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the water , such of them as were not dead were conveyed either to their homes or to the Bristol Infirmary , where they received every care and attention ; such as had ceased to exist were laid on the wharf , awaiting recognition from their friends . Ten persons are said to have been killed or drowned , and a large number severely injured . The owner and his wife were on board , but were not wounded , although the shock was so great to the nervous system of the wife that she is stated to have been ever since in a state of insensibility .
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MISCELLANEOUS . Her Majesty paid a visit to Carisbrook Castle , on Friday , accompanied by Prince Albert , the Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg , and other distinguished visitors at present at Osborne . The royal party occupied two chars-S-banc , each drawn by four horses , the Queen riding in the one presented to her Majesty by Louis Philippe , and occupying the front seat with Prince Leopold , the Prince Consort and some of the royal children , with the ladies in waiting , being also in the same carriage . The other children and some members of the suite followed in the second char-a-banc . On arriving at the castle , her
Majesty accompanied Prince Leopold through the precincts of the castle , and , on reaching a point where the window from which Charles I . endeavoured to effect his escape is seen to the greatest advantage , her Majesty sat down upon a rough stone and sketched this portion of the ruin . The royal party remained more than an hour in exploring the castle and its neighbourhood , and returned to Osborne through Newport , where the royal party was received with every demonstration of loyal affection . It is supposed the Court will remain at Osborne till the 20 th of August , when it will remove to Balmoral , to which place the royal parry will proceed by railway , &c , making the journey ( it is said ) from Osborne to that place in one day .
The Dublin correspondent of the Standard says it is reported that her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert mean to honour this city with a visit early in the ensuing month for the ostensible purpose of inspecting the triennial exhibition of manufactures at the Royal Dublin Society . Prince Albert has signified his intention to dine with the Lord Mayor of York upon the occasion of the entertainment of the Lord Mayor of London in that city , in October .
The Duchess of Kent embarked at Calais , at ten o ' clock on Monday morning , crossed to Dover , and travelled to town , attended by her suite , by the South Eastern Railway . Having alighted at the Bricklayers ' Arms station , she immediately proceeded to her ^ residence , CJarcnce-house , St . James's , where she arrived at a quarter before three o ' clock . The Duke and Duchess of Nemours and Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg-Gotha , who have been on a visit to the Royal Family , took leave of the Queen and Prince , and left Osborne on Thursday morning at eleven o'clock .
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The Count and Countess de Neuilly , accompanied by the Duke and Duchess de Nemours , the Duchess of Orleans , and the other branches of the Orleans family , left Jermyn-street on Tuesday for Claremont . On Monday several persons waited outside the Brunswick Hotel , George--trect , to see the ex-Monarch go out for a drive to the Regcnt ' s-park . When he was seated in his carriage the crowd began to cheer him , and all took off their hats . The King rose in his carriage , at the window , and
said , " Gentlemen , I thank you all for the great kindness and attention I have always received from you , not only in London , but wherever I go in England . I thank you all most heartily—God bless you all . "—Globe . The Ministerial white-bait dinner , as at present arranged , will take place at the Crown and Sceptre , Greenwich , on Saturday , the 3 rd of August . The Right Honourable the Speaker will give his official dinner on Saturday , August 3 . It is understood that Parliament is to be prorogued on the 15 th of Auprust .
The deaths of the Queen Dowager and of the Duke of Cambridge leave the Crown at liberty to make new arrangements as to the regulation and government of some of our public parks . The Queen Dowager and his Iioyal Highness were the rangers of more than one of them , and there was a disinclination , perhaps excusable , during their lives , to interfere with what they had allowed , if not ordered . Now there is no such excuse . The interesting ceremony of the premiere communion of the Comte de Paris took place on Saturday morning , at the French Catholic Chapel in King-street ,
Portmansquare . Monsigniore Wiseman , the Catholic Bishop of London , who officiated in person , administered the communion to the young count . The Count and Countess de Neuill y , the Duchess of Orleans , and all the members of the exiled Royal Family were present , as well as a considerable number of devoted friends and adherents , many of whom had come from France especially to testify on this occasion their sympathy and respect for the royal exiles . From an early hour every seat and available plane in the small chapel was occupied by these dis-* V > p : uished visitors , and by a number of English ladies of rank .
It is understood that the will of the late Duke of Cambridge wns opened and read last week . The property is stated to be divided into three portions amongst his three children , viz , the present Duke and his two sisters . In addition to other property the sum of £ 6000 goes to the Duchess . The executors arc the Duke of Sutherland , Sir Jnmcs Reynett , and Sir Henry Wheatley . The fruardians of the Princess Mary are the Duchess , the present Duke , and the executors already named . The Princess Mnry is but sixteen . By the prant of Parliament she will have £ 3000 per annum , as well as one-third of the personal estate by will . The Duke of Norfolk has invited a party to dine with him on a distant day , three of whom , the Duke of
Cambridge , Sir Robert Peel , and Lord Cantalupe ( son of Earl Delawarr ) , have departed this life before the day of the intended dinner has arrived . The Nepaulese princes and suite take their departure from this country about the middle of next month . They proceed to India via" France , and the Admiralty have ordered the coramander-in-chief in the Mediterranean to send her Majesty ' s steam sloop Growler to Marseilles by the 1 st of September , to convey the distinguished Orientals to Alexandria en route to Nepaul .
A correspondent of the Morning Post suggests that there is a vacant space in Poets ' -corner where a bust of Wordsworth may be most appropriately placed . It is just over Thomson ' s monument , and close to that of Shakespeare and the bust of Southey . The house in which Burns lived and died , in Dumfries , has been purchased by Lieutenant-Colonel W . N . Burns , the second son of the poet . As Mr . Charles Gilpin was travelling m a four-wheeled chaise between Truro and Falmouth , on Wednesday week , accompanied by his brother-in-law , the horse took fright and ran away . The whole party were thrown violently out , the driver falling upon Mr . Gilpin . The latter was taken up insensible , but he is now said to be out of danger .
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The nineteenth anniversary of the inauguration of the King of the Belgians was celebrated at Brussels on Sunday with the usual ceremonies . All the public buildings , and a great many private houses , were decorated with the national flag , and the bells of all the churches were rung . In the evening a grand banquet was given by the Burgomaster , at the Hotel de Ville , and toasts to the King , Queen , and Royal Family were drunk with enthusiasm . The public buildings , the residences of the Foreign Ministers , and members of the Chamber , and a vast number of private houses were illuminated .
The French President intends to leave Pans , upon a tour in the provinces , about the 20 th of August . His intention is to try the feeling of the population upon the question of the prolongation of his powers . He is to begin with Cherbourg , where there will be a naval review , and the fleet will manoeuvre before him . The French squadron is to be recalled from Naples for that purpose . The order to the French fleet to sail to Cherbourg to be reviewed by the President , has also , it is said , a political motive . The fleet will be there in a better position to take part in the armed intervention likely to be needed between Denmark and the Duchies .
Count Nesselrode , who is drinking the mineral waters of Kissengen , has attracted round him a little congress of diplomatists . " These bathing-place congresses , ' says the Frankfort journal , " always forbode some impending danger for Germany . " Two valuable horses presented by Queen Victoria to the Prince Royal of Prussia during his late visit to London , have arrived safely at Coblentz , and are deposited in the spacious stables erected in that city for the
stud of his royal highness . The period of imprisonment to which M . Teste , Louis Philippe ' s frail keeper of the seals , was condemned , has just expired . He was to leave the Maison de Sante on Sunday , provided the fine of 100 , 000 f ., to which he was condemned , was paid up . M . Teste wrote to implore the President to remit half of the fine . The President referred the petition to the Conseil d'Etat , by whom it was rejected . M . Teste ' s family have , however , made arrangements for the payment of the fine in full . of
The confession of Professor Webster of the killing Dr . Parkman has been supplanted in America in the public mind by the discussions as to his probable fate . The governor and council of Massachusetts were examining petitions in favour of the wretched man : but the subject was not to be resumed until the 18 th of the month . One of the petitions in his favour was signed by 984 inhabitants of New York ; another was from one of the jurymen who tried him ; there were two or three from individuals who said that they committed the murder , and not Webster .
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The Legitimist club , called " L'Etoile , " held at Marseilles , has been dissolved by order of the Prefect of the department . A statue of Henry V . and an engraving of the same person on horseback were seized by the commissary of police , who closed the club . A band of Republican conspirators was discovered on Monday night in the Faubourg St . Antoine . The police pounced upon them during their deliberations , and captured forty of them , all of whom were armed to the teeth . An immense quantity of ammunition was also taken . The police of Versailles went on Monday to the little commune of Bonnelles , department of the Seine-et-Oise , and searched the house of one of the inhabitants , who was suspected of having a clandestine manufactory of
ammunition . Upwards of four hundred bullets , a great quantity of gunpowder , and a mass of lead prepared for casting bullets were discovered . The Times Paris corespondent , in mentioning the justformed treaty of commerce and navigation between Greece and Russia , states that the news of it has produced great satisfaction in Paris , particularly with reference to the advantageous conditions the Czar has granted to Greece , and which here , at all events , are looked upon as a contrecoup to the rather «' ungracious " policy of Lord Palmorston ; and adds , that the Courtier d'Athenes describes the treaty as " anew and striking proof of the sincere and benevolent interest which the Czar always takes in the prosperity of the Greek nation . "
The definitive effect of the new Electoral Law is now known , and it has been ascertained that the number of electors in France , which in 1848 amounted to 10 , 600 , 000 , has been reduced to 3 , 250 , 000 , and still tho Conservative papers say that the principle of universal suffrage has not been infringed . If it be true , as stated by the Pouvoir , that none have been excluded excepting
houseless beggars and repris de justice , the number of these two daises in France must be uncomfortably numerous . A sergeant of artillery of one of the forts of Lyons was shot defd by a corporal while in the act of instructing the men in the exercise of the guns . The b » Up" «« l through his heart , and wounded a g ^ adier £ * ° * standing at some distance . The corporal had been ^ punished a short time before for some breach of discipline . In consequence of the death of the President of the United States , the President of the French Republic will go into mourning for one month . A grand solemn service will be performed at Notre Dame , and for ten days the national flag will have black crape attached . The members of the French Assembly are so anxious to begin their holidays , that it is a matter of much dimculty for the President Dupin to scrape together a house
on the budget . , , _ „ . Some of the French journals have already begun to sign their leading articles . This is the case with the Ordre , in which M . Chambolle appended his name oa Sunday to an outspoken , frank leader , in which he alludes boldly to the smothered war waging between the executive and legislative , and the dangers with which the country is hereby threatened . The Presse having doubled the price of its subscription , announces that , notwithstanding the great loss entailed by the tax on the romanfeuilleton , it will continue to publish the novels of Eugene Sue and others . . The great diversion in Paris at present is aeronautics . On Sunday M . Margat , who ascended from the Hippodrome , nromisine to come down presently in a
parachute , disappointed a numerous body of spectators by accompanying the balloon beyond the clouds , which discharged a torrent of rain . In the course of the evening , however , he was perceived descending , to the astonishment of everybody , plump upon the middle of Fans . Finally , the bold aeronaut stepped out of his car amid the chimney-pots of the Rue Ste . Anne . There is quite a mania in Paris at the present moment for excursion trains . Every week trains de plaisir start for Havre , Dieppe , Rambouillet , Chartres , Calais , Dunkirk , &c . The Parisians are carried to Dieppe and back again to Paris , allowing them the whole of Sunday at the seaside , for 5 f . Last week upwards of 2000 Parisians , three-fourths of whom had never seen the sea before , took advantage of this cheap trip ; and this week the application for tickets is so great that a double tram is to be sent .. .
. _ _ _ Nineteen houses were destroyed by fire on the 18 th . instant in the commune of Tremblay Le Vicirente , Eure et Loire ; and six houses , with the whole of the crops and eleven cows , the same day , in the village of Chantaloup , were also destroyed . There is little doubt of this destruction being the work of incendiaries . The Californian emigration has not lost any of its attraction . On Saturday a hundred Parisians started for the land of gold . Mr . Chapman , an executioner from the United States , has arrived in Paris for the purpose of studying the French guillotine system , and examining the machinery employed in the work of decapitation used in other parts of Europe .
_ _ . . „ ..., _ A new and magnificent building , lately erected in the suberb of Sachsenhausen , devoted to public amusements , and known as the Felsenkeller , or cellar in the rock , fell in with a terrific crash about four o ' clock , on the 17 th instant . Sixteen persons are known to be buried in tho ruins . How many more have met an untimely end is not yet ascertained . The latest accounts from St . Petersburg *! state that a second division of the Russian Baltic fleet , having on board about 10 , 000 troops of the land forces , was on the point of sailing . A dreadful fire broke out on tho 18 th , at Cracow , which laid waste the greate r part of the city , and consumed the Archbishop ' s palace , besides other public
buildings . The Risorgimento of Turin , having stated that there were in the Roman States 12 , 000 political prisoners , " It is a mistake , " officially responds the Journal de Borne , — " there are but 10 , 825 . " A new machine analogous to the American treadwheel coach has been patented in Piedmont . The horses work on a platform , called a pedivella , inside the vehicle , and the power of their weight , as well as of their motion , is made uso of by means of ropes communicating with the axle-trees of the leading wheels . It is alleged that a speed of even sixty miles an hour can be realized by without increase in the
means of the mechanism , any rapidity of the motion of the horses , which is merely a walk , in which the animal does not actually advance beyond a single step , the platform retreating instead . ^ It is thought that , as feeders on branch lines , such vehicles might be both economical and useful . — The Builder . The Oregon steamer , from California , has brought to Panama upwards of two millions dollars worth of gold dust as freight , and nearly another million dollars worth in tho hands of private passengers . Of this immense quantity of gold tho greater part is consigned to New York .
The fears entertained that a rupture would be provoked between Spain and the United States , in consequence of the detention of American prisoners , arc now allayed by the fact that the governor of Cuba has declared tliat all of them will be surrendered to the American authorities in due course of time . Tho city of Albany has been visited by a thunder storm of unexampled violence , which has done
considerable damage . Some of the bridges on tho smaller streams near the city were swept away . But the greatest injury sustained was on the Utica and Schenectndy Railway , where a serious accident occurred . A bridge was swept down tho stream by the force of tho swollen purrent , just before a passenger train from Albany arrived at the spot . The engine was precipitated into the stream , the tender , a freight car , and the baggage car lodged on the top of the engine . In the freight car there were
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July 27 , 1850 . ] «!> $ & * £ * £ ?? 415
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Leader (1850-1860), July 27, 1850, page 415, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1848/page/7/
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