16 JUNE 1860, Page 6

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THE QUEEN held a Court and Privy Council at Buckingham Palace on Saturday. At the Privy Council, Dr. Longley, Archbishop designate of York, was sworn of the Privy Council. Mr. Arthur Helps was sworn in Clerk of the Privy Council, in the room of the Honourable William Bathurst. Mr. Edmund Stephen Harrison was sworn in as Deputy Clerk. At the Court, Dr. Wigram did homage on his appoint- ment as Bishop of Rochester. The Bishop of Antigua, General Dupuy, Minister for Hayti, Mr. Wyke, British Minister in Mexico, Earl Gran- ville, Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, and Sir G. d. Lewis, had audiences of the Queen.

Her Majesty held an Investiture of the Bath at Buckingham Palace on Monday, when many distinguished persons were invested with the insignia of the Order. [Their names have already appeared at different times.] On Tuesday the Queen held a Drawing-room at St. James's Palace, and on Wednesday her Majesty gave a Concert at Buckingham Palace. Accompanied by the Prince Consort, the King of the Belgians, the Princess Alice, and the Count of Flanders, the Queen has visited the Italian Opera and the Haymarket Theatre. The Prince Consort has visited the British Institution.

The list of her Majesty's' guests includes the names of the Bing of the Belgians, the Princess Alice, the Count of Flanders, Prince Frederick of the Netherlands and the Princess Marie, Prince Julius and Prince John of Holstein Glucksburg, the Duke and Duchess of Somerset, the Belgian Minister, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady Emma Stanley, and Sir Hamilton and Lady Seymour.