The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-25 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY,

Yesterday being the birthday of her Majesty, the
customary signs of rejoicing were visible all over
London, flags being displayed from all the Govern-
ment and municipal buildings, and a large number
of private places of business and residences, as well
as from the ships in the river. Salutes were fired
in the parks and from the Tower, the Royal Arsenal,
Woolwich, Tilbury Fort, &c. ; and at an early hour
the bells of the various churches rang out a merry
peal.

A general inspection and review of the veterans
of Greenwich Hospital took place in the grand
square of the hospital. The Governor and Master,
Admiral Sir James Alexander Gordon, G.C.8., Sir
Stephen Lushington, K.C.8., lieutenant governor,
and many other distinguished naval officers, with
their ladies, were present. Afterwards the veterans
were marched to the dining-hall, where they were
regaled with roast beef and plum-pudding, with a
liberal_allowance of ale, to drink the health of her
Majesty, which was done with all due honours.
The Household Troops and the Royal Horse
Guards were inspected by their Royal Highnesses
the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge,
attended by a numerous staff. The men looked
remarkably well in their new uniforms. The in-
spection was minute and satisfactory. The artillery
and infantry divisions of the Honourable Artillery
Company paraded in the afternoon at the company's
ground, City-road, and fired a salute in honour of
her Majesty's birthday.
At Windsor there were the usual loyal manifes-
tations in honour of the birthday of her Majesty.
Merry peals rung out from the bells of the Tower of
Julius Caesar and the parish church of St. John,
while the shops and houses were decorated with
flags and banners. A Royal salute of 21 guns was
fired, and repeated in the course of the day, from
Fort Belvedere and the Royal Adelaide frigate, at
Virginia Water. In the evening the corporation
met at a grand banquet at the White Hart Hotel,
at which the Mayor presided. A fine haunch of
venison, the gift of her Majesty the Queen, for-
warded from Bushy Park, graced the table.
In the evening the theatres, clubs, official resi-
dences, houses of the Court tradesmen, &c., were
illuminated, and at the houses of several of the
nobility, Ministers of State, &c., banquets were
given, of which a more detailed report will be found
below.

STATE BANQUETS.
THE PREMIER.

Viscount Palmerston, K.G., First Lord of the Treasury,
had the honour of entertaining his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales and a distinguished party at a State ban-
quet at Cambridge House last evening in celebration of her
Majesty's birthday.

THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN.
Viscount Sydney, G.C.8., Lord Chamberlain of her Ma-
jesty's Household, gave a State dinner at his residence in
Cleveland-square, in celebration of her Majesty's birthday.
Tho company included Viscount Castlerosse (the Vice
Chamberlain), Marquis Camden, Marquis Townshend, Lord
Foley, Lord Rivers, Lord Harris, K. 5.1., Colonel the Hon.
Sir Chas. B. Phipps, K. C. 8., General Sir Frederic Smith,
Sir A. Gordon, Bart., Hon. Spencer Ponsonby, Lieut.-
General Sir Henry Bentinck, K.C.8., Hon. Fredk. Byng,
Sir Wm. Martins, Lieut.-General Knollys, Major-General
Francis Seymour, C. 8., Col. Home Purves, Col. Stephens,
Captain Bedford, R.N., Commander Nelson, R.N., the Hon.
F. Cadogan, Mr. Charles Heneage, Mr. Campbell of Islay,
Mr. Wilbraham Taylor, and Mr. March.