The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-12-26 00:00:00

AYIISIIIRE ELECTION.—Captain Sir James Ferg
of the Ist battalion Coldstream Guards

now serving in

the Crimea, and Mr. R. A. Oswald, of Auchincruive,
brother-in-law to Earl Craven, are the candidates for the
vacancy in the representation of this county, occasioned by
the death of Colonel Hunter Blair.
CLOTHING LOST ON BOARD THE PRINCE.—On Monday
a return showed that 35,700 woollen socks were lost on
board the Prince, 63,000 woollen frocks, 17,000 flannel
drawers, 2,500 watch coats, 16,100 blankets, and 3,700
rugs.

UNIVERSITY REFOR3I.—The subjects of domestic legis-
lation alluded to in the Queen's speech, include, it is
understood, the further reform of the Cambridge Univer-
sity ; and the recent visit of the Master of St. Catharine's
Hall to the Queen is regarded in connection with this
topic.—Cambridge Independent Press,

THE STnan-si-oor Mike ccA, 17, which sailed on Wed-
nesday, from Plymouth, with a heavy mail for the Black
Sea, put back under canvas on Saturday, with her ma-
chinery damaged.
THE PERUVIAN SHIP GRIMENEZA, from Swatow for
Callao, with 600 Chinese emigrants, was lost seventy-five
days after sailing from the former port, 25th April, on the

Brampton Reef,-on the coast of New Holland, about 1,200
miles from Sydney. 590 of the Chinese perished.
LAW.—It requires the permission of the Court to com-
mence an action in forma pauperis, but to finish a law
suit in forma pauperis is often a matter of course, and
therefore no permission is required.—Punch's Almanack.

Miss S. STEWART has concluded an arrangement with
her trustees by which the sum of £lO,OOO is given to
endow a church at Port Glasgow, securing £3OO a year to
the rector and £lOO for a curate. A magnificent church,
having chancel and nave, will be finished by Whit-Sun-
day, 1856, by the same lady, which will cost her £5OOO or
£6,000 additional.
ARRIVAL. OF A SPECIAL ENVOI' FROM PIIIISSIA
Excellency Herr Von Usedom, charged with a special
mission from Prussia to the Court of St. James's, arrived
at Dover, from Calais, onWednesday,by the South Eastern
Company's steam-packet Princess Mary. His Excel-
lency, who was accompanied by Madame Von Usedom,
remained on Wednesday night at the Lord Warden Hotel,
and left for London by the train on Thursday.
THE MINISTERS.—Most of the Cabinet Ministers leave
London for the country during the recess. The Lord
Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord John Rus-
sell, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir William Moles-
worth, and Lord Granville have taken their departure.
The Duke of Newcastle, the Earl of Aberdeen, and Sir
James Graham will, it is expected, remain in town. The
state of public affairs will, however, more probably require
the return of the Ministers occasionally to the metropolis
before the period fixed on for the re-assembling of Parlia-
ment.

PRESENT FROM WINDSOR TO LORD RAGLAN AND
GENERAL CANROBERT.—On Friday afternoon, Mr. Min-

ton, of Windsor, purveyor to Her

ajesty, with the sanc-

fine rounds of beef, cut from oxen fed by his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert, at the model farm in Windsor-park,
for presentation to Field-Marshal Lord Raglan, Comman-
der-in-Chief of the British forces, General Canrobert,
Commander-in-Chief of the French Expeditionary Army,
and his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. The
beef was carefully salted down, and packed in three
separate tubs prepared for the purpose.
GENEROSITY OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.—The follow-
ing interesting incident, evincing the generosity and
kindness of heart of the Prince of Wales, may be relied

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