The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-17 00:00:00

LONDON!
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 17, 1842.

It is justly said, that all systems are best tried by
their practical results. The present distress of the
country cannot, as our opponents say, however, be
caused by free trade ; for that has, with only one excep-
tion, never existed in England. We have had free trade
between one part of the island and another—between
Aberdeenshire and Middlesex, between Lancashire and
the county of Cork, between London (which has neither
walls, nor an octroi, save on coals) and the country,
and the manner i►► which that free trade has unques-
tionably promoted the prosperity of the whole empire is
a sure indication that free trade with foreign countries
must be equally beneficial. But we have had no free
trade with foreign countries.
Such natural diversities of soil, climate, and geogra-
phical peculiarities as give birth to the trade between
Aberdeenshire and Middlesex, and make it advantage-
ous, are still greater between foreign countries ; and
though they have different Governments, that cannot
alter or influence those great natural relations on which
all trade depends. The trade founded on them, which
extremely beneficial, between the different counties
of the same kingdom, cannot be injurious to the different
kingdoms of the earth. Had free trade universally ex-
isted, it could no more have caused our present distress
than the free trade between Manchester and Liverpool ;
but it has not existed, and must, therefore, be wholly and
completely exonerated from the unfounded charge.

Nor can it be said that approximations towards free
trade with countries under different Governments
have caused distress any more than establishing
free trade between England and Ireland, since 1800, has
injured the two countries. The chief approximations
towards free trade were made by Lord WALLACE and
Mr. HUSKISSON between 1819 and 1826, and between
the latter period and 1836 the whole empire increased
rapidly in prosperity. The Whigs, in fact, did little or
nothing to promote free trade with foreign countries.
except with China, and that trade was much increased.
They reduced taxation, as well as the Tories, which was
a step towards freedom ; and while the influence of the
reduction lasted there was prosperity in the land. When
the influence of the beneficial alterations made by Mr.
HUSKISSON and of the reductions in taxation ceased, when
the Whigs began to levy more taxes, then the baneful
restrictions on importing corn, and sugar, and wine met,
and stopped our commerce on every shore ; we could no
longer go ahead, and beggary, starvation, and discon-
tent spread over the land with frightful rapidity.
At length the existence of almost unexampled dis-
tress is acknowledged on all hands. The Duke of WEL-
LINGTON admitted it last night ; the QUEEN'S letter tes-
tifies to it ; and the advance of public money leaves
it unquestioned. It is not caused by free trade ; nor
any natural calamity ; we have been visited by no
earthquake or pestilence ; our artisans have not lost
their cunning, nor is the skill of our agriCul-
wrists withered away. Prohibitions and restrictive
laws meet us at every turn. We want food,
and are not allowed to import corn, sugar, meat, wine,
brandy, • butter, cheese, nor any of the staple articles
of human subsistence. These laws are the plain, pal-
pable, and immediate barriers to our further progress.
They are the causes of our distress ; and as all parties
arc now, with one accord, seeking for a remedy, we
know not why we should not again advert to the repeal
of those laws, as the sure and certain means of relieving
distress and lessening discontent.
Last night the subject was brought forward in the
House of Lords, and the repeal of the Corn-law, re-
cently passed, was referred to by the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON. Perhaps his Grace meant to be sarcastic, but
but we can assure him that the only hope of the mul-
titude lies in that ; and precisely that, quixotic as it may
appear, is . the object demanded by numerous bodies
of manufacturers. What then, let us ask, would be the
consequence of the total and immediate abolition of Sir
R. PEEL'S laws to keep out foreign corn and sugar ?
Let us not blink the matter, but look at it in all its
bearings.

If the Corn-laws were totally abolished, and the duty
on foreign sugar reduced to the level of the duty on
colonial sugar, all the corn and foreign sugar now in
b.bnd would be instantly entered for home consumption.
Great quantities of it would be immediately sold, and
tho.,e who now hold it, would immediately send abroad
for more: There would be an instant demand fur capi-
tal to a great extent ; there would be life in the money
market. Our merchants would be immediately sensible
that they would be' able to sell additional qnantitics of
woollens, and cottons, and hardware, in the Brazils and
in the United States. Gocds would be in demand, and
there would be hope and life in the markets of Leeds,
Manchester, and Sheffield. More work would be in-
stantly given out, mills would work full time ; wages
would cease to fall, and there would be again life and
hope in the labour market. More ships would be re •
quired ; there would be a stir in all our ports ; and pro-
sperity and gladness would instantly return to every part
of the empire.

But it is said that the agrriculturists and the sugar
planters would be injured. We deny it. The repeal of
the obnoxious laws could not add a grain to the present
quantity of corn and sugar in existence, nor cause any
more to be grown this season. All the corn which is

now in bond will'come into consumption in the course
of a few weeks, at a nominal duty, without any addi-
tional demand for it. Repeal the Corn-law, and though
not an additional grain of corn could be obtained,
the demand for it would be greatly increased. Our people
ana much under-fed ;we believe that twice the pre-
sent quantity would scarcely suffice them ; and with a
free trade they would have the means of purchasing twice
the quantity. Under the influence of hope the manufac-
turers would continue to set more hands to work, and the
demand for food would increase faster than our own and
other countries could supply it. There would be no fall
of price, therefore, beyond the fall which will take' place
after the harvest is gathered in ; not a soul would he in-
layed by the repeal, but multitudes would be saved from
starving, the country would be secured from decay, and
the monarchy from a great convulsion.
_ . .

The same argument applies to sugar. The quantity
now grown would not meet the demand, and the planters
would lose only a portion of the discriminating tax they
now levy on us. They would cease, however, to compete
with one another so eagerly as at present ; they would
cultivate at a less cost ; and ultimately would lose no •

thing. We have no hesitation, therefore, in asserting
that the measure of repealing the PEEL Corn-keeping-
out Bill this Session, to which the Duke of WELLINGTON
L:st night sneeringly alluded, is precisely that measure
which would give the country instant relief, and on
which, as we know—hopeless as it may appear—many
manufacturers yet rely to save them and their workmen
from ruin.

When the Messrs. WIGNEY, the bankers of Brighton,
e ere under examination seven weeks ago, on April 25th,
drew attention to the conduct of London houses,
which, taking great care of themselves, countenance
hi uses which they know are unsound, in carrying on a
business which they also know must he an injury, and
probably a fraud, on some unsuspecting persons. We
then said that the sort of business the Brighton Bank
carried on, the nature of the payments for which it
had to provide, and the kind of security it must have
c,ntinually offered for advances, must have made
its London Correspondents acquainted, years ago'
with the true state of its affairs. Who can believe, if
such were the case, had the Messrs. MASTERMAN refused
the agency of the Messrs. WIGNEY'S Bank some years
ago, that the delusion practised by those gentlemen
could have been so long continued, or would have been
so injurious to the Messrs. WrolstEy's clients ? We fur-
ther remarked that we have not heard that the London
correspondents of the Brighton Bank are creditors to
any extent ; they no doubt took care of themselves ;
but whatever may be the case in law, it does not
satisfy morality, that an opulent London house, which
lends its countenance to a country house through six
years of insolvency, in the end escaped without any
loss. Reminding our readers of these circumstances,
we now leave the following extract from the examination
of Mr. J. N. WIGNEY, on Wednesday, to the common
sense of the reflecting public:—

In your 1 alance sheet there is an item of 27,5941. 3s. 104. in
liabilities to Messrs Masterman and others, believed to be good.
How much of that has been paid?— All except one bill. When
all the liabilities have run off, Messrs. Masterman will be in-
debted to the assignees to the extentof 2,0031. 3s. Mr. George
Wigney's name is endorsed on bills to the extent of 13,0001. He
beean to endorse bills for me during the last year. My account
was overdrawn, and Mr. Masterman said it was desirable to
have a name on the bill.

THE QUEEN'S DRAWING-ROOM.
The Queen held a Drawing-room yesterday afternoon at St.
James's Palace. Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived from
Buckingham Palace, escorted by a party of the Life Guards,
attended by the Duchess of Buccleuch, Mistress of the Robes;
the Countess of Dunmore, Lady in Waiting; Hon. Miss
Stanley, and Hon. Miss Hamilton, Maids of Honour in Wait-
ing ; Lord Rivers, Lord in Waiting; Lord George Lennox,
Lord in Waiting on his Royal Highness; Mr. Ormsby Go-e,
Groom in Waiting; Lord Charles Wellesley (Clerk Marshal),
Equerry in Waiting; Major General Sir Edward Bowater,
Equerry in Waiting on his Royal Highness, and Mr. Wilson
and Mr. Wortley, Pages of Honour in Waiting. The Lord
Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Master of the Horse,
and also the Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert, received the
Queen and the Prince at St. James's Palace on their arrival.
The Counts Alenstiorf accompanied her Majesty and his Royal
Highness from Buckingham Palace.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, attended
by Lady Georgiana Bathurst, arrived by the garden entrance,
and was received by the Vice-Chamberlain, who conducted her
Royal Highness to the Queen's Closet.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent was attended by
Lady Anna Maria Dawson, and Colonel Sir George Couper,
I:aronet.

The Ladies of the Bedchamber, the Maids of Honour, and
[he Women of the Bedchamber to her Majesty were in at-
tendance.

The Qeeen and Prince Albert and their Illustrious relatives,
attended by the Royal suite, entered the Throne. room, when
the following presentations to her Majesty took place in the
Foreign Di, lomatic Circle, before the general Circle.
Madame lloutourlin nee Princese Stcherbatoff, by the
Bai oness Brunow, the Lady of the Russian Minister.
Le Baron de Barante, Ambassadeur de France a Peters-
boure, and Monsieur de Barante (his son), by Count de St.
Aulaire, the French Ambassador.

Le Vicomte Gustave de Tonghe, by M. Van de Weyer, the
Belgian Minister.
I.e General Boutourlin, and Le Chevalier de Habbe, Charge
d'Affaires, from Russia to Brazil, by Baron Brunow, the
Russian Minister.

Monsieur do Orlich, Capitaine dans les Gardes de S. M. le
Roi de Prussia, by Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian Minister:
Le Barom de Palsesay, by Baron de Neuman, the Austrian
Minister.

Son Excellence General Bustamente, late President of
Mexico, by Mr. Murphy, the Mexican Charge d'Affaires.
The Members of the Foreign Diplomatic Corps present were
the French Ambassador and the Countess de St. Aulaire, and
Comtesse de Flahault ; M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Mi-
nister; Baron de Cetto, the Bavarian Minister; Count Pol-
lon, the Sardinian Minister ; M. Fortique, the Venezuelan 111i-
nister ; the Russian Minister and Baroness Brunow, and
Count Chreplowitch, first Secretary to the Legation ;
General Castecicola, Neapolitan Minister ; Count Kielman-
segge, the Hanoverian Minister; Baron de Hugel, the Wur-
temberg Minister ; the Grecian Minister and Madame Tri-
coupi, and M. Phocion Roque, Secretary of Legation ; the
Prussian Minister and Madame Bunsen, and Baron Ckarles
de Canitz, Secretary of Legation ; the Brazilian Minister and
Madame Marques Lisboa; Mr. Everett, United States Mini•
ster ; Count Reventlow, the Danish Minister, Baron Brock-
dorff, the Secretary, and M. de Bielke, Attache to the Lega-
tion ; Baron de Nieumann, the Austrian Minister, and Barons
Koller and Lebzeltern, Secretaries of Legation ; the Spanish
Minister, and J. Pizarro, Attache to the Legation; Baron
Gersdorff, the Saxon Minister; the Mexican Charge d'Affaires
and Madame Murphy, and M. Negrete, Secretary to the
; Baron de Rehausen, Swedish Charge d'Affaires; the
New Grenada Charge d'Affaires and Madame Mosquera, and
le Baron Giordano.

After the Foreign Diplomatic Corps the general Company
were introduced, when the following presentations to her
Majesty took place in the general Circle :
Dvrarkanouth Tagore Zemindar, by Lord Fitzgerald and
Vesci.

1 he Countess of Morley, on her marriage, by the Countess
of Poulett.

Lady Bruce, by the Lady Langdale.
Miss Bruce, by her mother, Lady Bruce.
Mrs. Rogers, by the Duchess of Buccleuch.
Mrs. John Meek Britten, by her Grace the Duchess of
Buccleuch.

Miss Shaw Lefevre, by Mrs. Shaw Lefevre.
The Hon. Lady Bagot, upon going to Canada, by the
Countess of Haddington.
The Drawing-room was attended by the Archbishops of
Canterbury and York, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamber-
lain, the Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen .at-
Arms, Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting, the Captain of the
Yeoman Guard, the Vice-Chancellor Bruce, the Vice-Cham-
berlain, the Treasurer of the Household, the Comptroller of
the Household, the Judge Advocee-General, Hon. Sir Ed-
ward Butler, Lieutenant of the Honourable Corps of Gentle-
men-at-Arms; Mr. George Philip Lee, Lieutenant of the
Yeoman Guard ; the Master of the Ceremonies, Captain
Henry Hope, C. 8., Naval Aide-de-ramp in Waiting; Colonels
Broke, Weare, Dyneley, C. 8., and Hon. H. Dundas, C. 13,
Aide-de-Camp to the Queen; Lieutenant-Colonel Fitch,
her Catholic Majesty's service; Mr. Henry Robin-
son, Standard-bearer to the Honourable Corps of
Gentlemen-at-Arms ; Sir George Houlton, Ensign of
the Yeoman Guard ; Mr. Sheriff Rogers, Mr. Sheriff Mag-
nay, Mr. Under-Sheriff Britten, Sir G. Hayter, M. A. S. L.,
pr.ncipal painter in ordinary to her Majesty; Lieutenant-
Colonel MiDowalll Life Guards, Silver Stick ; Sir Archi-
bald Macdonald, 1111Pierry to his Royal Highness the Duke of
Sussex ; Major Hyde, Assistant Master and Marshal of the
Ceremonies; Rev. Dr. Hook, Chaplain in Waiting; Mr.
James Bunee Curling, Clerk of the Cheque of the Hon. Corps
of Gentlemen at Arms ; Mr. Ellertherp, Clerk of the Cheque
of the Yeoman Guard ; Captain S Saddler, Exon in Waiting;
Mr. Beresford, Groom of the Privy Chamber ; Captain Green,
Gentleman Usher in Waiting; Sir Benjamin Smith ; Colonel
Godwin, Gentleman Usher to his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, in Waiting ; Colonel Sir John Morillyon Wilson, Gen-
tleman Usher to the Privy Chamber of her Majesty the Queen
Dowager ; and the following Ladies—
Ducts asses—lnverness, Beaufort, Roxburgh, Cleveland.
MA RCH toNEss—Londonderry.
Co uNTESSES—BeImore, Pembroke, Plymouth, Arran, Clan-
william, Chichester, Delswarr, Dowager Listowel, Eldon, Eg-
linton, Sefton, Egmont, Aylesford, Dowager Chichester,
Brownlow, Haddington, Jersey, Verulam, Radnor, Poulett,
Essex, Dowager Carnwath, Zetland, B. Metaxa.
VISCOUNTESSES Galway, Dowager Galway, Bernard,
Acheson, Howick, Folkestone, Ashbrook, Duncan.
LA DlES—Gomm,Whetley, Ernest B. Bruce, Cowper, Lang-
dale, Dymoke, Flower, Maria K,ppel, Lovat, Katherine Doug-
las, Herries, Leigh, Waterpark, Talbot de Malahide, Osborne,
Brabazon, Harriot Mostyn, Burnley, Cremorne, Clark, M
Fitzalan Howard, Stanley, Geary, A. Poulett, Stewart Bruce,
Heatheete, Caroline Duncombe, Wrottesley, Harriet Lane,
Barton, A. Finch, Marian Alford, Sarah Finch, Dowager
Arundel, Helena French, Elizabeth West, Mary West, Clemen-
tina Villiers, Radstock, Bowater, F. Vane, L. Cornwallis, K.
Jel myn, J. Eliot, Wenlock, Carington, Lacon, West, Baker,
J. Norreys, Maclaine, A. Arden, F. Sandon, M. Stanley,
Williams, Heytesbury, A. Vane, M. Agar, Wilson, Willoughby
de Eresby, Cust (2), Knatchbull, Gerard, Lyndhurst, J. Bols-
i verie, C. Towneley, E. Cornwallis, Graham, Hanmer, Dow-
ager Clinton, Montfort, E. Feilding, C. Greville, Leighton,
Frances Hope, Belhaven.
BARONESSES—De Rothschild, Charles de Rothschild.
I lONOURABLES—Mrs. R. Cavendish, Mrs. P. Savile,
Sophia Wheatley, Emma Leigh, Mrs. Milnes, Miss C. Clif-
ford, Miss Flower, Mrs. A. Capel, Mrs. Mackenzie, Mrs.
Massy, Mrs. Rushout, Maria Rice, Lady Murray, Mrs. T.
Kenyon. Mrs. A'Court, Mrs. E. Kenyon, Jane Lawley, Mrs.
W. Grieve, Miss Monckton, F. Rice, Mrs. Bowles, Lady
Betlingfield, Mrs. Caulfield, Mrs. B. Percy, Mrs. R. Smyth,
Mrs. E. Petre.
E. Lionel Welles, Shaw Lefevre, Mon-
MIST RESSES—....pry,
Warburton. ew-
tefiore, Brame Elwyn, John. Dymoke,
John Cary,
y th De
digate Ferrior, G P.
Burgh,' Egerton,
Thorn-
ton, Bullock, H. Franks, W. wW"Benett Grove, Barry, Wa3-
Neeite, Grituyile'e floohlford, Icketat, J. Thorn-
iodudtehl,l
jfc Cll, n tAolcaky,nAe:
JLoashnceAllieloGlm:, GNiradAdlianegpthoenr,scGn'eo VRg
Hill, Sonar, Charles Earle, Charles Bruce, Outram, Whitmore,
Claxton, Pasley, Glegg, Charles Simeon, Thomas Gladstone,
Robert Cartwright, G. H. Vyse, H. Colville, W. Pole, Norton,
Harcourt, Murray, Wyndham, J. N. Gladstone, Vernon Smith,

Douglas, Ayscough, Bulkeley, Frobisher, Bagabaw, Caulfield,
J. Abel smith, Talfourd, N. Bland, Broke, E. Rice, J.
Bastard, M. R. Scott, G. St. John, W. Miles, H. hinde,
Spicer, N. Sutton, Dugdale.
MissEs—Fraser, Dennis., Mary Wheatles' Horatio Sanford,
Egerton. E. G. Manley, Laura Bowles, Ayscough, F. Lane
Fo.x, Hinchman, Mid; a,d, Grove, Waddington, Oswald,
Trotter, Trench, Maria Trench, Faulkner, Louisa Douglas,
Riddell, Ja' e West, Struart, Emily Waddington, Bromley,
Mary Spicer, Pugh. Spicer, Byrne, Georgians Byrne, Mary
Bromley, Whitmore, Lucy Whitmore, Mills, Emily Glegg,
Tollemache, Osborne, Berkeley, West, Colville, D'Henin,
Ellen R. Bullock, Evans, Mary Oswald, E. A. Bennett,
Rive, Percy, Glegg, Ussher, Adderly, G. Bushe, Helen
W 3 ndham, Emil Bu lock, Proctor, Caulfield, Bastard, Mayne,
M. Ely, Grey, E. Kenyon, Newte, Beresford, Wilson, M. Sey-
mour, A. Seymour, Fielden, Mytton, Sprye, Copley, Douglas.
The following Ladies had the honour of being presented :o
her Majesty :
The Countess of Delmore by the Marchioness of Ely
The Hon. Mrs. Richard Cavendish, on her marriage, by Lady
Waterpark
The Hon. Mrs. Philip Sas ile, on her marriage, by Viscountess
Canning
The Hon. Emma Lei ;h, by her mother, the Lady Leigh
The Baroness Charles de Rothschild, on her marriage, by her
mother, the Baroness de Rothschild
Mrs. Sprye, by the Countess of Dunmore
Mrs. E. Lionel Welles. by Mrs. Sprye
Hon. Miss Constantia Clifford, by the Lady Lovat
Lady Maria Keppel, by the Countess of Charlemont
Mrs. Brame Elwyn, by Lady Maclaine
Hon. Mrs. Manes, by the Dowager Viscountess Galway
Mrs. John Dymoke, by Lady Dymoke
Miss Egerton, by her mother, Mrs. Egerton
Miss Horatio Sanford, by the Countess Paulett
Miss Dennis' by Mrs. Brame Elwyn
Miss Fraser, by her mother, Lady Lovat
Miss Oswald, by Viscountess Canning
Nlrs.,Murray, by Viscountess Beresford
Miss Waddington, by her mother, Mrs. Waddington
Miss Grove, by the Countess of Pembroke
Miss Hildyard, by Lady Bromley
Miss HinAman, by Mrs. Newte
Miss F. Lane Fox, by the Countess of Zetland
Mrs. Robert Cartwright, on her marriage, by the Countess of
Plymouth
Mrs. G. Parker Bushe, on her marriage, by the Dowager
Countess of Listowel
The Hon. Mrs. Edward Kenyon, on her marriage, by Lady
Err est Bruce
Lady Caroline Greville, by the Duchess of Buccleuch
Lady Carrington, by Lady Willoughby de Eresby
Miss Lama Bowles, by her mother, the Hon. Mrs. Bowles.
Mrs. Warburton, by Lady Brabazon
Lady Caroline Duncombe, on her marriage, by the Cowstets of
Eldon
Mrs. Nevleeate, by Lady Bowater
Mrs. Admiral Ayscougl* and Miss Ayscough, by the Hon. Lady

Cockburn
Mrs. Ferrior, by the Hon. Mrs. Mackenzie
Hon. Mrs. Bei tie Percy, by the Countess of Beverley
Mrs. Haygarth, by Lady Ifirriot Lloyd Mostyn
Mrs. Samuel Thornton, by the Hon. Mrs. Mines
Lady Leighton, by Lady Stanley, of Alderley
Lady Baer, on her marriage, by her mother, Mrs.. Nahum
Sutton
Mrs. M'Clintnek, by Viscountess Bernard
Lady Harriet Lane, by the Countess of Zetland
The Countess of Arran, by the Duchess of Inverness
Lrdy Sarah Finch, by her mother, the Countess of Ayleskord,
Miss Wilson, by her mother, Lady Wilson
Duchess of Cleveland, by the Countess of Brownlow
Mrs Waddington, by Viscountess Galway
Mrs. J. T. Mayne, by Mrs. Gwynue Holford
Mrs. Glegg, by Mrs. Egerton
Lady West, by Lady Durham
Mrs. General Cau'tield, by the Countess of CharlemOnt
Mrs. Arthur Laseelles, by Lady Frances Hope
Mrs. Barry, by the Couutess Listowel
Mrs. G. Gordon Macpherson, by Lady Barton
Mrs. Widdington Riddell, by Lady Gerard
Miss E. G. Manley, by Lady Lovat
Mrs. Ou'ram, by lady Clare
Mrs Pasley, by the Countess of Haddington
Lady Lacon, by the Countess of Oxford
Lady Feary, by the Hon. Mrs. Charles Bruce '
Lady Heatheote. by Lady Helena Trench
Mrs. Frobisher, by the Marchioness of Ormond,
Lady Helena Trench, on receiving the rank of an Earl's
daughter, by the Countess of Egmont
Mrs. G. H. Vyss, by Lady Marian Alford
Lstly Stewart Bruce, by Lady Katherine Jermyn
Mrs. Ilarte Franks, on going to India, by Lady Jephsoe
Norre} s
Mrs. William Penett, by the Dowager Lady Arundell
Mrs. Grove, by the Countess of Pembroke
Mrs. John Cary, by the Dowager Lady BedinWeld
Mis. John Malcolm, by the Countess of Plymouth
Mrs. George Hid, by the Countess Delawarr
Mrs. Bonsr, by Lady Bowater
Nils. Charles Earle, by Lady Saltoun
Mt s. Charles Simeon, by Lady Knatchbull
The Hon. Mrs. Massey, by Lady tutor,
Miss Mary Seymour, by the Dowa;zer Lady Clinton
Miss Percy, by the Countess of Beverley
Miss E. A iina Bentiett, by her mother, Mrs. William Bennett
Miss Mary Oswald, by the Viscountess Cannins
Miss Ellen H. Bullojk, by her Mother, Mrs. Bullock
Miss Giegg, by Mrs. Glegg
Miss West, by her mother, Lady West
Miss Tollemache, by Mrs. De Burgh
Miss Berkeley, by Lady Charlotte Berkeley
Miss Emily Glegg, by Mrs. Glegg
Miss Miles, by her mother. Mrs. William Miles
Miss Mary Bromley, by her mother, Lady Bromley
Miss Spicer, by her mother, Mrs. Spicer
Miss Mary Spicer, by her mother, Mrs. Spicer
Miss Emily Waddington, by her mother, Mrs. Waddington
Miss Stewart, by Mrs. Brownlow Poulter
Miss Jane West, by her mother, Lady West
Miss Louisa Douglas, by her mother, Mrs. Admiral Douglas
Miss Evans, by Airs. George St. John
Miss Helen Wyndham, by Mrs. yndham
Miss Faulkener, by her aunt, the Dowager Lady Arundel
Miss Maria French, by the Countess of Egmont
;Miss Trench, by the Countess of Egmont
The following Gentlemen were present :
Dtrees—Hamil,on, Buceleuch, Rotburgh, St. Alban's,
N ,rfolk, Beaufort.

MARQUIS—Bute.
LA R LS—Chichester, Enniskillen, Morley, A)lesford, Arran,
Egmont, Browniow, Leitrim, Sefton, Haddington, Eldon.
ViscouNrs—Galway, Acheson, Bernard, Folkestone, Dun-
can, Alford, Northland:
ARCHBISHOP—Armagh.
Loans—Leigh, Lovat, Stafford, Clifford, Talbot de Mala-
hide, Waterpark, Wenlock, Carington, Wrottesley, Bloomfield,
Fitzgerald and Vesci, Stanley, Wharncliffe, Brabazon, Al.
Kerr, Radsteck, Cremorae, Belhaven.
BA noN—Charles de Rothschild.
COUNT—B. Metaxa.
MOUT HONOURABLE—R. Vernon Smith.
HONOUR; BLEB—Richard Cavendish, Rev. P. Yorke Savile,
Rev. Edward Keppel, W. J. G. Chetw3nd, Edward Petre, 0.
Duncombe, Edward Mostyn, A. F. Capel, C. Lennox Butler.
Sias—Henry Smyth, M.D., Henry Dymoke, Baldwin
Leighton, Montague Cholmeley, Edmund Lacon, George
Baker, John Harington, William Heathcote, D. J. Norreys,
AI. D., Thomas Ul,her, E. B. Baker, J. T. Lee, G. Jackson,
J. Hanmer, J. Gerard, J. Hoare.
DEAN—Chichester.
REV. DOCTORS—CIaxon, Hook, Hawtrey,
REV. MESSIEURS—J.Iin Dymoke, F. S. Trench, M. It.
Scott, J. Carver, G. G. Stonestreet, -W. S. Rowe.
D ,CTORS—Lazen, Field, Outram, Harrison, Jackson, Ludlow,
R. H. Mackenzie, Hindley.
MitsstEUßS—E. Lionel Wells, George Whitmore' Keate,
Alexander, H. Coe Coape, S. A. Donaldson, Bell, Bullock,
A. Robinson, 0. Bateman, Mayne, Hicks, Tisdall, J. W.
Stratford, G. P. Bushe, Drewe, H. B. Walker, Whitmore,
G. Fitzgerald Higgins' E. Kenyon, Stuart Farquharson, N.
Bland, John Cary, Harcourt, Charles B. Buller, Colvile,
M.P., Bullock, Johnson Neale, Darwin Galton, J. G. T.
Sinclair, Gwynne, J. T. Gorle, J. Halkett, Egerton, Robert
Kennedy, Belford H. Wilson, Newdegate, Thomas Bacon, De
Burgh, John Tyndale, Challoner, Hamilton Story, Burton
Borough, Dewar, Summers Harford, William Miles, M.P.,
Weddington Reddell, Spicer, W. T. Praed, Bulkeley, Colvin,
Ferdinand Huddlestone, C. Sidney Hawkins, Alexander Os-
wald, Bumburg, M.P. J. F. Stanford, George G. Macpher-
son, Waddington, M.P., Manley, Wm. Maxwell Dirom, Fre-
ekrick Seymour, Bonar, M'Clintock, Thos. Gladstone, M.P.,
Robert J. Bagshaw, Dugdale, M. P. , O'Moore, O'Connor
Henchy, Robertson Barclay, Hodgson Hinde, M.P., Edward
Rice, M.P., Hindley, M.P., John Copling, %% Mini Bridges,
Ouseley Higgins, Benett, M.P., C. R. Wh'telock, Elliott,
G. M. Hicks, Beckett, M. P., Charles Towneley, Whitmore,
Hamilton, Milnes, M.P.
FIELD-MA e.snAL—The Duke of Wellington.
A DMIRA Ls—Douglas, Ayscough, Sir T. Troubridge, Sir
John West, K.C.B.
('ENERALS—Sir Wm. Gomm, Sir Robert Barton, Sir
Frederick Adam, Caulfedd, Shulrick, Sir Archibald Alaclaine.
iggs, Pasley.
Co N t.s —Fitch, H. C. NI. S., Sir George Cooper, Bart.,
Sir William Herries, Proctor, Peter Hawker, Hon. G. R.
Trevor, ALP., Freestun, Samuel Dales, Trevor, H. Colvile,
North, Discon, Ellis, Garland, Fludyer, Symons, Sir Charles
Dance, Love, Gwvnne Holford, N. Aloes, Angelo.
MAJORS Pugh, Way mouth, Cooke, Last, Pinckney,
Raines, John Maclean, }lallifax. Drought.
CA PTAINS—Sprye, Senoc Hawker, Hilliard, Berkeley,
C. 13., 'Bateman, F. V. Cotton' Harte Franks, Frobisher,
Aldridge, Grierson, Taswell, William Henry Haslewofid,
Edward Stanley, Sainthill, Sandiman, Thornton, Wingfield,
M'Cnmming, Moore, Howard Vyse, W. F. Hay, Chambers,
Sir T. Fellowes, Samuel Pair, Maher, J. Willoughby, Hoare,
Berkeley Maxwell, S. Price, Hathorn, Houston Stewart, C. 8.,
Wilson, Berners, H. Roberts, Emery, C. M. Caldwell, Mor-
gan', H. A.C.
eOMMANDIRS—BradIey, J. N. Gladstone. Gordon G.
Macdonald, Tennyson D' Eyncourt, T. G. Dick, Norcott, R.N.,
Broke, De Saumarez, John Gwyn Wigley, R. H. Fleming,
Monypenny, Schomberg, G. It Ogilvy.
LIEUTENANTS.—KendaII, H. J. Margarv, Short, H.
Curling, Colin Campbell, Kane, Holland, Hpdgkinsion. R.
Hughes, Capel Coape, Eardley Norton, Lord Frederick Kerr,
Maitland, Churchill Spencer, A. Cumming, J. Stewart, D.
Henderson, Humbley, Haygarth, Rattenbury, Wardlaw, Percy
Hill,
ENSIGNS.—H. E. Weare, L. H. Bedford, Mason.
The Queen gave audiences to the Lord Chamberlain and
Colonel Walton, Field Officer in Waiting.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert and the Royal Suite, re-
turned to Buckingham Palace after the Drawing-room.
The Mess of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-
at- Arms dined together last evening at Long's Hotel.

14 The Pique frigate, of
PORTSMOUTH, ji.TNE
with most of the former
en Monday direct for Hong Kong,
Athenian freight-ship
sailed
at this port upwards of 700 tons of
36 guns, was re-commissioned yesterday.
rCe.aapptapoininHte.dF. Forbes,
Rear-Admiral Hon. P. D.
provisions.
having
in command at this harbour, and superin-
Bouverie, second
nn
dock-yard, returns from leave of absence to-
morrow, of the hoard
China.
IV. Henderson, C. B. The Admiral's period of
greefeoirvetdhe fleet in
morrow, and re-hoists his flag on board the Victory, 110 guns,
Captain %V. •
servitude at this port expires on the
successor is not yet known. Report gives the appointment to
Rear-Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis, Bart. The Volcano steamer,
Lieutenant Featherstone commanding, left the harbour at an
early hour this morning, and proceeded to Southampton for'
the purpose of embarking her Majesty the Queen Dowager,
who was expected to arrive by the noon train. At 230 P.M.
the Volcano was seen passing through Spithead, with the
Royal standard flying. At three o'clock her Majesty and
suite entered the harbour, receiving the customa'y aalutes
from the men of war and batteries; many persons assembled
on the fortifications and beach cheering most heartily. The
Queen Dowager visited the St.. Vincent, flag-ship of the Com-
mander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, and pro-
ceeded up the ha.:-bour to steam round the Hastings, of 74 guns,
in which ship her Majesty, on her late visit to Malta, embarked.
At seven o'clock the Royal party proceeded in the Volcano to
Hyde, where her Majesty landed, remaining the night at the
Pier Hotel, proceeding to-morrow to the delightful village of
Ventnor, where ire Queen Dowager, it is expected,
sojourn some days.
Rear-Admiral Griffiths died at his villa, at Barnes-
common, on Tuesday, in his 73d year. will

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