The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-23 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S DRAWING
ROOM.

The Queen held her first Drawing-room this season, yester-
day afternoon, at St. James's Palace. Her Majesty and Prince
Albert, attended by the Royal suite, arrived shortly before two
o'clock, from Buckingham Palace, escorted by a party of the
Household troops, and were received by the Lord Chamber-
ain and the Lord Steward, who conducted her Majesty and his
Royal Highness to the Royal Closet.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady
Anne Maria Dawson and Col. Couper, C. 13. ; her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Gloucester, attended by Lady Caroline
Legge, and Col. Sir Samuel G. Higgins; and his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Major Stevens,
Equerry in Waiting ; and Lieut.-Col. Jones, arrived at the
Palace, and were received in the Royal Closet.
Before the Drawing-room her Majesty (according to annual
custom) received a deputation from Christ's Hospital in the
Royal Closet, who were ushered to the presence of the
Queen by Sir William Martins, Gentleman Usher in Wait-
ng. The deputation consisted of Mr. Alderman Thompson,
11.1'., the President; Mr. Richard Hotham Pigeon, the
Treasurer ; Mr. George Darby, M. P. ; and Mr. Thomson
Hankey, jun., Governors ; accompanied by the Rev. William
Webster, the Mathematical Master ; Mr. W. H. Back, the
Drawing Master ; and the Forty Boys educated in the Royal
Mathematical School, found by King Charles the Second.
Her Majesty took particular iuterest in the drawings and
charts or the boys, and was p!ea.sed to express her approba-
tion of their execution.
Her Majesty's Honourable Corps of .Gentleman-at-Arms
were on duty in the State Room.
The Queen and Prince Albert passed from the Royal closet
to the throne-room, and took their usual station in front of
the throne ; by the side of Isis Royal Highness stood the Lord
Chamberlain, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester,
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge, and on the right of the Queen
were Lord Lilfsrd, Lord in Waiting, and Leal Alfred Paget,
Equerry in Waiting..
The Duchess of Bedford and the Countess of Mount Edg-
cumbe were the Ladies in Waiting on the Queen. The Maids
of Honour, and the Women of the Bedchamber of the Queen's
Household, attended the Drawing-room. Mr. Rich and the
Groom in Waiting, Lord George Lennox, Gentleman in
Waiting on Prince Albert, Colonel Bouverie, Equerry to
Prince Albert, Masters Wemyss, Byng, and Wilson, the Pages
of Honour in Waiting on the Queen.
At the Drawing-room the Foreign Ambassadors and Mi-
ni,ters were received in a diplomatic circle before the general
circle commenced.
The Foreign diplomatic circle, conducted by the Master
of the Ceremonies, consisted of the Austrian Ambas-
sador and the Baron de Lebzeltern, Secretary of the
Embassy ; Chekib Effendi, the Ottoman Ambassador ;
Fuad Effendi, First Secretary, and M. J. Agop, Interpreter
Secretary to the Embassy; Baron Bulow, the Prussian Mi-
nister, and Baron Schleinitz, Secretary of Legation; the Swe-
dish Minister and Countess Bjornitjerna, and Baron Bjornst-
jerna ; the Belgian Minister, and Messrs. Via•or and Theophile
Van de Woestyne, Attaches to the Legation ; the Buenos
Ayrean Minister; the Danish Minister, and Count Bille
Brahe, Secretary of Legation, and Countess Bille Brahe ; the
Bavarian Minister and Baroness de Cetto ; the Netherlands
;Minister, and Madame Dedel ; the Sardinian Minister, and
Count Revel, Secretary of Legation ; the Portuguese Minister,
M. Lobor de Moira, Secretary of Legation, Mons. L. A. de
Several, First Attache to the Legation, and Colonel J. A.
Vellez Barreiros; the Grecian Minister ; the Russian Minister
and the Baroness Brunnow ; the Brazilian Minister and M.
de Macedo, Secretary of Legation ; the Hanoverian Minister ;
the Spanish Minister anti M. F. Pampillo, Attache to the
Legation; the Saxon Minister; Prince de Castelcicala, Sici-
lian Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, and
M. J. Canofari, Secretary of Legation ; M, 'l'. Murphy,
Mexican Charge d'Affaires of New Grenuda ; Baron de Bour-
queney, French Charge d'Affaires, and M. Vaneeul, Attache
to the Embassy.
The following persons were presented
Madame Barreiros, the Lady of Colonel Barreiros of the Por-
tuguese Legation at this Court, by Madame Dedel, the Lady
of the Netherlands Minister.
Le Baron de Chambrier, President of the Council of State of
his Majesty the King of Prussia, in the Principality of Neu-
chatel and Valangin • and his son Le Baron Frederic de Cham-
brier, Artillery Officer in the service of his Majesty the King
of Prussia, by Baron Bulow, the Prussian Minister.
Count de Noailles, Secretary of the French. Embassy, by the
Baron de Bourqueney, French Charge d'Affaires.
Le Capitaine 1. Lorenzana, Secretary of the Legation of
New Grenada at the Court of her Britannic Majesty, by M. M.
Mosquera, Charge d'Affaires from New Grenada.
The General Circle was attended by the Archbishops of
Canterbury and York, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of
the Horse, the Captain of the Honourable Co_ps of Gentle-
men at Arms, the Captain of the Yeomen Guard, Lord Hill,
Gold Stick in Waiting; Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Judge
Advocate-General ; the Vice Chamberlain, the Treasurer of
the Household, the Comptroller of the Household, Hon. Mr.
Maule, Under Secretary of State, Home Department ; Mr.
Backhouse, Under Secretary of State ; Major-General Sir
Henry Wheatley, G. C. H., Keeper of her Majesty's Privy
Purse ; Marquis of Huntley, Aide-de-Camp to the
Queen ; the Lord Mayor, the Master of the Ceremonies;
Mr. Thomas Robinson, Standard-bearer to the Hon. Corps of
Gentlemen-at-Arms ; Mr. Thomas Shiffner, Paymaster of the
Household: Mr. Sulivan, Deputy Secretary at War; Mr.
Sheriff Gibbs, Mr. Sheriff Farncomb, Dr. Frederick Schenck,
Secretary to his Royal Highness Prince Albert; Hon. Captain
Poulctt, Naval A. D. C. in Waiting ; Colonel Brotherton,
Aide-de-Camp to the Queen • Colonel Couper, C. 8., First
Equerry and Comptroller of the Household of her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent ; Colonel Sir Samuel G. Higgins,
Equerry to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester ;
Major Stephens (in Waiting), and Lieut.-Colonel Jones,
Equerries to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge;
Sir Archibald Macdonald, Equerry to his Royal Highness
the Duke of Sussex ; Major Hyde, Assistant Master and Mar-
shal of the Ceremonies; Cofonel Richardson, Royal Horse
Guards, Silver Stick in Waiting ; Mr. James Bunce, Curling
Clerk of the Checque of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at
Arms ; Mr. Ellerthorpe, Clerk of the Cheque of the Yeomen
Guard; Captain Seymour Sadler, Exon in Waiting; Captain
Parker Nuttall, Exon of the Yeomen Guard ; Rev. Montagu
Wynyard, Chaplain in Ordinary to her Majesty, in Waiting ;
Colonel Shawe, Coldstream Guards, Field-officer in Brigade in
Waiting; Lieut.-Colonel Sir Frederick Smith, Gentleman
Usher of the Privy Chnmber in Waiting; Colonel Harris,
Gentleman Usher in Waiting.
Tne following Ladies were present :
DUCHESSES—Somerset, Inverness, Northumberland, Argyll
MARHIONESSES—Abereorn, Lansdowne, Ailesbury, Ely,
Queensberry, Thomond.

COUNTESSES—Antrim, Erroll, Uxbridge, Albemarle, Rose-
bery, Carnarvon, Powis, Manvers, Surrey, Dowager Sefton,
Dowager Listowel, De la Warr, Cawdor, Ducie, Bradford,
Verulam, Jersey. Denbigh, Haddington, Radnor, Brownlow
VISCOUNTESSES—PaImerston, Chelsea, Drumlanrig, Syd-
ney, Gage, Hood, Duncan
LADlEs—Byron, Antrobus, Olivia Taylour, Wheatley, Er-
nest Brudenell Bruce, Ida Hay, Eleanor Paget, Cottenhinn,
Ashburton, B. Johnstone, Mahon, Charlotte Egerton, Bo-
water, Adelaide Paget, Dowager Cawdor, R. Grosvenor,
Constance Paget, Isabella Douglas, Shaw Stewart, Louisa
Hughan, K. Douglas, Arabella Baring, Worsley, Emily
Gore, Flower, Fuller, Eliot, Drake, Annota Pierrepoint, Mary
Pierrepont, C. Cavendish, Jemima Eliot, Y. Buller, Pelly,
Trimleston, Burnett, Mary Howard, Elizabeth Gore, Lucy
C. Hubert, Dowager Rivers, .Louisa Primrose, Anne Prim-
rose, Charlotte E. Hubert, .Catherine Whyte Melville, Wil-
liams Bulkeley, Wilhelmine Stanhope, Louisa Alexander, Mary
Stanley, Lucy Eleanor Lowther, Theresa Lister, Elizabeth F.
Drummond, Rolle, Katherine Cust, Caroline Cust, Elizabeth
Campbell, Wenlock, Pynn, Colborne, Evans, Hammond, Mary
Berehaven, Maclaine' Fowke, Radstock, Fanny Howard, Eliza-
beth Dutton, Braye, Grey, Mulcaster, G. Balfour, E. Sey-
mour, Caroline Campbell, Sherborne, Oranmore, Trelawny,
Heytcsbury, Pechell, Heywood, Anna Loftus, Mary Hood,
Rose Greville, Methuen, Susan North, Hatto, F. Smith, Pot-
tinger, Stanley, Louisa De Horsey, Braybrooke, A. Cadogan,
E. West, Manners, G. Grey, Honoria Cadogan, Burghersh,
B. Pechell, Sarah Villiers, Dowager Clinton, M. Fox, M.
Molyneux, L. Alolyneux, Macfarlane, Anne Beckett, Ashley,
Louisa FitzNlaurice, Montagu, Mary Fielding, Marian Altord,
Amelia Cust, Dowager Floyd, Mildred Cecil, Colchester, Cole-
brooke.

flortouttanLEs —Georgiana Byron, Caroline Gage, Miss
Lawley, Mrs. Westenra, Mrs. S. Bathurst, Mrs. H. Alurray,
Miss Byng, Lady Stirling, Mrs. H. Millie, Mrs. R. Trevor,
Lady Alurny, Mrs. Hood, Mrs. Phillips, Mrs. J. Elliot, Lady
Cockburn, Mrs. Maule, Mrs. Stanley, S. Wheatley, Miss
A'Court, C. Maria Pepys, F. Mary Pepys, Mrs. G. Hope,
Mrs. G. E. Anson, Lady Lumley, Margaret Browne, Louisa
Ridley Colborne, Mrs. William Herbert, Lady Pakenham.
MISTRESSES—John Round, Backhouse, Couper, Henry
Mangles Denham, Gally Knight, Thesiger, Howley, Hugh
Millie, H. Hankcy, Versehoyle, Montefiore nee de Roth-
schild, Bannerman, Lawrence, Fitzroy Kelly, Law, Bassets,
Thomas Smith, Shaw Lsfevre, Mansfield, G. Bankes, J. H.
Parks, F. Fryer, P. Brune, Vernon Smith. Edwin Prodgers,
Davidson, B. 13. Williams, Lord Phillips, Wyndham, M. Gib-
son, Ram, John Bastard, Hamilton Gray, Peter Browne, J.
Henry Vivian, 11. Williamson, G. Craig, S. Platt, General
Shulaham, Balfour, Morier, R. Ellice, Mitchell, Clay, John
Elliot, Charles A'Court, Marlay, Wm. Stuart, V. Stuart, La-
bouchere, Young, Maberly, Seymour.
AltssEs.—E. Seymour, Wheatley, Mary Ann Law, Con-
Stantia Round, Fitaroy Kelly, Jane Price, Harriet Caven-
dish, F. P. Baillie, Dimsdale, Maria Burnett, E. Balfour,
Fowke, Jane Backhouse, Fanny Backhouse, Caroline Tre-
lawny, E. Balfour, Burnett, Anne Antrobus, Po'e, Shaw
Stewart, Bailie, Vyse, Pakenham, Elliot, Stanley, Augusta
Stanley, Lowther, P. Brune, Wyndham, Flora Macdonald,
Pennington, Hinman, Herbert, Clive, W. Wynn, Monbray,
Morier, Sbuldham, Horatia Morier, Evans, Freke, Heneage,
Sulivan, Mary Sulivan, Macfarlane, Clay, Sarah Heywood,
Heywood, Dawson, Adderly, Dutton, Mary Pole Stuart,
Guise, Webb, Wellesley, Philips, Alston, H. Alston, Bastard,
Bankes, Baring, Neville, Emily Baring, G. Bushe, Grenfell,
Methuen, Louisa Percy, Louisa Neville, F. Platt, E. Baring,
W. Melville, Sylvia Doyle, Elizabeth A'Court, E. Mansfield,
Colebrooke, Murray, Susan Emily Murray.
The following gentlemen were present at the Drawing-
room :
DuKEs—Sornereet, Argyll, Beaufort.

MA aQuisEs.—Normatiby, Lansdowne, Thomond, Salisbury.
EA 1t LS—Radnor, Grey, Carnarvon, Selkirk, Cowper, Bose-
bery, Antrim, Powis, Manvers, Clarendon, Brow•nlow, Aber-
deen.

VlSCOUNTS—Pnwerscourt, Northland, Hood, Alford, Bere-
haven, Chelsea, Sydney, Loftus, Melbourne, Duncan.
Loans—Oranmore, Eliot, Trimleston, Emlyn, Wenlock.
Bycroonu,ntCoß3avil)etyi's,tel3uA
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RICHT IloNouitautrs—Sir G. Murray, 1-1. Labouchere,
F. T. Baring.
HorrouicA er,Es—Mr. Westenra, Henry R Westenra, M.P.,
Baron Dimsdale, E. J. Stanley, Mr. Bloomfield, Rev. W.
eht aexr as John Russell, Colchester, Mahon.
Henniker, Col. G. Campbell, M. West. C. Cavendish, C.
Hope, M.P., G. (lope, W. R. Colborne, G. Browne.
Stas—John Yarde Buller, De L Evans, F. Fowke, Bart.,
G. Wilkinson, T. E. Drake, J. B. Pechell, W. Burnett, G.
Carroll, J. H. Pelly, J. Brunel, R. W. Bulkeley, W. Stirling,
B. Heywood, J. Flower.
REV. DOCTORS—llairtrey, Schwabe, Wesley, Williamson,
Symons.
REv. AIESSIEURS—W. S. Rowe, C. Martyn, J. S. M.
Andersen, E. Prodgers J. H. I)3l:ins, G. Bythesca.
AlEsstr.uas—B. B. Williams, H. Alexander, Fitzroy Kelly,
Q.C., Wallace, A. Montgomery, Burr, M.P., J. Thomson,
Clay, Fowke, 11. Ellice, Lister, C. Grenfell, A. Smith,
Alston, Pakcnham, Guise, R. Alston, 11. Baillie, Ro-
bertson, G. M.P.eraig, M.P., J. Round, M.P. S. Platt., V. Smith,
V. Morris, Seymour, A. Drummond, Hughon, De Horsey,
M. Gibson, M. Sutton, Tliesiger, J• Round, jun., L. Phillips,
Basset, Stanley, G. Phillips, Vignoles, G. Kater, Versehoyle,
S. 13. Edenborough, G. L. Pennington, Davidson, A. Ste-
phens, Lawrence,
F. W. Fryer, E.
Williams, W. Melville,
F. Greville, G. Bankes, J. H. Vivian.
Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington.
GENERA as—Sir Edward Bowater, Sir Hilgrove Turner, Sir
James Cockburn, Hon. Sir W. Lumley, Sir Henry Wheatley,
G.C. H., Sir John Guise, Bart., K. C. 13., Sir Frederick
Mulccster, Sir Hercules Pakenham, the Honourable H.
Murray, Alexander Dyson, Sir Robert Macfarlane, Shuldham,
Sir Henry Pynn.
CoaoNzas—Godwin, Sir Archibald Maclaine, Fox, the
Hon. G. Rice Trevor, Cater, J. S. North A'Court, Hugh
Baillie, Lacy, Sir Burges Carnac, Maberly, Harkey, Stretton,
C. 8., Sir Charles Hopkinson, C. 8., Munro.
MAJORS—Hartley, M. G. White, Cadogan, Marshall, Tur-
ner, Orange, J. W. Henderson, K.H., Witham Bruce, K.H.,
Bell, Raines. . _ _

CAPTAINS—Jones, Sir Jofeph Douglas, hlajendie, Walker,