2 APRIL 1859, Page 9

The Queen will hold a Levee at St. James's Palace

on the 6th, and a Drawingroom on the 14th April.

Captain Frederic Sayer has been appointed Police Magistrate at Gibraltar. Major-General Marcus Slade has been appointed Lieutenant- Governor of the Island of Guernsey.

Mr. N. S. Maskelyne lectured at the Royal Institution last evening on the "Crystal Molecule" and the employment of polarized light as a means of gaining an insight into its nature.