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 been
appointed commander-in-chief of the company's forces cis
the Fort St. George establishment, and second member of
council at that presidency.

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IRISH REPRESENTATIVE PERIL—The Earl of Bantry
has been chosen by a majority of votes to be a peer Of
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deceased

LIEUT.-GENERAL THE HON. SIR GEORGE CATHCARI`r
K.C.B. arrived in London on Tuesday, accompanied byhis 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 A.T CA ME RIDGE :His royal hi.-kneoo-
- on Wednesday last, the meeting of tie Af•
chteologic,al Institute, at Cambridge. After attending
some of the sections, the prince honoured the vice-chan-
cellor 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
filially left for London about four o'clock, and reached
Buckingham Palace at Six.
THE KING OF PORTUGAL and his brother, the Duke of
Oporto, arrived at Brussels on Tuesday. They were re-
ceived 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.—GeneraI Henry Monck-
ton, of Stretton-hall, Staffordshire, brother to William
Monckton, Esq.' of Amherst-house, Clifton-park, had
come on a visit to his brother, in order to be present at
the marriage of his nephew, Mr. J. R. Monckton, of the
Bengal Engineers, with Miss Taylor, daughter of T.
Taylor, 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.
THE 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 Royal
Highness the Duchess of Gloucester's health is sufficentlY
re-established for her royal highness to give a party to the
Queen and the elder 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.

THE MlNlSTRY.—Something is going on about the
Ministry which looks very like a continuous sequel to the
late unaccountable redistribution. The exact nature of
the movement is not explained, but the remark that its
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 more
than avowals, for there are also silences. Journals noted-
for attachment to particular cliques, and for advocating*
individual claims, have not spared the rest of the ministry
in order to subserve those claims. The organs of Lora
John Russell's friends have been very prominent ; but in'
it conceivable that Lord John Russell should not have
been as well able to suppress systematic attacks of thi6'
kind, by the firm and distinct expression of his disapproval,
as Lord Palmerston also might on his part ? Tllo°'
canst not say that I did it,"—but what then ?—SpectatOr