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    THE WAR BETWEEN DENMARK AND SCHLESWIQ-HOLSTEIN . The loss of lives the Holsteiners sustained in the battle of Idsledt ( July 25 th ) has been increased by a catastrophe . The laboratory of their artillery in Bendsburg—as is frequently the case when the works in such places are hurried—blew up at a quarter to twelve , a . m ., on the 7 th instant . The explosion killed and severely wounded about 100 persons , and a great number of houses have been damaged . As to the damage which has been done to the stores of the army , it would appear from General Willisen ' s h examination of

    proclamation , issued after a thoroug the locality , that it was of no importance . On the day after this catastrophe the Danes made an attack upon the Schleswig-Holstein line of posts , near Sorgbruck , and between the Stendler-Miihle and the Bissen Lake . Whilst they confined themselves , in this attack , principally to skirmishing with their light troops and cannon with the Holstein patrols of cavalry and rifles , near Sorgbruck , they made a more serious attack on the easterly part of the Holsteiners' position . But here the rifles of the latter made a charge upon the advancing Danes with the bayonet , and compelled them to retreat hastily by the heights of Langinberg , in a northerly direction , upon Ahlofeld . From five to six Danish

    battalions , with some cavalry and artillery , were engaged in this action . The Danes lost about 100 men in killed and wounded , and the Holsteiners had two killed and about eighteen wounded ; such at least is General Willisen ' s statement in his fifth army report . After this engagement , which was but a strong reconnaissance , a pitched battle was expected on the next day ( the 9 th instant ) , but it had not taken place up to the 10 th instant . Meanwhile , on the west coast of Schleswig , the Danes are landing troops and taking possession of the islands without encountering any resistance . On the opposite coast heavy guns are being landed and mounted by the Danes at Eckernford , some of which have been transported from Copenhagen in Russian men-of-war . The island of Fehmarn is

    being fortified in a similar manner , and a garrison of 1200 men has been placed there . The proclamation of the Danish Minister-of-War , that the army of Holstein is beyond the protection of the law of nations , has drawn a counter declaration from General Willisen , stating that in such a case he feels bound to make known that he shall consider the 500 Danish prisoners in his hands as security that the Ministerial declaration will not be acted on towards

    any individual serving in the Holstein army . The Holstein Government has made large claims on the several German Governments , on account of the last year ' s expences of the war with Denmark having been carried on in the name of the German Confederation , but as yet without success ; and , whilst the larger states have exhausted every pretext for evading this claim , the little principality of Waldeck has come forward with spirit , and sent 6000 dollars to Kiel . The general sympathy for Schleswig-Holstein throughout the whole of Germany not only continues , but is on the increase . There is not one of the thirty and odd states which is not represented in the

    Schleswig-Holstein army , — there is not a town and hardly a "village which has not contributed to the collections which are being made for the benefit of the duchies . In Berlin 5000 dollars have been raised by private subscriptions , Breslau has sent 3000 dollars , and Vienna 3000 florins . Up to the 8 th instant the sum raised throughout Germany amounted to about 100 , 000 dollars ( about £ 15 , 000 ) . The Vienna press has likewise shown its sympathy for the duchies , having done all in its power to urge their Government to protest against the incorporation of Schleswig with Denmark on the one hand , and to maintain the agnatic succession in the duchies on the other .

    But it has been the policy of Austria not to countenance any change in the existing balance of power in Europe , and she will of course remain faithful to this petrified maxim in the present question , especially as by deviating from it she can derive no such advantage as in 1846 , when , by violating the treaty of Vienna , she seized upon the Republic of Cracow , in spite of Viscount Palmerston and Louis Philippe ' s protests . This enthusiasm and sympathy of the German people for the duchies sufficiently shows that they are conscious that the war between Denmark and Holstein is but a struggle between the provisions of the troaty of 1815 , refreshed by diplomatic protocols on ono side , and the nationalities , whom that troaty has injured , on the other .

    A rumour was current lately at Hamburg to the cflcct that England and Russia had sent commissioners to Copenhagen and Kiel for the purpose of oiidoavouring to bring about a termination of further bloodshed , but it has not been confirmed .

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    SPANISH COURT GOSSIP . Queen Isabella , for the first time since her accouchement , took a vide in an open carriage , accompanied by tho lving , on the evening of the 4 th instant . As it was known that her Majesty was going out , md , as it was besides a fC'fo day , a gjeat crowd W » s

    assembled on the passage of their Majesties from the palace to the Prado . She was well received at the Puerto del Sol , the Prado , and other places on her route . She appeared perfectly convalescent . On the 5 th . she again rode out , and was equally well received . Queen Isabella and the King have abandoned all idea of visiting La Granja this year . They have determined to remain at Madrid for some time . Senhor Sanchez , the head physician to the Queen , whose treatment of her Majesty during her accouchement was so severely criticised , has requested to be allowed , to retire on the pension he is entitled to . The Queen has requested him to remain in her

    service , at the request of Queen Christina , who seems to place great faith in the doctor . The two wet nurses selected to suckle the late heir-apparent have had pensions of £ 55 settled upon them . Lord Howden , the new English Ambassador at Madrid , was received with the usual ceremonies , in private audience , by the Queen of Spain in the evening of the 3 rd , to present his credentials . The early reception of the British envoy is considered as a special honour , various corporations and public functionaries having been refused an audience . Lord Howden was also received at the palace with the military honours paid to Infantes of Spain .

    There was a grand reception by the Queen Maria Christina , on the 6 th instant , which was very numerously attended , it being known that she is going in a few days to La Granja . The Duke of Valencia is gone to the watering-place of Puerto Llano . It is not true that the Spanish Ambassador at Rome has taken his departure for Madrid , and that the diplomatic relations between the Vatican and the Court of her Most Catholic Majesty have been suspended . It is said , however , that the conduct of the Pope with respect to the marriage of the Count de Montemolin , and the sympathies he is known to

    entertain for his Royal Highness , have deeply wounded the self-love of Queen Christina and Narvaez , although motives of policy hinder them from giving vent to their indignation . The Gazette publishes the decree for the dissolution of the Cortes . A general election will take place on the 31 st , and the Cortes will meet again on October 31 . In that way the budget can be discussed before the end of the year . The Cortes which is just dissolved has had . a more extended existence than any one which has preceded it . It was convoked in the autumn of 1846 , and has therefore continued four years , and had four legislative sessions .

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    THE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION OF 1851 . The working classes of Leicester appear to have made up their minds to come up to London en masse next summer , judging from the enthusiasm displayed at a public meeting in the Townhall on Tuesday week , to consider what steps should be taken towards enabling them to visit the metropolis during the time of the Industrial Exhibition . So great was the interest evinced on this occasion that the hall was crowded , and the Mayor's parlour had to be thrown open for the accommodation of the audience . The grand jury room was also called into requisition for the same purpose in the course of the evening .

    The chairman , Mr . W . Biggs , in-the course of his speech , remarked that , " considering the flourishing state of the Exchequer , the expense of the exhibition might have been borne by Government . In compliment to Prince Albert and the people , Ministers might have undertaken it , and he thought the public money might have been infinitely better employed in that way than the taxes raised from the people generally were expended . " Several resolutions were then proposed for the formation of a society whose object shall be to raise a fund by weekly subscriptions of Cd ., 9 d ., and Is ., out of which the expenses of a trip to London shall be defrayed . By beginning in time they will be able

    to raise the requisite sum in the easiest manner possible . A weekly payment of 6 d . will give 26 s . at the end of the year , and that sum , according to one of the speakers , will be sufficient to defray the cost of a journey to London from Leicester , by railway , and back , including a week ' s residence in the metropolis . At this rate he thought there would be some 5000 or 6000 people from Leicester who would go to see the exhibition . Another speaker , in reply to the objection that the exhibition would enable foreigners to come and pick our brains , " said he felt certain 11 for one foreigner who would get an advantage by it , there would be a thousand Englishmen benefitted by seeing the works of foreigners .

    At a public meeting held at Bakewell , last week , Mr . Paxton gave a description of the intended building in Hyde-park . The building will be 2100 feet long by 400 broad . The centre aisle will bo 120 feet broad , or ten feet wider than the Conservatory at Chatsworth . The great object , with so vast a structure , was to make it up with as few details as possible . The glass and its iron supporters will comprise the whole structure . Tho columns will bo precisely the same throughout tho building , and will fit all parts alike , the same is the caso with the bars and the glass , every piqee of which , will bo four feet long .

    No numbering or marking will be required , and the whole will be put together like a piece of machinery . The site will be twenty acres of land , but by an arrangement of Mr . Paxton's the available space which may be afforded by galleries can be extended to about thirty acres if necessary . The gallery will be twenty-four feet wide , and will extend a distance of six miles . If it should be thought desirable to let it remain after the exhibition is over it might be turned to most admirable uses . There might be made an excellent carriage-drive round the interior , as well as a road for equestrians , with the centre tastefully laid out and planted , and then there would be nearly six miles of room in the galleries as a promenade for the public .

    The Duke of Devonshire , who was present at the meeting , said that , much as he admired the projecte d exhibition , his admiration had been greatly enhanced by the description of that gigantic structure in which it was to take place . No one need fear that the magnificent plan should not be successfully carried out , for Mr . Paxton had never undertaken anything in which he had not succeeded .

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    INSTITUTION OF MR . GORHAM . A correspondence of some length has taken place between the committee of the Metropolitan Church Union and the Archbishop of Canterbury , in relation to the institution of the Reverend Mr . Gorhamtothe living to which he has established his title after an almost unprecedented course of expensive and dilatory litigation . The correspondence arose out of a request made by the committee that the Archbishop would receive a deputation from their body commissioned , to solicit his Grace not to proceed with the institution of Mr . Gorham , on certain grounds , which appear more satisfactory and conclusive to the remonstrants than they do to the mind of his Grace of Canterbury . The scope of this solicitation will ,

    however , be best understood from the following passage in the Archbishop ' s reply , repeating his determination and sentiments as expressed in a previous reply to the committee : —• ' You disclaim my interpretation to the request then made to me , and profess that in desiring me to withhold consent to the admission of Mr . Gorham to the benefice of Brampford Speke you do not propose that I should reverse the sentence of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council . It is , however , obvious that to refuse Mr . Gorham a benefice to which that tribunal has declared him to be entitled would be practically to reverse its decision , —the decision of a tribunal which , whether it be termed spiritual or secular , is the tribunal , by which , according to the existing law , Mr . Gorham ' s right was to be tried . "

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    TRAFFICKING IN MATRIMONY . At the Guildford Assizes on Tuesday , an action for crim . con . was tried , in which the damages were laid at £ 2000 . The plaintiff was a Mr . John Marsh Case , a navy agent , carrying on business in the Adelphi ; the defendant , Mr . Baker , a parliamentary agent , residing in Spring Gardens . The marriage appeared to have been an unhappy one from the beginning . Mrs . Case was an illegitimate child , but had been well brought up , and a handsome provision was made for her . When only seventeen years of age , Mr . Case met her accidentally in a jeweller ' s shop , entered into conversation , followed her home ,

    and applied to her friends to be allowed to pay his addresses to her . They refused , clandestine interviews took place , the marriage was anticipated , and then her friends unwillingly consented to the marriage to save her reputation . But although a marriage settlement was made upon her , none of her friends sanctioned tho marriage with their presence . The union proved to bo one of unmitigated misery . The husband kept his wife without money , taunted her with being illegitimate , and appeared determined to drive her away from his house . On the other hand it api > eared that Mrs . Case had a temper , and one of the witnesses , on cross-examination , stated her mistress sometimes took a little too

    much drink after dinner . In the spring of 1849 , when they had been ten years married , Mrs . Case left her husband ' s house , on account of some quarrel , but was soon after induced to return , chiefly through the intercession of Mr . Baker , the defendant , and an old friend of Mr . Case . The criminal intimacy between Mrs . Case and Mr . Baker commenced apparently at the time when this quarrel took place , and was kept up after she returned to her husband . In August , last year , the latter had his suspicions first awakened by a statement made to him by his servant relative to the intimacy between his wife and Mr . Baker , and soon afterward other evidence was obtained which loft no doubt as to the fact . The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff , damages £ 200 .

    At the Liverpool Assizes , on Wednesday , an action for breach of promise was brought against a young lady . The plaintiff was a Mr . Thoma 3 Washington Atkinsqn , a young man said to be of a respectable family at Gateside , in Yorkshire . In 183 G he returned , from . Cambridge , University , having only

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 17, 1850, page 486, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1850/page/6/