The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-15 00:00:00

ept Court.

The Queen held a levee, the first this season,
yesterday afternoon, in St. James's Palace. The Queen and
Prise. Consort, attended by the ladies and gentlemen in
waiting. arrived from Buckingham Palace about '2 o'clock,
assorted by a detachment of Life Guards, and were received
by the great officers of state.
The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Edward of Saul
Weimar were present at the reception.
The Duke of Richmond hail an audience of the Queen,
and delivered to her M.ije•ty the riband and badge of the
Order of the Garter worn by his father, the late Duke of
Itiabasond.

Her Majesty and the Prince Consort entered the Throat-
iness, attended by the Marchioness of Ely, acting as Mis-
tress of the Robes for the Duchess of Sutherland ; Lady
Churchill, Lady in Waiting ; and the officers of the house-
hold. Mars. Loftus and Paget were the Pages of Honour
in Waiting.
The Queen wore a train of black waterod milk trimmed
with braullounes of black tulle and black satin ribbon ' • the
petticoat of black silk trimmed with black tulle and black
satin ribbon. Her M.ijesty wore as a headdress a diadem
of opals and diamonds.
The foreign ambassadors and misdate!" were introduced,
when the following presentations to the Queen Lusk place
in the diplomatic circle
By his Excellency the Turkish Ambassador : Etienne
Musurus Bey, Secood Secretary of the Imperial Embassy,
and son of his Excellency ; Paul Mumma Bey, first Attache.
of the Embrey, and son of his Excellency.
By his Excellency the French Ambassador: M. Bar-
thokli, Third Secretary to the Imperial Embassy; Baron de
Attachi: to the Imperial Embassy.
By the Persian Ambassador : Guaira /Chao, late Persian
Minister Plenipotentiary at St. Petersburg ; Colonel Ma-
hommed Ali Aga, Secretary Interpreter of the Persian
Embrey at the Court of St. James's.
By the Austrian Ambassador: Count Maximilian Ester-
hasy„ Attache to the Imperial and Royal Austrian Em-
brey.
By the Russian Ambassador: M. N. de Novitzkv, Lieut.•
Colonel aux Chevalier-Garde& of Lis Majesty the Emperor,
Attaché to the lniperial Enihosv.
By the Sanlinian Envoy: Le Comte Maffei, Second
Secretary of the Legation ; M. Adatui, Captain of the
Sardinian Artillery.

By the Greek itlinirror : Lieutenant Emmanuel Tombasi,
at the Royal Greek Navy.
By the Netherlands Minister: IL Hazel, First Secretary
to the Netherlands Legation at this cpurt.
Mr. Richard Charles Kirby, C. 8., late Accountant-Gene-
ral, War Department. was presented to the Queen by Luca
Imighthood
Herbert, and received from her Majesty the honour of
Mr. John Hillyanl Cameron. Q. 0., Grand Master of the
aLoyal.Orange Maculation of British America, presented an
to the Queen from their Grand Lodge, expressive of
their devoted loyalty to her Majest ,y representing that this
association is under no legal disability in British North
America, and that therefore their claim to be publicly recog-
nised daring the have
of the Prance of Wales through
Canada ought to have been admitted by the advisers of his
Royal Highness.
the following were among the presentations to the
Queen :
Mr. Aldennan and sheet!! Abblaa, by tho Right lion.
C. Lewis.

Baring. on appointment to be tinder-Secretary of state toe
ar, by Lor.l Herbert.

is;m4lanair—e . Boxer, P.N., to promotion, by the Duke el
flomereet

Commander Henry Cluistian, R.N. her lia,:esty's yacht:, by
Captain the lion. J. Denman.
Genet al Lord Clyde, on his return from India and appointment
to the Coldstream Guards, by the Duke of Cambridge.
Ilajorateneral Hon. A. A. Mizell, on appointment to the
0111001 Ind of the Dublin Division. by the Doke of Cambridge.
Mr. stair Douglas, late Colonial Secretary, Mauritius, by Lord
Monteagle.
Major W. Y. Eden, political agent to Eajputana, ou his return
bora India by lord George Lennox.
Viscount Enfield, M.P., by Viscount Torrington.
Itear,tdmind the Hoe. Sir Frederick W. Grey, on return from
foreign service, by Earl Grey.
sir Frederick Halliday, on being appointed by the
Secretary of State for India.
Mr. Janie' L Hart, Consul of Salvador, at London, by his Ex-
cellency Don Carlos Gutierrez.
Lord Edward Pittston Mosconi, on his appointment of deputy
earl mardist by Viscount Palmerston.
col. the lion. Percy Herbert, on appointment as deputy guar-
termaaterixneral at headquarters, by the Duke of Cambridge.
klaJor.Gelasal Sir John logils, by the Duke of Cambridge.
Vice-Ailmiral Hope Johnstone. on appointment as commander-
in -chief at the Sore, by the fluke of Somerset.
Lent... General Sir Harry Jones, on promotion to lieutenant-
general and appointment no colonel eonitnaneant ]loyal En-
gineers, by the Duke of ean.letidge.
Mr. Henry Brougham Loch, secretary to the Earl of Elgin, on
W return from China, by Lad John Russell.
Captain W. 0. Luard, 1L N., by Vice-Admiral W. J. Hope
Johnstone.

Leek, by the Eight Ilon. Sir G. C. Lewis.
The Lord Mayor. by Lord Palmerston.
Llentenant-Colonel J. Metcalfe, late Interpreter and A.D.C. to
the Commander-in.Chlef I. Leak by Lord Clyde.
. .

I;;.ita7lK;Pos iieSpTaTinics;nit,;lCanonr yat West-
minster, by Viscount Palmerston.
Lieutenant Colonel H. Wylie Norman, CH. on appointment
as Amistant•Militiry-Setretary. by the Duke of Cambridge.
Lieut.. Colonel St. George' Ord, on appointment to the govern.
spent of the Bermudas, by the Duke of Newcastle.
Mayor-General Lord Frederick Pauleb C B , on promotion and
being appointed hispectur.seneral of militia, by the Duke of
Cambridge.
Hear-Admiral R. S. Robinson. on promotion and appointment
to he controller of the navy, by the Duke of Somerset.
Km. A. Daimon° Robinson, by the Bishop of Loudon.
Mr. T. W. Sannders. on hie appointment n Ineorderof Bath,
by the Hight. lion. Mr G. I'. Lewis.
Mr. Tal. P. Shaffner, of liantocky, by the United States
Minister. . _

lea; Admiral Smart, on hoisting Ws flag In the Channel fleet.
by the Duke of Somerset.
Meld Georg* L. gullran, on appointment to her Majesty's
yacht Victoria mut Albert, by Captain Hon. J. Denman.
ltear•Atlmtral Sir Ballwin W. Walker. on appointment as
Commaaderda•Chls: of the Cape of Cioutl Hope station, by the
Dike of Somerset

Williams,Dr. iCM promotion, return from India, and appoint-
ment as Principal Medical liffieer in Ireland, b Dr. Gibson.
Lleutenant.General Pir (has. Yorke, on being appointed a
Knight Grand Crain of the Bath, by the Duke of Cambridge.
A deputation from promoters of Caledonian, Edinburgh,
and Glasgow, and ficottinh Central Railway. Amidgamation
Bill, a of Mr. Sall[4l, chairman (Caledonian); Mr.
Blackburn, chairman (Edinburgh and Glasgow) ; Sir
James Pergemea, M.P., Mr. Hadfield, M.P., and Mr.
Thomas Brice, bad an interview with the Right Hon. T.
"Meer Gibson and the Right Hon. W. Hutt 'esti:clay, at
the office of the Board of Trade.
Mr. Ribbon., Mr. F. Chapman, and Mr. Shadwell, Secre-
tary, had an isterview with the right hon. gentleman on
the "abject of 'laminate Harbour.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester-
day. An appeal from Madras, " Veseatuwara Backer v.
Alogoomoottoo Serraearem" was part beard.
Despatches were received yesterday at the ColoniaLoffice
from the Governors of the West India Islands, and from
the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. Dm
'patches were sent to the Governor of (loads.

Her Majesty's Theatre was honoured last even-
ing by the presence of ber most gracious Majesty the
Queen, his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, her Royal
Highness the Princess Alice, bar Royal Highness the
Princess Eleanor, attended by Lady Churchill, Miss
Stopford, Lord de Tabley, Lord A. Paget, and Lieut.-Col.
de Ruse.

The Princess Wamiltchikoff has arrived at the
Clareedoe Hotel. Boed-street, free' Park

On Tuesday last the Rev. William Barlow, M. A.,
wee instituted to the vicarage of Totten's, in Norfolk, on
the presentation of the Most Hon. John Marquit Townshend.

kr. Danby Seymour, M.P., i; laid up at
Turin by an attack of rheumatic fever and bronchitis.
The members appointed by the Speaker to serve
es the general committee of elections of 1861 are—Sir
F. T. Baritg, Mr. S. H. Walpole, Mr. H. A. Herbert,
Sir W. Miles, Bart., Mr. H. L. Seymer, and Mr. J. B.
Carter.

The children of the Licensed Victuallers' School,
who have visited Drum-lane Theatre and Cremona.-
prdeng in turn, for the second time attended a morning
performance at the Canterbury Hall yegterdsr, the entire
proceeds arising out of which will be handed over for the
benefit of the institution.