that omissions were made, and that the number was
considerably higher.

THE COURT.

The Russian war caused her majesty many anxieties, and an expression
of care and deep concern was observed upon her countenance when she
appeared in public. The festivities usual to the British court, and
the rural enjoyments to which her majesty and her court were so much
addicted, were greatly abridged by the demands of public business upon
the queen, and the exciting vicissitudes of the war.

The events of chief interest to the court, apart from the great turmoil
of public affairs, were the visits of certain royal persons to the
queen, and a visit made by the royal consort to the Emperor of the
French.

On the 2nd of June, the young King of Portugal, with his brother, the
Duke of Oporto, arrived at Buckingham Palace. Every hospitality was
shown to these princely guests; and they accompanied her majesty
and Prince Albert to various places worthy the inspection of foreign
princes.

The Egyptian prince, El Hami Pasha, heir of Abbas, the Pasha of Egypt,
arrived at Southampton in July. The prince was attended by various great
officers of the Egyptian viceroy.

On the 5th of September several princes visited the French Emperor at
Calais and Boulogne. Among them was Prince Albert and his uncle, the
King of the Belgians. The prince was attended by detachments of the Life
Guards and the Horse Guards as an escort. These troops were objects of
much curiosity and admiration on the part of the French citizens and
soldiers.

On the 14th of September her majesty paid her customary autumnal visit
to her Scottish Highland retreat. _En route_ she slept at Holyrood, the
palace of the famous and unfortunate Mary, Queen of Scots. On the 12th
of October her majesty left Balmoral for Windsor.

IRELAND

As usual, the people of England were, from time to time, startled
by accounts of agrarian outrage, and of murders perpetrated under
circumstances of savage ferocity hardly paralleled anywhere. Some of
the worst criminals were found guilty; generally, juries in the Roman
Catholic districts were unwilling to convict, and frequently the
prosecution rested on the evidence of informers too infamous to believe.
All the old evils which had so long harassed that distracted country
remained in full force. The spirit of party, and of religious rancour,
raged fearfully. The most terrible exemplification of sanguinary bigotry
which, perhaps, the