The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-07 00:00:00

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IRE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1860.

HER lITAJESTrS _RECEPTION OF THE
VOLUNTEERS.

(THIS DAY.)
From an early hour this morning St. James's
Palace was all alive with preparations for 'her Ma-
jesty's reception of the officers of the various
volunteer corps throughout the country; and from
nearly every county in England, if not from all,
gentlemen who have never before been in a position
to avail themselves of a presentation to the Queen,
have flocked into London within the last day or
two, full of excitement on account of the honour
about to be conferred upon them. Ample pre-
parations were made outside the palace to pre-
vent the possibility of any confusion, and
although the military officers who had charge of
the troops which kept guard seemed to look down
upon their brethren of the volunteers, everything
was conducted with perfect order and decorum.
Amongst the earliest arrivals at the Palace were
the lord-lieutenants and the military authorities
summoned to attend the Court. They entered the
Palace by the Ambassadors'-court, and passed at
once to the entree room. There were present his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Com-
manderin-Chief ; the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert,
M.P., Secretary for War ; the Earl de Grey and
Ripon, Under Secretary for War ; Viscount
Combermere, G.C.8., Constable of the Tower;
Viscount Sydney, Lord• Lieutenant of Kent;
the Earl of Maimesbury, Lord-Lieutenant
of Dorset ; the Marquis of Westminster, Lord-
Lieutenant of Chester; Earl Ducie, Lord-
Lieutenant of Gloucestershire ; the Puke of
Newcastle, Lord-Lieutenant of Nottingham ; Sir
John Walsh, Bart., M.P., Lord-Lieutenant of Rad-
noi shire ; the Marquis of Winchester, Lord-Lieu-
tenant of Southampton ; Earl Fitzwilliam, Lord-
Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire ; Lord
Lyttelton, Lord-Lieutenant of Worcestershire ;

the Duke of Devonshire, Lord• Lieutenant of
Derbyshire ; Lord Carington, Lord-Lieu-
tenant of Buckinghamshire ; Colonel Lloyd
Vaughan Watkins, M.P., Lord-Lieutenant of
Brecon ; the Marquis of Exeter, Lord-Lieutenant
of Northamptonshire ; the Marquis of Lansdowne,
Lord-Lieutonant of Wiltshire; the Duke of Marl-
borough, Lord-Lieutenant of Oxfordshire ; the
Marquis of Salisbury, Lord-Lieutenant of Middle-
sex ; Earl Grey, Lord-Lieutenant of Northumber-
land ; the Earl of Hardwicke, Lord-Lieutenant of
Cambridgeshire; the Duke of Richmond, Lord-
Lieutenant of Sussex ; Lord Mostyn, Lord-Lieute-
nant of Merioneth ; Sir John Owen, Bart., M.P.,
Lord-Lieutenant, of Pembrokeshire; Colonel W.
M. S. M‘Murdo, C 8., Inspector-General of Volun-
teers ; and many others whose names it was im-
possible to collect.

Her Majesty- the Queen, and his Royal High-
ness the Prince Consort, habited as Colonel and
Captain-General of the Hon. Artillery Company,
proceeded direct from Buckingham Palace to St.
James's, accompanied by H.R.H. the Prince of
Wales, habited as a Colonel of the University of
Oxford Rifle Corps (to which he was last week
gazetted by his Grace the Duke of Marlborough,
the Lord-Lieutenant of the County), Lord Alfred
Paget, the Hon. A. Hardinge, and a brilliant
retinue.