The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-17 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION

HENRY V.—There is a report that Count de Chambord
purposes visiting Scotland during the summer.
THE ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH, Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar
and family, have arrived in Charles-street, St. James's-
square, from the Palace, Armagh, for the season.

MASTERSHIP OF THE EXCHEQUER.—The Chief Baron
of the Exchequer has appointed Mr. J. Templer, a special
pleader, to the vacant Mastership of the Exchequer.
STATE DINNERS will be riven, on the 24th instant, by
the Earl of Aberdeen, Viscount Palmerston, and the
Duke of Newcastle, in honour of the Queen's birthday.

HER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY is to be celebrated on the
24th inst. She will then have completed her 34th year.
The 23th is the birthday of the Princess Helena : it will,
it is expected, be celebrated at Osborne.
LORD ELLESMERE and suite embarked on Monday, last
week, under a salute, on board her Majesty's frigate
Leander, 50, Captain King, in Plymouth Sound, bound
to New York.

LORD CUNNINGHANIE, from the precarious state of his
health, has resigned his seat on the bench of the court of
session. Mr. George Deas, formerly solicitor-general for
Scotland, is likely to be appointed to the vacant judgeship.
LORD AUCKLAND, Bishop of Sodor and Man,was prayed
for in the churches throughout the island on last Sunday
week. His lordship is in London, suffering greatly from
his fractured leg, owing to the severe measures adopted
in order to induce the fractured bone to unite.
THE 11.11 V. Ma. PALEY, who was ordained a few
months since at Islington Church, by the Bishop of
Sierre Leone, and had just entered upon his interesting
sphere of labour, as a missionary, was seized with
dysentery, succumbed to the climate, and died at Ab-
beokuta on the Ist of April last. Mr. Paley was a
descendant of the celebrated Archdeacon Paley.
THE COURT remains in privacy at Osborne. Her
Majesty has benefited by the sea air. it is not expected
there will be any public celebration of the royal birthday
beyond the serenades and musical performances of the
military bands. The return of the Court to the metro-
polis is fixed for the 27th instant, to be in time to receive
the Prince and Princess of Prussia, who are expected
shortly after that time.
THE IRISH PEERAGE.—The Committee for Privilege
assembled in the House of Lords, on Wednesday, to
hear claims for the right of voting for representative
peers of Ireland, in the cases of the Garragh, Donough-
more, and Charleville peerages. The committee resolved
that the Garragh and Charleville claims were made out,
but that the Donouglimore claim must be postponed for
further hearing.
THE HEIR APPARENT.—It is said that two sons of
noblemen, at school at Eton, were asked to Windsor
Castle to spend the day with the Prince of Wales. His
highness having in the course of the day's amusements
given himself some airs which the young Etonians had no
relish for, one of them gave him a sound drubbing. The
circumstance reached the ears of the Queen, who, having
ascertained on inquiry that her son had given sufficient
provocation to merit the thrashing, had the good sense
toexp ress her satisfaction at the lesson taught him.
DEATH OF LADY FEILDING.—Lady Feilding died at
Naples on the Ist inst. of rapid consumption. Her Lady-
ship was daughter and heiress of the late David Pennant,
Esq., and of the late Lady Emma Pennant, on whose
demise her Ladyship succeeded to the extensive domains
of her father in Wales. By her marriage with Rudolph
Basil, eldest son of the Earl of Denbigh, her Ladyship
has left a youthful family. The lamentable perversion of
Lord and Lady Feilding to Romanism will be fresh in
the remembrance of our readers.
THE MINISTRY.—The Earl of Aberdeen remains in
London. Lord John Russell is staying at his residence,
Pembroke-lodge, Richmond-park, where he has been con-
fined to the house, owing to a cold. The Duke of New-
castle has left London to spend the Whitsun holydays at
his seat, Clumber-park, Nottinghamshire. The Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer left town on Saturday, with Mrs.
Gladstone and two children, for the residence of the Hon.
Mrs. Talbot, at Falconhurst-lodge, Kent, where they
will remain till Thursday afternoon. Lord Granville is
staying in Dublin, having travelled thither to take part in
the ceremony of the opening of the Great Industrial
Exhibition. Lord Palmerston and Mr. Sydney Herbert
have left town to pass the recess at their country seats.
All the members of the Cabinet are expected to re-
assemble in the metropolis on Friday next.

DEATH OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH GILBERT, BART.--
The announcement of the death of Lieut. General Sir W.
R. Gilbert, Bart., G.C.8., and member of the Council
of India, has been received with deep regret. Sir Walter
Gilbert had attained the age of GS ; yet his death is re-
garded by his comrades as premature. So brilliant a
soldier was he that no one could hold him to be other
than young. He entered the Bengal army in 1800 ; he
was present at the defeat of General Perron's brigades at
Coel, at the siege and capture of Allyghur, at the battle
of Delhi, at the storming of Agra, at the memorable
battle of Luswaree, at the battle of Dieg, and at the
desperate but unsuccessful assaults on Bhurtpore. In
these arduous services Lieut. Gilbert exhibited the same
heroism which later in life induced him to dismount whe❑
he found that his horse would not approach a huge boar
which threatened the life of his friend, and charge the
enraged animal on foot with his single spear. As cap-
tain, major, and colonel, he was subsequently employed
in various responsible offices ; but it was on the Sutlej
and in the Punjab that the public notice became fixed on
Sir Walter Gilbert as a first-rate commander.

MAIDSTONE ELECTION.—At the close of the poll on
Saturday. the numbers were—Lee (Liberal), ?48 ; Mar-
tin (Conservative), 735. _

EMIGRATION.—Her Majesty's Emigration Commis-
sioners have accepted tenders for the conveyance of emi-
grants to New South Wales by the Ellenboroueh, and to
Melbourne by the Argyle.
13ERIVICK ELECTION.—At the close of the poll on
Friday, the numbers were—Majoribanks (L.) 173 ; For-
ster (L.) 385 ; Renton (C.) 196 ; Hodgson (C.) 157.
Two first elected. Mr. Forster is a son of one of the
unseated members.

Mr. A. SMITH, late of Hungary, Kutayah, and New
York, has had a gala day at the London Tavern. Lord
Dudley Stuart was the Jupiter of the affair, and appointed
Mr. Douglas Jerrold for his Mercury. The object of
the gathering was to present to the hero of no fight,
but of sundry flights, a copy of a pictorial Shakspeare,
in a baby-house, constructed on the model of Shak-
speare's house at Stratford-on-Avon, the said baby-house
and books being " the gift of the people of England,"
raised by a penny subscription. According to this
statement the value of the present ought to be some-
where about £62,500, agreeably to the latest census; but
it is understood that the real value was somewhat below
that sum. The price of admission to the platform, the
only part of the room which was not " suffocating," was
fixed at one shilling, and among the notabilities which
made their appearance there, were,—besides M. Kossuth
himself, who, we are informed, " was dressed in a short
black velvet frock, with black bugles and braid on the
front, and wide open sleeves,"—his courier, " in a cavalry
jacket, with gold lace on the breast, a tricolour sash, and
broad gold stripes on his pantaloons," and three of his
lackeys, Sir Joshua Walmsley, M.P., Mr. Cobden, M.P.,
and Mr. Digby Seymour, M.P., in the ordinary dress of
English gentlemen,—John