The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-01 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY

HER MA JESII' S DRA WIING4?UOM.

, Her Majesty the Queen held a Drawing-room on
Saturday afternoon at St. James's Palace, far the pur-
pose of receiving congratulations on the happy event of
the Royal nuptials. The Court was very numerously
attended.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highnesg' the Prince
Consort, attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen in
Waiting, arrived from Buckingham Palace soon after 2
o'clock, escorted by a detachment of Life Guards. The
Great Officers of State received the Queen, and conducted
her and the Prince to the Royal Closet.
The Prince and Princess Frederick" Wiliam of
Prussia arrived at a quarter past 2 o'clock;' attended by
Lady Churchill, Countess Perponcher, Countess Marie
zu Lynar, Countess Wally von Hobenthal, Sir Frederick
Stovin, Count Perponcher, Baron Ernei.t Stockrnar,
General von Schreckenstein, Major-General von. Moitke,
Captain von Schweinitz, Lieutenant von Zastrow, Dr.
Wegner, and Captain von Lindern.
Their Royal Highnesses were escorted by a, party of
Life Guards, and were received at St. James's Palace
by the Vice-Chamberlain, who conducted- the Prince
and Princess to the Royal closet.
The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary,
the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Sake•Coburg,
arrived, and e ere received by the Vice-Chamberlain.
Their Serene Highnesses Prince Edward of Saxe
Weimar, the Prince of Leiningen, and Prince ,Victor
of Hohenlohe, and his Highness the Maharajah Dhuleep
Single also attended the Drawing-room.
Her Majesty's body guard of the Hon. Corps of
Gentlemen-at--krma was on duty in the State saloons,
u der the command of the Lieutenant.

were on duty with the corps. The Yeomen of the
Guard were under the command of Capt. Sir John
Kincaid, the Exon in Waiting.
The Queen and the Prince Consort entered the
Throne-room, accompanied by the Prince and Princess
Frederick William of Prussia, the Duchess of Cambridge,
the Princess Mary, the Duke of Cambridge the Duke
of Saxe-Coburg, Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, the
Prince of Leiningeo, Prince Victor of Hohenlohe, and
the Maharajah Dhuleep &Th.
In attendance were the Duchess of Sutherland, Mis-
tress of the Robes ; the Countess of Desert (in Waiting);
the Duchess of Wellington, the Duchess of Athol!, the
Countess of Gainsborougla, and the Viscountess Jocelyn,
Ladies of the Bedchamber ; Hon. Eleanor Stanley in
Waiting), Hon. Miss Stopford (ea Waiting), Hon. Misses
Kerr, laulteel, Cavendish, Macdonald, Byng, and Cath-
cart, Maids of Honour ; Viscountess Forbes, Lady
Charlotte Copley, Viscountess Chewton, Lady Caroline
Barrinaton, and Lady Gardiner, Women of the Bed-
chamber ; the Marquis of Breadalbane, K.T., Lord
Chamberlaie; the Earl of St. Germaine, G.C.8., Lord
Steward ; the Duke of Wellington, Master of the Horse;
the Marquis of Abercorn, K.G., Groom of the
Stole to the Prince ; Lord Ernest Bruce, Vice
Chamberlain ; Viscount Castlerosse, Controller of the
Household ; Lord de Tablet', Lord in Waiting ; Lord
George Lennox, Lord in Waiting to his Royal High
Less ; Coknel the Hon. Charles Phipps, Keeper of Her
Majesty's Privy Purse; Major-Generel the Hon Clarles
Grey, Private Secretary to his Royal Highness ; Col.
the Hon. A. N. Hood, Groom in Waiting ; Colonel
Francis Seymour, C. 8., Groom in Waiting to his Royal
Highness ; Lord Alfred Paget, Clerk Marshal ; Lieut.-
Colonel Punsonby, Equerry in Waiting to his Royal
Highness ; and Messrs. Farquharson and Macpherson,
Pages of Honour in waiting,
Hii Royal Highness the Prince Consort was'on the
right of the Queen, her Royal Highness the Princess
Frederick William was on her Majesty's left, with his
Royal Highness Prince Frederick William of Prussia '
standing by her side.

T►ie Queen were a train of cereso and silver brocaded
silk, trimmed with silver blonde and bows of cerese satin
r band. The petticoat white satin, trimmed with bouil.
lonnee of silver blonde and branches of carnehas. Lie
dress ornamented with diamonds.

Her IlkjeBty wore a diadem of diamond-4 and leathers.

The Princess Frederick William of Prussia wore a
dress of white moire anti-ye, trimmed with satin rushes,
white rases, and jasmine, The petticoat, white moire
antiqua with deep flounces of Honiton lace, trimmed to
c rrespond with the train. The corsage was ornamented
with diamonds.

Her Royal Highness wore a diadem of diamonds and
a neckless of pearls.

The Duclieskiif Cambridge wore a petticoat of mauve
silk with six ficilin'c'e4l9l.lw'hite lace. The train, mauve
moire antique, triiiiirried to: correspond with the dress.
A diamond stomacher anea necklace of emeralds and
diamonds

Her Royal Highness wore a diamond tiara.

The Princess Mary of Cambridge wore a blue crepe
petticoattrimmed with flounces of Honiton lace, looped
up whit bouquets of roses. A. train of blue moire an-
tique trimmed with Honiton lace, to correspond with
the dress. A stomacher of diamonds and pearls.
Necklace and ear-rings of pearls and diamonds.
Her Royal Highness headdress was formed of a dia-
dem of diamonds, feathers, and Honiton lace lappets,
with diamond ornaments.

The Diplomatic Corps was introduced, when Baron de
biiltitz, M,,rechal de la Cour de Son Altesse le Duo de
Nas-au, was presented to the Queen by the Netherlands

Minister,

The Diplomatic Corps was attended by the French
Ambassador and Countess de Persigny, Count Georges
de La Bedoyere, Chambellan de I'Empereur, Depute au
Corps Legislatif, General Prince de In Moskowa, Count
de Jancourt, Baron de Damprerie, M. de Monicoult ;
the Turkish Ambassador and Madame Musurus, Prince
A. Yogorides, Conseiller, Kbalib Effendi, First Secretary
Salih Pasha, General de Division ; the three Ambassa-
d,rs from the Kings of Siam and suite; Mr. Fo w le,
Lieutenant Clavering, R.N., Dr. Tweedie ; the Belgian
Minister and Mgdame Van de Weyer, Mr. H. Solvyn,
(Conseiller) and Madame Solvyn, Octave Delepierre
(Secretary), Madame, and Mademoiselle Delepierre ;
the Bavarian Minister and Baroness de Cetto ; Count
Kielmanseggr, the Hanoverian Minister ; Marquis
d'Azeglio, Sardinian Minister ; the Greek Minister and
Madame Tricoupi, Mademoiselle Tricoupi, M. Charilaus
Tricoupi (Secretary of Legation) ; Baron Bentinck, the
Netherlands Minister; the Portuguese Minister and
Countess de Lavradio, Chevalier d'Oliveira (Secretary),
Chevalier de Mendoca, and Chevalier de Santos, At-
taches ; Count Bernstorff, the Prussian Minister, Baron
Langan, Attache, M. Meyers Janitchka, M. Ernest de
Bunsen (Conseiller), and Madame de Bunsen ; the Bra-
zilian Minister and Madame de Carvalho Moreira, Che-
valier Ageiar d e Andrada (Secretary) and Madame
Aguiar de Andrada, Chevalier Persia de Andrada,
Attache ; the Minister from the United States of
America and Mrs. Dallas, Miss Dales, Mr. P. N.
Dallas (Secretary), Mr. Benjamin Moran, Assistant-
Secretary of Legation ; Count Apponyi, the Austrian
Minister, Count Karolyi and Count Chotek, Secre.
taries, Baron C. Franckenstein, Attache ; the Russian
Minister and Countess Chreptowitch ; Count Vitz-
thum, the Saxon Minister ; the Minister from Sweden
and Norway, and Countess Platen, Mr. Collett, Secre-
tary of Legation ; Admiral Dockneo, the Danish Mini-
ster, Count Reventlow Criminil, Secretary, Count
Moltke, Attache, Count Meldala, Attache; Mr. Rucker,
the Hans Towns Minister Resident ; the Tuscan Mini-
ster ; Baron Linstant de Pradine, Haytian Charge
d'Affaires, Mr. D. Lespinasse, Secretary to the Mission ;
M. Conte, Spanish Charge d'Affaires, and Madame
Conte ; Count Redern, Countess do la Bedoyere, M. de
Pfuel, Baron and Baroness de Nicolaij, Princesse Isabeau
de Beauvau-Craon, Count de Torre Diaz ; the Earl of
Clarendon, the Queen's Principal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs ; the Countess of Clarendon, and Major-
General the Hon, Sir Edward emit, K.C.H., her
Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies.
Madame Bernstorff, and the Mexican Minister and
Madame, Almonte were prevented by indisposition from
attending the Queen's Drawing-room. The Countess
Apponyi and the Minister from Guatemala were also
unavoidably prevented from being present.
After the Foreign Diplomatic Circle the general com-
pany were introduced. The Bridesmaids of her Royal
Highness the Princess Frederick William of Prussia,
Lady Cecilia Gordon Lennox, Lady Susan Pelham Clin-
ton, Lady Katherine Hamilton, Lady Emma Stanley,
Lady Constance Villiers, Lady Susan Murray, Lady
Cecilia Molyueux, and Lady Viotoria Noel assembled,
and entered the Throne Room together.

The General Circle was attended by the Archbishop of
Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, Lord
President ; the Marquis of Lansdowne ; the Marquis of
Clanricarde, Lord Privy Seal ; Viscount Palmerston,
First Lord of the Treasury : the Right Hon, Sir George
Grey, Secretary of State for the Home Department ;
Lord Panmure, Secretary of State for War ; the Right