The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-29 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S LEVEE..

The Queen held a Levee yesterday afternoon, in St.
James's Palace. Her Majesty and Prince Albert ar-
rived from Buckingham Palace at two o'clock, with the
Ladies and Gentlemen of the royal suite, in four car-
riages, escorted by a party ef tie Life Guards.
Ia Waiting acre the Ladies of the Bedchamber, the
Countess of Charlemont, and the Countess of Gains-
borough ; the Lord in Waiting, the Earl of Morton ;
the Lord in Waiting to Prince Albert, Lord George
Lennox ; the Groom in Waiting, Major the lion. Ro-
bert Boyle ; the Groom irt, Waiting to Prince Albert,
Captain Francis Seymour ; the Equerry in Waiting,
Major General Wcwyss ; the Equerry in Waiting to
Prince Albert, Colonel I3cuverie ; and the Page of Ho-
nour, Mr. Byng.
The Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, atd the
Master of the Horse, received her Majesty and her
Royal Consort at the Palace.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge was pre-
sent at the Levee. His Royal highness was attended by
Major Stephens and Mr. Edmund Mildmay.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Duke of Cambridge, and attended by the Ladies and
Gentlemen of the Court, having entered the Throne-
room, the Foreign Ministers were introduced, when the
following presentations to her Majesty took place in the
diplomatic circle :
By the Baron da Torre de Moncorvo, the Portuguese
Minister—La Conseiller Dietz, Secretary to his Majesty
the King of Portugil ; and M. de Moraea Sarmento
(Baron de Moncorvo's son), Attael 6 to her Most Faith-
ful Majesty 's Legation at this Court.
By the Baron Brunnow, the Russian Minister—Le
Baron Clement A. de Bode, Conseiller d' Etat de S. M.
L'Empereur de Russie.
By the Commandeur Marques Lisboa, the Brazilian
Minister—M. Le Chevalier Pinto Peixoto, Attaché I la
L6gation de S. M. L'Empereur du Breci!.
By Monsieur X. Isturtz, the Spanish Minister—Don
Mariano Dyaz v Bequeltne, and Don Fernando N. de
Terry, Attachéi to her Most Catholic Majesty's Le-
gation.
By the Baron de Beust, the Saxon Minister—M. Le
Comte Clement Einsieddel, and M. Le Baron Alfred do
Zedtwitz.

By the Baron Roller, Austrian Chargé d'Affaires—
The General Prince Francis Leichtenstein.

By Mr. John R. Brodhead, Secretary of the Legatiou
of the United States of Atnerica—Mr. Robert C. 'Win-
throp, Representative of the City of Boston, of the
United States of America.
The foreign diplomatic circle was attended by M. Van
de Weyer, the Belgian Minister ; Baron de Cetto, the
Bavarian Minister ; Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese
Minister ; Baron de Brunnow, the Russian Minister ;
Count de Kielmansegge, the Hanoverian Minister ;
Baron de Hugel, the Wurtemberg Minister ; the Che-
valier Bunsen, the Prussian Minister, and Prince
Loewenstein, Secretary of Legation ; Le Commandeur
Marques. Lisboa, the Brazilian Minister ; Count de Re-
ventlow, the Danish Minister ; Prince Callimaki, the
Ottoman Porte Minister ; Count Schimmelpennick, the
Netherlands Minister, and Mr. de Stratenus, First Se-
cretary of Legation ; Senor X. Isturiz, the Spanish Mi-
nister, and le Chevalier de Pedronena, Secretary of Le-
gation ; Baron de Beust (Chambellan de S. M. le
Roi de Saxe), the Saxon Minister ; Baron de Re-
hausen, the Swedish Charge d'Affaires ; Count
Adrien de Revel, the Sardinian Charge d'Af-
faires ; Le Comte de Jarnac, Charge d'Affaires de
France ; Baron Koller, Austrian Charg6 d'Affaires ;
and Mr. John R. Brodhead, Secretary of the Legation
of the United States for Foreign Affairs ; and Colonel
the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, her Majesty's Master of the
Ceremonies. _ .

—fh;ieneral circle was attended by the Archbishop of
Armagh, the Bishop of London, the Lord President, the
Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the
Secretaries of State for the Home and Colonial Depart-
ments, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the President
of the Board of Controul for the Affairs of India, the
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the President of
the Board of Trade, the Lord Steward, the Lord
Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the Captain
of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at
Arms, the C iptain of the Yeoman Guard,
the Marquis of Anglesey, Gold Stick in Waiting ; the
Lord Justice-General of Scotland ; the Vice-Chan-
cellor Knight Bruce ; the Judge of the High Court of
Admiralty; the Treasurers of the Household; the Comp-
troller of the Household; Lord Monteagle, Comptroller
of Exchequer ; Mr. G. E. Anson, Keeper of her Ma-
jesty's Privy Purso ; Lieut.-Colonel the Hcn. C. B.
Phipps, Private Secretary to Prince Albert ; Mr. Mat-
thew Wyatt, Standard-bearer of the Hon. Corps of
Gentlemen at Arms ; Sir George Houlton, Ensign of
the Yeoman Guard ; Mr. Thomas Shiffner, Paymaster
of the Household ; Lieutenant-General Sir Edward
Bowater, Groom in Waiting ; Colonel Smith,
Silver Stick in Waiting ; Reverend J. Vane,
Deputy Clerk of the Closet in Waiting ; Captain
Sir George Westphal, R N., Naval A.D.C. to the
Queen ; Colonel Buckley, Equerry to the Queen ;
Colonel Sir Horace Seymour, Equerry to her Majesty
the Queen Dowager ; Captain Lord James Murray,
(Scots Fusilier Guards), Equerry to her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent ; Major Stephens and Mr. Edmond
Mildmay, Equerries in Waiting to his Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge ; Mr. James Bunco Curling,
Adjutant of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms ;
Capt. Kincaid, Excn in Waiting of the Yeoman Guard ;
Captain Sadler, Exon of the Yeoman Guard ; Mr.
Fisher, Surgeon in-Chief of the Metropolitan Police;
Sir Beejanaiii Smith, C.S.; Sir Noel Harris, Groom of
the Privy Chamber in Waiting; Colonel Master, Gentle-
man Usher of the Privy Chamber in Waiting; Captain
the Hon. Mortimer Sackville West, Gentleman Usher to
Her Majesty in Waiting; Mr. Alfred Montgomery, Gen-
tleman Usher to her Majesty; Colonel IL Bentinek
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Waiting.

A large number of presentations took place.
After the levee, the Captain of the Yeoman Guard,
Viscount Falkland, had an audience of the Queen in the
Royal Closet, to introduce Mr. Henry Chard as an Exon
of the Yeoman Guard, and Lieutennnt•Colonel Fitz
Maurice, K.H., as Clerk of the Cheque of her Majesty's
Yeoman of the Guard. Both Gentlemen received from
her Majesty their silver sticks of office, and had the
honour to kiss hands.

Mr. Milne bad the honour of an audience of the
Queen in the Royal Closet, and delivered the badge,
and Ribbon of a Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, worn
by his father, the late Admiral Sir David Milne.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, and the Royal Suite,
returned to Buckingham Palace in four carriages, es-
corted by a party of Life Guards.
General Prince Castelcicala, the Neapolitan Minister,
being out of town did not attend the levee-yesterday.
We have authority to state that her Majesty's Ball,
on the 14th of May, is to be in FULL DnEss.
Tickets to view the Two Royal Pictures, by Winter-
halter, in the Banqueting-room in St. James's Palace,
will be issued from the Lord Chamberlain's office, from
twelve to four o'clock.

Each Ticket will admit the Lady or Gentlemen,
whose name will be inserted in it, and five other per-
Sons.

All applications must be made Personally, or through
a Responsible agent, as it will be impossible to send
tickets, or to answer written applications.
Ladies and Gentlemen receiving tickets will be re-
quired to leave their names and address on their cards,
at the Lord Chamberlain's Office.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon, at
the Foreign-office. The Ministers assembled shortly
before four o'clock.

Viscount Sandon, M.P., Sir Howard Douglas, M.P.,
and a Deputation, had an interview with Lord John
Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-
street.

The officers and private gentlemen of her Majesty's
Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, dined with the
Standard Bearer of the Corps, Mr. Matthew Wyatt, at
his residence in Hyde-park-square, yesterday evening.
Lord John Russell had a dinner party last evening, at
his residence in Chesham-place.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial
Office, from the Governor of South Australia, New
Zealand, and the Gold Coast.

THE LATE MARQUIS OF HearroaD.—Among the
numerous suits, actions, and other legal proceedings arising
out of the will of the late Marquis of Hertford, with its
numerous codicils, those of the executors against Nicholas
Suisse, the valet of the testator, have stood prominent. One
of these was for the restitution of inscriptions for French
Rentes, amounting in value to 700,000 f., which belonged to
the Marquis, and which his executors asserted Suisse had
surreptitiously taken out of his drawer, after the death of
his master. For this imputed act of robbery they prose-
cuted Suisse criminally in England; but on the trial at the
Old Bailey he was acquitted. Notwithstanding this
acquittal, the executors, as the inscriptions were deposited
in France, instituted a suit against Suisse, in the Tribunal
de Premiere Instance, for their restitution. The Tribunal
decided in favour of? the executors, and the inscriptions
were ordered to be restored to them. This, however,
was not the final termination of the claims of the executors.
They afterwards discovered that, while the inscriptions were
in his hands, Suisse had received dividends to the amount of
77,710 f., and for the restitution of this sum another action
was brought by the executors, but, in the first instance, they
were defeated. Against this decision an appeal was brought
before the Cour Royale, and it came to a hearing yesterday.
After a repetition of all the circumstances, and of the argu-
ments of counsel on both sides, the Cour Royale quashed the
judgment of the court below, and desired Suisse to repay the
77,710 f. to the executors. There was also an appeal by
Suisse against another part of the same judgment of the infe-
rior tribunal, ordering him to restore other dividends received
by him to the amount of 44,000 f., but this the Cour Royale
confirmed. —Galignani of Tuesday.
HOP PLANTATIONS.—The polling about Farnham,
Alton, and Odiham, Hants, into Sussex, is now completed.
The last week's sun has improved the shooting plants, the
poles protecting the. tender bine from the cold frosty nights;
the rain, several times within the last few days, tended also
much to improve their appearance. It can scarcely be re-
collected when there was so delightful a spring as the present
for the clearing the ground of weeds, and removing every-
thing obnoxious from around the hillocks containing the
roots of this valuable plant. In some open situations they
appear sickly and yellow, but warm weather will soon change
that appearance. Though the season is backward, yet
many look upon such as being rather more favourable than
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which change all the hop•growers' prospects and destroy
the hoped-for crop in the autumn, which they sedulously
look for to reimburse them (the growers) for all their anxious
toils, expense, and trouble.

NN GROSSMITH'S EAU DE COLOGNE.—Hitherto- 0n
the family of Farina, the members of which seemed to equal
in number the sands of the sea, have monopoliled the market
of Europe for the sale of Eau de Cologne. They have, how
ever, now met with a formidable rival in the person of John
Groasmith, of Cologne, who has an establishment in Cannon-
street, in the City. We have tried Grossmith's Eau de
Cologne, the perfume of which is, as the fragrance of fresh
gathered Wow, delivate• yet delicimoy ridlshbe.