The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-11 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 11, 1856.

IIEI? MAJESTY'S FIRST DRAWING-

ROOM.

The Queen held her first Drawing-room this season yes-
terday afternoon in St. James's Palace.
Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness the
Prince Consort, accompanied by her "Royal Highness the
Princess Royal, arrived from Buckingham Palace at two
o'clock, escorted by a detachment of the Royal Horse
Guards, and were received by the officers of State.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge was received
by the Vice-Chamberlain.
His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar
attended the drawing-room.
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 pre-
sence. by Sir William Martins (gentleman usher in waiting),
consisted of Mr. Wm. Gilpin, the treasurer ; Capt. Shea
(H.C.S.) and Mr. John Claremont Whiteman, two of the
governors of the institution ; accompanied by the Rev.
Wm. Webster, M.A., the mathematical master ; Mr. Will.
H. Back, the drawing master; and the forty boys of the
Royal Mathematical School founded by King Charles 11.,
and was most graciously received.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, K.G., pre-
sident of the institution, was present in the Throne-room
with her Majesty and the Prince.
The Queen condescended to inspect the charts and draw-
ing 4 of the boys, and to express her approbation of their
performances.
After the reception of the deputation her Majesty and
Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princess Royal and the
Duke of Cambridge, received the diplomatic corps. .
In the diplomatic circle the following presentations to
her Majesty took place :
By Madame Van de Weyer—Madame Henry Solvyns,
femme du Conseiller de la Ldgation.
By the Countess de Lavradio—Madame Pinto de Soveral,
wife of the Portuguese Minister at the Court of Rio de
Janeiro ; Mademoiselle Pinto de Several, daughter of the
above.
By Madame de Carvalho—Madame C. Vianua. do Lima,
femme du Secretaire do la Legation du Brazil ; Madame H.
Vianna de Lima, belle-sceur du memo Secretaire.
By Viscountess Palmerston—Mrs. Dallas, wife of the
United States Minister.
"By Mrs. Dallas—Miss Dallas and Miss Sophia Dallas,
daughters of the United States Minister ; Miss Nicklin.
By the Brazilian Minister— Major 1. L. Stockmeyer, attachd
to the Legation.
By the United States Minister—Philip N. Dallas, Esq., son
of the Minister, and Secretary to the Legation.
The following presentation took place:—
Mrs. Henry 11. Court, by the lion. Mrs. Raikes Currie.
Miss Aldridge, by Lady Elizabeth S. Dickins.
• Mrs. Lyttelton Aunesley, by Viscountess Duncan.
Miss Anuesley, by her mother, Mrs. Lyttelton A.nnesley.
Lady Gweudoline Anson, by the Countess Dowager of
Lieli field.
Miss Alice Anson, by the Countess Dowager of Lichfield.
Lady Victoria Ashley, by the Countess of Shaftesbury.
Mrs Dukinfield Astley, by the Countess Dowager of
Darn'ey.
Hon. Mrs. Lloyd Anstruthor, by Lady Caroline Barrington.
Mrs. John kutrobus, on her marriage, by Lady Antrobus.
Lady Frances Baillie, on her marriage, by the Duchess of
Wellington.
Miss Mary Baillie, by Lady Frances Baillie.
Lady Bcntinck, by the Hon. Lady Hawkins Whitshed.
Mrs. Chirles Bingham, by Mrs. Leopold Paget.
Mrs. Robert Blanc, by her sister, Lady Codrington.
Mrs. Bolton, by Mrs. Palk.
The Hon. Mrs. Charles Boothby, on her marriage, by the
Countess of Rosebery.
Mrs. G. J. Bosanquet, by the Countess of Cottenham.
Miss Bosauquet, by her mother, Mrs. G. J. Bosanquet.
Lady Buller, on her marriage, by the Lady Macdonald.
Viscountess Bury, on her marriage, by the Countess of
Albemarle.
The Countess of Caithness, by her mother, the Hon. Lady
Philips.
Hon. Edina Campbell, by her mother, the Lady Stratheden
and Campbell.
Mrs. Campbell, of Blythswood, by the Duchess of Argyll.
Miss Campbell, by Mrs. Campbell.
The Hon. Eliza Cavendish, by Lady Waterpark.
Lady Elizabeth Clifford, by Viscountess Palmerston.
Hon. Mary Windsor Clive, by Baroness Windsor.
Miss Frederica Coekerell, by Viscountess lugestre.
Lady Codrington, by the Hon. Mrs. Grey.
Mrs. Richard D. Craig, by Mrs. John Wood.
Mrs. R. Croker, by her aunt, Mrs. Loftus Bland.
Lady Elizabeth Cast, on her marriage, by Lady Anna
Maria Cuet.
Mrs. Louis d'Eyncourt, on her marriage, by her mother,
Mrs. Ashton Yates.
Miss Deedes, by her mother, Mrs. Deedes.
Mrs. Spencer S. Dickens, on her marriage, by Lady Eliza-
beth S. Dickens.
Miss Dickinson, by her mother, Mrs. Dickinson.
Miss Fanny Dickinson, by her mother, Mrs. Dickinson.
Hon. Caroline Dillon, by her mother, Lady Clonbrock.
Mrs. Charles Du Plat, on her marriage, by the Countess of
Ro,ebery.
Miss Mary Ellis, by Lady Seaford.
Miss Emily Faithfull, by Mrs. Codrington.
Miss Frederica Gambier, by her mother, Mrs. William Gam-

bier.
Miss Selina Gambier; brbernicallir; 'Hrs. William Gambier.
Mrs. Charles Goodford, by the Hon. Mrs. Hodgson.
G, by her mother, the Hon. Mrs. Joscelino 'Wil-
ybyth3errHs.olor.swLaalddy
G
Mrs.
Lady Hawes, by the Countess Grey.
Oswald
GGririm sts°tno'nb,
Lady Holmes, by Lady Woodhouse. Phillips.
ri m t, o
AdelaideAiiss
Miss Hope, by her mother, the Hon. Mrs. Hope.
Miss Jervis, by Lady Jervis. '
Miss Rosa Lister Kaye, by her mother, Lady Lister Kaye.
Lady Augusta Koppel, by the Countess of Albemarle.
Miss King, by the Hon. Mrs. Lecke King.
Miss Emma Lascelles, by Mrs. Charles Grenfell.
Miss Madeliue Shaw Lefevro, by her mother, Mrs. John
Shaw Lefevre.
Mrs. Stewart Forbes Leith, of Whitehaugh, by Mrs. Philip
Crawley.
Miss Adelaide J. Forbes Leith, by her mother, Mrs. Stewart
Forbes Leith, of Whitehaugh.
Miss Lindow, by Lady Charlotte Berkeley.
Mrs. Archibald Little, by Lady Page Wood.
lion. Miss Jones Lloyd, by her mother Lady Overston3.
Miss MacGregor, by her mother, Lady MacGregor.
Mrs. Martin, by Mrs. Palk.
Miss Georgina Mayne, by her mother, Lady Mayne.
The Lady Mayoress, by Viscountess Palmerston.
Lady M'Donaid, by the Countess of Desart.
Miss M'Donald, by her mother, Lady M'Donald.
Miss Adriana M`Donald, by her mother, Lady M'Donald.
Miss Jemima M'Donald, by her mother, Lady M'Donald.
Miss Macdonald Moreton, by her aunt, Lady Charlotte
Berkeley.
Hon. Mrs. Norbury, by her mother, Dowager Viscountess
Mrs. Savill-Onley, by Lady Harding.
Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Osborn, by the Countess of
Guildford.
Miss Osborn, by Lady C. E. Osborn.
Miss Laura Osborn, by Lady C. E. Osborn. •
Mrs. Osborne, by Marchioness Townshend.
Miss Elizabeth Osborne, by her mother, Mrs. Osborne.
Mrs. Cuuliffe Owen, by Countess Granville.
Lady Elizabeth Theresa Pepys, by her mother, the Countess
of Cottenharn.
Mrs. Robert Phillimore, by Lady Charlotte Denison.
Lady Charlotte Portal, on her marriage, by Mrs. Portal.
Mrs. Robert Portal, on her marriage, by Mrs. Portal.
lion. Mrs. Portman, on her marriage, by the Countess of
Sheffield.
Lady Caroline Pratt, by her aunt, Mrs. Jermyn Pratt.
Mrs. Home Purves, by Lady Humo Campbell-.
Lady Reynolds, by Lady Charlotte Berkeley.
Miss Georgina Riley, by Lady Emily Seymour.
Miss Robertson, by her grandmother, Hon. Mrs. J. Elliot,
Mrs. Under-Sheriff Rose, by Viscountess Palmerston.
Miss de Rothschild, by her mother.
Lady Rowe, on her marriage, by her mother, Mrs. Hamil.
ton Story. .
Miss Arethusa Rowley, by her mother, Hon. Mrs. Rowley,
Miss Ryerson, of Canada, by the Countess Grey.
Mr. Frederick Sayer, by the Hon. Mrs. PhiPPas
Miss Sayer, by her mother, Mrs. Sayer.
Mrs. Leo Schuster, by Mrs. Milner Gibson.
Mrs. Francis Scully, on her marriage, by Lady Sheil.
Mrs. Pocklington-Senhouse, by the Hon. Mrs. J. Elliot.
Miss Pocklington-Senhouse, by her mother, Airs. Pockling
ton-Senhouse.
Miss Blanche Pocklington-SenhOuse, by her mother, Mrs
Pocklington-Senhouse.
Lady Shiel; on her husband being made 'a K.C.8., by Lady
Palmerston'.
Miss Katherine Shepherd, by her mother,
Mrs. John Shep-
herd. •
Miss Smyth, by the Hon. Mrs. Smyth.
Lady Anne Sherson, by her mother, tilt Marchioness
Townshend.
Lady Edith Somerset, by the Duchess Dowager of Beau-
fort.
Miss Isabella Stephenson, by Lady Mary Steephonson.
Mrs. Fox Strangways, by Viscountess Hardinge.
Miss Donuithorne Taylor, by the Hon. Mrs. Bradshaw.
Miss Maria Donnithorne Taylor, by the Hen. Mrs. Brad-
shaw.
The Marchioness Townshend, by the Countess of Albemarle.
Lady Elizabeth Townshend, by the Marchioness Towns-
hend.
Lady Troubridge, by Lady Grey.
Miss Catharine Versehole, by her mother, Mrs. Verschoyle.
Miss Jane Maria Vibart, by Lady Elizabeth Osborn.
Lady Waller, on return from abroad, by the Duchess of
Wellington.
Mrs. Edward Warde, by Emily Duchess of Beaufort.
The lion. Catharine Leicester Warren, by her mother,
Lady de Tabky.
Mrs. Thomas M. Weguelin, by the Marchioness Townshend.
Baroness Windsor, on the termination of the abeyance of
Lady Agneta Yorke, by her mother, the Countess of Hard-
the Barony of Windsor, by Viscountess Palmerston.
wicke.

LADIES' DRESSES.
TIER MAJESTY.

A train of red p)plin, with a running pattern of (rold,
trimmed with gold blonde ; petticoat of white satin, trimmedb
with gold blonde to correspond. Head-dress, opals and dia-
monds.

niches of lilac ribbons. Head-dress, feathers, lace lappets,
and diamonds.

BARONESS STRATIIEDEN.

A ruby velvet train, lined with white glace silk, trimmed
richly with pearls ; corsage to correspond, trimmed with point
lace and pearls; a white moire petticoat, trimmed with ruby
velvet. Head-dress of flowers and pearls, point lace lappet
and plume.

VISCOUNTESS PALMERSTON. •
Costume do tour; a train of grey moire, trimmed with
grebe fur; jupe of grey glace, with bouillones.of June, bows
and rncbings of satin ribbon ; corsage to correspond. Coiffure
of lace lappets and plumes ; ornaments, diamonds.

LADY OVERSTONE„
Train of lilac and white figured silk, lined with white glace,
and trimmed with Brussels lace; body and sleeves ornamented
with emeralds and diamonds ; lilac tulle petticoats over glace,
with flounces of magnificent Brussels lace. Head-dress,
feathers and lace lappets, and bandeaux of gems.

opponents was rapidly lessened, and he soon retired into the
rack, leaving Smack with the lead, and Cannobie at the same
time bearing his colours into the second place, Sir George
lying third, with Winkfield, who had ~gradually drawn for-
Ward, fourth. They ran thus to the turn into the "straight,"
where Cannobie passed Smack, who gave way to Winkfield
at the distance. From this point the issue of the race was
not for a moment in doubt. Cannobio cantered in the winner
by five lengths, Winkfield beating Smack by ten lengths for
the second money ; Middleton was fourth, Buckingham fifth,
and Rip Van. Winkle •anti The Earl next. Flatterer and
Coleshill were the last two.

The Raliklava Stakes of ► sovs each, with 30 added, for two-
yr-olds and 'upwards. Optional selling allowances,

Half a mile. 11 subs.
Mr. Henderson's Ceres, 3._yrs (301.), 7st. (Cresswell) 1
Mr. Watson's Speculator, 2 yrs, (301), sst 21b...(Fordham) 2
W. Day's Aloupka, 2 yrs (301.), 4st 101 b (llibberd) 3
The following also ran :—Pretty Girl, Little John, filly by
Don John out of Empress, Fire-light, Longsight, Billingham,
Radulphus, and colt by Clumsy, out of Hostile.
Betting.-5 to 4 agst Ceres, sto 2 agst Aloupka. _
The favourite made all the running, and won in a canter by
two lengths ; three lengths between the second and third, and
a neck between the third and fourth. _ _ •

The whiner was sold by auction for 200 guineas.

BETTING ON- THE COURSE.
CHESTER CUP.
Bto 1 agst Hospitality (10 to 1 taken freely)

DERBY.
4to 1 agst Wentworth (taken)
10 to 1 agst Cannobie (taken)

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, THURSDAY MORNING.
THE CAVAN SPECIAL COMMISSION.
The Cavan Commission was opened yesterday morning
by Chief Justice Monahan ani Mr. Justice Moore.
The proceedings attracted great interest, and the court•
house was crowded to suffocation. The Att )rney and
Solicitor General, aided by two other Crown lawyers,
attended for the prosecution, and Mr. Johnson and Mr.
Dowse were engaged to conduct the defence of the men
charged with the murder of Miss Hinds. The commis-
sion having been real, the grand panel was called over,
and 23 gentlemen answered and were sworn. Them
was a large muster of petit jurorA, of whom 12 were
challenge" by the prisoners, and 14 by the Crown.
When a jury hal been constituted and sworn, James
Murphy was given in charge for having wilfully, felo-
niously, murdered Miss Charlotte Hinds on the
12th of OA )ber last. He is about 30 years of ago. He
was dressed with care, and, though manifesting con-
siderable interest in the proceedings, did not appear

alarmed. The Attorney-General opened the case in a
speech of considerable length and ability, and several
witcoises having been examined, at 5 o'clock the Crown
case closed, and the Court adjourned to this morning,
when the defence is to be opened.

THE MURDER OF MRS. KELLY.
The fate of this unfortunate lady, whose name has, one

way or another, been familiar to the Irish public for up-
wards of a qeartmr of a century, has excited a sensation
here which scarcely falls short of the interest attached to
the catastrophe of Hampsteal-heath. From her first
appearance in a c )urt of law, when a mere girl in years,
down to her last, as a disputant in the celebrated will
case, hardly a year passed over without some revelation
in the singular history of the inheritress of the almost
fabolous wealth bequeathed to her by the late Mr. Kelly,
of Rookwood, in the county of Roscommon. Less re-
markable persons have had their " life" transmitted to
p)sterity, and possibly a simi!ar notoriety will preserve
the memory of the ill-fated victim of one of the blackest
murders that ever stained the annals of Irish crime. The
accounts of the diabolical tragedy are as yet incomplete,
but enough has transpired privately to warrant the belief
that when the whole facts are brou4ht to there will
be ample materials for a chapter in the New late Calen-
dar at least as dark in shale as any hitherto recorded
in the pages of that production. The following appears
in the Freeman's Journal of this morning :

" Oar city was yesterday horrified by an account of the
brutal murder of Mrs. Sarah Kelly, so well known in con-
. .

nection with the suit which had been long litigated in our
courts. We have only the simple fact of the murder,
amplified by the addition of a few slight details. This mys-
terious transaction is not likely to receive a further develop-
ment until the inquest. Meanwhile it appears that this bar-

barons assassination was accompanied with circumstances of
great atrocity. Mrs. Kelly had been visiting her property
near the town of Moate, iu Roscommon, accompanied by one
of her nephews. On Tuesday evening, about half-past six
o'clock, she appears to have gone from her residence, at the
solicitation of some woman, to visit the cottage of a favourite
tenant. She was leaning on the arm of her nephe sat the
time, when two men, wearing masks, and armed, suddenly
appeared before her, and discharged two pistol shots at the
unfortunate lady. They hit her in the temple. The effect
was instantaneous She died without uttering a word. We
have hoard various rumours about this sad transaction, to
which weattaoh no belief. ' Some persons closely connected
with Mrs. Kelly have, we understand, been arrested. We
deem it prudent at present to omit names. No doubt a search-
ing inquiry will be instituted to reach the parties privy to
the foul deed. Wo hear detective officers have been set to
work, and already many surmises have gone forth. So far
as we could learn, the murder is unconnected with agrarian
causes—at least, none of the accounts which reached the city
yesterday state anything to that effect. We hear that, so far
from being a harsh proprietor, Mrs. Kelly was very popular
with her tenantry and the labouring population on her estate,
wkom she liberally aided, on many occasions, with gifts of
clothing, 1 edding, eze." _ . _

Here is another version, as published by the Ex
pre3B :

" It' appears that in the depressed times Mrs. Kelly had
made large temporary abatements in the rents of her Bove: al
properties, but that some short time since she wished to raise
them towards their former level, and had caused notices to be
served to that effect, which is assigned as the immediate cause
. .

of her murder. The two ruffians were dressed in female habi-
liments, and, in addition to their faces being blackened, wore
thick crape yells. The murder occurred at 6 o'clock, and the
firing of the pistols was distinctly hcArd in Mrs. Kelly's house.
Her brains bespattered the ground where she fell. It is not
known what course Mr. Strevans, who is a young man, pur-
sued on the instant ; but within a very short time a horse
and man were despatched to Moate, and the police arrived,
and a labouring man named Owen Waters, who was then in
Mrs. Kelly's employment-, but who had not been at work
during that day, was arrested ou suspicion, and information
was sent of the affair to the deceased's nephew and agent,
Mr. Strevans, of Kiltoon, county of Roscommon, and broth( r
of the gentleman whe was with Mrs. Kelly at the time of the
murder, A circumstance which affords some surprise and
sufficient evidence of the lawless character of tho immt.
diate neighbourhood of the late unfortunate lady's residence
is to be found in the fact that within the sliort space of
two years two persons have been killed while in her employ.
The first was an orphan boy from Ballinasloe, named Lyons,
whom Mrs. Kelly had taken into her employment, for the appre-
hension of whose murderers she offered a reward of 501. ; and
the other was a man named Barett, the husband of the mur-
dered lady's own maid."

A letter in Saunders of this day supplies the sub-
joined additional particulars :
" RALLINASLOE, Wednesday.—The circumstances connected
with the murder of this lady on Tuesday evening aro of a very
singular nature, and although the police authorities have not
had sufficient time to institute inquiries, it is not thought
that the horrible crime was the result of any agrarian conspi-
racy, as in the case of the late Miss Hinds. The name of Mrs.
Kelly has long been before the public in conn:ction with the
will of her husband, of Ruxborough, in the county of Galway,
who left her property which, at the time of his death,
amounted to 11,0001. a-year, and upwards of 20J,000/. in
ready money or avail►ble sureties. The will was disputed
by the next of kin, and after great litigation, in the beginning
adverse to the wife, her title was established. She had for
some years resided each season at a handsome seat not far
from Brighton, having her Dublin house in Upper B ggit-
street and also a property, which was occasionally visited, in
Ballinderry, in the county of Westmeath, the post-t awn of which
is Moate. With her great wealth she lived in a very quiet man-
ner, and in pecuniary matters as well as in the general affairs of
life she displayed considerable intelligence and sagacity. Mrs.
Kelly left Dublin very recently for Ballinderry, where she pur-
posed building a new and handsome mansion, and on Mon-
day last, before dinner, walked about the grounds in com-
pany with a professional gentleman who was on a visit. After
their return to the house it is stated that she walked out again
with a relative, and after some time a shot was heard, which
at the moment created no uneasiness. However, in a short
time her companion returned and stated that Mrs. Kelly had
been brutaly murdered; that as they were passing close to
a ditch two men, dressed in female attire, and with erapeveils
drawn over their faces, jumped out and warned him to stand
aside ; that a shot was then fired which took effect on the
lady ; and that when the assassins went off he at once fled
and gave the alarm. The dAnestics went at once to the spot,
and the unfortunate Mrs. Kelly was found lying dead, the
head presenting a fearful spectacle."

DUBLIN, THURSDAY EVENING.
THE MURDER OF MRS. KELLY.

The following appears in a second edition of the Free.
man's Journal of this day :
" The inquest on the body of the late Mrs. Kelly has
been adjourned until Tuesday next, when it will be re-
newed in the court house of Monte. The case is a most
extraordinary one, and many strange rum ours are in
circulation on the subject, but as yet nothing authentic
has transpired calculated to fix the guilt of the deed
upon any one. A. relative of the deceasel has been
arrested, and is now in custody ; but we have not
heard of the circumstances, if there are any, which
may have caused suspicion to fall upon him. This
person, it is said, had the management of the Bailin-
derry property.
" Our correspondent says This day (Wednesday
I viAiteel the place where this dreadful murder was com-
mitted ; it is on the top , f a hill, a long way from Mrs.
Kelly's house. It is said that when the unfortunate
lady was walking with her nephew the two assassins,
having their faces blackened, and being otl eewise dis-
guised, came into the field through the gate. They
walked quietly up to their victim, rho at first was not
aware of their approach ; but, seeing them, and appre-
hending their murderous purpose, she fell fainting to the
ground ; while in this condition one of the murderers
deliberately stooped over the prostrate body aid shot
her through the head with a pistol. He then stepped
aside, and the other mi creant did the same. The her
the deceased presented a frightful spectacle, the sku,
being literally blown into fragments, and the brain scat-
tered about. I picked up many pieces of her skull, and
saw one bullet dug out of the ground underneath where
e
her brains lay.'

SCOTTISH CENTRAL EAlLWAY.—Traffic ret trn for the
ws:k ending April 6, 1856 ,„ 1,5,792 1 0
Lntesponding week last year