The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-04-18 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

The Court remains in the Isle of Wight, and the Queen
and the Royal Family have taken daily exercise in the
grounds of Osborne and on the sea shore.
On Saturday, at Osborne house, the Archbishop of
Canterbury was sworn in one of her Majesty's Privy
Council. On the same day the Bishop of Hereford
did homage to the Queen, on his appointment to the
Bishoprick.
Her Majesty intended to have been at Windsor during
the Easter recess ; but the numerous works now in pro-
gress there have rendered it necessary to postpone the
visit until Ascot race week.
The Queen is reported to have withdrawn her patronage
from the French plays at St. James's, and there is no
doubt everything French will very speedily be out of
fashion at Court. .

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The. Howe,— 120 guns, Captain Sir James Stirling, sailed
from the Tagus on the 4th instant, for Madeira, to em-
bark her Majesty the Queen Dowager and suite. Her
Majesty may be expected in England about the end of the
present month.
BANQUET TO VISCOUNT HARDINGE.—On Wednesday
the members of the Carlton Club gave an entertainment
to Lieut.-Gen. Viscount Hardinge, G.C.8., on his return
from India. The banquet took place in the spacious new
coffee-room of the club-house, covers being laid for above
200. Lord Saltoun presided, and was supported on the
right by Viscount Hardinge, the Duke of Richmond, the
Duke of Montrose, and the Marquis of Salisbury ; and
on his left sat the Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Athol,
the Marquis of Abercorn, and the Earl De Grey.
NEW BOAT FOR THE PRINCE OF WALES.—His Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales is about to be initiated in
the fine, manly, and truly healthful exercise of rowing,
and a new and beautiful single sculling boat is now being
constructed for his Royal Highness, on the latest and
most improved principles, by the Messrs. Searle, her Ma-
jesty's boat-builders, of Stangate-street, near Westmins-
ter Bridge. The skiff is a complete model of the boats
used by gentlemen on the Thames, and as a specimen of
workmanship is perhaps unequalled. It is 20 feet in lengi h,
of proportionate breadth, and is built of the finest bird's-
eye-maple, with mahogany linings, sax-boards, and
thwarts. The spaces between the timbers are filled with
a peculiar lining, not of cork, but of a material said to be
considerably more buoyant, for the purpose of rendering it
more secure ; in fact, a perfeet life-boat in miniature.
The cushion on which his Royal Highness will sit to pull
his sculls is also stuffed with this material, and which, it
is affirmed, will prevent the possibility of the little craft
sinking.

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

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CHIEF COMMISSIONER OF RAILWAYS.—This office,
vacant by the resignation of Mr. Strutt, has been confer-
red on Mr. Labouchere, president of the board of trade.
The Great Western Railway Company have resolved to
carry parcels not exceeding 12Ibs. to distances not ex-
ceeding 20 miles for sixpence, including delivery.
At the special meeting of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire,
and Worcestershire the auditors' report reflected most
unpleasantly on the late directors.
BELFAST AND BALLYMENA RAILWAY.—OD Wednes-
day this line of railway was opened fir public traffic. The
government inspector went over it on Friday week, and
expressed himself perfectly satisfied with the works. The
total length of the line, including branches, is 38 miles.
At the annual meeting of the Paris and St. Germain
Railway a dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. has been
declared. The indemnity for the late havoc on the line is
as yet unpaid. Each shareholder is meanwhile to receive
an acknowledgement of the dividend at 5 per cent inter-
est.

From official returns it appears that the amount of
traffic for the last week, on 3,663 miles of railway, was
£167,913, thus accounted for :—£79,288 for the convey.
ance of passengers only, .£47,040 for the carriage of
goods, and a remainder of £41,585 for passengers and
goods together, not respectively apportioned ; being an
increase of £13,898 over the corresponding week of last
year, when the mileage was £2,812. The average earn-
ings per mile last week were £46, whilst in 1847 they were
£55.

THE CONWAY TUBULAR BRIDGE.—Th 3 Conway tube,
1,300 tons weight, was raised 14 feet on Monday, and is
now within eight inches of its permanent level. The
presses raised the weight at the rate of 12 feet per hour,
and acted pertectly. Only ten men were engaged in the
operation, which was performed during a storm of hail.
Since then the tube has been raised and fixed in its
place ; and we understand a party of the directors intend
t) accompany the first train which is to pass through this
extraordinary bridge to-day (Tuesday.)
The London Electric Telegraph Company does not find
it so advantageous a speculation as was at first, expected,
and last week they gave notice to 150 emplogi(e, mecha-
nists, &c., that their services would be dispensed with for
the present. Should the company not be better supported,
in all probability a great number more will be discharged,
the expenses being so considerable, nearly 3000 persons
being employed on the different lines and the London
offices, in various duties.

SOLICITORTO WHOM RAILWAY SHARES HAVE BEEN

ALLOTT ED.—A. P... RTN ER.—ln the Bankruptcy Court, in
re the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway, it was
argued as to whether the solicitors of a company, to whom
shards have been allotted, became partners in that com-
pany. (The meeting was for declaring an adjourned and
final aividend.) Mr. Cook, for Messrs. Hill and Everill,
the solicitors, sought a debt of .£4406 17s. 6d., due to the
complainants for expenses. His honour was of opinion
that the act of one of the partners bound the other, and
as they were cognizant of the whole proceedings, they
could not claim as creditors. The proof was rejected.