The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-18 00:00:00

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Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent gave hereW;
concert at Kensington-palace on Monday evening, firs.
having been an English one. On this occasion the most enu-
'nent foreign vocalists, including Madame Malibran, Madame
Grisi, Mademoiselle Assandri, Signors Lablache, Rubini,
Ivanoff, and Tamburini assisted. Signor Costa presided at
one of Erard's grand piano-fortes.
The concert took place in the grand saloon, which was fitted
up as a music room'.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Orange, and tile
Princes William and Alexander of the Netherlands, attended
by M. Dedel, the Netherlands Minister, and Count Limburg
Sarum ; the Duchess of Gloucester, attended by Lady Geor-
ians Bathurst and Sir Samuel Higgins ; the Princess Sopbia,
attended by Lady John Thynne ; his Serene Highness the
Prince Ernest of Hesse, and three hundred of the nobility and
gentry, were present.
The company began to arrive shortly before ten o'clock,
and were ushered by the corridor and from the grand staircase
through the vestibule to the music room.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the
Princess Victoria, accompanied by the Prince of Leiningen,
and attended by the Duchess of Northumberland, Lady Flora
Hastings, Lady Theresa Stranrmays, Lady Conroy, Baroness
Lehzen, Sir John Conroy, Sir George Anson, Colonel Har-
court, and the Hon. Captain Spencer, entered the concert-
room a little after ten o'clock.
Between the acts, and at the close of the performance, re-
freshments were served to the party in an ante-room.
The band of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards
were in attendance at the grand staircase, and performed a
number of favourite pieces in the course of the night.
Amongst the company were—the Prince of Orawye, the
Duchess of Gloucester, the Princess Sophia, the Princes
William and Alexander of the Netherlands, the Prince of Lei-
ningen, Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthal, the Russian Am-
bassador, the French Ambassador and Countess Sebastiani,
the Neapolitan Minister and Countess Ludolf, the Prussian,
Wurtemberg, and Hanoverian Ministers, Baroness Biome
(lady of the Danish Minister), the Portuguese Minister,
the !Grecian Minister and Madame Tricoupi, the Bavarian
Minister and Baroness Cetto, the Ottoman, Brazilian,
Netherlands, and Saxon Ministers, the Austrian Charge
d'Affaires, the United States Charge d'Affaires and Mrs.
Vail ; :Mr. Wallez, Belgian Charge d'Affaires ; Count
Charles and Countess Pozzi di Borgo ; Chevalier do
Ribeiro, Secretary ,to the Portuguese LegationM Voi.
goridis, Secretary to the Ottoman Legation ; M. Achart,
Attache to the Belgian Legation ; M. Frederic do
Raumer, Professor of History to the Uni%lersity of Berlin ;
Prince Czartoryski, Marquis and Marchioness de Praslin,
Count and Countess Chretien de Danneskiold Samsoe, Count
Frederick Limburg Stirum, Colonel Count de Limburg Sti-
rum, Count Erdody, Count Festotietz, Count Zamouski,
General Bagelaar, Monsier Jabat, the Lord Chancellor and
Lady Cottenham, and a long list of nobility and gentry.
His Majesty will hold a Privy Council this day at St.
James's-palace after the levee.
A Committee Meeting of the Lords of his Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council was held yesterday morning at the
Colonial-office. It was attended by Sir John Nichol, Judge
of the Admiralty ; Sir Herbert Jenner, Judge of the Prero-
gative Court ; Mr. Baron Parke, and the Right Hon. Thomas
Erskine, Chief Judge in Bankruptcy.