The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1850-10-29 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FAE.ti  • - •  THE GRAND BANQUET AT YORK TO PRINCE  ALBERT  The long-anticipated and much-talked of banquet by the provincial mayors to the Lord Mayor of London, in return for his magnificent hospitality in the month of March last, came off on Friday wig h all the eclat which the presence of royalty could secure to the occasion. The banquet was prepared i❑ the Guildhall, a fine old Gothic building erected i❑ 1446. The body of the hall was beautifully decorated. Each pillar was encircled with evergreens and artificial flowers. In each side aisle three lanterns were suspended, and two in the middle; and be tween t rounded  played mound t  on-Tyne, Halifax, ( wich. Belfast, Lic:l ton on-T  ter, Rochdale  ham, Richmond  covered with six Mansion House,  Milner, Bart., g York ; Lord Dou J. Lister Kaye, B  ,s chandelier, which was sui 'ice in gas. The gas chandc  Nearly all the towns which have nners, which were tastefully disind added greatly to the general  he towns so represented Alanel  Newcastl  lrinarthen, Covetitry. Chester, NorId, Grantham, Clrdiff, Hull. Stockirmouth, Leeds. Guildford, Chiches nt one of the Li  rdediately in front  form of a s tiful design from differ  ancient, haring I At the Roy of York, Loi Marquis of (  '•n Russ T.nrel  Abercorn, Lord Minto, Earl Granvill Lord Overstone, Sir  L William, 1  John Russell, Granvi  Donens  n, Liverpool, B he walls of the In  nich adorn the  ed of portraits of F.  Sir Wm  Present member fo  Bingl  another, the .d to  mil, but it is supp le•nts of the North )al table. is a table in th  umber of very elegant maces  One of these was very Queen Elizabeth.  Lord 1%  London, Archbishop of Yorl Earl Fitzwilliam, Marquis c  urgh, Mayor of 's brilliant an  umorit,  G. Grey, Right Hon  Ed Highnes! His R ceived w: Lord Ara  Ir, I ar  glaries  1000 feet A  lent, d  that I feel ver and cordiality reciprocate tin sincere pleasu the important a festive board feeling which r  and on which; I am being of tEe country  the discernment  to invite you to a  While some labourer!  fore you st you were g custom, if  lation for a hou  Thursday last,  a man named Cnshiol  ng of tt 1. Ise  ion has paid you, that you full extent tl  having burglary  he appeal  bleb NI  perfectly restoied.to her  The houses of ten clergymen in West Kent have been broken into during the last nine months. ' Mr. Stephenson, the celebrated engineer, arrived at Germs, on the 19th instant, on his way to Egypt. The parsonage-house at Askerswell, Bridport, was on Wednesday morning week consumed by fire. The general opinion is that it is the act of an incendiary. The soap manufactory of Bryant, Burnell, and Co., at Copside, near Plymouth, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday. The loss is estimated at £30,000. A nephew of Baron Parke, and son of • a clergyman of that name at Durham, was drowned on Wednesday while fording a stream to catch a water hen. The Times of Monday contains reports of six burof a more or less extensive character, in different re severally encir. I parts of the country. •  The Morning Herald of Monday gives accounts of nine incendiary or accidental fires in the provinces during the previous week.  hrewsbury, c  The Rev. Protessor Holmes, denly of apoplexy on Tuesday, in an omnibus in which he had been conveyed to tho railway station. Sir William Don, the theatrical baronet—a Buckstone long drawn out—has sailed in the steamer City of Glasgow to the United States.  A. company has been formed in Birmingham, to supply the inhabitants with gas at a maximum price of 4s. per  Mr. Smiles, a surgeon of Shipston-on-Stour, corntnitted suicide on Friday, by shooting himself through the heart, in his own house. He has left a•widow and ten