The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-27 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S LEVEE.

The Queen held a Levee (the first this season) yester-
day afternoon is St. James's Palace. Her Majesty and
Prince Albert arrived from Buckingham Palace, at-
tended by the Royal suite, with an escort of Life Guards,
shortly before two o'clock, and were received by the
great officers of state.
Sir Henry Gordon, Bart., had an audience of the
Queen, and returned to her Majesty the badge and rib-
bon of a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
worn by his father, the late General Sir Willoughby
Gordon.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert entered the Throne-
room attended by the Duchess of Norfolk and the Vis-
countess Canning, Ladies 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
Byron, Lord in Waiting; Lieut.-Colonel Hon. C. B.
Phipps, Keeper of her Majesty's Privy Purse; Colonel
the Hon. Charles Grey, Private Secretary to Prince
Albert; Sir Frederic Stovin, Groom in Waiting; Colonel
Wylde, Groom in Waiting to the Prince; Lord Charles
Fitzroy, Equerry in Waiting; Lieut.-Colonel the Hon,
Alexander Gordon, Equerry in Waiting to the Prince,
and the Pages of Honour in Waiting.
The Queen wore a train of dark blue terry velvet,
trimmed with sable, the body ornamented with
diamonds. The petticoat was of white satin, trimmed
with tulle. Both train and petticoat were of British
manufacture.
Her Majesty's head-dress was formed of velvet and
gold, ornamented with diamonds.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge was
present at the Levee, attended by Colonel Sir William
Davison and by Lieut.-Colonel Lord William Paulet,
Equerries to his Royal Highness.
The Queen's honourable corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms
were on duty in the state saloons.
Her Majesty's body-guard, under the command of
Captain Kincaird, the Exon in Waiting, was on duty in
the Palace, as usual.
The Foreign Diplomatic circle were introduc•d, when
the following presentations to her Majesty and Prince
Albert, took place:—
By the Belgian Minister, Mr. Bartholeyns de Fos-
selaert, Attaché to the Belgian Legation in London.
By the Danish Minister, Count Reventlow Criminil,
Attaché to the Danish Legation in London.
By the Minister from the United States, Colonel T. B.
Lawrence, Attacl.e to the American Legation in London,
and Colonel Van Alen, late United States Chargé
d'Affaires at Equation
By the Spanish Minister, Mr. John Thomas Comyn,
First Secretary of her Catholic Majesty's Legation.
By the Sardinian Minister, Count Gropello, Attache
to the Sardinian Legation in London.
By the Prussian Minister, M. Theodore Bethmann
Holweg, Attache to the Prussian Legation.
By the Austrian Chargé d'Affaires, the Chevalier
Beyer, Attaché to the Austrian Legation in London.
By the Ottoman Charge d'Affsirs—M. de Saux, Se-
cond Secretary to the Embassy; and slehmed Bey,
Commandant de la fregate Mariti Zafer.
By the Peruvian Chargé d'Affaires, Senor Emilio do
Althaus, Attaché to the Legation.
The Diplomatic circle was attended by M. Van de
Weyer, the Belgian Minister, and Mr. 0. Delepierre,
Secretary of Legation; Baron de Cetto, Bavarian Mi-
nister; M. Moreno, Buenos Ayrean Minister; Baron de
Brunnow, Russian Minister; M. Alexander de Berg,
First Secretary of Legation, and Count Michel Wiel-
horeki ; General Prince Castelcicala, Neapolitan Minis-
ter; Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister; Count de
Reventlow, Danish Minister; Count Schimmelpenninck,
Minister of the Netherlands, and Byron Stratenus, Coun-
cillor to the Legation; Baron de Rehausen, Swedish and
Norwegian Minister; Mr. Abbot Lawrence, Minister of
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the United States of America, and Mr. Bancroft Davis,
Secretary of Legation; Senor Isturiz, Spanish Minister,
and. M. de Urbiztondo, Attache to the Legation; the
Marquis d'Azeglio, Sardinian Minister; Mons. Tricoupi,
Greek Minister; Baron Koller, Austrian chargi.i d'af-
faires, and Count Possenti; M. de Marescelchi, French
charg e►'uffaires; M. de Saux and M. Sampayo; Ca-
houly Eff,ndi, Turkish charge d'affaires; Chevalier de
Ribeiro, Portuguese charge d'affaires; Mons. J. T. de
Amaral, Brazilian chargé d'affaires, and the Chevalier
Loureiro, attacl- é to the mission; Mons. Francisco de
Rivero, Peruvian charge d'affaires; Viscount Palmer-
ston, G.C.8., the Queen's Principal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, and Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. Sir
Edward Cust, K.C.11., her Majesty's master of the cere-
monies.

In attendance on the Queen at the enttea were—the
Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord John
Russell, Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Earl Grey, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Right Hon. Sir Francis
Baring, Lord Broughton, the Earl of Carlisle, the Right
Hon. H. Labouchere, M.P., the Marquis of Clanricarde,
and the Right lion, Fox Maule, Secretary at War.
The following functionaries of state and official gen-
tlemen were also present, viz., the Archbishop of Can-
terbury, the Archbishop of York, the Captain of the
Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, the Captain of the
Yeomen Guard, the Marquis of Anglesea, Gold Stick in
Waiting; the Lord Chiet Justice Jervis, Sir Edward
Disbrowe, her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Mi-
nister Plenipotentiary to his Majesty the King of the
Netherlands; Sir John Milbanke, her Majesty's Minister
at the Court of Munich; the Chancellor of the Duchy
of Cornwall; Mr. Horatio Waddington, Under Secretary
of State fur the Home Department; the Queen's Advo-
cate, the Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, the
Attorney-General of his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales; Mr. Tyler, lieutenant of her Majesty's Honour-
able Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms; Sir George
Lee, lieutenant of the Yeoman Guard; the Deputy
Secretary at War, Sir Charles Young (Garter), Mr.
Thomas ShitTner (Paymaster of the Household), Lord
Alfred Paget, Clerk Marshal; Lieutenant-Colonel
Hon. Robert Boyle (Coldstream Guards), Groom in
Waiting to the Queen; Sir Francis Palgrave, K.H., the
deputy keeper of her Majesty's public records; Captain
Sir George A. Westphal, R.N., Captain
.Norwich Duff,
R.N., Colonel Wetherall, Colonel Wymer, C. 8., Col.
H. Bentinck. Colonel Owen, C. 8., and Colonel Clark
Kennedy, C. 8., and K.H., aides-de-camps to the Queen,
Major Harmer, standard bearer of the Hon. Corps of
Gentlemen-at-Arms; the Groom of the Robes; Hon.
Spencer Lyttloton, her Majesty's marshal of the cere-
monies; Colonel Hall, silver stick; Hon. Lieut.-Col.
Liddell, comptroller of the household of her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Gloucester; the Master of the
Temple; Sir Augustus Clifford, Bart., gentleman usher
of the black rod; Captain Curling, adjutant of the hon.
corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms; Lieut.-Colonel Fitzmau-
rice, adjutant of the Yeoman Guard; Captain Phibbs,
exon of the Yeoman Guard; Sir Benjamin Smith, C.S.;
Mr. Frederick Peel Round, gentleman usher of the green
rod; Mr. Charles Heneage, gentleman usher of the privy
chamber in waiting; Captain Green and Mr. Des Voeux,
gentlemen ushers in waiting; Captain Hon. Mortimer
Saekvillo West and Mr. Edward Hobhouse, gentlemen
ushers to her Majesty; and Major-General Godwin,
gentleman usher to his Royal Highness the Prince in
waiting.

'The following noblemen and gentlemen had the ho-
nour of being presented to her Majesty in the general
circle:—
Colonel Angerstein, Grenadier Guards, on promotion, by
Colonel Sir Ord lioneyman.
Mr. G. Arbuthnot, on appointment as auditor of her
Majesty's Civil List, by the Chancellor of the Ex-

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chequer.
Lieut. W. M. Armstrong, on appointment Honourable
Artillery Company, by Lieut.-Colonel Hon. H. Fitz-
roy, M.P.
Rev. C. M. Arnold, by the Bishop of Winchester.
Lieut. Viscount Balgorrie, on appointment Grenadier
Guards, by Colonel Sir Ord Honeyman, Bart.
Mr. T. Bazley, of Manchester, by Sir G. Grey.
Mr. Sydney S. Bell, one of the puisne judges of the
Cape of Good Hope, by Earl Grey.
Mr. A. W. Blake, D.L., private secretary to the Post-
master General, by the Marquis of Clanricarde.
Mr. H. Wollaston Blake, by Sir C. Wood, Bart.
Lieut.-Colonel Blake, on promotion, by Major-General
D'Oy. ley.
Rev. Dr. Bloomfield, to present to her Majesty the third
and concluding volumo of his Greek Testament, with
English Notes, by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Captain Bolton, by the Earl of Strafford.
Mr. James Booth, on his appointment as one of the joint
secretaries to the Board of Trade, by the Right Hon.

H. Labouchere.
Mr. Edgar Alfred Bowring, by Earl Granville.
Captain Cavendish Boyle, by the Marquis of Exeter.
Mr. W. B. Browne, by Lieut.-General Sir J. Browne,

K,C.
Mr. John Thomas Brigr, Accountant-General of the
Navy, for 'the honour of Knighthood, by the First Lord

of the Admiralty.
Lieut. Seymour Blane, on appointment to Scots Fusilier
Guards, by Colonel Knollys.
Liout.-Colonel Neil Campbell, on return from India, by
Lord Broughton.
Alderman Campbell (Dublin), by Mr. John Reynolds,
M.P.
Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Carden, by Sir George Grey.
Rev. David Carson, by Sir F. Baring.
Cornet A. 11. Cass, by Lieut.• General Hon, 11. B, Lygon.
Mr. George Clay, by his father, Sir William Clay.