The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-07-02 00:00:00

FASHION, FACTS, AND FICTIONS.

His Majesty, attended by Sir H. Taylor, arrived in town
about half.pajt one o'clock on Thursday afternoon, from the
palace at Windsor. The Duke of Gloucester received the
King at the palace at St. James's.
Soon- after two o'clock his Majesty held a levee. In the
entrée circle the following presentations to his Majesty took
place :
Count d'Estremel, minister of France to Colombia, by the
Prince de Talleyrand, the French ambassador.
Lieutenant L. N. Carter, of the United States Marine Corps,
by Mr. Vail, the American charge d'affaires.
His Majesty gave audiences to Earl Grey, Viscount Mel,'
bourne, Lord Hill, and the Duke of Richmond.
Earl Amherst and Sir Joseph Whatley were the lord and
groom in waiting.
Mr. Horsley Curteis, and a gentleman of the name of Wil-
kins; were knighted.
The King returned to Windsor in the afternoon, attended by
Colonel Horace Seymour. _ _ _

The Duke and Duchess-of Buccleugh, and the Marquis and
Marchioness of Ely, have been ou a visit at the castle:
On Saturday week their Majesties visited Penn Vicarage,
where the Queen was received by the girls of the schools estab-
lished there by the Rev. Mr. Knolls, the rector. One of the
children presented her Majesty with a work-bag, trimmed with
Buckinghamshire lace, and hearing an appropriate inscription:
to this girl who had the honour the Queen presented five
pounds, and twenty pounds more to the other children of the
school generally.
The King's levees will be held' every Wednesday, until
further notice. _ _ .

The Gazette contains a very long order for the alteration of
the naval uniform ; which, from its minuteness of description,
is no doubt of considerable importance to the service. The red
facings, we regret to perceive, are continued; and, as all the
other mutations are confined to matters of buttons, and lace
graduated into inches, the change will be scarcely perceptible
to the " naked eye."
ALMACK'S.—The ball on Wednesday night was, as usual this
season, both numerously and fashionably attended, upwards of
500 persons being present. Dancing commenced about eleven
o'clock, to the music of Weippert's full band, and it was nearly
five o'clock in the morning before the company separated.

ANECDOTE OF THE LATH MR. KEAN.—Kean was a man all
of impulse. It is told of him, that on returning home after the
first night of his Sir Giles Overreach, his wife, in her delight at
his success, inquired how Lord Essex (then an active patron of
the actor) was pleased. In the fervour of joy at the reception
which the tumultuous and excited audience had given him, he.
broke out with " D—n Lord Essex !—the pit rose at me! "

A ROGUE.—A clever original rogue would now be quite a rara
axis--we have no Barringtons, Soames, or Semple—no man of
real genius in his profession—the present race of pickpockets
are all petty larceny thieves, who dive like dab chicks, but
without discretion.

"There is one of our members," said Bayntun to H. Bulwer,
"who, I fear, will never give a dinner." "That's yourself, I
suppose," quoth muffin-face. "Not at all, my dear fellow," re-
turned the Mirror; " I mean a man who can't be the host, be-
cause he must always be the Guest."—Brilliant reflection from
the Mirror!

The burgesses of Liverpool seem to possess a charmed life.
Mr. Benett's motion has been, for the fifteenth time, postponed.
—Bolton. Chronicle.

Several horses belonging to the Scots Greys, which had been
put out to pasture at York, were seized the other day by the
bailiffs, the tenant of the field having become insolvent. A long
negociation took place before the civil power would yield up its
capture to the military.
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There is a report prevalent that amongst the other savings to
be effected by Government, the Military School established by
the late Duke of York for the orphans of soldiers, is to broken
up. _

Mr. Winter Scott, the successful opponent .of the Marquess
of Douro (son of. the Duke of Wellington) at the election for
South Hampshire, has been appointed by the noble duke (the
lord-lieutenant) a deputy-tieutenant of the county.
Lord Grey says he is of the same opinion upon the East In-
dia question that he was 20 years ago, though he does not exactly
recollect what that opinion was.

The Rev. Charles Egerton Duckenfield has been presented
by the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle, to the vicarage of Eden-
hall, in this county, vacant by the demise of the Rev. Thomas
Watson.

A horned ewe, the property of W. Tandyn, Esq., of Lucott-
house, near Williton, has, within the last fifteen years produced
thirty lambs, and her descendants are equally prolific. The ewe
is now living, and in a healthy condition.
SPECIMEN OF IRISH REASONING.—" Och ! Grace, honey,
it would do your heart good to hear the fine discourse I heard
from Tim Fogarty, the schoolmaster at Abbey side, when be
was converting Dick Nowlan. Dick, like a poor ignorant
creathure as he is, said that the Protestant religion was the
best, for says he, 'lsn't it the reformed religion, and a'n't ye
all crying out for reform from morning till night. and here's
a reformed religion ready made to your hand ?" 'Why then bad
luck to you, ve spalpeen,' says Tim, ' sure the Boman, is the
only true faith; didn't you see or hear of Paul's Epistle (which
means a letther) to the Romans?" Vis, I did,
sure enough,'
says Dick. 'Well then,' says Tim, did ye ever see or hear
of St. Paul, or any other of "the Saints, writing a letter to the
Protestants? Now Dick, what have you got to say? Faith,
Grace honey, that foolish fellow, Dick Nowlin, was dumb
founded, and could not say ho to a goose; and who, after that,
could doubt the Roman Catholic religion being the only thrue
one ; and who could help wishing to convert the good master
and Parson Disney, and the rest of the good people, to it ?"
The ,I?epealerg.
RE-APPEARANCE OF CHOLERA IN Tills CITY.--The Indian
Cholera, we have heard, has re-appeared in Edinburgh, that is
to say, a few straggling cases have occurred. One fatal ease
ham:Cued a few days ago in India Place, the subject of which
was a respectable middle aged man. Medical aid was sought
from the North Western Dispensary, in Jamaica-street, but not
until the unfortunate person was beyond all chance of recovery.
From the conversations we have had with medical men, we are
inclined to believe that this disease will not again become epi-
demic in this city, but cases doubtless will continue occasion-
ally to appear. In fact., we apprehend that this disease is domi-
ciled in the country. We mention these facts not to
.excite
unnecessary alarm, but to caution the inhabitants to persevere
in inculcating sobriety and cleanliness among the lower orders
of society; we also repeat the admonition to procure medical
assistance, even in doubtful cases, without delay, as, taken in
the very eommencement„ the disease is considered to be not so
absolutely. incurable as many alarmists have supposed.----Edin-
burgh Evening l'osi.-

A curious kind of tylvan robbers' retreat has been discovered
in a plantalion at Skellingthorpe, near Lincoln; it is a curi-
ously constructed bower, finaued of branches of trees, so as to
defy detection until you were upon the spot. In this 'bower
were discovered a variety of articles—a pot upon the fire with
a fine turkey and bacon; lia:f a sheep, salted and concealed in
the ground; a large pot of butter, and a variety of shoes and
leather, with knives, forks, plates, bread, &c. This place is
supposed to have been the retreat of several desperate robbers
of the neighbourhood; it was discovered by scone persons
Searching for fox grounds, who had seen sinoke issuing from the
bower.