The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-27 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S STATE BALL.

The Queen gave a state ball (,he first this season)
last evening at. Buckingham Palace. The reception was
unusually brilliant, the invitations numbering nearly
2.000, and comprising the Royal Family, the foreign
Princes in this country, the whole of the Diplomatic
Corps, the Cabinet Ministers and principal members of
the Administration, with their wives and daughters, the
officers of State and the ladies and gentlemen of the
households of the Queen, Ile Princes, and the different
members of the Ruh al Family, all foreigners of distinc-
tion at present in town, several hundred Members of the
House of Lords and the House of Commons, and many
distinguished officers both in the naval and military
service.

The lalies appeared in new dresses of great beauty
and richness, exhibiting every variety of colour and de-
sign in the fabrics, which were of the most elegant and
costly materials. Jewelled ornaments of the greatest
brilliancy and value adorned most of the costumes. The
gentlemen were all in Court dress, officers of the army,
navy, and Ordnance, wearing their respective uniforms,
and members of the Administration the full dress official
costume; members of orders cif Knighthood all appeared
In their different ensigns.
Half-past nine o'clock was the time of invitation, and
shortly before that time the distinguished guests began
to arrive, those having the entrée slighting at a tempo-
rary entrance in the garden of the Palace, while the
general company alighted at the Equerry's entrance in
Pimlico. The visitors all ascended the grand staircase,
und, passing throt4h the Glom Drawing•room, were
ushered into the Picture-gallery. Among the earlier
arrivals were the Marquis of Anglesey, Baron de Bru-
now, Lord Stanley, Viscount Hardinge, the Duke of
Beaufort, the Earl of Shrewsbury, the American Minis.
ter with Mr. W. H. Prescott, Lord Gough, Sir Robert
Peel, the Earl of Aberdeen, and Sir James Graham.
Her Msjesty's body guard was on duty as usual, under
the command of the Exon in Waiting, Captain Phibbs.
Si: George Hou!toe, the Ensign, Sir Seymour Sadler,
the Exon, and Lieutenant-Colonel Fitzmaurice, the Ad.
jutant, were present.
The alcove in the Picture-gallery was filled with nu-
merous and beautiful flowering plants, which were also
tastefully inserted in the recesses within the state saloons
and the approaches.
At ten o'clock the Queen and Prince Albert, nccom-
paid, d by his Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia, left
the White Drawing-room, preceded by the Lord Cham-
berlain and the Lord Steward, and also by the Vice-
Chansberlain, the Treasurer of the Household, and the
Controller of the Household.
Passing throm:h the state saloon, her Majesty and the
Prince entered the ballroom, followed by the Mistress
of the Robes; the Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady in Wait-
ing; the Hon. Devior Stanley and the Hon. Elizabeth
Lennox, Maids of Honour in Waiting; the Master of
the Horse; Lord Dufferin, Lord in Waiting; Mr. R.
Ormsby Gore, Groom in Waiting; Colonel the Hon.
Chart, a Grey, Equerry in Waiting; and Colonel Bou-
verie, Equerry in Waiting on the Prince. The assembled
company followed.
Her Majesty opened the bill with his Royal High.
ness the Prince of Prussia, the vis-a-vis being his
Royal Highness Prince Albert and the Duchess of
Sutherland.

The Queen wore a blue silk dress trimmed wlth silver
blonglp, and with wild roses (pink and white), and orna-
mented with diamonds.

lif.r Majesty's head-dress was formed of a wreath of
pink and white wild roses, richly ornamented with dia-
monds; to correspond with the dress.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, his Royal High-
ness the Prince of Prussia, and the Duke of Wellington,
all wore the same Prussian Order of Knighthood (the
Black Eagle) ; and Prince Albert and the illustrious
I)uke both wore the ensigns of the Golden Fleece. His
Royal Ili2hness also wore the Stars of the four British
Orders of Knighthood. The Prince of Prussia was ha-
bited in a Prussian General's uniform.
The Baroness de Brunnow (wife of the Russian Mi•
nister) arid the Baroness de Cetto (wife of the Bavarian
Minister) both wore the riband of a foreign order of
Knighthood.
A number of foreign noblemen end g
entlemen, in-
eluding Prince Poniatowski, and Count Charles de
Goltz, appeared in military uniform. Some of the Scot-
tish nobility and gentry wore the highland dress.
After the quadrille by which the ball was opened,
wal,zes, quadrille-3, and polkas were danced, including a
polka composed expressly for the occasion, and culled
" Prince Patricic's Polka.'
In the ball-room Weippert's hand, including Messrs.
Richardson, Maycock, Prospere, Tntton, Broadley, Grat-
tan Cooke, and Winterbotham, was stationed, and per-
formed the following dances:—
QUADRILLES.

The Ferdinand
Tao Prophet°

... Strauss.
... Mellon.
...

VALSES.
The Humming Bird (first time) Wellington Guernsey.
The Henrietta ... T. Brown.
Tunnel Feat ..• I. • J. Labitzky.