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AT a f-I-E NE RAL COURT of PROPRIETORS,
held at the BANK of ENGLAND, on THVRSDAY, the 19th of
March, 1846,
Resolved—That the thanks of this Court be given to the Governor,
Deputy-Governor, and Court of Directors of the Bank of England,
for their able management of the affairs of this Corporation, and
particularly for the liberal accommodation afforded to the commercial
public during the last half year.
Ord,red—That the said resolution be advertised in all the daily
morning and evening papers.

JOHN KNIGHT, Secretary,

BANK OF AUSTRALASIA•
(Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1835.)
London: 8, Austin Friars, March 12, 1846.
NOTICE OF DIVIDEND.
The Court of Directors hereby give notice that a half-yearly divi-
dend •f One and a Half per cent. (being at the rate of three per cent.
per annum) on the capital stock of the Corporation, will be payable
to the Proprietors on MONDAY the 13th day of Aram next, at their
Offices as above, between the hours of Ten and Three. The transfer
books of the Bank will be closed on Monday the 22d instant, and
continue so until the dividend becomes payable,
By order of the Court,
WILLIAM MILLIKEN, Secretnry.

GROCERS' AND TEA DEALERS' BENE-
VOLENT PROTECTION SOCIETY.

A Full Report (of five columns) of the interesting proceedings at
the Ninth General Annual Meeting of the Grocers' and Tea Dealers'
Benevolent Protection Society, held at the London Tavern, on Tues-
day last, will appear in the " JOURNAL OF COMMERCE" of
TO-MORROW.

The " JOURNAL OF.COMMERCE," a London Weekly Com-
mercial and Family Newspaper, supplies an authentic record of
General Trading Information, with a digest of all the Foreign and
Domestic News of the week. _

May be had (Price 6d.) of the :Newsmen; or at the office of publi-
cation, 54, Gracechurch-street, City.

NINETT-SIXTH SALE.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, LONDON, MARCH, 1846.
FOR SALE, by Order of the Honourable Com-
misqloners of her Majesty's Customs, at Twelve o'clock at
Noon precisely. en MONDAY, 30th, and TUESDAY, 31st March, WED-
NESDAY, ISt, TUURSDAY, 2d, FRIDAY, 3d, and SATURDAY, 4th April,
1846, at the COMMERCIAL SALE ROOMS, Mincing-lauc,
The following GOODS for HOME CONSUMPTION :-
109 Pieces black silk hat plush.
882 Pieces pillow lace, 174 pieces thread lace.
39 Cartoons artificial flowers.

42) French silk shawls and scarfs.
13 Cant.:.n crape shAwls.
27 Sets priests' vestments.

368 Pairs embroidered muslin eurtains.
686 Gold and 417 silver watches, 79 clocks.
2,463 Cameos, 976 Mosaic and 285 enamel brooch fronts.
American and Dutch clocks, barege, wafer and paper boxes,
beads, baskets, bead purses, bronze powder, coloured porcelain,
combs, cotton canvas, muslin collars, chain watch guards, dressed
calf hides, dressed feathers, embroidered muslin dresses and shawls,
embroidered handkerchiefs, elastic slates, silk gauze, furniture,
gongs, fringes, Fre,nch damask, gilt metal buttons, gold watch keys
and chains, glass, bead ornaments, hair brushes, habit shirts, Milts
tion cameos, mahogany and rosewood tables, mock jewellery, musi-
cal boxes, Meerschaum and other pipe bowls, medallion jewel cases,
mousseline de lathes, matchets, needlework, point lace, penknives,
perfumery, purse r!arnitures, opera glasses, silk manufactures, straw
cord trirriniogs, silk purses, snuff boxes, sawn wood, tarlatans, toys,
walk;ng canes, white enamelled boxes, silk watch guards, watch-
makei's tools, woollen shawls, wax lucifer matches, manufactured
and unmanufactured tobacco, cheroots, segars, snuff, tea, coffee,
sugar, white and red wine, rum, eau de C005.9,e, &e., &c., &c. •
FOlt F,XPORTA MX ONLY.
Watches, pistols, biscuits, refined sugar, glass tumblers, Sac., &c., &c.

FOR 'THE BE 7:EFIT OF THE CROWS.
Old rope, old telescopes, and a cinantfty of old stores.
FOR EXPORTATION', at BUYER'S PRICES : or, HOME CON-

SUMPTIIN, on. PAYMENT of the DUTIES.

Canton crape shawls, silk manufactures, spirits, cordials, wines,
tea, coffee, arrowroot, tamarinds. books, sugar, molasses, &e., &c.

, .
To be viewed at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom-house, Thames-
street, at the St. Katherine, London, West India, and East India
Docks, and at the Tcbacco Ground, notherhithe, on Thursday, 26th,
Friday, 27th, Saturday, 28th March, 1646, from Ten o'clock in the
Morning until three o'clock in the Afternoon, and on the Days of
Sale, from Ten o'clock in the Morning until Twelve o'clock at
Noon. _ .._ . . ... .

Take notice, that the goods sold at this sale will not be delivered
until after twe clear days of the day they are sold, andthat no lots can
be paid ler at the Office of the Receiver of Fines after Two o'clock in
the Afternoon. :During the days of sale, money will not be re-
ceived by the Receiver of lines after Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon.
Catalogues may be had at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom-house,
price One Shilling each.

TATIONAL LOAN k'UND ASSUit-
ASCE SOCIETY,

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26, CORNIULL, LONDON.
Ca-pital Z500,G06.
Nmpowerod by Act of Parliament.
This Institution °Care Important and substantial advan-
tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities.
The assared has, on all occasions, the power to barrow, without ex-
pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid,
(see table); also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion
of his interests to meet other conveniences er necessity. Assurances
for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.
DIVISION OF PROJTTV.
The success and increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled
the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a third
Bonus, varying from 3u to 75 per cent. on the premiums paid on
each Policy effected on the Frost seals.
NXAMPLISS.

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The d!nisien of profits is annual, and the next will he made in De-
manlier of the premant year.

F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, See.

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ENERAL TOM THUMB
jir WILL SHORTLY CLOSE HIS FAREWELL LEVEES AT
THE EGYPTIAN-HALL. His weight is only fifteen pounds, and
he Is the most enchanting little being living. Ho has had the dis-
tinguished honour of appearing three times before her Majesty, and
has performed before all the principal Courts of Europe.
The little General appears in all his performances from Half-past
Twelve to Two, Half-past Three to Five, and italf-past Seven to
Nine o'eloek.

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sor and Palm, is. 4d. ; Brown Windsor, Is. 9d. ; Ron, 2s. ;
25.. 6d. Sealing Wax, 4s. 6d. per lls. .

At DATIES'g Old Established liarehouse, 6s, st. Martin's-bate,
opposite Slaughter's Coffee-house.

pROUT'S TOOTH-BRUSHES.
Those celebrated Brushes are well known in most parts of the
world, and esteemed for their durability and beauty of workmanship.
They retain the hair till quite worn out, are made of every degree of
hardness and variety of shape, to the extent of nearly 109 sorts, in-
cluding thsse recommended by the principal dentists of our day, and
are sold at the usnal price of Is. each, or by post for thirteen stumps.
Superior smooth-pointed TORTOISHELL COMES, the workman-
ship of which is rarely equalled. The new and fashionable Cemb for
Ladies' Head-dress in great abundance. Tail and Dressing Combs,
together with Front Combs, carved, turned, and plain. The stock,
fix variety, colour, or extent, is prels4lned te be the most complete
affwell ~s the largest' in.-Londa'. -

Front's Brush and ,osnb Manufactory, 229, Strand, London, even
houses west of Teraplo-bar. Established for Forty years.

ANOTHER EXTRAORDINAY CURE of an
ASTII MATIC COUGH by

DR. LOCOCK'S PUL'AfONIC WAFERS

Communicated by Arr. J. Waterhouse, surgeon, &c., Broad-gra:A,

Halifax, dated April 1, 1845,

"A female residing In Halifax hal long been subject to a con-
firmed Asthmatic Cough, when her husband applied to me. Ise said
he was persuaded she conk! not live many days, as from cough and
want of rut she was so much enfeebled ; and the use of medicine,
in which she had persevered for many months, had given her ne
relief. The very tint dose of the Wafers soothed her sough, and
gave her acomfortable and refreshing sleep ; and by persevering in
their use, her strength has returned ; and without the aid of any
other medicine, this p•.tient, who had been a long, and apparently
hopeless sufferer, Is now fully restored to health This case I can
vorelt fbr, and c.an satisfy any inquiries by ref reuse to the partice.—
Yenr4. fsc., " .T. WATERHOUSE."

LOt.`OCK'S WAFCRA give instant acid a rand cure of
Ind ell Disorders of the flf,atti and Lungs. They
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don; sold by all medicine venders.

HER MAJEz_a,TI"S DRAWING-
Room.

The Queen held a Drawing-room yesterday afternoon, at
St. James's Palace. Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived
from Buckingham Palace at two o'clock, and were received by
the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the
Horse, and the Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert.
The royal suite included the Mistress of the Robes, the
Duchess -if Buccleuch; the Ladies of the Bedchamber, the
Countess of Charlemont (in waiting), the Marchioness of
Douro, the Viscountess Canning, and the Viscountess Jocelyn;
the Maids of Honour, Lady Caroline Cocks (in waiting),
Hon. Miss Devereux (in waiting), Hon. Miss Paget, and the
Hon. Miss Stanley; the Bedchamber Women, Lady Gardiner,
the Viscountess Forbes, Hon. Mrs. G-orge Campbell, and
Lady Theresa Digby ; the Lord in Waitin;.•-. Vi-count Hawar-
den ; the Groom in Waiting, Captain Meynell ; the Equerry,
in Waiting, Lord Charles Wellesley ( Clerk Marshal), and the
Pages of Honour, Messrs. Gordon and Forbes; the Lord in
Waiting to Prince Albert, Lord George Lennox; the Groom
in Waiting to his Royal Highness, Captain Francis Seymour;
and the Equerry in Waiting to his Royal Highness, Major-
General Sir Edward Bowater.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent was present, at-
tended by Lady Fanny How:. rd, Colonel Sir George Ceuper,
Bart., and Captain the Hon. James P. Murray.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
were attended by the Lady in Waiting, and Baron Knesebeck.
Their Royal Highnesses were received by the Vice-Cham-
berlain, who conducted them to the'royal closet.
Her Majesty's Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms were on
duty in the Presence Cbamber, and at the principal entrance
to the State-rooms.

The Yeomen Guard wore their Coronation costume.

The Queen, accompanied by Price Albert and the Royal
Family, having entered the Throne-room, the following pre-
sentations to her Majesty took place in the Foreign Diplomatic
circle :

By the Countess Reventlow, the Lady of the Danish Minister,
their daughter, Countess Hilda Reventlow.
By Madame Bunsen, the Lady of the Prussian Minister,
Mrs. M'Lane, the lady of the American Minister ; and by
Mrs. M.Lane, Miss M'Lane, the daughter of the American
Minister.

By Count de St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, Le Comte
D'Astorg, Attach 4 to the French Embassy in London.
Ily ount Dietrichstein, the Austrian Ambassador, Mr.
Henry Isaacson, Captain of Dragoons in the Austrian service.
The Foreign Diplomatic Circle was attended by Count do
St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador; the Austrian Ambas-
sador, and the Countess Dietrichstein : the Bavarian Minis-
ter and the Baroness de Cetto ; Baron Dedel, the Netherlands
Minister, and Mademoiselle Dedel, and M. Statenus, First
Secretary of Legation ; Count de Pollon, Sardinian Minister,
and Marquis Pal:avicino, Secretary of Legation ; Baron de
Moncorvo, the Pnrtu suese Minister, and the Chevalier de
Ilibeiro, Secretary of Legation ; the Russian Minister and the
Baroness de Brunnow, and Baron de Nicolay, Secretaty of Le-
gstion ; General Prince Castelcicala, Neapolitan Minister, and
M. G. Canofari, Secretary of Legation ; Count de Kielman-
segge, Hanoverian Minister; Baron de Hugel, Wurtembsrg
Minister, and Baron de Linden, Attache to the Legation ; the
Prussian Minister and Madame Bunsen, Mademoiselle Bun-
sen, Baron de Langen, Attache to the Legation, and Baroness
de Langen ; the Danish Minister and the Countess de Revent-
low, and M. de Bielke, Secretary to the Legation ' • the Duke
de Sotomayor, Spanish Minister, le Chevalier de Pedrorena,
Secretary, and M. J. Antonio Lopez de Cehallos, Attache
to the Legation ; Mrs. MiLane, Lady of the United States
Mini-ter, Miss M'Lane, Mr. Gansevoot Melville, Secretary
of the Legation, and Mr. M. Henry Boyd, Attache to the Le-
gation, the Swedish Charge d'Affaires and Baroness de Re-
hsusen ; Mr. Charles Drouet, Belgian Charge d'Affaires, and
M. Octave Delepierre, Secretary to the Mission ; Edib Ef-
fendi, Turkish Charge d'Affaires.
the General Circle was attended by the Bishop of London,
the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the
Horse, the Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert, the E ,r 1
Marshal, the Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen
at Arms, the Marquis of Londonderry, Gold Stick in Wait-
ing; the Vice Chamberlain, the Treasurer of the Honseho'd,
the Adjutant-General of the Forces, the Attorney-General,
Major-General Sir Henry Wheatley, K.C.H.; Keeper of her
Majesty's Privy Purse; Sir George Philip Lee, Lieutenant of
the Yeoman Guard; the Master of the Ceremonies ; Sir Au-
gustus Clifford, Bart., Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod ;
Colonel Sir George Couper, Bart., first Equerry to her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent ; Captain the Hon. James P.
Murray, Equerry to her Royal Highness the Duckess of Kent;
Baron Knesebeck, Eqnerry to his Royal Highness the l hake
of Cambridge ; Captain Pechell, R.N., Honorary Equerry to
her Majesty the Queen Dowager ; Captain Sir Andrew Green,
Naval Aide-de-Camp; Colonel Parke' and Colonel Clark
Kennedy, C.B. and K.H., Aide-de-Camp to the Queen;
Major-General Sir Hew Ross, Deputy Adjutant-General of
Artillery; Mr. Matthew Wyatt, Standard-bearer to the Hon.
Corps of Gentlemen at Arms ; Colonel Hall, Silver Stick in
Waiting; Mr. Macgregor, Secretary to the Board of Trade •,
Mr. James Bunce Curling, Adjutant of the Hon. Corps of
Gentlemen at Arms; Mr. Ellerthorp, Adjutant of the Yeo-
man Guard; Captain Sadler, Exon in Waiting; Sir Benja-
min Smith, C. S.; Lieut-Colonel Sir Frederic Smith, Gen-
tleman Usher to the Privy Chamber in Waiting; Captain the
Hon. Mortimer Sackville West, and Lieut.-Colonel Dingle,
Gentlemen Ushers in Waiting to her Majesty; Captain G. C.
Blake, R.N., Gentleman Usher fo his Royal Highness Prince
Albert in Waiting ; Captain Siborne, Secretary and Adju-
tant of the Royal Military Asylum; Colonel Walton, Field
Officer in Waiting ; Lieut.-Colonel Robinson (Scots Fusilier
Guards), Captain of the Queen's Guard. And the following
Ladies :•—•
DUCH ESSIS. —Bedford, Dowager Bedford, Beaufort.
MA RCHIONISSES—Abercurn, Clanricarde, Cholmondeley,
Blandford.
COUNTISSES—CornwaIIis, Norbury, Dowager Wintertown,
Delawarr, St. Germans, Antrim, Effingham, Verulam,
Maltnesbury, Spencer, Longford, Sandwich, Dartmouth,
Jersey, Grey, De Grey, Mansfield.
Viscourresses—Dowager Dillon, Ashbrook, Glentworth.
LADles—Louisa Eliot, Ernest Bruce, G. Gurdon Rebow,
Charlotte Toler, Clifford, Murchison, Aylmer, Louisa Douglas
Pennant, Elizabeth Lascelles, Lovet, Grey, Thes4er, Cathe-
rine Cavendish, Lee, Caldwell, Macdonald, S. Bruce, F.
Hope, Howard Douglas, Champion de Crespigny, Bellingham,
Buchan, Henniker, Dowager Rivers, William Compton, Rid-
dell, F. Bentinck, Webster, Hastings, Rivers, Bourchier,
Rollo, R. Pakenham, G. Pakenham, Eastliope, Hardioge,
May, J. Hay, C. Beauclerk, R. Kerr, A. Baring, R. Gre-
ville, L. Spencer, Brasbrooke, B. Somerset, R. Somerset,
Cartwright, H. Clive, Dowager Clinton, Kinnaird, Bowater,
Lyndhurst, H. Cadogan, A. Russell, Haddo, E. de Burgh,
M. Hood, H. Ponsonby, Peel, Radstock, K. Ponsonby,
Green, M. Hill, R. Russell, Ross, Graham, C. Murray, S.
Murray, E. Murray, A. Fitzclarence.
HoNouna anzs—Miss Fraser, Miss Charlotte Fraser, Mrs.
Sanderson, Mrs. Yorke, Mrs. Ferguson, Miss Rollo, Miss
Dillon, Miss H. Dillon, Mary Seymour, Mrs. Pechell, Mrs.
Watson, Mrs. George Browne, Mrs. E. Moore, Mrs. E. Goul-
burn, Mrs. S. Jerningham, Lady Capel, Mrs. Disbrowe, Miss
Waldegrave, Caroline Waldegrave, Mrs. G. Scott, Mrs. G.
Hope, Mrs. D. H. Legge, Lady Middleton, Mrs. D. Murray,
Mrs. A. Dillon, Mrs. Stanley, Mrs. Norton.
MA DAME —Rem..baw de Wolff.

MISTRESSES—Langford, Graves Sawle, Law, Bloomfield,
Beech, Ruck Keene, Baillie Cochrane, Lee, E. Lionel Welles,
Gaussen, Richard Hodgson, Henry E. Goldsmid, H. Creed,
Lcchmere Russell, Floyer, Praed, Philips, William Aldam,
M. Montgomerie, Baring Collier, Philip Perceval, Robert
Fynn, G. Craig, Riley, G. Bankes, Fanshawe, Wm. Watson,
Trant, Waymouth, Housman, Hudson. R. Grant, Rolt, E.
W. Browne, Pakingtou, R. Browne, Disraeli, W. HarriAt,
Denristoun. E. Hammond, John Ley, Briggs, K. Seymer, J.
H. Vivian, Fitzgerald, E. Shirley, :porter. Gage, Bkli, B. Cul
peper, P. Rennet, Pasley, P. Butler, W. Gladstone, F. D.
orm«, Labouchere, F. Lewis, Ram, Whewell, R. Holland, R.
Ramsbottom, Dodd.

MlSSES—Ferguson (of Pitfour), Georgians Ferguson,
Rid&ll, Smythe, Peelle'', Baker Cresswell, Douglas, Russell,
Laseelles, Fitzgibbon, Louisa Fitzgibbon, Ruck Keene, Louisa
Disbrawe, Selina Trent, Clifford, Blake, Fanny. Clifford,
Cavendish, Briggs, Maria llrodrick, Mary Brodrick, Hughes
Hullett, S. Fanshawe, M. Fanshawe, Charlotte Praed, Frances
S. Cholmondely, Hay, Julia Petre, Trant, Green, F. Chal-
mondeley, Emilia Rivers, Emily Hardinge, Praed, Rult,
Riley, Moore, Katherine Rivers, Georgiana Pereeval, Sullivan,
Lucy Keys, Harriott, Newdegate, L. o..way, M. Otway,
Hervey, Blacker, Grant, Ley, Augusta Law. A. Seymour,
E. Cust, H. Bathurst, M. Cust, Mary Ross. Frederick Con-
nell, Gertrude Vivian, Isabella Young, E. Morier, Clive,
Stanley, M. Pasley, Philips, E. Codrington, M. Codrington,
E. Murray.

The following ladies had the honour of being presented to
her Alak,ty :
Countess Cornwallis, by Lady Braybrooke.
Lady Murchison, by the Countess of Charlemont.
Lady Elizabeth Lase,-lles, by Lady Frances Hope.
Lady Louisa Douglas Pennant, on her marriage, by Lady
Portman.
Lady Charlotte Toler, by her mother, the Countess of
Norbury.
Lady Georgians Gordon Rebow, on her marriage, by her
mother, the Countess of Norhury.
The Countess of Verulam, on her marriage, and on coming to
the title, by the Countess Delawarr.
Countess of Eifingham,• by the Countess of Malmesbury.
Countess Grey, by Lady Charlotte Copley.
The Countess Spencer, by the Dowager Lady Clinton.
Lady Louisa Spencer, on her marriage, by the Marchioness of
131andford.
Lady William Compton, on her marriage, by Lady Marian
Alford.
Lady Buchan, by Lady Ross.
Lady Champion de Crespigny, on her marriage, by Vis-
countess Forbes.
Lady Bellingham, by Lady Worsley.
Lady Macdonald, by the Countess of Hopetonn.
Lady Caldwell, by Lady Aylmer.
Lady Emily de Burgh, by the Marchioness of Clanriearde.
Lady Alexander Russell, on her marriage, by the Duchess
Dowager of Bedford.
Hon, Miss Charlotte Fraser, by Lady Lovat.
Lady Cartwright, on her return to England, by the Countess
of Jersey.
Lady Rose Somerset, by the Duchess of Beaufort.
The Hon. Isles. Yorke, by Lady Aylmer.
Hon. Mrs. Edward Moore, by Lady Clanton.
Hon. Mrs. Henry Legge, by the Countess of Dartmouth.
The Hon. Mrs. George Browne, on her marriage, by Vis-
countess Forbes.
Madame Renshaw de Wolff, from Venezuela, by Lady Charles
Beauclerk.
Mrs. Beech, by Lady Marcus Hill.
Mrs. Lee, on the appointment of Mr. Lee as one of her Ma-
jesty's Counsel, by Lady Thesiger.
Mrs. Henry E. Gokhanid, by the Countess of Antrim.
Mrs. Lechmere Russell, by Lady,Thesieer.
Mrs. GI ayes Sawle, on her ma-. iage, by Lady Aylmer.
Mrs. Gaussen, by her sister, Mrs. -Ram.
Hon. Mrs. Watson, by Countess Spencer.
The Hon. Mary Symons, on her appointment as Maid of
Honour to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, by the Dowager
Lady Clinton.
Mrs. Robert Browne, by her mother, Lady Hardinge.
Mrs. Briggs, by the Viscountess Duncan.
Mrs. Edmund Hammond, on her marriage, by her mother,
Lady Robert Kerr.
Mrs. William Harriott, by Lady Easthope.
Mrs. John Ley, on her marriage, by Lady Frances Ley.
Miss Georgians Ferguson, by her mother, the Hon. Mrs. Fer-

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guson, of Pitfour.
Miss Russell, by her mother, Mrs. Lechmere Russell.
Miss Baker Cresswell, by Mrs. Bell.
Miss Pechell, by her mother, the Hon. Mrs. Peehell.
Miss Smythe, by her aunt, the Viscountess Ashbrook.
Miss Riddell, by her mother, Lady Riddell.
Mrs. Pakington, her marriage, by her mother, Lady Sarah
Murray.
Mrs. Edward Walpole Browne, cn her marriage, by Lady
Delawarr.
Mrs. Trant, by the Countess St. Germans.
Mrs. Hudson, by the Countess de Grey.
Mrs. Riley, by the Hon. Mrs. Edward Moore.
Miss Georgiana Percival, by the Countess of Egmont.
Mrs. Robert Fynn, by Lady Blake.
Mrs. Philip Perceval, by the Viscountess Glentworth.
Mrs. Baring Collier, on her marriage, by the Right Hon. Lady
Elizabeth Dawson.
Mrs. Mary Montgomerie, by Mrs. William Watson
Mrs. Philips, by Mrs. Horsman
Miss Philips, by her mother, Mrs. Philips
Mrs. William Aldam, by Lady Worsley
Mrs. Floyei, on her marriage, by her mother, Mrs.
George Bankes
Mrs. Rickard Hodgson, by the Duchess of Buccleach
Mrs. Lee, by the Hon. Mrs. William Gladstone
Mrs. Baillie Cochrane, on her marriage, by the Duchess of

Buccleuch
Mrs. Frederick Doveton Orme, by Lady Lyndhurst
Miss Stanley, by her mother, Hon. Mrs. Stanley
Miss Isabella Young, by the Viscountess Jocelyn
Miss Frederica Connell, by the Countess St. Germans
Miss Gertrude Vivian, by her mother, Mrs. J. H. Vivian
Miss Etheldred Cust, by Hon. Lady Middleton
Miss Margaret Cust, by Hon. Lady Middleton
Miss Blacker, by her mother, the Hon. Mrs. George Browne
Miss Harriott, by her mother, Mrs. William Harriott
Miss Katherine Rivers, by her mother, Lady Rivers
Miss Moore, by her mother, Hon. Mrs. Edward Moore
Miss Emilia Rivers, by her mother, Lady Rivers
Miss Frances Cholmondeley, by Lady Braybrooke
Miss Julia Petre, by Honourable Mrs. Stafford Jenningham
Miss Trant, by the Countess of St. Germans
Miss Hay, by her mother, Lady James Hay
Miss Frances Cholmondeley, by the Lady Braybrooke
Miss Charlotte Praed, by her mother, Mrs. Praed
Miss Mary Brodrick, by Lady Frances Hope
Miss Briggs, by her mother, Mrs. Briggs
Miss Hughes Halleth, by Lady Easthope
Miss Selina Trant, by the Countess of St. Germans
Miss Mary Ross, by her mother, Lady Ross
The following gentlemen were also present :
Duicrs—Buccleuch, Devonshire, Bedford, Beaufort
RQU ISES— Cholmondeley,,Northampton, BlarldfOrd
EA RLS— St. Germans, Antrim, Lincoln, Dalhousi, Vern-
lam, Ellenborongh, Limerick, Aberdeen, Cadogan, Egmont,
Bessborough, Roden, De Grey, Haddington, Effingham.
ViscounTs—Canning, Lascelles, Cantalepe, Goderich
Loans—Forester, Henniker, Kinnaird, Jocelyn, A. Rus-
sell, Haddo, W. Compton, Rollo, C. Beauclerk, M. Hill,
Rudstock, Macdonald, A. Lennox, A. Churchill
Hist; OP— Norwich

RIGHT HONOURABLES-Sir Robert Peel, Sir George
Grey, Sidney ll,rbert, W. Gladstone, E. I. Stanley, H. La-
bouchere, Sir J. Graham, T. Lewis
HONOURABLES —Colonel Fitzgibbon., S. Jerningham, G.
Browne, R. Watson, R. Speneer, H. Spencer, H. Jocelyn,
E. Laseelles, A. Dillan, W. Clive, Rev. H. Legge, Captain
Hood, De Blaquiere, Rev. E. Moore
BARONETS—James Riddell, J. Tyrell, A. Bellingham, H.
Rivers

Sias—Peter Laurie, Roderick Impey Murchison, Thee.
Cartwright, H. Webster, T. Hastings, W. Middleton, E. Cast
QUEEN'S Comeser.—Mr. Lee
Rev. Dorroas—Horsley, Dakins, D' Amy Irvine,
Whew'll.
Rieveaxtuas—J. Connell, R. W. Browne, T. Haven&ld.
DOCTORS—LOeOek, Maitland, Field, Psterkin.
MESSIEURS—Sanderson, M.P. Graves Sawle, Hughan,
Charles Russell, M.P., George Hope, E. Lionel Welles,
. G. Rehow,
Richard Hodgson, M.P., W. Aldam, Jeaton Humfray, Bell,
M.P., B. Cochrane, M.P., B. Cresawell, Challoner, J.
Vivian, AI.PM.P., Perry. Pakington, M P., P. Ferceval,
Sergeant Goulhurn. P. Bennett,
Fitz Gerald, Llw, Riley, G. Robinson, A. Bidwell, E. Shirley,
R. Seymer, Horseman, M.P., Flayer, M.P., Gwynne, Pratt,
Holdship, Clarke, E. Robertson, P. Butler, M.P., J. Eld,
C. Malley, E. Hammond, Cade, Mac Gregor, Gaussen, R.
Holland, M.P., C. Levey, W. Cooper, B. Culpeper, G.
Bankes, M. P., 0. Wyndowe, J. Halford, Derinistoun, M.P.,
R. Bewicke, F. Orme, R. Fynn, Disney, G. Craig, M.P.,
W. Bruce, Thesiger, Fitz Gerald, De Ros, Alderman Hughes,
Dodd.
FIELD - MA RSHA L--The Duke of Wellington.
GENERALS—Lord Aylmer, Sir Henry Wheatley, G.C.H.,
Paley, Sir John Buchan, Briggs, Sir John May, K.O 8.,
Lechniere Russell, C. 8., Sir Henry Watson, 'Morison, C. 8.,
M.P., 11I'Leod.
Cor.oxeLs—Sir George Cowper, Bart., Cavendish, Bolt,
Fanshaw, Morton, Douglas Pennant.
MAJO !LS —Cadogan' Weymouth, M. G. White, Gage,
Stork!, Nlontgomerie,Marshall, Schonswar.
CAPTAINS—John Lewis, H. Creed, Hon. David H. Murray,
Henry Damon, Watson, E. Kivin, Walter Haslewood, Knox,
Fred. W. Hamilton, H. P. White, Stewart Farquharson,
D. C. G. ; Sir Thomas Bourchur, Hon. Grantham Scott,
Twisleton Graves, James Gould.
LIE UT ENA NTS G. G. Bowring, C. H. Hutchinson, Mercer,
Pasley, B. W. Arthur Sleigh, H. L. Shuillier, J. Kendall,
M•Kinnon, Ellison, W. H. Weaver, G. Higginsen,
Ward, Aug. T. Hamilton, Calvert, James Money, Robert
Smith, Henry Follett Synge, J. P. Nixon, Mowbray W. Inglis,
Bliss, G.
C. Disbrowe.
ADMIRALS—Edward Walpole Browne, Sir Robert Otway,
Sir Edward Codrington, Sir Bladen Capel, Brown.
CAPTAINS (Royal Navy)—Ferguson (of Pitfour), Waldo-
grave, C. 8., Collier, Frederick Wood, Gostling, Toup Nico-
las, C. 8., Sir William Symonds.
COMMA NDERS (Royal Navy)—Paget, Jay, Charles English.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the royal suite,
returned to Buckingham Palace after the drawing-room.

His Excellency the American Minister was prevented by
indisposition from attending the Queen's Drawing-room, but
Mrs. M•Laxe, the wife of his Excellency, was present, and also
the Secretary of Legation, Mr. Gariesvoort Melville.
The Mess of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-
at-Arms dined together yesterday, at the Thatched-house.

LADIES' DRESSES.
HER MAJESTY

Wore a dress of white tulle illusion over a rich white satin slip,
trimmed with bouquets of cerise flowers ; train of cerise and silver
a n
costume
was diamonds, feathers and silver
from the brocade, lined with white satin, and trimmed round with cerise and
silver blond; body and sleeves ornamented with diamonds. Head-
dress, owen d
superb
establish-
meat of Madame Elise, the whole of the materials of which it was
bdrleenssd,iwaprpeearsth, of
Thosc eriasbeol flowers
composed being of purely British 'manufacture.
H. R. M. THE DUCHESS OF KENT.
A Court dress, composed of two tunics of tulle, trimmed with
superb Brussels lace over a dress of rich white moire ; the train sad
body of white satin, brocaded in silver, and tassemii_
y ornamented
with Brussels lace and amaranths velvet. Head. dress, feathers, lace
lappets, and diamonds.
H. R. H. THE DUCIIESS OF CAMBRIDGE.
A Court costume, composed of a superb white satin dress, trimmed
with ermine, the train of plaid velvet (English manufacture), lined
with white satin, and trimmed all round with ermine. Head-dress,
feathers, lace lappets, and a tiara of diamonds.
DucHmss or BEAUFORT.--Costume de Cour, composed of a train
of white glace velours epingle, lined with white satin, most tasteftilly
trimmed with cerise velvet, embroidered in silver and pearls; body
and sleeves to correspond, ornamented is the same style ; skirt of
the richest damasse white Pekin, with tablier, Ses., of cerise velvet,
most magnificently- worked with silver and pearls. Head-dress of
ostrich feathers. silver lace lappets, and a profusion of diamonds.
DUCHESS OF BEDFORD.—COSWIDO de Cour, composed of a train of
superb satin blue porcelain glace de blanc, lined with white silk,
most elegantly trimmed with Brussels lace and ribbon ; body and
sleeves trimmed to correspond, with the same costly lace; skirt of
white satin, covered with Iwo deep flour ces of Brussels lace, orna-
mented with bows fixed by agraffes of diamonds. Headdress of
ostrich ib ethers, Brussels lace lappets, and a profusion of diamonds..
COUNTESS OF VERULAM.—BIack crape dress, over glace, leased-
fluently embroidered with burnished steel and chenille ; train of black
crape, lined with glace, and trimmed to correspond. Headdress,
feathers and crape lappets. '
I 'our OF NORDCRY. Habit da Cour. composed of two skirts of
Ti, 1. ever ritli v. :I. re. satin, relcres hy nanicis of Idle ribbon,
wit,
,;•,, ; 7;l'i of magnificent
c• vi,'. •tassels lace awi
of ; • • ox iiruuels point ;
stomacher of diernotLts. ilea hiress of plums d'eutruchg, tiara of
die coeds, and Blase's lace lappets; ornaments, a handsome suite
of diamonds.
CoutsTess OF JERSEY.—A Court costume, composed of turniques of
green crepe, trimmed with silver lace, looped up in draperies with
silver tassels ; the train of green terry velvet, tritnined with silver.
Headdrees, feathers, lilac jaeintlie3, and tiara of diamonds.
ViscouicrEss JOCE.LYN. —Habit de Cour, composed of an elegant
organdi dress, embroidered with gold and beetles' wings; tunic of
the same, trimmed with gold fringe, and looped with pink and white
flowers, over a slip of rich white silk ; train of superb white watered
silk, trimmed to correspond. Headdress, pink fuel white flowers,
feathers, Brussels lace lappets anti diamonds.
LADY CHAALEA BEAUCLERIC—Gourt dress composed of rich white
moire, trimmed with bouilihytu of tulle and greets leaves ; jupe and
tunic embroidered In green and gold, and studded with Brazilian
Iseeties. Ilenddrees, Brussels lace lappets, plume, and wreath" of
green and gold; ornaments, diamonds, and emeralds.