The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-02-11 00:00:00

THE CHASE

Sir W. M. STANLEY'S HOUNDS will meet
This Morning, (Tuesday,) at .
At Eleven o'clock.
Sir JOHN GERARD'S HOUNDS will meet on
Thursday nest, at

Al Eleven o'clock.
The CHESHIRE HOUNDS will meet
This Day, (Tuesday,) Feb. 11, at Duddon Heath
Thursday, 13, at..
Al Half-past Ten o'clock.
Sir W. W. WYNN'S HOUNDS will meet on 1
Wednesday, Feb. 12, at Ness CliffA
Friday. 14, at
Saturday, 15, at ....

Al F(alf-past Ten o'clock

Her Majesty will honour the Duke of Norfolk with
a visit at Arundel Castle to-morrow ; but will return 0
Brighton in the course of the afternoon.
Viscount Sandon, M.P. and Mr. Cook, bad an inter!,
view with Sir Robert Peel, on Saturday, at his official
residence in Downing street.

Mr. Christopher Tower, of Huntsmoor Park, has could
forward as the conservative candidate for Buckingham'
shire, in the room of Mr. Scott Murray, resigned.
The Camden Society intend to appeal against the deci"
sion of Sir H. J. Fust, relative to the stone altar in the
Round Church, funds for the purpose having been offere"
by Mr. Hope, M.P.

Mr. Cardwell, the newly-appointed Secretary of the
Treasury, has selected Mr. Home Rushworth, who pre-
viously acted in a similar capacity to Sir George Clerk,
to be his private secretary.

In the French Chamber of Deputies, last week, a pro-
position for a general four sous postage, in imitation or
Mr. Rowland Hill's system, was carried by 130 to 129,
or a majority of 1, notwithstanding the opposition of the
Minister of Finances.

Upwards of 250 houses were last week burnt down is
the village of Luc (Switzerland). The clergyman's rest'
deuce and the Town-hall were also reduced to ashes, and
the church is much injured. The total damage from the
fire is estimated at £lOO,OOO.

COLONIAL BisitoPaies.---The next see erected by the
committee to whom has been entrusted the appropriation
of the Colonial Bishoprics' Fund, will be that of Ceylon•
The Rev. J. Chapman, M.A., formerly Fellow of King 5
College, Cambridge, Rector of Dunstan Wallet, Essex?
will be the first bishop of the new diocese.
THE GAME LAWS.—Lord Francis Egerton has recentlf
made an important alteration relative to the game on hi'
Northamptonshire estates. The tenantry are now allowed
to do as they like with it. A short time since it was
strictly preserved, and they did not dare to kill even 3
rabbit.

DELAY OF TEIg MAIL TO CALCUTTA.—It appears that
the Calcutta mail that left this country on the 24th ull•
found no vessel to convey it to Malta. The consequence
was, that it would have to wait at Marseilles till the arri•
val of the Bombay mail, which was to leave here on Fri.
day, before it can be carried on to Malta and Alexandris'
Tnn VATICAN.—The magnificent palace of the Pope 5t
Rome, called the Vatican, is said to contain 7,000 rooms.
—The library, founded A.D. 1448, is a most beautiful
fabric, and it is also the richest in the worli, both in
printed books and manuscripts. [The rooms certainly arB
numerous, but the Fatter of Poper;, the Devil, has maul
more chambers for his children.]

THE FINE ARTS.—T! 'e number of foreign artists rlOc'
studying at Rome amounts to 405, 300 of whom are
paintets, 38 sculptors, 39 architects, and 7 engravers,
158 of those artists are Germans. 25 French, 38 Englis,,b;
17 RussiAns, 7 Poles, 13 Swedes and Norwegians, d'
Danes, 19 Belgians, 3 Du rch,ll Hungarians, 10 Spaniards,
7 Portuguese, and 14 Americans. The Italian artists are
542 in number, besides 2,006 mosaic-work makers. -

WIIITEHAVEN AND LIVERPOOL STEAM COMPANY.
At the annual meetin% of the_Whitehaven Steam Navigs-
tion Company, held at their office in Whitehaven, on
Monday, the new steam-boat, the Queen, became a toP'c
of conversation, and excited general interest. It was
stated, with the greatest confidence, that the new boat
would realize the most sanguine expectations that had
been formed of her. The cabin, when finished, will be
most superb, and will be decorated with splendid paint'
ings of some of the most picturesque scenery to be me
with among the lakes of Cumberland, as well as with al
elegant painting of the coronation. This powerful and
splendid steamer will be placed upon her destined statioot,
between this port and Whitehaven, about the middle (/`
next month.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FEB. 10.

Throughout the whole of last week the demand for CottO
was:very brisk and animated, and to-day it has been even ma'
so. Speculation seems to have taken hold of it, and out .0
12,050 bales sold 7,000 are placed to this account, leaving 5.0%
to the trade at very full market prices, decidedly dearer lig'
last week.

LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, FEB. 10.
We have had a fair supply of Cattle at market to-day for tlie.
time of the year. Prices remain the same as of late, anythin.
A to prime fetching goo.t prices. Beef 54d. to 6d.; Mutton 64u.
61d.

LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, FEB. 10'
Our Butter market has again relapsed into a state of Well;
ness. and 965. per cwt. is only obtainable for retail parcels of t
finest Belfast, Carlow, or other choice Butters ; in the inetqlo
time stocks are increasing apace. Barrelled provisions are2d,
fair request for ships' stores, Beef ranging from ass. to 925.
per tierce; Pork, 655. to 70s. per barrel; Bacon very quiet.