Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-10 00:00:00

THE COURT, &c.

OSBORNE, SATURDAY, AUOVST B.—The Queen and Prince
Consort, their Imperial Majesties the Emperor and Em-
press of the French, and the various members of the royal
family did not leave the grounds of Osborne this morning,
but were occupied the greater part of the forenoon in
walking in the immediate neighbourhood of the house.
The unsettled state of the weather renders it uncertain
whether her Majesty and her illustrious visitors will again
embark on board the royal yacht this afternoon for a
marine trip, or take a drive in the interior of the island.
Yesterday afternoon the Queen and Prince Consort, with
the Emperor and Empress, the Princess Royal, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Alice, Prince Arthur, Princess
Helena, and Prince Leopold, embarked on board the royal
yacht Victoria and Albert, and steamed to the Needles
The Count and Countess Walewski, the Princesse d'Esling,
Lady Churchill, the Hon. Miss Byng, the Hon. Miss
Cathcart, Lord Charles Fitz Roy, General Rclin, and
Captain Du Plat were in attendance on their Majesties and
the Queen. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
attended by Col. Tyr whitt, his Equelry in waiting, arrived
yesterday from town, on a visit to her Majesty. The royal
dinner party last evening included, in addition to the
Emperor and Empress, and the members of the royal
family, the Prince of Leiningen, the Count and Countess
Walewski, Viscount Palmerston, Count Persigny, the Earl
of Clarendon, the Baron de Malaret, Col. the Hon. C. B•
and Mrs. Phipps, and the ladies and gentlemen in waiting
on their Imperial Majesties, and on the Queen and
Prince. A bell will be given this evening, to which many
of the neighbouring nobility and gentry have had the
honour of being invited. Viscount Palmerston and the
Earl of Clarendon will take their departure for town on
Monday. It is expected that the Emperor and Empress
of the French will take leave of her Majesty on Monday
evening.

CONVERSITIONS AT OSBORNg.—" Private" and conjiden-

tial—such are the special characteristics of the visit
paid by Louis Napoleon to Osborne. We are assured
that it will be only private —" such as one family pays
to another." Strange family visits those, in which the
whole of the estate is dotted with police ; for the Isle
of Wight at present is placod in custody. Strange
family visits which forbid all boats, on any pretext
whatever, to near the place where the visitors are
recreating themselves; strange visits in which foreign
police are brought over especially to assist in guarding
ail the land and sea approaches. It is quite impossible
that any visitor whose safety it is thus neoessary to
protect, as if the very blades of grass were to rise up and
stab him, could he come, eat drink, and be merry, and
have nothing to say for himself, but the ordinary common
places of a country visit.—Leader.
On Thursday morning the marriage of Lord Stormont,
son of the Earl of Mansfield, and Miss M Gregor, daughter
of Lady M'Gregor, was celebrated at St. James's Church,
Piccadily, in the presence of a brilliant circle of the friends
of loath parties. On leaving the church the party
proceeded to the residence of the Duchess of Rutland,
Clarps street, Piccadilly, where a grand breakfast was
given. In the afternoon the newly married pair left town
for Caen-wood, Hampsteal, the seat of the Esrl of
Mansfield, to pass the honeymoon.
The marriage of Lady Susan Harriet Lines Ker, oldest
daughter of the Duke of Rozburghe, and Mr. James
Grant Suttie, eldest son of Sir George Grant Static, of
Preston Grange, was solemnised on Wednesday last, at
St. Andrew's Episcopal chapel, Kelso, N.B. The Rev.
William Kell, B.D , Rector.of Corsenside, assisted by the
Rev. F. M Robberds, M.A.., the incumbent, performed the
religious ceremony, in the presence of a numerous circle of
the relatives of both families.