The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-12-29 00:00:00

GOD SAVE AND BLESS THE KING AND QUEEN !—and long
may it be our grateful duty, as staunch and devoted loyalists, to
wish, •`with humble, but honest and affectionate sincerity," the
good old English compliment of the season--" a merry Christ-
mas and happy New Year," to our beloved Sovereign, William
the Fourth, and Adelaide. his Queen, the head; the pride, and
ornament of her sex, We are gratified to announce the conval-
escence of her Majesty, (though the severity of the weather has
prevented her customary carriage airings) and also to re-
cord the contioned excellent health or the King._ His Majesty.
on Monday-541a Catifiet Council of initigilally half aiP
hour's) duration. On Tuesday the recorder made his report to
the King in Council of the prisoners under sentence. On
Christmas Day their Majesties, their royal sisters, and the court
getieraily, heard divine service in the palace drawing room:
After the service was over, the Bishop of Worcester and 'the
'Dean of Hereford administered the Sacrament to their Majes-
ties and the court.—Aye.
RAmAn-AN —On Sunday last the Ramadan month of the
Turks' abstinence commenced. During this period they are
forbid to, eat, drink, or lie with their wives front break of day.
until the anu sets; the latter is signified by the lighting'of
ittinp&ei the towers at the top of the mosques, when immedi-
ately after they commence feasting. They do most of their
business in the night, and sleep in the day ; rimy call Ramadan
month holy and sacred, and affirm that the gates of paradise are
opened all the month, and the gates of hell closed. It is un-;
pardonable to drink wine during this month. ,

• Ms DEA, o Aetve.---,On Thursday week a communication
was made to the overseers of Lambeth requesting that they
would send a shell for a woman of the naiare of. Mary Ann•
Rackett, twenty-one years of age, and who was stated to have
died suddenly at a house in King-street, Lambeth-walk, where
.she was at work for a laundress. Dunn, one of the parish
officers, was directed to proceed thither, who found•the woman
laid out,. and everything necessary done, the chin being tied up,
&c., previous to being placed in the shell, while several ivomen
were present uttering lamentations over the supposed dead
body. Dunn, feeling some warmth about the stomach, asked
for some water, when, sprinkling a little over her face, she gave
a heavy groan, to the terror of the astonished females. • Instead
of being placed in a shell, a comfortable portable bed was pro-
vided, in which she was conveyed to the workhouse,of•Lamheth
parish, where she now lies in a fair way of.edMVery. I'b
poor woman is supposed to have been in a strong fit.'
Si I.E OF NEWSPAPERS.—The sale of newspapers, &c.be1046::
ing to the Tontine Coffee-room for the ensuing year took piat .
on Tuesday, and it struck us forcibly that for those of conserva-
tive politics the competition Was, irany thing, keener than on
formeroccasions ; at all events; they btought the highestprtveil
For instance, the Loudon -Standard brought £3. l7s.„witile -the
Courier was knocked. down' at £1 17s, • "Again, the. Sanwent
off at £2. lie., while for the l‘torni'eg' Postl.:3l ss. wcre.isbtain!
ed. The True Sunwas,soidlbr £l. 195.; the Morning Herald
brought £3. Is. The Morning Chronicle reached the respecta-
ble price of £3, and the Globe £2: 7s. • Of the London weekly
papers, the Age sold highest. For the Glasgow newspapers
there was a good deal of competitiOn ; and we rejoice to say
there was no falling off on the prices of former years. The
Glasgow Herald (twice a 'week)' went off at £2. 135.; the
Chronicle at £l. 145.; the Constitutional at £l. lie.; the Scots
Times at £l. 75.; the Argus at £l. 155.; the Liberator (once
a week) brought 16s. 6d.• the' Past 18s.; and the Glasgow Cou-
rier (three times a week) £2. 12s. The Caledonian Mercury
(also three times t, week,) an Edinburgh liberal journal, was
disposed of for £l.; the Observer (twice a week) brought
£l. 75.; and the Scotsman 11. 10s. •