The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-12-10 00:00:00

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes
jury finding a verdict for the plaintiff

COURT AND FASHION.

ady Hardinge were on a visit to the Queen

)rted that Lord Howard

le Queen, be

offered to his religion."
The Earl of Roden and Viscount Jocelyn have been in
Dublin some days. Lord Jocelyn sailed for Holyhead on
Friday, on his way to visit Lord Stanley, at Knowsley.
The Earl and Countess of Sefton returned last week to

Scotland

Hon. W.

E. Gladstone, M.P,

aly, and ar

not ex-

ected to return

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Mr. :and' Miss Vandenhoff have just completed a provin-
cial tour previously to entering upon their engagements
in London for the season. They have starred success-
fully at Exeter, Teignmouth, Wolverhampton, and New-
castle—upon-Tyne.

It is said that the Duke of Wellington has at length
convinced the government of the absolute necessity of
balloting the militia, and that we shall have a new Militia
Act, and also a bill for enlisting seamen, introduced next

session

On Thursday week the Duchess of Lancaster, a splen-
did barque,'39s tons-new measurement, and 450 tons old
measurement, apparently promising extraordinary sailing
qualities, was launched at Workington. She was built
for Messrs. Lamport and Holt, of this port, and will be
employed in the China trade.

ECONOMY IN -THE AMERICAN LINERS.--A passenger
who lately //timed to New York in the American liner

Ocean Queen, writes as follows :—" The vessel I came
out in, the Ocean `Queen, 1200 tons, Captain Griswold,
was admirably worked by 22 able seamen. All their
heavy work is performed by means of small mechanical
contrivances. An English merchant vessel of the same
size would require at least 50 men."
'The Oriental, one of a new class of sharp, clipper-
built-, American vesselsitas arrived in the British Channel

.....
in 93 days from Canton. -She was to have had £6 lOs
freight per ton, had she arrived in 90 days. as 130 or 140

nays is considered a fair voyage. The freight for British
vessels was £3 lOs to £4. She left New York on the
18th May, 1850, bound to Canton, remained there 21 days,
came down the China sea against the south-west mon-

soon, and arrived in the West India Dock on the morning
of the 3rd December,—a period of only six months and
fifteen days.

Two CHILDREN KILLED WITH GODFREY'S CORDIAL.
—On Saturday week an inquest was held at Camberwell,
to inquire into the deaths of two infants. A few days
since, the children being very restless, the mother sent
for a pennyworth of Godfrey's Cordial, and administered
about a third of a teavoonful to each. They soon fell
into a deep sleep, and remained so until the mother be-
came alarmed, but notwithstanding every effort the chil-
dren expired. The jury returned a verdict, " That the
children died from the effects of Godfrey's Cordial, ad-
ministered by the mother inadvertently."

ESCAPE OF THREE CONVICTS.—Between six and seven
o'clock on Tuesday morning, shortly after they had taken
breakfast, three convicts managed to let themselves down
over the sidu of the Warrior convict-ship, at Woolwich
Dockyard, and, proceeding along the mud on the bank of

'ntry or ar

nee from the ship, belonging to a

Spurling, and, crossing the river in it,
pe through the marshes of North Wool.

bsence was disco'