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ten years , to erect an hospital in Dundee to educate the poor children of the nine trades , the name of Morgan to be preferred , although they do not belong to Dundee . The last account of poor Mitehel is supplied in an Australian paper , which announces the arrival of the Neptune convict ship at Hobart Town , and states that John Mitehel had received his ticket of leave , and on account of his delicate health will be allowed to reside at Bothwell , where he can enjoy the society of John Martin .
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It is said that Queen Isabella of Spain has signed the nomination of Prince L ouis Napoleon , as Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece , and that the insignia of the Order are to be transmitted to him by the Spanish Ambassador at Paris . A manifesto has been issued , with the signature of M . Barthelemy , announcing that the leaders whom the Count de Chambord entrusts with his interest , are , the Duke de Levis , General de St . Priest , M . Berryer , the Marquess de Pastoret , and the Duke des Cars , and deprecating any appeal to the people , " as implying the negation of the great national principle of hereditary monarchy . " The Marquess de la Rochejaqiielin , who considers himself as specially attacked in this manifesto , has published a reply , in which he speaks of it as an acte incensee .
At a dinner given in honour of M . Leon Faueher on the 15 th instant by the Prefect of Limoges , he replied to a toast proposing his own health by an eulogy of the President and his government , which is significant as a conspicuous instance of an Orleanist embracing Bonaparti 8 m . A bronze statue of Marshal Oudinot , designed for Barle-Duc , is being exhibited for some days in front of one of the public buildings , the Louvre , at Paris , opposite to the Pont des Arts . The statue represents the hero in the costume of a French marshal , atid decorated with the Legion of Honour . The inscription is— To Marshal Oudinot , Duke of Reggio , born at Bar-le-Duc , 25 th of April , 1767 , Volunteer in 1792 ; died Governor of the Hospital of the Invalids , 13 th of September , 1847 . Erected by national subscription . " The sculptor is M . Jean Debayand the work is much admired .
, The People , a French journal , published at Dijon , has been summoned to appear before the assizes for having in its number of the 11 th instant published an article headed A Campaign of General Haynau , on the ground of its having , firstly , commended an act which the laios deem a crime ; secondly , offended public and religious morality . To console him for his chastisement in London the Emperor has just sent to Haynau the Grand Cordon of the Order of St . Anne of the first class . The walls of Rome have lately been covered with an amusing last sally of Pasquino , in manuscript . When read straight through the lines are treasonable ; when read down , each division by itself , they are in the spirit of the most exalted papalino loyalty : —
" Death to Pio Nino Mazzini For ever The republic is The mildest government The most infamous government Is that of the priests Down with Priestly power The dominion of the people . For ever . " Reading straight down we find " Death to Mazzini , " &c , but reading through both divisions we have , " Death to Pio Nino , Mazzini for ever , " and so on . The question relative to the Hungarian refugees , threatens to give rise to new complications . The terms of the convention by which the Porte engaged to keep a
strict surveillance over the refugees for one year , expires this month . The Turkish Government has , therefore , manifested the intention of setting at liberty Kossuth , and those of his companions who were imprisoned with him at Kutayeh , and measures have already been taken to procure them a passage either to America or to England . It appears that these arrangements have alarmed the Vienna Cabinet , which pretends that the term of one year , stipulated in the convention , commences at the moment of their imprisonment , and has protested against the immediate liberation of the exiles . The Divan rejects this demand as illfounded , and resolves to adhere to its original intention .
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All the " leading articles , " published in the Pans journals of Monday , had attached to them the names of the writers , pursuant to the new law , which was fixed to come into operation on the 24 th instant . The Journal des D&bats , singularly enough , for the first time during its long existence , was issued without any political remarks , and , consequently , without a signature . The other newspapers , with one or two exceptions only , had the names of the authors appended to their productions . A box full of incendiary proclamations , addressed to the army and people , has been seined at Angoulcme by the police . It is said that the name of a representative of the ppople , noted for his eccentricities , was mixed up in the n flair .
The Prefect of the Haute Garonne has published a proclamation prohibit ins »* dubs and meetings of every description throughout the department . The great improvement produced on the Boulevards of Paris by the application of cold bitumen to macadami / . a tiou attracts much intention , particularly from Englishmen , who feel persuaded that the same system will be very generally adopted on this side of the channel . t It is described as forming the beau ideal of a road , being free from dust or mud , smooth as a table , and pleasant mid elastic to the- tie . id . The horses are said to like it , for although smooth the surface is far from slippery . It is also found to be durable , and in the long run economical . All the simp people are anxious to have it , us the dust raised by simple maeailsuni / ution spoils their goods .
Some titueiiuo , whilst Madame de ( Jaumont Laforcc , a ludy of property of Paris , was iu the country , one of her donu'stics , aided by two thieves , caused the whole of the splendid furniture ' of her hotel , worth nearly 80 , OOOf ., U > be taken to the Hotel des Commissiuns-priseurs , ami sold by auction . The price realized was only COOUf .
With this sum , added to a large sum in gold , a quantity of jewellery , and other valuable objects , the three thieves and a young woman named Franchise Bernard took their departure from Havre , on board the St . Nicholas , for New York . As soon as the robbery was known , warrants were issued for their arrest , but they did not reach Havre until after the departure of the ship . Directions were , however , immediately forwarded to the French consul at New York , to arrest the thieves on their arrival in that city . These instructions reached New York by the English steamer before the tot . Nicholas . The French consul immediately hired a steamer to go out to meet the St . Nicholas , and the three thieves were captured , to their profound astonishment , at some distance from land .
In an official report made to the Belgian Government by several agricultural commissions , it is stated that the potato disease has spread so rapidly in that country , that in the lowlands hardly one-fourth of the crop will be saved . In the higher and sandy soils , probably onethird may be saved and fit for consumption ; and though a much larger amount of land has been planted this year , yet the average crop through the country will not equal more than one ^ fourth of last year ' s production . Ine ravages of the disease are only surpassed by those ot the year 1845 . , . . A letter from Bologna of the 16 th announces that , in consequence of an order from Rome , the Lombardo-Venetian journals , and the Corriere Itahano of Vienna , are no loneer permitted to enter the Papal territory . not
Brigandage in the Bolognese provinces continues , - withstanding the wholesale executions that take place every now and then . Twenty-six offenders were condemned to death lately , but the Austrian general commuted the penalty into the galleys for ten of them , in consideration of their youth and previous good conduct ; the remaining sixteen were shot on the 6 th in the P * di Capiara at Bologna . Nine others were condemned to the galleys . At Rome robberies are not quite so frequent , but an audacious coup-dematn was made notwithstanding , the other day , in the palace of the government stampoffice , where a Genevese jeweller , M . Simond , had deposited goods to the value of 150 , 000 francs . The plunderers carried off chains , watches , and trinkets to the amount of 32 , 000 francs , but some clue is obtained to their retreat by a child having found a gold chain on the staircase of an obscure house , which was taken by its
mother to a jeweller for sale . The Austrian Government has not succeeded in raising a voluntary loan of 100 , 000 , 000 of Lire , in the Lombardo-Venetian provinces . After four years' labour the great tunnel through Mount Carioso , on the Leghorn and Florence Railway , has just been completed . Signor Diamila , formerly employed in the Vatican library , was condemned , on the 12 th instant , to the
galleys for twenty years , for having stolen a large quantity of precious medals from the collection under his superintendence . These robberies , perpetrated more than two years ago , were detected by the commission appointed by General Oudinot , immediately on his entrance into Rome , to examine the condition of the public monuments , and ascertain the damages inflicted upon the works of art and antiquities of the capital of the Christian world . Diamila belongs to a highly respectable
ltoman family . The Legislative Assembly of Frankfort , on the 20 tn instant , decided , by forty-four votes to forty-one , that it would not take as the basis of its deliberations the draft of the constitution presented by the Senate , and immediately commenced the discussion of the constitution prepared by the mixed committee . It adopted during the sitting the first sixteen paragraphs . According to one of them , " the free state of Frankfort" becomes the free city of Frankfort ; " the article declaring that " the nobility as a class is abolished " was struck out ; and the provisions of the fundamental laws relative to the press have been modified . It has been decided that the journals are to furnish caution-money . The Government has addressed a circular to the authorities throughout Bavaria , warning them against the
religious associations of the German Neo-Catholics , as having a tendency to carry out the projects of the Socialist democrats . The committee appointed to examine the merits of the various plans for a bridge over the Rhine , between the cities of Cologne and Deutz , have nwarded the first prize of 230 frederics d ' or to Mr . John W . Sehwedler , architect , of Berlin , and the second prize of 125 frederics d ' or to Captain \ V . Moorsom , of London . The Austrian Ministry appear at their wits end for means to raise money , and what with this and building to in
up and pulling down constitutions , endeavouring - fluence the elections now going on , and so on , they must be tolerably well employed . The duty upon newspapers has occasioned a terrible outcry throughout the empire , as is natural . The law will probably be immediately revoked , for no Ministry can call itself sufficiently powerful to resist the roused thunder of the newspapers , even censor-silenced as they are in Austria . A new law has also appeared relative to the stamp duty on playing cards and almanacs , by which the whole monarchy will be subjected to these taxes which have been hitherto unknown in Hungary and the provinces .
A decree of the military commander at Vienna , of the 18 th iusumt , prohibits the circulation of the Cologne ( Jazetttt for Vienna , Hungary , and all parts and provinces of the Austrian Empire in which the state of siege lias been proclaimed . ' 1 ho military commander of Prague has announced that every person in whose possession a copy of the prohibited newspaper shall bo found , shall be tried by court martial , and punished according to the provisions of military law . It is said that the Austrian Government intends to exclude , in like manner , almost all the better class of German newspapers . The Deutsche Zoitiintj , the Constilntionello Zeitunrj , and the IVcstr Zoituiitf arc marked lor immediate prohibition .
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A deputation from the vestries of St . Margaret and St . John , Westminster , relative to the alteration in progress in St . James ' s Park , had an interview with Lord Seymour on Wednesday at the office of her Majesty ' s Commissioners of Woods and Forests in Whitehall-place . . A large number of workmen are now busily engaged m making extensive alterations and improvements in various parts of the Tower of London . The two lofty gun-towers of the eastern and western extremities , facing Trinity-square , are being reconstructed on a new and patented plan , recommended by Government . The high walls near the water-side have been pulled down , and are to be rebuilt on a new principle , with gun Ioop-hole 6 . The interior of this ancient fortress is also undergoing a regular repair , under the superintendence of a military officer specially appointed for the purpose by the lJuke ot
Wellington . „ „ _ , A numerous meeting of thf vestry of St . James s was held at the vestry-house on Thursday , to take into consideration the encroachments by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests on St . James ' s and the Green 1 arks . One speaker said " it was most un-English to circle the palace of the Sovereign with an iron railing . ine chairman said the Commissioners of Woods and 1 orests were continually nibbling at the lungs ot London ( . the parks ) , and if the public did not look sharply after them they would all soon be in a consumption . It was ultimately resolved to call on Parliament to insist on the Commissioner * of Woods and Forests giving notices , and putting in their plans of any alterations , in accordance with the standing rules of Parliament .
Her Majesty ' s Theatre is now undergoing the various changes necessary for the opening of the ** National Concerts . " The circles of boxes are being arranged as stalls , and the pit and the stage are being formed into one extensive area . Upwards of 150 workmen are busily employed . Felicien David is engaged to write a new dramatic symphony , which he will conduct in person j
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In the Bakony forest of Hungary a guerilla band , headed by a certain Rocza Sandor , is carrying on its hostile operations , up to Szegedin , against the Austrian authorities and troops . Considerable detachments of Austrian troops have been sent against it , but as they have proved insufficient , a battalion has recently been despatched to reinforce them . The Carlsruhe Gazette of the 19 th publishes a decree prolonging for one month more the state of siege and martial law proclaimed in October last .
The diligence from Catalonia , which ought to have reached Valencia on the , 15 th instant , was upset on the previous day at the point called De la Torreta , near Oropesa , having been precipitated from a very great height into the barranco ( a deep hollow formed-by the mountain torrents ) which opens into the sea : the fourteen passengers whom it conveyed , together with the mayoral , the postilion , and the mules , were killed . It is conjectured by persons who know the road , which runs along the edge of a precipice in some parts , that the
horses may have backed in going up an ascent—the great weight of the diligence and its load often causing this to take place ; and there being no means provided to stop the retrogressive course of a diligence under such circumstances , it would be forced at once , with its contents , over the precipice , as a coach with eight passengers was , not long since , into the Guadalquiver , by a similar proceeding . The shock of an earthquake was felt at Algiers on the night of the 10 th instant . It lasted fifteen seconds . This makes the ' sixth shock which has occurred within sixteen
days . A piece of quartz rock has been found neat Lake Superior , containing several dollars' worth of pure gold The gold shows itself in particles disseminated through the quartz , the largest of which weighs more than a dollar . To arrest the fearful progress of intemperance in Ceylon , total abstinence societies have been formed at KLandy and Colombo . The success of these associations has hitherto exceeded all expectation . The most recent advices from Port Natal represent the
settlement to be in a prosperous condition . The late dispute with emigrants had been satisfactorily settled , and affairs were progressing most favourably . The older colonists have successfully cultivated the cotton plant , tobacco , indigo , flax and hemp , and Indian corn , all of which products have grown luxuriantly , whilst the later emigrants are disposed to act with equal energy and industry , and are stated to be quite satisfied with the correctness of the description given as to the capabilities of this colony .
A dreadful tragedy was lately enacted at Manilla . i \ vo Spanish young ladies , who had gone to America as companions to the wife of a merchant who had long resided in Manilla , and who lately joined the house of Messrs . Baring , Brothers , and Co ., returned from Europe by the steamer of October last , and were put under the charge of a Captain Mercader to be conveyed to Manilla . Having succeeded in gaining the affections of one of the ladies , Captain Mercader induced her to remain with him on board the vessel , instead of returning to her relatives in Manilla . From Manilla the vessel made a passage to Mandanao . Whilst there , Mercader , having been on
shore through the day , went off unexpectedly to the vessel at night , and , under the belief that his mistress was unfaithful to him , he entered the cabin where the unhappy and ill-fated woman was lying in bed , and murdered her , stabbing her seventeen times with a dagger . He afterwards attacked the chief officer , inflicting three or four wounds with the same instrument—none of them , however , proved mortal . A passenger , who endeavoured to prevent further bloodshed , was shot at by Captain Mercader . He was eventually overpowered by the officers and crew , who conveyed him to Manilla , where he now awaits his trial .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 28, 1850, page 632, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1854/page/8/
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