The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-03 00:00:00

shments and supper

fitting the Palace of

the great nobility of
imber of persons who were ne-
with with wax candles before

England

rat}

trom the exclamations ut-
_sts in broad and semi-intelligible Lan-
.shire, and Irish dialects. The duchess of
was jostled by the Yorkshire brewer's
.iarchioness was trod upon by the weighty,
ne lady of the Staffordshire potter; the
Welsh ironmaster tore the countess's Brussels
the Irish pig-jobber and steeple-chace jockey
dy at recovering any article which might have
We quarrel not with most of these folks;
in their way of life and business, most re-
persons no doubt; they are very good peo-
►ome; but they are strangely out of their
en at the Palace. " How did you get there ?"
rural question to ask, and which question was
er and over again by many wonderers. When
Lad, p- asked Lord Melbourne to explain

he told the truth when he replied, rubbing his hands,
Why, hang it, you know we are obliged to have all
orts of people invited, for they support us, and the
).ueen is devilish goodnatured about it ; she knows
--- are in ; but I think we have rather over-
-the fact is, it is an Irish registration

scrape v

.t this time

The Queen no doubt is goodnatured, but her minis-
s ought not in consequence to turn her state frill
o a gathering such as one would only see in the
ge tent of Greenwich Fair—admittance one shil-

one of the stories of the ball" that her
y, seeing a guest pass by, asked the Princess
) you know -who that person is ?" She replied,
), madam, I never saw him anywhere but here,"—
unconscious, of course, of the hard hit she dealt.
ie person was Mr. Morgan John O'Connell.
At one moment the string of two and four-wheeled
mveyances reached from St. James's-street to Buck-
igham Palace; and a curious medley of vehicles it
as : the temperance procession was quite genteel in
nnparison. . Fortunately, night in its kindness con-
mled much shabbiness. We, however, can explain
I this and much more if we choose so to do; for our
articular Palace friend happened to see the particular
)te addressed by the Treasury whipper-in to the
hamberlain, and thus it ran :

Treasury, June 17.
TY DEAR LORD,-1 must trouble you to get the enclosed
of people asked to the Queen's ball. lam aware there
some oddish persons amongst them ; but, as they are
Ited for this and next week's divisions, we have no alter-
ye. The men would not signify much, but they insist on
[ging their wives and daughters. The sooner you send
Ainsworth's card the better.—Yours, faithfully,

E.J. S

s card, and Peter voted against ord
in consequence. Another consequence
is, that the following names appeared in
Court Circular as having been present :—Morgan
)'Connell, Phillips, O'Connor Don, Hue, Hughes,
me, Bainbridge, Bavnerrnann, M•Taggart, Evans,
Evans, Cavley, De Salis, Etwall, Marshall, Martin,
'ett, Shell, Power, Pigot, Roche, Morrison, Gurney,
te, Sharpe, Lynch, Hawkins, Barron, Bryan, Bel-
, Thompson, and a lot of Smiths, &c. &c. Most
these males brought females with them, and, as one
the band said, " Sich a gittin' up stairs was never

nlev's t)

,p's nest

..as found ',Qt week hanging from
cedar tree, in the garden of Samuel Brice,
.chat'. It is about the size of an egg of an
1 appearance is so like the cone of the cedar,
rence can scarcely be detected on the most
nation.—Bristol Mirror.

rally known that if horses or cattle be
leaves of the elder-tree, flies will not

MINSTtII.—The origin of the late
athedral was the subject of inquiry or
aildhall, before the following gentle:.
)r, Aldermen Hudson, Meek, Hotham,
1., W. H. flearon, Esq., and James
ry Rev. the Dean, the Rev. Charles
W. H. Dixon, canon residentiaries
or, and several other gentlemen. The
;ness examined was William Groves,
who stated that he and Holder, the
wer in the afternoon of the day of the
en three and four, when witness put
r.vards went out, and returned about
in the steeple till six, but had no can_
! and six o'clock, at which latter hour

A his former evidence, as to
e. arid that he had been re-

.t the urgent entreaty of

in had forbidden any one ever
without a lantern. Instead of a

Was put into a piece of wood, made
inch and a half thick, which Groves

.een in tine clock chamber, upon one of the seats of
od ; but he positively states that he was not above that
amber after four o'clock, and that he has a distinct recol-
tion of having put the candle out at that time, as he
mght it away with him. After the examination of other
tresses, Wm. Holder was called, and underwent a severe
imination, and was suitably reproved for having coaxed
oyes to tell the lie about using the lantern. Mr. Meek,
Dean, Mr. Barstow, and Mr. Hudson, here coincided in
nion that the candle had never been put out; it had been
rnt into the socket, which had probably taken an hour and
calf, and then it had set tire to the building. The Lord
Lyor observed that it was a very probable supposition, but
nit completely falsified the evidence of Groves. A reso.
ion was teen drawn up and adopted, which left the ques,
open for further investigation, should any new facts
The meeting separated.—Halifax Guardian.