The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-04-21 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR

The Queen and Prince Albert promenaded in the Royal
Gardens of Buckingham Palace, on Wednesday morning.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness took an airing in the
afternoon in an open burouche and four; the Equerries in
Waiting, Lord Charles Wellesley (Clerk Marshall) and Colo-
nel Bouverie, attending on horseback.
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rtieir Royal Highne-sses the Prince of Wales and the Prin-
:s Royal were taken airings yesterday,

Her Royal Highness the bLichese of. Kent dined with her
Majesty and the Household. There was no addition to the
Royal circle last evening.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colonel
Bouverie, honoured the Reform Club with a visit yesterday.
His Royal Highness was conducted through the principal
apartments by Mr. Walter Scott, the secretary, and after-
wards inspected the kitchen department, the different ar-
rangements of which were pointed out to his Royal Highness
by M. Soyer, who also submitted to his Royal Highness's
inspection the paintings by his late wife, Madame Soyer.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left town at ten
o'clock yesterday morning for Frogmore Lodge. Her Royal
Highness returned to town in the afternoon.

The Earl of Aberdeen left town on Tuesday evening for
the Priory, Stanniore.

THE DUKE OF SUSSEX.—We regret to state, that con-
trary to the sanguine expectations of his medical attendants,
his Royal Highness's complaint has taken a most unfavour-
able turn, and the worst consequences may now, we fear, be
anticipated. The following is the bulletin issued at Ken-
sington Palace last evening:—" His Royal Highness's symp-
toms have assumed a more unfavourable character. There
has been much general oppression during the day, which has
considerably increased this evening.

MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF LEICESTER.—The marriage
of this young nobleman with the accomplished daughter of
Mr. Whitbread was solemnised on Thursday at Cardington,
a small village near Bedford. The ceremony was per-
formed by the Hon. and Rev. Lord I,l"riothesley Russell, and
a; numerons assemblage of the friends of both families
attended. The beautiful sisters of the youthful bride
officiated as bridemaids on the occasion ; and from the pre-
parations which had been made it was expected that the scene
would be altogether one of the most interesting character. The
Whitbreads settled at Cardington in the year 1650, and the
church contains numerous monuments to members of the
family. The bride's father has a residence in the village.
The family seat is the far famed Southhill, purchased, in 1795,
by the late Samuel Whitbread, Esq. ; and on the conclusion
of the ceremony the happy pair proceeded thither to pass
the honeymoon. The young earl has not yet attained his
majority, having been born on the 22d of December, 1822,
and the bride is scarcely eighteen.
BRITISH ASSOCIATION.—At a meeting of the local coun-
cil, held last week at Cork, it was resolved that this learned
body should commence its next session in that city on Thurs-
day, 17th August. The attendance is likely to be very large,
as the meeting commences not only just at the termination
of the assizes, but just previous to her Majesty's contem-
plated visit to Ireland. Not only will the intellectual re-
sources and the hospitality of Cork be thrown open to mem-
bers and visitors, but Limerick, Bandon, Belfast, and other
large towns in the vicinity are preparing for their accommo-
dation. Those members who visit Dublin in their way to or
from the meeting will also be freely admitted to its public
institutions and exhibitions on the presentation of their
tickets. The local subscriptions are going on well, at the
head of which stands the name of the Earl of Rosse, the
president. The noble president has announced that his gi-
gantic reflecting telescope will be completed, and thrown
open for the inspection of members. As the neighbour-
hood does not contain so many objects of manufacturing in-
genuity and industry as other towns previously visited by the
association, great attention is being paid to render the local
museum particularly rich in the geological and marine pro-
ductions of the vicinity.

BRITISH TONNAGE.—A statement has been published in
one of the London papers, exhibiting the increase which has
been made to the tonnage of the colonies, and the addition
which has been made by colonial-built vessels, principally
North American, to the tonnage of the United Kingdom.
By the statement to which we refer it appears that the re.
gistered tonnage of this country has increased since 1831 by
about seventy ships a-year, of, upon an average, 347 tons
each ; that we had at the end of 1841, 1,402 ships of 293 tons
average burthen, and of colonial-build, sailing out of, and
belonging to, ports in the United Kingdom ; and that the
owners of vessels really British—ships built in the United
Kingdom—had, at the end of 1841, to compete with 240,506
tons of shipping—vessels which had been constructed and
fitted at an advantage, in regard to cost, which enabled their
proprietors to work them at a much easier rate than that re-
quired to remunerate the owner of a ship built in England.
This rivalry the owner of British-built ships has had to con-
tend against, with a carrying trade not increasing in a ratio
equal to the augmentation of tonnage; while, at the same
time, he has had to oppose, (where he could,) the inroads
that foreigners—which untaxed ships and cheap stores—have
been making into our maritime business. This is a combi-
nation of circumstances which must have affected our ship-
ping interests very materially.

THE NORTH-LEACH PRISON AGAIN.—The Times of Fri-
day contains the result of an inquest on another unfortunate
victim to the atrocities of this prison. Richard Jones was
committed for one year for theft. He entered the prison in
good health. He was put on the tread-wheel, and had no
other nourishment than this—at breakfast a pint and a half
of thin water-gruel, a pound and a half of potatoes for din-
ner, and a pound and a half of bread. He fell ill, and ac-
quainted the governor with his being dreadfully ill. The go-
' vernor replied, " what do you mean by dreadful? You must
go to work, or else you will be locked up in the dark cell."
He said the same thing to the surgeon, and obtained the same
answer. He was so exhausted on the wheel that he fell from
it, and was carried into his cell by two men. He was pushed
about by the under. turnkey, when lie was not able to work,
and he was accused of shamming. He was too weak to stand
upright ; when in this condition, he was struck with a large
iron key and hrmed. The surgeon used to go the prison
rounds, and the prisoner was, after complaining, placed on
the wheel again, and extra rounds of the wheel were given
him for complaining. The cellars were cold and damp, and
the linen damp also. The jury, after a careful investigation
of seven hours' duration, brought in this verdict—" That the
deceased, Richard Jones, died from the ill-treatment he re-
ceived while in the North-Leach House of Correction, from
hard labour, want of food, and from no other cause. In ad-
dition—That the authorities of North-Leach were deserving
of censure for their conduCt throughout this affair.'
THE LATE MR. R. ALEXANDER.—We extract the fol-
lowing from the Gentleman's Magazine for this month :
Robert Alexander, Esq., F.R.S., F'.S.A., was a Bencher of
Lincoln's-inn, and senior Queen's Counsel on the northern
circuit. Ile was the son of a highly respectable solicitor at
Halifax, and his brother, Edward Nelson Alexander, is now
following the profession of the law in that torso. He took
the degree of M.A. of Christ Church College, Oxford, and
was called to the bar by the hon. society of Lincoln's-inn,
filth February, 1820. For a series of years he has suffered
from declining health, but continued to pursue the duties of
his profession until the early part of the year 1841, when, un-
der the advice of his medical attendants, he went abroad, in
the hope that a change of climate might prove beneficial.
Unfortunately, however, it effected no permanent change for
the better; and, although from the amendment which had

taken place, it was announced by some of his professional
friends, at the summer assizes last year, that he was so far
recruited as to justify a hope that he would join the circuit
again this spring, it was a hope which those who were more
intimately acquainted with him considered too faint to place
a reliance upon. Mr. Alexander was a man well versed in
general literature, and his attainments as a lawyer stood de-
servedly high. He had a remarkable vivacity of manner,
and a most pleasing address. On the northern circuit he
was for many years joint leader with the present. Mr. Justice
Cresswell. One of his great characteristics in the profession
was the caution which be uniformly exercised in giving any
opinion until he was fully master of the merits of his case,
and hence the result of his consideration and judgment was
always looked upon as sound and conclusive. He was a
fluent speaker, and particularly clear and intelligible in the
language which he used. Mr. Alexander was married in the
year 1829 to Matilda, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Legard,
Bart. ,and sister of the present Sir T. Legard, Bart., of Gun-
ton, Yorkshire.