The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-25 00:00:00

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The Queen held a levee yesterday afternoon at
St. James's Palace. The levee was numerously attended,
and the principal knights of the several orders of knight-
hood worn the collars of their rtspective orders. Her
Majesty and Prince Albert aerie 11 from Buckingham
Palace. attended by the Mistress of the Robes, the Duchess
of Sutherland; the Lady in Waiting, the Countess of
Gainsborough ; the Lord in Wniting, the Earl of Listowel ;
the Lord in 'Waiting to Prince Albert, Lord G. Lennox;
the Keeper of her Majesty's Privy Purse, Mr. G. E. Anson;
the Private Secretary to Prince Albert, Lieut.-Col. the Hon.
C. B. Phipps; the Groom in Waitioe, Admiral Sir E.
Codringtan, ; the Grimm in Waiting to Prince
Albert, Capt. F. Seymour ; the Equerry in Waiting, Col.
the Hon. C. Grey; the Equerry in Waiting to PrirtOe
Albert, Capt. the lion. A. H. Gordon ; and the Pages of
Honour, Messrs. Forbes and Gordon. The Great 011ie, rs of
State received her Majesty and her Royal Consort at St.
James's Palece.
Before the levee Lord /demon was presented to the
Queen at an audience in the royal closet, by the Lord
Chamberlain, and restored to her Majesty the ribbon and
badge of a civil knight grand cross of the order of the Bath
worn by the late Lord Metcalfe. Sir C. Rowley was pre-
sented to the Queen at an audience by the Lord Chamber-
lain, and restored the ribbon and badge of the most honour-
able military order of the Bath worn by his late father,
Admiral Bir C. Rowley. H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge
and H S.ll. Prince Frederick of Ilmse, attended by Baron
Knesebeck, were present at the lest e
The Queen and Prince Albert lumina entered the throne-
room the diplomatic corps were introduced, when the follow-
ing presentations to her Mejesty took !slime in the foreign
diplomatic circle; By the Count Dietricheein, the Austrian
Ambassador—Count It. Wenkheim, Capt. of Cuirassiers,
and Mr. C. removal. Capt. of the Ist Imperial Hussars; by
the Count Schimmelpenninck, the Netherlands Minister—
Count Coehoorn, Lieut. of the Royal Netherlands Horse
Artillery; by the Baron Rehauoen, Swedish Chargé
d'Affaires—Mona. A. Jarta, Secretary of the Swedish Le-
gation.
The foreign diplomatic circle was attended by Count
do St. Aulnire, the French Ambassador; Count Dietrich-
stein, the Austrian Ambassador, and Baron Koller, First Se-
cretary to the Embassy; M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian
i Minister, and M. Drouet, Secretary of Legation ; B iron de
Cotta, Bavarian Minister; Baron de Brunow, the Russian
Minister, and Baron de Nicolay. Secretary of Legation;
General Prince Castelcicala, the Neapolitan Minister ; Count
de Kielmarisegge, the Hanoverian Minister ; Baron de
Hugel, the Wurtemberg Minists r, and Baron de Linden,
Attache to the Legation ; Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian
Minister, end Prince Loewenstein, Secretary of Legation;
Le Commandeur Marques Lisboa, the Bruilian Mini-ter,
and M. Amaral, Attache to the Legation; Count de Revent-
low, the Danish Minister ; Col. J. M. lturregui, the Peru-
vian Minister; Prince Callimaki, the Ottoman Porte Minis-
ter; Mr. G. Bancroft, the United States Minister, and Mr.
J. It. Brodhead, Secretary of Legation; Count Schimmel-
penninek, the Netherlands Minister; Senor Toro, the Ve-
nezuelan Minister; Baron de Brunt, the Saxon Minister ;
Baron de Rehausen, the Swedish Charge d'Affaires ,• Iw
Chevalier de Tseon, the Spanish Chargé d'Affaires, and Le
Chevalier de Pedrorens, Secretary to the Mission; Count
Atrien do Revel, the Sardinian Chargé d'Affaires.
The general circle was attended by the Lord President,
the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the
Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial
Departments, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Pre-
sident of the Board of Control for the affairs of India, the
Chancellor of thc Duchy of Lancaster, t`ze President of the
Board of Trade, the rustntaster•Gentral, the Lord Steward,