Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-18 00:00:00

THE COURT

The Queen and the Prince Consort, accompanied by the
Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louisa, and attended by the
Hon. Flora Macdonald, Colonel the Hon. A. N. HoOd, and
Captain Du Plat, honoured the Exhibition of the New
Society of Painters in Water-colours with a visit, on Friday
morning, at the gallery, in Pall-mall. The Prince Consort
afterwards rode on horseback, attended by the Equerry in

Waiting.
The Duke and Duchess D'Aumale visited the Queen at
Buckingham Palace.

The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by the Duke
of Oporto, honoured the performance at the Haymarket
Theatre, on Friday evening, with their presence. The royal
suite consisted of Lady Churchill, Hon. Flora Macdonald,
Lord Bateman, Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood, Captain Du
Plat, Visconde de Campanha, and Captain Sergio.
The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Susan Melville
and Sir George Couper, left Clarence House, St. James's,
on Friday, for her residence, Frogmore.
Their Royal HighneSses the Re'
of Saxe-Coburg are expected to arrive on a visit to her
Majesty and his
_Royal Highness the Prince Consort, this
week, at Windsor Castle. The' duke and duchess are
expected to remain about a fortnight in this country.
The Duke of Oporto, brother of the King of Portugal,
arrived at Buckingham Palace, on Friday evening, on a visit
to her Majesty.

signing Duke alit clDUche

The Prince of Wales will leave Rome about the end of
this month, and visit several places in the north of Italy.,
He will not go to Paris.
AT THE FANCY DRESS BALL, given by her Majesty iu
honour of the birthday of Prince Leopold, on the 7th inst.,
Mr. Gladstone's children—both girls and boys—appoared
in the Greek, or, as it was whispered in the room, the
lonian costume. The girls wore a crimson velvet cap and
jacket embroidered in gold, with a double skirt of white
satin—a dress both rich and pretty.

FORE li}N-OFFICE, April B.—The Queen has been pleased
to approve of Mr. George B. Kerferd as consul-general in
England for the Republic of Salvador.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, April 15. —The Queen has been pleased
to approve of Mr. John Treeby as vice-consul at Plymouth
for his Majesty the King of the Belgians.

Voltaire had a perfect horror of inquisitive persons. He
said to one of these pumpers, " Sir, I am delighted to see
you, but I give you fair warning, I know nothing about
what you are going to ask me."
The Waterford Mail says :—" It is intended to erect a
monument to the late Marquis of Waterford, and the
subject has been referred to the Earl of Howth, Lord St.
Lawrence, and Lord Ingestre.

QUERY. —A. Is a certain young lady English, Irish, or
Scotch ? B. Can't say; but ask her to name the chief city
in Ireland, and' if she answer Dublin, she is certainly not
Irish, whilst if she answer Tublin, she certainly is.
The family of M. de Tocqueville request the French
papers to contradict the report of his death which was first
circulated by a London journal. He is at the Isle de Hieres
in a suffering state, but not worse than he has been for some
time past.
Lord Howard, the son of the Earl of Effingham, Mr.
Douglas Pennant, son of Colonel Douglas Pennant, M.P.,
and a party, leave at the end of the present month for New
York, with the intention of making a tour through the
United States and Canada.

A French Editor has given the following amusing
description of the effect of an advertisement :—The first
time a man sees an advertisement he takes no notice of it;
the second time he looks at the name ; the third time he
looks at the price ; the fourth time he reads it ; the sixth
time he speaks of it to his wife ; the seventh time he buys.
A strange case of libel has just been tried at Munich.
Herr Zandr, the editor of a small paper called the Volksbote,
was accused of having slandered a minister of state, the
Count Reigersberg. The libel was contained in an article
on a recent election, and the words were :—" The Herr
Minister got twenty-four votes, but one more was wanting."
To the non- Bavarian mind the sentence has no meaning
whatever ; bnt on the trial the advocate for the crown
reminded the court of the fact that a certain class of
Bavarians are occasionally subjected to corporal punishment,
and that twenty-five is the number of priigel or stripes
which are judicially awarded to the delinquent among his
Majesty's lieges. The allusion to the penal number of
twenty-five was the gravamen of the charge preferred
against Herr Zander. That gentleman made a humorous
defence, and obtained a verdict.
ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY. —The gossips in our
neighbourhood have had a " nine days' wonder," in the
shape of an elopement, to furnish them with a little scandal.
Some time ago, a " callant, " who had migrated
in his youth to the " far west," and had increased
in flocks and herds, axd men servants and maid servants,
resolved to vist again the land of his nativity and
the place which gave him birth. He came accordingly,
and, like Omar of old, venit, vidit, vide he came, he
saw,

he conquered. After remaining here for a length
of time, and scattering his " almighty dollars"
about with no niggard hand, he left last week, but not
before, it is supposed, making arrangements with an honest
man's wife to follow him. The fair partner of his
flight, who is the wife of a small farmer in the
neighbourhood, and the mother , of a _large family,, left
on Friday last to join the gay Lotharto, taking with
her £2OO in money, besides other valuables, and the
two youngest children. As she had left home under
pretence of paying a visit to a relation, it was not till
Saturday night that any, suspicions were entertained of
the real nature of the case, and, consequently, the
fugitives got a good start. A brother and a son of the lady
immediately set out in pursuit, and it is said that they have
succeeded in tracing the parties to Hamburg. It is hinted
that the "love of love" is an old one in both, which even
the mighty waters of the Atlantic, rolling between for
nearly thirty years, have been- unable to quench, Amor
vincet omnia !—Border .ddvartiser.