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Tut Queen gave audience to Lord Melbourne and the Duke of Argyll on Monday. Lord Melbourne, with the Earl of Belfast, the Earl of Surry, Mr. William Cowper, and Mr. George Anson, dined at Bucking- ham Palace ou Tuesday. Her Majesty took a carriage-airing on Wed- nesday afternoon, with the Princess of Leiningen and the Countess of Burlington, Lord Melbourne, Lord Morpeth, and Mr. Charles Howard, dined with the Queen in the evening. Her Majesty held a Court at Buckingham Palace on Thursday, for the reception of the address from the House of Lords. The Peers assembled in the green drawing-room, all in court-dress, and were ushered into the presence of the Queen in the Throne-room. Her Ma- jesty received the address on the throne, supported by the Dutchess of
Sutherland, and most of the Great Officers of State and of the House- hold. The Lords advanced to the tbot of the throne, and the Lord Chancellor read the address ; to which her Majesty returned the " most gracious answer " given in our account of Parliamentary proceedings. Among the Peers present, were the Archbishops of Canterbury and Armagh, the Bishops of London, Exeter, Rochester, Lincoln, Carlisle, Gloucester, and Dromore ; the Dukes of Wellington, Buckingham, Newcastle, Beaufort, and Montrose; the Marquises of Abereorn, Lo- thian, Ely, Camden, Salisbury, and Westmeath ; the Earls of Bandon, Wilton, Roden, Warwick, Devon, and Lonsdale ; Viscounts Strang- ford, Canterbury, and Canning ; Lords Cowley, Forester, Bexley, Rolle, Kenyon, Lyndhurst, and Ileytesbury. A considerable crowd of persons, m»ost of them well-dressed. assembled to view time procession. As the Peers and 'Ministers passed along, there was a good deal of mixed cheering, groaning. and guttural execrations, resembling certain sounds heard sometimes in the lionse of Commons, rather than the common hissing of the olden time. The cheers, it ap- peared, were for the Tories, the execrations for the Whigs. The Duke of Wellington, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Lyndharst, and the Duke of Newcastle, were the chief favourites. Lord John Russell, Lord Pahnerstoa, and Lord }timid:, were honoured with vociferous hootings—Lord John receiving the greater portion. All the Ministers were thus assailed more or less. Lord Melbourne did not leave the Palace till some time after the other Lords ; but the crowd waited for him, and as soon as his carri.tge drove off, hissel the Premier with much perseverance. The Morniuy Citron Wit. says that the people were regularly drilled by Mr. Henry Baring, Mr. Percevid, Sir James Graham, Mr. Bonham, Mr. Cecil Forester, and Mr. Holmes; and the Gioia!, to show how little the multitude knew what they were about, slates that Mr. Henry Baring, by way of joke, got up a hiss for Lord Forester. Instead of the old dirty flag—the standard of En:dand—a new standard, of brilliant colours, floated over the Palace e,itrauee. The affair, however, was not very triumphant for the ininates and favourites of the Palace.
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