The Week.

THE WEEK .

HER MAJESTY and the royal family arrived to-day at Buckingham Palace , al in good health . The Queen will open Parliament to-morrow . Her Majesty accompanied by the Prince Consort , Prince Arthur , and the Princess Alice formally inaugurated the new AVellington College , at Sandhurst , on Saturday , The college had been opened for the admission of pupils a few days previously , and when her Majesty visited the building on Saturday , there were about a hundred boys present to receive her with a hearty cheer of welcome . An address

was presented to the Queen by the Earl of Derby , on the part ofthe governors of the college , to which a suitable reply was given by her Majesty . Intelligence of the Princess Frederick AVilliam of Prussia having been safely delivered of a son , arrived at Windsor Castle at three o ' clock on Thursday afternoon . The event was communicated to the Queen through the electric telegraph , a message hy which reached Windsor Castle from Berlin in six minutes after the '

occurrence . The telegrams received daily of the state of the princess continue to be of a favourable character . That received by her Majesty yesterday , from Sir J . Clark , described her royal highness and the infant prince as quite well . Affairs in France continue to wear a most warlike aspect . The Paris correspondent of the Globe says : — " That the French war-office should make contracts for the purchase of horses on a large scale is nothing unusually striking

among the various other warlike preparations ; but the tenders required for the supply of 1 , 200 MULBB do point to a passage of the Alps for artillery , and need no comment . " The steam cutter , ; Ariel has seized seven English fishing-boats , surprised within the limits of the French oyster beds , near Carteret . The pretty

summer theatre in the Pre Catalan , at Paris , was entirely destroyed on Thursday , by a fire which raged for four hours . It is decided that Prince Napoleon and his bride will make a public entry into Paris . The day now spoken of is Friday , February 4 th . The city of Paris is making preparations for a brilliant reception The Moniteur de la Colonisation contains a ministerial decree of Prince Napoleon , dated January Cth , prohibiting all recruiting of immigrants on the eastern coast of Africa and Madagascar . Two French ships of the 'line have left Toulon for Genoaprobably to bring home Prince Napoleon and his bride . At Paristhe

, , sole topic of conversation continues to be the war or peace question ; and the speech of the Emperor at the opening of the chambers is looked forward to with much anxiety . The Toahmais confirms the statement of the collection of sixtytwo war transports at Toulon and Marseilles . The Austrians are strengthening their position every day in the direction of the Lago Maggiore . They have placed a cordon of troops upon the Verbano and the Ticino . The Austrians , -n occupying these positions , wish to prevent the insurrection of the province , an d

to stop Garibaldi from penetrating into Lombar < Jy by those points . Considerable reinforcements have also been sent to Bologna , to Ancona , and Ferrara . In the last-named place , the cannons of the citadel bave been directed against the city . AVe hear of a note being delivered to the Austrian government from France , England , and Russia , requesting such a change in the act of navigation of the Danube as will render the navigation free . Prussia confines her request to the freedom of the lower part of the river . Advices from Vienna speak of an army being concentrated in Galicia , to front a Eussian army approaching the Haps-