The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-03-02 00:00:00

MAINTENANCE OF FREE TRADE,

Mr.-C.NILLIERS gave notice, that on an early day he
will move q resolution, declaratory of the intention of the
house to maintain the principles of free trade, and to resist
the imposition of any duty on the importation of foreign
corn.

The Personal Estates of Intestates Bill was read a second
time, and the Commons Enclosure Bill was read a third
time and passed.
The other orders of the day were postponed.
The house adjourned at half-past eight o'clock until
Friday, the 12th of March.

COURT

AND FASHION.

On Thursday, her Majesty held a levee, the first of the
season, at St. James's Palace. Her Majesty and his
Royal Highness Prince Albert. arrived shortly before two
o'clock from Buckingham Palace, escorted by a detach-
ment of Life Guards, who were received by the treat of-
ficers of stale. His Serene Highness Prince Nicholas of
Nassau was present at the levee, attended by his gentle-
man-in-waiting. The Queen wore a train of blue and
gold brocaded silk, trimmed with blue and gold ribbon
and white tulle. The petticoat was of white satin,
trimmed with white tulle and blue and and gold ribbons.
Her Majesty's head-dress was composed of rubies and
marabout feathers.

The Queen has directed letters patent to be prepared,
conferring the dignity of a baron of the United Kingdom
upon Sir Edward Bortenshaw Sugden, Knight, Lord
High Chancellor of England, by the name, style, and
title of Baron St. Leonard's.

Sir J. Y. Buller has declined the Chancellorship of the
Duchy of Lancaster.

We are authorised to state, and it is with extreme
regret that we make the announcement, that Mr. Gorge
Frederick Young has declined to accept the office of Vice-
President of the Board of Trade. We have have reason
to know that the offer was made to him by the Earl of
Derby in a spirit of the greatest cordiality, and the sole
ground on which it has been declined is that the health of
the honourable gentleman is not yet sufficiently re-
established to admit of his undertaking the arduous
duties of such an office. We are happy is be able to
announce, however, that it is still in the contemplation of
the noble earl at the head of the government to avail
himself of the honourable gentleman's services in his
administration whenever his health is fully confirmed.—
Morning Herald. _ _

The Observer says—" On Saturday all the Ministers
who had not previously taken possession of ti,eir offices
did so, and the various members of Lord Derby's Admi-
nistration are now fairly seated in office, and transacting
the business of the ceuntry. The Earl of Eglinton, Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, and the Chief Secretary for Ire-
land, Lord Naas, transreted business with Mr. Spencer
Walpole yesterday, at the Home-office, and also had an
interview with Mr. Cumming Bruce. The Earl of Lons-
dale attended at the Privy Council-office, and the new
Chancellor of the Exchequer took possession of his office
only in Downing-street, the ex-Chancellor not having
yet vacated the resdence. Mr. Baillie, M.P., had an in-
terview with the new Colonial Secretary, Sir John Pa-
kington, at the Colonial office.
The Earl of Beet ive has been appointed State Steward of
the Irish Household.
THE RECENI ELOPEMENT IN HIGH LlFE.—Frederick
Henry Law. 8.A., of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,
who eloped with the Marquis of Londonderry's daughter,
says the Durham Chronicle, was ordained by the Bishop
of Durham in 1849. and appointed to the curacy of Grin-
don and chapel at Wynyard. (the value of which, we un-
derstand, is £6O per annum,) and was tutor to Lord Ernest
Vane. He is in his 26th year, and is said to be of very
prepossessing appearance. His father was formerly a
schoolmaster at Clarence-house, Chelsea, near London.