The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-09-26 00:00:00

DREADFUL SHIPWRECKS.

THE PRINCESS AUGUSTA.—The Princess Augusta, a
schooner, was lost on the 20th of last month, about
twenty miles west of Cape Sable. It arose from being
thrown on her beam ends, so much so as to completely
baffle the utmost exertions of the crew towards righting
her. Only one out of the crew was saved. She was from
La Have, bound to Halifax.

MIME AMELIA THOMPSON.—The loss of this valuable
vessel, the property of Sir J. Pixie, Bart., happened
about eighty miles east by south of Madras, on the morn-
ing of the 23d of May last. The circumstances attend-
ing her loss are, that she was suddenly overtaken by a
heavy squall, which completely threw her on her beam
ends. Part of the crew were saved, but the remaining
portion (seven in number) met with a watery grave.

THE :BRIG THOMAS RICKINSON.—The destruction of
this vessel occurred about two o'clock on the morning of
the 27th May last, on the reef of rocks off Ponte d'Oror,
she being on her homeward passage from the Mauritius
to London. It unfortunately took place in consequence
of an error in the ship's chronometer, the commander,
Captain Nudby, supposing from his calculation at the
time he was at least sixty miles from the island. Directly
she struck the boats were launched, and the officers and
crew got into them, and succeeded in reaching the beach in
perfect safety. Some anxiety was manifested for the pre-
servation of the mails from the Mauritius, which were
on board, and It was thought that in the hurry of the
moment they might have been forgotten. They were,
however, safely landed, Captain Nudby having thought
of them the very instant the brig struck.

THE COURT.

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO BELGIUM.

In our last we furnished interesting particulars of the
royal progress up to Saturday, (the 16th instant,) when
her Majesty, Prince Albert, and their suite, took their
departure by special railway train from the ancient city of
Ghent for, and returned to, Ostend. The following day
(Sunday) was spent in comparative retirement and repose.
On Monday, her Majesty and Prince Albert visited
Brussels, where they were royally entertained, and re-
ceived with enthusiastic feeling by the whole population,
ss at the other cities. It was expected by tne citizens
that her Majesty and Royal consort would shew them-
selves at the- balcony, and see some troops reviewed,
shortly after their arrival, but in this they were disap-
pointed ; and it was rather too much to expect it imme-
diately after a long journey on dusty roads. The sequel
will, however, show that the Royal party were not long in
giving the people an even more favourable opportunity of
gratifying their curiosity and testifying their respect.

BRUSSELS, MONDAY NIGHT, Sept. IS.—lf any dis-
appointment were caused by the Queen of England not
showing herself at the window of the Royal Palace and
reviewing the troops assembled in the open space beneath,
and by her non-appearance throwing a momentary gloom
upon the general gratification, that disappointment was
very quickly removed by her Majesty and her Royal host
and hostess at four o'clock attending a concert given in
the park in honour of her visit by the Harmonic Soeiety
of the city. The conceit was given in the open air amidst
the trees of the park, in a spot well adapted and occasion-
ally used for such purposes. The royal party were seated
in an elegant and well-proportioned pavilion, open in
front, so that the thousands of spectators assembled could
get a perfect view of the Sovereigns and Prince Albert;
and the musicians were in an open orchestra close to the
pavilion. The performances were selections from the best
masters, and were exceedingly well executed. The Grand
Duchess Anna Fedorowna was with the royal party.
During the whole of the performance their Majesties
evinced great interest in the scene, will& must have been
both novel and gratifying to our belox. ' Queen. Not-
withstanding the immediate propinquity 6. uany thousand
persons to the royal auditors, there was no breach of de-
corum, no crowding or unseemly contention for the best
places, and no vehemence of expression, either of delight
or dissatisfaction, at the manner in which the concert was
performed. The order, silence, and respect preserved,
was most creditable to the audience, and might furnish a
very good lesson for the subjects of Queen Victoria in
their native country.

At the conclusion of the concert, when the royal party
left the pavilion, the cheering was unanimous and heart-
felt. The waving of handkerchiefs and the various de-
monstrations of the best feeling were to be seen and heard
on all sides. The King, the two Queens, Prince Albert,
and the suite, then drove through the city, followed by
an immense crowd. They visited the Hotel de Ville and
several other public institutions, and returned through
the Montagne de Cours, about 6 o'clock, to the Palace,
where the dinner was served up to their Majesties and
their guests, consisting of 80 persons, at 7 o'clock. At a
quarter past 10 o'clock, their Majesties and Prince Albert
departed in an open carriage, attended by the Earls of
Liverpool and Aberdeen, the officers of the household,
the suite, &c., to the Chateau of Laecken, where Queen
Victoria passed the night, and whence she will to-morrow
depart for Antwerp by a special train.
In the evening the whole city was brilliantly illumina-
ted ; at the entrances of the Park the gates were very
tastefully lighted with variegated lamps, and scarcely a
house of any size or pretensions was without a row of the
lighted pots with which illuminations on the Continent
are formed.

ANTWERP, SEPT. 18, 4 o'cLocK.—Queen Victoria, in
company with her illustrious relatives and husband, and
attended by the suite by which the Royal party have been
throughout accompanied, has just made what may be
called her triumphal entry into this yet magnificent city.
Her reception has been even more warm, more cordial...
and more loyal, than the reception she has anywhere
heretofore received, though everywhere the most distin-
guished honours have been paid. At the station of the
railroad a large apartment, lined with scarlet cloth, and
hung with draperies, was provided for the resting-room
of the Sovereigns immediately on their alighting, and here
they were received by the authorities. Their stay was but
of a few minutes ; the Royal carriages, as at Brussels,
drew up, and the procession of the cortege through the
streets, already set forth in the programme of the burgo-
master, commenced. The Queen looked remarkably well;
she was perfectly recovered from the fatigues of yester-
day, and enjoyed the scene with renovated spirits. Prince
Albert also looked well. King Leopold and his Queen
were in the best spirits, and during the passage towards
the Palace pointed out to our Sovereign several of the
remarkable features of this old and interesting city, the
birthplace of Rubens and the scene of many interesting
events in the history of a former age. The hurrahs of
the spectators, both in the streets and at the windows of
the houses, were enthusiastic. At the windows were the
Rae of the female society of the city, and certainly a bet-
ter show of the beauties of Belgium could not have been
got up.
A squadron of the Lancers formed the escort—a fine
body of men, well mounted, well equipped, and of a most
martial appearance. The Chasseurs and their band were
also in attendance, which, with the cavalry band, lent the
aid of warlike music to celebrate this triumph of peace.

On reaching the Palace their Majesties and the Prince
alighted and entered, King Leopold handing in our Queen,
and Prince Albert performing that courtesy for the Queen
of the Belgians. The rest of the party immediately fol-
lowed, amidst the cheering of the great concourse of per-
sons collected in front of the building; also Major-Gene-
ral Aaoul, commandant of the province, and Inspector-
General of the Gendarmes; M. Teichman, Inspector of
Bridges, &c. ; M. Visquain, and a deputation of the en-
gineers, &c.

The guns discharged on the arrival of her Majesty and
the Belgic Sovereigns were from the bridge of Laecken.
A salvo of 100 rounds was fired.

It is expected that her Majesty will leave Laecken to-
morrow for Antwerp, where great preparations have been
made for her reception. It is supposed she will steam
the Scheldt for England on Wednesday.
" God save the Queen" has been played with so little
intermission during the visit of the Queen and Prince
Albert to this country, that it will henceforth be engrafted
upon the national music of the Belgians.
Amongst the display of banners it must not be forgotten
to mention that from the tower of the Cathedral of St.
Gudule, two immense flags, the English and the Belgian,
were conspicuous above all the rest. The English Stand-
ard was also displayed at the Palace in company with the
Belgic flag, and also at many other buildings, particularly
at the houses of English residents.

ANTWERP, SEPT. 19, 11 o'cLocx.—Her Majesty is
not now expected till 1 or 2 o'clock to-day.
In the mean time the most active preparations have
been made to give the illustrious party as splendid and
loyal a welcome into this city as into any other in the
kingdom. The principal streets have been decorated with
saplings and wreaths of oak leaves and flowers, linen fes-
toons, flags, armorial bearings, devices, triumphal arches,
and all kinds of ornamental tablets, inscriptions, &c.
Troops are falling into ranks, drums beating, and bugles
sounding. The hotels are all filled with visiters, so that
it is difficult here (at Brussels it was impossible) to get
accommodation. There seems no end to the avidity of
all classes to see and welcome Queen Victoria and her
Royal Consort. Crowds are at the railroad station ;
and opposite the Royal Palace, a stately edifice in the
Flemish style, multitudes have been congregated for
hours.

The city is all in a state of excitement and joyous com-
motion, all business is at a stand-still, one great jubilee,
in which all are partakers.
The Burgomaster and the echevins have published a
proclamation and sort of programme of what is to be
done.

Her Majesty slept at the palace of Lecken on Monday
night, and on Tuesday passed on to Antwerp, where the
royal cortege arrived about four o'clock in the afternoon,
in perfect safety, where the royal party remained until the
following day.

On Wednesday, at noon, her Majesty and Prince Alber
embarked at Antwerp, on board the royal yacht, on their
return to England. The King and Queen of the Belgians
accompanied her Majesty on board, and proceeded with
her about twelve miles down the Scheldt, as far as the
fortress of Lievekens Hoek, opposite Lillo, a small forti-
fied town on the right bank of the river. Here one of
his Majesty's royal barges was in waiting to convey their
Majesties on shore. At the landing place at Lievekens
Hoek a very elegant little pavilion was erected for their
Majesties' accommodation. The fortress of Lillo, and
the gun-boats abreast of it, saluted her Majesty as she
proceeded.
As the royal yacht passed Batch, the first town on the
frontier of Holland, the guns of the fort fired a royal
salute. The Cyclops, Tartarus, and the other steamers
forming the royal squadron, immediately hoisted the
Dutch colours along with the English.
When her Majesty arrived off Flushing, the forts salu-
ted, and a Dutch frigate lying in the roads manned her
yards and fired a royal salute. The fort of Bruschoes, on
the opposite side of the river, also saluted.
The royal yacht then shaped her course towards the
Margate Road, where she brought up for a few hours
during the night, waiting the flood tide, there not being
sufficient water to enable her to pass the flats.
At daylight on Thursday morning she again got under
weigh, at ten minutes to eleven o'clock Her Majesty and
Prince Albert landed at Woolwich Dockyard, under a
royal salute fired from the batteries and the different
steamers which had accompained the royal yacht throueh-
out the voyage. Her Majesty was received by Sir F.
Collier, C. 8., the captain-superintendent of the dockyard
at Woolwich, and the other principal officers of the estab-
lishment.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert afterwards entered an
open carriage, and was escorted by a detachment of Hus-
sars. The lion. Miss Canning and another lady accom-
panied her Majesty and her august consort, the Earls of
Aberdeen and Liverpool following the Queen in a carriage
drawn by four horses to London.
The Queen and Prince Albert reached Windsor within
25 hours of their departure from Antwerp. They almost
immediately proceeded to Frogmore Park to visit the
Duchess of Kent. There was no dinner party at the Cas-
tle, the attendance of the band was not required, but the
Queen and Prince dined alone and spent the evening in
quiet. The court is expected to proceed to Claremont,
for two or three days, in the course of next week.

The Queen has been pleased to declare Field-Marshal
his Royal Highness Prince Albert, K.G., Captain-Gene-
ral and Colonel of the Artillery Company, in the room of
kugustus Frederick Duke of Sussex, deceased.
The whole suite of state apartments at St. James's
Palace is about to undergo an extensive and thorough
repair, cleansing, and decoration. It is expected that the
apartments will not be again ready for royal use for
severe! months, probably not until the early part of next
spring.

THE KING OF HANOVER.—A correspondent writes
that his Majesty, while in conversation with a noble
friend, expressed the determination, should divine Provi-
dence spare him health, to visit this country again next
summer, and he proposed then to come earlier in the
season.—Edinburgh Evening Post.
THE QUEEN AT SEA.—Her Majesty's mode of life
when on board is exceedingly simple. She rises early,
breakfasts about eight, and dines at seven, taking lun-
cheon in the interval. She and the Prince almost in-
variably dine alone, this custom not having been broken
through more than on two occasions during her excur-
sion. She spends a good part of the day on deck, some-
times walking along the deck, and more generally sitting
at work with her ladies of honour. Her Majesty is rather
fond of the latter occupation. She also devotes some
time to music every day, a piano being part of the cabin
furniture. She has been in most vigorous health through-
out the trip, and her spirits have been not merely good,
but even high; and she evinces a most evident and un-
sophisticated enjoyment in the sea.—Morning Herald.

PRESENT TO HER MAJESTY.—III commemoration of
Her Majesty and Prince Albert's visit to the Thames Tun-
nel, on the 26th of July last, Mr. Langston, a carver and
worker in ivory, who occupies some stalls in the tunnel,
manufactured a pincushion, of what Mr. Langston terms
" vegatable ivory," for presentation to Her Majesty. The
pincushion, composed of rich crimson velvet, was in the
form of a coronet, surmounted by the Royal Crown, both
which and the stand, together with the work round the
pincushion, were formed of ivory, and executed in the
most delicate and beautiful manner. On one side of the
pincushion was carved on the ivory a view of the entrance
to the tunnel, and on the other the words, " A present
from the Thames Tunnel," surrounded by wreaths. On
being finished, the pincushion was enclosed in an elegant
puce morocco case, lined with white satin, accompanied
by a description of the vegetable, of the nuts of which
this ivory is composed, printed in letters of gold on blue
satin. On the pincushion being submitted to Her Majes-
ty, she was graciously pleased to express her approbation
of the work, and her acceptance of it as a present. A few
days afterwards Mr. Langston received a letter from Sir
Henry \Vheatly, Her Majesty's private Secretary, re-
questing his attendance at Buckingham Palace, and on
doing so, he was informed of Her Majesty's acceptance
of the present, and likewise that it was her Majesty's corn.
mand that the ingenious artist should receive a pecuniary
acknowledgement as a mark of Her Majesty's estimation
of the talent displayed.

AD ingenious compositor employed in the Worcester
Journal office has recently got up an exquisite piece of
handiwork as a present to her Majesty Queen Adelaide,
by whom it appears it has been most graciously received;
it is a toilet cushion, 14 inches by 9 inches, covered with
white satin, surrounded by two rows of bullion fringe, be-
neath a gold hellion rord, with snhi taccela at the corner,
On each side is a tasteful and appropriate design, nicely
arranged and beautifully printed, on one side in gold and
the other in ink ; the following is a description : in the
centre is the verse :

" Oh, be thou blessed with all that Heaven can send,
Long health, long life, long pleasure, thee attend;
Let day improve on day, and year on year,
Without a pain, a trouble, or a fear ;
Till death, unfelt, thy tender frame destroy
In some soft dream or ecstacy of joy.
Peaceful sleep out the sabbath of the tomb,

And wake to raptures in a life to come."
This is surmounted by the Royal arms, and a fountain on
each side ; a small scroll border contains the following
appropriate aphorisms—" Qui dedit hoc hodie, eras si
volet, auferet ;" " Deus major columns ;" " Virtute
semper prtevalet sapientia ;" and " Fama semper vivet."
The whole being surrounded by a magnificent border, in
the corners of which the Royal crow❑ is placed, and in
the centres the Prince of Wales' feathers. Great credit
is due to the skilful workman (Mr. Humby) for the in-
genuity, taste, and (not the least) patience, which he has
exercised in the construction of this unique specimen of
typography.— IVorcester Journal.

The marriage of Lord Dalmeny, M.P., eldest son of
the Earl of lioseberry, and Lady Catherine Lucy Wilhel-
mina Stanhope, only daughter of Earl and Countess Stan-
hope, was solemnized on Wednesday last, at St. George's
Church,. Hanover-square, the Rev. W. Repton perform-
ing the religious ceremony.
LORD CARDIGAN.--The Mercantile Advertiser, a
Dublin journal, has made the amende honorable to the
Earl of Cardigan, for having, from misinformation, given
currency to a report that his lordship bad improperly put
a young officer under arrest.
PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION.—Br a treturn
issued last week, showing the total number of Members
of Parliament sent to the House of Commons. it appears
that the numbers sent by England and Wales collec-
tively amount to 500, representing a total population of
15,906,741 ; Ireland 105 members, representirg a popu-
lation of 8,175,238 ; Scotland 53 members, representing a
population of 2,620,184—making a grand total of 658
members of parliament, representing a total population of
26,702,163.

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

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