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Miscellaneous. The Principal Event Which...
Isle of "Wight , on Wednesday the 22 nd of May , and will not return to Buckingham-palace until Tuesday the 18 th of June ; and that the Christening of the infant Prince will be solemnized on Saturday the 22 nd of June . Drawing-rooms will be held on Thursday the 20 th of June , and Tuesday the 9 th of July , and a Levee on Wednesday the 3 rd of July . It is also understood to be her M ajesty ' s intention that State Balls shall take place on Wednesday the 26 th of June , and on Wednesday the 10 th of July ; and concerts on Monday the 1 st of July , and . M onday the 15 th of July .
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Landseer's Picture Of The Duke Of Wellin...
Landseer ' s picture of the Duke of Wellington and the Marchioness of Douro on the field of Waterloo , at present in the Royal Academy , is said to have been purchased by Mr . Graves , publisher , Pall-mall , for 3000 guineas , subject to some trifling alterations to complete the artistic effect . A writer in the Daily News argues that , under the rule of an enlightened Queen , it were fit that the laureateship should devolve on a lady , and Elizabeth Barrett Browning , or Caroline Norton , are named as fully deserving that honour . desirous to do honour to the
A meeting of persons memory of Wordsworth was held on Monday , at the house of Mr . Justice Coleridge . It was attended by the Bishop of London , the Bishop of St . David's , the Dean of St . Paul ' s , Archdeacon Hare , Mr . Rogers , Mr . Justice Coleridge , Mr . Cavendish , and several other gentlemen . A great number of eminent and distinguished persons sent their names to the meeting , as wishing to cooperate in carrying its object into effect . —The Guardian . Letters have been received , stating the arrival of Lord Lincoln at Beyrout , in his yacht , the Gitana , from
A portion of the valuable library of M . Guizot is to be submitted for sale at the end of the ensuing week . The portion selected comprises some of the most sumptuous and expensive works ever issued from the French press . The first bishop of the see to be formed by the Canterbury Settlement in New Zealand will be the Rev . Thomas Jackson , Canon of St . Paul ' s , and Principal of the Training College at Battersea . —The Guardian . In consequence of satisfactory explanations , and a complete reconciliation between the governments of Great Britain and Spain , the Queen has appointed Lord Howden to be her Minister at the Court of Madrid . Mr . Loftus Charles Otway , who had filled the place of First paid Attache at Madrid , is appointed Secretary to the Embassy .
The Recordership of Macclesfield has become vacant by the death of Mr . William Charles Townsend , Q . C ., The appointment is in the gift of the Crown . A benchership of Lincoln ' s-inn is also vacated . M . Eugene Scribe arrived in London on Thursday . The object of his present visit is for the purpose of superintending the forthcoming opera of the Tempest , of the libretto of which he is the author . M . Soyer has sent in his resignation to the Reform Club .
The Government measure abolishing the office of the Irish Viceroy , contemplates the creation of three new Crown appointments : a Secretary of State for Ireland , at a salary of £ 5000 per annum , and two Under Secretaries , one with a seat in Parliament and the other without legislative duties . The salary of the Parliamentary secretary is to be fixed at £ 1500 , and of the latter at £ 2000 a-year . Lord Clarendon will accept the Chief-Secretaryship . — Weekly Chronicle . in St
The Emperor of Austria arrived at Gratz , yria , on the afternoon of the 8 th instant . The Archduke John received his Majesty at the railway station , and accompanied him to the city . Prince Schwarzenburg has received the insignia of the knighthood of the Russian order of St . Anna as a mark of the admiration and respect entertained towards him by the Emperor Nicholas . The Spenersnhe Zsitung says the Prince of Prussia will proceed to Warsaw after the marriage of the Princess Charlotte .
. A Meeting Of Provincial Mayors And Chi...
A meeting of provincial Mayors and chief officers of cities and boroughs is to take place on the 21 st instant , at the Railway Hotel , in Derby , to make arrangements for inviting the Lord Mayor of London to an entertainment in the metropolis , or elsewhere , in return for the hospitality with which his Lordship entertained the Mayors of the Provinces a short time since at the Mansion-house . It was stated by Lord Overstone to a meeting of the London committee of bankers , & c , last week , for promoting the Exhibition of 1851 , that £ 50 , 000 had already been subscribed . A new prison for convicts at Portspa will be com . menced this spring . It is to contain 1500 or 1600 , and , when built , the convict-ships at Portsmouth will be abnlishprf .
The authorities at the British Museum are endeavouring to procure for safe custody in the Museum the curious manuscripts of Prudentius , Hidden , Wickliffe , & c , in the Tennyson Library—where they are now comparatively useless and unknown . It is not unlikely that a vacancy ( if not two ) will shortly take place in tho metropolitan borough of Finsbury , now represented by Mr . Thomas Duncombe and Mr . Thomas Wakley . Influential electors have met and passed resolutions censuring the systematic absence of members representing important constituencies . A complaint having been laid before the British Consul in Egypt , of the defective arrangements of the transit administration , that official states that the Pasha has ordered a searching inquiry to be made into the mat tor with a view to prevent all grounds for complaint in
uture . The famous Victoria lily will be exhibited in flower on Saturday ( to-day ) , at the horticultural fSte at Chiswick .
Private letters from Stromness state that Captain Austin ' s expedition arrived there on the lltb , and was expected to sail again in a day or two .
Paris Is Garrisoned By 150,000 Men. M. B...
Paris is garrisoned by 150 , 000 men . M . Baroche has stopped the Voix du Peuple , the Republique , and the Estafette , by taking away the license of the printer . The Ami de la Constitution of Rochelle states that the workmen there are preparing to organize the refusal of taxes . An action for libel was on Thursday brought against Chenu , the author of " Les Conspirateurs , " and against MM . Gamier freres , the publishers of the work , by M . Barbaste , whose name is mentioned by Chenu . The damages were laid at 3000 f ., but the court awarded only 25 f . fine against each of the defendants , and 500 f . damages , to be paid by them conjointly . Through General Baraguay d'Hilliers , the French President has sent the grand cross of the Legion of Honour to Cardinal Antonelli .
In the department of the Creuse , a jury has acquitted M . Deboudachier , who had been arraigned on the charge of having sung the Marsellaise , in an enclosure , at some distance from the town ( Gueret ) on the evening of the anniversary of the February revolution . Colonel Terchon has been removed by General d'Hautpoul from the command of the Sappeurs Pompiers of Paris , and Colonel Vives , a Phillipist , appointed in his place . The general ' s reason ( given in the Moniteur ) is that Colonel Vives ( dismissed after February 1848 ) had been driven away by sedition . The Democratie Pacifique was seized on Wednesday at the Post-office , and in its bureau , for a seditious and inflammatory libel . Proceedings have been instituted for another article of the same kind .
Napoleon Bonaparte ( son of Jerome ) advises the electors of Charente to refuse the payment of taxes , if the electoral law be carried . Some disturbances have taken place in the department of the Soane et Loire , originating , it is said , in a strike of the miners in the Creuzot . It is reported that the rioters amounted to 7000 or 8000 , and that they had possession of the town of Autun . Later accounts state that the riots " are at an end . Some disturbances have taken place at Sedan . The workmen met to protest against the invasion of the right of universal suffrage . The military , however , cleared the streets , and restored order ; seven or eight workmen were arrested . Similar manifestations of opinion have occurred at Varilhes , in the department of the Arrege .
The French provincial journals give accounts of several more fires . A farmhouse connected with the chateau of La Couarde ( Seine-et-Oise ) has been burnt down . The loss is estimated 25 , 000 f . Three fires have lately taken place in the arrondissement of Rambouillet . Two houses have been burnt down in the village of Piffaudiere . A cabaret at Roinville was lately discovered to be on fire , but the flames being perceived in time , further mischief was prevented . A fire broke out on Wednesday at
Riencourt , near Amiens , and destroyed upwards oi twenty houses and barns . A few days ago a fire took place at a manufactory at Clermont . The premises were destroyed . Three fires took place simultaneously in the Canton of Blansac , Charente . Another , in La Bastide , near Bordeaux , consumed a vast shipping establishment . Another reduced to ashes the establishment of the Sisters of Mercy , at Rouvres , Bar-sur-Aube . Most of these fires are supposed to be the work of incendiaries .
The Helvetia states that the Democrats have gained a majority in the Swiss elections . Among the representatives of Zurich is M . Freichler , a Socialist writer , whose lectures had been prohibited by the Government . Prussia at last formally proposes to abandon Schleswig-Holstein . General Bulow has been sent to Copenhagen to offer the unreserved restoration of Schleswig . Prussia will maintain order in that -Duchy for six weeks ; after which period Denmark shall deal as she pleases with the revolutionary force in Holstein in case it should break into Schleswig . With respect to Holstein , it is stipulated that the King of Denmark may supply the place of the present Statthalterschaft by a new authority named by himself .
_ _ , .,.... - _ One of the first acts of the Vienna clergy , since the restoration of their privileges , has been to reintroduce the system of confessional tickets . All head 3 of families , masters , & c , are ordered to see that their dependents confess at least once amonth . The number of cases in the hospital for the insane at Vienna ( which before the revolution averaged from 150 to 250 ) is , at this time , 980 , and nearly all persons from the age of twenty to thirty-five years , that is to say , at that period of life when the passions are the strongest . The Staats Courant announces that there is to be a grand exhibition of agricultural products at the Hague ; to be opened in the month of September , 1850 . to British is
A conference of some interest commerce being held at Berlin . It consists of delegates from the Prussian provinces , convoked by the Minister to deliberate on the revision of the Zullverein tariff . The objects proposed to the Conference are to reduce the import duties upon food , to aumit duty-free all raw material lor manufactures , to augment the tariff upon woollen and cotton yarns and twists and worsted yarns , to modily ana reclass the duties on wove articles , and to reduce tne transit and export duties and river tolls . A letter from Berlin states that the Government has decided that a monument is to be raised in the park ot the I 16 tel des Invalides of that city in honour of the soldiers killed on March 18 , 1848 , in defending order . Ihe first stone is to be laid on June 18 , by the King in
person . Russia claims 3 , 700 , 000 roubles for aid in suppressing Hungary . The original demand was 17 , 000 , 000 . The Tuscan National ( a moderate and constitutional journal ) has just been suppressed .
The Tuscan garrison at Leghorn is to be replaced by Austrians . . The Corriere Mercantile states from Milan , 7 th rast ., that the Lombardo-Venetian loan has barely found voluntary subscribers to the amount of two millions o ; francs up to the last day , and that it therefore is become a forced loan , to be divided as follows : —twenty millions upon capitalists , bankers , & c . ; twenty millions upon landed proprietors ; and twenty upon persons exercising a trade or profession . Three forts more are being constructed at Milan , and another fort is in construction at Laveno . A notification has been published , inflicting an imprisonment of three months upon any person caught in the act of illegally crossing the Swiss or Piedmontese frontier . about
It is reported at Naples that the British fleet was to approach the coast of Italy , the British Government having some accounts to settle with the King of . Naples and the Grand Duke of Tuscany . Letters from Madrid state that the girdle of the Holy Virgin , which was given by her to the town of Tolosa , has been sent under an ecclesiastical escort to the Queen of Spain , in order that her Majesty may wear it during her confinement . The Heraldo announces that the Queen has made choice of the Marchioness of Povar , daughter of the Duke of Gor , as governess of " the august child whose birth will fill with joy all loyal Spaniards . " The war-steamer Volcano is preparing to convey the Duke and Duchess de Montpensier from geville to Valencia , where they will probably remain until the end of this monthand then proceed to Madrid .
, After a drought of five years , the hapless province of Murcia , in Spain , has been visited by a copious rain . Travellers from that province remark that it was curious to see the young children , who had never seen it rain in their lives , evince as much alarm as if some frightful accident had happened . , „_ , „ . , __ . A company , composed of English and Mexican capitalists , have contracted to build a railroad from Vera Cruz to the city of Mexico , and thence to the Pacific Ocean . A line of steamers is also in contemplation between New York and Vera Cruz . In the island of Samos the insurrection has again broken out .
A fact unprecedented in the annals of Islamism has just taken place at Constantinople . The Sultan has decorated eight Greek Archbishops , as a testimony of his satisfaction at their zeal in the discharge of their duties . The Algemeine Zeitung states that the greatest consternation prevailed in Smyrna in consequence of continued shocks of earthquake . Thousands of persons have fled from their homes , and were lodged in the open air , notwithstanding the inclemency of trie weather , and others had taken refuse in the vessels lying in the harbour . The Greek Church , the Armenian College , the
Austrian Consulate , and several mosques were greatly injured , and part of the city had been thrown down . A large rocky mountain , about four miles from the city , has been rent , huge masses of rock have been dislodged , and in their fall have hurled down trees that have stood for centuries , and overwhelmed a part of the city . The river has been forced from its channel , and the water suddenly became brackish . All the hills surrounding the harbour are full of fissures . It appears that the earthquake has traversed the whole of the Archipelago , and may be traced to the uttermost boundaries of the Carmania .
A letter from Shanghai gives an account of the opening of a new church in the very midst of the Chinese city : — " It was on Sunday last—the first Sunday in 1850 . For hours before the appointed time numbers of people were waiting about the gateways , and when the doors were open the crowd was such that there was great difficulty in getting them seated . The people seemed to be very much struck with the whole of this service ; and , if you consider that this was done in the midst of a city of 200 , 000 inhabitants , all hitherto given to idolatry , and that one of the most frequented shrines of temples was actually within hearing of our voices , you may judge of the striking novelty of the scene . "
The Mail From The North Was Delayed Near...
The mail from the North was delayed nearly a full hour on Sunday , in consequence of the obstruction which the train met with from snow . The carriages , on their arrival at Preston , were partially whited on their tops with snow-flakes ; and one of the porters at the station was enabled to collect a snowball—a rather curious phenomenon in May . — Liverpool Standard . The Terrier of Antwerp , bound for Rio Janeiro , struck on the Goodwin Sands on the night of Tuesday week . The whole of the crew were saved , except one man . Two other v « ssp 1 s struck on the same fatal bank that night , both of which became total wrecks , the whole of tho crews perishing .
_ _ _ _ . The daughter of James Cromer , of Farrington , whose extraordinary condition was noticed in our last , spoke on Tuesday last for the first time for upwards of thirteen years ; her first inquiry was for her aunt Killen , and when her aunt came , the girl immediately repeated the Lord ' s Prayer . Extreme weakness prevented her from articulating many words in succession ; cramp and convulsions are supposed to have unlocked the jaw for the time . She experienced a great deal of pain for many days ; the jaw is again set as firm as before . Tho girl seems to apprehend that death would soon terminate her existence . —Bristol Minor .
William Thrclfall , cotton-spinner , of the Addingham Low Mills , near Bolton Abbey , was apprehended at the George Hotel , Liverpool , yesterday week , on a charge of forgery , which he is supposed to have committed to the extent of several thousand pounds . When the prisoner was searched at the Bridewell , £ 3000 was found on his person , and in a carpet-bag , which was found in his bedroom , £ 3000 more was discovered . It is stated that a subsequent inspection of his pocket-book disclosed a
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Leader (1850-1860), May 18, 1850, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18051850/page/7/
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