The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-08 00:00:00

THE QUEEN'S DRAWING-ROOM.
The Queen held her first-Drawing-room this season yester-
I dey afternoon, at St. James's Palace.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived from Buckingham
Palace, attended by the Royal Suite, and were received by the
Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Master of the
Horse, who conducted Der Majesty and his Royal Highness to
the Royal Clo et. '1 he Royal Suite consisted of the Duchess
of Buccleueli, Mistress of the Robes, the Dowager Lady Lyt-
:elton, Lady in Waiting; Viscount Sydney, Lord in Waiting;
Sir Robert Otway, Groom in Waiting; Major-General Wemyss,
Equerry in Waiting; Mr. Wilson and Mr. Stuart Wortley,
Pages of Honour in Waiting ; Lord George Lennox, Lord in
Waiting on Prince Albert; Sir George Anson, Groom in
Waiting; and Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting on his
Royal Highness. •
Sir Robert Peel and the Lord Chamberlain had audiences
of the Queen.
Colonel Home, Grenadier Guards, Field Officer of Brigade
in Waiting had an audience of her Maj 'sty.
Before the Drawing-room-her Majesty (according to annual
custom) received a deputation from Christ's Hospital, in the
Royal closet, who were ushered to the presence of the Queen
by Sir William Martins, Gentleman Usher in Waiting. The
deputation consisted of Mr. Alderman Thompson, Ml. P., the
President ; Mr. Richard Hotham Pigeon, the Treasurer; Mr.
Thomas Privnder, and Mr. John Alliston, the Governors ; ac-
companied by the Rev. William Webster the Mathematical
Master ; Mr. W. H. Back, the Drawing Master ; and the
forty boys educated in the Royal Mathematical School,
founded by King Charles 11. Her Majesty took particular in-
terest in the drawings and charts of the boys., and was pleased
to express her approbation of their execution.
Her Ho al Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady
Anna Maria Dawson, and their Royal Highnesses the Duke
and Prince George of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knese-
beck, were present at the Drawing-room.
Her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms
were in attendance in the State Room and in the Presence
Chamber.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, and the Royal Family en-
tered the Throne-room, where the Ladies of the Bedchamber,
the Maids of Honour, and the Women of the Bedchamber of
her Majesty had assembled.
The Foreign Diplomatic Circle were then introduced, when
the following presentations to her Majesty took place :
Madame Marques Lisboa, the Lady of the Brazilian Minister;
Mrs. Evereta, the Lady of the American Minister, and Miss
Everett, their daughter; and the Baroness de Rehausen,
the Lady of the Swedish Charge d'Affaires, by the Countess
rte Saint Aulaire, the French Ambaseadress
Madame de Helfer, born Baroness des Granges, of Lusatia, in
the Prussian dominions, by Madame Bunsen, the Lady of the
Prussiaa Minister
There were also present in the Foreign Diplomatic Circle
the French Ambassador and the Countess de St. Aulaire ; M.
Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister; Mr. Moreno, the
Buenos Ayrean Minister; the Bavarian Minister, and the
Baroness de Cetto • M. Dedel, the Netherlands Minister ; M.
Lobo de Moira, Secretary to the Portuguese Legation, and
M. Pinto de Soveral, Attache to the Legation; M. Fortique,
the Venezuelan Minister; the Russian Minister and Baroness
Brunow, and M. de Berg, Counsellor of Legation; Count
Kielinansegge, the Hanoverian Alinister, and Mr. Hupedon,
Conseiller de fa Cour et Secretaire- General du Ministers de
Commerce de S. M. le Roi de Hanovre ; Baron de Iluzel, the
Wurtemberg Minister ; the Grecian Minister and Madame
Tricoupi • the Prussian Minister and Madame Bunsen, Baron
Charles de Canitz, Secretary of Legation, and Mr. F. Schreiber,
Prussian Dragoon Guards ; Mr. Everett, United States' Minis-
ter ; le Commandeur Marques Lisboa Brazilian Minister; Count
Reventlow, the Danish Minister, and Baron Broekdorff, Secre-
tary of Legatien • Baron de Nieumonn, Austrian Minister;
Baron Koller, Legation;
of Legation, and Baron Lebzeltern,
Secretaey of Legation ; the Spanish Minister and AL Fran-
cisco Pamoilio, .ecretary of Legation; Baron Gcrsdorff, the
Saxon Minister; the Mexican Charge d'Affaires and Madame '
Murphy; M. N. Mosque; a, Charge d'Affaires of New Gre-
nada, and Madame 1110squera ; Baron de Rehausen, the Swe-
dish Char ge d'Affaires ; Fuad Effendi, Turkish Charge
d'Affaires, accompanied by Mr. Salame, her Majesty's
Oriental nterpreter.
The general company were afterwards introduced.
The Lady Mayoress was presented to her Majesty by the
Duchess of Buccleuch.
There were present the Archbishop of Canterbury, the
Bishop of London, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Steward,
the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the Captain of
the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, the Captain of the
Yeomen of the Guard, the Vice-Chamberlain, the Treasurer
of the Household, the Comptroller of the Household, the
Treasurer of Prince Albert's Household, the Lord Mayor, the
Master of the Ceremonies ; Hon. Sir Edward Butler, Lieute-
nant of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms; Sir
E. Pearson, Lieutenant of the Yeomen of the Guard ; the At-
torney-General, Mr. Ralph Gore, Groom in Waiting; Colonel
Sir George Couper, Bart., C.B. Comptroller of the House-
hold of her Royal Highaess the Duchess of Kent ; Mr.
Sheriff Rogers; Mr. Henry Robinson, Standard-bearer to the
Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms; Colonel Ar-
buthnot, Equerry to the Queen ; Sir Archibald Macdonald,
Equerry to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex ;
Major Hyde, Assistant Master and Marshal of the
Ceremonies; Colonel Reid, 2d Life Guards, Silverstick ; the
Groom of the Robes ; the Rev. Henry Thomas, Chaplain to
the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor ; Mr. James Bunce Cur-
ling, Clerk of the Checque of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen
at Arms ; Mr. Ellerthorp, Clerk of the Checque of the Yeo-
men of th Guard; Captain S. Sadler (in Waiting) and Cap-
tain J. Parker Nuttall, Exons of the Yeomen of the Guard;
Captain Peehell, R.N., Equerry to her Majesty the Quecn
Dowager; Sir Beniamin Smith ; Lieutenant-Colonel Sir
Frederick Smith, Gentleman Usher the Privy Chamber ; Mr.
Alfred Montgomery, Gentleman Usher; Sir Noel Harris,
Groom of the Privy Chamber in Waiting; Colonel Godwin,
Gentleman Usher to Prince Albert, in Waiting.
The following Ladies were present at the Drawing-room :
Duerr ESSES —lnverness, Argyll, Buckingham.
MARCH lONESSES—Claaricarde, Ailesbury, Londonderry,
Sligo, Normanby.
CouNTEssEs—Rosebery, Tankerville, Dowager Clare, De-
lewarr, Dowager Winterton, Morton, Leicester, Glengall,
Dowager Listowel, Lovelace, Verulam, Jersey, Kinnoull,
Malmesbury, Wilton, Elgin, Sheffield, Rosslyn, Cowper, Ik-
verley, Caw4or.
VISCOUNTESSES—Gage, Milton, Mahon, Canning, Guilla-
more, Lifford, Chelsea, Palmerston, Howick, Hawarden, Dun-
gannon, Dowager Andover.
LADIES—Verde Buller, Ellen Douglas, Isabela Fitz-Gib-
bon, Fitz-Wysram, Wigram, Constance Paget, Eleanore Psget,
Elilabeth \\ Vest, llfary C. West, Bowyer Smyth, Bulkeley
Philipps, Croft, B. Johnstone, Couper, Peel, Alice Peel,
Shaw Ste, ate, Anne Primrose, Louisa Primrose, Clementine
Villiers, Quentin, Stanley, Lyndhurst, Sondes, Sarah Ingestre,
Tr:ruleston, Emily Gore, Hume Campbell, Elizabeth Gore, Ali-
cia Erskine. Larpent, Manners, Bradford, Catherine Cavendish,
Charlotte Guest, De Tabley, Wharneliffe, Jemima Eliot,
Charlotte Egerton, Egerton, King, G. Stuart Woitley, E.
Canipbell, Dowager Floyd, M. Stanley, A. Baring, Colborne,
Dowager Ellenborough, Sophia Rendlesham, Lucy E. Low-
ther. Freemantle, Clay, Antrobus, James Stuart, Mildred Cecil,
A. Beckett, C. Denison, Clerk, Domvile, Maria West, Wale,
'Cockburn, Hastings, Verney, MI. Hamlym Williams, E.
Spencer Stanhope, Kilmaine, A. Vane, Ml. Stephenson, Ka-
therine Jerman, H. Baring, C. Wood, Brooke Peehell, Jane
Grimston, L. de Horsey, F. Vane, Ouseley, E. Ilardinge,
Jolliffe, Colville, Vivian, L. Percy, Arabella Baring, Canning,
Stuart de Rotbsay,l Graham, Gardiner, Seymour, H. Clise,
C. Browne, Colchester, A. Grenville, Ede Reede Ginkell, E.
Browne, Stratheden.
BA RONESS—North.
HODIOURA !ILES —Lady Duff, Lady Pearson, Mrs. Law,
Mrs. Thomas Erskine, Caroline Gage, Mrs. H. Manners
Sutton, Lady Hope, Mrs. E. Bootle Wilbraham, Miss Hewitt,
Miss A. G. Hewitt, Mrs. Bootle Wilbraham, reline Lyttel-
ton, Larin,a, Lytteltor, Mrs. Norton, Mrs. Goulburn, Mrs. Ar-
buthnot, Miss Stuart, Mrs. A. Duncombe, Miss Mitford,
Mrs. R. H. Wrightson, Mrs. Tottenham, Mrs. Vivian, Mrs.
Ponsonby, E. Thellusson, S. Thellusson, Mrs. J. Talbot,
Mrs. Scarlett, Lady Murray, L. Ridl, y Colborne, Miss Browne,
Mrs. J. C. Vivian, Mrs. H. Hutchinson, H. Kirg, Mrs.
Ryder Burton, E. King, Miss Campbell, Miss Vivian, Lady
Lumley, Lady Cockburn.
MisTaesses—Blomfield, Cornwall Leigh, Andrew Spot-
tiswoode, Edward Buller' Thesiger, Huali Baillie, Canning,
Hogg, Ricardo, Sebastian Smith, Thompson, De Winton, Mon.-
tefiore, Woronzow Greig, Pennock Tiger, Harcourt, Shelock
Willis, Stapleton, John laastard, Longden, Howley, Talfourd,
S. Whitbread, W. Chute, B. Wrightson, Young, V. Stuart,
G. Berkeley, Milner Gibson, Fitzgerald, S. Platt, P. Reading,
C. Fremantle, R. Ellice, Al. Gaskell, A. Wood, 11. Bentinck,
B. Paget, W. Formed, Dawson, N. Sutton.
Altssits —Fitz-Gibbon, Blomfield, Mary Blomtield, Fitz-
W 3 gram, Augusta Fitz-Wygram, Wigram, The iger, Julia
Smith, Emma Smith, Bowyer Smyth, Marianne Bowyer Smyth,
Shaw Stewart, Elizabeth Spottiswoode, Julia Erskine, Harriet
Cavendish, Penelope. Baillie, Frederica Law, Caneing, Katha-
rine Shaw Stewart, Rosa Spottiswoode, Erskine, Duff, Eliza-
beth Croft, Stourton, Anne Vavasour, Heys, Anna Maria Sut-
ton, West, Sutton, Pennington, Fanny Platt, Byrne, Geor-
giana Byrne, Anne Antrobus, Wetherell, Scarlett, Burdett,
Frederica Bradford, Vavaseur, Isabella Clark, Harriette Heys,
Scott, Thompson, Wale, Augusta Wale, Harcourt Vernon,
Longde-, Tompson. Antrobus, Quentin, Goulburn, Marianne
Beresford, Seymour, Emily 'Seymour, Whitbread, Ponsonby,
C. A. Macdonald, De Horsey, Cockburn, Clerk, Bradford, C.
Stuart, L. D'Arey Irvine, Marian Ely, E. Ponsonby, Ham-
lyn Williams, S. etanhope, Copley, Hervey Bathurst, Gardi-
ner, Clive, Ouseley, Adderly, Georgiana Bushe, Domvile,
Lotiaa. Domvile, Lowther, Hervey, W. Wynn, E. Gardiner,
Clay.
The following ladies had the honour of being presented tq
her Majesty :
Ledy arary C. West, by the Countess of Delaware
Miss Thesiger, by Mrs. Thesiger.
Lady Hume Campbell, on her marriage, by Lady Peel
Lady Ellen Douglas, by the Countess of Morton
Miss Julia Erskine, by her mother, the -Hon. Mrs. Thomas
Erskine
Aliss FredCrica Law, by her mother, the Hon. Airs. Law
Miss Fitzgibbon, by the Countess Dowager of Clare
Miss Julia Smith, by her mother, Mrs. Sebastian Smith
Miss Katharine Shaw Stewart, by her mother, Lady Shaw
Stewart
Miss Rosa Spottiswoode, by Mrs. Andrew Spottiswoode
Mrs. Andrew Spottiswoode, by the Right Hon. Lady Strathe-
den and Campbell
Mrs. .Ritardo. on her marriage, by her mother, the Hon. Lady
Duff
Lady Wizram, by Lady Fitz-Wygram
Miss Duff, by her mother, the Hon. Lady Duff
Miss Elizabeth Spottiswoode, by Mrs. Andrew Spottiswoode
Lady Alicia Erskine, by the lien. Mrs. Thomas Erskine
Lady Larpent, by the Hon. Mrs. Thomas Erskine
Lady Bradford, on her marriage, by the Countess of Kinnoull
Lady Egerton, by the Countess Dowager of Listowel
Lady Fremantle, by the Duchess of Buckingham
Lady Clay, by the Viscountess Palmerston
Miss Anne Vavasour' by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton
Miss Wale, by Lady We'e
Miss Catharine Anne Macdonald, by the Duchess of Argyll
Miss Scott, by Lady Ouseley
Miss Wigram, by Lady Wigram
Miss Augusta 'Wale, by Lady Wile
Miss Stourton, by Lady I.yttelton
Miss Marianne.Beresford, by the Lady Sarah Ingestrie
Miss Emily Seymour, by Lady Seymour
Miss Scarlett, by her another the Hou. Mrs. Scarlett
Miss Vavasour, by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton
Miss Frederica Bradford, by Lady Bradford
Miss de Hersey, by her mother, Lady Louisa de Horsey
Miss Cockburn, by her mother, Lady Cockburn
Miss Hamlyn Williams, by her mother, Lady Mary Hamlyn
Williams
Miss Spencer Stanhope, by her mother, Lady Elizabeth Sp.m.
see Stanhope
e iss Whitbread, by Mrs. Samuel Whitbread
Miss Longden, by her mother, Mrs. Longden
Miss Thompson, by Lady Granville Somerset
Miss Emily Gardiner, by Lady Gardiner
Hon. Lady Hope, by the Countess of Elgin
The Hon. Mrs. Edward Bootle Wilbraham, on her marriage,
by Lady Stanley
Hon. Miss Anne G. Hewitt, by Viscountess Liffera
Bareness North, on succeeding to her title, by the Countess of
Sheffield
Hon. Airs. Vivian, by Lady Vivian
Hon. Mrs. J. C. Vivian, by Lady Vivian
Mrs. H. Hutchinson, by Mrs. Battle Wrightson
Hon. Mrs. Manners Sutton, by the Right Hon. Lady Manners
Miss Tompson, by her sister, the lion. Mrs. H. Manners
Sutton
Mrs. Thompson, by Lady Granville Somerset