The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-27 00:00:00

THE CO U RT.

Her Majesty's visit to Drury-lane Theatre on Monday
week, at the present reduced prices, produced £6OO.
Her majesty, on Wednesday night, honoured the Sain
James's Theatre with her presence, for the second time thi
season.

It is stated in a Worcester paper that the Queen Dowager
has selected Witlev Park, Worcestershire, the magnificent
seat of Lord Ward, for her summer residence.

The King of Hanover intends to remain in this country
until the last week in the ensuing month, or the first week in
August.— Standard. [Comfort for Joey Hume!]

There are at present three Queens and two Kings in Lon-
don : the Queen of England, the Queen Dowager, and the
Queen of the Belgians; the King of Hanover and the King
of the Belgians.
FATAL ACCIDENT TO A NIECE OF TILE DUKE OF WEL-
LINGTON.—His Excellency Lord Cowley and his family have
been visited with a severe affliction. His eldest son, the Hon.
Mr. Wellesley, Charge d'Affaires at Stutgard, was travelling,
with his wife and children, from that city to Paris, to pass
the summer with his Excellency at the Chateau de la Folie
Saint-James. The noble travellers had changed horses at
Chateau-Thierry, in the afternoon of Monday, and were pro-
ceeding on their journey, when the door of the caleche, being
too loosely shut, flew open, and one of Mr. Wellesler's
daughters, seven years old, who was standing against it look-
ing out, fell on to the road. She escaped the wheels, but
when taken up she was found to be quite dead, her skull
being fractured by the fall. The news of this lamentable ac-
cident was brought in the night to the Château de la Folie
Saint-James, and Lord and Lady Cowley immediately set out
for Chateau-Thierry, from which they have since returned
with the other part of the family.

THE KING AND QUEEN OF THE BELGIANS.—Their Ma-
jesties and suite left Ostend at half-past seven o'clock on
Friday morning in the Ariel steam packet, commanded by
Captain Smithett, and arrived at Woolwich at eight o'clock
on Friday evening. On landing their Majesties were re-
ceived by Viscount Hawarden, lord in waiting on the Queen ;
Lord George Lennox. lord in waiting on Prince Albert ; Lord
Bloomfield, colonel-commandant of the royal regiment of ar.
finery ; Captain Sir Francis Collier, R.N., superintendent
of the royal dockyard ; and Colonel Parke, of the royal ma-
rines. A guard of honour of the royal marines was on duty
in the dockyard, and received their Majesties with the usual
honours. Their, Majesties, attended by the Countess Vilain
Quatorze, Baron de Dieskau, and M. de Moerkerke, and also
by Vise:. not Hawarden and Lord George Lennox, left the
royal dockyard, in one of the Queen's carriages, for town,
escorted by a party of the royal horse artillery, commanded
by Mr. Maude. The escort attended the august visitors to
Greenwich. Their Majesties arrived at Buckingham Palace,
on a visit to the Queen, at half-past nine o'clock, and were
received by her Majesty and Prince Albert. Her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived from Clarence House,
and visited her august relatives after their arrival.

We understand that Samuel Pott, the man charged with
forging the Epworth petition, was taken to London yester-
day by a messenger from the House of Commons.—Doncas-
ter Chronicle.

CUSTOMS' ORDERS.—By a Treasury order, dated the 12th
instant, cocoa paste, the growth and manufactured a British
possession abroad, is allowed to be shipped free of duty, as
ships' stores.

Among. the parliamentary notices Lord Ashley has one
which stands for Tuesday, July 4, to the following effect :
TO ask for leave to bring in a hill to establish, regulate, and
protect societies for the improvement of the condition of the
industrious classes by extending the allotment or field-garden
system, and the more general establishment of loan-funds in
England and Wales.

The following notice was affixed to the doJr of a parish
church in the neighbourhood of Paton :—" The surveyor gives
Noties that a ltat has been signed by two of her majesties
justices of the Peas."-- Cambridge Independent.
THE LION TAMER..—Vau Amburgh, the celebrated lion
tamer, will be at Sunderland, on Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday, in next week ; he will then visit North and South
Shields, and o❑ the following Tuesday he will make his pub-
lic entry into Newcastle, through the streets of which lie will
drive in hand his eight celebrated cream-coloured horses.
This distinguished character visited Stockton•upon-Ties, on
Monday last, when all the principal shops were closed, and
business entirely suspended. One of the most remarkable
features of Van Aniburgh's exhibition is his living Giraffe,
which is the only one that travels the provinces.—Durham
paper.