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

COURT AND FAS.FLIO.N:

A pension of £lOO a-year from the Civil:List has been
granted to Mr. Samuel Lover.
Among the West-end gossip it is said that the Duke of
Cambridge is exerting himself to get up a, subscription of
£60,000 to buy an estate for Lord Hardinge..
THE will of the Tate Lord Raglan has. been proved, in
London, under £t 000 ; it was made iu EDgland, in April,
1854, bequeathing all to Lady Raglan. The will of the late
Samuel Rogers has been proved under £40,000.
The Royal Mt►il Packet Company's beat Vivid, Captain
Watson, arrive' at Dover, from Boulogne, on Sunday, with
his Excellency Lard Cowley and suite on hoard. His Lordship
dined at the Ship Hotel, and left for Leadcin by the 7.30 p.m.
train.

HER MAafSZT has been pleased to confer a baronetcy upon
Lieut.-General Sir J. Burgoyne, K.C.lt, in consideration of
the long and faithful services which,, from an early period in
the late war down to the siege of Sebastopol, have connected
his name, with the principal achievements of the British
army.
IT iSIITHIPTStOOd that the appearance of her Royal Highness,,
the Princess Royal in the great world will, for this season, be
limited to the palace, it not being thought expedient to apply
to Parliament for the sum 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-in-waiting and; an.
equerry of her own court.—Court Journal.
Wit believe that the Duke of Wellington has tendered his
resignation as Master of the Horse. It will have-been ob-.
served that his grace voted, in the majority against gavernment
upon Lord Lyndhurst's motion for referring LordWensley-
dale's patent to a committee of privileges. It is also said that
the Lord Chancellor tendered his resignation upon; finding his
opinion on the same subject at variance with these of several
among his colleagues.— Times.
APPROACHING MARRIAGES.—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 Rachel Rus-
sell, youngest 4.laughter 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
Whichcote, Bart., is also about to be united to Miss Mont-
gomery.
Mn. BRASSEY.—By a decree dated January 12, Mr.
Brassey, the eminent engineer, has been appointed a Knight
of the Legion of Honour. Since 1839, Mr. Brassey has been
connected with the construction of the principal French rail-
ways, We believe it 'was M. Charles Laffitte 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 Balaldava 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.
ORDER or VALOUR. —The London Gazelle 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 ribaud 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 or
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 ,E 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 uameistruck off
the registry.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE DREADNOUGHT.

BY the ship Dreadnought, which sailed from New York on
the 24th ult., and reached the Mersey on Saturday, we have
intelligence to the 23rd ult.

The Africa arrived out on the 22nd.

The Washington correspondent of the Tribune says :
" Amid conflicting statements, information from an authentic
source warrants the assertion that so far from a special. Me-
ssage relative to our foreign affairs being about to be sent to
either branch of Congress, it has not at any time been con-
templated, much less has it been the subject of cabinet
consultation. Though this government has demanded the
recall of Mr. Crampton and the British consuls engaged in
recruiting for the Crimea, it can as confidently be stated that
there has been no purpose in or out of the cabinet to withdraw
Mr. Buchanan from England, unless at his own request,
Negotiations between Great Britain and the United States are
still open, despatches having been sent out by the last
steamer, and nothing has occurred since the transmission of
the President's Message to Congress to change the aspect of
our relations abroad. Mr. Boyce's resolution, offered in the
house to-day, declaring our relations with Great Britain to he
of the most serious eharacter, and indicating that we may be
on the eve of startling events, was not, as supposed, submitted
with the consent or knowledge of the executive, but was Mr.
Boyce's independent propAtion."
larn.---Advices from Port-au-Prince to the Ist instant,.
confirm the previous accounts of the defeat of the Haytiens,
with the loss of between 200 and 300 soldiers, with many of
their best officers, beside all their munitions of war, provisions,
and the Emperor's military chest, containing all the funds
intended for the prosecution of the war. Faustin I. had
marched 30,000 men against the eastern side of the island,
and his defeat is represented as most complete. Faustin had
escaped from the battlefield, but his place of refuge was un-
known, and General Santander had offered a reward of 10,000
doubloons for his head. So great was the feeling against him,
that it was the general opinion of the inhabitants of Port-au-
Prince that if his Majesty escaped falling into. the hands of
the Spaniards, he would be shot by his own people.