the Cunt THE QUERN held an Investiture of the Order
of the Bath on Saturday,. at Buckingham Palace, when a large number of distinguished officers were decorated. Among the principal were Vice-Admiral Deans Dun- des, Lieutenant-General the Duke of Cambridge, and Lieutenant-General Sir De Lacy Evans, who were Knighted, and invested with the Grand Cross of the Military Division ; and Sir Charles Augustus Fitzroy, Colonel Cautley, and Colonel Justin Sheil, who were made Knights Commanders of the Civil Division.
On Saturday the Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the King of the Belgians, the Princess Royal, the Count of Flanders, and the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, went to the Crystal Palace, and stayed to dine there, returning to town at a quarter before eleven.
Her Majesty inspected one hundred wounded Guards at Buckingham Palace on Monday morning. She subsequently gave audience to Prince Gholam Mahomed, and Prince Feroze Shah, the son and grandson of Tippoo Seib ; who took leave of her Majesty on their return to India. The Earl of Westmorland had audience of the Queen on his arrival from Vienna.
The Qilteerr left town on Tuesday for Osborne, accompanied by the King of the Belgians, visiting the Camp at Aldershott by the way, and arriving at Osborne soon after seven in the evening.
Unfavourable weather kept the Queen and her guests within doors on Wednesday ; but on Thursday evening, accompanied by the Royal party at Osborne, her Majesty embarked on board the new yacht Victoria and Albert, at Cowes, and cruised for an hour out to sea as far as the Nab Light—the royal standard and the Belgian flag flying from the yacht. This is her Majesty's first cruise in the Victoria and Albert.
The Count and Countess de Persigny, the Earl and Countess Granville, M. and Madame Van de Weyer, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord and Lady Hardinge, and Sir Hamilton and Lady Seymour, dined with the Queen before she left town.
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