The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-18 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.--SATuaDAy.

. • -
. The Queen andlts Royal Highness Prince Albert of Saxe
Coburg and Gotha arrived at Buckingham Palace, at Lye
minutes past four o'clock, yesterday afternoon, in one of the
royal carriages and four, escorted by a party of light dragoons,
from Windsor Castle. Her 'Majesty and the prince were re—
ceived with loud and frequent gratulations by a numerous
body of spectators who had assembled in the vicinity of the
Palace. • The royal standard was immediately raised on the
marble arch. Several of the Queen's carriages followed, con-
taining her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Seiene
Highnesses the Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha and Prince
Ernest, the Countess of Sandwich, Lady F. Howard, Hon.
Miss Cocks, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Earl of Errol, Viscount
Torrington, Hon. Major Keppel, Lord Alfred Paget, Count
Kolowrath, Baron Alvensleben, Baron Lowenfels, Mr. Sey-
mour, M. Grueben, and Captain Poelnitz. Her Majesty
and Prince Albert were received at the entrance to the Grand
Hall by the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, and
the Clerk Marshal, who conducted her Majesty and his royal
highness to the state rooms. On crossing the Picture Gal-
lery the band of the Ist life guards, who were stationed in a
recess, played " God save the Queen."
The royal dinner party at the palace last evening included
the Earl of Errol, the Earl of Uxbridge, and the Earl of
Surrey.

The band of the Ist life guards attended at the palace
during the evening.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had a small party at
dinner, including the Danish Minister and Baroness Biome,
the Netherlands Minister and Madame Dedel, and the
Hanoverian Minister, on Thursday evening, at Cambridge
House.
The Duke of Cambridge visited the Royal College of
Surgeons yesterday afternoon.

Viscount Melboiirne arrived in town yesterday afternoon,
from a visit to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle.

COURT CIRCULAR.-MONDAY.

The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and his Serene High-
ness Prince Ernest of Saxe Coburg Gotha, with the ladies
and gentlemen of the household in waiting, attended Divine
Service, yesterday morning, in Buckingham Palace. The
Bishop of Norwich, clerk of the closet, officiated. The Rev.
Mr. Vane, deputy-clerk of the court, was in attendance.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert went, on Saturday after •
noon, to pay a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, at
Marlborough House. Lord Alfred Paget, Equerry in Wait-
ing, followed in another royal carriage. Her Majesty and
his Royal Highness, on leaving Marlborough House, went to
Clarence House, St. James's, and visited the. Princess Au-
gusta, and afterwards visited the Duchess of Gloucester, at
Gloucester House.

The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Prin-
cesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, visited the Queen,
yesterday.
The Duke of Sussex and the Duke of Cambridge visited
her Majesty on Saturday.
Viscount Melbourne had an audience of the Queen on
Saturday.
The royal dinner party, at Buckingham Palace, on Satur-
day evening, included her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, their Serene Highnesses the Duke and Prince Ernest
of Saxe Coburg Gotha, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Norrnanby, Earl of Surrey, Viscount Melbourne, the Right
Hon. Francis Baring, Hon. Colonel Cavendish, Hon. Wm.
Cowper, the Countess of Sandwich, Lady Fanny Howard,
Hon. Miss Cocks, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Baroness Lehzen,
Viscount Torrington, Count Kolowrath, Baron Alvensleben,
Baron de Lowenfels, Baron de Gruben, Baron Ernest de
Pocllnitz, Hon. Charles A. Murray, Hon. Major Keppel,
Lord Alfred Paget, and Mr, Seymour.
The band of the royal regiment of Horse Guards attended
at the Palace during the whole of the evening, and performed
a number of favourite pieces.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess
Augusta of Cambridge attended Divine Service yesterday
morning, in Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley-street. Miss
Kerr, Baron Knesbeck, and Major Stephens were in waiting
on their royal highnesses.
The Duchess of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Glou-
cester on Saturday.
Prince Ernest of Saxe Coburg visited the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge on Saturday.
His Serene Highness the Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha
did Mr. Hayter the honour to sit on Saturday at Bucking-
ham Palace for the completion of his picture of the corona-
tion of her Majesty.

WINDSOR—FRIDAY.
(From the Windsor Court Newsman.)
Her Majesty, accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince
Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, left the castle, this after-
noon, between one and two o'clock. Her Majesty was es-
corted by a company of the 2d life guards ; and the distin-
guished visiters at the castle, with her Majesty's suite, fol-
lowed in several of the royal carriages and four.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left for London
shortly before 11 o'clock this morning, attended by Lady
Fanny Howard.

(From a Correspondent of the Mor)zing Herald.)
Orders were issued this morning for the royal carriages to
be in attendance at the castle at half-past 12 o'clock, to con-
vey her Majesty and his Royal Highness Pince Albert, and
her Majesty's distinguished visiters and suite, to Bucking-
ham Palace ; but in consequence of the dense fog which pre-
vailed, from the early part of the morning to this period, the
order was countermanded, and the military escort dispensed
with until two o'clock. At that hour her Majesty entered
her carriage in the Quadrangle, to which she was escorted by
and leaning on the arm of the prince. Her Majesty looked
remarkably well, appeared in excellent spirits, and jumped
into the carriage, warmly muffled up in fur, with great buoy-
ancy. The only personage in the carriage of her Majesty
was the prince.
In the second carriage were the Earl of Errol, the lord
steward of the household, and Lord Alfred Paget, the
equerry in waiting. In the third carriage were his Serene
Highness the reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg and his son
Prince Ernest, the father and brother of the royal bride-
groom. The remaining portion of her Majesty's distin-
guished visitors mid suite followed in five other of the royal
carriages.
The Baroness Lezhen left the castle two hours before
the Queen in one of the royal carriages and four (the
baroness's usual mode of travelling) for Buckingham Palace.
The jewels of her Majesty (supposed to be worth upwards
of half a million of money) were consigned by the Queen
to the baroness to be conveyed to town.
It is expected that the names of those individuals who
are intended to form the household of the prince will ap-
pear in the Gazette of Tuesday next ' • but the greatest
secrecy prevails at the castle on the subject, and, indeed,
I may say, the utmost mystery is observed. I believe I
may state that Sir George Anson has received an ap-
pointment from the prince, and that Mr. Brown, of Sheet-
street, who has been appointed surgeon and apothecary to
his royal highness, will receive the honour of knighthood.
I stated, a short time since, that the dry-rot had been dis-
covered in the private apartments of the castle, and that
workmen were engaged in endeavouring to stay its ravages.
The works were compelled to be brought to a temporary close,
to enable the domestics to make the necessary preparations
for the Queen's arrival on Monday last. The roof of the
principal dining-room, in which the rot was most prevalent,
was patched up n
the occasion of her Majesty's visit; but
the workmen wil e
s coled.
-commence their operations to-morrow,
and continue them
until the
which wapset erected by George
The splendid conservatory
IV., at the Royal Cottage in the Great Park, is to be ol r
re-
moved from thence to the
Slopes. Its destination is sup-
posedd of the North Terrace.
job i m
to be at the eastern en •
o'clock, but it was not
this morning, between ten and elevenher Royal Highness to
Her Royal Highness the u
known whether it was the intention of
.ert
Palace. The
Duchess of Kent left the castle
proceed to Buckingham or to Kensington ,
who
was
in waiting upon her Royal Highness.
Duchess was accompanied by Lady Fanny. Howard,

BRITISH COLONIES AND CAPITAL IN THEIR

MUTUAL RELATIONS.

Commerce successfully prosecuted necessarily causes an
accumulation of capital, for which profitable employment is
continually sought. It is for the weal of the whole commu-
nity that the surplus capital of the kingdom should be invest-
ed within the limits of the empire where it was created • and
it is for the direct interest of the capitalist himself that he
should have the principal of-his money always within his
controul, and the dividends Ile expects subject to the laws of
his own country, and independent of the casualties of war or
peace. Vast sums of money have been expended in milling
speculations in South America, or invested in foreign loans,
from which neither the country nor the owners of the capital
have derived the least benefit. Had this wealth been ex-
pended in the British colonies, great losses would'have been
avoided, and many advantages gained for the whole empire.
Colonies, therefore, afford ample scope for preventing the
effects of that plethora of wealth, whichais as fatal to the
body politic as a superabundance of the vital fluid would
he to the corporeal frame. Lord Brougham, in his work
on the colonies, published at the beginning of the present
century, and full of valuable obadivations on the impor-
tance of the transmarine possessions of England, justly
remarks as follows :—" A people possessed- of an overflow-
ing capital, is, of all others, the very one that stands
most in need of foreign colonies, in order to obtain new
openings, and to secure the possession of these openings
at all times,under its own command. * * * *
The prosperity of the Dutch was checked, and finally ruined,
by their not having colonies sufficiently extensive for the em-
ployment of their capital." Venice tell from the same cause;
the wealth of both was invested in foreign states—they became
the money brokers and usurers of Europe—other pursuits
were neglected, and distress and ruin ensued. There is a
very great advantage in investing the capital of the mother
country in the colonies ; it produces a better knowledge at
home of the actual condition of those colonies ; it creates a
greater (because a more selfish) interest for their welfare ;
and it binds by closer ties England and her distant connec-
tions—making the prosperity of each conducive to the gene-
ral welfare of both ; thus forming a really golden link, more
durable than any system of government, however restricted,
or unrestricted in its forms. One of the leading indications
of the decline of Rome, was the wealth of Pompey, Lepidus,
Crassus, &c., whose enormous riches rendered them fatal
instruments for accelerating the downfal of their country.
To engage in commerce or mercantile transactions of any
kind was considered by the Romans as derogatory to their
rank, and the lending of money on usurious terms was the
only mode in which wealth could be employed. In England
riches are accumulating in the hands of a few individuals,
and it should be the duty of a far-seeing statesman to coun-
teract this natural tendency, and to dissdminate the wealth of
the country over the largest extent-of surface, and among
the greatest possible number of individuals. Our colonies
offer an almost inexhaustible sphere of operations for the pro-
fitable use of British capital, skill, and industry ; the many
millions of acres of fertile land which they contain would
employ all the surplus capital in the world, and provide food
and occupation for an incalculable number of inhabitants.—
The Colonial Alayazine.