The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-03 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

EARL SPENCER is appointed Lord High Steward of her
Majesty's Household in the room of the Duke of Norfolk.
DR. BOWING, we have reason to believe, will succeed
Sir George Bonham as Governor of Hong Kong and
Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China.—Globe.
TIIE MARRIAGE of Prince Napoleon with the Princess
Pauline Sophia Mary of Baden is said to be definitively
arranged by the Grand Duchess Stephanie.
TUE KING OF HA NOVER transmitted £5O, as in former
years, to be distributed among the poor inhabitants of
Kew parish, to enable them to enjoy the pleasures of
Christmas.

GENERAL RADOM= died at Berlin, on Christmas-day,
at noon. His death was tranquil, and without pain. He
has left a very large circle of loving friends, and the whole
German public has long been accustomed to regard him
as one of the celebrities of the times.
A RUMOUR was prevalent at Berlin, on the 26th ult.,
that Prince Albert, of Bavaria, is to marry the youngest
sister of the King of Spain. M. de Wendtland, the Am-
bassador of Bavaria, is said to have conducted the negoti-
ations.

MEETING OF PAnLIAMENT.-At the Privy Council,
on Thursday, Parliament was ordered to be further pro-
rogued from the 3d of January until Tuesday, the 31st of
January, 1854, and a proclamation was issued summoning
Parliament to meet on that day for the despatch of public
business.

DR. JAMES GrLLKREST, Inspector-General of Army
Hospitals, and Corresponding Member of the National
Academy of Medicine of France, died on Christmas-day.
He entered the medical department of the army in 1801.
During his long course he served in the West Indies, the
Peninsula, America, and on the Continent of Europe.
A NEW FLEET it is rumoured is about to be formed, in-
tended for service in the Baltic, to be commanded by Sir
Charles Napier. Another rumour says that the Emperor
of Russia has ordered a screw fleet to be constricted, the
number of which is variously stated at fifteen ships and at
thirty ships.
TUE Cot:am—Prince Leopold of Saxe Cobourg left
Windsor on Tuesday, for Southampton, en route for Lis-
bon. The Earl and Countess of Granville and Lord and
Lady John Russell arrived at Windsor, on Wednesday, on
a visit. Her Majesty held a privy council at the castle on
Thursday..
CnonERA IN THE COAL PORTS.—The Queen has
directed letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal,
constituting and appointing Joseph Burnley Hume Esq.-
Barrister-at-Law ; John Simons, Esq.; and John. Frederic
Bateman, Esq., to be Her Majesty's Commissioners for
Inquiring into the causes which have led to, and have ag-
gravated the late outbreak of cholera at Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, Gateshead, and Tynemouth.
IMPORTANT NEWS:—Prince Albert, with the Prince of
Wales, and Prince Alfred, skated in the Home-park-on
Wednesday and Thursday morning. Her Majesty was
present. The gentlemen in waiting skated with his royal
highness on Wednesday, and on Thursday several of the
officers of the regiments- quartered at Windsor hadthe
honour of joining his royal- highness. The Queen accom-
panied by Lord and Lady John Russell, walked down- to
the ice, and remained a considerable time.

HER MAJESTY'S NEW YEAIeS,GIFTS.—The Ist of Jan,
falling on:a Sunday, Her Majesty's customary new year's
gifts to the poor inhabitants of New Windsor and Clewer
were distributed on Saturday in: the Riding-house, Windsor-
Castle. The gifts consisted of beef and plum pudding,
varyinc, in quantity according to- the families of the re-
cipients,6 and 25 per cent. added to the subscriptions of the
poor in the purchase of articles of clothing. The expense
is defrayed by a grant of £l5O fr:.--,mr.the lord steward's de-
partment, and a grant of £lOO from the lord chamberlain's.
CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES AT WINDSOR CASTLE.--
On Thursday a. ball took place in, the servants'-hali at
Windsor Castle, in which the whole of the domestic and
other servants belonging to the Castle"- and Royal domain,
to the number of nearly 200, took part- A portion of the
band of the Ist Regiment of Life Ghards formed the
orchestra, and when the merry dance had proceeded for
some time Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied
by Lord and Lady John Russell, the Earl and Countess
Granville, Colonel Biddulph, and others •who had formed
the Royal circle at dinner, honoured the festive scene with
thclr presence. Refreshments from the Royal larder and
cellars were bountifully dispensed, and thedun and merri-
ment were kept up until 4 o'clock on Friday morning.

TUE PREBAGE.—Since last Christmas wjhave recorded
the death of one Duke--Beaufort; one Marquis—Hunt-
ley; ten Earls—Beauchamp, Brownlow, Dartmouth,
Ducie, Kenmure, Oxford, Portsmouth, Stair, Warwick,
and Wemyss; one Viscount—Melbourne; two Bishops
—Lincoln and Derry ; three Barons—Cloncurry, Dacre,
and Suffield; and two Scotch Representative Peers—
the Earl of Seafield and Lord Saltoun. By these deaths
the peerages of Dinorben, Oxford, and Melbourne have
become-extinct : and five vacancies have been caused in
the House of Commons by the accession of the Marquis
of Worcester to the Duchy of Beaufort ; of General Ly-
gon to the Earldom of Beauchamp ; and of Lords Lewis-
ham, Moreton, and Brookeito the Earldoms of Dartmouth,
Ducie, and Warwick. Two. members of the Lower House
have likewise acceded to catertesey titles—thc- Hon. John
Dalrymple, member for Wigtonshire, to be called. Viscount
Dalrymple, and the lion. F. Charteris to be culled Lord
Elcho—by the deaths of their respective grandfathers, the
Earls of Stair and Wemyss. The Earls of Newburgh
and Tyrconnell, and Lord rtolls, have also died during
this period, but they were not peers of the United King-
dom. The only addition to the peerage has been Vis-
count Enfield, the eldest son of the Earl of Strafford, who
has been called to the Upper House as Baron Strafford, of
Harmondsworth.