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THE Queen held an investiture of the Order of the Bath on Saturday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. The Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of Wellington Senior Knight Grand Cross, Viscount Palmerston, Lieutenant-General Sir Charles James Napier, Lieutenant-General Vis- count Hardinge, and the Earl of Ellenborongh, were among the 'Knights Grand Cross present. Her Majesty-was aceompanied by Field-Marshal Prince Albert, Great Master of the Order of the Bath. Her Majesty's attendants and the Knights Grand Cross, robed in their mantles of crimson satin, and wearing their collars, passed into the throne-room, and were arranged in due order on either side of her Majesty. Lord Fitzroy Somerset and Sir John Macdonald, as the two Junior Knights Grand Cross, then received at the entrance of the throne-room Lieutenant-General James L. Caldwell, of the East India Company's service, and conducted him to the Queen's presence: her Ma- jesty placed a riband and badge of a Knight Grand Cross of the Bath over his right shoulder. Sir James then kissed her Majesty's hand received a star of the Order, and withdrew. Sir George Russell similarly received the ensigns of a civil Knight Commander of the Bath. Sir Henry Light, late Governor of British Guiana, had the honour of Knight- hood, and afterwards received the ensigns of a Civil Knight Commander of the Bath. Major-General Archibald Galloway, of the East India Com- pany's service, Lieutenant-Colonel Duncan Macgregor, and Lieutenant- Colonel Charles Rowan, had each the honour of Knighthood, and after- wards received the ensigns of Knights Commanders of the Order.
The Queen held the second levee of the season, at St. James's Palace, on Wednesday. The Duke of Cambridge and the Hereditary Prince of Parma were present. Among the diplomatic presentations, were those of Prince Petrulla, a Sicilian nobleman from Palermo, by the Neapolitan Minister, and M. de Treschow, as Plenipotentiary Of the King of Den- mark. The general presentations included those of Sir Henry Light, on leaving the Government of British Guiana; Lieutenant-Colonel Rowan, Lieutenant-General Caldwell, and Major-General Sir Archibald Galloway, on their respective receipt of honours in the Order of the Bath. After the levee, Captain Augustus Hotham had an audience to deliver to the Queen the ensigns of a G.C.B., worn by the late Admiral. Sir William Hotham.
A Privy Council was held by the Queen, at Buckingham Palace, on Thursday: Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, and Lord Pal- merston, had audiences.
The Queen and Prince Albert drove to Stanmore on Tuesday, and visited Queen Adelaide. On Saturday they went to Drury Lane Theatre, and saw the performances of the French equestrian company : the Queen ap- plauded heartily, and staid to the end.
The Duke and Dutchess of Cambridge joined her Majesty's dinner-circle on Monday. Count Colloredo, the Austrian Minister, has also been among the guests.
Prince Albert attended a lecture on magnetism, by Mr. Faraday, at the Royal Institution, on Monday: on Thursday the Prince was present, with the Duke of Wellington, at the performance of Handel's Israel is Egypt by the Sacred Harmonic Society. The Queen, Prince Albert, and their family, left Buckingham Palace yesterday, for Osborne, by the South-western Railway.
The Dutchess of Kent visited the Queen on Thursday, and returned again to Frogmore House. Saturday was the seventy-fourth birthday of the Duke of Cambridge. The Duke and Dutchess were entertained that day by the Dutchess of Gloucester and the Princess Mary, at Gloucester House.
The Princess Amillie of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst is on a visit to the Queen-Dowager, at Stanmore Priory.
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