The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-14 00:00:00

THE COURT,

The Queen and the Prince Consort, accompanied] by
the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, honoured the
Olympic Theatre with their presence on Thursday even-
ing. Prince Albert rode on horseback with the Prince
of Wales and Prince Alfred on Friday morning. His
Royal Highness presided in the afternoon at a meeting of
the commission for promoting and encouraging the fine
arts in the rebuilding the palace of Westminster. The
commissioners present were the Marquis of Lansdowne,
the Earl of Aberdeen, the Right lion. the Speaker, and
Earl Stanhope. Prince Ernest of Leiningen arrived at
Buckingham Palace yesterday, on a visit to her Majesty.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by Prince
Ernest of Leiningen, honoured the Adelphi Theatre with
their presence on Friday evening. It is understood that
her Majesty's birthday will be celebrated on the 29th of
May. No drawing room will be held on that occasion.
':'BUCKINGHAM PALACE, Saturday.—Her Majesty left the
palace soon after ten o'clock this morning on
horseback, accompanied by his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, and attended by one of the
Ladies and the two Equerries in Waiting. The
royal party were absent near an hour. Soon after five
o'clock the Queen and Prince Albert went out for an
airing in an open carriage and four, accompanied by the
Princess Royal. Her Majesty had a dinner party this
evening. The distinguished party comprised :—Her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, and her Ladies in Wait-
ing; his Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Leiningen, his
Grace the Archbishop of Armagh, the Duke and Duchess
of Wellington, the Duchess of Sutherland, Lord and Lady
de Tabley, Lord Alfred Paget, Lady Theresa Digby, Sir
Harry Jones, and Sir Charles Lyell. The following court
receptions have been appointed :
Tues., 15 April... Levee St. James's Palace.
Fri., 25 April ...Juvenile Ball Buckingham Palace.
Tues., 29 April.. Drawing Room St. James's Palace.
Wed., 30 April.. Concert Buckingham Palace.
Wed., 7 May:....Levee .... St. James's Palace.
Thurs., 8 May... State Ball Buckingham Palace.

Thurs., 29 May-Drawing Room in celebration of the
Queen's Birthday!at St. James's Palace.
Fri., 30 May ...Concert 7 Buckingham Palace.
Fri., 6 June State Ball Buckingham Palace.

DUBLIN AND KINGSTOWN RAILWAY.--At the half yearly
meeting of this company, held on Saturday, the directors
declared a dividend of three per cent, which, with the
half yearly dividend, makes eight per cent per annum,
with a large surplus to be carried to the present half
year's account.

The Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Com-
pany's steamer Madrid has arrived here with the
Peninsular mails, bringing twenty-four passengers,
four packages of specie, and a full cargo. Her
dates are from Gibraltar to the 3rd, Cadiz the 4th,
Lisbon the 9th, and Oporto and Vigo to the 10th
instant.

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING

I hear,• but not from a source that I can
guarantee, that the English cabinet has firmly
insisted on Austria withdrawing her troops from
the Principa•iities. without delay. Austria vehe-
mently opposed this, but England would not yield
an inch, and Vrance supported her. After some
altercation Au.stria gave way. As regards the
Italian question, I am told, in the same quarter,
that the Emperor Napoleon is of opinion that, to
secure it on a fir, n. basis, neither England nor
France is strong e,uough, nor even the Congress,
but that all the pow .ers of Europe out to be called
on to decide it.

All the Plenipotentiaries have been at St. Ger-
,2ains to-day on a sporting excursion.
Tii;lßelgian papers t fi
.ton_kan what I told you two
or three days back (fror.o an exclusive source) as to
the Congress being on the.' eve of closing its
sittings, and of nominating a commission to
examine into the. questions it may not be able to
decide—such quest,lons to he k-fterwards brought
before another congreo.
1, the Prussian
The departure of Barot; Mante-uffh:
envoy is talked of for Tuesdoy.
to ridicule
Although the 'Madrid papers turn in.
the giant of the Order of the Golden Flee, le to the
Imperial Prince, it is intended, I hear, to cause
the presentation of it to him in his cradle ...te be
made with extraordinary pomp.
The Assemblie Nationale announces that Count
de Chambord paid a visit, a few days ago, to the
widow of King Louis Philippe, at Nerir, near
Genoa. This proves what I was able to announce
to you the -than clay. that a complete reconciliation
has been effected between the Orleanists and the
Legitimists. _ _ _

It appears that the English papers, and indeed
the parliament as well, were in error in supposing
that the French government meant to distribute
medals to our soldiers in the Crimea in the same
wholesale manner as our government did to the
French. The medal to be given is, says the
Moniteur del Armee, the ordinary one which is
granted to French soldiers for good conduct, and
the number awarded is not to exceed 500. In
France this medal carries with it a pension of
£4, and I suppose it will do the same for the
English.
M. de Falloux and M. Best were yesterday
elected members of the French Academy. The
former is the eminent law minister and politician,
the latter the learned savant. M. do Falloux's
election was vehemently opposed by all the liberal
parties.
The monthly return of the Bank of France has
been published to-day. It shows that the
amount of notes in circulation, including
those of the branches, is rather more than
616,000,000 fr., and that the specie and precious
metals in hand are 268,000,000 fr. But perhaps
the most curious item in the account is that of
1,883,245 fr. (upwards of £75,000) for the purchase
of gold and silver :—this shows how great is the
demand for money, and how great consequently
is the financial distress ; it shows, too, how much
the bank has to suffer. The amount of bills
discounted shows a diminution compared with
last month of 817,538 fr., the advances on public
securities are 1,178,000 fr , and those on railways
are 2,597,000 fr.

CABINET CouNclL.—On Friday, summonses were issued
to the ministers to attend a cabinet council on Saturday
afternoon, at the Foreign Office, Downing-street. Lord
Granville was sufficiently recovered from his recent in-
disposition to be present. The other ministers at the
meeting 'comprised the Lord Chancellor,',the Duke of
Argyll, Lord Palmerston, Lord,4Harrowby, Sir George
Grey, Sir G. Lewis, Mr. Vernon Smith, the Marquis of
Landsdowne, the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, Lord
Stanley of Alderly, and Mr. Baines. :;

LIST OF PASSENGERS PER R.M.S. PERSIA FROM NEW
YORK.—Mr. Alexander Graham, Mr. George Rogers, Mrs,
Donat and child, Mr. Brawn, Mr. Alburtis, Misses Mary
and Eliza Dunn, Messrs. Rutson Maury, Rutler. Cohen,
lady and deughter, Ramee and lady, Misses Mauran,
Therese Mauran, Mr. Edward Blackburn, lady, and four
children and servant, Messrs. R. Makin, Mead, W. R.
Bennett, E. Kirkpatrick, Johnston and lady, Charles Scott,
Piston, Mrs. Geo. Rogers and son, Mrs. Ashbury, Messrs.
W. J. Florence and lady, Fetley, J. C. Jones, Misses Dar-
ham and Stott, Mr. Marie and lady, Mrs. Stewart, Mr,.
H. L. Norris, three children, and two servants,
Mr. Stewart and lady, Mrs. Medley, child, and servant,
Messrs. E. S. Norris, C. W. Trotter, D. Lassiter, R. L.
Cook and Lady, Mitchell and lady, N. Fenwick, James
Callandar, Miss Anne Haughnont, Mrs. Sarah Babbridge
and daughter, Mr. G. Pierce, Mr. Sinder, Mrs. Cash,
Misses Alice and Sizzea Norris, Mr. L. Kenrick, Mr. R. H
Johnston, Mrs. Alfred Walker, two children and servant,
Messrs. Taylor lady and daughter, Lottimer, Sully, Mrs.
Dunbar and two children, Mr. Guild lady and two children,
Miss Butt and nurse, Messrs. Jullien and lady, Etomed lady
and servant, II Denny, jun., Hyam Joseph, Oscar Oizin,
Madame Vannard and daughter, Mon. and Mdlle Dorneau,
Messrs. W. It. Dean, Hyam A. Jacobs, E. Lafourcadeland
friend, E. Auzerais, A. Lehman, L. Lehman, L. Burnner,
Cohen, Duncan, Bett, Barbour and lady, Struthers, Leopold
Wetzlar, Kilgour, H. A. Middleton, John H. Bash, James
Hodges, Coombe, Graef, Moore, J. Gibb, G. Granier, C. G.
Hopkins, J. C. Orcm, C. G. Honnan, J. Crawford, N. G.
Bousfield, J. W. Liggins, H. W. Bates, Mdlle. Resuch,
and maid servant, Messrs. Barratt and lady, I. Seeligman,
Martin, Fanshawe, Robert Feason, Duncan Winter, Sudury,
John D. Willbar, Edward M. Benjamin, F. E. Lawrance,
C. F. Haberland, D. Williams (bearer of despatches).
Fleitman, R. Wells, Jas. Rearden, Anderson, C. Purves,
Peralta, R. Travers, Colin Wilson, Herbert Topping, F.
Heider, R. B. Smith, W. Appleton, W. Macdonald, Greene
C. H. Lowe, Westhead, John Connah, A. Schmaier, Col.
A. Van Burn, Dr. Mauran, Messrs. Power, Johnston, Means,
C. R. Goodwin, J. C. Cropper, W. Herrick, Thomas Roads,
G. B. Bell, E. J. Richards, A. C. Barclay, J. Longmure,
Geo. Giant, Guth, Hon. Malcombe Cancrow, Messrs. R. A.
Jullien, Rollet, Rooker, E. R. Andrews, W. T.
Andrews, S. Guggenheimer, John Flintoft, Nicholls, Brown
and friend, Mrs. Parry, Mrs. Susannah Wyett, Mrs. Flenitoft
and child, Mrs. Ellen Bansloe, Messrs. John M'Kenan,
Edward Cadwell, John H. Vurick, L. Israels, F. M.
Stranyge, C. Flurscwo, Turner, P. Tracy, Hugh Perry,
Husfield, Austin, J. Wells, Millot, L. Jewitt. and J. P.
M'Keward.