The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-12 00:00:00

COURT AND FASITION.

.1%. pension of £lOO a-year from the Civil List has besn,
granted to Mr. Samuel Lover.
Among the West-end gossip it is said that the Duka -of
Cambridge is. exerting himself to get up a subscriptiod of
£50,000 to buy an estate for Lord Hardinge.
Tire will of the late Lord Raglan has been proved, in
Landon, ntuler•L'2o,ooo ; it 1-453, made in England, in April,
1854, bequeathing all to Lady Raglan. The will of the. late
Samuel Rogers has been proved under £40,000.
The Royal Mail Packet Company's boat Vivid, Cl stain
Watson, arrived at Doveri,from Boulogne, on Sunday; vith
his Excellency Lord Cowley.and suite on board.. His Lordship
dined at the Ship Hotel, mdaeft for London by the 7:1110-p,m.
train. _ _ _

HER MAJESTY has been:pleased to confer a baronetcy upon
Lieut.-General Sir J. Burgoyne, K.C.8., in consideration of
the long and faithful services which, from an early period in
the late war down to the siege of Sebastopol, have eonnected
his name with the principal achievements of tie- British
array.
Izis understood that- the appearance of her Royal Highness
the Princess Royal lathe great world will, for this- season, be
limited to the palace, it not being thought expedient to apply
to Parliament for thasurn necessary to maintain ,a household
while she is so young,, and it being essential to:the dignity of
a princess of her rank, if she visited a subject, that her Royal
Highness should be attended by a lady-iii,waiting and an
equerry of her own mid.— Court Journal.
WE believe that- the Duke of Wellingten,has tendered his
resignation as Master of the Horse. It will have been ob-
served that hisgrace voted in the majority.against government
upon Lord Lyndhurst's motion for referring Lord 'Wensley-
dale's patent to a committee of privileges.. It is also said that
the Lord Chancellor tendered his resignat- ion upon finding his
opinion on the same subject at variance:with those of several.
among his colleagues.—Times.
APPROACif,ING MAREIAGES.—A matrimonial alliance will
shortly take place between Lady Jane Hay, daughter of the
Marquis of Tweeddale, and sister of the Duchess of Welling-
ton, and Sir Frederick Arthur, Bart. We are also enabled to
announce the approaching marriage of the Lady Racha Rus-
sell, youngest daughter of the late Duke of Bedford, and half-
sister of Lord John Russell, with the Lord James 'Wandesford
Butler, son of the first Marquis of Ormonde. Sir Thomas
Whiehcoto,
Bart., is also about to be united to Miss Mont-
gomery.
MR. BRASSEY.—By a decree dated January 12, Mr.
Brassey, the eminent engineer, has been appointed a Knight
of tha Legion of Honow. Since 1839, Mr. Brassey has been
' connected with the construction of the principal French rail-
. ways. We believe it was M. Charles Laflitte who called the
attention of the Minister of Public Works to Mr. Brassey's
merits. The Rouen, Havre, Dieppe, and Boulogne lines, have
all been executed under the auspices of the firm to which Mr.
Brassey belongs, which, moreover, it will be remembered,
constructed the Balaklava railway in the Crimea ; and at the
present moment they are employing an army of workmen in
the cause of progress and civilisation in their undertakings in
England, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Savoy, Italy, and
Canada.
OEDEE or VALouE.—The London Gazette of Tuesday
contains the " instrument," under the Queen's sign manual,
for constituting the new naval and military decoration, to be
styled the " Victoria Cross," to consist of a Maltese cross of
bronze, with the royal crest in the centre, and underneath an
escroll, inscribed "For valour," to be suspended from the left
breast by a blue riband for the navy, and by a red riband for
the army. For every additional act of bravery a bar is to be
added. The merit of " conspicuous bravery" alone to claim
the honour. The decoration may be conferred on the spot
where the act was performed, and in presence of the naval and
military force to which the hero belongs. Doubtful claims to
be referred to the Secretary of War and Commander-in-
Chief, or Lord of the Admiralty. In. case of a gallant cr
daring act by more than fifty men, one officer, one non-
commissioned officer, and two men, are to be selected by their
compeers for the decoration. The cross carries with it an
annuity of £lO per annum, with an additional £5 for each
bar. Any person convicted of treason, cowardice, felony,
or infamous crime, or accused of such, and not surrendering
for trial within reasonable time, is to have his nameastruck olf
the registry.