The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-22 00:00:00

THE COUNTESS DE RESTERLITZ.

(From the Times.)
The countess came to England in the early part of March
last, and took up her abode for two or three days at Long's
hotel, in London. At the expiration of that period she pro-
ceeded to Windsor in her own travelling carriage, which she
had brought with her from the continent, and hired a house
in Clarence-crescent of Mr. Alderman Badborough for three
years, at a rental of £5O per annum, paying twelve months'
rent in advance from the 25th of last March.

It was supposed, upon the countess's arrival at Windsor,
that she was not unknown to Prince Albert; but it has
since•been ascertained that she never saw the prince until
about four months ago, and that was upon his royal high-
ness's return to Windsor Castle, from a visit to Eton
lege.
A considerable portion of the furniture at her residence in
Clarence-crescent was brought by the countess from the
continent ; the remainder was purchased of an upholsterer
at Windsor. During her residence there she lived in great
privacy, scarcely ever going out. and then only to walk in
the enclosed gardens opposite to her house, which are solely
appropriated to the use of the inhabitants of the crescent.
On the 15th of October last, the Countess proceeded in her
carriage, with a ladies' maid and footman, from Windsor to
Slough, and thence by railway to London. On arriving at
the Paddington station she ordered four horses to be put to
her carriage, and desired the post-boys to drive to Bucking-
ham Palace. The carriage was first driven to the private
entrance, but afterwards, by directions of the Countess, she
was driven to the grand entrance, where she demanded of
the porter to be shown the apartments. He told her it was
im possible to comply with her request, unless she had an or-
der to see them from the Lord Chamberlain. She then in-
quired who was the owner of the building ; and on being told
it was the residence of her Majesty, she replied, " Oh !
that's impossible, that so mean and common looking a place
can be the abode of a Queen." .

The -postilions were then ordered to drive to the Green
Park Hotel, and thence to various others. At last, after
driving about for some time, she determined upon taking up
her abode at Gordon's Hotels Albemarle-street, where she
alighted. After having examined a suite of apartments, she
expressed a wish to engage them for three months. The pro-
prietor, however, declined to let them for that period, and
the Countess then said that she should take up her abode
there, until other apartments could he obtained.
Two days afterwards (on the 17th of October), in conse-
quence of the extraordinary conduct of the countess, and
from other circumstances, Mr. Everall, the proprietor of the
hotel, requested that she would leave. She immediately or.
dered her bill, but on its being presented to her, she declared
her utter inability to pay it.
She told her maid that she determined to leave England
for the continent on the following day (Sunday), and directed
her to dispose of all her property at the hotel, including her
carriage, and, with the proeeeds, pay Mr. Everall his bill,
and keep the surplus herself. The property, however, was
not sold as she desired.

From tae morning of Saturday, (when the bill was presented
to her,) until the following morning, she locked herself in her
bed-room, suffering no one to enter but her female domestic.
During the whole of that period she partook of no food, nor
did she retire to rest, and she was all the time without fire
or candle.

On Sunday, having dismissed her servants, she left Gor-
don's, en deshabille, on foot, and nothing was heard of her
until she was discovered to be at Richmond. From thence
she went to Mr. Redford's, at the King's Arms Inn, Hampton
Court. While there, her conduct was eccdntric and extra-
vagant in the extreme. She one morning went to the palace
(which she maintained from the first was her own property),
and after commanding the workmen to discontinue their la-
bours, declared that she was the wife of Prince Albert, pre-
vious to his marriage with her Majesty.
The police at Hampton Court kepra close watch upon her
movements, and were only prevented taking her into custody
through the kind intercession of Mr. Redford, who then
wrote to the Mayor of Windsor upon the subject.
In the meantime, however, the countess received a remit-
tance from Prussia, which enabled her to pay her bill at the
King's Arms. Thence she proceeded to the Toy Hotel,
when, after a brief sojourn, she returned to Gordon's Hotel,
in Albemarle-street, paid her bill there also, redeemed her
carriage and other property, and shortly afterwards, on the
sth of November, returned to her residence at Windsor.
Upon her arrival there, she charged her servants with hav-
ing purloined certain property, consisting of jewellery and
clothes. The case was heard before the magistrates at the
Town-hall, but no evidence being adduced to implicate her
domestics, it was dismissed. .
The day after the decision of the magistrates (which was
Saturday, the 18th ult.) the countess locked up her house,
in which state it now remains, and left Windsor for town.
Previously to leaving she disposed of a great portion of her
furniture to a broker at Windsor, leaving but little property
of value in the house. .

ROMANTIC.--MISS Mary Ann Prettyman, quite a pretty
looking girl too, was arrested in Philadelphia a few days
since, and committed to prison for stealing five sucking
igs
p .
A lady was recently teaching a boy to spell. The boy spelt
c-o-1-d, but could not pronounce it. In vain his teacher
asked him, " what do y u get when you go out upon the wet
side walk on a rainy day, and wet your feet?"--" 1 gets a
whipping."
A Goon STORY.—Pray delight in the following story :
Caroline Vernon. fille d' honneur, lost t'other night £2OO at
play, and bade Martindale mark it up. He said he would
rather have a draft on her banker. "Oh ! willingly ;" and
she gave him one. Next morning he hurried to Drummond's,
lest her money should be drawn out. " Sir," said the clerk,
" would you receive the contents immediately." " Assured-
ly."—" Why, sir, have you read the note ?" Martindale
took it ; it was, " Pay to the bearer 200 blows, well applied."
The nymph tells the story herself, and yet I think the clerk
had the honour of the two.
A RELIC, INDEED !—ln the chamber of relics of an Irish
convent, the cicerone was one day showing the treasures to
a stranger. The latter fixed his gaze on two skulls. Paddy
lifted one of them in his hand, and exclaimed—" Ah, this is
indeed a treasure! The convent possesses no greater in its
collection. This, sir, is the skull of the famous St. Patrick."
The traveller looked at the relic with becoming reverence,
and then turning to the smaller one which stood beside it
he asked with some anxiety, " And this—is this also the
poor remains of a Saint ?" " That, sir," said Paddy, with-
out hesitation, but with immense increase of importance,
" that, sir, bates the world for a curiosity, that is the skull of
St. Patrick when he was a boy."
SUBSTITUTE FOR TALLOW.—To such as are not engaged
in soap-making, and consequently are unable to use the sub-
stitutes for tallow, 1 would nevertheless recommend a strict
attention to the palm oil trade. It is prospering to an extent
which but a few short years ago, it would have been extrava-
gant even to imagine—it is employing our ships and our sai-
lors, and doing silently but surely, the work of emancipation
in Africa. Not long ago, 2,000 or 3,000 tons of palm oil was
considered a heavy importation for one year ; and now, from
January, 1840, to January, 1841, there will have been brought
to this country upwards of 15,000 tons, equal in quantity to
40,000 casks of tallow ; and at this moment I am informed
that there are on the coast of Africa not less than 22,000 tons
of British shipping loading palm oil for England. In short,
the time is fast approaching when the soils of England and
of her colonies will make her people independent of the rest
of the world, as well in respect of the necessaries of life ; and
with the consummation of this prospect ends the career of
the foreign monopolist in our land.—Correspondent of the
Journal of Commerce.
RUM MORE PROFITABLE THAN SUGAR.—The following is
an interesting extract from the Agricaltural Report of St.
Christopher just received :—" We may calculate, anerally
speaking, 2,000 gallons to a hhd. of sugar, and the hhd. by
the prices quoted in our last Report, to be worth £27 ster-
ling. But the same quantity of liquor turned into rum will
give more than treble that amount. For 'instance—a 300
gallon butt takes 20 pails, or 100 gallons of cane liquor, which
will give about 20 gallons of proof rum, and as many more
of weak rum, besides 40 or 50 gallons of low wines. These
60 or 70 gallons of weak spirit, when re-distilled, will give
half their quantity, or about 30 gallons of proof rum, which,
added to the first 20, make 50 gallons of proof ruin from 100
gallons of cane liquor. The value of this, at 60 cents, is 30
dollars, but from this is to be deducted the value of 4 pails,
or 20 gallons of molasses, which are mixed with the liquor,
and which, at 40 cents, are worth 8 dollars—leaving 22 dol-
lars as the value of 100 gallons of cane liquor in ruin, and
consequently 440 dollars, or more than £9O sterling, as the
value of 2,000 gallons. Reckoning then the hhd. to weigh
2,9001b5., it is worth, at 6/ dollars; 130 dollars, at £27 ster-
ling only—thin; leaving a balance in favour of the rum of £63
sterling. The value of the two is so disproportionate, that,
unless we had been very careful, we should have suspected
ourselves of some error in the calculation. It will be ob-
served that we have taken a very common still, as we have
no experience in a patent one, which probably would give a
still more astonishing result.
CURIOUS BIBLE IN THE BRIT'S?! MUSEUM.—Under the
superintendence of our learned countryman, Alcuin, one of
the few eminent literary characters who adorned the eighth
century, and went to France, in 780, at the invitation of
Charlemagne, a manuscript of the Bible was made for that
renowned monarch, whi'Th is supposed, upon fair evidence,
to be now lodged in the British Museum, having been pur-
chased from a foreign collector at the comparatively low
price of £750. It is of the largest folio size, measuring
20 inches in height by 15 in width, and containing 449 leaves
of very fine vellum, written in a pharacter remarkable for its
distinct, though minute, beauty. This M.S. is illuminated
with many large inital letters, of less elegance and richness,
however, than distinguish corresponding works of even an
earlier period ; and its pictorial illustrations, which are four in
number, though anarked by considerable merits of both de-
sign and colouring, are inferior to other specimens that could
be cited of contemporary art. This sacred relic has still been
hailed with just admiration in the chief capitals of Europe ;
and we may congratulate our own upon so splendid an addi-
tion to its antigue and literary treasures.