The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-29 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

ME.-BNASSEY, the well-known railway contractor, has been
made a Knight of the Legion of. Honour.
THE Leeds borough election will take place on the oth of
February. No opposition to Mr. Baines's return is anticipated.
Ma. W.'CARPENTER Bowß, Q.C., of the Western Circuit,
is appointed Chief Justice of Ceylon.
Tan Duke of Cambridge, General de la Marmora, General
Airey, Sir Harxy Jones, and Admirals Lyons and Dundas, ar-
rived in London on Tuesday, from the Council of War at Paris.
SIR JORN TritELL having determined to retire from the
representation of North Essex, Mr. Charles Du Cane, of
Braxted-park, has addressed the electors in the Conservative
interest.
Thu Lord President of the Council, Earl Granville, as leader
of the ministerial party in the House of Lords, will give a full
dress banquet to-morrow, and Viscount Palmerston will also
give a full dress parliamentary banquet.
WE have reason to believe that the address in the Lords, in
reply to Her Majesty's Speech from the throne, will be moved
by the Earl of Gosford, and seconded by the Earl of Abingdon.
—Globe.
IT is rumoured that the Hon. Miss Erskine, daughter of the
Dowager Countess of Rosslyn, who has just returned from the
Crimea, where she had been assisting Miss Nightingale in the
hospitals, is about to marry the Rev. John Milner; 8.A., chap-
lain of Her Majesty's ship Orion, Captain Erskine.—Lancas-
ter Guardian.

WE (Press) have authority to state that, in consequence
of the strongly expressed wish of the constituents of North
Essex, Major Beresford will not retire from the representation.
C. Da Cane, Esq., of Braxted-park, formerly member for Mal-
don, is-the candidate chosen by the Conservative party to fill
the vacancy about to be created by the retirement of Sir John
Tyrell, Bart.
WE have reason to believe that, according to the precedents
of 1814 and 1816, when Lord Castlereagh, who was then
Foreign Secretary, assisted at the negotiations at Vienna and
Paris, Lord Clarendon will represent Great Britain at the
Conferences, which will probably be held at Frankfort after
the preliminaries of peace are signed. Baron Brunow and
Count Orloff will, it is said, appear on the part of Russia.—
Times.
Ma. Msc Amer retires from the representation of Edin-
burgh. For two years he has striven to fulfil his parlia-
mentary duties in spite of failing health, by being present at
important divisions and taking part in important debates ; and
the experience convinces him that be cannot be ever again
capable of performing them, even in an imperfect manner.
He has, therefore, applied for the Chiltern Hundreds, and a
new writ will be moved for on the first day of the meeting of
parliament. This notice, he hopes, will be sufficient to enable
his constituents to make a satisfactory choice of a better ser-
vant. Mr. Adam Black, the eminent publisher, has been
named as his successor.

FILL OF KAEs.—A meeting was held on Saturday, at the
London Tavern, London, at which it was resolved to memo-
rialise Her Majesty on'the subject of the late fall of Kars,
praying that Her Majesty will be pleased to direct a full and
public inquiry into the whole of the circumstances involved.
CONSUMPTION or Smoxr.—The Steam Collier Association
at Newcastle-on Tyne are preparing a boiler to test the various
designs sent in to compete for the £5OO prize offered by the
association for the effectual consumption of smoke with a due
regard to the economy of fuel. A great number of plans have
been offered, and the experiments were expected to be very
interesting.
THE NAN"! ESTIMATES.—The number of men to be voted
for the fleet in the forthcoming naval estimates is 76,000 (in-
cluding 10,000 boys and 16,000 marines). The number voted
last year was a total of 70,000. The increase in this year's
estimates is 6,000 men and officers, to complete the service of
the gun and mortar boats, the expense of whose wages will be
about £273,000, and about £140,000 for victualling, making a
total increase as under this head of the war service of about
£413,000.

LATEST NEWS.

THE PEACE, NEGOTIATIONS.

VIENNA, January 26.
Russia proposes that the 'preliminaries of peace shall be
signed at Paris.
She also expresses a strong desire to conclude peace as spee-
dily as possible.