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AT a Privy Council held on Saturday at Buckingham Palace, Earl Granville resigned the seals of the Duchy of Lancaster, and the Earl of Har-
rowby was sworn of the Privy Council and Chancellor of the Duchy. Mr. Bouverie was sworn of the Privy Council, and appointed Vice-Presi- dent of the Board of Trade. The Earl of Clarendon, Lord Palmerston, Sir George Grey, and Sir Charles Wood, had audiences of her Majesty. The Queen and the Prince Consort have had a busy week. On Satur- day, they visited the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, accompanied by the Duke of Cambridge and the Prince of Leiningen. On Monday, they re- ceived, at Buckingham Palace, fifty invalided men of the Guards; and Prince Albert, accompanied by Lord Hardinge, visited the camp in
preparation at .Aldershott. On Wednesday, Prince Albert inspected a draught of the Guards under orders for the Crimea : the men afterwards paraded before her Majesty in the Quadrangle of Buckingham Palace. The Court left Buckingham Palace at three o'clock on Wednesday, and arrived at Windsor Castle shortly after four. The Queen's guests have included the Earl of Harrowby, the Earl and Countess St. Germans, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Herbert, the Prince and Princess Augustus of Saxe Coburg, Prince Ernest of Leiningen, Major Morris of the Seventeenth Lancers, and the Earl of Clarendon.
The aldur usually bestowed at this season by the ,Queen were distri- buted, on Thursday, by the Lord High Almoner, to thirty-six men and thirty-six women-:the number corresponding to the years of her Majesty.
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