Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-18 00:00:00

Lord. Chamberlain

race'
Majesty upon her arrival: at the

,ded the. Queen to t

Royal stand:.
The Prince Consort, the Doke of Cambr

and the Gentlemen, of the Household, we

Windsor uniform

The Queen visited her Itoyalaighnees- the rDucbess.

Kent, at Frogmore, on her return to the 'Pestle, art'

Her Majesty-gave a dinner in the evening, in St. GOrebil
Hall, to a party of seventy. The magnificent-service 01
ver gilt was used upon this occasion,. and the dinner to
and both the buffets were brilliantly lit by numerous vide,
lights in golden candelabra. The large St. George
labrum was placed in the centre of the table, opposite

her .Maj est

=The band of the Life GE

Ids attended, and play

dinner

Her Majesty had afterwards an evening party. the
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge' b
Princess Mary, and the Duke of Cambridge, attended ia
Lady Geraldine Somerset, Colonel Home Purvis, 8110
Colonel Tyrwhitt, arrived at the Castle from. London 11174)

a visit to the Queen. , de
The Prince and Princess de Chimay, the Counte", a d
Caraman Chimay, the Duke- of Manchester,. the E°.`,31:14
Countess of Lichfield, the Earl and Countess of Elgia'
Lord George Lennox, also arrived. A flee
The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards was,in attegu'l.„
'
during dinner. The Queen's private band' afterward' r

formed in the Drawing-room.
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Tim EMPRESS'S BOUWET.—The Empress of the .1.- de
has addressed the following letter to the Marcluigie,. st
Villamarina, the Lady of the Sardinian Itmbassaut; be
Paris :—" St. Cloud, May 30. Madame,—It 10111'
difficult for me to.express to each of the ladies of Gen°3l,,,
emotion on receiving' their bouquet, but I attach less 11";
under present circumstances, to this gracious attenti°ll" t
their part than to the feeling ,which dictated it•
fly, ral
diminishes my regret at not being able to tell thZ •
sentiments by word of mouth is that I was sure °f bet
a worthy interpreter in you.. Accept that dace

you, and the expression of my

EVGENIE."

frectionate r4sra'''

FRIGHTFUL SUICIDE.—A suicidt has been eenimith
Mr. •W. G. Buck well, bookbinder, of London' und6fatelf
following circumstances. It appears the deceased hasoog,
been in a very low state of mind, and on Thursday
the landlord of the Greyhound Tavern, St. Giles's, rni,.j at
deceesed, went up in his workshop, and was .bornmf apd
finding him in the corner, with two cuts in his thro, ;,110
his entrails actually hanging over his legs ; by his sidP
a large chopper, lying in a pool of blood. A inesset
despatched for a surgeon, but life was extinct bet
arrived. No cause is assigned for the dreadful act. ;0 the
ALL ALIVEIN A•LETTER BOX.---Tile torntit's nes',,,", not
in the letter-box at the village of Horsted Keynes, u",:e of
been forsaken ; there have been' six eggs deposited, 4°'re the
which was accidentally broken. On the ,remainingg ut;on of
determined bird commenced sitting. At the exP,11.3;;,. 08.
fourteen days she safely hatched five young ones, atua belc
Whole time the operation of dropping letters int°„-q wed
and taking them out went on as usual. The letl—ting
sometimes taken from the bird's back as she Was sit and
her nest. It need scarcely be added that both the be
,the
her mate were most ass-idious in their attautiellidoor
nestlings. The letter-box being' ee
attached to the ew
01-O-
-lt-is, with all it contains, swung to and fro ever}
door is opened.-- TVest Sussex Gazetto

NAP°l'E°.6it

says th

• THE RUMOURED RETURN OF —LOUIS A.
FRANCE.—" Certain journals pretend," - re Pri4ll
that, as the second phase of the .war operatious 4
erOr
cipally to consist of sieges, the presence of the Erril)_:ii pot
Italy would be, less necessary, and that
delay his return" to France." This report is deser"noimpor
,fie:rtei°l:39Plifinigl
little credit. It is true that the allied armies 'have ‘ratitlit
taut sieges to execute ; ,but the Austrians are conceal *or
all their forces, estimated at 300,000 men, behind th.eaTto.
his, Majesty
,w'of l$
cio, and certainly will endeavour to fight fresh 1100ter
Moreover, all the information which reaches tbe gl , ill
of War in Paris announces that the Austrian arll'e of
those which illustratye.d thQeuistieegae
iptrseapeafroiangeefsoriaa dletsapierate resistance behind the last 151,0
Arising at every water course and footpath for prolorighell
the struggle. It is not, therefore, at such a moment, 1 ci,
the operations are likely to assume a graver and more ;cog
os series r ise
es
boafs t fortifications
sive character, that the Emperor would think;or cf"i•ta bo
the theatre of war. In about a fortnight the allies ss'i ros
in a position to commence in real earnest the campeill,lit t°
Vie Mincio and in the Adriatic. -If the Emperor;lo
Paris, it would only be for a !short-, period during
interval." ~ " .; 00
0 boC'' -a5.

STATISTICS OI

cument for rEtilway,_

Issued ,whiph is intended to show the progress, 01
and will be found a valuable

v half-yeai ECieturn of this kind is map'

. . .
information being given as to the receipts from ea''' f• Tow
passengers, and,from goods ; the aggregate number 0
coot
travelled by each class of passengers, the number of Plaiileg
trains and` of goods trains respectively, the number ° at the
travelled by such trains, and the length of railway opeilif.yor;
commencement and at the termination of the ,ba'ls;;,ite4:
These returns are given for every railway LAI° All bui
Kingdom, and are afterwards summarised in a 5111,,' en'
very valuable table. From this we learn that at t'.'542;
of 1858 the n'umber of miles of railway open were
showing an addition of 219 miles during the b45,1,„111a1f"
The total number of passengers conveyed. during
of
ml
ceipts from all sources 76
year ending 1858 :was
o,fsotor,ao:oe,
wtheriretyxmai,lBli2os7o;:inThe
teare-
vTe passengers by parliamentary trains. The t,°—
sums derived from the whole number ofasscnKers amp fret
twenty-two
£5,782,000, of which £1,958,000 was derived 0011
wenty-twd million second-class, .£1,668,000 from Titall'
ten million first-class, 41,521,000 from the parliaalel,.eri,
and £519,000 for thirteen million third-class passrer'll74s,
_-The receipts from passengers' luggage, parcels, ets lere
horses, and dogs, amounted to £485,916 ; £22l,o,.ryieg.
received for carrying mails, and' £3,988,000 for
thirteen million tons of general merchandise. For csi,, the
twenty-four million tons of coal and other taineraveing
railways received £2,096,000, and £248,737
live stook: £10,837,600 out of the whole 12,000,00cuti.0a,
received in England and Wales ; 51,358,000 in
il; of
for 0°71,. ;fere
and £629,652 in Irerand:' ' The total number of °ober,
line open in England and Wales, on the 31st of Weewhole
1858, was 7,001, an inortase of 228 miles during tbeAariag
year ;in Scotland, 1,368; an increase of 103 ouled thed
the year ; and in Ireland, 1,188; an increase of 11714 ol
same, time. ran book extends to 37 pages (.4 CabW3
must have:poen a work of great labour.