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QUEEN noroarA was scarcely installed once more in her castle- at Wind- sor, before she received her royal visitors from Belgium, and enteredinto the business of the State.
Her Majesty held a Court and Privy Council on Monday. At the Council, Parliament was further prorogued to the 29th November ; Mr. John Parker was sworn of the Privy Council; and a proclamation was issued for the election of a Representative Peer of Scotland in the room of the late Lord Saltoun.
At the Court, Safhi Khan, the Persian Minister, Sir Edmund Lyons, General Lopez, Sir William Hotham, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Clarendon, Earl Granville, and Lord John Russell, had audiences. Yesterday, the Queen presided over a Chapter of the Order of the Thistle. The Knights present were Prince Albert, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Mansfield, and the Earl of Elgin. With due ceremony, the Earl of Haddington, the Duke of Atholl, and Lord Panmure, were seve- rally elected Knights, and invested with the insignia of the order. Accompanied by Prince Albert, the King of the Belgians, the Duke and Duchess of Brabant, and the Count of Flanders, her Majesty visited London on Thursday, and called upon the Duchess of Gloucester. On Monday morniug, the Queen and the Duchess of Brabant rode in the Ridinghouse, and on Wednesday drove in a carriage ; while Prince Al- bert, the Xing of the Belgians, and the two Flemish Princes, were out shooting. The royal children and the Princess Charlotte of Belgium have been companions.
Among the guests at the Queen's table this week, the Court circular names the Duchess of Kent, Lord Aberdeen, Lord Clarendon, Mr. Glad- stone, M. Van de Weyer, the Austrian Minister and Countess Colloredo.
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