The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-03-31 00:00:00

COURT. NEWS.

The Queen's dinner party on Wednesday evening
included their. Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent,
the Princess Alice, and Prince Alfred, the Hanoverian
Minister (Count ielinansegge), the Greek Minister
and Madame Tricoupi, the United States Minister and
Mrs. Dallas, the Earl and Countess of Elgin and Lady
Elma Brute, Lady Fanny Howard, Viscount Falkland
and the Duchess a St. Alban's .and Lady Diana Beau-
clerk, Viscount and Lady Catherine Valletort, 'Lieut.-
General Sir Charles Yorke, Sir Charles ' Lyell, and,
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MaineeNiell.

The Queen and the,PrincaConsort, accompanied by
the Princess Alice and Prince Alfred, went to Clare'
•
mont on Thursday 'afternoon, and visited the Countess
de Neuilly. •
The Duchess of Kent left Buckingham Palace in
the afternoon, and returned to her residence, Frog-,
mare House, Windscir.
' Her Majesty had a. dinner party in the evening. The
company included the Princess Alice, Prince Alfred, the
Duke and Duchess d'Aumale and the Duke of Cant-
bridge, the Turkish Ambassador arid Madame Musurus,
the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, the Lady-in-
Waiting to the Duchess d'Aumale, the Earl and Coun-
tess of Fife, the Earl of Malmesbury, Lady. Emily
Kingscote, Lord'Proby, the Right, Hon. Sir Charles
Wood, Sir• Geo. Grey (Governor of the Cape), the Hon.
Mrs. A. Hardinge, the Equerry-in-Waiting to the Duke
of Cambridge, and Major Cowell.
Prince Alfred, attended by Major Cowell, honoured
Mr.‘ Oswald Brierly with a visit at his studio.

The New Orleans papers state that Sir William Gore
Ouseley was at Nassau, 'in New Providence, and that
he was -Shortly expected in New York, on his way to
En land, I. •
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ARLY GRAPES.--,-On the 25th ult. Mr. MeWeham,
of. North Berwick, sent her Majesty some grapes, the.
first of this season-Hamburghs and Chassall, nrusk—`,
which were graciously accented and acknowledged.-
At Sheffield, on Thursday morning, the non-com-
missioned officers and privates of the 84th Regiment
were each preSented with a knife of first-rate gwAity by
Alderman Robert Jackson, the master eager.
The Presse states that* has been authorised to con-
itradict, in the most positive manner, the assertion that'
the Shalt of Persia's health has' been seriously impaired.,
'His mnies; it declarei, has not had even a single day's
indisposition.
A. SAD DONN'NFALL.--OnnWednesday, John HUghes
was brought up before a London police magistrate on
remancl, froni the previous day, !charged with, the plate
robbery at the Peacock Hotel. Evidence was given cor-
Toborative of the charge against him, •and he was called,
upon to, elect' whether he would be summarily conyicted
.there or be.committed to the county seasions," Hughes'
elected to be sentenced by the, maguitrAs before whom.
he was then standing; and proceeded to appeal to several
respeetable men who were in court as to his former social
position. He said he had been the: first malster of ten
counties, and had lost by, one agent in that town 48as.
He had paid hundreds of pounds to one of the corn-'
mitting magistrates in the course of trade, and had had
:transactions extending to thousands of pounds with the
fE41144 .otother._ tentlenien present. The etipendiary
ordered him to be imprisoned for fourteen da):u. Upon
this Hughes swore violently,' 'paid said he would rather
be sentenced-to fain-teen years,by a jury, and would be
tried at StagOrd.. He was then removed from the Quirt,:
Uttering bider inaprecationft on the lendlord ikr itea.
cock and the. officers.
TILE 11141YRItetrr BOAT RAGE.—As the time for this
event approaches, the interest it excites increases, and
the training trials of each crew are watched with 'an
eager eye. Both parties were our on Thursday at
Putney. The Oxford men started from Barker's Rails
and rowed to the Duke's Head,Putney ; they are admi-
.rably correct in time, and certainly row in better form
than their opponents.. The 4tter started from the Ship,
and after rowan g spine distance down, made a number of
rapid spurts.. The Oxford crew were rowing at coming
in forty-two strokes per minute—the Cambridge average,
,thirty-nine, but they are certainly longer than their
opponents.. So great, has been the demand far steamers •
to accompany this race, that- Messrs. Searle and others,
who have provided for the convenience of the public,
have been unable to procure boats, which seem to have
been let to private parties. Oxford are taken,f6x Choice
in many. instances, but betting on the whole may be'
considered even. The public may distinguish the eresis:
by the colour of their oar blades, Oxford being dark blue, .
Cambridge light blue,
EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR AT A LUNATIC ASYLUM IN.
ORIG.—An inmate of the Northern Ohio Lunatic AsYlunt,
in spite of-e Very precaution, has succeeded, three 4haes
within a few days in escaping-from his roam. About
two weeks since he took a set of false teeth Out of his
mouth, and by constant work contrived with them to
saw a hole through the floor of his chamber, making a
• hole anfficient to admit of his dropping through into
another part Qf. the house, and thus escaping. He was
-,caught. A few days since hg secreted a pin, and with
that exceedingly unlikely instrument he: managed to, pick
the lock of his door, and escaped into the hall, where he
was fortunately arrested. He then- stated-that a pin was
of more halite than klOOO.O. Jtillekki; yihaetuvanw
secreting a small trass ring, split atone part, in his hair.
On being locked up for the night he pet to work, and ,
with the ring he chit through the window sash and
shutter,'se' as to 'enable, him to remove them from the
window. 'He then took the coverlid of the bed and tore
it into strips,. with which he made a rone reiehing "
nearly to the ground, a distance of some twenty-five or
thirty feet. ' Sonic of the cotton batting with which the
_corerlid was *added he placed 10 his stockings to protect
his feet, as he lind no Shoes. Then dreising hioiself*?'
shirt, trousers, and stOckings; he slid down the rope and escaped. lie. was again arrested, spoke feely- of hit'.,
.escape, and-made no, ieskltatte. q;uestion, *Other
this series qf:44*dinary. escapes canbe wall niatched:
-7,c/ere/anCOldo)..fferaldi Marsh 5. -
PLissArsrr. Yrst'loal.—Miss Tresilyan's hat of soft,
black. felt,•‘'tilia.decl by a,, black cock's feather, was
decidedly in advance if hei Age ; for that very provit-
eative head gear,. with the many-coloured pm/aches, had,
not then become so common; and even the passionate
pilgtim might. hope (with ;luck) to,
.wallt along a pier
or a facade
.without rrieet4 successton,4 Red Rovers,
—each -capable of bearding him at a minute's notice,
and making ali 'his affections Ny4lc, plank. Her
tunic of iron-grey velvet, without fitting tightly to her
figure;. atih did it fair justice ; and from the tie of her
neck-411*On down to the wonderful boots that slid in
and oat from under the striped scarlet kirtle over which
her dieSs was
_looped up, there was not the minutest
detail that might not have challenged and baffled,
cism, Royston Keene appreciated, All VA thoieughly,
No man alive held the stale a,dage of "Beauty
when unadorned,"
&ice 4 prOfounder scorn. A pair of
badly-fitting gloves; a soiled ealerette, or a tunibled
dress, had cured more than one of the fever-fits of his
*ounger days ; and he was ten times as fastidious RAT.
tie drew a long breath ,of intense , enjoyment, as a
thirsty cricketer may do. .after:the44 '.l draught of
claret-cup that reWards at two*** innings, 44 It is
very refreshing, after weeks( of total abstinence, to see a
woman Klics-ifrOnW- m for dress, and does it thoroughly
well." He had no time for more, for the others were
almost within hearing.—Sword and Gown,
THE FRENCH MILLINER IN TIIE WITNBSS-80x.7-
Maclaine Lareine ascended into the Ben, and took her
place, after delivering herself of a stately scoop to the
Judges and the Next, like a Grand Lame of the reign
Of Lquits XIV. She did not give their lordships any
trouble abOtif taking her 'seat—not she ! When her
attention .was palled to the various acts of cruelty, both
of speech and act, with which Mr. Bather was charged
on account of Mrs. Barber's alleged extravagance in
dressu she clasped: er hands in an emphatic way, and
exclaimed, " Ahl Man Diets ! Best infame—leborlusre
She then explained to the Court that the usual
Parisian chioxiation: foi a lady's dress varied propor-
tionately with' the family ineOme, and that the amount
of the dot brought by the wife was invariably taken
largely into account; -Upon arrinermie of 25,000 francs-
she Could positively .affirm—assuming two children—
that A lady was economical who only expended 10,000
francs on dress. Mrs. 'Barber, in her opinion, was
entitled to expend, at the least, £4OO Per annum on this
object. The sum of £2OO per annum was a Iniere—
it was nwsquin—diplorable ! Was £25 too much for '
that evening-robe of white satin ? Assuredly not!.
The. Court must Jake into :account. that -there were-
boui/lonnes of the same -under the skirt, which Was
necessarily of tune, 'which 'was again adorned with
t frteolindi ly see that there must.
t the body, For a
bouillonnes and a frill of silver lace. She saw no
mention !of the berths, which was de rigucur, And
beth a b
theft thow to
their lordships'mateb a
wtotieled
trimmed across the front with
terry-velvet bonnet,' a
scarf of the same, five guineas were a bagatelle. No!
there would be nollonde F. done ! gut?, etire
The outer dress—petticoats, sleeves, ebllars,.cuffs, gloYes
apart—she could not set a lady'sli';,th, pormi comforts
down at less than £6O per annum. In answer to Dr.
Lobb, in cross-examination, she intimated to hirn,lbat
she had boon speaking: hitherto of '/Usr/iis'illirslie was
quite prepared to admit that the wife of a small. lawyer
—4 petit avocat like him • (Dr. L.)—might dress herself
for £4O per annum. But then she must be our expediens,
and devote her whole attention to turning, dying, and
making shift. Would Drif:"Lobb like to ask her any
more questions? or any othet gentleman? No? Then,
Ma foi ! Bonjour I—From "Divorce a Vinculo," in Once
a Week,