The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-05-05 00:00:00

THE COURT

The Queen held an Investiture of the most ancient
Order of the Thistle, at three o'clock on Friday after-
noon, at Buckingham Palace. The Knights Brethren of
the order having been robed in their mantles of green
velvet, and wearing also their gold collars, assembled in
the Green Drawing-room. The Queen and Prince
Albert entered the Throne-room, in which the chapter
was held, and her Majesty was conducted by the Lord
Chamberlain to a chair of state. The Queen wore her
mantle or green velvet as sovereign of the order,
together with the collar, and the Prince Consort also
wore the mantle and collar of the order. His Royal
Highness was seated on the Queen's right. The Knights
Brethren were then called over by the Secretary of the
Thistle, when the following answered :—The' Earl of
Aberdeen, Earl of Rosebery, Duke of Montrose, Earl of
Elgin, Earl of Eglinton, Duke of Atholl, and Lord
Pantnure. The Queen signified her royal pleasure
touching the election of a Knight into the order. The
Knights Brethren proceeded to the election, and the
suffrages having been collected by the secretary (ending
with the senior Knight), were presented to the Soverein,
who was pleased to declare the Most Noble George
Douglas Duke of Argyll had been duly elected a Knight
of the most ancient and most noble Order of the Thistle.
By command of the Queen the Duke of Argyll was
received at the door of the Chapter-room by the Duke of
Atholl and Lord Pan:pure, the two junior Knights
present, and conducted between them to her Maj►sty,

preceded by the secretary (carryinz the ensigns on a
crimson velvet cushion) and the Gentleman Usher of
the Green Rod. The Sword of State was delivered to
the Sovereign by the Marquis of Breadalbane (Knight
of the Thistle), Lord Chamberlain ; and the Duke of
Argyll, kneeling, had the honour of Knighthood con-
ferred upon him by the Queen, and his grace, rising,
kissed her Majesty's hand. The secretary of the order
administered the oath to his grace. The Duke of
Argyll again knelt near the Queen, and the secretary
presented to the Sovereign the Green Riband and Jewel
of the Thistle, and her Majesty placed the same over the
duke's left shoulder, and under the right arm, after whien
his grace had again the honour to kiss her Majesty's hand.
The Chapter being ended, the secretary, by command of
the Sovereign, again called over the knights, who, with
the officers of the order, retired from the royal presence—
' Prince Albert rode on horseback with the Prince of
Wales and Prince Alfred. The Queen and Prince
Albert, accompanied by the Princess Royal and the
Princess Alice, took a drive in an open landau and four,
in the afternoon. Her Majesty and Prince Albert,
accompanied by the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred,
honoured the Princess's Theatre with their presence in
the evening.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, Saturday.—His excellency
Baron Brunow, 'the Russian Minister, arrived at the
palace about a quarter before three o'clock this after-
noon, to have an audience of the Queen. His excellency
was shortly followed by Lord Clarendon, who presented
the Baron to her Majesty. His excellency appeared in
the Russian diplomatic uniform—dark blue with silver
embroidery, and wore the insignia of a Knight Grand
Cross of a Russian order of knighthood. After his
audience the Russian Minister returned to Chesham-
place. Her Majesty gave a dinner to a distinguished
circle in the evening, comprising her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent, his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge, the Duke of Northumberland, the
Marchioness of Ely, Lady Mount Edgcumbe, Lord
Waterpark, Lord Spencer, Sir Edward Bowater, and the
Hon. Misses Seymour and Cathcart. Another levee and
another drawing-room are expected to be held in the
month of June.

DISSOLUTIONS or PARTNERSHIP.—J. Crabtree and J.
Smith, at or near Burnley, Lancashire, power loom cloth
manufacturers. S. Taylor, J. Taylor, and J. Rockliffe,
Haughton, Lancashire, cotton spinners, as far as regards
THE WITNESSES —The principal witnesses against Mr. J. Rockliffe. J. Pidcock and T. Frost, Chorlton-upon-
Crampton, and the British Consuls in the matter cf the re- Medlock, Lancashire, plumbers. J. Rea, S. Rea, and J.
cruising prosecutions, were Henry Hertz, and Max Strobel. Graham, Liverpool, provision dealers. J. Burnley, W.
On these men the United States government relied in sup- Nichols. and G. Richardson, Leeds, machine makers, so far
port of the prosecutions instituted, and the character of as regards G, Richardson. S. Dennison and J. Bradley,
these witnesses is shewn in certain affidavits which have Leeds, coach manufacturers. J. Walker, H. Walker, and
been made on the subject. The first affidavit is by Maxi- G. Walker, Lindley, Yorkshire, woollen cloth manufacturers.
milian August Thomas, of the city of _New York. This J. Croston and E. Mason, Liverpool, block make's. T.
gentleman deposes that "he recently had a conversation H. Sampson,.,W. G. Hanwell, and W. E. Doble, Liverpool,
with Sigsmund Zeise, now the confidential clerk of P: R. outfitters, so far as regards W. E. Doble. J. Proctor and
Scberr, No. 142, Coates Street, in Philadelphia aforesaid, R. Procter, Liverpool, corn factors. W. Harrison, and
liquor d aler, who stated to him, the deponent, that Sarah Jane Harrison, Rochdale, Lancashire, mil'iners.
Henry Hertz, now residing at No. 424, South Twelfth E. Stocks and J. Bairstow, Northowram, Yorkshire,
street, Philadelphia, was about two yews and six months worsted manufacturers. H. Stott, J. Blackburn, and
ago a salesman in the employment of the said P. R. Seherr Grace Blackburn, Barkislaud, Yorkshire, cotton warp
end his then copartner, Henry Gerner, and that he, the said manufacturers.
Zeise, was at the same time employed in the said establish- CARD PLAYING ON RAILWAYS.— On Saturday in the
meet That while the said Hertz was acting as salesman in said Judges' Chambers, an application was made to Baron
employment be, in co-operation with said Garner, swindled Martin, for an habeas corpus, to bring up James Freeston,
Mr. Schorr, the other copartner, out of sundry sums of from Lewes gaol, in order to be discharged. The prisoner
money, by sending liq sere, wines, and other articles to had-been committed to prison by the Bighton magistrates
wituout charging them in the book ,f ifr three month, card sharping 'n the railway carriages,

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