The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-21 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR

WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—Yesterday the Queen rode on horse-
back in the pack.
The King of the Belgians returned from Claremont yes-
terday afternoon, and Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner arrived
in the evening.

The Lord Chancellor, Lord Glenelg, and Lord John Rus-
sell took their departure.
This morning the Queen attended Divine service at St.
George's Chapel. The first part of the service was performed
by the Rev. J. Gore; the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of
Windsor, assisted by the Rev. Mr Proby, officiated at the
altar; the sandlot was by. Sir Andrew Barnard; and the ser-
mon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Proby, from the 13th
chapter lst Corinthians, 13th verse; the anthem "'Where-
withal shall a young man cleanse his way ?" by Mr. G. Elvey.
'Mits. Bac., who presided at the organ.
The following personages accompanied her Majesty:—
King of the Belgians, Duchess of Kent, Lord Falkland,
Viscount Palmerston, Ladies Gardiner, Forbes, Portman,
and Stopford, Viscount Melbourne, Lord Portman, Hon. C.
A. Murray, lion. Col. Cavendish.
The Queen of the Belgians attended the Catholic Chapel,
accompanied by her suite.
Her Majesty walked on the terrace and on the slopes, at-
tended by the ladies and gentlemen of the court.
Mosnay.—This morning the Queen Dowager, accom-
panied by Lord and Lady. Barrington, arrived at the Castle,
and partook of luncheon with the Queen, the Duchess of
Kent, and the King and Queen of the Belgians,
The Queen Dowager left the Castle at half-past three fur
Bushy, having previously visited St. George's Chapel, at-
tended by Sir Jeffrey Wyatville.
The Duke of Wellington and Lord Hill have arrived, to
be present at the review to-morrow.
The Earl and Countess Cowper and Viscount Torrington
have also arrived.

Her Majesty and the Kinr and Queen of the Belgians en-
joyed their accustomed airing.
TCESDAY.—There have been no fresh arrivals not depar-
tures at the Castle since yesterday.
The review appointed to be held in the Hume Park took
place this afternoon at a quarter before two o'clock, under
the inspection of the Duke of Wellington.
The Queen was present on horseback, accompanied by the
King of the Belgians in uniform, and attended by Lady
Portman, also on horseback.

Her Majesty wore the W;ndsor uniform, with the riband
and star of the order of the garter and a military rap.
The Duke of Wellington, Lord Hill, Viscount Torrington,
and Sir William Lumley, were also dressed in uniform.
Five of the royal carriates conveyed the Queen of the Bel-
gians, the Duebess of ,Kent, Lady Mary Stopford, Lady
Forbes, Lady Gardiner, Viscounts Melbourne and Palmer-
ston, &C.
The Hon. Col. Cavendish's son was the page of honour,
and was also dressed in uniform. The principal commanding
officers received invitations for dinner from her Majesty.

WEDNESDAY.—After the review yesterday morning Her
Majesty, accompanied by nearly the whole of the party'at the
Castle, took her usual equestrian exercise at half-past 5 o'clock
in the Great Park.
Lord Lilford and Col. Armstrong arrived yesterday evening,
and Viscount Falkland and the Hon. General Sir Win. Lum-
ley left the Castle.

The Duke of Wellington and Lord Hill left this morning.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, and
the Princess Augusta of Cambridge arrived this morning, and
lunching with her Majesty and her illustrious relativesleft the
Castle on their return to Kew. On Monday Mr. George
Hayter had the honour of exhibiting his whole length por-
trait of her Majesty in the " Dalmatic robes" to their ma-
jesties the Queen, the Queen Dowager, and the King and
Queen of the Belgians, on which he r eceived the highest com-
pliments of congratulation on his success, and her Majesty
has been graciously pleased to grant permission that it may
be engraved.
The King and Queen of the Belgians and suite are expected
to leave to-morrow evening Viscount Torrington wilt at-
tend their majesties to the vessel.
Her Majesty- the Queen Dowager left the Queen's Lodge,
in Bushy Park, on Saturday morning, on a visit to her Royal
H ighness the Duchess of Gloucester, at her residence in Bag-
shot Park. _

Prince George of Cambridge came to town on Saturday
from Kew.

Lord Glenelg returned to town on Saturday, from a visit
to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
Viscount Howick has left town for Buxton, from whence
his Lordship will proceed to Huwick Hall, Northumberland.
Lord John Russell arrived at Woburn Abbey, Bedford-
shire, on Saturday, from a visit to the Queen at Windsor
Castle.

'I he Duke and Duchess of Cambridge entertained the Rus-
sian Ambassador, the Hanoverian Minister, Count Ester-
hazy, and a small party, at dinner on Sunday, at their resi-
dence at Kew.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by the
Viscountess Barrington, returned to her residence at Bushy
Park on Monday afternoon to dinner, from a visit to her
Royal llighness the Duchess of Gloucester at Bagshot Park.
In the morning the Queen Dowager went to Windsor Castle
and lunched with the Queen and their Majesties the King
and Queen of the Belgians.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George,
and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, left their residence
at Kew on Wednesday morning to pay a visit to her Majesty
al Windsor Castle. Their Royal Highnesses returned iu
the evening to Kew.
Lord Hill arrived in town on Wednesday from a visit to
her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
The Earl of Gosford transacted business on Wednesday at
the Colonial-office.

Mr. Drummond, Under-Secretary for Ireland, has been
staying during the last fortnight at Brussels,

TIIE MAILS FLIOM LONDON.
(From the Times of yesterclutb)

We have received several communications, complaining
of the proposed alteration in the tone of the departure of the
day mails from London by railway to Birmingham, Manches-
ter, Liverpool, Dublin, and all the intermediate towns on the
►oad. It is stated, that on and after the Ist of October next.
the mail* to the above-mentioned places, which now leave
London ut S o'clock in the morning, are to be detained till
II o'clock. We were at first inclined to believe that our cor-
respondents had been led into some mistake, but on inquiry
we find that their information is but too true, and that the
Post-office, instead of accelerating the mails, are about to
retard them, and deprive them of the advantage which every
other mode of conveyance has gained by the opening of the
railway throughout from London to Birmingham. To un-
derstand the matter fully, it is necessary to stale, that ou the
partial opening of the London and Birmingham railway, the
►nails were conveyed by railway to Denbigh-hall, and thence
to Rugby by coaches and horses. At Rugby they were
again placed on the railway, and conveyed to Birmingham,
whence they were forwarded to their respective destina,
tions by the Grand Junction railway. At Liverpool and
Manchester they arrived the same night, about half-past
11 o'clock, an I►our too late for the delivery of letters or
newspapers. The delay created by the conveyance of the
mails from Denbigh-hall to Rugby by coaches might now
be avoided by the opening of the London and Birming-
ham railway throughout. The morning 8 o'clock train from
London is to arrive in Birmingham about 2 o'clock. The
mails, if sent by that train, could be forwarded, according to
the present arrangements, at half-past 2 o'clock, and would
reach Liverpool and Manchester the same evening at seven
o'clock—an hour which would admit of the letters and news
papers being delivered without the delay of a night interven-
ing. If this proposal of the Post-office to delay the depar-
ture of the mails till II o'clock in the forenoon is persisted
in, all the advantage that might be obtained by the railway
is completely thrown away. The three hours' delay will pre-
vent the mails arriving at Liverpool and Manchester till 11
o'clock at night; the letters and newspapers will be then
detained in the Post-office, as at present, till the next morn-
ing.; and, in fact, after all the benefits expected front the
railway, the public will only obtain their letters and news-
papers at the same hour that they did when they were for-
warded by the morning coaches to Birmingham, and thence by
the cross mail to Liverpooland Manchester. It has been urged
that the delay of the mails till 11 o'clock has been to enable
merchants in London to answer their correspondents' letters
the same morning they are received; but even that argument
is without the slightest foundation. delay of mails till
eleven o'clock will prevent the letters being delivered at
Liverpool or Manchester the same evening, and letters sent
by the night mail from London will reach both those towns
within an hour or two of the delivery of the letters which ar-
rived the preceding night by the day mail. It is scarcely
possible to believe that a plan more injudicious, snore mis-
chievous, or more calculated to thwart and prevent all that
might be it ccomplished by railway communication could be
be conceived. We earnestly hope that the merchants and
manufacturers in every town anti district affected by this un-
warrantable sacrifice of time will meet and express their opi-
nions in a manner not to be misunderstood even at the
General Post-office.

We subjoin an extract from a Dublin paper, which will
show how the subject is estimated there

(From the Dub:in Evening Mail )

" RAILWAY COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LONDON AND DUBL IN

" Her Majesty's Ministers have shown no neglect of Ire-
land whenever the question was a political one, the agitation
of which might be turned to their own advantage; but in any
matter wherein the real interests, prosperity, or commercial
accommodation of this country were concerned, we tax them
not only with indifference and neglect, but contempt and
discountenance. A flagrant instance of this is now laid be-
fore us in the following letter from the office of Messrs. John-
stone and Co., of Eden-quay. it appears from this that Ire-
land is not to share the benefit of the communication by rail-
way between London and Liverpool as tar as the Post-office
arrangements are concerned. For though is was reasonably
expected, and could have been readily arranged, th,t the Lon-
dun morning mail should have continued to be despatched at.
8 o'clock a.m., and have thus reached Liverpool in sufficient
time to have brought the communication between the two capi-
itals within the space of four-and-twenty hours, it is not
to be despatched until eleven o'clock: nor wilt the Lon-
don Post-office condescend to grant to the Irish the ad-
vantage of two additional hours for the posting of letters,
which must still be delivered in the Post:office receivers
at not one minute later than the now-appointed lime.
"Brother Bull; we tell you candidly, and as a friend, this
will not do. You must make your Ministers do their busi-
ness, or turn them out. United with you, for better for worse,
we must have our fair share of accommodation and advan-
tage. 'Justice for Ireland,' or glee
"To THE EDITOR OF THE DUBLIN EVENING MAIL.

," Express Newspaper-office, Eden-quay,
Monday Morning, Sept. 17, 1838.
"Stn.—Doubtless lou are aware that the London and
Birmingham Railway opens the whole way this day; accord-
ingly we were desirous, in our capacity as newspaper agents,
of learning what the advari4age9 to the Irish pnblic would be
in consequence. Judge, then, of our surprise, at being in-
formed (which we hasten to communicate to you) by our
London correspondent, that no alteration, as regards Ire-
land, will at present take place—that the morning mail from
London, despatched hitherto at nine o'clock a.m., will not
now leave till 11 o'clock a.m., as the following official states:
" General Post-office, Sept. 15, 1838.
Stn,—Since I saw you this day I have ascertained that
the directors of the Birmingham Railway have nnprovided
fur the nine o'clock despatch, according to their contract
with the Post-office, and that consequently the day mail must
be despatched from the Euston station on Monday next at
11 o'clock a.m.