The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-14 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION

A VACANCY has been occasioned in the representation
of South Staffordshire, by the appointment of Major-Gen.
the Hon. George Anson, M.P., to command in India.
APPROACHING MARRIAGE.—A matrimonial ailiance is
arranged between Lady Emily de Burgh, daughter of the
Marquis of Clanricarde and Viscount Dungarvon, grand-
son of the Earl of Cork and Orrery.
THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER attended on
Tuesday in his robe of office in the Court of Exchequer:
in Westminster, and was sworn into office before the
Barons of the Court as Chancellor of Her Majesty's
Exchequer.
STROUD.—Mr. Meryweather Turner is a candidate for
the representation of Stroud, vacant by the accession of
Lord Moreton to the Peerage. Mr. Horsman suspends
further proceedings, until after the funeral of the late
Earl Ducie.

THE CouRT removed from Windsor to Buckingham
Palace on Friday. On Thursday the Queen and Prince
Albert honoured Ascot races with their presence, and the
same evening her Majesty gave a grand dinner, at which
the Duke of Genoa, the Duchess of Kent, the Hereditary
Grand Duke and Grand Duchess and the Duchess Caro-
line of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz, the Duke of Cambridge,
the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, &c., were present.

A MATRIMONIAL ALLIANCE is announced to take
place between the Lady Annora Pierrepoint, daugh-
ter of Earl Manvers, and Mr. Wynn.—The Hon. Miss
Stapleton, sister of Lord Beaumont, is also to be married
to Mr. Matheson, brother of Sir James Matheson, M.P.
—The marriage of Lord Colville of Culross with the Lion.
Cecile Katherine Mary, eldest daughter of Lord Caring-
ton, was solemnized yesterday week, in the Chapel Royal,
Whitehall, in the presence of a numerous assemblage of
the relatives and friends of both families.
OXFORD TNSTALLATION.—The business of the Oxford
Installation commenced on Monday last week. The new
Chancellor, Lord Derby, having alighted at the Abingdon
Railway Station, proceeded to the Diocesan Training
Schools, to attend the ceremony of opening it. The
Bishop of Oxford delivered the keys of the new edifice
into the hands of Mr. Ashworth, the appointed principal
of the college, and, in a brief speech, impressed upon
him the duties of the office. Lord Derby addressed the
assembled company in an able speech, and, on its con-
clusion, gave £lOO in aid of the funds. His Lordship,
with Lady Derby and Lord Stanley, then proceeded to
Oxford, and became the guests of the Vice Chancellor,
at Worcester College. On Tuesday morning, the new
Chancellor of the University, attended by noblemen,
Heads of Houses, doctors, proctors, and distinguished
visitors, left Worcester College, and proceeded through
Beaumont-street to the Theatre, followed by an immense
mob of townspeople, who occupied both pathway and
carriageway without discrimination. On their arrival at
the Theatre, they were unanimously cheered, and the
National Anthem was sung. The spectacle inside the
Theatre was most imposing. The ladies' gallery was
more than usually brilliant ; the area, with its " Masters
of Art" and " gentlemen strangers," was more than
usually crowded, and there was the presence of a real
Chancellor in propria persona to set off the ordinary as-
semblage of bishops and University magnates. The con-
' gratulatory addresses (one by Mr. Arnold, who gained
the last Newdigate, and who has recently distinguished
himself by a volume of poems) were likewise highly suc-
cessful, and the Latin oration of Mr. Mitchell, the Public
Orator, was marked by its ordinary fluency. The follow-
ing had the degrees of D.C.L. conferred on them :—The
Dukes of Cambridge, Mecklenhurgh Strelitz, and Rich-
mond, the Marquises of Chandos and Blandford, Lords
St. Leonard's, Stanley, Malmesbury, Colchester, Eglin-
toun, Hardwicke, Redesdale, Sir J. Pakington, Sir E.
L. Bulwer. Sir Harry Smith, Sir R. Murchison, Messrs.
Henley, Walpole, Macaulay, D'lsraeli, G. A. Hamilton,
Napier, Dr. C. Wordsworth, and Professor Avtoun. Of
these Mr. Disraeli was the favourite of the Undergradu-
ates. One or two malignants did hiss his name a little,
to be sure, but the applause was magnificently tri-
umphant, and his acceptance was talked of afterwards as
the " hit" of the occasion. The Earl of Eglintoun was
well cheered, Mr. Macaulay received marked honours,
and the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge was equally fortu-
nate. The Earl of Derby, by altering the usual formula,
so as to give Lord Stanley the title of "filing mots dilect-
issimus," excited much sympathy. The noble Earl went
through his duties in a graceful and dignified manner;
and the remark was made that he evinced the possession
of that eminently academical qualification, correct Latinity.
This year, through the excessive amount of business con-
sequent on installation, the ordinary Wednesday of Com-
memoration week is split into two portions—a Tuesday
and a Thursday—a Wednesday of comparative repose
being allowed to intervene. The Undergraduates have
also been dichotomized, and the excluded half expressed
great indignation at the postponement of their Sheldonian
fun till Thursday. On the conclusion of the ceremony at
the Theatre, Lord Derby attended a flower-show in the
gardens of Worcester College, and afterwards held a
levee in the library of the Taylor Institution, which was
attended by many persons of distinction, including the two
Royal Dukes of Cambridge and Mecklenburgh-Strelitz.