The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-16 00:00:00

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TIER MAJESTY'S DRAWING-R0021f.-

The Queen held a Drawing-room yesterday afternoon
in St. Jsmeee Palace. Her Majesty and nine Albert
arrived from Buckingham Palace; etcurted by a detach-
ment of the Life Guards.

Their 13.0y-al Highnesses the Prince And Princess of
Prussia were presfint, attended by the Countess A. de
Hacke, Countess Louisa °nulls, and the gentlemen of
their euite.,

*His,l-tuyal Highness the Dukeof Cambeidia was -at-.
tended by the Hun. James Ilsodosaki and Lord William
Paulett.

His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe- Weimar
attended the Drawing-room. Before the Drawing-room
Sir John Milbanke was presented to the Queen at an
audience by Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs.
The Earl of Gosford had an audience of her Majesty
to deliver the insignia of the Grand Cross of the Bath
worn by his father, the late Earl of Goeford.
The Queen's Hon. Corps a Gentlemen-at-Arms were
on" duty in the State-rooms, with their sub.officers,
Majors Cooke and Nevill. Lord Foley (Captain of the
Corp-), Mr. James Tyler (Lieutenant), Major Harmer
(Standard Bearer), and Captain Curling (Adjutant),
were present at the Drawing-room.
Her Majesty's body guard were on duty in the palace
as usual, under the command of Sir Seymour Sadler, the
Egon in Waiting.

Her Majesty—and his Royal Highness the Prince
Albert were attended by the Countess of Gainsborough
(in Waiting), the Duchess of Norfolk, the Marchioness
of Douro, the Viscountess Jocelyn, the Countess of
Charlemont and the Viscountess Canning, Ladies of the
Bedchamber; Hen. Eleanor Stanley (in Waiting), Hon.
Beatrice Byng (in Waiting), Hon. Amelia Murray, Hon.
Matilda Paget, Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Hon. Lucy
Kerr, Hon. Flora Macdonald, and the Hon. Mary Sey-
mour, Maids of Honour; the Hon. Mrs. Trevor (in Wait-
ing), the Viscountess Forbes, and the Ihn. Mrs. George
Campbell, Women of the Bedchamber; the Lord Stew-
ard, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the
Vice-Chamberlain, the Marquis of Ormonde, Lord in
Waiting; Lord George Lennox, Lord in Waiting to his
Royal Highness; Lieut.-Colonel Hon. C. B. Phipps,
Keeper of her Majesty's Privy Purse; Lieut.-Colonel
Hon. Robert Boyle, Groom in Waiting; Lieut.-Colonel
Francis Seymour, Groom in Waiting to his Royal High-
ness; Colonel Hon. Charles Grey, Equerry in Waiting;
Lieut.-Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour, Equerry in
Waiting to his Royal Highness.
The Queen wore a train of blue watered silk bro-
caded with gold, trimmed with blue riband and tulle, and
ornamented with diamonds. The petticoat was of white
satin trimmed with tulle and white riband, and also or-
namented with diamonds. Her Majesty's head-dress was
diamonds and feathers.

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Prussia wore a
train of white watered silk trimmed with gold blonde.
The petticoat was of the same material ornamented in
front with poppies. The headdress was formed of dia-
monds and emeralds with feathers and gold blonde.
Her Royal Highness wore the Louisen Order, and also
the decoration of a Russian Order of Knighthood.
The following presentations to her Majesty the Queen
and his Royal Highness the Prince Albert took place in
the Diplomatic Circle:—
By Mrs. Abbott Lawrence:—
Miss M.‘Curdy, daughter of the United States' Charge
d'Affaires to Austria,
By the Viscountess Palmerston:—
La Comtesse Alfieri, Lea de Cavour.
By M. Van de Weyer:—.
M. Grenier, Membre du Senat Beige.
M. de Rossins Orban, Vice-President de is Chau:sabre
de Commerce a L'ae.
M. A. Demanet, Lieutenant-Colonel de Genie.
M. A. Poncelet, Ingeniitir en Chef a rAdministration
des Chemins de For.
M. Jules Gerne,ert, Ingtaieur en Chef des Mines.
M. Coppena.
By Mr. Abbott Lawrence:—
Hon. Mr. M'Cardy, Charge d'Affaires of the United
States to Austria.
Lieutenant Parrott, of the United States' Navy.
Mr. James Lawrence, eldest son of the Minister, and
formerly Attact 6
By Le Marquis d'AzPglio:—
Le Comte Charles Albert Alfieri.
By Baron Koller, Austrian Charg6 d'Affaires:—
Le Chevalier de Burg, President of the Austrian
Commis ion.

The Count Hohenthal, Saxon Minister at Paris.
By M. MarescaWU, Charge a'AffAres de France:—
Baron Charles Dupin, President de la Commission
Fraulaise de rExpobition
M. Frederic Barret, Secretaire du Commissariat GC.
ueral de France.

M. Octave Sallandronze, Attache au Commissariat.
M. Ferdinand Dervien, Attache a I'Ambassade de
France 1 Londres.

M. le Comte de Kergorlay, Membre du Jury Fraocais.
The Diplomatic Circle was attended by the Bel-
gian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, Octave
Delepierre, Secretary; Mr. Bartholeyns de osselaert,
Attaché; and Madame Barth°leyas de Fosselaert, the
Bavarian Minister and Baroness de Cetto, the Rus-
sian Minister and Baroness de Brunnow, and M.
Alexandre de Berg, First Secretary of Legation;
General Prince Castelcieala, Neapolitan Minister,
and M. Canofari, Secretary of Legation; the Prussian
Minister and Madame Bunsen, and Baron Lange, At-
tache to the Legation; Count de Reventlow, Danish Mi-
nister, and Count Reveatlow Criminil, Secretary of
Legation; the United States' Minister and Mrs. Law-
rence, Mr. Bancroft Davis, Secretary of Legation, and
Colonel Lawrence, Attache; Senor Isturiz, Spanish Mi-
nister, and M. Diaz, Second Secretary of Legation; le
Marquis d'Azegli, Sardinian Minister; le Marquis
Oldomi, and Count Corti; 'Secretaries of Lgation; Count
Schimmelpenninck, Netherlands Minister, and Baron
Stratenns, Conseiller de Legation; the--Greek Minister
and Madame Tricoupi; M. Mussurus, Ottoman Minister;
Prince Vogorides, Con eiller de Legation; Zia Bey,
Secretary of Legation, and Dilaver Effendi, Attaché;
Baron Koller, Austrian Charge d'Affaires; M. Mares-
calchi, Chargé d'Affaires de France, and M. de Saux,
Second Secretary of the Embassy; the Chevalier de
Ribeiro, Portuguese Chargé d'Affaires; M. Amaral,
Brazilian Chargé d'Affaires • Viscount Palmerston,
G.C.8., the Queen a Principal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs; the ViScountess Palmerston, and Col.
the Hon. Sir Eward Cast, K.C.H., her• Majesty's Mas-'
ter of the Ceremonies.

The following ladies bad the honour of being presented
to the Queen in the Gerieral Circle:—
Miss Ainslie, by Viscountess Jocelyn.
Miss Emily Valence Ainslie, by her aunt, Mrs. Chisen-

hale Marsh. _
Lady Emma Anderton, on her marriage, by the Duchess
of Norfolk.
Mra: J. Ireland Blackbarne, by her mother, Mrs.lreland

Blackburno.
Hon. Mrs. Edward Pleydell Bouverie, by Viscountess
Folkestone.
Mrs. George Bonner, by Lady Grant.
Mrs. Brown, by the. Duchess of Gaafton.
Mrs. Cary, by Lady Camoys.
Miss Cary and Miss Edith Cary, by their mother, Mrs.
Cary.
Miss Harriet Calthorpe, by her mother, Lady Charlotte
Gough.
Miss Alice Cathcart, by her mother, Lady Georgians
Cathcart.
Miss Crawford, by Lady Elizabeth Jane Wathen.
Lady Cecilia Con)nghana, by Lady Churchill.
Miss Cholmeley, by her mother, Lady Georgians Chol-
meley.
Mrs. Boyce Harvey Coombe, by Lady Grace Van-
deleur.
The Hon. Mrs. Colville, on her marriage, by her mother,
Baroness de Clifford.
Mrs. Wodehouse Currie, by her mother, Mrs. Vernon
Smith.
Viscountess Cranley, by the Hon. Lady Middleton.
The Hon. Mrs. Colborne, on her marriage, by Lady
Seaton.
Mrs. de Freville, by Lady Elizabeth Hope Vere.
Mrs. de Arroyave and Miss de Arroyave, by the Hon.
Airs. Arbuthnot.
Mrs. J. Elphiostone Dalrymple, on her marriage, by the
Countess of Camperdown.
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Mrs. W. Duff, by Lady Laura Money.
The Countess of Darnley, on her marriage, by the Dow-
ager Countess of Darnley.
Mrs. G. Elers, by Viscountess Palmerston.
Miss Elers, by her mother, Mrs. G. Elora.
Mrs. Lane Freer, by Lady Price.
Miss Isabella Fazakerley, by her mother, Mrs.
Fazakerley.
Miss Fits Herbert, by the Countess of Harrington.
Mrs. Colquitt Goodwin Duff Viscountess Andover.
Mrs. G. Gibson, by the ess of Norfolk.
Miss Clara Goddard, by the Duchess of Bedford.
Mrs. J. Gott, by Mrs. Weymouth.
Miss Eleanor Gosling, by her mother, Mrs. R. Gosling.
Mrs. Hutchinson, by she Dowager Countess Somers.
Miss Frances Rose Heath, by her mother, Mrs. J. B.

Heath.
Lady Hartopp, by the Countess of Gainsborough.
Miss Hartopp, and Was Gertrude Hartopp, by Lady

Hartopp.
Miss Herschel and Miss Isabella Herschel, by their
mother, Lady Herschel.
Mrs. Boys Harvey, by Viscountess Forbes.
The Countess of Harrington, by the Duchess of Bedford.
Lady Honyman, by Mrs. Gascoigne.
Miss Holliday, by Mrs. Laurie.
Miss Hume, by the Countess of Wicklow.
Mrs. Albert Hambrough, by Lady Seaton.
Hon. Lady Heathcote, by Lady Willoughby de Eresby.
Miss Heathcote, by her mother, Lady Heathcote.
Ai rs. Hardinge, by her sister, Lady Hardinge.
Miss Maria Hardinge, by her mother, Lady Hardinge.
Miss Kinlock, by the Marchioness of Douro.
Mrs. Nigel Kingscote, on her marriage, by Lady Char-
lotte Calthorp Gough.
Miss Georgina Knight, by Mrs. Edward Rice.
Mrs. Augustus Lloyd, by the Countess of Rosso.
Mrs. Livesey, on her marriage, by Lady Alan Spencer
Churchill.
Miss Mary Sbaw Lefevre, by her mother, Mrs. John
Shaw Lefevre.
Hoe. Mrs. Lindsay, on her marriage, by Lady Lindsay.
MisstLaurie, by her mother, Mrs. Laurie.
Mrs. Joseph Lamb, by the Dowager Lady Talbot do
Malahide.
Miss Amelia Lamb and Miss Josephine Lamb, by their
mother, Mrs. Joseph Lamb.
Miss Jane Long, by her aunt, Lady Elizabeth
Thackeray.
Miss Chisenhale Marsh, by Mrs. Fanshawe.
Mrs. Kcnreth Macaulay, by Lady Trevelyan.
sirs. Napier (of Milliken), on her marriage, by the
Countess of Charlemont.
Miss Jephson Norreys and Miss Jephson
Nmeys, by Vimuntesi Palmerston.