Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-19 00:00:00

THE COURT

Her Majesty the Queen held a Court on Thursday
afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. The Sheriffs of Lon*-
don and Middlesex, Mr. Alderman Hale and Mr. Conder,
accompanied by the City Remembrancer, had an andience
of the Queen to receive her Majesty's commands with
respect to the reception of an address from the Corpora-
tion of the City of London upon the birth of her
Majesty's grandson. The Sheriffs were presented to the
Queen by the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole Secretary of
State for the-Home Department.
Her Majesty was pleased to appoint Tuesday next, at
three o'clock in the afternoon, at Buckingham Palace, for
the reception of the address._

The address to the Prince Consort will be received im
mediately afterwards.

Sir Charles Trevelyan was presented to the Qneen, at
an audience by Lord. Stanley, Secretary of State for
India, and kissed hands on being appointed GOvernor of
Math-As.
Mr. Secretary Walpole and Lord Stanley had audience
of her Majesty. The Qneen was attended by the Earl 'of
Verulam, Lord in Waiting, and the- Hon. Mortimer
Sackville West, Groom in Waiting.
His Royal Highness the Prince Consort rode on horse-
back on Thursday, attended by Captain the Hon. D. do
Res. The Princesses Alice and Helena took a carriage
drive.

The Qneen and Prince Consort honoured the perform-
ance at the Princess's Theatre with their presence in the
evening. In attendance were Lady Churchill,- the Hon.
Beatrice Byng, the Hon. Emily Cathcart, the Earl of
Vernlam, Colonel F. H. Seymour, and Captain the Hon.
B. de Ros.

Mr. Warren's appointment as Master in Lunacy is

annoanced.

haRYLEBONE ELECTION.--Col. Romilly addressed the
electors of Marylebone on Thursday night.
Garrulous old men are like trees in autumn, whose
rustle is more noisy than when they are in full leaf.—
Jcan Paul Richter.

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind
may freely indulge in without injury to their moral or
religious feelings.—Addison.

Riches are 'strangely divided. The poor man has
little, the beggar nothing, the rich too much, and
nobody has enough. - Kagner.
Tun ARMY. —The Daily News announces that the
Government has resolved to issue a commission to inquire
into the report on the
_recruiting system of the army.

THE MASTERSHIP OF LUNACY.—The 'Post states that
Mr. Warren has accepted the vacant mastership in lunacy,
on condition of his resigning his seat in Parliament.
EXTRAORDINARY CASK.—Fro a the Dutch journals I
note the coming trial at the Hague of the ' venerable
General Gunkel, who last month sent a' poisoned sausage
to his mistress, but the comestible was not eaten by her,
killing her brother and servant maid, the mother of four
children. His object was that of the notorious returned
convict Tawell, to be rid of the expense, of her .mainte-
nance, and to obliterate a debt of 1,500 gueldres she had
lent him. The apothecary who sold him the arsenic had
taken care to get his receipt for its delivery, which is
forthcoming. - This is a sad finale to' a long career
of military exploits beginning in 1791, when lie was an
artillery lieutenant against the French, under ,Tourdan, at
Fleuru-, afterwards fighting under Pichegru against the
English in the Scheldt, distinguished at the siege of the
Dantzic, where he won the Cross of the Legion of
Honour, mainly instrumental in the taking of Breda, and
finally, on the downfall of, Napoleon, his re-appearance at
Waterloo in command of the Dutch and Belgian Artillery
on that great day. Singular enough, in a pamphlet he
published last February, 1858, he recounts all his
achievements apropos of a slight recently put on him by
the Breda garrison, and then winds up with the following
passagei—" Men have cast a stain on my uniform, and
this stain must) not go with me down into the grave."--4
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