be Court.
Their Majesties came to St. James's Palace on Tuesday; and, with the exception of a visit on Wednesday, paid by the Queen to her suffering niece at Windsor, they have not left town during the week. The reason assigned generally for this step, is the desire of the King to be at hand during the crisis of the Reform Bill : in this case, we presume, he will not quit town until after the third reading; for its crisis will not be past till then—at present it is only forming. On Thursday, his Majesty held a ,,Levee, at which a long petition was presented by Lord Winchilsea against the Irish School system. The only remarkable incident of the Levee, was the presentation of M. Lavalette, by Prince Talleynind.
In the evening, there was a grand dinner given to the Knights Grand Crosses of the Bath ; at which the following were present— The Duke ofeumberland.the Duke orGloucester, Count Woronzow, Sir Alured Clarke, Lord Howden, the Duke of Wellington, Sir George Hilary Barlow, Viscount Strang ford, Sir Richard 0. Keats, Viscount Beresford, Lord Lynedoch, Lord Hill, Sir Edward Paget, Viscount Combermere, Lord Stuart de Rothesay, Sir William Keppel, Sir John Doyle, the Marquis of Londonderry, Sir George Murray, Sir William Henry Clinton, Sir James Kempt, Sir Gordon Drummond, Sir George Cockburn, Sir Thomas Hislop, Sir John Malcolm, Lord Howard of Effingham, Sir Thomas Foley. the Earl of Rossiya, the Duke of Gordon, Lord Farnborough, Sir George Martin, Sir Harry Neale, Sir John Oswald, Sir Edward Thornbrough, Viscount Granville, Sir Henry Fane, Sir Edward Cothington. Sir Robert Gordon. Sir T. Byam Martin, Sir James H. Whitshed, Sir Philip C. Durham, Sir John Byng, Sir Robert Stopford, Sir Henry Grey, Sir Henry Wavle, Sir Thomas Williams, Sir William Hargood, Sir William Lumley, Sir P. Willoughby Gordon. Sir Thomas M. Hardy. .
The dinner was served in the Banqueting-room ; which, from the description of the Court Newsman, must have been grand. The chronicler luxuriates over the vases and cups and ewers of gold and of silver that decorated the sideboard. .
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