The Sun.
London, England, 1837-04-28 00:00:00

11ER MAJESTY'S BIRTH-DAY.

The Queen's birth-day was celebrated yeterday at St. James's
Palace by a Drawing-room. Her Majesty was prevented from
being present by indisposition, Lut the Princess Augusta re-
ceived the company on the part of the Queen.
A Guard of .honour of the Life Guards, with the band, in
State uniforms, were on duty in the large courtyard of the
Palace, and the King's Guard, with the band of the Foot
Guards, were on duty in the Colour Court.

Mcs;rs. Dubell and liaise, the State Pages, and the Pages
of the King, Mr. Shoetnack, and the other pages of the Queen,
wore new State uniforms.

The principal Knights of the several OrJet s of Knighthood
wore their respective collars.
His Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms
were stationed in the Presence Chamber, the Portrait Gal-
lery, and at the doors in the State-rooms reserved for the
Royal Family.
The Princess Augusta left the Queen's House at half-past
one o'clock, and entered the Royal closet. Her Royal High
ness was attended by the following Ladies and Gentlemen of
the Queen's Household :—The Countess of Mayo (in wait-
ing), Lady Barrington, Countess Brownlow, and the Countess of
Sheffield, Ladies of the Bedchamber ; Misses Eden, Mitchell,
Gore, and Hudson, Maids of Honour • Lady Charles Somer-
set, Mrs. Berkeley Paget, and Lady Bedingfield, Bed-
Chamber Women ; Earl of Denbigh, Master of the Horse ;
Hon. Mr. Ashley, Vice-Chamberlain ; General Macdonell
(First Equerry), Hon. S. Hay, -and Captain Pechell, It. N.,
Equerries ; Mr. Mellish, Captain Curzon, Mr. Strangways,
Major Wright, Sir George Hoste, and Captain Vincent, Gen-
tlemen Ushers; Master Disbrowe, Page of Honour.
Lady Mary Pelham and Miss Wynyard were also in attend-
ance on the Princess Augusta.
The Archbishops of Canterbury, York, and Dublin ; the
Bishops of London, Winchester, Exeter, Hereford, Salisbury,
Durham, St. David's, Leicester, Gloucester and Bristol, Car-
lisle, Ely, Bangor, Ripon, Chichester, Rochester, and Killaloe
were introduced to the King in the Royal closet, when the
Archbishop of Canterbury read a congratulatory address.
The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria came in
state, escorted by a detachment of the Royal Horse Guards.
Their Royal Highnesses were attended by the Duchess of
Northumberland, Lady Catherine Jenkinson, Lady Flora
Hastings, Lady Mary Stopford, Lady Conroy, Lady Cust,
and Baroness Lehzen ; Sir John Conroy, Sir George Anson,
Gen, Hill, Col. Harcourt, and Col. Caradoc. Their Royal
Highnesses entered the Palace by the Colour Court, where
they were received by the King's Guard with the usual honours.
The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria wore dresses
of Spitalfields manufacture, made expressly for the occasion.
The Marquis Conyngham, Lord Chamberlain to the King,
received their Royal Highnesses at the entrance to Queen
Anne's Loom, and preceded them to the presence of the King.
Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Cumberland and
Cmbridge were present at the Drawing-Room.
The Equity Judges and the Speaker of the House of Com-
mons came in state, attended by their officers.
The Princess Augusta took her station on the right of the
Throne. The King was attended by Lord James O'Bryen
and General the Hon. Sir Wm. Lumley, the Lord and Groom
in Waiting.

In the entree circle the following presentations took place :
—The Baron Camille de Letzbeck, Gentleman of the Cham-
ber of the Grand Duke of Baden, by Baron de Cetto, the
Bavarian Minister, and the Chevalier Mollerus, Netherlands
Charge d'Affaires at the Court of Naples, by M. Dedel, the
Netherlands Minister.

The Drawing Room was attended by the Ministers, Foreign
Ambassadors, &c. Sze.

D IMES— Somerset, Wellington, Grafton.
DucuassEs—Somerset, Sutherland.
MARQUISES —Downshire, Abercorn, Northampton, Huntley,
Thomond, Lansdowne, Anglesey, Camden, Salisbury, West-
meath.

MA RCIIIONESSES—Downshire, Abercorn, Cholmondeley,
Salisbury, Cornwallis.

Rums—Plymouth, Rosebery, Burlington, Hillsborough,
Brownlow, Ripon, Carlisle, Minto, Surrey, Grey, Brecknock,
Clarendon, Jermyn, Leitrim, Bradford, Mayo, Sheffield,
Longford, Donoughmore, Amherst, De Grey, Compton,
Haddington, Beauchamp, Orkney, Mansfield.
COUNTESSES—Tankerville, Plymouth, Cadogan, Rosebery,
Winterton (Lucy), Metaxa, Jersey, Surrey, Albemarle, Beau-
champ, Donoughmore, Stradbroke, Amherst, Bradford,
Brecknock, Haddington, Clarendon, Bridgewater, Listowel,
Cavan, Ashburnham, De Grey, Mansfield.
VISCOUNTS—Gage, Cole, Cornbermere, Ashbrook, Mel-
bourne, Duncannon, Palmerston, Falkland, Powerscourt,
Hood, 'Weigand, Holmesdale, Sydney, Cantalupe, Loftus,
Barrington, Eastnor, Borringdon, Lake, Jocelyn, Torrington,
Templetown.
VISCOUNTESSES—Beresford, Powerscourt, Howick, East-
nor, Torrington, Castlereagh, Sydney, Fordwich.
Loans—Worsley, Byron, Cranstoun, Dalmeny, Gardner,
Lovat, Francis Gordon, Eliot, Teignmouth, Frederick Gor-
don, Glenclg, Ellenborough, Stanley, Ashburton, John Rus-
sell, Montague, Courtenay, Kenyon, Teynham, Lilford, G.
Paget, Lovaine, Bridport, Bolton, G. Hamilton, W. Russell,
Abinger, Morpeth, Bexley, Radstock, G. Loftus, Heytesbury,
Kilinaine, Vernon, Mahon, Ravensworth, Fitzalan, F. Vesci,
H. Cholmondeley, Saltonn, Redesdale, Hotham, Ashly.
LADlES—Shelley, Charlotte Hill, Mary Hill, Worsley,
Johnston, Wheatley, Augusta Cadogan, Honors Cadogan,
Cumming, Francis Ley, Jemitna Elliot, Fanny Elliot, Gard-
ner, Ashburton, Frances Gordon, Frederick I3eauclerk,
Elizabeth Courtenay, Byron, Gomm, Follett, Mary Elliot,
Mahon, Harriet Dunlop, Tierney, Manners, Vernon, Mon-
tagu, Kilmaine, Dowager Arundell, C. Turnour, S. Richard-
son, Parke, Stopford, B. Newdigate, Courtenay, E. Balfour,
I'. Farquhar, M. Stanley, Barron, H. Paulet, Stephenson,
Adam, Parker, Legges (two), Dynevor, Ashburnhams (two),
Dairy mple, C. Lascelles, Peel, Quentin, A. Poulett, C.
Underwood, Howden, M. Stephenson, Cowley, E. Corn-
wallis, E. Hardinge, Dowager Floyd, L. Cornwallis, G. De
Ros, Murrays (two), Dickson, Maclaine, Hargood,
Aylmer, F. Hotham, J. Hay, Teesdale, Ouseley, S. Amherst,
G. Grey, B. Pechell, Seymour, Macdonald, Heytesbury, M.
Fitzroy, Dickins, Bolton, M. Compton, Ravensworth, Bate-
son, Pringle, Strafford, Doraville, Montford, J.. Russell, H.
Parker, H. Cholmondeley, St. Maurs (two), Rolle, Rodd, G.
Fans, Ashly, G. Pratt, Stanley, L. de Horsey, Shadwell.
Rion r HONOURABLES.—Sir C. Grey, Sir A. Johnston, Sir
B. Taylor, T. Spring Rice, C. Poulett Thomson, J. Planta,
11. Labouchere, Sir R. Gordon, Sir R. Adair, W. S. Bourne,
Sir H. Hardinge, Sir G. Ouseley, Bart., G. Dawson, T. F.
Lewis, Admiral Sir G. Cockburn.

HOtiOURABLES.—Baron Dimsdale, Baroness Dimsdale, Miss
Gage, Anna Maria Gage, Charles Law, M. P. K. C., Mrs.
George Hope, Miss Abbot, Catherine Abbot, William Ba-
thurst, Captain George Campbell,.R.N., Mrs. George Camp.
bell, H. Corry, Mr. Byron, Mrs. G. Leigh, Mrs. Sullivan,
Mrs. Vansittart, Mrs. Meads, Mrs. T. Heneage, Lady Col-
ville, Edward Butler, Miss J. Hood, Maria Rice, Caroline
Rice, Mrs. Bowles, Georgiana Barrington, Mrs. Pakenham,
Lady Cust, General Pakenham, Lieut.-Colonel Sir E. Cust,
Lady Middleton, William Fraser, Mrs. Fraser, Miss Fraser,
General Phipps, Caroline Cocks, G. Ponsonby, Mrs. G.
Ponsonby, Eliza Anson, Frederica Anson, Mrs. R. Boron,
Mrs. W. Herbert, R. Lambert, Mr. Scarlett, M.P., Mrs.
Searlett, Mr. C. Scarlett, Rev. H. Legge, Lady Lumley, Mrs.
Cavendish, P. Bouverie, Mrs. P. Bouverie, Miss Mitford,
Mrs. A'Court Holmes, Mr. A'Court Holmes, J. Talbot, Mrs.
J. Talbot, Miss J. Montagu, Mrs. L. Stanhope, Mrs. T. Best,
Rev. N. Grenville, S. Saumarez, Mrs. H. Murray.
BARONETS—J. R. Carnac, J. S. Richardson, R. Peel, Jas.
Graham, W. James, G. Grey, T. Baring, R. Campbell, G.
Stainiton, F. Booth, R. Bateson, E. Knatchbull, G. Noel,
EL Lambert.

KNIGHTS—C. Wetherell, F. Chantrey, F. Pollock, M. P.,
W. Follett, C. Aldis, M. Farquhar, J. Barrow, J. Hall, J.
Wyatville, A. Agnew, T. Cartwright, W. Middleton, S.
Canning, S. Meyrick, C. Douglas, H. Cipriani, G. Jackson,
H. W►Hock, G. Hamilton, C. Domvile, C. Hunter, L.
Moller, G. Murray, W. Symonds, F. Roo.
COUNTS—Metaxa, J. B. Metaxa.
DEANS--Chichester, Carlisle.
Raw. DOCTORS—Ererard, Hawtrey.
REV. MESSIEURS—Charles Wesley, J. Jackson, J. Abbiss,
R. W. Browne, C. Busse, W. Adams, R. Musgrave, H.
Maltby, J. S. Anderson, J. C. Haden, A. Sterky, J. Late-
ward, A. E. Sketchley, E. Repton, W. L. Rham, J. Thomas,
P. Bastard, J. G. Ward.
DocToas—Filkin, Locock.
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ALDERMAN—WiIson.

MESSIEURS.—George Hope, J. Harrison
'Curtis, Marrable
George Mundy, Laurie, Wm. Iloneyyrood, George Chilton,
K. C. ; Walter ; J. Jervis, M. P., K. C. ; Holt, K. C. ; David
Pollock, K. C. ; E. Duke Moore, Keate, Ley, :Burge, F.
Lloyd, Stanley, Blackstone, M. P. ; H. Story, Cartwright,
J. M. Arnott, Compton, Campbell, Pulman, C. Wood,
M. P. ; N. Macdonald, St. Leger, Crane, Irwing, Measure,
Dunlop, M. P. ; W. S. Sands, Sivewright, T. 11. Holberton,
Banks, R. Neville, Wallace, Turnbull, G. Boughton King-
dom, M. Stapleton, A. Smith, H. Fleetwood, M.P. ; re;
C. Romilly, R.• B. Wingfield, C. Smith, Berries, Goring,
Green, M. P. ; R. Kay, Riddell, Vincent, Carey, Bulkeley,
Harcourt, M. P. ; H. Cadogan, W. J. Newton, Bedingfield,
P. Sterling, Sanford, W. H. Vyse, Eaton, M. P. ; R. Pal-
mer, Halsewell, Tubbs, Crawford, M. P. ; W. Lascellos,
Pollen, W. Powell, S. Platt, E. Phipps, Wrottesley, H. S.
Cooper, Campbell of Islay, Goulburn, Sanders, Babbage,
W. 'Wyndham, Jenkins, H. Hughes, M. P.; Anthony, S.
Dickens, I'. Robinson, L. H. Robinson, T. Gladstone,
; H. Broadwood, C. Morgan, E. Drummond, W. H.
Stone, S. Cowells, V. Smith, M. P. ; Newdigate, T. F.
'Kelly, R. Ellice, Alexander, Chichester, M. P. ; Blaker, De
llor;ay, J. Forbes, Wallace, S. Sadler, W. Russell.
MISTRESSES—MaItby, Camac, Howley, Walter, Wauchope,
Law, Campbell (of Islay), Cartwright, H. Story, V. Smith,
Colonel Ravenshaw, General White, Dawson, R. Musgrave,
Vernon, Greene, Riddell, Bulkeley, Goring-, Fanshawe, Pol-
len, Planta,. Walton, R. Ellice. Greathead, C. Shawe, Ma-
berly, Monk, Smith, F. Lewis, W. Powell.
MlSSES—Ouseley, Wauchope, Florence Cumming, Laura
Wheatley, Sophia Wheatley, Johnston, Erskine, Josephine
Erskine, Mary Ley, Barrow, Baring, Emily Baring, Van-
sittart, Emily Vansittart, Henrietta Beauclerk, Hay, Parke,
M. Fanshawe, Paulet, Bentinek, Heneage, J. Stephenson,
Balfour, H. Stopford, Vyse, E. Parker, C. Parker, G. Mur-
ray, S. Murray, Hesketh, Montagu, D. Porisonsy, Wellesley,
Greathead, Quentin, J. Herries, S. Bourne, Macdonald, Ber-
ries, A. Murray, A. Rodd, Riddell, Domville, L. Domville,
Pollen, L. Pollen, Herbert, Heys, Powell, Seymour, Lowe,
Disbrowe, H. Bathurst, Percy, Harvey, L. Bouverie, M.
Bouverie, F. Cartwright, Pringle, Stewttrt, A. Stephenson,
Fansliawc, llyng, Bateson, Lowe, Clifford, Fllard, Soil.
van, Meade, A. Meade, Percy.
ADMIRALS—Sir Charles Rowley, Sir Edward Owen, 'Sir
George Mundy, Sir Edward King, Sir Robert Otway, Sir
William Hargood, Sir H. Neale, Thompson, Skipsey, Sir T.
Rodd, White,' Sir W. Parker, Sir J. Hillyar, Sir R. Sq.
ford, Sir J. A. Ommanney, Lord Colville,
copittis H, Lavidge, Eden, Murray, 0.

Smith, Lainbort, Viscount liigestre, Dacrcs, Payet, \Val de-
grave, T. Dickinson, J. Jones, De Roos,. 0. V. Harcourt,
Herriagham, Fitzroy, Sir E. Chetham, H. H. Spence,
Bowles, S. Smith, C. Hotham, Morier, NV. Sandon, Broke,
Grace, NV. H. Percy, Hen. Sir A. Mason, Baynes, Lushing-
ton, Honourable 'l'. Best, Pell, R. Burton, Lysaght, Dalling,
H. Jossett.

CAPTAINS (TnINITY EiousE)—Pelly, Brown,

COMMANDERS (R. N. )—J C. Woolnou;.41), J. Sykes, J.
B. Hay, Crouch, F. V. Cotton, H. J. Hamilton, Turner,
R. Eden.

LIEUTENANTS (R. N.)-01dmixon, Ellicombc, J. Rainier,
J. J. W. French.

GENERALS-Sir Thomas Reynell, Sir Henry Wheatley,
Sir Henry Cumming, Sir James Kernpt, Sir John Lambert,
lion. Sir C. Colville, Sir William Gomm, Gardiner, Sir G.
Quentin, Lord Howden, Sir J. Cockburn, Whitehead, Sir
P. Lindesay, Sir R. Houstoun, Sir D. Gilmour, Sir W.
Houstoun, Sir C.- B. Vere, Sir F. Mulcaster, Lord Forbes,
Viscount Beresford, Sir R. D. Jackson, Sir D. Leighton,
Hill, Sir John Elley, Earl of Cavan, Evatt, Wulff, Sir J. L.
Lushinzton, Lord Aylmer, Sir A. Dickson, Sir C. Dalbiac,
Cleiland, Sir L. Otway, Mawby, Croshie, Sir William Prin-
gle, Sir F. Maclean, Mitchell, White, Lord Stafford, Shrapnel,
B. Gordon, Sir T. Bradford, Boardman, Sir E., Bartle, John-
ston, Sir Robert Barton, Sir T. Arbuthnot, Sir F. Trench,
Sir J. Nicolls, Sir A. Brooke, Meade, Sir H. Lowe, Sir
W. K. Grant.

COLONELS—Marquis of Douro, F. Cockburn, Rushbrooke,
Stanhope, M. Shawe, Purvis, Daubeney, Power, Wcare,
Austen, Warre, V. Agnew, Scale, M. P. ; Galloway, Powell,
M. P. ; Briggs, Sir A. Maclaine, Sir S. G. Higgins, Sir G.
Teesdale, Sir C. Hopkinson, Michell, Hill, Hon. H. Murray,
Strctton, Hon. G. R. Trevor, Mohey, E. Parkinson, Max-
well, Sir J. M. Burgoyne, Fanshawe, Lindsay, Shaw, Raven.
shave, Hon. L. Stanhope, Walton, Greenwood, Wilkins,
Fitzroy, Sir S. Higgins, Grant, Sir NV. Gossett, Malwly,
Higginson, Addison, St. Clair, Walcott, Dal 3, Sir IL
Townshend.

MAJORS.-Garrett. Legge, Andrews, Thorne, Peebles, 11.
Cadogan, Lockyer, Willoek, Sutherland, J. Campbell, Luard.
CAPTAINS-Hon. G. 11. Browne, Clarell, P. Neville,
Watson, Thomas, R. Lock, Chetwynd, M. P. ; Vavasour,
Bercsford, W. Blackburne, Randall, Cockran, Sir T. Trott-
bride, Clinton, Watson, Grove, Wood, P. Cameron, R. Har-
vey, Hanmer, Handcock, Dickson, Drummond, Shea, J.
Lewis, Willis, R. N. ; F. Forbes, Mackintosh, Hankshaw, F.
Murray, M'Douall.

LIEUTENANTS—AIexander, M'Caskill, F. Bayles, Tierney,
W. Beresford, Wood, Turnor, Sutton, Colville, Peyton, W.
H. Duff, Nl'Coy, Kinderley, Tyreil, J. James, Taylor, Wed-
derburn, Greathead, Wynyard, Daly, 'Tomkinson, R. Vyse, W.
Ridley, Beauclerk, Lord A. St. Maur.
CORNETS—Booth, Ibbetson, Anson, Bradford, B. Proctor,
Rodon, Perceval.

ENSIGNS-Boyd, W. Yates, A. Magnay, G. G. Law, E.
Molloy, 1..) saght, Peebles, A. M. Herbert, T. Ingram, G.
Hazlerigge, L. Wyke.
State Dinner Parties, in honour of the day, were given by—
Viscount Melbourne, at his official residence, in Downing.
street, to a number of Peers.

Viscount Palmerston, as Foreign Secretary, at his official
residence, to the whole Corps biplomatique.
Lord Glenelg, as Colonial Secretary, at his residence in
Great George-street, to the Governors of Colonies at present
in England, the agents of the Colonies, and several Officers
in the Commander-in-Chief's office and the Ordnance De-
partment.
Lord John Russell, as Secretary of-State for the Home De-
partment, at Grillon's Hotel, to the following :—The Lord
Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellor, Lord Denman, Chief Justice
of the Court of King's Bench, Lord Chief Justice Tindal,
Lord Abinger, Hon. Mr. Justice Patteson, lion. Mr. Justice
Williams, Hon. Mr. Justice Coleridge. the Right Hon. Mr.
Justice Bosanquet, Hon. Mr. Justice Coltman, the Right Hon.
Mr. Baron Parke, Hon. Mr. Baron Bolland, Hon. Mr. Baron
Gurney, Hon. Mr. Baron Alderson, the Master of the Rolls,
Lord Morpeth, the Lord Mayor, Sir John Nicholl, the Re-
corder of London, Mr. Sheriff Johnson, Sir James Duke, the
Lord Advocate of Scotland, the Speaker, Messrs. Patteson,
Wood, Grote, and Crawford, M. P.s for the City of London,
the Solicitor-General for Ireland, Mr. S. M. Phillips, the
Hon. Fox Maule, and the Hon. Charles Gore.

The Hon. Mr. Ashley, Vice-Chamberlain to the Queen (in
lieu of Earl Howe), entertained the Great Officers of State,
and the principal Officers of the Household.
The Earl of Denbigh, the Queen's Master of the Horse,
entertained the Equerries, &c., to their Majesties.
His Majesty's Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, dined
together at their Mess at the Freemasons' Tavern, to celebrate
the day.

The King gave audiences yesterday to the Marquis of Win-
chester, the Marquis of Conyngham, the Earl of Albemarle,
Lord Hill, Lord Glenelg and Viscount Palmerston.
His Majesty, attended by Sir Henry Wheatley, left town on
Wednesday evening for Windsor Castle, and returned to town
yesterday morning, attended by Sir H. Wheatley.
The Duke of Cumberland dined with the Earl of West-
moreland in Grosvenor-square, on Wednesday evening.

LADIES' DRESSES.
11. R. THE PRINCESS AUGUSTA.

A superb Irish blonde dress, over white satin; corsage and
sleeves trimmed with blonde, tastefully intermixed with dia-
monds ; manteau of rich lilac satin, surrounded with blonde.
Head-dress, a splendid toque, ostrich feathers, blonde lappets,
and diamonds.

H. R. H. THE DUCHESS OP ICENT.—A silver net •dress,
over which white satin, elegantly trimmed with poppies and
silver wheat ears; the body and sleeves splendidly ornamented
with diamonds and blonde ; train of beautiful white satin, bro-
caded in silver and cerise (of Spitalfields manufacture, made
expressly for the occasion), with a handsome silver border,
and lined with rich white satin. Head-dress, feathers, dia-
monds, and handsome Northamptonshire blonde lappets.
H. R. H. THE PRINCESS VICTORIA.--An elegant English
blonde dress, over rich white satin ; the body, sleeves, and
skirt tastefully trimmed with blonde and pale pink roses;
rich figured white satin train (of Spitalfields manufacture,
made expressly for the occasion), lined with white gros de
Naples, and elegantly ornamented with roses and net. Head-
dress, feathers, diamonds, and blonde lappets.
DUCIIESS OF BEAUFORT.—A dress of very superb white
satin, of an elegant pattern, richly embroidered in gold ; skirt
very handsomely trimmed on each side with net and gold
wheat; body and,sleeves a la Christine, magnificently trimmed
with gold blonde ; ruffles of the same ; train of superb velours
epingle, in green, lined with. rich white satin, and trimmed
with gold ribbon. Head-dress, superb ostrich feathers and a
splendid set of costly diamonds, with -agraffe for the shoulders
to correspond ; lappets of rich Chantilly blonde.
DUCHESS OF NORTHUMBERLAND.—Boddice and train of a
magnificent sky-blue velvet, lined with white satin, and trimmed
with ermine and point lace ; a rich white satin petticoat, beau-
tifully trimmed with point lace, intermixed with blue velvet.
Heat -dress, an elegant plume of feathers, with lappets of point
lace; ornaments, a splendid tiara of diamonds, necklace and
ear-rings en suite. The materials for the dress all of Spital-
fields manufacture.

DUCHESS OF SOMrRSET.-A splendid dress of dentille de
soie, over a very rich pink satin slip ; body and sleeves a la
Jenne d'Albret, handsomely trimmed with rich dentille de
soic ; ruffles of the same ; skirt looped up with rosebuds ;
train of rich pink satin, covered with dentille de sole, elegantly
trimmed with tulle, mixed with ribbon, and bouquets of roses.
Headdress, ostrich feathers, with a splendid set of costly dia-
monds and emeralds; necklace of pearls, stomacher of dia
monds and emeralds to correspond ; lappets of dentille de soie.