The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-06-13 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

CAPTAIN PETER RICHARDS has been appointed one of
the Lords of the Admiralty, in the place of the late
Admiral Hyde Parker.
ETON.-- Tuesday last was the speech day. Prince,
Albert, the two royal princes, the King of Portugal, an
Duke of Oporto, were present.
THE NUPTIALS of Lord Mountcharles, of the Ist Life
Guards, with Lady Jane St. Maur Stanhope, niece to the
Earl of Harrington, will be shortly solemnised.
HER MAJESTY'S LEVEE.—The Queen held another
levee on Friday, which was largely attended by the foreign'
diplomatic, and general circles, and the presentations of
noblemen and gentlemen were very numerous.
Amongst the presentations were Lieutenant Colonel
Ireland Blackburne, on appointment, 4th Royal Reginletlt
Lancashire Militia, by the Earl of Sefton ; Mr. F. P°
dale, Mayor of Blackburn, by Lord Palmerston ; the
Bishop of Graham's Town, by the Archbishop of Canter'
bury ; Captain Gray, on appointment, 4th Royal Lan°.
shire Militia, by Colonel Wilson Patten.
THE QUEEN and the Royal Family, with their Mott
ous visitors, the King of Portugal and the Duke of °Pon'
are expected to arrive at Windsor Castle soon after two
o'clock to-day. The hospitalities of the Palace will De
marked by unusual splendour during the Ascot race week,
arrangements having been made for two grand banquet?'
On Thursday, the Queen and Court will pay a State visit
to the Heath, and on Saturday next Her Majesty will re'
turn to Buckingham Palace.
THE QUEEN has been pleased to grant unto Alexander
James Beresford Hope, of Bedgebury park, in the coulitY,
of Kent, of Beresford-hall, in the county of Stafford, an'
of Arklow-house, Connaught-place, in the county of Mid-
dlesex, Esq., her Royal licence and authority, that he alid.
his issue may henceforth take and use the surname of
Beresford, in addition to and before that of Hope.
HER MAJESTY the Queen and Prince Albert, accom;
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by their royal visitors, the King of Portugal and
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on Wednesday to nearly one thousand members of tne. .
aristocracy, at their magnificent residence in P lan
The exterior of the mansion, both in the Park-lane and
Grosvenor-street frontages, was brilliantly illuminated.
dusk. The Grosvenor-street entrance was appropriate::
to the general company, the Park-lane entrance being r`
served exclusively for the Queen and royal visitors. 0,
TILE KING OF PORTUGAL is a sum and elegant YAd
with a particularly gracious and gentle carriage, and ore
scarcely be taken for a foreigner if met in an assesfiffeak,
of our aristocracy. His complexion is remarkabkLetll
and countenance full and open, and he would be ea""-biell
handsome but for a little fullness in the lower 11,15
is the only exception to the general symmetri so
features. Altogether, with his healthy clear teirillig
hair, and frank unaffected manner, he might eaaL7rity
taken for an Englishman. There is a great clissiolhan
in stature between the two brothers, much more so ite
is usual where there is so slight a difference in age. his
Duke of Oporto is much squarer and shorter
etshsaned air
-Majesty, and has not the same noble and self-Poss
of the King.—court Journal. of
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exacting and has demanded such costly sacrifices from It!
followers, that it is no wonder if they should at lengtO
rebel and set up a republic, or a system opposed to its
arbitrary dictates, by which they may enjoy freedom ill
clothing. This little revolution, we are informed, b3°
taken place without any opposition from Government, or
ill consequences to its followers. Eight ladies of haut 10n
have formed a league, and following the plan of, great
authorities, are endeavouring to extend their influence 10
the provinces, through lady delegates. The first and great
law of the society is to wear nothing of a costly character;
The second, to purchase only that which is useful and wiP:
wear well. Thus, fairly started, and with a lesson froP
the ladies of the Brethren of Drab, they will, doubtlea_°T
work wonders in the fashions of Paris for the future, art;
revive the age of the Puritans. The uniforms of Les CeTis
Gardes is, however, to move in the other direction, atia,"
something from which the Militia of Battersea, °_,r,ve-a
other great corps, might take a hint. They will 'irsiartt
steel helmet, trimmings of apricot colour, with 10,70 d
plumage, composed of seven feathers, scarlet, blaetd
apricot ; a cuirass of jet black, with a Medusa :5 b'e-ste-
the centre, the eyes of which are to be of two larq,sther
ralds ; the breeches of black velvet ; 'high polished loco ; a
boots, with trimmings of red morocco ; spurs of of or-
steel poniard. The mantle for horseback is to be rf
million coloured silk. and they are to have a seLnres°
braidered with the initials of the Emperor and rusted
in gold, silver, and steel ; and a shoulder belt ei2cerooked
a
with precious stones ; pistols of four shots ; 3 bridle
sabre ; a saddle of vermillion leather and gold, svio
of red morocco and gold. This is a costume the
rival, if not excel, the Hungarian Noble Guar'
Emperor of Austria.