Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-14 00:00:00

TIIE COURT,

WINDSOR, Feb. 11.---Her Majesty's dinner party yes-
terday included the Duchess of Kent (attended by Lady
Fanny Howard), the Princess Alice, the Duchess of
Sutherland, Major-General the Hon. C. and Mrs. Grey.
Colonel the Hon. Sir Charles and Lady Phipps, the Dean
of Windsor and the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley, the lion. Mrs.
Biddulph, Major Elphinstone, R.E., and Mr. Glover.
Also the following visitors, who arrived in the afternoon:
Lord George Lennox, Lord de Ross, and the Right Hon.
Sir Hamilton and Lady Seymour. The band of the 2nd
Life Guards was in attendance, and played during the din-
ner. The following had the honour of receiving invitations
after dinner :—The Earl of Carlisle, Lady Charlotte
Chetwynd, Lady Caroline: Barrington, Lady Emily
Seymour, Lady Georgiana Cathcart, Miss Cathcart,
Lady Anna Maria Cast, Miss Cust, Lord and Lady
Rokeby, Colonel the Hon. A. N. and Lady Mary Hood,
Miss and Mr. Hood, the Right Hon. H. and Lady Mary
Labouchere, the Hon. Mrs Seymour Bathurst, Miss and
Mr. A. Bathurst, M.P., the Hon. and Rev. C. Moore,
Mrs. and Misses Moore, the Provost of Eton, the
Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Goodford, the Rev. W. Canning,
the Rev H. J. and Mrs. Ellison, Lieutenant-
General Knollvs, Mrs. and Miss Knollys, Colonel and
Lady Henrietta Ogilvy, Lieutenant-Colonel Howard
Vyse, Commanding officer 2nd Life GuardS, Mrs. Howard
Vyse, Lieutenant-Colonel M. Bruce, Commanding Officer
Ist Battalion Grenadier Guards, Mrs. and Miss Clive,
Miss Phipps, Miss Maria and Miss Emma Codrington,
and the Rev. W. R. Jolly. • The Queen and Prince
Consort walked in the Home Park this morning. Princess
Louisa and Prince Leopold took a carriage drive.

Lieutenant and Captain Hon. H. W. Campbell,
Coldstream Guards, has been appointed, one of the aide-
de-camps to the new Governor of Gibraltar, Lieutenant-
General Sir W. Codrington, K.C.B.
. A Naval Review on a very grand scale is expected to
take place at Bantry, equalling if not surpassing, that
when her Majesty reviewed the fleet previous to their
departure for the seat of war in the East.
Her Majesty's. steamer Advice, tender to Nile, master
commanding M. C. Raymond, left Queenstown on Thurs-
day for Bristol, whence she is to convey Rear-Admiral
Charles Talbot and family, whose arrival at the official
residence, Queenstown, may be daily expected.
According to the Calcutta _Englishman the Commander-
in-Chief's intended return to England is to lay his
title and fortune at the feet of a fair lady, encouraged,
probably, in undertaking his new campaign by the
example of his brother in arnih, the Duke of Malakoff.'
The Hereditary Princess of Tuscany died at Naples on
Thursday last. The deceased princess was the daughter
of the reigning King of Saxony, and was but 23 years of
age. In November 1858, she was married to the
Hereditary Grand Duke of Tuscany, and on the 10th of
last month she gave birth to a daughter.
Thu Ex-KING OF DELHI.—The ex-King of Delhi
arrived at Rangoon on" the Bth December, in her
Majesty's steamer Merera. On Thursday, at four
o'clock, he was landed with his attendants, and taken
under a European escort to the main guard. There he
will remain for the present. His destination is Tounghoo.
A deputation on the subject of the affairs of Mexico
had an inerview with the Earl of Malmesbury, on Thurs-
day, at the Foreign-office. The deputation consisted of
—Mr. R. W. Crawford, M.P., Mr. J. C. Ewart, M.P.,
Mr. T. B. Horsfall, M.P., Mr. J. A. Turner, M.P.,
Mr. Thomas Bazley, M.P., Mr. H. W. Schneider, M.P.,
Mr. R. S. Gard, M.P., Mr. W. Bates, and Mr. W. J.
Newall. _

Meetings of the Cambridge University Commissioners
were held at 6, Adelphi-terrace London, on the Ist, 2nd,
3rd, 4th, sth, 7th, Bth, and 9th instant. The commis-
sioners present were —The Bishop of Chester, the Right
lion. Lord Justice Turner, the Right lion. M. T. Baines,
M.P., the Right Hon. Sir Lawrence Peel, Vice-Chancel-
lor Sir William PaFe Wood, the Rev Dr. Vaughan, and
Mr. Horatio Waddington.

A meeting of the Finance Committee of the Royal
Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 was held, on
Thursday, at the Palace of Westminster. There were
present : Earl Granville (chairman), Lord Overstone,
the Right Hon. C. B. Adderley, M.P., Sir Alexander
Spearman, Bart., Sir William Cubitt, Mr. T. F. Gibson,
and Mr. Edgar Bowring (secretary). Mr. H. R.
Williams, financial officer to the commission, was also
present.
THE MARRIAGE -OF M. ROTHSCHILD, JUN. —On
Wednesday last, the religious portiorraf the ceremony of
the marriage of M. Rothschild, inn., with the daughter of
M. Anspach, Judge of the Imperial Court, took place at the
synagogue in the Rue Notre Dame de Nazareth, Paris.
On the previous day, the contract was signed by the bride
and bridegroom, at the Hotel Rothschild, in presence of a
brilliant and distinguished company. The synagogue in
which the auspicious event was solemnised had been
tastefully decorated, and presented a gay spectacle
on the entree of the happy cortege. The Grand
Rabbi pronounced the nuptial benediction ; whilst a
large number of visitors attended to give eclat to the
ceremony. We may mention as among the principal
personages present the Minister of State and Madame
Foule, the Minister of the Interior and Madame Delangle,
the Delessert family, MM. Ingres, Halevy, Mcyerbeer,
Jules Janin, &c. )3esides these, the representatives of
the chief Courts of Europe in Paris also formed part of
the company, and assembled to do honour to the festal
occasion, and felicitate in person the newly-married
couple..

MAIL IsTzws.—The steamer Emeu' with English mails
for Australia, arrived punctually at Point de Galle, on
the 13th January, from Suez, and sailed again two days'
afterwards.

LOAN FOR HARBOURS OF REFUGE.—The Daily News
says that the sanction of Parliament will be asked for a
maximum sum of £2,000,000 by way of loan, in forming
harbours of refuge.
DEFENCE OF THE COUNTRY. —The Daily News says:—
It is rumoured that the delay in the production of Sir J.
Pakington's plans, for providing for the defence of the
country by the Navy, is caused by important differences
of opinion on that subject within the Cabinet. It is also
again asserted that an extensive system of fortifications
has received the partial sanction of the government, and
is likely to be brought shortly under the consideration of
the legislature. It is said the plan consists of a series of
fortifications placed at intervals along our sea board. A
loan of several millions is talked of, in order to carry out
the system.

NATAL APPOINTMENTS. Feb. 9.—Commanders: J.
Roche, W. M. Swaine,• W. Speck, T. D. Stewart, and
G. Kenicott, to be captains on the reserved half-pay list.
Lieutenants : S. Stover, A. Grove, T. Cartwright, T.
Bridges, and W. M. Oke, to be commanders on the half-
pay list. Second Master : J. B. Haines, to the Calcutta.
Master's Assistants : G. E. W. Yates, to the Termagant;
Frederick Seaton, to the Gannet. Assistant-surgeon :
F. L. W. Wright, to the St. Jean d'Acre. Midshipmen:
E. J. Bellet, and J. Atkinson, to the Gannet. Assistant
Clerks : Matthew James, to the Britannia ; John Sabben,
to. the Termagant.

INSULT TO THE DUTCH FLAG.—The Dutch flan-, says
the Par, has met with a serious insult, if the following
fact, given in a private letter from Curacoa, of 2Gth
December last, is correct. It states that the Dutch
schooner Amalia, belonging to the house of Jessurn and
Son, of Curacoa, has been taken possession of by the
authorities of St. Domingo, who have transformed her
into a vessel of war without any legal formality, and
simply alleging that she belonged to the republic. The
letter adds that this news produced a great impression at
Curacoa, and it was expected that the Dutch government
would adopt energetic measures to obtain satisfaction.
A BLOOMER.—In the Imperial Court, on Saturday, the
case of one Herrewegen, formerly a corporal in the Belgian
army, was called on. " Present !" cried a tall, masculine
woman rising. "What are you ?" asked the president.
"An old soldier !" said she. "An old soldier ! you mean,
of course, a cantiniere ?" " No, sir, I was first a private
soldier, afterwards a corporal in the 12th Regiment of
Belgium, and I have gained the decoration of the
Iron Cross for distinguished services." Iler advocate
then explained to the court that, in 1830, being
married to a Belgian sergeant, whose regiment was in
the citadel of Antwerp, she, in order to enter the citadel
into which strangers were not admitted, disguised herself
as a man, and enlisted for two years. She served so well
that she was made a corporal. Some time after the revo-
lution her regiment having gone over to the popular side,
was sent to attack a house at Bercham, in whch a de-
tatchment of Dutch troops had barricaded itself;
midst and she,
in the midst of a dreadful fire, and in spite of thlnf
hesi-
tation of her comrades, beat down the door
ex with
the butt end of her musket, whereby the house was
ts
Car-
ried. On another occasion at Louvain, in
a combat a barrel of gunpowder accidentally podet
wounding several men; all the soldiers near fled in dis-
may,-
but proceeded with the greatest calm o afford
relief to the wounded. After this affair sheemferardeedheeni
sex known, and the King of the Belgians
for some
her the Iron Cross. She subsequently servedeu
years as cantiniere, and obtained a small pension. The
advocate then went on to say that on the death of her
hnsband, which took place some years ago, she married a
in Paris. Lately she and her
residingodistress and the latter became infirm.
hpuoosbraNn vdorkfemllan i
To give him relief she some time ago stole a purse from
a purse lady in an h
a n omnibus.her,
she
was Detected in thete a y
act,eaar,nsdwtlithe
imprison-
ment by the Tribunal of Correctional Police. It was
against that condemnation she appealed ; but the court,
though it listened with great interest to the tale of the
woman's life, was obliged to confirm the previous judg-
ment. - Galignani.

THEATRICAL, MUSICAL, AND _ GENERAL
GOSSIP. _ .

The Rev. Canon Moseley has a work. in the puss
entitled " Astro-Theology.'
Barker's picture of " 'lle Corse during theCartimaisi
Rome" is noiv exhibiting with great success at NewYmpli.
Mr. Lennox Horne is lecturing at the Pelyt
Institution on the " Beggar's Opera."
Mme. Nantier-Didier--the admirers of her taint. aolt
regret to hear—has accepted an engagement at the rr.raall
Opera.

A new American "printing machine, invented by Mr.
Beach, is said to be capable of throwing off 44,000 airier
an hour.

An Exhibition of Works of Art, by living mas ters ar
all
nations,
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"Home, or the Return from•the Crimea," h
published. It is very creditable to Mr. Ryall
The friends of Herr Reichardt will be g
that after a most successful tour through Germany;
gary, and Poland, he is now in Berlin in the *it ar
health.
In addition to the new serial tale upon whieli
Charles Dickens is at work, it is said that a shortdigy.;.
also from his pen, will soon appear in "Ho
ur
Words."
The arrangements for the Gloucester Festival
grossing, and several gentlemen have consented t
stewards. The festival is to take place, we hear,
13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th of September.
Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams have entered
engagement to perform at the Lyceum Theatre, =Mk-
mencing on the 28th instant. Two entirely no* dramas.
and a farce will be brought out during their sojosrn.—
Era.
The Sunday Times understands that her MaitstY's
Theatre. ill be converted into an hotel ; a lease liaviier
been recently granted by Lord Ward for that purpose is
certain parties, who intend to convert it into a huge haat
managed after the Transatlantic fashion.

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Theatrical critics in America sometimes give strikutg
proofs of their power. An American paper stairs flat
the manager of the Boston Theatre having raged
admission to a reporter whose criticisms had dalliance/
him, the reporter simply knocked him down, walked*
and took his seat. _ -

S WOW

That accomplished actress, Miss Goddati
playing in Glasgow, and with much success. One of hex
favourite roles, Lucretia Borgia, seems to have prod
an excellent impression. The Glasgow Butlefix is
reminded, by her attitudes and intensity of declamation,
of Madame Ristori.

A son of the late Mr. E. Seguin, whose fine bass voice
is not forgotten (though it is some years since he die. 4 iw
America, for which continent he had long abaadlotaeC

England,) is now in London, for the purpose of beg:main
his career as a singer. He has been engaged by Mimi.
Fyne and Mr. Harrison.
_ . _

-4the proprietors of the Dublin. Unirerslt
have offered a prize of fifty guineas for the best assay
the " Policy of Government with regard to the ChriAiani
sation of India ;" and in the meantime a work 9a tkal
subject, by Mr. J. W. Kaye is announced, as veil as
another by the same author on. the " Governor-Geraxar
of India."
" Negro" minstrels keep up their well-earned celebrity
The Coloured Opera Troupe are
.giving what they /mgr-
sitely call " refined negro music ; ' Christy s
are making a successful provincial tour ; the AfE
Opera Troupe shortly start from Liverpool on a provisal
tour ; and the Ohio Minstrels continue to 'delight bur
audiences at the Adelaide Gallery.
Good music, says the Literary Gazette, is :cii3m.fty
making way in the provinces.. Among other_ incidents
to be dwelt upon with satisfaction, we hear of one ed
Beethoven's finest sonatas (in B flat, Op. 22) played fro-
tire, in the midst of a concert of purely " miscellaneoan''
character, at Wolverhampton, and with brilliant smxtur..
At similar entertainments, in Birmingham, an& scrim/
other towns, the local papers inform us of the entliusiast7,,
reception accorded to Mozart's chaste and elegant
tions on a theme in A major, which 'have beensinvarialair
encored.

Death has been busy lately in the ranks of journal
Following close upon the death of one with who!

were intimately associated, we note the death of Kr_ 11
E. Carrington, proprietor of the Bath. Chronicle,
connection with the press dates more than a quarter or:,
century back ; of Mr. C. Mitchell, proprietor and eeritan
of the Newspaper Press Directory, a kind and genial sza,
fertile in press anecdotes; and of Mr. W. Clemext, oae
of the proprietors of Bell's Life and Observer newspqm,
which were bequeathed by the late Mr. Clement ars*,
to his three sons, William, Charles, and George.

Mr. Disraeli has done it, says the Illustrat
Eastlake and his thirty-nine brethren are to surrekler
once their half of the National Gallery to the Rai&
people. This is a graceful surrender on the part of the
Academy. The Academy has money, and is s.lo oat fa
spend it. In two years from this we shall have to orb
our carriages for the Royal Academy Exhibition—not. lc
Trafalgar-square---but to Burlington liettse,
The National Gallery, thanks to Lord Elclio, will If.TLIIM
where it is. There will be no room in Trafalgar-sliff.art,
for the Gallery of the People founded, shame to say, so
recently as 1824.

Thursday being the anniversary of -her IlijeteS
wedding, it was celebrated at 'Windsor Castle by a gamut
concert given in St. George's Hall. • _ _

An American editor sags that when he was in prim: fits
libelling a justice of the peace, he was requested by
jailor " to give the prison a puff."
A publican, wishing to announce that the -Pei
paper might be read within, placed a paper iu h
bearing the words, " The People taken in her

Los OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIP WIZARD.—V
to hear that the Wizard, 10 gun brig, tender tel
flag ship at Queenstown, was totally wrecked off Bantry
Bay on Thursday. The officers and crew were all save
—United Serriee Gazette.

Te rcgrat
tile NW:

THE SALMON FISHINGS ON THE FORTH. - Mr. .Saini
Anderson, the principal lessee of the salmon flshings ss
the Forth, requests us to correct the statement of ti
Stirling Journal, that the season had opened wits as
show of success." Mr. Anderson says, "My ksiiin
doing better this season, as yet, than it has for sartrA:.

seasons,

Daily Scotsman

Among the other agricultural events of the 1
days we (Gardeners Chroniele) regret to have to at
the final winding up of the Flax Improvement Se
Ireland ; an association which has been in operal
seventeen years, successfully engaged since 1841
pnblication of information on flax culture, and on
methods of handlinc, the crop after harvesting it.
A Spanish priest,' once exhorting the a: cars
like lions, added, in the ardour of enthusiasm :
my brethern, that whosoever falls to-day in battle nia'a
night in Paradise." Thunders of applause followed )2..0.
sentiment. The fight began, the ranks wavered, ti.w:
priest took to his heels, when a soldier, stopping Kam,
reproachfully referred to the promised supper in PaixtE
" True, my son, true," said the priest, "but I never eat
supper."
WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLESS 'TIS FOLLIC-TO BE
—ln a church (not quite a hundred miles from 8rit241).,
gaopod erssociait, uentnferoerdtunaatpeelyw,saatnd
d,o,hvenlieuvpioung
thehe hdardessge;.,:r
lady who happened to be rather highly crinolineL
an instant he rose to his feet and bogged tle latte't
pardon in these words : " Yere pardon, mem ; bai f' Fu
leare'd I've broken your umbrella."—" Nothing irrazrar
said the lady, blushing.

WILLS. —.The will 'of Sir Belford Hinton N.
K.C.8., formerly her Britannic Majesty's Charge la
fairer to Venezuela, but late of Park-street, Grosvel,
square, was proved in London on the MK of j sun,
by the executors, Vice-Admiral Prevo W. p. Arzi„
Charles Harrison, Esq., the Rev. 'W. na1vw.71.7,
emteb2ste7artt,horolphtas9e,ceammnadbdeetr 1: emlBcason
Bdy i. ci I s in
and Lady Catherine Wilson, the relict. The perso LIN
sworn under £14,000. The will - a ...
was made, in
1858. Its tffg, 4
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and the \vs
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specific
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lilveorf- phriessen maternalte dt ghr
ia.mmibistitivir_
British Merchants in Peru ; a small sword, Vl-
late General Bolivar ; a Turkish sabre wh4
longed to his father, the late General Sir }WWI'
Wilson—all family honours are to be held es lair
looms. He has divided his property %mall-
amongst his other children, making ample provisia fee.
Lady Wilson.—The will of Sir Henry John Lambert.
Bart., late of Aston House, Aston Bon ant, Oxford, was,
proved on the 18th ult., by Sir Edward Francis Laotian%
Bart., the son. Power reserved to Edward H. G. Laisheitt-,
Esq., the son, and the other executor. Personalty, £12,610C.,
Upon his eldest son coming into possession of the AL/IrArrr
estate he bequeaths to his five younger sons £l,OOO each; sad.
out of a sum of £37,000, under settlement, directs £2,1111E6
to be paid to each of four younger sons and for
younger daughters ; the second son and eIM
daughter, being amply provided for, have each a small
bequest left. There are some specific bequests. re,
Ashton mansion and estate he leaves to the
of
son, who is also residuary len.cratee. —The will r Oa!
late Daniel Lambert, Esq., of Banstead, Surrey,22n.d
Lincoln's Inn, was proved on the 21st ult., by I
the 1:4-'12w
Lambert and Henry T. Lambert, E_sqs:, .
000 He has bequeathed the rea..
Personalty £B, .
atm
to his brothers Benjamin and Henry; to his three.
to his three auk;
brothers £l,OOO each; sisters £2OO
and the residue of personalty to his executers. me ma
of Thomas Ralli, Esq., of Sussex-square, Hyde Pak
was proved under £300,000 personalty. —ll4usinskii
News.