The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-18 00:00:00

BEE MAJESTY S LEVEE.

(From the Court Yewsman. )
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Her Majesty the Queen held a Levee, yesterday after-
noon, in St. James's Palace.. Eer Majesty and his Royal
Highness the Prince Consort, attended by the Ladies
and Gentlemen in Waiting, and escorted by a detach-
ment of Life Guards, arrived from Buckingham Palace,
and were received by the Great Officers of Sta. e.
The Duke of Devonshire had an audience, and deli-
vered to the Queen the Riband and George of the Order
of the Garter, worn by the late Duke of Devonshire.
Earl Fitz william had an audience, and delivered to
her Majesty the Riband and George of the Order of the
Garter, worn by his father the late Earl.
Lord Foley had an audience, and delivered to the
Queen his Gold Stick of Office, as Captain of the Hon.
Corps of Gentlemen at Arum.
Rio' Talbot had an audience, and received from her
Majesty his Gold Stick of Office, as Captain of the Hon.
Corps of Gentlemen at Armi.
Lord de tics had an audience of the Queen, kissed
hands upon hia appointnoeut, and received from her Ma-
jesty his Gold Stick of OfEee, as Captain of the Yeomen
of the Guard.

The Earl of Verulam had an audience, and kissed
hands in the Royal Closet, upon being appointed one of
the Lords in Waiting to the Queen.
Her Majesty's Thady Guard of the Hon. Corps of Gen-
tlemen at Arms was on duty in the State Saloons, under
the command of the Lieutenant.
Lieut. Cole. Nevill and Cooke, the sub-officers, were
on duty with the corps. The Yeomen of the Guard were
under the command of Capt. Morton Herbert, the Leon
in Waiting.
His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Wtirear
attended the levee.
The Queen and the Prince Consort entered the Throne
Room, attended by the Duchess of Manchester, Mistress
of the Robes ; Lady Churchill, Lady in Waiting ; the
Marquis of Exeter, K.G., Lord Steward ; Earl Dela-
warr, Lord Chamberlain; the Duke of Beaufort, Master
of the Horse ; the Marquis of Aberoorn, K G., Groom
of the Stole to his R )yal Highness ; Lord C. Hamilton,
Treasurer of the Household ; Viscount Newport, Vice-
Chareberlaie ; the Right Hun. C. Forester, Comptroller
of the Household ; Earl of Verulamo Lod in Waiting;
Lord Begot, Lord in Waiting to his Royal Highness ;
Col. the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Keeper of her Majesty's
Privy Purse; Major-General the Hon. Charles
Grey, Private Secretary to his Royal Highness ; Mr.
R. Ormsby Gore, Groom in Waiting ; Colonel Fran-
cis Seymour, C. 8., Groom in Waiting to bis Royal
Highness ; Lord Colville (Clerk Marshal), Equerry in
Waiting ; Capt. th Hon. D. de Roe, Equerry in Wait-
ing to his Royal Highness; and Messrs. Macpherson
and Farquharson, Pages of Honour in Waiting.
Her Majesty the Queen was attended at the Recep-
tion by the following Ministers of State--viz., the Lord
Chancellor ; the Marquis of Salisbury, Lord President ;
the Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Privy Seal ; the Earl of
Derby, First Lord of the Treasury ; the Right Hon. B.
Disraeli, Chancellor of the Exohequer ; the Right Hon.
Spencer H. Walpole, Secretary of State for the Home
Department; Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for the
Colonies; General Peel, Secretary of State for War ;
the Right Hon. Sir J. Palcington, First Lord of the
Admiralty ; Earl of Elienhorough, President of the
Board of Control ; the Right Hon. J. W. Henley,
President of the Board of Trade ; and Lord John
Manners, First Commiseicner of Public Works.
Her Majesty wore a train of blue silk embroidered in
palm pattern gold and silver, trimmed with blue net acd
silver blonde. The petticoat, white satin trimmed with
three skirts of white net.

The Queen wore as a headdress a circlet of diamonds.

The Knights of the Garter, the Thistle, and St. Pa-
trick, and the Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the
Bath, were the Collars of their respective Orders.
The Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers were intro
duced, when the following presentations to her Majesty
took place in the diplomatic circle :
By the Greek Minister—M. P. Coroneos, Chef o'Esca-
dron d'Artillerie au service de
By the Netherlands ➢Minister--The Chevalier Berg, Se-
cretary to the Netherlands Legation.
By the Minister of Sweden and Norway—Le Baron
Beck Frus, Secretary to the Legation of Sweden and
Norway.

The diplomatic circle was attended by the French Am-
bassador, Baron de Malaret, Count de Janeourt, and M.
P. do Monicauit; the Turkish Ambassador, Prince A.
Vogoridee, Cunseiller, and Khaiii Effondy, First Secretary
of the Embassy; the Belgian Minister, M. 11. Solvyne,
Conseiller, and M. Maurice Delfosse, First Secretary of
Legation ; the Bavarian Minister, and Count Baumgar-
ten, Secretary of Legation ' • the Hanoverian Minister ;
the Sardinian Minister, and Count Corti, Secretary of
Legation ; the Greek Minister, and M. Charilaus Tri-
coupi, Secretary of Legation ; the Netherlands Minister;
the Portuguese Minister, and M. Mendota, Attache to
the Legation ; the Prussian Minister, and Count. Gus-
tave du B, audebourg, Conseiller de la Legation ; the
United States Minister, Mr. Philip Dalla,, Secretary,
and Mr. B. Moran, Assistant Secretary of Legation ;
tee Austrian Minist r, Count A. Karoiyi, SecrAary,
and Baron C. Frauckenstein Attache to the Legation •
the Minister from Guatemala ' and New Grenada, and
M. E. C. Ordonez, •Secretary to the New Grenadian
Legation.;_ the Saxon Minister; the Swedish and Nor-
Aunitster; the Danish Minister,and Count Moltke,
Secretary of Lt gation ; M. Contra, Spanish Claarg4,2Af-
faires; Baron de Nicolay, Russian Charge d'Affaires;
Baron Linstant de Pradine, Charge'i d'Affaires of Haiti,
and M. de Lespinasse, Secretary of Legation; the Brazilian
Charg6 d'Affaires, Comtnandeur V. de Carvalho, Attach 6,
and Chevalier Pereira de Andrada, Attach 6 to the Mis-
sion ; Count Schouvaloff ; the Earl t f Malmeshury, the
Queen's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs;
and Major-General the Hon. Sir E. Cust, K.C.H., her
Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies.

fra the general circle, the Solicitor-General, Mr. Hugh
Cairns, was presented to the Queen by Mr. Secretary
Walpole, and received from her Majesty the honour of
Knighthood.
The general circle was attended by the Archbishop of
Canterbury, the Archbishop of York ; Lord Monteagle,
Comptrol er-General of the Exchequer ; the Lord Chief
Baron ; Lord Justice Turner ; the Chancellor of the
Duchy of Cornwall ; Sir W. P. Wood, Vice-Chancellor ;
Right Hon. Sotheron-Estcourt, President of the Poor-
law Board ; Lieut.-Gen. Sir G. Wetberall, Adjutant-
General; Leut.-Col. Sir W. Tupharn, the Lieutenant of
the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arrns ; Majoi-Goneral
Sir Travell Phillip, Lieutenant of the Yeomen of the
Guard ; Sir H. Seton, Bert., Lail., Groom in Wait-
ing ; the Queen's Advocate ; Major Harman, Standard
Bearer of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms ; Sir
G. Houlton, Ensign of the Yeomen of the Guard ; Col.
Begot, her Majesty's Xssistant Master of the Ct rerno-
nits ; Mr. H. Waddington, Under-Secretary of State
Home Department ; the Attorney-General to the Prince
of Wales ; Hon. S Lytrelton, her Majesty's Marshal of
the Ceremonies ; Capt. Du Plat, Equerry to his Royal
Highness the Prince Consort ; Lieut.-Col. H. Pon,onby,
Equerry to his Royal Highness the Prince Consort ;
Major Home Pnrvee, Equerry to her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Cambridge ;
Col. Sir G. Cooper, Bart.,
First Equerry'and Comptroller of the Household of her
Royal highness the Ductless of Kent ; Col. Si • W. Dave-
son, Equerry to H.R H. the Duke of Cambridge; Col.
Lord Dynevor, Aide-de-Camp to the Qeeen ; ComtnocLre
Eden, Aide-de-Camp to the Queen ; Col. Steele, C.B.
(Coldstream Guards) ; Cnl. Bloomfield, Royal Horse Ar-
tillery ; Col. Foster, Royal Engineers, and Col. Napier,
C. 8., Aide-de-Camp to the Queen ; Sir W. Martine,
Gentleman Usher to the Sword of State ; the Hon. S.
Ponsonby, Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's De-
partment ; Col. Lewis (Grenadier Guards), Field Officer
in Brigade Waiting ; the Clerk G f the Cheque of the
Gentlemen at Arms ; Hon. W. West (Grenadier Guards),
Adjutant in Brigade Waiting ; Mr. A. Blackwood, Gen-
thrum) Usher to the Queen ; Major-Gen. Sir F. Smith,
M.P., Gentleman Usher to the Privy Chamber in Wait-
kg ; Major-Gen. Diggle, K,11., Gentleman Usher to
her Majt sty iu Waiting ; Mr. W. Taylor, Gentl
Usher to the Queen ; Mr. C. Heneage, Gentleman
Usher of the Privy Chamber ;Cul. Stephens, Gentle-
min Usher to her Majesty in Waiting ; Rear-Admiral
Blake, Gentleman Usher to his Royal Highness the
Prince Consort in Waiting.
The following presentations to the Queen took place,
the names having been previously left at the Lord
Chamberlain's-office, and submitttd for her Majesty's
approval :

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Lieuti-Gen. Aitchison, on his return from abroad, by
H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge,
Cornet M. Adderley, on appointment to Royal Horse
by the Lord Chancellor.
Mr. Guards, by Col. the Right Hon. G. Forester.
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jl:Mr. J. S. Armstrong, by Col. the Marquis of Londonderry.
by the Earl of Derby.
Lord Bateman, on appointment as Lord in Waiting to her
Majesty, by the Earl Delawarr.
The Attorney
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Lieut. W. A. Battine, on return from India, by Lieut.-
Gen. Sir G. Pollock.
Lieut. J. C. Bayley, by Major-Gen. Warren.
Capt. G. W. Beaumont, on promotion by H.R.H. the
Duke of Cambridge.
Mr. J. A. Beaumont, by Field Marshal Viscount Comber-
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Cornet J. Beaumont, by Col. Hodge.
Major-Gen. Bell, on promotion and return from North
America, by Gen. Sir Hew D. Rom
Cornet R. G. Bolton, by Col. Right Hon, G. C. W. Forester.
Mr. Sclater-Bsoth, M.P., on marriage and change of name,
by Sir J, Pakington.
Col. Sir A. Bogle, by the Deputy-Chairman of the East
India Company.
Lord Begot, on appointment as Lord of the Bedchamber to
the Prince Consort, by the Marquis of Aberoorn.
Capt. A. Boyle, R.N., on promotion, by the First Lord of
the Admiralty.
Mc. Bradford, on return from China, by Major-Gen. W.
H. Eden.
Capt. Buck, on promotios, by Col. Ridley.
The Hon. F. G. Calthorpe, on return from India and
China, by his father, Lord Calthorpo,
The Earl of Carnarvon, by Lord Stanley.
Lieut. P. Carleton, by the Earl of Donoughtnore.
Ensign G. F. Carlyon, on changing his name to Simmons,
and on his appointment to the East Bent Militia, by
Col Brockman.
Lieut. M. Carthew, by the DoPuty-Chairman of the East
India Company.
Major-00)119ml Sir J, Cbattocton, Bart., oI auccoviiiig to