The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-24 00:00:00

COURT AND TABLE TALK.

It is expected that her Majesty will leave Osborne on
the 4tli of August, to commence the usual journey
northwards. The whole of the royal arrangements for
the autumn are rather earlier than usual. The six
weeks in the Highlands will be curtailed to about a
month. Her Majesty is expected to make a stay of two
or three days in Edinburgh, on her way to Balmoral.

An amusing story is going the round of the official
world respecting a recent Cabinet Council. These coun-
cils are always either summoned by the Prime Minister
or the Foreign Secretary ; no other member of the
Cabinet, even if he has the authority, ever dreams of
exercising it. During the present Administration almost
all the Cabinet Councils have been summoned by the
Premier ; but, on a recent occasion, the responsibility of
summoning the Ministers to council was left with the
Foreign Office, and, whether from disuse or sheer for-
getfulness, somehow the matter was entirely forgotten.
Great was the astonishment of Lord Palmerston, and
still greater that of some of his colleagues, at not being
called to the Council Board, and vague disquiet reigned
for a short season in several official breasts. On an
explanation being offered, everything was, of course,
perfectly satisfactory. Whatever astonishment the.
ministers might have felt at not being summoned one
week, it was far exceeded the following week, by the
surprise of receiving two summonses for two Cabinet
Councils to be held at the same hour and at the same
place. It turned out that the Premier was determined
that there should be " no mistake," and this time called
his Cabinet himself, and Lord John Russell, having a
like determination to bs safe, issued his summonses.
The assembled ministers had a hearty laugh at the
chiefs who had been thus doubly sure.

LORD CLYDE.--We understand that Lord Clyde has
received her Majesty's commands to pass a few days at
Osborne on a visit to the Queen and Prince Consort.
The noble and gallant general is expected to leave town
to-day fnr Isle of Wicht
THE Six-FOOT GUARDS.—We understand that on
Saturday last the six-foot volunteers made a proposition
to Lord Colville, the Lieutenant-Colonel of the Hon.
Artillery Company, to the effect that they should be
placed on the strength of that old-established corps.
Lord Colville has ordered a general court to be assem-
bled for the purpose of considering the request, and of
submitting their decision to the Captain-General, the
Prince Consort.

ARRIVAL OF THE CHISHOLM IN STRATHGLASS.—
The Inverness papers contain long accounts of rejoicings
in Strathglass, upon the occasion of the arrival at his
property there of the chief of the clan Chisholm. The
Courier says:`" Some seventy or eighty years since The
Chisholm of that day executed an entail of his estates
(now worth above £7,000 per annum) on certain mem-
bers of his family and others, their successors. He had
five sons and two brothers then living ; but all these, in
the comparatively short interval, have died without
issue, and the succession has, according to the deed of
entail, devolved upon the representative of a collateral
branch long settled in Canada. This gentleman, James
Sutherland lThisholm, Esq., recently crossed the Atlantic,
and is now amongst us."
DR. CHEEVER ON HIS WAY TO THIS COVNTRY.—Dr.
Cheever left New York for this country in the Adriatic
on the 14th of this month, intending to be absent three
or four months. The primary object of the journey is,
we presuine, the reinvigoration of the constitution over-
taxed by the labour and excitement of the last four years ;
and, incidentally, the promotion of the anti-slavery cause
by the diffusion, among the orthodox people of Great
Britain, of correct information as to the state of the
question in this country, and particularly in relation to
the disgraceful and guilty attitude_ of the American
churches and ministers. He will be met by letter or
deputation at Southampton; in order to induce him to
I come to Edinburgh about the time of the Tri-centenary
Celebration.—Caledonian Mercury.

LLc ruag IN A WoamlotTsE.--On 'Wednesday last
a lecture to the inmates .of the Greenwich Union was
delivered by the Rev. Dr. Carlile; of Woolwich, one of
the guardians. The subject of the lecture was the
" Bible and its Adaptation to Man." About 600 inmates
attended, and heard the lecture with marked attention.
At4he close a spontaneous expression of gratitude was
given by the audience.