Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-04 00:00:00

TILE COURT

The Queen held her second levee this: season in St.
James's Palace; on Wednesday afternoon.: The Queen.
and Prince Consort, attended by.the LadipS' and Gentle-
men in Waiting, arris ed from Rockingham Palace,
escorted by detachment of the Royal_ Horse Guards, and
were received .by the Great Officers of,Sta.te.

The Duke of-Cambridge attended.,tlLe levee

The Queen. and Prince Consort; entered the Throne-
room, attended by the Duchess of Manchester, Mistress
of the Robes„the Countess of Caledon,. Lady in Waiting,
and the Great Officers of the Household..

The Queen wore a train of white silk, brocaded in
wreaths and. hunches of flowers in. green, red, and gold,
trimmed with white blonde and, ruches of green satin
ribbon. The petticoat, white satin, trimmed with white
blonde and.ruches 6f white satin.ribbon: Head-dress,.a
diadem of !emeralds and diamonds..

The Foreign Ambassadors and: Ministers were
duced, when the following pm:entations to the Queen,
took plac,u:in the diplomatic circle :
Bp Minister,
..'earon Maurice Marochetti,
attache-.to the Sardinian Legation.

By the United States Miaste.r„ the Right Rev. William
11. Delaney, Bishop of Western New York; William, U.
Delancey, Jun., his son.

The, diplomatic circle was. attended by the Turlii,§h
and French ambassadons, the Belgian' Itavarian,
Hanoverian, Sardinian, Greek. .Netherlands,, and
Brazlian ministers, the minister from the United. States
of America, the Austriani, Saxon, Swedish, Norwegian,
DaniA, Russian, Spanish,. Peruvian, and Hansa, Towns
ministers, and Consefflet of the Portuguese Legation.

Tl►e general circle was numerously:- attended, nearly
all the ministers and, great officers of state •being
present._ _ _ _

The Hon. Mr. John Baker, Member of tl-x Legislative
Council of South Australia, accompanied by Capt. Charles
Sturt, Lieut. G. F, Dashwood, R. N., Dr. B. Archer
Kent, and Mr. Frederick H. Dutton, presented an address
to Her Majesty, Ikcim the Leoislative Council of South
Australia, on the. marriage of Royal Highness the
Princess Royal. Mr. Baker and Lieutenant Dashwood
were presented bar Sir Edward Bulwex• Lytton.
About two hundred gentlemen were presented to
the Queen. . .

He; Majesty's dinner-party in the evening included the
Princess Alice, the Duchess of Manchester, the Russian
Minister, Baron Brunow, the Resident Minister for the
Hanse Towns, and Madame Ritcker, the Earl of Shrews-
bury and, Talbot, the Earl of WeAmorelausl, the Earl
and Countess Grey, the Earl and Countess of Durham,
Lord John Manners, Lord and Lady De Tabley, the
Hon. C.. A. Murray, and General Sir Howard Douglas.
Her Majesty's private band performed in the Drawing-
room.

Lord Raglan, Lord in Waiting to the Qneen, and
Captain the Hon. Dudley de Ros, Equerry to the Prince
Consort, have left London for Berlin, In order to be
present on behalf of her Majesty and His Royal High-
ness, at the christening of the infant Prussian Prince,
which is fixed for Saturday, the sth instant.

. ,
Viscount Strathallan has succeeded Lord Raglan as
Lord in Waiting to her Majesty.

The Manchester Town Council, at their last meeting,
adopted an address of congratulation to her Majesty upon
the birth of her grandson, the .son of the Prince arrd
Princess Frederick William of Prussia, The arrange-
ments for its presentation were entrusted to the Mayor,
Ivie Mackie, Esq.

" The Ave Maria," composed by iendel,ssohn for the
opera of "Loreley," will be produced for the first time
on Wednesday, at the performance of the Vocal Asson

ciation

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proposals are supported (lay Prussia. It fif.as4reiso
that the French have evacited Rome, agti
that the ships have departed to convey the' N"'":
back to' France.: Rentes 67 4.5