The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-05-13 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

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Her Majesty; Prince Albert, and the Prince and Prin-
cess of Prussia, honoured the performance of the French
plays with their presence on Friday.
The Queen, Prince Albert, and the Prince and Princes.s
of Prussia honoured the Duke of Sutherland with a visit
at Stafford House on Friday. After partaking of luncheon
the royal party were conducted through the picture gal-
lery and state rooms.

It is expected that the Queen and Prince Albert, with
the Court, will remove to Osborne about the 21st instant.
The royal yachts, the Fairy and Elfin, are both ready for
service ; and the Victoria and Albert will also be ready for
service in a few: days.

It is understood that the Queen intends to give a third
state ball in the month of June next, and that, for the
encouragement of trade, her Majesty has resolved that it
shall be a fancy ball. The costume will be the full-dress
of the court of King Charles the Second, from the
Restoration in 1660 to 1685. The choice of dress will not
be limited, t©. this country, but will include the court cos-
tumes of that period of other European countries:
THE Pultavn OF WALIM—The accounts of the revenue
of the Diseby. of Cornwall have just been laid before
Parliament, and by these it would appear that the Prince
of Wales ha3.already opened a rather formidable account
with his bankers. In these days of retrenchment and
economy, an expenditure of nearly sixty thousand per
annum, .onz,account of the prince, while yet under ten
years of age must sound rather extravagant to the ears of
the Cobdens and Walmsleys, who study these matters in
order to point a moral or adorn a tale. "Payments
wade to his royal highness's use, £58,675," 'may induce
some inquisitive reformer or another to ask what use has
been made of•a11 thigNmoney ; when, a year or two hence,
some unfortunate Minister of the day will have to move
a vote for an establishment suitable to the rank of the
heir apparent.. _

HER IVAJ.ESTT'S STATE BALL.—The Queen gave a
State Ball on Wednesday evening, at Buckingham Palace,
to a most numerous and brilliant Court, invitations hav-
ing been issued to above 2,100. The Diplomatic Corps,
with their wives and daughters, and the gentlemen of the
respective Legations, foreigners of distinction, the Cabi-
net Ministers, and other high functionaries of State,
Privy Councillors, the ladies and gentlemen of the house-
holds of the Queen, the Prince Albeft, and the members
of the Royal Family, and the Queen's Aides de Camp, all
alighting at the garden entrance of the palace, while the
general circle of visitors entered the palace by the front
central portico. The Queen wore a hlue silk dress with
three skirts of blue and white tulle, trimmed with bun-
ches of apple blossoms, ornamented with diamonds.
Her Majesty's head-dress was formed of a wreath of
apple blossoms, ornamented with diamonds. Her Royal
Highness the Princess of Prussia wore a dress of white
tulle over white satin, trimmed with white satin riband
and bunches of flowers, and ornamented with diamonds.
Her Royal Highness wore a garland of geraniums as a
head dress, and diamond ornaments. The dresses of the
ladies were new for the occasion, and the gentlemen were
in full dress, the members of the different orders of
knighthood, British and foreign, wearing their respective
insignia. The Duke of Wellington and the Marquis of
Londonderry both wore the order of the Black Eagle of
Prussia.

HMI MAJESTY'S DRAWING-ROOM.—The Queen held
a Drawing Room (the second, this season) on Tuesday
afternoon, at St. James's Palace. Their Royal High-
nesses the Prince and Princess of Prussia, and Prince
Frederick William of Prussia were present on the occa-
sion. The Queen wore a train of buff coloured silk,
having flowers of white and yellow brocaded on it. The
train was trimmed with tulle, yellow riband, and bunches
of lilac, ornamented with diamonds. The petticoat was
of white satin, with an upper skirt of blonde, trimmed
with bunches of lilac and tulle, and ornamented with
diamonds to correspond with the train. The head-dress
was formed of diamonds and feathers and a wreath of
lilacs. The Princess of. Prussia wore a train of blue bro.
caded with silver, and trimmed with bouquets of flowers,
with diamond ornaments ; the stomacher was also de-
corated with brilliants. The petticoat was of white
watered silk, trimmed-with flowers to correspond with the
train. The head-dross was composed of diamonds and
feathers with flowers. The Duchess of Northumberland
wore a train of ll; broche, lined with glace, and trim-
med with point lace and ribbons; petticoats of lilac tulle
over glace, flounced with Brussels point. Head-dress,
feathers and lace lappets ; ornaments, diamonds and
emeralds. Miss Talbot wore a court costume, composed
of a rich white glace silk train, trimmed al/ round with
tulle and bouquets of roses du Mexique and herbes
grasses; a white tulle dress, trimmed with bouillon of
tulle and bouquets of roses, over a white glace slip.
Head-dress, composed of a plume of feathers, lappets,
&c. Miss Burdett Coutts wore a court costume, com-
posed of a rich gray moire antique train, trimmed all
round with bouquets of lys d'eau Victoria; the dress of
white tulle, with bouquets of flolzers, trimmed with
nceuds of ribbon and montants of flowers, over a rich
white glace slip. Head-dress, composed of blonde lap-
pets, feathers, and a diadem of diamonds, &c.
Earl Grosvenor, who has been making a tour in the
East, is expected to arrive at Grosvenor House at the
close of this week, via' the overland route. This young
nobleman is about to form a matrimonial alliance with
the Lady Constance Leveson Gower, the youngest daugh-
ter of the Duke of Sutherland.

The Duchess of Gloucester, the last surviving daughter
of George the Third, is fast following her royal relatives
to the tomb.

THE PAPAL AGGRESSION.

Sir T. B. Birch and W. Brown voted against Mr. Ur-
quhart's motion on Friday night, as did Sir R. Inglis,
Lord Ashley, and others of the Protestant par Ly. Lord
J. Manners, Sir F. Thesiger, J. A. Roebuck, J. Greene,
&e. voted in favour of the motion. .

-en attended on Thursday at the laying of
the first stone of a mass-house at Brook.green, Hammer-
smith. His huge mitre, which sat on him like a gigantic
fool's-cap, caused as much hilarity among the lookers-on
as they could decently give expression to.
Mr. John O'Connell has, with reluctance, he says,
yielded to the resolution of the Roman Catholic Aggre-
gate meeting, in Dublin, to oppose per fas et nefas,
ministers upon every question or motion in Parliament,
be it good, bad, or indifferent, so long as the Ecclesias-
tical Titles Prevention Bill is sanctioned by the Govern-
ment.

Father Ignatius and the Rev. A. King, Ind pendent
minister, have consented to enter upon a weekly corre-
spondence on the vital questions at issue between Rome
and Protestantism. The letters will appear in the Free-
man and Warder, Dublin newspapers. It is stated that
be former gentleman has gone to London, and that he
will indite his epistles under the direct inspiration of the
" Cardinal."