The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-04 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY

Mr. IVA RBIIRTON presented a petitionll:;;;;liens, com-
plaining that they were not allowed to take up their freedom
in the city of London, without being first naturalised.
Mr. FurzßoY KELLY gave notice, that early next session
he should renew his bill for limiting the punishment of death.
On the question that the regency bill be read the third
time, Mr. FRESHFIELD proposed two additional clauses;
but they were opposed by Lord J. RUSSELL, and negatived
without any division.

The bill was then read the third time and passed.
The railways bill was read the third time and passed.
The militia ballot suspension bill, and the militia pay bill,
severally went through committee.

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The notice of elections bill, with amendments, was read
the third time and passed.
The population (census) Ireland bill was read the third
time and passed ; and the Dublin police act amendment bill
was, on the motion of Lord MORPETII, read the second
time.

On the motion of the CHA.NCEiLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
the Bank of Ireland Bill was read the third time and passed.
On the motion of Mr. P. SCROPE, the parochial assess-
ments bill was read the third time and passed.
The population (census) bill was reported, on motion of
Mr. Fox MAULE, and ordered to be further considered on
Saturday.

Mr. Fox MAULS brought up the report of the adminis-
tration of justice (Birmingham) bill.
Mr. M. PHILIPS inquired whether there could not be in-
cluded in its operation the towns of Manchester and Bolton?
Mr: Fox MAuLE answered in the negative.
Mr. BARING WALL moved for the production of plans
with reference to any proposed alterations in the Green Park,
Mr. E. J. STANLEY repeated that the Commissioners of
Woods and Forests did not intend, in any way, to encroach
upon the Green Park, by garden, or enclosures, or other-
wise.

The motion was thereupon withdrawn ; and the business
having been disposed of, the house adjourned till twelve
o'clock on Saturday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—SATURDAY.
The House of Commons met at noon, and forwarded
several bills.

The population (census) bill was read the third time, and
passed, on motion of Mr. Fox MAULS; and the administra-
tion of justice (Birmingham) bill, was read the second time,
as was the highways rates bill, a measure presented on Friday
night.

The report on the militia ballots suspension bill and on the
militia pay bill were presented, agreed to, and the bills or-
dered to be read the third time to-day.

The consolidated fund bill went through committee, after
having had introduced into it the clause a " Appropriation,"
to enumerate the grants of the session, and which being the
last official proposition'of the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
is always considered as giving note that the prorogation is
really approaching.

The eichequer- bills (£10,751,550) bill went through
corn mittee.

In the committee on the " postage" duties, &c. bill, there
was desultory and interesting conversation on several of ita
clauses.

The committee on the ecclesiastical courts (No. 1) bill—
a measure introduced by Lord J. Russell to facilitate the
legal means of releasing John Thorogood—also called forth
sornd discussion.

The remaining orders of the day having been disposed of,
the house adjourned.

The Princess Sophia Matilda visited her Majestyyesterda)
at Buckingham Palace.

The Queen and Prince Albert took an airing yesterday af-
ternoon, in an open carriage and four. Prince Albert, attended
by Col. Wemyss and Col. Bouverie, afterwards rode out on
horseback in the parks.
Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty yes-
terday.

The royal dinner party at the palace last evening, included
her royal highness the Duchess of Kent, the Countess of
Errol, and Lady Ida Hay, Earl of Charlemont, Earl of Sur-
rey, Earl of Morley, Lord and Lady Lurgan, Lord and Lady
Methuen, Lord de Freyner, Lady C. Dundas, Baron de
Stockmar, and Col. Cowper.
The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princesses
Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, and attended by Baron
Knesebeck, left Cambridge House soon after eleven o'clock,
yesterday morning, for Dover, where her royal highness slept.
The royal duchess, it is expected, will leave Dover in a go-
vernment steam-packet to-day for Calais, on her route to
Frankfort.

The Princess Augusta received visits yesterday at Clarence
House, St. James's, from their royal highnesses the Duchess
of Gloucester, the Duke of Sussex, and the Duke of Cam-
bridge._

The Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess of Gloucester
yesterday at Gloucester House.
SATURDAY.
_

The Queen and Prince Albert-took an airing, yesterday
afternoon, in an open carriage and four. Colonel Wemyss
and Colonel Bouverie (the equerries in waiting) attending
her Majesty and his Royal Highness on horseback.
Viscount Melbourne had an audience, yesterday, of her
Majesty.

Isrince Albert rode out on horseback, yesterday, attended
by Mr. G. E. Anson and Col. Bouverie.
The royal dinner party at the palace, lastevening, included
the Earl of Errol, the Earl of Surrey, and Mr. G. E. An-
son. The band of the 2d regiment of life guards was in at-
tendance at the palace during dinner.
The Coldstream band attended at the palace on Thursday
evening.

Her Majesty honoured Sir William J. Newton with a sit.
ting, yesterday, at Buckingham Palace, for his coronation

His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured Mr. A. E.
Chalon, R.A., with a sitting, on Thursday, at Buckingham
Palace, for a whole length portrait in water colours.
The Duchess of Kent took a carriage airing yesterday.
The Princess Augusta received visits, yesterday afternoon,
from the Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cambridge.
The answer given, during the day, at Clarence House, St.
James's, to all inquiries after the health of her Royal High-
ness, was—" The Princess Augusta has had another very
good night."

ECCLESIASTICAL AND UNIVERSITY

INTELLIGENCE

F the Oord
The Rev. Geo(
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Clare, B.D. Herald.)
and Fellow of St.
John's College, has been instituted by a commission from his
Grace the Archbishop of York, to the rectory of Bainton, in
the county of York, on the presentation of the President and
Fellows of St. John's College.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has been pleased
to appoint the Rev. George Frederick Goddard, B.A. Demy
of Magdalen College, son of the Rev. Charles Goddard, D.D.
late Student of Christ Church, Archdeacon and Prebendary
of Lincoln, and Curate of Hugglescote, Leicestershire, to be
one of his Royal Highness's Domestic Chaplains.
On Wednesday se'nnight, the Rev. Fred. Joseph Foxton,
B.A. of Pembroke College, was licensed by the Lord Bishop
of Hereford to the Perpetual Curacies of Stoke Prior and
Docklow, Herefordshire, void by the death of the Rev. Thos.
Vaughan ; patron, the Rev. George Woodhouse, Vicar of
Leominster.

On Saturday last, the Rev. W. H. Ridley, B.A. Student
of Christ Church, was instituted by the Lord Bishop of Lin-
coln, to the Rectory of Hanableden, Buckinghamshire, void
by the resignation of the Rev. W. M. K. Bradford, on the
presentation of the Right Hon. Lord Colborne.
Same day, the Lord Bishop of Lincoln licensed the Rev.
Frederick Menzies, M.A. Fellow of Brasenose College, to be
Curate of Harableden, on the nomination of the Rev. W. H.
Ridley.

PROMOTIONS

Rev. Jas. Hamilton, M.A. to the Vicarage of Great Badow,
Essex, void by the cession of the Re*John Bramston ; pa_
troness, Mrs. Bullen. _ _

Rev. A. T. Corfe, M.A. Vice-Principal of Elizabeth Coll.
Guernsey, has been elected Minister of Bethel Chapel, void
by the resignation of the Rev. Charles Tayler.
Rev. John B. Brodrick, .B.A. of Queen's College, Cam-
bridge, to be Domestic Chaplain to the Duchess of Gordon.

(From the Cambride Chronle.
The Rev. George Arthur Clarksg
on, M.A.ic,
)of Jesus Col-
lege, in this university, has been collated by the Lord Bishop
of Chichester to the vicarage of Amberley with Houghton
Impel, void by the cession of the Rev. J. C. F. Tufnell,
M.A.

The Rev. W. M. Dudley, 8.A., formerly of Catharine
Hall, in this university, Curate of Poole, has been licensed
by the Bishop of Winchester to the curacy of Broughton,
the 17th inst., the Lord Bishop of Lincoln instituted
3,1 Hants.
s.
the Rev. Lewis Deedes,l, of Emmanuel College, in this
3
university, to the rectory of •
death of the Rev. Edward Bourrageld; Herts, vacant by the
ier, on the presentation of
Abel Smith, M.P., of Woodhall Park, in the said county,
Esq.
The Rev. Mark Cooper, M.A., late scholar of St. John's
College, in this university, and lecturer of Westbury
has been presented by the Dean and Chapter ofSals'bWprilyttso,
the living of Brarnshaw, in the county of Wilts, and diocese
of Salisbury.
The Rev. Wm. Chas. Wollaston, M.A. of Leeds, on
Saturday last instituted to the rectory ofi East Dewrelal
Norfolk, on the presentation of his father, the Rev. Charles
Hyde Wollaston, M.A., patron.
The Duke of Sutherland has been pleased to appoint the
Rev. Thomas James Rowsell, 8.A., of St. John's College,
in this university, and Assistant Minister of St. Mark's,
Kennington, to be his grace's domestic chaplain.

VHE QUEEN DOWAGER AT LANCASTER

Notice having been received in Lancaster that it was the
intention of her Majesty the Queen Dowager to pass the
night of Tuesday last at that town, on her way southwards,
from a visit to the Lakes, a petition, signed by a number of
the inhabitants, was addressed to the Mayor, requesting him
to call a meeting, to take into consideration the best method
of showing their loyalty towards her Majesty. A meeting
was accordingly held, when it was decided that a procession,
led by the staff of the Lancashire Militia, preceded by a band,
and followed by the Mayor and Corporation, the clergy, John
o'Gaunt's bowmen, the gentry of the town, the clubs, and
public schools, should go out on the Green Area to meet her.
An express was immediately sent off to know at what time
her Majesty might be expected, and an answer was returned
that she would reach the town between six and seven o'clock.
Every thing, therefore, about the appointed time was in a
state of great forwardness, and the procession just ready to
start, when, lo ! her Majesty disconcerted all their well laid
plans, by driving up Market-street, through the midst of the
procession, to the King's Arms, so quickly and so unexpect-
edly as scarcely to be recognised. As soon, however, as they
had recovered from the consternation which the unexpected
event had thrown them into, the procession moved up to the
King's Arms, when the Mayor was permitted to congratulate
her Majesty on her safe arrival at the county town. Soon
after this, to the inexpressible gratification of the inhabitants,
her Majesty expressed a wish to visit the Castle and Church,
and shortly two open landaus drew up to the door of the
King's Arms. Her Majesty, accompanied by her sister, the
Duchess of Saxe Weimar, Earl Howe, and the Mayor of
Lancaster, J. Dockray,-Esq., entered the first carriage, the
Hon. Miss Eden, and the Earl and Countess of Denbigh
following in the second, and proceeded up the Castle-hill,
to the Parade in front of the Castle, greeted all the way by
the enthusiastic cheers of the multitudes that had assembled.
Her Majesty and suite alighted to observe the splendid
views from the Parade Walk, and then leaning on the arms
of the Mayor and the Rev. the Vicar of Lancaster, proceeded
through the churchyard, and entered the church, and after-
wards passed through the Vicarage, where her Majesty
re-entered her carriage and returned to the King's Arms.
The Exhibition (of which her Majesty is the patroness) and
several houses were illuminated during the evening.
About ten o'clock on Wednesday morning, her Majesty,
accompanied by the procession, in the order in which it was
intended to have been arranged on the previous evening, and
a great number of carriages of the neighbouring gentry, pro-
ceeded from the King's Arms to the railway station, where
the royal railway carriage had arrived from Preston by a
special train. Everything being in a short time got ready,
the royal guest departed, cheered by the thousands of spec-
tators that had assembled to see her leave the town. Her
Majesty expressed herself much pleased with her recep-
tion, to the Mayor, and left £5O for the Lancaster Dispen-
sary, and £25 each for St. Thomas's Church and the church
building at Poulton-le-Sands.—Preston Pilot.

THE QUEEN DOWAGER AT PRESTON.
We have,endeavoured to furnish our readers with many
interesting particulars relating to the Queen Dowager's re-
cent visit to the North, and it now only remains for us to
continue the narrative so far as to bringing the illustrious
stranger to " Proud Preston." The preceding account will
inform the reader that her Majesty and suite left Lancaster
at a little after ten o'clock, per railway, in a special train ;
the carriage in which her Majesty was seated being lined
with beautiful white silk, and in all other respects most
handsomely fitted up. We understand that along the whole
line from Lancaster to Preston, wherever anything like tole-
rable seeing accommodation could be obtained, great num-
bers of persons respectably attired were in waiting to have a
peep at the Queen ; and as their feeling of curiosity was in
every sense a very laudable one, and doubly commendable in
not being an offering to the " rising sun," we exceedingly
regret that the gentlemen in authority about her Majesty
had not the considerate kindness .so to have directed the
speed for travelling, as to have gratified the wishes of these
countless admirers of the Queen, by enabling them to have
afterwards enjoyed the innocent gratification of knowing
that they had for once seen, and been seen by a Queen.
Instead of this satisfaction, however, having been experi-
enced by the anxious crowds, the train shot past them at an
arrow's speed, and the disappointed multitudes had to re-
trace their steps under feelings which are much easier con-
ceived than described. Of the preparations made at Preston
for her Majesty's arrival, we may briefly say that they were
such as did great honour to the feelings of the town • there
was nothing formal about them, if we except the delightful
gatherings of the children instructed in several of the Na-
tional and Infant Schools connected with the Church, who,
accompanied by their teachers, were collected in the field
near to Mr. German's bridge, a situation where they were
no doubt enabled to witness the passing of the train, but
from whence they would have no chance of seeing the ho-
noured and beloved object, in respect to whom they were
then assembled together. At the North Union Station a
great number of handsome flags were displayed, and over
the Fishergate tunnel we observed the beautiful union-jack
which many of our readers have often seen floating proudly
from the flag-staff on the Parish-church tower : various other
flags were to be seen along the line of railway. The crowds
collected at the station, and for a vast distance along the
line, exceeded, we think, any former assemblage, both as to
numbers and their very respectable appearance.
The train containing the object of so much anxious ex-
pectation came up soon after eleven o'clock ; when a halt
was made, for about a quarter of an hour, in order to take in
a supply of water, but more particularly to allow an oppor-
tunity for gratifying the curiosity of the immense multitude
that were congregated at the station. Charles Swainson,
Esq., William Taylor, Esq., and John Winstanley, Esq.,
three of the. North Union directors, were in attendance to
receive heii-Majesty, but the gentleman who appeared to enjoy
by far the largest share of her Majesty's condescending kind-
ness and amiable affability of behaviour, was our highly es-
teemed chief magistrate, William Clayton, Esq., who, after
being introduced to the Queen, took his stand at the carriage
door, (which he had prevailed upon her Majesty to be kept
open, to afford to the crowds of spectators a fuller opportu-
nity of seeing her Majesty,) and was in frequent conversation
with her Majesty during the time occupied by the halt. We
learn that the Queen expressed her warm admiration of the
people of Preston, for their loyalty towards her, and more
especially for the very respectable appearance which she be-
held in almost every individual assembled. And this is not
to be wondered at, for the collection of ladies present was
very great, and we have only to regret that some little pre-
cautionary plans were not adopted, in order that these per-
sons should have had the opportunity of personally offering
their respect to one who has ever been not only the pride of
her sex, but the. Admiration of the world at large. The brief
period fur her lvta3ctY bovine expired, the train passed
accompanied by the bleiogs or clic; wultltutlL. tut
Dowager Queen Adelaide. We believe her Majesty would
not make any other stay along the line until she got into
Staffordshire, when it was understood she would visit Tren-
tham Hall, the seat of the Duke of Sutherland, and Alton
Towers, the residence of the Earl of Shrewsbury ; not so
much we believe for the purpose of making any stay with the
noble owners, ass for that of examining the costly curiosities
collected in those respective mansions. We must not omit
to say that our parish bells rang merily in honour of her
Majesty's visit, and that the royal standard was elevated-on
the church tower. In conclusion, then, let us say in print,
what we are sure was the feeling of many a heart on Wed-
nesday—May God bless Queen Adelaide !—Preston Pilot.