The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-16 00:00:00

THE LIN'ERiPOID% STANDARD.

COURT AND FASHION,

The Court remains at Buckingham Palace. On Thurs-
day her Majesty held, at St. J.Ames's, the first draw•ing-
room of the season. It was most numerously and bril-
liantly attended, the Queen and the ladies wearing dresses
of British manufacture.
On Tuesday, her Majesty and Prince Albert, accom-

panied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal,
visited the illustrious exiles at present residing at Clare-

mont, returning to dinner at ISUCKlnpalll raiace.
The Queen, by her own all-commanding example, car-
ried into effect the object which she pressed upon the ob-
servance of others, for we observe_it is stated that she

wore a petticoat of black

lc crape _of 13.ritislinrantil'acture,

rain was

of black silk, also of British manufacture, and was trim-
med with black crape and bugles. Again, we observe in
the notice of the dress worn by her Majesty's Royal Mo-
ther, the Duchess of Kent, it is said that the dress, trains,
and petticoat, were all of British manufacture.

VISIT OF THE QUEE

TO IRELAND

We are enabled

to state, on authority, that it is her Majesty's intention
to visit Ireland within two months of
_the present time,

and probably to remain a considerable portion of the
autumn. Arrangements for the Queen's reception have
already been commenced.—Dublin Mail.—[lt is said that
her Majesty will proceed to the sister isle via Liverpool
and Birk- ^1 yachts will be ordered

Kenhean, —ler the royal ,_
to meet her, and it is her Majesty's intention to spend
eight or ten days in the Emerald Isle, pro,eeding from
Dublin northward, when she will embark for the High-
lands of Scotland.]

BAPTISM OF THE INFANT PRINCESS.—The ceremony
of christening the infant princess was performed with great
pomp on Saturday evening, in the private chapel of Buck-
ingham Palace. The babe was christened by the Arch-

proxy for the reigning Duchess of Saxe Meiningen ; Prince
Albert, proxy for the Duke Gustavus of Mecklenburgh
Schwerin ; and the Duchess of Camjridge, proxy for the
Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz. The
chapel was brilliantly illuminated, the communion service
and font were of gold, and the chapel and altar were
richly hung and covered with crimson velvet and gold.
The foreign ministers were present, the officers of state,
the heralds. the cabinet ministers, and others in rich uni-

forms. Her Majesty entered the chapel, evening on the
arm of the Prince of Prussia, leading Prince Alfred, the
Prince of Prussia leading the Princess Alice by the hand.
The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal immediately
followed. Then came the Count of Syracuse and the
Duchess of Gloucester, the Grand Duke Bernard of Saxe
Weimar and the Duchess of Kent, Prince Frederick
William of Hesse and the Princess Mary of Cambridge,
&c. Her Majesty wore the riband of the Order of
the Garter, with a magnificent George suspended, with a
superb suit of diamonds, necklace, and ear-rings. The
head-dress was a beautiful wreath of white accacias, as-
sisted with brilliants. The dress was white and silver.
and was an excellent specimen of the perfection of British
manufacture. It was ornamented with accacias. The
Prince of Wales was dressed in a very elegant light blue
velvet jacket, beautifully embroidered. Prince Alfred
wore a white tunic, embroidered with silver. Prince
Albert wore a field-marshal's uniform, with the insignia
of the Orders of the Garter and the Golden Fleece in
brilliants; The robe of the infant Princess Louisa was of
Honiton lace. Her Majesty afterwards gave a grand
banquet in honour of the occasion, and a party in the
evening. _ _ _ _ _ _

It is said that the Duke of Athol intends to visit St.
Petersburgh shortly, taking with him the pick of his
Highlanders.

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

A vessel, arrived in the Tlirmes from Boulogne, has
brought an entire cargo of railway stores of British ma-
nufacture, consisting of 190 waggons in pieces, 49 cross-
ings, and 380 wheels and axletrees.
The Railway Record mentions a rumour that Mr.
Austin, Mr. Talbot, and other eminent counsel have given
up their briefs for the Great Western Railway in conse-
quence of the company being in arrear for fees. It is said
that the company owe under this head, some £30,000.
From official returns it appears that the amount of
traffic for the last week, on 3,658 miles of railway, was
£186,436, thus accounted f0r:—£93,365 for the convey-
ance of passengers only, £46,594 for the carriage of goods,
and a remainder of X 46,477 for passengers and goods
together, not respectively apportioned ; being an increase
of £20,364 over the corresponding week of last year, when
the mileage was 2,845. The average earnings per mile
last week were £5l, whilst in 1847 they were £5B.
CARBONIC ACID AS A MOTIVE POWER ON RAILWAYS.

—At the Paris Academy of Sciences a paper was read,
"On the Application of Carbonic Acid as a Motive
Power," by M. Jagu, C.E., in which the author notices
the recognised fact, that the force of carbonate acid has
no limit ; and that, to show that steam is as nothing to it,
carbonic acid may be condensed with the heat of boiling
water, to 75 atmospheres. The ordinary locomotive en-
gine takes a power of six atmospheres ; and Mr. Jagu
proposes an engine to be worked with carbonic acid, the
principle of which is not to lose the gas, but, after it has
served to work the pistons, be made to return, without
loss, into a vessel similar to a portable gas holder, to be
placed in the hinder part of the locomotive; and thus an
apparatus so charged at the station, might be made to work
for years, until required to be repaired. Common chalk
or other ordinary carbonate of lime, will yield 220 quarts of
gas from 2/, by the application of sulphuric acid diluted
with ten times its weight of water.
LAMENTABLE AND FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.-At
the Paddington Station (Great Western Railway), on
Wednesday evening, great anxiety prevailed, in conse-
quence of the non arrival of the express half-past twelve
train from Exeter, which should have reached the station
at half-past four o'clock. At six a telegraphic communi-
cation was forwarded from Slough announcing that the
train had met with a disastrous collision at the Shriven-
ham station. It appeared that the train consisted
of two first-class carriages and four second-class car-
riages, also a luggage-van, followed by another se-
cond-class carriage full of passengers. The train
started five minutes after the usual time. No signal of
obstruction or required stoppage being shown at the Shri-
venham station, the high speed (about 50 miles an hour)
was maintained. At this place there is a branch railway
for turning off the carriages. At the angle of divergence
of the off-line wa§ an empty horse-box, with a truck I
attached, on which was a gentleman's carriage, which,
it is supposed, just overlapped the main up line, as
a collision took place, the effect of which was that
the engine struck the horse-box, when owing to the
velocity with which the train was progressing, the
horse-box, with the truck, were swung round. In
a moment, the second - class, carriage, which was
connected with the luggage-van, in the rear of the
engine was dashed to pieces, and the unfortunate passen-
gers were flung out in every direction. The driver of the
engine, who was unable to avoid the collision, used the
utmost exertions to arrest the progress of the train, and
promptly reversed the engine. Upon returning to the
Shrivenham station a most appalling spectacle presented
itself. The line was strewed with the wreck of the car-
riage, while a number of the passengers, wounded and
dying, were lying in different parts, to whom every assist-
ance was being afforded by the servants of the company,
and by others who had arrived at the station, having heard
of the disastrous occurrence. Four of the passengers ex-
hibited no signs of life, and two others were so seriously
injured that they are stated to have died shortly after their
removal. There was but one passenger who received no
injury. The greatest alarm prevailed in the other car-
riages. The engine was so much injured that another had
to be provided to convey the train to Paddington, and
which arrived there two hours and a half beyond its usual
time. Every possible assistance was given by the gentle-
men and servants connected with the railway to the suf-
ferers. It appears that there was negligence in leaving the
horse-box at the point where the accident occurred. Gen.
Sir Alexander had a fortunate escape, the carriage in front
and that immediately behind being smashed to pieces.
His servant was killed. From the accounts yet received,
it appears that amongst the killed were the Rev. Mr.
Phillips, of Penzance; the Rev. Mr. Sandys of Stroud;
Mr. Wilshere, of Bath ; a servant, name unknown.
Amongst the injured were Captain Blair, R.N., (supposed
fatal); four others seriously hurt, and nine bruised or
contused. The last account we have yet received says
that the accident occurred thus :—The up express train
was 25 minutes late, and two of the porters at the
Shrivenham station, supposing that it had passed up
the line, pushed two carriages from the good's shed
on to the main line, without either acquainting the
policeman or turning the signal on. The driver of the
express engine says, it would have been impossible to have
avoided the accident even with an ordinary train. The
coroner's jury have returned a verdict of manslaughter
against the porter .and assistant porter who waved the

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

The parliamentary commitee recently appointed to en-
quire into the recent election at Lancaster will sit during
the present week.

DEATH OF MR. CRIPPS, M. P. FOR CIRENCESTER.—
This gentleman whose recent dispute with Mr. Feargus
O'Connor in the House of Commons will be fresh in the
recollection of our readers, expired on Thursday morning
at his residence in St. James's-place. The malady which
has brought the bon. and learned gentleman unto a pre-
mature grave was an attack of brain fever.

THE SPANISH CORRESPONDENCE•—In the House of
Lords, an important debate has been provoked by a motion
of Lord Stanley. respecting Lord Palmerston's extra-
ordinary Spanish lecture. Lord Lansdowne was fairly
obliged to throw Mr. Bulwer over, and that in the face of
the very awkward fact now made public, that Lord
Palmerston has, on behalf of the cabinet, ratified and ap-
proved of Mr. Bulwer's conduct.

UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE NOT UNIVERSAL REPRESEN-
TATION.—Let our Chartist friends take warning by the
results of the late French elections, that Universal Suf-
frage is not Universal Representation. If combined with
the vicious principle of a plurality of votes given to each
elector, it seems but to rivet the despotism of the majority.
Large and energetic minorities in the French nation will
either not be represented, or will be insufficiently repre-
sented in the French Constituent Assembly, although
elected by universal suffrage ; and many leading men
amongst those of socialist, communist, and other extreme
or peculiar opinions, will not have a seat there.
REPRESENTATION OF NORTH CHESHIRE.—Mr. E. J.
Stanley, member for North Cheshire, has been called to
the upper house, by the title of Baron Eddisbury of Win-
nington, in the county of Chester. A knot of radicals in
Manchester, have brought forward Mr. F. Dukinfield
Astley, as a candidate to succeed him ; but we are glad to
find that the conservatives have succeeded in inducing Mr.
Cornwall Legh, of High Legh, to become a candidate,
and on Friday last a meeting was held at Knutsford to
promote his return. The meeting was numerously atten-
ded by the most influential gentry of the division. Sir
Richard Brooke, of Norton Priory, hart., was called to
the chair. After considerable discussion, it was resolved
that Mr. Cornwall Legli, of High Legh, be requested to
come forward to represent the division in parliament on
the conservative interest. A deputation was then appoin-
ted to wait upon Mr. Legh, and the meeting adjourned
until two o'clock. Shortly after two o'clock, the meeting
re-assembled, when the deputation were present, along
Mr. Lr -ttee " Lion to stand as

wan who accept, .ne invitab.
the conservative candidate for the division, and issued his

TEMPERANCE.—A SCENE.—On Friday, Mr. Brother-
ton, in moving that the House of Commons do adjourn,
adverting to the conversation on the introduction of the

as his name hac

been frequently mentioned by the hOn. member for Sun-
derland, he ( Mr. Brotherton) must complain, that be-
cause the hon. member did not choose to be in his place
when the discussion took place early in the evening, he
should come down at that hour and attempt to re-open a
debate which had been disposed of. He (Mr. Brotherton)
should strongly advise the hon. member to join a tem-
perance society. ( Laughter, and cries of " Order.")—
Mr. Hudson, with great warmth, said the imputation

thrown out by the ion. member for Salford was most
gratuitous, but he returned it with all the scorn and con-
tempt which one individual could exhibit to another.
What did the hon. member mean by the charge ? The

was of principle. Wouldoit be right, however, in him
( Mr. Hudson) to charge the hon. member with being a
perfect drunkard ? Would it—an hon, member here in-
terrupted the scene by observing that there were not forty
members in the house.—The house was accordingly
counted out.

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