The Express.
London, England, 1853-05-25 00:00:00

Vbe Court.

OSBORNE. Trr,Der,
HER 'MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY.
The Duchess of Kent drove out in an open car.
riage yesterday morning, attended by Lady Anus Maria
Dawson.
The Queen and Prince, with the Duchem of Kent,
Princess Helena, Princess Lcriisa, and Prince Arthur,
attended by Lieut.• Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, drove out
in the afternoon.

This morning being her Majesty's Birthday, the Band of
the Royal Marines assembled on the Terrace, at Osborne,
at a quarter before 7 o'clock, and played a selection of
music in honour of the day, via.:
TIII4 M WALK.

Chorale
Selection !St. l'aul) Von Catinger.
Mara. National.
Selection, Elijah"
COD verroanatice.

Manch
Overture, "Lucia di Lummtrmaor "
Waltz e, "
Galop, La Clnchette"

The Duke of Norfolk, Lord Steward of her Majesty's
If ouoeleild, stave a state dinner last evening is celebration
of her Mejesty's birthday nt Norfolk House, St. James's.
eguare. The company coni.isted of Lord Foley, Captain of
the Gentlemen at Arms, the E trl of Mulgrave, and
count Drumlenrig, Treasurer and Comptroller of the
llouitebold ; Major-General Sir George Bowles, Mr. ShiC.
ner, Paymaster of the llonochold ; the Rev. Dr. Wesley
Sub-Dean of the Chapels Royal; Lord Cantor, Lord in
Waiting; the Hon. Lieut.-Colonel Boyle and Mr. Ormsby
Gore, Grooms in Waiting; Colonel the Hon. Arthur
Upton, Field-officer in 13.irmile Waiting ; the Hon. Spencer
Lyttelton. Marshal of the Ceremonies ; the Earl of Arundel
and Surrey, the Earl of Gosford, Lord Edward Howard,
Lord Montcagle. Lord Poltimore, Lord Stafford, Sir Charles
Young, Garter King of Arms ; Mr. Dendy, Rouge Dngon ;
Colonel Wylde, Groom of the Bedchamber to Priam
Albert; Sir John Strachan, Bart., Captain ("minority
Boyle, lt.N , Mr. !Lowden, Mr. Deo Vieux and Mr. Wit.
brihem Taylor, Gentlemen Ushers; Mr. Wm. hose, Col
James Jones, and Mr. E. M. unwell, Secritary to the
Lord Steward.

The Marquis of BreadaDiane, Lord Chamberlain of her
Majesty's Household, gave a State dinner, last evening, in
eirlebratirn of her Majesty's Birthday, at his residence, in
Park-lane, to the fAlowing distinguished guests :—Lord
Ernest Bruce, Vice-Chamberlain ; the Marquis of
Ormonde, Earl Somers. Lord 1:),, Table!, Lord Byron, and
Lor3 Rivers, Lords in Waiting; Lieut.-General Sir F,diraril
Bowater, Hon. Colonel Hood, Majnr•General Berkeley
Drummond, and Captain Hon. Mortimer Sackville West,
Grooms in Waiting ; the Hon. Frederick Byng, Mr. Charles
Heneage, Sir Jahn M. F. Smith, Sir William Martins, Mr.
Arthur Blackwood, Mr. Honey Cfreville, Colonel Diggle,
Mr. Alfred Montgomery, Mr. Edward Holihome, and
Colonel Stephens, Gentlemen Ushers ; Mr. Norman B.
Macdonald. Comptroller of his Lordship's Department;
Sir James Clark, Physieinn in Ordinary to the Queen ; Sir
Alexander Campbell, Bart., the Puke of Itoxhurghe, the
Marquis of Conyngharn. the Marquis of Stafford, Sir
Edwin Landseer, and Sir Roderiek J. Murchison.

The Earl of Aberdeen, First Lord of the Treasury, Rare
a Slate Banquet yesterday, in order of the day, at Argyll
House. The following were present :—The Duke of
Cambridge, attended by the Hon. Sir James Macdonald;
the Duke of Athol', the Duke of llueelcuch, the
Duke of Leinstcr, the Marquis of Angle' y, the
Marquis Camden. the Marquis of Normanhy, E rl Fitz•
William, the Earl of Clare, the Earl of Shaftesbury, the
Earl of Deron, the Earl of Airlie, the Earl of Haddingtoa,
the Earl of Albemarle, the Earl of Galloway, Earl Speacer,
the Earl of Esse:, Lord Orerstone, Lord Wharncliffe, Lord
Broughton, Lord Panmure, Lord Ward. L-ord Beaumont,
Lord Ashburton, Mr. Clinton George Dawkins, and the
Hon. Arthur Gordon. _ _ _ .

Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State for the IRme
Department, gave a grand dinner to celebrate her Majesty's
birth-day, at his residence in Carlton-gardens yesterday.
The company consisted of the Lord Chancellor, Lord
Campbell, the Speaker of the House of Commons, the
Master of the Rolls, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of
Common Pleas, the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer,
Mr. Vice-Chancellor Kindersley. Mr. Vice-Chancellor
Stuart, Mr. Vice-Chancellor Page Wood, Mr. Baron Parke,
Mr. Baron Alderson, Mr. Justice Coleridge, Mr. Justice
Wightman, Mr. Justice Cresswell, Mr. Justice Erle, Mr.
Baron Piatt, Mr. Justice Williams, Mr. Justice Talfourd,
Mr. Baron Martin, Mr. Justice Crompton, the Lord
Mayor, the Recorder, the Dean of the Arches
(Sir John Dodson), the Judge of the Admiralty
Court (Dr. Lishington), the Secretary for Ire-
land (Sir John Vane, Bart., M.P.), the Lord Advocate
of Scotland. the Solicitor-General for Ireland. Mr. Sheriff
Carter, Mr. Sheriff Croll, Sir James Duke, Bart.. and Mr.
Masterman, M.P.'s for the City of London, the President
of the Poor-law Board (Mr. Bianca, 11I.P.), Mr. Horatio
Waddington, the Mon. 11. Fitzroy, M.P., and Mr. B. W.
Grey.
The Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State for the
Colonies, celebrated her Majesty's birthday by a state din-
ner yesterday, at his residence in Portman-square, to the
Commander-in-Chief, the Military Secretary to ditto, the
Secretary at War, the Deputy Secretary at War, the Quarter
Mader General, the I'rivate Secretary of the Commander-
in chief, the Master-General of the Or limner, the Surveyor-
General of the Ordnance, the principal storekeeper, the
Clerk of the Ordnance, the Inspector-General, the Judge-
Adyneate-General, the Secretary to tho Master-General,
the Parliamentary and Under-Secretaries for the Colonies,
the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners, the
Lieutenant-Governors of Tobago, Nevis, Grenada, and Mr.

M'Donsld, late Governor of Sierra Leone. The Bishops of
Quebec, Cape Town, Antigua, Montreal, and Nova Scotia.
Sir Thomas Mitchell (Australia), the Chief Justices of
Antigua, St. llelena, Honduras, and Jamaica, the Attorney-
Generals of Newfoundland and Grenada, the Solicitor.
General of Canada, &c., &c.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer gave a full dress dinner
in honour of the birth-day yesterday, at his official resi-
dence in Downing-street. The following were present:—
Sir William Melcsworth, M.P.. the Right Hon. E. Strutt,
M.P., the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, M.P., Lord Stanley of
Alderley, Viscount Canning, Colonel Moberly, the Gover-
nor and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, the
Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Boa.rd of Customs,
the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Board of In-
land Revenue, the Chairman of the Audit-office. Sir Alex.
Spearman, the Han. E. P. Bouverie, the Right Hon.
W. G. Hasler, M.P., Secretaries of the Treasury; Lord A.
Hervey, M.P., lion. F. Charteris. M.P., and Mr. John
&allele, Junior Lords of the Treasury; Sir Charles Treys-
!yen, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury ; Captain Glad-
stone, M.P., the Hon. F. Lawley, and Mr. R.W.Wilbraham,
Private Secretaries.
Sir Charles Wood, President of the India Board, gave a
State Dinner, to celebrate the day, at his residence. is
Chesham-place, yesterday, to the Chairman of the East
India Company, the Deputy Chairman of ditto, the Right
Hon. Vernon Smitb, Sir James Weir Hoer, Lieut.. General
Sir George Pollack, the Hon. Leslie Melville, Sir Herbert
Maddock, Mr. Butterworth Barley, Mr. Thomas Baring,
M.P., Lieut.-General Sir John Littler. Mr. Shepherd, Mr.
Primep, Sir Erskine Perry, Mr. Idanglee, M.P., Mr. Chu.
Mills, the Hon. John Elliot, Mr. J. C. Melva', Sir Thomas
Redington, Mr. Plowdcn, Mr. Martin Smith, Mr.
Lowe, M.P., Mr. Halliday, and Mr. T. G. Baring.
The Attorney-General celebrated bee Majesty's birth-
day by a grand banquet at the Albion, Aldermate-street,
which was brilliantly illuminated in honour of the occasion.
The company included the Queen's Advocate, the Solicitor-
General, Serjeants Allen, Channel', Goulhurn, Kinglake,
Merewether, Manning, Murphy, Storks, Shee, and Wil-
kins, T. 0. Anderson, Esq. Q C., W. J. Alexander, Esq.,
Q.C., B. Andrews, Esq., Q.C., W. Atherton, Esq., M.P.,
Q.C., J. Bair, Esq., W. Bliss, Esq., Q C., J. M. W. Bram-
well, Esq., Q.C., G. M. Butt, Esq., M.P., Q.C., J. Camp-
bell, Esq., Q.C., N. Chambers, Esq., M.P.. Q.C., R. D.
Craig, Esq.. W. T. Daniell. Esq., Q.C., W. Elmsley, Esq.,
Q.C., B. 8. Follett, Esq., M.P., Q C., W. B. Glass, Esq.,
Q.C., J. Greenwood. Esq • Q C., R. Gurney, Esq., Q.C.,
T. E. Headlam, Esq., M.P., Q.C., Hugh Hill, Esq.. Q.C.,
C. Hogging, Eq., R. Ingham, Esq., M.P., Q.C., Edwin
James, Esq., Q C., W. M. James, Esq., H. J. Heating,
Esq., M.P., Q.C., C. J. Knowles, Esq., Q.C., J. H. Roe,
Esq., R. Macaulay, Esq., R. Melina, Esq., M.P., Q.C., J.
Mellor, Esq., M.P., Q C., R. Publey, Esq., Q.C., M. Pren-
dergast, Esq., Q.C., J. Molt, Esq., Q C.. W. C. Rowe, Esq.,
Q.C., J. Russell. Esq., Q.O . F. W. Slade, Esq., Q.C., C.
T. Swanston, Esq., J. T. Teed, Esq., Q.C., C. Temple,
Esq., Q.C., S. Warren, Esq., Q.C., W. H. Watson, Esq.,
Q.C., J. Walker. Esq., Q.C., C. H. Whitehurst, Esq., Q.C.,
F. Whitmarsh, Esq., Q C., J. W. Willem*, Esq., Q.C., T.
Phinn, Esq., M.P.. J. Wilde, Esq., W. N. Weisby, Esq.,
W. H. Bodkin. Esq., W. Clarkson, Esq., T. H. Terrell,
Esq., J. S. Willes, Esq., J. Wickens. Esq., F. J. Hamel,
Esq., J. Timms, Esq., J. Gardiner, Esq., T. Clarke, Esq.,
W. H. Watson, Esq., H. T. Holland, Esq., J. Butt, Esq.,
J. D. Fitzgerald, E.q., &e.
Her Majesty's Royal Body Guard of Gentlemen-at-Arms
bad a full-dress dinner, in celebration of the birth-day, at
their mess-room, in St. James's Palace, yesterday.
The Commander-in-Chief, accompanied by the Duke of
Cambridge, Viscount Comhermere, and a great number of
general officers and distinguished foreigners, inspected the
squadron of the 2n.1 Life Guards, and detachments of each
regiment of the Foot Guards_ doing duty in Landon, on
the Parade, in St. James's-park, yeste•dly morning, in
honour of her Majesty's birthday. The Commander-in-
Chief and his Royal Highness were received by the troops
under the command of Colonel Arthur Upton, of the Cold-
stream Guards. Viscount Hardinge passed down the line,
when the usual duty of trooping and passing in review pro-
ceeded. The hands and ..rums of the Foot Guards, num-
bering about Vid men, pinved together, under the direc-
tion of Mr. Godfrey, of the Coldstreams.

In the evening the usual illuminations took place at the
theatres and clubs, and at many of the leading establish-
ments of retail trade. Amongst the latter mere conspicuous
—Regent-street

Messrs. Futrote and Co . goldsmiths and importers, a
brilliant star of gas jets, with V. R.
R. Aikermann, printaeller, a large Mar and V. R. in
brilliant Fla., with n magnificent royal standard.
Messrs. Jay and Co., purveyors of mourning by appoint-
ment to hrr Majeity. a brilltant display of gas jets running
along the whole front of their warehoua. s, a wreath en-
twining the lower mart of fac ule above the balcony, et each
end two stars, a V. IL in the centre, and the whole sur-
mounted by a crown.
St. James's Theatre, a large star in jets of gm, and the
initials V. It.

Mitchtll's Rotel Library, Old Bond-street, a lards
Brunswick star, in the centre the letter V, surmounted by
the matt°, "tied bless the Queen," all in Wadi tted jets of
gas.

t. Genrce's Gallery, Ilyde-park.corner, a star.
Brannsh acd co 124, Plecadilly, patent locksmiths to
he sod the Royal amily, a large imperial crown
eat r .11., in vangated colours.
mew.. Godfrey and Ilancotk, Conduit-street, Regent.
w
'et, shoemakers to her Majesty, a large star and the
royal ia.tials V. IL, in gas.
Mewls. Robert Cocks and Co., music publishers to her
4.ty, New Ludington street, a brilliont star in gas, with
V. R. in the centre.
Rowland's Macassar Oil aud Kalyilor Warehouse. 20,
sgma.darden, displayed •crown with the initials V. R.
ga..
)Jesus. Staples, purveyors of turtle to her Majesty, the
.I",lertgatistreet, s brilliaut radiant star, with the
toya: . in Egyptian capitals in gas.

PORTSMOUTH, MAY 24.

To-day, being the anniversary of Mt: Majesty's
today, has been observed here in the mast imposing
manner. Early in the morniug the ships in commission
!leased out is colours, the royal standard being also hoisted
as the tittifieatione t4ll, I at the vasious government establish-
ligau. At about 11 o'elock the troops in garrison, consist-
ing at the 38th, 88th, and 93rd Regiment., a detachment of
the tab, the Royal Arkllerv, Royal Marine Artillery,
loyal Sappers sac! Miners, and the ticasiouers corps, began
to a...erub:e on the Portsmouth lines, facing the sea. They
were formed two deep, and extended from the platform'
Victory toNeptune nearly ,
and the Llait
heport Gates. At 12 o'clock the
Victory, Blehitra, in harbour, and the Sidon
at ;pithead, fired royal salutes, after which a feu de iuie
Ins fired by the traops, the artillery on the plat-
form battery leading elf with seven guns, and the
fin being continued from one end of the line of infatrry to
the °tiltr by the front rank, and back again by the rear
t.ink. This was done three times, atter which the troops
took off their hats, and gave a round of hearty cheers for the
queen, being led off by the lieutenant-governor and staff.
They then formed into column on the Governor's Green-
and, preceded by their respective bands, marched off to
barracks. Similar ceremonies were observed by the troops
on the Gosport side of the water. Large numbers of per-
tons were attracted to the above military spectacle, the
day being a holiday in the dockyard and other government
establibinints. This evening the mayor and corporation
dm,. together at the George RAUL and several private cots-
li:iihnseuts will be illuminated in honour of the occa.ion,

PLYDIOUTII, MAT 24.

The Queen's birthday was celebrated here with
grog rejoicing, the day being kept as a general holiday.
Tatra was a grand review of the troops by General Sir If.
Faith, at which there were preseut 30,V00 spectators on
Mount Wise. Salutes were find from the Plymouth garri-
we, the Battery at Mount E4gecumb, the guard ships, and
Admiral Corry's squadron. The Kul of Mount Edgecumbe
threw his park opts to the public.