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Leader (1850-1860), 13th July 1850, Edition Town of 1, Page 368, Untitled Article

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      about to follow her pious example . His lordship has addressed a letter to the Newry Telegraph denying the whole statement . A very numerous meeting was held at the Reform Club on Saturday , at which it was agreed that Lord Palmerston should be requested to dine with the club on Saturday next , and that invitations should be addressed to the other Cabinet Ministers to meet his lordship on that occasion . A deputation subsequently waited on the noble viscount , who at once accepted the invitation for that day . Mr . Osborne , M . P ., was selected as the chairman , and Lord Dudley Stuart , M . P ., and Mr . Cockburn , M . P ., as the vice-chairmen of the dinner . Owing to the death of the Duke of Cambridge the dinner has been

      postponed . ... 'The marriage of Major Herbert Benjamin Edwardes , the hero of Moultan , took place on Tuesday morning at Petersham Church , Surrey . The young lady , to whom the gallant major had been affianced for some years before he left England , is Miss Emma Sidney , youngest daughter of the late Mr . James Sidney , of ftichmondhill . As it was generally known at Richmond and its neighbourhood that the marriage was appointed to be solemnized at the retired little church of Petersham , there was much curiosity , especially among the ladies , to witness the solemnity , and the interior of the church was crowded by a very respectable congregation shortly before eleven o ' clock . At half-past eleven Major

      Edwardes , accompanied by Sir Henry Edwardes , Major Nicholson , and Mr . S . Edwardes , the " groom ' s next friends , " arrived at the Church , the gallant bridegroom appearing in full uniform . The fair bride shortly afterwards arrived , attended by six youthful ladies , as bridesmaids . The bridal party having assembled in front of the communion table , the religious ceremony was proceeded with , the Rev . James Sidney , M . A ., Perpetual Curate of Redlynch , Somersetshire , half-brother of the bride , officiating at the solemn rite . At the conclusion of the ceremony the wedding-party repaired to Dr .

      Grant ' s mansion on Richmond-hill , to which the numerous relatives and friends invited to the wedding also repaired , to partake of a sumptuous dejeuner in celebration of the nuptials . The gallant major and his happy bride left Richmond-hill , at half-past two o ' clock , for Wales . They purpose , it is said , to depart for India in November . Major Macdonald and Lady Ashworth have presented to her Majesty some more of the produce of their researches during their travels in the East , namely , a bracelet composed of rare and curious specimens of turquoises in the matrix , found by them in Arabia Petrea .

      Lord Lincoln arrived at Malta on the 25 th ult ., in his yacht Gitana , from Beyrout , and left on the 27 th for Gibraltar . He was accompanied by Lord R . Clinton and Mr . Harcourt . Sir Henry L . Bulvver is now in New York , and contemplates a summer residence on Staten Island . Probate of the will of the late Queen Dowager was granted in the Prerogative Court last week , as it originally stood , without reference to certain slight unattested

      erasures . It is said that Jenny Lind will give a miscellaneous concert in Liverpool on the 16 th of August , and perform in the oratorio of the Messiah on the 19 th of the same month , previous to her embarkation for America , where she will remain for eighteen months . It is said she is to receive £ 1000 for her services in Liverpool . El The melancholy fact—which has long been widely known—is now publicly announced , that Dr . Buckland , the Dean of Westminster—the eloquent and the learned ¦ wr iter of the remarkable Bridgeioater Treatise—is bereft of reason , and is an inmate of an asylum near Oxford . "

      Sir Alexander Spearman , who retired on account of ill-health from the appointment of Assistant Secretary to the Treasury , and who has been recently actively employed in the committee on Custom House expenditure , has been appointed Secretary and Comptroller General to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt , vacant by the demise of Samuel Higham , Esq .

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      The President of the Republic gave a grand Parliamentary and political dinner on Thursday week . More than 100 persons were invited . All the diplomatic , Parliamentary , and political celebrities in Paris were present . The Prince of Prussia , who left London on Saturday evening , arrived at Brussels on Sunday . In the course of the day he received a visit from the King of the Belgians , and subsequently dined with their Majesties . Next morning he left for Germany . The carriage which is to be used at the coronation of the Emperor of Austria , says a letter from Vienna , was made in the reign of Charles , for the marriage of his daughter , Maria Theresa . Since that time it has been

      used for the coronation of the Emperors . The gilding alone cost 180 , 000 florins . The paintings on the doors are by Rubens , and cost 00 , 000 florins . The President of the Republic is said to have given his cousin , the citizen Prince do Cunino , ex-president of the Roman Constituent Assembly , leave to reside in France . It is added that the ex-Uoman citizen intends to come forward as a candidate for the representation of the department of the Noril . M . dc Liimartine and his family arrived at Malta on the 20 th tilt ., in the Oronte , French steamer , en route to Smyrna , to take possession of the estate presented to him by tho Suliun .

      lhe health of M . Thicrs has \ jvon very much impaired by his literary labours and the fatigue incident to his parliamentary duties . llc < intends to pass some days in the department of the North , on private affairs , but will return to I'uiis for the discussion of the budget , after which hi ; will gv > to the borders of the Rhine , where ho will remain during the recess . A letter from Camlia mentions that the Sultan arrived there on the 3 rd inst . He wus received with illuminations and a grand display of fireworks . The Sultan had with him his eldest son , a fine boy nine years old . Her

      Majesty ' s surveying-ship Volage happened to be lying at Candia at the time of the Sultan ' s arrival . The Sultan received Captain Graves and all the foreign consuls in . audience , and presented Captain Graves with a splendid , gold snuff-box set in brilliants . The Archduchess Sophia paid a visit the other day to the Countess Chambord and the Duchess of Angoulerne at Frohsdorff , where the exiled Bourbons reside . This visit , the first ever paid to the Royal Family at Frohsdorff , has excited much speculation . Other visitors are very numerous . The neighbourhood of the royal residence is occupied by members of the French Legitimist party , who already addresses the Duke de Bordeaux as King ! and " your Majesty" is a phrase often heard within the palace walls . __ _ _ , , ,, __ . _ .. Ztebats that Louis Phi

      A London letter , in the , says " - lippe has been already able to take short walks , and his strength is sufficiently reestablished for him to think of returning shortly to London , to be present at the ceremony of the Count de Paris receiving his first communion . The ceremony will take place in the French Catholic Chapel , in presence of all the members of the Orleans family who are now in England , and after the return of the Prince and Princess de Joinville from Scotland , where they have gone to spend a few days . " . M . Cabet , chief of the Icarian communists who are established at Nauvoo , in the United States , has addressed a letter to the J ournal des D&bats , in which he defends himself against certain attacks of the Pans papers , and denies that the allegations made against him some time ago by some of his disciples who had deserted him are well founded . He encloses a reply signed by his male and female adherents at Nauvoo , in which they

      refute those allegations . The Gazette de France states that the Count de Chambord is coming to Aix-la-Chapelle to hold a sort of court , and that the leading Legitimists will flock thither . Most of the leading Legitimists disapprove highly of this demonstration . By the marriage of the Conde de Montemohn with Maria Ferdinanda , sister to the King of Naples , the Court of Naples pays off the Court of Spain for their conduct to the Count de Trapani . It is said that the Pope will refuse a dispensation . But this is not at all likely . Having allowed the Count de Trapani to marry his own niece , his Holiness can hardly refuse to permit

      the Conde de Montemolin to marry his own cousin . Besides , the King of Naples has been too good a friend to the Pope to be denied such a favour as this .

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      A meeting of several influential members of both Houses of Parliament took place on Monday to devise the best course of proceeding , in order to induce her Majesty ' s Government to establish steam communication with the Australian colonies . After a full discussion of the question , its present position and the obstacles opposed to it , it was unanimously resolved that active steps should be immediately taken to bring the whole subject under the special attention of both Houses of Parliament , with a view to its speedy and final settlement . As a preliminary course it was arranged , amongst other measures , that an address to her Majesty should be proposed in the House of Commons , praying for the immediate establishment of steam communication with the Australian colonies .

      The first annual meeting of the shareholders of the Westminster Freehold Land Society was held , on Wednesday evening , at the Music-hall , Long-acre , John Wills , Esq ., in the chair . After the nomination of the officers and committee , and the appointment of auditors , the meeting was adjourned until the 7 th August for the purpose of receiving the report of the committee . The society was established on the 1 st of August last , and now consists of 800 members holding 1100 shares , and upwards of £ 2000 was in the hands of the society ' s bankers . The Council of the National Parliamentary Reform

      Association met some of their most active supporters m London and the vicinity , on Thursday evening , at the King ' s Head in the Poultry . Mr . Tindal Atkinson took the chair , and explained the object of the meeting , which was to consult with the gentlemen present upon the propriety of making various alterations in the constitution of the society in accordance with the resolutions of the conference held on the 23 rd of April last . The ten pound qualification of members of the council was proposed to be abolished , and a plan proposed for the complete representation of all members . After some discussion upon the details the plan of the council was approved , with the exception of the period for receiving votes ; and upon the proposition of Mr . Langley , that was extended from three to seven days . The meeting broke up at ten o'clock .

      The will of the late Henry Robinson Hartley , Esq ., was proved in Doctors' Commons last week , and the property sworn under £ 99 , 000 , the interest of the greater part of which princely sum will eventually come into the hands of the corporation of Southampton , for the promotion of literary and scientific purposes . A meeting was held at Herbert ' s Hotel , Palace-yard , on Wednesday , for the purpose of originating some suitable testimonial to Mr . George Alfred Walker in

      recognition of his long , disinterested , and successful labours in the cause of sanitary reform , in connection with the abolition of intra-mural interments . Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart , M . P ., presided ; and Mr , George Thompson , M . P ., acted as secretary . The chairman and several other gentlemen having addressed the meeting in support of the claims of Mr . Walker to public gratitude , it was resolved , on the motion of Mr . C . Lushington , seconded by Mr . 13 . B . Cabbell , that a subscription

      be opened present a . r . Walker , and a committee was appointed to carry the resolution into effect . In the Court of Queen ' s Bench , on Saturday , Mr . Justice Pattison delivered the judgment of the Court on the application of Mr . Barber for a certificate to act as attorney . Mr . Barber , it will bo recollected , was

      convicted of forgery , and transported , in the notorious " Slack case , " and subsequently received a free pardon from the Crown . The Judge concluded by saying that , " Looking at all the circumstances of all the cases in which Mr . Barber was implicated , and endeavouring to make all reasonable allowances for the difficulties in which he was placed in explaining his conduct , the Court regretted to say that it could not but see such proofs of complicity with Fletcher as rendered it an imperative duty to decline complying with the application for the renewal of his certificate to practise as an attorney of this Court . " The rule was therefore discharged .

      A repetition of the sports and pastimes exhibited at the Scottish Fete at Holland-house took place in Cremorne-Gardens on Monday and Tuesday by the same performers who had the honour of appearing before her Majesty in Holland-park . The gardens were crowded with company , the fineness of the weather cooperating with the diversity of entertainments to attract the multitude . The Brighton Pavilion grounds , which are about to be opened to the public , contain about eight acres , with

      several rows of lofty trees , between and under which seats will be placed for the accommodation of the public , thereby forming a most delightful promenade during the summer season . There will be four entrances , and the high wall in the New-road , facing the theatre , will be pulled down , and light iron failings erected . The town has paid fifty-three thousand pounds to the Commissioners of the Woods and Forests ; and the grounds will be a great acquisition to the place , for there is not a shady walk in or near the town .

      Whilst the two Houses of Parliament , the Halls of Commerce throughout England , and even the Legislative Assembly of France , were resounding with expressions of regret and honour to the memory of the statesman so suddenly removed from us , the bells of the parish of Bures St . Mary , in Sudbury , were ringing a merry peal , at the expense we are informed , of a great farmholder in the neighbourhood , who adopted this method of displaying his joy at the event ! The 24 th or 25 th of this month is the day appointed for the floating off the fourth and last iron tube of the Britannia Bridge , which , when hoisted and placed , will complete the Railway Bridge across the Menai Straits , no exertions being spared to expedite the work . The third tube has attained its elevation , and will forthwith take its place alongside the tube on duty .

      The Lakes of Killarney are this season the resort of thousands of tourists and seekers of the " picturesque and beautiful , " and the facilities for travel in that direction afforded by the Great Southern Railway leave no excuse for staying at home to those who are fond of roving . Any one so disposed has only to book himself in London or Edinburgh " for Killarney , " and in Killarney he is set down without any further trouble than having his carpet bag carried from a railroad to a steamboat .

      Such is the eagerness with which a certain party in our church push forward their doctrines at every turn , that , in a case which has come under our notice , a clergyman , giving a certificate of baptism for a legal purpose , designates the baptismal register as " the sacred registry of regeneration . "—Record .

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      A lady was walking leisurely along the York and Scarborough Railway , one day last week , having her parasol before her , when she heard the whistle alarm of an approaching train ; seeing her danger , she turned round and ran back with the intention of escaping . Unfortunately , however , the train was too close upon her , for in the next moment the engine struck the unhappy lady to the ground , and the whole of the carriages , seventeen in number , passed over her body . She was dreadfully mangled ; her body , in fact , was literally cut to pieces . It was with much difficulty her person could

      be identified . The premises belonging to Mr . Samuel Hewett , icemerchant and fish-salesman , in Fisher-street , Barkinprtown , and containing some tons of ice intended for the London market , took fire on Thursday morning . The contents of the building being of such an uncombustible character , it is a matter of astonishment how the fire was caused . Some persons attribute it to the work of an in cendiary . The conflagration was ultimately extinguished , but not before the building was nearly destroyed , and the stock of ice considerably damaged by fire .

      As the New York emigrant ship Hemisphere was crossing the Irish . Channel , on Wednesday week , it encountered a severe gale of wind , during which the men were ordered aloft to reef topsails . Whilst they were thus engaged the ship gave a tremendous lurch to leeward and the three masts were at once carried away . There were eighteen of the crew aloft at the time , and four were pitched into the sea , of whom one was drowned ; the others were thrown on the deck , two of them were

      killed on the spot , and others sustained serious injury . After this dreadful catastrophe the remainder of the crew got up what head-sail they could and put the ship round . They ultimately fell in with the steamer Queen , by which they were towed to the Mersey on Thursday afternoon . The passengers numbered between 400 and 500 , and had experienced the greatest alarm , but they were taken in charge by the consignees and emigrant broker , who will forward them to their destination by some other vessel .

      A large pleasure-party , at Devonport , had a very narrow escape on Wednesday morning . It appears that the Queen steamer had been engaged by Mr . Spencer , a Dissenting minister , for the congregation of Prince ' s-street Chapel , who intended to make a pleasure excursion up tho river Tamar . Above 200 tickets had been sold , and at six o ' clock in the morning a large number had assembled on the quay ready to embark . The Queen arrived according to appointment , and they were in the act of fixing the brow for the company to walk on board , "when the boiler burst with a fearful crash . The whole of tb »

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 13, 1850, page 368, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1846/page/8/