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A morning iournal describes the Republic...
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to send the productions of their industry to be sold here , in rivalry of our own , free of duty upon most if not upon the whole of them , whilst they utterly repudiate a similar free admission of English manufactures into their territories . " [ This is either a very gross misconception of the project , or worse : the specimens will be admitted duty free , in bond , for exhibition only . ] The Arctic expedition , in search of Sir John Franklin , under the command of Captain Austin , is to sail from Greenhithe this day ( Saturday ) . Sir James Boss and Captain Parry , who have visited the ships , declare that no Arctic expedition was ever so well fitted out as Captain Austin ' s is . Captain Sir John Boss s expedition
in search of Sir John Franklin is now provided for by subscriptions within £ 400 . Lady Franklin s expedition , under the direction of Commander Codnngton . fcorsyth , is also in active preparation . Lady Franklin has subscribed £ 1000 towards the fund for that purpose . The American expedition , consisting of two pmall vessels , is also nearly completed ; so that the whole of the four expeditions on this sacred mission will soon be on the way to the Polar regions . . The contest at Lymington has resulted in the return of the free trade and financial reform candidate . The numbers polled were—Hutchins , 121 , Stewart , 103 . Mr .
Stewart resigned at about three p . m . The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway was held on Monday at the London Tavern . From the report read it appears that the engineering staff of the company had reached Bombay in February ; and , when the accounts were despatched by the last Indian mail , nine miles of the line had been staked out , and was ready to be proceeded with . Should the East India Company do what it can now to accelerate the progress of this undertaking , it is believed that the line will be completed considerably within the time specified , at an expense a good deal below the
original estimate . The Art-Union of London held its fourteenth annual meeting , at Drury Lane Theatre , on Tuesday , the Duke of Cambridge in the chair . The Council reported subscriptions for 1850 , to the amount of £ 11 , 180 8 s . Meetings have been held in London , during the week , of the British and Foreign Bible Society , the Colonial Church Society , the Church Missionary Society , the Wesley an Missionary Society , the Christian Young Men ' s Association , the Horticultural Society , the General Domestic Servant ' s Benevolent Institution , the Irish Society , the Camden Society , and the Sunday School Union . Several Irish estates were sold on Tuesday before the Encumbered Estates Commissioners . In several cases they did not bring more than ten years purchase .
The Nation states that the tenant conference will be held in Dublin in the latter end of May , when lt the tenant societies of the four provinces will have an opportunity of comparing their views , and taking measures together . " Letters , written in London on Friday evening , were delivered in Dublin on Saturday forenoon , between eleven and twelve o ' clock , affording time for answers to b & forwarded by the Holy head mail leaving Kingston at one p . m . -. . ....
_ . _ , ., , _ ,, __ , In all the Roman Catholic dioceses throughout Ireland a To Deum has been ordered by the respective Bishops , in thanksgiving for the safe restoration of his Holiness the Pope to his dominions . The tornado which committed such devastation in Dublin on Saturday week , appears to have visited the North of Scotland also . The Inverness Courier states that no fewer than ten thousand trees were uprooted in Strathspey by the gale of that evening .
A few nights ago a threatening notice was posted on the house-dnor of Timothy Doonican , a farmer residing near Birr . The notice bore a sketch of a coffin , a case of pistols , and a blunderbuss , and intimated that , if any person attempted to take the widow Fern ' s land , they might be prepared to meet their doom ere long . The cholera , it is said , has made its appearance at Castlecomer , in the county of Kilkenny , and in Bagenalstown , in the adjoining county of Carlow . In the former locality there have been five cases , three of which have proved fatal , one recovered , and one still under treatment . In the latter there have been six cases , two of ¦ which resulted in death , the remainder being under treatment .
The pressure of pauperism in Ireland appears to be considerably less than it was last year . In Cork the poor-rate recently levied is only one shilling in the pound , instead of four shillings or five shillings during the fiiin iue . Mr . George Mathewa , a confidential clerk in Dublin Castle , to whose care the distribution of the Mcgium Donutn and of other trust funds had been committed , is naid to bo a defaulter to the amount of £ 3000 . It is stated that another person , connected with a different department , is under suspension , ponding an investigation of accounts .
The Lostwithiel powder-works , at Herod ' s Foot , five miles wostof Liakeanl , exploded at nine o ' clock on Friday night , the 26 th ultimo . There were throe or four tons of gunpowder in store , which went off in three different explosions . The buildings were blown to pieces , and two men killed . On Sunday morning the greater part of the premises of Messrs . Caird and Co ., engineers , Arthur-street , Cartsilyke , was laid waste by ( ire . The amount of dama *^ ia estimated at from £ 30 , 000 to £ 35 , 000 , and the promises were but partially insured .
At a recent mooting of tho guardians of the Wilton union it wus unanimously agreed that the salaries of all officers receiving loss than £ 70 per annum should he reduced 7 . J por cent ., and of those above that amount 10 per cent . The guardians of tho Tiabury union some time sinoe cume to a resolution to roduce tho salaries of all tho officers of that establishment 15 per rent ., but the Poorlaw hoard have refused to sanction such reduotion .
The suit of Mra . Lakin against her husband for restitution of conjugal rights was decided in the Court ^ Arches on Tuesday . The couple were married lnlSdb , and have had six children . In October last Mr . Lakin left his wife , and since that time they have lived separate . No defence was made on the part of the husband . The Court decreed that Mr . Lakin must take his wife home and treat her with conjugal affection , , Mr . David Barclay , the late member for Sunderland , narrowly escaped drowning , on Saturday week . He lives at Eastwick-park , near Leatherhead , m Surrey On that day the neighbourhood of Dorkmg was visited by a terrific Btorm , during which Mr . Barclay was riding to the hnn « e of his brother . Mr . Charles Barclay , at
Buryhill . At one end of Milton-court Pond , which supplies an overshot wheel below , the roaring of the rapid current through the floodgate frightened Mr . Barclay ' s pony , and , backing towards the pond , the pony and its rider were precipitated into a depth of from twelve to fourteen feet of water , with a strong current towards the floodgates . A youth , about eighteen years of age , saw the fall , instantly ran to the spot , and succeeded in holding Mr . Barclay by the hair till some other persons came to his assistance . By their exertions Mr . Barclay was brought safe to the bank , and , after a few hours rest , he was so far recovered as to be able to endure removal to his brother ' s residence . . , . . A young woman threw herself into the basin at CharinR . cross , on Tuesday evening , but was taken out had
before life was extinct . She said she oeen periorraing the rite of baptism according to her belief , —by immersion ; she being a Baptist . From her incoherent exclamations it appeared that she had become mad on the subject of religion . „ , „ w •»«¦ v . * J . H . Twizell , eldest son of Mr . Wawn , Member for South Shields , while fishing in the Tyne , on Saturday , fell into the water , in a fit of apoplexy , and was drowned . There is a very lucky house in Great Duke-street , at Newport , Monmouthshire , from which , during the past nine years , no less than ten young ladies , bearing no relationship to each other , have proceeded , on fine mornings , to the Hymeneal altar , with the men of their choice . We understand that numerous unmarried members of the delectable sex have been induced by their mammas to inquire for lodgings from the last " lucky lady . "—Monmouth Merlin .
. A draper in a town of Yorkshire has a placard in his window to the following effect : — " Woollen and linen goods , warranted free from cotton . " Mr . Ferrand's wool-gathering league has , no doubt , suggested the idea . We recollect a Mr . William Walker , mayor of Leicester , being knighted by George IV ., and the first document he signed afterwards was as follows : — " Sir William Walker , Night Mare . "— Shropshire Conservative . In the churchyard of Stanhope the following specimen of pure Latinity occurs , celebrating the erector of a perishable monument : —" Hie lapis possitus fuit ab unjeo ejusfilio . Georgio Dissentario Ministro . " —African Journal .
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A Morning Iournal Describes The Republic...
A morning iournal describes the Republican Party m France as 4 l that yelping Cerberus which has Liberty , Fraternity , and Equality upon its collar . " The Austrian Ministerial Council has resolved that the raising of the Rtate of siege of Vienna and Prague be postponed sine die . A Pcsth journal states that much excitement prevails among the Israelitish merchants , because , while no excise duties are required of the Christian merchants for import goods , those duties are rigorously enforced by the magistrates on those of the Israeiitish communion . The number of journals now published in the Austrian empire amount to 179—of which 92 are German , 50 Italian 28 Sclavonian , 7 Hungarian , and 2 Romaic .
, The prisoners convicted of participation in the murder of Counts Auerswald and Lichnowski have been sentenced—Ludwig to imprisonment for life in chains , Georg to twenty years of the same penalty , Pflug to five and a half years , Korber to six months , and Dietrich to one year ' s detention . The new English fog-signals are to be tried on the Vienna railways . During a fog these signals , which are about the size and thickness of a counter , are laid across
the line and instantly explode with the report of a cannon when brought into contact with the wheels of the locomotive . Travellers , therefore , as a sine qud non must he prepared to have nerves to encounter these fogsignals . The Prussian Government has placed the several Dissenting religious bodies of the kingdom under the law of March 11 , referring to the clubs and publio meetings . In virtue of this construction of the law , a police agent may be present at divine service , and interrupt the prayers or discourses when he thinks fit .
The National Council sitting at Berne has just decreed that the French monetary system shall be carried out in Switzerland . As the Council of the States had already voted it in December , this decree of the Federal Assembly now beeome 8 an obligatory law . In Marienwerder the old sentenoe of death by breaking alivp on the wheel , " from beneath , upwards , " has just bpen pronounced on a woman named Lempock , for the murder of her stepdaughter , a child five years of age . h
She deliberately buried her alive , thoug , as she says in her confession , " she resisted and shrieked dreadfully . " She tied the child ' s hands behind her , forced her into a hole , and covered her with the earth , even after she henrd the stifled cries of the victim . She told the neighbours the child had been sent to some relations . Neither on tho trial nor in the confession did the woman exhibit any signs of derangement . The sentence in the form pronounced is never carried into execution .
The publio gambling-houses have been reestablished at Wiesbaden . Tho Fran / c / ori Journal , one of the moderate papers , describes the state of Saxony a $ " very precarious for the new Government . " " Almost nine-tenths of the
Verona we read the decree of installation , signed with . Radetzky ' s own hand , whereby these worthies have the necessary localities assigned to them . Cardinal Schwartzenberg is most zealously interested in the matter , and dispenses the needful cash with a liberal hand . Their net is spread widely . Vienna has been omitted , probably to prevent the young men front coming into contention with its spiritual excitement . Nevertheless , their influence has been secured in the highest quarter ; the future father confessor of the Court is to be a Minister of the order of ,
Saxon nation belong to the democratic party , for the Saxon Government beeomes daily weaker and weaker and seems to be but a toy in the hands of Austria , or rather of the concealed Cabinet of Metternich . " The Erfurt session was closed on the 29 th of April . No time is fixed for the reassembling . The Cologne Gazette of the 1 st of May says , " What autocratic Austria did not venture to do under Metternieh , constitutional Austria has done publicly and officiallyviz ., recall the Jesuits . In the official journal of
the Jesuits . " The correspondent of the Daily News asserts that the crowd which welcomed the Pope on his entrance to Rome consisted of seven or eight thousand priests and monks , reinforced by the police , and as many thieves and vagabonds as they could muster . The people kept away . The people did not illuminate . «« This is the real truth ; all the rest is official mensonge . ' * The Morning Chronicle confirms this statement , and says the aversion to the Pope is so great that the people , when they see him approach , " run under doorways and into shops to avoid him . " . " Some disturbances have taken place in the Romagna , on the occasion of the fetes given in honour of the Pope ' s return to Rome . At Bologna several persons were arrested for the singular reason that they eried " Viva Pio IX ., " which is now considered an indication of revolutionary tendencies . The orthodox cry is " Viva il
Papa Radetzky has granted permission to the Jesuits to re- * turn to their homes in Venice and Verona , from which cities they were expelled in 1848 — Vienna paper . On April 18 . the Pope blessed the French army at Rome . A large , handsome balcony was erected in front of St . Peter ' s , and 10 , 000 French troops occupied the great square . The Pope appeared at the great doors of the church about half-past four o ' clock , and in an instant the whole of the army presented arms , kneeling on one knee , while the Castle of St . Angelo commenced a salute of 101 guns . When he stretched fcrth his hands , saying Benedictio Dei omnipotentis , % c , "thousands were quite overcome with emotion and several of the soldiers burst into tears . "
The municipality of Florence have refused to be present at the drawing of the lottery reestablished since the return of the Grand Duke . A Republican movement , says the Hamburg Free Press , has broken out in Iceland , and the Danish governor has been driven away . The maintenance of the commercial monopoly of Copenhagen , of which the Icelanders have long complained , is the cause of the outbreak . Two steamers have been sent with troops to chastise the insurgents . # . Information has reached Trieste of a rising against the Governor of Samos . The Divan was about to send a military force , under the command of a Pasha , to assist the authorities . . , I 'A vessel from New York has brought fifty-eight barrels of mutton as a portion of her cargo , the produce of the
United States . The seaport town of Laguayra has been destroyed by fire . Only two houses were left standing . The loss is estimated at two millions of dollars . The last ships from Rio de Janeiro bring melancholy accounts of the ravages of fever . The deaths were from 100 to 200 daily , and the utmost terror prevailed among all classes . In Cuba , American visitors are under the strictest surveillance , for fear of an invasion by a projected expedition . The military of the island is increased , and robberies and murders by some of the soldiery are not
uncommon . . A destructive flood was experienced in Toronto on the 3 rd of April , arising from the unusual quantity of rain . Many houses , bridges , & c . had been swept away . Famine and typhus are rendering the province of Murcia the Ireland of Spain . The island of Majorca is almost in as bad a condition . . An important discovery has been made in the neighbourhood of Erzeioum , of an extensive bed of coal , specimens of which have been distributed to the consular body in the locality . The province of Erzeroum has hitherto been without combustible materials , and the only fuel of the poor is the dried dung of the cattle . The country , though very productive , is excessively cold , and the thermometer descends as low as twenty-nve degrees below zero . The importance of this discovery mav be therefore readily appreciated , and is probably but
the prelude to other and more valuable ones . The three French Councils General of Agriculture , Manufactures , and Commerce recommend that , in conformity with the ministerial proposition , the provisions of the bill fixing at twelve hours the work per day in manufactories shall for the present be only applied to manufactories directed by a master holding a patent , ana occupying at least ten workmen or workwomen , lhe Council have also resolved that , from motives of humanity and morality , work shall henceforth be interdicted on Sundays and legal holidays , with , however , the exception of branches of trade and commerce in which suspension cannot be conveniently made . It was also resolved that the Hay ' s work of children of from eight to twelve years , shall be reduced to six hours a-day . A proposition that boys and girls , of from twelve to sixteen , not knowing how to read and write , shall also be employed six hours a day , was rejected after a brief discussion .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 4, 1850, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04051850/page/8/
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