The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-31 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

MR. ROBERT LOWE has been offered, and accepted, the
office of the President of the Board of 'Works.— The Press.
_ THE CLBINET COUNCIL sat two hours on Saturday. The

Morning Post says the termination of the session will, of
course, depend upon the progress of business. At present it
is not likely the session will close before Thursday, August 16.
Mn. WILLIAM ORD, who for nearly 50 years represented
Northumberland constituencies, as M.P. for Morpeth, and,
after the passing of the Reform Bill, Newcastle-on-Tyne, died
at his seat, Whitefield-hall, on Wednesday, in the 75th year of
his age.
THE claim preferred by Sir James Carnegie to the titles,
honours, and dignities of Earl of Southesk and Baron Carnegie,
of Kinnaird and 'Anchors, in Scotland, has been allowed by
the house of Lords. _ _ _ _ _

THEIR Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge, with a distinguished party, visited the Crystal Palace
on Wednesday afternoon. Their royal highnesses dined in
the Pompeian Court, and remained in the palace till a late
hour.

TICE King of the Belgians, accompanied by the Count of
Flanders and the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, left England
on Monday, to return to the continent. Her Majesty and
Prince Albert accompanied his Majesty to Portsmouth.
AT six o'clock on the evening of the 25th, Her Majesty came
up to Spithead from Osborne in the Fairy steam yacht, and
made direct for the Melbourne, running close to that vessel
and round her several times at slow speed. The invalids
crowded on the upper works and rigging of the ship, and,
apparently from the shore, greeted Her Majesty with hearty
cheers in return for her solicitude towards them.

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO B.A.Lasone.L.—The Queen is ex-
pected to pay her autumn visit to Balmoral about the middle
of Sept., and to remain until the 10th or 12th of Oct. A por-
tion of the new palace will be ready for Her Majesty, and will
be occupied during the present visit. There is some expecta-
tion that the Queen will pay a visit to Lord Panmure, whose
principal seat, near Arbroath, is within half a day's journey of
Balmoral.

A ROYAL MARBIAGB.—The Prince Adalbert of Bavaria,
whose approaching union with a Spanish princess is announced
from Madrid, is younger brother of King Otho, and first in
the order of succession to the crown of Greece. The lady is
cousin of Queen Isabella. The marriage has been long pro-
jected, but delayed by difficulties of a religious origin. The
next King of Greece must, as at present arranged, undertake
to educate his children in the principles of the Greek Church,
whereas the royal families of Bavaria and Spain, as is well
known, are Romanist. It would appear that this obstacle has
been surmounted.

TICE QUEEN or ENGLAND'S VISIT TO FRANCE.—It has been
arranged that the Queen of England will arrive in Paris by
the Strasburg Railway, the approaches to the northern rail-
way station, in the Place Lafayette, being crooked, narrow,
ugly, and inconvenient. On reaching La Chapelle the royal
train will branch off by the Chemin de Fer de Ceinture ; and,
in order to spare her Majesty the unseemly annoyance of
being turned round in her carriage on a turnplate, the
directors of the Northern and Strasburg Companies have re-
solved to lay down some additional rails, so that the train
may glide from one line to another imperceptibly, and proceed
direct to the Strasburg-station, which is one of the handsomest
in the world. Her Majesty will then make her triumphal
entry into Paris by the magnificent new street called the
Boulevard de Strasburg, and will pursue the boulevards
proper to the Madeleine, entering the Tuileries by the Place
de la Concorde. The Strasburg Company has voted 20,000 f.
for decorations and extraordinary expenses on the occasion of
the expected royal visit.

TItE screw-steamer Lebanon, Captain T. Cook, belonging to
Messrs. M`lver and Co., leaves Liverpool for New York to-day.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—Last night, John Kilburn, shop-boy
to Mr. Joseph Sewell, of South Castle-street, was seriously
wounded in the jaw, by a pistol discharged by Mr. Sewell's
son, who was not aware of its being loaded. Kilburn was
immediately taken to the Northern Hospital, and is pro-
gressing favourably.
CHILD MunnEn.—An inquest was held before the Borough
Coroner, on Saturday, on the body of a new-born male child,
which had been found that morning in an ashpit, in Jane-
street, Ashfield-street. It had been born alive : and death had
,been caused by suffocation, a piece of coal having been forced
down its throat. A verdict of " Wilful murder against some
person or persons unknown" was returned.
HEALTH COMMITTEE.---Mr. Alderman Langsdale pre-
sided at the weekly meeting of the Health Committee, on
Thursday, when the medical officer reported that the health
of the town continued in the same satisfactory state as re-
corded since the beginning of ,Tune. The total deaths last
week were 182, while the corrected average of the same week
of the preceding seven years was 225. In the parish 116
deaths were registered, and in the out-townships 66. 50 deaths
were .caused by diseases of the zymotic class ; of these, 14
were from diarhcea, the average being 21. Of the total deaths,
115 were children, and 67 adults. The minutes of the Smoke
Prevention Committee were read, showing the measures
which had been taken for the suppression of the smoke nui-
sance. It appeared that Mr. Fairbairn is to receive a sum of
100 guineas for his services in connection with the measures
being carried out by the committee for doing away with the
nuisance from smoke.
THE STEAM TRANSPORT EUROPA arrived at Spithead on
Sunday morning from the East, with the following passengers
and invalids:—Commander M`Kenzie, from H.M.S. Miranda;
Commander Risk, from H.M.S. Wrangler ; Commander
M`Killop, from H.M.S. Snake ; Mr. Sampson Harris, chief
engineer of the first class ; Mr. Adam Dunn, chief engineer of
the third class ; Lieut. m. Warren, from H.M.S. Queen ;
Mr. J. W. Paynter, acting second master, R.N., from H.M.S.
Vulcan ; Capt. Cony-ers Tower, of the 6th Dragoons, and
servants ; Captain Le Marchant, of the 49th, and servants ;
Lieut. Eustace, of the49th, and servants ; Lieut. Jolly, of the
32nd, and servants ; Lieut. Dixon, of the 77th, and servants ;
Lieutenant Grylls, of the Royal Horse Artillery, and
servant ; Lieutenant Slade, of the 67th, and servant ;
Commissariat Clerk Hurst ; Surgeon Hanley, of the 62nd
Regiment ; Lieut. George Stopford, R.N.; Commander 'lris-
cott, R.N.; James Fidler, John Wilcombe, Joseph Smith,
Philip Horrell, John Kenwick, Alexander Spinks, Robert
Randall, Thomas Aram, George Burns, Edward Hosken, John
O'Leary, John Minard, and James Driver, naval invalids ;
Corporal Stephenson, one seaman of the transport Imperador,
four seamen of the Arabia, three Government nurses, one
policeman and wife, one man, wife, and three children, and
one woman, as passengers. The naval invalids were disem-
barked and transferred to H.M.S. Victoria in Portsmouth
harbour by the boats of H.M.S. St. George, at Spithead, on
Sunday afternoon, after which the Europa departed for
Liverpool.
THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S MEETING AT
CARLISLE.—The public show of cattle and implements under
the auspices of this society was opened on Wednesday, the
exhibition continuing on Thursday and Friday. On the first
day the price of admission to the cattle show was ten shillings,
and that of implements five shillings, and on that day, not-
withstanding the extreme wetness of the weather, 1400 per-
sons paid for admission to the shows. On Thursday the
admission to both was half-a-crown, and on that day 14,600
individuals paid that sum for admission. On Friday the
admission fee was lowered to one shilling, and the extensive
show-ground was crowded from morning till night. As a
whole, the show of implements and cattle was excellent, every-
thing shown being really good of its class and kind. The
implements were chiefly of a useful kind, nothing commonplace
or indifferent being presented. The cattle also were
select in quality as well as numerous. Among the prize-
holders, Mr. Charles Townley, of Townley-park, Burnley,
Lancashire, obtained four prizes for short-horns ; and three
animals of the same breed highly commended. Mr. John
Harrison, jun., of Heaton Norris, Stockport, a prize of £lO,
for a sow of large breed; and Mrs. Thomas Townley Parker,
of Astley-hall, Chorley,. Lancashire, a prize of £2, for a Dor-
king fowl. Lord Berwick, of Cronkill, near Shrewsbury, a
first prize, for Herefords. Lord Viscount Hill, of Hawkstone,
near Shrewsbury, had a bull calf and a yearling heifer, of the
short-horn breed, commended. On Thursday afternoon, the
annual dinner of the society took place; W. Miles, Esq.,M.P.,
president, in the chair. About eight hundred gentlemen sat
down to a sumptuous banquet; after the conclusion of which
the usual routine of toasts, prefased by speeches, were given.
The trials of reaping machines not having been satisfactory,
the competition was adjourned for a week or two. The Society
holds its next annual meeting at Chelmsford, in Essex.
Sin B. HALL was, on Saturday, re-elected M.P. for Mary-
lebone without opposition.
REPRESENTATION OF SOUTHWARK.—Sir William Moles-
worth was re-elected on Friday without any real opposition,
a Mr. J. Hamilton, who announced his intention of standing,
Meeting with no support.