The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-21 00:00:00

THE QUEEN'S LEVEE, &C.-WEDNESDAY.

(From the Court Newsman.)
The Queen held her first levee this season yesterday after-
noon, at St. James's Palace.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived from Buckingham
Palace, attended by their suite, and escorted by a party of
life guards. In her Majesty's suite were the Mistress of the
Robes ; the Duchess of Bedford, Lady in Waiting ; the
Marquis of Headfort, K.P., Lord in Waiting; General the
Hon. Sir William Lumley, Groom in Waiting, Lord Alfred
Paget, Equerry in Waiting ; Mr. Cowell and Master We-
myss, Pages of Honour in Waiting.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert was attended at the
levee by the following officers of his household :—Viscount
Bovingdon, General Sir George Anson, G.C.8., Colonel
Wylde (Equerry to his royal highness), and Mr. Seymour.
Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Sussex and Cam-
bridge, and Prince George of Cambridge, were present.
Their Serene Highnesses the Reigning Duke and Prince
Ernest of Saxe Coburg Gotha also attended the levee. In
their serene highnesses' suite were Baron de Lowenfels,
Baron Ernest de Poelnitz, and Baron Alvensleben.
Count Mandelelon, the Wertemberg Minister, had an
audience with her Majesty in the Royal Court before the
levee, to deliver a letter from his Sovereign. His excellency
was introduced by Viscount Pahnerston, G.C.8., her Ma-
jesty's principal secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and
conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Master of the Ceremonies.
After giving audience to his excellency, the Queen passed
into the throne-room, and took her usual station, Prince
Albert standing by her side, the Lord Chamberlain and the
Lord in Waiting being in attendance near her Majesty. The
Entree company were then first introduced.

PENANCE IN ST. PETER'S CHURCH.—Between eleven
and twelve o'clock on Wednesday morning, Church-street
was crowded with a mass of persons who had either been to
see, or were anxious to see, a woman belonging to that class
of persons proverbially famous for their power of tongue—
viz. a fishwoman—who, clothed in white, had been doing
penance in St. Peter's Church for having applied to a quon-
dam female friend, in the same calling, an epithet of the most
unseemly kind. This penance was performed for the pur-
pose of warding off a threatened persecution on the part of
the calumniated dame, who, with a small troop of most re-
spectable-looking friends went to church to witness the cere-
mony, in a half-broken small cart, the horse being ornamented
with a few white rags or shreds of ribbon, and a youth in--
side, carrying a shabby pro lenzpore flag, consisting of a piece
of white calico or linen attached to a stick. The ceremony
was, to the regret of many, performed privately, in the vestry
of the church. When the repentant fish-wifeleft the church,
she, to escape from the gaze and pressure of a curious and
laughing crowd, got into a hackney coach, and was driven
away.
MODEL OF THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO.—\I'c learn that
a magnificent model of the battle of Waterloo, executed by
Capt. Siborn, will shortly arrive in Liverpool for public ex-
hibition. It has already been shown in the metropolis,
where it elicited unqualified praise. The scale is nine feet to
a mile, the figures are about 190,000 in number, and, to-
gether with the innumerable other objects comprehended in
the plan, trees, houses, horses, wagons, and artillery, are
said to be finished and arranged with the most wonderful ac-
curacy. It has been the work of many years, and is under-
stood to have cost the ingenious artist not much less than
five thousand pounds.

BIRKENHEAD CATTLE AND CHEESE FAlRS.—These fairs,
which were instituted during the last year, answered the ex-
pectations of the projectors so well, were so great a conveni-
ence to dealers, and produced so much benefit to the town
and neighbourhood. that preparations to renew them with
additional eclat have been in active progress from that time
to the present. The first, for the year ensuing, takes place
we find on Tuesday, the 28th of April, the second on Friday,
the 3d of July, and third on Thursday, the Bth of October,
in each instance, occurring two days before the period fixed
for the great fairs at Chester. The proximity of Birkenhead
to Liverpool, and the short distance from Birkenhead to
Chester, to which the unsold might easily be driven and con-
veyed, will doubtless occasion a plentiful supply of stock and
produce, and a mumerous attendance of dealers.
STEAM-SHIP BRITANNIA.—This truly splendid ship, the
first of the North American Steam Navigation Company's
,1
Royal Mail steamers, was brought up the Clyde on Thurs-
day night to receive her machinery, which is to be supplied
by Mr. Robert Napier, Vulcan Foundry, under whose su-
perintendence the hull of the vessel was constructed. Since
her arrival at the Broomielaw the Britannia has had many
admirers, and we doubt not will have many more before she
leaves the Clyde. The opinions of those who have seen her
ins.
in our harbour, and who know well what a good ship should
have, bear us out in the description which we gave of h
our notice of her launch from the building-yard of meesrs
Messrs.
Duncan and Co.. Greenock, eight days ago..—.GiaBpow.
Courier.
PROTESTANT MEETING.—On the evening of Tuesday, a
large and respectable meeting of the members and friends of
the Liverpool Operative Protestant Association was held in.
the School-room belonging to St. Jude's Church, in Oakes-
street, Daulby-strect, London-road. The Rev. W. Falloon
took the chair, and, after soliciting the divine blessing, he
addressed the meeting in a very able speech of considerable
length. He contended that it was the duty of every true
Protestant to resist and expose the principle of Popery ; and
he further showed in what the errors of that church con-
sisted. The my. gentleman was much applauded throughout
his speech, which seemed
.to make peat impression upon the
meeting. In conclusion, he called upon the meeting to peti-
tion the House of Commons against the enormity of grantin
annually a portion
M ....of the public money in support of the
Popish College of aynooth.--Mr. Watham followed with
a powerful address, after which he moved the adoption of a
petition praying the discontinuance of further grants of public
money towards the support of Maynooth.—Mr. Radcliffe se.
conded the motion, and it was carried unanimously. Mr.
D. Scott next addressed the meeting, and narrated the his-
tory of the grant to Maymoth, showing how the Papists had
diverted it from the objects contemplated by Mr. Pitt. He
moved a vote of thanks to the chairman, which was carried
by acclamation. Mr. Radcliffe then proposed cheers for the
three watchwords of Protestantism, Sciii4ural Education,
Church Extension, and Repeal of the Popish Emancipation
Bill. The doxology was afterwards sung,MtlYnooth petition and the meeting
•
separated, great numbers signing the an
and the petition icr church cxtQuSitM.