The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-03 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION

EARL SPENCER is appointed Lord High Steward of her
Majesty's Household in the room of the Duke of Norfolk.
DR. BOWRING, we have reason to believe, will succeed
Sir George Bonham as Governor of Hong Kong and
Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China.—Globe.
THE MARRIAGE of Prince Napoleon with the Princess
Pauline Sophia Mary of Baden is said to be definitively
arranged by the Grand Duchess Stephanie.
THE KING OF HANOVER transmitted £5O, as in former
years, to be distributed among the poor inhabitants of
Kew parish, to enable them to enjoy the pleasures of
Christmas.

GENERAL RADOWITZ died at Berlin, on Christmas-day,
at noon. His death was tranquil, and without pain. He
has.left a very large circle of loving friends, and the whole
German public has long been accustomed to regard him
as one of the celebrities of the times.

A RUMOUR was prevalent at Berlin, on the 26th ult.,
that Prince Albert, of Bavaria, is to marry the youngest
sister of the King of Spain. M. de Wendtland, the Am-
bassador of Bavaria, is said to have conducted the negoti-
ations.

➢IEETING OP PAELIAMENT.-At the Privy Council,
on Thursday, Parliament was ordered to be further pro-
rogued from the 3d of January until Tuesday, the 31st of
January, 1854, and a proclamation was issued summoning
Parliament to meet on that day for the despatch of public
business.

DR. JAMES GILLIKREST,, Inspector-General of Army
Hospitals, and Corresponding :Member of the National
Academy of Medicine of France, died on Christmas-day.
He entered the medical department of the army in 1801.
During his long course he served in the West Indies, the
Peninsula, America, and on the Continent of Europe.
A NEW FLEET it is rumoured is about to be formed, in-
tended for service in the Baltic, to be commanded by Sir
Charles Napier. Another rumour says that the Emperor
of Russia has ordered a screw fleet to be constricted, the
number of which is variously stated at fifteen ships and at
thirty ships.
THE CorßT.—Prince Leopold of Saxe Cobonrg left
Windsor on Tuesday, for Southampton, en• route for Lis-
bon. The Earl and Countess of Granville and Lord and
Lady John Russell arrived at Windsor, on Wednesday, on
a visit. Her Majesty held a privy council at the castle on
Thursday:
CHOLERA IN THE COAL PORTS.—The" Queen has
directed letters• patent to be passed under the Great Seal,
constitutingtand appointing Joseph Burnley Hume, Esq..
Barrister-at-Law ; John Simons, Esq.; and John Frederic
Bateman, Esq., to be Her Majesty's Commissioners for
Inquiring into-the causes which have led to, and have ag.
gravated the late outbreak of cholera at Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, Gateshead,- and Tynemouth.
IMPORTANT NEWB.—Prince Albert, with the Prince of
Wales, and Prince Alfred, skated in the Honie-park on
Wednesday and Thursday morning. Her Majesty was
present. The gentlemen in waiting skated with his royal-
highness on Wednesday, and on Thursday several of the
officers of the regiments quartered at Windsor had• the
honour of joining his royal highness. The Queen accom-
panied by Lord and Lady John Russell, walked down to
the ice, and remained a considerable time.
HER MAJESTY'S NEV7' YEAR'S GIFTS.—TIIB ISt Of Jana
falling on a Sunday, Her Majesty's customary new year's
gifts to the poor inhabitants of New Windsor and Clewer
were distributed on Saturday in the Riding-house, Windsor
Castle. The gifts consisted- of beef and plum pudding, -
varying in quantity according to the families of the re—
cipients, and 25 per cent. added to the subscriptions of the-
poor in the purchase of articles of clothing. The expense
isdefiayed by a grant of £lOO from the lord steward's de-
partment, and a grant of £lOO from the lord chamberlain's-
CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES'• AT, WINDSOR CASTLE.—
..On Thursday a ball took place-in the servants'-ludi at
Windsor Castle, in which the-whole of the domestic and
other servants belonging to the• Castle and Royal domain,
to the number of nearly 200, took part. A portion of the
Band_ of the Ist Regiment of;Life Guards formed the
orchestra, and when the merry, dance had proceeded for
some time Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied
by Lord and Lady John Russell,-.the Earl and Countess
Graaville, Colonel Biddulph, and -others who had formed
the Royal circle at dinner, honoured the festive scene with
their presence: Refreshments from the: Royal larder and
cellars were bountifully dispensed,-and the fun and merri-
ment were kept up until 4 o'clock-on Friday morning. _ _

Mg-PERRi&E.-- Since last Christmas-we-have recorded
the-death- of one Dzeke—Beaufort one: Marquis—Hunt-
ley; ten- Earls—Beauchamp, Drownlow, Dartmouth,
Ducie,-,Kenmare, Oxford, Portsmouth, Stair, Warwick,
and Wemyss; one Viscount—Melbourne; two Bishops
—Lincoln .and Derry; three Barons—Cloncurry, Dacre,
and Suffield; and two Scotch Representative Peers--
the-Earl-of Seafield. and Lord Saltonn. By these deaths
the peerages• of. Dinorben, Oxford,. and Melbourne have
become extinct . and five vacancies have been caused in
the House of Commons by the accession. of the Marquis
of Worcester to the Duchy of Beaufort; of General Ly-
gon to. the. Earldom. of Beauchamp ;'and, of Lords Lewis-
ham,Moreton,. and Brooke, to the Earldoms of Dartmouth,
Duck; and Warwick. Two members of the Lower House
have-likewise-acceded to courtesey titles—the Hon. John
Dalrymple, _member for Wigtonshire, to be called Viscount
Dalrymple-, and the Hon. F. Charteris ta.be called Lord
Elchoi—b' the deaths of their respectivegrandfathers, the
Earls, of -Stair and. Wemyss. The Earls- of Newburgh
and TYrconnell. and Lord Rolls, have also died during
this period, but they were not peers of,the- United King-
dom.. The: only addition to the peerage• has been Vis-
count Enfield, the eldest son of the Earl.of Strafford, who
has been called. for the Upper House as Baron Strafford, of
Harmondsworth.