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      Intelligence.] The Le Adeb. 705

      Intelligence . ] THE LE ADEB . 705

      From Tuesday's Gazette. Bankruptcy Annul...

      FROM TUESDAY'S GAZETTE . BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED . John M'Lachlan , Spital-square , Norton-folgate , auctioneer . BANKRUPTS . James Long , juri .,. Witney , builder , Bernhard Katzenstein , King William-street , City , merchant . Edwin Dunkin Lyon , Castle-street ^ Oxford-street , pianoforte manufacturer . William Robert Crozier and Abraham Home , Leadenhall-street , ship brokers . William Rant Redgrave , Norwich , chemist , and Surlingham , manufacturing chemist . Frederick Mayston , Huddersfield , grocer . Thomas Whitwell , Wanstea . d , Essex , licensed victualler . George Corbettj Shotteswell , Warwickshire , cattle salesman . : ¦ ¦ Thomas Marshall Booth , Sutton St . James , Lincolnshire , steam thrashing machincman . Stephen Chapman Silcox , Trowbridge , Wiltshire , carpenter . John James , St . Just , Cornwall , seedsman . Edward Edwards , Wrexham , Flintshire , ironmaster . William Henry Brown , Sheffield , steel roller Edmund Topham , Sheffield and Nottingham , machinist . . Friday , June 3 . BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED . Richard Blackburn , London-wall , City , tailor and draper . BANKRUPTS . James Long , jun ., Witney , Oxfordshire , builder . James Charles Parsons , Beaumaris , Anglesea , publican . Thomas Redshaw and John Redshaw , Bourn , Lincolnshire , saddlers . William Clarke ,. Great Stantnore , Middlesex , licensed victualler . George Terry , Leeds , tinner and brazier . John Bowling and James Lane , Batley , Yorkshire , woollen manufacturers . William Parkinson , Dewsbury , Yorkshire , carpet manufacturer . ' ¦ ¦ . ' Cuthbert Anthony Clark , Newgate-street , City , silk merchant . . Charles Robert Thompson and -Frederick Lucas , Old Broad-street , East India agents . William Lawrence Gomme and John Thomas Byron , Hammersmith , auctioneers . John Minbtt , Lower Fazeley-street , Birmingham , victualler . Alfred Elphick , East Moulsey , Surrey , butcher . SCOTCH UANKRUPTS . James M Arthur , Dumbarton , spirit dealer . Alexander Mackay , Crohiarty , surgeon . John Spence , Glasgow , tea merchant . Donald M'Lellan , Glasgow , ironmonger .

      Pacts And Scraps.

      PACTS AND SCRAPS .

      Viscount And Viscountness Stratford (\A ...

      Viscount and Viscountness Stratford (\ a Tlertcliflfe have arrived at Grosvenor-square from the Continent . '¦ ,.-, Cardinal I ) u Font , Archbishop of Bourges , died on Thursday morning in his palace at Bourges . His Eminence was GO years of age . Mr . Willis , in tlio Homo Journal , says ot the late Lady Morgan , that her " false front , " which was invariably a little askew , added acuriously expressive emphasis to her witticisms . Her costume , and especially her head-dress , seemed always an intentional-drollery . No chance observer would have taken her . as dressed for a dinner party , for anything but an Irish washerwoman .

      _ , The Head Mastership of King Edward VJ . 'h Grammar School , Norwich , has been conferred upon the Rev . Augustus Jessopp , M . A ., of St . John ' s Collego , Qansbridgo , lato Master of Jlelston Grammar School . Bayard Taylor is about to evect a residence on tho Brandywiiio , in Chester county , Pennsylvania , near tho scenes of his boyhood , and where his parents still reside . ,..,., < i Tho Duchi'Sri-Dowager of Hamilton expired in Portman square , on Friday . fcShe was tho second daughter of William Boekford , of Fonthill Abbey , ninth of Iluntlwho

      The mackarel fishery on the eastern coast has up to the present time been singularly unprofitable . Although the season is advancing , and a considerable number of boats have been sent out , the results obtained have been very discouraging . Two Russian frigates passed Great Yarmouth one day last week , holding a course at some distance from the shore . The frigates were heavily armed , and were going south . Three new trustees have been added to the National Portrait Gallery Commission ; namely , Sir George Cornewall Lewis , the Bishop of Oxford , and Mr . William Stirling , M . P .

      The connexion by water of the heart of the Australian continent with Europe is now in course of accomplishment . The wool brought down the Darling and the Murray has been placed on board the Arabella for London . The cargo from Mount Murchison will consequently be conveyed by an uninterrupted line of water communication to its destination iii the London Docks . The second ball of the " original subscription" of Almack ' s took place last week at Willis ' s Rooms , and was attended \> y a brilliant circle of fashionable company . There were present—the Duchess of Richmond , the Countess of Sefton , Lady Aveland , and lady Egerton , with large parties . The company present numbered 350 persons . Coote ' s full orchestra was in attendance .

      " A correspondent in Greece , " says the Pays , " assures us that at a farewell dinner given at Athens to the Grand Duke Constantino , two toasts excited the loudest applause . They were , ' To the success of the allied armies ! ' and To the alliance of France and Russia ! ' " The Turin journals mention that several letters addressed to officers in the Austrian army have arrived at the post-office of that city . The Sardinian Government has caused them to be delivered to Count Brossier de St . Simon , the Prussian Minister at the Sardinian court , begging him to forward them to their destination . , Alice McAllister , a married woman of dissipated appearance ,: has been committed by the Liverpool magistrates on a cliaxge of wilful murder , the victim being a neighbour , named Sarah Evans , whom , during some domestic brawl , McAHstef had struck over the temple with a chimney ornament .

      There lies off' the battery at N cw York a Glasgow yacht of about 200 tons , the St . Ursula , which crossed the Atlantic at this stormy season of the year , with the o-wner ( Mr . Tennent ) , . ' his . three nieces , and two Scotch gentlemen , as passengers . She left the Clyde oh the loth of April , and arrived in New York on the evening of Sunday , the 1 . 5 th ulti The first combined rehearsal of the children intended to take part in the Choral Festival at the Crystal Palace on the 11 th proximo , took place at Exeter Hall this day week , under the direction of Mr . G . W . Martin . The hall was completely filled with the voutliful executants . On Saturday evening the Society of Arts held a reception at the M-useum 6 f South Kensington , when the extensive galleries were thrown open to the invited public .

      A Te Deum was sung last Sunday at the various Roman Catholic places of worship in tho metropolis , in thanksgiving tor the suppression of the Indian mutiny . Tho Pope has also directed that Litanies shall be said in belialf of peace ; and to all the faithful who take part hi the services an indulgence is granted . Mr . Frceborn , many years the liritish Consul in Rome , died on tho 23 rd ult . The business ot tho Consulate is conducted temporarily by Mr . Ercole , who has boen employed in tho office since 1831 , and has assisted Mr . Frccborn in stormy times when the British ^ onsulato was able to render important sorvico to those who were compromised by political events . . _ . . two

      In Munich the German feeling has been roused to the institution of a committee for the reform of male and female attire , on the principle , of pure Teuton taste , and the extermination of Gallic fashions . The head man of this patriotic movement is no less than Wilhelm Kaulbacht one of the greatest artists of the age . What a profitable pfofession that of tailor is in an enthusiastic nation !¦ A new journal is about to be established in Paris by M . Gueroult , the Socialist ex-editor of the Presse . It will bear the name of L'Ewope IVouvelle , a title suggestive somewhat of Icaria . . The Director-General of public instruction in Egypt has arrived in Paris to examine into the organisation of some of the educational establishments in France .

      The spirit of the Archdeacon of London s charge last Friday , was as follows : Dissent was more a political than a religious association , and when men combine to destroy the Church , what blame could attach to Churchmen if they combined to resist such an attempt ? He felt , sorry to be obliged to take part in a public movement , but when the clergy and laity asked him to sanction their consultations , he should betray a sacred cause if he did not respond cheerfully to their request , lie trusted that other archdeacons would follow the example , for there was not'now too much truth in the anticipation , 'No Established Church , no Throne . '"

      Frederick Sehrader , a German , lias shot himself , and died in King ' s College Hospital last week .. He had been coiirtiiig a girl in Lamb ' s Conduit-street , and had made preparations for the wedding , when she refused to fulfil her promise to .-marry him . lie shot himself in the street outside the house where she lived : M . Miani ' s expedition in search of the sources . the Nile , was nearly broken up at Cairo . Several persons belonging to it gave up the journey , and raised obstacles . M . Miani has-received the arms which were furnished by order of the Emperor . The expeditlition was to leave Cairo on the 12 th of May for Assan ; The members were full of confidence . At Burnley , the-Rev . E . A . Verity preached a sermon in favour of the operatives on strike at Padiham . At the close of his sermon he said he had h « f > n informed that it was their intention to have a

      collection . The employers might say that he was actuated by pecuniary motives ; buf those who had left his . church had at the same time left his debts , amounting to £ 13 ; and they might collect to clear that debt away , as it embarrassed him . Those in favour of a collection might hold up their hands . The whole congregation held up their hands . A great many arrests have been made at Civita Vecchia by tlie Papal police . Among the persons arrested were M . Ciro Lapi , a judge of the local tribunal , and Grachetti , a pilot , and member of the Legion of Honour . General Guyon subsequently ordered them to be released . Up to the present nearly 20 , 000 Z . has been received for the sale of tickets for ^ ho Handel Festival at the Crystal Palace , and each day witnesses largo additions to tins sura .

      It is worthy of notice faat the Italian generals who have prominently distinguished themselves in the present campaign are not natives of Piedmont . Cialilini and Ifunti are by birth Modencse . The eoahvliippers of the -port of London have been busily employed during the last few days on the river , at the advanced pay of ninepence per ton ; but the men still continue to moot to carry out their resolutions for tlie general organisation of the body who struck for an increase of wages about a week since . A letter received in Marseilles by the last Indian mail , nnnountfes that General d'Orgoni , generalissimo of the armies of the Birman empire , had arrived ut Rangopn , accompanied by a flotilla , which the Kmporor of that country had sent out to meet him . Tho action of last Tuesday derives additional interest from the circumstance of its having haun fought on tlie anniversary of a brilliant victory , that of Golta , gained by Charles Albert over immense odds , on tho 31 st May , 18-18 . Miss Florence ) Nightingale id in a precarious stato of health , but tho Adwrtmir contradicts the report of her having entered a convent . Tho address of the Legislature , inviting her Majesty to be present at the opening of the Victoria ' liridgo in October next , will bo conveyed to London by the hands of Mr . Speaker Smith , who is to wail by tho present Btownor . The I ' rinccHH do Holms , naa Uonaparte Wyse , says a letter from Chumbcry , proposes to continue tills year thu publication called " Matinees d'Aix los HaJiifl , " wliloli fiho ooinman . ccd last year $ but tho government hna given orders that flho nhnll not bo allowed to publish anything whatever In tho Sarr dinlaii States .

      Tlia Bishop of London intends holding special confirmations in the Metropolis , on Sunda y s , during tho present summer , for tho benefit of all young persons who aro unable to attend to bo confirmed on other days , on Juno 20 , at St . Anne's , Soho -, and on July ' ** at Christ church , Newgatestreet . Tho following is the tariff of charges for tho commissionaires of tho Pensioner ' s Kmpjoymont Society . By distit-noo . —2 d . half a mile , or under ; 3 d . ono milo or over half a mile . Uy tlmo . - ~ Oil . per hour , or 2 d . quarter of an hour . When takon by time , tlio commissionaire is to tlo two miles and a half each hour , if walking . By clay of eight hours , 29 . fld . * half-day is . Cd . Calling carriages , Id . No return fare , oxcopt when omnloyed . _

      . . . ... ... Dr . McNeile wiih thu defendant , at the Liverpool County Court , in an action brought by a discarded Hchoqjinastor , named Gilpln , who suod the liov . Doctor , 'us one of tlfo school commit too of St . Paul ' s , for tho reoovory of certain arrears of salary . 1 'ho court decided ngainst tho claim .

      by the sister of the Marquis y , died in her confinement . She married in 1810 the tenth Duke of Hamilton . Lord lladdo has erected a drinking fountain near Oliosterflold ' s-wall , Ulucklioath . This will indocd bo a boon to many a " { hirsty soul " visiting our splendid heath . Wo would suggest to tho Commissioners of the Itoyal Hospital tho propriety of creating another fountain in Greenwich Park , near their well-known reservoir . About 500 Mprmonfl , who arrived at New York from Europe , left on tho ovonlng of tho lflth ult ., < for the Wc « t , by tho Albany and tho Michigan Central Railroad .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), June 4, 1859, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04061859/page/21/