The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-23 00:00:00

THE DRAWING ROOM.

The Queen held a Drawing room (the third this
season) yesterday afternoon in St. James's Palace. Her
Majesty and Prince Albert arrived from Buckingham PalaY
attended by the real suite and escorted by a party of the
Life Guards. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Mr. E.
Mildmay, was present at the drawing-room. Prince George '
and the Duke George of Mecklenburg-Strelitz also attended
the drawing-room.
The Queen and Prince Albert entered the throne.room
accompanied by their royal visitors. Her Majesty wore a
black silk train, and a petticoat covered with crape and
richly ornamented with bugles. Her Majesty's head-dress
was formed of black feathers and lappets. In aL
tendance on the Queen and the Prince were the
Mistress of the Robes, the Viscountess Jocelyn (in
waiting), the Duchess of Norfolk, the Countess of
Gainsborough, the Marchioness of Douro, the Countess of
Charlemont, the Viscountess Canning, ant the Countess of
Desert, Ladies of the Bedchamber ' • Hon. Miss Cavendish
(in waiting), Hon. Miss Macdonald (in waiting', Lady Ca-
roline Cocks, Hon. Miss Stanley, Hon. Miss l'aget, and
Hon. Miss Kerr, Maids of Honour ; Hon. Mrs. George
Campbell, Lady Gardiner, Hon. Mrs. Brand, and Lady Ca-
roline Barrington, Bedchamber Women; Lord Elphinatoae,
Lord in Waiting ; Lord G. Lennox, Lord in Waiting to
the Prince; Lieut.-Col. the Hon. R. Boyle, Groom in
Waiting ; Col. Wylde, Groom in Waiting to the Prince ;
Col. Buckley, Equerry in Waiting; Col. Bouverie, Equerry
in Waiting to the Prince; Meters. Forbes and Crofton,
Pages of Honour is Waiting.
The foreign ministers and their ladies were introduced,
when the following gentlemen bad the honour of being pre-
sented to her Majesty the Queen and the Prince in the
diplomatic circle ; Le Baron H. de Firemen, by the Count
Reventlow, the Danish Minister; the Prince Constantine
Soutzo, of Bucharest, by the Prince Callimaki, the Turkish
Minister ; Mr. Jay, by Mr. Bancroft, the American Minister ;
Le Baron d'lJgglas, by Baron Rehausen, the Swedish Mi-
nister ' the Count Desgeneys, by the Count de Revel, the
Sardinian Minister.
The foreign diplomatic circle was attended by Count Die-
trichetein, the Austrian ambassador, and M. de Dumreicher,
attaché to the embassy ; the Belgian Minister, and Madame
Van de Weyer. and M. Eugene de Gertache, attaché to the
legation ; the Bavarian Minister and Baroness de Cetto ; the
Portnguese Minister and Viscountess de Moncorvo, and the
Chevalier de Ribeiro, secretary of legation; Le Chevalier
Pulto de Soveral, attaché to the legation; and lit. de
Monies garment*, attaché to the legation; the Rus-
sian Minister and Baroness de Itrunnow, Mademoi-
selle Olga de Lechner, and Le Baron de Nicolay, secre-
tary of legation; General Prince Castelcicala, Neapolitan
Minister, and M. G. Canofari, secretary of legation;
Count de Kielmansegge, the Hanoverian Minister; Baron
de Hugel, the Wurtemberg Minister ; the Chevalier Bun-
sen, Prussian Minister; Le Commas Marques Lisboa,
Basilian Minister, Le Chevalier Pinto Peixots, attaché to
the legation, and Capt. Joaquin Marques Lieber, Imperial
Brazilian Navy ; the Danish Minister and Countess de
Reventlow, and M. de Bielke, secretary of legation ,• the
Ottoman Porte Minister and Princess ; the Ame-
rican Minister and Mrs Bancroft, and Mr. Brodhead, secre-
tary of legation; the ISetherlands Minister and Mademoi-
selle Schimmelpenninck, and Baron Stratenus, councillor to
the legation • Senor Jose Maria Luis Mora, Mexican Mr
nister, and 'M. de Lizards, attache to the legation; the
Swedish Minister, and Baroness de Rehausen ; Count Adrien
de Revel, the Sardinian Minister, and Baron Isola, secretary
of legation • Viscount Palmerston 0.C.8., her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for foreign Altair', and Vis-
countess Palmerston.
The neral circle wae attended by the Arabbishop of
Armaghge, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Lord Cham-
berlain, the Lord Steward, the Muter of the Morse, the
Groom of the Stole to the Prince, the Captain of the Hon.
Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, the Captain of the Yeoman
Guard, Viscount Combermere, gold stick in waiting ; Lord
Monteagle, comptroller of the exchequer • the Treasurer of
the Household, the Comptroller of the dousehold, Sir M.
Wyatt, lieutenant of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms;
Sir G. Moulton, ensign of the Yeoman Guard; Sir A. Clifford,
Bart., gentleman usher of the black rod ; Mr. D. J. Har-
mer, standard bearer of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms;
the Dean of Hereford, deputy clerk of the closet in waiting