The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-15 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION

ADMIRAL CAPEL.—The death of the Admiral of the
Red the Hon. Sir Thomas Bladen Capel, G.C.8., young-
est son of William, fourth Earl of Essex, by his second
wife, Harriet, daughter of Colonel Thomas Bladen ;
brother of Lieut.-General Hon. Thomas Edward Capel ;
and uncle of the present Earl of Essex, and of Commander
A. H. C. Capel, R.N., has been reported, at the ageof
seventy-seven years.

PRINCE ALBERT, as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards,
hss expressed his intention of increasing at his own ex-
Pense the band of this fine regiment from its present num-
ber of thirty-two to the complement of sixty, in order
that it shall be equal in strength to most of the Conti-
nental bands.
VISCOUNT 'MELVILLE has proceeded to India to re-
assume the command of the 60th Royal Rifles, and is
likely to be appointed to one of the divisions of the army
at the seat of war in Burmab.
TIER MAJESTY and Prince Albert and the Royal Family,
according to present arrangement, will return to Windsor
Castle on Thursday next, for the Eister holidays. After
remaining at Windsor for a fortnight the Court will return
te I3uckingham Palace.
THERE is no probability of Her Majesty going to the Isle
of Wight until at ter the Royal accouchement, which is
expected to take place in April.
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT held a levee,
by
desire of the Queen, on Wednesday, in St. James's
palace. Among the presentations were Mr. Charles
Turner, M.P., and Mr. Thomas B. Horsfall.
THE BISHOP OF ELY (Dr. Turton), is in a very delicate
state of health.
THE Morning Post contradicts the reported marriage of
Lard 'Ward and Miss Montague, (laughter of Lord Rokeby.

AN AMERICAN PICTURE OF JOHN BULL

(FRONI
YORK HERALD.)
--John Bull seldom rel'''n"r I:stsiat he can by any pos.
sibility retain. Ever sinCieuG
nahe Britain had a navy, ter-
ritorial aggrandisement has been
peninsulas, fortresses
She has swallowed islands and Onasdcfortrhesses and
Kingdoms have been
seaports, with insatiable voracity,
swept into her maw, without affecting herg
'whole continents have been thrust with impunityg into
Capacious gullet. More land, more forts on which the
union-jack" may float has ever been the cry of her
People ; with the terrors of repletion before their eyes,
and while colony after colony has been dissolving from its
sheer magnitude, still are hungry Britons heard to cry for
more. The last fifty years alone, have added nearly a
quarter of a million square miles of territory to the empire ;
and these enormous acquisitions seem to have stimulated
instead of glutting the appetite of the British lion.
British troops are impatiently awaiting orders to march
northward and westward from Peshawar. General Godwin
is only prevented by the mud of the Irawaddy from over-
running Birmah. A barren soil infested with pestilential
'aPours, wild beasts, and venomous reptiles, cannot pre-
tenti General Cathcart from extending the frontiers of the
fut'utirsehapcTsessions at the Cape. D2serts, pregnant with
wrested gfricaltural and present mineral wealth, are being
from the hand of the aborigines of Australia: A
peon of triumph •
of a new British e'osl tuna
in London at the establishment
rooted, in fact, la }1 ay on the Spanish Main. So deeply
British heart. thattiifis abstract desire for territory in the AretiacoseE,nglish sailor lights upon an ice-
girt rock in the
utterly desolate that none
but polar bears and seal",s°
ptzsibly inhabit its frozen
surface, he straightway piag
red cross in a snow
drift, assumes possession in the ne
lasrinaentorQSllneeonoklci cet oarpi
ea
and christens the sp_o_t_llu
THE QUEEN OF SIAM died at the royal
10th of OctAugober,ust
her infant h
and only son Palace on the
the 21st ofaving died on
A SOUTH AMERICAN BELLE.—An Ame • •
American writer,
speaking, of Para:nay, says :—" Everybody smokes in
Paraguay, and nearly every woman and girl, more than
thirteen years old, chews tobacco. A magnificent liebe,
arrayed in satin and flashing with diamonds, puts you
back with one delicate hand, while with the fair taper
fingers of the other she takes the tobacco out of her mouth
Previous to your saluting her. An over-delicate foreigner
turns away with a shudder of loathing under such circuna_
stances, and gets the epithet of el salvaco (the savage),
applied to him by the offended beauty for his sensitive
Squeamishness. However, one soon gets used to these
things in Paraguay, where one is, per force of custom,
obliged to kiss every lady one is introduced to ; and half
You meet are really tempting enough to render you reek-
Loss of consequences."
DREADFUL PREVALENCE OF MURDER IN AMERICA.—
all England and Wales (a population of fifteen mil-
es, 25 times that of New York City), the whole number
2t arrests for murder from 1825 to 1840, were 315 for the
fiv
4e years ; from 1840 to 1845, they were 347 ; and from
to
18-
DlB5O, they were 365 • making an average of seventy
~, lo'erkar for a population of fifteen millions; while New
than h citylf, in 1851, supplies 36 arrests for a little more
a a million of population. ln New York the
arrests for murder for the vea 18-9 39 "1
r o- were -. While in New York arrests
for murder for the last two
lreara •
_ jumped up to double what they
ea y were for five years
ore; in England they just increase with asf d and
almost a conventional ratio with the
actual Increase of
Population.