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
cflice of the President 'of the Board of Works.—The Press.
THE CABINET COO EVIL 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 Thdrsday, August 16.
MR. WILLIAM ORD, who for nearly 515 years represented
Northumberland constituencies, as M.P. for Morpeth, and,
after the passing 'of the Reform Bill, Newcastle-on-Tyne, died
at his seat, ViThitefield-hall, on Wednesday, in the 75th year of
his age.
THE claim Treferred.by Sir James Carnegie to the titles,
honours, andlignities of Earl of Southesk and Baron Carnegie,
of Kinnairdnnd Leuchars, 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.
THE Sing 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 la 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 •BLIMORAL.—The Queen is ex-
pected to pay her autumn visit to Balmoral about the middle
of Sept., and to remain until tke 10th or 12th of Oct. A por-
tion of the new palace will be wady 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 MAIMUGE.—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, bnt delayed by difficulties of a religious origin. The
next King of Greece mustras 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. Itlvould appear that this ,Obstacle has.
been surmounted.

THE QUEEN OF ENGLANDIS VISIT TO FRANCE.—It hag been
Aarranged 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 mill pursue the boulevards
proper to the Madeleine, entering the Tuileries by the Place
de la Concorde. The Strasburg Company has voted 201000 f.
for decorations and extraordinary.expenses on the occasion of
,the expected royal Tisk.

THE screw-steamer Lebanon, Captain T. Cook, belonging to
Messrs. Inver and Co,, leaves Liverpool for New York to-day.
SERIOUS AGCIDENT.—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 MURDER.—An inquest was held before the Borough
Coroner, on, Saturday, on the body of a new-born male child,
whichshad been found that morning 'in an ashpit, in Jane-
street, Ashfield-street. It had been bornidive : 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 June. The total deaths last
week werel62, 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. 60 deaths
were caused by diseases of the zymotic class ; of these, 14
were from diarinea, the average being 21. Of the total deaths,
115 were children, and 6.7 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 tis Aervices in connection with the measures
being carried out .by the committee for doing away with the
nuisance from smoke.
THE STEAM TRANSRORT 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. Wm. Warren, from H.M.S. Queen ;
Mr. J. W. Paynter, acting second master, R.N., from H.M.S.
Vulcan ; Capt. Conyers Tower, of the 6th Dragoons, and
-servants ; Captain Le Merchant, of the 49th, and servants ;
Lieut. Eustace, of the 49th, and servants ; Lieut. Jolly, of the
52nd, and servants ; Lieut. Dixon, of the 77th, and servants ;
Lieutenant Grylls, of the Royal Horse Artillery, and
servant ; Lieutenant Slade, of the 57th, and servant ;
Commissariat Clerk Hurst ; Surgeon Hanley, of the 62nd
Regiment ; Lieut. George Stopford, R.N.; Commander Tris-
eott, R.N.; James Fidler, John Wileombe, 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 beats 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.,IVI.P.,
president, in the chair. About eight hundred gentlemen sat
a
down to sumptuous banquet; after the conclusion of which
the usual routine of toasts, prefaced 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.
SIR B. HALL was, on Saturday, re-elected M.P. for Mary-
lebone without opposition.
REPRESENTATION OP SOUTHWARK.—Sir William Moles-
worth was re-elected on Friday without any real opposition,
a Mr. J. Hamilton, who anneanced his intention of standing,
meeting with no support,