The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-08 00:00:00

Viscountess Palmerston's Assembly.

On Saturday night Viscountess Palmerston commenced
her receptions at Cambridge House, Piccadilly. Pre-
viously to the evening party the noble viscount and vis-
countess entertained a distinguished party at dinner, the
guests including—His Excellency the Belgian Minister and
Madame Van de Weyer, his Excellency the Marquis
d'Azeglio, the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne,
the Earl and Countess of Tankerville, the Earl and Coun-
tess of Cork, the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury and
Lady Victoria Ashley, the Earl of Coventry, the Earl
Cowper, Viscountess Jocelyn and the Hon. Misses Jocelyn,
Lord Frederick Cavendish, Hon. Evelyn Ashley, and Mr.
Henry Greville. Covers were laid for 22.
At half-past ten o'clock Viscountess Palmerston's saloons
were thrown open for the reception of company. Among
the members of the diplomatic corps present were—His
Excellency the Turkish Ambassador and Madame and
Madlle. Musurus, his Excellency the Prussian Ambassador
and the Countess Bernstorff, his Excellency Baron de Cetto,
his Excellency the Danish Minister, his Excellency the
Swedish Minister, his Excellency Count Lavradio, his Ex-
cellency the Saxon Minister, his Excellency the Spanish
Minister and Madame Comyn, the Hanoverian Charge
d'Affairs and Baroness Biome, the Marquis and Mar-
chioness d'Andigne, Baron Beck Friis, M. C. Tricoupi, M.
de Santos, Count Paumgarten, Count Maffei, M. and
Madame Merry del Val, Count de Montmarin, M. E.
Musurus, and M. Sabouroff. The general company in-
cluded the Duke and Duchess of Somerset, the Duke of St.
Albans, the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, the Duchess
of St. Albans and Lady Diana Beauclerk, the Duchess of
Sutherland, the Archbishop:of Armagh and Mrs. Beresford,
the Marquis of Normanby, Maria Marchioness of Ailes-
bury, the Earl and Countess of Erroll, the Earl of St.
Germans, the Earl and Countess Fortescue, the Earl of
Sefton, the Earl of Charlemont, the Earl and Countess
Grey, the Countess of Albemarle and Lady Augusta Kop-
pel, the Countess of Desart, the Earl and Countess
Fortescue, the Countess of Rothes and the Hon. George
Waldegrave Leslie, the Earl and Countess Stanhope and
Lady Mary Stanhope, the Countess (Dow.) of Westmore-
land and Lady Rose Fane, Viscount Sudley, Viscount
Mahon, Viscount Hood, Viscount Chelsea and Hon. Miss
Cadogan, Lord Henley, M.P., Lord Abercromby, Lord
William Osborne, Lord and Lady Camoys and Hon. Misses
Stonor (2), Lord Llanover, Lord Houghton, Lord Cour-
tenay, Lady Stanley of Alderley and Hon. Misses Stanley
(2), Lady Anally and Hon. Miss White,Lord Loughborough,
Lord Edward St, Maur, Lady Mary Craven and Lady
Blanche Craven, Lady Bloomfield, Miss Villiers, Count
Strzelecki, Baron Marochetti, the Right Hon. Sir Alex-
ander Cockburn (the Lerd Chief Justice of England), the
Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, Bart., M.P., and Lady
Mary Wood, the Right Hon. Thos. M. Gibson, M.P., the
Right Hon. Sir George Grey, M.P., and Lady Grey, the
Right Hon. Robert Lowe, M.P., and Mrs. Lowe, the Right
Hon. William Hutt, M.P., and Mrs. Hutt, the Right Hon.
H. T. L. Corry, M.P., the Right Hon, William F. Cowper,
M.P., and Mrs. Cowper, the Right Hon. Frederick Peel,
M.P., and Mrs, Peel, the Right Hon. Sir Hamilton and
Lady Seymour and Misses Seymour (2), the Right Hon. the
Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Gladstone and Miss
Gladstone, the Right Hon, Charles P. Villiers, M.P., Hon.
Arthur Kinnaird, M.P., Hon. Henry Eliot, Hon. F. Leveson
Gower, M.P., Hon. F. Byng, Hon. Richard Edwardes,
Hon. Robert Meade, General the Hon. Sir Edward Oust
and Miss Cast, Hon, John Ashley, Hon. M. Wingfield,
Hon. Thomas and Mrs. Stoner, Hon. Lionel Ashley, Hon.
Harris 1 emple, Hon. William Ashley, Hon. Mr. Fortescue,
M.P., Hon. Edward Stanhope, Hon. Spencer and Mrs. Pon-
sonby, Hon. Mrs. Henry Fitzroy and Miss Fitzroy, Hon.
Mrs. J. A. Villiers, Hon. Francis and Mrs. Stoner, Hon.
Henry Brand, M.P., and Mrs. and Miss Brand, Hon. Jas.
Stuart Wortley, Hon. Hamilton Duncan, Hon, Richard
Edwardes, the Attorney-General and Lady Laura Palmer,
the Solicitor-General and Lady Collier and Miss Collier, Sir
Henry Rawlinson, Sir Henry and Lady Holland and Miss
Holland, Sir John Shaw Lefevre and Misses Shaw Lefevre
(2), Sir James and Lady Anne Mackenzie, Sir Roderick I.
Murchison, Colonel and Mrs. Jervoise, Colonel Francis Sey-
mour, C.B , Colonel Morris, C. 8., Colonel Farquharson,
Major Reilly, Major Alison, Captain Eastwick, Captain
Darner, M.P., and Hon. Mrs. Dawson Darner, Captain
Herbert, Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen, M.P., Mr. Oswald
and Misses Oswald (2), Macleod of Macleod, Mr. C.
Gilpin, M.P„ and Mrs. and Miss Gilpin, Mr. Bruce,
M.P., and Mrs. and Miss Bruce, Mr. Delane [and
why not? Mr. Cobden], Mr. Hayward, Mr. Calvert,
Mr. West, Mr. Alderson, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Van de
Weyer, Mr. Borthwick, Mr. Sandford, Mr. Henry West,
Mr. de Rothschild, Mr. A. Bonham Carter, Mr. C. G.
Barrington, Mr. T. G.-Baring, M.P., and Mrs. Baring, Mrs.
M. Baring, Mr. Swinton, Mr. Dalrymple, Mr. Buxton,
M.P., and Mrs. Buxton, Mr. Layard, M.P., Mr. George
Drummond, Mr. William Harcourt, Mr. Arthur Russell,
Mr. George Russell, Mr. George Cavendish, Mr. E, Her-
bert, Mr. Shaw Lefevre, Mr. Courtenay, Mr. and Mrs. H.
Petre, Mrs. Lister and Miss Lister, Mr. Duff, M.P., Mr.
Thynne, Mr. Wade, Mr. Thomsen Hankey, M.P., and
Mrs. Hankey, Mr. Johnstone, Mrs. Gorges and Miss Gorges,
Mr. Phinn, &c.

The time of her Majesty's arrival at Windsor is
now fixed for the 14th, but should the weather con-
tinue to be severe her Majesty will postpone her journey to
the 20th, Soon after her Majesty's arrival at Windsor the
Prince and Princess of Wales will go to Osborne, where
they will remain a short time to recruit the health of the
Princess. On Thursday her Royal Highness drove out in
the Home Park, and on Friday her Royal Highness walked
in the grounds at Frogmore. The Prince hunted with Mr.
Garth's fox-hounds on Wednesday last, and had some ex-
cellent sport in the neighbourhood of Virginia Water.
Two foxes were killed, and the Prince, being up at the
death of the first fox, brought away the brush, and
the head will be preserved. On his return to Frog-
more, the Prince, with several other gentlemen, put up at
the Bells of Owyley, and partook of slight refreshment
there. On Friday the Prince was present at the Windsor
Grand Military Steeplechases.—Court Journal.

PRINCESS LOUISA CHARLOTTE, wife of the
Landgrave William of Hesse, and mother-in-law of the
King of Denmark, is dangerously ill, and her recovery is
considered doubtful. She is 74 years of age.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge had
a dinner party on Saturday, at Gloucester House, Park-
lane. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge,
the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Szrelitz, and Princess
Mary, and a select party dined with the loyal Duke.
HIS EMINENCE CARDINAL WISEMAN, we are
happy to learn, is recovering from an attack of illness from
which, he has lately Wan suffering,