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 'PHE EXCHEQ,UNR.—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 given, on the 24th instant,. by
the Earl of Aberdeen, Viscount Palmerston, and the
Mite 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 25th is the birthday of the Princess Helena : it will; I
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 CUNNINGHAME) from the precarious stare 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 REV. MR. 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-
beolc-uta 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 Donoughmore 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
toexpress her satisfaction at the lesson taught him.

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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.

I 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.
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chiGellsalodsrsetaoletChaelnud two children, for the residence of the Hon.
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 Or 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, bas been received with deep regret. Sir Walter
Gilbert had attained the age of G 8; 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 when

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 ; bat 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), 748 ; 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 Ellenborough, and to
Melbourne by the Argyle.

BERWICK ELECTION,—At the close of the poll on
Friday, the numbers were—Majoribanks (L.) 473 ; For-
ster (L.) 385 ; Renton (C.) 196 ; Hodgson (C.) 157.
Two first elected. Mr. Forster is a son of one of the
unseated members.

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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.
Mr.rk
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 Bull.

ECCLESIASTICAL

DIOCESE OF CHESTER.

VACANCIES.—The vicarage of Neston, Cheshire, by
the death of the Rev. R. Yarker. Patrons, Dean and
Chapter of Chester ; value, £535, with a house.--St•
Stephen's Perpetual Curacy, Liverpool, by resignation of
Rev. T. S. Acland. Patrons, Rectors of Liverpool;
value, £l5O.

VISITATION. The Rev. Chancellor Raikes held
his visitation for the admission of churchwardens and
sidesmen, at Nantwich and Middlewich, on Monday, the
9th instant ; at Macclesfield and Stockport, on Tuesday►
the 10th ; at Knutsford and Warrington, on Wednesday'
the 11th; at Frodsham, on Thursday, the 12th; and at
Chester on Saturday last. To-morrow (Wednesday), the
18th, he holds a visitation at Ormskirk, at eleven o'clock,
and at the parish church of St. Peter, Liverpool, at three
o'clock in the afternoon, for the like purpose.
PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.

Rev. E. Bickerstetli, M.A., Vicar of Aylesbury, to the Arch'
deaconry of Buckingham.
Rev. J. Drury, B.A. Curate of Clonmel, to the Chaplaind
of the barracks, and of the troops stationed in that town.
Rev. J. Fortescue, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of o,'
Anne Bewdley, Worcestershire.
Rev. J. James, M.A., Perpetual Curate of Headingtoi!
Quarry, near Oxford, to the Rectory of Arington. nes,
Hungerford.
Rev. M. Kinsey, M.A., to be British Chaplain at Dunkirk.
Rer. C. Maxwell, 8.A., to the Rectory of LeakpatricKi
diocese of Derry.
Rev. J. Mules, LL.B., to the Curacy of West Wratting,
Cambridgeshire.
Rev. H. R. Pattinson, 8.A., to the Curacy of Rye. Sussex.
Rev. W. F. Rawes, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Sr
John's, Wembley, Middlesex.
Rev. Dr. M. Vaughan, to the Incumbency of St. Johng
Church, Angell-town, North Brixton.
Rev. T. B. Walpole, to the Curacy of St. John's, Greenock.
Rev. S. Walton, 8.A., to the Vicarage of Fenstanton, with
the Curacy of Hilton, Hunts.
Rev. T. Westmorland, M.A., to the Vicarage of Leominster.
Herefordshire.
THE BISHOP OF RIPON will visit Berlin in June, for,
the purpose of confirming such youthful members of
the Church of England as are prevented from celebrating
this rite in England.

THE FOUNDATION-STONE of the new diocesan training
college at Exeter, will be laid on the 19th inst., by Sit
J. Kennaway. The bishop of the diocese has signified
his intention of taking a part in the important ceremony
THE NEW CHITRCH of St. John, Angell-town, North
Brixton, the first stone of which was laid by Mr. Win.
Stone, of Herne-bill, on April 21, 1852, was.consecrated
last week by the Bishop of Winchester.
THE REV. AUGUSTUS P. SAUNDERS, D.D:, formal/
student and tutor of Christchurch, Oxford, and since
Head Master of the Charterhouse School during: twenty'
one years, has been appointed to the deanery of Peter•
borough, vacant by the death of the Very Rer. George
Butler, D.D.

THE FOUNDATION-STONE of a new church, dedicated
to St. Ann, was laid on Saturday week, at Sale, Moorf
within four miles of Manchester. It is intended to supply
the spiritual needs of a large population which has
migrated thither from Manchester, the Altrincham Rail.
way affording a cheap and ready means of access.
CONVOCATION.—To-morrow, Wednesday, has been
appointed for the meeting of the Convocation of the proms
vince of York, and the proceedings will take place in the'
Chapter-house of York Minster. It is not expected tbst
the archbishop will attend, but that he will delegate his"
authority to the Rev. E. C. Hawkins, and the Rey:::
W. H. Dixon, two of the canons residentiary, who will
act as his grace's commissioners.

RURIDECANAL CHAPTERS IN BANGOR DIOCESE.—At
a meeting of the Clergy of the Deanery of Arfon, held on
the 28th nit. at St. Mary's, Carnarvon, the Very Rev. the
Dean of Bangor, Rural Dean, in the chair, arrangements
were made for a regular cycle of meetings of the Clergy of
the Deanery, for conference on matters connected with
the welfare and efficiency of the Church in their respec-
tive parishes, as well as on subjects of a more general
character ; the meetings to be held quarterly and in ro-
tation at Bangor, Carnarvon, L!andwrog, and Clynnog;
the proceedings to close with a service and a sermon at
the Parish Church. The next meeting is to take place at
Bangor, on Thursday, the 7th of July.
SONS OF THE CLERGY.—On Tuesday the 199th anni-
versary of the Sons of the Clergy was-celebrated at St.
Paul's Catheth-al, the sermon being preached by Arch-
deacon Sinclair, from Thessal. v., 25. In urging the
claims of the clergy upon the laity, the archdeacon ob-
served that there were 2,000 parishes in which the income
of the clergyman was less than £l5O a year, and thence
argued that a society for assisting clergymen who were in
pecuniary distress was well deserving of support. The
annual banquet took place in the evening at Merchant
Tailors Hall,. the Lord Mayor in the chair.- The collec-
tion, the 1 rgett upon record, amounted; at St. Paul's,
to £95, at the dinner to £1,315, which, with the annual
subscriptions, and legacies and donations, made the re-
ceipts £4,168. At the next festival, being the 200th
anniversary, efforts will be made to give additional in-
terest to the proceedings.

GRATIFYING- TESTIMONIAL.-011 Thursday, the chil-
dren attending the day schools attached to St. Silas's
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handsome copy of Bagster's Polyglot Bible and Prayer
book, bearing the following inscription :—" Presented to
the Rev. Robert Brown, M.A., by the children of St.
Silas's Church daily schools, as a token of their esteem
and affection, in acknowledgment of his zealous labours in
promoting their temporal and spiritual welfare, and of his
uniform kindness towards them. Numb. vi. ch. v. 24-26.
Liverpool, May 13, 1853." The rev. gentleman, whose
indefatigable labours amongst the poor of the district are
most exemplary, was much affected on the occasion, and
returned thanks-in suitable terms. Several ladies of the
congregation were present, as were also the• Rev. Messrs.
Sutton and Butler. On Sunday, also, the teachers and
children of the Sunday-schools evinced their love and
regard for the Rev. gentleman by presenting him with a
neatly bound copy of Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, and
Mr. Birk's Memoir of the late Rev. Edw. Bickersteth.

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