The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-26 00:00:00

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THE QUEEN'S DRAWING-ROOM

The Queen held a tifeitinftrefitii yisitei;diy at §t,
James's Palaces id ceielifailtin of her Majesty's birthday,
which wall vey'nutnerously attended.
)lur Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by. the goal'
suite, arrived from-Buckingham pelliite at it, r.O.ar-tel- be-
fore two o'elpelt,l!i'd h‘ the Lord Chain-
beflaih; tfie field kc ward, and the Master of the Horse
tOnduded her Majesty and his Royal Highness to
the Royal closet.
His Majesty the King of the Belgians was present at
the Drawing- room. His Majesty arrived. from Buck-
ingham Palace, attended by Cotint Mercy d'Argenteati
and Major A. ninnies de Atotekerkei and was received
by the Vice.Chatfiberlain, who conducted his Majesty to
the Royal closet.
- Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge were also present at the Drawing-room.
Their Royal Hirt nesses ware attended by Lady Geor-
giana Bathurst, Baron Knesebeck, and Major-General
Sir Jatm.s Reynett.
The Bishops arrived at the Palace, and after baying
assembled in the Portrait Gallery, were ushered to the
press nee of her Niajt stye in the Royal closet..
There were present the Archbishop of Canterbury-,
the Archbishop of Armagh, the Bishops of London,
Winchester, Durham, Llanduff. Gloucester and Bristol,
Bangor, Carlisle, Lichfield, Chester, Ripon, Hereford,
Worcester, Ely, Saliibury, Rochester, and Clogher.
The Archbishop of Canterbury delivered an address
of congratulation, on the suspicio" return of her Ma,
jesty's natal day. The Bishops afterwards retire.l from
the Royal presence.
His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar
attended the Drawing•room. •
The Lord Chancellor came in State. attended by the
Sergeant-at-Arms to the House of Lords, and also by
his Secretaries and Purse-bearer.

The Speaker of the House of Commons came in State.
attended by the Chaplain to the House of Commons and
the Sergeant-sit-Arms. The Right Hon. Gentleman
wore hi State Rohe.

The Lords Chief Justices of the Court of Queen's
Bench and Common Pleas, and the Lord Chief Baron of
the Exchequer wore their Collars of S. S. with the Port-
cullis.

The Master of the Rolla, the Vice-Chancellor of Eng-
land, and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall wore
their gold robes.
It being a Collar day, the Knights of the several Orders
of Knighthood wore the Collars of their respective
Orders.

Her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-
Arms were on duty in the_ State-rooms, commanded by
their Standard-bearer, Mr. Henry Robinson.
In the Royal suite were the Duchess. of Buccleuch,
Mistress of the Robes ; the Marchioness of Douro, the
Duchess of Norfolk, the Countess of Charlemont, the
Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, and the Viscountess
Jocelyn, Ladies in Waiting ; Hon. Miss Stanley, Hon.
Miss Hamilton, and the other Maids of Honour ; Lady
Gardiner, Hon. Mrs. Anson, Hon. Mrs. Brand, Lady
Caroline Barrington, the Hon. Mrs. George Campbell,
and other Women of the Bedchamber ; the Earl of
Hardwicke, Lord in Waiting ; Captain Meynell, Groom
in Waiting ; Colonel Buckley, Equerry in Waiting ; the
Marquis of Exeter, Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert;
Mr. George. Edward Anson, Treasurer to his Royal
Highness • Lord George Lennox, Lord in Waiting ;
General Sir George Anson, Groom • in Waiting ; and
Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert entered the Throne-
room, accompanied by his Mlijesty King Leopold, their
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge,
and his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe
Weimar.

The following presentations took place in the Foreign
Diplomatic circle :
The Baroness de Regaleira, a Portuguese Lady, by
the Baroness de Moncorvo, Lady of the Portuguese
Minist r.

The Chevalier de Tacon, Chargi d'Affaires from
Spain, by the Earl of Aberdeen, Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs.

The Foreign Diplomatic circle was attended by the
French Ambassador and the Countess de St. Aulaire,
and Baron de 'Palley rand, Attache to the Embassy ;
Aali Effendi, Ottoman Ambassador ; General Count
Bjornstjerna, Swedish Minister, and Baron de Bjornst-
jerna, Secretary of Legation ; le Baron de Stjernerona,
Lieutenant General in the Swedish service, on a special
mission from his Majesty the. King of Sweden and
Norway ; le Baron C. de Bjornstjerna, Officier d'Ordon-
nance de S. M. le Roi de Suede et de Norwege, and It
Comte M. de Rosen, Aide-de-Camp General et Cham-
bellan, in the service of his Swedish Majesty; the Belgian
Minister and Madame Van de Weyer ; M. Charles
Drouet. Secretary of Legation, and M. Delepierre,
Attache; M. Moreno, Buenos Ayrean Minister •, Baron
de Cet to, Bavarian Minister ; M. Dedel, Netherlands
Minister, and M. Stratenus, First Secretary of Legation;
Count de Pollen, Sardinian Minister, and Count Revel,
Secretary of Legation ; the Portuguese Minister and
the Baroness de Moncorvo, M. Lobo de Moira, Secre-
tary of Legation, M. L. A. Pinto de Several, Attache to
to the Legation, and le Baron de Lagos ; M. Alejo For-
tique,Venezuelan Minister; the Russian Minister and Ba-
roness de B run now, and M. de Berg, Secretary of Legation;
General Prince Castelcicala, Sicilian Minister, and M. G.
Canofari, Secretary of Legation ; Count Kielmannsegge,
the Hanoverian Minister ; Baron de Hugel, Wurtetn-
berg Minister ; and le Baron de Linden; Madame
Bunsen, lady of the Prussian Minister ; the Bra-
zilian Minister, and Mada.me Marquess Lisboa ;
Mr. Everett, United States Minister, and Mr. Rives,
Secretary of Legation ; the Danish Minister and
Countess Reventlow, and Baron Brockdorff, Secretary
of Legation ; Baron de Nieumann, Austrian Minister;
Baron Koller, First Secretary of Legation Count
Esterhazy, Attache to the Legation ; Baron Brenner,
and M. and Madame de Flummelauer ; M. Murphy,
Mexican Minister ; M. M. Mosquera, New Granada
Charge d'Affaires, and M. Raphael de Ayala, Secretary
to the Mission; Baron Thile, Prussian Chargé d'Affaires,
and Baron Witzleben. Captain in the Pruisian Royal
Guards ; Monsieur H. F. Tiarks, Charge d'Affaires of
his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Oldenburg ;
Chevalier de Facon, Chargé d'Affaires, M. Victoriano
de Pedrorena, second Secretary to the Mission, and the
Count of Erlach. . - _ _

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general company present included the Lord
Chancellor, the Secretary-at-War, the Lord Privy Seal,
the Lord teward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of
the Horse, the Captain of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-
at-Arms, Viscount Combermere, Gold Stick in Waiting.;
the Vice-Chamberlain, the Treasurer of the Household,
Lord Denman, Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's
Bench, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas,
the Lord Chief Baron, the Right Hon. the Speaker;
Sir Edward Disbrowe, her Majesty's Minister at the
Hague, Sir Hamilton Seymour, her Majesty's Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenitentiary in Belgium ;
the Master of the Rolls, the Vice Chancellor of En land,
the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, the Comp-
troller-General of the Exchequer, the Judge Advocate
General, Mr. S. March rhillipps, Under Secretary of
State ,• Sir George Philip Lee, Lieutenant of the Yeo-
man Guard ; the Master of the Ceremonies, the Queen's
Advocate, the Lord Mayor, Sir Charles Young, Garter;
Mrs Thomas Shiffner, Paymaster of the Household ; Mr.
Sheriff Musgrove, Mr. Sheriff Moon, Mr. Ralph Gore,
Groom in Waiting to her Majesty ; aptain F. Seymour,
Scots Fusilier Guards, Groom of the Bedchamber to his
Royal Highness Prince Albert ; Col. Richardson, Royal
Horse Guards, Silver Stick in Waiting ; Captain Sir
Andrew Green, Naval A.D.O ' • Cols. Weare, Parke, H.
Bentinck, Owen, Oldfield, andbyneley, C. 8., A.D.C. to
the Queen ; Colonel Arbuthnot, Equerry to the Queen ;
Major-General Sir James Reynett, Equerry to his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge ; Dr. Chambers, Phy-
cian to the Queen and to the Queen Dowager ; Sir Ben.
jamin Brodie, Part., Sergeant-Surgeon to the Queen ;
Sir James H. Whitshed, Admiral of the Fleet ; Rev. J.
Vane, Deputy-Clerk of the Closet in Waiting ; the At-
torney- General to the Prince of Wales ; Mr. M'Gregor,
Secretary to the Board of Trade ; th Groom of the
Robes ; Rev. Dr. Foord Bowes, Chaplain to her Majesty;
Rev. John Ryle Wood, Domestic Chaplain to her Ma-
jesty the Queen Dowager ; the Chaplain to the House
of Commons ; Col. Perceval, Sergeant-at-Arms, House
of Lords ; Mr. Lefroy, the Speuker's Secretary ; Mr.
Sergeant Atcherley, Attorney-General of the County
Palatine of Lancaster ; Mr. Sergeant Merevrether, Soli-
citor-General to the Queen Dowager ;_ Mr. Henry Ro-
binson, Standard-bearer to the Hon. Corps of Gentle-
men at Arms ; Mr. James 13unce Curling, Clerk of the
Cheque of the lion. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms ; Sir
Samuel Hancock, Exon of the Yeoman Guard ; Mr.
Ellerthorp, Clerk of the Cheque of the Yeoman
Guard ; Captain S. Sadler, Exon in Waiting ;
Captain J. • Parker Nuttall, Exon of the Yeo-
man Guard ; Sir Benjamin Smith, C.S. ; Mr. Fre-
deric Peel Round, Gentleman Usher of the Green Rod ;
Captain Courtenay Boyle, R.N. ; Mr. A. Blackwood,
Mr. Beresford, and Sir Noel Harris, K.C.H., Grooms of
the l'rivy Chamber ; Sir William Martins, Captain
Green, Mr. Str. chen, Mr. Alfred Montgomery, and Mr.
Des Vocux, Gentlemen Ushers to the Queen ; Colonel
Godwin, and Captain G. C. Blake, R.N., Gentlemen
Ushers to his Royal Highness Prince Albert in Waiting;
Colonel Sir George Hoste, Royal Engineers, Gentleman
Usher of the Privy Chamber to the Queen Dowager ;
Sir George Hayter, M.A.S.L., Painter of History and
Portraits to her Majesty, and Principal Painter in Ordi-
nary; Sir William J. Newton, Miniature Painter in
Ordinary-to her Majesty and the Queen Dowager ; Mr.
Colquhoun, Agent for the Halite Towns ; Mr. G. F.
Dickson, Consul General for Buenos Ayres ; Chevalier
Hebeler, his Prussian Majesty's Consul General ; Sir
John Hall, Consul General for Hanover ; Colonel R.
Wright, late Consul General, Charge d'Affairs of Equa-
dor ' • Mr. I,urge (Queen's Counsel), Agent for Jamaica:
Mr. Cotton, Governor of the Bank of England ' • Mr. J.
B. Heath, Deputy Governor of the Bank ; and the fol-
lowing Ladies :
DUCHESSES—Bedford, Roxburgh, Norfolk.
MARCHIONESSES—Exeter, Normanby, Wellesley, Or-
monde, Cholmondeley, Sligo, Aylesbury, Londonderry,
Clanricarde. _

COUNTESSES—Rosebery, Powis, De Solis. Morton,
Nelson Delawarr, Camperdown, Dowager Winterton,
Cowper, Cawdor, Haddington, Dowager Chichester,
Jersey, 13. Metaxa, Wilton, Beverley, Dowager Somers,
Sefton, Harewood, Dowager Essex, Verulam,
Dalhousie,
Clarendon, Arundel, Morley.
VISCOUNTESSES Pollington, Dillon, Campden,
Howick, Ashbrook, Adore, Palmerston, Dowager Dil-
lon, Folkestone, Barrington, Hawarden, Duncan, Newry.
LADlES—Frances Nelson, Henniker, Wightman, Bul-
keley Philipps, Chatiotte Denison, Bowyer Smith, Grant,
Byron, Jemima Eliot, Disbrowe, Grey Egerton, Olivia
Taylour, Mary Juliana Tayl•-•ur, Emily Foley, Elibank,
Pollock, Dowager Rivers, Charlotte Heard, Denman,
'Gore Booth, Elizabeth Duncan, Ernest Brudenell Bruce,
Macdonald, Bowater, Ellen Douglas, Louisa Primrose,
Anne Primrose, Dymoke, Howard Douglas, Lucy Her-
bert. Charlotte Herbert, Shelley, Flower, Aylmer, H.
Durham, Carroll, Mordaunt, Montefiore, Catherine
Cavendish, Grant, Osborne, Caroline Bathurst, S. In-
gestre, Couper, Cornwall, Langdale, C. G. Lennox,
Wheatley, Mahon, A. .sonierset, Rachel Russell, Clao,