Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived in town at half -past four o’clock on Monday afternoon in an open carriage and four, escorted by a party of Hussars, from Claremont. The equerries in waiting, Colonel Arbuthnot and Colonel Wylde, followed in a chariot and four. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, and their attendants, occupied another carriage ; and the Dowager Lady Lyttleton, lady in waiting, and Lord Byron, lord in waiting, were in the last carriage. Her Majesty and Prince Albert were received at Buckingham Palace by the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and Lord Colville, lord in waiting on Prince Albert.
The marriage of the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Coburg Gotha and Princess Alexandrine of Baden took place at Carlsruhe on the 3rd instant. Lord G. Lennox, who had arrived from England, charged by the Queen and Prince Albert with their felicitations to the Royal pair, was present at the ceremony.
His Serene Highness the Duke Bernard of Saxe Weimar, attended by Captain Koch, arrived at Marlborough House, the residence of the Queen Dowager, at half-past twelve o’clock on Monday night, having landed from Rotterdam .
On Tuesday his Serene Highness and the Prince of Saxe Weimar, attended by the Rev. J. R. Wood, chaplain to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, honoured the establishment of Messrs. Henry Graves and Co., of Pall- mall, to view Mr. Hayter’s splendid picture of “The Royal Marriage,” with which the august visitors were pleased to express their unqualified approbation.
A pair of Shetland ponies, intended for the young Prince of Wales’s phaeton, arrived at the Aberdeen steam-packet wharf, St. Katharine’s, last week. A pair of beautiful Pegu ponies from Madras have also been sent to her Majesty, by her Anglo-Indian subjects, for the young Prince of Wales.
It was reported in Vienna that the Queen of Spain would marry the hereditary Prince of Lucca, Ferdinand Charles, who was born on the 14th of January, 1823.
The installation of the Duke of Northumberland as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge is fixed for Monday, the 4th ofJuly.
We understand that the preliminaries are arranged for the marriage of Lady Elizabeth Rede Ginkle, only daughter of the late Earl of Athlone, and the Hon. Captain Frederick Villiers, third son of the Earl of Jersey. Her ladyship is in her 21st year.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has issued invitations for a full dress dinner party on the 19th instant, to celebrate her Majesty’s birth-day.
The Illustrated London News, London, England, Week Ending May 14, 1842