The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-03 00:00:00

THE COURT, 5S.c.

On Wednesday afternoon the Queen and Prince Albert,
accompanied, by the Princess lice, Jock a drive, in an
"/pen carriage and four. Lord Alfred Paget and Captain
Do Plat attended ou horseback. Her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, the Princess of Hohenlohe Langenburg,
and the 'Princess Feodore visited her Majesty. His
Royal Highness the Prince rode en,horseback in the fore-
noon; attended by Captain' Du Plat. The 'Prince "of
males, attended by .1k r. i) "WeidtO Windsor and
joined the Hunt. The Princess Royal and the Princess
Alice, and Prince Arthur, with the Princesses Helena 'and
Louisa, took carriage drives. Her serene highness the
Princess Feodore of Hohenlohe Langenburg, the Earl of
.Clarendon,_ and __ Major- Gene.ral- with the
Queen in the evening. The Brousil Family attended at
Buckingham Palace on Tuesday evening, and had the
honour of performing before her Majesty and the Prinee•
Lord Alfred Paget and Captain Du Plat have relieved

Lord Charles Fitzroy and Captain the Hon. D. de Ros, in
their duties as the equerries in waiting.to the Queen and
_Prinee_Albert.. -The Princess- Macy- of--Cambridge visited
her royal highness the Duchess of Kent at Clarence
House, St, James's.
A PRINCESS AT PARlS.—Comtesse Rose had no objection
to being Prineess Vocepal. A thousand flirtations and at
least half a dozen grandes passions, had a little tarnished
the freshness of her youthful beauty; but what she had
lost in bloom she had
.gaiued in experience. Nobody had
such a figure, so round, so shapely, of such exquisite
proportions; nobody knew so well how to dress that
figure to the greatest advantage. Her gloves were a study
and as for her feet and ankles, their perfection was only
equalled by the generosity with which they were displayed.
Then- what accomplishments; wh-at. talents I She could
sing, she could ride, she could waliz ; she could play
billiards, smoke cigarettes, drive four horses, shoot with
a pistol, and talk sentiment from the depths of a low
fauteuil, like a very Sappho. Her lovers had compared
her at diffetent times to nearly all the heroines Of
antiquity, except Diana. She had been painted in every
costume, flattered in every language, and slandered in
every boudoir throughout Europe for a good many years ;
and still she was bright, and fresh, and sparklitlg, as if
Old Time too could not resist her faieinations, but, like
any other elderly gentleman, gave her her own way, and
waited patiently for his turn. Thrice happy Princess
Vocqsal !—can it be possible that you, too, are bored ?
She sits in her own magnificent salon, where once every
week she "receives " all the most distinguished people in
-Paris:- HOW blooming she Toas;Vith *her- back to the
light, and her little feet crossed upon that low footstool.
Last night she had a " reception," and it was gayer and
more ern vded than usual. Why did she feel a little chill
to day ? Pooh ! it was only a migraine, or the last French
novel WAR so insufferably stupid : or—no, it was the want
of excitement. She could not live without that stimulus

excitement she must and would have: She had tried
politics, but the strong immovable will at the head of the
government had given her a hint that she must put a stop
to that ; and she knew his inflexible character too well to
venture on' trifling with him. She was tired of aIL her
loier's,too'; she began to think if her husband were only
thirty yean younger, and less, good humoured, he would
be worth a dozen of these modern adorers.—Fraser's
Magazine for April.