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    March 30, 1850.] W&t 3l£alTCt\ 9

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    POSTSCRIPT. Satuiujay.. . ". A crowded m...

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    King of Trusaia will go to Dresden, to b...

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    ¦ ^ n0 beautiful parish church of St. An...

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    Miscellaneous. Rn ^ -N • .,. 4 , 4l * . ...

    Mr . John Watson Gordon , president of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting , & c , has been appointed the Queen ' s limner in Scotland , in the room of the late Sir William Allan . T By the death of _^ Lieutenant-General Sir John Mac donald , which took place on Wednesday , after a few % days illness , the colonelcy of the Forty-second Foot be- | comes vacant . P The Countess Rossi ( Madame Sontag ) and the Count | arrived m London on Tuesday evening . Sontag will I make her first appearance on Thursday next , conjointly withLablache t m _" DonPa 8 quale . " $ Dr . _VauoHAN recently received and declined an in- I vitation , backed by the Reverend J . A . James , to become | the pastor of the church assembling at _Ebenezer Chapel , I Birmingham F I The Hon . W . T . H . Fox Strangways , M . A . formerly I student of ChristChurch , has presented to the University * : galleries about thirty pictures of great interest and value , * mostly by Florentine and other early Italian masters most y _y continue , TJ , _v _™! _£ i _^ _rl a Z * * _hiSirfnSof _Iau ! and we _^? _eirrt fn _^ 53 _hS m ? i «« M _ShL _^ _K _' _the'feS _^ M tS pLc a _e in _Ue 1 _reverend doctor ' s health _v- _*^ " _* «< " _« i _^ _ereim \\ Mr . _DisraelMhough not sufficiently recovered to accept the Lord Mayor's invitation to meet Prince Albert at the Vi Mansion-house , is convalescent , and 3 b b i ; resume his piace in Parliament after Easter . ! The Rev . Dr . Lear , Dean of Salisbury died on U Saturday In addition to tha _? deanerv he also held the _wctory of _lishopsZe _° ne _^ sS _ryf _wirth _^ abSu ? P £ 1000 per annum The benifice is in thp _» _ift nf thP I Pembroke family g ° th I The Cologne Gazette states that Madame _Sehr _^ _rlpr 1 Devrient hfs justmarriedI at Gotha ar _? ch _Livonian I named Bock * _ThiWisher fourth husband- the three I others are st 11 living but _" epwated fromher bv divorce I n . t _Vf 7 V % out separated Jrom her by divorce , I Ihe Manchester Guardian states that the Premier is 1 expected to pay a visit to Manchester and neighbourhood I for two or three days next week . He is to be the guest I of Sir Benjamin Hay wood , at Olaremont ; and his visit is _t to be strictly private . On this point the Guardian says , j that it can hardly suppose , however anxious his lordship 1 may be to make his visit private , that the " Prime j Minister of this country will be permitted to visit one of ' ; its chiefcst cities without an effort being made , by the au- : thorities or otherwise , to pay him some more or less public mark of respect . A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office A new writ for Totnes has been issued for the return : of a member in the place of Lord Sevmour who has accepted the office of list _Commissioner _^ " the WoodI and Forests , at the old salary of £ 2000 a vear . He has again offered his services to the electors * Melbourne papers state that on board the shiD John Thomas Foord , no less than thirty-three of the emigrant passengers died of cholera in the passage from Plymouth to Melbourne I The following are the names of the new Senators of _) the University of London , as nominated by the Crown : — Lord Monteagle _, Lord Overstone , Sir James It . G Graham , Bart ., M . P ., the Right Hon . T . B . Macaulay , Mr . G . Cornewall Lewis , M . P ., Mr . Henry Ilallam , and Mr George Orote At a meeting of the land-tax commissioners for the , county of Middlesex a motion was carried to have a new ¦ < assessment of a portion of the county by an equal pound- | rate on all property to the tax . It was also resolved to I petition 1 arhament for an act more accurately defining 1 the powers of the commissioners . I At the dinner to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the , j General lheatrical Fund , Mr . Webster , the chairman , 1 hPrM _^ Wv _^ hi ¦ _oS _^ i U hIfnL P _iTn « a _TAM tl nn g t 0 £ _* °° > j her Majesty the Queen being a donor of £ 100 . I I The Duchess of Orleans has arrived at Ludwigslust 1 ( Schwerin ) . She will remain a few days with her family , 1 and then come to England with the Count de Paris and I her younger son . I Amongst the contemplated acts of royal grace in cele- I bration of the Queen of Spain ' s accouchement , if it ter- I inmates happily , will probably be the creation of a I princedom for Narvaez , under the title of Principe de la i Concordia , with a grant of land , and the elevation of 1 Queen Christina ' s children by _ftlunn * to the rank of ; Lilnntes of Spain . —Madrid Correspondent ojthe Morning I _Vont . ] Tho Queen of Portugal has just conferred on the King of the Netherlands the Grand Cordon of the Three , Military Orders . _Thc _Approaching marriage of the Duke of Genoa , brother of the King of Sardinia , with a Saxon Princess vras officially announced to the Chambers at lunn on the "" The elections of the Saone-et-Loirc have been an- nulled by the French National Assembly , on the ground § that a greater number ( by C 00 O ) voted than the number I inscribed on the electoral lists . Six seats will thus have I to bo recoutested in " one of the most disaffected parts" I of France . I The editor of the Jit / forme lias _bcon _sontenced to im- ' < lirisonmcnt for six inoi ' _itlis , and to ' 2000 f . fine for accusing 1 Tue President of the liepublic oi being concerned in JJourse _opc-ralions . i The Vienna journals announce that after Easter tho i : _Kmiu-ror of Austriavvill visit Trieste , accompanied by Prince _Sclnvarzenberg ; and will probably return by way _, of Croatia | The Austrian and Prussian _Governmentshave arranged vihh the Austrian Lloyd's Company a new postal ton- vouion fur tho despatch _<> f letters , & c , to India , _Cliina , _Junl Australia , at reduced rates . The cultivation and manufacture of boot-root sugar in _Itussia is stated to be advancing rapidly .

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    Mrs . Mary Woodhouse , of Poulton , who died last week- at tne a _8 e of eighty-nine , has _leit the following off spring : —seven sons and daughters , 59 grandsons and , daughters , 72 great-grandchildren , one great-great- _grandchild ; total _^ . -Lancaster Guardian . « The execution of Anne Merntt is to be respited during the pleasure of the Crown A further mvest _. gation of the % TrJlll * COnsidered _* eces _* ai T by the Home Se _^ et _^ - , ., , _^ . On Wednesday an old man , named Evans , who was _^ g _^ at Mr . Whitmore s , greengrocer , Charles-street Westminster committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart with a small pocket-pistol . Sansome , the man convicted at Nottingham assizes for murder through procuring miscarriage where the girl , Bailey , died has been respited until the first of May . This implies that his life will be spared . _ The wife of a baker named Moir , m Brydges-street C ? ven . t-garden died on Sunday evening from the effect of a beating which he had given her on the previous Friday ni _8 ht - An inquest took place on Tuesday , and on Thursday Moir was examined at Bow-street Police ° _^ _^ was proved that he had been in the constant habit of violently ill-treating his wife—beating and kickin & her ; According to one of the witnesses , Moir's r _/ 00 _^ ° l b / aff jf ir _* vas _» tl * at . wh u e ? _, he went home on Friday night he found a bottle of gm hid under the piano , T d thl f ? cou P led _™ th the . fa <* of hl _* Z . n ? 1 havin S _closed the shop at the usual hour put him into a rage He , _« _T e her , a _Seating then , and repeated his brutal _^ X _^^ i _^^ _oflii _^ ho _^ _Zl _\ Te eTrSn _^ f _£ P * iL uusiness ot tlie sno P" _un tne evening oi _Saturday the poor woman was so completely broken down _T _^ hlS CrUe \ . treat _™ ent , that she f ? l ° , n tl i e flo ° . the backro ° m ! _^ h _«« .. _^ e lef . h « tc \ lle / or J . wo hours _™ a f _»* te of insensibility , with her head resting upon the kUch _- n _! _- * * Th if s " r f eon _^ h , ° had _™* e _^ Post mortem examination of the body said he could find no evidence of the woman's having been intoxicated on the Saturday , as the prisoner wished to show . The verdict of the coroner's jury was " Manslaughter , " but the facts came out more strongly at the Police Office , and the magis- trates committed Moir for trial on a charge of " Murder . " John Carrington , who murdered his father and mother about a fortnight since , at Little Eversden , in Cambridge- shire , by dashing their brains out with a spade , and who had long been known as a mischievous idiot , has been ac- quittpd on the ground of insanity . A family of ten persons in Stow Bardolph _, JSorfolk , _consisting of Mr . and Mrs . Page , their son , Mr . Page ' s two sisters a governess , and four servants , were poisoned last week , apparently by arsenic in the sugar used in a fruit pudding . The whole of the family were » ei » ed with syiSptoms ° of poisoning . Mr . Page and his son both died in the course of the night ; but tlie rest of the family are likely to recover . The sugar had been used a _? ° reakfast , had made Mr . Page ill , and had excited suspicion : it was thriftily reserved for _jmddinr / s ! The doctor who was first summoned was unable to attend from illness , he having dined at Mr . Page s that day , and eat A e" S ° ™ e f _^ V oiso » e < i f _°° d / _,, f A large fire happened at Glasgow on Monday night . The extensive " Port Dundas Grain-mills were wholly destroyed by a fire , the ongin of which is unknown . Ihe _am () Unt ° _^ loss » _^ 15 , 000 , which will be borne by in- 8 _^ h n e ° Commissioners for _promoting the Exhibition of 18 _; 31 have issued a notice regarding the prizes to e . xhi- w The fouowinK arc f is _molt important rrgula- lions—The rewards will be " generally " bronze medals , executea bv tne most eminent artists of all countries , For raw materials antl produce prizes will be awarded upon consideration of the vaiue aiIU importance of the article and the excellence of the specimens ; in ma- chinery with reference to novelty of invention , superior execution increased efficiency and economy , importance n a _soclal point of view , amount of difficulties overcome ; \ in manufactures increased usefulness , such as perma- nence in dyes , improved forms and arrangements , quality Or skill in workmanship , new use and combination of materials , as in metal and pottery , beauty of form and colour with reference to utility , cheapness relatively to excellence ; and in sculpture , models , and plastic art , beauty and originality , improved processes , application of art to manufactures , and , in the case of models , the interest attaching to the subject . The juries to decide iu > on the works exhibited will be composed of English- Sin and foreigners , and their names published when decided upon . The commissioners also intimate that in _giving medals , they do not preclude themselves from awarding money in addition to the honorary distinction , . _, .. , r ., „ n _„„•„„¦* _^ e _i-inn _fm- fii _« . A seco . nd notice offers three T > r » c of £ 100 , for t c _^ ors c _" _^ _^ _- and _j , ri « " o ? £ 50 i Ja _ch for So J _thVee bel "Sol _^ Jto ' d _* a 1 "

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    Postscript. Satuiujay.. . ". A Crowded M...

    POSTSCRIPT . _Satuiujay . . . " . A crowded _meeting of the friends ot tho I / mcisinro Public Scliool AsKociation was held in the Manchester Froe Trade-Hull , on Thursday evening ; Mr . ( _J-corge Wilson in the chair . Tho mc :: l ; iiig wan attended by Mr Uenrv Ml 1 . ; Mr . ( ii'or" _-e Davvson , of _JJirming- ham ; Mi \ William _Ui-gs , ot Leicester ; Mr . Peter _itvl-inds of Wurriinrtmi thp Reverend J ) r J ) _uvi < Json , _" il ' ll " s _| " l _\^ _§\ _" , n _M'Kovmu' t n Jteverond Ur _Hf _, _S i » V w f , _\ a _^ of _Jieaid _, L ) r . \ v _' titts _, and other well-known menus oi the movement . 'Ihe chairman stated the principi « of _tliu assocmtjon to be " to give to the _wi » K _»» n clauses , indeed to all _classes , as a _tfrcut _erluoitjonul charter , the right to be educated at the public expense in the foimtry or distri-t in wliich they re . si . Jo . " He _tpukeiii very _suvwo _Leiiiis ot the course

    Postscript. Satuiujay.. . ". A Crowded M...

    taken by the Bishop of Manchester on this question . Speaking of that dignitary , the chairman said : — , « No man had it in his power to do more d - thi district than he with the vast influence he had at h _« ™ * $ he had chosen to exe ? _cSe it ; but what I _compUin _^ is this , that with his great knowledge of the adva P ntages , aye , of the necessity of education to all _JJJJ ° vit ' > o ' scheme of his o _* with _^ ann 0 _^^ ment that , at any future day , the world is to be favoured with any scheme of his own , he chooses to stand and b - _' all his vast influen | . e all his powerful commands , to overwhelm and crush the noble efforts of the people ' to do that for themselves which the church has £ egfected to do for them , to lead the van on the side of ign ° rance against men who are as sincere , as earnest , wharhave vfd themselves as earnest in benefiting the le _^ himself is , is not what I think we ought pati l ently to subrait to > » * * " T ' afterwards addressed bv Mr P xne meeting was atterwarcis addressed by Mr . ± \ _Rylands , who moved a petition to Parliament in favour of establishing a general system of secular education supportedI by local rates and managedby local authorities . In seconding the motion , Mr . George _Damson replied to the objections of those who call the Lancashire education plan " a godless _scheme " :-" Secular education was said to be « godless , ' but he had learnt to know that everything was ' godless ' which was not according t 0 the u { tle o a pinion o b f the man who P ronounce _* it . But he was not going to join the religlous creed of those who occupied themselves with denouncing the Pope , or were so well versed in the laws of Heaven ' s chancery , that thev could tell him what a potato rot came for , or the exact crime for which God afflicted you with the cholera . { Loud cheers and iaUfjhter . ) They were here to make the church an offer . He had heard that once a year the Pope washed certain _beggars' feet ; but he had also heard that some sort of a chamberlain took the worst part of the dirt off first ( Laughter . ) Now , what did the ' godless' infidel people offer these churchmen ? The people were dirty enou _gh _Qod knew—sunk into a state of ignorance we atone tune uad tue power of preventing ; the } ' had fallen out of Church order , fallen away from ' religion scarce _knowing i \ ie nanie of God , or reading the New Testament ! What did this association offer ? Why , they offered to be the Church's chamberlain , to take off the worst part of tne dirt , and leave the people to be lavendered and eau-de-Cologned by the Church herself if she would . " Among the other 8 peakers were Mr . Biggs , of Lc , icestcl ? the Reverend W _M'Keiirow and Mr J _^ eicestu , me _^ evtrcna _\ v . 1 U l _^ itiiow , ana _^ Lr . „ . _& . _bjiira _, ok Halifax Ihe meeting passed off with great animation . A . Manchester correspondent says : — "Ihe liev . Hugh btowell _, endorsed by his Lordship the Bishop , is loud in his denunciations ot the Lancashire educational plan . Mr . Stovvell has violently attacked the Association in three of his mOst recent public appearances , the ostensible object of which were , to advocate < Sabbath Observance , ' the ciaims ot the « Church Pastoral Aid Society / and of the « Church Missionary Society . ' Above five hundred of the most respectable merchants and olherg of Manchestcr > rec _^ nt | y presented a _requi-^ n to the mayor to cal l a public meeting of the inhabitants to consider the educational question . Mr . S to well has publicly advised his friends to bo at their post in good time , ' and is using the most strenuous efforts to pack' the meeting , which comes off in the Town-hall on Monday . " A meeting of the «« New Short-time Committee " for the amendment oi the Ten Hours * Bill , " was ] leld at Manchester yesterday . It consisted of reprcscntatives froin _thJ neighbouring towns elected the opcrativeB . Tho Ollly notoblo ° part of the pro-J ,. * * _, * t . \ r 2 ? et }} n S ? _^ n . s , _^ me correspondence between Mr . It . B . is . Cobbctt and Lord Ashley , in which the former showed that the bill brought forward by Lord Ashley would not meet the views of the committee . A resolution was moved to the effect , that if Lord Ashley refused to embody the terms which the comniitteo proposed , the matter should be placed in the ] uintls of sume other member . . , .. ,. _., T _. _, _,. . . _m . , At o mooting ot the Dublin corporation on Thursday , it was unanimously resolved to adopt an address to her Majesty praying that the office ot Lord-Licutenant may nut be abolished _, ¦

    King Of Trusaia Will Go To Dresden, To B...

    _King of _Trusaia will go to Dresden , to be _pro-« ont at th " marriage of the _" jDuke of Genoa with the _daughtor of l » rino _? John _, A Madrid latter of the 23 d inst . Btateg that the Queen continued in good health , and that two phy-I sicmns luid lolt tor thc mountainous district of buntiinder , to select u stout and healthy nurse .

    ¦ ^ N0 Beautiful Parish Church Of St. An...

    ¦ _^ n 0 beautiful parish church of St . Anne's , Limchouso was destroyed by fire yesterday _morning . About half past right o ' clock thc inhabitants of the district were : _tl _; _irm < _'d by tlie _Inud ringing of the church bells , tho fire having boon discovered by a niiu named llimiboltl , who _lights ih , i stovefln ; _« in the church , lie had just set light t (> tho _inrnaccs , when hn prr « fived a strong smell of burning wood , and shortly afterwards saw a quantity of Braoke iRRuln _« frmu lho roof - _faring that something B (? ri ) MIH hnd , inl ) pr . ncd M 8 thero ) m ( l been some _irre-^ ularify ( lurim , t U ( , I ) ilRt fort . niKht in thc _burning of the stoves , _llumboM ran directly for the en « fnclt ( . rp ,. r ; j ,, Ml the two , _ascending t ) _n-ou « h the _br » lfrv > _opt-ned a door ( jvor thc organ loft , _leading to the _ppace between the eeiiin _« and outer roof . They were instantly driven buck by tiio _rusli of smoke and hot mr ;

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), March 30, 1850, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_30031850/page/9/