The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-07-06 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

He► Majesty's State Ball, oh Monday evening, at. Brick-.
Ingham Palace, was the most splendid given thisieaiOn. The,
Royal Family, all the Foreign Princes at present in this corin-
try, the Foreign Ambasaadors Extraordinary and their nu-
merous suites, the resident Foreign NI inisters, and a very large
party of the nobility and gentry were present.
From a quarter before 10 untill2o'clock the
,company con-
tinued to arrive, and were ushered,-in the same Manner as at

the previous balls, to the Grand Saloon. The dresses of the.
Princess Schwarzenberg, of the Baroness Van de Capellan,
and other Foreign Ambasaadresses were very Inagniticent,....
and the costumes and uniforms Worn by the s
and the noblemen attached to the several embassies were ex-.
tremely rich and varied. The Greek national -Costume was
worn by two gentlemen in the suite of Prince Soutzo, and
Count tathlen and Count Eugene Zichy were in Hungarian.
uniforms, that of the former was beautifully worked in gold,
and the pelisse and tunic of the latter nobleman thickly stud-
ded with precious stones. The uniforms of the aMbassadors
were nearly covered with gold embroidery, and many of the
stars and other ensigns of knighthood worn by their Excel-.
lencies, and also by a number of English noblemen, were set
in diamonds and precious stones. Lord Lovat appeared in a
Highland dress. Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta
.of Cambridge wore a very beautiful lama dress of silver.
The Princess Augusta attended by Miss \Vynyard and Sir
Benjamin Stephenson, the Duchess of Gloucester attended
by Lady Georgiana Bathurst, the Duke de Nerneurs attended,
by Count E. Colbert, Le Marechal de Camp Boyer, Marquis
de Beranger, and Count de Bearn, the Duke of Nassau ac-
companied by the Hereditary Prince and Prince Maurice of
Nassau, the Duke of Sussex, and Prince Ernest of Hesse
Philipsthal attended by Captain Curzon, R.N., had 'all arri-
ved at half-past 10 o'clock. at which time her-Majesty. accom-
companied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the
Princess Hohenlohe, the Duke of Saxe Coburg, and the
Prince of Leiningen, quitted the yellow drawing-room, and,
passing through the grand saloon, entered the ball room, which
was very brilliantly illuminated, as, in addition to the line

large cut glass chandeliers, arabeSque branches with wax
lights were placed between all the columns and over the doors.
Candelabra were also placed before the portraits of his Royal
Highness the Duke of Sussex, and of the late Princess Char-
lotte. The quadrille baud immediately played " God save the
Queen."

The Duke of Cambridge and Prince George of Cambridge
arrived just as dancing-was about to commence, attended by
Baron Knesebeck and Colonel Cornwall.

Her Majesty opened the bait, in a quadrille. With his Royal
Highness the Duke de Nemours.
His Serene. Highness Prince Christian of Holstein Glucks-
bourg, attended by Mr. Bille, Chambellan of his Danish
Majesty, and Count G. de Blucher, Prince Fursteuburg,
and their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and
the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Miss Kerr,
arrived shortly before 11 o'clock.
Her Majesty danced in the next quadrille with Prince
George of Cambridge.
Between the dances her Majesty sat with the Royal
Fa-
tnily on a platform Betted up with great taste and elegance.
Her Majesty danced in quadrilles during the evening with
the following :—Lord Emlyn, Lind Ashley, His Serene
Highness Prince Christian of Holstein Glucksbourg, and
His Serene Highness the Hereditary Prince of Nassau.
In the yellow drawing-room Weippert's band performed,
composed expressly for the occasion, the royal coronation
quadrilles. introducing the national anthems of Fiance,
Russia, Belgium, Austria, and England, together with the
Cambridge, Nemours, and Nassau waltzes, and a new
noverian gallope.

At one o'clock the Queen, accompanied by her royal and
illustrious visitors, and preceded by the Lord Stewaid; the
Lord Chamberlain ; the Earl of Fingall, Lord in Waiting.;
the Earl of Belfast, Vice Chamberlain ; the Treasurer of
the Household; the Comptroller of the Household; the
Hon. Major Keppel, Groom iu Waiting; and Col. Buckley,
Equerry in Waiting, led' the way into the dinner room,
where supper was served on a range of tables extending
round three sides of the room, the plateau being formed of a
number of-.large candelabra and epergnes silver gilt. At
the end of the room was a beaufet of gold plate, having in
the middle an epergne called "-the Prince of Wales's
epergne," formerly -belonging, to Fredelick Prince of
Wales; it is covered with a canopy of trellis work,
and crowned with the Prince's pluine The supporters
of the base were added by his late,`:Majesty George the
Fourth, and consist of the royal arnak, On one side was
a very beautiful bulb cup. ornamented in the most elaborate
style. It is supported by a figure 'clad' in armour, and the
top of the cover is surmounted by, a knight on horseback.
The companion cup on the other side has a female figure on
the cover. Near these cups were some pine-stands executed
from the designs of Flaxman ; at the back were two shields,
the one a basso-relievo of the Deluge, and the other having
on its border the effigies of the Roman Emperors. The beau-
fet and also the ends were brilliantly illuminated, with a
profusion of wax lights in gold candelabra and sconces, and
had a very superb effect. Some of the sconces, which be-
longed to his Majesty William 111., have in the middle a
fine basso-relievo of the "Judgment of Solomon."
After supper her Majesty and the royal party returned to
the yellow drawing-room. At three o'clock, by commaud of
her Majesty, a Scotch reel was danced, in which the Duke
of Buccleuch, the) Marquis of Breadalbane, the Marquis of
Douglas, Mr. Macdonald, Mr. Balfour, and other Scotch
noblemen and gentlemen, took part with their ladies.
Directly afterthedance Weippert's band played a quadrille,
in which her Majesty (lanced, having for her partner the
Prince of Leining,en. This was the last dance; on its con-
clusion her Majesty retired.
During the evening the Oriental tent adjoining the green
drawing-room was very much resorted to, by the visitors;
both here and in the throne-room refreshments were served
to the company.
The Pages of honour in waiting on the Queen were Mas-
ters Ellice, Cavendish, and Cowell. - . _ .

On this occasion th'e attendance of a military band in the
marble hall was dispensed with.

Lord Brougham's defetice of, or apology for, Mr. 'ninon,
realises in that gentleman's case the well-known maxim of
"Save me front my friends."

The widow of the great composer Weber has just sold to
a musical editor of Berlin the posthumous works of her
husband, consisting of six principal pieces and several other
compositions for the piano, all of which are expected shortly
to be published.
PA R LI A MENT.—The bulk of the business of the session still
remains to be done, and it is quite obvious is to be crowded
into a space—to say nothing of blank days—in which it is
utterly impossible . that any thing like. justice can be done
to it, or that legislation should he the result of that delibera-
tive wisdom, which alone can give it permanent effect. Our
novel mode of hurried dog-day legislation leads, of neces-
sity, to perpetual blunders, incongruities, and mistakes, ren-
dering acts of parliament " to explain and amend" as numer-
ous as the or►ginal statues. Though this occurs vear after
year, no effort is rnade,to alter it; and so that the 'session
can be " got over," how that is to be done appears to be a
matter of no interest or monaent whatever.