The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-07 00:00:00

THURSDAY.

The Duchess of Gloucester visited her Majesty, yesterday,
at Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert took an airing, yesterday
afternoon, in an open carriage and four.
Viscount Duncannon had an audience, yesterday, of the
Queen.
The royal dinner party at the palace, last evening, included
the Marquis of Normanby, Marquis of Tavistock, Earl of
Surrey, Lord Lilford, Right Hon F. T. Baring, Sir John
Hobhouse, Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, and the Hon.
Hugh Fortescue.
The band of the Coldstream regiment of foot guards was
in attendance at the palace during the evening.
Her Majesty honoured Sir William J. Newton with a
sitting, yesterday, at Buckingham Palace, for his coronation

ictui:e Upon a large surface Of ivory.
Mr. W. C. Ross. A.R.A., was yesterday honoured by her
oyal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester with the final
tting for a miniature of her royal hiv,hness.
The Duke of Cambridge honoured Sir W. J. Newton with

sitting, on Monday, for his coronation picture.
The Duchess of Kent took au airing, yesterday, in a car-
.age. -

The Princess Augusta received visits, yesterday, from the
Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cambridge. The
following bulletin was issued yesterday :
" The Princess Augusta has not had a good night, and her
royal highness continues much the same.
' Clarence House, August 5."

THE QUEEN DOWAGER,

ASHBURN, FRIDAY.--The queen dowager, and the Duchess
of Saxe Weimar, attended by Earl Howe, Earl of Denbigh,
and Countess of Sheffield, arrived at one o'clock at the

Hanging Bridge, about a mile from this town, where the Rev.
Mr. Shipley, the Rev. Mr. Moss, and the local clergy in
their canonicals, the parochial authorities, and upwards of
300 of the influential inhabitants of the town, were in waiting
to conduct her majesty through the town. The crowd was
very great. Her majesty was apparently much affected by
the bursts of enthusiastic welcome. After changing horses,
the royal party proceeded on their route to Matlock.
M ATLOCK, SATURDAY.—Yesterday afternoon, the queen
dowager and the Duchess of Saxe Weimar, attended by Earl
Howe, lord chamberlain ; Earl of Denbigh, master of the
horse • and Countess of Sheffield, lady of the bedchamber ;
and iarl of Sheffield, Ladies Georgiana Curson and Mary
Fielding,, arrived at Cromford, where a large concourse of
persons had collected long before her majesty's arrival. On
the royal cortege coming in sight, the huzzas of the multi-
tude expressed their joy at the honour of the royal visit. Mr.
Hurt, M.P., Mr. Arkwright, M.P., and a numerous party
of the gentry and clergy of the neighbourhood, received her
majesty on the Derby road to Matlock. The preparations
were on an unusual degree of splendour. Shortly after the
queen dowager's arrival, her majesty, accompanied by the
Duchess of Saxe Weimar and suite, went down the river,
and along the Lovers' Walk, round the rocks, and ascended
the heights of Abraham, and descended the Masson, and sub-
sequently visited the temple and castle, and also the Royal
Museum. During her majesty's walk, apiece of ground was
pointed out as the site of an intended new church •, and, on
returning to flit> hotel, het; majesty wrote her name down with
a donation of £25 towards the building. This morning the
queen dowager took her departure precisely at nine o'clock
for Derby. Her majesty went from Derby to Sudbury, and
thence to Gopsall-hall, the seat of Earl Howe, where her
majesty and her serene highness the Duchess of Saxe Weimar
intend staying several days, when the youthful family of the
Ducheis of Saxe Weimar will join the circle. On the 10th,
her majesty goes on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of
Buckingham, at Stowe ; and on the 13th, her majesty's birth-
day, she intends being at Bushy.