The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-28 00:00:00

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S
BALL AT APSLEY HOUSE.
A. magnificent ball, in celebration of her Majesty's birth-
•tlaY, was given by the Duke of Wellington on Friday night
at Apsley-house. The fete was in every respect worthy of
the occasion; at the lowest computation 900 of our high
aristocracy were assembled.
For the ball it was said that 1,000 cards of invitation were
issued, in which were included the officers of the different
household regiments. At about a quarter to ten o'clock the
carriages began to set down visitors, and it was nearly half-
past one before all the company had arrived Owing to the
park-gates having been allowed to remain open all night, and
the admirable arrangements of the police under Superinten-
dent Baker, not the slightest confusion arose.
The .Waterloo gallery and five noble saloons were thrown
lepea for the ball, and Most brilliantly illuminated. In every
"disposable part the choicest flowers and exotics were placed,
imparting a delicious fragrance. The gallery, adorned with
3ts invaluable collection of paintings, and embellished with
sts gorgeous decorations, presented a splendid scene at half-
past eleven, it being crowded by a rare galaxy of beauty and
rank. It was there that the dance was formed, a band of
22 performers occupying the orchestra at the south end. At
the opposite extremity sat their Royal Highnesses the Duke
turd Duchess of Cambridge, with the Noble Duke, surrounded
ly some of the principal guests.
There were present—Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and
tuchess of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knesebeck and
Baroness Ahlefeldt ; his Serene Highness Prince Edward of
Saxe-Weimar, and the following foreign Ministers :—His Ex-
cellency the French Ambassador and Countess de St. Aulaire,
Es Excellency the Turkish Ambassador,his Excellency Prince
Castelcicala, his Excellency the Russian Minister and Baro-
ness Brunnow and Mademoiselle Olga Learner, his Excellency
Baron Nieumann, his Excellency M. Dedel, Countess Revent-
low, his Excellency Count Pollen, his Excellency Baron Hu-
gel, his Excellency the Belgian Minister and Aladame Van
de Weyer, • his Excellency the Portuguese Minister and Ba-
roness Moncorvo, his Excellency M. Fortique, his Excellency
the American Minister and Miss Everett, his Excellency the
Brazilian Minister and Marchioness de Lisboa, his Excellency
Baron de Cetto, his Excellency the Swedish Minister and
Countess Bjornstjerna, his Excellency the Mexican Minister
and Madame Murphy, his Excellency M. Moreno, Baron
Koller, Baron Iljornstlerna, Count Jarnac, Count de Noailles,
Baron de Thile, Baron Brockdorff, Baron Scheppingk, M.
"•Surtorius, Baron Brenner, M. de Berg, Baron Lionel Roths-
child, M. de Koudriaffsky, Marquis and Marchioness Ran-
cent, Count Rosen, M. Lomonossoff, &c.
The subjoined is a list of the general company :
Dukes-Richmond, Leeds, Roxburgh, Beaufort, Norfolk,
I.elnster, Buccleuch, Montrose.
Duchesses—Sutherland. Beaufort, Roxburgh, Norfolk,
Leinster, Buccleuch, Montrose.
Marquises—Salisbury, Normanbv, Kildare, Ailesbury,
Camden, Lorne, Handy, Anglesey, Douro, Worcester, Head-
fort, Donnshire, Winchester, Ormonde.
Marchionesses--Ailesbury, Londonderry, Douro, Clanri-
Carle, Wellesley, Downshire, Ormonde, Westmeath.
Earls—Aylesford, Winchilsea, Dunmore, Aberdeen, Craven,
Fefton, Wilton, Bruce, Rosebery, Clarendon, Morley, Lincoln,
Cawdor, Howe, Malrnesbury, Hillsborough, Haddington, De-
lawarr, Wicklow, Morton, Normanton, Altamont, Falmouth,
rows, Auckland, Mansfield, Dartmouth, Dalhousie, Bes-
borough, Devon, Eldon, Brownlow, Kinnoul, March.
Countesses—Wilton, Jersey, Dunmore, Clanwilliam, Rose-
bery, Craven, Sefton, Clarendon, Verulam, Morley, Glengall,
Ilillsborough, Radnor, Tankervile, Malmesbury, iladdington,
Delawarr, Wicklow, Morton, Euston, Powys, Alinto, Dowager
Vansfield, Ashburnharn, Dartmouth, Guilford, Eldon, Bridge-
Vater, Brownlow, Kinnoul, Grosvenor, Manvers, March.
Viscounts—Strangford, Cranley, Sydney, Canning,
Leve-
eon, Fielding, Folkestone, Loftus, Jocelyn, Lewisham, North-
land, Palmerston, Clive, Barrington, Stopford, Alford, In-
gftotre, Curzon, Combermere, Einlyn, Hawarden, Marsham.
Viscountesses—Beresford, Adare, Folkest one, Jocelyn,
Ashbrooke, Palmerston, Barrington, Forbes, Howick, Emlyn,
3..1a warden, Gage.
Lords—Fitzroy Somerset, Cremorne, Claud Hamilton, Ed-
Nva_rd Howard, Brougham, Elphinstone, Harry Lennox,
'ondes, Foley, Redesdale, Do Ros, A. Lennox, Heytesbury,
G. Paget, Colchester, Manners, Aylmer, Colville, 'Prudhoe,
Tdwtn Hill, Ternplemore, Feversham, Ernest Bruce, Dela-
Inere, Thomas Cecil, Marcus Hill, Henniker, Monteagle.
Ladies—Brougham, De Ros, Fitzroy Somerset, Sarah
3ngestre, Cremorne, Aylmer, Wenlock, Sondes, Colchester,
Dowager Manners, Prudhoe, Colville, Ernest Bruce,
Granville Fomerset,A. Grosvenor, John Somerset, Clemen-
tina Villiers, Elizabeth Palk, Lucy Vaughan, Georgina
Curzon, Georgina Codrington, Caroline Lennox, Duff Gorden,
3)owager Rendlesham, Adelaide Paget, Eleanor Ashburnham,
3:leanor Balfour, Caroline Duncombe, Pierrepoint (2), llarriet
and Kathleen Ponsonbv, Caroline Townley, Charlotte Her-
bert Cust (2), Mary Howard, Mildred Hope, Harriet Clive,
B.lizabeth Leveson Gower, Anne and Louisa Primrose,

Georgiana Kerr, Emily Marsharn, Jane Fitzgerald, Charles
:Somerset, Templemore, Elizabeth De Burgh, Mary Hood,
'eversham, Alexandrina Vane, Graham, Mary Fielding,
Caroline Lascelles, Frances Hope, Louisa Cavendish, H.
'Douglas, Shelley, I'elly, Catherine Cavendish, Augusta
Cotton, Caroline Murray, G. Seymour, Sarah Saville,
Alariazine Alford, Finch (2), Jane Grimston, Elliot (2),
Tllezt Douglas, Louisa Fitzroy, 11. Howard, Mary Agar,
ZEary and Olivia Taylour, Augusta Somerset, Jemima Eliot,
Fuller, Emily Ilardinge, Caroline Wood, Dowager Clinton,
Braylrobk, Harriet Corry, Charlotte Egerton, Georgiana
Bathurst, Dowager Floyd, Jane Charteris, Charlotte
Fletcher, Wheatley, Freemantle, G. Egerton, Hunter, Dela-
mere, Isabella Blachford, Frances Cole,. Domvile, Louisa
Churchill, Sophia Cecil, H. Campbell, Cockerel], Mary
Stanley, Isabella Hope, Farquhar, IV. James, Ouseley, Mac-
donald, Willoughby Gordon, Elizabeth Steele, John Scott,
lawg,ford, Bowater, Campbell, Marcus Hill, Kirkland,
R Johnstone, James Stuart, Gore, Elizabeth Fielding,
Elizabeth S. Stanhope, Ann Charteris, Alice Peel, Arabella
Arden, Mary Ross, Maria West, Selina Kerr, Shaw Stuart,
Moniker, Emily Drummond, Caroline Sandford, Harriet
r aget, Rosa Greville, Read, Pakenham, Mary S. West, Ha-
zoilton, Monteagle.
Lord Chief Baron Pollock.

Hon. Messrs.—Somerset, 11. Cholmondeley, General Upton,
G. Dawson, F. Leveson, Finch, Colonel R. Trevor, Jocelyn,
Captain Maude, C. E. Law, C. C. Cavendish, S. Ponsonby,
Cadogan, R. Curzon, F. Charteris, Colonel Fitzgibbon, A.
Liddell, H. Liddell, M. West, Spencer, 0. Duncombe, H.
rierrepoint, Colonel Gordon, S. Lyttelton, S. Herbert, Cor-
(den Barrington, G. Cavendish, Captain lions, R. Wellesley,
F. iourne, Addington, Chichester, R. IL Clive, C. S. Rice.
Hon. Mesdames—Norton, Maude, Wyndham, Herbert,
tiontaguei Dawson, Law, Yore Fane, Liddell, Rous.
Hon. Misses—Smythe, Copley, Maynard (2), Duncombe
(2), Hood (2), De hos, Miller, F. Somerset (2), Mitford,
Yolev, Stuart, Thelluson (2), J. Somerset, Eliot, Hamilton,
Lawley, A'Court, Barrington, Liddell, Neville, Flower, Gage.
Sirs—F. Trench, G. Murray, J. C. Hobhouse, J. V. B.
Johnstone, H. Wheatley, E. Bowater, W. Gordon' H.
liardinge, W. James, W. Cotton, H. H. Campbell, J. Mac-
donald, J. ShelleT, J. Kirkland, R. H. Inglis, H. Seymour,
11. Douglas, A. Dalrymple, W. C. Codrington, P. G. Egerton,
G. Clerk, C. Hunter, E. Codrington, W. W. Wynn, C. Dom-
'vile, C. R. Cockerell, F. Head, A. Barnard, J. Williams, J.
It. Reid, H. Pelly, C. Dalbiac, G. Hamilton.
Colonels—Bennett, T. Wood, Wood, North, B. Drummond,
rlontague, H. Baillie, Bouverie, Lascelles.
Captains—F. Seymour, Wood, A'Court, Vivian, Meynell,
Percival, Martyn.
Messieurs—Tomline, M.P., Clark, Parnther, H. Baring,
ZI.P., Verschoyle, V. Fane, Liddell, Graham, Peel, Brown •
tigg, C. Fane, Bonham, Drummond, W. Egerton, Dundas
Greville Sandford, Mildmav, C. Drummond, Grenfell, Leslie,
Cole, Kerrison, Bentinck, G. Repton, M.P. Boyce, F. Gre-
ville, E. Tennent, Bankes, M.P., Estcourt;M.P. Stanhope,
Vscott, A. Montgomery, Stanley, Greene, Ross, kewdegate,
ri.p., J. Townley, G. Hope, Talbot, Vaughan, Neville, M.P.,
Capel, Beauclerk, Herbert F. Dawson, Cavendish, Town-
&v, A. Hope, M.P., H. Twiss, Russell Ellice, llRussell,
Cornewall, T. Egerton, M.P., ox.
Mesdames—Versehryle, Balfour, A. Capel, Beauclerk, Cun-
life, Mills, Dawson Darner, 11. Twiss, Fellowes,' H. Russell,
Cecil Fane, Russell Ellice, Drummond, Morier, Brownrigg,
Boyce, H. Baillie, 'Wilbraham Egerton, Smith, Dundas, Mar-
lyn, Cox, Thesiger, Percy, Emerson Tennent, Bankes, Law-
mace, H. Baring, Boyce, Lane Fox, Gurwood, Greene.
Misses—Coarington (2), Mills ( 2), Clerk (2), Law (2),
Itice Trevor (2), Fremantle (2), Hamilton, Meade, Fitzgib-
'Jon (2), S. Stewart, Johnstone, Kirkland, Paget (2), Las-
cellos, Copley, Stanhope, Balfour, Bowater, E. Balfour,
Wheatley (2), Ross, West (2), Farquhar, Gore, Fielding,
Cuseley, Campbell, Steele, Duff Gordon (2), A'Court, Har-
(lnge *(2), Beauclerk, Crewe, Darner, Drummond (2), S.
rourne, Seymour (2), Fellowes, Mactavish, Morier (2),
Jlrownrigg, bashwood, Tilney Long, Drummond, Wellesley,
JI. Baillie, Addington, Legh, W. Egerton, Blachford, Smith
(2), Pierrepoint, Greville, Cox, Percy, Clive, Stanley, G. Sey-
riour, Domvile, Kerr, Cole, Escott, Montgomery, Gurwood,
Xstcourt, Greene, Pakenham.

FRENCH CONVICTS.
At Toulon nearly three thousand of these unhappy
beings are confined in the bane. In former times, Frenh
convicts were placed as rowers on board the royal galleys ;
Lut galleys are not now in use ; and though the felon,
when condemned, is still spoken of as a galley-slave, yet
these slaves are no longer employed in the naval service
of their country, except to perform ROW and then a little
light labour about the arsenal. Like all slaves, they are
of little value as workmen ; for the labour obtained by
the fear of the lash is generally the most expensive labour
that an employer can have In the naval dock-yards of
Toulon the convicts may be seen lounging about in
groups, while the freemen, who labour for wages, are the
only men who really work. It is the same all the world
over. Where great exertion, either mental or bodily, is re-
quired, the man who labours on compulsion, will always
break down. The Russian nobles, for instance, know by
lexperience, that they dare not intrust their herds of wild
horses
in the southern steppes to the keeping of their
serfs. No dread' of corporal punishment is- sufficient to
obtain from a herdsman that unceasing care and vigi-
lance requisite in one who
, has a taboun of wild Tartar
horses to look after. Thk,French convicts wear a prison
dress something like our
j
own. The uniform at Toulon
consists of yelow
trowsers
sentenced for life and red actretsi . Those
:wa,reen dress, and those who
have escaped from prisonear and been re-captured, are
distinguished by a yellow sleeve. Each
man
is knownnhasanumby-
ter, and that number is the only name h
in the bagrie. Formerly theConviets were branded
with a hot iron ; but this barbarousteleastfii
practicee.
hasr
of late years been discontinued.
11.0
re-
markable feature of the system is the enormousinerimber
of officers to the prison, and their singular
To superintend less than three thousand ciency.
prisoners,
=any all of whom aro heavily ironed, there are five
Irtindred keepers ; and these are constantly and painfully
on the watch lest their interesting charges should amuse
themselves by firing the arsenal, in the hope of escaping
in the confusion that would probably ensue. The bagne
is the regular lion to which all strangers are taken who
come to Toulon. and the prisoners are in the habit of
waking articles of various kinds for sale to the visitors.
The money received is not given to the prisoner, but is
placed to his account, and he receives it when he has
erved out his time.—Foreign Quarterly Review.

ER
HER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY AT r —SI' • —The
inhabitants of Esher entered into a liberal subscription for
the purpose of giving a dinner to the children of the national
school of that village, to celebrate her Majesty's birthday,
on Friday last. At two o'clock children to the number of
upwards of 1.60 dined upon the green at Cato's Hill. The
"whole of the arrangements were superintended by the Rev.
id;
band was
the vicar, and Edwin Scoby, Esq. A military
band:was in attendance during the day, and in the evening
there Was a splendid display of fireworks on the hill. While
the-:children were singing " God Save the Queen," at the
conclusion of the dinner, her Majesty and the Prince passed
by ttle green in a pony carriage and pair, and were loud
clAltil.
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i 01,11.S.at(fttaiila$,-41:10 9a urnful solemnity was attended by'
-si vAsVhAeicaNav7of.-the 1 obility and Uentry of the su-
xetfhtlin-g—neighbourhV dby large bodies of the tenantry
9f he; latd „ Batoket.7
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