tbt Court Tam chief incidents at Court have been connected
with the visit of the King of Sardinia to Queen Victoria. Her Majesty accompanied the King to Woolwich on Saturday, gave a banquet every day in his honour, and on Wednesday presided at the installation of Victor Emmanuel as a Knight of the Garter. The Chapter of the Order was held at three in the afternoon, in the Throne-room of Windsor Castle. Besides Prince Albert and the Duke of Cambridge, there were fourteen Knights present —the Marquis of Exeter, the Duke of Richmond, the Marquis of Lame. downs, the Duke of Cleveland, Earl De Grey, the Marquis of Abercorn, the Marquis Camden, the Earl of Clarendon, Earl Spencer, Earl Fitz- williarn, the Duke of Northumberland, the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl of Ellesmere, and the Earl of Aberdeen. The proceedings were throughout of the usual description, with this exception, that a new statute was read by the Chancellor of the Order for the especial purpose of admitting the King of Sardinia as a Knight, any rule or statute notwithstanding. The King wore the dark-blue and silver uniform of a Sardinian General. The Queen received him standing ; and after the customary form of election, her Majesty, assisted by Prince Albert, buckled on the Garter. Then the Chancellor pronounced the admonition ; the Queen placed the riband and the George over the left shoulder of the King, and gave him the accolade. The Chapter being ended, her Majesty accompanied the King to his apartment. In the evening there was a grand banquet in the Hall of St. George, served with "the greatest magnificence " ; and at its termi- nation the Lord Steward proposed the health of the King of Sardinia, and the band played the Sardinian hymn. The King of Sardinia de- parted on Thursday before the dawn. Queen Victoria breakfasted with her guest at half-past four in the morning, and bade farewell to his Majesty at the grand entrance when he set out for the Continent at five o'clock.
The dinner-parties at Windsor Castle during the week have included the following-
Tbe Duchess of Kent, tlie Dachess of Cambridge, the Princess Royal, the Princess Mary Of Cambridge, the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Dnetess of Sutherland, the Lord Chancellor and Lady Cran- worth, the Duke of Wellington, the Sardinian Minister, the Turkish Minis- ter and Madame Musurus, the Marquis of Breadalbane, Lady Fanny How- ard, the Baroness de Spaeth, Lady Caroline Murray, Lady Caroline Bar- rington, Lady Isabel Howard, the Marquis of Abercorn, Earl Spencer, the Earl and Countess of Derby, the Earl of Clarendon, the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl of Malmesbury, Lord and Lady Palmerston, Lord Wodehouse, the Speaker, Colonel and Mrs. Phipps and Miss Phipps, Lady Anna Maria Cast, Sir George Grey, Mr. and Lady Mary Labouchere, Sir George C. Lewis, Mr. Sidney Herbert, Mr. Gladstone, Admiral M. Berkeley, Sir James Clark, the Reverend W. Canning, Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Lieutenant-General Sir De Lacy Evans, Mr. and Mrs. Clark, the French Ambassador and the Countess De Persigny, the Duke of Argyll, the Earl of Hardwicke' the Earl of Minto, Lord and Lady John Russell, Lord Panmure, Sir Charles Wood, Sir James Graham, Lieutenant-General Sir John Burgoyne, Major-General Sir Colin Campbell, Miss Codrington, Miss Emma and Miss Maria Codringfon, the Earl of Luca% the Earl of Harrowby, Mr. M. T. Baines, Baron Marochetti, Vice-Admiral Cochrane, Captain Milne, R.N., Count De Cavour, Duke Pasqua, Chevalier Massimo D'Azeglio, Major- General Count Morozzo de In Rocca, Major-General Chevalier Lusema D'Angrogna, Major-General le Chevalier Carderina, Le Chevalier Riberi, Co- lonel le Chevalier Cigala, Captain Count de Persan, Captain Count de Ba- rone, Captain Count de Robilant, Lord Byron and Colonel Hood, (in attend- ance on the King of Sardinia,) Major Purves, and Colonel James Mac- donald.
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