The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-11 00:00:00

THE COURT

WINDSOR, SUNDAY EVENING.—The severity of the wea-
ther during the past week has prevented the Queen taking
her accustomed carriage airings in the vicinity of the great
park: Her Majesty, however, accompanied by his royal
highness Prince Albert, has promenaded for a short time
each day in the grounds attached to the castle.
Prince Albert enjoyed several hours' shooting in the royal
preserves on Monday, Wednesday, and yesterday. His
royal highness, accompanied by Lord Charles Wellesley,
Sir Frederic Stovin, Colonel Bouverie, and Mr. G. E. An-
son, had some excellent sport yesterday morning at Cran-
bourne.

Her majesty, after attending divine worship to-day in the
private chapel at the castle, walked Kith Prince Albert, un-
accompanied by a single royal attendant, through the park
to the new riding school, and returned to the castle to lun-
cheon at two o'clock.

It is most gratifying to observe that both the Queen and
the Prince were looking remarkably well.
The Earl and Countess of Delawarr, accompanied by their
accomplished daughter, the Lady Elizabeth West, took their
departure from the castle, yesterday ; the noble earl having
left instructions for the completion of numerous arrange-
ments connected with the royal christening.
In order to give every facility for the completion of some
alterations in the private apartments, rendered necessary to
be made for the forthcoming important and joyful event, the
court will take its departure from the castle on Tuesday next,
for Claremont, where it will remain, according to present ar-
rangements, until Saturday. His royal highness is desirous
of enjoying some sport " with his dog and gun" in the well-
stockcd preserves of his royal uncle the King of the Belgians.
The yoal.g Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal are
both nl the enjoyment of very excellent health.
Quadrilles., gallops, &c., were introduced at the Castle on
the evenings of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, her Ma •
jesty dancing with the Prince, the Lord Chamberlain, and
Lord Charles Wellesley. The crimson drawing-room was
used for the occasion. " Der Grosavater's tanz," an amus-
ing and lively dance, imported from Germany, wound up the
evening in the ball-room on Friday.

Possession of Froginore [louse has been given to the Lord
Chamberlain, and the necessary preparations are now being
proceeded with to render it in a tit state for the reception of
several of her Majesty's distinguished guests who hate been
invited to be present ou the christening of the Prince of
Wales.

Why was the loss of the celebrated steam-ship a severe
blow to two great countries ?—Because America lost her
President and England her Power,
It is currently reported in the naval. eircles,that the uniform
of the several classes is to be forthwith changed, and that the
white collar and cuff are to be again substituted for the red.
Viscount Jocelyn has accepted the invitation of the conser-
vative electors of King's Lynn to come forward to represent
that borough in the House of Commons, vacant by the
Right Hon. Sir Stratford Canning's going as Ambassador to
Constantinople.

The coals carried coastwise from the River Tyne, it is said,
exceed two and a half millions of tons, and the quantity ex-
ported to foreign parts exceeds a million and a half tons an-
nually.

CAPTURE OF CANTON.—The queen has been pleased to
grant to the forces employed at the capture of the outworks
of Canton, out of the sums received under the convention, a
donation equal to one year's amount of the Indian allowance
known by the name of " batta." The shares of colonels
will be £OOO each, of lieutenant-colonels £720, of majors
£540, of captains £216, of lieutenants £1.1•1, &c. ; the offi-
cers of the navy sharing according to their relative rank with
those of the army. Those who were not present at the
operations against Canton, but who were engaged in other
operations of the war, such as the taking of Chusan, are to
receive six months' batta.
A Goon se.—ln the Court of Sessions, in Scotland,
the judges rn
who do not attend, or give a proper excuse for
their absence, are, by law, liable to a fine. This law, how-
ever, is never enforced, but it is common on the first day of
the session for the absentee to send an excuse to the Lord
President. Lord Stonefield having sent such an excuse, on
n the president mentioning it, the late Lord Justice Clerk
Blaxheld said, in his broad dialect, '' What excuse can a
stout fellow like him hae ?" "My lord," said the president.
"he has lost his wife." The justice, who was fitted with a
Xantippe, replied, " Has he ? that is a gude excuse ; I wish
we had a' the same."

THE WELSH PROFESSORSIIIPS.—The Quimperois, the
journal of the chief town of the Finisterre, after noticing the
application reported in the Morning Herald to have been
made to the English government for the appointment of
professors at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge
.in
the Celtic language and literature, says :—" We oursiLe3,s.
have long ago made a similar demand for Brittany, andthat
the Faculty of Letters at Rennes. How desirable it is
ee
the ancient language of the Celts, which two or
de-
partments in Brittany as well as Wales have
should not be lost! "
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There have been trees possessing
all present.---Correspondenol'i
CELEBRATED TREES. faction, awe, or reverence which
the same associations of. 'd by old castles the
nil . . .
homes of
are awakened in the
anieles of religion. The oak of Mamre
genius, or the solemn.
centuries to affect the wild inhabitant of
the Times.
continued through c',. who appeared to Abraham seemed
iotthee eyeoftliewan wandering Arab. Till
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the desert;
on in , pilgrimageswere made to these
the time of .
points to a banyan-tree
nejntteath whose boughs the Indian beheld the
still to sanctify
trees. Tradition p . on the banks of
the Nerbudds,
cavalry of Alexander. Some of our own Oaks may
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ofesawnitoli
ritohferioß,ogatnhee
jagalnei.callunnltHheilir
trhdeentratitlleier
erinsghon ,
the oak that sheltered the dying Tasso. T
is shown asso. The grave
k is
of Kiopstoc shadowed by a lime tree. The Persian poet
ilatiz is said to be buried under a cypress which he had
conventhi'
planted. The elm, under which the founder of the state of
Pennsylvania signed the first treaty with the Indians ; the
sycamore at Trous, where the Swiss deputies assembled in
1421 to take oath to deliver themselves from bondage, are in-
teresting. The cedars at Wilton are genuine descendants from
the sacred trees of Lebanon, having been raised from seeds
which the traveller brought from that mountain. The Peocock
fig tree planted by Pococke in the garden of Christ Church,
Oxford, still
fig-tree planted by Cranmer in
flourishes, and recently gained a prize by the
excellence of its fruit. The
the garden'Of the Manor-house at
Mitcham continued green
until 1790. The admirer of romantic courage visits, at El-
lerslie, in Renfrewshire, the native village of Wallace, the
oak where the Scottish hero concealed himself with 300 men,

and befereithei oak at Northam, under which Elizabeth
breakfasted, remained to awaken thoughts of chivalry, and to
recal the glori©s of the maiden re,ign.—Frazer'B Magazinß
far January.