The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-07-11 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

LIEUT.-GENERAL THE HON. GEORGE ANSON has beer
pointed commander-in-chief of the company's forces ox
e Fort St. George establishment, and second member of
until at that presidency.

Inlsll REPRESENTATIVE PEng.—The Earl of Bantry
as been chosen by a majority of votes to be a peer of
le United Kingdom, in the room of Viscount Doneraile,
ceased.
LIEUT.-GENERAL THE HON. SIR GEORGE CATHCART,

C. 8., arrived in London on Tuesday, accompanied IT

his military secretary, Colonel Charles.'Seymour, from the
seat of his late government at the Cape, having been
appointed to succeed Sir Geo. Brown as adjutant-general.
PRINCE ALBERT AT CAMBRIDGE.—His royal highneo
attended, on Wednesday last, the meeting of the Ate
chmological Institute, at Cambridge. After attending
some of the sections, the prince honoured the vice-chan-
zellor and Mr. Geldart, of Trinity-hall, with his presence-
at luncheon ; after which he visited the unique chapel of
Jesus Chapel (lately restored), and paid a visit likewise
to the museum of the institute. His royal highness
finally left for London about four o'clock, and reached

o,l:lngham Palace at six.
rHE KING OF PORTUGAL and his brother, the Duke of
, arrived at Brussels on Tuesday. They were re-
.ced by the Duke de Brabant and the Count de Flandre-
and by the minister of foreign affairs, and were escorted

to the palace by a detachment of cavalry.
DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE.-General Henry Monck-
ton, of Stretton-hall, Staffordshire, brother to William
3fonckton, Esq., of Amherst-house, Clifton-park, had
come on a visit o his brother, in order to be present at
the marriage of his nephew, Mr. J. R. Monckton, of the
--,al Engineers, with Miss Taylor, daughter of T.
ior, Esq., of Valetta-lodge. The nuptials were cele-
brated on Friday, and in the course of that day, the gal-
lant General was seized with an illness so sudden that it
terminated in his death the same evening.

Tan COURT.—On Thursday the Queen and Prince
Albert, accompanied by the Princess Royal and the
Princess Alice, visited the Crystal Palace at Sydenham•
On Friday the Queen and Prince Albert again visited the
Crystal Palace at Sydenham, accompanied by the Princesses
Helena and Louisa. On Saturday the two eldest princesses
left the palace for the purpose of viewing the Crystal
Palace, at Sydenham. The Queen attended the Horticul-
tural Flower Show at Chiswick Gardens. Her RoyAi
Highness the Duchess of Gloucester's health is sufficentlY
re-established for her royal highness to give a party to the
Queen and the eider royal children, which took place
yesterday. The reception was a juvenile fete, and the hour
of assembling at Gloucester-house, Piccadilly, was at four
o'clock in the afternoon.

Tits Mesrsrar.—Something is going on about the
Ministry which looks very like a continuous sequel to tbS
late unaccountable redistribution. The exact nature 01
the movement is not explained, but the remark that it'll.
overt signs are chiefly in the press does not explain it
away. It may be that the press magnifies the facts of
which it can lay hold, perhaps misrepresents them ; but
there are facts of some kind, and the wonderment about
them is not limited to the press. The unexplained com-
motion is the subject of constant observation in society;
and although the inferences or suppositions which con
nect the manoeuvres with persons high in office may be.
very erroneous, they have for prima facie evidence some
thing more than newspaper writing, and something owl•
than avowals, for there are also silences. Journals noteo-
for attachment to particular cliques, and for advocating'
individual claims, have not spared the rest of the ministrl
in order to subserve those claims. The organs of Lora,
John Russell's friends have been very prominent ; but is
it conceivable that Lord John Russell should not Nape
been as well able to suppress systematic attacks of tlais
kind, by the firm and distinct expression of his disapproval,
as Lord Palmerston also might on his part ? " T 11011)
canst not say that I did it,"—but what then 1--Spectata