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    always been regarded as honest and industrious colonists , and their introduction into Algeria must be considered as highly desirable . M . Lagrange , an apothecary , residing in L'Orient , after having been for the last fifteen years labouring at the preparation of a bullet of the most destructive kind , has succeeded to the satisfaction of a commission appointed by the Government . Each bullet , on striking the object against which it was directed , exploded with a detonation as loud as that of the gun from which it was fired , and produced a most destructive effect . It bursts instantly on striking any object which opposes resistance , whether it be earth , wood , or stone . At the conclusion of the trial the members of the commission , addressing the inventor , said , " Sir , your name ought to be inscribed amongst the members of the Peace Congress , for , after

    your invention , it will be impossible to think of making war . " M . Lagrange asserts that with a gun-boat , armed with four pieces of cannon , he could sink a ship of 120 guns in twenty minutes . He is in treaty with the Government for the sale of his secret . Undismayed by the melancholy catastrophe that befel Lieutenant Gale , the aeronauts continue to invent newmodes of attracting spectators . Instead of Monsieur Poitevin ascending on horseback , it is Madame Poitevin who now performs that dangerous feat . There was an ascent on Sunday from the Hippodrome , when that lady , dressed en Amazone , mounted her white mare , her husband occupying the car . After having passed over Paris , and sailed amongst the clouds for a couple of hours , the adventurous couple descended safe and sound at some distance to the north of the capital .

    The meeting of Piedmontese Bishops at villa Novetta , in the diocese of Asti , to deliberate upon a conciliatory memorial to the Holy See , has concluded . The memorial was agreed to and signed by ten bishops . In it are set forth the serious mischief to the interests of religion which must result from the protraction of the differences which have arisen between Sardinia and the Court of Rome , and hopes expressed that some proximate or satisfactory solutions of the questions at issue may be arrived at speedily . It is said that this episcopal conclave was suggested by the Pope to save appearances , and to enable him , with a good grace , to make concessions .

    A Genoa journal exposes the sham , miracle of the winking Virgin of Rimini , and publishes a diagram showing the manner in which , by pulling certain wires , a priest concealed in the drapery produces the pretended miraculous effect . One of the last acts of the Jesuits in Naples prohibits students of the best public library from reading any books excepting those treating of mathematics and

    medicine . Amongst the ill-fated passengers that perished in the catastrophe of Oropesa , when the Barcelona diligence was precipitated into the sea , whilst on its way to Valencia , were two Englishmen , a Marquesa , the landbailiff of the Duke de Hijar , and three merchants . There were sixteen persons in the diligence , all of whom were drowned . . The commander of the Danish troops has prohibited all navigation on the river Eydcr . The King of Denmark left Copenhagen on the 26 th ultimo , for Flensburg , where he intends to stay with the army about ten days . A Russian fleet , consisting of six line-of-battle ships , one frigate , two steam-frigates , two steatn-corvettes , two brigs , and three schooners , was lying off Copenhagen when the King left that capital .

    A conspiracy has been discovered at Bucharest which has very extensive ramifications . Several arrests have taken place . Although the plot has failed , it has produced a moment of crisis , in which Russia has been playing an active part . For the present the Cabinet of St . Petersburg has been thwarted , but the present movement shows how very precarious is the duration of tranquillity in the Danubian provinces . The bill for abolishing the slave trade in the district of Columbia has been the subject of several exciting debates in the American Senate , and was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading , by a vote of 32 to 10 . The bill for the delivery of fugitive slaves has passed the House by a vote of 109 to 75 . It was supported by only three Whigs from the free states . Of the loco foco members from the free states there were twenty-six in its favour .

    The latest intelligence from Texas is satisfactory . The action of Congress regarding the boundary of this state was as yet unknown there ; but the action of her local Legislature has been more prudent than that of her bellicose Governor , who has threatened to make war on the United States , though his treasury contained but 34 , 000 dollars . The " War Bill" is not known to have been lost , the boundary question was submitted to the people , and the Legislature has adjourned . The members from California have been admitted into

    both Houses of Congress , and have taken their seats . Colonel Fremont , one of the senators from California , has introduced a bill extending the laws and judiciary system of the United States over California , and appointing a surveyor of the public lands to reside there , and keep the peace between the whites and the Indians . The last accounts from New York say that rumours of another intended attack on Cuba were exciting uneasiness , but that Government was prepared to meet and « --, jT ) press anv movement of the kind .

    The damages by the recent storm and floods in the Jnited States have been of appalling magnitude . On the Schuylkill alone there cannot have been less than 1 , 000 , 000 dollars of property destroyed , and the calculations now are that the destruction throughout the United States amounts to more than 4 , 000 , 000 dollars . Nearly filty persons lost their lives by the overflow of the Sclmylkill , and more than one hundred in the entire State of Pennsylvania .

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    The Freeman ' s Journal says that arrangements for the formation of a new Roman Catholic University in Ireland are already in a state of forwardness , and that the four archbishops , with the other bishops and clergy nominated as a committee of arrangement by the Synod , will hold their first sitting in Dublin on the 15 th instant . A large provincial meeting was held on Saturday last at the Court House , Bandon , for the purpose of forming an agricultural school for MunBter . The Earl of Bandon , who , with his son , Lord Bernard , M . P ., attended the meeting , took the chair on the occasion , and a series of resolutions were passed in furtherance of the object . The Freeman ' s Journal says that Mr . Hughes owes his annointment to the office of Solicitor-General to the

    chance he has of getting into the representation of Longford in Parliament by some satisfactory arrangement with one of the present members . Mr . Sergeant Murphy , " having received confirmation from Mr . Fagan of his intention to retire as soon as the new registry shall be available , " has announced his intention to commence his canvass of the constituency ol Cork in the course of a few days . The Clare Journal says : —•* Since Friday last a young lady , highly respectable , has been missing from Kilkee ; on that evening she went to walk , and has not been seen since . Her family are in great trouble , believing her tc have fallen over some cliff , hut it is the opinion of others that she has made a more happy exit , especially as it appears there were three or four thousand pounds at hei own disposal . Report says that she and a young gentleman from Limerick were seen at Miltown . One of hei brothers ia gone there to ascertain the truth of this report .

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    attended divine service at St . Lawrence Church . Immediately afterwards the various functionaries proceeded to Guildhall , where Mr . Alderman Musgrove , cloth worker , was elected to the office . The new Lord Mayor , after expressing the gratitude he felt for the honour which had been conferred upon him , stated that " he should use his utmost endeavours during the eventful year upon which they were about to enter to maintain the proud character which the City of London had enjoyed for hospitality , justice , and charity . " issued cards of invitation for

    The Lord Mayor has a banquet , to be given in the Egyptian-hall , on Wednesday , the 16 th instant , to the leading bankers and the principal merchants in the city of London , as well as to the masters , wardens , and clerks of a major part of the City Companies , and several distinguished private friends . Several meetings of the local commissioners of the metropolitan districts for promoting the Exhibition of 1851 took place at the New Palace , Westminster , on Thursday . The reports made by the various commissioners were of the most satisfactory nature , and such as to leave no doubt whatever but that the productions of industry in the several departments which they represent in their localities will be fully represented at the Exhibition .

    The Royal British Bank has announced to its customers its intention to issue , in cases where it may be desired , promissory notes payable to their order for any portion or for the full amount of the balances that may stand against their names either in the shape of cash credits or drawing accounts . Thus , a person having £ 500 at the Bank , and wishing to give security to some other person to that extent , might obtain at the bank promissory notes to his own order , with which his account would be debited , and which he could then hand unendorsed to the person in question , to hold as a guarantee for any transanction between them , while the interest allowed by the bank would still accrue to the depositor .

    A large quantity of Assyrian and other antiquities and marbles , consigned to the trustees of the British Museum , has arrived . Among them are the great bull from Nineveh , with a man ' s head and dragon ' s wings , weighing twelve tons , and a lion , sculptured in the same manner , weighing nine tons . There are also several coffins , containing many curious relics of the manners and usages of Eastern countries regarding the ceremonies observed in burying their dead . The portion of Oxford-street between South Moulton and New Bond-streets has been closed for traffic , in order to remove the ordinary macadamized paving and replace it with granite blocks , * as being more durable and also more suitable to this portion of the street , which is a rapid decline to the hollow of Oxford-street , and which will now be assimilated with the lower portion of the descent , which was paved in a similar manner about a year

    . At the ordinary weekly meeting of the committee of the Lancashire Public School Association , held on Tuesday evening last , Mr . R . W . Smiles , the secretary , read a letter he had just received from Edward Lombe , Esq ., of Great Melton Hall , Norfolk , accompanied fcy an order upon his bankers for £ 50 , as his first annual subscription to the Funds of the Public School Association . At the same meeting the secretary reported on thirty letters relative to the proposed educational conference , which had been received during the week , from clergymen and gentlemen in various parts of the kingdom . Several of the writers sent subscriptions , others announced their intention to attend the conference , and almost all expressed sympathy with the objects of the movement and approbation of the means by which it is proposed to accomplish

    these objects . Forty-five thousand pounds , in money and land , have been assigned over to trustees by Miss Howard , of Yorkplace , for the following uses : —To erect twenty-one houses on her property at Pinner , near Harrow , in the form of a crescent , the centre house for the trustees , the other twenty houses for the use of twenty widows , who are to occupy them free of rent and taxes , and also to receive £ 50 a-year clear of all deductions . The widows of naval men to have the preference , then those of military men , and , lastly , those of clergymen ; none but persons of good character to be selected , to be chosen or dismissed for misconduct , by the trustees . The deed is now enrolled in Chancery , and approved of by the Lord

    Chancellor . The trustees named are the Earl of Fmgal and Mr . Mackinnon , M . P . The ceremony of laying the corner-stone of a literary and educational institute in Bury , to be called " The Athenasum , " took place on Thursday ; Lord Stanley , who is a great landowner in the town and district , having kindly consented to officiate , a procession in honour of the occassion was formed at half-past ten o ' clock , which was attended by the members of the institution , the committee , and many gentlemen interested in its prosperity . The ceremony of laying the stone commenced at twelve o ' clock . There was an immense concourse of people on the ground . Lord Stanley made a speech in favour of popular education , but warned the founders of the Athenaeum against allowing the new institution to be turned into a mere nrws-room .

    The freedom of the burgh of Dundee was conferred upon the Honourable Fox . Maulc on Friday . The ceremony took place in the Thistle-hall , which was crowded to excess , there being nearly 1000 persons present . The right honourable gentleman , in acknowledging the honour conferred upon him , referred to the part which he had taken in the political reforms of the country , in his connection with a Government who had ever advocated a liberal policy , and to the approval which the citizens of Dundee had so unequivocally expressed of that policy on his first election as the representative of Perthshire . A meeting was held in Liverpool on Monday , at which a report was adopted declaring that tho ship-building

    trade of the port had suffered diminution from a variety of causes , the chief of which was the great want of space and accommodation in the present yards , the higher prices charged by them than at the outports , the insecurity of tenure , which has prevented the erection ol machinery , and the continual removal of the builders yards , and trade combinations amongst working shipwrights . The great injury to the tradespeople of Liverpool for the want of proper accommodation for shipbuilding might be seen in the evidence of Mr . M'Gregor , Mr . Kennedyand Mr . Reston . In the year 1845 these

    , gentlemen employed 2800 men , and paid £ 174 , 720 m wages ; while at the present time they employ 890 men , at £ 55 , 536 wages per annum . The number of men employed by them in marine work has decreased from 2090 men , receiving £ 130 , 417 wages , to 240 men , receiving £ 14 , 976 wages , a decrease in wages for marine work alone , of £ 115 , 440 per annum . For the restoration of the trade the report recommends the provision of a convenient site for the erection of private yards and graving docks , and points out the most eligible position for these desirable establishments .

    The whole of the manufacturing premises , occupying nearly half an acre of ground , belonging to Messrs . Brooke , tallowmelters , Southwark-bridge-road , were burnt to the ground , on Thursday night . The flames from so large a mass of combustibles mounted some hundred feet into the air , causing the district to he as light as noon . Mrs . Graham , the veteran aeronaut , who ^ on Wednesday evening week , ascended with the Victoria and Albert balloon , from Vauxhall Gardens , for the benefit of the widow and family of the late unfortunate Lieutenant Gale , made a safe descent near the Temple-mills , in Hackney-marshes . While she with several assistants were endeavouring to discharge the gas from the balloon , a party of brickmakers and several rough characters assembled . A man belonging to their party was suddenly thrown into the balloon , which was immediately burst by

    the concussion . The Cambridge Chronicle contains accounts of three incendiary fires in that county during the week . One took place on the premises of Mr . W . Gray , at Litlington , which was not extinguished until nearly the whole premises were destroyed . The inmates of the house had great difficulty in saving themselves from the devouring element . The damage is estimated at upwards of £ 1000 . Another and still more destructive fire took place at Stretham , which commenced in a bean stack belonging to the Reverend H . H . Baber , and resulted in a loss of property to the amount of £ 1500 . The third fire was at Bassington , which destroyed agricultural produce to the amount of £ 400 .

    Mrs . Jane Ellis , aged twenty-four , the wife of an eating-house keeper , in Paddington-street , was burnt to death , on Sunday week , under the following shocking circumstances . While passing between a table and the fire-place , the skirt of a muslin dress she had on caught fire , and in a moment she was in a blaze from head to foot . Her husband attempted to extinguish the fire , but he did not succeed until the whole of her clothing to her stays was entirely consumed , and her neck , and lower part of her body were dreadfully burnt . She never rallied from the effects of the accident , and died on the Friday following . The convict Hannah Curtis , who was left for execution at the last assizes for Gloucester on a charge of poisoning her husband at Frampton Cottrell , has had the sentence commuted into transportation for life .

    A terrible accident occurred about a fortnight ago m a small village called Weiss , not far from Grez , whereby a great number of lives were lost . The village in question , which is also called « ' Our Saviour on the Meadow , " is a favourite place of pilgrimage at this time of the year , and was more than ordinarily full on the day in question . The weary pilgrims had all retired to rest , and were sound asleep , when suddenly a fire broke out beneath a hay-loft , in which were a couple of hundred persons at the time . More than half of them are said to have perished in the flames , which speedily communicated with the adjoining houses , and a high wind blowing at the time , half the village was burnt down , and many more persons perished .

    The annual election of Lord Mayor took place on Saturday at Guildhall . According to custom the Lord Mayor und aldermen , with the officers of the corporation ,

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 5, 1850, page 655, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1855/page/7/