The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-03-10 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.-FRIDAY.

The Queen held a court and privy council at two o'clock
yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace.
The council was attended by the Lord President of the
Council, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Privy Seal, the First
Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home
Departments, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the President.
of the India Board, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, the Lord
Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Master of the Horse.
Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint Mr. Myddel-
ton Biddulph to be Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Den-
bigh, that gentleman took the oaths appointed to be taken
thereupon.
The Queen having been pleased to appoint the Honourable
Edward Most!, n to be Lord-Lieutenant of the county of
Merioneth, Mr. Mostyn took the oaths appointed on such
occasions.

Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in waiting, •
The Council being ended, and her Majesty having retired -
from the throne-room to the royal closet, the Rev. Henry
Pepys, D.D., was introduced and did homage to her Majesty,
on being appointed Bishop of Soder and Man.
The Marquis of Normanby, her Majesty's Principal Secre-..
tary of State for the Home Department, and the Rev. 3.
Vane, Deputy of the Clerk of the Closet in Waiting, assisted
at the ceremony.
The Marquis of Lansdowne had an audience of the Queen.
The court was attended by Lady Barham, Lady in Wait-
; Lord in Waiting ; Lord Hill, Gold ,Stick in Waiting ;
The Treasurer of the Household ; Col. Armstrong, Groom
in Waiting; and Col. Wemyss, Equerry in Waiting.
The Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister, was
presented to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, yesterday,
at an audience at Buckingham Palace, by Viscount Palmer-
ston, G.C.B. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Viscount Melbourne had an audience, yesterday, of the
Queen.

The royal dinner party at the palace last evening included
M. Guizot the French ambassador, the Bishop of London,
the Marquis of Westminster, the Earl of Erroll, the Earl of
Uxbridge, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount and Viscountess
Palmerston, Viscount Duncannon, Viscount and Viscountess
Sydney, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Lord George Lennox, and
Sir Hussey and Lady Vivian.
The band of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards was
in attendance at the palace during the evening.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went yesterday after-
noon to Goldsmiths' Hall. His royal highness was accom-
panied by his brother, the hereditary Prince of Saxe Coburg
Gotha, and was attended by Lord Robert Grosvenor, Groom
of the Stole; Viscount Boringdon, Gentleman of the Bed-
chamber; Col. Wylde, Equerry; and Mr. Seymour, Groom
of the Bedchamber. The hered►tary Prince was attended by
Baron de Lowenfels and Baron de Gruben.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager visited the Duchess of
Kent yesderday, at Buckingham -Palace, Her Majesty also
visited the Princess Sophia, at Kensington.
The Duchess of Kent took a drive yesterday in a carriage.
Her royal highness also walked in the gardens of the
palace.
The Duchess and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge
visited the Princess Augusta yesterday, at Clarence House,
St. James's.

The Duchess of Cambridge honoured the Earl and Count-
ess of Jersey with her company at dinner, yesterday, at their
residence in Berkeley-square.

The contemplated marriage between the wealthy capitalist
Baron Anthony de Rothschild and the accomplished Miss
Montefiore, daughter of Mr. Ma ntefiore, of Great Stanhope-
street, is fixed to take place early in the ensuing month. The
baron has taken the spacious mansion in Grosvenor-place,
lately occupied by Sir John Mordaunt, and adjoining Viscount
Mahon's, for his future town residence.
A letter from Frankfort, in the Augsburgh Gazelle, states
that Count Survilliers and the Prince de Montfort (Joseph
.and Jerome Bonaparte) have met in London, by appoint-
ment, for the purpose of terminating the differences which
have arisen on the subject of the will of Cardinal Fesch. The
writer adds • that there is no truth in the report that Prince
Louis Bonaparte is to marry his cousin, the Princess Ma-
thilda de Montfort, a very different marriage being contem-
plated for her.

In preparing a vault a few days ago in the churchyard of
Stoke Lacy, Herefordshire, a running sand was discovered
about five feet below the surface, in consequence of which
the foundations of the chancel gave way, and the entire wall
fell down, carrying the eastern window in its descent—pro-
videntially the persons employed in the vault escaped, during
the interval that elapsed between the first indication of dan-
ger and the moment when it occurred.

A DISGUSTING GLUTTON.—On Saturday last, at the
Butchers' Arms, in this city, a man named William Webber,
undertook, for a trifling wager, to eat a roast pig of 10lbs.
weight, with half a quartern loaf, and a quantity of potatoes.
The pig was procured and dressed, and the fellow actually
succeeded in eating all but l lb., but could get no further.
A limited time was allotted for the accomplishment of the
task, and in the intervals of eating Webber amused himself
by drinking beer and smoking his pipe outside the door of
the house, and having thus refreshed himself, he would re-
turn to the work with renewed vigour. He is notorious in
feats of this description, and cleared a pig of 81bs. weight on
Christmas Eve.--Western Luminary.
THE NAPOLEON DUEL.—The following is the account of
the circumstances leading to this meeting ,—" Three weeks
since Count Leon arrived in London, and called at the house
of the Count de Survilliers, ex-King of Spain, at that of the
Prince de Montfort, ex-King of Westphalia, and that of
Prince Louis Napoleon, by neither of whom was he received,
for reasons with which we are not acquainted. A few days
ago the Count Leon wrote a letter to Prince Louis, com-
plaining of this refusal on the part of the family of the late
Emperor to receive him. This letter was written in so of-
fensive a style that the Prince would not condescend to reply
to it, but he sent Colonel Parquin to him to explain the rea-
sons that prevented the family from receiving him. This
explanation Count Leon refused to receive, and he sent a
challenge to the Prince by Lieut.-Col. Ratcliffe, of the In-
niskillen Dragoons, a distinguished officer in the British
army. In consequence of this challenge the Prince Louis,
accompanied by Count d'Orsay and Colonel Parquin, went
to Wimbledon Common to meet the Count, who having re-
fused to fight with swords' it was agreed to use pistols. Be-
fore, however, this could be accomplished the police inter-
fered and prevented any further proceedings."—Standard.
TiE MINISTRY.—The conservative opposition is nobly
redeeming the pledge it gave at the beginning of the session,
to coerce the folly, and bane the designs of our truckling
government. Thrice already has it hurled defeat upon mi-
nisters, and abased them to a condition from which any other
set of men would thankfully retire into oblivion. But where
virtue is not, there is no sbame. So far the promise made
by Lord Stanley during the " No-confidence' debate, has
been fulfilled to the letter. " Measure by step, failure after
failure, we will watch, and we will mark, and we will control
the government." Failure after failure !—we have witnessed
the third in the space of, a few short weeks—downright, hu-
miliating, flagrant failtires—the last, worst of all, tit retribu-
tion for unprincipled jobbing. Truly the declaration made
by Lord Stanley was, something more than a promise"-it wag
a prediction; and in its continuous fulfilment, the O'Con-
nell Cabinet is tasting the bitterness of delayed but inevitable
destruction.—Cheltenham Chronicle.

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