The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-12-21 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION

Cox. Ti- will leave Osborne on Thursday
netsor Castle. The Prince of Leiningen will accomper;
Her Majesty, and will continue his visit some shore tia e
longer. During Christmas week there will be comps'''"
tively little company invited to the Castle; but immediately
after-aardF,, a ircle of the most distinguished of the
nobility will be honoured with invitations for each week
ae dramatic representations take place.

THE

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Mn. DARGAN, the Iri-h contractor, has been offered a
knighthood. He declined the honour.
The A thenceum says that Lord Monteagle has succeeded
Professor Euipson, pro tem., as editor of .the Edinbur,P
Review.

COUNT WAL=II, the last survivor of the Irish Brigade
in the French service, died at Paris on the ICI, in the
ninetieth year of his age.
THE AUSTRALIAN COMMAND, which Major-General P.
Cambell lately resigned, has been conferred on Major-
General Sir Robert Fickle. _

The observer says, " Lord Palmerston was much bet:
ter. He was to leave town on Saturday for Brocket-hal',
Herts, on a visit to Lord Melbourne." _

BALLANTINE, who was for many years one of the
magistrates of the Thames Police-court, London, died 0.0
Tuesday, at his residence in Cadogan-place, Chelsea, in

his 74th year.

W. F. N. NORTON, ESQ., of Elton Manor, Notts, hag
resigned the chairmanship of the Ambergate and Boston
and Eastern Junction Railway, which he has held Iron'

its first formation.
THE OFFICE OF CLERK-MARSHAL TO P RISCF
ALBERT, vacant by the death of General Wemyss,
about to be filled by Colonel Bouverie, Equerry to I'l9

Royal Highness.
COUNT MANDELSLOH, a veteran 'German diplomatist,
who for several years was resident Minister at our Court
from the King of Wurtemburg, died at Sein-et-Marne,
France, on the Ist inst.
THE BELLIGERENT M.P.'s.—The misanderstandicr
which arose between Mr. Butler Johnstone, M.P., Oa
Mr. Oliveira, M. P., has been satisfactorily arranged, 14
the intervention of mutual friends.
THE MARQUIS OF CosyNomam has sold his schooner
yacht Constance, of 255 tons, to Mr. Richard C. Naylor,
of Liverpool, and has purchased of that gentleman the
cutter yacht Sultana, of 100 tons.
Ma. CHAPLAIN, M.P., has resigned the chairmanship
of the Southwestern Railway Company, retaining, 110'
ever, his seat as a director. Mr. Bulke!ey, former secre,-
tarp of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, succeed°
Mr. Harding, the late secretary.
PROFESSOR WILLIAM EMPSON died a few days since'
at the age of 62. He was professor of Law at Haileybul
College, and editor of the Edinburgh Review, to scio,e,
he had contributed sixty articles since 1823, on law, t3t:c
condition of the poorer classes, negro-slavery, domes"
politics, poetry, and general literature and biography.
THE COUNTESS OF SHREWSBURY, we regret to heabr;
has been dangerously ill at Naples of maiaria fever. 1: to
intense grief her ladyship suffered at the death of the th
sc
Earl of Shrewsbury, caused the malady to come on "
greater violence than it did with the earl, and for thre
days her ladyship was almost unconscious. However, bia
the assiduous care and attention of Doctors Strange diiis
Zimmermann, her ladyship's life was saved, and sheor
now slowly recovering. Her ladyship leaves Naples
Rome, where she intends passing the winter. to

THE POLISH BALL.—CIa Wednesday, according
annual custom, the Society of the Friends of P°!eil'ef
held their winter ball, at the Guildhall, London, in al; ei
the funds for the relief of the Polish refugees. Freea°
may have " shrieked as Kosciusko fell," but a 13:er
melancholy smile must have at length usurped o
countenance to see the cause of a defunct nations' 01
relegated to a purely Cockney gathering, in the neitlilna.
ilia the Lieutenancy uniform, the insignia of the P'ilte
°lery Company, and the Lumber Troop, eonstit
"
eeilitary element. 85
THE LATE COUNTESS OF LOVELACE.—AIIUSLOn lip
been made in the sketch of this lady's life to her sl;ici tee
mathematics, in which science she took lessons 0' ao,
first professors of the day. It is not generally Itn°
however, that of late years her ladyship turned her tale of
in figures to the mysteries of the turf, and the practieot
making a book. Her passion for racing was an orateo
one, and her knowledge of the performance of ,ice
favourites wonderful. In her betting transactions, "all
were at times very heavy, and accomplished thr°,iis
others, she always " stuck to the field " with a ten3ecte
worthy of the Great Leviathan. In doing so she 3;o'o'
sionally " brought off " a large stake, but in Teclelinf, 504
year for the Derby " the boot was en the other leg,
,reieO
her losses fell very little short of £20,000, all of 'sub'
were promptly met on the day of settlement. t
sequently the state of her health became such th°
was obliged to abandon all her previous occupatio
•
disease under which she laboured, a cancer, exP°sl
to such excruciating sufferings, that her death conlak,
be regarded by her friends as a release to be desired. 0•
ADMIRAL SIR THOMAS BRIGGS, G.C.M.G., the tte
mander-in-Cnief at Portsmouth, died on Thursday.°
.Admiralty-licuse, surrounded by his family.
only taken ill on Monday. By his death the f.„o;Ai'd
promotions take place :—Vice-Admiral of the "'Ale,
Samuel Pym, K C. 8., to be Admiral of the 13,11e;Ajtei#
Admiral of the White Thomas Brown, to be Vice-'pee'
ral of the Red ; Vice-Admiral of the Blue the Hocre, t°3
line Percy, C. 8., Commander-in-Chief at the abe
a
be Vice-Admiral of the White ; Rear-Admiral of Ott ti,"
J. W. Deans Dundas, C. 8., Commander-in-Chief °Vee;
Mediterranean station, to be Vice-Admiral of the c,l3'
Rear-Admiral of the White Barrington Reynolde'ef Off
to be Rear-Admiral of the Red ; Rear-Admiral Trel A
Blue Sir Charles Sullivan, Bart., to be Rear-3.p
the White ; Captain Sir G. R. Pechell, Bart., beo.ae
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be Rear-Admiral of the Blue; Captain the Hon:, so
Cavendish attains the half-pay of 14s. 6d. per eve
Captain Francis Liardet the half-pay of 12s. 6d. Pr
I,018:
The following captains obtain their rank as rear-o.„'eato°!
—Captain Henry T. A. Collier • Captain John vrooliej
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Captain William Carmsden ; Captain Henry Steeese°
Captain Herbert Bruce Powell ; Captain John AO'
Coffin ; Captain Edward Curzon ; Captain Seption,'
bin ; and Captain the Hon. Henry John Roils. 5 eAneeeri
THE LATE EARL OF SHREWSBURY'S WILL.IIOO.,,u;e
°
proved, and the personal property sworn under t° to
His lordship has directed that out of this atnntlooooa
shall be paid £5OO to the Rev. Thomas DO W• ''
I' ter, gte.
the Rev. Daniel Rock, £l5O to the Rev. Dr. 'reeO
there are some other leeacies to his sister, and t°5‘4.314:4
He has directed the whole of his estates at Altoo,lolole.o,
and elsewhere, to be converted into money, the,ooolProl
the proceeds, together with the residue of his ae,reiveott
perty, to be given to Mr. Ambrose Lisle rLic. Peote
Grace Dieu Manor, Leicestershire, and 00113
Murray, of Danesfield, Buckinghamshire, bete 9 ,
seceded from the Church of England, some Yet9erlaili
and joined the Romish Church. By the >or" o°l,l
"ceding £5OO can be left for religioilloPttligbist te
therefore generally believed that Itietio,d'
large amount of property has been left uncon jerst, tee
Mr. Phillips and Mr. Murray, there is a tacit a%t of, ei
ing that it is hereafter to be applied to the ben,e,,,00,3„ c
Romish Church. This supposition is streilk"roowt,
the fact that in a will made some time ago
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his lordship's property was left to Dr. i,t
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event of his decease to Cardinal Wiseman;
revoked by a codicil in favour of Messrs. 1115, bet'
who are to divide the property eq`la

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A RAVENOUS FELLOW, rejoicing in the sy vt:! ti
" Ratty," undertook, at the New Bell, ait in`'
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since, to eat, for a wager, three pounds of I?" The War
-nd of pig's curl, and a half-quartern 108'• the
—at was accomplished, and undoubtecqpicol"
„er considared himself remarkably clever. •`"
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