Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-23 00:00:00

THE COURT

Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the
Prince Consort, attended by Lord Charles Fitzroy and
Lieutenant-Colonel Ponsonby, visited her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent, at Clarence House, St. James's, on
Friday afternoon.

The Duke of Oporto, the Prince and Princess George of
Saxony, and the Princess Augustus of Saxe Coburg,
inspected the Houses of Parliament on Friday morning,
and also went to the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park.
In.the afternoon their Royal Highnesses paid a visit to her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent at Clarence House,
afterwards drove to Richmond, visited the Countess de
Neuilly, and then proceeded to Kew, to pay a visit to the
Duchess of Cambridge. The Duke of Oporto was attended
by Vicomte de Campanha. The Prince and Princess
George of Saxony were attended by Countess de Holzen-
dorff, M. de Kcennetitz and Colonel F. H. Seymour.
The Quoen had a dinner party in the evening.. The
company included their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of
Cambridge, the Princess Alice, the Duke of Oporto, the
Prince and Princess George of Saxony, the Princess
Augustus of Saxe Cobourg, and the Princess Mary
of Cambridge; the Belgian Minister and Madame
Van de Weyer, the Marquis of Exeter, the Earl
of Malmesbury, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess
of Cambridge, Countess de Holzendorff, Mademoiselle
de Zedlitz, the Lady in Waiting to the Princess
Augustus of Saxe Cobourg, Lord Bagot, Major-
General the Right Hon. J. Peel, the Right Hon.
Sir John Pakington, the Right Hon: Sir Hamilton Sey-
mour, Colonel the Hon. Sir C. Phipps, Major-Generat
Wylde, Dr. Carus, Lieut -General Vicomte de Campanha,
Captain Sergio, M. de Sampaio, M. von Tschirchky, M. de
Kcennetitz, M. de Hilldorff, Colonel F. H. Seymour, and
the Equerry in Waiting to the Duchess of Cambridge. The
Band of the Coldstream Guards attended during dinner.
The Queen's Private Band afterwards performed in the
Drawing-room.

The Hon. Beatrice Byng and the Hon. Emily Cathcart
have succeeded the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, and the Hon.
Horatia Stopford as the Maids of Honour in Waiting to the

Queen

LATEST FAsnioNs.---Taste and elegance in an especial
degree characterise the bonnets of the present season. The
improvement in shape, by which they set more over the
forehead, no doubt mainly contributes to the becoming effect
of the bonnets just introduced. In the trimming, all the
fashionable colours in bright tints are employed. In a large
assortment of bonnets just prepared by a West-end milliner,
we observe one of Leghorn, trimmed with bouquets of red
roses, each having a black centre. Under the brim, instead
of blonde, there is a fluting of white crape, with roses inter-
mingled, We may mention a bonnet of French chip,
elegantly trimmed with a wreath of peach blossom passing
round the e-rown. In the inside there is a trimming of
blonde P:nd a demi-wreath of the same flowers. Another
bonurA of French chip is trimmed with bouquets formed of
tl:re blossom of the cherry, intermingled with the fruit. We
have seen a very pretty bonnet composed of white crape,
trimmed with bouquets of lilac, both coloured and
white. Another, also composed of white crape, is
trimmed with bouquets of jonquiLs, A tutteh.admired