The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-02-03 00:00:00

THE COURT AND FASHIONABLE WORLD.

Their Majesties still remain at Brighton, in ttre enjoyment of
excellent health. His Majesty entertained at dinner on Thurs-
day, General Phipps, Earl of Ripon, Dowager Countess of
Mulgrave and the Ladies ,Phipps. Lady Wharncliffe, Mr. J.
and Lady Augusta Seymour, Marquis of Bristol and the Ladies
Hervey, the Hurt. Captain O. and Mrs. Campbell, and Sir Fre-
derick Smith.
The Duchess of Kent, the Princess Victoria and suite have
returned to their apartments in Kensington Palace, from St.
Leonards, Hastings.

Her Royal Highness the Laudgravine of Hesse Homburg,
before her departurp from Frankfort, ordered a collection of
twenty engravings front drawings executed by herself, which
were formerly engraved and dedicated to her royal parents, to
be again engraved on a small scale. The subject ot the draw-
ings is the distinction between fancy and imagination. This
work was published at the expense of her Royal Highness,
with a far-simile of the letter in which she dedicates it to her
brother the Duke of Cambridge, and the produce of the sale
was given to the poor of Hanover.
The Princess Sophia Matilda visited the Duchess of Glou-
cester on Thursday. Her Royal Highness afterwards left town
for her residence on Blackheath.

Count Medem, the Russian Charge d'Affaires, had an inter-
view on el Thursday with Sir Robert Pe in Downing-street

M. W. G. Dedel,' the Netherlands'lniulster, and /qr. Vag
he United States Charge d'Affaires, visited the Duke of We,
ington on Thursday at the Foreign Office.-
Sir Pulteney Malcolm transacted business on Thutiday a
the Colonial Office.

The Right Hon. Henry Ellis transacted business at the
Foreign Office on Thursday.
The chairman and a deputation from the committee of ex-
cluded officers of the East India Company's maritime service
had an interview on Wednesday with the Right Hon. the Pre-
sident of the Board of Control, on the subject of their memorial
to the court of directors.

On Thursday morning desPatches were received at the Fo-
reign-office from Brussels, Paris, and the Hague.
ltacoitosasutP OF MONMOUTH.—By the death of the Hon.
P. H. Abbott the recordership of Isloni;iouth, to which he was
elected in September, 1831, on the, death of the Right Hou.
C. Bathurst, is again vacant.

. SIR HENRY HARDINGE.
PRESENTATION OF THE FREEDDM OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN, WIT
AN ADDRESS PROM THE CORPORATION.

On Friday, the freedom of the city of Dublin was presented
to the Right lion. Sir IL Hardinge, by, a deputation from the
corporation of Dublin, consisting of the L'ord Mayor, alder-
nu-n, Sir J.K. James, Smith, West,- Morrisson, Tyndall, Smith
Hewing, Lain preyer Warren, Montgommery —the high sheriffs, •
Sir W. Lyner, and Drury Jones Dickenson ; Messrs. Studdart,
Long, Wone; William Ring, &c. &c. The following address
was read by Mr. Archer, the town-clerk :
" TO THE RIGHT HON. SIR H. HARDINGP, &C.
Sitc—We, the lord mayor, sheriffs, commons, and citizens
of the city of Dublin, in council assembled, heg leave to con-
gratulate you on your appointment to theimportant office of
chief secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.
" Impressed with sentiments of the highest respect for your
character and tried talents and integrity, we entertain an
anxious expectation that, under the administration of which you
are s-) distinguished a meniber, our established institutions will
be protected from wreckless innovation, and the most strenuous
effut ts will be employed to secure the peace and to promote the
prosperity and happiness of Ireland.
" We have the honour to present you with the f eedom of our
ancient and loyal corporation, and we feel an honest pride in
having so eminent a character enrolled amongst the citizens of
Dublin."

The following is Sir henry Ilardinge's reply:—
"My Lord Mayor and Gentlemen,—l ant very sensible of
the honour you have conferred upon ine in presenting me with
the freedom of your ancient and loyal corporation; I can as-
sure you that any act of vours, by which I am connected more
cloiely with the city of bublin, and with Irish interests, is to
me a source of the highest gratification.
" The expressions of your good op,;nion are very grateful to
me; and no efforts on toy part shall be wanting to secure a con-
tinuation of your approbation. •
" 1 have undertaken the arduous duties of my office from a
sense of public duty, and not ou any personal pretensions of my
own ;. I am Wrist deeply impressed with the responsibility of
the duties I have to perform, at a
period of no ordinary crisis;
and I cordially concur with you, in the, very words of your ad-
dress, that every loyal subject is required to protect our insti-
tutions from wreckless innovation, and to employ his most
strenuous efforts to secure the peace and promote the prosperity
and happiness of Ireland.'
"'These are the objects of the government with which. I have
the honour to be associated; and I feel persuaded that they
will fulfil by their acts the expectation of the public by
adoptint, a judicious system of administration in every depart-
ment of the state—by firmly maintaining the laws and vigilantly
protecting the institutions of the country,. at the same time that
they trill endeavour, prudently and sincerely, to effect as much
improvement in those institutions as is compatible with the true
principles of our constitution.
"'The prosperity and welfare of Ireland are essentially ne-
cessary to promote the interest, security, and power of Great
Britain ; all the motives by which human actions can be esti-
nutted irresistibly. demand front his Majesty's government
measures which may advance the prosperity and secure the
peace of Ireland, If measures calculated to produce this effect
can be accomplished, his -excellency the Lord-Lieutenant, my
colleagues, and myself will feel that such a happy result is the
highest reward that public men can receive."