The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-27 00:00:00

THE C. car FASHIONA BLE WORLD

ROYAL VISIT TO CASIIIOBURY PARK, THE SEAT OF
THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—On Wednesday forenoon, his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by his Serene
Highness, accompanied by Edward, Prince of Saxe
Weimar, Sir Horace Seymour, and others, left the man-
sion to enjoy the excellent shooting afforded within the
park. The party, with the illustrious prince, did not
shoot. Prince Albert and Prince Edward were taken to
the preserves at Calloland Springs, and in an hour and a
half killed 46 head of game. Prince Albert killed 31
pheasants, 4 hares, and 2 rabbits ; Prince Edward 7 phea-
sants, 1 partridge, and 1 hare. his Royal Highness, her
Majesty the Queen, and the retinue afterwards drove to
Moor Park, the seat of the Dowager Marchioness of
Westminster. They were conducted over the whole
apartments, and shown the works of art there deposited
by the late Marquis. The heads of the family Si: tre un-
avoidably absent. The royal party were afterwards enter-
tained at dinner at Cashiobury Park, to which a party of
illustrious guests had been invited. On Thursday, the

Queen and Prince Albert honoured the Marquis of-Salis-
bury with a visit to Hatfield-house, where also a distin-
guished party was present, including the Duke of Wel-
lington, the Duke of Rutland, and a large number of the
most distinguished of the nobility.
RURAL FETE.—On Friday whilst the royal visitors to
Hatfield House, were engaged inspecting its beauties, a
characteristic scene was being enacted in the park oppo-
site the north front, arid in the presence of some 2,000 or
3,000 people. A bullock which bad been roasting having
been pronounced quite done, the ponderous iron frame in
which he was enclosed was shifted on a moveable truck,
to which, amidst the cheers of the rustics around, some
8 or 10 stout smockfrocked youngsters harnessed them-
selves. They then formed, with the aid of the shouting,
yelling crowd, and escorted by a few of the yeomanry, a
sort of cannibal procession of triumph up the park to the
place where the tables were laid for those who were to
discuss the carnal merits of the broiled animal. Present.
ly, amidst redoubled shouts, there came rolling into the
arena a long line of barrels of beer, to quench the expect-
ed thirst of the privileged partakers of the feast. On the
tables were placed large hunches of bread, mugs, platters,
and knives and forks ; and it was said that therei was
accommodation for between 400 and 500 eating men,
women, and children. Some mystical ceremonies having
been first performed, the iron ribs which encased the
animal were withdrawn, and lie was speedily sliced into
innumerable pieces. In a very few moments the dishes
(scantily enough supplied peihaps) were on the different
tables, and many a hard-working peasant who bad not
tasted meat before in the year got his allowance. All the
while this was going on hundreds of persons stood around
the enclosure watching the interesting energy with which
so many mouths were champing in simultaneous unison,
so many knives stuck bolt upright on the tables, so many
mugs lifted upwards for deep drawn delicious suction.
A party from the house, consisting of the Prime Minis-
ter, the Duke of Rutland, Lordiglarownlow, Lord Marcus
Hill, and Lady Spencer, came down to witness this
rude rustic banquet.
On Thursday, during the royal visit to Hatfield-bonne,
Prince Albert shot 140 head of game, the Duke of Wel-
lington shot 14 pheasants.
It is said that the marriage of Miss Hoghton, daughter
of Sir Henry Bold Hoghton, Bart., of Hoghton Tower,
Lancashire, with Capt. J. Ireland Blackburne, only son
of J. Ireland Blackburne, Esq., M.P., of Hale, is to be
solemnized earltin the present month.