The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-15 00:00:00

THE CAPTAIN OF THE WATCH.

Captain ofthe
Viscount de Ligny Watch to the Mr. Chas. Mathews.
city of Brus-
sels.

Baron Vanderpotter
Adolf deCourtray

.... Mr. Bartley.
.... Mr. James Vining.

Officer of the Watch .

Mr. Brazier.

Louis Mr. Stacey.
Pierre Mr. Wilson.
Kristina Miss Murray.
Katryn Mrs. Walter Lacy.
Guards, &c., &c.
SCENE.—Brussels in the seventeenth century.
THE WINDMILL.

Sampson Low Mr. Keeley.
The Marquis of Roueville Mr. Meadows.
Peter Mr. Stacey.
Servants .1 Mr. Wison, and Mr.

Joyce.
The Marchioness of Roueville Mrs. Win stanley.
Marian
Nancy Miss Hastings.
Director
Assistant Director
The theatre arranged and the scenery painted by Mr.
Thomas Grieve.
At eight o'clock her Majesty the Queen and his Royal
Highness Prince Albert entered the Rubens' Room, ac-
companied by their Royal Highesses the Prince of Wales,
the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, Prince Alfred,
and the Princesses Helena and Louisa. Her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent, his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge, their Royal Highnesses the Prince and
Princess Augustus of Saxe Coburg, his Serene Highness
the Prince of Leiningen, her Serene Highness Princess
Adelaide of Hohenlohe, Chevalier and Madame Bunsen,
the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis and Marchioness
of Westminster, the Earl and Countess of Shelburne,
Lord Raglan, Sir James and Lady Graham, the Right
Honourable W. and Mrs. Gladstone, Sir James Clark,
Colonel Wylde, and the ladies and gentlemen in atten-
dance.

The performance immediately commenced.
Refreshments were served in the Throne Room.
The following had the honour of receiving invitations
to witness the performance, in addition to. the above
distinguished circle, who formed the Queen's dinner
party. . _ _

His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar
and the Countess of Dornburg, Lady Emily Seymour,
Lady Caroline and Miss Barrington, Lady Mary Berke-
ley, Hon. Misses Montagu, the Hon. Misses Grey and
two Misses Bulteel, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps and
Miss Knollys, the Hon. and Rev. H. Cust, Lady Anna
Maria Cust, Miss Cust, and Miss Steele, the Hon. Henry
Ashley, the Rev. Seymour Neville, Colonel M`Douall
(commanding officer), Lieutenant Wingfield and Lieu-
tenant Howard, of the 2d Life Guards ; Colonel T.
Wood (commanding officer), Captain Tipping and Lieu=
tenant Burgoyne; of the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards ;
Captain and Mrs. Bastard, Mr. Ricardo, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Mills, Miss Mills, and Miss Agnes Mills, and
Mr. Henry eYmour, Mrs. and Miss Seymour.
His Royal Highness Prince ,A.lbert, with the Duke of
Cambridge,. the Prince of Leiningen, and Prince Au-
gustus of Coburg, went out shooting this morning, at-
tended by Colonel Wylde, Lieutenant-Colonel F. H.
Seymour,. and Major the Hon. James Macdonald.

Yesterday her Majesty's dinner party consisted of her
Royal Highness the Duchess 'of Kent, his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge, their Royal Highnesses
the Prince and Princess Augustus of Saxe Cobourg, his
Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, her Serene
Highness the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, the Che-
valier and Madame Bunsen, the Marquis of Lansdowne,
the Marqiii's and Marchioness of Westminster, the Lady
in ,Waiting. to the Duchess of Kent, the- Baroness de.
Speth, the Earl and Countess of Shelburne, Lord Raglan;'
Sir James and Lady Graham, the Right Hon. W. and
Mrs. Gladstone, Col. Wylde, and Major the Hon. James
Macdonald.

The band of the 2nd Life Guards attended during
dinner, and played the following pieces :
Danish National March

Overture, "Haydee"
Quadrille, "Hibernian"
Grand Selection, "Nino" ' Verdi.
Spanish Bolero . err,Diabolique Waltz, " Faust" „ „ D'Albert.
Polka, 'Mars" King.
Galop Strauss.
God Save the Queen.
Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended and
performed the following selection :

Overture, "La Barcarolle "
March, " Judas Maccabeus " Handel.
Finale, Second Act and Ballet Music, " Stra-
della " Flotow.

The Marquis of Breadalbane had an interview with
the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday at his official residence
in Downing-street.

A deputation of the Irish Land Company, consisting
of Mr. G. Wilson, Mr. Alexander Brogdon, and Mr.
Sale, solicitor, had an interview with the Right Hon.
E. Cardwell and Lord Stanley of Alderley yesterday, at
the Board of Trade.

Mr. W. Digby Seymour, M.P., Mr. Joseph Napier
Higgins, and Mr. C. H. Collett, had an interview yes-
terday with the Right Hon. E. Cardwell and Lord
Stanley of Alderley, at the Board of Trade.
The Marquis d'Azeglio has returned to Berkeley-
square, from Paris.
A deputation on the subject of the Harlesden Green
Cemetery Company, consisting of Mr. Robert Tubbs,
Mr. ' Hall, and Mr. James Wright, attended by Mr.
Toolett, the Vestry Clerk of the parish of Willesden,
had an interview yesterday with Viscount Palmerston.
Lord Stanley, of Alderley, Vice-President of the
Board of Trade, attended yesterday for the first time at
the Board of Trade.

The Earl of Aberdeen had a dinner party on Thurs-
day, at his residence in Argyll-street. The company
included the Bavarian, Swedish, Norwegian, Grecian,
Sicilian, and Danish Ministers, the Duke of Argyll,
Earl St. Germans, Lord John Russell, Viscount Har-
dinge, Viscount Canning, Sir Charles Wood, and the
Right Hon. Sidney Herbert.
Dispatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-
office to the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope.
Dispatches were also sent to the Governors of the North
American Provinces.