The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-21 00:00:00

1 HE COURT.

THE BIRTH-DAY DRAWING-ROONI.
The Queen held a drawing-room in E. James§
Pala ow Saturday afternoon, in celebrationef her Majesty's
birth-day. Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived from
Hackingbam Palace shortly before two o'clock, weeded. by
the ma suite, and eiamted by at detachment of tbs true
Os_syk.

Her Royal Ifighnees the ;Duchess of Kent was attended
by Lady Augusta Bruer.
Lord J. P. Manny: Colonel Sir G. Cooper, Bart., and
Their Hoyal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge arrived, accompanied by their Royal Highway. the
Hereditary Grand Duke and stand Dueltir of Mecklenburg
Strtlits, and attends,' by Lady Augusta Cadogan, Baron
Kalmbach. and Mr. B Mildewy. Her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester arrived at the Palace to pay a Wait of
eongratalatioa to her Majesty. His Royal Highness
Prince George was also present. His Royal Highness
Priem Leopold, Count of Synease, was attended by
General Prince Castelcicals. the Neapolitan Minister, and
the Chevalier de Colonna. Their Serene Highnesses Prince
Ernest and Prince William of lite* Padippstahl, and
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar also attended. The Vice-
Chandarlein received the royal family on their arrival, and
conducted theme° the pr.aenee of her Majesty.
Before the drawing-recse, the Queen received an address
of asegratalation in the royal closet from the archbishrps and
bishop.. The Archbishop of Canterbury delivered the ad-
dress. His Grace was accompanied by the Archhi-hop of
York, the Archbishop of Dublin, the Bishop of London, the
Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of Durham, the Bishop ef
Llandaff, :the Bishop of Norwich, the Bishop of Oxtord,
the Bishop of Peterborough, the Bi hop of Bangor,
the Bishop of Lichfield, the Bishop of Salisbury, the Bishop
of Ripon, the Bishop of Worcester, the Bishop of Carlisle,
the Bishop of Rochester, the Bishop of St. Asaph, the Bishop
of Chichester, the Bishop of Hereford, and the Bishop of
Manchester. After delivering the address, the right reverend
prelates retired from the royal prilaCe.
The Queen and Prince Albert entered the Throne Room
accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of
Kent, the Doke and Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince
George, the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of
Mecklenburg Streliu, and the Count of Syracuse, and their
Serene Highnesses Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar,
Prince Ernest and Prince William of Hesse Phi.
Uppstald. The Royal suite consisted of the Mistress
of the Robes, the Duchess of Norfolk, the Countess of
Desert (in waiting), the Countess of Gainsborough, Lady
Portman, the Marchess of Douro, the Countess of Charle-
mont, and the Viscountess Canainr, Ladles of the Bed.
chamber; the Hon. Miss Murray (in waiting), Hon. Miss
Macdonald (in waiting) • Hon. Miss Cavendish, Hoc. Miss
Stanley, and the Hon. Mies Kerr, Maids of Honour; Lady
Charlotte Copley, Hon. Mrs. Brand, Hen. Mrs. George
Campbell, and lady Theresa Digby, Women of the Bed-
chamber; the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the
Master of the Hone. the Groom of the Stole to Priors
Albert • Mr. Geroge Edward Anson, Keeper other Majesty's
Privy !Nurse; the Berl of Morton, Lord in Waiting; Vie-
coast CUfdee, Ir rd in Waiting to the Prince; Lieut.. Colonel
the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Private Sicretary to the Prince ;
General Sir Edward Bowater, Groom in Waiting ; Captain
Francis Seymour, Groom in Waiting to his R iyal Highness ;
General %roma, Equerry in Waiting Lieut. Colonel the
Hon. Alexander Gordon, Equerry In Waiting to the
Prince; and Mears. Forbes and Gorden, Piles of Honour
in Waiting.
Her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms
were on iluty at the entrances in the State Roams, and also
lama the Presence Chamber. The officers of the corps pre-
sent were the lieut., Sir Matthew Wyatt, the standard
bearer, Mr. David Harmer, and the Adjutant, Captain
Curling.
The Lord Chancellor arrived a few minutes before two
o'clock, attended by his secretaries, Depute Serjeant-at-
Arms. and Purse Bearer. The Right Hon. the Sp aker of
the House of Commons arrived In state, attended by the
Chaplain and the Serjeant-a-Arms (Lord Charles Hoven),
attending the House of Commons. The Lord Chief Justice
of the Court of Common Pleas, and the Lord Chief Baron of
the Exchequer, appeared in their gold collars of SS , with
the Por culls ; the Equity Judges wore their gold robes.
The Queen wore a train of green and silver silk, trimmed
with red roses and violets, and tulle d'illusion in silver. The
petticoat was white satin, trimmed with tulle and bouquets
of red roses to correspond to the train. Her Majesty's had-
dress was composed of diamonds and feathers, with ruses and
violets. The dress was of Spitalfields manufacture. The
Queen wore the collars of the most noble Order of the
Garter, and of the most ancient Order of the Thistle.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent wore a train of
white watered silk, covered with Nottingham lace, trimmed
with lace and white riobens. The petticoat was white
watered silk, also covered with Nottingham lace, the front of
the petticoat was decorated with ornaments formed of bril-
liant., and the stomacher was of diamonds. Her royal high.
nese wore a white head-dress, with feathers and diamonds
and a necklace of diamonds and amethysts. The dress was
of British manufacture.
Being a collar day the principal knights of the several
orders of knighthood wore the collars of their respective
orders.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert was Waited in the
uniform of a Field Marshal, and wore the collars of the
Gutter and the Bath, together with the stars of those orders,
and also We stare of the most illustrious order of St.
Patrick and the Thistle. The Prince also wore the ensigns
of the Golden Fleece.

The Duke of Wellington wore a field *unbars uniform,
and the ensigns of the Garter and the Golden Fleece. The
Duke of Devonshire wore the collars of the Girter and of a
Russian order of knighthold. Viacount Combermere wore
the collars and stars of the orders of the Bath, the Guelphic,
sod the Tower and Sword.

About seventeen hundred of the nobility and gentry were
present at the drawing-room.
The diplomatic circle were first introduced, when the
followirg presentations to her Majesty the Queen and his
Royal Highness Prince Albert took place:—The Countess
de Reventlow presented her second daughter, Countess
&Wynn' Reventlow; the Belgian Minister presented le
Baron Edouard Mertens, charged with a mission from the
Belgian trovernment ; Vte Haytian Minister presented M. B.
Sem VilMyaleix, Secretary of the Hayden Legation.
The diplomatic circle was attended by Maimed Pasha,
Turkish ambassador; M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, and Madame Van de Weyer ; Mr. Charles
Drouet, Conseiller de Legation; M. Eugene de Gerlach',
attaché to the Legation; lc Comte de Laleing • Baron de
Cetto, Bavarian Minister, and Barotess de Cettia ; Viscount
de Moneorvo, Portuguese Minister, and Viscountees do
Itioncervo; the Chevalier de Ribeiro, seminary, le Chevalier
Pinto de Sovenl, and Baron de kioneorvo, attaches to the
Legation, the Chevalier and Madame de Harts ; Baron do
Brunnow, Russian Minitter, and Baroness de Brunnow,
Mademoiselle Olga de Leeliner, M. Alexandre de Berg,
and M. C. de Koulrieffsky, secretaries of Legation ;
General Prince Cutekicala, Neapolitan Minister,
and M. G. Cansfsri, secretary of Legation • Count de
Kielmansegge, Hanoverian Minister; Jr Chevalier Bunsen,
Prosaism Minister, Madame and Mdlle. Marie Bunsen,
C-unt Perponcher, first &artery, Mr. C. Bunsen, Attache,
and Baron Ernest Stockmar, Attache to the Legation ; le
Commandeur Marquee Lisboa, Brazilian Miniver, end
Madame Lisboa, le Chevalier Pinto Peixoto and M. J. T.
de Amaral, Attaches to the Legation • Count de Reventlow,
Danish Wainer, and Countess de lieventlow, Baron Ben
touch, Secretary of Legating ; Mr. G ergs Bancroft,
American Minister, and Mrs. Bancroft, and Mr. Broadhead,
Secretary of Legation; Count Schimmelpenninck, Nether-
lands Minister, and Male. Solimmelpenninek, Baron
de Stratums, Coon:Hier de Legation ; Baron de
Rehm:teen, Swedish Minister, and Baroness de Re-
haueen, M. de Sibbern, Secretary of Legation. le
Comte de Kosen, Aidede-Camp General ; Senor J. J. de
Osma, Peruvian Minister, le Colonel Beltran, Secretary, le
Major J. F. de Elizalde and M. Henry Caresedo,?ettaches
to the liegstion ; Senor Felipe Molina, Costa Rica Minister ;
Marquis de Settle, Sardinian Minister, le Marquis Victor
Emmanuel d'Asegno, Conseiller, Baron Isola and Count
Corti, Secretaries of Legation; Count Colloredo, Austrian
Minister, and Countess Cotloredo, Baron Koller and Baron
Wydenbruck, Secretaries of Legation; Mr. D. Delve (Sena-
tear), Haytian Minister; M. de Wontherot, French Charge
d'Affaires, and Madame de Moutberot ; Viseount Palmer-
ston, G.O 8., the Queen's principal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affair,. the Viscountess Palmerston. and Colonel
the Hon. Sir Edward Cost, her Mgjesty'a Master of the
Ceremonies.
The general circle was attended by the Postmaster
General, the Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen
at Arms, the Marquis of Londonderry, gold stick in waiting ;
the Captain of the Yeomen Guard, Lord Langdale, Master
of the Rolls ; the Bishop of Oxford, Lord High Almoner :
Lord Monteagle, Comptroller of the Exchequer ; the Right
Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Lord Chief
Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, the Lord Chief
Baron of the Exchequer, the Treasurer of the Household.
the Comptroller of the Household, the Vice-Chancellor of
England, the VieeDhancellor Sir James Wigram, the
Chancellor of the Ducky of Cornwall, the Secretary
at War, the Right Eon. W. G. Bolter, M P.,
Judge Advocate General, the Queen's Advocate, the
ttatterney-General, the Solicitor-Genersl, the Lord Mayor
and the Lady _Mayoress, the Adjutant. General of the Forces,
Sir George Moulton, Ensign of the Yeomen Guard; the
Deputy Secretary-at-War; Sir Charles Young (Garter),
Mr. Thomas Skiffs'? (Paymaster of the Household), Sir
Augustus Clifford, But., Gentleman Usher of the Blank
Rod ; the Lord Advocate, the Attotney-General to the
Queen Dowager ; Colonel Wylde, Groom of the Bed-
chamber to Prince Albert; Lord Charles Russell, Sergeant-
at-Arms attending the House of Commons ; Mr. Alderman
and Sheriff Fiume, Mr. Sheriff Goodhart, Mr. Colquhoun,
Agent and Consul-General for the Hanle Towns; Mr.
Adolphus Brandt, Consul•Genenl of His Majesty the
King of Bavaria ; Mr. Robert A. Heath, Serili-
nisn Vice-Consul; Sir Benjamin C. Brodie, Bart.,
Sergeant Surgeon to the Queen ; Colonel Baker,
Colonel Morrie, C.B. • Colonel Wean, Colonel H. Bentiock,
C &mei Reed, • 'Colonel C. Kennedy, C.B. and K.H.
Colonel Priaulx, C.B.&lone! Parke, Colonel Wood, Colonel
Owen, Lord John Hay and the Hon. Captain Berkeley,
to the Queen ; Colonel Buckley ' Equerrg to
her Mejeaty ; Colonel Bouverie, Equerry to 11,.11 U. Ponce
Albert ; Carain Pechell, R.N hquerry to her Majesty
Queen Adelside ; Sir George Cooper, Bart., First Equerry
to H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent ; Lord James P. Murray
(Scots Pullen: Guards), Equerry to II R.H. the Duchess of
Kent ; Lieutenant-Colonel Liddell (Soots Fusilleer Guards),
Equerry to H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester; Hon.
S?enetr Lyttelton, her Majesty's Marshal of the Ceremo-
flee • the Dean of Hereford, Deputy Clerk of the Closet in
Waiting, and Chaplain to the Queen Dowager; Rey.
Thomas Galllier, Chaplain to the House of Commons ; Rev.
S. R. Cattle y, Chaplain to the Lord Mayor; Rev. T. N.
Hamilton,Chsplein to Mr. Sheriff Fianle ; Sir Jehn Henry
pelly, Bart., Deputy Muter of the Trinity Huse; Mr.