The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-03 00:00:00

THN COU KT.

THE ROYAL FAMILY.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert,
with the Prince and Princess HAerilolie, took walking
exercise in the royal pleasure grounds, both in the morn-
ing and afternoon of Wednesday. Prince Albert and the
Prince of Hoherilohe, attended by Mr. Anson, enjoyed
several hours' shooting in the neighbourhood of Virginia
Water. The royal party had some excellent sport. The
Duchess of Kent came to the castle on Wednesday after-
noon from Frogmore, to visit her majesty. his expected
the court will leave in the course of this week for Clare-
mont, to remain about a week or ten days, during which
period Prince Albert will shoot over the preserves, where
the game has been strictly preserved, and is extremely
plentiful, especially hares and pheasants.
A very elegant set of harness has just been manufactured
by the saddler to his Royal Highness Prince Albert for
the two beautiful milk-white foreign goats, which have
been trained for double harness by Mr. Lennis, in the
service of the Queen. and intended to draw the tastefully
and lightly constructed carriage recently completed for
their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the
infant Princesses.

THE PRINCESS ROYAL'S HARP.— A very elegant
harp, made for the Princess Royal, by command of her
Majesty, by Mr. Blazdell, of Upper Charlotte-street,
Fitzroy-square, was presented to the Queen, at Windsor,
by the maker, on Friday last. This little instrument is
only three feet in height, yet possesses similar action to
harps of the largest dimensions, and has an extraordinary
power and purity of tone. It is extremely elegant and of
superior workmanship, carved in the Elizabethan style of
maple wood, gilt and burnished. The bottom pillar is
supported by two dolphins, enamelled ornaments, after
designs by Raphael, are let in, and the rose, thistle, and
shamrock are introduced. There is a white satin cover,
embroidered with gold, to protect the instrument from
dust, &c., which has the letters " P. R." worked upon it,
and the whole is contained in a strong mahogany case.
HER MAJESTY'S REPORTED VISIT TO WATERLOO.
—A letter, dated Brussels, Sept. 20, has just gone the
rounds of the metropolitan press, which states, that on the
19th instant Her Majesty and Prince Albert (then on a
visit to the King of the Belgians) proceeded in a post
chaise from Brussels to Waterloo, accompanied by the
Earls of Liverpool arid Aberdeen, arid also by General
Goblet, the Belgian Minister for Foreign Affairs. We
are assured that neither the Queen nor the Prince consort
visited the field of Waterloo. The only individual in the
suite of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince
Albert who proceeded froth Brussels to Waterloo, for a
brief visit, was the Earl of Aberdeen, whose brother,
Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Sir Alexander Gordon, then
aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington, was killed du-
ring that memorable conflict between the allied armies and
the troops of Napoleon.—Times.
DESCRIPTION OF THE ROYAL YACHT.—The interior
of this splendid vessel, in her finished state, is truly beau-
tiful and chaste, and she may literally be denominated a
floating palace, worthy of the Queen of our sea-girt isle;
and it is gratifying to know that her design ar►d arrange-
ments for the comfort of the royal pair have met with the
entire approbation of her Majesty and Prince Albert. The
principal entry to the chief cabin is near the stern, and is
covered over with an oval erection of considerable dimen-
sions, about eight feet high, terminating in the form of a
dome, with a large circular plate-glass window in the
centre of the roof, which is covered with hides of the prize
oxen exhibited at the Smithfield agricultural show last
season ; and the space within the oval, with the exception
of the entrance by a spacious sliding door, has been fitted
up with seats covered with crimson morocco leather, for
her Majesty's accommodation ; and, being fitted all round
with plate. glass windows of large dimensions, pannels of
only about six inches wide dividing the windows from each
other, gives the whole a degree of lightness, and affords
such a commanding view of every surrounding object
within the reach of the eye in all directions, as to render
this situation a favourite spot, especially in showery wea-
ther, or during a fresh gale. A very ingenious plan has
converted part of the bannisters surrounding the staircase
into a handsome support for a mahogany table. The
steps of the staircase descending to the principal cabin
are made of solid mahogany, covered with Brussels car-
pet. The bannisters are of a very chaste and light screw-
shaped pattern, and the hand-rail of beautiful American
bird's-eye maple. The doors of the principal passage are
very spacious, opening in two halves, and covered with
crimson cloth. The doors of all the rooms in the vessel
are painted an excellent imitation of bird's-eye maple,
and have a pleasing effect, harmonising with the subdued
cream tint with which the whole of the walls have been
painted in the best taste, every part being agreeable and
refreshing to the eye when it rests upon any portion. In
the principal cabin there is a very handsome secretaire,
and a beautiful mahogany table placed in the centre of
the room, with a number of chairs covered with green
morocco leather; and along the whole breadth of the
stern there are a profusion of cushions covered with green
morocco leather, on a level nearly with the spacious plate-
glass stern windows, commanding a most excellent view
of all objects on the sides or astern of the vessel. The
whole of the rooms devoted to her Majesty and Prince
Albert, and for the officers of the vessel and the royal
suite, are finished in the highest degree, and furnished
according to the uses for which they are intended, in a
most comfortable style, there being nothing gaudy or of-
fensive to the eye in any part of them ; the handles of all
the doorc, end tho boll pulls, and the supports whilst
leaning to look out of the windows, being all constructed
of opaque ivory ; and from the ceiling of the rooms an
ingenious invention depends, resembling two dolphins,
which hold the doors firm when they are opened to their
full width, retaining them in that position unt,l they are
shut again by the hand. The whole of the passages and
the dining and bedrooms devoted to her Majesty and Prince
Albert are covered with Brussels carpet, and are all open,
with the exception of her Majesty's bedroom, which is kept
locked. The decks of the vessel are kept beautifully clean,
and the inside of the bulwarks being painted whice, and
every thing connected with the vessel being in the best
order, the decks form an excellent and pleasing prome-
nade. On the stern side of the paddle-boxes on each side
is a neat alcove, with cushioned seats, forming agreeable
lounging places on deck. In the fore- part of one of the
paddle-boxes, there is kept a fine Alderney cow, to give
milk for the use of the royal table, and the cow is still on
board the royal yacht, although her majesty's excursions
have terminated for the present.—London paper.