The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-28 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.-SATURDAY

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Duke
and Duchess de Nemours, arrived at Buckingham Palace,
at half-past. four o'clock, yesterday afternoon, in an open
carriage and four, with outriders in scarlet liveries, escorted
by a party of lancers, from Windsor Castle. The Hon.
Colonel Cavendish, clerk-marshal, and Colonel Bouverie,
equerry to Prince Albert, occupied a chariot and four. Two
open carriages and four also followed, containing the Coun-
tess of Mount Edgecumbe, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss
Anson, and Countess d'Oraison ; and Lord Byron, Hon.
William Cowper, and General Colbert.

Her Majesty was received at the palace by the Earl of
Belfast, vice-chamberlain, and the Earl of Surrey, treasurer
of the household.

The royal standard was hoisted immediately on the marble
arch.

Viscount Melbourne had an audience of the Queen at
Buckingham Palace.

Her Majesty had a dinner party last evening at Bucking-
ham Palace. The company consisted of their Royal High-
nesses the Duchess of Kent and the Duke and Duchess of
Nemours ; Mon. Guizot, the French ambassador ; Baron de
Moncorvo, the Portuguese minister ; Baron GersdoriT, the
Saxon minister ; the Lord Chancellor and Lady Cottenham,
the Duke of Wellington, Marquis and Marchioness of Lans-
downe, Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, Earl of Liver-
pool, Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Earl of Erroll, Earl
of Surrey, Lord and Lady Seymour, Countess of Mount
Edgecumbe, Lady Charlotte Dundas, Countess ofd'Oraison,
Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Anson, Baroness Lehzen, Lord
Byron, Hon. William Cowper, Hon. Colonel Cavendish,
Colonel Bouverie, General Colbert, and Mr. Francis Seymour,
The band of the Coldstream regiment of foot guards at-
tended at the palace during the evening.
The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Charlotte Dundas,
arrived at Ingestrie House, Belgrave-square, at half-past two
o'clock yesterday morning, from a visit to her Majesty at
Windsor Castle.

The Princess Augusta received visits yesterday, at Clarence
House, St. James's, from the Duchess of Gloucester, the
Duke of Sussex, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and
the Princess Augusta of Cambridge.
The Duke of Cambridge honoured Sir William J. Newton
with a sitting, yesterday, for the coronation picture, which
he is painting upon a large surface of ivory.

WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—This morning, at half-past two
o'clock, the Queen and Prince Albert, with their distinguished
visiters and suite, proceeded from the castle to the Home
Park to witness the review of the Ist regiment of life guards
and the 2d rifle brigade ; both regiments were under the com-
mand of Col. frown. The royal party proceeded to the
ground in the following order :—Pony phaeton and four.—
The Queen and the Duchess de Nemours. Pony phaeton
and four—Countess of Surrey, Countess d'Oraison, and
Lady Mount Edgecumbe. Pony phaeton and four—Lord
Robert Grosvenor and the Hon. Mrs. Anson. Pony phaeton
and four—Lady Robert Grosvenor and Lady Mary Howard.
Pony phaeton and four—Lord Byron and the Hon. Misses
Paget and Anson. Prince Albert, the Duke de Nemours,
the Marquis of Conyngham, and Lord Duncannon rode on
horseback. After the review, which lasted upwards of two
hours, the royal party returned to the castle in the same state
they came on the ground.

Shortly after two o'clock her Majesty and Prince Albert,
accompanied by the Duke and Duchess de Nemours, left the
castle, for town, under an escort of the Ist life guards,
commanded by Lord Robert Clinton.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and the whole
of the distinguished visiters and suite, took their departure
in the course of the afternoon.

COURT CIRCULAR. -MONDAY

The Queen held a court on Saturday afternoon, at Buck-
ingham Palace.

Count Bjornstjerna, Envy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary from the King of Sweden, had an audience of
her Majesty to deliver a letter.
Baron de Cetto, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-
potentiary from the King of Bavaria, had au audience of the
Queen, to deliver a letter from his Sovereign.
Count de Pollon, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary from the King of Sardinia, and from his Royal
Highness the Duke of Lucca, had an audience of her Ma-
jesty.
Baron de Moncorvo, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary from her most Faithful Majesty the Queen
of Portugal and the Algarves, had an audience of her Majesty
to deliver a letter from his Sovereign.

Their excellencies were respectively introduced by Viscount
Palmerston, her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs.
The court was attended by the Hon. William Cowper,
Groom in Waiting.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert attended Divine Service
yesterday afternoon in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The
service for the evening was read by the Rev. Messr. Pack man
and Barham. The musical service was Travers in F. The
anthem was " In Jewry is God known," arranged by J. B.
Sale.

Mr. J. B. Sale presided at the organ.
The Dean of Hereford was the deputy clerk of the closet
in waiting. The royal suite consisted of Lady Barham,
Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Anson, Lord Byron, Earl of
Morley, Earl of Surrey, Hon. William Cowper, Hon. Col.
Cavendish, Colonel Bouverie, and Mr. Francis Seymour.
After attending the service, her Majesty and Prince
Albert, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess de Nemours,
took an airing in an open carriage and four. The Hon. Col.
Cavendish and Colonel Bouverie attended the royal party on
horseback.

Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Duke
and Duchess de Nemours, and attended by Hon. Miss Paget,
Hon. Miss Anson, Countess D'Oraison, Lord Byron, Earl
of Surrey, Hon. W. Cowper, Hon. Colonel Cavendish,
Colonel Bouverie, and General Colbert, honoured the Italian
opera with their presence on Saturday evening.
The Marquis of Normanby and Viscount Melbourne had
audiences of the Queen on Saturday.
Her Majesty and the Duchess de Nemours took an airing,
on Saturday afternoon, in an open carriage and four. Prince
Albert and the Duke de Nemours rode out on horseback at
the same time. The Hon. Colonel Cavendish was in attend-
ance on the Queen, on horseback ; and Colonel Bouverie and
Count Colbert attended their royal highnesses.
The Duke and Duchess de Nemours attended Divine
Service, yesterday morning, at the French Chapel, in George-
street, Portman-square. Countess D'Oraison and General
Colbert were in waiting on their royal highnesses.
Saturday was the birthday of the Duchess of Cambridge.
Her royal highness received visits of congratulation in the
course of the day from their royal highnesses Prince Albert,
the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke
of Sussex, and the Duke and Duchess de Nemours, (attended
by Countess d'Oraison and Count Colbert). In the after-
noon the Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princess
Augusta of Cambridge, and attended by Lady Augusta So-
merset, paid a visit to the Queen, at Buckingham Palace.
The foreign ministers and many of the nobility called during
the day, ,at Cambridge House, and left their names for the
royal duchess.
The answer given yssterday, to the nobility, at Clarence
House, St. James's, was "The Princess Augusta has had
some refreshing sleep during the night, and is rather better
The Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Gloucester,
Sophia Matilda, and the Duke of Cambridge,
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The litichess of Gloucester visited the Princess Augusta
yesterday.
The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Charlotte Dnndas,
and the Princess Sophia Matilda, attended by Miss Coates,
visited the Duke and Duchess de Nemours, on Saturday
afternoon, at Buckingham Palace.
The Duke of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess de
Nemours (attended by Countess d ()raison) visited the
Duchess of Kent yesterday, at Ingestre House, Belgrave-
square. The Princess Sophia Matilda paid a visit to the
royal duchess on Saturday.
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Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess de Ne-
mours honoured Mr. Ross, A.R.A., with final sittings for
their
miniatures, on Saturday afternoon, at Buckingham
Palace.
The Duke of Cambridge took an airing yesterday after-
noon, to Kew.

The Commerce says that ten of the rabbis who were accused
of the murder of Father Thomas, at Damascus, have been
released, and that only one, Antebbi, remains in prison.
THE NEW HOUSES op PARLIAMENT.—Mr. Charles
Barry, the architect of the new houses, has had several in-
terviews with Viscount Duncanuon and the Hon. Mr. Com-
missioner Charles Gore, on the subject of laying the founda-
tion-stone of the buildings for the ords and Commons, and
it has, we understand, been definitively arranged that the
ceremony is to be postponed until early in the ensuing year,
when it will be laid by her Majesty. Mr. Barry stated to the
commissioners that the houses will be completed by the corn-
mencement of thesessionofleBm44p.loy'erd underheworktmheenc,oonftrwachtoomrs
there are nearly 500 are still
in constructing the speakers house, usher of the black rod's,
and parliamentary offices, which by the end of the present
year will, in the opinion of the architect, be 29 or 30 feet
from the basement.—Times.