The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-02 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROY AL, WILLIAMSO?k-SQUARE,

the salary of Mr. ft. Hill, he had to observe that the late
Government had entered into an arrangement with him by
which his services were secured for carrying the penny post-
age system into operation, but the present Government had
given notice to Mr. Hill that his services will be dispensed
with at the close of the present quarter.

A conversation occurred respecting the inconvenience re-
sulting from the intervention of dragomans in the intercourse
between our ambassadors and the Turkish Government, in
the course of which
Lord PALNIERSTON said he had endeavoured to induce
the universities to establish to establish the study of the
Turkish and Arabic languages, with the view of obtaining
persons properly qualified to fill responsible situations in
the East. _ .

On the supplemental vote of £lO,OOO for education,
Mr. I'. HOWARD said that as the money was collected
from the whole community it should be shared by the Ca-
tholic schools.
Mr. O'CONNELL was of the same opinion, and said it was
a manifest injustice, that by the terms under which the grant
was distributed Catholics were excluded.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Several of the Dublin papers state that the Rev. Robert
Daly will be the new Bishop of Meath.
The Rev. Archibald Campbell Tait, Fellow and Tutor of.
Balliol College, Oxford, has been elected head-waster of
Rugby School.
The harvest is so unusually early, that it has already com-
menced in various districts of Scotland.
THE AMERICAN ALOE.—One of these plants, which is
said to flower only once in 100 years, is now in full blow at
Harden Grange, the seat of 'W. B. Ferrand, EN., M.P.—
Leeds Conservative Journal.

The Rev. R. L. Page, of Emanuel College, Cambridge,
and a beneficed clergyman at Bury, St. Edmonds, com-
mitted suicide by cutting his throat on Monday last. A ver-
dict of " temporary insanity'? was returned at the inquest.

T. B. Isherwood, Esq,, of Marple Hall, qualified on Mon- 1
day, at Knutsford, as a magistrate for the county of Chester.

Holkam Hall is now closed to the public, in consequence
of the death of the venerable Earl of Leicester.

The first importation of cattle to the Tyne, under the
operation of the new Tariff, arrived at Shields on Thursday
evening, in the Henry, a small vessel from the island of
Guernsey.—Newcastle Journal.

MISS ADELAIDE KEMBLE.—We understand that banns
of marriage betwixt Mr. Sariaris and Miss Adelaide Kemble
were proclaimed in the churches of this city on Sunday last.
The parties were proclaimed three several times. The bride-
groom, we believe, is of Spanish origin.—Glasyou -
The Hon. Mr. Clements, assistant poor-law commissioner,
has been unexpectedly placed in charge of the important ma-
nufacturing district of Lancashire, and has left Ireland in
consequence.—Newry Telegraph.
Lord Dalmeny, eldest son of the Earl of Rosebery, will
shortly lead to the hymedtal altar Miss Whitbread, daughter
of Samuel Charles Whitbread, Esq., and grandniece to the
venerable Earl Grey.

The House of Commons has, this session, been occupied
for five months, or (deducting two days a week) for a hun-
dred and ten days. It has, on an average, sate from four in
the afternoon till eleven at night, so that its labours will
extend over the space of one thousand six hundred and fifty
hours.

The Queen, it is understood, is again in !he way of adding
to the impediments already existing to the King of Hanover's
chance of ever reaching the throne of England.

The qualification for Commissioners under the Property
and Income Tax, is £2OO per annum in land and tenements
over and above all ground rents, incumbrances, or reserva-
tions, or of personal property to the amount of £5OOO.
Advices from Ascension to the 29th of May say that the
Niger Expedition awaited the termination of the rainy season
to make an ascent up the river ; the water not sufficing for
the purpose at that date.
An address from the General-in-Chief of the Polish Army
has been forwarded to every member of the British Parlia-
ment, expressive of gratitude for the sympathy evinced, in a
recent debate, for the wrongs and woes of Poland.

Last Night but Two of Mrs. R. HONNER-.
Thirteenth Night of the New Ti, of Superstition, called
GISELLE, or. Tn E Pli ANTOM NItiIUJAANCEILIS.

THIS present TUESDAY EVI,ViNG, the 2d instant,
DAMON AND PYTHIAS.

After which,
THE KING'S GARDENER.
To conclude with
G I S E L L E.
Mrs...R. Homier.

Giselle

Tll EATRE-ROY AL, LIVERPOOL.
AIR. TRAVERS respectfully announces to his Friends
and the Public, that his BENEFIT will take place
TO-MORROW, (WEDNESDAY,) the 3d instant, previous
to his engagement at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden.
The Performances will commence with Barnett's Grand
Opera,

THE MOUNTAIN SYLPH

Donald .. Mr. Travers

Miss H. Gardner

After which,
A FAVOURITE INTERLUDE,