The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-04 00:00:00

THE COURT.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, Tuesday.—The Queen went
yesterday to lay the foundation stone of Wellington
College. Her Majesty and Prince Albertleft Buckingham
Palace at a quarter before twelve o'clock, with the
Regent of Baden and Prince Frederick William of
Prussia.

The Queen and the Prince Consort were accompanied
by the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess
Royal, the Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louisa, and also
by Prince Arthur, his royal highness's first appearance
in public, the Prince being the godson of the late Duke
of Wellington. The young Prince and his two elder
brothers wore the Highland dress.
Prince Albert appeared in the uniform of a field-
marshal, and wore the riband and badge of the Garter,
the Ensigns of the Golden Fleece, and the Stars of
Prussian (black eagle) and Baden orders of knighthood.
The Regent of Baden wore the uniform of a general,
dark blue and gold, with the Grand Cordon of Baden,
and the Stars of the orders of Baden and Cobourg.
Prince Frederick William of Prussia appeared in a
colonel's uniform, dark blue with silver appointments,
and wore the insignia of a Black Eagle and of a Saxon
Order of Knighthood. The Prince who was the devoted
cavalier of the Princess Royal during the day, was, of
course, the observed of all observers. His royal high-
ness is rather a good looking young man, about the
middle height, and lightly but well formed, and with a

pleasing and intelligent expression of countenance.
The royal party occupied nine carriages, and was
escorted by a detachment of the 3rd Light Dragoons to
the private station of the South Western railway, at
Vauxhall, where the Queen was met by the Lord
Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the
Ho-se, Lord George Lennox, and Major-General
Wylde, who attended her Majesty to the ceremony.
The Duchess of Wellington also accompanied the
Queen in the special railway train which conveyed her
Majesty from London.
After the ceremony of laying the stone was concluded,
the Queen entertained at luncheon in the royal pavilion
the distinguished party accompanying her Majesty from
London, together with the following Governors of the
Wellington College, viz.:—'the Duke of Cambridge,
the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke of Welling-
ton, Earl of Derby, Earl of Ellesmere, Viscount
Hardinge, the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, Sir
Edmund Antrobus, Sir James W. Hogg, and Mr. Henry
Richard Cox. The Earl of Abingdon, Lord-Lieutenant
of the County; Sir George Grey, Secretary of State for
the Home Department ; the Bishop of Oxford, Lord and
Lady Charles Wellesley, the Adjutant-General, and the
Quartermaster-General, had also the honour of joining
the royal circle at luncheon.
After luncheon the Queen reviewed the troops which
were assembled for the occasion, under the command of
the Duke of Cambridge.
The Queen and the Prince, with their illustrious
visitors, returned to Buckingham Palace at a quarter

past six o'clock.
Her Majesty gave a dinner party in the evening. The
company included the Duchess of Kent, the Princess
Royal, the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Mary,
the Regent of Baden, Prince Frederick William of
Prussia, and the Duke of Cambridge, the Duchess of
Sutherland, his Highness Aali Pacha, the Turkish
Ambassador and Madame Musurus, the Marquis of
Landsowne, the Marquis of Abercorn, Viscount and
Viscountess Hardinge, Lady Anne Maria Dawson, Lady
Geraldine Somerset, Baroness de Speth, Admiral Sir
Edmund Lyons, Lieut-General Baron Schreckenstein,
Baron de Moltke, Colonel Baron Seutter, Baron de
Gemmingen, Captain Heinz, Lieutenant de Schreckeri-
stein, Dr. Ullman, Dr. Wegner, the Hon. Mortimer
Sackville West, Major Home Purves, and Lieut.-Colonel
the Hon. James Macdonald.