The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-01-11 00:00:00

Court ldclus.

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Her Majesty gave a concert on the evening of New
-Yeses day to a large awl brilliant company. Bennett's
hew cantata, the " May Queen," we* performed, anions
tither pieces'.
IrEr.orrunr. or THV. PIHNer OF WALES Volt MINE
—Preparatious are being made for the departure cif hie
Royal Hight's:ma the Prince of Wales for Rome, which
will tske place me the 10th or llth inst. The Prince
will be accompanied by Mr. Tarver, lii, two equerries',
and his medical attendant. The Prince will take with
I• three carriage% anti a suitable number of horses
anti servants. lisa Royal Highness will pursue Isis
',talk,' at Rome for about five months, when he will
return to Engles's!.
HO; 11,.T.tt. HIGHNIteet PHINve ALYR6O.—On the
24th of Decemiser the Admiral co 000000 ending the Meliter-
ranesit i4alle I the following order to the captains
"1 Her Majesty's ships in Malta Harbour :—" her
:slajeaty permitted her son, his Royal Highness
Prince to enter the Royal Navy, confidently
intruding bins to the care of the officers, seamen, and
'names Of the naval service, awl Ilk Royal H.glincos
-having jo.neil the Mediterranean Meet, under my orders,
vs a naval cadet 1/11 110311,1 the Euryaluo, in order to
eo 11111 l etOorate the event of his "nosing hits fir.t. Christ•
ma% in He. naval 'mice, it is my direction that all men
owler punishment eta boarsl the oldies ill port be forgin
ami that an e%trs ahlu sauce of +pints lie ioeted to the
res:wcr ve shipo' ewippanies toonorrow afternoon." We
learn that 26 eivil,na were released from Cssrra lino
Prison by the oral ,sidhoritirs in 111111 l emoration of the
nompkiont evc,t of Prince Alfred's vioit to Malta, awl
ales about t KAMP nu niter of prisoners, belunging I.
the two services, naval and military, who were sew
tence.l to anon:me:lent by the courts of this island. A
. splendid illusniw.tion of the public buildings and princi-
pal 'streets of Valletta took !dace on the (seeable!' of the
weotorthie Malta Exchange ball. On Tuesday, the 2Stle of
December, his Royal Highness 1111110111'A Rear Admiral
Codrington.• wi.is hm i. company at 'limier, at the
A • ally house. The Prince. ace 'waded by Major
(05th, R.E. and Captain Tarleton, C 8., arrived there
a few minuteo Is-fire 7. p.m., and WIVI received on hind-
! Mg by Admiral (*.Arington, Isis Flag.hieutenant Fel-
!owe% cud Seeretary Mr. Teller. During dinner the
fine h .IPI isf H.M.S. Conqueror performed several beau.
tifid selections of seam. In the evening Mrs. Coshing.
ten gave a kill, which VIII,I numerously attended by tl.e
prionsipal peroonages of Malta, at gwl were his
Excellency the tiovernor, Viee•Adissiral FIIIIIIIIIIWP. and
Isteutenatstdleneral Sir J. Pennefather. His Royal
Higbee's* opened the ball wills Mrs. Codrington, and
/lancing was kept up with spirit till 2 a.m. The beau-
tiful arrangement.' made for illunsinating the whole
(runt of the Admiralty residence were partially frustra-
ted by the tempestuous' state of the weather. Blue
lights were burnt tin the arrival and departure of hia
Itiuyai ilighneFt. The Prince cadet left on the :11th of
December, in Her Majesty's ship Fury-alum, amid Royal
.salutes, for Tunis, frau which place, it is said, Ida
Royal Highnesa will return to Malta in about • fort-
night, and then proceed to Curfn, Athena, and back
again to Isis home, Old England.—A Malta our-
' respondent announces the departure, out the after-
noon of the 1".10th of December, front Malta harbour,
under a Royal salute, of hie Royal Highness Prince
Alfred, in Her Majesty's ateani.frigate Euryalos, whose
next destination is said to be Tlllll/1. Tim Pe ll ill *elm-
and Oriental Company's steamer Sultan eamveys to Her
Majesty the litteelt the three magnificent artificial
bowies-ten of chenille work, made' by the sisters or nun*
of St. Catherine, awl presented to his Royal Highness by
the Governor, the Bishop of Malta, and the mere ,ntile
COI 1111 l unity. acconling to the ancient usage of the
Melte e. His Royal Highness kat swot house a keno's',
sir Hirchircara stove, &Hsi an isureuylshali, or fan•
bellows, as Maltese euricibities.
The Etnirror Alexander will visit our Court about the
month of May. According to the Comet Jostraor,
"Our tree and His Imperial Majesty are IIC•
11111611k1 Alexander having visited DWI country an
Cesarovitch a year or two after his father, the late
Emperor."

A correspondent of the i'ost has been told that a
Queen'. messenger is to receive in future 500 g as a
year and pay his own travelling expense'. "This," he
says, "is scarcely fair towards the men who have
abandoned their prufesaions, for the present set of
Queen's issemengers are all of them gentlensen, and many
of them belong to the army. They took office and
served the crown under the impression that they had
accepted a place worth shout £l,OOO per annum. All
their domestic arrangements were made on such •
calculation. Many of thou who have families and no
private inounse will he Inman; with 500 guineas a year.
all of which will he exhausted in travelling expense' if
they are mush on the read, and they most assuredly will
be ere bug."

THR 111AIX DRAIXAOR OF TIM METROPOLIL—The
Directors of the Bank of England have made an offer to
the Metropolitan Board of Works of the loan of the
£3,000.000 which will be required for the execution of
the work* for the main drainage of the metropoiis. The
terms are nut an favourable as anticipated from the state
of the money-market, and the proposal had been trans-
mitted to the Lorde of the Treaaury for their consider-
ation. The result of the inquiries respecting the
competency of Mr. idoxon, who gave in the lowest tender
tor executing the works of the Northern High-Level
tiewer, being of a must favourable natuie, and the three
gentlemen proposed by him ac his sureties having been
aacertained to be most responsible persuns, hi. tender
has been finally accepted, and lie only awaits the order
of the engineer toa commence the work, which will be
given as soon as the financial arrangements of the board
ere completed. •