The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-14 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY

The Queen went in state, yesterday, to the House of Peers
to close the session of Parliament with a speech from the
throne. The state procession was formed, at half-past one
o'clock. in the following order :—A carriage drawn by six
bays, conveying Sir Frederick Smith, Col. Harris, and Mr.
Alfred Montgomery, gentlemen ushers, and Capt. Seymour
Sadler, exon in waiting ; a carriage drawn by six bays, con-
veying Capt. Seymour, groom of the robes, Messrs. Cowell,
Chichester, and Wetnyss, pages of honour, and the silver
stick ; a carriage drawn by a set of bays, containing the Right
Hon. George Stevens Byng, comptroller of the household,
Gen. the Hon. Sir W. Lumley, G.C.8., groom in waiting,
Col. Wemyss, equerry in waiting, and Col. Bouverie, equerry
to Prince Albert; a carriage drawn by six bays, conveying
Lord Hill, G.C.8., gold stick in waiting, the Earl of Itches-
ter, captain of the yeoman guard, the Earl of Surrey, trea-
surer of the household, and Sir Geo. Anson, G.C.8., groom
in waiting on Prince Albert; a carriage drawn by six black
horses, conveying the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, lady
in waiting; the Earl of Erroll, K.T., lord steward, Viscount
Torrington, lord in waiting, and Lord George Lennox, gen-
tleman in waiting on Prince Albert.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert left the state rooms at 20
minutes before two o'clock, preceded by the Earl of Ux-
bridge, lord Chamberlain, and the Earl of Belfast, the vice-
chamberlain, her Majesty's train being borne by the pages
of honour in waiting. His Royal Highness Prince Albert
was habited in a field marshal's uniform, and wore the collars
of the most noble orier of the Garter, and of the most ho-
nourable military order of the Bath, with the stars of both
orders. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were conducted
to the state coach, in which were also the Duchess of Bed-
ford, lady in waiting, and the Earl of Albemarle, G.C.H.,
master of the horse. The Queen's marshalmen, two and
two ; the Queen's footmen, in state liveries ; and a party of
the yeoman guard preceded the state coach. The royal cor-
tege was escorted by a party of the royal regiment of horse
guards.

Their Majesties the King and Queen-of the Belgians left
the palace, at the same time, for the House of Lords. His
Majesty wore the uniform of an English field marshal, with
the riband and jewel, and also the star, of the most noble
order of the Garter.

The crown was conveyed to the House of Lords by Sir
William Martins, gentleman usher.

Her Majesty and Prince Alllea were received on their re-
turn to the palace by the Lord Chamberlain and Vice-Cham-
berlain, and were conducted up the grand staircase.
The yeoman of the guard were on duty in the marble-hall,
and Mr. Ellerton, clerk of the cheque to the corps, was in
attendance.

The Queen's guard of the grenadier guards was on duty,
with the band of the regiment, on the palace lawn.
The foreign ministers came yesterday afternoon to Bucking-
ham Palace, to have audience of his Majesty. the King of the
Belgians.

Her Majesty, and the Queen of the Belgians, and Prince
Albert, took an airing, yesterday afternoon, in an open car-
riage and four.

The royal dinner party, last evening, included their Ma-
jesties, the King and Queen of the Belgians, her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Belgian minister, and
Madame Van De Weyer, the Earl of Erroll, Viscount Mel-
bourne, the Right Hon. F. Baring, the Right Hon. H, and
Mrs. Labouchere, the Right Hon. T. B. Macauley, the
Right Hon. George S. Byng, Lady Charlotte Dundas, Lord
Geoge Lennox, Madame d'Hoogvorst, Count Arschot and
M. Van Proet.

The band of the 2nd regiment4if lifeiTuardst*was in attend-
ance during dinner at the palce.
The Queen gave a concert, On Monday evening, at Buck-
ingham Palace. Among the company were. Baron Bulow,
the Prussian minister; Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese
minister: the Russian minister and Baroness Brunow ;
Baron Gersdorff, the Saxon minister ; the Austrian special
minister, the Lord Chancellor and Lady Cottenham and
Hon. Miss Pepys, the Duchess of Northumberland, the
Duke and Duchess of Leinster, Lady C. Stanhope, Lady A.
Somerset, Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, Mar-
quis of Lansdowne, Marquis of Nortnanby, Earl and Countess
Albemarle, Earl and Countess of Belfast. Earl of Clarendon,
Earl of Minto, Earl and Countess of Surrey, Lady Mary
Howard, the ladies Eleanora and Constance Paget, the
Countess of Erroll, Lady Isabella Wemyss, Countess of
Mount Edgecumbe, Viscount Dancannon, Lord and Lady
Burghersh, Lord John Russell, Honourable Miss Lister,
Lord Hill, Lord and Lady Leveson, Sir Henry and Lady
Wheatley, Sir Edward and Lady Cust, Sir Robert and Lady
Gardiner, Miss Gardiner, Right Hon. F. T. Baring, Right
Hon. T. B. Macauley, Hon. General Upton, Colonel and
Mrs. Cowper, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. George E. Anson,
Hon. W. Cowper, Mr. and Mrs. Labouchere.
The Princess Augusta received visits, yesterday, from the
Duchess of Kent and the Duchess of Gloucester. The Duke
of Cambridge visited her royal highness, on Monday evening.
The following was issued yesterday :---
" The Princess Augusta has passed an indifferent night,
but her royal highness is not worse than yesterday.
" Clarence House, August 11."