The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-07 00:00:00

POLITICAL REUNION.

Mrs. W. E. Gladstone held her first reception last even-
ing at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer in Downing-street.
The following members of the corps diplornottique were
present :—The Austrian Minister and the Countess Col-
leredo, the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer,
the Prussian Minister and Madame and Mademoiselle Bun-
sen, the Peruvian Minister, the Hanoverian Minister, the
Bavarian Minister, the Greek Minister, and Madame Tri-
coupi, the Sardinian Minister and the Marquis Massimo
d'Azeglio, the Swedish Minister, the Turkish Minister,
and Madame Musurus, the Brazilian Minister and Made-
moiselle Macedo, the Minister for the Netherlands, the
Danish Minister and Madame de Bille, the Spanish Minister,
Count Flemming, Colonel T. B. Lawrence, Count Louis
Corte, the Marquis d'Oldrini, Count Castigliane, Baron
de Geer, M. Maurice Delfosse, M. and Madame Figaniere,
M. and Madame Comyn, Count Alfred Reventlaw, &c.
The general circle comprised, among others—The Countess
of Ellesmere and the Ladies Egerton, Earl Jermyn, the
Earl and Countess of Airlie, the Earl and Countess of De-
von, the Countess of Clarendon, the Earl of Lincoln, Vis-
count and Viscountess Canning and the Ladies Emily and
Margaret de Burgh, Viscount Emlyn, M.P., Viscountess
Stratford de Redcliffe and the Hon. Miss Canning, Lord and
Lady Ly ttleton and the Hon. Miss Seymour, Lord and Lady
Monteagle, Lord and Lady De Tabby, Lady Stanley of Al-
derley and the Hon. Miss Stanley, Lord Harry Vane, M.P.,
Lady Rendelsham and the Hon. Miss Thellusson, Lord
and Lady Alfred Hervey, Lord and Lady Lovaine, Lady
Mary Wood, Lord Robert Clinton, M.P., Lord Sey-
mour, M.P., Lord Elphinstone, Lady Graham and Miss
Graham, Lady Weir Hogg and the Misses Weir Hogg, Ad-
miral the Hon. W. Gordon, M.P., Col. the Hon. C. Grey
and Mrs. Grey, Captain the Hon. C. Hardinge, M.P., the
Hon. Mrs. J. Stuart Wortley and the Hon. Mrs. Law-
less, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. S. Lyttelton, the Hon.
Mr. and Mrs. F. Neville, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Bou-
verie, the Hon. Mr. Egerton, the Hon. G. S. Smythe,
the Hon. G. Byng, M.P., the Hon. P. W. Talbot, the Right
Hon. E. Strutt, M.P., and Mrs. Strutt, the Right Hon. H.
Tufnell, M.P., and Lady Anne Tufnell and Lady Louisa
Primrose, the Right Hon. W. G. Hayter, M.P., and Mrs.
Hayter, the Right Hon. C. Villiers, M.P., the Right Hon.
E. Cardwell, M.P., and Mrs. Cardwell, the Right Hon. T.
Milner Gibson, M.P., and Mrs. Milner Gibson, Mr.
Fellowes, M.P., and the Hon, Mrs. Fellowes, Mr.
Lewis and Lady Theresa Lewis, Colonel Lockyer Freestun,
M.P., and Mrs. Lockyer Freestun, Colonel Malcolm and
Mrs. Malcolm and the Misses Johnstone, Captain Clifford,
Captain Inglefield, Sir Robert Peel, M.P., Sir Robert In-
glis, M.P., Sir Stafford and Lady Northcote, Sir John
Shelley, M.P., Sir John and Lady Harrington, Sir William
and Lady Clay, Sir Frederick Smith, Sir Walter James,
M.P., Sir John Hanmer, M.P., Mr. Christy, M.P., and
Mrs. Christy, Mr. Hodgson, M.P., Mr. H. Drummond,
M.P., Mr. Seymour, M.P., and Mrs. Seymour, Mr. John-
stone, M.P., Mr. Heywood, M.P., Mr. Grenfell, M.P.,
and Mrs. Grenfell, Mr. F. Peel, M.P., Mr. Stafford,
M.P., Mr. Hume, M.P., and Miss Mary Hume, Mr.
Lowe, M.P., and Mrs. Lowe, Mr. H. A. Herbert,
M.P.,. and Mrs. Herbert, Mr. Bowyer, M.P., Mr.
Fitzgerald, M.P., Mr. Rich, M.P., and Mrs. Rich, Mr.
Wilson Patten, M.P., Mr. Townley, M.P., Mr. Raikes
Currie, M.P., Mrs. Raikes Currie, and Miss Raikes Currie,
Mr. Phillimore, M.P., and Mrs. Phillimore, Mr. Walter,
M.P., and Mrs. Walter, Mr. Adderley, M.P., and Mrs.
Adderley, and the Hon. Miss Leigh, Dr. Locock and Mrs.
Locock, Mr. Forbes, Mr. G. Smith, Mrs. Henry Baring
and Miss Baring, Mr. and Mrs. Stephens, Miss Gladstone,
Mr. Drummond, Mr. Rickards, Mr. Heneage, Mr. Alexan-
der Wood, Mr. Trescott, Mr. W. Vernon, Mr. and Mrs.
Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Munro, Mr. Severn, Mr. Clifford,
Mr. Arthur Russell, Mr. Bankes and Miss Bankes, Mr.
Swinton, Mr. and Mrs. Cox, Mr. Vyner, Mr. H. Roberts,
the Misses Clifford, &c.

SILVER.—The dollars and bar silver brought by the
last West India packet were sold yesterday at the former
rates—namely, 59id. for the dollars, and 61gd. for the
bar silver.

OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITIES.-It appears,
from a return to Parliament, just issued, that the ex-
pense of the Oxford Commission defrayed last year was
1,2201. 45., and of that relating to Cambridge, 4001.
THE COAST DEFENCES.-A Board of Ordnance, com-
prising Lord Raglan, the Master-General, Sir John
Burgoyne, Inspector-General of Fortifications, &c.,
visited Portsmouth and Gosport yesterday, and made
an inspection of the batteries and outworks connected
with the port of Portsmouth.
KAFIR WAR, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—The estimate
of the further sum required to be voted towards defray-
ing the expenses of the Kafir) war, beyond the ordinary
grants for army, navy, ordnance, and commissariat ser-
vices, to the 31st March, 1851, is 200,0001.

_BIRTH OF A PRINCE.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, APRIL 7.
At a quarter past one o'clock this day the Queen
was safely delivered of a Prince.
There were present on the occasion in her
Majesty's room his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
Dr. Locock, and Mrs. Lilley, the monthly nurse.
In the adjoining apartments, besides the other
medical attendants (Sir James Clark and Dr. Fer-
guson), were her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, the Lady in Waiting on the Queen, and the
following Officers of State and Lords of the Privy
Council, viz. :—The Earl of Aberdeen, Earl Gran-
ville, the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Welling-
ton, the Duke of Newcastle, the Marquis of Lans-
downe, the Marquis of Breadalbane, the Duke of
Argyll, Viscount Palmerston, and the Lord Chan-
cellor.