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THE Qinnis, who still remains at Buckingham Palace, has held two Courts, a Privy Council, and an investiture of the Order of the Bath, this week.
At the Court and Privy Council, held on Monday, Lord John Russell resigned the seals as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and the Earl of Clarendon received them. Viscount Combermexe took the oaths as Constable of the Tower.
At a Court held yesterday, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe had an au- dience of her Majesty, to take leave on return to his embassy at Constan- tinople; and Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer had an audience, on his arrival, on temporary leave of absence, from the Court of Florence. The investiture of the Bath was held on Tuesday ; when Lord Cowley was invested with the riband and badge of a Knight Grand Cross (Civil Division) ; Mr. William Gore Ouseley and Mr. Belford Hinton Wilson were made Knights, and invested with the insignia of Knight Commander (Civil Division) ; and Lieutenant-General Macleod, of the East India service, also received the honour of knighthood, and was in- vested as Knight Commander (Military Division.) The Queen and Prince Albert went to the Lyceum Theatre on Monday, to the Haymarket on Thursday, and to the French Play last night. On Monday they visited the studio of Baran Maroehetti.