The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-07 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION

SIR JOHN HOPE, BART., M.P. for the county of Edin-
burgh, lies dangerously ill in London.
THE QUBEN has appointed the Earl of Home to be
Keeper of the Great Seal, and Lord Panmure to be Keeper
of the Privy Seal, for the Kingdom of Scotland.
GRISI AND MARIO have engaged to go to America for
five months. They are to get £17,000 and all their ex-
penses paid.
M. GENERAL THE HON. GEORGE ANSON, M.P., has,
it is said, been appointed to succeed M.-General Sir
Joseph Thackwell in the command of a division of the
Bengal Army.
THE DUKE or GENOA, brother of the King of Sar-
dinia, arrived in London on Tuesday. from Paris, ac-
companied by the Marquis d'Azeglio, Sardinian minister
at this court, His Royal Highness had an audience of
Her Majesty, by appointment, on Wednesday,

OXFORD UNIVERSITY.—The following is a list of those
upon whom the degree of D.C.L will be conferred on the
occasion of the installation of the Earl of Derby as Chan-
cellor of Oxford University :—The Marquis of Chandos,
Marquis of Blandford, Earl of Hardwicke, Earl of Eglin-
ton, Earl of Malmesbury, Lord Colchester, Lord Redes-
dale, Lord Stanley, M.P., Lord St. Leonards, M.. General
Sir E. Cust, Lieut.-General Reeve, Sir E. Lytton, Bart.,
.XP., Sir Archibald Alison, Bart., Sir Roderick Mur-
chison, Mr. Philip Pusey, Professor Aytoun, Right Hon.
B. Disraeli, M.P., Right Hon. S. H. Walpole, M.P.,
Right Hon. J. W. Henley, M.P., Right Hon. Jos. Na-
pier, M.P., Mr. David Forbes, Right Rev. C. Words.
worth, Bishop of St. Andrew's, T. B. Macaulay, M.P.,
the Duke of Richmond, Sir J. S. Pakington, M.P.,
M.-General Sir H. Smith, Bart., the Bishop of Ohio,
Mr. G. A, Hamilton, M.P., Dr. Forbes Winslow, Mr.
S. Warren.

A ROYAL TROUSSEAU.—A letter from Berlin gives the
following description of the trousseau of the Princess
Anne of Prussia, who is about to be married to a Prince
of Hesse Cassell :—Of the two large rooms which the
trousseau occupied, the first contained the house and body
linen, laid out foe, the most part in 20 dozens and 24
dozens, all marked with her Royal Highness's name (12
dozen poaket-handkerchiefs had the Royal arms woven in
them). In connection with the travelling couch were 24
dozen day and night chemises, as many undress and
night caps, and other incomprehensible and unmention-
able articles in like profusion. The linen takes up three
sides of the room ; the fourth is occupied by the chaussure,
consisting of 24 pairs of silk and leather shoes, and 24
dozen pairs of stockings. In the second room were gloves,
embroidered handkerchiefs, collars, scarfs, hats, bonnets,
artificial flowers, &c., in bewildering profusion • to make
all complete, there was a riding habit. 12 cloaks, in silk
and velvet; and, besides all these, the lball and court MR. PHILIP PUSSY has been elected President of the
dresses, as well as the wedding robe, a diadem of brilliants, Royal Agricultural Society of England for the ensuing
and much too many more things for me to enumerate. year. The receipts of the last year were £6,816, and the
According to old practice here, the body of the wedding expenditure £5,685, giving a balance of £1,131 in favour
dress of white satin was not with the skirt and train, but of the society. The Gloucester meeting will be held in
is kept in the jewel chamber, where it is decorated with the middle of July.
the crown jewels, and not brought out to Charlottenburg PLYMOUTH ELECTION.—The candidates were Mr.
till the last moment. Roundell Palmer, Peelite, and Mr. Braine, Liberal. The
HER MAJESTY'S DRAWING-ROOM.—The Queen held polling took place on Thursday. Palmer, 944 ; Braine,
a drawing-room (the first this season) on Wednesday after- 876. The ejection of Mr. Mare, the late member, was on
noon, in St. James's Palace. Upwards of 200 ladies were the petition of Mr. Braine, who paid all the costs.
presented at the reception, which was very numerously EPSOM Reces.—The total number of passengers con-
attended. veyed between London and Epsom during the four days
His Royal Highness the Duke of Genoa, their Royal over which the races extended was 41,164. On the
Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Derby day alone 26,926 persons availed themselves of this
Duchess, and the Duchess Caroline of Mecklenburgh means of transit. This enormous amount of traffic passed
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Adelaide of Hohenlohe, and his Serene Highness Prince surrounding villages in North Derbyshire have been hor-
Edwardof SaxeWeimar, werepresentat the drawing-room. rifled by the ravages of a mad dog. The rabid animal, it
The Queen wore a train of blue and silver cloth, with is stated, had bitten probably upwards of fifty dogs,
gold stars, trimmed with gold braid and silver blonde, besides other animals, before it was killed. The extent of
The petticoat was white net over white satin, trimmed the danger is, therefore, incalculable.
with gold braid and white roses, with green and gold leaves. A MONSTER YACHT.—The American steam-yachter
North Star arrived at Southampton, on Wednesday, aft
feathers.
Her Majesty's head-dress was formed of diamonds and
a passage of ten days, eight hours, and forty minutes,
Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Cambridge
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wore a blue moire antique train, embossed with white
from New York, which port she left early in the morning
flowers and trimmed with blue. The stomacher was of of the 21st ult. The North Star is a beautiful new steam-
diamonds. Three skirts of blue tulle, embroidered with yacht of over 2,000 tons burden, belonging to Commodore
silver, over a blue silk petticoat. Vanderbilt, of New York, the pioneer of the various lines
Her Royal Highness's head-dress was composed of of mail-steamers between that city and the Pacific; This
feathers and a tiara of diamonds of wheat-ears, with lace
steamer has been constructed specially for the private use
of that gentleman, and the present is her first voyage.
lappets. The necklace and earrings were diamonds.
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Her Serene Highness the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe She was built by Mr. Simonson, of New York, and her
deck, nsions are—length of keel, 260 feet; length of wore a train of white watered silk, brocaded with silver
deck, 270 feet , beam, 38 feet. The engines are from the
spar-
leaves, trimmed with white satin ribbon and silver ; the
All ' . the cylinders being 60 inches diameter,
stomacher of silver blonde and blush roses ; the petticoat aireWorks, _
with 10 feet stroke, and the paddle-wheels 34 feet in dia-
of white satin, trimmed with tulle, silver blonde, and
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blush roses. The dress was of English manufacture. The
feetm long and 10 feet diameter, with single return flues.
diamonds. head-dress was formed of feathers, roses, and
A steam-yacht f I - tit' • -- is'
diamonds.
likely to excite great interest in this country. Her cabins
Her Majesty will hold drawing-rooms, at St. James's and interior arrangements are of the most commodious
Palace, on Tuesday next, and on Thursday, the 23d inst. and elegant description, and fitted up entirely for the
convenience of the family of the o miler, by whom he is
FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH.—" For upwards of accompanied. The North Star will shortly proceed to
nine years (writes Mr. Thomas Province, of Winchmore St. Petersburgh, and thence to the Mediterranean, touch-
Bill, Middlesex,) I have experienced the efficacy of this ing at several European ports, merely on a visit of pleasure.
excellent medicine. I had long previously been afflicted Some idea of her size may be formed when we state that
than the Victoria and Albert Royal yacht. She cost
with headache and indigestion ; but a friend having in- the North Star is of larger tonnage and greater power
duced me to make a trial of Frampton's Pills, I now
inform you that a few doses gave me great relief ; and .8'500,000, and her weekly expenses are about £350, ex-
during that long period of time I have taken them in elusive of fuel. The crew cons:sts of nearly 100 men,
preerence to any other medicine; and I have the happiness including officers, seamen, engineers, firemen, &c. The
off saying that I never had a better state of health, which vessel, after coaling, will be thrown open to the public,
I attribute to Frampton's Pills. I beg further to add, and her stay is expected to occupy ten or twelve days.
that this medicine is in general use by my family, and we The rapid voyage of this vessel from New York to South-
know of nothing to equal it." In any case where an ampton is an evidence of her great speed, particularly
aperient medicine is required, they need only be tried to when the newness of the machinery is taken into account.
be universally adopted. Sold by all medicine vendors, ' During one twenty-four hours the log of the North Star
Price is. i id. per bee. see the name of " Thomas Prout, shows that she ran 344 miles. Her consumption of coals 1
29, Strand, London," on the government stamp, has been 500 tons.

Nine of the sufferers are dead, and several others are in
a hopeless state. At the time of the accident there were
320 passengers on deck, of whom 36 were scalded by the
steam as it escaped from the fractured boiler. They were
all of the labouring class. Of six women who could not
be removed from the Pigeon-house Fort, owing to the
severity of their injuries, one died on Friday morning,
and two others are not expected to survive.