The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-24 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY BANQUETS.

Viscount Palmerston gave a full-dress Parliamentary
dinner last evening at the noble lord's mansion in Picca
dilly. Covers were laid for 40 persons. The following,
noblemen and gentlemen, members of the House of Com-
mons, constituted the party :—The Right Hon. the
Speaker, Mr. St. Aubyn, the mover, and Lord Henley, the
seconder to the Address ; Lord J. Russell, the Right Hon.
Sir C. Wood, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Right
Sidney Herbert, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, he Right
Hon. E. Cardwell, the Right Hon. T. M. Gibson, Ate Right
Hon. R. Lowe, the Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, the Right
Hon. Sir G. C. Lewis, Viscount Castlecrosse, Viscount
Bury, Lord Alfred Paget, Lord Clarence Paget, the Attor-
ney-General, the Solicitor-General, Lord Proby, the Hon.
11. 11. W. Brand, the Lord Advocate, the Attorney-
General for Ireland, the Solicitor- General for Ireland, Mr.
George Clive, Mr. Bagwell, Colonel Kingscote, Mr. Chas.
Clifford, Mr. Chichester Fortescue, Mr. Whitbread, Mr.
Massey, Sir W. Dunbar, Mr. Headlam, Mr. Hugessen, Mr.
Laing, and the Hon. Evelyn Ashley and Mr. Charles G.
Barrington, private secretaries to the Premier. As cus-
tomary- on such occasions, the noble lord at the head of the
Government read to his political supporters the Queen's
Speech, to be addressed by her Majesty at the opening of
the Parliamentary session this afternoon.

The Earl Granville, the leader of the Ministerial party in
the House of Lords, had a full-dress Parliamentary enter-
tainment last evening at his residence in Bruton-street,
Berkeley-square. After the noble guests of the Lord Presi-
dent had assembled, the Queen's Speech, to be delivered at
the opening of Parliament to-day, was read by the noble
Lord President of the Council. Covers were laid for 40.
The guests present were—the Duke of Somerset, the
Duke of Argyll, the Duke of Newcastle, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, the Marquis of Ailesbury, the Marquis of
Clanricarde, the Marquis of Breadalbane, the Marquis
of Townshond, the Earl of Clarendon, the Earl of
Ripon, the Earl Somers, the Earl of Shelburne, the Earl
of Lichfield, the Earl St. Germans, the Earl of Chichester,
the Earl Spencer, the Earl of Sefton, the Earl of Shaftes-
bury, the Earl of Cork, the Earl Ducie, the Earl of Albe-
marle, the Earl of Abingdon, Viscount Stratford do Red-
cliffs, Viscount Sydney, Viscount Enfield, the Lord Chan-
cellor, Lord Overstone, Lord Monteagle, Lord Cranworth,
Lord Camoys, Lord Rivers, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Lord
Hatherton, Lord Wodehause, Lord Foley, Lord de Tabley,
and Lord Llanover,
The Earl of Derby, as leader of the Opp
ositian in the
House of Lords, gave a grand dinner last evening at kis
mansion to a distinguished circle of his political friends in
the Upper House, including the Duke of Rutland, the
Duke of Manchester, the Duke of Montrose, the Marquis
of Exeter, the Marquis of Bath, the Earl of Malmesbury,
the Earl of Carnarvon, the Earl of Hardwicke, the Earl of
L'insdale, tho Earl of Sandwich, the Earl Beauchamp, the
Earl of Lucan, the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl De La Warr,
the Earl of Fowls, the Earl of Wilton, the Earl of Strad-
broke, Lord Redesdale, Lord Chelmsford. Lord Colchester,
and Lord Colville. The Marquis of Salisbury, owing to a
recent family bereavement, was prevented joining the dinner
circle.
The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, M.P., owing to a
domestic affliction (the death of a sister), was prevented
giving his customary Parliamentary dinner to those friends
who co-operate with him in the House of Commons.

ITALY AND ENGLAND.—The following is an ex-
tract from a private letter, written on the 18th inst. by an
Italian statesman, who holds a high rank in the Councils
of Piedmont :—" I humbly thank heaven that an era ofjus-
tice between nations is beginning. Italy will always bless
England, which through the organ of her press has made
her voice heard in consistent defence of the rights of this
country, and has fixed an indelible brand on her violators
and oppressors. Having escaped the hands of Austria,
Italy must now belong wholly to herself, and this result
can be secured only by the annexation of Central Italy to
Sardinia."