The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-21 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S LEVEE.

Her Majesty held a levee at St. James's Palace yesterday afternoon,
which was very numerously attended.
The Knights Grand Crosses of the several orders of knighthood wore
their respective collars, it being the anniversary of ire: Majesty's acces.
sion to the throne.
Her Majesty was attended by the Marchioness of Lansdowne (first
Lady), the Countess of Mulgrave (Lady in Waiting), Lady Lyttelton
(Bedchamber Woman in Waiting), the Earl of Uxbridge (Lord in
Waiting), the Honourable Colonel Cavendish (Clerk Marshal), Vice_
Admiral Sir Robert Otway. (Groom in Waiting), Colonel We/1,35,
(Equerry in Waiting), Master Cowell, and Master Cavendish (Pages of
Honour in Waiting).
His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex attended the levee.
The following had audiences or her Majesty :
The Prince of Holstein Glucksbourg, and Prince Ernest of Hesse.
Their Serene highnesses were introduced by Lord Gleneig (officiating
for Viscount Palmerston), one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of
State, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Master of the Ceremonies.
Count de Lowenhielm, Ambassador Extraordinary from the King of
Sweden.
Duke de. Palmella, Ambassador Extraordinary from the Queen of
Portugal. •
Prince Soutzo, the Grecian Minister, to deliver a letter from his •
Sovereign. •
Baron de Gersdoxff, the Saxon Minister, to deliver a letter from Ills
Sovereign.
Their Excellencies were respectively introduced by one of her Ma-
jesty's principal Secretaries of State, and conducted by Sir Robert Ches.
ter, master of the ceremonies.
In the circle the following foreign presentati )ns to her Majesty took
place :—Le Baron de Vrints Berberich, Count Thin), Count Albrizze,
Marquis Strozze, Lieutenant Kerr (Austrian service), and Lieutenant
L. E. Nolan, 10th Imperial and Royal Hussars, by Prince Esterhazy,
the Austrian Ambassador.
Le Comte de Banneville, Baron du Cluzeau de Clerant, le General
Corbet, and le Baron Perignon, Member of the Chamber of Deputies,
by General Count Sebastiana, the French Ambassador.
Prince Doria Pamphilly, Chevalier Doria, Duke Colignano, Prince
Pignatelli, Marquis Gentili, and G. Capece Galesta du Duchi di Re.
gina (Secretary of the Embassy), by Count Ludolf, the Sicilian A.
bassador.

Le Baron de Gotsch, attache to the Prussian embassy extraordinary,
and Le Baron de Seydlitz (officer in the Prussian Guards), attache to
the embassy, by Prince Putbus, the Prussian Ambassador.
Le Comte de Boude and the Count de Kaliing, Officers in the
Guards of his Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, and attaches
to the embassy at this Court, by Count Lowenhielm, the Swedish Am_
b:.4,7ador.
Baron de Lagos, Marquis Fayal, M. Sampayo, and the Chevalier Bran_
dao, by the Duke de Pahnella, Portuguese Ambassador.
M. de Bille, Chambellan of his Danish Majesty, and Danish Minister
to the Hanseatic cities, and Count G. de Blucher, by Baron de Biome,
the Danish Minister.
Monsieur de Barneveld, by M. Dedel, the Minister of the Netherlands.
John Van Buren, son of the President of the United States; his Ex-
cellency General Cass, United States Minister to France; Colonel Henry
Ledyard, attache to the United States Legation in France; and Colonel
Thorn, by Mr. Stevenson, the United States Minister.
Le Marquis d'Albayda et de San Jose, Marechal de Camp ; the Duke
de Osuna, and the Chevalier de Los loos; by the Chevalier d'Aguilar,
the Spanish Minister.
The Marquis Bonella, by Count Pollon, the Sardinian Minister.
Colonel Sir William Davison, on his return from abroad, by Baron de
Munchausen, the Hanoverian Minister.
Marquis Gropallo and Marquis Stati, by the Marquis de Brignole, the
Sardinian Ambassador.

The Cheva!ier de Paiva Pereira, attache to the Portuguese Legation;
Lieutenant Brandoa, M. Basta, and the Chevalier de Sa Nogueira, Se-
cretary, by the Chevalier Rebell() de Carvalho, the Portuguese Charge
c.'A fraires.

Monsieur Zohrab, Ottoman Consul-General in London, and Mr. Col..
lis, Vice-Consul in Birmingham, by Emeen Effendi (second Secretary),
in the absence of the Turkish Ambassador.

The following were also presented to the Queen at the Entree Levee :
Mr. Abe! crombie, her Majesty's Minister at Florence, by Viscount
Palmerston.

Mr. Thomas N. Reeve, Standard bearer of the Honourable Corps of
Gentlemen at-Arms, by Lord Foley.

Captain Honiton, Ensign of the Yeoman Guard, by the Earl of 11.
chester.

Mr. Benjamin Smith, senior member of her Majesty's Honourable
Corps of Gentlemcn.at.Arms, by Lord Foley.
Mr. Alfred Montgomery, on his appointment as one of the Gentle-
men Ushers to her Majesty, by the Lord Chamberlain.

The Rev. Dr. Hook, Chaplain in Waiting, by the Bishop of Ripon.
The Leyte was attended by the several Foreign Ambassadors, and a
more numerous assemblage of the Nobility and Gentry than usual.
After the Levee her Majesty held a Privy Gouncil, which was at-
tended by the Lord President, the Lord Chancellor, the First Lord of
the Treasury, the Secretaries of State fer the Home and Colonial De-
partments, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Ad-
miralty, the President of the Board of Control, the President of the Board
of Trade, and the Secretary at War.
The Hon, W. Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in waiting. After
the Council, Mr. Martins, Captain Green, and Mr. Blackwood, the Gen-
lemen Ushers in waiting, ushered into the Royal Closet a deputation of
his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, the President and Council of
the Royal Society, to obtain the signature of her Majesty in their Regis-
ter, as Patroness of the Royal Society. The. deputation was composed of
the Marquis of Northampton, Vice_President ; Mr. Children and Pro-
fessor Rigaud, Vice-Presidents; Mr. Francis Bally, Treasurer; Dr. no-
get and Professor Christie, Secretaries ; Mr. J. D. Robertson, Assistant
Secretary; Sir Philip Grey Egerton, Mr. Walker, Mr. Konig, Professor
Daniell, Dr. Boyle, Rev. W. Whewell, 8.D., Rev. Professor Peacock,
Dr. Bostock, Rev. A. Sedwick, M.A., Mr. W. H. Pepys, Professor
Wheatstone, and Mr. Travers, Members of the Council and Fellows.
The Duke of Sussex presented the register, and her Majesty was
graciously pleased to sign her name in one of the pages within a very
beautiful border, surmounted by a painting of the royal arms. Upon
which occasion his. Royal Highness addressed the Queen as follows:
and afterwards presented the Members of the Council to her Majesty,
who was pleased to receive them most graciously, and permitted them
the honour of kissing her hand.
MAY IT PLEASE Youa MAJESTY,

In obedience to your gracious commands, the President and Council
of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Natural Knowledge now
appear in your Royal presence, humbly to tender the register of its
members for the insertion of your august signature.
Our very name, and the recollection of our first institution, prompt
and encourage us to look up to your Majesty as our patrols and pro-
tector ; and which by this especial act of your favour will confirm to
the Society the assurance so graciously communieatod to us, in your
name, by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in reply to
the dutiful address we had the honour to present to your Majesty on
your accession.

" Permit me, most gracious Sovereign, to avail myself of this opportu-
nity to express to your Majesty, in the name and on behalf of the Fel-
lows of the Royal Society, their gratitude for your munificent grant of
two gold medals annually, far the encouragement of science in its
different branches; and more especially for allowing the Council so to
aster for the present year the Statute regulating the distribution of
them, as to render it available and conformable to the views fur which it
was framed.
" Peace, navigation, and commence are as necessary to the growth of
literature as to the intercourse with the natural world.

" Of these blessings we were already in possession when your Ma-
jesty ascended the throne of your ancestors. May such continue to
exist and thrive in this happy country- during a long, prosperous, and
useful reign, with every other earthly felicity which Divine Providence
in its wisdom may deign to shower down on your Royal and sacred
head, is the most ardent wish and fervent prayer of the President, Coun-
cil, and Fellows of the Royal Society, in unison with all your other
loyal subjects."

Mr. John Parker Nuttall, Exon of the Yeomen of the Guard, was pre.
sented to the Queen, at an audience in the Royal closet, by the Earl of
Pchester, and received from her Majesty his silver stack of °Bice.
The Earl of Yarborough, Lord Belhaven, Viscount Melbourne, Lord
John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Glenelg, and the Mar-
quis of Conyngham, had audiences of her Majesty.

- Her Maje.ity and itlite afccrwards returned in three carriages to the
new Palace.

MR. BLAGROVE'S CONCERT.

On Tuesday, at the
theo vera-rsequgalraed Rtooosmays,wl4alrs.Batlactrdoevdebya crowded
gave a grand
Morning Concert, which
auditory. The attractions, indeed, were of the first-rate order; and this
circumstance, added to the strong disposition which prevails to pa.
tronize an English artist of great promise, produced an overflowing
room. The singers were Madame Chili Damoreau, Mrs. Alfred Shaw,
Mademoiselle Caremoli, Misses Woodham, Lockey, and Bruce; Signor
Ivanoff, Castellan, Giubelei, and F. Lablache, Herr Kroft, Mr. Seguin,
and Mr. Parry. Madame Cinti Damoreau sang very splendidly in
the duetto " In van to fingi," with Mrs. Shaw, and In the
trio from Wells, with Ivanhoff and F. Lablache, " Ti pain ;" she also
sang a French romance, "by desire," accompanying herself on the
pianoforte. The other parties mentioned also acquitted themselves with
their accustomed ability in various favourite compositions, which we
have not time to particularize. The instrumental music was of a very
superior character at this concert. Mr. Blagrove accompanied Dodder
in Beethoven's Grand Sonata in A, and played with great finish
and taste a new set of variations for the violin by Mayseder.
Doehler, besides the Sonata alluded to, played a Grand Fantasia,
in which the variations upon the theme were of the mast re-
cherche character, and were executed with a facility almost mira-
culous. A new Quadruple Concerto, by a composer named Janser,
fur two violins, viola and violoncello, was well played by Messrs.
Blagrove, Eliasoa, Moralt, and Hausman, in which the instruments
and players were shown off to some advantage, but the composition
itself contained nothing extraordinary ; a mere quartett would per.
haps have been more effective. The performance, however, which
excited the greatest curiosity, was the celebrated Septuor of Beethoven,
which was played as, according to the progra:nme, " produced with the
greatest success at Paris during the present winter." It was per-
formed by forty.six instruments, the first violin part being
played by fifteen violins, the tenor part by ten tenors, the double bass
part by six double basses, &c., &c. The Septuor of Beethoven
is the most perfect composition ever written, and this experiment wan,
to say the least of it, unnecessary. The composer intended to write a
instruments;
a totally different character to it.
had he wished to pen a composition 'or
forty-six,
oaf.: fsrixf,a
hr
es
would
iave imparted
In
this new state, however, it was remarkably well played on Tuesday, and
honoured with the most enthusiastic applause. We prefer it as it IT
originally given to the world by the unrivalled genius fram whose fertile
mind it emanated, and are sufficiently stifFin our opinions to regard the
experiment as little better than sacrilege. The concert commenced at
two o'clock, and did not terminate till nearly six, at which period a
large portion of the audience had left the rooms, and those who re-
mained appeared to have had quite enough of music for one daY,
although two pieces cammised in the programme were omitted.

Mr. Horrocks, Deputy-Lieutenant for 012 County
of Dumbarton, was presented to her Majesty yesterday
by..the puke of
Hamilton.

Count Strogonoff was visited on Friday
lowing dis-inznished Members of the Nobility :—The. Duke of Wel-
lington, Prince Schwartz,nberg, Prince Lievon, Prince Ester; lazy, Mar-
quis, and M.:rchionei4 of Londonderry, Duchess of Inchmond, LaclY C.
Lennox, Doke of Hamilton, Dolvag,..-r Duchess of Richmond, Lar•:;
Aberdeen, Stanhope, Delawarr, Wemyss, and Clarendon, Counte,ses
W
Delawarr, emyss, and Stanhope, Lord and Lady Heytesbury, Hon.
Miss A'Court, &c. by the fol-

Prince de Putbus, the Prussian Ambassador Ex-
traordinary, was the bearer of gratifsing intelligence to the Prussian
Embassy—naraely, that on the Bth instant at B. rli❑ Baroness Bulow,
the lady of the much-esteerned Minister su long resident in this country,
gave birth to a son and heir to the anchmt and noble houses of Humboldt
and Bulow. The Baroness has several daughters, born in this country,
but no son.

•
The party announced at Gloucester House will be
on a large scale, and not a mere " carpet dance," as has been announced.
The DucLes, of Gloucester is, we are happy to state, in the enjoyment
of better health than f.,r many yerra past. Cards of invitati,m, to the
ball to the number of SOU; have bean issued, and preparations have
already commcnced for this grand party, at whic•t her Majesty will be
ikres:,nt.

The Emperor of Russia, before leaving Berlin, dis-
tributed erd2rs and decorations to all the Field Oliicers. To each of
those whose rank did not a:hnit Of their receiving orders a preicnt of 200
louis d'or was sent. For his picture, representing a Review by Napo.