The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-12 00:00:00

THE COURT.

OSBORNE, Dec. 10.—The Queen and. Prince, with tb°
Royal children, walked in the grounds at Osborne Yester,./
day. Prince Frederick William of Prussia took woe
her Majesty this afternoon, and left Osborne ,for
Major Heinz and Dr. Wegner were in attendance on 011
Royal Highness. Captain the Hon. Dudley de lOs'
Equerry to Prince Albert, attends the Prince to Dover.

DEPARTURE OF PRINCE FREDERICK

. PRUSSIA.

DOVER, Wednesday. His Royal Highness PritiCe
Frederick of Prussia, accompanied by Captain de Wes„;
Equerry to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, arriv.,
this evening at Dover, by special train fromPortsmoto..
via Hastings, at 7.34 p.m., and embarked immediately
board the Admiralty yacht Vivid, for Calais.

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n
We regret to learn that the venerable Countess W.,t00
Grey has been suffering from indisposition at 11" of
House, Yorkshire, the seat of the Duohess D°ll,„agendr
Cleveland. By the latest accounts received in '4'l"
her ladyship is stated to be going on well. .J -

SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH FOR THE PERSIAN Gal'l"..itlbitv
with much satisfaction that we are enabled to stiltetito
her Majesty's Government have given their aPP°I-tbs
the proposal for laying down a telegraph cab1e,4.:10,14
Persian Gulf, and by connecting it with that alresgeope
down in the Mediterranean, placing the whole of 'oil
indirect communication with Asia. The project i 5
nii;ler consideration at the East India House, bat
not suppose that a measure of so much importance 'log,.
in any way delayed by the Leadentoll-street autb°:
—From Grindlay's Home News for India,. die
The Atlantic Telegraph Company have choSeo A.
tors, Messrs. George Peabody, Samuel Gurney ;04
Hankey, C. M. Lampson, T. H. Brooking, G. B.
J. W. Brett, of London ; J. Ponder and James vii"..o%
of Manchester; William Brown, G. Maxwell, if' el
E- Johnston, H. Harrison, and C. W. 11. Picite_r.lB;sor
Liverpool ; and Sir J. Anderson, W. Logie, andrr'rpins
W. Thomson,
.of Glasgow. There are also to De
directors at New York, and three in Canada. I

THACKERAY IN LIVERPOOL.
• . - • plettlig

Last night, Mr. Thackeray delivered, in thnef:lBDVl
manic Hall, the first of his celebrated cOttree,"d is
on the " Four Georges." The hall was well fills woOte
part, and the reception' of the brilliant lecturer t ogb 0,
cordial. In the following brief sketch of its 00,0
lectnre we can but feebly, as it were, indicate fe
ter. Its spirit, it would be impossible to prestapti.-
outline, and we shall not mar its effect by atk" 410
task which is, we feel, much beyond our posretdslie,,st
In his opening sentence Mr. Thackeray
be 0
audience iinto the midst of his subject, and Nall peoo6o°oo.
they lived and moved amongst the scenes an" is
which he introduced to them. There was first them oset;
built court on the banks of the Aller, an
pants—the Pious Prince, who sang and Pra's p17_,:01
Luther and his family, in whom the Hanover Toe r
had their origin. His revenues, like those of e5,,011. Di
German princes of that day and of this, sve,r!'"whiePt
so his eight tall sons had to decide by ,ball°"„isstesto
them should marry, and legitimately, Pressr-iereAsit
Guelphic race, the unsuccessful seven being o,ll'',,e'rs e'sso
to contract left-handed marriages after the raw:, ,(187,0
age. Then followed a description of the PeieroPehl"
courts apeing the manners and extravagance'ts of 01)
and spending in debauchery the very life-hw's she foe
miserable subjects. These scenes, of revel, tre 010
hand, and stark misery on the other, of the
to pass, as it were, before the eyes at ebef
audience, and in his manly indignation
tick 'tlo
waste,. misgovernment, and oppression vifetts°,oe
displayed, who could not sympathise ! Ass,hesad Itto
his auditors. It could not be otherwise.
Sion Of their reason, their feelings, and their ”- s°olj
he felt and thought, so did they feel and th:ilik'isies
of
traced the ramifications of the Guelph.° goooPe'o,
gossipped, as no living writer but himself cati„ste
the scandals innumerable—some ludicrous, sybottsslo
others tragic—connected with them, and all a es. do
he centred all interest in "the Court of OaTis°o
described the miseries of the union betty cssorso
Lewis, then Elector of Hanover, afterwardsst,
of England—the tragic end of her that
ety
he termed. " the greatest scamp ,t11:00t4s114,
through the history of the seventeenth :0000.40
her own subsequent, dreary, and wretched mos 0 1010 e
then the beauties in whose arms George forgot a tool'
those affections in which he had never shareds,34l%ile
missed. Speaking of the king worship and r"stso 's
it
keydom of those times—how the greatest tted 110;fel
proud
,to carry candles before Louis xIV.., Itho'itioc
was an ambition of princes of the blood, to he' lel
shirt when his most Christian Majesty ciht/001 115 ,
garment ; and when his auditors laughed 10najorst halt
at these absurdities and degredations, the lefie senile
if we had not these things, too, in our days ? stal .401
them of the ceremonies on the opening of the Crith so ;48
and answered yes. He quarrelled, he said, with be er, oter,
humour in such matters. Gesler's hat nlisgobesoordo
in the market place, and some might paY s els; „vi
to it, and some might shrug their shoulders an„ tile 0
do it, and others again might press their owe sie P:0000,10
firmly on their heads, and refuse the salute.outs t
not to argue the point, but. deny as they e, asossii%
was still held up in the market place of Eurlos.'
were those ready and ardent to pay it Welles recs toe 4
from this branch of his subject, the andisen,re 0
make preparations with George the First
to England. His Majesty was not vel'ythaar.,.loo:oloo:d,O,,
his new dominions. Ile, shrewd and cP„sisitvit••
silent and selfish, well knew the loyalty
He knew that he was taken to be our king, !Is clf,"
convenient for us to have him, and so he alfits'ishtastroi
lodger in St. ,Jimes's, not knowing when he iii acmes
notice to quit, and so he always advt.', e'vee
friends " to take what they could get?sta
Kielmansegg, whom his English subjects nui t 409 oste;
nicknamed " the Elephant," from her sijed
proportions, and whom he afterwards cre! see 40
of Darlington, and her rival nicknatoVssaalt of ~v 0
pole," and whom he created Duchess of n'is'esitiess w", 00
palsied him to London. Made, by tir bat" tlyf
lecturer, to live in those times, but taae;werctorsf
behind the scenes—seeing who the puePe' tsuotiroer;o6,a
it was that pulled the strings—the audience, • der
blob
the crowd to welcome the new monarch. histh 0,,50,100
our liberties and our Protestantism, and i
could not, though amused with the fine an,
t th° (116".4
the scene was pourtrayed, but feel asharceVighe6:ol/lissr;
obeisances of the noblest in the land, the to ejpee
taries in the church, the state, and the lawipisst, s
to d 1
-and before such a company. George thse sissOii/AP eitios
knew what such professions meant, an c:
_„vattioll
concubines, must have said—" Come, let s, nr,
private rooms, and have oysters, and nrsisatelfso
wine, and let us leave , these L'a
w cl 3
with their pretended loyalty." Iles nitse;:.,ribte
,loyalsto England, and leaving it to if it
_,*r
far better than a king from. St. German'"'4ool*.sts 0'
king's orders, and money in pocket. -_,01.0,50J
'full-length portrait of George the First,w-seo4;seede
miniatures of Addison----not Addison, ,rtl,74,t't au 00!
00!
State ("how much greater than the I""'isslless di et;
beuded the kneel") but Addison at the, . otiP,oolsftist
cracking a bottle of wine with Dick Steeilsbi.eer "00
happen to have his share of the reckonings.jacipbesisltes'
of Marlborough (a smiling and good-lonicit j tterthe"
master would he not kiss and betrast. 0.001,re,
anatomised with indignant energY ; °0011:s O.
seeking retirement and professing philosf spout 0000
bolting to save hiswith glimPses 610 0
and Atterbury braver than Boliughro-;0 cop
tlsf
Tower, but escaping with little destesa:deesse 001104
dangerous menagerie. There was then `"-se Pneek OS/
10 new ta,
the dangers which threatened George's, the or is
power in England, the rising in Scotlannssse Stest of the
of Edinburgh Castle by the adherents 01 0.1!.7r0 o
Loa
carousing of the officers at the taverfh'farad 1400 01,1
landlady " powdering their hair,'' an,(l,swe-e assitlif,'4
enterprise in consequence of the slescsr'ss s,sl
,thneoitr indulged in the tav-sike° siewess' 11,5" ocffiasctel re ,
driven
5
powder for their hair, they might have -the --(l.°
secured aseossos trader 60,
Scotland for King James, 11 r tete Ilde th-se
gentry were,rising in the south, and thsesse
—the great duke of the time—might ``,7,oe v/"„s l uld 3
fro
his own had he chosen. Then vsbat a 5,;'.-„g fro grog
be enacted ! Instead of a Protestant e-iisspig'sese Doe;
the nation would have been hurrahing, /boo whafe,
St. Germains ; Marlborough would o,oold 00,00'
weeping tears of j -y, and the bishops opers ,ebrmste:6
kneeling on the sands, and matins 002
...I ouldb..avolV s
have been sung in St. Paul's, and Swipe s"fisthe'd this
Mired
moved from his deanery to make way ,°` overt" ,he .04
from Salamanca. The toss of povvder P ;04 'floste,r,'ltO
the narrow-souled Protestant King setnejrs,t,lleticte. sOefii
throne, and his mistresses, and the cisssseat ,itesesrolls
the Rhine wine, peacefully for his gr. to cli-noipl''
your grandfathers and mine," ceneT and g(r„stg.eres
when it closed, had to put on blaeedisssursesar.,sors
clothed in sable, and her clergYrnell When t Ole re,soo
mentary elegies on this old sinner- lay tea oss
Second was dying, we read in Macau ,iraVertee
the r f
rushed to the churc.hes, and sveell deePs, 0 0., ,
for him, groans and sobs showed
wonder tus astfe e 00000
h f refiglr°4 10°001;
was devoted to him. Oh,
worship ! When I think how
the temple of God, how servility was woolijo cb:r
tb
how beauty bid for the royal favouire_ 4lst, sesgsrst "
at ;east' the fir
was considered no dishonous, 11.
period of court-mourning is
Georges ; and so turn his portrait to theo:reireSheitoa.b
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