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QUEEN VicroatA held the first levee of the season on Wednesday, at St.
James's Palace. It was a remarkable one, both because it was so fully attended, and because so many persons of note were presented to her Majesty. The Diplomatic body mustered in considerable strength, and the lists of Peers and Commoners who waited on her Majesty are very full. Among those presented were many who have returned from the Crimea, and who have been rewarded by honours and promotion. Of these were—Major-General Sir Richard -tiny, Major Brandling, Major-General Sir G. Buller, Lieutenant-General Sir John Burgoyne, General Sir James Simpson, Colonel Chapman, (of Chapman's Battery,) Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas, Colonel Darby Griffiths, (Scots Greys,) Major-General Dupuis, Major-General the Earl of Luau', Colonel M`Murdo, Colonel Shirley, Major-General Sir James Scarlett, Captain W. Moorsom R.N., Captain Keppel R.N., Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons ; others who had returned from the Baltic—as Captain W. K. Hall R.N., Lieutenant Louis Geneste R.N. ; and other notables not from the Crimea or the Baltic—as General Sir Robert Gardiner, Mr. Thomas Fairbairn, Mr. C. J. Bayley, (Colonial Secretary at the Mauritius,) Mr. Pressly, Mr. Pashley, Mr. Baron Bramwell.
Her Majesty held an investiture of the Order of the Bath yesterday, at Buckingham Palace. Major-General Sir Richard England, Admiral Sir Graham Eden Hamond, and Lord Panmure, were invested with the Grand Cross. [The list of persons upon whom distinctions were yester- dayformally conferred is printed in the Spectator of the 9th instant.]
The Queen has displayed her wonted activity in sight-seeing. On Monday morning, at an early hour, she visited Burford's Panorama of Sebastopol : her Majesty drove thither with some of the children, and Prince Albert and the Prince of Wales went on horseback. On Tuesday, the Queen and Prince Albert inspected at Woolwich the trophies cap- tured at Bomarsund and in the Crimea. One visit has been paid by her Majesty to the Olympic Theatre. Among the guests at Buckingham Palace have been Count and Count- ess Dc Persigny, Earl and Countess Granville, Lord and Lady Hardinge, Sir James Graham, Major-General Cater, Major-General Sir George Buller.
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