The Press.
London, England, 1858-05-29 00:00:00

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The thirty-ninth anniversary of her Majesty the
Queen's birthday was celebrated at NVindsor on Mon-
day with the customary honours observed on this
auspicious event. Early in the morning the bells of
the Chapel Royal of St. George and St. John's
Church rang out merry peals, which were continued
during the day. At noon, Pond, the Queen's bom-
bardier, tired a royal salute in the Lung walk. At
the same time a royal salute was fired from Fort
Belvidere, and answered by the Adelaide frigate on
Virginia NVater. Some of the royal tradespeople
decked the fronts of their houses with banuerti, and
in the evening a dinner took place at the White Hart
Hotel ; Mr. Cantrell, the mayor, took the chair, and
in most loyal and appropriate terms introduced the
healths of her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and other
members of the Royal Family. The firing of a feu-
de joie by the troops in garrison took place on the
15th inst., the day on which her Majesty's birthday
was celebrated in town arid other places.
The visit of her Majesty, the Prince G.nsort, and
the Prince of Wales to Birmingham, for the purpose
of opening the ancient park of Aston as a public pro-
menade and recreation ground, is now definitely fixed
for the lath June, and preparations are in progress
for giving the Royal party a magnificent and enthu.
siastie reception. Tine Queen will arrive by tbe
London and North-Weitt rn Railway at Coventry on
the afternoon of Monday, the I,lth, when an address
of welcome will be presented by the Mayor and Cor-
poration of that town at the station. Flom thence
her Majesty will proceed by rail to Sioneleigh
Abbey, the seat of Lord Leigh, the Lord Lieutenant
of War wickshire, where she will spend the night.
The following morning the Royal party will travel by
railway to Birmingham, where they will arrive at the
New street station about eleven o'clock. Here they
will be met by the Mayor and Town Clerk, and to
conducted by them in procession along Queen-stret t,
a portion of New-street, High-street, Bull sire. t,
Monmouth-street, Colmore-row, and Ann-street, io
the Town-hall. This splendid edifice will be taste-
fully decorated, exterior and interior, for the occa-
sion ; the Corporation having voted 3,0001. to defray
the necessary outlay. Here an address will be pre-
sented from the Mayor and Corporation of Binning
ham, and after a short performance of music tl e
pr cession will be re-formed and greatly extended,
and proceed along New•street, High-street, Dale-em',
Stafford-street, Aston-street, Gosta-green, and the
Aston-road, to the hall, in which rooms are being
elegantly furnished for the recepticn of her Majesty
and suite. Here they will he entertained at luncheon,
and at its conclusion her Majesty, elevated upon the
garden tt rrace, which commands a noble view of the
picturesque grounds which surround the hall, will
formally inaugurate the park. No efforts or expense
have, or will be, spared to give eclat to the proceed-
logs. Committees have been formed in every street
through which the royal cortege will pass to appn -
priately decorate the entire line—galleries of im-
mense dimensions are in coure of construction in
all directions; windows, from which a good view may
be obtained, are bringing exorbitant prices ; and the
town, there is every reason to believe, will be
thronged by thousands of persons from Staffordshire
and all parts of the adjacent country. It is not yet
positively settled from what station her Majesty will
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return, but it is believed that she will -

the Aston station, and thence along the
North• Western direot to Kenilworth,

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