5 JULY 1845, Page 5

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Ters Queen held a Court and Privy Council at Buckingham Palace on Monday. At the Court her Majesty held two investitures of the Knightly orders. The first was an investiture of the order of the Bath—Prince Albert being the Acting Grand Master: Admiral Sir Otway Waller was invested as a Knight Grand Cross; Colonel Sir James Dennis, as a Knight Commander. Next there was an investi- ture of the Order of St. Michael and St. George—the Duke of Cambridge Grand Master: Prince George of Cambridge was invested as a Knight Grand Cross. At the Privy Council, Mr. Henry Lytton Bulwer, Envoy in Spain, and Mr. Wil- liam Bingham Baring, Paymaster of the Forces, were admitted as Privy Councillors, and took the oaths and their seats at the board. The Marquis of Westminster took the oaths as Lord-Lieutenant of Chester, Sir Stephen Richard Glynne as Lord-Lieutenant of Flint. Audiences were given to Lord Wharncliffe, Sir Edmund Cromwell Disbrowe, Envoy Extraordinary to Holland, the Marquis of Downshire, (who delivered the insignia of the Bath worn by his late father,) and the Lord Chamberlain.

Prince Albert: and the Duke of Cambridge, attended the review of troops in Hyde Park, on Monday, with a brilliant Staff. The troops were the Household Regiments of Foot and Cavalry. There were several evolutions and a sham fight, which all passed off well; the weather being propitious, and the concourse of spectators immense.

The Queen and Prince Albert, with their Royal visiters the King and Queen of the Belgians, have been to several public entertainments—to the Italian Opera on Saturday; the French Play on Wednesday; the Floricultural show in the Re- gent's Park on that morning ; last night, to hear Les Huguenots performed by the Belgian Company at Drury Lane; and on Thursday, the same party visited Mr and Mrs. Lawrence, at Ealing Park. There have been daily dinner-parties, of a select kind, at Buckingham Palace.

The Queen Dowager, with the Grand Dutchess Ida, the Princesses Anna and Ameie, Princes Edward and Armand, paid a visit at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday. The King of the Belgians held a diplomatic levee at Buckingham Palace on Thursday: it was very numerously attended.