The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-27 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S LEVEE

The Queen held a Levee yesterday afternoon in St.
James's Palace. The Levee was numerously attended,
and was the third held by her Majesty this season.
The Queen and Prince Albert arrived from Bucking-
ham Palace shortly before two o'clock, and were re-
ceived by the Great Officers of State.
Before the Levee the Queen gave audience to Lord
John Russell.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert were attended by the
Mistress of the lithes, the Countess of Desert (Lady in
Waiting), the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the
Master of the Horse, the Groom of the Stole to the
Prince, the Treasurer of the Household, the Comptroller
of the Household, Lord Elphinstone (Lord in Waiting),
Lord George Lennox (Lord in Waiting to the Prince),
Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps (Keeper of
her Majesty's Privy Purse), Colonel the Hon. Charles
Grey (Private Secretary to Prince Albert), Captain the
Hon. Joseph Denman, Royal Navy (Groom in Waiting),
Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Seymour (Groom in Wait-
ing to Prince Albert), Lord Alfred Paget, Clerk Marshal
(Equerry in Waitirg), Colonel Bouverie (Equerry in
Waiting to the Prince), and Messrs. Gordon and Forbes
(Pages of Honour in Waiting).
The Queen wore a train of black silk trimmed with
black crape and black ornaments. The petticoat was
also of black silk, trimmed with black crape. -Her Ma-
jesty wore black ornaments in her head-dress.
The Queen's Hon. Corps of Gentlememat-Arms was
on duty in the State Saloons.
Her Majesty's Body Guard, under the command of
Captain Phibbs, the Exou in Waiting, was on duty in
the Palace as usual.
In the Diplomatic Circle the following presentations
to her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Al-
bert took place:—
By the Bavarian Minister—M. Scbsffhault, Aulic
Councillor and Professor at the Munich University and
Bavarian Commissiocer to the Great Exhibition.
By the Russian Minister—M. Le Capitaine P. Lisi-
ansky, and M. le Capitaine J. Shestakoff, de la Marine
Imperiale Russe.
By the Netherlands Minister—Baron de Tuyll, ()M-
-eier d'Ordonnance de S. M. le Roi des Pays Bas, and M.
de Steenberglie, °Meier d'Ordonnance do S. M. le. Roi
des Pays Bas.
By the United States Minister—Mr. Charles F. Stans-
bury, American Commissioner to the Industrial Exhi'
bition.
By the Austrian Charge d'Affaires—Captain Baron
Scholl (Engineers), Captain Uchatias (Artillery), and
Lieutenant Flies (Hussars)—all three officers in the
service of his Majesty the Emperor of Austria.
The Diplomatic Circle was attended by Baron de
Cette, Bavarian Minister; Baron de Brunnow, Russian
Minister, and M. Alexandre de Berg, First Secretary of
Legation; Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister, and Mr.
Bethmann, Secretary of Legation; Count de Reventlow,
Danish Minister, and Count do Moltke and Count de
Reventlow Criminil, Secretaries of Legation; Count
Schimmelpenninck, Netherlands Minister, and Baron de
Stratenus, Councillor of the Legation; Baron de Re-
hausen, Swedish and Norwegian Minister; Mr. Abbott
Lawrence, Minister of the United States of America,
and Colonel T. B. Lawrence, Attaché to the Legation;
Senor X. Isturitz, Spanish Minister, and Mr. J. T.
Comyn, First Secretary of Legation; the Marquis
d'Azeglio, Sardinian Minister, and le Comte Louis Corti.
Secretary of Legation; M. de Marescalchi, Charge
d'Affaires of France, and M. De Saux, Secretary of the
French Embassy; Cabouly Effendi, Chargé d'Affaires de
la Sublime Porte, and Dilaver Effendi, Attache to the
Embassy; Chevalier de Ribeiro, Chargé d'Affaires of
Portugal; Senor Francisco de Rivero, Charge d'Affaires
of Peru; and M. Fabricio Caceres, Attache, and M.
Emilio de Althaus. Attache to the Mission; Viscount
Palmerston, G.C.8., the Qeen's Principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs; and Lieutenant-Colonel the
Hon. Sir Edward Cast, K.C.H., her Majesty's Master
of the Ceremonies.
The General Circle was attended by the First Lord
of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home
and Colonial Departments, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, the Right Hon. Sir F. Baring, the President
of the Board of Control, the Earl of Carlisle, the Mar-
quis of Clanricarde, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere,
the Lord Chief Justice of England, the Captain of the
Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, the Captain of the
Yeomen Guard, the Marquis of Anglesey, Gold Stick in
Waiting; the Lord Bishop of Oxford, Lord Almoner ;
Sir Edward Disbrovre, her Majesty's Envoy Extraordi-
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary to his Majesty the
King of the Netherlands; Mr. Colquhonn, Agent and
Consul-General for the Hanse Towns; Mr. J. B. Heath,
Sardinian Consul-General; Chevalier Hebeler, their
Prussian and Wurtemberg Majesties' Consul-General;
Mr. Adolphus Brandt, Bavarian Consul-General ;
Mr. William Tottie, his Swedish and Norwegian Ma-
jesty's Vice- Consul ; Mr. H. Howard, Secretary of her
Majesty's Legation at Vienna; Sir Charles Lock East-
lake, President of the Royal Academy; Mr. James,
Tyler, Lieutenant of her Majesty's Hon. Corps of Genoe-
men-at-Arms ; Sir George Lee, Lieutenant of the Yea--
men Guard; Hon. and Rev. Edward S. Keppel, Deputy
Clerk of the Closet; Mr. Sheriff Hodgkinson; Mr. Fre-
derick Elliot, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Colo-
nial Department; Colonel H. Bentinck, Colonel Clark
Kennedy, and Colonel Sir J. Schcedde, A.D.C. to the
Queen; Colonel Buckley, Equerry to the Queen; Colo-
nel Sir William Davison, Equerry to his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge; Colonel M'Douall (2d
Life Guards), Silver Stick; Colonel Cornwall, her Ma-
jesty's Assistant Master of the Ceremonies; Reverend
Thomas W. Wrench, Chaplain to Mr. Sheriff Hodgkin-
son; Colonel Chaplin (Coldstream Guards), Field Officer
Brigade Waiting ; Captain Newdigate (Coldstream
Guards), Adjutant in Brigade Waiting; Captain Carl-
ing, Adjutant of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms;
Lieutenant-Colonel Fitzmaurice, Adjutant of the Yeo-
man Guard; Colonel Sir Frederic Smith (in Waiting),
and Mr. Charles Heneage, Gentlemen Ushers to the
Privy Chamber; Mr. Alfred Montgomery, Lieutenant-
Colonel Diggle (in Waiting). Mr. Arthur Blackwood,
Mr. Edward Hobhouse, and Captain the Hon. Mortimer
Sackville West, Gentlemen Ushers to her Majesty; Cap-
tain G. C. Blake, R.N., Gentleman Usher to his Royal
Highness Prince Albert in Waiting.
The following noblemen and gentlemen bad the honour
of being presented to her Majesty:—
Lieutenant-Colonel F. Abbot, C. 8., on appointment as
Lieutenant-Governor of Addiscombe Military Semi-
nary, by Viscount Hardinge.
Captain Airey, 3d Foot, by Major-General Duffy.
Lieutenant Andrews, R.A., on promotion and return
from foreign service, by the Marquis of Anglesey.
Mr. Astor (of New York), by the American Minister.
Mr. John Arthur Bailey, on appointment, 52d Regiment,
by Viscount Hardinge.
Dr. H. Melville Balfour, on appointment, Assistant-
Surgeon, 84th Regiment, by Sir W. Gibson Craig.
Lieutenant J. M. Barstow, by Lieutenant-Colonel
Brandling.
Lord A. W. Beauclerk, Commander R.N., by Viscount
Milton, M.P.
Mr. A. Bellasis, Bombay Civil Service, on return from
India, by Lord Broughton.
Lieutenant W. Bellers, by Colonel Sir Michael Creagh.
Rev. J. M. Bellew, by Mr. Perfect, M.P.
Lieutenant-General Sackville H. Berkeley, on appoint-
ment, 75th Regiment, on return from the command in
the West Indies, by the Commander-in-Chief.
Captain J. Biden, on appointment to the Artillery Com-
pany, by Sir George Grey.
Captain Sir George Bisshopp, on succeeding to the
Baronetcy, by Captain Sir George B. Pechell.
Major Blackall, on appointment as Lieutenant-Governor
of Dominica, by Lord Grey.
Lieutenant Blewitt, by General HalL
Lieutenant Edward Bode, by Earl Granville.
Lieutenant Bostock, on return from foreign service in
the lonian Islands, by Major-General Sir Richard
Armstrong.
Lieutenant Charles Brackenbury, on obtaining his
commission, Royal Artillery, by the Master-General
of the Ordnance.
Mr. Charles Brandling,Grenadier Guards, by Colonel
Sir Ord Honyman.
Captain and Adjutant Brandling, Royal Horse Artillery,
by Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Downman.
Captain Bridge, on promotion, on return from Chins,
by Viscount Gough.
Ensign Briscoe, on appointment 16th Regiment, by
Major-General Sir Richard Armstrong.
Mr. W. H. Brodhurst, on his return from India, by Mr.
Loftus Wigram, M.P.
Ensign F. Browne, by the Earl of Strafford.
Commodore Bruce, on appointment to the Naval Com-
mand of the Coast of Africa, by Sir F. Baring.
Sir Richard Bulkeley, on appointment as Lord-Lieute-
nant of Carnarvon, by Sir G. Grey.
Cornet G. Sapte Burnand, by Major-General Brotherton,
Second-Lieutenant C. W. Burton, R. M., by Colonel
Owen, R.M.
Mr. R. R. Burroughes, by Mr. Pigott, M.P.
Lieutenant Butler, on appointment to the 87th Regi-
ment, by Viscount Gough.
Lieutenant R. H. Payne Crawford, by Major-General
Sir Frederick Stovin.
Commander S. S. L. Crofton, R.N., by tee Hon. Admire
Crofton.
Viscount Crowhurst, by the Bishop
.of Worcester.
Mr. Cubitt, President of the Institution of Civil Engi.
nears, by Earl Granville.
Mr. George N. Curzon, by Earl Howe.
Lieutenant Cairnes on appointment, R.A., by Master.
Generalof the Ordauce.
Ensign Charles Calvert, on appointment to 43d Regi
went, by Major-General Mercer.
Lieutenant 11. M. Campbell, R.A., by the Master-Genera:
of the Ordnance.
Mr. George Campbell, B. C. S., by the Marquis of Bread.
albane.
Rev. Dr. Cartmell, Master of Christ's College, Cambridge,
on being appointed Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen,
by the Lord Chamberlain.
Lieutenant Castle, 8.A., by Colonel Hay.
Ensign R. Charlton, on appointment to the slat Regi-
ment, by Major-General W. Power.
Lieutenant Chichester, by Sir Bruce Chichester.
Mr. Richard Clarke, the Accountant in Bankruptcy, by
the Lord Chancellor.
Lieutenant W. H. Clements, R.M., by Colonel T. A.
Parke, R.M.
Mr. Cobham, by Mr. Pigott, M.P.
Captain Copinger, on return from foreign service in the
lonian Islands, by Major-General Sir Richard Arm-
strong.
Professor Philip Corridi, Director of the Royal Tecno-
logical Institution of Florence, and Commissioner of
the Tuscan Government for the Exhibition of 1851, by
Viscount Palmerston.
Mr. Charles James Cox, on appointment to her Majesty's
Hon. Corps of Gentlemen- at-Arms, by Lord Foley.
Mr. Weston Cracroft, on appointment as Deputy-Lieu•
tenant, county of Lincoln, by the Earl of Yarborough.
Rev. Edward Hattopp Cradock, on change of name by
Royal licence, by Lord John Russell.
Viscount Cranley, on his marriage, by Lieutenant-Colonel
Hon. Peregrine Cust.