The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-12-30 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30,. 1851.

CHRISTMAS PARCEL TRAFFIC.—We understand that,
of the enormous number of small ,parcels of every
conceivable size and variety of contents, which have been
delivered in London by the London and Northwestern
Railway in the course of this present Christmas week, only
two have failed to reach their destination. The supply of
open poultry and game, as well as covered hampers, has
been altogether remarkable.—Railway Record.
PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—The Lord Bishop of Here-
ford, with his son and chaplain (the Rev. Mr. Cox),
and his coachman and footman, had a most providential
escape on Monday evening last. His lordship's carriage,
drawn by a pair of horses, had just left the palace, and was
proceeding up Broad-street, when it came in contact with
a hand-truck which had been accidentally left in the road
by some person who had come to meet one of the coaches
for luggage. The carriage was turned completely over on
its side, throwing the footman almost into the shop of
Mr. Duggan, druggist, but happily without considerable
injury. His lordshi p and the other occupants of the carriage
were naturally much alarmed, and extricated themselves
from the vehicle as speedily as possible. The coachman
was kept in his seat by the leather apron of the carriage,
arid he sustained only a slight bruise. Neither the right
rev. prelate, his son, nor Mr. Cox, sustained any hurt by
the accident, which may in great measure be attributed to
the slowness with writh, the horses were being driven.
The splinter-bar, one lamp, and the windows of the car-
riage, were broken.—Hereford Journal.
A WOMAN FORBIDDING HER OWN MARRIAGE BANNS.
—The Parish Church of Stoke-upon-Trent was, on Sun-
day morning week, the scene of a strange incident. While
the marriage banns for the first time of asking were being
read over by the clergyman, on the names of a particular
couple being announced, d female rose up in the body of
the church, and said, " I forbid those banns, both here
and everywhere else." When she began to speak, the
beadle, not being aware of her object. shook his wand at
her to enjoin silence, but she persisted in "saying her say."
The singular part of the affair, however, is, that on her
being interrogated as to her reasons, in the vestry, by the
Rev. T. Reddall, the officiating minister, after the service
was over, it turned out that she herself was one of the very
couple whose banns she had forbidden. The intended
husband is a Roman Catholic, and she a Protestant, and
rumour says, that after their names had been entered in
the list of candidates for " holy matrimony," some talk

which the bridegroom elect told her he should require her
to attend the Roman Catholic chapel, and that their chil-
dren must be educated in the same faith. Not feeling
disposed to come under such an unequal yoke, she wished
to break off the match, which she had been led to believe
could only be accomplished at the stage to which prepara-
tory proceedings had arrived, by a public forbidding of the
banns, on theirannouncernent in church ,—Staffordsh.Adv.

TRAFFIC RETURNS.—The traffic returns for the week
ending the 21st instant, on the undermentioned English
lines of railway, are as follows: 1851. 1850.
London and North Western £42,367 .. £45,201
Midland....
Lancashire and Yorkshire 16.300 .. 14.429
London and South 'Western .. 9,195
London and Brighton... , 8,344
Great Western...... 16,427
South Eastern ...
York and Nortt

9.294
8,344
16,497

Manche

Midland
Sheffield, &Lincolnshire 6,493
3-R37

Bristol and

York, Nr
w-ca—s-t-1

and Berwick

ShreWsbtiry and .Chester

14,333
1,556
652
14,530
11,164
2,444
4,766
940

Shrewsbury and Birmin,

Eastern Counties and No'rfoll

14,383

Great Norrhe;

Chester and Holyhead
North Staffordshire .

Northern

2,259
4;390
864

South Devon.,
South Wales 1,534 .. 864
The total receipts on the above lines being £198,141
against £189,666 in the corresponding week of last year,
the increase is shown to be £8,475. The number of
miles open was, in 1851, 4,214, and in 1850, 4,1144;
showing an increase of 994 miles. It will be seen that the
gross increase is not so ►arge in the above returns as it. has
previously been, but we anticipate that the traffic returns
of the past week will more than bring up the balance.

COURT

AND FASHION.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert left
Windsor Castle on Saturday morning, about eleven o'clock,
for Buckingham Palace. The Queen and Prince travelled
by the Great Western Railway, a special train being in
readiness to convey the royal party to the Paddington ter-
minus, her Majesty and his Royal Highness arriving at
the palace at twelve o'clock. Soon after their arrival, the
Queen and Prince, attended by their suite, went to Glou-
cester-house to pay a visit to her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester, being the first visit her Majesty
has made to the royal duchess since the recent demise of
the late King of Hanover. After leaving Gloucester-
house, her Majesty and Prince Albert proceeded to the
railway terminus, and returned by special train to Wind.
sor, arriving at the castle shortly before two oclock. On
Thursday next, being New Year's Day, the Queen's royal
bounties will be distributed to the numerous cases of de-
serving and necessitous poor in the town. of Windsor, and
also of Eton and the adjacent neighbourhood.

MEETING OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL
.1a a nrivv rannril at Win/1....P..0. nt

Her Majesty

Friday. The Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord John Russell,
and Earl Granville. had audiences of her Majesty. Earl
Granville received from the Queen his seals of office as
secretary of state for foreign affairs. After the council
the Marquis of Lansdowne and Lord Seymour returned
to Bowood • Lord John Russell returned to R,ichrnond,
and the Right Hon. H. Labouchare to Stoke. The Lord
Chancellor, Earl Granville, and the rest of the ministers
and officers of state, returned to London by special train
on the Great Western Railway, taking their departure
from the Castle at twenty minutes past four o'clock.
Luncheon was served to the official circle in the Castle
previous to the privy council.

THE NEW SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AF-
FAIRS.--Granville George Leveson-Gower, second Earl
Granville, and now her Majesty's secretary of state for
foreign affairs, is a comparatively young man, having been
born in 1815. He graduated at Christ Church, Oxford ;
was for a short time attache to the British embassy in Paris,
and subsequently under secretary of state for foreign af-
fairs ; was appointed a railway commissioner in 1846, in
which year he succeeded to the earldom ; master of the
Queen's buckhounds, July, 1846 ; vice-president of the
board of trade, May, 1848 ; was M.P. for Morpeth from
February, 1837. to February, 1840, and sat for Lichfield
from September, 1841, to January, 1846; was appointed a
deputy-lieutenant of. Salop, 1846 ; second-major, Stafford-
shire yeomanry, 1848. Earl. Granville was, it must be re-
membered, chairman of the council of the Royal Commis-
sion of the Great Exhibition of 1851. The first earl was
a distinguished diplomatist; he was uncle to the second
Duke of Sutherland, and was long known as Lord Gran-
ville Leveson-Gower.

On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday last, the Queen's
Royal charities to nearly one thousand of aged poor at
this season, were distributed at the Almonry, in White-
hall, under the authority of the Lord Bishop of Oxford,
Lord High Almoner, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Jelf, Sub
Almoner, and by Joseph Hanby, Esq., Secretary and
Yeoman of the Almonry.

PRINCE ALBERT, THEBUILDER..—Hi9 Royal Highness
has been elected an honorary member of the Berlin Build-
ing Society. In acknowledging the compliment, he says :
" 1 shall be ready to send specimens of building materials,
or anything of the same kind that may be of use to the
society." Now we beg to suggest to his Royal Highness
that if he would send, not a specimen, but the whole
stock of " Albert Tiles" now in use and in store for the
British army, they will vnte him " A rpen.l.. py_

United Service Gazette.
DINNER TO THE POOR.—On Friday (St. Stephen's
Day) Miss Burdett Coutts dined in company with 120
poor and aged people, who were liberally entertained a
her expense, in one of the school-rooms attached to St
Stephen's Church in Westminster.
TWO

AMERICAN PACKET-SHIPS LOST,
AWFUL SACRIFICE OF LIFE.

The subjoined details, communicating the melancholy
loss of two fine packet-ships, the Carioca and Tigendenage
—the former trading between Glasgow and New York,
and the latter between Quebec and London—have been
received, by which it will be observed a great many per-
sons met with a watery grave. The Carioca, it appeared,
sailed from Glasgow for New York on the 14th of October
last, with a miscellaneous cargo and about forty passen-
gers. A few days after she encountered changeable wea-
ther, until the 18th, when a series of heavy gales followed,
which eventually occasioned the destruction of the ship,
and very nigh the sixty persons who were on board. Re-
peatedly struck by tremendous seas, she lost her rudder,
bulwarks, spars, and several men overboard, among whom
was Mr. Campbell, the chief officer, who, we regret to
say, perished. In the height of the gale it was discovered
the ship had sprung a leak ; so great was it that the whole
of the pumps had to be kept in motion to prevent the ves-
sel sinking, the passengers all assisting. 'For three days
and nights they were so engaged. The weather then
abated, and the master, Captain Pray, was about making
good the spars that had been swept away, when it came to
his ears that the leak was rapidly increasing. He now
gave up all hopes of saving the ship. He made all sail,
and on the 16th of November succeeded in attracting the
notice of the Vanguard, which happily bore down imme-
diately to the rescue of the unfortunate creatures, who
were in a most pitiable plight of suffering. On the Van-
guardcoming up, their boats were lowered, and in a few
contrived to take them all on board without ac-
cident. The Vanguard proceeded to New York. It is
passages
believed the Carioca foundered in the course of the same
evening. When left by the Vanguard, which was in lat.
44 15, long. 45 40, she had 10 feet of water in her hold.
The vessel was insured to the extent of £15,000. The
fate of the Tigendenage was far more distressing. She was
quite a new ship, of 500 tons burden. She sailed from
Quebec for London on the 19th of November, there being
on board about 30 persons. On her passage down the St.
Lawrence she encountered a heavy snow-storm, in the
course of which she got ashore on the north side, near
Corrobo Island. The instant she struck, the sea swept
over the vessel, compelling the crew awl those on board
to take to the rigging, the only place of refuge. Here
they had been but a few hours before the main and fore-
masts broke away, and fell overboard. There were 18
poor fellows either lashed to, or clinging to the rigging,
the whole of whom met with a watery grave. The mas-
ter (Capt. Redolphl, the mates, and the remainder of the
ship's company, who were lashed to the other parts of the
re wck, after upwards of 20 hours' fearful suffering, were
rescued by a boat sent off from a schooner called the St. I
Helene. The ship became a total wreck.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Lord Stanley, of Alderley, has resigned his office as
Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. _ _

At Adelaide, in Australia, Joseph Neck was married, on
June 3rd, to Penelope Heels.
A few days ago a juvenile cadet attempted to shoot him-
self through the head, on board the Arethusa frigate.
One farthing damages were lately given, at Alloa,
against the Earl of Mar and Kellie for spitting at a
butcher.

Guy Fawkes's cellar, which lay below the temporary
houses of parliament, has, during the last few days, been
completely demolished. _ _ _

The cost of taking down the marble arch at Bucking-
ham Palace and removing it to Cumberland-gate, Hyde-
park, was little short of £ll,OOO.
The statues of the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Falkland,
and John Hampden, will be put up in a few days in St.
Stephen's Hall (the site of the old House of Commone.)
The Countess Ida Hahn Hahn, the once-fashionable
bout to enter a convent of Sisters of Mercy,

novelist, is a

at Mayence.
The vice-chancellor has delivered judgment, granting
an injunction against the ringing of bells at the place of
worship of the Redemptorist Fathers at Clapham.

Last week, a clergyman of the Scotch Kirk, named
Cook, fell down dead in the pulpit while preaching. The
cause of death was found to be disease of the heart.
Prince Albert has been elected an hon. member of the
Berlin Building Society, and his Royal Highness has

given X2O to the funds.
It is understood that the Bank of England have deter-
mined to reduce their rate for advances on Government
Securities, until the 16th of January, from 2} to 2 per
cent.

The Glasgow Mail says, that application is to be made
to Government for a supply of convict labour for the erec-
tion of a breakwater in the Bay of Wick, as a harbour of
refuge to shipping on that coast.
Mr. Thomas Thompson, of Sowerby Hall, killed an eel
of the conger tribe, on the sands near Roosebeck, last
week, which weighed upwards of 100 lbs. It was seven
feet in length and three in girth.—Cumberland Pacquet.
It is stated that a project is on foot for restoring Car-
lisle Cathedral to what it was before Cromwell's troops
knocked down a portion of the nave. 'I
be £lO,OOO

It is computed that if the number of postage-stamps, or
Queen's heads, issued daily from the printer's, were
placed end to end, they would reach from London to about
twelve miles beyond Oxford.
Abbas'Pacha has turned farmer. His farm, which is to
be cultivated as much as possible after the English fashion,
is 3,000 acres in extent. A bailiff has just been in England
purchasing Alderney cows. pigs, poultry, pheasants, &c.
Mr. T. Phinn is appointed Recorder of Devonport, in
the room of Mr. J. Greenwood, (1.C.; and Mr. J.
Johnnes. Judge of the County Court in Circuit 31, is ap-
pointed Recorder of Carmarthen.
The Austrian Field-Marshal Radetzky is said to be fail-
ing fast, and General Hay nau is wanderiug about like a
restless spirit, from on" watering-place to the other in a

state of the most confirmed He is now at

Laibach

It has been determined that a bronze statue of the
Queen shall be erected in Peel-park, Manchester, to com-
memorate her Majesty's visit to the park, and the assem-
blage of the scholars of the Sunday Schools on that
occasion.

At York assizes, Sarah Ann Hill, aged 25, a servant
girl, at Wakefield, has been left for execution, for the
wilful murder of her illegitimate child, which was born

alive, when she cut its throat, put it in a basket, and left
it near a railway station.

It is reported that, in consequence of the recent aug-

mentations to the forces of the Cape of Good Hope, an
increase of not less than 5 000 men will be required early
next year, to enable the military authorities to carry out
the system of reliefs.—Daily New*.

From a'

n official paper, it appears that the number of
vessels, exclusive of Queen's ships, mail packets, and
pleasure yachts that entered the Holyhead harbour, was,
in the year, 1.513. the registered tonnage of which
amounted to 163,270 tons.

A money parcel, value between £5O and £6O, was
adroitly stolen from a train on the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire Railway last week, by two showily-
dressed " gentlemen," who had prevailed upon the guard
to let them ride in his van, so as to have a better view of
the scenery.

We understand that proceedings have been commenced
by Mr. J. B. Wilson, of the Haydock Wire-rope Works,
Lancashire. against Messrs. Newall and Co., the makers
of the first cable used by the Submarine Telegraph Com-
pany, for infringement of his patent right.—Mining
Journal.

The Morning Chroni4
learn that the Marchion

much from the fatigue and exposure to the heat at Pin-
jore, that the Governor-General was induced, according
to a letter of the 3rd of November, to give up his trip

I across the bill

An old man named Dellah, and a young woman of the
name of Frances Elliott, aged about twenty, (very re-
spectably connected,) have been committed to the March
assizes for Notts, upon a charge of wilful murder of their
illegitimate child, at Mansfield Woodhouse, a villar
about a mile and a half from Mansfield.
It appears from the report

,f the Commissioners of

oods and Forests, just printed, that on the 31st of
March last there were 1,013 men employed on the New
Houses of Parliament-742 Upon the works at the build.
ing, 163 at the workshops" and on the. Thames bank, and
108 at the other establishments.
On Monday

morning, about tan o'clock, Mr. John Gil-
lott, postmaster and tea dealer, Scarbro', put an end to
his existence by taking prussic acid. Medical assistance
was immediately called in, and every exertion med hv

Mr. Cross and others to restore animation, but the vital
spark had fled.

Great suffering is experienced in various rural districts
in this county, and in Derbyshire and Yorkshire, parti-
cularly in the neighbourhood of Sheffield, owing to the
failure of the springs, and the almost entire absence of
water in most of the wells. This has been occasioned

by the long dry autnmn.—Nottingham Journal. --
The Earl of Rosebery's larder at Dalmeny Park was
broken into on Monday night, and 220 lbs. of beef, a
quantity of mutton, a number of turkeys, fowls, and
geese, and about twenty head of game, were carried off.
The parties concerned in this theft, who were evidently
laying in a stock for their Christmas festivities, have not
yet been discovered.—Edinburgh Witness.
A correspondent of the Scotsman, under the nom de
plume of " Colonist," has made the handsome offer of a
subscription of £lOOO towards the organisation of a
scheme for the relief of the destitute classes in Edinburgh
by means of emigration, under condition that other
£5OOO shall be raised, so as to place the scheme on a
substantial bs
The

specimens of Australian gold, weighing 1061b5.,
discovered in July last, at a sheep run about fifty miles
from Bathurst, reached London on Tuesday, and are now
in the possession of Messrs. Mattheson and Co., to whom
they were consigned. Originally they formed part of an
entire mass of gold and quartz of about three hundred

weight

TWo men, who had by mistake travelled on the Eastern
Counties Railway a short distance in a second, instead of
a third class carriage, for which they had paid, were taken
and kept in custody for a night, because they bad not the
means of paying the difference, 6d. each. They, in con-
sequence, brought an action against the company for false
imprisonment, and got £25

damages

The United Service Gazet
10th Hussars is about to retie

9, that an officer of the
n the regiment, having

aimself rather conspicuc

by engaging the a

ing he was too-young and too poor to enter into the holy
bonds of matrimony. The Lothario is the nephew of a
Yorkshire baronet, and the young lady connected with an

At the Middlesex Sessions, on Tuesda
stated that counsel could be instructed by piisoners -with-
out the intervention of an attorney or third person.
Every barrister, not only in the criminal courts of the
metropolis but on the circuits, who was not otherwise
engaged, was bound to take up a case if called upon by
the prisoner in the dock, and also to receive the fee from
him.

During a heavy fog, on Tuesday, two steamers came
into collision off Bristol, the Severn, a new boat, running
into the Duke of Beaufort, which was engaged at that
time in towing out a vessel. She cut a hole in her side,
and sunk her almost immediately. Happily the crew of
the Duke of Beaufort at once saw their danger, ran for-
ward, and succeeded in getting on board the Severn just
in time to see their owtl ill-fated vessel go down.

At the Court of Exchequer, on Saturday, the case De

Rothschild and others v. the Royal Mail' Steam-packet
Company, which was an action to recover £3OOO, the
value of a box of gold dust stolen from the South-
western Railway, was heard. A verdict was given for the
plaintiffs, the jury being of opinion that the defendants had
been guilty of negligence in allowing the box to be stolen.
We believe it to be correct to state that seven years is
the almost ephemeral average of existence in the trade
for applying the poisonous surface to the petty token of
pride—a visiting card. Is such slow and steady sacrifice
to the Juggernaut of fashion more commendable, or less
shocking, than a lottery of danger, in which some draw
the prize of competency, and others the terrible blank of
annihilation ?—Mining Journal.

The Glasgow Conititutional says—" A large propor-
tion even of the newly-constructed houses in Glasgow are
unfit for human residence, and are a direct cause of the
diseases which are constantly sweeping families to the
grave." In Glasgow the deaths in November amounted
to 906, exclusive of 78 still-born ; the number in Novem-
ber. 1850, being only 704, including still-born ; showing
an increase in the burials of 281.
On Saturday afternoon, Mr. Gillbee, Commoner of
Exeter College, Oxford, and only son of the Rev. W.
Gillbee, Vicar f Gwennap, Cornwall, was upset, on his
return from Sandford, in one of the narrow outrigging
skiffs now in vogue, soon after he had passed the lock at
Tilley. The first notice of the accident was a passer by
on the towing path seeing the boat in the water turned
upside down—drags were immediately procured, and the
body of the young man drawn out. Medical aid was
obtained, but too late to be of use.

The Inverness Courier believes the honour of having her
Majesty within the princely balls of Dunrobin Castle
may be looked for next year. Active preparations are
going on with the view of nutting the grounds and the
out-buildings in a tasteful condition, and a number of
masons are in constant employment. Whatever disap-
pointment the repeated postponement of the Queen's
visit may have occasioned in any quarter. the delay in the
realisation of this honor to Sutherland has not been bar-
ren of good fruits to the workpeople in the neighbourhood.

tinople

Camillus,, Vickers, and Centurion, Coombs, hence at New
1 York.

Dexterona, Twitcbett, and Sampson, Butcher, hence at Bei

Commodore (a.), hence at Havre.
Lina, Gelmugden, and Frederick, Krause, hence at Christina
King of Tyre, sailed from Palermo Bth Dec., and St. Brelade.
12th Dec., both for this port.
Frankfort (s.), Corbett, sailed from Marseilles for this port

Edmond, Quentin, sailed from Bordeaux 24th Dec., and Ed-
ward and Rose 24th Dec.. both for this port.
Nile (s.), Rodger, from Cagliari at Palermo, and sailed for
Messina 13th December.
Colonist, Mills, from Dublin at Savannah.
Gardyne, Hewitt, from Iquique at Arica, and sailed 24th of
Oct. for this port..
Hunt, sailed from Valparaiso for this port 21st October.

Louisa, Hartman, &oil Hamburgh, at Arica.
Coromandel, Johnson, sailed from Callao 24th Oct. ; Coro.
mandel, Brown, Ist Nov., and Niagara, sth Nov., all for
England ; and Bonanza, 24th Oct., for 'Pr
Lord Hardinge, Clarke, from Huano 1

it Valparaiso

. , _ .
Sept. for Papudo.
Fanny, Hindmarsh, from Huano Islands, at Valparaiso, and
salted 22d Oct. for England
Sarah Sands (a), Ilsey, fr
and left 15th Oct. f
(

atherine, Plitt, from Adelaide—William Parker, Moffatt,
from Copiapo—Jane Boyd, Merchant, from Falmonth—Syria,
Matakin, and Sara, Petersen, from Hamburg—and Circassian,
Lewthwaite, from Rio Janeiro, all at Valparaiso.
G F D, Sevellyn, sailed from Valparaiso, for Falmouth. 29th

and Yeoman: 11th Oct., 1
1., for Rio Janeiro—Ele

Sept.—Circassian, 7th Oct.
England—Champion. 7th
Oct., for lquique—United
Oct., and Juverna, 24th Oct., both for Cobija—Douro. I
Oct., for Panama, and Chide() and Hank
Callao

15th Oct

ISLR OR BARRA, Dec. n.—A ship's boat. with " Lady
Wright, Penzance," on it, was cast on shore here yesterday.
Navy YORK, Dec 13.—A large ship with jury foremast

was see

Sunday
Monday

TUESDAY, DEc.
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and Co., Liverpool,

heater, giat
Lancasbi

solicitors.

tailor' Dec. 29, Jan. 2(
Court of Bankruptcy:
ter; and Mr. Dodge,
nove, Liverpool.—J&
before advr

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chants, Dec. 31, Jan. 2
Court of Bankruptcy :
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cliffe, Warrington, col
Halifax, Yorkshire,

grocer-LJohn Norw6oi
Barr and John Sykes

mohair merchant—Rd
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and Nelson Reeve, N
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street, Camden-town
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FRIDAY, DEC
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Court of Bankruptcy
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Liverpool ; official as.
Twin, Liverpool, baker,
•ertised), at 11 o'clock,
ankruptcy : solicitors,
official assignee, Mr.
—ecot. Lancashire,

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