The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-23 00:00:00

(Prom the Court Newsman.)
Her Majesty the Queen held a Drawing-Room in St.
James's Palace, yesterday afternoon.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Con-
intee arrived at two o'clock from Buckingham Palace,
and were received by the Great Officers of State.
Hie Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and his
Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar were
--present at the Drawing Room.
Before the reception, her Majesty, according to annual
enestom, received a deputation frees Christ's Hospital in
the Throne Room.
• The deputation, which was ushered to the Royal pre-
sence by Sir Wm. Martine, Gentleman Usher in Wait-
ing, consisted of Mr. Wm. Gilpin, the Treasurer ; Mr.
ter, Darby and Capt. Shea (H.C.S.), two of the Governors
of the institution, accompanied by the Rev. W. Webster,
M.A., the Mathematical Master ; Mr. W. H. Back, the
• Drawing Master, and the 40 boys of the Royal Mathe-
matical School founded by King Charles IL, and was
_most graciously received.
H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, K G., President of
Institution, was present in the Throne Room with
-her. Majesty, and the Prince Consort.
The Queen condescended to inspect the charts and
drawings of the boys, and to express her approbation of
their performances.
HeeeMajesty's Body Guard of the Hon. Corps'of Gen-
tlemen-sit-Arms was on duty in the State Saloons, under
the command of the Lieutenant.
Lieutelloionels Neville and Cooke, Sub-officers, were
on duty witb the corps.
The Yeom en of the Guard were commanded by Capt.
Merton Herbert, the Eton in Waiting.
The Queen and Prince Consort were accompanied by
the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Edward of Saxe-
,. Veimar, and were attended by the Duchess of Manches-
. ter, Mistress of the Robes ; Lady Macdonald (in wait-
log), Lady Churchill, the Countess of Desert, and the
Countess of Caledon, Ladies of the Bedchamber ; Hon.
'Lucy Kerr (in waiting), Hon. Mary Bulteel (in waiting),
Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Hon. Flora Macdonald, Hon.
Eleanor Stanley, Hon. Beatrice Byng, Hon. Emily
• Cathcart, and Hon. Horatio Stopford, Maids of
Honour ; Viscountess Forbes, Lady Charlotte Cop:
• ley, and the Hon. Mrs. A. Gordon, Bedchamber
, Women ; the Marquis of Exeter, K.G., Lord Stew-
ard ; Earl Delawarr, Lord Chamberlain ; the Duke
of Beaufort, Master of the Horse ; the Marquis of Aber-
cern, K.G., Groom of the Stole to his Royal Highness ;
Lord Claud Hamilton, Treasurer of the Household ;
Viscount Newport, Vice Chamberlain ; Col. the Right
Hon. C. Forester, Comptroller of the Household ; Vis-
count Strathallan, Lord in Waiting ; Lord G. Lennox,
Lord in Waiting to his Royal Highness; Col. the Hon.
Sir C. B. Phipps, K.C.B , Keeper of her Majesty's
Privy Purse ; Lord Colville, the Clerk Marshal ; Sir F.
Stovin, Groom in Waiting; Major-Gen. Wylde, Groom
in Waiting to his Royal Highness; Col. the Hon. A. N.
Hood, Equerry in Waiting; Capt. du Plat, Equerry in
Waiting to his Royal Highness ; Viscount Castle Cuffe,
and Mr. C. E. Phipps, Pages of Honour in Waiting.
Her Majesty wore a train of white moire antique,
trimmed with white blonde and bouquets with cerise
oleanders and green leaves. The petticoat of white moire
antique, trimmed with two deep flounces of blonde, and
bouquets of cerise oleanders to correspond with the
brain.
The Queen's headdress was formed of a wreath of cerise
oleanders, ornamented with diamonds and feathers.
• The Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers were intro-
duced, when the following preeentav ions to her Majesty
took place in the diplomatic circle :
By_Mrs. Daily, wife of the United States Minister—
. Mrs. Jared Sparks, of Boston, Massachusett?.
liy the Count(st of Malmesbury— Madame Alfred
Rucker, nee d'Aranjo Abren, wife of the Minister
Resident of the Hansel Towns.
, By, the Portuguese Minister—Mr. E !ward Teixeira
Sampayo, Attache to the Portuguese Mission in Den-
mark.
By the Austrian Minister—Le Baron Nathaniel de
Rothschild, fill du Baron Anselme de Rothschild, a
Vienne.
By the Minister from Sweden and Norway—The Baron
Schwerin.
By the Russian Minister —M. Nicolas Wassiltchikoff,
Secretaire de l'ee.mba-sade Imperiale.
The diplomatic circle was attended by the Turkish
Ambassador and Madame Musurus ; Prince A. Vogo-
rides, Conseiller, and Khalib Effendi, First Secretary cf
• the Embassy • the French Ambassador, Baron and Ba-
roness de Malaret, Count de Jaucourt, Mr. de Moni-
ca.ult, the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer,
' the Bavarian Minister, the Hanoverian Minister, the
Sardinian Minister and Count Corti, Secretary of the
Legation ; the Greek Minister, the Netherlands Minis-
ter and le Chevalier Berg, Secretary of Legation ; the
Portuguese Mini der and the Countess de Lavradio, and
Chevalier d'Oliveira, Conseiller de Legation • the .Prue-
. sian Minister and Countess Bernstorff, the United States
Minister and Mr?. Dallas, Mr. Philip Dallas, Secretary
of Legation, and Mr. Benjamin Moran, Assistant Secre-
tary; the Austrian Minister, and Baron Franckenstein
and Count Dubsky, Attaches to the Legation ; the Mi-
. outer from Guatemala and New Grenada, and M. Or-
- don( x, Secretary of the New Grenada Legation ; the
Swedish and Norwegian Minister and the Countess
, Platen; Baron Beck Frus, Secretary of Legation ; the
Danish Minister and Count Moltke, Secretary o Le-
, gatien ;:the Russian Minister and M. Pant Tolstoy,
4 Attache to the Legation ; the Minister Resident from
the Hasse Towns ; the Spanish Charge d'Affaires end
Madame Conte and Viscount Ponton, Secretary of Le
gatiou ; the Charge d'Affaires of Haiti and Mr. D. Les
puiaese, Secretary of Legation ; the Brazilian Charge
ii'Affeiree and Madame Aguiar de Andrade, Comman•
• deur V. de Carvalho and Chevalier E. Collado, Attaches
to the Mission ; the Earl of Malmesbury, the Queen's
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; the
Countess of Malmesbury, and Major-General the Hon.
Sir E Iward Gust, K. C.H., her Majesty's Master of the
Ccremoniee.

Tne general circle was attended by the Archbishop of
York, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury,
Lord President ; E rrl fAf Derby, First Lord of the Tree-
linty; the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, Chancellor of the
Exchequer ; the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole,
Secretary of State for the Home Department ;
s Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for the Colo-
nies ; Sir John Pekington, First Lord of the Ad-
- iniralty • the Right Hon. J. W. Heoloy, President
of the Board of Trade ; L3rd J. Manner', First Corn-
miesioner of Public Works ; Earl Talbot, Captain of the
Gentletnen-a'.-A.rms ; Gen. Viscount Gough, Gold Stick-
in-Waiting ; Earl of Sandwich, Master of the Royal
• Bucklsounds ; Lord Monteagle, Comptroller General of
' the Exchequer; Liont.-Col. Sir W. Topham, the Lieu.
tenant of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen •at-Arms ; Major-
Gen. Sir T. Phillip, Lieutenant of the Yeomen of the
Guard ; the Judge Advocate-General ; the Lord Mayor;
the Queen's Advocate; Col. Francis Seymour, C.B ,
Scots Fusilier Guards, Groom of the Bedchamber to his
Royal Highness the Prince Consort ; Col. Bagot, her
31ajesty'i Assistant Master of the Ceremonies ; Major
Harmer, Standard-bearer of the Hon. Corps of Gentle-
- men-at-Arms ; Col. Sir G. Couper, First Equerry and
Comptroller of the Household of H.R.H. the Duchess of
• Kei.t ; Lieut.-col. F. Cavendish ; Mr. Alderman and
Sheriff Lawrence ; Mr. Sheriff Allen, Lieut.•Cel. Hogg,
let Life Guards, Silver Stick-in-Waiting ; Colonel Lord
Dynevor, Capt. Bibb, R N., Cul. Brooke, CA. Napier,
C.B , Col. H. A. Lake, and Cul. Adair, A.D.C. to the
queen ; Hop. S. Ponsonby, Comptroller of the Lord
. Chamberlain's Department ; Col. Fitzcnaurice, Adjutant
of the Yeomen of the Guard ; Hon. S. Lyttleton, her
llajesty's Marshal of the Ceremonies ; the Adjutant of
the Gentlemen-at-Arms ; Capt. Macdonald, Exon of the
Yeomen of the Guard; Major• Gen. SirF. Smith, LE)
Gentleman Usher to the Privy Chamber ; Mr. W. Tay-
lor, Gentleman Usher in Waiting ; Col. Stephens, Gen-
' - tleman Usher to the Queen ; Mr. A. Montgomery,
Gentleman Usher to the Queen in Waiting ; Dr. Lyon
Playfair, C. 8., Gentleman Usher to H.R.H. 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 submitted for her Majesty's
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-.Ansa Louisa Allen, by Mrs. Spencer Walpole.
Mrs. Amphlett, by Lady Pakington,
Lady Harriett Ashley, on her marriage, by the
Countess of Shaftesbury.
Mrs. J. Harvey Astell, by Lady Caroline Duncombe.
Miss Bayly, by Mrs. Thornhill.
Mrs. Ashton Benyon; by Lady Keane.
Lady Berner., on her marriage, by the Duchess of
- Northumberland.
Mrs. Solater-Booth, on her Marriage, by the Countess
. of Malmesbury.
Mrs. Alexander Boyle, by Mrs. Arthur Duncombe.
Miss Mary Bradshaw, by Dirs. Gathorne-Hardy.
Miss Brand, by her mother, the Hon. Mrs. H. Brand,
Miss Edith Marion Bruce, by her mother, Mrs.
Wyndham Bruce.
Lady Augusta Browne, by her mother, the Dowager
Marchioness of Slip.
- Lsdy Burke, by Viscountess Forbes.
Mrs. Chas. Buxton, by her mother, Lady Holland.
The Hon. Mrs. George Cadogan, on her marriage, by
the Duchess of Wellington.
'Mrs. Charlesworth, by her sister, Lady Hawke.
• Mina Campbell, by the Duchess of Argyll.
••• Miss Ca pion, by her sister, Mrs. Dodson.
Lady. Chelmsford, by the Countess of Derby.
.Miss A tny Chichester, by her mother, Lady Chichester.
• Miss Constance Chichester, by her mother, Lady Chi-
ehester.
.Mrs. Max well Close, by the Ductless of Manchester.
Miss Lucy Coher, by Baroness Meyer de Rothschild.
Lady Currie, by ViFcountess Flardinge.
Miss atlyell, by her sister, Mn'. Chas. Du Plat.
'Lady Denys, by her sister, Lady Matheson.
Mrs. Horace do Vere, on her marriag', by her aunt,
Lady Monteaglo.
.•Mrs..Dodson, by Lady Mary Labluchere.
B Drulamorpi by L
:Lady vs , y
.m s
_the Due,,ees of ‘Vt
Miss HelenV
Ellice,
by Lady C'uailutte Cop'. y.
mother
yotter mother, Mrs. A. Rice.
i'liss Ford, by her eji,lNilrs. Ford.
Mrs. Forsyth, by tad
Mrs. Frederick Granlille,e:inn fhierrd. marriage, by the
Hon. Mrs. Denman.
Hon. Albertine Grosyenor,
Mrs. Robert le by Ebury.
Stanley of Alderley o
amilton,n her . marriage, by Lady
- Alias Christine Hawkey, by her mother, Mrs. John
Alexander Hankey.
Mrs. Hartley, by the Duchess of Beaufort.
Lady flay ter, by Lady Cranworth.
The-Hon. Mrs. Higgins, by her mother, Lady Chelms•
.
ford, -
Mrs. Hogg, on htr marriage, by the Duchess of
'kaftan.
Miss Gertrude Holland, by her mother, Lady Holland.
Miss Emily Hope, by her aunt, Lady Mildred Beres-
erd Hope,