The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-03-05 00:00:00

LEGISLATION.

The following is the mode of " doing business" in a certain
assembly : the Speaker is furnished with a list of members
having petitions to present that evening, and calls them up in
turn. Something like the following scene takes place, the
house being all the time in a buzz :
Speaker—Mr.

Mr. rises. I hold in my hand, sir, a petition from so
and so, stating so and so, and praying so and so. I move
that this petition be brought up.
Speaker— brought up—this opinion say aye ;—opin-
ion say no—the ayes have it.
Presenter hands it to the clerk at the table.
Presenter—That it now be read.

Speaker—Lie on the table—this opinion say aye ; —opinion
say no—the ayes have it.
Clerk takes up the petition and stuffs it under the table.
Thus, in five minutes, is despatched the labour of perhaps
as many weeks ; and if the noise is not too great to prevent
the reporters from hearing, the petitioner may stand a chance
of seeing somewhat like the following mention of it in the
next morning's paper 111 r. presented a petition
from some place (of which we could not catch the name),
but what the subject was we were unable, from the confusion
that prevailed, to ascertain."—Morning Herald.

OWENISM REFwinn.—A most successful lecture, exposing
the errors propounded by the followers of Robert Owen, was
delivered in the Town-hall, Warrington, on Wednesday
evening, by Mr. Dicks, of Liverpool, to an excessively
crowded audience, who listened with great attention to the
lecture, and a discussion which followed, until nearly twelve
o clock. A public discussion between the lecturer and Mr.
Lloyd Jones will shortly take place in Warrington.
CHESTER CHEESE FAIR.—Our cheese fair yesterday,
was attended by factors and dealers generally, from every
part of the kingdom. The cheese pitched in the Linen and
Commercial-halls far exceeded in quantity any fair that we
remember in this city. The sales were not so brisk, but
many who came to buy seemed anxious to make speedy pur-
chases. It was calculated by a friend of ours, that several
thousand tons were in the fair, the greater portion of which
was ,sold at the following prices :—Skim, from 40s. to 485.;
middling, from 50s. to 565. ; and some prime Cheshire
dairies fetched 70s.—Chester Gazette.
THE QUEEN AND Miss DAVYS,—We have been in-
formed from a private source of undoubted authority, that
Miss Davys has been dismissed from her attendance on the
Queen. It is unnecessary to state the cause of the quarrel—
which is said to have been very violent and heated, her Ma-
jesty expressing her sentiments in the most undisguised and
unequivocal manner possible. It is proper to add, that Miss
Davys is a young lady.of excellent character, the daughter of
a pious and valued dignitary of the church. She was for-
merly the Queen's most intimate friend.—Staffordshire
Gazette. We do not know when we have announced a
piece of intelligence which has given, us more real pain and
concern than the above. The church dignitary alluded to is
the Dean of Chester, who was her Majesty's English pre-
ceptor whilelhe had as her advisers and guides in the royal
household those pure and unblemished characters the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury and the Duchess of Northumberland.
When her Majesty came to the throne, and her ministers
made choice of her attendants, Miss Davys was not included
in the number; at which her Majesty is said to have ex-
pressed so much displeasure that she insisted on having her
as an extra lady in waiting ; and Miss D. continued so much
in the Queen's confidence and society, that she was consi-
dered in the light of her secretary or amanuensis. It is not
for us to divine what part of Miss Davy's conduct has led to
such marked displeasure as is insinuated in the above
paragraph. It has been asked, was Miss Davys too religi-
ous, too moral, and too plain spoken a character for the
court as now constituted ? Let Lord Headfort, and such'as
he, answer the question.—Bristol Journal.