The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-30 00:00:00

No. 17,632.] LONDON, FRIDAY EVEN NG

TELL GWYNNE TAVERN and CHOP-
HOUSE, Bull Inn-court, Strand, opposite Adam-street, and
Three Doors East of the Melphi Theatre
Gontlemen connected with the Public Offices, Banking Houses,
also Visitors to the Theatres, will find an excellent Table d'Hote at
Pfaff-past Five p,ecisely—Fish and Joints, 2s. Hot Joints until
Eight, and Suppers until One o'clock. Private Dining-rooms and
Good Beds. Wine and Spirits of the first quality. Superior Ales,
and Barclay and Perkins's Stout.
Proprietors, JOHN ARCHER and THOMAS HOLT.
N.B. An Entrance also from Maiden lane.

THE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC
INSTITUTION, REGENT-STREET.
Last Week but One of Lectures explaining the Art of Magic by
Mr. Shaw, with illustrations, changed every week, daily at a
Quarter to Four, and every Evening at Nine.—Lecture on Che-
mistry daily at a Quarter to Three o'clock.—Dr. Bachhoffner's Il-
lustrations •n Astronomy, daily at One •'clock.—A View in the
Gold District of California is ' added to the New Dissolving Views.
—New Chromatrope.—Machinery and Models explained, &c., &c.—
The Music Is directed by Dr. Wallis.
Open daily from. Eleven to Five ; and in the Evenings (including
,aturday) from Seven till Half-past Ten.
Admission, lg.—Schools, Half-price.—The New Catalogue, It.

THE QUEEN'S DRAWING-ROOM,

(From the Court Circular.)
The Queen held a Drawing-room (;.he first this sea-
son) yesterday afternoon, in St. James's Palace. Her
Majesty and Prince Albert arrived from Buckingham
Palace, attended by the royal suite, at two o'clock, and
were received by the Lord Chamberlain and the Mas-
ter of the Horse. Earl Fortescue (Lord Steward of
the Household) was prevented from being present at
the Levee last week, and the Drawing-room yesterday,
by indisposition.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge was
present at the Drawing-room. Her Royal Highness was
attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan, Lady in Waiting,
and Mr. Edmond Mildmay, Equerry in Waiting.
Before the Drawing-room her Majesty, according to
annual custom, received a deputation from Christ's Hos-
pital in the Throne-room. The deputation, which was
ushered to the royal presence by Sir William Martins,
Gentleman Usher in Waiting, consisted of Mr. Alder-
man Thompson, M.P., the President; Mr. Richard Ho-
tham Pigeon, the Treasurer; Mr. William Pott and Mr.
Thomas Weeding, two of the Governors of the Institu-
tion, accompanied by the Rev. William Webster, M.A.,
the Mathematical Master; Mr. W. H. Back, the Draw-
ing ➢Master, and the forty boys of the Royal Mathemati-
cal School, founded by King Charles 11., and was most
graciously received.
The Queen condescended to inspect the charts and
drawings of the boys, and to intimate her approbation
of their performance.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, entered the
Throne-room, attended by the Mistress of the Robes,
the Duchess of Norfolk, the Countess of Charlemont

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(in waiting), Viscountess Jocelyn, the Countess of Gains-
borough, and the Viscountess Canning, Ladies of the
Bedchamber; the Hon. Miss Stanley (in waiting), Hon.
Miss Dawson (in waiting), Lady Caroline Cocks, Hon.
Miss Murray, Hon. Miss Cavendish and the Hon. Miss
Macdonald, Maids of Honour; the Viscountess Forbes,
Hon. Mrs. Anson, Lady Caroline Barrington, Hon.
Mrs. Brand, the Hon. Mrs. George Campbell rind Lady
Theresa Digby, Women of the Bedchamber; the Groom
of the Stole to the Prince, the Keeper of her Majesty's
Privy Purse, the Marquis of Ormonde (Lord in Wait-
ing), Viscount Clifden, Lord in Waiting to the Prince ;
Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Robert Boyle (Groom in
Waiting), Captain Francis Seymour, (Groom in Wait-
ing to the Prince), Lord Alfred Paget, Equerry in
Waiting; Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting to his
Royal Highness; and Messrs. Gordon and Forbes, Pages
of Honour in Waiting.
The Queen wore a very magnificent costume. The
train was of blue and white brocaded silk, lined with
white satin, and trimmed with large blue and white ro-
settes of satin ribbon and tulle, and diamonds. The
petticoat was of white Bros de Naples, with two skirts
of white tulle, trimmed with blue and white satin rib-
bon rosettes, to correspond with the train. Both the train
and petticoat were of Spitalfields silk.
Her Majesty's head-dress was composed of diamonds
and feathers.

The Diplomatic Corps were first introduced, when the
following ladies had the honour of being presented to the
Queen in the Diplomatic circle :
By Madame Bunsen—Mrs. Frederic W. Schreiber
(born Miss Houghton), wife of an officer in the Guards
of the King of Prussia.
By Viscountess Palmerston—The Countess Colloredo.
The Diplomatic Circle was attended by Mehmed
Pacha, Ottoman Ambassador, Caboaly Effendi, First
Secretary, Sadik Bey, Second Secretary, and Riza
Bey, Attachk to the Embassy; Vice-Admiral Cecille,
French Ambassador, M. de Montherot, First Secretary,
M. Breuil, Second Secretary, and M. Reille, Aide-de-
Camp to the Admiral; M. Van de Weyer, Belgian Mi-
nister, and Madame Van de Weyer, Mr. Charles Drouet,
Conseiller de Legation, and Le Comte de Lalaing ; Baron.
de Cetto, Bavarian Minister, and Baroness de Cetto;
Viscount de Moncorvo, Portuguese Minister; Chevalier
de Ribeiro, Secretary, Chevalier Pinto de Soveral, and
Baron de Moncorvo, Attach& of the Legation; Baron
de Brunnow, Russian Minister, and Baroness de Brun-
now, Baron de Nicolay, Secretary of Legation, and Baron
Theodore de Schoeppingk ; General Prince Castelcicala,
Neapolitan Minister, and M. G. Canofari, Secretary of
Legation; the Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister, and
Madame Bunsen, Mr. Ernest Bunsen, and Lieutenant
Guitard, 9th Royal Prussian Hussars; Count de Revent-
low, Danish Minister, and Countess de Reventlow, Mr.
de Bielke, Gentleman of the Chamber of the Kieg of
Denmark, and his Secretary of Legation; Baron Ber-
touch, Secretary of Legation, M. de Treschow, Con-
seiller de Conference Plenipotentiary, and M. Hopfner,
Conseiller et Attaché; Mr. George Bancroft, American
Minister, Mr. John R. Brodhead, Secretary of
Legation, and Mr. James Lawrence ; Senor J. M. L.
Mora, Mexican Minister, M. J. M. Mendoza, Secretary,
and Mr. F. Galindo, Second Secretary of Legation ;
Baron de Rehausen, Swedish Minister, and Baroness de
Rehausen, and M. de Sibbern, Secretary of Legation ;
Mr. J. J. de Osma, Peruvian Minister, Le Colonel Bel-
tran, Secretary, Major J. F. de Elizalde, and Mr. Henry
oCnaraayspedoooi,Al tmtaicebsilison tforotmhe t
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Republic ti on ; SSenor :sr taegl luoan
Senor Felipe Molina, Costa Rica Minister ; Count Col.
loredo, Austrian Minister, and Baron Koller, Secre-
tary to the Legation ; Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8.,
her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, Viscountess Palmerston, and Colonel the Hon.
Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., her Majesty's Master of the
Ceremonies.

The Viscountess de Moncorvo was prevented by in-
disposition from attending her Majesty's Drawing-room.
The General Circle was attended by the Archbishop
of York, the Bishop of London, the Secretary of State
for the Home Department, the Captain of the lion. Corps
of Gentlemen-at-Arms, the Captain of the Yeoman
Guard, the Marquis of Anglesey, Gold Stick-in-Wait-
ing; the Treasurer of the Household, the Vice-Cham-
berlain, the Comptroller of the Household; Lord Mon-
teagle, Comptroller-General of the 3i:chequer; the
Vice-Chancellor of England, Sir Matthew Wyatt, Lieu-
tenant of her Majesty's Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-
Arms; the Lord Mayor, the Attorney-General, the At-
torney-General for Ireland, Mr. David James Harmar,
Standard Bearer of her Majesty's Hon. Corps of Gen-
tlemen-at-Arms; the Hon. Captain Denman, R.N.,
Groom-in-Waiting; Colonel Wylde, Groom-in-Waiting
to the Prince; Colonel Buckley, Equerry to the
Queen; Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Finnis, Mr. She-
riff Goodhart, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. G. Cecil;
W. Forester (Royal Horse Guards), Silver Stick;
Captain Curling, Adjutant of the Honourable Corps
of Gentleman-at-Arms; Colonel Fitz Maurice, Adju-
tant of the Yeomen Guard; Sir Seymour Sadler, Exon
of the Yeomen Guard ; Captain Phibbs, Exon in Wait
ing ; Captain Lord John Hay, R.N., Naval A.D.C.;
Colonel Weare, Colonel C. Kennedy, Colonel Parke,
Colonel Wood, Colonel Oldfield, the Hon. Captain
Berkely, R.N., and Colonel Le Couteur, A.D.C. to the
Queen; Sir Benjamin Smith, C.S. ; Colonel Sir Frederic,
Smith, Gentleman Usher to the Privy Chamber in Wait-
ing ; Mr. Charles Heneage, Gentleman Usher of the
Privy Chamber ; Mr. Arthur Blackwood, Groom of the
Privy Chamber; Captain the Hon. Mortimer Sackville
West, Gentleman Usher to her Majesty in Waiting;
Major-General Godwin, Gentleman Usher to his Royal
Highness the Prince in waiting.; Colonel Hendrick
(Coldstream Guards), Field Officer in Brigade Waiting;
his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, &c.
The following ladies had the honour of being presented
to her Majesty :
Lady Caroline Burges, by the Countess of Charlemont.
The Hon. Frederica Blake, by her mother, the Lady
Wallscourt.
The Hon. Nina Blake, by her mother, the Lady Walls-
court.
The Countess of Caledon, by the Marchioness of Water-
ford.
Viscountess Lewisham, on her marriage, by the Hon.
Mrs. John Talbot.
The Lady Mayoress, by Lady John Russell.
Hon. Helen Duncombe, by her mother, Lady Feversham.
The Lady Augusta Pery, by her mother, the Dowager
Viscountess Glentworth.
Lady Maria Saunderson, on her return from abroad, by
the Hon. Mrs. Butler Johnstone.
Lady Frederic Kerr, by the Duchess of Richmond.
Lady Hood, by Lady Caroline Bathurst.
Lady Jane Feilding, by her sister -in-law, Viscountess
Feilding.
Lady De Bathe, by Lady Augusta Gordon Hallyburton.
The Hon. Isabel Lister, by Lady John Russell.
Lady Lytton Bulwer, on her marriage, by Lady Pal-
merston.
Lady Catherine De Burgh, by the Marchioness of Clan-
ricarde.
Lady M`Mahon, by the Hon. Mrs. Mortimer Sackville
West.
Lady Curtis, by Viscountess Canning.
Hon. Hermione Seynt Maur, by her mother, Lady
Seymour.
The Lady Wallscourt, by the Countess of Ellesmere.
Lady Margaret Compton, by Lady Marian Alford.
The Lady Cecilia Repton by her mother, the Dowager
Viscountess Glentworth.
Lady Wetherell Warneford, by Lady Elizabeth H, pe
Vere.
Hon. Mrs. Campbell Scarlett, by her sister the Lady
Stratheden and Campbell.
Mrs. Chamier, by Lady Seymour.
Mrs. Bunoury, by her sister, Lady Lyell.
Mrs. Merivale, by Countess Grey.
Mrs. George Tamplin, by Lady Grey.
Mrs. William Elsey, on her marriage, by the Dowager
Countess of Carnwath.
Mrs. Low, by Mrs. Edward Cardwell.
Mrs. Fraser Grove, by Viscountess Forbes.
Mrs. J. E. Goodhart, by Lady John Russell.
Mrs, Thomas Quested Finnis, by Lady John Russell.
Mrs. Mahon Tower, by Viscountess Palmerston.
Mrs. Baker Cresswell, by Lady Byron.
Mrs. Hunt, by Lady M`Grigor.
Mrs. Alexander Mackinnon, by the Countess of Tanker-
ville.
Mrs. Philip Henry Pepys, on her marriage, by Lady
Cottenham.
Mrs. Granville Harcourt Vernon, by the Duchess of
Sutherland.
Mrs. A. L. Goddard, on her marriage, by Lady Shelley.
Mrs. Latham, by the Countess of Verulam.

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Mrs. F. P. Bouverie, by Lady Catherine Buckley.
Mrs. Henry Edwards, by Lady Mary Wood.
Mrs. William Taylor, by Mrs. Robert Hollond.
Mrs. T. Bateman Beck, by Mrs. Milner Gibson.