The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-19 00:00:00

Viscount Palmerston, as First Lord of the Treasury, gave
a full dress banquet last evening at his residence in Picca-
dilly. There were present the Duke of Devonshire, the
Earl of Clarendon, the Earl of Camperdown, the Earl of
Abingdon, the Earl of Cork, the Earl of Dudley, the Earl
of Rosebery, the Earl of Zetland, the Earl Cowper, the
Earl of Fife, Viscount Enfield, Viscount Eversley, Vis-
count Bolingbroke, Lord Belper, Lord Hatherton, Lord
Llanover, Lord Taunton, Lord Portman, Lord Suffield,
Lord Vivian, and, the Hon. Evelyn Ashley. Lady Palmer-
ston had an assembly after the noble Premier's banquet. It
was a very brilliant reception, all the gentlemen present
being in full dress, which imparted a varied and brilliant
aspect to the saloons. The majority of the Foreign Diplo-
matic Corps and at least 400 of the elite of society graced
the assembly by their presence.
Lord John Russell, as Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, gave a full dress banquet last evening at the First
Lord of the Treasury's official residence in Downing-street,
in celebration of her Majesty's birthday. Covers were laid
for 40 persons. There were present—the Ambassadors of
France and Turkey, the Ministers- of Belgium, Bavaria,
Hanover, Sardinia, Greece, Netherlands, Portugal, Prussia,
Brazil, the United States, Austria, Saxony, Sweden, Russia,
Denmark, Honduras, Switzerland, the Two Sicilies, the
Hans Towns, and Peru, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe,
the Right Hon. Sir Hamilton Seymour, the Right Hon.
H. U. Addington, the Hon. Mr. Scarlett, Lord Dunferm-
line, Sir W. Goee Ouseley, Mr. Hammond, Lord Wode-
house, Mr. James Murray, the Hon. G. F. Elliott, Mr. V.
Lister, Mr. George Russell, and General the Hon. Sir E.
Cast, Master of the Ceremonies to her Majesty.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer gave a state dinner in
honour of her Majesty's birthday at his residence in Carl-
ton .gardens. The company consisted of the Duke of Argyll,
Sir William Dunbar, M.P. the Hon. 11. Brand, the Hon.
C. Gore, the Hon. J. Howard, the Right Hon. Sir T. Fre-
mantle, Sir Alexander Spearman, Mr. Bagwell, M.P., the
Right Hon. Sir E. Ryan, Mr. K. Hugessen, M.P., Mr.
Laing, M.P., Mr. G. A. Hamilton, Mr. Goulburn, the Right
Hon. T. M. Gibson, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Sir
John Lefevre, Mr. Pressly, Mr. Herr'es, the Master of the
Mint, Mr. B. Dobree, Mr. A. Latham, the Right Hon. W.
Cowper, Mr. E. Romily, Lord Lyttelton, and Mr. C. Ryan.
Sir Charles Wood, Secretary of State for India, gave a
state dinner to celebrate the Queen's birthday, at his resi-
dence in Belgrave-square. The company consisted of Mr.
Baring, Sir Frederick Currie, Mr. Mills, Sir James Hogg,
Mr. Mangles, Mr. Macnaghten, Capt. Eaetwick, Mr. Prin-
sop, Mr. Willoughby, Sir Robert Vivian, Sir Henry Mont-
gomery, Sir J. Lawrence, Sir Proby Cautley, Mr. Arbuth-
not, Col. Durand, Sir Erskine Perry, Mr. Melvill, Col.
Baker, Mr. Grenfell, Sir Jas. Melvill, Col. Sykes, Sir Geo.
Pollock, Mr. Halliday, Mr. Vansittart, and Mr. Ricketts.
' Sir George Corne wall Lewis, Secretary of State for the
Home Department, gave a state banquet at his residence.
Kent House, Knightsbridge, in honour of the day, to.which
the following received invitations :—The Lord Chancellor,
the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench, the
Master of the Rolls, the Lord Chief Justice Erie, the Lord
Chief Baron, the Lords Justices Knight Bruce and
Turner, Vice-Chancellors Sir W. Page Wood, Sir R.
Kindersley, and Sir James Stuart, the Speaker of the
House of Commons, the Lord Mayor, Mr. Baron Bram-
wBll, Mr. Baron Channell, Mr. Baron Martin, and Mr.
Baron Wilde, Mr. Justice Hill, Mr. Justice Keating, Mr.
Justice Williams, Mr. Justice Byles, Mr. Justice Cromp-
ton, Mr. Justice Willes, Mr. Justice Wightman, Mr. Jus-
tice Blackburn, Baron Rothschild, Sir James Duke, Mr.
Crawford, the Recorder of London, Dr. Lushington, the
Solicitor-General, the Attorney-General for Ireland, the
Right Hon. E. Cardwell, the Sheriffs Phillips and Gabriel,
the Right Hon. E. P. Villiers, the Lord Advocate, Mr.
Massey, Mr. Drummond, Mr. Horatio Waddington, Mr.
Clive, and Mr. Stevenson.
The Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State for the Co-

lonies, gave a State banquet in honour of the Clayat his
residence in Portman-square. The company consisted of
Right Hon. Sir J. Young, Bart., Colonel Hill, Governor
of Sierra Leone; Mr. Keate, Governor of Trinidad; Mr.
Eyre, Lieutenant-Goveynor of St. Vincent; Colonel Ord,
R.E., :Lieutenant-Governor of Dominica; Mr. Seymour,
Superintendent of Honduras; Mr. C. Fortescue, M.P.;
Mr. Merivale, C.B. ; Sir F. Rogers, Bart. ; Major-General
Macarthur, Lieutenant-Colonel Caine, the Bishop of La-
buan, the Bishop of ,Sierra Leone, the Bishop of Antigua,
Mr. Childers, M.P., Mr. Marsh,
M.P., Mr.
,Halliburton,
M.P., Sir A. Stephen, Chief Justice of New South Wales ;
Mr. Knox, Chief Justice of Trinidad ; Sir C. MacCarthy,
Mr. Sydney Smith, Mr. Elliot, Mr. Murdoch, Sir V. Sur-
tees, Mr. Strachy, Mr. Boyle, Mr. Donaldson, Mr. Went-
worth, Mr. Haviland, Mr. Denison, and Mr. Engleheart,
Secretary.
The Duke of Somerset, as First Lord of the Admiralty,
had a full dress dinner last evening at his official residence
at the Admiralty. Among the guests were Admiral Sir
James Gordon, Governor of Greenwich Hospital; Vice •
Admiral the Hon. Sir Richard S. Dundas, Rear-Admiral
Sir Michael Seymour, Rear-Admiral Richards, Rear-Ad-
oc Drummond Hay,
miral the Hon. F. T. Pelham, C. 8., Rear-Admiral Sir
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Colonel Stransham, Captain Chas. Eden, Captain C. H. M.
Buckle, C. 8., Captain C. Frederick, Captain John Moore,
Mr. S. 'Whitbread, Mr. W. Romaine, C. 8., Mr. C. Richards,
R.N., Mr. Collier, &c.
The Attorney,-General, Sir Richard Bethell, gave a grand
dinner, in celebration of her Majesty's birthday, to the
Queen's Council and the leading members of the bar at the
Albion, Aldersgate-street, the exterior of which was bril-
liantly illuminated in honour of the occasion.

For the first time for many years past the usual parade of
the Household Troops in St. James's Park did not take
place, owing to the very unfavourable state of the weather.
to have created any
Shia countermand can hardly be said