The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-23 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY'S LEVEL'.

The Queen held a Levee (the first this season) yesterday
afternoon at St. James's Palace. Her Majesty and Prince
Alban arrived from Buckingham Palace at 2 o'clock, attended
by the Royal suite and escorted by a detachment of the Royal
Horse Guards, and were received by the great officers of
state.
The Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms was on duty, under
the command of the Captain, and lined the approaches to the
State saloons. The sub-officers, Lieutenant-Colonel Nevin
and Major Cooke, were also on duty.
The Yeomen of the Guard were on duty, under the cora-
l:nand of Captain Wardlow, the Exon in Waiting.
Before the Levee Major-General Fox had an audience of the
Queen, and delivered the badge of the Order of the Bath worn
by the late Sir Frederick Adam, G.C.B.
The Attorney-General had an audience, and delivered to her
Majesty the Grand Cross of the Bath of his uncle, the late
Admiral Sir George Cockburn.
Major Henry Capel Sandys, Bengal Army, had an audience
Of her Majesty, and delivered the riband and badge of the
Order of the Bath worn by the late Sir Richard Jenkins,
G.C.B.
The Queen and Prince Albert entered the Throne-room,
attended by the Duchess of Sutherland, Mistre,s of the Robes;
the Marchioness of Ely, Lady in Waiting ; Earl Spencer,
X.G., Lord Steward; the Marquis of Breadalbane, K T.,
Lord Chamberlain; the Marquis of Abercorn, K.G., Groom
of the Stole to his Royal Highness ; Lord Ernest Bruce, Vice-
Chamberlain ; the Earl of Mulgrave, Treasurer of the House-
hold; Lord Drumlanrig, Controller of the Household; the
Marquis of Ormonde, Lord in Waiting ; Lord George Len-
nox, Lord in Waiting to his Royal Highness; Colonel the Hon.
Charles Phipps, C. 8., Keeper of her Majesty's Privy Purse;
Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, Privy Secretary to his Royal
Highness; Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood, Groom
in Waiting; Colonel Wylde, Groom in Waiting to his Royal
Highness ; Major-General Buckley, Equerry in Waiting ;
Messrs. George Gordon Macpherson and Charles Edmund
Phipps, Pages of Honour in Waiting.
Her Majesty wore a blue and silver cloth train, with gold
stars, and a white satin petticoat. The Queen wore a diamond
diadem.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge was present
at the Levee, attended by Lord William Paulet.
The foreign Ministers were introduced, when the following
Presentations took place in the diplomatic circle :
By the Prussian Minister—Le Comte Henckel, Chambellan
$t Conseiller de Legation de S. M. le Roi de Prusse.
By the Spanish Minister—Lieutenant J. J. Gordon, of the
Spanish Royal Navy.
By the Sardinian Minister—Count de la Tour, Second Se-
cretary of Legation.
By the Turkish Minister—Djenib Bey, son of his Excellency
Narvik Pasha, Minister of Commerce, and Fahri Bey.
By the Portuguese Minister M. de Meudoca, attache to her
Mast faithful Majesty's Legation at this court.
By the Brazilian Minister—Captain Gomensoro, Lieutenant
Araujo Feio, Lieutenant Ferreira d'Olivera, and Lieutenant
Rocha, and Dr. Garcia.
By the Mexican Minister—Senor Jose Hidalgo, second Se-
cretary of the Legation ; Senor- Ygnaclo Quijano, attaché to
the Legation.
By the Earl of Clarendon—Senor J. A. Rodulfo, Chargé
d'Affaires of Peru.
The diplomatic circle was attended by Count Walewski,
the French Ambassador ; M. Charles Baudin, first Secre-
tary, M. Jules de Saux, second secretary, and 3aron de Ca-
brol, • Attache to the Embassy ; M. Van de Weyer, the
Belgian Minister, and M. 0. Delepierre, Secretary to the Le-
gation ; Baron de Cetto, the Bavarian Minister ; Count de
Kielmanseggo, Hanoverian Minister ; Chevalier Bunsen, Prus-
Watt Minister ; Senor X. Isturiz, Spanish Minister ; Mr. J. T.
Comyn, first Secretary, M. de Potestad, Attache, and Senor
Luis de Aristegui (Lieutenant of Artillery) Attache to the
Legation; Marquis Azeglio, Sardinian Minister, and Count
Corti,- first Secretary of Legation ; M. Tricoupi, the Greek
Minister, and M. N. Lidorikis, Secretary of Legation; M.
Musurus, the Turkish Minister, and Prince A. Vogorides,
Conseiller de Legation; Baron Bentinck, the Netherlands
Minister ; Count de Lavaradio, the Portuguese Minister ; the
Chevalier Pinto de Soveral, Secretary of Legation, and le Vi-
comte d'Alte, with the Portuguese Legation ;M. acedo, Bra-
zilian Minister, and the Chevalier Cavalcanti, d'Albuquerque,
Attache to the Legation ; Prince de Carini, Sicilian Minister,
and le Commandeur de Martino, Conseiller de Legation ;
Count Colloredo, the Austrian Minister ; Senor Joaquin M.
de Castillo y Lamas, Mexican Minister; Mr. James Buchanan,
Minister from the United States of America ; General d'Ox-
holm, Danish Minister, and Count Reventlo* Criminil, Secre-
tary of Legation ; Count de Vitzthum, Saxon Minister ; the
Earl of Clarendon, K.G., the Queen's Principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, and Major-General the Hou. Sir
Edward Cust, K.C.H., her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies.
The general circle was attended by the Archbishop of
Canterbury ; the Lord Chancellor ; the Archbishop of
York ; the Lord President ; the Duke of Argyll, Lord
Privy Seal ; the First Lord of the Treasury ; Lord John
Unseal% the Marquis of Lansdowne ; the Secretary of
State for the Home Department; the Secretary of State for
War and the Colonies ; the Chancellor of the Exchequer ; the
First Lord of the Admiralty ; the President of the Board of
Control ; the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Secretary-at-War ;
Sir William Molesworth, First Commissioner of Public Works ;
Viscount Sydney, Captain of her Majesty's Yeomen of the
Guard ; the Marquis of Londonderry, K.G., Gold Stick in
Waiting; the Master of the Rolls ; the Chancellor of his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales ; Lord Justice Turner • Earl of
Besaborough, Master of the Buckhounds ; Lord Monteagle,
Controller-General of the Exchequer ; Vice-Chancellor Sir
William Page Wood ; Mr. Horatio Waddington, Under-Secre-
tary of-State (Home Department); Sir Charles Young (Garter);
Sir George P. Lee, Lieutenant of the Yeomen of the Guard ;
Major Harmer, Standard-bearer of the Hon. Corps of
Gentlemen at Arms • Sir Henry Seton, Groom in Wait-
ing ; Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, Groom in Waiting ;
Honourable Mortimer Sackville West, Groom in Wait-
ing to her Majesty; the Queen's Advocate; Lord Alfred
Paget, Clerk Marshal ; Colonel Bouverie, Equerry to the
Queen ; Colonel the Right Hon. Cecil Forester, Silver Stick
in Waithig ; Sir William Martins, Gentleman. Usher to the
Sword of State ; Mr. Norman Macdonald, Controller of the
Lord Chamberlain's department ; Admiral Sir William Parker,
Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to the Queen ; Colonel Lord
Dynevor ; Colonel Sir Colin Campbell, K.C.B. ; Colonel Mon-
teath Douglas, C.B. ; Colonel Priaula ; Colonel Broke ; Colo

nel Morris, C.B. ; Colonel Clark Kennedy, C.B. and K.H. ;
Colonel Oldfield ; Colonel Reed, C.B. ; and Captain Beechey,
R.N., Aide-de-Camp to the Queen; General the Hon. A.
Upton, Equerry to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent ;
Ron. Lieutenant-Colonel Liddell, Equerry to her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Glocester ; Major Baron Knesbeck,
Equerry to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge ;
Lieutenant Colonel Francis Seymour, Captain of the Guard ;
Captain Hatton (Grenadier Guards), Adjutant in BrigadeWait-
big ; Mr. William Tottie, his Swedish and Norwegian Majesty's
Acting Consul-General ; Sir George Hayter, Principal Painter
of History and Portraits in ordinary to her Majesty ; Sir Ben-
jamin C. Brodie, Sergeant-Surgeon to the Queen ; Mr. Law-
rence, Surgeon Extraordinary to the Queen ; Mr. Frederic
Peel Round, Gentleman Usher of the Green Rod ; Mr. Joseph
Skip Lloyd, Clerk of the Check and Adjutant of the Hon.
Corps of Gentlemen at Arms ; Captain Sir John Kincaid,
Exon of the Yeomen of the Guard ; Colonel Sir Frederic
Smith, K.H.,Gentleman Usher to the Privy Chamber; Mr.
Charles Heneage Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber in
Waiting ; Captain Green, Gentleman Usher in Waiting ; Mr.
Arthur Black wood, Gentleman Usher ; Mr. Des Vceux, Gen-
tleman Usher in Waiting to the Queen ; Lieutenant-Colonel
Stephens, Gentleman Usher to the Queen ; Mr. Wilbraham
Taylor, Gentleman Usher; Dr. Lyon Playfair, C. 8., Gentle-
man Usher to his Royal Highness Prince Albert in Waiting.

The following noblemen and gentlemen had the honour of
being presented to her Majesty :
Mr. Francis Ottiwell Adams, on his appointment as Attache to her
Majesty's Legation at Stockholm, by the Earl of Clarendon.
Mr. Alexander, on being appointed Attorney-General to his Royal
Ilighnes• the Prince of Wales, by the Chancellor of the Duchy of
Cornwall.
Mr. James Anderton, on his appointment as TJader-Sheriff of Lon-
don and Middlesex, by Viscount Palmerston.
Lieutenant the Hon. Hugh Annesley, on appointment to the Scots
Puffier Guards, by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge.
Captain Sir G. Back, R.N., on being nominated to a good service
pension, by Sir J. Graham.
Mr. E. Ball, by the Duke of Richmond.
The Very Rev. Dr. Barr, Moderator of the General Assembly of
the Church of Scotland, by the Earl of Aberdeen.
Deputy• Assistant Commissary-General isartlett, by the Chancellor
of the Exchequer.
Lieutenant J. N. Beasley, on return from foreign service, by Sir
Fitzroy Kelly, M.P.
Lieutenant-Colonel W. F. Reatson, late Brigadier commanding
the Nizam's cavalry, by the Earl of Ellenborough, G.C.B.
Mr. Alexander John Beataon, by Sir J. Francis Davis.
Mr. Bebb, on being allowed, by Royal license, to take the name of
Babb, instead of Lawrell, by the Hon. Colonel Charles Grey.
Mr. Edward Fi'zhardinge Berkeley, on appointment to the 2d
Life Guards, by the Marquis of Londonderry.
Lieutenant Robert Biddulpk. on receiving his commission in the
Royal Artillery, by Lord Raglan.
Mr. Loftus Bland, M.P., on his appointment as Queen's Counsel
ln Ireland, by Sir John Young.
Mr. George Brand, her Majesty's Vice-Consul in the province of
Angola, Western Africa, on his return to England, by the Earl of
Slarendon.
Lieutenant John Britten, on promotion, by Col. Thompson, M.P.
Captain Charles Brace, on promotion, by the Earl of Wilton.
eaptain Buckley, Scota Fusilier Guards, on promotion, by Colonel
Lord Rekeby.
Captain H. W. Burgess. by the Earl of Wilton.
Rear-Admiral Ryder Burton, lE.H., on promotion, by the Duke of
Leeds.
Captain T. B. Butt, by Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Lauderdale

Lieutenant-Colonel De Bathe, on promotion, by his Royal High-
nen the Duke of Cambridge.
Lieutenant Deans Campbell, by ,ir Duncan M`Dougall.
Sir J. Rivett Carnac, M.P., on app intmeut as Deputy Lieutenant
of the county of Aouthampton, by the Marquis. of Winchester.
Earl of Carnarvon, by the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert.
Mr. F. A. Carrington, on appointment as Deputy-Lieutenant of
Berko, by the Earl of Abingdon.
Maier-General Cavendish, on his appointment to the command of
the 2d Drsgoon Guards, by Viscount Haringe.
Major Champion, by Lieutenant-Colonel Webber Smith.
Ensign J. W. Champain, by Lieutenant-General Sir R. Goldfinch.
Mr. A. C. Colquhoun, by Sir G. Grey.
The Rev. Dr. Cook, Minister Of St. Andrews, N. 8., by the Earl of

Aberdeen.
Commander F. A. B. Cranford, on promotion, by sir J. Graham.
Lieutenant Fitzmaurice Creighton, by Lord George Lennox.
Lieutenant S. Gurney Cresswell, R.N., on return with despatches
!rem the Arctic regions, by Sir J. Graham.
The Rev. Dr. Cummirr, Scotch Church, by the Earl of Aberdeen.
Mr. Wodehouse Currie, by Lord Wodehouse.
Lieutenant-Colonel Elphinstone Dalrymple, on promotion, by Col
Lord Rokoby.
Captain the Hon. Joseph Denman, R.N., on his appointment to
her Majesty's yacht, by Sir James Graham.
Mr. Horace Devas, by Mr. IL Hawes.
Captain Disbrowe, on appointment to 43d Light Infantry, by
Lord Raglan.
Mr. W. L. P. Drummond, by sir Charles Wood.
Lieutenant Duff, by Sir Charles Wood.
Colonel Eden, Scots Fusilier Guards, on pro
Highness the Duke of Cambridge. motion, by his Royal
Captain William Edmonstone, R.N., on promotion, by Sir James
Graham.
The Earl of Elgin, on his return from Canada, by the Duke of
Newcastle.
Sir J. Dalrymple Elphinstone, by the Earl of Aberdeen.
Lieutenant Viscount Ennismore, Scots Fusilier Guards,
by his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge.
Ensign G. Falconet, by Colonel Harry D. Jones.
Rear-Admiral A. Fanshawe, on his appointment as Commander-
in-Chief on the North America and West India stations, by Sir J.
Graham.
Viscount Forth, by his father, the Earl of Perth and Melfort.
Captain the Hon. A. E. Fraser, Scots Fusilier Guards, on promo-
tion, by Colonel Lord Rokeby.
Lieutenant W. French, on return from foreign service, by Lord
Raglan.
Lieutenant W. G. Fumivall, by Sir Duncan M`Dougall.
Lieutenant Garrard, by Lieutenant-Colonel Webber Smith.
non. Arthur Gordon, by the Earl of Aberdeen.
Admiral Sir J. Gordon, on his appointment as Governor of Green-
wich Hospital and promotion, by Sir J. Graham.
Dr. A. Gordon, by Lieutenant• Colonel Webber Smith.
Ensign J. M. Greig, by Colonel H. D. Jones.
Mr. W. K. Grove. on his appointment as Queen's Counsel, by the
Lord Chancellor.
Archdeacon Hare, Chaplain in Ordinary to her Majesty, by the
Bishop of Chichester.
Lord Harris, on his return from Trinidad, by the Duke of New-

astle.
evair A. s. D. Harris, by Major-General Sir Harry Smith, G C. 8.1
Rear-Admiral Harvey, on return from foreign service at Malta
by Sir J. Graham.
Ensign J. 0. Basted, by Colonel H. D. Jones.
lign Sir Brydges Henniker, on appointment to the 68th Regi-
ment, by Lord Henniker.
Lieutenant-Colonel lion. P. Herbert, on promotion and return
, from the Cape of Good Hope, by the Earl of Powis.
• sir r. w. Heygate, on his marriage, by the Erni of Lanesborough.
Mr. W. 11. Heygate, by the Earl of Lanesborough.
Second-Lieutenant P. E. Hill, fen obtaining his commission, by the
igasta-Gattral of Ordnance.