The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-05 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

ON Wednesday, the Earl. of Derby entertained at dinner
twenty-eight members of the House of Peers, and Mr. Disraeli
received at dinner forty-two members of the ouse of Commons.

Ma- WHITESIDE, Q.C., and Sir James W. Hogg, are spoken
of as candidates to repreEent the county of Middlesex on the
Conservative interest at the next election. Mr. Grantley
Berkeley has also been named as likely to come forward, in
the event of either of the above declining to stand.

TaE Morning Heral4 announces that the important queS-
tionlot peerages for life will this week form the subject of a
warm debate in the House of Lords, and it adds that, with
the• exception of the Lord Chancellor, all the law lords are of
opinion that the creation of life peerages is unconstitutional.
FIELD-MARSHAL VISCOUNT HARDIN-GE gave a grand
dinner, on Monday, to General de la Marmora, at the gallant
Viscount's residence in Great Stanhope-street. The Duke of
Cambridge and a distinguished party had the honour to meet
the gallant Sardinian General. The General was accompanied
by his Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio,„aud Count Very, WS
aide-de-camp. _ _

RIIMOITRED MLXISTERIAL CHANialk—lt is reported that
Sir George Grey is likely soon to resign the Home-oflice
favour of the present Attorney-General,. Sir Alexander Cock-
burn. In this event Sir Richard Bethel' would become
Attorney-General, and the vacant Salitor-Generalship would
be conferred on Mr. Collier, Q.C. the thember for Plymouth.
It is also rumonred that Sir John, Jervis, the present Chief
Justice of the. Common Pleas, is to be raised to the Upper
House with ulife peerage, and to be succeeded on the bench
by Sir Frederick Thesiger.
MARRIAG& IN HIGH LIFE.--The marriage of Captain
Sayer, of the 23rd Royal Fusiliers, to Miss Phipps, eldest
daughter of Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, C. 8., (keeper of
Her Majesty's privy purse,) and. niece to the Marquis of Nor-
manby, took place in the Chapel Royal of St. George, Windsor,.
on Tuesday. Her 'Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied,
by the Princess Royal, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Alice,
and Paine° Alfred, were present at the ceremony, which los'
performed by the Hon. and Rev. G. Wellesley, Dean of Windsor,
assisted by the Rev. Lord W. Russell, and the Rev. F. Anson,
The Deus Misereatur, by Dr. Elvey, and the responses hi
Tallis, were effectively rendered by the choir. The ceremonY
being concluded, the bride and bridegroom received the con-
gratulations of their friends, and then returned to the chapter-
room to sign the register, Dr. Elvey at the same time playing
Mendelssohn's beautiful " Wedding March." Immediately
after the ceremony, her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the Royal
family privately returned to the Castle. The bride was attired
in a richly flounced Swiss lace dress, over a white glace silk
slip. Her hair was, adorned with a wreath of orange blossoms
and lilies, and over all a superb Brussels lace veil. She waS
attended by eight bridesmaids, namely, Miss Phipps, Miss
Sayer, (sister to the bridegroom,) Miss Farquharson, Miss G.
Browne, Miss Knollys, Miss Hill, Miss Barrington, and Miss
Harford, all of whom were attired in white glace silk dresses'
and white Parisian bonnets, trimmed with rosebuds, lilies, and-
forget•me-nots—four wearing pink and white, and four bled
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and white Cashmere opera cloaks, trimmed with forget-rao4
nots and lilies. The bridegroom. wore the full dress uniformof his regiment, and was decorated with the Crimean xtied 4
having been present at the battle. of the Alma, where be was
bwriasde alsoa nddresabried
severly wounded. Captain Marshall, of thp, 2nd Life Guards,
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their relatives and friends, proceeded "to the deanery, where
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dejeuner of a most rieherch6dcerription had been prepare
under the able superintendence of Mr. Richard Gunter, °A;
Lowndes-street, Albert•gate. 11.,pwards of one hundred gues'e
were invited. The bridecake was placed on the centre of 0.,
table, and, from its chaste rand elegant design, attracted 111,1
versal admiration ;it was surrounded by appropriate nletn
lions, beautifully met* al in sugar, and encircled by wrested
of orange blossom arso white roses. The table was decoll'_`,:i
with vase,s containi-
ig fruit, flowers, and birds of every varleli
of colour, beallt° all's* modelled in sugar. The band of the end
Life Guards, I.- • - woo.'
the d' as in attendance during the repast. S
aft" ejeuner, the bride and bridegroom took their d
parture
'on a wedding tour, Among the company assemp'4,
ne Duchess of Wellington, Lord and Lady Hardlofto
"""u'vSophia Phipps, Earl and Coutess Mulgrave,Lord Morfi'vs,
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Colonel and Mrs. Bathurst, Lady Caroline Barringtoem4r,
George and Lady Cooper, Lady L. Phipps, Sir Henry Fl T 13,0
Captain Anstruther, Captain Farquharson, M. and Igna;o.
Van de Weyer, the Hon. and Rev. the Dean of Windsora,-,,„14,
and Mrs. Grey, Mrs. Phipps, Miss Barrington, Miss Itrrf,e.
Miss Sayer, Miss Knollys, Miss Graves Brown, Miss yTai'V.
harson, Captain F. Bathurst, Captain D. Baillie, CaPtac,',er,
Bathurst, Joseph Hume, Esq., Errington, Mrs.
Villebois, Esq., &c.

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