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to him , signed by the principal members of the legal profession . The late member for St . Albans died without signing the deed transferring the new churches at Kingston ana St . Albans , as well as Prior-park , near Bath , to the Cardinal . The delay is said to have been caused by the Cardinal ' s objecting to Mr . Raphael naming the clergyman , and the result is that he has lost about £ 70 , 000 worth of property . Mr . Raphael ' s sister died on Sunday , so that his nephew comes in for all . The personal property has been sworn at £ 250 , 000 , and the 'lauded property is estimated at a larger figure . Accounts from East Cape , Behring ' s Straits , of the 10 th of August , received vid the United States , do not communicate any tidings of Sir J . Franklin , or her Majesty ' s ships Enterprize and Investigator .
Accounts from the Sandwich Islands , dated October 19 , announce the arrival of her Majesty ' s ship Herald , Captain Kellett , on the 16 th , from Behring's Straits , after a vain search for the expedition under Captain ColHnson . Unhappily , the Herald brings no tidings of Sir John Franklin ; and , as the season was fast closing , it is to be apprehended that for some time to come we must look to the northern coast of the North American continent in the Canadian route , and to Dr . Rae ' s and Lieutenant Noulens ' s exertions , for further tidings of the lost expedition . The case of Major Bartleman , of the Forty-fourth Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry , who was recently tried by a court-martial , on charges arising out of his disgraceful conduct toward Lieuteuant and Mrs . Shelton , has ended in his being cashiered .
A vacancy is occasioned among the elder brethren of the corporation of the Trinity-house by the demise of Captain Aaron Chapman , the senior of the brethren , having been elected as far back as 1809 . Captain Chapman died on Saturday last , at his residence at Highburypark , in his eightieth year . The deceased gentleman was long known and highly esteemed in the city of London , and in four successive Parliaments since the Reform Bill represented the borough of Whitby in the House of Commons . Mr . J . W . Gilbart , the general manager of the London and Westminster Bank , has offered a prize of one hundred guineas to the author of the best essay showing in what way any of the articles collected at the Industrial Exhibition can be rendered especially serviceable to the interests of practical banking , whether in the shape of office improvements , fittings , or otherwise .
The death of Mr . David Webster Osbaldiston , the wellknown theatrical manager , took place on Sunday morning , at twenty minutes after one , at his residence , Acrelane , Brixton . He was fifty-six or fiftytseven years of age—and besides sustaining the leading characters at most of the principal London and provincial theatres , he has held the reir . s of management of the Surrey , Sadler ' s Wells , Covent Garden , and City of London Theatres . At the lime of his decease he was lessee of the Victoria Theatre , which he opened on Easter Monday , 1841 . The proprietor of the Star and Garter , at Richmond , contradicts the statement that that hotel has been taken by the Emperor of Russia . He is wise to do so . Such a rumour would not add much to the popularity of the Star and Garter .
Mr . Alfred Graham , one of the surgeons of the Cunard line of steamera , arrived in Liverpool on Saturday evening , in the Europa , from Boston , being the seventeenth trip across the Atlantic winch that gentleman has made during the current year . The total distance sailed is more than 50 , 000 miles , equal to twice round the globe . This , wo believe has never been surpassed ; if it has ever been accomplished before is doubtful .
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The Duchess of Angouleme ariived at Venice on the 22 nd ultimo . She has travelled under the name of the Countess de Marries , and is to pass the winter in that city , in the hotel of tae Duke de Bordeaux . The young wife of the Spanish King Consort ' s brother ( Don ilenry ) has arrived in Madrid , and has been very kindly received by the royal family . The object of her coming ia to induce the government to permit her husband ' s return to Madrid , now that all political difficulties concerning him are at an end . Don Ilenry is residing at TouIouhc , where he is acting the Lothario ia public with a " fair mischief , " a native of that city . It is with a view of getting her fiitliless husband out of French temptations that his wife lias applied to the ministry to authorize his return .
The artists and artisans of Munich have made a present to King Louis of Bavaria , as a lasting sign of their gratitude and acknowledgment of his merits in the cultivation of the fine and industiial arts . The present of the artists is an Album , twenty-six inches wide , twenty inches high , and seven and a half inches thick ; it is bound in dark red velvet , and decorated with clasps , ornaments , and husHO-relievos , ia gilded bronze , ia the Gothic style of the fifteenth century . Ia the middle of the cover is a large medallion , encircled with brilliants , and filled with a baHuo-relie . vo , representing the King surrounded by his artists . The interior contains a collection of 177 drawings , water cnlotirn , and oil paiutingn , executed by artists in Munich , Dresden , Berlin , Dusseldorf , Stuttgardt , itc , ho that , the- Album , indeed , appears an a present , of all the German artintH .
The Elector of Hchho CaHHel returned to his capital on the 2 (! th ultimo , with all the pomp mid circumstance of military ' ceremony . The transaction , to quote the words of ihw Dontacho Zcitunij . " was pervaded by ua indescribable frlootn and discomfort . The populace was uilfiit . and indifferent ; the troopa wore discontented and moody , for they hud been riuuelied to the 1 'ViedrichH Flatz at a very early hour ia the morning , where they were kept drawn up in columns and exposed to all the inclemency of a nnow ntoriii mixed with drizzling rain . " Mont of the higher functioiuii icn were anMe « ubletl in the Paluoe to receive the Elector , by whom they " woro greeted with gieut condescension . " A decree of Count Leiuiiu / i'ii , obliging all citizens to keep within their
houses after nine o ' clock , and shutting up all thepublic houses at that hour , had given great offence . He has since incurred still more opprobrium by prohibiting every meeting , and all further action of the provincial assemblies , under the threat of proclaiming martial law . The Journal des Ddbata reports that Norway has lost the most distinguished of her philologists in the person of M . Christian Lauritz Sverdrup , who had died in his seventy-ninth year . M . Sverdrup has occupied the chair of philology at the University of Christiana since the foundation of that establishment by Frederick VI ., King of Denmark , in 1808 .
The celebrated Prussian sculptor , Wolff , who is well known in England from having executed , besides many classic groups , some busts of the Royal Family , and a statue of Prince Albert as a Greek warrior , has just completed an exquisite figure of Paris . His four statues , personifying the seasons , have been purchased by an English amateur . Mr . Gibson is commencing the models of two very important works—Queen Victoria on her throne between two allegorical figures , representing Justice and Clemency , for the House of Lords ; and the colossal statue of Sir Robert Peel . The American journals have set up a claim for the honour of the authorship of Juniui , on behalf of General Lee , and assert that he had privately avowed himself to be the author .
Jenny Lind has reached Washington , and given her first concert , which was crowded to excess , and attended by the President and all the notabilities . She visited the Senate Chamber for about five minutes , but withdrew in consequence of the excitement which arose on her appearance . Jenny was eminently successful at Baltimore , the enthusiasm of the public in no wise abating . Large preparations have been made for her at Havanna , where a very sumptuous residence has been taken for her . A French paper states that the University of Heidelberg is about to confer the degree of Doctor of Theology on Mr . J . W . Pennington , a black Catholic priest at New York . Mr . Pennington is said to be the first negro who has ever received scholastic honours at a European university . He is reported to be the author of several works on theology .
The Paris correspondent of the-2 Vew York Herald , gives the following description of an English lady : — " Among the most distinguished ladies who have their season box at the Italian Opera , I will mention in the first rank Lady Aylesbury , an eccentric person , who is renowned for the luxury of her style of dressing all over the city among the milliners , dressmakers , & c . This lady is aboutforty-fiveor fifty years old , but still bien conserved for her age , and her monomania is to buy a dozen of every Article she desires for her toilet . Thus , for instance , she buys at once twelve dresses of satin , twelve velvet bonnets , twelve Cashmere shawls , and so forth . She renews her wardrobe at the beginning of every season . A week ago , having remarked that the Marchioness of Las Marismas wore a mantilla of a new fashion , short as a gentleman's waistcoat , made of white watered silk , and trimmed with gold , she sent for her dressmaker , and ordered of her the ' usual' dozen . "
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The Courrier de Lyons states that between midnight and one a . m . of the 25 th ultimo , at the time the mass of Christmas was being celebrated in the churches , in the presence of a great number of people , about thirty police agents surrounded a cafe , penetrated into the interior , and arrested about twenty persons who were juet sitting down to enjoy a copious banquet , which is customary ou that night , and known by the name of reveillon , but which on this occasion , according to the information received by the police , was to serve as an excuse for a meeting of a very different character . Although certain roads in the Cantal , the Dordogne , the Haute Garonne , and the Hautes Pyrenees , and in the neighbourhood of Limoges , are interrupted in eonsequence of heavy falls of enow , the department of the north enjoys a mild temperature singularly in contrast with that of ordinary winters .
The statue of Liberty , which gained the firBt prize in 1848 , and which is the work of M . Sortoux , was placed b y the jury in the centre of the great room of the Exhibition of the Works of Living Artists previous to its opening . On Saturday the police entered and carried away the statue . The jury of artists have drawn up a formal protest . A letter from Rome in the Messagere Modencse , states that the Papal government has determined to order all naked Btatues in the churches to be covered , including the little marble angels that have for ages been exposed to the public gaze , and the Genius at the tomb of Clement , by Canova . By the same account , paintings are likely to undergo the same ordoal .
The Neapolitan government is la a state of great alarm , on account of a considerable number of " addresses , " which are supposed to emanate from Mazzini , having entered the kingdom . Home arrests have taken place on this account , and the activity of the police is greater than ever . Letters from Bologna state that , on the 18 th ultimo , a party of Austrian HoldieiH had a skirmish with nine banditti , headed by 11 1 ' asnatorc himself . A soldier was killed and another wounded in the contest ; the b uxlitli were , however , put to flight after the Ions of one man , on wlio . se bod y articles of vttlue were found . A'Leghorn letter of the 21 th-ultimo , announccH the arrival there of a larjre number <» f HivIhn recruits , on their way to Naples . UpivardN of 2000 are « aid to have paused in this course of the last month ,
1 he Austrian AmbuKHudnr at I * rankfort hus announced to the Klcctoral Minister that , a lli \ shiun named Becker in acting uh chief of a revolutionary association in Switzerland with 3000 mcmluTH , the ooimuitlee of which funmht ' H them with ptinnportH , which are not onl y recognized by tlio police of Geneva , Freiburg , uad Neufchatcl , but receive the official visa in order to give them authority in other cantons .
Letters from Vienna of the 29 th ultimo state that Aus tria and Prussia had resolved to march against Holstein , and that the Federal troops would immediately pas * through the Prussian territories for that purpose . The accounts from Berlin of the 30 th ultimo confirm this fact . American visitors to the Great Exhibition are about to be conveyed to our shores at a very commodious and eeonomical rate . Merchant vessels , which have accommodation for sixty passengers , are to take them the entire journey from America and back , with firBt-claes accommodation while on board , for £ 20 , allowing them sis weeks to remain in England . Another project , of a private kind , has been the engagement of a first-rate vessel
by 100 gentlemen , who have subscribed among themselves the sum of 25 , 000 dollars ( £ 6000 ) for its expenses , and who propose visiting London , and making the vessel their home , in which to receive visits , give parties , & o . » during their stay amon g us . The Stulgardt Anzeiger contains a royal ordinance against the press . The chief clauses of this ordinance are : —Every paper or publication must be signed by the editor , who must be a citizen , of twenty-five years of age at least , and have his permanent residence in the country . Any one who has been condemned to any punishment cannot be an editor . After any penal sentence has been passed on an editor as such , he cannot again assume editorial functions before the expiration of six months .
M . George Marius Heyn , » a merchant of Nuremburg , appeared on the 21 st ultimo , before the Court of Assize of that city , to take his trial , on a charge of having raised and equipped a corps of sixty men , and sent them co Schleswig Holstein , to assist in the insurrection against the King of Denmark . The facts were proved , and even admitted by the prisoner , who declared that he had been actuated by a desire to incorporate two rich and fertile countries with Germany . The court unanimously returned a verdict of guilty , and , in virtue of the law of 1697 , which awards the penalty of death against any Bavarian giving assistance to a foreign power or authority without the permission of his Government , sentenced him to decapitation .
The Austrian General , Mensdorf-Pouilly , as federal commissary , has been charged to proceed with General Thurmer , the commissary appointed for Prussia , to Holstein , in order to endeavour to persuade the Staathalterschaft to disarm , before recurring to coercive measures . On the other hand , the news from Holstein is of a decidedly hostile character . A new and extensive series of promotions has been announced in the army . A considerable quantity of war material , with numbers of pontoons and wagons , are dailysenttowardshead-quartersatRendsburg , and it is affirmed that from 1500 to 2000 of the Prussian sub-officers and privates , recently called home in consequence of the order of mobilization , are reentering the Holstein army .
A sad story of the disasters of war is told in the German papers . A Holstein peasant , hearing that his son lay wounded in the military hospital , sought him out , and found that one of his arms had been amputated . Though grieved at the discovery , he sought consolation in saying , " Well , my boy , it is a sad loss , but not so hard for you as for one who depended on his hands for subsistence . " "Ah , father , " replied the son , " that ' s not the worst of it ! " whereupon , lifting the coverlet , ho showed that both his legs were gone , at which eight the old man fell down dead , and the younger one only survived the shock a few minutes .
At the meeting of the Spanish deputies , on the 23 rd ultimo , Puiz , one of the Catalonian deputies , enquired why the new theatre was called the Royal Theatre , and whether the Government had anything to do with the management of it . The Minister of the Home Department said that everything relative to the theatre would be explained when the estimates for the Home department were examined . The Queen is 6 aid to have put 40 , 000 dollars of her private property at the disposal of the Home department for the expenses of the opera , at which the King Consort and Queen Christina are very much displeased .
Mr . Lovi , an English engineer , inventor of a diving machine , by which a person can remain several hours under water , at a great depth , has been called from Scio , ia order to try his machine in the port of Constantinople , at the place where the Neiri-Chcvket sunk . He found the vessel at the depth of about twenty fathoms , deeply embedded in the sand . The fore part lay split open , and her boats overturned on the dock , which was covered wipt remnants of the rigging . It is expected that ho wiJJ ^ e appointed to raise us much of the vessel and stores M oau be recovered . . ¦
An Indian officer who has recently come home states that Cairo is extremely full of Italian emigrants , many men of high rank , who are obliged to perform the most menial offices for the means of living They were recently watching the negotiations of Austria ami Prussia with a good deal of interest , and had decided on returning to Italy the instant a war should be declured . The educational cause is making rapid progress both at Bombay und Calcutta . Suhooltl are rising in all directions , and under the most influential auspices , for the
improvement of the pooler Classen . The reports from China relating to the rebellion are wry contradictory ; nothing soeuid certain concerning the aotH or intentions of tho rebels , except that they levy a tnx on the tea-boats and other produce of the , interior on itn way to tho cuhUuuh . It is , however , Minted , and generally believed , that the Commissioner Sou had attempted to elleet a pacification-by distributing money ( 1 ()() , ()()() dollar **) unionist them , and that 3000 troops ho had Heiit against the inaurgentH had fraternized wilU them .
A npiritcd meeting has been held in New York by the friuiidii of cheap pontage . Resolutions woro adopted urging an immediate and general action in Congress In favour of the bill reported at the last session , providing for a uniform rate of two cents , pre-paid on letters , and one cent , on newspapers .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 4, 1851, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04011851/page/8/
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