Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-15 00:00:00

THE COURT.

Viscount Palmerston had an audience of the Queen on
Sunday, at Buckingham Palace. His lordship had an audi-
ence of her Majesty on Monday afternoon.

His Royal Highness the Prince Consort rode on horseback
on Monday, attended by Capt. the Hon. D. de Ros.

The Princess Beatrice took a carriage drive.
The Earl of Clarendon had an audience of the Queen on
Monday afternoon.

The Queen had a dinner party in the evening. The com-
pany included her Royal Highness the Princess Alicet the
Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, and the Ladies
Louisa and Georgiana Hamilton, Viscount Gough, Viscount
and Vicountess Stratford de Redeliffe, Lord and Lady de
Ros, the Hon. Mrs. Biddulph, Major-General Wylde,
Colonel Macdonell, C. 8., Rifle Brigade, and Major Elphin-
stone, R.E. The band of the Royal Horse Guards attended
daring dinner. The Queen's Private Band afterwards per-
formed in the drawing-room.

IDEPARTURE OF HER MAJESTY FOR WlNDSOR.—Yesterday
afternoon, her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince
Consort, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the
Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louisa, their Royal High-
nesses Princes Arthur and Leopold, and Princess Beatrice,
left Buckinghani Palace in several of her Majesty's carriages,
with out-riders in scarlet liveries, and a detachment of the
15th Hussars, when they proceeded to the Great Westlern
railway station, and travelled by special train to Slough,
en route for Windsor Castle.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE. —Yesterday morning, the
marriage of the Hon. Thomas Lyttleton Powys, eldest son
of Lord Lilford, with Miss Emma Branding, sister of Lady
Peter Fairbairn, was celebrated at St. George's Church,
Hanover-square, by the Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man,
in the presence of Lord Lilford, Sir Peter and Lady
Fairbairn, Lady Elizabeth Grey, Lady Williamson, Lord
Zetland, Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duchess of Roxburgh,
and a great number of the nobility. At the conclusion of

the ceremony, a grand Ajeuner was given, after which the
happy pair left town for Lilford Park, Northamptonshire,
the seat of Lord Lilford. The second marriages were the
two daUghters of General Buckley, and nieces of the
Countess of Verulam, and celebrated at the before-mentioned
church, in the presence of a most numerous assemblage of
the nobility.
THE FRENCH EMPRESS.-

—Few have been the fetes during

the week. Ascension Day was marked by a grand dinner
given at the Palais Royal in honour of the St. Clotilde. By
a graceful homage to her fellow sufferer in bereavement,
the Empress had proposed to honour the banquet by her
presence. By an attention more graceful still, her Majesty,
in order to display a high sense of the importance of this
fete passed by her fair cousin on French ground, appeared
in complete gala attire, according to Italian custom on these
occasions. A dress of the richest white moire antique,
fully covered with barbes of point lace, tied in knots with
floating ends, each knot confined with an ornament of fine
pearls. The headdress of the same knots of point, with ends
flowing over the shoulders, and the famous parure of pearl,
which forms one of the treasures of the French crown, and
is reputed to be worth two. millions. In spite Of every
element of gaiety assembled there to do honour to the occa-
sion, and in spite of the bonne volenti to assist the youthful
hostess in amusing her guests, the festival was anything but
a merry one. The Empress was pre-occupied, and her
thoughts were evidently far away in the south, for twice
during dinner did she receive despatches from the Ministrel
de la Guerre, which, it was evident, had been eagerly waited
for.—Court Journal.