The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-06-27 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

TirE KING OF PORTUGAL and suite were to leave
London yesterday for a tour in the provinces, including
Birmingham, Liverpool,. and Edinburgh..
PRINCE ALBERT ON THE WAR.—On Thursday, Prince
Albert dined with the Elder Brethren of Trinity House,
of which corporation, his royal highness is a member. In
proposing " The Queen and Royal Family," he alluded
particularly to. the Duke•of Cambridge, thee* member
of that family whose age and position enabled him to
offer his services in the field at this conjuncture-His royal
highness also proposed " The Army and. Navy,'.' and,
while expressing the fullest confidence in our officers,
seamen, and soldiers, referred to the peculiar shyness of
the Russians by sea as enormously increasing their diffi-
culties. But whatever may be our difficulties,. said his
royal' highness, we may consider that we have an, ample
compensation in the goodness of. our cause, the vindi-
cation of the public law of Europe,. and the fact that we
have fighting by our side a power,.the prowess and.vigour
of which we have hitherto chiefly known from the severity
of long and anxious struggles.
DISTINGUISHED ARRIVAL.— On Sunday week: the
celebrated Dhuleep Singh, the youthful and dethroned
monarch of the Sikh nations arrived. at Southampton', in
the Indian mail-steamer Colombo. His visit is one of
curiosity.
REPRESENTATION or MALDON.— The new writ. for
Maldon, it is expected, will be issued in the course of the
ensuing month. The candidates adopted by the conser-
vative party are Mr. Quintin Dick and Mr.. Peacock.
There is no doubt of their success.

DEPARTURE OF CREVA.LIER'BUNEIEN.—AIthough some
weeks have already elapsed since the recal of. Chevalier
Bunsen from the post of Prussian minister at the court of
England, it was not until Saturday last that this accom-
plished. minister quitted our shores, on his way to the
retreat which he has selected on the banks of the Neckar.
The Russian party at Berlin, eager to accomplish the
overthrow of so sturdy and able an opponent, which the
Emperor Nicholas had previously endeavoured to effeet at
the conference of Warsaw. in 1850, circulated a report that
Chevalier Bunsen had exceeded his instructions, and. had
attempted to negotiate a treaty of alliance between Prus-
sia and England, based on the transfer of some of the
Eastern provinces of Russia to the former power. This
stupid invention could only have originated with men
equally ignorant of the views of the British cabinet and
of the opinions of the Prussian minister at this court.
It was, however, credited by the King of Prussia, .and
General Groeben was despatched to London to ascertain
the facts of the case, which amounted to a mare's nest in
the first magnitude. But, although this transaction,. was
explained, the reactionary and absolutist party at the court
of Berlin were resolved to carry their point. They induced
the King to require Chevalier Bunsen to take six months'
leave of absence on terms which the minister conceived to
be unworthy of his position in this country and :of his
dignity, and the result was his resignation, which was
accepted. We do no injustice to the former part of Che-
valier Bunsen's career when we say that nothing in his
life has been more dignified or meritorious than this sacri-
fice of a position. to, which he was strongly attached,
because it involved his submission to a policy which he
thought disgraceful and anti-national. But, though
lionolirable to hitnself, this transaction reflects deep dis-
credit on the King of Prussia, and on the service- of that
country.—Times,

THE AMERICA, British and North American Royal
Mail Steamship, Captain W. J. C. Lang, sailed on Satur-
day from tha Mersey, for Boston and Halifax, with the
usual mails for tile. United States and British North Ame-
rican provinces, 172 passengers, and a large,. awl valuable
cargo of merchandise on freight.
ARCIIITECTDEAL AND ARCHMOLOGICAIe SOCIETY.—
The annual excursion of this society took place on Satur-
day last, when a considerable number of the members
went to Whalley, to inspect the ruins of; the abbey, the
old church, and the ancient crosses in the churchyard ; also
to see Little Mytton Church and Hall. At the latter
place they were hospitably entertained by the owner with
a cold collation, and the greatest courtesy exhibited in
allowing the fullest examination of the interesting old hall.
The church has been too much modified by repairs, and so-
called improvements, to remain very interesting. The
party then. returned to Whalley, where they were met
by the vicar, the Rev. Mr. Whittaker, son of Dr. Whit-
taker, thedistinguished historian of Whalley, and the Rev.
Mr. Preston, who conducted them over-the extensive ruins,
which are kept in beautiful order, and some portion
occupied. as a garden, by Capt. Whytall, who, being away
from home, courteously sent instructions that the grounds
should be open to the free range of the society. An in-
spection of the church, which is at preseut under repair,
also took place; and the whole. party adjourned at three
o'clock to the Whalley Arms, where dinner had been pro-
vided for the party, amounting in number to thirty-nine.
The president, Mr. John Hay„ was supported by the Rev.
Mr. Whittaker and the Rev . Mr. Preston. The Vice-president,
Mr. Frank Howard, the treasurer. Mr. Frank Horner, and
the secretaries, Messrs. Joseph Boult and W. H. Weight
man. Dr. Hume attended to represent the Historic Society.
After the loyal toasts, the. President proposed the bishop
and clergy of the diocese, coupled with the name of the
vicar of the parish, to which the Rev. Mr. Whittaker re-
sponded ; and concludedby proposing success to the Liver-
pool Architectural and Archmological Society. Mr, Picton
replied, remarking that brevity was the soul of wit ab all
times, but at none so much as when a railway train, was on
its way to carry the society back to Liverpook and would
wait for no one. The learned societies of Liverpool
brought up Dr. Hume, who was very complimentary to
the last speaker,.in connexion with the foundation of the
Free Library and Museum, and he ended by, proposing the
health of Mr. John Hay, the president of the Architectural
and Archwological Society. Soon after, Mr. H..'s reply, a
very pleasant meeting was terminated by an adjournment
to the Railway-station. Whalley derives some portion of
its interest from the fact of the last abbot, Hugh Paslew,
having been hanged, nominally for sorcery, his real offence
having been resistance to the will of Henry the Eighth as
to the spoliation of the abbey, which forms the subject of
one of Roby's Traditions of Lancashire. The abbey had
large possessions, and was reduced to its present dilapidated
state by the iconoclastic Protestantis' m of a later period, i
when fears were excited that the abbey was about to be
revived. •