The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-07-17 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Viscount Melbourne had an audience on Saturday of her
Majesty.
The Queen Dowager left town shortly before five o'clock
on Saturday afternoon for the Queen's Lodge, in Bushy Park.
Before leaving town her Majesty received visits from the
following members of the Royal Family, who called at Marl-
borough-house to take leave of her Majesty :—The Princess
Augusta, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess
of Cambridge.

tier Majf7sty was attended by the Marchioness Wellesley
and the lion. Miss Mitchell.

The Portuguese Ambassador Extraordinary, Lord Kin-
tore, and Mr. Bannerman, had interviews on Saturday with
Viscount Melbourne in Downing-street.
A deputation, headed by the Earl of Burlington, had an
interview with Lord John Russell on Saturday at the Home-
office.

Sir Richard Bourke and Mr. Neville had interviews on
Saturday with Lord Glenelg at the Colonial-office.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge gave a state ball on
Saturday evening at Cambridge-house, Piccadily.
The suite of state rooms on the first floor were all opened
on the occasion, and were fitted up with the utmost elegance
and taste. On the south side of the mansion are three rooms
opening en suite—the yellow drawing-room, and the east and
west drawing-rooms. The first of these apartments is hung
with yellow damask and gold, and the furniture is of the
same colour. In the middle of the room, between candela-
bra, was a very large china vase, having in the centre a por-
trait, highly finished, of his Majesty the King of Prussia,
and on the opposite side a painting of the royal arms of
Prussia, with the crest on either side. The vase stood on a
marble table, supported by gilt composite pilasters. The
yellow drawing-room separates the east and west drawing-
rooms, the draperies, sofas, and furniture of which are of rich
crimson satin and gold.
The west drawing-room has'a large picture of the Empress
of Russia and a young Prince and Princess of the Imperial
Family, portraits of the Duke of Cambridge, Prince George
and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, the Princess Mary
of Cambridge. and some fine pictures, including one the sub-
jeot of which is a Greek wedding.
The gold cup presented by his late Majesty to the Duchess
of Cambridge was placed on a table in this room. It is very
fiuely chased and ornamented, and has engraven on it the
cipher of her Royal Highness surmounted by a coronet, and
also the initials of the late King encircled by the garter, and
surmounted by the crown; round this cup were several beau-
tiful albums. In a corner of this room was a marble bust of
the Landgrave Frederick of Hesse Cassel (father of the
Duchess of Cambridge) on a marble pedestal, highly polished,
and ou the opposite corner was a china vase painted with
flowers. Close to the window was an elegant writing-table,
behind which was placed a beautiful Gothic screen, having
the arms of Great Britain, Hanover, and Hesse Cassel, exe-
cuted in painted glass, while opposite to it, rising from the
back of the table, was an assemblage of the choicest flowers
or plants, among which were inserted a collection of cabinet
pictures and miniatures, one of the Landgrave Frederick
being among them. The flowers formed a complete garland
or border round the pictures.
Two large cabinets in this room of white and gold were
filled with paintings of porcelain and articles of vertu, and
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the Duke of Wellington, and of. Prince Frederick William of
Hesse Cassel, brother of the Duchess, and a great variety of
choice and interesting works of art in gold and silver.
The east drawing-room contains a very fine picture of St.
Cecilia, and a choice collection of pictures by German artists ;
here also was placed on a pedestal a marble bust of- the late
Duke of Kent. In addition to the magnificent pier-glasses
with the west drawing-room,
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delabra with wax lights were placed before the piers. The
ball-room, which is on the north side of the mansion, is en-
tered by the east drawing-room. A temporary orchestra was
erected for the quadrille band, and fronting the orchestra at
the other end of the room was the platform for the Royal
Family, with seats of crimson satin and gold. From the
middle of the ceiling was suspended a splendid chandelier of
the largest size and of great brilliancy, with smaller chande-
liers on each side. Branches and side-lights were displayed
in the greatest profusion, so that the illumination of this
apartment was perfectly dazzling; on one side of the room
was hung a full-length portrait of George IV. in the robes of
the Garter, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, between a full-length
portrait of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge,
by Raickman, and a full-length portrait of the King of
Prussia, by Kruger.
Communicating with the ball-room is the boudoir, a small
but very elegant apartment; the room is arched and divided
into compartments; the panels and all the mouldings are
richly carved and gilt. The furniture is blue and gold. A
miniature statue of George 111. in gold, in his coronation
robes, a small statue of George IV., miniatures and medal-
lions of Queen Charlotte. the late Duke of York, and other
members of the Royal Family, were among the objects of
curiosity and interest with which the tables in the room were
covered. One table was appropriated to a beautiful toilette
service of silver gilt.
An ante-room adjoining the west drawing-room completes
the suite of state rooms; the whole of them are adorned with
cornices richly carved and gilt, and was very brilliantly illu-
minated with cut glass chandeliers, lustres, candelabra, and
branches while in all the recesses, and also at the bottom of
the grand staircase was every variety of flowers and plants,
tastefully arranged and displayed. The balcony in front of
the house, which communicates with all the rooms on the south
side was filled with flowers.
Refreshments were served during the evening in the library.
Portraits of the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince George
and Princess Augusta of Cambridge, of George 111. George
1 V., Louis XVIII., and the Grand Duke of Strelitz orna-
mented this room, which also contains a marble bust of the
Duke of Cambridge.
The band of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards was
in attendance in the front court-yard, and received her Ma-
jesty and the members of the Royal Family on their arrival
with "God save the Queen."
The Princess Sophia Matilda. attended by Lady Alicia
Gordon, arrived shortly before 10 o'clock ; the Princess Au-
gusta. attended by Miss Vyse and Sir Benjamin Stephenson,
and the Duchess of Gloucester, attended by Lady Caroline
Legge and Colonel Sir Samuel G. Higgins, arrived soon af-
terwards. Tbeir Royal Highnesses were received in the hall
by Miss Kerr, Lady Caroline Campbell, and Baron Knese-
beck, who conducted the Princesses to the state-rooms.
The Duke de Nemours, the Duke of Saxe Cobourg, the
Duke of Nassau, the Hereditary Prince and Prince Maurice
of Nassau, and the Duke of Sussex (attended by Lord John
Churchill) came with their respective suites.
Her Majesty arrived a few minutes before 11 o'clock, ac-
companied by the Duchess of Kent, the Princess Hohenlohe,
and the Prince of Leinengen. In her Majesty's suite were
the, Duchess of Sutherland, Marchioness of Tavistock, Hon.
Miss Cavendish, Hon. Miss Cocks, Marquis Conyngbam,
Lord Byron, Hon. C. A. Murray, and Colonel Buckley. Her
Majesty wore the ribbon and jewel of the Order of the Garter,
and was received on alighting from her carriage by the Duke
and Prince George of Cambridge, Earl of Albemarle, Hon.
Colonel Cavendish, and Lord Alfred Paget. Her !lajesty
took the arm of the Duke of Cambridge, and at the top of the
grand staircase was received by the Duchess of Cambridge,
accompanied by the Princess Augusta of Cambridge.
Within 10 minutes after her Majesty's arrival the Queen
and the royal party entered the ball-room. Strauss's band
immediately played "God save the Queen," Sets for qua-
drilles were formed, and dancing commenced.
Later in the evening their Serene Highnesses Prince Er-
nest of Hesse Philippsthal, and Prince Christian of Holstein,
attended by M. de Dille (Danish Minister to the Hanseatic
r aln uer, Cities,) and Count G. de Blucher, arrived. The whole of the
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from a quarter before 10 until 12 o'clock. Supper served
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in the dining-room.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager will not, it is understood,
take her departure for Malta until the second week in Oc-
tober, when the Hastings, Captain Loch, which conveyed
the Earl and Countess of Durham, and suite, to Canada,
will take out her Majesty to the Mediterranean.

CONVEYING CATTLE BY RAILWAY.—On Friday the 15th
ult., a train on the London and Birmingham railway, im-
pelled by three engines, conveyed 1652 fat sheep from lien•
bigh Hall to London. The opinion of the drovers, who may
be supposed to understand the subject as well, and less likely
to be prejudiced in favour of the utility of railways for this
particular purpose, is, that the old mode, when the railway is
complete, will be superseded thereby; not that the expense
is materially lessened, but that the animals arrive at their
destination from 5 to 7 per cent superior in value than after
a journey of 50 miles by the road.—Bucks Herald.

INTELLIGENT JURY.—On Wednesday, during the trial of
two prisoners, at the Preston Court of Quarter Sessions, the
case being finished, the jury deliberated a short time, and
being asked by the clerk of the court, the foreman said they
had agreed upon their verdict; the names of the prisoners
being put to them, the foreman pronounced a verdict of
guilty as against one of them, and on being asked as to the
other, they appeared to have forgotten him, and, amid the
laughter of the court, in which the bench joined, turned
round to consult again. After a few minutes further delibe-
ration, the foreman again intimated that the verdict was
agreed upon, when being asked whether the prisoner was
guilty or not guilty, he paused for some moments, and at ,
length said, " Well, eb, both alike,"—Preston paper.