The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-19 00:00:00

THE QUEEN'S DRAWING-ROOM.

The Queen held a drawing-room, the second this
season, yesterday afternoon, at St. James's Palace. Her
Majesty and Prince Albert and the Royal suite arrived
from Bucking,ham Palace in four of the Royal carriages
at two o'clock, escorted by a party of the Life Guards.
The Lord Chamberlain and the Lord Steward received
her Majesty and his Royal Highness, and conducted
them to the Royal closet.
His Majesty the King of the Belgians arrived, accom-
panied by his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen,
and attended by. Count Mercy d'Argenteau and Major
A. d'Hanins de Mqerkerlce. His Majesty was received
at St. James's Palace by the Vice Chamberlain, who
conducted his Majesty to the Royal closet.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent attended
the drawing-room. Her Royal Highness was attended
by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Colonel Sir George
Couper, Bart.
In the Royal suite were the Mistress of the Robes,
the Countess of Charlemont, Lady in Waiting ; and
other Ladies of the Bedchamber ; Hon. Miss Stanley,
Hon. Miss Hamilton, Maids of Honour in Waiting, and
the other Maids of Honour ; Hon. Mrs. Anson, Mrs.
Brand, Lady Gardiner, and other Women of the Bed-
chamber ; the Earl of Morton, Lord in Waiting ; Hon.
Captain Duncombe, Groom in Waiting ; Col. Buckley,
Equerry in Waiting ; Marquis of Granby, Lord in
Waiting on Prince Albert • General Sir George Anson,
Groom in Waiting ; and dolonel Bouverie, Equerry in
Waiting on his Royal Highness.
Her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at
Arms were on duty in the State Rooms, commanded by'
their standard-bearer, Mr. Henry Robinson.
In the Foreign Diplomatic circle, the following pre-
sentations to the Queen took place :
Le General Baron Stjernerona, by Count Bjornstjerna,
the Swedish Minister.

Le Baron C. de Bjornstjerna, Officier d'Ordonnance de
S. M. le Roi de Suede et de Norwege, by Count Bjorn-
stjerna the Swedish Minister.
The Count de Farrobo, a Peer of Portugal, by Baron
de Moncorro, the Portuguese Minister.
Le Prince Zurlo, Gentilhomme de la Chambre; and le
Prince San Severo, Officier de la Garde d'Honneur de sa
Majeati Sicilienne, by Prince Castelcicala the Sicilian
Minister. _ _

Le Colonel Comte Koutousoff, and le Capitaine de la
Marine Imperiale, Monsieur de Glasenapp, Aides-de-
Camp de sa Majests Imperiale de Russie, by the Baron
de Neumann, the Austrian Minister.
The Foreign Diplomatic circle was attended by the
French Ambassador and the Countess de St. Aulaire,
and Baron de Talleyrand, Attach 6 to the Embassy ; the
Swedish Minister and Countess Bjornstjerna, and Baron
de Bjornstjerna, Secretary of Legation ; the Belgian
Minister and Madame Van de Weyer ; Baron de Cetto,
Bavarian Minister ; Count de Potion, Sardinian Minis-
ter, and Count Revel, Secretary of Legation ; the Por-
tuguese Minister and Baroness de Moncorvo, M. Lobo
de Moira, Secretary of Legation, and le Baron de Lagos;
M. Alejo Fortique, Venezuelan Minister ' • General
Prince Castelcicala, Neapolitan Minister, and M. G. Ca-
nofari, Secretary of Legation ; Count. Kielmannsegge,
the Hanoverian Minister ; Baron de Hugel, Wurtem-
berg Minister ; and le Baron de Linden; Madame
Bunsen, lady of the Prussian Minister ; the United
States Minister and Mrs. Everett, Miss Everett,
and Mr. Rives, Secretary of Legation ; the Da-
nish Minister and Countess Reventlow, and
Baron Brockdorff, Secretary of Legation ; Baron
de Nieurnann, Austrian Minister, and M. de Hummelauer,
and Count Esterhazy ; the Mexican Minister and Ma-
dame Murphy, Mr. Joseph Murphy, Secretary, and Mr.
B. Muriel, second Secretary of. Legation ; M. M. Mos-
quera, New Grenada Charge d'Affaires, and M. Raphael
de Ayala, Secretary to tha Mission; B Iron Thile, Prus-
sian Charg6 d'Affaires, and Baron Witzleben. Captain in
the Prussian Royal Guards ; M. Stratenus, Netherlands
Charge d'Affaires ; Chevalier de Ribas, Spanish Charge
d'Affaires, and Victoriano de Pedrorena, second Secre-
tary to the Mission.
The general company present at the Drawing-room
included the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain,
the Captain of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms,
Viscount Combermere, Gold Stick in Waitidg ; the
Vice-Chamberlain, the Treasurer of the Household, the
Lord Chief Baron, Sir Edward Disbrowe, her Ma-
jesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-
tiary to the King of the Netherlands ; Mr. Turner, late
her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-
patentiary to the Republic of Colombia ; the Lord
Justice Clerk of Scotland; Sir George Philip Lee, Lieu-
tenant of the Yeoman Guard ; the Master of the Cere-
monies; Mr. Henry Robinson, Standard bearer of the
Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms ; Mr. S. March.
Phillips, Under Secretary of State of the Home Offiee ;
Hon. and Rev. Edward Keppel, Deputy Clerk of the
Closet ; Mr. Ralph Gore, Groom in Waiting to her Ma-
jesty ; Captain Francis Seymour, Scots Fusilier Guards,
Groom of the Bed Chamber to his Royal Highness
Prince Albert ; Captain Sir Andrew Green, Naval ,
A.D.C. ; Colonel Dyneley, C.B. ' - Colonel H. Ben-
tinck, and Colonel Oldfield, Royal Engineers, A.D.C.
to the Queen ; Colonel Sir George Couper' Bart.,
First Equerry and Comptroller of the House-
hold to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent ;
Major-General Sir E. Bowater, Equerry in Waiting to
Prince Albert ; Colonel Richardson, Royal Horse
Guards, Silver Stick in Waiting ; Rev. Montagu Wyn-
yard, Chaplain in Ordinary in Waiting ; Mr. James
Bunco Curling, Clerk of the Cheque of the Honour-
able Corps of Gentlemen-at-Ar&s ; Mr. Ellerthorpe,
Clerk of the Cheque of the Yeoman Guard ; Captain S.
Sadler, Exon in Waiting ; Sir Samuel Hancock, Exon of
the Yeoman Guard ' • Sir Benjamin Smith, C.S. ; Mr.
Colquhoun, Agent for the Hanse Towns ; Chevalier
Hebeler, his Prussian Majesty's Consul-General ; Mr.
Frederic Peel Round, Gentleman Usher of the Green
Rod ; Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Frederic Smith and Cap-
tain Courtenay Boyle, R.N., Gentlemen Ushers of the
Privy Chamber in Waiting; Mr. Alfred Montgomery,
Gentleman Usher to her Majesty ; Colonel 'Goodwin,
C. 8., Gentleman Usher to his Royal Highness Prince
Albert in Waiting ; Colonel W. Drummond, Scots Fu-
silier Guards, Field Officer in Brigade Waiting ; and the
following Ladies :
DUCHESSES—NorfoIk, Dowager Bedford.
MARCHIONESS—WeIIesIey.
COUNTESSES—Norbury, Arundel and Surrey, Pem-
broke, March, De La Warr, Leicester, Dowager Win-,
terton, De Salis, Morton, Wicklow, Granville, Hadding-
ton, Clarendon, Clanwilliam, Jersey, Nelson, Dowager
Carnwath, Dowager Somers.
VlscourrrEsses—Dowager• Galway, Adare Emlyn,
Ashbrook, Barrington.
LADIES—Yarde Buller, Sondes, Ellen Douglas, Geor-
giana Toler, Byron, Disbrowe, Jernima Eliot, Pollock,
Macdonald, Mary Sackville West, Gardner, Maria Kep-
pel, Mosley, Frances Nelson, Trimleston, Aberdour,
Howard Douglas, Adeliza Manners, Worsley, Elizabeth
A. Smyth, Gore Booth, John Russell, Emily Cavendish,
Mary Ross, Rivers, Denman Harriet Moore, Bouchier,
Walsingham, Caroline Bathurst, Teynham' G. Stuart
Wortley, Harriet Paget, Frances Howard, Mary Monck,
Grace Vandeleur, Montresor, Palmer, Cremorne, James
Ross, Frances Hotham, H. Durham, Rachel Russell,
Clementina Villiers, Wharncliffe, Mary Lambton,'Xin-
naird, Francis Egerton, Stanley, Georgiana Fullerton,
Frederic Smith, Louisa Cavendish, Frankland Russell,
Fremantle, Maria West; Elizabeth Villiers, Champagne,
Mary Phipps, Charles Beauclerk, Green. Carew, Far-
quhar, Cornewall, Alderson, Mary Stephenson, Laura
Money, John Somerset, Mary Stanley, Howard de
Walden, Jane Howard, Frances Cole.
HONOURADLES—Mrs. Richard Denman, Miss Den-
man, Louisa Eliot, Miss Mulles, Mrs. Kenyon, J. Albinia
Irby, Mrs. Thomas Erskine, Mrs. Percy Davison, Mrs.
Hely Hutchinson, C. Maria Barrington, Lady Cockbury,
Mrs. Leicester Stanhope, Miss Flower, Miss Care*,
Mrs. Hubbard, Mrs. R. H. Wrightson, Mrs. Ramsden.

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Lushington, Vivian, Beresford Taylor, Williamson,
Roberts, Robert Allfrey, Matheson, Denistoun, Torrens,
Brereton Trelawney, Robert Bagshaw, Colonel Parkin-
son, Grant, Thoyts, Kingsaull, Heys, Henry Beauclerk,
Mercer, Guy L'Estrange, Ashworth, Longford Brooke,
Garth, William Turner, Packe Reading, Champagne,
Harry Barr, Bagshaw, Edward Mayne, Douglas Hal-
ford, J. N. Talfourd, Pemberton, Whitelock, Reginald
Curteis, Elphinstone, Weld, Chester Master, Ed-
ward Horsman, Long, George Wyse, T. Somers Cocks,
Senior, Beauchamp St. John, Dodd, G. Wilkinson, Her-
bert, Ireland Blackburne, C. G. Wynne.
MISSES—Grant, Yarde Buller' Pollock, Grace Pollock,
Mary Monk, Letitia Mosley, Julia Grant, Catherine
Backhouse, Jane Backhouse, Ellen Alexander, Fanny
Alexander, Erskine, Julia Erskine, Disbrowe, Smyth,
Fanny Smyth, Long, De Salis, Douglas, Horatia San-
ford, Katharine Colquhoun, Colquhoun, Ross, Maria
Farquhar, Tennent, Wynne, Chaytor,Louisa Fitzgibbon,
Shuckburgb, Caroline Bellew, Emily Bingham, Tre-
lawney, H. E. Blackburne, Bingham, Torrens, Geraldine
Perceval, 'Alderson, Rosa Ravenshaw, Georgiana West,
Fitzgibbon, Garth, Anne Fane Parry, Cole, Heys, Mow-
bray, Weld, Lucy Heys, Mercer, E. Av'ena Blackburne,
Hely Hutchinson, Mary Anne Weld, Ellen Jane Carew,
Julia Frankland, Selina Garth, Fanny West, Campbell,
Henrietta Heys, Turner, Mactavish, A. March, Phillipps,
Edith Mercer, Senior, Caroline Paget, Trafford, Jane A.
Streatfeild, 'M. G. Wilkinson, Fanny Cole, Dorothy
Streatfeild, Mathews, Wyse, Whitbread, Cornewall,
Louisa Hubbard, Marion Ely, Charlotte St. John, Mon-
tresor, Freemantle, Green Wilkinson, Rathurst, Cathe-
rine Bathurst, Halford, Webb, Bagshaw, Farquhar,
Antlinetta Reynolds, M. Storer, Madeline Alexander,
March Phillipps, Juliana Somerset.
The following Ladies had the honour of being pre
sented to her Majesty :
Mrs. Grant, by the Countess of Morton.
Mrs. Richard Jelf, by the Countess of Morton.
Mrs. 3. D. Alexander, by Lady Pollock.
Mrs. S. Martin, by Lady Pollock.
The Countess of Arundel and' Surrey, by the Duchess
of Norfolk.
The Countess of March, by the Duchess of Richmond.
The Countess of Leicester on her marriage, by the
Duchess of Bedford.
Lady Francis Nelson. by the. Countess Nelson.
Lady Aberdour, on her marriage, by the Countess of
Morton.
Hon. Mrs. Richard Denman, by Lady Denman.
The Hon. Louisa Eliot, by Lady Jemima Eliot.
The Hon. Georgians, Albinia rby, by the Hon. Mrs.
Wrightson.
Miss Grant, by the Countess of Morton.
Miss Letitia Mosley, by Lady Mosley.
Miss Mary Monk, by the Hon. Lady Cockburn.
Miss Grace Pollock, by*Lady Pollock.
Miss Fanny
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Alexander, by her mother, Mrs. J. D.
Miss Ellen Alexander, by her mother, Mrs. J. D.
Lady Fran krlaannd R Grant,
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Lady Walsingham, on her marriage, by her mother,
Lady -Teynham; on her return from the Continent, by
Mrs. Wynne Yorke.