The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-12-17 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, THURSDAY.--Her Majesty the Queen Ade-
laide, attended by the Countess of Sheffield, the Hon. Miss
Hudson, and the Hon. William Ashley, left the castle for
town this morning, at twelve o'clock.
The Earl of Albemarle left for the Stud House, Bushy.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent walked out• on
the Terrace this morning, attended by Lady Fanny Howard.
The royal dinner party this evening will include the fol-
lowing personages :—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, Lady. Forbes, Lady Normanby,
Lord Fingall, Viscount Melbourne, the Hon. Misses Anson
and Paget, Sir Robert Otway, Hon. C. A. Murray, Hon.
Col. Grey, Baroness tehzen, and the Hon. Wm. Cowper.

WINDSOR—FRIDAY.---The Queen did not take her ac-
customed airing to-day in consequence of the wet and
unfavourable state of the weather.
The Hon. Misses Paget and Anson rode out in a pony
phaeeton. _ _

The Earl of Albermarle will arrive at the castle to-morrow.
The following personages will be included in the royal dinner
party. this evening :—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, Lady Forbes, Lady Normanby,
Earl of Fingall, Viscount Melbourne, Hon. Misses Anson
and Paget, Sir, R. Otway, Hon. Wm. Cowper, Baroness
Lehzen, Hon. C. A. Murray, and the Hon. Colonel Grey.

SATIJUDAY.—The Duchess of Gloucester visited the
Princess Augusta, yesterday, at Clarence House, St. James's,
His Excellency Mr. Stevenson, the American Minister,
attended yesterday at the Treasury Department, and the
Bank of England, and closed the negociation which had been
pending so long between this Government and that of the
United States, relative to a number of slaves claimed by
American citizens as their property, and which having been
shipwrecked some eight or nine years ago in the Bahamas,
were liberated by the authorities of Nassau. The amount of
compensation, which we umkrstand her Majesty's Govern-
ment tinallyagreed tp..7pay,- and was yesterday received by the
American Minister, amounted to between twenty and thirty
thousand pounds sterling. - „

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SuNDAv.7—Yesterday her Majesty and the
Duchess of Kent, attended by their royal suite, walked a
short time on the terrace..
The Earl of Albemarle.arriVed, and the Hon. W-in. Cow-
per-left. the castle.
This.,mpining. her Majesty and the Duchess of Rent at-
temiet-Tdivirieseryice in St. George's Chapel. J'hefirst part
of; the service was chaunted- by th-e. Rev.. C. C.H. Knyvett;
the' Hrt o. and Rev. E. Moore- and the -Rev. R. Musgrave
officiated at the altar -rd the sermou from the Ist Cur.
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SG, 57, was preached by the ltev. It. Musgrave. The mu-
sical service was as follows-:—Service, Travers in F ; the
Sanctus and responses, Mrs., Musgrave; Creed, King in
.F; and the anthem, "By the waters of Babylon," Dr. Boyce;
the verse parts of which were admirably sung -by Messrs.
Harris, Turner, and. French. Mr. Elvey, presidedat
the organ. The following personages were in the royal closet
with her Majesty:—Ladies Fanny Howard, l'Cutes, and-Nor-
nianby ; .lion. Misses Anson and Paget ;. Earl of Albemarle,
Hon. Col. Grey, and Sir Robert Otway.
Lord Melbourne left the castle for the town. this morning.
The following personages will.be included in the royal din-
ner party this..evening :—Tier Royal Highness the Duchess
of. Kent, Lady Normanby, Lady F. Howard, Lady Forbes,
Earl Fingal, lion. Misses Anson and Paget, Earl of Albe-
marle, Hon. C. A, Murray, Sir Robert Otway, and the Hon.
Col. Grey.

M05p....y.---Yiscount Melbourne arrived in town, yester-
day morning„ from a visit to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle.
Despatches were yeceived, yesterday, at the Colonial:oflice,
from Sir John Harvey,. Governor of New Brunswick, and
from Sir. John Campbell, Governor of Nova Scotia. De-
spatches were also received from Governor Light at British
Guiana.

Lord John Russell has left his residence at Buckhurst on
a visit. to ,the Marquis of Lansdowne at his seat, Bowood
Park, Wilts. . .

TIIE QUEEN'S MARRIAGE.

(PrOra the Corretponden.t of the Morning Herald.)
WvitisOn, SVNbAY EVENING.—I stated in my commu-
nication which appeared in the Morning Herald on the ith
instant, that, although it had been previously arranged that
the marriage of her Majesty with Prince Albert of Saxe
Coburg and Gotha should not take place before the end of
March or the commencement of April, it had been. deter-
mined that it. should be solemnized " in the course of Fe-
bruary." I am now info-wed, indeed it has been publicly
stated, that (notwithstanding Parliament only meets on the
16th of January, and much will then be regitired to be done
by the legislature touching certain necessary previous ar-
rangements), the royal nuptials are likely to take place as
early as the first week in February.
Although it has been stated that " Lady Mary Howard,
daughter of the Earl of Surrey, is to officiate as one of tha
bridesmaids to her Majesty, in addition to those ladies who
attended as maids of honour at the coronation," it is believed
that the announcement is, at all events, somewhat prema-
ture. Her ladyship, according to the strict discipline I the
Romish church, must procure a dispensation from high
dignitary of that church (of which Lady Mary Howard is a
member), before she can be permitted to be present at any
of the religious rites or observance of " heretics." The
same ordeal must likewise be gone through (before they can
severally assist at the royal nuptials), by her ladyship's
grandfather and father, the Duke of Norfolk (the earl mar-
shal), and the Earl of Surrey (treasurer of the household),
and the Earl of Fingal (one of the lords in waiting), the whole
of whom are papists, and who are bound, by the tenets of
their faith, to regard her Majesty arid her royal consort as
" heretics."

It his been remarked as an extraordinary . circumstance.
that, exclusive of the 20th of last month (the day on which
•the Queen leftWindsor.for Buckingham Palace, returning
on the following Saturday, the 23d), her Majesty has'not
ventured beyond the castle precincts -(with the exception of
attending Divine worship at St. George's Chapel on Sun-
day, the Ist instant, and this morning) since the departure of
Prince Albert for the continent. Her Majesty, lam grati-
fied to be enabled to state, is in the enjoyment her usual
health, although Sir James Clark has paid some two or three
visits at the castle since that period. The Queen now con-
fine 3 her out-door exercise to promenading on the. new
terrace and on the slopes.