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The LEAD EH. [No. 458, January 1,1859. ¦...
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Miscellaneous. The Court.—Hor Majesty An...
for AiraTreA-Rig ra GrEBM ^ y .-rrK ^ g . Maxioulian : of ¦ Bayaria has gtanted a sum of 8000 thalers towards the reprinting of an edition , of / Stiakspeare . according to the oldest"English text extantv This edition , accpmpanied ; iy critical notes , is made underjthe care of M . Tycb © . "jRommion . Another . edition of Shalcspeaje is also in . progress in Germany- ^ that of M . Nicolas Delius , which is accompanied by a very copious commentary . Three parts of the .. fifth volume have just made their appearance . „ The MJqub . de l ! An . "—tA 11 Paris is out of doors . Along lie'line of the Boulevards runs a double row of stalls , like _ the stalls ofan . English fair ; and surely those are hard to ., please , in .. all amall wares and all small gamhlingj . wjio . cannot be pleased here . Paris is out iof . doprs in-ita . newest and brightest clothes . Paris : is making presents to the universe—which is well known to be Pari ? , Paris will eat more bon-bons this day than jn the whole bon-bon eating year . Paris will dine out this day , jnore than ever . In homage . to the day ,-the peculiar ; glory . of the alwaysrglorious plate-glass windows of the , Bestorers of the Palais Royal , where rare-summer-vegetables from Algiers contend with wonderful great pears from the richest soils of France , and with tttle plump birds of exquisite plumage , direct front the skies . Jiirhomage to the day , the glittering brilliancy of the sweet-shops , teeming with beautiful arrangement of colours , and with , beautiful tact and taste in trifles , in homage . to . the . day , the new Reviews-Dramas at the Theatre of- Varieties ,. and the Theatre of Vaudevilles , and the Theatre of . the Palais . Royal . In homage to the : < day , the new Drama in seven . acts , and incalculable pictures , at the , Ambiguously Comic Theatre , the Theatre of the Gate of Saint Martin , and the Theatre of ^ Gaiety : jit which last establishment particularly , i a ^ brooding ^ Englishman can ,. by intensity of interest , get . himself made wietched for a . fortnight . In , homage to . the day , the extra-announcing of these Theatres ,, and fifty more , .. and the queues of blouses . already ,, at three o ' clockin the afternoon , penned up in the cold wind on the cold stone pavement outside them . Spite of wind and frost , the Eiygian Fields arid the Wood ofvBoulogneare . filled with equipages ,, equestrians , and pedestrians : while the ~ strange , iiackety , rickety ,, uprall-nigkt looking world of -fiating-hottsef tombstone maker , ball room , cemetery , and . Wine-shop , outside the Carriers , is as thickly , peopled as the Paris greets themselves ; with One universal tenrdency observable in bpthhemispheres , to sit down upon , any public seat at the risk of being frozen to death , and ito . go round and round on a hobbyhorse in any roundabout , to the . music of a barrel organ , fis a . 8 evere . act of xfLiiLy ^ Tr-lJoiuehdid Words . - ¦ "¦ \ r Thoughtand Feelin g reguiated by a Mihistek . A subscription was set on foot some years since at ilpntpellier % t- a statue of Edouard Adam , a native of , ihat town , who nearly- a century ago invented an iin-,, proved > . method ! Of ^ distilling , which was 'of immense i benefit toLihe wine-growing districts in which brandy is , j » ade . M ., Billault , when Minister of the Interior ,, gave 4 ^ e requisita ^ authority for the erection of the statue ma publicplace in ^ ontpeliier . -But now . that the statue is ' ali , redky , tlhe . pTeaentraiinister of : the i Interior has withidr * wn . fche ^ ajithoripation , : to the great chagrin . of the townspeople . For thi $ curious reversal of a decision of . his predecessor , the present Minister , gives two radons : 1 . That -Edouard Adam was not a man of sufficient < jeiebrity * o , desei : vei a statue ; and 2 ( which ia probably rthe real , grouno ) ,. that Cambace ' res ,. who was a aative of Montpellier ,, has never , had one- — Daily News . " . / MoWanatio Marriage—An approaching marriage . ofone ^ of the princes of the Prussian royal family with , a lady whose acquaintance he . made at Ems , » s the subject pfcconversation at Berlin . Marriages of'the kind have . been very ¦; general among the . members of the _^ yal J » ouBe , . There . are now existing that . of the ^ Prince , > Mbert , brpthenof the King , with the daughter of General iS 5 uch % P ou ^ hiCh occa 8 ion ,, that . lady was created iGountesa . ofaiohenateini And thotalsp of Prince Afw-Ai » rtr couain of . theiKipg , the Prussian admiral , with the () celebrated ffhereso Essler , whose sonbythnt marnngo Jhaa . been ( e » naWed , a 8 the Bnron Bar »» m , and received by ^ thut tiUo into the rank « of the Prussian . nobility - Bbmarkabi-T Pomxe Cobfobaju—TheTOung Count , of Paris ,. who is nfc . presents the Cuke of Mpntpensier a palace -At San < Telroo , on the arrival of the prince _ at Ifcadus , eaya a Spanish journaVthe commander of the , . oajjabineers mnd the port captain went on . board * -be steamer , to congratulate the prince on his arrival , un ,, the following day he sent some gold -pieces to the « 9 rporAlx > f-oaraWnqersr who had taken . charge of his , IM wl » o ,. "wUh CoatUlan delicacy , . refused to accept thom , eaylPs ' he ' Wa 8 » mply repaid In hay ing had the ihonour jo leerye his Royal Highness . The director general of t »» e . carabineers has ordered the corporau . delicacy , pf feeling to be d « ly acknowledged . Wrvhi JKotabwwhbp OhurOm w London . — --un •¦ GUriatmas worning last »* vlpo sorvteo * ' » WeM » was . performed by tho Bev , W . Evans , at Ely Olwpd i golfom , bofare ' dawn of day . TWa aervioe i » cal od I ^ ly- . fi ^ in , " andihaa boon preserved by . the Woleh from the JearUest tlmoa of tho GUrlstlan OlmraU , In commemo-. ratjon of the -ehopherds kooplng watoU o oyor the r , flocka by . nJght ; > vhen the annouucemont of the angola ¦ w « a , i » acie to > them . The . attendance hns always been
. very numerous , and the Welsh singing excellent ; but we understand it was this year considered by the oldest members to have been the largest congregation and the best singing ithey have ever remembered since Ely Chapel was appropriated ' -to the ^ Welsh service . MoBAUTY at Ostend . — A meeting ^ was held in this place a few days since to discuss the question of forming a gambling establishment in that place . Hie meefcirig decided that a petition should be sent to the King praying for an anthorisatioh to found a gamblinghouse and conversation-rooms similar to those existing at Spa . The petition has received many signatures . The Empekok asd the Artist . —M . Couture , the ¦ artist who had been engaged to paintthe compartments in thewall 3 of the Salle des Etats , has been suddenly told that his services will not be required , and is so nettled at the dismissal that he positively refuses to -finish a grand picture of the baptism of the Imperial Prince , for which both the Emperor and the Empress ¦ gave-him several sittings . 'This picture was intended to be one of the great features of the exhibit ion of modern artists next spring . The Consumption qf Meat in Fhasce . — -It appears from iin account recently published that the consumption of meat in France , which , in 1812 only averaged 17 kilogs . for each iudividiial per annum , is now 54 . kilogs . In comparison to the number of inhabitants the consumption is greater in the towns than in the countrjparts . Paris consumes 10 kilogs . each person more than any other place * Next in quantity comes the oiorth of France , where the . average is 64 kilogs . each ; the two provinces of Poitou and the Limousin are those which consume the least , tho quantity being only 41 kilogs . It is singular that in the departments where the most meat is produced the consumption is the least . M . de MoirrAtEatBERT . —The Mpniteur , of yesterday announced that the Emperor had relieved 31 . de-Montalembert from the penalties pronounced against him on the 21 st of p . ecember by the Imperial Court , and that the publisher of the . Correspondont was also pardoned . It will hardly be denied , even by . those who accused the appellant of making a false stepi ia prosecuting his claim for justice to the utmost limits of tho law , and who tauntingly asked , " What has he gained by his appeal ?" that M . de Montalembert has simply gained everything ; the satisfaction of having vindicated the letter and the spirit of the law ¦ against the precipitation and caprice of arbitrary power ; of having enabled the higher court to establish at least its superiority to the Correctional Tribunal in intelligence and independence ; in haying relieved himself , by judicial sentence , of the ulterior consequences of the first condemnation ; in having quashed the gravest counts of the indictment , and suppressed the wanton stigma , affixed to his name as " a public writer without self-respect" by the Correctional judges . '¦ * M . de Montalembert may , therefore , be congratulated on the persistent courage with which he has saved his honour ; and , for the rest , the " pardon" may now be accepted for what it is worth—as axonfesaion of error , . and as a concession to public feeling , not . as a gratuitous and offensive aggravation of illegality . — Continental Review ., Threatening Sia 2 » s .-r-Iu Milan nearly every Sunday about two hundred cabs are assembled and then driven in procession from Porta St . Maria to Porta Veicellius , with persohs inside , each having in his mouth an empty clay pipe . Thia demonstration is harmless enough , it will be-admitted , but aome of the disaffected go a little further . Thus a few days ago , a lad , ^ vhile walking through the streets , was requested by a stranger to carry some glass bolls , or marbles , into a neighbouring caf < 5 , and roll thorn under the sofas . In turning the corner of a street , tho boy , ran against tho wall , and one of tho balla immediatejy exploded , carrying away two of faia . fingers . Tho poor boy is now in the hospital . The glass balls were , of course , hand grenades . Other boys have been supplied with syringes filled with sulphuric acia , which they squirt upon the dresses of ladies who wear stuff of Viennese make . The Duchessa Litta has had tbreo drosaea thus burnt . Cylindrical hata have quite disappeared , owing to their re-. sembance to the Austrian kopl . A very elegant Hungarian hat has been introduced in their , stead . If people smoke in . theatreet ,. a bardbba ,, or street lad , ia sure to . approach them , and . lake away their cigar , for tho purpose of seeing whether it is , or ia not , a Cavour . If . it should prove to bo , ono—t . e . a cigar smuggled from Piedmont ,, whence enormous quantities just now ^ aresent . and sometimes distributed , gratis—the smoker ia allowed to retain woaaossion of his property , which is politely handed , back . to him with the observation , liL' 6 on nost Lomburdo" ( " Itisone , my Lombard" ) , if the cigaris Austrian , U is . destroyed . Pipes jilted with tobacco are treated in tho samo roanner . Ah Austrian lieutenant , who wasysmoking tho other day in pne of the streets of : eho city , lmdhia pi )) 0 knocked out of hia mouth , and wan forced to pick up tho pieces . A riot followed , iiii which a soldier was wounded . —Correspondent o /'< tfto Telegraph . < Ojjwuauv iron 1858 . —Our record of Death ' s doing among the upper ranks of society during tho year Tvlnieh has just closed la tnoro tliun usually numerous . In tUo rau . ks of the pcerngo tUero have died , sluce the 1 st
of January , 18 in all , viz ., the Duke of Devonshire » the Marquis of Queensberry , the Earls of Ilchester , Winchilsea , Courtown , Eanfurly ( 2 nd ) , Ranfurly ( 3 rd ) , Morton , Glengall , Haddington , and Orford ; and Lords Dunferrhline , Sudeley , Clifford , Aylmcr , Braybraoke , Lyons , "and PoU . imore , aiid the l ^ aroness Grey de Ruthyn . ' Of these , the earldoni of-Glengnll and the English barony of Melrose , enjoyed by the late Earl of Haddington , have become extinct , while the ancient barony of Grey de llutliyn has becomo merged id the superior honours of the Marquis of Hastings . During the same period we have liad to record the deaths of the following members of the baronetage : the Rev . Sir Henry Dukinfield , Sir Charles L . Falkiner , Sir J nines Dunlop , Sir J . W . Egcrton Brydges , Sir W . Liston Foulis , Sir R . Campbell ,-Sir John Haggerston , Sir _ : James MacGrigor , Sir David Wedderburn , Sir 'W . R . ¦ S . Cockburn , the Very Rev . Sir William Cockbura , Sir Henry Stracey , Sir J . M . Burgoyno , Sir Mat- . thew Dodsworth , Sir Samuel Stirling of Glprat , Sir Henry Fitzhcrbert , Sir Philip Crampton , Sir E . N . Buxton , Sir Charles Ogle ( Admiral of the Fleet ) , Sir John Key , Sir Charles Abney Hastings , Sir Qfllcy P . Wakeman , Sir Charles des Voeux * Sir Henry J . Caklwcll , Sir Robert Preston , Sir T . W . Blomeiickl , Sir Joseph Bailey , Sir J . S . Mackenzie , Sir A . de Capell Brooke , Sir . " j . Musgrave , Sir II . J . Lambert , and Sir Anthony Walden ; Of the above 32 , the baronetcitis of Dunlop , Dukinfield , and Hastings have become extinct . The following Knights have also paid the debt of nature : —Sir J . II . Coode , Sir Eaton . S . Travers , Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy , Sir William II . Mnule , Sir W . H . Pierson , Sir Ralph Darling , the Right Hon . Sir John Dodson , Sir Thomas Mansell , Sir William Peel , Sir Thomas Hawker , Sir Frederick Ash worth , Sir Charles Felix Smith , Sir Henry Willock , Sir George Rich , the Hon . Sir Edward . Butler , Sir John Potter , Sir William Reid , Sir Randolph T . Routh , Sir Alexander P . Green , Sir Belford II . Wilson , . and Sir William Lyon ? , in all 21 . The House of Commons has lost ( besides Sir J . Bailey , Sir F .. N . Buxton , arid Sir John Potter , alreedy mentioned ^ only two of its members , Mr . M . Williams , M . P . for West Cornwall ; arid Mr . William Hackblock , M . P . for Reigate . Besides the above , the aristocracy have to lament the -r loss of Lord Charles WeUesley , Lord Proby , the Marchioness of Westriieath , the Countess of Cardiyan , the Countess of Clanw . illiam , the Countess of Wilton , the Hon . and Rev . C . G . Perceval , the Countess of Rpsslyn , and the heirs apparent to the titles of Torrington , Iio'iham , Rendlesham , and Molesworth . Oxford MiDtxtE Ci ^ vss Examinations . —The University has accepted Gloucester as a local centre for the ensuing year , and a committee is being formed for the purpose of carryiug put the necessary arrangements . The Rev . Hugh Fowler has accepted the ofiice of honorary secretary . —Cheltenham Examiner . Crowding at Tmeatjres . —Having lived abroad almost all my life 1 think I can point out to your readerj how theatres are managed , and ( in thirty years' residence at Measma , Palermo , Naples , and other towns m Italy ) I never heard of any accidents , or saw any elbowing through the crowd at the doora . Theatres in , Italy and Sicily , are conducted differently tp an English plan—viz . the box-office is open daily from 1 ) a . m . till 9 i » . wt ., and later , and aiiy person desirous of going to tho performance hns only to secui-e his seat or seats before hand , be they in the boxes , pit , & c . All seats arc numbered , consequently there is no need for elbowing one rf way through tho crowd , for the possessor of his ticket has a cla im to his seat any time of tho night he may think prpper or convenient to go . But tho managers of tho English theatres oaro more for their pockets , not wishing to have the seats numbered—in other words limited—and the inevitable conaequenee ia that people have to wait . for hours behind-tho doora of tho theatres to secure , at tho risk . of their lives , the best places . . Let an experiment bo made in some . of > the theatres , and let i them bo conducted on the Italian system , tho example will soon bo ; followed by all the managers of tho thcatroa in England . —Letter in the Daily Newt . Thus Palace ov Wisstohnstku . — -Tho matchless crypt under old-St . Stephen ' s Chapel , the only part of tho Old Palace which now exists , » ia far advanced towards complete restoration . It is now lit with gas , and workmen . are busily engaged restoring its richly carved bosses ana groined roof , and replacing tho polished columns ot Purbqek mnrblo which have boon defaced and fluuiy misused in centuries bygone . Tho crypt will onoo more bo usod os a place of worship for the officers and unctlonarles of both Hpuses 5 and to fchib end every mlnuco detail of tho original structure ib being carefully rostoreu . Its seven pointed windows are already complexly restored , and will soon bo Allod in , as they wore bororo the Revolution , with stained glass , representing p » s < jagca hi the llfo ' of St . Stephen . Vhe crypt , wnon restored , promises to bo ono of tho most beautiful , a » it Is alr ^/ one of the moat ancient and interesting , portlo »»» oi mo now palaco . . WwawimsTKu A »» ky Tho Sunday evening e ° » vico r ! at Wostralnntor Abboy will recommence on »«*» " » ' . next ( to-morrow ) , whom the aormon will bo nrcaoueu l > y tho Dean of Westminster ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 1, 1859, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01011859/page/10/
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