The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-03-01 00:00:00

DOMESTIC.

THE QUEEN'S BIRTH-DAY.—Monday, being"the anniversary
of the celebration of Her Majesty's birth-day, it was observed
at court with every. demonstration of rejoicing. At one o'clock
Her Majesty received a deputation of the dignitaries of the
church, among whom were the Archbishops of Canterbury, the
Bishops of London, Llandaff, Bath and Wells, Durham, Ox-
ford, Hereford, Lichfield and Coventry, Exeter and Salisbury.
The Archbishop of Canterbury read a congratulary address, to
which Her Majesty returned a most gracious answer.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, the Princess
Victoria, and the Duke of Gloucester attended in their state
carriages. The drawing-room was attended by. the Turkish
Ambassador Namick Pacha, and the other foreign ministers,
accredited to the court of St. James's, together with His
Majesty's principal Officers of state, and of the Royal House-
holders. A. considerable number of the nobility, officers of
the army and navy, and private gentry paid their respects to
Her Majesty; and in the evening full dress dinner parties
were given in honour of the day by Earl Grey, Viscount
Goderich, Viscount Palmerston, Viscount Melbourne, the
Earl of Errol, the Earl of Denbigh, the Marquess of Lans-
downe, and Viscount Althorp.

The Duke of Orleans has gone to Brussels, and his visit there
naturally enough excites much attention. It is generally sup-
posed that it is connected with the measures about to be taken
by France and England against the Dutch. The warlike specu-
lations occasioned by the visit produced a fall of the Funds at
Brussels of nearly one per cent.
The schism in the Cabinet, to which we alluded some days
since, and which is again mentioned in a morning contempo-
rary of this day, is far from being healed. • It is now rumoured
that some of its most distinguished members, among whom is
the chief himself, have threatened to retire if such unseemly
discordance is continued. The Cabinet Councils held on Sa-
turday and yesterday, will be immediately followed by others,
at which it is said this knotty point will in one way or the other
be settled.—The Standard.

A most interesting meeting was held on Saturday last, for
the
_purpose of petitioning in favour of the Factory Bill, about
to be introduced into the House of Commons by Lord Ashley.
A picture of horrors which one would have thought impossible
in a civilised and Christian country, was laid before the meet
ing, and it is to be hoped that although the tyrant mill-owners
have succeeded in excluding Mr. Sadler from parliament, they
will not be able to succeed in destroying his bill. Mr. Sadler
was received as he deserved, with immense cheering from all
parts of the assembly. Not one of the philanthropists by pro
fession attended--there was no.,ajectation of humanity, and,
therefore, they were absent.
THE TIMBER TRADE.—Ministers have an extraordinary
facility in unsettling all, departments of trade. It is generally
understood that they intend during the present session of Par-
liament to tamper with the timber duties, and the consequence
is that there is no business whatever doing in this trade. We
have seen several letters stating that raft-merchants will make
no purchases until they know what measures ministers intend
to propose upon the subject. There is some activity in the
woollen and cotton manufactures, but in every other bianch of
industry there is unusual depression for the season of the year,
now so nearly approaching the spring.

BOROUGH OF MARY-LA-BONNE.— We hear there is little
doubt of the elevation of the Attorney General to the bench;
and that, acting upon this supposition, a requisition is getting
ui) by a numerous and influential body of electors, calling upon
Mr. Young, of Portland. place, to become a candidate to fill the
vacant seat.—Guardian.
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Owing to the boisterous state of the weather, the Liverpool
Mail, which usually
.arrives about half-past nine at night from
Bristol, did not get into Monmouth till eight o'clock on Thurs-
day morning week. It made several ineffectual attempts to
cross the Severn at the Old Passsge.—Merthyr Guardian.
We understand that the radical, reforming, and very liberal
Lo-rd Radnor has dismissed several of his tradesmen, in con-
sequence of their having voted for the Conservative candidate,
MorrashipWy,s brother.ndham,a Hampshirelthou
although
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theirs second votes to his
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The German papers contain a curious account of the honour
conferred by the Sultan Mahmoud upon the FrenCh editor of
the Ploniteur Ottoman. It is a pity this prince is so extremely
pressed on all sides, as it can scarcely be doubted that his wishes
for the improvement of his people are in the right social direc
tion. Without allowing ourselves to be carried away by the
esprit de corps, we may remark, as one of the signs of the times,
and with some complacency, the fact of the editor of a news,
pa _per receiving something like the honour of knighthood from
a Turkish sovereign in the capital of Constantinople.—Globe,