The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-02-07 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

A CABINET COUNCIL was held at the Foreign-office , On I
Saturday. The Council sat four hours and three-quartexe.
THE DEPAETURE OF THE RUSSIAN'AIINISTER.—Late
on Saturday 4ifternooil Baron Brnnow had an interview
with the Earl of Clarendon at the Foreign-office, for -the
purpose of formally suspending the diplomatic relations
of the Emperor of Russia with Her Majesty's Government.
The Russian Minister will immediately withdraw from this
country with fall the members of the Legation, who are
to repair, we llelieve, to different towns in Germany ; the
Russian Consul,General will, however, remain for the pre-
sent to transact the commercial business of his office.
The public are doubtless aware that a Minister from a for-
eign State who-is •.recalled under circumstances like the
present is not :entitled to .the audience of the Queen at
which envoys commonly take leave of Her Majesty at the
termination of their missions. Nevertheess, the recal of
an Envoy does not,constitute a declaratirn of war, and it
must be followed by snore decided measures on the one
side or the other before a state of war can exist between
the two empires. The first measure taken by the British
Government on the eye of a rupture with a foreign Power
has commonly been to .stop by Order in Council vessels
clearing out from British ports to the ports of the hostile '
:Power; but the present state of our relations with Russia,
:,has long been so well known to the public that we are in-
formed that no vessels are clearing out of our ports for
that country, and the trade is virtually suspended. It
would, however, be of advantage to the mercantile interests
of the nation if the Ministers of the Crown on Announc-
ing to Parliament the suspension of diplomatic ,relations
adtt Russia would inform the country whether measures
are likely to be resorted to of a,nature to affect the,liberty
of, trade. We presume the Government will lose no time
in recalling. Sir Hamilton Seymour and the British Mis-
sion from St. Petersburg, if, indeed, they have not, already
received their passports ; but the measures adopted on this
subject:will of course be taken, as ,every preceding step
has haev, in concert with -the -French Government.—
Times-
SOITT4PEVON ELECTION.—Lawroc,e Palk, Esq., hiving
issued an address to the electors of South Devon, Sir
Massey Lopes believes that it would be in accordance with
the irue,Gonservative policy of him to decline being put
in nomination on the present occasion, and has, therefore,
determined to refuse the honour, notwithstanding the
kind desire of his numerous and zealous friends, that he
would allow himself to be brought forward as .a candidate
for the division.
THE ANNIVERgAEY OF HER MAJESTY'S MARRIAGE
wlll be celebrated with the customary rejoicings at
Windsor, on Thursday next.
THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA Will reopen for the season
of 1854 on Tuesday, the 21st of March. The engagements,
including Grisi and Mario, are completed.
Tun EMPEROR OF JAPAN is said to have died. His
decease will place the court in mourning for three years,
during which period no foreign embassy can be received.
ALEXANDER DE BODISCO, who for fifteen years has
acted as Russian Envoy at Washington, is dead. He was
a,.Wallachian noble by birth, and first entered the public
service in Russia about fifty years ago, without fortune,
but endowed with some knowledge of the French lan-
guage and a neat handwriting.
Sin JOHN STRA CHAN, Bart., died at Teignmouth, at the
advanced age of 76. This title, which was created in
1635, is now extinct. The, first holder was a distinguished
financier, and the sixth was the celebrated admiral who
rendered much service at Trafalgar. The family estates
lie in Stirlingshire.
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TIIE PREMIER.—For nearly half a century Lord Aber-
deen has been connected, in a certain sense, with public
affairs ; and he has failed in every great enterprise in
which he has embarked. He talks largely of his relations
with the Court of Vienna forty years ago. The improper
favour of Lord Castlereagh saved him from being re-
called from the scene of action. Selected by the Duke of
Wellington to deal with the Turkish difficulty in '2B-29,
his labours concluded with the treaty of Adrianople. He
boasts of being the founder of the entente cordiale ; it
terminated with the Chateau d'Eu and the Spanish mar-
riages. Lord Aberdeen witl the aid of" foreign conspira-
tors," then got up an elaborate impeachment of Lord
Palmerston. The speech of Lord Aberdeen on that oc-
casion, which should have been the greatest effort of his
life, is the most signal failure on record. Finally, this
sage Minister tries his safe hand at Turkish politics again,
and after a year of vacillation and incapacity confuses all
Europe, and perhaps involves his country in war. We
assure Lord Aberdeen that, in treating of his conduct and
career, there is no Aecussity t 0 We reNtiriSC to
.—The Pres:.