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Buckingham Palace is about to be reveale...
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dinner to about fifty members of the Court of Common Council , and on the 9 th of April the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress will give a banquet in the Egyptian-hall to her Majesty's Ministers ( whoever they may be on that day ) and a number of peers and members of the House of Commons . „ ... , Sir Alexander Hood , the Protectionist member for West Somerset , died on Friday week at his town residence in Wigmore-street , aged 57 . He was nephew of the late Admiral Hood , and only son of the late Captain Alexander Hood , R . N ., who was slain on board the Marsat the capture of L'Hercule , 1798 .
, The Emperor of Russia has sent to the King of Prussia the chain of the Order of St . Andrew , in diamonds . The value of it is upwards of 1 , 000 , 000 thalers ( £ 150 , 000 ) . Two diamonds in the middle of the chain to which is suspended the decoration are alone worth 200 , 000 thalets . Mr . Thomas Russell , chairman of the bench of mag istrates of the St . Pancras division , died very suddenly on M onday last . He was proceeding down Little Georgestreet . Hampstead-road , about three o ' clock , and on .
reaching a greengrocer ' s shop in Little George-street , a short distance from St . Pancras Female Charity School , he begged permission of the owner to go to the closet , which was granted , but as he remained there a considerable time the shopkeeper went to see what had become of him , and found him there apparently lifeless . Medical aid was procured , but life was pronounced extinct . The immediate cause of death is supposed to have beer , from a sudden attack of spasmodic diarrhoea or cholera .
A royal decree in the Madrid Gazette of the 4 th relieves the Duke de Sotomayor from the post of Ambassador of the French . Republic , " on account , " itsays , " of reasons touching the reorganization of the diplomatic career , submitted to the Queen by the Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs , in conformity with the advice of the Council of Ministers . " The decree , however , declares in tbe usual form that the Queen " is perfectly satisfied with the zeal and intelligence with which the Dukede Sotomayor had fulfilled his mission ; and that she proposes
subsequently to utilize his services . The cnme committed by the duke was his receiving General Narvaez at Paris with royal honours . The Marquis de Yaidegarrias , late private secretary to Queen Christina , is appointed in place of Sotomayor . The Queen of Spain has signed the Concordat , and a functionary of the Foreign-office is about to proceed with it to Rome for the ratification of the Pope . He will likewise be the bearer of handsome presents from her Majesty to his Holiness .
The Queen of Spain and her husband have made up their quarrels , for the present . They are said to have taktn the advice of Queen Christina and Senor Bravo Murillo , and made mutual concession , which has had the effect of increasing their regard for each other . A few days ago they took a carriage drive together in the Prado , an occurrence so unusual as to excite a considerable amount of gossip . The Orleans family have determined upon quitting Clarernont for the Continent during the period of the Exhibition . The ex-Queen , is to go to Brussels ; the Duke of Nemours will visit his father-in-law ; the Prince of Joinville will take a trip in Portugal or Scotland ; and the Duke of Aumale is bound for Naples .
Soulouque , Emperor of Iiayti , has acknowledged the justiceof the claim of three thousand dollars as indemnity for imprisoning the captain of the American brigLcander on an unfounded charge of smuggling , and has promised to pay it . South American papers state that the city of Carthagena is very healthy , and has become a favouiite resort ot invalids , especially those who have injured theirhealth amidtlie exposures of California . Among the residents is General Santa Anna , with his family , who beguiles his leisure with the amusements of the cock-pit . Letters from Charleville state that incendiary fires are very numerous in the department of the Ardennes .
The Morning l ' ost of Wednesday contains a statement , copied from the Standard , to the effect that Baron Rothschild has embraced Christianity . This will appear to every one too absurd to require even a contradiction at our hands . —Jewish Chronicle . There in a custom in Turkey which proves ( lie high importance the Mussulman attache's to education . The first day that one of their children enters school is a ( l ay of great rejoicing ; there is a family /}? ^ , at whicli all the friends of the house assist . There has been lately sued K fete celebrated at the residence of Ali Pacha , Minister of Foreign Affairs . His eldest son , aged five yeurs , has been sent , to school , and on the occasion the Grand Vizir , all the Ministers and high functionalicn , attended at the house of Ali Pacha , in order to participate in the famil y fete , and to express to the chit f of tin ; house the sympathies of which he is in every respect so worthy . — Oalinnnni .
The Sultan has given strict orders that all his Christian Protestant , subjects shall be allowed to conduct , their secular and religious matters as they shall seem fit , without intrusion or interruption from any other sect whatever . Accounts from the Levant , in the French papers , represent , tin ; ( Jiif < rences between the ? Sultan and the I ' ucha of Kgypt » n far from being appeased . The latter has called on the powers who signed the treaty of July , 1810 , for their interference ; at the same time the Pacha is giving offence to France by dismissing the ; French who are employed in tin ; public 'service , in defiance ; of formal engage incut h .
Tin : anniversary of the birth of Washington was celebrated at New York , on February 2 ' 2 nd , with great pomp . AH the public buildiugn were adorned with flitgH , and a procession , composed ol nil the militia forces nnd the office ™ of the . benevolent institutions , accompanied by the great majority of the population , perumbuluted the city . The Kt-cond trial of General Henderson , at New
Orleans , for taking part in the invasion of Cuba , has terminated , like the first , in the non-agreement of the jury . General Quitman , having resigned the governorship of Mississippi , has repaired to New Orleans to await the decision of the court-The magnificent bridge between Lewiston , in New York , and Queenstown , in Canada , near the Falls of Niagara , is so far completed that the engineer and a large number of people lately crossed to the American side , when , upon reaching terra firma , they were enthusiastically received by the spectators who had assembled . This bridge is the largest structure of its kind in America . The labourers on the Great Western Railroad Canada having struck , and armed themselves to resist the authorities , the people of Hamilton have called a public meeting , with the view of demanding from the Government a military force to preserve order , and protect those labourers who are disposed to work .
244 ®Fte &*<*&**? Saturday,
244 ® fte &*<*&**? Saturday ,
Buckingham Palace Is About To Be Reveale...
Buckingham Palace is about to be revealed to the gaze of ordinary people . The last portion of the alterations and improvements , consisting of the ornamental railing extending round the entire frontage of the building , and intersected by a central and two side entrance gates , having been completed , the greater portion of the hoarding has been removed , and will be entirely taken away in the course of two or three days . The meeting of the British Association , at Ipswich , is to commence on Wednesday , July the 2 nd , and extend
over seven or eight days . As there will be many savins in England from all parts of the world during the ensuing summer , in consequence of the Great Exhibition , it is expected that this will be the most brilliant meeting the association has ever had . The local secretaries have already received the names of several hundred intending visitors , amongst whom are Lucien Buonaparte , Prince of Canino ; Sir R . Murchison , Sir H . de la Beche , Sir W . Jardine , Sir C . Lyell , Sir D Brewster , Professors Daubeney , Silliman ( of America ) , Owen , Ansted , and many other men of note .
A lecture by . Mr . W . J . Fox , the Member for Oldham , on " The true spirit of Reform , " was delivered at the second monthly soiree of the National Parliamentary and Financial Association , held at the London Tavern , on Monday . In alluding to the agitation for the Reform Bill he said : — " The support -which the working classes g-ave the middle classes on that occasion was an implied pledge that when the question of their rights came on for discussion the middle classes would give them their support . Shame to the middle classes that the pledge was not kept ! ( Renewed cheering . ) He did not profess entire satisfaction with Mr . Hume ' s measure—it would leave unenfranchised half a million wiio had a perfect right to the suffrage ; but it would add 3 , 000 , 000 voters to the constituency , and what power could stand against that ' . ' He called on Reformers from one end of the couutry to the other , imitating the example which had been set by the Chartists of Manchester , to tn . tke an end of differences , and to unite in the common object of obtaining a wider representation . "
The council of the Royal Agricultural Society of England , having determined upon altering their original plan of holding their annual exhibition of live stock in Hyde Park , the inhabitants of Windsor have given them an invitation to that vicinity , and offered to guarantee £ 600 towards defraying the expenses . A letter from Oxford in the Standard says , "The opinion of counsel on the university commission lias been received . The counsel were Messrs . Turner , Bethell , Keating , and Kenyon ; and I believe I am tolerably correct in saying that they give a very decided opinion ' that tlie commission is neither legal nor constitutional ; that the university is not bound to yield obedience to it ; and that it cannot be supported by the authority of the Crown , either as visitor , or under any prerogative or other right . '"
VVe understand that it is contemplated to form a Colonial Free Trade League , the object of which shall be to place our commercial intercourse with the colonies , in so far as the requirements of the Imperial revenue will admit , upon the footing of a home or coasting trade . — Globe . Mr . Carter was elected Alderman of Cornhill ward , on Monday , in the place of the late Sir John 1 'iiie . It is rumoured that nil intention exists , on the part of Government , of reuniting the civil government of Malta with the military command in the person of a general officer now in command of one of the districts . — United Service Gazette . OrderH were received at Southampton , on Monday , to get ready the Peninsular and Oriental Company ' s- ) steamer Singapore by Saturday ( to-day ) , to convey a regiment of troopts to the Cape of Good Hope . 1 'he Singapore is one oft . be fastest steamers afloat .
Lord Carlisle ' s bill to regulate the sale of arsenic , declares that , the unrestricted sale of arsenic facilitates the commission of crime , and provides that mi every sale particulars of the wile shall be entered by the seller in a book before the delivery of the arsenic , and that every such entry shall he signed by the person selling it . Any person selling arsenic , nave as authorized by this hill , and every person giving false informali-m to obtain arsenic , is to be summarily convicted before magistrates , and to be liable to a penalty not . exceeding £ 20 . The bill is not to prevent the sale of arsenic in medicine under a medical prescription .
The burgesses of Sheffield have declined to establish a public library uhd museum under Mr . Mwart ' s act . They were polled on the quention , when out of 10 , !) H (> voters on tbe burgeHK roll , only 2 !) 8 took the tumble to express an opinion . For the me ami re to be curried two thirds of the vot . esinust . be in its favour ; that . not . being the case in this instance , the question in net . lit rent , for a period of two years . A union ban been proposed of King ' Huiul MariHchal Colleges , Aberdeen , into one university . Tin ; mihjcct tias been discussed in the council of that city , and referred to a committee , with iinstructionn to confe r with the profcflHortj upon it .
The lives of sixteen persons at Bishop-Sutton , Somersetshire , were placed in serious jeopardy on Shrove Tuesday , by their partaking of pancakes in which aresenio had been used by mistake instead of carbonate of soda . It happened luckily that the pancakes were not deemed so nice as usual , so that they were partaken of very sparingly . In about a quarter of an hour after eating of them , the whole of the persons who had tasted them were seized with violent pains in the stomach and bowels , accompanied by the other symptoms which attend arsenical poisoning . Prompt measures were taken , however , and the whole of the persons are so far recovered as to be considered out of danger .
Another steamboat collision took place on the Clyde last Sunday . About one o ' clock in the morning the screw steamer European , on her passage for London , was run into by the schooner Castlehill , from Belfast , when off the Cloch Lighthouse . The schooner went down instantly ; three of the men were rescued , and one drowned . The husband of Harriet Sparing , who died from starvation at Bath , has been apprehended , and lodged in the Bath gaol , to await his trial at the ensuing assizes , on the charge of wilful murder .
A man , named Daniel Mundy , has been lodged in Gloucester gaol on the charge of having murdered his wife . She had been in very delicate health , and he had been in the habit of cruelly beating and kicking her , and keeping her on a miserably short allowance of food , and while he himself lived well , bread and water was the poor woman ' s principal diet . The trial of Drory , at Chelmsford Assizes , for the murder of Jael Denny , was brought to a close on Saturday . The case for the defence was made to rest chiefly on the unreliableness of the surgical evidence—on the " excessive zeal" of the police in getting up the prosecution—on the absence of motive in the prisoner ' s mind , since the girl had acquitted him in writing of her seduction—and on his being employed about the farm and otherwise from six o'clock till past nine . Mr . John Thorpe , a surgeon of Maldon , and Mr . F . Pollock , a
London practitioner , both of whom stated they had given much attention to cases of death by strangulation , declared that the appearances of violence were compatible with self-murder , although their statement was given rather doubtingly . The jury , after ten minutes' deliberation , returned a verdict of " Guilty . " The judge , in pronouncing sentence of death , intimated his entire concurrence with the verdict . The prisoner did not seem in any way affected by the awful sentence . He was speedily removed from the dock , and on being taken to the carriage to convey him to the gaol he was received with yells and hootings by the assembled crowd . The hope which bore him up through the trial forsook him on reaching the gaol after his condemnation . He was so exhausted that he was obliged to be assisted to his cell by two of the officials , and on reaching it he flung himself upon his bed and lav sobbing for nearly an hour .
William Rowe , the son of a respectable farmer at Brixton , near Plymouth , has been apprehended on the double charge of having committed a brutal crime , and of murdering his father ' s servant-boy , named John Bunker , because the latter had declared his intention of appearing as a witness against him . A meeting has been called for the 20 th instant to make a last desperate effort to retain possession of Conciliationhall , now abandoned by Mr . John O'Connell , that it may be used as a meeting place for some other association . It is stated that the rent and other debts accumulated up to the present do not quite amount to £ 100 .
The sales under the Encumbered Estates Act appear to be rather fiat lately . On Tuesday an estate in the county of Limerick , yielding a net profit rental of £ 264 per annum , had but one bidder , and the sum tendered beinp at about the rateof three-and-a-half years ' purchase , the offer was declined . Subsequently the same person expressed his willingness to increase the bid by £ 500 , but the solicitor having the carriage of the sale was inexorable , and stated that a less sum than £ 3500 would not be accepted . The residue of the estate of Mr . Lynch , of
Roseberry , in the county of Galway , the sale of which stood adjourned from a previous day , was next set up in five lots . The competition was extremely languid , and it was with Home difficulty that one lot realized £ 2200 on a rental estimated at £ 192 a-year . At this stage of the proceedings the commissioner interposed , and said that the sale of the remaining lots must be adjourned , if better prices were not offered ; and a new valuation might then be obtained , as with the present one" the court was acting in the iliirk
There appears to be a scarcity of hands in Belfast in some branches . The . Banner oj Ulster says , " We understand several of our new flax-spinning mills will be in active operation next month . Several of the millowners have raised their workers' wages , an many had signified their intention of leaving , and going to the new mills , where latger wages are offered to them ; and we hear there is likely to be a ncarcity of millworkers . Several families have gone to Manchester and Leeds , at a considerable advance of wugea , and a few are still leaving for England . " A murderous attack was made last Friday upon Timothy Oloran , bailiff to Captain lU < : hard » on , an extensive land agent , at Jtathbcg , in King ' s County , by
two men named Patrick Morgun and Patrick Moylan . 'They were lying in mnbush n . few ynrdu from Cloran'n house , and Morgan fired at him when he came near , but fortunately without effect . Morgan then snatched a gun from his confederate , which he presented at Cloran , but it missed fire . He then « lruck Cloran with the butt end of his gun , upon which Cloran seized the rullUu by the breast , and called out "Murder ! police ! " This made Moylun run away , and brought Clornu ' s wife to the assistance of her husband . 8 he took a large Stone and wounded Morgan in the head ho severel y that he died that night . Moylan han been apprehended and committed for trial . Morgan was a tailor , and hud been hired to shoot the bailiff .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 15, 1851, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15031851/page/8/
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