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Leader (1850-1860), 3rd August 1850, Edition Town of 1, Page 439, Untitled Article

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      After an absence of twenty minutes the jury brought into court a verdict of " Guilty" on both the charges libelled . The Lord Justice Clerk pronounced the solemn sentence of the law , and the prisoner was removed from he bar protesting his innocence .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . The Royal Family still continues at Osborne , and the Court Circular has had nothing to record during the week , except the unvarying intelligence , from day to day , that the Queen , Prince Albert , and the royal children took their usual out-door exercise . It is said that her Majesty has determined to prorogue Parliament in person , and that , consequently , the adjournment may be expected to take place before the 20 th

      of August , which is named for the departure of the court for Scotland . Her Majesty and the Prince , and the Royal Family , will proceed by railway . Sir G . Grey will be the Secretary of State in attendance on her Majesty . Until the estimates shall be passed it will be impossible to fix the exact day for the prorogation , but it is generally expected to take place on Friday , the 16 th , or Saturday , the 17 th of August , but may , by circumstances , be prolonged even to Monday , the 19 th .

      The arrangements for the royal visit to Holyrood are now nearly completed . Though the precise period is not yet fixed , we have the best reason to believe that it will take place before the 20 th of August . " Various packages have arrived , addressed to the Queen at Holyrood—an evidence that her Majesty ' s advent is not far distant . — Edinburgh Evening Post .

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      Those of our readers who have been tired of the wearisome debates in Parliament will be glad to learn that the Ministerial fish dinner is fixed for Saturday next , at the Trafalgar , Greenwich / It is rumoured that Lord Brougham is to be created an earl , with remainder to his brother ( Mr . William Brougham , one of the Masters in Chancery ) , for his public services in the House of Lords and Privy Council . There is now no longer any doubt about the retirement of Sir Charles Napier , he takes his final leave of India in October . No authentic accounts as to the name of his successor have yet been promulgated .

      The Vice-Chancellor of England has had a relapse , and his state was so alarming on Thursday evening that he took the sacrament , and summoned to his bedside all the members of his family . He was in Richmondpark a few days ago , apparently quite convalescent ; but it is said that all hopes of his ultimate recovery are

      now over . Lady Peel has greatly improved in health within the last ten days . It is stated the late Sir Robert Peel has bequeathed the family mansion in ' Whitehall-gardens , and all its appurtenances , to her ladyship for life , as well as a yearly income of £ 6000 , afterwards to revert to the present baronet and his heirs . According to a paper printed by order of the House of Commons , on Saturday , the estimated cost of the monument to be erected in Westminster Abbey , to the late Sir Robert Peel , is £ 5250 . Three candidates for Lambeth are in the field—Mr . T . Williams , late M . P . for Coventry , Mr . J . H . Palmer , and Sir Charles Napier . The nomination will take place on Kennington-common on Monday .

      It is now generally understood that Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton Bart ., is to be brought forward at the next election for the city of Lincoln , in the Protectionist interest , with Colonel Sibthorp . There is little doubt but that the honourable baronet will meet with that success which will ensure his return . The registration is being closely attended to on the part of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton and Colonel Sibthorp . —Lincolnshire Chronicle . General Jung Bahadore and his suite have been visiting the wonders of Plymouth and its vicinity this week . On Tuesday they took the express train for Exeter and Bristol ; from whence they proceed to Gloucester and Birmingham , and on , it is said , to Holyhead , thence to Dublin and Belfast .

      Mr . Smith O'Brien is to be removed from Maria Island to Port Arthur , where arrangements are now being made for his reception . The stable attached to the former residence of Assistant Commissary General Lempriere is to be his dwelling-place . A platform in front is being erected as the post of a military sentinel , and it is understood that intercourse will be restricted to the visiting magistrate , the superintendent , officer , and sergeant of the guard .

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      Louis Napoleon , on hearing of the great distress of the widowed mother of George Alfred Walker , who is now in confinement for intending to shoot him , has generously alleviated her wants , for which kindness he has received a letter from the culprit expressing sincere repentance for the wicked design he had formed against him . M . Thiers left Paris on Wednesday , with his family , on a tour in Belgium , Holland , and Germany . ThpChatP&u de Meudon , near Paris , is being prepared for Abd-el-Kader , who is to be transferred there from that nf Amboisc , on the Loire , where he is at present confined .

      A letter from Constantinople , of the 9 th ult ., states that M . de Lamartine and his two companions , MM . Champeaux and Chuniboran , had been graciously received by the Sultan . The King of Bavaria is expected in a week at Paris , from whence he will visit London . His Majesty travels undrr the incognito of the Count of Munich . The King of Bavaria left Aix-la-Chapelle on Saturday last by railway , for Brussels , to pay a visit to the King of the Belgians . He arrived at Brussels the same night , and on Sunday he had an audience of the king , which lasted more than hour . Shortly after the interview the King of Bavaria was conveyed to the palace at Laeken in . one of the royal carriages . There was a grand dinner

      at court , after which the King of Bavaria and suite were re-conveyed to their residence at Brussels . Letters from Madrid state that the Queen of Spain was restored to convalescence , and had left her bedroom . The Duchesse de Montpensier had issued cards for a grand reception on the 31 st , a somewhat singular method of condoling with her royal sister for the death of the Prince of Asturias ; all the guests would , perhaps , be expected to appear in court mourning . The Heraldo of Madrid says that , during the Queen ' s illness , the Queen of England sent frequently to the Spanish Ambassador at London to enquire after her Majesty . . The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa asserts , on the faith of a letter from Naples of the 15 th , that Count Montemolin , in signing his marriage contract , assumed the title of Charles VI ., King of Spain and the Indies .

      It has been remarked as strange that the Duke of Victoria ( Espartero ) was not invited to the ceremony of the " presentation" of the royal infants . Both in his capacity of Grandee of Spain of the first class , and as Field-Marshal ( Capitan-General ) , he had a double right to be summoned officially to this important ceremony . Germany has just lost her celebrated Protestant theologian , John Augustus William Neander , first professor of theology in the Royal University at Berlin . He was born at Gottingen , of Hebrew parents , on the 16 th of January , 1789 , and was consequently upwards of sixtyalle and

      one when he died . He studied at H Gottingen ; at the early age of twenty-three he was appointed professor at Heidelberg . The funeral of the late President of America took place on the 13 th ult . The occasion was honoured with appropriate and impressive solemnities ; the military escort , commanded by General Scott , was composed of detachments of the United States troops , with a large number of volunteer militia companies from Baltimore and the district of Columbia . In the principal cities of the Union the day was observed by suspension of business and suitable ceremonies .

      It is said that President Taylor , a few days before his death , had prepared a strong message to Congress , directed against the threatened invasion of New Mexico by Texas . The appointment of Mr . Webster to the office of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , in the United States , which was by the last American mail rumoured as " probable , " is now reduced to a certainty . The fatal illness of President Taylor appears to have been brought on by his own indiscretion . On the morning of the 4 th of July he was in good health , and went to the public celebration at the national monument . After great exposure to the sun and considerable fatigue , he returned to the Presidential mansion in a state of partial

      exhaustion . Calling for refreshment , and saying that he felt very hungry , he partook freely of cherries and wild berries , accompanied with copious draughts of iced milk and water . His appetite at dinner was good , and he indulged it without any unusual precaution . Within an hour he was seized by cramp in the stomach , which soon took the form of cholera morbus , and on the Monday following he died .

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      A remarkable Orleanist manifesto is put forward in the Ordre of Tuesday , in the shape of a letter from England , which has every appearance of being an authentic expression of the attitude adopted by the younger branch of the Bourbons . After denouncing the untruth of the statements contained in the letters in the Univers , after the return of M . Thiers from St . Leonard ' s , and denying the divisions said to exist among various members of the family , it goes on to say " that the most perfect accord exists between the King , the Duchess of Orleans , the Prince de Joinville , and the Duke d'Aumale , as to the duties of the family towards France * * * * * Much has been said of the protest of the Duchess of Orleans in favour of the rights of her Ron , of the pretension which she had to put them forward ,

      and of her resistance on that accoont to any fusion . There is not a word of truth in this . The Orleans family does not attribute to itself rights , to be imposed upon what the legitimists call the inviolable and unalterable rights of the Count de Chambord to the throne of France . It has no pretension to represent such a principle . It only knows that a state o ( things was made in 1830 by the positive will of the nation , and which situation was overthrown by a violent event . It wishes as much as it can to remain in that situation at the disposal of France . If France should think proper one day to demand its safety from the hands of legitimate royalty , the Orleans family would submit without considering that it had any claim or protest to make on its own account . "

      A bill has been presented by the French Minister of Finance for obliging the Bank to return to cash payments , founded on the general state of tranquility abroad and at home combined with commercial improvement , which render exceptional measures as regards the circulation no longer necessary . The Prefect of the Gard has ordered the closing of the Legitimist club of the Droit National , at Nimes , on the ground that , although it is not authorized as a political society , it had held a banquet , at which political discussion was carried on , and political toasts were proposed . A telegraphic despatch in the Cologne Gazette , dated Berlin , July 29 , states that Austria has invited the German Governments to nominate seventeen delegates to the Germanic Diet .

      The Austrian Ministry has at length resolved upon abolishing the state of siege at Vienna and Prague : the resolution is to come into operation on the 18 th of August . The Catholic priesthood at Schleimbach , near Vienna , have been exhibiting a display of supernatural power in . the person of a girl , out of whose ha , feet , and left side blood is said to flow every Friday as sweat . On her brow are the letters J . N . R . Hundreds of people hasten

      to Schleimbach to cast their mites into the sacred treasury in honour of the new saint . The courts have investigated the matter , and report that the whole story of the miracle turns upon a fraud ; that the secretion of bloody sweat is acc ounted for in a most natural manner , and that the initial letters have been produced by chemical agents . , __ The reorganization of the Lombardo-Venetian provinces has been definitively settled as follows : —There are to be two civil lieutenants ; one at Venice for Venetian affairs , the other at Milan for Lombardy . Both these lieutenants will be under the immediate control of the Minister .

      Several English manufacturers intend to erect four establishments for the manufacture of beetroot sugar in those parts of the Austrian empire where facilities are offered for the cultivation of this plant on a very extensive scale . They are accompanied by chemists , who thoroughly test and prove the lands which they intend to purchase . An Austrian economist acts as their guide and interpreter . They intend having their machinery and workmen from England . The German journals state that the case of Schleswijr-Holstein is beginning to excite so much interest at Berlin that an association has just been formed there . The strangest rumours are current about the band of

      II Passatore , who still infests both the Tuscan and Papal Romagna , notwithstanding the exertions of the Austrian troops . Engagements are said to have taken place with his men in the vicinity of Cortona , in which the Austrians were worsted . They also say that II Passatore has two pieces of cannon , that he has divided his band into three bodies , giving each a commander , and that he is well provided with arms and money . The Ottoman Porte has notified to the refugees at Schumla that such of them as are willing to emigrate to America will receive passports and a sum of 1000 piastres ( about £ 10 ) in aid of their journey , but that those who wish to remain must not expect any more pecuniary assistance from the government .

      A letter from Posen , in the Gazette de Cologne , confirms the news already announced by many journals that a great part of the Russian troops stationed in Poland are about to return home . This arrangement will principally concern the cavalry , and is caused by the want of forage in Poland ; the regiments on their return will go to Podolia and Volnia . An execution by the guillotine took place for the first time , on the 23 d ult ., at Elberfeld , in Prussia . The novelty of the scene attracted an immense crowd . It was that of a young man , twenty-six years of age , who had been condemned for two murders . Owing to the unskilfulness of the executioner , the knife , instead of falling on the man ' s neck , fell on his shoulders , inflicting a desperate wound , and it was necessary to readjust the poor fellow on the plank before the work of decapitation could be effected . The cries of the man after the first wound

      were heart-rending , the affair occupying more than six minutes . In Hanover a popular assembly was held on the 27 th , to take into consideration the state of the Duchies . About 4000 persons were present . Two petitions were drawn tip—one addressed to the King , the other to the Cabinet—in both of which it was requested that the Hanoverian army might be sent to the aid of Schleswig-Holstein . On Saturday Professor Barrat and M . Bixio made a second ascent from the Paris Observatory in a balloon ,

      for the purpose of making scientific experiments and observations . They made their descent in the neighbourhood of Chateau Thierry , and M . Arago is this evening to communicate to the Academy of Sciences the result of their observations . The Barcelona papers mention a case of atrocious murder perpetrated by a band of malefactors known by the name of matines ( Break-o' -Day Boys ) . They entered the office of the celador of the village of Clot , under the pretext of coming for passports , and shot him ; they then seized a police agent , whom they severely wounded , and left for dead .

      The Spanish Minister of War has decided on sending a reinforcement of 6000 troops to Cuba , in order to secure that island in case it should be attacked . In a bull fight a few days ago , at Madrid , the celebrated espada Montea was caught in the calf by the horn of a bull , and was raised in the air . He was rescued , and conveyed to his residence in a state of great suffering , and when the last accounts left fears were entertained for his life . The emotion of the public on seeing the favourite toreador injured was very great , and crowds nocked to his house to inquire after him . The Spanish Government has ordered the Rale of Socialist works in foreign languages to be prohibited .

      A Carlist conspiracy has been discovered in the province of Segovi ; many persons have been arrested . It would appear that the plot had numerous ramifications throughout the whole or Old Castile . The greater part of the clergy are said to be implicated in the project . Letters from Constantino announce the discovery of a gold mine in the mountains between Philippeville and Jcmmappcs . The draft of convention destined to close the difference between the English and Greek Governments was signed at Athens on the 18 th of July , in presence of the representative of France . The Greek Government accepted it with alacrity .

      The Turkish squadron , which was seen on the 5 th ult . clearing out of the Archipelago , and making south , is bound for Bosnia , in consequence of the troubles which have broken out there . M . Nielsson , a young painter , who was recently crowned by the Iloyal Academy of Stockholm , having joined the sect of Anabaptists , has beon tried and sen . tenecd for this act to perpetual banishment , with the confiscation of all his property . M . Nielsson petitioned the King of Sweden for clemency , and his Majesty referred the petition to the Lutheran ConsiBtory for consi-

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      Aug . 3 , 1850 . ] tofyt & * && *? + 439

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 3, 1850, page 439, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1849/page/7/