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

COURT CIRCULAR.-NVEDNESDAY.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council to-morrow afternoon
at Buckingham Palace.
We have authority to state that the report of his Royal
Highness Prince Albert having composed the music of an
opera to be brought out at Drury-lane Theatre is not cor-
rect.
The Queen held a court yesterday afternoon at Bucking-
ham Palace, for the reception of the congratulatory addresses
from the houses of Parliament on the auspicious occasion of
her Majesty' marriage.
Both addresses were very numerously attended by members
of either house ; that from the House of Lords was presented
by upwards of sixty peers. Their lordships arrived in pro-
cession at at the palace shortly after two o'clock, and all appear-
His
came in
in uniforms or court dresses. The Lord Chancellor
came in state.
bearer,m his state coach, attended by his secretary and purse
dpreceded by a sergeant at arms bearing the mace.
as colonel ohfiti
Lordship wore his state robes. The Duke of Cambridge
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formand wore' the ruitaeneiasnd star of the most noble order of the
uniform, with
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the Bath,
the stars
came in state, and wore a mili-
tarythe Thistle, and stars of the orders of the Garter,
wills the ribaact- of _the order of
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assembled, were conducted to
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gentlemen the presence of the Queen in
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ent inen at arms, ushers in waiting, her,
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ed by their Lieutenant the Hon. Edward Butler, lining the
Highness Prince Albert was on the left of the
Duchess of Sutherland, mistress of the
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Earl of Albemarle, G. C. H. master of the i
First Lord of the T reasury, the Lord President, the ; the
Lord
'Privy Seal, the three Principal
Secretaries of State for the
Horne, Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the Chief Com-
missioner of the Woods and Forests, and the principal
officers of the household stood on either side of the throne.
The peers advanced near the throne, when the Lord
Chancellor read the Address of Congratulation, to which
her Majesty was pleased to return a most gracious answer.
The members of the House of Commons arrived at twenty
. minutes past two o'clock at the palace, the Speaker in his
state coach, and wearing his state official robes, and attended
by his chaplain and other officers. The right hon. gentle-
man and the numerous body of members by whom he was
accompanied were ushered into the library in the lower suite
of rooms.
On the retirement the royal presence,
the of the peers from
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members of the House of Com • MOM were immediately
introduced with presence of the
similar ceremony to the
Queen on the throne.
The Speaker read the
on the auspicious the congratulatory the Queen
address to Her
Majesty of her Majesty's marriage. Her
Majesty returned a
and the deputation then
nost gracious answer to the address,
His Royal Highness
prr.etired.
at Buckin.ham ce Albert received yesterday after-
noon,matique, who were Palace,severall the
whole of the corps diplo-
by Viscount Pahnerston, G.
yeliffsented to his royal highness
cretary of state for foreign ado% the Queen's principal se-
Robert Chester, master of the ceremonies.
, and conducted by Sir
The message of congratulation to Prince
House of Lords, on the occasion of Owe Albert from the
Majesty, was also presented to his rosyairrn
highness
with her
peers deputed by the house—viz., the Mar uis gpness by the
li.G._,_lord president of the council, the arquisli°Lansdowne,
K.G., G.C.8., and the Earl of Ripon. of Angle-
sey,His royal highness was attended by General Sir George
Anson, G.C.8., Captain Seymour, and Mr. George Ed ward
Anson, the gentlemen of his household. .
The message from the House of Lords to her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent,, congratulating her royal highness
on the auspicious occasion of her Majesty's marriage, was

presented, yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace, by
the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis of Anglesey, and
the Earl of Ripon.
The Duchess of Kent also received the message of congra-
tulation from the House of Commons, on the same auspi-
cious event. The message was presented to the royal
duchess by the following members deputed by the house
:
the Earl of Lincoln, Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bart., Sir
Matthew Wood, Bart., Mr. Campbell, of Islay, and Mr.
Villiers Stuart.

WINDSOR.—MONDAY EVENING.
(From the Correspondent of the Morning Herald.)
The question of " precedence" with reference to Prince
Albert, and the whole of the male branches of the royal
family (which one would have supposed had been set at rest
by the withdrawal by the Premier of a certain clause from
the Prince's Naturalization Bill) is still a matter of extreme
difficulty to be arranged by the Court and the Cabinet.
Lord John Russell, when he stated, in reply to the question
from Mr. W. Duncombe (in the House of Commons on
Friday evening), if it were intended to insert the name of
Prince Albert in the Liturgy, that " he had no intimation to
give the honourable member on the subject," evidently
shirked the question •, because I happen to know that more
than one discussion has taken place at the castle, during the
past week, as to whether the name of his royal highness
should be inserted in the Liturgy before or after that of the
Queen Dowager. However, as it is expected that the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury will cause the necessary instructions
on the subject to be sent to the clergy throughout the king-
dom before Sunday next, the public will soon perceive how
this point has been decided.
But there is another matter, in connection with the sub-
ject of the prince's precedency, which (taking into considera-
tion the withdrawal of the clause to which I have alluded) is
a source of very considerable embarrassment and anxiety to
the court and her Majesty's advisers. I allude to the posi-
tion which the banner of the prince, as knight of the Garter.
is destined to occupy in Saint George's Chapel—whether her
Majesty as the Sovereign of the order, will command Sir
William Woods, Garter Principal King of Arms, to displace
the King of Hanover, and seat his royal highness in the
stall now occupied by his Majesty; or whether the prince
will have a stall appropriated to him next, in point of prece-
dency, to the last elected foreign prince, which chances to be
the reigning Duke of Saxe Gotha, his royal highness's father.
Should her Majesty decide upon the former course, it would
cause the removal lower down (in the scale of rank of the
royal family of England) of the King of Hanover and the
Duke of Cambridge, whose stalls are now on the left of the
Sovereign's, and on the right of the Duke of Sussex. Should
the Duke of Sussex, however, be disposed to give way with-
out a murmur, (which is not at all improbable,) then the
King of Prussia (who was elected twenty-six years ago) will
be elbowed out of his stall, and thus, under any circum-
stances, (unless his royal highness takes his seat amongst the
foreign princes of the order, according to seniority of elec-
tion) Sir William Woods will have his work cut out to ar-
range—or rather disarrange—the banners and bearings of many
of the royal and illustrious knights of this most noble order.
The Garter King of Arms is expected here on Thursday
next, to affix in St. George's Chapel the banner of the reign-
ing Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, who was elected, in-
vested, and installed by dispensation, in July, IS3B, but
whose fees have not yet been paid.
It was announced that Prince Albert would hunt with her
Majesty's stag hounds this morning, and that his royal high-
ness would be present at the meet, at Salt-hill, at eleven
o'clock. About twelve o'clock, however, one of the royal
carriages and four drove up to the Windmill Hotel, at Salt
Hill, from which alighted Prince Ernest of Saxe Coburg,
Lord Alfred Paget, and (as I am informed) Baron Alven-
slebon ; but Prince Albert was not of the party. The field,
which was far more numerous than has ever been witnessed

upon any former occasion, consisted of upwards of 200 horse-
men, and was composed of the principal gentry and inhabi-
tants of the neighbourhood. The Prince, &c., after par-
taking of a slight repast at Mr. Botham's. and offing their
travelling for their hunting habiliments, proceeded with the
hounds to a field near the residence of Colonel Vyse, at
Stoke, when a fine deer was uncarted. The stag then pro-
ceeded along Stoke-lane to Stoke-green, back again to the
lane ; then through to Langley, and from thence to Slough,
when it was taken near the Dolphin. The Prince, who rode
well, was in at the take. The run was about 20 miles over a
most heavy country ; giving the horses a regular sweater for
the time it lasted. There was a deal of what is termed back
running ; the deer, at no one time, being more than three
miles from the place at which it was uncarted.