The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-04-07 00:00:00

HOUSE OV

_
There were a great many petitions presented, chiefly on
the corn law question.
The Marquis of LoNnoNDEnRY asked whether the papers
would be produced, regarding which he had given notice, re.
lativo to the &Aldred %Dahl ead the lintieh legion ?

Lord .1. RITSSIAL answered that he had not made such
application, but the opinion of the government was that the
thirty days comprised any time during which the house might
be sitting, or might be adjourned by a resolution of them-
selves. He intended however, to allow the fortnight, during
which it was probable the house might be adjourned, and
also the thirty days required by the act, and then to take the
opinion of the law officers of the crown before he advised
the crown to give its consent to the bill. •
Mr. PAKINGTON asked whether the government was in
possession of any further information with regard to the
ordinance of the Governor-General of Canada, with respect
to the incorporation of the monks of St. Sulpice, and whether
that ordinance would receive assent. He wished to know
whether memorials had not been presented by the landowners
in and about Montreal, in opposition to the proposed ar-
rangement._

Lord J. RUSSELL said that the Governor-General had
acted under the provisions of the act of parliament.
Lord SANDON inquired whether the ordinance would be
allowed or disallowed by government.
Lord J. RUSSELL believed that there was no objection to
it, but that it had not yet received consideration.
The order of the day for the attendance of Mr. Sheriff
Evans on the 6th of April (Monday) having been read,
Lord J. RUSSELL said he trusted that he should not have
to renew the discussion on this subject. He hoped the other
house of parliament would give their assent to the bill which
had been sent up to them. Its second reading was fixed for
Monday. He should move, therefore, that the order be
discharged, and that Mr. Sheriff Evans be ordered to attend
the house on the 6th May, by which time he anticipated that
the bill would have passed into law.
The motion was then agreed to, and the sheriff continues
" at large" until the Gth of the next month.
During the evening the committee on the subject of the
affairs of China, with regard to the trade in opium, was
nominated.

The debate on Mr. Villiers' motion respecting the "corn
laws" was again resumed, Mr. Brotherton opening the third
night's debate.

The_ house was eventually adjourned until Monday, after
considerable confusion, and amidst loud laughter, as the
question now will be, how to resume the debate, as this was
not adjourned.

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THE "DUCHESS OF INVERNESS ?"

(From the Morning Herald.)
In our paper of yesterday, we inserted some brief com-
ments on a very astounding announcement which had ap-
peared in the London Gazette of the preceding evening.
That announcement apprised the British people that her
Majesty had been pleased to grant the dignity of a duchess
" to the right hon. Lady Cecilia Letitia Underwood (eldest
surviving daughter of Arthur Saunders, second Earl of
Arran, by Elizabeth, his third wife, daughter of Richard
Underwood, late of the city of Dublin, Esq.), and the heirs
male of her body, lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and
title of Duchess of Inverness." We will not stop to quarrel
with the oddity of a patent of nobility, which, in express
terms grants to any future " Master Saunders," who shall
be entitled as legitimate heir male, the said dignity of a
duchess (!) and we repeat that we desire " not to question
her Majesty's right to elevate to the dignity of the peerage
whomsoever her Majesty pleases." And this is constitu-
tional doctrine. "The Crown is the fountain of honour,"
said the sages of the English law before the days even of
Bracton or of Pieta; and it is a maxim as true in English
jurisprudence as it is dear to English loyalty.
The principle of loyalty has, down to our times, retained
so much of strength and freshness, that it has sometimes
seemed too active and flourishing, when crown-descended
honours have been diverted into worthless channels, or
poured into polluted courses. If, however, it has not
" withered, drooped, and died" over these occasional aber-
rations of the Sovereign's grace, its permanency and health-
fulness may be ascribed to its own deep-seated conviction
that such cases were but unhappy exceptions to the general
principle which had formerly regulated the distribution of the
waters of so noble a source. English loyalty was ever full of
faith, and amidst the corruption and venal patronage pro-
fusely encouraged and distributed by the profligate Jameses
and Charleses, it looked forward to better times and juster
and more upright princes. It found them in the reigns and
the persons of William 111., and of the second, third, and
the fourth William. In some of these reigns do we remem-
ber that the bad precedent of George 1., in the creation of
his mist' ess to be Duchess of Kingston, was followed. The
next notable creation of this kind was that of a late reign—
the Duchess of Sutherland. That was a case in which it
was little possible for the prerogative of the Crown to add to
the hereditary rank and station of one of the noblest of Bri-
tish matrons. The good and venerable " Duchess Coun-
tess" boasted a descent from the noblest houses of Scotland
and England, through an unbroken lineage of 800 years.
Her own fortune was regal, independently of the enormous
wealth of her excellent lord ; and both of them, not less by
the unsullied purity of their private characters, their high
attainments, their virtues, and their munificence, than by the
lustre of their public position (eminent as this was in every
attribute of title, influence, and the respect of all classes),
did honour to the station which they filled. The third coin-
age of a new duchess, to which we shall advert, is this of the
Lady Cecilia Letitia Underwood.
If these creations are so rare in the annals of our peerage,
we may, without the slightest imaginable disrespect to the
sovereign, to allowed to speculate ;little as to what can have
been the reasons which have guided the grace of the throne
in so remarkable a visitation upon the person of her ladyship.
" Remarkable," in truth, is but a weak term. It is almost
miraculous. If it was the glory of the " Divine Cecilia,"
according to the legend, " to draw down an angel from the
skies," to listen to her organ playing, what organs must this
Cecilia (Letitia) have possessed to drawn clown upon herself
the ecstasy of a tangible duchess-ship ! Now, in these for-
tunate days of whi" ascendancy, in this bright age of liberal
Opinions, it can not only be improper in us, or derogatory to
the lady, or offensive to the crown, to enter into the consi-
deration of the probable reasons which may have dictated
this selection of an object for the highest exercise of grace
and favour which it was in the power of the Queen to bestow
on any female subject ; but we should expect to be taunted
with the charge of having deserted our duty by the organs of
that ascendancy, and of these opinions, if we did not endea-
vour to elicit the facts. Besides, the crown itself, and the
powers nearest to the crown, must be anxious that the mo-
tives of such especial distinctions should be known ; and,
indeed, in modern times these motives generally are either
distinctly proclaimed, or, permitted to be inferred from data,
not very likely to be mistaken. That was but a sorry reign
for this country (and we hope never to live to hear its autho-
rity quoted in the way of precedents for royal patents,) when
the sovereign, being assured that he need give no reasons to
the world for the most extravagant acts of his favour, created
one mistress a " Duchess" of Portsmouth, and another a
Duchess of Richmond. We have fallen upon other days.
Public opinion has, to a vast extent, usurped prerogative
royal. This change in many instances, under many phases
of circumstances, may be a change of uncertain tendencies.
It may be for good or for evil. But, be it for evil or for
good, to this extent it is omnipotent—it will not permit even
the personal prepossessions of the sovereign to compromise
the interests of public safety or of public morality.
We feel, we know, how unnecessary it is foe us to renew,
at this time, the expression of our unfeigned, devoted, and
affectionate attachment to the youthful and intelligent pos-
sessor of the crown of these realms. But the reflections to
which the recent " creation" has given rise in our minds,
are heightened in their character of solicitude and earnest-
ness by the very intensity of that devotion. Shall we not,
then, proceed to discover, first, the possible effect of this
creation ; secondly, the possible identity of the party en-
nobled? Wherefore should we abstain in performing this
duty to the public ?
And first, as to the possible effect of this creation. If it
had been determined upon with a view to do honour to some
bright exercise of those female virtues of which our lovely
Queen presents in her own person so signal an example—if it
have been bestowed as a tribute to that maternal solicitude
for the pure, and careful, and enlightened education of off-
spring, which her Majesty's illustrious mother has so suc-
cessfully exhibited in the superintendence and direction of
her Majesty's own studies—if it have been granted as an ac-
knowledgment of that touching devotion to the last hours,
and the solace of the last pangs of a fond and confiding hus-
band, which Englishwomen, like Lady Dover, or princesses,
like Queen Adelaide, have manifested under circumstances
worthy of higher honours than courts or crowns can give,—
in any of these cases the creation may reflect even greater
lustre on the Sovereign, than the Sovereign can confer, by
her own act of grace upon the object of it.
But, in order to judge of the possible effect of the creation
just announced, subject, as it thus appears, to such conside-
rations, we must proceed to look at,
Secondly, the possible identity of the party ennobled.
that
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daughter of the late Earl of Arran, whose family name was
Gore ; whose mother's name was Underwood; that, in 1815,
Lady Cecilia Gore espoused (forgive us, Clio !) Sir George
Buggin, Knight!' and, under the latter name, was subse-
quently known in the fashionable world, at a period when her
ladyship's acquaintance with his Royal Highness the Duke
of Sussex became matter of some notoriety." It this be so,
and no other circumstances of a later date have altered the
legal status of the lady, we must condemn the creation of
duchess in her favour as a most Stuart-like, most unaccount-
able, most capricious exercise of the Royal favour.
If other circumstances have since occurred to alter her legal
why are not these set out in the Gazette, to account
transformation of Lady Cecilia Letitia Gore Buggin
into status,
hLea d y
C. G. (no Buggin) Underwooe ? Did Lady Bug-
gin (her Grace of Inverness will forgive us) ever marry, at
all, after Sir George Buggin's death?
. Did she marry an " Underwood"—so as to have legally
sunk in that kindred shelter the horrid memory of (the name
of) her husband, the attorney knight?
If neither of these events, really happened, and she has
ceased to be " Lady Buggin,"
'Whom did she marry?
With happy taste—as a compliment to the most decorous
people in the world—the title created for her is a proud and
an eminently Scotch title, Duchess of Inverness.
The Duke of Sussex is Earl of Inverness.
Is the duchy attributed to Lady Cecilia Gore Buggin
Un-
derwood in consideration of any claim arising out of legal
a ia
or quasi legal connection with his Royal Highnesr!. or is t.
mere compliment to a long-accustomed inmate of his Royal
Highness's bower at Kensington ? Doubtless, in reference
to the wording of the grant, the connection is legal or quasi
legal; but the heirs male of her body,
lawfully begotten I"
Heyday ! who, what, where, how many—are these ?Be they
young Bugginses, or little Underwoods, or grandson Saun-
derses, or ----_—____

But. we cannot put other alternative without graver
peers and members talk and more forebodingTf
progress of the dempoorcpreattiocathe
We have lived to hear liberal
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monarchy to the duration
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narchy.rel:sacred questions of prior
an old established mo-
narchy!able dominion like
rights and legitimate descents.
right, and legitimate
, and a magnificent and immeasurable
that of Britain—by the side of certainty,
title, all the personal curiosity or interest attaching to all the
office.
Duchesses of Buggins Inverness that ever existed,t are as the
mere office dust and sweepings of a city attorney'soao
Let us ask, then, only two questions. If they be replied
to in the negative, all other interrogatories, and all reasoning
upon them; are " leather and prunella." .
Is the Duke of Sussex married to the new Duchess of In-
verness (Buggins) ?
Are there male issue of this marriage (such issue, of ue, course,
if existing, arc lawfully begotten)?

The Council of the Cambden Society have resolved upon
the publication of the Egerton Papers, from MSS. in the
possession of Lord Francis Egerton, to be edited by Mr.
Collier ; " The Chronicle of Joceline de Brakelond, Monk
of St. Edmundsbury, from A.D. 1157 to 1211," to be edited
by Mr. J. G. Rokewode ; and the Doctrines of the Lollards,
a M.S. ascribed to Wickliffe, to be edited by the Rev. J. H.
Todd. The publication of other interesting works is under
consideration ; among these the Rutland Papers, from the
M.S. collections of the present duke, relating to the corona-
tion. of Henry VIII. and the Field of the Cloth of Gold, to
be edited by Mr. Jerden.

SINGULAR FACT.—It is ascertained that twice the num-
ber of deaths occur at the age of 40 that happens in the
preceding and succeeding years ; and that the same singular
law holds good with respect to the decennial periods, 30, 50,
60, and 70.

EXPLANATORY RETURNS.—The following ludicrous an-
swer was given, in return relative to the constabulary force,
to the question Is the Watching and Lighting Act (3 and 4
William IV., cap. 90) carried out in the parish ? Answer,
Every one fins theire own candel !—Preston Pilot.
As a reward for the services of the 45th Regiment of Foot,
during the chartist riots at Newport, it is the intention of
government to make them a light infantry regiment, and for
that purpose they are ordered to Woolwich to make thetn-
selves proficient in their military duties.

The Suabian Mercury states that steam navigation is about
to be established on the Vistula. Two iron steamers are only
waiting at Danzig for the breaking up of the frost, to com-
mence regular passages as far as Cracow and Warsaw.
They have been constructed in England by order of the
Governor of Warsaw.

On Thursday evening last, the Rev. William M. Bunting,
Wesleyan minister, administered the ordinance of baptism
by immersion, in the Baptist Chapel, George-street. This
is the first instance, within our knowledge, of the ordinance
of baptism being administered by immersion, in Manchester,
by any of the Wesleyan preachers.—Manchester Guardian.
QUIETNESS AT LAST.—A bickering couple residing near
Manchester, were recently overheard in high controversy, and
the repentant Benedict exclaimed, " I'm determined i'll have
one quiet week with thee." " But how wilt thou get it?
how wilt thou get it? how wilt thou get it? said his
taunting spouse, with that-reiteration which married ladies
so provokingly practise—" I'll keep thee a week after thuo'rt
dead !" was the tender rejoinder.
There are no less than twelve vessels ofilarge burden now
in port, prepared to receive passengers for British .North
America, and the berths in nearly.half that number are alrea-
dy engaged. The tide of emigration from this district has
never set in so strong in our memory, as in the present
season, and bids fair to surpass all anticipation. We seriously
believe Limerick will afford an outlet for 6,000 agricultural
labourers and artisans, to Upper and Lower Canada, before
the fall of the season.—Limerick Chronicle.
SECRET SERVICE MoNEv.—By a return of the sums
granted under the head of secret service money, it appears
that the amount granted in 1831 was £41,000 ; in 1832,
£44,325; in 1833, £39,400; in 1834, £57,690; in 1835,
X 36,800 ; in 1826, £36,000 ; in 1837, £35,900; in 1838,
£35,900 ; and in 1839, £39,900.
IMPROVEMENT IN CLOCK WORK.—An improvement in
clock work at present excites great interest in the scientific
circles in Paris. M. Neuberger has discovered a method of
applying to pendulums of all dimensions a movement which
requires to be wound up only once in three months, without
in any degree affecting the regular working of the mechanism.
—Polytechnic Journal.

DEATH OP CAPTAIN DICKINSON, R.N. C.8.--We have
to announce the demise of this gallant officer, one of the
heroes of Navarino, under Admiaal Sir Edward Codrington.
Captain Dickinson was Knight of St. Anne of Russia, the
legion of honour, and other foreign orders, conferred on him
for his brilliant services. His post commission bears date
May 13, 1828.
THE MONMOUTH CHARTISTS.—Vincent and Edwards,
the chartist rioters, have been found guilty of conspiracy. On
Monday, at the Monmouth assizes, Mr. Baron Gurney sen-
tenced Vincent to be imprisoned for twelve months, and the
defendant Edwards to be imprisoned for fourteen calendar
months, to give sureties to be of good behaviour for live
years, themselves in £5OO and two in £lOO each. Both
defendants arc in custody under a sentence of Baron Alderson
at last assizes ; this sentence will, therefore, detain Vincent
for eight months, and Edwards for thirteen months, after the
expiration of the former sentence.
•

THE GREATEST MUSQUITO STORY YET.—A correspond..
ent of the Cincinnatti Sun writes concerning the musquitoes
of Michigan, that a man living near Grand River, being in
the woods, was exceedingly annoyed by the musquitoes, and
took shelter under an inverted potash kettle. His first
emotions of joy for his happy deliverance and secure asylum,
were hardly over, when the musquitoes having found him,
began to drive their probosces through the kettle ; fortunately
he had a hammer in his pocket, and he clinched them down
as fast as they came through, until at last such a host of them
was fastened to the poor man's domicile, that they rose and
flew away with it, leaving him shelterless.

...
ARRIVEI).—Mary, Robertson, from Mauritius—Alan Kerr,
M'Kechnie, from Bombay—Actress, Toole, from New Orleans—
Iris, Dickson, from Savannah—Lynx, Watson, from Terceira—Wm.
Sorlie, , from Cephalonia—Daniel, Mathews, from Lisbon—
Splendid, Dishou, from Seville—Gustav & Leopold, Nell, from Wol-
gast— Hercules, Schwann, from Wismar—Johannes, , from
Harlingen.

SAILED.—John Woodall, Williams, for Rio Janeiro, &c.—Angli•
cania, Burridge, and Alcyone, Dales, for Quebec—Aurore, Briard,
for Cape Breton—Liverpool, Davenport, and Ambassador, Wade,
for New Orleans—Fanny Connell, Dixon, for Lisbon—Elizabeth,
Clark, for Lagnira, &c.—Otter, Preston, for Constantinople—Snow.
drop, Nicholls, for Beirout, &c.—Elizabeth, Stone, for Trieste.

Columbus, Green, from Pernambuco, at this port; sailed 27th
Feb. Left loading the Pakenham, for Falmouth, Superb, for
Trieste, Ranger and Matthew Plummer, .for Hamburg. On 9th
March, in lat. 25 N, long. 42 NV, spoke the Octavio, from Lima for
Liverpool, 93 days out. On 19th March, in lat. 32 N, long. 15 W,
spoke the John Souchay, from the Mediterranean for Monte Video.
On 28th March, in lat. 50 N, long. 22 W, spoke the Carribbean,
from Mauritius for Cork

United States, Barr; John & Robert, M'Keelinie ; Girard, -;
St. Lawrence, Brown ; Diadem, Leslie ; and Timoleon,
hence at New Orleans .
Alexander Edmonds, -, hence at Savannah
Leila, , hence at Baltimore
Montezuma, - , hence at Philadelphia
Oxford, Rathbone, hence at New York 13th March
Roscius, Collins, hence at ditto lath; lost spars, &c.
Sheffield, Allen, hence at ditto, I7th
Frankfort, Russell, hence at ditto, 18th
British Queen, (steamer) from London, at ditto, 18th March, in
15 days from Portsmouth

North America, Lowber; Siddons, Palmer; and Europe, Mar-
shall, hence off New York, tpth March
Abeona, Grant, hence at St. John, N.B.
Rapid, Bolton; Phceniz, Hartley, and Petrel, Turcan, hence at
Madeira

Ann Wise, -, from Savanilla, off Bardsey, 2nd April
Great Western, (steamer) from New York, at Bristol, 3rd April;
sailed 19th March. Arrived out in 15i. days. On 29th March. in
lat. 49, long. 27, spoke the Champlain, from Philadelphia for Liver-
pool

- Wm. Shand, , hence for Calcutta, was spoken 29th March
in lat. 49, long. I i

Romulus, -, hence for Algiers, was spoken 10th March,
1at,.40, long. 11

Shakspeare, -, hence for Charleston, was spoken 12th
March, in lat. 43, long. 33

Clifton,-, hence for New Orleans, was spoken in lat. 24
long. 80
• - -

flizabeth Bruce, -, from New Orleans for Liverpool, was
spoken loth March, off Matanfila Reef

Edwin, , from Natchez for Liverpool, was fl (14th
March, in hitt. 28, long. 79
Alert, (packet) from Falmouth, at Pernambuco, 25th January
Bruce, Campbell, from London, at Havana
Unicorn, Muffins, and Chas. Quint, Mulenear, hence at ditto
Reindeer, (packet) from Tampico, at ditto, and sailed 6th March,
for Falmouth, with 600,000 dollars on freight
Tynwald, , and Andes, , hence at Vera Cruz
Ironside, , hence at Galveston
George Canning, , hence at Laguira
Ann Hall, --, hence at Mobile
Banffshire, —, from Dundee, ditto
NEW Yonx, March 12.—Francis 2st, —, hence for London-
derry, sprung a leak, and put into Newport, (Rhode Island,) and is
discharging. 18th March.—Agnes, , from New Orleans for
Liverpool, went on shore on the Tortugas, but was afterwards got
off, and taken into Key West, with little injury. Belmont, —,
from Montego Bay, (Jamaica) for Liverpool, went on shore on
Carysfort Reef, but was afterwards got off, and taken to Key West,
badly injured, and it was supposed would be condemned

SUNDAY, APRIL s.—Wind N.N.W.
ARRIVED.—Yazoo, —, from New York ; sailed 4th March—
Indian, Frost, from Calcutta—Ann Wise, Thorns, from Savanilla—
Tamenend, Borland, from New Orleans—Mount Charles, Good,
from Cadiz—Julia & Elizabeth, Lawson, from Tonsberg—Freiheit,
from Lubeck—St. Antonius, , from Copenhagen—
Recovery, Blodj en, from Requgada Water] illy, , from Bilboa
—Effort, —, from Smyrna—Thomas Dempsey, —, from
Africa—and Harriet, Scott, from Charleston.
SAlLED.—lndependent, Morris, for Quebec—Carlton, Allan, for
Miramichi—Sterling, Saunders, for Savannah—Tamerlane, Fisher,
for Quebec—Huntress, Putnam, for New York—Martin, Brown, for
Trinidad—and Lyons, Agry, for New Orleans.

Cumberland, Power, hence at Apalachicola
Perseverance, Corkhill, and Cynosure, Brice, hence at Rio Janeiro
Petrel, (Packet) from Falmouth, ditto
Amicitia, Michoelson, hence at Havana
Amalia, Zimmerman, hence at Pillau
Eduard, Zeilcke, hence at Dauzic
Sir Charles ForbeS, Laing, from Batavia, at Hambro'
Garland, Wright, from Bahia, ditto
Java, Pickering, from Manilla, off the Cove
HALIFAX, March 2.—The John Porter, parted her cables lath
March, during a gale at S.E. went on shore at the entrance of St.
Mary's Harbour, and is expected to become a wreck