The Sun.
London, England, 1836-02-25 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S DRAWING-ROOM

CELEBRATION of her MAJESTY'S BIRTH-DAY.
A Drawing-Room was held yesterday at St. James's, in
celebration of the Queen's birth-day.
At one o'clock the Archbishops of Canterbury and York,
the Bishops of London, Winchester, Hereford, Bath and Wells,
Llandaff, St. David's, Gloucester, Chichester, and Rochester,
arrived at the Queen's House, and were introduced to her
Majesty by Earl Howe, the Queen's Lord Chamberlain. The
Archbishop of Canterbury read an address of congratulation to
her Majesty.
The Yeomen of the Guard wore their coronation costume.
The officers in attendance were Mr. Edwin Pearson, Lieute-
nant ; Captain Houlton, Ensign ; Mr. Ellerthorpe, Clerk of
the Checque ; Sir T. Horsley Curteis, Mr. Charles Hancock,
Mr. Samuel Hancock, and Mr. Derinzy, Exons of the Yeomen
of the Guard.
Messrs. Dobell and Halse, the State Pages, and the Pages
of his Majesty, Mr. Shoemack, and the Queen's Pages, were
in attendance in their state uniforms.
His Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms
were stationed at the entrances to the state rooms. The Offi-
cers of the Corps present were Sir Samuel Spry, the Lieute-
nant, and Sir G. Pocock, the Standard-bearer ; Mr. Albert
W. Beetham, Clerk of the Check of the Corps ; and the King's
Harbinger.
A deputation of the Governors and Officers of Christ's
Hospital School, consisting of Mr. Alderman Thompson, M. P.,
the President ; Mr. R. Hotham Pigeon, the Treasurer ;
Messrs. Thomas Weeding and John Alliston, of the Com-
mittee of Governors ; Mr. Matthew Cotton, the Receiver ;
the Rev. Mr. Webster, Mathematical Master ; Mr. Back,
the Drawing Master ; and Mr. Huggings, the Steward; ac-
companied by forty boys of the Royal Mathematical School
of the Hospital, attended, according to an ancient custom, on
the first Drawing Room of the season Mr. Mash, the
Gentleman Usher, ushered the deputation to the Royal
Closet, where the boys exhibited their charts and drawings to
the King.
The Knights of the several Orders of Knighthood wore
the collars of their respective Orders.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent arid the
Princess Victoria came in state to the Drawing Room, witli
four carriages, with an escort from the Ist Regiment of Life
Guards. Their Royal Highnesses were attended by the
Duchess of Northumberland, Lady Theresa Strangways, the
1 Hon. Lady Cust, the Baroness Lehzen, Sir John Conroy, Sir
Frederick Wetherell, Sir George Anson, Hon. Gen. Upton,
Colonel Hill, Lieut.-Colonel Harcourt, and the Hon. Captain
Spencer. Their Royal Highnesses entered the Palace by the
Colour Court, where they were received by the King's Guard
with the usual honours.
The dresses worn by the Duchess of Kent and the Princess
Victoria on this occasion were composed entirely of articles of
British and Irish manufacture.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland was attended
by Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Slade.
The Landgravine of Ilesse Hombcrg was attended by
Mdlle. Styne.
The Piincess Augusta was attended by Lady Louisa Corn-
wallis. _ . _

Prince George of Cambridge and Prince Ernest of Hesse
Philippsthal also arrived.
The Lord. Chancellor, the Master of the Rolls, the Vice-
Chancellor, and the Speaker of the House of Commons came
in State, attended by their respective Officers.
The following Ladies and Officers of her Majesty's House-
hold were in attendance : —The Countess Howe and Miss
Hope Johnstone, Lady and Maid of Honour in Waiting ; the
Marchioness of Ely, Countess Mayo, and the Countess
Browulow, Ladies of the Bedchamber ; Hon. Misses C.
Boyle, Mitchell, Eden, and Ba,mt, Mai,ls of Honour ; Lady
Caroline Wood, Lady Bedingficld, Lady T. Wemyss, Mrs.
B. Paget. and Miss Wilson, Bedchamber Women ; Earl
Howe, Lord Chamberlain ; Earl of Denbigh, Master of the
Horse ; Hon. Mr. Ashley, Vice-Chamberlain ; General
Macdonnell, Hon. Captain Hay, and Captain Pechell, Equer-
ries ; Sir George Hoste, Colonel Wilson, Major Wright,
Mr. Mellish, and Mr. Murray, Gentlemen Ushers ; Master
Foreser, Page of Honour ; the Hon. Captain Curzon, and
Lieutenant-Colonel Jones.
The Kin, was attended by the Marquis of Winchester,
Groom of the Stole, officiating as the Lord in Waiting, arid Sir
R. Otway, the Groom in Waiting.
The Netherlands Minister (M. Dedel), had an audience
of her Majssty, at the Queen's House. His Excellency was
introduced by Earl Howe, her Majesty's Lord Chamberlain,
and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, the Master of the Ce-

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M. Ralli, Consul of the King of G:eecc, by M. Tricoupi,
the Grecian Minister.
Among the company present were—
Prince Jamb-Cid-Dem, of Mysore, accompanied by Captain
Melville Grindlay ; the Russian Ambassador, the French Am-
bassador and Countess Sebastiani, the Prussian Minister, the
Swedish Minister and Countess Bjornstjerna, the Hanoverian,
Willemberg, Belgian, Buenos Ayrean, Danish, and Portu-
g,UCSC Ministers, the Greek Minister and Madame Tricoupi,
the Bavarian Minister and Baroness Cetto, the Brazilian,
Netherlands, and Saxon Ministers, Noori Effendi, the Otto-
man Minister, attended by M. Salame., his Majesty's Oriental
Interpreter; M. Colquhoun, Agent and Consul-General for
the Hans Towns ; the Austrian and United States Charge
d'Affaires, M. Bourqueney, First Secretary to the French
Embassy ; Count Seckendorff, Secretary to the Prussian
Legation ; M. Lichtenberg, Secretary to the Hanoverian
Legation; Count Pollon and Count Moivan, of the Sardinian
Legation; Tala Effendi, First Secretary, and M. Vogoridis,
Interpreter, of the Ottoman Legation ; M. Wallez, and M.
Achart, of the Belgian Legation ; Baron Rehausen, Secre-
tary of the Swedish Legation ; the Chevalier de Ribeiro, Se-
cretary of the Portuguese Legation ; Count de Plessen,
Attaché to the Danish Legation ; Count C. de Danneskiold
Samsoe, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Steward, the Lord
Chamberlain, the Groom of the Stole, the Master of the Horse,
Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting ; the Captain of the Hon.
Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, the Captain of the Yeomen of
the Guard, the Postmaster-General, the Master of the King's
Buckhounds, the Master General of the Ordnance, the Lord
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, Sir John Nicholl, Judge
of the Admiralty ; the Vice-Chamberlain, Mr. Justice Bosan-
quet, the Master of the Mint, Sir HerberogtuTleatc:aloprat,naidnFirst and
Principal Aide-de-Camp to the King ; Colonel Sir Robert
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Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Persia ; Mr. Back.:
house, Under- Secretary of State ; Mr. Sulivan, Deputy Se-
cretary at War ; the King's Advocate, the Solicitor-General,
the Master of the Ceremonies ; Sir Augustus Clifford,
Usher of the Black Rod ; Sir William Burnett, Physician
to his Majesty ; Sir Astley Cooper, Bart., and Sir
Benjamin Brodie, Bart., Sergeant- Surgeons to the King ;
the Adjutant-General of the Forces, the Clerk-Marshal •
Mr. Burge, Agent for Jamaica : Mr. Mayers, Agent for
Barbadoes • Mr. Meek, Comptroller of the Victualling
of the Navy ; the Principal Chaplain to his Majesty's
Forces ; the Dean of Herefal, Deputy Clerk of the
Closet and Chaplain to the Queen ; the Rev. Dr. Blomberg,
Deputy :Clerk of the Closet ; the Rev. Dr. Foord- Bowes,
Deputy Clerk of the Closet and Chaplain to theKing;the;
Queen's Attorney and Solicitor Generals ; Colonel Lygon,
Silver Stick in Waiting; the Secretary to the Master-General
of the Ordnance ; Colonel Bowater and Lieutenant_ Colonel
Cavendish, Equeries to the King ; the Kinds Harbinger
Lord Kilmarnock, Page of Honour ; Major yde, Assistant
Master and Marshal of the Ceremonies; Lieut.-Colonel Sir
Frederick Smith, Gentleman Usher in Waiting to the King;
the Sub-Dean of the Chapels Royal, and the following
Dumas—Cleveland, Hamilton, Wellington, Norfolk, Nor-
thumberland, Leinster, Somerset, Dorset.
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