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Two Court ceremonials have been held. On Saturday, the Queen held a private investiture of the Order of the Bath, investing Sir Charles Yorke with the insignia of a Knight Grand Cross ; Major-General Lar- cour, Colonel Anthony Sterling, Mr. George Hodges, and Sir Edmund Head, with the insignia of Knights Commanders. A number of military and civil gentlemen were received as Companions. On Monday, her Majesty held a Chapter of the Order of the Garter, where the Duke of Newcastle was invested with the blue riband and "George," and the garter was buckled on his knee. At a Privy Council held on the same day, Parliament was ordered to be prorogued from the 3d of January to the 6th of February. Lord Bloomfield was sworn one of the Privy Council.
Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, the Princesses Alice and Helena, and Prince Louis of Hesse, went to Aldershot Camp on Wednesday, and returned on Thursday to Windsor Castle. A heavy fall of snow pre- vented the troops from assembling on parade ; but her Majesty drove and walked about the camp.
The list of guests at Windsor Castle includes the names of the Duke of Cambridge, the Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke of Devonshire, the • Marquis of Exeter, the Marquis Camden, the Marquis of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Westminster, the Marquis of Normanby, the Earl Granville, the Earl of St. Germans, the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl Spencer, the Earl of Clarendon, the Earl of Harrowby, Lord Sydney, Lord Palmerston, the Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of Oxford, the Earl of Ducie, Sir Augustus Clifford, and Sir Charles Young.
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