Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-29 00:00:00

THE COURT, kc.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Saturday.—Her Majesty the Queen
walked and drove out this forenoon, accompanied :by her
Royal Highness the Princess Royal. Her Majesty visited
the Duchess of Kent at her residence at Frogmore. The
Duke of Aumale, accompanied by the Count of Paris and
the Duke of Chartres, arrived early at the Castle. His
Royal Highness the Prince Consort went out shooting,
and the three Princes accompanied his Royal Highness.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Alice took a carriage
drive. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and
Prince Alfred went out shooting to-day in the Home Park.
Their Royal Highnesses the Princess of Salerno, the
the Duchess of Orleans, the Duchess of Aumale and the
Prince and Princess of Joinville arrived at the Castle to-
day, and visited the Queen. The Duke of Aumale, the
Count of Paris, and the Duke of Chartres, after accom-
panying the Prince Consort, visited her Majesty. The
royal party took their departure in the afternoon.
THE NUPTIALS OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL.—The Court
will come to London, from Windsor, on the 15th of Janu-
ary, after which the several royal and distinguished ♦isi-
tors will begin to arrive from day to day, to be present at
the marriage of the Princess of England with the future
King of Prussia. One of the Austrian Archdukes, brother
of the Emperor, will be present, and all the heads of the
royal families of Hohenzollern and Saxe Cobourg, several
of their members, and of the House of Hanover. The
preparations at the palace, and at all the places bespoke
for the illusurious guests, are on the most extensive scale.
The marriage will be solemnised at the Chapel Royal, St.
James's. There will be a splendid breakfast at Bucking.
ham Palace and a grand banquet in the evening. The
Prince and Princess will proceed to Windsor, where they
will remain until the 29th of January, when they will
come to town and remain for a fortnight. It is during this
fortnight—the first in February—that all the royal and
Popular festivities will take place. At the end of that
time the bride and bridegroom will proceed to their own
future residence in the royal yacht, which will convey
them to Hantburgh, the nearest port to their future home,
where we trust they will long live to enjoy the happiness
which seems in store for their bright and well-assorted

union.

THE MxNisrErts.—Lord Palmerston, the Lord Chan-
cellor, Sir George Grey, Lord Granville, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, Lord Harrowby, Lord Panmure, Lord
Stanley of Alderley, and:other members.of the Cabinet,
have left town for the prosent;holidays•
DEATH OF LADY C. FITZROY.—This lady died on
Wednesday night, at Lady Eleanor Balfour's residence in
Grosvenor-square. Her ladyship was confined the week
before last, and up to a few days back appeared to be pro-
gressing favourably. Her ladyship was daughter of the
late; Mr. James Balfour, of Whittingham Castle, N. 8.,
and the Lady Eleanor Balfour, and married, in 1847,
Lord Augustus Charles Lennox Fitzroy, second son of
the Duke of Grafton, by whom the lamented lady leaves
a youthful family.

DEATH OP TILE COUNTESS (DOWAGER) NELSON.—We
regret to learn the Countess (Dowager) Nelson died
suddenly at Paris on Tuesday last. The deceased
countess, Hilard, was third daughter of the late Rear-
Admiral Sir Robert Barlow, K.C.8., and was widow of
Mr. George Ulric ;Barlow, when she married, secondly,
26th March, 1829, William first Earl Nelson, "only surviv-
ing brother of the immortal hero of Trafalgar, Horatio
Nelson, she being the nobleman's second wife. After the
death of Earl Nelson, in February, 1835, the countess
married, thirdly, 7th February, 1837,.: Mr. George T.
Knight, who survives her, ladyship.

The Right lion, W. E. and Mrs. Gladstone and a select
party have congregated at Hawarden Castle, Sir Stephen
Glynne's seat in Flintshire, but owing to the recent demise
of a much lamented member of the family, the customary
hospitalities have this year been dispensed with.
DEATH OF MAJOR-GENERAL JAMES GRAY, ROYAL
ARTILLERY'.—This gallant officer, who has been for many
years past on the retired full-pay list of the Royal
Artillery, died on the 21st, inst. The deceased General
accompanied the expedition which sailed under Sir David
Baird in 1805 and was present at the taking of the Cape
of Good Hope, January, 1806. He also accompanied the
division from the Cape to co operate with the expedition
from India for the reduction of the Isle of France, having
resigned the situation of Major of Brigade to the Royal
Artillery at the Cape to accompany the division as a
volunteer. At the wreck of the King George transport
in November, 1805, on which occasion Brigadier-General
York was drowned, he saved several lives by his personal
exertions, having been the last taken from the rocks by
the boats of the Leda frigate. His commission bore date
as follows :—Second Lieutenant,June 9, 1804 ; Lieutenant,
December 20, 1804 ; Captain, May 1, 1814 ; Major, Jan.
10, 1837 ; Lieutenant-Colonel, November 23, 1841