The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-26 00:00:00

THE COURT

The Queen held a Privy Council and Court at Bucking-
ham Palace on Tuesday afternoon. The Privy Council
was attended by Prince Albert, Viscount Palmerston, Sir
George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Panmure, Sir
Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, the
Right Hon. M. T. Baines, Earl Spencer, Marquis of
Breadalbane, and the Duke of Wellington. Her Majesty
having been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Viscount
Sydney to be Lord Lieutenant of the County of Kent, his
lordship took the customary oaths before the Queen in
Council. The Queen having been pleased to appoint the
Right Hon. Earl of Shaftesbury, to be Lord Lieute-
nant of Dorsetshire, the noble earl likewise took the usual
oaths. At the Court the Hon. John Duncan B:igh had an
audience of the Queen upon retiring from his post as
British Minister to the King of Hanover. Mr. Arthur C.
Magenis, the Queen's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary to the King of Sweden and Norway, was
presented to her Majesty by the Earl of Clarendon, on
returning from Stockholm. Mr. Crampton, late Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United
States of America, was presented to her Majesty at an audience
by the Earl of Clarendon. Viscount Palmerston, Sir G. Grey,
and the Earl of Clarendon had audiences of the Queen,
The Prince Consort rode on horseback with the Prince of
Wales on Tuesday morning, attended by Captain the Hon.
D. Ross. Prince Frederick William of Prussia, attended
by Lieutenant-General Baron Schreckenstein, left Bucking-
ham Palace shortly before four o'clock on Tuesday after-
noon for Claremont, to pay a visit to the Countess de
Neuilly. His Royal Highness returned to the Palace about
seven o'clock. Prince Albert and Prince Frederick William
of Prussia honoured the Adelphi Theatre with their pre-

sence in the evening

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.—It is reported that Major
General Sir James Jackson, K.O 8., is to have the vacant
coloneley of the Inniskilling Dragoons. Sir James is one
of our best cavalry officers ; he served in the Peninsula,
at Waterloo, in India, and various parts of the world with
great distinction. He now commands the troops at the
Cape. It is likely that Sir Henry Somerset will have one
of the Infantry colonelcies now vacant.

SIR EDMUND LYONS'S PEERAGE.—The Gazette of
Tuesday evening announces that the Queen has been
pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the
Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baron of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto Rear-
Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, Bart., G.C.8., by the
name, style, and title of Baron Lyons of Christchurch,
in the county of Southampton, and to the heirs male of
his body lawfully begotten.

LOSS OF THE SHIP UNICORN, OF LIVERPOOL.-Accounts
were received here, yesterday, of the loss of the ship
Unicorn, 369 tons, Captain Pollard, one of Messrs. Pil-
kington Brothers' Liverpool and Boston ships. The Uni-
corn sailed hence on the sth of May, loaded with a cargo
of 485 tons of salt, 24 tons of bricks, and 75 tons of
pig iron. About three weeks after sailing, she encoun-
tered severe storms, and began to leak very much. All
hopes for the safety of those on board had been given
up, when, on the 7th of June, the Jane E. Walsh, from
Havannah, hove in sight, and rescued the distressed
mariners. The Unicorn, when abandoned, was in latitude
39 north, longitude 60 west, and she was in a sinking
condition. The Jane E. Walsh reached Falmouth at an
early hour yesterday morning, where she landed the
crew of the lost vessel. The Unicorn was owned in Boston,
and was insured there.

THE " COUNT-OUT."—The following account is given of
the "count-out" in the House of Commons on Tuesday night:
At ten minutes past six o'clock there were thirty-eight
members present, in addition to the Speaker—so that one
more member would have cimpleted the number sufficient
to make a house. In the lobby were twenty or thirty,
members looking through the glass door, not only them-
selves declining to come in, but absolutely preventing
others, by main force, from entering the house. One member
pushed vigorously through the crowd outside, and had
actually got the door open, whet he was seized and pulled
back by his coat tails. This operation was witnecsed by
the members who were in the house as well as by the
Speaker—all of whom were convuhed with laughter. -Five
or six other members, finding that a " count" was to be
atempted, went behind the chair, where it is not parliamen-
tary etiquette for the Speaker to see them, and thus escaped
being " counted."