The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-08-28 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

Ma. Knatown WODEHOUSE, late 3f.P. for East Norfolk
died on Wednesday, at his residence, Thorpe, near Norwich
He represented Norfolk from the year 1817, until last June
when lie retired in favour of Mr. H. Stracey.

RETIREMENT or THE SPEAKER.-It has long been re.
ported that the Right Hon. J. Shaw Lefevre, Speaker of the
House of Commons, was likely to receive the honourable re-
ward for his long and indefatigable services, by being pro-
moted to the peerage. During the last few weeks these ru-
mours have assumed a more tangible shape. It is now stated
that he will be offered a peerage, under the title of Baron
Hackfield, taken from his estate in Hampshire.

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VISIT OF THE COURT TO BALMORAL—The officials of the
Great Northern Railway have received instructions to hold
in readiness their train of state carriages for the conveyance
of the Queen and the Royal family from King's-cross station,
London, to Scotland, this week. The Duchess of Kent pro-
ceeded to the north by the same route about ten days since.
Her Royal Highness travelled by the Great Northern day
express, occupying a saloon carriage, and being accompanied
by her usual retinue of attendants.
THE Paris papers describe the dress of the Queen and Em-
press at the opera. Both Her Majesty and the Empress were
dressed in white, and each wore a diadem of diamonds, but of
a somewhat different description, that of the Empress being
taller and closer, and entirely of diamonds and emeralds.
Both their Majesties wore superb necklaces of diamonds and
emeralds, with other ornaments to match. Queen Victoria
displayed the riband of the garter, and the Empress Eugenie
the cordon of the order of Isabella the Catholic ; and both
held magnificent bouquets.
VISCOUNT HEREFORD, the premier Viscount of the English
peerage, expired on Saturday week, at his residence in Wilton-
crescent, London. The deceased, Robert Fleming Devereux,Vis-
count Hereford in the peerage of England, and a baronet, was
eldest son of Henry,l4th Viscount, by Frances Elizabeth, third
daughter of the late Sir George Cornewall. He was born the
3rd of May, 1809, and married, in 1841, the daughter of the
late Mr. George Ravenscroft, by whom he had a youthful
family. The deceased succeeded to the ancient viscountcy on
the death of his father, the 31st of May, 1843. His eldest sou
Robert, born in 1843, succeeds to the family honours.
THE PRINCE of WALES, according to all accounts from Praaril.gd
highly enjoys his .trip.. He rushes up the
.earitoiees
staircases of the various show palaces, scormogenl.
_oleardeed
guidon°s of the maids of honour, and on Mondo.vcev.
,ing
I id the Etn-
a tour of the city incognito, a la rfar9uifiaithifu,
peror himself performing the part f 1 vizier. While
the whole of the Royal and Imperial party were supposed to
crowd who waited
surprised by the
b ine
the enjoyingtne Rt hive!
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the
return Isrisee, thessre
containing a very young gentle-
as no less a person than the-
of his grave companion,
aniPapne,amwhnoeLoo fkae d smallat phaetonw everything,how and asked numerous questions:
Efrfp-erOi himself, the escort consisting solely of the confidential
coachman who drove t
he vehicle.