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      On Tuesday the key-stone was placed in the last arch of the railway bridge which for three years past has been in course of formation , for the purpose of connecting , by a permanent way , the Berwick and Newcastle and JNortn British Railways . —Berwick Advertiser . Information has been received by Government ota manufactory of spurious sovereigns at Birmingham , me false coins are composed of inferior metal , enclosed within a shell of standard gold , and are so skilfully executed that they defy the test of weight , sound , or aquafortis ; a slight imperfection , however , exists in the milled ed g ing , which should be closely observed to discover the lmperlection

      . , Preparations ate actively pushed m Sheffield , to raise the monument in memory of the Corn Law Rhymer . A high wood-crowned hill , on the North side of the town , the scene of one of his best poems , " 1 he Ranter , and overlooking other scenes which he has celebrated , is said to be the spot selected for the purpose . No terms having been come to between the directors of the North British Railway and the engine drivers and stokers , nearly 100 of them have struck , and their places are supplied by mechanics from the company s work-Sir i \ Redington , accompanied by Mr . Bourke , poorlaw inspector , has proceeded to Kilrush for the purpose of investigating the frightful reports issued from that unhappy union .

      . _ . . „ „ , The vicar of Gainsborough has successfully sued a person for marriage-fees . The bridegrom had borrowed the money for the licence and fees , and when the ceremony was completed he refused to pay the latter , and spf nt the cash at a neighbouring public-house . The last of the Lincolnshire gibbet posts was blown down by the late gale . It was that on which , forty years ago , the notorious malefactor , Tom Otter , was hung in chains for the murder , near the spot , of a younur woman whom he married in the morning and killed before nisht .

      An attempt to seize three cows belonging to a farmer named Guinn , in the district of Dungiven , county Derry , for arrears of county rate , led to a serious riot last week , and attempted rescue , in which onn of the men assisting the collector was killed . A warrant has been issued for the apprehension of Guinn , his wife , and son , who have all absconded . A curate is wanted in an agricultural parish . I he rector who advertises for him appears to belong to the Juste Milieu . " He wishes to have an earnest-minded as-Bistant who holds no ' non-natural ' interpretations ofthe offices of the church , either Puritanical or Romanist" . One of the locomotive engines belonging to the London and North-Western Railway " blew up" Tuesday

      last . The accident took place upon what is called " Wolverton Bank , " just beyond the locomotive workshops , few minutes after six o ' clock in the morning . Nearly 25 hundredweight of the shell was thrown over some buildings , and to a distance of about 200 yards , and the engine dome , weighing some five hundredweight , was thrown about 300 yards in another direction . Several wheels of the engine were forced off by the explosion . The fire-box was not torn asunder , and to its withstanding the shock is to be ascribed the miraculous escape of the driver and his assistant , who were on the foot-plafe . The engine was comparatively a new one , and was made at Mr . Stephensoii ' s own manufactory . The cause of the accident is not known .

      As Mr . Lowndes , judge of the Liverpool County Court , was crossing from Seacombe to Liverpool , on the night of Tuesday ' week , he stepped overboard at the landingstage , and was drowned . His son jumped into the water , in a vain attempt to save him , and was with difficulty prevented from sharing the same fate . Mr . W . H . Banyard , an extensive Russian merchant , entered the coffee-room of the Plough Tavern ,

      Kensalgrcen , on Friday , the 22 d of March , and called for a pint of stout , which he drank , and soon after became insensible . A surgeon was sent for , but by the time he arrived life was extinct . From a post mortem examination it appeared that Mr . Banyard had taken considerably more than a drachm of the essential oil of almonds . On the morning of the day he died he bad expressed great disappointment at not receiving sonic large remittances from Russia .

      An action for slander was brought at the Gloucester Assizes , by the Reverend John Seton Karr , vicar ot Berkeley , against one Ruther , a labourer , who had accused him of improper intimacy with his housekeeper , and of giving her medicine to prevent the natural consequence . The plaintiff called as witnesses the wife of his groom , who deposed to slanderous remarks made by Ruther while in the vicar ' s employment , and to his throats of vengeance for being turned away ; a carpenter and two labourers who had heard the slander repeated ; and the surgeon at Berkeley , who was included in the charge as having supplied the medicine . Some of the cvMeneo was extremely disgusting ; and the crossexamination of the witnesses elicited facts which were

      very far from clearing the plaintiff ' s character . In summing up , Mr . Justice Pattison said that if the defendant used the words imputed to him , it was no excuse that he believed them true , nor had he any privilege because lie was poor to circulate stories to the disadvantage of his neighbours . Tf he thought any »> f them guilty of a crime , ho should give information to a magistrate , and not l u \* about the country repeating slanders which lie could not prove . The jury returned a verdict for the pbint ' iiY : d . imagcs one shiHim * . Tin' snlc of the valuable ainl extensive library of the late Dr . Klvim'toii . Heyius Professor of Trinity College , D ul'lin , comnieiieed on Wcdnoday . The library consists of a collection of tin * most esteemed and important theological wotks , r : n e and valuable edit ions of Irish histories '"" and antiquities , and a gre . it . variety of choice English miscellanies . The sale is advertised to lust for six days . , . ~ . . A serious military riot took place at Greenwich , on

      make their escape from the dense crowd . Ihe force ot the police on duty at the fair was totally inadequate to put a stop to the affray or contend with the soldiers , who amounted to upwards of a hundred . The mounted police at length came to the assistance of their brethren , and , with the aid of a military picket , succeeded in capturing twenty-one soldiers , who had been most active during the riot , and taking them to the lock-up . Mr . Lee was much hurt , and his property injured to a considerable extent . The fair was completely deserted in consequence persons y

      "Wednesday evening . It was commenced by a party of the Royal Artillery , in front of Richardson ' s show at Greenwich fair ; the soldiers throwing nuts at the women entering the shows , and making use of disgusting language . Mr . Lee , the proprietor , expostulated , the crowd hooted , and the soldiers , exasperated , made a rush up the steps of the show , and attacked the performers and the audience . They were now joined by a party of Marines , and the row became general . Several were severelinjured while endeavouring to : . I I .. _ <•

      of the affray . The agitation against the proposed abolition of the Irish Court continues . The requisition for the public meeting of the citizens of Dublin has been signed by many thousands of persons ; and the Lord Mayor has fixed Monday next to give them an opportunity of expressing their sentiments upon the subject . On Monday night last , some persons set fire to the interior of the parish church of Kilmanagh , m the county of Kilkenny , by which the communion-table and the whole of the baptismal and funeral registers were destroyed ; and , had not a prompt discovery of the fire been made , and speedy means adopted to arrest its progress , the whole building would have been destroyed .

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      A notable event took place on the 25 th of March in Switzerland , at Munsingen , near Berne . The Conservative and Radical parties held each a public meeting ( to prepare for the elections in May ) at the same hour , and in the same place , divided only by a path ; their united numbers amounting to more than 20 , 000 men , among whom the Radicals had a majority of at least 3000 . The meetings separated in perfect order . The National ( Paris ) remarks : —How horrified would be the majority of the French Assembly , if the reaction on the o ne side and the popular delegates on the other were thus simultaneously to gather their adherents in the Champ-de-Mars , to consider points of political " action .

      In consequence of a reduction in the rate of postage in Austria , and an arrangement made with the steamers of the Austrian Lloyd's Company , the Indian mail for Northern Germany , Holland , and Belgium will in future pass by Trieste . The Emperor of Russia , it is said , intends to put St . Petersburg in direct communication with Berlin and Vienna , by means of electric telegraph passing through Warsaw and Posen . The French Minister of Commerce has addressed a circular to the different chambers of commerce and manufactures , urging them to use their utmost efforts among the manufacturers in their respective districts in order that the products of French industry sent to the British Exhibition of 1851 may be such as to keep up the character of the country for ingenuity and skill in

      workmanship . According to a telegraphic despatch in the Breslau Gazette , from Trieste , of the 29 th , the French fleet had arrived in the port of Naples . The Wiener Zeitunq announces that , in consequence of the grand industrial exhibition to be held in London in LS / 51 , the Vienna exhibition , which was to have taken place this year , is postponed till the spring of 18 ; 52 . The Madrid Gazette publishes the documents relative to the Exhibition of Industry in 1851 , with a royal circular to the provinces to stimulate the zeal of the manufacturers to respond to the desires of the London Committee .

      Letters from Lisbon state that the experimental squadron of evolution cast anchor in the Tagus on the 26 th of March , after a cruize to Gibraltar , and that the several vessels composing it took up hostile positions near the city , contrary to the regulations of the port , causing considerable excitement and feur on the part of the Portuguese that some demonstration was intended to support " British claims , " or sonic other object connected with Lord Palmcrston ' s policy . General Paixlmns has just published a book which will excite considerable attention both in military and political circles , proposing many inventions in artillery matters , and advocating extensive modifications and alterations

      in every branch of the service . He is a staunch advocate for guns of large calibre , speaks affectionately of the 80 pounder howitzers which bear his name , and the loOpoundcr guns placed by him in the Belgian forts at the mouth of the Scheldt . But he attaches most importance to the monster mortar used with such diadly effect at the siege of Antwerp , and proposes that such guns should be used as field artillery . He thinks that this huge gun , throwing a shell of more than 1 , 000 pounds weight , with a chnrge of 27 pounds of powder , upwards of a mile and a quarter , would be more efficacious than a whole park of artillery , and that , in case of a war on the Jthi . no , neither Coblcntz nor Mayence , ' nor any other fort , could hold out against such projectiles .

      The preparatory works for the railroad from Madrid to Aranjutz have- been canicd on with the greatest activity for the hist two months , and the attention of the inhabitants of the Southern provinces has been directed to the advantages which they may derive from the continuation of the road r , n one side to Seville , and on the other to the less remote of the scapnits on the Eastern coast , so as to brim ; the se ; i , in a measure , near to Madrid . The seaports of (' art hagena , Valenci . i , and Aliiaut have been lnentioiuil , but the preference has been given to the last , as presenting fewer obstacles to the construction of a railroad . English , visitors have not been more numerous for

      some time than they are at this moment in Paris . The hotels are crowded . . m According to the Berliner Allgemevne Kirchen Zeitung the Jews have obtained a firman from the Porte , granting them permission to build a temple on Mount Zion . The projected edifice is to equal Solomon ' s temple in magnificence . Letters from Stockholm announce that by a general order the Swedish navy is put on a footing of war . A melancholy accident occurred to Mr . Roche , the aeronaut , last week , at Saintes , near Bordeaux . The balloon in which he made an ascent came in contact with a chimney . He fell into the street , and both his thighs and one of his arms were broken . The trial of Professor Webster for the murder of Dr . George Parkman commenced at Boston on the 20 th ult . ___ , x * : ~ , ~ « Vi « n -fhav sra nf this moment in Paris . TVia

      No disclosures have yet been made to the public to relieve the subject from its original dismal obscurity . La Presse announces that the Minister of Finance has resolved to propose a duty on paper on its removal from the manufactory . The Americans , who have undertaken to open up the copper mines at Mount Vernon , Jamaica , have completed , their preliminary arrangements . The Austrian Lloyd says that the expedition for circumnavigating the world , which is to be undertaken by three vessels belonging to the war-fleet , has been deferred for a short time . The Queen of Spain has not gone through the usual religious ceremonies of Good Friday , for fear of risking her health .

      A disastrous fire occurred at Buffalo on the 10 th inst ., destroying several public buildings and fifteen or twenty private houses and stores in the most beautiful part of the city , making a total loss of 300 , 000 dollars . The Madrid Heraldo announces the arrest , on charges of swindling , of an Englishman calling himself General Plantagenet Harrison , who lately sent challenges to some Spanish generals and to the English Consul at Cadiz . The Central Congress of Agriculture has proposed that a duty of 50 f . per head shall be levied upon all cattle imported into France . Notwithstanding the cheapness of food , there are several " strikes " of carpenters and other trades in New York for higher wages .

      The Fay 2 tteville Carolinian gives an account of a shower of flesh and blood in North Carolina . A similar phenomenon is said to have occurred in Tennessee some years ago , on which occasion the " flesh and blood" were supposed to be a vast swarm of red insects , the aphis . The Genoa and Milan diligence , on being exa uined lately at the Austrian frontier , was found to contain a parcel of portraits of Mazzini , Garibaldi , and other revolutionary characters . As none of the travellers thought it safe to claim the parcel , they were all taken before a commissary of police , who sent them under escort to Milan , where , after undergoing a minute search , they were set at liberty .

      The Pope lately ordered a chaplet to be manufactured at Rome , each bead of which should have carved on it the head of a saint . The chaplet arrived , was blessed , and given to the Queen , to the edification of the court ; when lo ! it was discovered that the heads of St . Peter and Paul were no other than those of Mazzjni and Garibaldi . The Thirteenth Regiment of the Frencli Line , just leaving Rome , has shown a marked repugnance to wearing the Papal decorations . Two officers were long followed by a beggar . Unable to rid themselves of his importunities , and having no money , one of them at last gave his Roman cross , which was not on his breast bu in his pocket .

      The Rosamond steam-vessel , which arrived at Plymouth from Tangier on Saturday , has brought a lion , a lioness , a tiger , five gazelles , and two pair of ostriches , as presents to Queen Victoria , from the Emperor of Morocco . The last accounts from California mention that one George Davis committed suicide in his room at Brown ' s Hotel , in San Francisco , by swallowing a quantity of laudanum . A letter , directed " to the finder of my

      corpse , " was lying on a table in the room . Its contents were these : —'' I have committed this awful act rather than die a lingering death by starvation . Please get this given to Captain Webster , on board the English schooner Pera , now lying at Clarke ' s Point , and he will , I trust , convey to my father , Mr . George Davis , woolstapler , Bermondsey , London , the tidings of his son ' s fate . I have striven hard—God knows how hard—to get an honest living , and can't , so have only to die . "

      Mrs . Heald ( Lola Montez ) arrived in Paris on Thursday evening from Boulogne . Mr . Heald was to join his wife on Monday . The Itisorgimento , of Turin , of March 28 , gives an account of the arrest of a notorious robber , of the name of Bovis , at Nizza . The police being apprized of his intention of going to Cimella , where there was a merrymaking , sent some carbineers there in plain clothes to surprise and make him prisoner . It appears that persons moving in good society were in secret understanding with this man , as the police at the same time arrested a M . Donaudy , in his own house , at the moment he was sitting down to table with some guests .

      Five trees of liberty , ornamented with red ribbons , were planted at Chatcldun , Puy de Dome , on the night of the 13 th instant . They were immediately removed by order of the authorities . The German papers , in their account of the execution of Count Fugger-Glott for taking part in the insurrection in the Palatinate , uttirm that a single word of intercession from his relatives would have saved his life . Instead of that his father presented a petition to the King of Bavaria , in which he implored the King to stand by the sentence of the court-martial , and provide for its immediate execution .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 6, 1850, page 32, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1839/page/8/