The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-10-30 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

MARIA AILELIE, widow of Louis Philippe, arrived at Genoa
on the 18th, accompanied by the Duke of Nemours.

IT is rumoured that Mr. Lowe will succeed to the office of
secretary of state for the colonies, vacant by the death of Sir
W. Molesworth.

A M.ATRISSONIAL alliance between the Marquis of Winches-
ter and the Hon. Miss Montague, daughter of General Lord
Rokeby, now in the Crimea, is spoken of.
PRINCE ALBERT presided at the inauguration of the Com-
mercial Travellers' Schools, at Pinner, on the London and
Northwestern Railway.
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Orr Saturday, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, and the
Count de Lavradio, who have been guests at Windsor, took
leave of her Majesty.
THE Duc and Duchesse de Brabant have been received by
Louis Napoleon with all the honours. The Due is the son of
King Leopold, and the grandson of the late King Louis
Philippe ; the Duchesse is a princess of the house of Austria.
LORD WA.RNCLIPPE, the second peer bearing that title,
died at Wortley-hall, near Sheffield, Yorkshire, on Monday
last week. His lordship was the brother-in-law of the Earl
of Harrowby.
MR. MERRDYTH, a relative of Sir William Somerville, will,
it is said, come forward as a candidate for the representation
of Meath, vacant by the death of Mr. Lucas. Mr. Meredyth
is a liberal.
THE Observer states that General Williams, the defender
of Kars, is to be raised to the dignity of a K.C.8., and that
the young Englishmen by whom he is surrounded and sus-
tained, will also receive signal marks of the Royal favour.
THE COUNTESS STA.NHOPE met with a serious accident
while going on board the English steamboat in Calais harbour,
on Wednesday. Her ladyship missed her footing, and falling,
fractured her arm. She returned to the port, and her arm
having been set, is progressing favourably.
Ow Thursday, Her Majesty the Queen received an address
on the Throne, from the Corporation of the city of London,
congratulating Her Majesty on the glorious successes of the
British army and fleets, in conjunction with Her Majesty's
Allies, to which Her Majesty returned a most gracious reply.

THE LATE SIR Wri,LlA.3i MOLESWORTH is succeeded by his
first cousin, the Rev. Hugh Henry 14Iolesworth, Rector of
Little Petherick, Cornwall, and eldest son of the late Rev.
William Molesworth, by his first wife, Katherine Treby,
daughter of the late Mr. Paul Treby Treby, of Goodamoor, in
Devonshire.

REPRESENTATION OF WELLS.—Capt. Jolliffe (eldest son of
Sir W. G. H. Jolliffe), who was at the Alma, Inkermanu, and
in the memorable Light Cavalry charge at Balaclava, has con-
sented to become a candidate in the Conservative interest, to
supply the vacancy in the representation of Wells, occasioned
by the death of the late Mr. Tudway.
THE Mixisirus will re-assemble in London to-day, when
a Cabinet Council will be held at the Foreign-office. After
the Cabinet meeting it is expected that in a few days a Privy
Council will be held by her Majesty, for the purpose of swear-
ing in and delivering the seals of office to the new Secretary of
State in the room of the late Sir William Molesworth.
THE TWINS OF THE EARL or DIIRHA.3I.—It was stated
some time ago that of the twin sons of the Earl of Durham,
the elder was distinguished from the younger by a blue silk
ribbon tied round his right wrist. This is not the case, as we
learn that the elder twin, Viscount Lambton, wears an armlet
of gold set with turquoise ; and the younger, the Hon.
Frederick William Lambton, an armlet of gold set with a
raby.
LADY ANNA MARIA. Dorrimr, eldest daughter of the late
Earl of Minto, died a few days since. She was born October
26, 1785, and married May 5, 1835, the late General Sir
Rufane Shawe Doukin, K.C.B. and G.C.I-1., whom she has
survived several years. The families of Lord and Lady John
Russell, Viscount and Viscountess Melgund, Colonel and Lady
Elizabeth Romilly, the Hon. Ralph and Lady Mary Aber-
cromby, Sir John and Lady Catherine Boileau, Szc., are placed
in mourning by the event.