The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-12-04 00:00:00

THE 'LIVERPOOL STANDARD

HE MISSES ACKERLEY beg to announce to L':.frf*o474TAG.7-, .',-.- '--'.'-'-', '.l'W,-, .0%:1- 4, -
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T their Friends and the Public, that they have OPENED a
SCHOOL at SEFTON HOUSE, Crosby Green, West Derby, near`' DEATH OF THE QUEEN DOWAGER. f;
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Liverpool, for the Education of a limited number of YOUNG t The royal mail steam-ship Cambria, Captain Shannon,
LADIES, where, by unwearied attention to the religions and On Sunday morning, at 7 minutes before 2 o'clock, hers arrived in the Mersey at six o'clock yesterday morning.
moral improvement, the literary acquirements, manners, and - .
Majesty the Queen Dowager departed this life, at Stan- :Our accounts are to the 20th ultimo, inclusive, from New
domestic comforts of their Pupils, they hope to merit the con-Majesty
fidence of those Parents who may entrust their Daughters to ,more Priory, to the great grief of her Majetsy and all the York. The Cambria left Boston on the 21st and Halifax
their care. Royal Family, after a painful and protracted illness, '--on the 23d ultimo, with thirty-one passengers, and the
Miss ACKERLEY has long been engaged in Tuition, both in,j.,which she bore with exemplary patience. Her Majesty . usual mails, and has accomplished the run, therefore, in
England and on the Continent, having for upwards of sixteenexpired without any apparent suffering, and retaining her", considerably less than twelve days. The steam-ship
years filled the situation of Private Governess in Families of'
of •
composure mind to the last. %- America, Captain Judkins, arrived at New York hence on
great distinction, English and German.
It is the hope, and will be the endeavour, of the Misses ' On Saturday the following bulletin of her Majesty's. the 18th ultimo. The West India steamer Great West-
ACKERLEY, by their united exertions, with the additional aid health was issued : l' ern arrived at New York from Bermuda on the 14th ult.,
of efficient Masters, to ensure the proficiency of their Pupils "The Priory, Dec. 1. with a specie freight of 10,500 dollars.
in every branch of Education, and to combine in their Esta-, "The Queen Dowager has not psssed a good night, though - Our accounts from New York by this arrival are im-
blishment the advantages and comforts of private Tuition with' less restless than the previous one. portant chiefly in a commercial point of view. Political
the emulation of a select School. " Her Majesty continues in a weak state.
Reference has been kindly permitted to "DAVID DAVIES. M.D." ' affairs remain quiescent; but a variety of rumours pre-
Mrs. Col. Philips, Rhtlal, near Mold, Flintshire. Dr. Brigh arrived at the Priory .011 Saturday night, and veiled of an alteration of the Cabinet by (the retirement
The Baroness de 'Vrints, Frankfort-on-the-Maine. remained in attendance until her Majesty's decease. -- of Mr. Clayton and the appointment of Mr. Clay as sec-
The Bareness de Bethman, Ditto. There were resident in the Priory at the time of herd retary. Colonel Webb, of the Courier and Inquirer, is
Mrs. Murray, Hornby Hall, near Lancaster.
Mrs. St. John Charlton, Henllys, Beaumaris. 'Majesty's death their Serene Highnesses the Duchess Ida`` said to have been appointed Minister to Austria. It is
.:also reported that Mr. Clay has entered into a " sharp
Mrs. J. C. Thompson, Landfield Park, West Derby. ..,of Saxe-Weimar, Prince Edward and Prince Gustave of,
Mrs. F. Trueman, Glasgow. Saxe-Weimar, the Earl Howe, (Lord Chamberlain) and -.. correspondence with Sweden on a trivial affair."
The Rev. Dr. Pinkerton, Frankfort-on-the-Maine. the Countess Howe, the Hon. Charlotte Hudson (Maid,l The Washington correspondent of the New York
The Rev. Fielding Ould, Liverpool. -of Honour in Waiting,) Mrs. Cornwall, (Bedchambero• Herald announces the fact that the government will in-
The Rev. T. Fogg, Hornby, near Lancaster.
The Rev. Dr. Lingard, Ditto. Woman- in Waiting), and Colonel Cornwall, Rev. John sist only on the privilege of navigating :,he proposed canal
Pudsey Dawson, Esq., Hornby Castle. Boval Wood and the Rev. George Hudson (Chaplains t 4
her Majesty) and Captain Bedford (Resident GentlemanL of Nicaragua on the same terms with all other nations.
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The Herald announces the receipt of "an important
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A NIERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE CAMBRIA.

WEST OF ENGLAND LIFE AND FIRE 7 Usher.) official dispatch from Mr. Squier, American charge
INSURANCE COMPANY. ;`t Expreeses were forwarded to her Majesty the Queen '
and Prince Albert, to the Duchess of Kent, and to the Central America, of the cession to the United States, by
• Honduras, of Tigre Island, in the Pacific bay of rouse-
BUSHEL ~ DukeA: and Duchess of Cambridge at Kew. -mca. This bay is the natural outlet for the proposed ship
".. Queen Adelaide was the daughter of one of the pettyr
TRUSTEES. 4X:Princes of Germany. Saxe-Meiningen is very nearly filet canal via the San Juan river and the Lakes Nicaragua and
it H I Sir T. D. Acland, Bart, M.P. -
1. smallest state in Europe, not half the size of an English'-- °
Leon. Tigre Island is only important as commandin
It F I Edward Dive t, Esql.l, M.P.
- .?.county, with a metropolis consisting of five or six hundred
t 1 I Samuel T. Kekewic , Esq. 1:•.,71
louses. George, the lare reigning Duke of that minia-
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LIFE DEPARTMENT. - ture sovereign.y, c..,.....10,1: U. •.:446:l V,/ ~./1: 1.... IllJllJa., WA F , -
A MODERATE Scale of Premiums, combining the',:— Hohenlohe-Langenburgh ; their eldest daughter was the supply in the market. The weather has continued
ri BENEFITS of the MUTUAL with the SECURITY of the 4: Princess who has resided amongst us more than 30 y the crop are increasing.
ears favourable for picking at the south, and the estimates of
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PROPRIETARY System, Four-Fifths, or Eighty per Cent. of the ''.and the news of whose death will now be received with It will probably reach 2,400,000
Profits appropriated to the Assbred every Fifth Year, which '" feelings of more than ordinary regret. The late Queen
may be added to the sum insured, as a Bonus, and payableL *Q Theresa Carolina
',Dowager
Amelia Adelaide out_ a was. .
bales. One or two frosts have occurred at the south, but
°l' none of any importance. This condition of things tends
therewith; or applied in reduction of the future Annual Pre- 'born on the 13th of August, 1792. In the year 1803 her. mium; or payment may lie obtained in Cash, of their present to give this market a downward tendency, and sales could
value. Insurances effected, without participation of Profits, father died, the Princess Adelaide being then only 11 not be forced excepting at a further concession."
It reduced rates. .years of age, while her brother and sister were both The political news brought by this steamer seems to

ESTABLISHED IEO7

Right Hon. Earl Fortescut
Rip lit Hon. Earl Morley.
Right Hon. Lord Clifford,

The New York Tribune says, " The news by the last
steamer in regard to cotton was most satisfactory to the
folders, and the market declined -}c. ner lb., with a free

_as little importance. _
destined, as most people expected, to be very
,ettled between the two governments most immediately
interested, notwithstanding the fussy efforts by some
small politicians and unscrupulous journalists to get up a
serious embroilment. The French difficulty will probably
be settled by shelving the officials concerned on each side,
who seem to have personal antipathies to each other, an,'
_ .
7.-ith men of more sense and te•
wculations are afloat as to t.
....; to be adopted a

Nicaraguan

younger still.
FIRE DEPARTMENT. ". To the great grief of this nation the Princess Charlotte of P,
Property Insured throughout the United Kingdom. Half of -
Wales and her infant child were, in the month of Novem- `tic
the Surplus Premiums returned to the Assured every Fifth Year . .
her, 1817, consigned to the tomb ; the Regent was child- rests. on Policies of 300 and upwards, of two years' standing. The •
Sixth return at Christmas, 1847, amounted to Ten per Cent. ono; less ; and four of the royal dukes, Clarence, Kent, Cam- ' polit.
the Premiums paid. •*bridge, and Gloucester—though all advanced in life- embm.
FIRE ENGINE STATION, N0..7, LOWER END OF s • resolved forthwith to contract matrimonial alliances. ' dby sht.
MOUNT PLEASANT.
-'ilate Duke of York being married and without issue, it wasp to have 1,
..* The COMPANY'S ENGINE AND BRIGADE are maintained supplying their places
ct naturally considered that the descendants of the Duke ofq
entirely at their own expense, and are despatched to ALL FIRES '-''. '
FREE OF CHARGE; special protection being given to Property ,Clarence, if he should marry, would stand next in succes- per. Various st,
covered by the Company's Policies. f sion to the throne. His Royal Highness had for some,. pointments, and the measure.
the next session of Congress oi.
CHARLES LEWIS, Secretary, Exeter. ' time been separated from Mrs. Jordan. At the especialZ
AGENTS AT LIVERPOOL : instance of Queen Charlotte he solicited the hand of the vague and contradictory.
WM. WHITEHOUSE, From Canada we have no important intelligence.
Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meinengen ; the young Ger-
Office, No. 11, Exchange-buildings.
D. and J. B. NEILSON, t man Princess, in the 26th year of her age, quitted her• telegraphic despatch, dated Montreal, November 19, says,
atJ. A. HORACE JEE, ~. fatherland lo espouse an elderly gentleman of 53. On the ,
on
troubles have taken place in the mining districts
SAMUEL BULLEY, ;', -.9th of July, 1818, the Princess was presented to Queen 4 on Lake Superior, arising out of the difficulties between
W. GREGORY, jun., 1 Charlotte, and off the 18th her marriage to3k place. the Chippewa Indians and the government. The Indians
BROWN and HAIGH. X. His Royal Highness soon came to the resolution of? 1000 warriors.
can muster One hundred soldiers, with
-v
_ ... spending some time on the continent, and, accompaniedartillery, have been ordered from the nearest station to

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WOOL STANDARD. by the Duchess, he embarked at Dover in less than three the scene o
, .., _..... -,of the 20th ult., an weeks after his marriage, and proceeding by way of CalaisAmaking formidable preparations.'
r a fishing smack belonging
travelled onwards to Hanover. After the lapse of a year,. The British American League at Toronto had passed a account of the suppnsed foss o
the Duke and Duchess returned to England, from that time resolution, denouncing the annexation movement by ato Southport, and in which were Mr. Jackson and his two
sons, I beg to inform you that, yesterday, the body of a forward residing chiefly at Bushy-park. However happy- large majority. A memorial has been forwarded to the
youth, apparently about seventeen years of age, was . his union with the Princess Adelaide may have been, the , "home ministry, on the subject of a reciprocal tariff between
washed on shore here. He was dressed as follows :—a hopes with which it was formed were in one respect dis-qtbe United States and Canada, signed by several men of
kind of dark tweed trousers, two striped cotton shirts. a appointed : he had no heir, one child only, the Princessik4iquence in Canada, among whom are large landed pro-

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