The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-20 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

SIR THOMAS REDINGTOIf, K.C.8., has been appointed
to the permanent Secretaryship of the Board of Control.
LITERARY PENSIONS.—Her Majesty has conferred
upon Mr. Alaric A. Watts a pension on the Civil List of
£lOO a-year, "in consideration of services rendered by
him to literature and the fine arts."
M.-GENERAL GODWIN, C. 8., died at Simla on the 10th
of October. He was in the army since 1799. The last
number of the Gazette contained his appointment as
K.C.B. and colonel of the 20th Regiment.
LIEUT.-GENERAL CATHCART, at presentcommander-in-
chief at the Cape, has been appointed to succeed Lieut.-
General Sir George Brown as adjutant-general of the
forces.

TILE EMPEROR or HAYTI'S SON has recently arrived
in England. It is said that he will shortly place himself
under a clergyman in Dawlish, for the purpose of com-
pleting his education. The prince is described as a
most intelligent and gentlemanlike person.
DR. HARRINGTOI,T, principal of Brazenose College,
Oxford, died on Tuesday rather suddenly. He was com-
paratively a young man, (about 62 or 63,) and had always
been known as one of the most active and hardworking
of the heads.
LORD PAGET declines to come forward as a candidate
to supply the vacancy recently created in the representa-
tion of the southern division of Staffordshire. There are,
however, several " eligible liberals ready, if solicited ;
amongst whom are the Hon. F. Calthorpe, son of Lord
Calthorpe, Sir Frances Scott, Bart., and the Hon. Arthur
Wrottesley."
TILE HoN. CHARLES FITZWILiIAM was elected member
for Malton during his absence in America, where, it ap-
pears, he had gone to hunt bears on the Rocky Mountains;
but his family were unacquainted with his movements,
and at last became seriously alarmed. Recent letters
from the United States, however, bring intelligence of
his safety ; he having reached Fort Laramia, in a bear-
skin, on his return from California.
LORD ADOLPHUS VANE was presented, on Tuesday,
by the ladies of Durham, with a snuff-box and diamond
ring, at the Exhibition-rooms. The snuff-box bore the
following inscription on the lid, surmounted by the city
arms : " Presented by the ladies of Durham to Lord
Adolphus Vane, December, 1853." On the bottom were
the family arms of the noble lord. It is presumed that
these gifts, which amount in value to 270, are intended
to console the noble and gallant guardsman for the loss
of the representation of Durham.
MARRIAGE.—On Saturday, the nuptials of William
Lowther, Esq., nephew to the Earl of Lonsdale, with Miss
Parke, daughter of the Right Hon. Sir James Parke, were
celebrated at St. George's, Hanover-square, in the presence
of a distinguished circle, including the Earl of Lonsdale,
Lord and Lady Powlett, Sir James Parke and Lady Parke,
Hon. Colonel H. Cecil Lowther, M.P., Captain H. Lowther,
M.P., Lady Theresa Lewis, Countess of Listowell, Mr. and
Miss Mennen, &c.
THE COUNTESS Or &MIN GTON died at Eglington
Castle, early on Saturday. Scarcely three weeks ago her
ladyship became alarmingly indisposed, suffering from a
dangerous fever, which she passed favourably through,
and had almost been restored to her wonted health, when
she was suddenly deprived of the power of one of her arms
which resulted in her death. The deceased was married
to the Earl of Eglington in 1841, at which period she was
the widow of Richard Howe Cockerel, Esq., and leaves
issue by her second union, four children.
THE MARCHIONESS WELLESLEY, widow of the elder
brother of the late Duke of Wellington, died on Saturday,
at her apartments, at Hampton Court Palace, after a short
illness. The deceased Marianne, Marchioness Wellesley,
was a daughter of Mr. Richard Caton, and when the late
Marquis Wellesley married her she was widow of Mr.
Robert Patterson. She was the marquis's second wife, to
whom she was united on the 29th October, 1825. The
late Marchioness was for many years Lady of the Bed-
chamber to Queen Adelaide. Her Ladyship was sister of
Lady Stafford.
THE COURT.—On Monday, the Duke and Duchess of
Brabant left Osborne, on their return to Brussels. On
Thursday the Earl of Aberdeen had the honour of dining
with Her Majesty. On Friday Lord Aberdeen returned
to London. There are no visitors staying at Osborne, the
Queen and the Prince continuing in retirement, owing to
the recent death of the Queen of Portugal, and the same
cause prevents the issuing of invitations to the royal din-
ner-table, the circle being limited to the lady and maid of
honour in waiting, and to the equerries and gentlemen in
waiting to Her Majesty and his royal highness. The
Queen and Prince Albert, it is at present arranged, will
leave Osborne on Thursday next, for Windsor Castle, there
to pass the Christmas holydays.

THE ELECTION FOR CLONMEL has been delayed by a
strange mistake in the writ, which directed the election of
a burgess " in the room of the Hon. Cecil Lawless, raised
to the peerage, in consequence of the death of Lord
Cloncurry !" The Hon. Cecil Lawless, who died shortly
after his father, was the second son of the late Lord
Cloncurry, and it was the demise of Mr. C. Lawless that
created a vacancy. The Hon. Edward Lawless, the eldest
son of the late peer, who succeeded to the title of Baron
Cloncurry, had not a seat in the House of Commons.
There were other informalities in the writ, which, of
course, could not have been acted upon. The Speaker will
have to issue a new one, and the election, in any case,
cannot take place for ten days.
ILLICIT DISTILLATION.—On Tuesday evening, Mr.
Shells, supervisor of excise, accompanied by excise officers
Sugars, Sessions, and Nixon, proceeded to the premises
lately occupied by Mr. James Coey, jun., in Bally-
macarrett, immediately adjoining the terminus of the Bel-
fast and County Down Railway, where they discovered
the process of illicit distillation going on on a somewhat
extensive scale. The scene of the operations was under-
ground, and a most ingenious provision against such con-
tingencies as that which has now occurred consisted in a
bell hung there, the handle of which was so placed at the
entrance door above that the person opening it, in case the
visitors were such as to excite apprehension, could easily
and imperceptibly, by pulling this bell, signify that sus-
picion to their subterranean friends. Accordingly the
excise officers, on their arrival below, found the ball utterly
deserted, but bearing all the marks of very recent occupa-
tion. The birds had flown by another passage, but behind
them they had left all the machinery of their art, and a
large quantity of the manufactured article, both of which
were destroyed. The police soon afterwards succeeded in
arresting a man, named Hugh Stirling, who, being in the
upper story of the concern, had not enjoyed the benefit of
the warning bell—Be(fast News Letter.