The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-03-24 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.-FRIDAY.

Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of the
Queen.

- His Royal Highness Prince Albert visited her Majesty the
Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough-house.
The royal dinner party at the Palace yesterday included
the Archbishop of York and the Hon. Miss Harcourt, Earl
and Countess Cowper, Earl of Uxbridge, Earl of Albemarle,
Viscount Melbourne, Lord and Lady Burghersh, Lord George
Lennox, Mr. and Hon. Mrs. William Hamilton, and Mr.
George Edward Anson.
The band of the Coldstream Guards was in attendance
during the evening.

At the Queen's-levee on Wednesday, Dr. Jeffreys, Liver-
pool, president; Dr. Boisragon, Cheltenham, vice-president;
Dr. Forbes, Chichester, and Mr. J. H. James, Exeter,
members of council, presented an address of congratulation
from the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association. These
gentlemen were presented to her Majesty by Sir Astley
Cooper, Bart.

(From the Correspondent of the Morning Herald.)

WINDSOR, THURSDAY EVENING.-011 the 11th of De-
cember last a public meeting took place at Maidenhead, for
the purpose of forming an agricultural association for the
eastern part of the county of Berks. Sir East Clayton East,
Bart. (who was chosen its president) has just received a com-
munication from Sir Henry Wheatley, the keeper of her
Majesty's privy purse, announcing that " her Majesty has
been graciously pleased to command that the East Berks
Agricultural Association shall be styled the Royal East Berks
Agricultural Association, of which her Majesty has con-
sented to become the patroness." The president has like-
wise received a letter from Mr. Anson, Prince Albert's pri-
vate secretary, conveying the intelligence that his royal high-
ness had likewise consented to become one of the patrons of
the association.

The Protestant Association are about to establish a branch
society at Reading.
Sir John Conroy (late private secretary and principal
equerry to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent) is in
treaty for Hurst House, near Twyford, the residence of the
Hon. Captain Berkeley, who is about to leave England for
the Mediterranean for three years.

I alluded in my communication which appeared in the
Morning Herald of the Ilth instant, to the extraordinary
fact (in connection with the erection of a Roman Catholic
chapel at Windsor, almost under the very walls of the Castle)
of her Majesty having granted a charter to the Papist college
of St. Mary Oscott, near Birmingham • I then stated that
amongst the list of professors at this college, is the Hon. and
Rev. George Spencer, the younger brother of Earl Spencer.
In order that the public may have some idea of the feel-
ings of this " professor" of a college which her Majesty has
honoured and signalised by " a charter," I give the following
extract from a letter which appeared in the last number of
the Berkshire Chronicle. The writer, after observing that
he " was born and educated in liberal principles, and was
therefore a friend to civil and religious liberty in the largest
sense of the term," thus proceeds :

" But I now find the Roman Catholics of the present day
are trying to obtain much more than that. The conduct of
the Hon. and Rev. George Spencer, Earl Spencer's brother,
and now a Roman Catholic priest, has opened my eyes. He
lives at St. Mary's College, Oscott, near Birmingham, and
thinks he is doing God service by trying to do all he can to
overturn the British constitution. He has publicly declared
that the Roman Catholics looked for the recovery of all their
lost power in this country, and would be satisfied with no-
thing less ! He also says he rejoices that he possesses abili-
ties to be dangerous to the constitution, because it is anti-
Catholic. It is now high time for all true friends of civil and
religious liberty to look about them."
Indeed it is ; but the more we " look about" us, the more
we see how Papists are honoured by royalty in their own
colleges, and not only tolerated, but distinguished by high
offices about the person of the Sovereign.