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

HER MAJESTY'S LEVEE.

The Queen held a Levee (the first this season) yesterday
afternoon at St. James's Palace. Her Majesty and Prince
Albert arrived from Buckingham Palace at 2 o'clock, attended
by the Royal suite and escorted by a detachment of the Royal
Rorse 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 Nevill

and Major Cooke, were also on duty.
The, Yeomen of the Guard were on duty, under the com-

Mend 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 Reny Capel Sandys, Bengal Army, bad 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 '?utherland, Mistre, s of the Robes;
the Marchioness of Ely, Lady in Waiting ; Earl Spencer,
K.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 larnmlmarig, 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
Mars, 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 Henkel, Chambellan
et Conseiller de Legation de S. M. le Rol 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.
oretary 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 Mendoca, attache to her
Most 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 Ygnacio Quijano, attache to
the Legation.
By the Earl of Clarendon—Senor J. A. Rodulfo, Charge
d'Affaires of Peru. "
The diplomatic circle was attended by Count Wakwski,
the Fren.h Ambassador ; M. Charles Baudin, first Secre-
tary, M. Jules de Saux, second secretary, and Baron 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
Hielmansegg Hanoverian Minister ; Chevalier Bunsen, Prus-
sian Minister ; Senor X. Isturiz, Spanish Minister ; Mr. J. T.
Comyn, first Secretary, M. de Potestid, Attache, and Senor
Luis do Aristegui (Lieutenant of Artillery) Attache to the
Legation; Marquis Azeglio, Sardinian Mitister, and Count
Corti, first Secretary df Legation ; M. Tricoupi, the Greek
Minister, and M. N. Lidorikis, Secretary of Legation; M.
Mtusurus, the Turkish Minister, and Prince A. Vogorides,
Conseiller de Legation ; Baron Bentinck, the Netherlands
Minister ; Count de LaThradio, the Portuguese Minister ; the
Chevalier. Pints de SoVehal, Secretary of Legation, and le Vi-
eOtte -Oh the'rartnguese 1 egation ; M dacedo, Bra-
n Minis 'ter.; 414 *Chevalier Cava canti, d'Albuquerque,
AftAdhe to the 4gati6ti'; Prince de Carini, Sicilian Minister,
and 'le CommanZleur lte Martino, Conseiller de Legation ;
Count Colloredo, the Austrian Minister ; Senor Joaquin M.
de Castillo y Lanzas, Mexican Minister; Mr. James Buchanan,
Minister from the United States of America ; General d'Ox-
holm, Danish Minister, and Count Reventlow 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 Me,. 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
`fork ; the Lord President ; the Duke of Argyll, Lord
Privy Seal ; the First Lord of the Treasury ; Lord John
llsseil; 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
Onard ; 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 ; Eall of
Bessborough, 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 Harman, 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 Waiting; Sir William Martins, Gentleman Usher to the
Sword of State ; Mr. Norman Macdonald, Controler of the
Lord Chamberlain's department ; Admiral Sir William P ,
IPrincip4d Naval Aide-de-Camp to the Queen ; Colonel Lord
Dynevor ; Colonel Sir Colin Campbell, K.C.B. ; Colonel Mon-
teath Douglas, C.B. ; Colonel Priaulx ; 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 ;
Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel Liddell, Equerry to her Royal High.
nese the Duchess of Gloeester ; Major Baron Knesbeck,
tquerry to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
Lieutenant Colonel Francis Seymour, Captain of the Guard ;
Captain Hatton (Grenadier Guards), Adjutant in Brigade Wait-
; Mr, William Tottie, his Swedish and Norwegian Majesty's
Acting Consul-General; Sir George Hayter, Principal Painter
tf Hitter, 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 Hefteage, Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber in
Waiting ; Captain Green, Gent eman Usher in Waiting ; Mr.
Arthur Black ~00d, Gentleman Usher ; Mr. Des Veen, 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 Fail of clar- ndon.
Mr. Alexander, on beim: appointed Attorney-General to his Royal
Eighit s- the Prince• of Wales, by the Chancellor of the Duchy of
'Cornwall.
Mr. James Anderton, on his appointment as Under-Sheriff of Lon-
don• and. Middlesex, by. Viscount Palmerston.
Lieutenant the Hon. Hugh Annesley, on aopointmi at to the Scots
Fusilier Jun ds, by his Itoyal 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 .1 Aberdeen •
Deputy-Assistant Commissary-Genrral 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. Beataon, late Brigadier commanding
the Bizam's cavalry, by the Earl of Ellenborouch,
• Mr. Alexander John Beatson, by Sir J. Francis Davis.
Mr. Bebb, on being allotved. by Royal license, to take the name of
Babb, insteal of Lawrell, by the Hon. C lonel Charles Grey.
Mr.• Edward Ft•zhardinge Berkeley. on appointment to the 2d
Life Guards, loy the Marquis of Londonderry.
Lieutenant Robert Biddulplt, on receiving his commission in the
NaYal Artillery, by Lord Raglan.
Me; Loftus Blend, M.P., on his appointment as Queen's Counsel
la Ireland, by Sir John Young.
Mr. George Brand. her Majesty's Vice-Consul in the province of
Augoia, Western Africa, on his return to England, by the Earl of
- Clarendon.•

Lieutenant John Britten, on promotion, by Col. Thompson, M.P.
Captain Charles Brace, ou promotion, by the Earl of Wiiton.
Captain Buckley, Scots Fusilier Guards, on promotien, by Colonel
Lord Rokeby.
Captain H. W. Burgess, by the Earl of Wilton.
Rear-Admiral Ryder Burton, K.H., on promotion, by the Duke of
Leeds.
Captain T. R. Butt, by Lieutenant-Colonel the lien. Lauderdale
l,taule.
Lieutenant-Colonel De Bathe, on promotion, by his Royal High-
ness tie Date of Cambridge.
Lieutenant Deans Campbell, by Sir Duncan M'Bougall.
nir J. Rivett Canute, M.P., on app intment as Depnty Lieutenant
of the county of ‘outbampton, by the Marquis of Winchester.
Earl of Carnarvon, by the Right Hon. Sidney Herbsrt.
Mr. F. A. Carrington, on appointment as Deputy-laentenant of
Berke, by the Earl of Abingdon.
Major-General Cavendish, on his appointment to the eommand of
the 2d Dragoon Guards, by Viscount Hardinge.
Major Champion, by Li •utenant-Colonel Webber Smith.
Ensign J. W. Champain, by Lie itenant-General Sir H. Goldfinch.
Mr. A. C. Colqnhoun, by Sir G. Grey.
The Rev. Dr. Cook, Alillifiter 01 St. Andrews, N. 8., by the Earl of
Aberdeen.
Commander F. A. B. Craufurd, on promotion. by Sir Graham.
Liintenant FltzmaurieeCreeresigobeten,nß,
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Lieutenant S. Gurney c
from the Arctic regions, by Sir J. Graham.
The Rev. Dr. Cumming', Scotch Church, by the Earl of Aberdeen.
on promotion, by Col
• tolireVehouse Currie, by Lord Wodehouse.
Lord
Rokianbst-C, elonel Elplainstone DalrYMPle.
Captain th-e. Hon. Joseph Denman. R.N., oil his appointment to
her Majesty's yacht, by Sir James Graham.
Mr. Horace Devas, by Mr. B. Hawes.
• Captain Disbrow°, on appointment to 43d Light Infantry, by
Lord Raglan.
Mr. W. L. P. Drummond, by cir Charles Wood.
Lieutenant Duff, by Sir Charles Wood.
Colonel Eden, Scots Fusilier Guards, on promotion, by his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge.
Captain William Edmonstone, R.N., on pro Motion, by Sir James
Graham.
The Earl of Elgin, on his return from Canada, by the puke of
Newcastle.
Sir J. Dalrymple Eiphinstone, by the Earl of Aberdeen.
Lieutenant Viscount Ennlsmore, Scots Fusilier Guards, by his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge.
Ensign G. Faleunet, 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 lion. A. E. Fraser, Scots Fusilier Guards, on prOmo-
ton, by Colonel Lord Rokeby.
Lieutenant W. French, on return from foreign service, by Lord
Raglan.
Lieutenant W. G. Furnivall. by Sir Duncan M'Dougall.
Lieutenant Garrard, by Lieutenant-Colonel Webber Smith.
lion. Arthur Gordon, by the Earl of Aberdeen.
_ _

Admiral Sir J. Gordon, on hie 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. R. Grove, on his appointment as Queen's Counsel, by the
Lord Chancellor.
Archdeacon Hare, Chaplain in Ordinary to her Majesty, by the
Thehop of Chichester.
Lord Harris, on his return from Trinidad, by the Duke or New-
castle.
Mr. A. 9.1). Harris, by Major-General Sir Harry groitiko c. 8.,
-Rear-Admiral Harvey, on return from foreign service at Malta,
by Sir J. Graham.
Ensign J. 0. Basted, by Colonel H. D. Jones.
• Eroign Sir BrYdges Henniker, on appointment to the 6Sth Regi-
ment, by Lord Henniker.
Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. P. Herbert, on promotion and return
frgua the Cape of Good Hope, by the Earl of Fowls.
Heygate, on his marriage, by the Earl of Lanesborouih.
' Ir.*. U. Heygate, by the Earl of Lanesborough.
Sesund-Lisatenant F. E. Hill. on Obtaining hl5 comminlos, by the
kistic4sieril tin Orduacc