The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-20 00:00:00

Westminster
reians rE

The statues are of stone, and
wesented are Henry 11., Edward
_I

Queen, Eleanor ; Eleanor, Queen of Henry 111. ;
Queen of Edward 11. ; Edward 111. and his Queen, Phil-
lippa ; Richard 11. ; and Henry IV. Several other sta-
tues of regal personages are nearly completed, and will
shortly be placed in the recesses prepared for them.
SIINDLY Tit.tniNo.—The magistrates of Ramsgate held ,
a special petty session last week, to hear several charges
of unlawful Sunday trading against the greater part of the
innkeepers of the town. The prosecutions were all brought
by the landlord of the " Refectory Tavern," who was fined
Isome time ago for a similar offence, and since then ap-
pears to have been narrowly watching his brethren. Con-
-1 victions were obtained against the keepers of the two
hntalq in the town. the "Albion" and the

Roy 1," who were fined 15s. and costs; the rest of the
fifteen summonses were withdrawn, on payment of 14s. 6d.
each costs.
THE BALMORAL ESTATES.—Great improvements have
been• made on the_ Balmoral estates since last year ; the

amuse :suss
Dr.Robertson,Commissioner to his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, have been brought into a highly promising state,
while the hunting grounds and deer forest are in a fair
way to- become the best in Scotland. The moral and
social *ants of the tenantry have been especially cared
for, the Queen having given command that the poorest
families shall have the blessings of education secured to
them, and their domestic wants fully supplied. The new
to mal:e some nrot►ress, but the contractor

has three years to finish i
handsome
DUTIES ON HOBST

ild it prOmises to

)e a very

a the 10th of October the

new duties payame In respect tn. curses lelr fur inrc wui
take effect. The new duties are where the person taking
license shall keep at one and the same time to let
only £7 10s. ; and

for hire on

horses or carriages, £l2 10s. for not exceeding two horses
or two carriages ; £2O, not exceeding four horses or three
• £3O, not exec ''' horses or six carriage-

ling* eig

Carriages;
£4O, not e

..selling twelve horseiv or nine carriages; £5O,
not exceeding sixteen horses or twelve carriages ; £6O, not
.tea PPM

ceeding fifteen t

"MILITANT UNIFOI
contemi

The following_

are the changes
.sh army :—A felt

in the costume of the Brit—
neimet, perfectly ventilated, light, pressing °quail, ,
possessing a handsome form, entirely supersedes the p.
eoatee, with all its lace and frippery
' '

it shaco,

gives way to tne pram ---
to the knees,—a sensible martial uniform, a fraction nor
costly in its first price, but involving a large saving to th
soldier in time, trouble, and pipe-clay. large
ea
;,,t,,,,incpd anon the next issue of clothing. In the

form of the

sanctioned.

AWFUL TRACIEDY.—On Tuesday, at Rawtenstall, Eliza.
beth, wife of Henry Cunliffe, labourer, of Oakenhead Wood
murdered her child, Alice Hannah, aged nine months, by
cutting her throat, and afterwards attempted suicide by
cuttin-, her own. The father of Elizabeth Cunliffe called
at the house betwaen two and three o'clock, and finding
the door closed he forced it open. On proceeding ur
stairs he found the child and its mother in bed, the forme!
,with its throat cut and dead, and the latter also bleeding
,from a wound in the throat, and nearly dead. He found
a penknife near the bed, and an old razor under the
bolster. The surgeon gave but little hopes of the woman's
recovery. She has, however, since rallied. She had been
for some time labouring under great depression of mind,
awing to the ill treatment of her husband.
A DESCENDANT OF PRINCE RUPERT, Miss Henrietta
Ouchterlony, of Montrose, died a few days since, having
attained the age of ninety-one years. The deceased was
the last survivor of three sisters, who were for many years
inhabitants of Montrose, and her only near relative is a

nephew, General Ouchterlony, now in the Russian army.
The Ouchterlony family counted among their kindred
several families of " gentle" blood. Of these we may
notice the Youngs of Aldbar, the Grahams of Claverhouse,
and last, though not least, Prince Rupert. The Lady
Ruperta, a natural daughter of Prince Rupert, by her
marriage with Brigadier-General Lord Howe, had a daugh-
ter, Henrietta, maid of honour to the Princess of Orange.
This grandchild of the prince married David Skinner,
Esq. ; and their eldest daughter, Mary Ruperta Skinner,
wife of John Ouchterlony, Esq., some time of Kintorckat,
was the mother of the late Miss Henrietta Ouchterlony.—
Montrose Review.
THE SIDDITARIAN QUESTION IN SCOTLAND. -On
Sunday morning last the steamer Emperor left the
Broomielaw with a full compliment of passengers, there
being upwards of 400 son board, including a con-
siderable number of ladies. On reaching Gourock, we
were informed two or three gentlemen who had been pas-
sengers by one of the Liverpool steamers went on board
the Sunday steamer, with the view of being conveyed
across to the village of Row. Upon reaching the pier at
this place the gentlemen fropmreLhi-erptmoobl3waerebulgaended,
woodenbut
gateway,
passage
eidd was
prevented
across the middle of the
their further lviri.cipt
pier. This, it seems, however, proved no very serious
obstacle, for some of the passengers speedily procured a
saw, with which they cut away a sufficient number of the
wooden bars of the gate or barricade to enable the passen-
gers to get through. When the Emperor approached the
head of the loch, it was also found that the old stone pier
erected by the fishery board, was strongly barricaded un-
der the orders of the lord-lieutenant of the county. There
was no force of men, however, to defend the erection, and
a small boat having been lowered from the steamer, with
a party carrying an axe, saw, crowbars, and other imple-
ments, the obstruction in a few minutes was thrown into
the loch, and floated away in the direction of the other
pier. :go landing was attempted here, the steamer at once
making for the regular pier. At this point some persons,
with the view of giving annoyance to the passengeN,
about one hour before the arrival of the Emperor, lifted
nine or ten planks from the middle of the pier ; but this
difficulty was easily got over, and the entire body of pas-
sengers, disembarked in safety, the planks which had been
uplifted from the pier being made use of as a bridge to
enable them to get over the wooden gateway adjoining the
tollhouse. There was one of the rural policemen and
some other men with him overlooking the landing, but
no disturbance ensued, and the passengers, after walking
about the neighbourhood for two hours, again quietly em-
barked in the same way as they had come, without creat-
ing the slightest noise, or giving ansunpAce t 4 any person.
—Olasgoto Chronicle.