The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-06-26 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

EARL STANHOPE has signified to the Vice-Chancellor of Ox-
ford University, that it is his intention to give during his life,
and to bequeath at his death, an annual prize.of £2O for the
best composition on a Modern History subject.
THE RIGHT HON. SIDNEY HERBERT has been advised by
his medical attendant to abstain from all public business for a
time in order to recruit his health, for which purpose he is now
on a tour in Scotland.

WE have the best authority for contradicting, the statement
which has lately been made public, that there is at present
any probability of lineal transmission of the Crown of
France.— The :Press.
TEE renowned Countess de Lavalette, daughter of the Mar-
quis tie Beauharnais, and cousin-german of Queen Hortense,
died in Paris on the 18th inst. She was the wife of Count de
Lavalette, Postmaster-General under the first-empire, whoni
she saved from the scaffold, in 1815, by her energy and pre-
sence of mind.

MISS NIGHTINGALE.—Mr. C. H. Bracebridge lias sent from
Scutari, under date of the 7th, a brief narrative of Miss
Nightingale's labours at Balakiava, and her return to Scutari
in Lord Ward's yacht. At the date mentioned she was ex-
tremely weak, but "-has no remains of fever, and no danger is
apprehended." She trusts to be soon able to return to Bala-
klava. Miss Nightingale was visited while 'sick by Lord Raglan
at the huts, and again on board the Yacht, and was received on
landing at Scutari by Lord W. Paulet, commandant; Dr.
Cumming, inspector-general ; and Dr. Til'Greger, deputy-
inspector. The house of the chaplain is placed at her disposal,
and she has been offered the use of the British palace at Pera,
by Lord and Lady Stratford de Redeliffe.
THE QUEEN went on Tuesday to Chatham, to inipect the
invalids at the military barracks. Her Mrjesty and the
Prince travelled by special train on the South-Eastern Rail-
way to the Strood station, where three of her Majesty's car-
riages were waiting to convey the royal party to Chatham.
The Queen was received by Colonel Eden,. commanding the
garrison, and was conducted over .the hospital at Fort Pitt,
and afterwards minutely inspected a large party of invalids
recently returned from the Crimea and the colonies. Her
Majesty then inspected the invalids at Brompton Barracks.
and the Casenoates, and went over the Marine Hospital.
Nearly one thousand sick and wounded men were seen by the
Queen, who kindly questioned many. of those who had [elf-,
fered most severely as to the actions in which they had,been -
wounded, and the nature of their injuries.
.OXFORD COMXIEMORATION.—On Wednesday, the Encmnia,
or Commemoration of Founders and Benefactors to the Uni-
versity, took place, according to annual custom,. in.the Shel-
donian Theatre. The doors were thrown open 6COII after ten
o'clock, and in a very short
.space of time every part of the
theatre was well filled. The upper gallery was crowded with
undergraduates, and the usual outburst cf health and spirits
evinced itself. The name of the Queen was received with a
shout loud and hearty. On the arrival of the Chancellor
(Lord Derby), accompanied by the Vice-Chancellor, heads of
houses, doctors of divinity, lava, medicine, and music, the con-
vocation was. opened. The Chancellor. then read ever the
names of the distinguished individuals on whom it was pro-
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by the deputy professor of civil law (Dr. Somerset); walked in ,
'.procession across the court leading from' the divinity schools
to the theatre. The Chancellor put the names for the ap-
proval of the house in the following order, viz. : —The Hon.
James Buchanan, minister of the United States ; Le Comte
de Montalembert ; Sir John- Beverley Robinson, Bart.; Lieut.-
General Sir John Fox Burgoyne, G.C.8.; Lieut.-General Sir
De Lacy Evans, K.C.8.; Sir William Gore Ousely, K.C.8.;
Sir Charles Lyell Knight, F.R.S., M.A. ; Richard 31onekton,
Miines, Esq., M.P. ; Colonel Sabine, F.R.S. ; Thomas Gra-
ham, Esq.. F.P.S., Master of the -Mint ; the Rev. Humphrey
Lloyd, D,D. ; Philip Bury Duncan, Esq., M.A. ; the Rev.
Frederick William Hope, M.A.; Alfred Tennyson, Esq.,
Poet Laureate; George Gabriel Stokes, M.A.; John Couch.
Adams, 31. A, ; John Muir, Esq.

TitE Stamford Mercury relates that a few days ago, at
Nassington, a woman found a swarm of bees, which she shook
into her apron. She thus carried them to her home, a dis-
tance of nearly a mile, and there hived them.
TIIE Shrewsbury Chronicle relates that a few days back,
while a man was rolling the cricket ground at Wem, with a
large iron roller weighing upwards of two tons, a child about
five years old, who was riding en it, fell. The roller passed
over the child, who was immediately crushed to death.