The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-23 00:00:00

Tai QUEEN held a Privy Council on Friday at Osborne
Isle of Wizht. At the Council a proclamation was ordered

for the election of a Representative

for Scotland, in

the room of the late Earl of Seafield.
THE MARRIAGE of Lady Olivia Taylour, eldest daughter
of the Marquis of Headfort, with the Rev. Frederic Fitz-
patrick, only son of the Rev. F. Fitzpatrick, rector of
Bailieborough, took place on the 10th inst., at Kells Church.
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merries, who has accepted the manor of
for the latter in the room of Mr. J. F
accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.
GENERAL SLR FREDERICK ADAM, G.C.8., G.C.M.G
Colonel of the:2lst Regiment of Foot (Royal North 13ritis
Fusiliers), having been on a visit to his brother, Admira
Sir Charles Akin, K.C.8., Governor of Greenwich Hos-
pital, entered cae of the carriages on the Greenwich Rail-
way on Thursday for the purpose of returning to London,
and suddenly .cussed to exist.
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Maguire, who 1

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on Friday last had the honour of entertaining the Crow!
Prince and Prince•- and the Gran(

of Wurtemburgh, ai.—
.ess Maria of .Russia, Duchess of Leuchtenberg, with
Edgecumbe, near Plymouth, where
trrived from Torquay. The King of
'if the Crown Prince, has left Frank-

theix suites, a-3-1.0,

the august visitautss
Wurtemburgh, fitthe

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fort km Munich.
LIE QUEEN and Prince gave their annual fete on Sat
day, tocelebratchisßoyalllighness'sbirthday,tothelabo

eri -and:workmen employed at Osborne, also'io the seamE
marines and boys of the iloyal yachts, to the non-comm.

signed alters .and men.of the detachment of the 23rd
Royal Welsh Fusiliers and the Trinity House men, and
the toast guard stationed at East Cowes, amounting in all

to about E;o0 persons

4-up.s's visit to Ireland will be extended over a
anticipated. According to
,g-ement the court will remain there six
sty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert

longer period than was at firs

present
. Her

will leave the Isle of Wight on'Friday- next, in the

yacht, sleeping one night on the sea. The Royal childrei
who will accompany her Majesty and the Prince to Irelan(
are the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred.
HER MAJESTY took another cruise with the Spithea(
fleet on Thursday. The Queen arrived from Cowes in thi
royal yadit early thatmorning, and without warning giver
to the civil subjects anti sight-seers. She went on board till
Duke of Wellington, 131, a.bout half-past 10, and then steam
ed away to the south-east, accompanied the following
screw ships I—Agamemnon, 91; Imperieuse, 61; Arrogant
47 ; liighflyer, 21; Encounter, 11; Desperate, 8 ; with
the Victoria and Albert, Fire Queen, Sprightly, and Elfin
infattendance. The squadron went of to sea, performing
various evolutions in their progress round the
back of the Isle of Wight. Al/out two they were lost
sight of from shore, and at four again appeared on the
horizon, when a double column was formed, and the -vessels
in this • order steamed rapidly bad to Spithead. Het
Majesty left the Duke of Wellington at half-past five, and
retip'ned to Osborne.

THZ ROYAL MAIL SITA.M-SITIP EUROPA took her
depart re hence for Boston, on Saturday morning, with a
very large number of passengers, a full cargo, and the
usual mails on board.

Mn. STEPHEN HUGH GAMES, son of Dr. Games,
Highfield-steeet, in this town, passed his examination o
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College of Surge Ons,
ST. PETER'S CIILTRCH.—A subscription is being
for a set of chimes for this church, with every pros
the object being esrried out. The movement has
commenced by Mr. T. Clarke, of Cable-street, the latc
churchwarden; and, from the readiness 'with which the
appeal has been responded to, there is little doubt of its

success.

REAPING MACHINES.--The judges of the Royal Agri.
cultural Society have awarded the society's prize of £9O to
Bell's reaper, manufactured by Crosskill. They also highly
commend Messrs. Burgess and Key's reaper, upon
AUCormick's principle; and Messrs Dray and Co.'s reaper,
upon Hussey's principle.

RAPID PASSAGE BETWEEN LIVERPOOL AND BELFAST.
—The last voyage of the Telegraph, from Liverpool to
this port was the shortest that has yet been made from the
one port to the other. She started from the pier-head, Li-
verpool, at 8h 45m p.m., on Monday, the 15th inst.,and
arrived at Donegal Quay, Belfast, at 6h 23m a.m., on
Tuesday, making the run from quay to quay in the extra-
ordinary short period of nine hours and thirty-eight mi-
nutes.—Belfast News Letter.
TRESCREIV-STEAMER ANTELOPE arrived in Table Bay
on the 29th of June, after a passage of 110 days from
England, having been compelled to put into Rio for coals.
She left for her destination on the 6th of July. The
screw-steamer Tasmania, 60 days from the Isle of Wight,
arrived in Simon's Bay on the 2nd of July, and was to
leave for Van Dieman's Land on the Bth.
APRICA.N COTTON.—A sample of cotton grown near Ab-
beokuta, on the gold coast, has been recently shown to us,
from which it appears that the green-seed variety of the
cotton plant,—similar to that which produces Upland and
New Orleans cotton, grows wild on the coast of Africa, as
well as the black seed variety, from which the African
cotton previously received in this country appears to have
been produced. The sample in question is of remarkably
strong staple, and the cotton would be very useful if it
could be procured in quantity, The plant is said not to
produce largely ; but the fault would probably be amended
py culture.--Manchater Guardian.