The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-03-28 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

LIB CoußT.—On Saturday her Majesty had a dinner
and evening party.—On Thursday next, the Queen will
hold her first drawing-room this season in St. James's
Palace.

THE DUKE and Duchess of Northumberland have
arrived in Naples. Prince Frederick William of Prussia
has made a brief visit to Naples, and proceeded to Palermo.
LORD GILBERT GROSVENOR, one of the lieutenants of
the Boscawen, 70 (of the North Sea fleet), has died sud-
denly. He was twenty-one years of age, and was the
second son of the Marquis of Westminster.
Mu. COMMISSIONER DANIELL, Judge of the Birming-
ham Court of Bankruptcy, died on Tuesday. He was
brother to the late Professor Daniell, of King's College.

SIR WILLIAM DEnsoN.— There. is a report in-Van
Diemen's Land that a new office is to be created in Eng-
land, in consequence of the cessation of transportation to
this colony, that of Director-General of Convict Discipline
for tile United Kingdom, and that Sir William Denison is
to be nominated, with a salary of £4,000 a-year.—Austra-
lian and New Zealand Gazette.

THE NEW JUDGE.— Mr. Richard Budden Crowder,
Q.C., recorder of Bristol, has been appointed to the seat
upon the bench vacant by the death of the late Mr. Jus-
tice Talfourd. This appointment creates a vacancy in the
representation of Liskeard, for which borough the newly-
appointed judge has sat in the Reform interest since the
year 1849. _ _

- DEATH OP COLONEL MOUNTAIN.—Died, at Futtyghur,
India, on the ISth of last month, Colonel Armine Simcoe
Henry Mountain, C. 8., Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, and
Adjutant-General to Her Majesty's Forces in India.
HER MAJESTY'S LEVEE.—The Queen held a levee (the
third this season) on Wednesday, in St. James's Palace.
Her Majesty wore a train of white and gold moire antique
silk, brocaded with white flowers and trimmed with gold
blonde and white satin riband. The petticoat was white
satin trimmed with gold blonde and white satin riband
to correspond with the train. The Queen's head-dress
was a diamond circlet.
THE PRELIMINARIES of a marriage have just been con-
cluded between the Earl of Durham and Lady Beatrix
Hamilton, second daughter of the Marquis of Abercorn,
and niece of the Duke of Bedford and Lord John Russell.
THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR and the Countess Walewski
gave a grand dinner on Tuesday evening at Albert Gate,
the new residence of the French Embassy, to the Duke of
Cambridge and Lord Raglan, preparatory to their depar-
ture to join the expeditionary army in the East.
MILITARY PREPARATIONS.—Major-General his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge, and a numerous staff
of officers, left London on Friday for the East. His royal
highness, on his way through France, will be entertained
by the Emperor at the Tuilleries.
THE MARRIAGE of Prince Joachim Murat with. Ma.dlle.
Bertheir, Princess of Wagram, was celebrated on Wednes-
day morning, at nine o'clock, for the civil ceremony, in the
Hotel of the Prince de Wagram, Rue de Larochefoucault,
Paris ; after which the illustrious couple, accompanied by
their relatives and the witnesses, went to the Tuilleries,
where the contract was signed by their Majesties, the
Princes Jerome and Napoleon, the Princess Mathilde, the
Princes Pierre and Lucien Bonaparte, and the Grand
Duchess of Baden. The cortege afterwards proceeded to
the Imperial chapel, where the religious ceremony was
performed, the Bishop of Nancy delivering the nuptial
benediction.

NATIONAL DEFENCE.-A Gentleman's Rifle Corps for
Middlesex has been formed. It is to consist of 300 men,
and is commanded by the Duke of Wellington as Lieuten-
ant-Colonel Commandant, and by the Earl of Perth and
Mellott as tiajor. .