The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-21 00:00:00

THE LEVEE.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert held a levee on
behalf of her Majesty, at two o'clock yesterday afternoon,
St: James's Palace.

The Prince arrived from Buckingham Palace about two
o'clock, escorted by a detachment of Life Guards, and was
received by the great officers of State.
His Royal Highness was attended by the Duke of Nor-
folk, K.G., lord steward ; the Marquis of Breadalbane,
K.T., lord chamberlain • the Duke of Wellington, master
of the horse ; the Earl of Mulgrave, treasurer of the house-
hold ; Lord Ernest Bruce, vice-chamberlain ; Lord Drum-
lanrig, comptroller of the household; Lord Elphinstone,
G.C.H., lord in waiting ; Lord George Lennox, lord in
waiting to his Royal Highness ; Sir Frederick Stovin,
groom in waiting ; Colonel Wylde, groom in waiting to
his Royal Highness ; Major-General Buckley, equerry in
waiting ; Lieut.-Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour, equerry
in waiting to his Royal Highness ; and Colonel the Hon.
Charles Grey, private secretary to his Royal Highness.
The Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms was on
duty, under the command of the Lieutenant.
The sub-.officers, Lieutenant-Colonel Neville and Major
Cooke, were also on duty.
Her Majesty's body guard of the Yeoman of the Guard
was on duty in the Palace, under the command of the
Exon in Waiting.
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The Cabinet Ministers present at the reception were the
Earl of Aberdeen, First Lord of the Treasury ; Earl Gran-
ville, Lord President ; the Duke• of Argyll, Lord Privy
Seal ; the Earl of Clarendon, Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs ; the Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State for the
Colonies ; the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Chancellor of
the Exchequer ; Sir James Graham, First Lord of the
Admiralty ; Sir Charles Wood, President of the Board of
Control ; the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Secretary-at-
War ; and Sir William Alolesworth, First Commissioner of
Works.

The diplomatic circle was introduced, when the follow-
ing foreigners of distinction had the honour of being pre-
sented to his Royal Highness :
By the French Ambassador, M. le Baron de Cabrol, at-
tache to the French embassy.
By the Sardinian Minister, De Comte Frangcois Ve-
rasis de Castiglione, chambellan de S. M. la Reine do Sar-
daigne.
By the Belgian Charge d'Affaires, M. Leopold Orban,
attache to the Belgian legation.
By the Mexican Charge d'Affaires, Don B. Gomez Farias,
attache to the Mexican legation.
The following noblemen and gentlemen had the honour
of being presented :
Earl of Annesley, by Viscount MandeTine.
Mr. James Augustus Atkinson, on going abroad, by
Lord Saye and Sele.
Mr. Allen Bathurst, by the Earl Bathurst.
Mr. Bellew, MtP., by Lord Dunkellin.
Rear-Admiral Berkeley, on his appointment to office,
by Sir James Graham.
Lieut. Henry Bethune, on appointment to Royal Sussex
Light Infantry Militia, by the Duke of Richmond.
Mr. Carrick Buchanan, of Drumpeller, by the Marquis
of Thomond.
Mr. Andrew Buchanan, on being appointed her Majesty's
Envoy Extraordinary, and Minister Plenipotentiary to the
Court of Denmark, by the Earl of Clarendon.
Major Callander, Royal Mid-Lothian Yeomanry Cavalry,
by the Marquis of Breadalbane.
Captain Campbell, 9th Queen's Royal Lancers, on pro-
motion, by Lieutenant-General Sleigh.
Colonel Challoner, on appointment to the command of
the 3rd Regiment of Surrey Militia, by the Earl of Love-
lace.

Mr. Cholmondeley, by the Marquis of Cholmondeley.
Colonel Colville, on promotion, by his Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge.
Mr. Octavius Edward Coope, on appointment as Deputy-
Lieutenant of Essex, by Viscount Maynard.
Deputy-Assistant Commissary-General Crookshank, by
his uncle, Sir Fitzroy Kelly.
Mr. Cuthbert, on appointment as Deputy-Lieutenant of
the county of Kent, by Earl Cowper.
Mr. John F. W. de Salis, late attache to her Majesty's
mission at Turin, by the Earl of Clarendon.
Mr. L. C. de Gerin de Valdonne, by his uncle, Sir Fitzroy
Kelly, M.P.
Mr. J. E. Deane, on appointment to Gold Coast Corps,
by Colonel Airey.
Colonel George Dixon, Scots Fusilier Guards, on promo-
tion, by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, K.G.
Lieutenant John Elliott, R.M. on return from Burmah,
and appointment to the staff of the Royal Marines, by
Major-General Sir John Owen, K.C.B.
Captain the Hon. D. Erskine, by Colonel Bentick.
Lieutenant-Colonel Eyre, by Viscount Harding°.
Mr. H. W. Freeland, on being appointed a magistrate
and Deputy-Lieutenant for the county of Sussex, by the
Duke of Richmond.
Viscount Falmouth, on succeeding to the title, by
Viscount Sydney.
Lieutenant James Ross Farquharson, on his appointment
to the Scots Fusileer Guards, by his father, Mr. Farquhar-
son, of I nvercauld.

Mr. Richard Fellowes, on his appointment as Deputy-
Lieutenant of the county of Berks, by Mr. Fellowes, M.P.
Archdeacon Lane Freer, on his appointment to be Arch-
deacon of Hereford, by the Bishop cif Hereford.
Captain the Hon. Edward Gage, R.A., on promotion, by
his father, Viscount Gage.
Mr. Pemberton Gibbs, by Sir Fitzroy Kelly.
Mr. Home Gordon, on appointment as Deputy-Lieutenant
of the county of Sutherland, by the Duke of Sutherland.
Lieutenant-Colonel Grant, King's Light Infantry Militia,
by General Viscount Combermere.
Mr. Charles Button Gregory, C.E., by the Right Hon.
the President of the Board of Trade.
Earl Grosvenor on his marriage, by the Duke of Nor-
folk.
Mr. Charles Baillie Hamilton, on his return from
Florence, by the Marquis of Bredalbano.
Captain Frederic William Hamilton, on his appointment
to be one of her Majesty's Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-
Arms, by Lord Foley.
Commander H. S. Hawker. by Captain C. Wyvill. R.N.,
A .D.C. _ _ _ _ _

Mr. Hammersley, by Colonel Bouverie.
Mr. Henry Hildyard, by Lord Breadalbane.
Mr. Hubbard, Governor of the Bank of England, by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Mr. Ingham, on being appointed one of her Majesty's
counsel, by the Lord Chancellor.
Lord Mark Kerr, by Earl Talbot.
Mr. Philip Kingsford, by the Rev. R. W.. Jelf, D.D.
Mr. Henry William Knox, Deputy-Lieutenant County
Mayo, by Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Arbuthnot.
Dr. Hunter Lane, by Dr. J. C. B. Aldis.
Hon. Robert Lawley, on his marriage, by Lieutenant-
General Lord Raglan.
Colonel the Hon. E. Littleton, on his appointment to
the command of the 2d Regiment of Staffordshire Militia,
by Field-Marshal the Marquis of Anglesey.
Captain Little, 10th Royal Hussars on promotion, by
Lieutenant-General the Earl Beauchamp.
Captain Maxwell, by Mr. Drax, M.P.
Mr. Henry Alworth Merewether, on his appointment as
one of her Majesty's counsel, by the Lord Chancellor.
Lieutenant-Colonel George Napier, on return from the
Cape of Good Hope and appointment to the staff in Canada,
by General Viscount Hardinge.
Captain Murray Prior, on being appointed a Deputy
Lieutenant of the county of Middlesex, by the Marquis of
Salisbury.
Mr. Duncombe Pyke, on his appointment to be one of
hei Majesty's Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, by Lord
Foley.
The Rev. John Rashdall, by Lord Marcus Hill.
Mr. Joshua Robert Reeve, by Lieutenant-Colonel Francis
Seymour.
Mr. Frederick Robinson' on appointment to the Scots
Fusilier Guards, by Colonel Colville.
Captain Robinson, on his appointment to the West Kent
Light Infantry Regiment of Militia, by Earl Cowper.
Mr. Dudley Ryder, by the Earl of Harrowby.
The Solicitor-General for Scotland, by Viscount Pal-
merston.

Sir Edward Gooch, Bart., M.P., by Mr. William Hope
Vero.

Mr. Bridgeman Simpson, by the Earl of Effingham.
Captain Charles Robert Simpson, Queen's Own Light
Infantry, by the Earl of Wilton.
Mr. John Hawkins Simpson, by the Earl of Kintore.
Rear-Admiral Houston Stewart, on appointment as Ad-
miral-Superintendent at Malta, by Sir James Graham.
Captain Freville Surtees, 10th Royal Hussars, on his re-
turn from India, by General the Marquis of Londonderry.
Captain Earl Talbot, R.N., o appointment as Naval
A.D.C. to her Majesty, by the Duke of Northumberland.
Captain and Adjutant James Drummond Teller, on pro-
motion, by the Master-General of the Ordnance.
Second Lieutenant Thornhill, Huntingdonshire Rifle
Militia, by the Earl of Sandwich.
Captain Arthur Tremayne, 13th Light Dragoons, on his
promotion, by Lieutenant-General Hon. E. P. Lygon.
First Lieutenant Vane, Huntingdonshire Rifle Militia,
by the Earl of Sandwich.
Captain Warden, R.N., on return from foreign service
and appointment to her Majesty's ship Fisgarci, for special
duty, by Sir James Graham.
Mr. T. M. Weguelin, Deputy-Governor of the Bank of
England, by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Mr. Johu William White, by the Duke of Wellington.
Lieutenant Mathew White, 76th Regiment, by Lieu-
tenant-General Sir Robert Arbuthnot, K.C.B.
Colonel Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson, Bart., West Kent
Light Infantry Regiment of Militia, on promotion, by
Earl Cowper.
Captain Edward Winnington, on appointment to the
Worcestershire Militia, by Sir Thomas Winnington, Bart.,

theTlheevefoell:ofing noblemen and gentlemen also attended

DUKES—Cleveland, Norfolk.
MAR Q UlSES—Londonderry, Cholmondeley, Stafford.
EARLS—WiitOn, Grey, Maltnesbuty, Fingall, Bruce,
Eglinton, Bessborough, Roden, Sandwich, Effingham,
Harrowby, Seafield, Kintore, Cowper, Mayo.
VlSCOUNTS—Mandeville, Galway, Barrington, May-
nard, Gage, Brackley, Sotnerton, Duncan, Templetown,
Cranley.
BISHOP—London.

LORDS—Byron, Raglan, Mahon, Laird, Marcus Hill,
Heyteshury, Trimleston, Dunsandle, Hatherton, Norreys,
Calthorpe, Berriedale, Dunkellin, William Lennox, Lo-
raine.
RIGHT HONOURABLES—Spender Walpole, Sir George
Grey, Thomas F. Kennedy.
HONOUBABLBe—Richard Cavendish, Rev. Edward Kep-

pel, Robert. Daly, Standish P. Vereker, George Stuart,
Richard Cornivallis Neville, L. Parsons, G. H. Cavendish,
M.P., Sir Edward Butler, Frederick Calthorpe, Major
Fitz Maurice, Major-Gen. Finch, C.B.
BARON—D. Goldsmid.

BARONETS—CharIes Des Vceux, James Butler East,
M P., George Nugent, Gilbert Heathcote, M.P., John
Stewart Richardson, George Philips, John Gibbons,
Thomas Hare, Thomas Winnington, M.P.
SlRS—Fitzroy Kelly, M.P., Frederick Madden, James
Emmerson Tennant, M. T. Farquhar, Charles Berry.
QUEEN'S CouNsEL—R. D. Craig, Mellor.
REVEREND DCOTORS—Broadley, Seymour, Thorpe.
REVERENDS—Thomas Cator, Alan Gordon Cornwall,
J. S. M. Anderson, William Percival Bally, John Barlow,
David Carson.

SERGEANTS AT LAW—Manning, Clarke.
DOCTORS—Michael Farady, Ashley, Aldis, Evans, Forbes
Winslow, M 'Cann, Gillkrest.

MESSIEURS—Thomas Hankey, jun., Farquharson (of
Invercauld), Sanderson, W. Howard Hartley, A. J. B.
Hope, Hugh Seymour, Pemberton, Brand, William Payne,
Mandeville, H. U. Addington, Corbally, M,P., Packe,
M.P., Singer, Hope Vere, Nouaille Rudge, Bateson, M.P.,
Sainbridge Thomas Gordon (Sheriff of Mid-Lothian),
H. A. Hubert, Stafford Carey (Bailiff of Guernsey), Alla-
son Cunningham, Wells, Phillips, Bradshaw, Fellowes,
M.P., Frederick Robinson, Manners Sutton, Ross, J. H.
Vivian, M.P., Graham Vivian, John Ball, M.P., Hutt,
M.P*, Frederick Goraburn, Andrew Di ummond,
M.P., Gurdon, Stewart, Solly Flood, Joseph Goff, J. R.
Rodd, Erasmus Wilson, Brook, Wyndham Slade, Comp-
ton Monsell, George Mitchell, Charles Manby, Whatman,
M.P., Thomas A. Telfer.
ADMIRALS—BowIes, Mitford, Sykes, Earl Waldegrave,
C. 8., Sir George A. Westphal, Sir Charles Sullivan.
CAPTAINS (Royal Navy)—Sir Thomas Hastings, C.B:,
Yelverton, Washington, Erskine, George Evans, Ellice, R.
H. Fleming, Henry Douglas.
COMMANDERS—OIiver, Hon. Francis Egerton.
LIEUTENANT (Royal Navy)—Frederick Craufurd.
GENERALS—Viscount Hardinge, Sir Howard Douglas,
Bart., C.B. Lord Saltoun, Sir George Pollock, G.C.8., Sir
Richard Doherty, Dalmer, Sir Robert Arbuthnot,
Aitchison, Chamberlaine' Walton, Simpson, Sir Alex-
ander Woodford, Sir De Lacy Evans, Sir George Brown,
Latter.

COLONELS—Hugh Bane, Hon. Charles Grantham
Scott, Hon. Lauderdale Mamie, Wingfield, Berkeley,
Thomas Alcock, Trevelyan, Noted), M.P., Paget, Sullivan,
Wearing, Baheity, A. Percival, Cotten, Lom.
MAJORS—Hon. R. F. Fowley, Halkett.
CAPTAINS—Lord George Mannets, F. Vanderlure Mills,
Holden, Sandham, Fulcher, Arthur Pack, Edward Paken-
ham, Mortimer, Montresor, Howard Vyse.
LIEUTENANTS—James Bontein, Sidney Cousens, J. W.
Clayton, Walrond Clark.

CORNET—E. Ford.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert returned to Bucking
ham Palace after the levee.

The Portuguese Minister was prevented from attending
the levee, in consequence of the severe indisposition from
which he has been suffering some time past. His Excel-
lency has gone into the country for a change of air.