The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-05-29 00:00:00

THE COURT,

The Regent of Baden arrived at Buckingham Palace at
eleven o'clock on Tuesday morning on a visit to the
Queen. Her Majesty held a court at three o'clock in the
afternoon. Count Appony had his first audience of the
Queen, and presented his credentials as Envoy Extra-
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Emperor
of Austria. His Excellency was introduced by the Earl
of Clarendon, K.G., the Queen's Principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Major-general
the Hon. Sir Edward Cost, K.C.H., her Majesty's Master
of the Ceremonies. The Earl of Clarendon had au
audience of the Queen.

Prince Albert presided on Tuesday morning at a meet-
ing of the Royal Commission of the Patriotic Fund, held
at the Palace at Westminster.

-7Prince Frederick William of Prussia, attended by
Lieutenant Baron de Schreckenstein, Baron Moltke, and
Captain Heinz, visited the members of the Royal Family
at their residences on Tuesday afternoon.

=The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Royal and the
Princess Alice, took a drive in an open carriage and four
in the afternoon. Prince Albert rode on horseback with
the Regent of Baden and Prince Frederick William of
Prussia.

Her Majesty honoured his Excellency M. Musurus, the
Turkish Ambassador, with a visit in the evening at the
residence of the Embassy, in Bryanston-square. Her
Majesty left Buckingham Palace with Prince Albert at
ten minutes before ten o'clock, accompanied by the
Regent of Baden and Prince Frederick William of Prus-
sia. Her Majesty went in state, escorted by a detach-
ment of the Royal Horse Guards.

THE LANCASHIRE MILITIA.—The Malta Mail of the 20th
instant states:—" The Colombo steamer came into our port
the day before yesterday, having on board the Royal Lan-
cashire Militia bound for England. On account of her
crowded st Lte, a company of the regiment, with all the
women and children were disembarked, and are to remain
here until conveyance can be prepared for them for Eng-
land.

THE PUBLIC REJOICINGg.—This day at one o'clock, the
Royal Lancashire Artil:ery M litia, will fire a feu de joie in
the spacious aera in front of St. George's Hall. Afterwards
the heroes trout the Crimea, who are now iu this town, will
be entertained at a tiioner given by the corporation at the
Rose Hill Police-station. Major Greig, the chief constable,
has had the management of this portion of the rejoicing
department, therefore, we need scarcely say, that there is
not the slightest doubt but that the affair will go off with
the greatest eclat.

THE BRIDGEWATER CANAL AND THE NORTH STAFFORD-
SHIRE RAHN/Av.—lt is stated in a letter from Stoke-upon-
Trent, the head-quarters of the North Staffordshire Railway
Company, that although a bill recently introduced into
parliament for enabling this company to lease the Bridge-
water Canal was defeated on standing orders, yet that this
property has virtually passel into their bands, and that in
the course of a week or ten days the company will assume
the direction and management of the traffic, under a lease
from the trustees of the Bridgewater property.
ACCIDENT TO THE PRINCEiS ROYAL STEAMER.—We
learn from a telegraphic despatch, that the Princess Royal
steamer, which left this port for Glasgow, on Tuesday
afternoon, went ashore during a dense fog yesterday morn-
ing. It is with much satisfaction we are enabled to state
that the Herald steamer, from Dublin, succeeded in getting
alongside the Princess Royal, and took her pas3engers on
bard, and landed them all well, at Glasgow, yesterday
afternoon, It is added that the Princess Royal has about
six feet water in her after held. A subsequent despatch
mentions that the Princess Royal was expected to flood off
yesterday evening, and would be brought round here to re-
pair her bottom. Her cargo was to be forwarded by
&amens to the Clyde.
THE SCHOOLS OF ART.—A meeting of a few of the execu-
tive chairmen and of the masters of the various schools of
art throughout the United Kingdom, was held on Tuesday
at Marlborough-house, for the purpose of taking into consi-
deration and discussing the working of the present system,
adopted for diffusing a knowledge of elementary drawing
among the working classes and their children. Lord Stan-
ley of Alderley prasided, and the following gentlemen were
present, and addressed the meeting on the subject tinder
discussion :—The Hon. and Rev. G. Yorke (Birmingham),
the Rev. A. Rigg (Chester), Sir Stafford Northcote
ter), the Hon. and Rev. T. Best (Hampshire, north-west
district), the Rev. J. S. Howcoa (Liverpool), Dr. Branson
(Sheffield), and the Dian of Hereford. The masters pre-
sent were —Messrs. Davidson (Chester), Mitchell (Sheffield),
Muckley (Buralem), Hammersley (Manchester). Harnerton
iSwansea), Thompson (Warrington), Kyd (Worcester),
ice (stoke), and Finnic (Liverpool).