The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-05-26 00:00:00

THE COURT, &e.

Their Majesties, Who, we are happy to state, remain in ex-
cellent health, came t' town on Wednesday. The King shortly
after held his customaiy levee. llis 11ajesty paid a visit to thc
new Palace. In the evening the King and Queen returned to
Windsor Castle. On Friday the loyal couple visited the
Queen's Lodge, Bushy Park, and passed the day there, with
several of their illustrious relatives, in celebration of the birth-
day of the Landgravine of Hesse Homburg. Their Majesties
are expected in town on Tuesday, and will tentain at the Pahire
till the end of the week. Ott their return a large assemblage of
haul Wit are invited to the Castle, where their Majesties will re-
side till after the Eton Willem and Ascut Races. •

There is at present. a greater number of the -royal family in
thin country then there have been previously for several years
and the number will be speedily increased by the arrival of
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cumberland cud Princo
George. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the
Landgravine of Hesse Homburg return to the Continent in the
autumn.

A CEREMONY OF IMPOSITION !—Things progress mighty
prettily I The Limerick Star informs us that "on Sunday Miss
Hanly, of Limerick, and Miss Very, of Ennis, t,ok the veil at
the lirs' uline Convent, at Lifford •" and that '`the ceremony
was of a most impo,day nature." df this latter fact we have not
the slightest doubt, the whole being a most shocking imposition
from beginning to end ; commencing in spiritual delusion and.
mental fraud, and ending in spiritual wretchedness and mental
agony !—Aye.
THE LATE MRS. HEMANS.—Felicia Dorothea Browne was
born in Liverpool, in a small, quaint looking house in St. Anne,
street, now standing, old fashioned and desolate, in the midst
of the newer buildings by which. it is surrounded. Her father
was a native of Ireland, her mother a German lady, a Misi
Wanner, but descended from, or connected with, some Vene-
tian family, a circumstance which she would playfully mention;
as accounting for the stronge tinge of romance and poetry
which pervaded her character from her earliest childhood. Our
abstaining from any attempt minutely to trace her history re-:
quires no apology, it is enough to• say, that when she was very
young her family removed from Liverpool to the peighbourbloa
of St. Asaph, in North Wales; that she married at a very
early age, that her married life, after the birth of five suns, was
clouded by the estrangement of her husband, that, on the death
of her mother, with whom she had resided, she broke up :her
establishment iu Wales, and removed to Wevertree, Io the
neighbourhood of Liverpool, from wheava, after a resitienee
three years, she again removed to Dublin, her last resting-plate
—Athenceum.

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RECANTATION OF THIRTY ROMAN CATHOLICS •AT CLON,
ASLEH.—SALUTARY 'EFFECTS OF CHASTISEMI-NT AT TER
CuAFEr.s.--Thirty sensible Homan Catholics of Climeslee are, ~
we understand on very good authority, about. leaving the ma,'
eernal church, and opeuly reading their recantation, through
disgust and indignation at the violent ,nn&eavage manner in
which they have-Leen treated by the "people" at that chapel,
and the successful eudcaveuts of the priests everywhere, instead
of appeasing, to exasperate their turmentnrs against thetn.
This is a sturdy defection of members from the old dame; and.
since these are of a comfortable class,' we think bis teverenee
(who forgot to teach his lambs more mildness_ and .better be- •
1 haviour) will experience a very serious and enpieesatit defalca-
tion in the dues. Had the priests taken a` friendly admonition
lung since, they would, as we advised, have postpotied politics
to what is more immediately their duty—neither in their
homilies from the altar infused gall into the hearts of their con, •
gregations, nor exhorted them to what they were already too •
propense. They must fancy that their flocks hew no iuclim,
lion to exercise those faculties which nature has 5U I/OLIO/WV '
bestowed on thou as their pastors, if they-•suepose that the
vast difference between their calling and conduct be not palpable
to the dullest within the pale of their church. Most:men have
mindsi and it really is a daring outrage on the judgment mei
patience of the peb!ic, to expect that they will admit the pro-
priety of, and endure the geievances resulting from, such a
mode of proceeding. his reverence will, we are sure, be not
a little chagrined ut the desertion of thirty comfortable sheep
1 from his fold; but we were near forgetting that their voluntary
. departure will obviate the truubie and coremouial attendant• on
i the tearful form of excorantuoictition, with which some in that
quarter had been menaced.—Leinster ittpre,.4.
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DEATH OP MR. NASH.--ahis celebrated architect died on
Wednesday Wennight at East Cowes Castle, Isle of Wight.—
An acute disorder under which he has long suffered has at
length terminated ' in this deservedly lamented gentleman's
death. Every observant person if atkare that this gentieman
has been as remarkable for the eedulante of persecution as for
the possession of talents; but ft em every attempt to cast a
shade over his genius, he has ever sift cesfiudy &feuded himself,
though other hands were destined, as we think most unfairly,
to finish his last work (Buckingham Palace); every complaiut
made against its soundness and security, end they. were ahnust
as numerous as the stones in the building, was proved to be 4:1-
founded and vexatious. His worst enemies must admit that
since London watts* first called. no map has tver done it tithe
of that which he has isecomplithed to improve it, and we ques-
tion if any ether man ever will. Envy- is the slue attendant .
of genius, and the certain innrk of infirmity in those who en..
teretio it ; anti of the truth of this axiom Mr.- Nash unit his
detractors are the Next evidences. In private life, Mr. Nash
was what every man ought to Le—as an encourager of art and
seieu& he stood preeminently forward—and for his princely
liberality towards artists, Sze., his memory will be long and
deservedly cherished. To those who knew the value of his
I acquaintance and friendship, his loss must be irreparable.