The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-16 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen gave a State Ball at Buckingham Palace yester-
day evening. It was the first this season, and was most nu-
merously and brilliantly attended by the Royal Family, the
Foreign Diplomatic Corps, and foreigners of distinction, and
nearly all the Nobility in town.
The usual arrangements for the Fete were made within the
Palace ; the, Throne-room and the Ball-roam were fitted
for dancing, having in each apartment an elevated orchestra
for the Quadrille Bands. The magnificent Picture Gallery,
the Grand Saloon, anti the Green Drawing-room werettpenjd
on the occasion, and the Yellow Drawing-room was the
reception-room for the Royal Family. The entire suite, but
particularly the two ball-rooms, were most brilliantly illumi-
minated with handsome chandeliers, candelabra, and branches
with wax lights, in the greatest profusion. In the recesses,
and also on the Grand Staircase, were tastefully grouped, a
great variety of the choicest greenhouse flowers and. plants,
and the Grand Hall was also most elegantly decorated
with beautiful flowers. The Yeomen of the Guard lin, (I
the Hall in their Coronation Costumes, commanded by
Captain Seymour Sadler, the Exon in Waiting, rer
Edward Pearson, the Lieutenant, and Mr. Ellesthorp, Clerk
of the Cheque of the Corps, mere also present. The
band of the Coldstream Guards were stationed here, and per-
' formed a choice selection of pieces in the course of the even-
ing. At the entrance the Queen's guard of the Scots Fusilier
Guard was on duty, with the band of the Regiment, and re-
ceived the Members of the Royal Family on their arrival with
the usual honours.
The company began to arrive at the Palace at half-past nine
o'clock, and continued setting down, almost uninterruptedly,
until midnight. The dresses of the Ladies were very elegant
i
and splendid, and the Gentlemen appeared n their Full Dress
Costumes, the Members of Orders of Knighthood wearing their
respective insignia.
Among the earlier arrivals were the Lord Chancellor, Lord
Denman, Lord Langdale, Lord Cottenham, Viscount Mel-
bourne, Earl of liaddington, Duke of Wellington, Dulee of
Cleveland, Lord Mentear,le, Lord John Russell, Lard Glenolg,
Duke of Bedford, Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir James Graham,
Sir Henry Hardinge, Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, Viscount
and Viscountess Palmerston, Duke and Duchess of Buckin4iam
Sir Edward Knatchbull, Earl of Ripon, Sir John Hobkouse,
and the Right Hon. E. Ellice.

Their Royal Ilighnessisthe Duke and Prince George of
Cambridge arrived at ten o'clock and were followed by her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, and her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria
Dawson, and Sir George Couper, Bart. Their Royal High-
nesses were received by the Maids of Honour and the Equerries
in Waiting, who conducted them to the State Boor's.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Royal
Family, and attended by the Lord Chamberlain, and the Lord
Steward, left the Yellow Drawing-room at half-pa4t
ten o'clock, and passing through the Grand Saloon
entered the Ball-room, where a set fur quadrilles was imme-
diately formed.
The following had the honour of reosiving initiations
The American Minister, Mrs. and Miss Everett, and the
Gentlemen Attaches to the Legation ; the Buenos Ayrean
Minister, the Austrian Minister, and Gentlemen Attaches;
the Bavarian Minister, and Baronet.* de Cetto ; the 1301g,ian
Minister, Madame Van de Weyer, and Gentlemen Attaches ;
the Brazilian Minister, Madame Marques Lisboa, and Gentle-
men Attaches ; the Danish Minister, and Couutees de Re-
ventow, and Gentlemen Attaches ; the French Am-
bassador, and Countess-de St. A ulaire, and Gentlemen Attaches
to the Embassy; the Grecian Minister and Madame Tricoupi,
and Gentlemen Attaches; the Hanoveiian Minister, and
Gentlemen Attaches; the Mexican Charge d'Affaires, and
Madame Murphy, and Gentlemen Attaches to the Mission ;
the Neapolitan Minister and Gentlemen Attaches ; the Nether-
lands Charge d'Affaires and Gentlemen Attaches; the New
Granada Charge d'Affaires and Madame Mosquera, and Secre-
tary to Mission; the Portuguese Minister and Gentlemen At-
taches ; the Prussian Minister and Madame de Bunsen, and
Gentlemen Attaches ; the Russian Minister, Baroness
Brunow, and Gentlemen Attaches ; the Sardinian
Minister and Gentlemen Attaches ; the Saxon Minister ;
the Spanish Alinister and Gentlemn Attaches ; the Swedish
Charge d'Affaires; Baroness de Rehausen and Gentlemen
Attaches to the Mission ; the Turkish Charge d'Affaires ;
the Venezuelan Minister; the Wurtemberg Minister and
Gentlemen Attaches; Count Antoine Esterhazy ; Lieut. Cary;
Madame de Helfer ; Count de Kaiseeling ; Baron de Langer ;
Mr. W. T. Epson; Lieut. Grundell ; Mr. Plupeden; Le
Capitaine Istomin ; Mr. Emilie Sancho ; the Lord Chan-
cellor; the speaker of the House of Commons; the Gold
Stick ; Viscount Sydney, Lord in Waiting ; the Hon. Sir
Wm. Lumley, Groom in Waiting; the Silver Stick ; the Lady
in Waiting on the Duchess of Kent the Lady in Waiting on
the Duchess of Cambridge; the Lady in Waiting on the Du-
chess of Gloucester, the Lady in Waiting on the Princess
Sophia Matilda; the Gentleman attending the Duke
of Cambridge ; the Gentleman attending the Duke
of Sussex ; the Field Officer in Waiting of the Foot
Guards ; the Commanding Officer of the Grenadier Guards;
the Commanding Officer of the Coldstream Guards ; the Com-
manding Officer of the Scots Fusileer Guards; the Command-
ing Officers of the four Battalions doing London duty ; Three
Officers of each of the four Battalions ; the Commanding
3fficer and Three Officers of the Battalion stationed at the
Tower ; the Commanding Officer of the Ist Life Guards, and
four Officers; the Commanding Officer of the 2d Life Guards,
and four Officers ; the Commanding Officer of the Royal
Horse Guards, and four Officers; the Commanding Officer of
the 11th Hussars, ant. three Officers ; the Commanding Officer
of the 15th Foot, and three Officers.
DUKES—Newcastle, Rutland, Cleveland, Sutherland, So-
merset, Northumberland, Wellington, Richmond, Devonshire,
Roxburgh, Bedford, Argyll, Buceleich, Montrose, Bucking-
ham, Beaufort, Leeds.
DUCHESSES—Northumberland, Argyll, Montrose, Rich-
mond, Cleveland, Roxburgh, Inverness, Leeds, Beaurort,
Dowager Roxburgh, Buckingham, Sutherland, Dowager Rich-
mond, Bedford, Buceleneh, Somerset.
MAnQrisrs.—Thomond, Worcester, Twoeddale, Sligo,
Queensbury, Tavistock, Huntley, Exeter, Aylesbury, Granby,
Salisbury, Conyngham, Cholmondeley, Ailsa, 13readalbane,
Camden, Clanricarde, Abercorn, Anglesey, Normanby, Lorn,
Tichfield, Bristol, 13Iandford, Headfort, Douro, Londonderry,
Kildare, Downshire, Wellesley, Ormonde, Douglas, Lans-
downe, Westminster.
MARCHIONESSES.—Camden, Thomond, Douro, London-
derry, Exeter, Normanby, Clanricarde, Downshire, Queens--
bury, Cholmondelev, Bristol, Ailesbury, Lansdowne, Treed-
dale, Abereorn, Sligo, Douro, Westminster, Ailsa, Breadal-
bone, Dowager Ormonde, Wellesley.
En ni.s—Dalhousie, Powis, Cardigan, Euston, Tankerville,
Haddington, Lon:dale, Kinnoull, Bective, Bruce, Brownlow,
Cadogan, Beverley, Mexborough, Pembroke, Carlisle,
Wilton, Mayo, Dunmore, Uxbridge, Westmoreland, For-
tescue. De Grey, Veru!am, Camperdown, Grey, Gains-
borough, Fitzhardinge, Hard w icke, Talbot, Wicklow,
Minto, March, Zetland, Listowel, Sheffield, Onslow, Moray,
Galloway, Belfast, Warwick, Denbigh, Morton, Morley, Cour-
town, Ripon, Aboyne, Bathurst, Clanwilliam, Amherst, Fin-
gall, Clarendon, Fitzwilliam, Eglinton, Aberdeen, Elgin,
Rosslyn, Liverpool, Sefton, Orkney, Manvers, Rosebery,
Grosvenor, Cawdor, Leitrim, Lovelace. DelAvarr, Shel-
burne, Charlemont, Albemarle, Chesterfield, Jermyn, °carper,
Antrim, 'byre, Clare, Yarborough, Lincoln, Sandwich,
Shaftesbury, Stanhope, Ashburnham, Burlington, Radnor,
llchester, Somers. _ _

COUNTESSES—Tankerville Glare (Dow.), Lovelace, Had-
dington, Mulgrave, Chesterfield, Westmoreland, Craven, Dal-
housie, Beverley, Grey, Craven, Bridgewater Delaware Chi-
chester, Dowager Somers, Listowel, Minto, Ashburn-
ham, Sandwich, Eglinton, Zetland, Ripen, Kinnoull,
Dunmore, Galloway, Mexborough, Charlemont, Amherst,
Rosslyn, Ashburnham, Sefton, Stanhope, Sheffield, Gains-
borough, Elgin, Antrim, Orkney, Clarendon, Forteecue, Dow-
ager Listowel, Wilton, Cowper, Mayo, Wicklow, Fingal!, Mor-
i ton, Morley, Brownlow, Euston, Uxbridge Warwick, Ale-
-1 merle, Jersey, Somers. Rosebery, Cawdor, be. Grey, Carlisle,
Clanwilliam, Radnor, Hardwicke, Grosvenor, Verulam, Belfast, '
Mansfield, Bruce, Manvers, Lincoln, Cadogan, Denbigh, Yowls,
Camperdown.
[ Viscounrs Barrington, M.P., Hood, Holmesdale,
Howich, Hawarden, Boyle, Drumlanrig, Jocelyn, St. Vincent,
Hinton, Courtenay, M.P., Maidstone, Clements, M.P.,
Villiers, Pollington, Northland, Newport, Cantilupe, Cnstle-
reagh, Melbourne, Powerscourt, Ossulston, Sandon, Gage,
Folkestone, Alford, M.P., Canning, Mahon, Acheson, M. l'.,
Melville, Dillon, Somerton, Seaham, Adare, M.P., Milton,
Torrington, Evelyn, M.P., Stangford, Melgund, Exmouth,
Ebrington, M.P., Melville, Palmerston, Lowther, Beresford,
Marsham, Fielding, Cranley, Grimston,- Curzon; Nolie'vi; t '
Newry, Sydney, Andover, Eastnor, M.P.
ViscooNvEssEs—Combermere, Newry, Holmesdale, Cour-
tenay, Dillon, Ilawarden' Palmerston, Dowager Dillon, Mil-
ton, Howiek, Jocelyn, Ileresferd, Norreys, Mahon, Gage,
Milton, Canning, Powerseourt, Pollington, Dowager Anson,
Hood, Acheson, Forbes, Andover, Folkestone, Villiers, Boyle,
Sydney. Torrington Adore, Barrington.
LOlODS—Wharncliffo, Methuen, Portman, Ernest Bruce,
M.P., Stanley, Vivian, Charles Wellesley. Duncannon, G.
Somerser, Ravensworth, Paget, Alfred Paget, G Paget,
Howard, Bowden, J. Manners, C. Mknners, Hill, M.
Hill, George Bentinck, Dudley Stuart, Sudeley, Wenloel,-,
Deere, Foley, C. Fitzroy, M. P., Keane, W. Graham, F.
Somerset, F. Egerton, M.P., F. Cholsoondeley. Abinger,
Templernore, Rivers, De Freyne, Duncan, Jersey, Colville,
Lennox, Bloomfield, Alentagu, Strafford, Petre, Kinnaird,
Byron. Ileytesbury, Talbot de Malahide, Lyttelton, TeMple-
ton, E. Somerset, Southampton, Levaine, De L'lsle,
Campbell, Dalmeney, 31. P , Arthur Lennox, Stanley
of Alclerley, Colborne, De Roy, Redesdale, Wil-
loughby de Broke, Dinorben, J. Stuart, F. Gordon, Feversham,
Fitzgerald, Denman. Leveson, G. Fitzgerald, Monteagle,
Dunsay, Ranmore, G. Quin, Brooke, R. Grosvenor, Prudhoe,
Crcmorne, Bogor, Ashley, ALP., Forester, Colchester, Lil-
ford, Langdale, Eliot, Brabazon, G. Seymour. Macdonald,
Leigh,Waterpark, Gardener, Stavordale,Wiiloughby D'Eresby,
Haddo, Sherborne, Glenelg, Claud Hamilton, Walpole, Blan-
tyre, J. Russell, Saye and Selo, Wrottesley, Poltimore' C.
Russell, Bateman, Worsley, Congleton, Bredport, Cottenhssm,
Geo. Lennox.
BA It"N. —Lionel de Rothschild.
BARONESSES..--: Anselm de,Rothsehild, de Rothschild, Keith,
Lionel de Rothschild.
Lenora—E. Drummond, Pelham, C. Denison, Dowager
Rivers, C. Russell, M. West, Rivers, E. Dutton, Frances Clin-
ton, G. Seymour, M. Ross, Jemima Eliot, Lyndhurst, Dow-
ager Cawdor, Duncan, E. Feilding, C. Hill, E. Seymour, F.
cholmondeley, F. Sandon, C. and D. Fitzwilliam, Cowper,
Duntany, Macdonald, C. Berkley, Gardiner, Ashburton, Gos-
sett, Sarah Savile, Antrobus, F. Gordon, Kinnaird, Monteagle:
E. and C. Moreton, A. Foster, Arthur,Ellen Douglas, E. Eliot,
Ashburnham, S. Des Voeux, Fremantle, Dowager Lytteltoo,
Ofergy, E. L. Gower, Colchester, Clifford, G. Codringtoo,
H. Clive, C. Duncombe, E. Campbell, Egerton.
and A. Pierrepeut, H. Douglas, L. Cavendish. Emma
VeSey. Augusta Onslow, J. Fitzgibbon, H. Corry, Johnston,
H. Paget, Pechell, Clemintina Villiers, C. F'itzroy. F
Egerton, Sarah Murray, A. Povrlett, Lifford, Haddo, Graha,m,.
AI. Vyner, A. Manners, Ouseley, Phipps,
',Worsham Napier, Le Marchan!, J. Grim ton,
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Seymour, fl,oed
G.
Uoldner, eaLennox,iC. Copley, L. Fitzroy, J. Russell,Vivian,
_ Dinorb
A. Pritnrose, L. Primrose, Colville, G. Ryder,_
Methuen, C. Legge,Fol-
lett, Lyttelton, Adelaide Paget, j'7";.' Melville, W. s
Leigh, M. Litkleton, Johnstone.
Nall,George Lentiocc, F. and-
;.2pher, Vl'alpole, N. Wairle•
~ niglec, Langdale, Wh
A.' c,,ze, Wigram, A. Lennox.,
ley, Al'Fartoe, I 7 C. / Grosvenor, Charlotte Guest, Hill, s (1"-
, C. Blount,
Ha-
Milton, E. Ilan, Inge,
iftei. Jermyn,C. I.aseelles
d ..., Quentin, A. Gordon,
littrison, Mary ~..1.• 43? ,,.
Chelirtlf Dundee, Gore (two), F. Isentiack, Montagu,.
' ttr Illoward, Canning, Oranmere, Catherine Buckley,
Brooke, ...,
Fetersbam, IC. A. and K. Cost, Dowager
Pelham Clinton,
Browolow, (2)
HoerrlfattE. and M. A. Wilbraitam,
C.
Villiers, .Bridpoit, (2) Murray, A enlock, Grosvenor,l. Hill, Heytes-
very, M. Hood, W. Stanhope, F. Hope, Portman„ Strang-
sersys, Butler, Southampton, L. Fitzmaurice, Pellow, F.
flattard, G. Douglas, Olivia Taylour, Wetherall, A. OyerPl/4
Dille, Reynett, E. Duncan, Agnes Ilyng, Byron, Yard
Buller, A. and H. Cadogan,, Price, Wharncliffe, Ravens-
worth, Campbell, Buriett, Colborne, George Grey, Dr- -
mini M. Somerville, Ernest Bruce, J. Beuverie, .Ashley,
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De Kos, Pollock, Eleanor Balfour, Marianne Alford, Ad!' is:,
Pakenham_, J. Wemyss, C. Browne, Sarah Arulran Iv .E.
revs, ners, Clerk, Petre, Poltimore, T. Lister, A.
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et'ey.
Lowther, Arabella Arden, Stanley of 1 1 Y.,
Phillips, Stanley, M. Stanley, Gordon,
West, M. Stephenson, C. Stewart.,
Phipps, E. Dickens, Bowater, A.Barinng,
son, L. Percy, Herbert, (2), Bateerldea, !-.
Blantyre, Erencorne, E. Hope
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Wersley, Dowager Ellenberczer, ShagAtee Blizabeth
Stewart, Mary
Dawson, A. M.Daw -
-G. Somerset, Stafford,
v C. Berkley, Waterpark,
Willouby de Broke, Stuart
C. Talbot, Dowags- de
de Rothsay, Play, F. L'd AL Stuart, Willoughby de Eresby,
CII H. , , Wrottesey, A. an
C. ood, E. Turnor, An .
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Al`Kenzie, E. de Reede de Ginkel
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