The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-28 00:00:00

HER MAJESrI"S DRAWING
ROOM.

The Queen's birth-clay was celebrated yesterjay at Court,
a drawing-room held in St. James's Palace.
The attendance of the nobility and gentry was very nu-
me, ous. The company began to arrive soon after one o'clock,
and continued setting- down at the entrance for entree and
general company during the space of two hours. 1. he state
aloons were soon filled with company, and also the anti-
ooms. The grand banqueting-room, and a second grand
chamber, which had been fitted up this season, were opened
for the reception of the numerous visitors, and were also
6114. The costumes of the ladies were of the most splen-
did description, and were new for the occasion. The Minis-
ters appeared in the full dress official costume, and the officers
of the royal household in the full dress household uniform.
Being a collar day, the knights of the several orders of knight-
hood wore the collars of their respeetive orders.
The Lord Chancellor came in state, wearing his gold gown,
and was attended by two of his secretaries, his mace-bearer,
Le Colonel Perceval, and his purse-bearer, Mr. Haines. The
Master of the Rolls, the Vice-Chancellor of England, the
Vice-Chancellor Wigram, and the Chancellor of the Duchy of
Cornwall also wore their gold gowns.
The. Lord Chief-Justices of the Court of Queen's Bench and
the Common Pleas. and the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer
wore their splendid collars of S. S., with the rose and
portcullis.
The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons came
in state, wearing his gold robe, and was attended by the Ser.
geant-at- Arms, Sir William Gossett, and the Chaplain to the
House of Commons.
The whole of the Ladies of the Bedchamber to her Majesty,
the Maids of Honour, and the Bedchamber Women, attended
on this auspicious occasion,
The Queen and Prince Albert arrived at two o'clock from
Buckingham Palace, accompanied by the Prince of Leiningen,
and attended by the Mistress of the Robes, the Countess of
Mount Edgee.umbe, Lady in Waiting; Hon. Misses Murray
and Kerr, Maids of Honour in Waiting ; Lord Byron, Lord in
Waiting; Captain the Hon. Arthur buncombe, Groom in
Waiting ; Lord Charles Wellesley (Clerk Marshal), Equerry
in Waiting ; Messrs. H. W. Byng and G. Grant Gordon,
Pages of Honour in Waiting ; the Marquis of Granby, Lord in
Waiting to Prince Albert ; Captain Travers Seymour, Groom
in Waiting; and Cols nel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting to his
Royal Highness. The Lord Steward and Lord Chamberlain,
the Master of the Horse, and the Groom of the Stole to Prince
Albert received her Majesty and Prince Albert at St. James's
Palace, and conducted them to the Royal Closet.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived, attended
by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Colonel Sir George Couper,
Bart. Her Royal Highness wore a most splendid costume.
The dress was of the richest white satin, of Spitalfields manu-
facture, with elegant silver trimmings, and having the
stomacher ornamented with diamonds and amethysts. The
train was of costly silver brocade, of Spitalfields manufacture.
The head-dress was composed of violet-coloured velvet, with
silver lappets, feathers, and diamonds. The necklace and ear-
rings were diamonds and amethysts.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge were attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan, Baron Knese •
beck, and Mr. Edmond Mildmay.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, his Royal
Highness Prince George, and his Serene Highness Prince
Edward of Saxe Weimar, were present.
The Royal Family were received by the Vice Chamberlain,
who conducted the illustrious visitors to the Royal Closet.
Her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms were
on duty in the State Rooms, the Presence Chamber, and the
Portrait Gallery.
The Yeomen of the Guard were on duty in the ante-rooms.
A party of the Life. Guards, with the band of the regiment,
in state uniforms, was on duty in the East Court of the
Palace. The Queen's Guard of the Foot Guards was stationed
in the Colour Court.
Soon after two o'clock the Archbishops of Canterbury, Ar-
magh, and Dublin, the Bishops of London, Winchester, Dur-
ham, Norwich, orcester, Rochester, Lichfield, Gloucester
and Bristol, Llandaff, Chester, Carlisle, St. David's, Chichester,
Peterborough, Bangor, Sodor and Man, and Ely, entered the
Royal Closet, when the Archbishop of Canterbury delivered an
Address of Congratulation to the Queen on the auspicious re-
turn of her Natal day. His Grace and the
.Right Reverend
Prelates afterwards retired from the royal presence.
The Queen, Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the
Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge,
Prince George, the Prince of Leiningen, and Prince Edward
of Saxe Weimar, having entered the Throne-room, and her
Majesty having taken her usual station, the Foreign Diplo-
matic circle were introduced when the following presentations
to her Majesty took place :
Madame la Duchesse de Coigny, et Madame la Baronne de
Talleyrand, by the French Ambassadress.
Monsieur d'Accia, a gentleman of Milan, and Captain Bog-
hnrst, in the 3d Regiment of Lancers in the Austrian service,
by Count Dietrichstein, the Austrian Ambassador.
Le Lieutenant-General Comte Duval de Beaulieu, et Le
Baron Duval de Blaergnies, by M. Van de Weyer, the Bel-
gian Minister.
M. Manuel Sehastiano Moreno, Attache to the Argentine
Legation, and son of the Minister, by M. Moreno, the Ar-
gentine Minister.
Le Prince Galitzin, Conseiller d'Etat Actuel et Chambellan
de S. M. L'Empereur de Russie, by Baron de Brunnow, the
Russian Minister.
Le Comte de Heiningen, Capitaine au Premier Regiment
Suisse au service de la Majestic Sicilienne, by Prince Castel-
cicala the Sicilian Minister.
The Foreign Diplomatic Circle was attended by the French
Ambassador and the Countess de St. Aulaire, Baron de Talley-
rand, and Count La Grange, Attaches to the Embassy, the
Duke de Broglie, le Comte et la Comtesse de Flahault, and
Madame la Baronne de la Ronciere Le Noury ; the
Austrian Ambassador, the Countess Dietrichstein, and
Baron Koller, First Secretary of the Embassy ;
Sarim Effendi, Ottoman Ambassador; Edib Effendi, first
Secretary, and M. Agop, Secretary Interpreter to the
Embassy ; the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer,
and M. Delepierre, Attache to the Legation • the Bavarian
Minister and Baroness de Cetto; Monsieur Dedel, the Nether-
lands Minister, and Mr. Stratenus, first Secretary of Legation;
Count de Potion, Sardinian Minister, and Count Revel, Secre-
tary of Legation ; Mr. Moreno, the Argentine Minister; the
Portuguese Minister and Baroness de Moncorvo ; M. Lobo tie
Moira, Secretary, and the Baron de Lagos, Attaché to the
Legation, and the Baron de Folgoza ; the Russian Minister
and the Baroness de Brunnow, and M. Alexander de Berg,
First Secretary of the Legation ; General Prince Castelcicala,
Neapolitan Minister, and M. G. Causfari, Secretary of Lega-
tion; Count de Kielmannsegge, Hanoverian Minister; the
Prussian Minister and Madame Bunsen ; the Brazilian Minis-
ter and Madame Marquis Lisboa; the United States Minister
and Mrs. Everett and Miss Everett ; the Danish Minister and
the Countess de Reventlow, and Mr. de Bielke, Secretary of
Legation; the Spanish Minister and the Duchess de Soto-
mayor, le Chevalier de Pedrorena, Second Secretary, le
Comte de Galve and M. J. Antonio Lopez de Ceballos,
Attaches, and le Comte de Crescente, Attache Militaire to the
Legation; Baron de Gersdorff, Saxon Minister; Baron de
Rehausen, Swedish Charge d'Affaires, and Count Rosen,
Attache to the Legation ; Mr. Ashbel Smith, the Charge
d'Affaires of Texas, and General Terrell, of Texas ; Baron de
Linden, Attache to the Wurtemberg Legation, and Coun
Adam Bonkow'ki.

The general circle was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the
Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the
Horse, the Captain of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms,
the Captain of the Yeoman Guard, the Vice-Chamberlain, the
Treasurer of the Household. the Comptroller of the House-
hold, the President of the Board of Trade, Lord Denman,
Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench ; Lord Chief-Justice Tin-
dal, the Lord Chief Baron, the Right Hon. the Speaker, the
Vice-Chancellor of England, the Right Hon. the Vice-Chan-
cellor Wigram, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, the
Judge-Advocate-General, the Hon. J. A D. Bloomfield, her
Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to
his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, Mr. S. March
Phillips, Under Secretary of State, the Treasurer to Prince
Albert, Alajor-General Sir Henry Wheatley, G. C. H.,
Keeper of her Majesty's Privy Purse, the Master of the Cere.
monies, Hon. Sir Edward Butler, Lieutenant of her Majesty's
honourable corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms ; Sir Henry Robin-
son, Sir George Philip Lee, Lieutenant of the Yeoman Guard;
the Queen's Advocate, the Solicitor-General, the Attorney-Ge-
neral for Ireland, the Attorney-General of the Prince of Wales,
the Attorney-General to the Queen Dowager, Sir C. Young,
Garter ; Mr. Colquhoun, agent for the Hanse Tewns; the Lord
Mayor; the Lady Mayoress ' • Sir George Houlton, Ensign
of the Yeomen Guard ; Sir Augustus Clifford, Bart., Gen.
tleman Usher of the Black Rod ; the Adjutant-General of
the Forces ; Mr. Sheriff Hunter, Mr. Sheriff Sidney, Mr.
Thomas Shiffner, Paymaster of the Household; the Hon.
Charles Law, M.P., Recorder of London, one of her Ma-
jesty's Counsel ; Mr. R. Ormsby Gore,, Groom in Waiting
to her Majesty ; General Sir George Anson, G.C. 8., Groom
of the Chambers to his Royal Highness Prince Albert; the
Dean of Hereford, Deputy-Clerk of the Closet in Waiting, and
Chaplain to the Queen-Dowager; the Rev. Dr. Foord-Bowes,
Chaplain to her Majesty ; the Chaplain to the House of Com-
mons; Colonel Cavendish, Silver Stick in Waiting ; Dr.
Chambers, Physician to the Queen, and to the Queen-
Dowager; Sir Benjamin C. Brodie, Bart., Sergeant-Surgeon
to the Queen; Colonels Clark Kennedy, Owen, Monteath,
Wood, Wear, and H. Bentinck, Aide-de-Camps to the Queen;
Colonel Buckley, and Colonel Arbuthnot, Equerries to the
Queen ; Captain Pechell, R.N., Equerry to the Queen. Do-
wager ' • Colonel Sir George Couper, Bart., first Equerry to her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent ; Major. General Sir
James Reynett, Equerry to his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge ; Mr. Bushe, Attaché to her Majesty's Legation
at Frankfort; Mr. J. B. Heath, Governor of the Bank of
England ; the Queen's Proctor ; Fir W. C. Ross, R.A.,
Miniature Painter to the Queen; Mr. Barge (Queen's
Counsel), Agent for Jamaica; Mr. Edmund Nugent, Agent
for Antigua; Captain Kincaid, and Captain Sadler, Exons of
the Yeoman Guard ; Mr. Ellerthorp, Adjutant of the Yeoman
Guard ; the Queen's Harbinger, Sir Benjamin Smith, C. S. ;
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Frederic Smith, Gentleman Usher
to the Privy Chamber; Mr. Beresfard, M.P., and Mr.
Arthur Blackwood, Grooms of the Privy Chamber to her
Majesty; Sir John Strachan, Bart, (in Waiting), Captain the
Hon. Mortimer Sackville West, and Mr. Alfred Montgomery,
Gentlemen Ushers to her Majesty ; Colonel Godwin and
Captain G. C, Blake, R.N. (in Waiting), gentlemen Ushers
to his Royal Highness Prince Albert I Colonel §ir J. Morillyon
Wilson, C. B. and K. 11:, Gentleman Usher to the Privy
Chamber of the Queen Dowager; the Master of the Temple ;
Mr, Henry Birchfield Swabey, the Queen's Registrar ; Colonel
499.6 pprftafieF pilFds! Field Officer in Brigade Waiting,
&c.,
State dipners in honour of the day were given by the prin-
cipal Oinister? and great Officers of State, the distinguished
guests invited appearing at all the banquets in Court dresses.
Sir Robert Pee!, as first Lord of the Treapry, gave a grand
dinnee at his residence in Wiiitehall-,gardens.
Sir James praliani, as Secretary pf State for the Home De-
partment, entertained the Plowing at his residence in Hill-
street—The Lord Chancellor, Lor4 Denman, Lord Chie
Justice of the Queen's Bench ; Lord Langdale, Master of the
itulls: the Right Honourable the Speaker of the Heuse
of Commons, the 144 Chief :Tustine erlily
Court of Common Pleas ; tte Lard Chief Baron
of the Court. of Exchequer, the Viee-Chancellor of
Fngland, the Right Hon. Sir James Wigram, the Right Hon.
Dr. Pwhingtin ; the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Fremantle,
Bart., Chief et...retary for If Flarid ; the Hon, Mr.Birn 41.
derson, the Hon. Mr. Justice Pattesori, the Hort. Mr: Jiistice.
Williams, the Hon. Mr. Justice Coleridge, the Hon. Mr.
Justice Coltman, the Hon. Mr. Baron Rolfe, the Hon. Mr.
Justine Wightman, the Hon. Mr. Justice Cresswell, the Hon.
Mr. Just* 16r•le, the Hon. Mr. Baron Platt, the Hon. Mr.
H. Ala,npers 'Setten, th 2 Night Den, the '4,91 1..,ia0f, rn
Attprikey-Oenei:arfor frelatikthe Lord-Mvdcate 'Scdtlanef.
the Recorrter LOodon, Mr. Sheriff Iliiiiter; Mr. She'riff
Sidney; Mr. IsJaitzr;Frare Asr. Lyall, $: M. Phillips, and
Captain H. O'Brieri. ''"
The Earl of Aberdeen received the whole of the Corps
Diplomatique at his residence in Argyll-street.
• kA,-,trl Stanley, as Secretary of State for War and the Colo-
nies reeelVed ate Commander-in-Chief, the Master-General
ot the Ordnance, the ,Vi•gaident 't!tf tne. Boarii p' i7,onteei, the
•••••tee.Adyecate General, the Adjutant-General, the Quarter
:ecretary
`.he 31ilitar S to the Commander-in-
Chief, Mr. Bonham, Captain Boldero, Mr. Sulivan, Mr. F.
Master Genera, .y
Elliot, Lord Jocelyn, Sir Frederick Trench, Colonel Peel, Mr.
A. Wedd, 4p.• A. Maclean, Sir R. Schom.
bergh, Captain J• 1411; I%Ni:4* lar-!Felie, 104. George Hope, Mr.
Stephens, and Colcnel W4ralitti#: •".
The Right Hon. 604ibOTP, as Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, entertained the Chief Commissioner of the Wood's
and Forests, the Chancellor of the Duchy. of Lancaster, the
Secretary at Warr
the Paymaster-General of the Forces, the