THE COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 318, 26 December 1862, Page 5

THE COURT.

The movements of the Court during the past month may be briefly chronicled. At the date of our last the Queen was staying at Rheinhardtsbrunn. Her Majesty left this place for Coburg on the 3rd October ; and she remained at Coburg, with the junior members of the royal family, till the 17th. On that day she left on her return to England. On the morning of the 18th she arrived at the palace of Laeken, where she was met by the King of the Belgians. The Queen's intention wa3 to embark at Antwerp for Englaud on the 20th; but a succession of violent gales rendered the postponement of that intention necessary. The Crown Prince of Prussia and our Princess Roy d, left Coburg early in the present month for a tour in Switzerland and Italy. They will be accompanied as far as Palermo by the Prince cf Wales. A semi-official Paris journal pretends to have received a letter from Berlin, stating that the tour of the Prince and Princess Royal "has nothing to do with politics," but is caused by •< the health of the princess, who is delicate, and who has been ordered by the doctors to spend the winter in Sicily." '.* All this," says the correspondent of a London Eaper, "is pure fiction. The princess's ealth is extremely good. She is not by any means delicate; she has not been ordered' by the doctors to spend the -winter in Sicily; and tne iour is undertaken solely out of political considerations ; their royal highnesses having decided on making a winter tour in the Mediterranean to avoid being mixed up with the contest between the ' Junker' party, whom the king most unwisely favors, and the bulk of the people of Germany." It seems that the arrangements as to the keeping of the Prince of Wales's birthday are altered. It was announced that he would remain on the continent until after the 9th of November; it ib now stated that he will spend ths day with her Majesty at Osborne in comparative seclusion.