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The Week.
THE WEEK .
THE Queen and tho Prince Consort' visited the Royal Academy Exhibition on Tuesday . On Thursday her Majesty ' s levee was attended by about two hundred and thirty gentlemen . On Tuesday tho Queen and Prince Consort , with thc Princesses Alice and Helena , honoured the Princess ' s Theatre with their presence . The Queen had two grand dinner parties last week . On Saturday her Majesty , the Prince Consort , and the Princess Alice , went to Aldershott , where thoy slept at the royal pavilion on Saturday and Sunday nights . On Monday the Queen reviewed the division at Aldershott under the command of Lieut-General Knoll Her
ys . Majesty rode in an open carriage with the Princess Alice , and was accompanied on horseback by the Prince Consort and the Duke of Cambridge , and a brilliant stall ' . After the review her Majesty and the Prince Consort left for Buckingham palace , where they arrived about half-past five in the evening . On Tuesday the Emperor of the French took his departure to join the army . The empress accompanied him as far as Montereau . The Prince Napoleon goes ou to Italy with the emperor . Tho Rue cle Rivoli , aloug which the emperor went to the Lyons railway , was
crowded in every part , and there was a good deal of cheering . The Cent Gardes did not leave till Thursday . The empress presided at a council of ministers on Thursday , and signed several papers as regent . No act bearing hor signature has yet appeared in the Moniteur . AA ' ith regard to the war loan wo are told that double the amount is already subscribed for , and that instead of 500 , 000 , 000 f , 1 , 500 , 000 , 0001 . might be had for the same purpose , if required . In the chamber of deputies Baron de Riehemont brought up the report on the bill relative to
culling out the class of 1859 , ivhich is to be placed on active service in 1860 . Count le Hon also presented a report on the bill opening a credit of ninety millions to the minister of war , and fifty millions to tho minister of marine . AVith regard to the ultimate object of Louis Napoleon , a contemporary well
remarks -. No one m his senses can believe that the emperor is putting forth all the strength of France for a settlement , or that he will not require a quid pro quo ; and already we hear discussed the probability of a kingdom of Etruria for Prince . Napoleon . AVith Prince Napoleon ' s father-in-law in the north of Italy , and Murat iu tho expectation of some coup in that sense on Naples , the emperor will have proved- his disinterested love of Italian independence , and vastly strengthened his power in the south of Europe and the Mediterranean . The Austrian government has called for a loan of 75 millions of florins for
Lombardo-A'eiietia . It is to be in silver coin , at 5 per cent , interest , and to bo issued at 70 . A report was received in London on Saturday that Count Buol had resigned his post of minister for foreign affairs , and that his successor , M . De Rechberg , president of the federal diet and Austrian minister , inclined to French ideas . The Cologne Gazette says : —Austria has already on foot upwards of 000 , 000 men well equipped , of whom 300 , 000 aro in Italy . In a fortnight her army will bo 800 , 000 strong . The Hungarian nobility are raising five regiments of hussars . Similar
enthusiasm prevails hi Bohemia , Moravia , Styria , Upper Austria , the Tyrol , and Carinthia . The Blberfcld Gazette says , on the other hand : —The last accounts from Hungary state that great agitation prevails amongst the Magyar and Sclavoni . m populations , anxious to recover the rights wrested from them ten years ago . Agitation also prevails in Gallioia aud in the Polish provinces of Austria . Thc Nord asserts that the retreat of the Austrians is iu consequence of orders sent from Viennawhere a new plan of the campaign has been adopted . ' ' The accounts "
, , says the Nord , "from the scat of war , report a status quo , of which the principal cause is the bad condition of the ground , owing to the rains aud floods . In all probabilit y the Emperor of Austria will take the command of his army at the same time that the Emperor of the French will put himself at the head of his regiments . From the seat of war in Sardinia , the news is confused , and in some eases contra-
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The Week.
THE WEEK .
THE Queen and tho Prince Consort' visited the Royal Academy Exhibition on Tuesday . On Thursday her Majesty ' s levee was attended by about two hundred and thirty gentlemen . On Tuesday tho Queen and Prince Consort , with thc Princesses Alice and Helena , honoured the Princess ' s Theatre with their presence . The Queen had two grand dinner parties last week . On Saturday her Majesty , the Prince Consort , and the Princess Alice , went to Aldershott , where thoy slept at the royal pavilion on Saturday and Sunday nights . On Monday the Queen reviewed the division at Aldershott under the command of Lieut-General Knoll Her
ys . Majesty rode in an open carriage with the Princess Alice , and was accompanied on horseback by the Prince Consort and the Duke of Cambridge , and a brilliant stall ' . After the review her Majesty and the Prince Consort left for Buckingham palace , where they arrived about half-past five in the evening . On Tuesday the Emperor of the French took his departure to join the army . The empress accompanied him as far as Montereau . The Prince Napoleon goes ou to Italy with the emperor . Tho Rue cle Rivoli , aloug which the emperor went to the Lyons railway , was
crowded in every part , and there was a good deal of cheering . The Cent Gardes did not leave till Thursday . The empress presided at a council of ministers on Thursday , and signed several papers as regent . No act bearing hor signature has yet appeared in the Moniteur . AA ' ith regard to the war loan wo are told that double the amount is already subscribed for , and that instead of 500 , 000 , 000 f , 1 , 500 , 000 , 0001 . might be had for the same purpose , if required . In the chamber of deputies Baron de Riehemont brought up the report on the bill relative to
culling out the class of 1859 , ivhich is to be placed on active service in 1860 . Count le Hon also presented a report on the bill opening a credit of ninety millions to the minister of war , and fifty millions to tho minister of marine . AVith regard to the ultimate object of Louis Napoleon , a contemporary well
remarks -. No one m his senses can believe that the emperor is putting forth all the strength of France for a settlement , or that he will not require a quid pro quo ; and already we hear discussed the probability of a kingdom of Etruria for Prince . Napoleon . AVith Prince Napoleon ' s father-in-law in the north of Italy , and Murat iu tho expectation of some coup in that sense on Naples , the emperor will have proved- his disinterested love of Italian independence , and vastly strengthened his power in the south of Europe and the Mediterranean . The Austrian government has called for a loan of 75 millions of florins for
Lombardo-A'eiietia . It is to be in silver coin , at 5 per cent , interest , and to bo issued at 70 . A report was received in London on Saturday that Count Buol had resigned his post of minister for foreign affairs , and that his successor , M . De Rechberg , president of the federal diet and Austrian minister , inclined to French ideas . The Cologne Gazette says : —Austria has already on foot upwards of 000 , 000 men well equipped , of whom 300 , 000 aro in Italy . In a fortnight her army will bo 800 , 000 strong . The Hungarian nobility are raising five regiments of hussars . Similar
enthusiasm prevails hi Bohemia , Moravia , Styria , Upper Austria , the Tyrol , and Carinthia . The Blberfcld Gazette says , on the other hand : —The last accounts from Hungary state that great agitation prevails amongst the Magyar and Sclavoni . m populations , anxious to recover the rights wrested from them ten years ago . Agitation also prevails in Gallioia aud in the Polish provinces of Austria . Thc Nord asserts that the retreat of the Austrians is iu consequence of orders sent from Viennawhere a new plan of the campaign has been adopted . ' ' The accounts "
, , says the Nord , "from the scat of war , report a status quo , of which the principal cause is the bad condition of the ground , owing to the rains aud floods . In all probabilit y the Emperor of Austria will take the command of his army at the same time that the Emperor of the French will put himself at the head of his regiments . From the seat of war in Sardinia , the news is confused , and in some eases contra-