIif, Jan. 6.

The ball given last night by the Earl and Coun-
tess of Leicester to -their Royal Highnesses the
Prince and Princess of Wales was a most brilliant
and successful entertainment. The company
alighted at the great entrance, and entered the
Egyptian-hall. This was brilliantly lighted, an-
tique vases on pedestals being placed at intervals
along the side, -while blooming flowers were inter-
twined between the fluted lonic pillars. The apart-
ments devoted to the ball were the saloon, the
south-west and south-east drawing-rooms, and the
statue and Claude Lorraine galleries. The saloon
and south-west drawing-room were especially de-
voted to dancing. The statue-gallery was the sup-
per-room, while the south-east drawing-room was
adapted as a card-room.
The earl and countess received their guests in the
saloon, which was brilliantly lighted by 300 wax-
lights. The portico of the south front, into which
the saloon opens by three large windows, was en-
closed for the orchestra. It was formed in imita-
tion of a bower; two large vases filled with flowers
were in the centre, and it was lighted by candelabra
on pedestals. The Prince of Wales led off with the
Countess of Leicester in the first quadrille, and the
Earl of Leicester's partner was the Princess of
Wales.

Supper was announced soon after midnight, when
the Prince of Wales led the Countess of Leicester,
and the Earl of Leicester the Princess of Wales, to
the statue-gallery, where a choice entertainment was
provided. A select party accompanied the royal
guests to the supper-room, and after a short interval
parties of the general visitors followed. Dancing
was prolonged to an early hour this morning, the
prince and princess remaining to the last.

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It is expected that their Royal Highnesses the
Prince and Princess of Wales will honour Lord and Lady
Walsingham with a visit at Merton Hall, Norfolk, during
the present month.
The Duke and Duchess of Manchester, who
arrived in town on Wednesday from Paris, have left town
for Kimbolton Castle, Hunts. _ _ _

The Earl and Countess Craven and the Ladies
Craven return to town in the early part of the ensuing
week, preparatory to tho marriage of the Earl of Coventry
and Lady Blanche Craven.

Lady Griffith, wife of Sir Richard Griffith, Bart.,
expired at Dublin, on the 2d inst., in her 10th year.

Sir Vincent Corbet, Bart., and Lady Corbet have
left the St. George's Hotel.

Sir Augustus Clifford has left town for Broad-
lands, on a visit to Lord and Lady Palmerston. _

Sir George and Lady Macpherson Grant and Mr.
and Mrs. Silvertop have left Brown's Hotel.

The Right Hon. the Chanceller of the Exchequer
[eft town yesterday for Hawarden Castle, Chester.

The Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson arrived in
town yesterday afternoon from Theberton House, Suffolk,
and proceeds to-day to Osborne, to attend the Queen's
Council.

A marriage is arranged between Lord Rosehill,
of the Scots Fusilier Guards, and Miss Elliot, eldest
daughter of Admiral George Elliott, Admiral-Superinteu-,
dent at Portsmouth.

The marriage between Viscount Sudley, eldest
son of the Countess of Arran, and the Hon. Edith Jocelyn,
second daughter of Viscountess Jocelyn, will take place
next month.