The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-30 00:00:00

The Princess of Wales' First Ball.

The Prince of Wales gave as evening patty and
a dance, last evening, at Marlborough House, to a
limited number of the nobility and gentry.
The who e of the suite of the principal apart-
ments were prepared for the occasion.

The new saloon was made the dancing-room, and
the vestibule, which was the grand hall previous to
the occupancy of the Prince of Wales, now is part
of the suite of state rooms, and last night formi-d
the drawing-room; the large dining-room on the
one side of the saloon was appropriated for supper,
and the library on the other aide for promenade
between the dances.

The drawing-room, in which the Prince and Prin-
cess received their guests, is entered from the new
hall, by crossing the corridor. This apartment is
how hung on three sides with tapestry, including a
large and very fine work—" The destruction of the
Mamelukes by the Pacha of Egypt"—and a series
of panels illustrating the story and adventures of
Don Quixote. On the 4th side (the east) is t, large
looking-glass over Ihe fireplace, fixed on a panel of
dark blue, the panel on either side being painted
arabesques on a crimson ground. The doorways are
hung with draperies of dark blue velvet with deep
gold-coloured borders and trimmings. The entab-
lature of the room, and the friezes, and architraves
over the doors are gilt, and assisted with bright
colour. The ceiling is adorned with dark richly
coloured pictures, reLeved with gilding. The apart.
ment contained a quantity of choice cabinets and
other beautiful pieces of furniture, and articles of
fine art and vertu; and, with the gay flowers that
entirely filled the vacancy of the fireplace and other
interstices, and the lofty candelabra (some of them
nine feet high) which aided the illumination,
formed an effect of colour in the ensemble that
might very fairly be termed gorgeous.
The ceiling of the saloon is supported by eight
columns of white and gold, two at each corner of the
centre compartment, and they therefore mark the
boundaries of the three rooms which this new apart-
ment has ebsorbed. The shafts of the columns art
marked in three equal parts by bands of gilt ara-
besque. The lower compartment, spricging from the
base, is covered with a twining mass of ivy leaves
and berries so thick and solidly gilt that scarcely
any of the white ground is visible; the two upper
divisions are foliated with the lotus leaf, the enges
being merely tipped with gold. The capitals of the
columns, which are composite in their oda., are
solidly gilt. The walls of the saloon are of a deli-
cate warm grey, or dove colour, panelled in figured
satin, of a colour which can perhaps be best described
as midway between scarlet and crimson, such panes
bordered with a broad gilt moulding. Between the
larger panel a narrow strip of green with gilt ara-
besques is introduced, having also a gilt moulding,
and leaving a sufficient space of wall between each,
The beautitut draperies were of the same colour and
material as the panels, with gilt cornices and gold-
coloured cords end trimmings. The architectural
embellishments of the ceiling are developed with
delicate grey and neutral colours in harmony with
the colour of the walls, but the frieze has a ground
of bright scarlet and is enriched with gold. Open-
ing from the saloon to the garden a large tent was
erected, filled with choice plants and floral treasures,
with a background of looking-glass; and through
this tent was viewed a large bed of growing flowers
in the garden, illuminated with variegated lamps.
The room was brilliantly illuminated by three large
cut glass chandeliers, with wax candles and other
subsidiary lights, and was decorated with a pro-
fusion of flowers. The settees round the room were
of the same bright rich colour as the panels and
draperies. The doors were panelled in looking-
glass, with gilt mouldings.
The principal ornaments of the supper room were
two admirable oval half-length portraits of the
Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, by A.
Graefle, a small bronze statuette of the Queen, and
two small bronze busts of the Prince and Princess of
Prussia. This room wt's lighted by two ormutu
chandeliers bearing wax lights, and having a group
of figures in Parian marble forming the stem. The
draperies of this apartment are cf silk, and of a
very elaborate pattern of green, crimson, and gold.
Over the sideboard a buffet of choice plate was
displayed on a background of dark crimson velvet,
the principal ornament being the large silver shield
presented by the late King of Prussia to his godson
the Prince of Wales. The supper-table was of the
horse-shoe form, and was decorated with a service
of silver plate, including numerous epergnes filled
with choice flowers and fruit, and silver candelabra.

The company Legan to arrive at Marlborough
House soon after ten o'clock.

The Princess of Wales was attended by the Cou-
ntess De Grey, Lady in Waiving, and Lord Harris,
K. 5.1., Chamberlain.

The Prince of Wales was attended by Earl Spen-
cer, Groom of the Stole ; Earl of Mount Edgecumbe,
Lord in Waiting ; Lent. General Knoilys, Comp-
troller and Treasurer; the Hon. Robert K. Meade,
Groom in Waiting; and Lieut. Colonel Kt ppel,
Equerry in Waiting.

The Princess of Wales wore a dress of white tulle
over white glace si,k, veiled with spotted tulle ono
trimmed with flowers—the white rose and vine.
pervinca. Ttie ornaments were emeralds and dia-
monds. Her Royal Highness's head-dress was
composed of a wreath of flowers corresponding with
the trimming of the dress, interspersed with
dia-
mond ornaments.

The Duchess of Cambridge wore a dress of lilac
satin, trimmed with Honi:on lace. I-IFT Royal
Highness's head dress was formed of lilac, orna-
mented with diamond wheat-ears. The stomacher,
necklace, and earrings were diamonds and pearle.
The Princess Mary of Cambridge wore a white

tulle dress, trimmed with bonillonteg of tulle and
whito [atin ribbon, witty two flows:us of black lace.
The Pcinces;i's head-dress was composed of a tiara
of diamond stars and a wreath of poppies, corn-
flowers, and wheat ears. The necklace, stomaaer,
and earrings were of diamonds,withcarbuncle stars.
The illustrious party, at half• past ten o'clock en-
tered the Saloon, wt ,ere Coote and Tinney's bard,
conducted by Mr. Coote, was in attendance, and
performed the following music :
Quadrille Cologne.
Vales
•
Lancers
Vales
Quadrille
Valse
Lancers
Galop
Quadrille Danish.
Valse****
Lancers ..

Valse
Quadrille Canadian.
Valse
Lancers
Galop

Domino.

The following had the honour of receiving invitations—
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge, the
Princess Mary, the Duke of Cambridge, the Prince of
Orange, the Count de Paris, the Duke de Nemours awl the
Princess Marguerite d'Orleans, his Serene Hie hness Prince
Edward of Saxe-Weimar and the Countess Dornburg,
Countess Gleichen, the Austrian Ambassador and Countess
Apponyi, Prince and Princess Bandini (Viscount and Vis-
countess Kynnaird), the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess
of Cambridge, the Equerry to the Duke of Cambridge, the
Equerry to the Duchess of Cambridge, Lieut.-C.l. Van den
Bosch, and Baron W. C. de Poilandt, Equerries to the
Prince of Orange, and the following

DUKES—Buccleuch, Manchester, Sutherland, St.
Albans.

DUCHESSES— Sutherland, Manchester, St. Albans,
Buccleuch.

MARQUlSES—Hartington, Blandford, Ailesbury, Bath,
Carmarthen, Ormonde; Abercorn, Westminster.
MARCHIONESSES—Westminster, Abercorn, Ailesbury,
Ba h, Carmarthen.
EARLS—De Grey, Brecknock, Dunmore, Granville,
Listowel, Sefton, Cowper, Spencer, Mount Charles, West-
moreland, Tankerville, Shaftesbury, Dalkeith,
Mount-Edgcutub@, Stanhope, Morton, Yar-
borough, Clarendon, Grosvencr.

COUNTESSES--Westmoreland, Hardwicke,Dow, Spencer,
Dalkei h, Yarborough, Sefton, Desart, Tankerville, Mount
Charles, Cowley, Stanhope, Macclesfield, Spencer,
Dowager Moutit-Edgcumbe,Dunmore, Carnarvon, Mount-
E 4 g cum be, ane,chiold (2).
VISCOUNTS,-Suu ey, Hood, Duncan, Adare, Hamilton,
Hincoingbrook, Mahon, Castlerosse, Falkland, Stratford de
Redcliffe, Sylney, Newry, Parker, Chelsea, Bury, Bar-
rington, Ingestre.

VISCOUNTESSES.—Barrington, Stratford de Redcliffe,
Sydney, Ingestre, Caetlerosse, Bury, Jocelyn.
LORDS.—Proby, Eustace Cecil, Skdmeisdale, John Her-
vey, Henry Scott, Claud J. Hamilton (Grenadier Guards),
Allred Hervey, Richard Grosvenor, Charles Bruce, Hen-
niker, Bin,;11 im, Harris, Douglas, Stanley of Alderley,
Ashley, Carington, Churchill, Elcho, Duffe. in.
I ADlES.—Elizabeth Adeane, V ctor's. Ashley, Sarah
Spencer, Georgiana Hatnilt in, Augusta Sturt, Constance
Grosvenor, Mary Craven, Victoria Scot•, Alfred Hervey,
Skelmetsdale, Feodore Wellesley, Diana Beauclerk, Eus-
tace Cecil, Emma Talbot, Alice Coffee, Mary Nisbet Ha-
milton, Ernestine Edgcumbe, Elizabeth De Ros, Agneta
Yorke, Churchill, Emily Cavendish, Elcho, Proby, Iheo-
dora Grosvenor, Charles Bruce, Constance Villiers, Vic-
ioria Murray, Eleanor Hare, Cecilia Aolyneux, Stanley of
Alderley, Cecilia Bingham, Carington, Mary Stanhope,
Florence Paget, Dufferin, Henniker, Harriet Ashley.
CouNT.—Christian Daneschiold.

RIGHT HONOUEABLE.—W. E. Gladstone.'

HONOURABLES.—Edward Stanhope, Francis Stonor,
Victor Montagu, John Henniker, H. Bourke, Chandos
Leigh, Miss Stanley, Reginald .Talbot, C. R. Carington,
George Cadogan, Mrs. Stonor, Miss Barrington, M,s.
Hardinge, Thomas De Grey, Robert Meade, Leopold Ellis,
Miss Henniker, Miss Carington, Miss Canning, Misses
Jocelyn (2), Miss Cadogan.
BARONET.—Frederick Johnstone.

MEsstEußs —Start, 'Wm, Craven, Andrew Cockerell,
Augustus Lumley, Herbert Fisher, Francis Knollys, Holz-
man, John Thynne, Charles Phipps, W. H. Gladstone,
Henry Chaplin, W. H. Dyke, Nisbet Hamilton, Adeane,
Herbert of Muckross.

MISTRESSES.—Herbert Fisher, Grey, Herbert, Knollys,
Glidstone, White.
MISSES.—White, Knollys, Gladstone, Nisbet Hamilton,
Phipps, Herbert.
GENERAL.—KnoIIys.
COLONELS.—Cavendish, Hon. Arthur Hardinge, Hon.
%V. Feilding, Hon. W. P. Talbot, F. Seymour, C. 8., Hon.
Sir Charles Phipps.
LIEUTENANT COLONELS.—Hon. J. C. Stanley, Hon. H.
W. Byng, Sir Charles Russell, Bart., Farquharson, Hon.
Dudley Do Ros, White.
MAJORS.—Hon. A. H. Anson, Teesdale.
CAPTAINS.—Iion. Charles Edgcumbe, Hon. Frederick
Stanley, Hon. A. Hobart, R.N., Grey, Falbe, W. F. Sey-
mour.

The following had the honour of receiving invitations,
but were prevented from unavoidable circumstances from
acoei. ling :—The Prince of Leiningen, the Count and Coun-
tess de Fiahault and Miss Elphinstone de Fiahault, the
Countess of Morton, the Countess of Shaftesbury, Lady
ndith Somerset, Sir Charles, Lady Mary, and Miss Woou,
Mr. Charles and Mr. Henry L. Wood, M,, Madame, and
Miss Van de Weyer, Mr. Victor and Mr. Albert Van de
Weyer, Count Gleichen, the Earl of Carnarvon, and Lord
and Lady Suffield.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
honoured Lord and Lady William Powlett with his presence
at Ginner last evening, at their residence in Curzon-street,
May lair. A select circle had the honour to meet his royal
highness.

he Prince and Princess de Joinville arrived at
Plymouth on Sunday, on a visit to their son, the Duo
d'Enghien, who is an officer on board the United States
(Federal) litigate Macedonian, lying there. Their Loyal
highnesses proceeded on board the -frigate during the day.
A iarge number of the Macedonian's officers attended St.
Andrew's t huroh, Plymouth, on St.u.d..y, where the Rev.
Mr. Hitchcock, chaplain of the frigate, assisted in the ser-
vices.

The Persian Ambassador, accompanied by his
son, and by Colonel Oliphant, C. 8., visited the House of
Commons last night, and was present during the debate on
the diplomatic sex vice.

Ttie Duke and Duchess de Chartres arrived
in town to-day, having left Edinburgh last night.

The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland has re-
turned to her villa at Chiswick, from visiting her Majesty
at Windsor Castle.

Madame de Comyn, the wife of the Spanish
Minister at the Court of St. James's, gave birth to a son
yesterday, at his excellency's residence, 7, Mansfield-street,
he Earl and Countess Delawarr leave town nest
week for Kissingen to pass a few weeks, the noble earl
having been recommended to take the waters by his medi-
cal advisers.

The Earl of Wilton has issued cards for a grand
entertainment on the 6th pros., to meet their Ro) r. 4 H igh-
ness es the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess ➢lary, at
his residence ha Grosvenor-square.
The Countess of Clarendon and Lady Emily
Villiers, who have been to Bohemia, are expected to arrive
home to• day from the Continent. The health of the coun-
tess is quite restored.

The marriage of Mr. Welby, M.P. for Gran-
tham, with the Hon. Victoria Stuart Wortley, is fixed to
take place on Saturday next.
.MANSION-HOUSE.—La3t evening the Lady
Mayoress gave a grand ball at the Mansion-house.
The company, nearly 800 in number, was composed of many
of the principal citizen's, members of the Courts of Alder-
men and Common Council, and the chief officers of the cor-
poration, with members of their families. The guests be-
gan to arrive about half•past 9 o'clock, and were received
by the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress in the saloon.
Dancing commenced with great zest at 10, in the Egyptian"
hall, and after a pause for supper, which was served at 12
o'clock, the ball was resumed, the revels being continued
into the small hours ot the morning.
DEATH OF AIR. JAMES HANS HAMILTON, LAT
M.P. FOR THE COUNTY OF DUBLIN.
._.We —embeer for the
to announce the death of Mr. Hamilton, ex
county of Dublin, and father of the pres,nt hon. member
tor the county, who died yesterday atternoon after a long
hints& Mr. Hamilton only resigned his seat a few months
since from impaired health. He was first returned for the
county in 1841, and was a staunch Conservative in lobties
tie was born in 1810, and was son of Mr. Hans Hamilton,
who represented the county of Dublin for nearly 30 years.
DEATH OF SIR WILLIAM MASSEY STANLEY,
BART.—A telegram was received in town last night,
announcing the death of Sir William Massey Stanley,Bart.,
who died at Paris yesterday. The late Sir William was
too eldest son of Sir Thos. Stanley, ninth bar, net, by Miss
Ilagwerston, only daughter of Sir Carnkby Haggerston,
Bart., ot Haggerston, Northumberland. He was born in
18J7, and succeeded to the baronetcy and large patrimonial
est,tes in Cheshi e on the death of his father in August,
1841. From 1837 to 1841, Sir William represented Ponte-
fract in the House of Commons on Conservative principles.
Soon after his accession to the family property Sir Wil"
iiam's princely estate became involved, and passed into
other hands, and at his death and long previously his mind
was much impaired. The deceased is* succeened in the
baronetcy by his next brother, Rowland Errington,who was
born in 1809, and married in 1838 Miss Macdonald, eldest
daughter or the late Sir John Macdonald, K.C.B. The
present baronet assumed in 1820 the name of " Errin,7
ton," in lieu of his patronymic, in compliance with the will
of Ur. Henry Errington, of Red Rice, Herts.

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