The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-03-04 00:00:00

GRATIFYING.—The clergy of the various dioceses in
Ireland have recently presented addresses to the Lord
Primate and the other bishops who signed the recent de•
claration of attachment to scriptural education. With
reference to the address from the diocese of Ferns, the
Dublin Mail gives the following particulars. In the dio-
cess of Ferns there are eighty-six clergymen. Of these,
Reventy-seven have actually signed the resolutions. Fire
are absent from the diocess, on account of ill-health or
other valid causes; but so far as their sentiments are
known they are adverse to the National system. Four

are actually dissentients ; but they are still members and
fr ends of the Church Education Society. There are, in
this small diocess, seventy schools in connection with the
Church Education Society, whose registered number of
scholars for the last year was 5,386, of whom nearly a
third were Roman Catholics. In 1843, there were in the
same diocess forly-nine National schools, attended by
6,320 children, of whom only thirty-eight were Protes-
tants. Which system has the better claim to be con-
sidered a united education? In 1844, above £1,600 were
contributed t,wards the support of the Church Education
Society's schools, in the diocess of Ferns ; and of this
sum nearly two-thirds were given by the clergy—a very
intelligible proof of their disinterested zeal in the cause
Scriptural Education.

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RT 4• FASHIONABLE WORLD

The court has remained at Buckingham Palace during
the week. Her Majesty is expected to arrive at Windsor
on Wednesday fortnight, where the court will not prolong
its stay beyond about the latter end of March, or the be-

We understand that, according to the present arrange-
ments, her Majesty and Prince Albert's visit to the Duke
and Duchess of Norfolk, at Arundel Castle, and the
Duke and Duchess of Richmond, at Goodwood, is in-
tended to take place during the Easter recess.

The Countess of Dunmore has succeeded the Countess
of Mount Eiiecumbe as the lady in Waiting on the Queen.
The Earl of Morton has relieved the Marquess of Or-
monde in the duties of Lord in Waiting ; and Mr. Orms-
by Gore has relieved Captain Meynell, R.N. as the Groom
in Waiting on her Majesty.
The Queen held a court on Wednesday afternoon at
Buckingham Palace, for the reception of the Grand
Duchess Stephanie of Baden. Her royal highness and
suite arrived at the palace in two of the Duke of Hamil-
ton's carriages. Her Majesty had a dinner party on
Wednesday. The company included Her Royal High-
ness the Grand Duchess of Baden, the Baroness de
Struaifeder, the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess
Deitrichstein, the Marquis of Douglas, the Earl of Aber-
deen, the Earl Jermyn, Lord George Lennox, and Baron
Roth de Schreckenstein.
The venerable Earl of Harrowby, who has been indis-
posed during the last ten days at his mansion in Grosve•
nor-square, is convalescent.
Lord Robert Grosvenor arrived in Park-street on
Monday, from Eaton Hall, Cheshire. It is rumoured
that his lordship h4s been left a legacy of £200,000, under
the will of his late father.

The Marchioness of Westminster has received the
kindest letters of condolence from Queen Victoria, the
Queen Dowager, and the k Duchess of Kent, all in the
handwriting of those illustrious personages.
On Tuesday the remains of the late Marquis of West-
minster, K G., were interred in the family mausoleum at
Eccleston, Cheshire, in the presence of the present mar-
quis„ the Earl of Wilton, Earl Grosvenor, Lord Robert
Grosvenor, and other branches of the family.
It is currently reported and believed that already, be-
fore the burial of his deceased parent. Earl Grosvenor
has intimated to the dependents about Eaton Hall his in-
tention to disperse with their services, and to retain in
his household only his own limited establishment.