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the naval quadrant. Amongst his mechanical labours
are also to be reckoned his improv,,ments in the licks
ot' fire-arms, and his guns for discharging several bullets
very rapidly. Amongst his chemical discoveries
were the composition now called Prince's metal, and a
mode of rendering black lead rusiblo, and re-changing it
into its original state. Perhaps to him is also to be at-
tributed the toy that bears his name as ' Rupert's drop;
tha; curious bubble of .lass which has long amused
children, and puzzled philosophers.' "
After the Restoration Rupert visited England, and
still continued these favourite pursuits. " Often," we
are told, "would Charles and his silken favourite lounge
into the workshop of the Prince,where girt with an apron
and begrimed with soot, the hero of a hundred
fights was wielding his hammer as if the anvil was
a Roundhead." After this we again find him on the
sea, sharing with Albemarle the command of the
British fleet in those sea fights, one of which Dryden
has commemorated in a poem, concluding with the
truthful exclamation—
_

" whoure fou2ht well
Whom Rupert led and were British born."
It is hardly necessary after what we have said to com-
mend this very interesting work to the attention of
our readers. It contains a inultitude of original letters,
and a diary and other memoranda of Prince Rupert's.
It is, moreover, adorn( d with engraved portraits of
Rupert, Falkland, and other celebrated characters of
that time, but these pictorial etnbellishments are but a
secondary consideration by the side of Eliot Warbur-
ton's effective pen and ink portraits and picturesque
narrative.

GENERAL THE HON. SIR ED-
WARD PAGET, G.C.8., GOVERNOR OF
CHELSEA HOSPITAL.
This gallant officer and veteran warrior, whose death
we recorded last week, was the fourth sou of the late
Earl of Uxbridge, and was born on 3d November, 1775,
and was consequently in the 74th year of his age. He
commenced his military career at the age of 17, being
appointed Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant in the Ist Life
Guards on the 23d March, 1792, Captain in the 54th
Foot the Ist December, 1792, and Major the 14th No-
vember, 1793. Ile accompanied this regiment to Ostend,
under the orders of Sir Charles Grey, and subsequently
off Cherbourg and the French Coast under those of Lord
Moira. The 30th April, 1794, he obtained a Litaite-
nant•Colonelcy in the 28,:a Foot, and in June, 1794, he
embarked with Lord Wire, and landed at Ostend. lie
served the campaie:;iis in Flanders and Holland,
and was present at the sortie from Mirraquen,
and the action of 'Gueldermalson. In March, 1795, he
returned with 'ais regiment to Ireland, and in June fol-
lowing, embterked and sailed in the expedition for
Quiberon, 'hut was recalled. In September, 1795, he
sailed for the West Indies, under the orders of Sir Ralph
Abercroraby, but was twice driven back; and finally, in
January, 1796, landed at Portsmouth. In July, 1796,
he went to Gibraltar, and from this period to the end
of 1801. he was stationed in the Mediterranean. He was
Dre%ent in the naval action off Cape St. Vincent on the
14th February, 1797. The Ist January, 1798, he re.,
ceived the rank of colonel, and was appointed aide-de-
camp to George 111. He was at the capture of Minorca
in 1798, under Sir Charles Stuart. Served the
campaign in Egypt under Sir Ralph Aber-
cromby and Lord Hutchinson, the 28th Regiment
being in the reserve, which was commanded by the late
Sir John Moore. He was in the actions of the Bth,l3th,
and 21st of March, and in the latter was severely
wounded; also present at the investment of Cairo and
Alexandria, and a hostage with the French army at
Cairo till their embarkation at Aboukir. In October,
1801, he was appointed Brigadier-General of the staff
in Ireland, and stationed at Fermoy. The 2d of July,
1805, be was removed to the staff in England, and sta.
tioned at Brabourne Lees. The Ist of January, 1805,
he received the rank of Major-General. From April to
October, 1805, he commanded a brigade of infantry at
Eastbourne, and in the latter month embarked with it,
under the orders of General Don, landed at Cux-
haven, and advanced to Bremen. He returned with
the army to England in February, 1806. In June fol-
lowing, he was appointed to the staff of the army in the
Mediterranean, and was placed by the late General
Fox on the command of the reserve of the army in
Sicily. In January, 1808, he returned to England from
Sicily, with a part of the army under Sir John Moore,
and on the 23d February received the Colonelcy of the
80th Foot. In April, 1808, he accompanied Sir John
Moore to Sweden, and was appointed by that officer to
the reserve of his army. In June he returned with the I
army to England, and was immediately sent to Portugal.
Was appointed by Sir Hugh Dalrymple to the command
of the advanced taarps of his army. He served the cam-
paign in Spain under Sir John Moore, and commanded
the reserve of that officer's army, and was at
the battle of Corunna on the 16th of Jan., 1809. He
was next appointed to the staff of the army
in the peninsula under Sir Arthur Wellesley,
with the local rank of Lieut.-General, and commanded
she left wing of the army. He conducted the advance
from Coimbra to Oporto. On the 12th May, 1809, he
lost his right arm and returned to England. Lord Wel-
lington, in his dispatch, observed, in allusion to this
accident :—" In Lieut. General Paget I have lost the
assistance of a friend who had been most useful to me
in the few days which had elapsed since he had joined
the army. lie had rendered a most important service
at the moment he received his wound, in the taking up
the position which the troops afterwards maintained,
and in bearing the first brunt of' the enemy's attack." His
Lordship also remarked in a private letter, dated Oporto,
May 13, 1809, upon the same subject:—"l cannot express
to you how much I regret the loss of his assistance; or bow
much the joy of the whole.army, on account of their success,
has been damped by the misfortune of him who has been
the principal promoter of it." The 4th of June, 1811, he
received the rank of Lieutenant-General in the army.
He subsequently served as second in command to
Lord Wellington, and was taken prisoner in the retreat
of the army from Burgos, in 1813.
From the 80th Foot, be was removed the 26th of
December, 1815, to the Colonelcy of the 28th Foot,
and on the 31st of October, 1818, was appointed Captain
of Cowes Castle, in the Isle of Wight.
In 1821, Captain Paget was appointed Governor of
Ceylon, and in 1822, Commander-in-Chief of H. M.
Forces in India. In 1824, he quelled the formidable
mutiny at Barrackpore, which had threatened the most
serious results to the ranks of the Hon. E LC .'s service.
Sir Edward planned and completed the whole of the
operations connected with the Burmese .war, but being
succeeded in his command in 1825, he received none of
the prize money which was subsequently awarded
In 1826 he was appointed Governor of the Royal Mili-
tary College at Sandhurst, and finally, in 1837, Governor
of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, by King William IV.
Sir Edward received a medal for the battle of Corunna,
and was a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath,
and of the Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword.
He was also a member of the Consolidated Board of
General Officers.

The opinion Sir John Moore bad of this officer may
be collected from his dying words. In the act of expiring
he observed to Colonel Paul Anderson—" Is Paget iu
the room ;" and being answered in the negative, he said
—"Remember me to him—remember me to him. It's
General Paget I mean. He's a fine fellow."
The body was removed from his residence, Oakfield
Lodge, East Cowes Park, on Saturday afternoon, and
placed on board the Queen, Southampton and Isle of
Wight steam packet, to be forwarded by the South-
Western Railway (six o'clock train) to the Waterloo
Station, from whence it was taken to Chelsea Hospital,
where it reposed under the charge of the veterans. The
funeral took place this morning at Chelsea with military
honours, the corpse being deposited among the heroes
in that establishment.

The late Sir Edward was twice married; first to the
Hon. Frances Begot, 22d of May, 1805, who died in
childbed May, 1806; and secondly, on the 22d February,
1815, to Lady Ilarriet Legge, fourth daughter of George,
third Earl of Dartmouth. By the former he had one
son, the Rev. Francis Edward Paget, Rector of Elford,
Staffordshire; and by the latter, who still survives, he
had three sons, Major Henry William Paget, Captain
Patrick Paget, Grenadier Guards, and Edward Heneage
Paget, and five daughters, the eldest of whom is the
present Marchiones3 of Ormonde.

GREAT FIRE AT ROTTERDAM.—THREE HUN-
DRED THOUSAND POUNDS WORTH OF PROPERTY DE-
STROYED.—Ou Saturday information was received at the
principal fire offices in town of a very devastating con-
flagration having occurred at Rotterdam, by which pro-
perty valued at upwards of 300,0001. had been destroyed.
It appear that the flames broke out on Saturday morning
in the sugar refinery of Messrs. Tromp, Sairmondt, and
Co., situated in that part of the town called the Leaven-
haven, near to the river side, and nearly opposite the
shore where the Sea Gull (Hull and Rotterdam steamer)
lies. The fire, in the space of a few minutes, assumed
a fearful aspect ; for, on the sugar becoming ignited, it
ran out like liquid fire from the various windows and
other outlets, whence it extended to about thirty other
warehouses, offices, and dwellings, including the house
and warehouse of Ringrose. The flame, could nut be
extinguished until Sunday at midnight. It is said that
Rotterdam was never visited by such a calamity in the
shape of fire before. The total loss in merchandise, &c.,
is estimated at about 3,600,000 f. or 300,000/. A g reat
proportion of the property uninsured.
FALSE ALARM OF FIRE.-011 Thursday evening,
between nine and eleven o'clock, considerable confu-
sion occurred in consequence of a report having been
raised that an extensive conflagration was raging in
Regent-street, which, however, fortunately proved to be
untrue, but not till the principal fire engines in tha me-
tropolis had hastened towards the supposed scene of dis-
aster. The alarm was occasioned by an experimental
trial of the apparatu.s and devices to be used at the gene-
ral illumination in honour of Her Majesty's birthday,
by the Messrs. Nicoll, paletin makers to the Prince,
and as the premises of this firm extend over four of the
largest houses in Regent street, the blaze of light was
most intense. Sufficient notice ought certainly to have
been given of the intention :of lighting up upon the oc-
casion in question.
LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.—The North American
mail steam-ship Niagara, Captain Ryrie, departed froni
York,
carrying Mersey this afternoon for Halifax and New
carrying out the usual mails, a fair complementl,he steam-
ship of pas-
sengers, and about 2,0001. specie onfrc,
freight. The
Cambria, Captain Shannon, with the S
&c., will be due here on Monday (this day). e would
leave Boston on the 9th Halifax on the 11th inst.
SHIELDS, MAY 18.—The John Grey, from Girgenti,
in entering the harbour this morning, struck on the
Middle Ground, ai;cl remains. The Asia, of Scarborough,
for London, in proceeding to sea this morning, struck
on the Middle Ground, but got off with assistance and
proceeded.
OFF CORK, MAY 18.—Limena, Le Mesturier, Pcrto
Rico tor Liverpool; Libra, Moir, ditto; Lockwood,
Errington, New Orleans for Liverpool.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE
METROPOLITAN REFORM ASSOCIATION.
See,—On Wednesday the 16th, enormous dull de-
bate on " articles of food for cattle, sheep, or pigs,"
and the agreements between landlords and tenants
thereanent. When such a cognate subject gets before
the House, there is no wonder that Affirmation, Mar-
riage, and Parliatnentary Oaths Bills fly, tossed by
adverse winds into the limbo of futurity.
On the 17th, a petition was presented from " John
Sparke and others," complaining of the conduct of a
well-known Member connected with Railway Com-
panies, "praying for inquiry, and that he may be ex-
pelled from being a Member of the House."
It might have been as well if John Sparke and
others had for decency left a gap between the inquiry
and punishment demanded, to contain the possib/e event
of the inquiry's not ending in the precise manner
John Sparke and others have assigned.
The petition was read by the clerk, and then the
Member petitioned against rose in his place. it is
not likely that within the compass of a speech by the
party incriminated, there should be included what
should determine the opinion of the House or the
public, either in one direction or the other. But one
point which could not fail to impress itself on view of
the proceeding, was that inasmuch as there exists "an
apparatus of considerable complexity, and what ought
therefore to be considerable efficiency, for the redress.
ing of all pecuniary wrongs, some decision of the law
courts ought to have been produced, before Parliament
was called upon by John Sparke and others to exer-
cise a summary jurisdiction instead. Parliament is
bound to exercise discreet vigilance for the preserva-
tion of its own reputation ; but it is not bound to set
up a sentimental standard of purity extending to
cases which the law of the country has not touched,
and in which the privileges of the House are
not distinctly concerned. If a Member should use
reproachful speeches or gestures to the Speaker
or to the House, the House might justly take pro-
ceedings thereon, though no verdict or damages could
be obtained by common process of law. But the
House would hardly think of proceeding against a
Member for having incurred debts, until some come
mon process of law had fixed the fact of their ex-
istence.
Another point, put forward to a certain extent by
the incriminated Member himself, but of which he
did not appear to be conscious of the whole force and
efficacy, is that great allowance must be made for the
acts of individuals under circumstances of danger and
difficulty, • grasping at the prospect of deliverance
through what will be met by no disapprobation in the
event ofultimatesuccess. Many a man under the appre-
hension of being obliged to retire from business, has
not taken precisely the same view of the case and his
duties thereupon, as will be taken by his creditors in
cold blood afterwards, who may regret that he tried
the chance of what a further tempting of fortune
might produce. But nobody ever dreamt of insti-
tuting rigid proceedings upon a difference of judg-
ment of this nature.
Every, man who was ever able to exercise a pros-
pective judgment upon railway matters at all, must
have at all times felt a conviction that the facts would
be, that at a certain period there would be twice as
many railways as were wanted, and these at a certain
subsequent period would be only half. There was
therefore sure to be the strongest inducement for
railway managers, at the first of these periods, to
stretch a point for the chance of rubbing on into the
other. And within certain limits, it is difficult to
deny, that this might fall within the duty of an able
and conscientious railway director. Put the case,
that the concern in general by an operation of this
kind had thumped over the sands without any serious
detriment, and beaten into deep water on the other
side. What appellation would the proprietors have
had for their leader and guide, but " The Pilot that
weather'd the storm ?"
This reasoning may not be conclusive ; neither is
it meant that anything should be concluded, except
that the House was right in not giving itself airs of
outraged virtue, and in maintaining a countenance
of kindness towards the incriminated Member rather
than the contrary.
Ancther petition from railway proprietors com-
plained of the conduct of two other Members con-
nected with railways, and prayed for inquiry. Both
petitions were ordered to " lie on the table.'
On Friday, by a remarkable coincidence, motion
was made and carried without division, for issuing a
new writ in the c :se of a Member " adjudged guilty
of high treason." So in the other case, proceedings
ought to have waited till somebody was " adjudged
guilty."
In the latter part of the evening, an extraordinary
scene was exhibited, to such as were there to see.
On going into Committee on the Parliamentary Oaths
Bill, a Catholic Member moved the exclusion of the
reporters. It would be unfair to infer that his object
was connected with the Bill in hand; because he
stated that he did it in return for the reporters' nut
having reported the whole of his speeches ;—a curious
principle if carried out by every Member in the
louse. This, however, did not hinder an ultra-
Protestant leader from broadly throwing out the
imputation of desiring secresy, on those who took the
different side from himself.
As an instance of the effect of one hour's exclusion
of the public, it was impossible to avoid perceiving
how much the tone and conduct of the debate were
influenced by the fact. A leader of the Church
Monopoly party, with an air of confident benevolence
recalling the traditions of the Wolf in Red Riding•
hood, descanted on the desirableness of uniformity
and singleness in the matter of oath 3, and coolly pro
posed that the oath so bitterly complained of by the
Catholics as intended to involve them in a declaration
of allegiance to a Church they disapprove, should be
extended to the Protestant Dissenters of the realm
Pathetically did he urge the impossibility that Dis-
senters who had no scruple in swearing allegiance to
the Queen, could have any more in swearing elle•
giance to the Church, which everybody knew
was part and parcel of the state as much
as the Queen ; and confidently did he
look forward to the agreeable sense of
harmonious equality which would arise from the Dis-
senters putting their necks into the same noose with
the Catholics. And the amusing thing was—as Pepys
would have said—to see how quietly the Dissenters
did take it, and how long they were before they com-
prehended the nature of the bed preparing for them.
Substantial pillars of the Dissenting interest were
seen settling themselves in their seats, and smiling
assent to the blessings of uniformity. At last some
of the more active spirits began to fidget, and to look
in each other's faces like Massaniellu s friends upon
the stage, in the way of saying " Are we going to
stand this ?" And so by degrees the opposition
began to collect, and men to find out that all was not
gospel which came from the High Church side. At
this moment Lord John Russell rose, and in the
most cool, able, and masterly manner, turned over all
the accidents and concomitants of the proposal, as
completely as it would have been done in a conclave
of Dissenters after a six weeks' sitting. But the Dis-
senters had an escape. It was certainly not their own
arm, nor voice either, that saved them. With the
smallest connivance or lack of will on the part of the
Government, they might have been turned over into
the abyss of praying to be saddled with swearing al-
legiance to the Church as by law established. And a
pretty abyss it would have been. The first man who
ever mentioned Church-rates, would have been put
down with cries of perjury. There probably never
was an instance, in which a cool political effrontery
of proposal, advanced so far with so little opposition.
Upon the Minister's pronunciamento, men's eyes
were opened, and the High Church proposal met with
no quarter afterwards, being finally withdrawn with-
out putting to the vote. The Member for Northarnp
ton (Mr. Vernon Smith) in the course of the debate,
put forward what everybody in his heart knows to
be the true point to move on if it were possible to
come there; which is, that everybody should take
the same oath or declaration, and that this should be
confined to a declaration of allegiance to the existing
occupant of the crown. A notice was finally placed
upon the table, for inviting the attention of the
House to the reconsideration of the Standing Order
by which strangers are excluded on the motion of a
single Member ; out of which it is scarcely possible
that some good effect should not arise.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN OLD REFORMER.
London, May 21, 1849.

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TBE HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY.—Accord-
ing to a previous order, the Honourable Artillery Com-
pany held a field muster on Saturday to commemorate
the birthday of her Majesty the Queen. The Regiment
formed in battalion on the Artillery-ground, in front of
the Armory-house, under command of ex-Lieutenant-
Colonel the Hon. Henry Fitzroy, M.P. About two hun-
dred men, rank and file, were under arms at roll call.
The battalions saluted, marched in slow and quick time,
and went through several other manceuvres. The Artil-
lery division of the Regiment, under command of Cap-
tain Parker, then took up a position on the right flank
of the battalion, with two of their field-pieces, and tired
a double royal salute. The Regiment then re-formed
in battalion, and left the ground in companies. There
was a large attendance of spectators, the majority being
ladies.

TIER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY.
THE DRAWING-ROOM.
The Queen held a Drae:ing•roote in St. James's Palace
on Saturday afternoon in celebration of her Majesty's
birthday.
Her
Majesty and Prince Albert arrived from Bucking-
ham Palace shortly before two o'clock, attended by the
Royal suite, and escorted by a detachment of the Life
Guards.
Her Royal Higness the Duchess or Kent was attended
by Lady Augusta Bruce, Colonel Sir George Conger,
Bart., and Lord James P. Murray.
Their Royal Hignesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge arrived, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess
of Mecklenburg Strelitz, and attended by Lady Aueusta
Cadogan, Baron Knesebeek, and Mr. Edmond Mildmay.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester ar-
rived at the Palace to pay a visit of congratulation to
her Majesty.
His Ho) el Highness Prince George was al-o present.
His Royal Highness Prince Leopold, Count of Syra-
cuse, ens attended by General Prince Casteleica'a, the
Neapolitan Minister, and the Chevalier de Colonna.
Their Serene flight. sses Prince Ernest and l'rince
William of Hesse Philipsthal, and Prince Edward of
Sate Weimar. also attended.
The Vice Chamberlain received the Royal Family on
their arrival, and conducted them to the presence of her
Msjesty.
Before the Drawing-room the Queen received an ad-
dress of congratulation in the royal eleset from the Are-
bishops and Bishops. The Archbishop of Canterbury
delivered the address. His Grace was accompanied by
(he Archbishop of York, the Archbishop of Dublin, the
Bishop of London, the Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop
of Durham. the Bishop of Llandaff, the Bishop of Nor-
wich, the Bishop of Oxford, the Bishop of Peterborough,
the Bishop of Bangor, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Bishop
of Salisbury, the Bishop of Ripon, the Bishop of Wor-
cester, the Bishop of Carlisle, the Bishop of Rochester,
the Bishop of St. Aeaph, the Bishop of Chichester, the
Bishop of Hereford, and the Bishop of Manchester.
After delivering the address the Right Rev. Prelates
retired from the royal presence.
The Queen and Prince Albert entered the Throne-
room, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the
Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge,
and Prince George, the Heriditary Grand Duke and
Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strehtz, and the Count
of Syracuse, and their Serene Highnesses Prince Edward
of Saxe Weimar, and Prince Ernest and Prince William
(if Hesse Philipsthal. The royal suite consisted of the
Mistress of the Robes, the Duchess of Norfolk, the
Countess of Desert (in waiting), the Countess of Gains-
borough, Lady Portman, the Marchioness of Douro, the
Countess of Charletnont, the Viscountess Canning,
Ladies of the Beeclitnber, the Hon. Miss Murray (in
waiting), Hon. Miss Macdonald (in waiting), Hoe. Miss
Cavendish, Hon. Miss Stanley, and the Hon. Miss Kerr,
Maids of Honour; Lady Charlotte Copley, Hon. Mrs.
Brand, Hon. Mrs. George Campbell, and Lady Theresa
Dighy, Women of the Bedchamber; the Lord Steward,
the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the Groom
of the Stole to Prince Albert; Mr. George Edward An-
son, Keeper of her Majesty's Privy Purse ; the Earl of
Morton, Lord in Waiting ; Viscount Clifden, Lord in
Waiting on the Prince ; Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. C.
B. Phipps, Private Secretary to the Prince ; General
Sir Edward Bowater, Groom in Waiting ; Captain
Francis Seymour, Groom in Waiting ou his Royal
Highness ; General Wemyss, Equerry in Waiting ;
Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Alexander Gordon, Equerry
iu Waiting on the Prince; and Messrs. Forbes ants Gor-
don, Pages of Honour in Waiting.
Her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentleman-at-
Arms were on duty at the entrance to the State Rooms,
and also lined the Presence Chamber. The officers of the
corps present were—the Lieutenant, Sir Matthew Wyatt;
the Standardbearer, Mr. David Harmer; and the Adju-
tant, Captain Curling.
The Lord Chancellor arrived a few minutes before two
o'clock, attended by his Secretaries, Deputy Sergeant-
at-Arms, and Pursebearer.
The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Com-
mons arrived in state, attended by the Chaplain and the
Sergeant at-Arms (Lord Charles Russell) attending the
House of Commons.
The Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas
and the Chief Baron of the Exchequer appeared in their
_old collars of SS, with the portcullis. The Equity
Judges wore their gold robes.
The Queen wore a train of green and silver silk, trim-
med with red roses and violets, and tulle crillusion in sil-
ver. The petticoat was white satin, trimmed with tulle
end bouquets of red roses to correspond to the train.
Her :Majesty's heed-dross was composed of diamonds and
teathers, with roses and violets. The dress was of
Spitalfields manufacture.
The Queen wore the collars of the Most Noble Order
of the Garter and of the Most Ancient Order of the
Thistle.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent wore a train
of white watered silk covered with Nottingham lace,
trimmed with lace and white ribands. The petticoat was
white watered silk, also covered with Nottingham lace;
the front of the petticoat was decorated with ornaments
termed of brilliants, and the stomacher was of diamonds.
Her Royal highness ss ore a white head-dress with fea-
thers and diamonds and a necklace of diamonds and ame-
thysts. The dress was of British manufacture.
Being a collar day, the principal knights of the seve-
ral orders of knighthood wore the collars of their respec-
dve orders.
his Royal highness Prince Albert was habited in the
uniform of a Field-Marshal, and wore the collars of the
Garter and the Bath, together with the stars of those
orders, and also the stars of the most Illustrious Orders
of St. Patrick and the Thistle. The Prince also wore
the ensigns of the Golden Fleece.
The general circle was numerously attended.
The Duke of Wellington wore a Field-Marshall's
uniform and the Ensigns of the Garter and the Golden
Fleece.
The Duke of Devonshire wore the Collars of the Gar-
:er and of a Russian Order of Knighthood.
Viscount Combereiere wore the Collars and Stars of
the Orders of the Bath, the Guelphic, and the Tower
and Sword.
About 1,700 of the nobility and gentry were present at
the Drewieg-roorn.
The diplomatic circle were first introduced, when the
following presentations to her Majesty the Queen and
his Royal Highness the Prince took place:—
The Countess de Reventlow presented her second
daughter, the Countess Malvina Reventlow.
The Belgian Minister pie sented the Baron Edouard
Mertens. charged with a mission from the Belgian Go-
vernment
ihe Huytian Minister presented M. E. Seguy Ville.
valeix, Secretary of the Haytian Legation.
The diplomatic circle was attended by Mahomed
Pasha, the Turkish Ambassador; M. Van de Weyer,
the Belgian Minister, and Madame Van de. Weyer; M.
Charles Drouet, Coutiseiller tie Legation; M. Eugene de
Gerlache, Attache to the Legation; le Comte le La-
laing; Baron de Cetto, Bavarian Minister, and Baroness
de Cetto; Viscount de Moncorvo, Portuguese Minister,
and Viscountess de Moncorvo; the Chevalier de Ri-
beiro, Secretary; le Chevalier Pinto de Several and
Baron de Moncorvo, Attachiel to the Legation; the
Chevalier and Madame de Herta; Baron de Brunnow,
Russian Minister, and Baroness de Brunnow; Made-
moiselle Olga de Lechner; M. Alexandre de Berg and
\I. C. de Koudriaff,ky, Secretaries of Legation; Gene-
ral Prince Castelcicala, Neapolitan Minister; and M.
G. Canofari, Secretary of Legation; Count de Kiehinan-
segge, Hanoverian Minister; le Chevalier Bunsen, Prus-
sian Minister; Madame and Mademoiselle Marie Bun-
sen, Count Perpoucher, First Secretary, M. Charles
Bunsen, Attache, and Baron Ernest Stockmar,
Attach, 6 to the Legation ; le Comm andeur Mar-
ques Lisboa, Brazilian Minister, and Madame Lis-
boa; le Chevalier Pinto Peixoto and M. J. T. de
Amara!, Attaches to the Legation; Count de Revent-
low, Danish Minister, and Countess do Reventlow;
Baron Bertouch, Secretary of Legation ; Mr. George
Bancroft, American Minister, and Mrs. Bancroft, and
Mr. Brodhead, Secretary of Legation; Count Schimmel-
eennick, Netherlands Minister, and Mademoiselle Scbitn-
(uelpennick ; Baron de Stratenus, Conseiller de Legation;
Baron de Rehauzen, Swedish Minister, and Baroness do
fiehausen ; M. de Sibbern, Secretary of Legation ; le
Comte de Rosen' Aide-de-amp General; Senor J. J. do
Osma, Peruvian Minister; le Colonel Beltran, Secretary;
le Major J. F. de Elizalde, and M. Henry Curavodo,
Attach(2s to the Legation ; Senor Felipe Molina, Costs
Rica Minister; le Marquis de Sauli, Sardinian Minister;
le Marquis Victor Emmanuel d'Azeglio, Conseiller ;
Baron Isola and Count Corti, Secretaries of Legation ;
Count Colloredo, Austrian Minister, and Countess Col-
loredo; Baron Koller and Baron Wydenbruck, Secre-
taries of Legation ; M. D. Delve, (Senateur), Harlan
Minister ; M. de Montherot, French awl d'Affaires,
,ind Madame de Montherot ; Viscount Palmerston,
G.C.8., the Queen's Principal Secretary of State fur
Foreign Affairs, and the Viscountess Palmcrstona.e s; and
Colonel the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, Litz. Msty
Master of the Ceremonies.

THE MINISTERIAL BANQUETS, &c.
The First Lord of the Treasury and the other mem-
bers of the Ministry gave full dress entertainments in
honour of Her Majesty's birthday. We subjoin a list
of the guests at the:seversil banquets ;
Lord John Russell entertained at dinner at his pri-
vate residence in Chesham-place the following nonle-
'nen and gentlemen,in celebration of her Majesty's
birthday :—Earl Fitzwilliam, Earl Duck, Earl Fitzhar-
dinge, Earl of Leicester, Lord Portman, Lord de Manley,
Lord Effingham, Lord Harry Vane, M.P.; Sir De Lacy
Evans, M.P.; Sir Charles Lemon, M.P.• Sir R. Fergu-
son, M.P.; Mr. Chichester Fortescue, 'M.P.; Mr. Ro-
barte, M.P.; Mr. R. W. Grey, M.P.; and the Hon.
Colonel Rappel, M.P.
Viscount Paltnerston, Secretary of State for Foreign
Afairs, entertained the following members of the corps
diploniatigue at his mansion in Carlton-gardens:—Dis
Excellency the Turkish Ambassador, Mahomed Pasha,
his Excellency the Russian Minister, Baron Brunnow;
his Excellency the Austrian Minister, Count Colloredo;
his Excellency the Prussian Minister, Chevalier Bunsen;
his Excellency the Swedish Minister, Baron Behausen;
his Excellency the Minister for the United States, Mr.
Bancroft; his Excellency the Danish Minister, Count
Reventlow; his Excellency the Portuguese Minister,
Viscount de Moncorvo; his Excellency the Hanoverian
Minister, Count Kielmansegge; his Excellency the Ba-
varian Minister, Baron de Cetto; his Excellency the
Minister for the Two Sicilies, Prince Caste!.
cicalo; his Excellency the Sardinian Minister, Marquis
de Sauli; his Excellency the Minister forßuenos Ayres,
M. Moreno; his Excellency the Minister for Costa Rica,
M. Molino; his Excellency the Minister for the Re-
public of Hayti, General Dalba; his Excellency the
Peruvian Minister, M. Osma; his Excellency the Charge
d'Affaires for the French Republic, Baroa de Montherot;
and the following British diplomatists:—Viscount Pon.r.
sonby, Lord BloomEeld, Lord Howden, Lord Eddisburyo
Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, Sir Henry Ellis, Sir Edmund
Lyon, Sir R. Pakenham, Sir Robert Shaft() Adair, Sir