The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-27 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

RETURN OP THE COURT.—It is announced that the
Court will leave Balmoral on the 12th October, for Wind-
sor Castle, via Edinburgh, Carlisle, and London.

DANGEROUS ILLNESS OP THE EARL OP PORTSMOUTH.—
The North Devon papers announce the alarming and dan-
gerous illness of the Earl of Portsmouth, at his 'seat at
Eggesford, near Chulmleigh.
A LONDON PAPER says 110V7 ondersteod that the
Queen will not make much use of Buckingham Palace as
a residence in future. Should cholera visit London, as in
1848-9, the desertion of Pimlico swamp would be a measure
of prudence, and Prince Albert is said to have fixed upon
Hampstead as the future residence of the royal children.
THE GRAND DUCHESS OLGA of Russia and her consort,
left Torquay for Ostend on Friday.
THE MARRIAGE of Count Olivier de Larochefoucault
with Miss Montgomery, daughter of a New York merchant,
was celebrated on Tuesday last, at the Church of Ste.
Valere, in the Faubourg St. Germain, in the presence of
a brilliant assemblage of fashionables.

COURT MARTIAIT.-011 Thursday, a court-martial was
held on board the Duke of Wellington, 131, on the
schoolmaster of that ship, for mutiny. The offence was
striking his commander. It appears the prisoner asked
leave to go on shore, and, being refused, struck his officer
with a book in the face. The punishment for this offence
is death at the yard-arm.
THE EX-QUEEN OP THE FRENCH, together with the
Prince and Princess de Joinville and party, left South-
ampton, on Saturday, by the Peninsular and Oriental
Company's chartered ship City of London, for Lisbon.
SIR JAMES A. GORDON, the present Lieutenant-
Governor of Greenwich Hospital, has been mentioned as
the probable successor of the late lamented governor, Sir
James Charles Adam.

BIRTIL—The consort of Don Miguel de Braganca gave
birth to a Prince on Monday last, at Klein-Henbach, in
Bavaria. The princess and the infant prince, at the date
of the latest accounts, were going on very favourably.

DETECTIVE CARLISLE has been promoted to an inspec-
torship in the police, vice inspector M`Donald.
LEICESTER GAOL INQUIRY.—The commissioners ap-
pointed to inquire into the treatment of prisoners in the
Leicester County Prison, opened the commission at the
Castle of Leicester on Monday, and then proceeded to
inspect the prison. The inqUiry commenced on Tuesday
morning, and the governor of the gaol, Mr. W. Musson,
was examined at considerable length. The chaplain, the
Rev. W. Fox, was also partially examined as to various
entries in his journal. From the examination, as far as
it has gone, it appears that crank labour is required to be
performed by all prisoners sentenced to hard labour ; that
adults are required to perform 14,000 revolutions per day,
and boys 9,000; that it had been customary to apportion
those revolutions to various parts of the day, and the
meals of the prisoners were withheld if those revolutions
were not performed. Other punishments inflicted in the
prison are confinement in light cells upon bread and
water, in dark cells and whipping. The straight waist-
coat, straps, and collars were used in cases of insanity or
violence, but only for restraint and not for punishment.