Glücksburg, and Mr. Warde, the English Minister for the Hanse Towns.

January 17. Got up early to see the Royal children off, who, under the care of Lady Carmarthen, Sir W. Knollys, and Colonel Keppel, left at 7.30 A.M. for England. At one o'clock we started by special train for Berlin, and arrived there at 7 P.M. We were received at the station by the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Prussia, the English Embassador, and Lady A. Loftus, and all the members of the Embassy, as well as by the Danish Minister, and many other persons belonging to the Government or Court.

We were lodged (that is, the Prince, Princess, and myself) at the Crown Prince's palace; the gentlemen of the suite, now consisting of Colonel Teesdale, Captain Ellis, Lord Carington, Mr. O. Montagu, and Dr. Minter, being put up at the King's palace. I dined in my own room, and went to bed early.

January 18. Went to pay some visits in the morning with Countess Hohenthal.

Dined at five o'clock at the King's palace, and after dinner went to the ballet of Sardanapalus, beautifully given at the Opera.

The weather very cold (8° Reaum.).

January 19. At one o'clock we went to the skating place near the "Förster Haus" in the Thiergar

ten, and remained there more than two hours. I and all the suite dined with Lord A. Loftus at five o'clock. At 9.30 there was a great ball at the King's palace, in the round white hall. It was very pretty, and the decorations of all the adjoining rooms very bright, and tastefully done. Came home at three o'clock.

January 20. Went out shopping early in the morning with my maid, and at one o'clock to a skating party at the same place as yesterday, where regimental bands played, and a breakfast was given by the King. It was a pretty sight, but for those who, like myself, did not skate, a very cold pleasure, though we were pushed about in small sledges.

We dined at five o'clock at the Crown Prince's palace, and at seven o'clock went to the ballet, Flick and Flack. We returned home after it to change our dresses, and at eleven left Berlin by the ordinary train for Vienna, being accompanied to the station by the Crown Prince and Princess and their suite, and met there by the English Embassador and the members of the British Embassy, the Danish Minister and his wife, etc. It was frightfully cold all night; the thermometer in my carriage was below zero Centigrade, and when I awoke in the morning I found a heap of snow on my feet that had come in through the window!

January 21. Traveled all day. The weather bitterly cold (10° of frost, Reaumur).

Prince Teck joined us at Breslau at 7 A.M. We breakfasted at Oderberg, and arrived at Vienna at 8 P.M., and were met at the station by the Emperor.

Drove straight to the Burg, where the Empress received us in the hall, looking beautiful, dressed all in white and diamonds. She was attended by Countess Königsegg, the Princess Taxis, and Countess Hunyady. General Baron Schall, Count Bellegarde, and Baron Bechtelsheim, are appointed by the Emperor to be in attendance on the Prince and Princess during their stay here. The Prince and Princess have a splendid suite of rooms in the Burg. I, too, am very comfortably lodged.

January 22. The cold to-day is greatly increased (14° Reaumur). We spent all the morning in calling upon the royalties: first, the Empress and the Dowager Empress; then the Archduchess Sophie (the Emperor's mother), with archdukes and duchesses without end, whose names would be too long and too many to enumerate.

The Prince and Princess dined at six o'clock with the Emperor and Empress (Familien Tafel), and all the suite with the household; after which we went to the ballet Sprohfeuer at the Opera.

January 23. As cold as ever. At twelve o'clock we started in four carriages, with six horses each, to pay a visit to the King and Queen of Hanover at Heitzing. They were most kind and amiable, as, indeed, they always have been to me; and I thought it quite sad to see them in a position, and leading a life, so different from what we had witnessed when I went with the Prince and Princess on a visit to Hanover in 1864.

We went thence to see the skating at the Schwarzenberg Garten. We dined at six o'clock with the Emperor and Empress, and after dinner went to see Don Juan, not very well given.

January 24. Went at 11.30 to church at the English Embassy. Lunched with Lord and Lady Bloomfield, and afterward went to see the skating. It was very cold indeed-15° of frost! At six o'clock there was a great dinner at the Burg, a band playing all the time, led by Strauss. I went afterward with Countess Königsegg to the Burg Theatre, to see Donna Diana, which was rather amusing, and afterward went to a small party at Countess Lariche's. I like all the people of the Court very much every body was so kind to me; and it touched and pleased me more than I can say, to see how every body seemed still to remember dear William, of whom they all spoke with real

regard and affection; yet it is seventeen years since he belonged to the Embassy at Vienna !

January 25. The Princess and I went out shopping together. Later, I went out again with Princess Taxis, and drove to the Promenade Prater. There was a five-o'clock dinner-party at Prince Augustus's of Saxe-Coburg, after which we went to the play to see Blaubart; and at ten o'clock to a concert at the Emperor's, in the Burg, given in the "Alexander Zimmer." The music was beautiful, but the arrangement was quite new to me. We sat at small tables in the same room as the music, each person being told at which table they were to sit; and between each piece of music different refreshments were brought in, ending, at last, with a real supper. No table-cloth was put on the table; the plates were merely set before you, and the dishes handed round.

January 26. I went out early with Princess Taxis to see the church in the Burg where all the royal hearts are kept! In a small corner of the church you look through some iron railings at a long row of silver urns, with inscription son them, which contain the hearts. The custom is, whenever a royal person dies, to take out the heart, and place it here; the inside of the body being placed in another church, and the rest of the body in a third! I confess that, in