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    The electric telegraph has been established between Vienna and Cracow . On the 26 th ultimo a despatch was received from Cracow by the Minister of War in five

    minutes . . . . A dreadful fire broke out a few days since m the Commune of Burnhaupt le Haut , Bas Rhin , which consumed nearly 100 houses with the whole of the property they contained . They belonged to persons in good circumstances , but who are now reduced to ruin . # The crop of potatoes in Belgium has suffered in some districts severely from the disease . At Thielt it is feared one-third would prove useless . The capital of Hesse Cassel was declared on the 7 th in & state of siege . The telegraphic despatch by which the -journals of Berlin announce the fact add that the police refused to publish the decree relating to this matter . They add that the greatest number of the authorities , after a protest from the permanent deputation of the states , refused to put into execution the decree relating to the collection of the public taxes up to the end of the

    present year . The latest accounts from Madrid state that the eleven electoral colleges of the province of Madrid had returned Moderate deputies . It is the first time since the establishment of the representative Government that such an unanimity was observed among the electors of the capital . In the other provinces the Conservative candidates generally were at the head of the polls . At Sarragossa the Marquis of Ayerbe was elected , although his competitor , M . Patricio de la Escosura , was supported by General Espartero , who has numerous friends in that city .

    A letter from Constantinople states that great sensation had bee n caused by the wife of Mehemet Pacha having strangled one of her eunuchs , assisted by a groom and some other servants . She has been arrested . She pretended that by law she had a right to kill him if 3 he pleased . She was formerly the wife of an English physician , but was divorced from him . It was believed that in spite of her high rank she would be condemned . The American papers contain glowing descriptions of a plenteous harvest in Michigan , Indiana , Ohio , and Iowa . The surplus crop of Michigan is estimated at more than double the largest yield ever produced in that state , whilst the quality of the cereal produce in the others , which are the largest grain-growiug in the United States , is deemed as good , if not better , than that of any preceding year . The latest advices from Texas notice the meeting of the

    Legislature . The Governor , in his message , is very violent against the United States on account of what he calls the unwarrantable assumption of power by the Federal Executive . He calls for authority to raise supplies for two mounted regiments , to be employed in the immediate occupation of Santa Fe . The Cumanche Indians have been ravaging the borders of the State , and military assistance had been asked for from the

    Government . The railroad contemplated from Niagara-falls via Hamilton , to Sandwich , opposite Detroit , is put under contract , and will commence forthwith . From the Suspension-bridge at the Fulls to Sandwich is 240 miles , and , with the exception of getting up and down a mountain at Hamilton , the grade of the road is almost a dead level . Between Hamilton and Sandwich there is one portion of the road running fifty miles in a straight line , which is a longer tangent than there is on any other road in the world . It is expected to make the run from Niagara-falls to Detroit in six hours . has taken lace

    Another robbery of gold treasure p on the Isthmus of Panama . It seems the leading mule , which usually bears the bell , was led o ( F into the forest and robbed of boxes containing 32 , 000 dollars . The rest of the train followed the usual path . After a while the absent mule joined its comrades , without its load , and search was made for the treasure without success . When the news reached Panama the governor , attended by Mr . Nelson , the agent of Howland and Aspinwall , and a couple of files of soldiers , went out to see what could be done . One account states they fell in with the robbers , and had a severe conflict , with a considerable loss of life on both sides . The treasure was not recovered .

    Several convicts have lately landed at New York from Bermuda , who stated that they had been discharged and sent to the United States by the authorities of the colony . Such a story is not at all likely , and it is more probable that they escaped . Be that as it may , the eaptaiu of the t lip in which they arrived hns been arrested and held to bail under a law of the state of New York , which forbids the importation of foreign convicts . Tlie Cincinnati Gazette gives an account of the thigh bone of a human being having been found in that vicinity , containing six times the number of cubic inches that the thigh bone of a man in these degenerate days can furnish ! Also a human uullar bone and other relics to mulch . Physicians say that the person to whom they belonged must have boon thirteen feet high .

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    The reopening of the reading-rooms at the British Museum , on Monday , was marked by nil unusually large attendance of students , anxious to avail themselves of the increased accommodation . The principal addition is a new supplemental catalogue of 153 vols . folio , of which two copies are supplied . These and the old catalogue ( removed from the west room ) are ranged on shelves along three sides of the east room , and before them stand rows of strong oaken desks . The new catalogue

    contains manuscript titles exclusively , but the manifold machine has been employed to produce duplicates requisite for the production of a second copy of so voluminous a supplement . The volumes are handsomely bound . The titles of the oldest as well as the newest books not in the original catalogue are given in the additional one ; and any book of authority , even if only last year published , can now be obtained by wiling for it in the readingroom . Another considerate arrangement is the entire removal of the brass wire screen-work from the

    compartments of the books of reference . A very convenient plan has been adopted for the supp ly of pens and ink at the desks . Attention has also been paid to the furniture of the rooms , extra light has been admitted , and two additional attendants established . A lecture on the administration of the Court of Chancery was delivered in the Mechanics' Institute , Southampton-buildings , on Tuesday evening , by Mr . Carpenter , under the auspices of the Chancery Reform Association . Mr . Effingham Wilson presided . The lecturer described the process of a Chancery suit from the commencement to the close , and pointed out the

    principal causes of the delay and procrastinations which suitors know too well are invariably attendant upon Chancery suits . Numerous instances were cited of the working of the system ; and it was asserted that at the present time the victims of the court in one prison alone —the Queen ' s Bench—amount to twenty-four , who have been incarcerated for periods varying from one to thirtyeight years , without any hope of release . The court has now £ 100 , 000 , 000 sterling under its jurisdiction ; and as every man is liable , by the merest accident , to be brought within its meshes , it behoves all to join in so amending it as to make it a blessing instead of a curse to society . A resolution affirming the necessity of reform in the

    court was passed . A grand farewell dejeuner was given to the Reverend Dr . Jackson , Prebendary of St . Paul's , Bishop Designate of Lyttelton , New Zealand , and Principal of the Training College , Battersea , on Tuesday , by the students of the college , by whom a testimonial had been also subscribed for , to be presented on this occasion . The entertainment took place in the grounds belonging to Mr . Fownes , contiguous to Christ Church , Battersea , where was erected several marquees , including that within which the dejeuner took place . In the bishop ' s tent , prior to the entertainment , the testimonial was exhibited to the

    comvitiated air withdrawn by a separate jet from each court . In winter they are to be warmed , and in summer cooled ^ by a peculiar application of this principle . Two new estates have just been purchased by the National Freehold Land Society . The first consists of nearly seventy acres , in the village of Penge , near the Croydon Railway . The second is in " West Surrey , contains about one hundred acres , most pleasantly situated on the South-Western Railway , close to the Godalming station . Both these estates are adapted for villa residences , and will be divided into allotments sufficiently large , not only to confer the right of voting , but as are adapted to the respective neighbourhoods , and to the wants of a large class of the members of the society .

    The inauguration of the Saxon Coronation Stone at Kingston-upon-Thames will take place next week , in the presence of a large body of Freemasons , some of the county members , &c , who will afterwards attend a public breakfast . Omnibuses have commenced running between the South-Eastern Railway and the Bank at a penny fare . The funeral of the late Baroness Rothschild , the widow of the late Baron Rothschild took place on

    Monday . The remains were brought from the deceased ' s late residance in Gunnersbury-park , near Ealing , in a hearse drawn by four horses , followed by twenty-four mourning-coaches , containing the principal members of the family and a number of friends . The funeral procession was closed by a great number of private carriages , which were joined by others on the road to the Jewish cemetery in North-street , Mile-end-road . The shops in . Houndsditch and the vicinity were closed out of respect to the deceased .

    pany . It consisted of a splendid solid silver epergne to form a table centrepiece , beautifully decorated with foliage and figures , of the weight of nearly 130 ounces , and of the value of 120 guineas . Nearly 100 ladies and gentlemen sat down to an elegant repast , and at the conclusion , after the usual loyal toasts had been drunk , the chairman presented the epergne to Dr . Jackson , who briefly addressed the company in acknowledgment of the honour . During the entertainment a new glee , called " The Canterbury Pilgrims , " was received with much approbation . Times

    A fire , attended with loss of life , and considerable destruction of property , occurred in Bennett-street , Chiswick , on Wednesday evening . The fire broke out on the premises of Mr . Butler , a chandler and beer-shop . keeper . It was first discovered by Mrs . Butler , between eleven and twelve o ' clock . She attempted to rush up stairs to save her children , six in number , but was unable , owing to the fierceness of the flames . At this time Mr . Butler was at a house in the neighbourhood , but on hearing of the fire he ran home , rushed through the fire , and , by a

    desperate effort , succeeded in rescuing the whole of his children , by handing them out of the window to a man who carried them down a ladder . A few miuutes after the children had been safely removed , the roof fell in , burying the unfortunate man in the ruins . It was thought that , after saving the children , he had gone to save two foreign dogs , valued at JE 120 , and , in doing so , had lost his life . The origin of the fire is not known . Besides Butler ' s house , several adjacent buildings were more or less damaged .

    A letter from Major-General Napier in the replies to the charge that the suicide of Colonel King , of the Fourteenth Dragoons , was caused by Sir Charles Napier ' s observations at the court-martial . Major-General Napier affirms that the melancholy event was entirely owing to insanity . He denies that Sir Charles ever said , as he is reported to have done , that " the Fourteenth Dragoons would go anywhere if properly led . " Speaking of those who have attacked his relative , Major-General Napier says , " Some of those writers have spoken also of a last letter to the Commander-in-Chief , predicting that it will be suppressed . It is as follows : —

    " ' Sir , —You asked me the weight of men mounted oh the 16 th of December , 184 'J . I answered , 17 st . 51 b . You said—• That is throe stone lighter than at home / which I accounted for by saying 1 the men were young 1 , and tall men were not sent out from England to India . "When you asked about the swords , I said we could not keep them so sharp as the natives , who use leather 3 cabbards . Was it judicious in you to repeat my words before the men , perverting-thuir meaning : ' : You bore testimony to the discipline of the regiment that day under my command . Your remarks before the regiment sowed the seeds of discontent , which lia \ e ripened into mutiny . You are the cause of the stripes and punishment which that mutiny has led to , and distraction and death to one who once had friends , now disgrace and misery to those friends . 1 have not been an accountable being for this last month . " J . W . Kino /

    A collision took place on Monday night between a pleasure van and an omnibus , near Charing-cross , by which three passengers were thrown from the roof of the latter . One of them had both , legs broken , and a horse was killed . A boy named William Percival , between nine and ten years of age , residing at Garden-place , Bell-street , having asked leave to go out and play and been refused , said he would go and hang himself . His mother took no notice of his threat , but , on missing him shortly after , she went out and found him hanging in a back shed , and life nearly extinct . Surgical assistance was immediately called but their efforts were fruitless . He lingered from Saturday till Wednesday morning , when he died of

    lock-A genuine and characteristic , and therefore highly curious , portrait of Queen Elizabeth was sold the other day at an obscure sale in Harley-street of the furniture and contents of a house inhabited by the late Miss Harleya lineal descendant of the great collectors , father and son , the dispersion of whose library is still felt as an injury to literature . There was something of everything in the house ; feather beds and books , " paintings by the old masters , " and family portraits . The books included a presentation copy of Pope ' s works to the minister Lord Oxford . The old masters were nearly all worthless . The

    " This letter , the result of insanity , as I shall presently show , would have been thus repiied to , if the writer had been living when it was received : —When a General-in-Chief is publicly told by a commanding officer , in the hearing of his men , against whom a cry had gone forth for misbehaviour in action , that they were very small men and not strong—that their swords would not take so sharp an edge as their enemy ' s swords , and were so heavy that the men could not use them—for these were such

    the real expressions used—when language was employed at such a time , it was not only judicious but necessary that Sir C . Napier should address the regiment as follows : —* Soldiers , the Colonel says you ate small men , and your swords are too heavy for you , and not so sharp as the Sikhs' swords . I beg the Colonel ' s pardon . I see before me men with big hearts , and broad shoulders , and strong arms , and if we have another war I would give them an opportunity to show what they are made of . ' "

    portraits were curious—more especially a three-quarter , by Vanderbank , of Sir Isaac Newton seated reading " Euclid , "—and the head of Queen Elizabeth . The latter is a portrait to the waist—smaller than life , and probably by De Heere . It must have been like—and is very ugly . At Miss Harley ' s sale it brought £ 10 10 s ., but that price has since been trebled by another change of owners . What adds to the value of the picture is , that it was bequeathed by Prior the poet to the Honourable Lady Harriet Harley . What Prior thought worthy of leaving to a family so well versed in English antiquities as the Harleys has an interest of its own irrespective of its excellence as

    The Government have completed the purchase of all the ground and property requisite for the construction of the new harbour at Holyhead ; and the whole of the works will now be pushed forward with the utmost expedition , nearly 1300 men being constantly engaged in the various operations . The Lords of the Admiralty have directed that henceforth the British and North American Knyal Mail Steamships , sailing between Liverpool and New York , shall cease calling at Halifax on their outward and homeward passage . The company ' s ships sailing between Liverpool and Boston will continue to cull at Halifax , both out and homeas usual . __ _

    . a work of art . SouLh Shields has just received a charter of incorporation . The whole of the parliamentary boroughs in Durham and Northumberland have now municipal corporations . . , , The ratepayers in Lancashire , with whom originated the movement for applying the representative principle to the nomination and election of county financial boards , are preparing to take the field with a view to renewing the agitation of that question . A few days ago Mr . Pluukett , brother to the Bishop of Tuam , and son of Lord Plunkett , while shooting seals at the bishop ' s lodge in the county of Mayo , fired at a cormorant on the wing with a rifle , and having shot it m the neck , the bullet cut in two a large conger eel , whicli the bird had in its throat at the time .

    , . ....... A meeting of the Peuce Society and their friends will be held iu London about the ISth instant , for the purpose of receiving the report of the English deputies piesent at the late Congress held at Frankfort . Several eminent and distinguished persons have promised to be present on the occasion , among whom will be Dc Lamartine , who has promised to tuke part in the proceedings , and who is expected in London at the end of the present week . The Courts of Exchequer and Common pleas at Westminster are about to be ventilated by the steamjet , under the direction of Mr . G . Gurney . Fresh air is to be brought in at a high level above the courts , and the

    Four white deer , a present from the King of Denmark to the Marquis of iireadalbane , arrived last week at the North British Railway station , Edinburgh , from Hull , in charge of two of his Majesty ' s keepers , and were forwarded by railway to Perth , on their way to Taymouth . At the Liverpool police court , a few days since , a charge of smuggling was preferred against a respectablelooking young woman , named Bridget Loftus , a passenger by the Duchess of Kent , from Dublin . The rotundity of her figure attracted attention , and on

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 14, 1850, page 584, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1853/page/8/