The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-21 00:00:00

Edward Cust, Sir George Shee, the Right Hon. Fox
Strangwayelli Mr. Mandeville, Mr. Addington, Mr.
Henry Stanley, and his Lordship's private secretary, the
Hon. Spencer Ponsonby. All the foreign Ministers
wore the uniforms of their respective countries, and
some of them displayed a profusion of orders. The cos-
tume of the Turkish Ambassador and of the Russian
Minister were very magnificent. The costume of the
members of the British corps diplomatique were also
remarkable for their splendour. Alter the banquet, the
Viscountess Palmerston held an assembly, which was
attended by the following distinguished company:—
His Excellency the Minister for the Netherlands and
Mademoiselle Schimmelpenninck, the Countess Colloredo,
the Countess Reventlow and the Countess Hilda and
Malvina Reventlow, the Viscountess Moncorvo, the
Baroness Rehausen, Madame Van de Weyer, Madame
de Lisboa, Mrs. Bancroft, Baron Wydenbruck, Baron
Koller, Baron Stratenus, Countßosen, Count Pe rpoucher,
M. C. de Koudriaffsky, M. Ernest Bunsen, M. Charles
Bunsen. M. Zohrab, and M. Sieveking, who were among
the members of the corps diplomatique present; and the
general circle included his Grace the Duke ot Welling-
ton, the Duke of Devonshire, the Duchess of Sutherland,
the Duchess of Norfolk, Lady Adeliza Fitzalan Howard,
and the lion. Miss Foley, the Duchess of Leeds and
Miss Lane Fox, the Duchess of Bedford, the Marquis of
Kildare, the Marquis of Stafford, the Marchioness of
Clanricarde, and the Ladies Emily and Catherine De
Burgh, the Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis.of
Headfort, the Marquis of Breadalbane, the Coustesa
Dowager of Sefton, the Countess of Newburgh, the
Countess Flahault and Mademoiselle de Flabault, the
Countess Gower, the Countess of Malmesbury, the
Countess of Tankerville, the Earl and Countess of Mor-
ley, the Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementine Vil-
liers, Frances Countess of Waldegrave and Mr. Gran-
ville Harcourt, M.P., the Earl and Countess of Kinnoul
and Lady Frances Hay, the Earl of Wilton, Earl
Grosvenor, the Earl of Belfast, the Countess of Elche
and the Hon. Miss Charteris, the Earl and Countess
Craven, Viscount Goderich, Viscount Clifden, Viscount
and Viscountess Newport, Viscount Cantilupe, Viscount
and Viscountess Galway and Miss Mills, Viscount and
Viscountess Canning, Viscount and Viscountess Mel-
gund, Viscount and Viscountess Mahon, Viscountess
Ponsonby, Lady H. Lytton Bulwer, Lady Dafferin,
Lady Portman and the Honourable Miss Portman, Lady
Alice Peel, Lady Dover and the Honourable Miss Ellis,
Lady Blantyre, Lord Dufferin, Lord de Mauley, Lady
Harriet Drummond and Miss Drummond, Lord Harry
Vane, Lady Cottenham and the Honourable Misses
!'epys, Lord Lilford, Lord and Lady Cremorne, Lord
and Lady Beaumont, Lady Elizabeth Bulteel, Lady
Georgiana Grey, Lord Eliot, Lord Cranstoun, Lord
Edward Fitzalan Howard, Lady Eddisbury and the
Honourable Misses Stanley, Lord Brook, Lord and Lady
Milford, Lord and Lady J. Hay, the Ladies Ponsonby,
the Honourable Miss Dillon, the Honourable Francis
Charteris and Lady Anne Charteris, Hon. Hugh and
Lady Sarah Cholmondeley, Hon. Mr. Godolphin, Hon.
W. Couper, Hon. F. Leveson, Hon. J. Fortescue, Hon.
Mr. Pepys, Hon. Charles Cavendish, Right Hon. 11. T.
L. Corry, Eight Hon. Fox Maule and Mrs. Maule,
Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Right Hon. Henry Lobou-
chere and Mrs. Labouchere, Right Hon. Vernon Smith,
Mrs. and the Misses Verner, Right Hon. Sir George
Grey, Lady Grey and Miss Ryder, Sir John and Lady
Charlotte Guest, Sir John Cam Hobhouse and Miss
Charlotte Hobhouse, Sir Augustus Clifford, Lady Clif-
ford and the Misses Clifford; Sir Roderick Murchison,
Mr. and Lady Anne Tufnell, Mr., Lady Mary, and Miss
Stanley; Colonel Wylde, Colonel Rose, Captain Francis
Seymour, Captain Pechell, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Smith,
Mr. and the Misses Sullivan, Mr. and Mrs. Parker, Mr.
Baillie Cochrane, M.P., Sir C. Lemon, -Mr. Repton,
M.P., Mr. Addington, Mr. Charles Clifford, Mr. Charles
Mills and Miss Mills, Mr. Mills, Mr. Ralph Grey, M.P.,
Mr. Fleming, Mrs. Wyndham and Miss Wyndham, Mr.
Charles Barry, Mr. Osborne, M.P., Mr. Brand, &c.
The Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord President of the
Privy Council, and the Marchioness of Lansdowne had
a dinner party on Saturday at Lansdowne House. The
Earl and Countess Bruce, the Earl and Countess Craven,
Lord and Lady Beaumont, aril a select party were
present.
The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department,
gave a State banquet on Saturday at the Clarendon
Hotel, in honour of the Queen's birthday, to the follow-
ing distinguished circle—viz., the Lord Chancellor, Lord
Langdale (Master of the Rolls), the Right Hon. the
Speaker of the House of Commons, the Vice-Chancellor
of England, the Lord Chief Ju-tice of the Common
Pleas, the Chief Baron of the Exchequer, the Vice-
Chancellor Wigrarn, the Queen's Judges Patteson, Cole-
ridge, Coltman, Rolfe, Wightman, Cresswe 11, Erle,
Platt, and Williams; the Lord Mayor of London, the
Recorder, the Lord-Advocate of Scotland, the Solicitor-
General for Scotland, Mr. Sheriff Finnis, and Mr.
Sheriff Goodhart, Sheriffs for London and Middlesex;
Mr. Masterman, M.P., Mr. H. Waddington, Under
Secretary of State; Mr. Cornwall Lewis, Under Secre-
tary of State; and Mr. Brand.
The Right Honourable Sir Charles Wood, Charcellor
of the Exchequer, gave a full dress dinner in celebra-
tion of the Queen's birthday, on Saturday, at his official
residence in Downing-street. The guests were, the
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Lord Camp-
bell), the Postmaster-General (the Marquis of Clanri-
carde), the President of the Board of Trade (the Right
Hon. Henry Lahouchere), the Master of the Mint (the '
Right llon. R. Lalor Sheil), the Governor of the Bank
of England and the Deputy Governor, the Chairman ot
the East India Company, the Chairman of the Board of
Customs (Sir Thomas Freemantle), and the Deputy
Chairman of the Board of Customs (Mr. Dawson). the
Chairman of the Beard of Inland Revenue (Mr. John
Wood), the 1/eputy Chairman (Mr. Thornton), the
Chairman of the Board of Audit (Major-General Sir
Wm. Herries), the Secretary to the Postmaster- General
(Colonel Moberly), the Queen's Remembrancer (Mr.
Vincent), Mr. Foley, M.P., Mr. Alderman Humphery,
M.P , Mr. James G. Marshal!, M.P., and Mr. G. Ar-
buthnot.

Earl Grey, Secretary of State for the Colonies, enter-
tained the following party at hie mansion in Be'grave-
square:—Llis Grace the Commander-in-Chief (Duke of
Wellington), Liewenant-General Lord Fitzroy Somer-
set (Military Secretary), General Sir Willoughby Gor-
don (Quarter-master General), Lieut. General tiir John
Macdonald (Adjutant-General), the Right Hon. Fox
Mauve (Secretary at War),. Colonel the Hon. George
Anson cClerk of the Ordnance), Mr. Hayter, M.P.
(Judge-Advocate-General), Sir Thomas Hastings, Mr,
Alexander Wood, Mr. Sullivan. Mr. B. Hawes, M.P.,
Mr. 11. Merivale, Mr.-Elliott, Mr. Murdoch, Mr. Ro-
ger, Capt. Wyniett, e.nd Mr. Harry Grey.
The Right lion. Sir Francis Baring (First Lord of
the Admiralty) entertained the following party at dinner
at his official residence in the Admiralty :—Lord
Douglas Gordon Hallyburton, Lord John Hay, Captain
the Hon. Maurice Berkeley, Captain the Hon. C.
Howard, Captain the Hon. G. Eden, lion, W. Cowper,
Admiral Sir James Gordon, Sir William Burnet, Sir
Charles Adam, Admiral Deans Dundas, Sir John Hill,
Colonel Parke (Royal Marines), Colonel Irvine, Colonel
Owen, Commodore Eden, Captain Becker, Captain
Bethune, Captain Milne, Captain Vetch, Mr. Godson,
Q.C., Mr. Meek, and Mr. Tierney.
The Attorney-General (Sir Jahn Jervis) entertained
a large party of the leading members ,X the legal profes-
sion at the Albion Tavern in celOratiln of the occasion.
The guests included Lord ilniugham, the Q.:eon's Ad-
vocate, the Solicitor-General, Sir Frederick Thesiger,
Sir Francis Simpkinsoa, llon. J. Stuart Wortley, Mr.
Sergeant Talfourd, Mr. Sergeant Manning, Mr. Sergeant
Storks, Mr. Sergeant Merewether, Mr. Sergeant Murphy,
Mr. Sergeant Byles, Mr. Sergeant Shee, Mr. Sergeant
Adams, Mr. Sergeant Lawcs, Mr. Cockburn, Mr. Watson,
Mr.Kn •wles, Mr. B. Andrews, Mr. Hum rey, Mr. Green-
wood, Mr. Coo, Mr. Marti°, Mr. E. Lawes, Mr.
Crowder, Mr. Walpole, Mr. Rogers, Mr. James, Mr.
Matthews, Mr. Wilbraham, Mr. Wray, Mr. Wrangham,
Mr. Gordon, Mr. Alexander, Mr. Chilton, Mr. Jooper, Mr.
Turner, Mr. Hope, Mr. Rat, Mr. J. Parker, Mr. Whit-
marsh, Mr. Lloyd, Mr. Walesby, Mr. Butt, Mr. Rey-
nolds, Mr. Swanaton, Mr. Malins, Mr. Page Wood, Mr.
Calvert, Mr. Roupell, Mr. Temple, Mr. Turner, Mr.
Fearon, Mr. Ilildyard, Mr. Hodgson, Mr. Thackeray,
Mr. Teed, Mr. Wilde, Mr. Evans, Mr. Humphrey, Mr.
Blunt, Mr. Russell, Mr. Chambers, Mr. Peacock, and
Mr. Jervis.

The Duke of Norfolk (Master of the Horse) enter-
tained the following distinguished party at his mansion,
in St. James's•square :—The Marquis of Londonderry,
the Marquis of Westminster, the Marquis of Kildare, the
Marquis of Stafford, the Earl of Bcsborough, the Earl
of Denbigh, the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Lord
Foley, Lord Hastings, Lord Saye and Self, Lord James
Murray, Baron Knesebeek, Sir George -Anson, Sir
Andrew Barnard, Sir Harry Dent Goring, Sir Charles
Young, Colonel Buckley, Colonel the Hon. H. T. Lid-
dell, Captain Jones, Captain Somerset, Captain Taylor,
Mr. Mildmay, Mr. J. A. Smith, M.P., and Mr. E. S.
Dandy.
Earl Fortescue (Lord Steward of the Queen's House-
hold) gave a state dinner in celebration of her Majesty's
birthday on Saturday at his mansion in Grosvenor-
square. The invitations included the Marquis of Head-
fort, Earl Morley, the Earl of Devon, the Earl of Z3t-
land, the Earl of Scarborough, Earl Spencer, Lord Sey-
mour, Lord Poltimore, Lord Lilford, Lord Sudeley,
Lord Erskine, Lord Milford, Lord Audley, Lord Ross-
more„ Lord Marcus Hill, the Right Hon. William Se-
bright LaseelleF, the Hon. and Rev. C. L. Courtenay,
Major. General Bowles, Sir Thomas Marrable, Mr.
Shitiner, Mr. Alfred Montgomery, Mr. Edward Hob-
house, and Mr. Heneage.
The Marquis of Breadalbane,-K.T., Lord Chamberlain
of her Majesty's Household, gave a full dress dinner on
Saturday at his residence in Park-lane in celebration of
the Queen's birthday. The company consisted of Lord
Edward Howard, the Earl of Morton, Lord Byron, Lord
Camoys, Major General Sir Frederick Sterin, olonel
Berkeley Drummond, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon.
Robert E. Boyle, Hon. Frederick Byng, Colonel Sir
Frederick Smith, Rear-Admiral Sir Augustus Clifford,
Bart., Sir William Martins, Mr. Ramsden, Mr. A. J.
Blackwood, Captain Sir Courtenay Boyle, R.N.; Major
BeresfOrd, M. 1.).; Colonel Sir Noel Harris, Sir Juhn
Strachan, Bart.; Mr. Henry Greville, Captain Green,
Captain the Hon. Mortimer Sackville West, Colonel
.linollys, field-officer in brigade waiting; the Hon.
Spencer Lyttelton, the Marquis of Donegal,
the Duke of Roxburghe, K.T.; the Earl of Camper-
down, K.T.; Sir Alexander Campbell, Bart., and Mr.
Alexander Currie.
Sir R. Peel entertained a distinguished party en
aturday, at his residence in Whitehall-gardens; the
guests included the Duke of Buccleucb, the Eail of
liaddington, Viscount Hardinge, Viscount Melville,
lord Heytesbury, Lord Wlaarncliffe, Lord John Thynne,
the Bishop of Oxford, Hon. Robert Dundas, the Right
lion. Sir George Clerk, Sir E. Sugden, Admiral W.
Gordon, Mr. Pemberton Leigh, Mr. Duncan M'Neill,
Mr. Roundell Palmer, M.P., Mr. Hobhouse, M.P., and
Mr. EL Drummond, M.P.
The Archbishop of ,York celebrated .her Majesty's.
birthday by a grand banquet to the Lord Primate and
she bench of Bishops, et his mansion i 4 Belgrave. ,

svare. There wore present at the dinner, the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of Dublin, the
Bishop of London, the Bishop of Durham, the Bishop
of Winchester, the Bishop of Bangor, the Bishop of
Lincoln, the Bishop of Llandaff, the Bishop of Ex ter,
the Bishop of Carlisle, the Bishop of Rochester, the
Bishop of Norwich. the Bishop of Gloucester and Buis-
tol, the Bishop of Worcester, the Bishop of Chichester,
the Bishop of Lichfield, the Bishop of Ripon, the Bishop
of Peterborough, the Bishop of Hereford, the Bishop
of St. Asaph, and the Bishop of Manchester. The Ve-
nerable Archdeacon Musgrave and Mr. Granville Har-
court Vernon, M.P.. had the honour of joining the party.
Her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-
Arms gave their full dress dinner on Saturday to cele-
brate the day.
The guests at all the above banquets were attired
either in uniform or in official costume, and after dinner
the health of her Majesty was drunk at each with the
greatest enthusiasm. The residences of all the members
of the Ministry were brilliantly illuminated.