The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-11 00:00:00

Su N, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 11, 1845.

THE QUEEN'S DRAWING-ROOM:

The Queen hell a drawing room (the first this sea-
son) yesterday afternoon, at St. James's Palace. Her
Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the royal suite,
arrived from Buckingham Palace at two o'clock, and
were received by the Lurd Steward, the Lord Chamber-
lain, and the Master of the Horse.
tier Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Colonel Sir George
Couper ; his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
attended by Baron Knesebeck ; his Royal Highness the
Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, and
his Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippstahl,
arrived soon after two o'clock, and were received by the
Vice-Chamberlain, who conducted their Royal and
Serene Highnesses to the royal closet.
The suite of her Majesty and Prince Albert included
the Duchess of Buceleueli (Mistress of the Robes), the
Marchioness of Douro, the Countess of Gainsborough,
the Countess of Cherlemont, Viscountess Canning, and
Viscountess Jocelyn, Ladies of the Bedchamber; Hon.
Misses Stanley, Hamilton, Paget, and other Maids of
Honour, the lion. Mrs. Anson, the Hon. Mrs. George
Campbell, and the lion. Mrs. Brand, Women of the
Bedchamber; the Marquis of Exeter, Groom of the
Stole to his Royal Highness ; Mr. George Edward An-
son, Treasurer to his Royal highness; Viscount Ha-
warden, Lord in Waiting; Sir Frederick Stosin, Groom
in Waiting ; Captain -Francis Seymour, Groom in
Waiting to his Royal llighness; Colonel Arbuthnot,
Equerry in 'Waiting; Colonel Bouverie, Equerry to his
Royal Highness; and the Pages of Honour in Waiting.
Her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at
Arms were on duty in the Presence Chamber and Por-
trait Gallery, and also in the State rooms.
Before the Drawing-room, her Majesty, according to
annual custom, received a deputation from Christ's Hos
pital, in the Throne-room, who were ushered to the
presence of the Queen by Sir William Martins, Gentle-
man Usher in. Waiting. The deputation consisted of
Mr. Alderman Thompson, M.P., the President ; Mr.
Richard Hotham Pigeon, the Treasurer ; Mr. James
Bentley and Mr. Thomas Weeding, Governors ; accom-
panied by the Rev. William Webster, the Mathematical
Master ; Mr. W. IL Back, the Drawing Master, and the
forty boys educated in the Royal Mathematical School
founded by King Charles 11. Her Majesty took parti-
cular interest in the drawings and charts of the boys,
expressing an opinion that their execution was batter
than usual. Her Majesty generously condescended to
make known her approbation.
The scholars having retired from the Throne-room,
the Foreign Ambassadors • and Ministers, and their
Ladies, were introduced, when the following presenta-
tions took place in the diplomatic circle :
Madame la Comtesse de Flahault, Madame la Com-
tease de Jarnac (on her marriage), and Madame la Ba-
ronne de la Ronside, by the Countess de St. Aulaire,
the French Ambassadress.
Mademoiselle Bunten, by Madame Bunsen (her
mother), the Lady of the Prussian Minister.
Le Due de Broglie, Pair de France, and Lo Prince
de Broglie, fils du Duc, et Secretaire de l'Am-
hassade de France en Espagne, by Count de St. Aulaire,
the French Ambassador.
Count R. Hinaky, Count Bonkowsky, and Baron
d'Achrenthal, by Count Dietrichstein, the Austrian
Ambassador.
M. Van Kerkhove, Directeur de l'Administration du
Tretor Beige, and M. Von. Capenberg, Inspecteur du
Tresor, by M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister.
Baron Arnim, Privy Councillor, and Prussian Envoy
Extraordinary at the Court of Brussels, by Chevalier
Bunsen, the Prussian Minister.
The Foreign Diplomatic circle was attended by the
French Ambassador and the Countess de St. Aulaire,
le Comte de Jarnac, First Secretary to the Embassy, le
Baron de la Ronciere de Nourg, Officier de la Marine
Royale de France, and Madame la Baronne de la Ron-
ciere le Nourg ; the Austrian Ambassador and the
Countess Dietrichstein, Baron Koller, First Secretary to
the Embassy, and Count Esterhazy, Sarim Effendi,
Ottoman Ambassador, M. Agop, Secretary Interpreter,
and Hassan Effendi, second Secretary to the Embassy ;
M. Van de Weyer, theßelgian Minister, and Mr. Charles
Drouet, Secretary of Legation ; Baron de Cetto, Ba-
varian Minister; M. Dedel, the Netherlands Minister,
and M. de Stratenus, First Secretary to the Legation ;
Count de Pollon, Sardinian Minister, and Count de
Revel, Secretary to the Legation; the Portuguese Minis-
ter and the Baroness de Moncorvo, M. Lobo de Mara,
First Secretary of Legation, and Baron de Lagos, At
tactic to the Legation ; the Russian Minister and the
Baroness de Brunnow, and M. de Berg and M. de
Koudriaffsky, Secretaries of Legation ; Count Kielmann-
segge, the Hanoverian Minister ; the Prussian Minister
and Madame Bunsen, and Mr. Ernest Bunsen ; the
United States Minister and Mr. and Miss Everett, and
Mr. Rives, Secretary of Legation ; the Danish Minister
and Countess Reventlow ,• Mr. Murphy, the Mexican
Minister; Baron Gersdorff, the Saxon Minister; General
Prince Castelcicala, Neapolitan Minister, and M. G.
Canofari, Secretary to the Legation ; Baron de Re-
heusen, Swedish Chargé d'Affaires, and le Comte M.
de Rosen, Aide de Camp General and Chambellan au
Service de S. M. le Roi de Suede et de Norvege ; le
Baron de Linden, Attaché to the Wurtemberg Legation.
Among the general company were the Archbishop of
Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Steward, the
Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the Groom
of the Stole to Prince Albert, the President of the Board
of Trade, the Captain of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-
at-Arms, the Captain of the Yeomen Guard, the Mar-
quis of Anglesey, Gold Stick in Waiting ; the Vice
Chamberlain, the Treasurer of the Household, the Comp-
troller of the Household; the Lord Chief Baron, Lord
Monteagle, the Comptroller-General of the Exchequer ,•
the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress, Major-General
Sir Henry Wheatley, G.C.H., Keeper of her Majesty's
Privy Purse ; the Solicitor-General, the Attorney-Ge-
neral for Ireland, the Hon. Sir Edward Butler, Lieute-
nant of her Majesty's Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-
Arms; Sir George Philip Lee, Lieutenant of the Yeomen
Guard ; the Master of the Ceremonies. the Deputy-
Secretary-at-War, Mr. Sheriff Hunter, Mr. Sheriff Sid-
ney, Sir Augustus Clifford, Gentleman Usher of the
Black Rod ; Colonel Wood, Colonel Weare, Colonel 11.
Bentinck, Colonel Clark Kennedy, C. 8., and ICH., and
Colonel Dyneley, C. 8., A.D.C. to the Queen ; Lieute-
nant-Colonel M'Douall, 2d Life Guards ; Silver Stick,
Mr. James Bunce Curling ; Adjutant of the Hon. Corps
of Gentlemen-at-Arms ; Mr. Ellerthorp, Adjutant ofthe
Yeomen Guard ; Sir Benjamin Smith, C.S. ; Lieute-
nant-Colonel Sir Frederick Smith, Gentleman Usher to
the Privy Chambers ; Sir Noel Harris, K.C.H. ; Groom
of the Privy Chamber in Waiting ; Mr. Alfred Mont-
gomery and Lieutenant-Colonel Diggle, Gentleman
Usher to the Queen - Mr. Frederic Peel Round, Gen-
tleman Usher of the Green Rod; Colonel Godwin, Gen-
tleman Usher to his Royal Highness the Prince Albert ;
Colonel Sir John Wilson, Gentleman Usher to her Ma-
jesty the Queen Dowager ; Captain Siborne, Secretary
and Adjutant of the Royal Military Asylum, and the
following Ladies:—
DUCIIESSES.—Grafton, Sutherland.
MaiicueoriEssEs.—Normanby, Cholmondeley.
COUNTESSES.—Enniskillen, Bective, Fowls, Dowager
Winterton, Rosebery, Dslawarr, Lincoln, Jersey, Sefton,
Longford, Listowel, Dalhousie, Erne, Malmesbury, An-
trim, Shelburne, Cawdor, Eglinton, March, Hardwicke,
Haddington, De Grey, Sheffield, Cowper, Wicklow,
Beverley.
VISCOUNTESSES.---Gago, Adare, Maynard, Pollington,
Hill, Palmerston, Dungarvon.
RIGHT HONOURABLES.—Lady King, Lady Somerville.
Leores.—Sliaw Stewart, B. Johnstone, Yarde Buller,
Sondes, Charlotte Guest, Thesiger, Lee, Anne Primrose,
Louisa Primrose, Louisa Tighe, Aldis, Frederick Beau-
clerk, Dalmeny, Mary Sackville West, Wheatley, Clif-
ford, Leveson, Ernest Brudenell Bruce, Couper, Ashbur-
ton, Lucy Herbert, Charlotte Herbert, Arabella Fermor,
Easthope, Louisa Oswald, Belhaven, Mary Campbell,
Anne Charteris, Louisa Te,nison, Georgians Pakenham,
Katherine Pakenham, Alice Peel, Anne Wilbraham,
Doyle, Isabella Keith, Beaumont, Abinger, Alicia Gor-
don, Mary Berehaven, Frances Cole, Petre, Pearson,
Charlotte Blount, Mary Stanley, Claud Hamilton, Sarah
Ingestre, G. Stuart Wortley, Catherine Boileau, Mary
Christopher, Charles Fitzroy, Theresa Lewes, Stanley,
Wharncliffe, Mary Hood, Radstock, Mary Fox, Au-
gusta Cadogan, Honoria Cadogan, Clerk, Lyndhurst,
Clementine Villiers, Adele Villiers, Hamilton, Hunter,
Graham, Georgina Bathurst, Wilson, Peel, Adelaide
Paget, Dillon, Frederic Smith, Beauvale, Katherine
Jermyn, Mary Hood, Monteagle, Caroline S. L. Gower,
Cottenham, Hampson, Frances Higginson, Clay, Lister
Kaye, Colborne, Verney, Maclaine, Franklin, Colches-
ter, Frances Sandon, Jane Howard, E. F. Drummond,
Fvryamneer, Colville.
Frances
BARONESS--ne Butz9n.
HONOURABLES—CharIotte Petre, Agnes Petre, Miss
Mines, Elizabeth -Mines, Caroline Gage. Mrs. Anger-
stein, Mrs. John C. Erskine, Sophia Wheatley, Mrs.
Abbott, Mrs. Carew, Mrs. Philips, Miss Sidney, Miss
Julia Maynard, Mrs. Leicester Stanhope, Mrs. Locke
King, L. Ridley Colborne, Mrs. Disbrowe, Frances
Mary Scarlett, airs. Keith, Mrs. Robert Boyle, Mrs. A.
Capel, Mrs. C. Drummond, Mrs. Searlett, Lady Borough,
Mrs. C. Grantham Scott, Mrs. Charles Powys, Mrs.
Mrs.. Darner, Caroline Lyttel-
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Vansittart, Caroline Pepys, Miss Waldegrave, Miss
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The Lady Mayoress. F. Mary Pepys, Louise Camp-
bell, J. Caroline
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MESDAMBS.--FOney, Lefevre, Hogg, Aldis, Howley,
T. B. C. Smit's., E. Buller, Briscoe Frend, Bellasis,
ci' Hampden, Arthur Shirley, Shirley,
Rundle Borges 'Watson, Somes, Alexander Hankey,
Murchison, John Abel Smith, Villiers Stuart, Hibbert,
Evelyno
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Shirley,oAdis Corkran, Malcolm, Hunter, Beauclerk,
Ainsworth,
worth, Robert Gosling, Stephenson,
Charles Dickireson, Geils, Benyon, P. Somerset Butler,
emery,
Henry Addington, Henry Ben-
tone, H. St. John Mtldmay, Bar-
Wilberforce Bird, William Cornwall, Cardwell, Tulloch,
illia
John Herby, f Hobert Hollond, Harcourt, William Stuart,
Ram, Morier, Ha-
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Williamtvinson, Young, Manes Gaskell, Frede-
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Town bend,
mnsEs—Hin iter, Johnstone, Elizabeth Johnstone,
Yarde Buller, Shaw Lefevre, Helena Shaw Lefevre,
Smith, M. A. s,elith, Hogg, Mary Hogg, Fanny Clifford,
Katherine Shrew Stewart, Buller, Wyndham, Sarah
Maria Welby, garianne Roberts, Hankey, Pole, Cooper,
Mary Wheat' ey, Emily Wilson, Solivan, Cavendish,
Baring, Mary. Sulivan, Clerk, Isabella Clerk, Darner,
Fitz-Roy, Em Ely Baring, Matilda Noel, H. Pole Stuart,
De Horsey, B oileau, De Rutzen, Stuart Wortley, Benyon,
Louisa Benyon, Louisa Disbrowo, Townshend, Isabella
Smythe, Fasany Cole, Ilibbert, Henrietta Cole, Drum-
mond, Cotes, 'Liam, Merritt, Augusta Woodall, Maria
Shaw, Augusta, Parry, Brownrigg, Gosling, Beauclerk,
Smythe, Hine hman, Hampden, Lister Kaye, Mowbray,
Philips, M. B, Chichester, Higginson, Catherine Smythe,
Hampson, - ugusta Bird, Wilberforce Bird, Reit,
Georgians al'eville, Lucy Heys, Elizabeth Clay, Pepys,
Shaw, Cole, :C4aura Morier, Mary Drummond, Theresa
Drummond_ Qk orgiana Neville, Frances Neville, Fenny
Clay,