The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-30 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

The Court returned to Buckingham Palace on Friday,
from Osborne [louse.

Queen Victoria attained the 29th year of her age on
Wednesday, the 24th of May; but the event was not
publicly kept until Saturday, when her Majesty held a
drawing room at St. James's Palace.
Lady Sarah Lindsay was safely delivered of a daughter
on Friday, at the Earl of Balcarras's mansion, in Berke-
ley-square.

The Queen has conferred the honour of knighthood
upon John Romilly, Esti., M.P., her Majesty's Solicitor-
General.

The Committee for Privileges, on the Saye and Sele
Peerage claim, have resolved that the Rev. Frederick
Twisleton has made out his claim to be Baron of Saye
and Selo.

iensington, on

resift
Royal Big!
George the

urday evening, aged 71. Her
ness was the daughter and twelfth child of

THE QUEEN'S DRAWING-ROOM.—Her Majesty's draw-
ing-room on Saturday was the most brilliant this season.
The foreign ambassadors, the Queen's cabinet ministers,

the archbishops and bishops, and the chief judges were
present. The Queen's costume was very magnificent ;
the dress of white satin, tastefully ornamented with gold
blonde and lace, all the articles being of British maim-
facture. Her Majesty wore on her head a very brilliant
diamond circle. The dresses of the royal duchesses were

a►so m great eeauty ; that of the Duchess of Kent was of
silver striped, ornamented with lace; and the dress of the
Duchess of Cambridge of white glace, trimmed with lace.
The stomacher and head-dress of the former duchess were
richly adorned with diamonds ; and those of the latter
duchess were adorned with brilliants and emeralda of
great value. The dresses of the duchess of Sutherland.

Lady rorman, Lady Gainshorough, Lady Canning, Lady
Douro, Lady Charlemont, and the other ladies of , the
Court, were all of British manufacture. On being intro-
•.• .

duced, the Archbishop of Canterbury delivered an address
of congratulation on the auspicious return of her Majesty's
natal day.

LAW- INTELLIGENCE.

TRIAL BY JURY.—.In the third report of the Common
Law Commissioners, p. 70, it is recommended that if,
after a deliberation of 12 hours, the jury are unable to

agree, the veraict or tr out or the 12 should be received.
Had this suggestion been carried into effect by parliament,
Messrs. O'Brien and Meagher would be now receiving the
due reward of their deeds.

IMPORTANT TO LIVERY - STABLE KEEPERS AND
OTHERS.—In a horse case tried on Friday, in the Court
of Common Pleas, the Lord Chief Justice, in summing
up, said,—" There were two very prevalent errors against
which the public should be guarded. One was that a per-
son had a lien on a horse for the payment of money due
for its keep ; the other that a party might sell property
left with him, to pay the expenses incurred in keeping it.
In neither of these caaes did any such right exist, though,

rrom Inc appearance or auverusements in the papers,
stating that property would be sold to pay expenses, the
public seemed to be of a contrary opinion."

RAILWAY AFFAIRS,

No fewer than 102 railways have had further time granted
—generally two years—for completing their works.
At a spec'a' meeting of the Lana titer and Preston :un
tion, after some discussion, the usual dividend of 15s. 2d.

on the whole shares, 10s. Id. on tne three-quarter shares,
and 4s. on the quarter shares, was declared.
Mr. Meacham, one of the persons injured by the acci-
dent on the Great Western Railway, died on 'Wednesday,
from erysipelas brought on by exposing himself to cold, at
the Swindon station.

THE GUAGES.—The commissioners appointed to en-
quire into the merits of the guages, have reported that
the mixed guages should have a fair trial under their in-
spection, and that if it answer pretty well in practice,
then that the broad guage should go to Birmingham.
The Edinburgh and Northern Railway is now open
from Ferry-Port-on-Craig to Burntisland, and to Edin-
burgh, making the communication complete between the

Tay and the Forth. On the Perth side also a communi-
cation has been opened between Edinburgh on the one
hand and Perth on the other, as far as Abernety road.

The special meeting of the London, Brighton,' and
South Coast shareholders on the steam-boat question,
took place on Fridsy, but came to no result, the declara-
tion of the votes being adjourned till the next day. The
meeting was very decided in the expression of disapproba-
tion at the proposals of the directors.
The Sussex Express mentions a locomotive of a novel
kind, and one likely to be very useful for occasional pur-
poses. On the Lewis line, a velocipede is propelled by
is propelled by paddles and worked by the porters of the
establishment. The object of this portable locomotive is
to enable the officers to pass along the rail without the
expense and encumbrance of a steam engine. The speed
attained by this means was from fifteen to twenty miles
an hour.

From official returns it appears, that the amount of
traffic for the last week, on 3,710 miles of railway, was
£192,238, thus accounted for :—X98,175 for the convey-
ance of passengers only, £50,532 for the carriage of goods,
and a remainder of £43,531 for passengers and goods
together, not respectively apportioned ; being an increase
of £24,569 over the corresponding week of last year,
when the mileage was 2,862. The average earnings per
mile last week were £52, whilst in 1847 they were £59.
RAII.WAY RESULTS.—There were 32,000,000 passen-
gers on the railways in Great Britain and Ireland in the
six months ending the 31st of December, 1847. The
traffic for the year ending June, 1847, on 3,036 miles of
railway, produced above £5,150,000 from passengers, and
above £3,330,000 from goods, or together £8,500,000
sterling revenue. The passenger traffic was in the follow-
ing proportion :--First class 16, second class 20, third
class 7 ; Parliamentary class 5 ; undefined 14. The rates
of fares average on the Midland lines—first class 3d., se-
cond class 2d., and third class ld. per mile ; on the Great
Western 2d., rid., and ld. per mile ; on the North-
Western 2d., Itd., and 9-10.—per mile.—Nash's Sta-
tistics.