The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-03 00:00:00

'THE COURT.

HER MAJESTY'S MARINE EXCURSION.—ACCOrding
to present arrangements. her Majesty and the Prince
Consort will take their departure from Windsor Castle
about Monday or Tuesday, the 9th or 10th instant, erna
proceed to the coast of Hampshire, to embark on board
the Royal yacht. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of
Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, will,
it is fully expected, accompany their illustrious parents
to the Isle of Wight. Her Majesty and Prince Albert
will shortly afterwards proceed to Scotland in the Victoria
and Albert yacht, leaving the infant Royal Familyat
Osborne House, and where it is expected they will re.
main until the return of the Queen and the Prince from
the north. It is believed that her Majesty's marine el'
cursion, and series of visits to the Scottish nobility, .7 „
occupy from three to four weeks. There is not supPnse.r
to be the least probability of the Sovereign visiting "„f
Irish dominions this autumn, the arrival of the King
the French in this country being expected to take pia"
immediately after the return of the Court to Windsor.
THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO IRELAND.—The engrossing
topic in all circles in Dublin is the royal visit, which is
now spoken of as a matter almost of certainty, although
nothing whatever in a posit've or official form has trans-
pired upon the subject. The Evening Post of Tuesday
says :—" We stated on Saturday that a communication
had reached us which left little doubt in our mind, that
the Queen will arrive in Dublin in the course of the nelt
month. We have since heard nothing to weaken tlt
impression; but, on the contrary, much to confirm it.
The London journals, however, ridicule the idea.
Monday last being the anniversary of Prince Albert
birth-day, the morning was ushered in with the usual de-
monstrations of loyalty and attachment towards the con-
sort of our beloved sovereign. The bells of the metropo-
litan churches at an early hour rang merry peals. At one
o'clock the Park and Tower guns were fired, and in the
evening her Majesty's tradesmen brilliantly illuminated
their houses. His Royal Highness entered his 26th year,
having been born on the 26th of August, 1819.
THE ROYAL FAMILY.—Since the departure of Dr•
Locock for the continent, her Majesty has been attended
by Mt. Brown, the surgeon to the royal household, at
Windsor. On Tuesday morning, Prince Albert inspected
the second battalion of the Scots Ftkileer guards, in the
Great Park. The Queen took an airing in a pony pinie"
ton, for upwards of an hour: Prince Albert drove her
Majesty out. The queen dowager, after lunching with
the Duchess of Kent, at Frogmore, went with her royal
highness to the castle, on a visit to the Queen. ql./,
Wednesday morning, the ceremony of churching
Queen took place in the private chapel of the castle; the
Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiating. n''
Royal Highness Prince Albert attended the ceremony'
The Queen and Prince Albert walked on the Terrace and
in the pleasure grounds adjacent to the castle this morn'
ing. A garden chair was taken for her Majesty's use,
when required. The Queen took an airing in the after-
noon, Prince Albert driving. Her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent dined at the castle. On Thursday
morning, his royal highness Prince Albert left the castle
at seven o'clock, for the Farnborough station of the
Southwestern Railway, en route to Osborne House, ISIC
of Wight. His royal highness was expected to return
the same evening to dinner. The Queen walked in the
pleasure grounds of the castle, attended by the VicountesS
Canning, lady in waiting, who has succeeded the Coun-
tess of Dunmore. In the afternoon, her majesty, ac-
companied by the royal family, and attended by the
Dowager Lady Lyttleton, took an airing in a pony car-
riage. The Hon. Colonel Grey, equerry in waiting,
_.,viss
in attendance on horseback. Her Royal HighnesocrTi
Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty at the castle.
royal family have been taking their accustomed aineD"
each day.

The fee presented to Dr. Locock, first physician B,e:
coucheur to the Queen, is, it is understood, upon the
birth of a royal infant, £l,OOO. Dr. Ferguson, who is th
second physician accoucheur, receives £5OO, and Di'
James Clark the same amount. Mrs. Lilly, the Queenl4
monthly nurse, receives "for the mcnth" £3OO. This
amount is generally swelled to upwards of £6OO, the elr-
tras being derived from the handsome presents the nurse
receives from each guest invited to the christening. The
wet nurse is said to receive £lOO per month for her ser-
vices, besides the gratifying prospect of some portion of
her family being provided for (either in the army
navy, or in some of the public offices) for life.