The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-04 00:00:00

PRINCE ALBERT'S VISIT.

On Friday evening about ninety of the members of the
Covenant Minerva and Strangers Refuge lodges of the In-
dependant Order of Odd Fellows, sat down to a good and
substantial dinner, provided on the occasion, by Host
Leedham, New York Hotel, Crown street.
The brothers of the above lodges met at half-past seven
in the morning, and headed by the Beumaris band, walk-
ed to Williamson square to join the procession.—On their
return they mustered in their lodge room for the dinner.
P. G. Lloyd, was unanimously called to the chair, and was
very ably supported by P. G. Tarrent in the vice chair.
After the removal of the cloth, the Chairman in proposing
the first toast, adverted to the disappointment occasioned

by their misappresc?nsion that their tickets would admit
the members of the order within the barriers of the plat-
form of the Sailors' Home ; notwithstanding the disap-

fitment h

ing the procession, and their respect for the anthorties in
not making any procession whatever untill called for by
the Town Council. But leavin,vall this, we would proceed
to propose that the health of her Gracious Majesty the
QUEEN.

The next toast was Prince Albert and the success to the
Sailors' Home. The worthc, vice after a short but very
appropriate speech, gave the town and trade of Liverpool.
At Eight o'clock, the room was thrown open the mem-
bers wives and friends, and the chairman in giving the
last toast that he would give from that chair, thanked the
brothers for their quiet and very respeztful behaviour that
evening, and proposed sweet hearts and wives. The

dsncini then commenced and was kept up until twelve
o'clock, when the parties retired home well satisfied with
their entertainment.

PRINCE ALBERT.—Our contemporary, the Journal, in
his account of the recent festivities, introduces the follow-
ing remarks on the consort of our gracious Queen, in which
we heartily concur, as will be found by a paragraph em-
bodied in cur account, and written before we perused what
we now quote:—" And now a word about the Prince.
Having seen him, it is impossible not to like him. Nature
had her sleeves up when she made him, for she has been
lavish of personal adornments. He is indeed the mirror

THE PRINCE ALBERT FESTIVAL

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It is highly gratifying to us to remark that, notwith-
standing the great hurry of the preparations, in platforms,
seats at windows, &c., many of them scarcely thought of

until the day before the Prince's arrival, no accident of
any moment occurred during the festivities, not even, so
far as we have heard, affecting even the limbs of her Ma-
jesty's lieges to any serious extent. 'the p'

,r ms were

well and raithfully Constructed throughout, a circumstance
highly creditable to the artisans employed. Several of
the town magistrates visited them, as also their surveyor,
and they were, with scarcely an exception, pronounced to
be perfectly secure, as they afterwards proved to be,
though generally loaded with spectators to the utmost.
On Friday night the streets were as much thronged as

on the previous-night, and the illuminations nearly as
general, though the Prince had then departed. Several

additions, indeed, were made in v

ious p.

es, showin

an almost increasing enthusiasm. Our theatres an
places of amusements were well attended. The

Royal was crowded to excess. The Liver also was a very
respectable house, the play represented baring the popu-
lar title of the " Sailors' Home." The Amphitheatre also