The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-31 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.—TuEsDAT

Her Majesty and the Duchess de Nemours took an.airing,
yesterday afternoon, in an open carriage and four. Prince
Albert and the Duke de Nemours rode out on horseback at
the same time. The Hon. Colonel Cavendish, Colonel Bon-
verie, and General Colbert attended the royal party on horse-
hnetc

Viscount Melbourne had an audience of the Queen yester-
day.

;The royal dinner party at the palace, last evening, included
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, M. Guizot, the
French ambassador ; Earl of Surrey, Lady Charlotte Dun-
das. Lord Hill, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Sir Hussey and
Lady Vivian, and the Right Hon. T. B. Macauley.
The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Charlotte Dun-
das, and Colonel Cowper; and the Duke and Duchess de
Nemours, attended by Countess D'Oraison and General
Count Colbert, honoured the Royal Academy, in Trafalgar-
square, with a visit, yesterday afternoon. Their royal high-
nesses arrived at the academy at half-past ten o'clock, and
were received by. Sir Martin Archer Shee, the president of
the academy, who conducted the. royal party through the
different schools. . _ _

The Princess Augusta received visits, yesterday, at Cla-
rence-house, St. James's, from the Duchess of Gloucester,
the Duke of Cambridge, and the Duke and Duchess de Ne-
mours.

The Duke of Cambridge honoured Sir -William J. Newton
with:a sitting, yesterday, for his coronation picture.
The Duke and Duchess de Nemours, attended by Countess
d'Oraison and General Colbert. 'visited the Duchess of Cam-
br'dge, at Cambridge-house, yesterday afternoon ; and also
the Duke of Sussex, at Kensington-palace.
The Duke of Cambridge honoured the Duchess de Canni-
zaro with his company, on Sunday evening, at her residence
in Hanover-square.
The Princess Sophia Matilda visited the Duchess of Cam-
bridge yesterday afternoon.
WEDNESDAY.

The Queen and Prince Albert took an airing yesterday
afternoon in a carriage and four.
Viscoupt Melbourne had au audience of her Majesty
yesterday•

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Countess
of Charleniont, the Hon. Miss Anson, Lord Byron, the'Earl
of Surrey, the Hon. W. Cowper, the Hon. Colonel Caven-
dish, and Colonel Bouverie, honoured the Italian Opera with
their presence last,cvening.

The Queen and: PihiC'e Albert inspected yesterday at
Buckingham Palace the Goodwood Shield, and piece of plate,
presented to Admiral Sir G. Cockburn by 86 officers, who
served under him. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness
were pleased to express their approbation.

The Duchess of Kent visited and took leave of the Duke
and Duchess de Nemo,urs yesterday morning at Buckingham
Palace.

Shortly before eleven o'clock the Duke and Duchess de
Nemours attended by Countess d'Oraison and Lieutenant-
General Count Colbert, took their departure from Bucking-
ham Palace for Goodwood.

The Princess Augusta received visits yesterday from the
Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cambridge.

THURSDAY.
The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Countess
of Charlemont, Hon. Miss Paget, Lord Byron, Hon. Wm.
Cowper, Colonel Wemyss, and Colonel Bouverie, honoured
the Marquis of Westminster with their company, yesterday
afternoon, at his residence in Upper Grosvenor-street. The
noble marquis and Lord Robert Grosvenor received her Ma-
jesty and his royal highness, and attended the royal party
during their inspection of the pictures in the mansion.
The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princesses
Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, visited the Queen, yester-
day afternoon, at Buckingham Palace, to take leave of her
Majesty, on her royal highness's departure for the Continent.
Her royal highness also visited and took leave of the Duchess
of Kent, at Ingestre House, and the Princess Augusta, at
Clarence House, St. James's.

Viscount Melbourne, Lord Hill, and Lord John Russell,
had audiences yesterday, of her Majesty. The Right Hon.
Sir George Grey, Judge Advocate-General, had an audience
of the Queen, yesterday, to submit to her Majesty the pro-
ceedings of some courts-martial. •

His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador, accompanied by
Mr. Salame, her Majesty's oriental interpreter, were pre-
sented to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, yesterday after-
noon, by Viscount Palmerston.

The royal dinner party at the palace, last evening, included
her lloyttl Highness the Duchess of Kent, Marquis of Head-
fort, Earl of Surrey, Earl and Countess de Grey, Earl and
Countess Cowper, Earl of Morley, Lady Charlotte Dundas,
Viscount Melbourne, and Lord Fitzalan.
The band of the royal regiment of horse guards attended at
the palace during the evening.
Prince Albert, attended by. Colonel Bouverie, visited the
Duchess of Cambridge, yesterday afternoon, at Cambridge
House, and took leave'of her Roya: Highness.
The Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Gloucester, and the
Duke of Cambridge, visited the Princess Augusta yesterday.
The Duke of Cambridge honoured Mrs. Dawson Darner
with his company, on Tuesday evening, at her residence, in
Tilney-street.

A -deputation' on West India emigration, consisting. of
Messrs. Green, Cohen, Rees, and Hendriks, had an inter-
view with Lord John' Russell, yesterday, at the Colonial-
office.

THE QUEEN DOWAGER AT THE LAKES

Bowness, Westmorland, July 260840,

Great preparations have been making at this place for
some days past for the reception of her Majesty the Queen
Dowager. Thursday last was the day originally fixed for her
arrival, which was afterwards postponed till Friday. At five
o'clock in the afternoon of that day her Majesty, accompanied
by Lord Howe, the Earl of Sheffield, the Earl of Denbigh,
the Duchess of Saxe Weimar, the Countess of Sheffield, Lady
Georgiana Curzon, Lady Mary Fielding, and a numerous
suite, arrived at the White Lion Hotel, having been escorted
from Newly-bridge by the Ulverston Yeomanry Cavalry, com-
manded by Captain Richardson. As she passed thrOugh the
triumphal arches which had been erected in various parts of
the village, and on her arrival at the White Lion, she was
loudly and most heartily cheered by the crowd of persons
who had assembled to meet her. Her Majesty and suite
dined at six o'clock, and at seven she walked out with her
suite and the Rev. R. P. Graves, the clergyman of Bowness,
by the side of Windermere, down to the bay, and thence
round by the Crown Hotel and the new school. With the
view of the lake and surrounding scenery from the two last
mentioned places, she appeared greatly delighted, and spoke
of them in the highest terms of admiration. She returned to
the White Lion about eight o'clock. The following morning
(Saturday), about ten o'clock, she left the White Lion for the
purpose of visiting the residence of Mrs. Bolton, of Storrs-
hall, which is situated farther down the lake. She walked
down from the hotel accompanied by her suite, and a number
of the principal families of the neighbourhood, to the lake
side, where a small yacht, handsomely fitted up, with an
awning and other necessary accommodations, had been pre-
pared for her. She was most respectfully saluted as she passed
along, and that part of the lake at which she went on board
was crowded with yachts and small boats, leaded with pas-
sengers, and splendidly decorated with crimson and other
coloured flags. Among the yachts we observed the Victoria,
belonging to Captain Hamilton ; the Nautilus, belonging to
Hornby Roughsedge, Esq. ; the North Star, the property of
Mark Beaufoy, Esq. ; the Midge, belonging to Wood,
Esq. ; the Wave, the Rover, and several others. As the boat
left the shore her Majesty was saluted with three hearty
cheers, the Bowness baud playing " God save the Queen."
Her Majesty, having partaken of a splendid cold collation at
Storrs-hall, returned to Bowness between five and six in the
afternoon. In the evening upwards of 500 children were re-
galed with tea, buns, &c., in the space in front of the White
Linn—a scene with which her Majesty appeared to be greatly
delighted. The following day (Sunday) her Majesty attended
Divine service at the church of Bowness, when an excellent
and appropriate sermon was preached by the Rev. R. P.
Graves, of Bowness. To-morrow (Monday), she proceeds
to pay a visit to some of the other lakes in the vicinity, and,
it, is understood, will proceed to the south on Tuesday or
Wednesday.

THEFTS BY BOATMEN.-A NOVEL
SAVINGS' BANK.

On Saturday morning last, one of the borough police
observed a boatman carrying a basket in the street ; and, his
suspicions being excited, the officer watched the man take it
to the house, whither he immediately followed him, and de-
manded to examine the contents of the basket. It was quite
full of hanks of yarn, which the man, whose name is White,
said he had brought out of Yorkshire to Manchester to be
dyed. As he stated he had no more yarn, the policeman
searched the room ; and behind the head of the bed, in which
another man named Rolls, the occupant of the tenement,
was lying, he found six hanks of similar yarn. The police-
man accordingly conveyed both men to' the police-office, and
Inspector Green there asked White if he was working in any
boat. White said he was employed in the service of the
Merchants' Company, in a boat called the Gypsey, which
was lying in the canal basin. Green went to the boat, and
found that part of its cargo had been a number of bales of
yarn, of a precisely similar quality and description to that
found in the possession of the prisoners. Ten of the bales
had evidently been cut open at one end or corner of the bale,
and sewed up again with some twine of a darker colour or
more dirty hue than the rest ' • and from that part of the
bales a bundle or two of yarn had, to all appearance, been
abstracted. On searching further, Green found some of the
dirty twine and a packing-needle in the captain's cupboard.
lie took a sample from several of the bales, and it appa-
rently corresponded, in every respect, with the yarn
found on the prisoners. •lle next searched the boat
narrowly, and found somewhere in the cabin a small
bag containing 15 sous., and some silver ; and in the
bottom part of the boat, amongst some lumber, potatoes, &c.
was a short piece of spar, or what is called a batten-end,
which attracted Green's attention. He found it so heavy,
that he was lad to scrutinize it rather closely. It was in two
pieces (as if it had been split longitudinally), neatly joined
together ; but having separated them, Green found a large
hollow scooped in the middle, nicely lined with raw cotton ;
and in the midst of the cotton, snugly lay no fewer than
sixty-eight sovereigns: These were so neatly packed and
padded in this nautical savings bank, that no clinking be-
trayed the secret of the internal value of this bit of wood,
which was just the sort of thing a lad would have been tempted
to lay hands on to make a miniature boat. Before Green left
the wharf with his prize, he saw every bale weighed. The
prisoners were brought up at the Borough Court on Monday
morning, when these facts were stated, and the yarn and the
boatman's cash box were produced. The latter excited much
curiosity, as its golden store in a nest of cotton was exhibited
to the magistrate. A gentleman in the employ of the Mer-
chants' Company, to whom the boat belongs, stated that the
Gipsy had brought to this town, from Sowerby Bridge, 20
bales of yarn, consigned by Messrs. Gills and Denton, of
Baildon, near Bradford, to Messrs. Worthington and Co. car-
riers, to be forwarded to Kidderminster. In the transit witness
considered these goods to be the property of the Merchants'
Company, to whom they were entrusted. On re-weighing
the bales, after the prisoner's apprehension, three of them
showed a deficiency of weight as compared with that on the
bill of consignment. The bales Nos. 9745, 9214, and 9731,
were respectively 21b. short of the weight as per consignment
note; and the last specified bale was wetted in getting it out
of the boat and upon the wharf, so that if it had been re-
weighed dry, its deficiency would have been greater by 11b.
Another bale was deficient, though it appeared to have been
wetted intentionally on board the boat, to give it additional
weight •, and witness said it was no unfrequent thing for boat-
men, when any portion of bale goods had been abstracted, to
pour water on the bales to conceal the deficiency of weight ;
but, notwithstanding, this bale was reweighed in that state, it
was deficient of the weight stated. The goods were weighed
at Sowerby Bridge, and immediately afterwards put into the
boat. Witness stated that White had been in the employ of
the Merchants' Company a number of years (some other
person stated twelve years ;) that he and his son were both
employed on board the boat, the former having earned for the
last eighteen months 225. a week, and the son 15s. a week ;
so that they were together in the receipt of 375. weekly, and
might have as much money of their own as was found in the
boat. As there was no party to give evidence as to the state
and weight of the bales when put on board at Sowerby.
Bridge, nor any witness conversant with yarns, to speak to
the perfect identity of that found on the prisoners with that
contained in the bales, both the prisoners were remanded to
this day, and the police retain present possession of the 81
sovereigns and silver.—Mancheater. Guardian.