The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-01 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC.

By the United States mail steamship Baltic, which
reached here on Wednesday, we had intelligence from New
York to the 15th instant. She brought 134 passengers
and 1,000,000 dols. in specie on freight. The Baltic passed
the Atlantic (st), from Liverpool for New York, at 10 15
a.m., on the 16th, 125 miles from New York.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Herald says, it is doubtful if Mr. Mason goes to France,
but if he declines he will probably act as a locum tettens
for some member of the present cabinet on its dissolution,
which must be before the beginning of November,
Advices from the city of Mexico to the 3rd ultimoi state
that a Mexican war steamer had left Vera Cruz, with 300
troops, for Yucatan, where a revolution had been reported.
Don Lina Alcorta had been appointed minister of war.
An extensive conspiracy had been discovered in Puebla,
and several prominent citizens had been arrested. They
had been ordered to leave the country.

COURT AND FASHION.

LOUD STANLEY or ALDERLEY has arrived in Dover-
street, London, froth Alderley Park, Cheshire.
DEATH OF THE LORD BISHOP OF DERRY.—The Lord
Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, died on Friday morning at
ten o'clock, after a tedious illness, at the Palace, at Derry.
CALzoLenr made his debut at St. Petersburgh on the
16th ult., and was most favourably received. Lablache,
Ronconi, and Madame La Grange, appeared with him in
Rossini's Barbiere di Siviglia.
TIIa THISTLE.---On Friday the Queen held a Chapter
of the Order of the Thistle at Windsor-castle, and the
Earl of Haddington, the Duke of Athol, and Lord Pan-
mare were invested•
wiNDson.—The festivities at the Castle in consequence
of the visit of the King of the Belgians, the Duke of
Brabant and his imperial bride, the Count of Flanders
and the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, are intended to
be carried out upon a scale of unusual brilliancy and mag-
nificence. The theatrical performances commence on the
10th November with the " Tempest." A succession of
banquets in St. George's Hall and the Waterloo Gallery,
commenced on Friday.

THE PRESS'S T CABINET.—It seems that Lord Aber-
deen's government is the most aristocratic or nearly so
that ever was framed. " Rarely," says the Athenceum,
" has a Cabinet more essentially aristocratic in its com-
position advised the crown. It consists of two dukes, one
marquis, three earls, one viscount, the next-of-kin to a
famous earldom and great estate. Mr. Sidney Herbert ;
a duke's son, Lord John Russell, three baronets, with
high aristocratic connexions ; one baron, -the Lord Chan-
cellor, and a solitary commoner, in the Chancellor of the
Exchequer." . _

Tnu-Ducunss OF GLoncEsrsn is ill. For some time
past her royal highness has been indisposed, and latterly
a cough has been very troublesome, and has hitherto bat
fled the skill of her medical attendants. The royal duchess
is staying at her London residence, Gloucester House,
Park-lane, and here on Thursday she received a visit from
the Queen, who travelled to town from Windsor Castle on
that day. The Duchess of Kent and the Duke of Cam-
bridge have also paid a visit to her royal highness, and the
King of the Belgians and Prince Albert have called per-
sonally at Gloucester-house during the week, to learn the
state of the royal duchess. Her royal highness has reached
an advanced stage of life, being seventy-seven last birth-
day, and the continuance of the cough with which she is
troubled has recently had a weakening effect upon her
frame.

TEE MARRIAGE OF MISS HOOK, SECOND DAIIGITTER
OP TEE VICAR OF LEEDS, to the Rev. Arthur John Emp-
son, Rector of Eydon, Northamptonshire, took place at
Leeds parish church on Tuesday last. From an early
hour a large concourse of persons began to assemble at the
church, and before the service began the building was
completely filled in every part. Amongst the thousands
present, the girls of the National School, neatly attired for
the occasion, were not the leapt interesting part of the
assembly. Outside the sacred edifice a dense mass of the
working classes were waiting, who showed their respect
for the worthy vicar and his family on their arrival and
departure by hearty and continued cheering. The bridal
party arrived at ten, and it was received at the door by
the clergy and churchwardens. The service was performed
by the bishop of the diocese, assisted by the Hon. and Very
Rev. the Dean of Ripon. Nothing could be more orderly
than the conduct of the Persons who formed the dense
crowds within and outside the church, and the whole pro-
ceedings were strikingly indicative of the strong feeling of
affection entertained towards Dr. Hook by his parishioners.
We noticed the mayor and his lady present during the
ceremony. His worship wore his chain of office.—Leeds

DIPLOMATIC SERVICE.—Last year the diplomatic ser-
vice cost the country £332,408.
OIL PAINTING.--A new method of painting has been
edtbe colours with olive oil. When
by the celebrated Horace Vernet.
with a coating of fuller's earth,
it entirely. The painting is thus
which draws the oil
the back of the canvass is covered
ttlhht discoveredrthrough
consistsu
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n is a
absorbsnd
painted,
mi
n p
gy
d
reduced to the nature of a paste. The fuller's earth is
then removed from the canvass, and a coat of linseed oil
is applied, always at the back ' • the colours, in their turn,
imbibe this oil, and all the mellowed tones of the old
mutero an obtained. •