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to him , signed by the principal members of the legal profession . The late member for St . AlbanS died without signing the deed transferring the new churches at Kingston and St . Albans , as well as Prior-park , near Bath , to the Cardinal . The delay is said to have been caused by the Cardinal ' s objecting to Mr . Raphael naming the clergyman , and the result is that he has lost about £ 70 , 000 worth of property . Mr . Raphael ' s sister died on Sun * day , so that his nephew comes in for all . The personal property has been sworn at £ 250 , 000 , and the landed property is estimated at a larger figure .
Accounts from East Cape , Behring ' s Straits , of the 10 th of August , received vid the United States , do not communicate any tiding 9 of Sir J . Franklin , or her Majesty ' s ships Enterprize and Investigator . Accounts from the Sandwich Islands , dated October 19 , announce the arrival of her Majesty ' s ship Herald , Captain Kellett , on the 16 th , from Behring ' s Straits , after a vain search for the expedition tinder Captain CoHinson . Unhappily , the Herald brings no tidings of Sir John Franklin ; and , ad the season wa 3 fast closing , it is to be apprehended that for some time to come we must look to the northern coast of the North American continent in the Canadian route , and to Dr . Rae ' s and Lieutenant Noulens ' s exertions , for further tidings of the lost expedition .
The case of Major Bartleman , of the Forty-fourth Regiment of Bengal Native InYantry , who was recently tried by a court-martial , on charges arising out of his disgraceful conduct toward Lieutenant and Mrs . Shelton , has ended in his being cashiered . A vacancy is occasioned among the elder brethren of the corporation of the Trinity-house by the demise of Captain Aaron Chapman , the senior of the brethren , having been elected as far back as 1809 . Captain Chapman died on Saturday last , at his residence at Highburypark , in his eightieth year . The deceased gentleman was long known and highly esteemed in the city of London , and in four successive Parliament since the Reform Bill represented the borough of Whitby in the House of Commons .
Mr . J . W . Gilbart , the general manager of the London and Westminster Bank , has offered a prize of one hundred guineas to the author of the best essay showing in what way any of the articles collected at the Industrial Exhibition can be rendered especially serviceable to the interests of practical banking , whether in the shape of office improvements , fittings , or otherwise . The death of Mr . David Webster Osbaldiston , the wellknown theatrical manager , took place on Sunday morning , at twenty minutes after one , at his residence , Acrelane , Brixton . He was fifty-six or fifty-seven years of age—and besides sustaining the leading characters at most of the principal London and provincial theatres , he has held the reins of management of the Surrey , Sadler ' s "Wells , Covent Garden , and City of London Theatres . At the time of his decease he was lessee of the Victoria Theatre , which he opened on Easter Monday , 1841 .
The proprietor of the Star and Garter , at Richmond , contradicts the statement that that hotel has been taken by the Emperor of Russia . He is wise to do so . Such a rumour would not add much to the popularity of the Star and Garter . Mr- Alfred Graham , one of the surgeons of the Cunard line of steamers , arrived in Liverpool on Saturday evening , in the Europa , from Boston , being the seventeenth trip across the Atlantia which that gentleman has made during the current year . The total distance sailed is more than 50 , 000 miles , equal to twice round the globe . This , we believe has never been surpassed ; if it has ever been accomplished before is doubtful .
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The Duchess of Angouleme arrived at Venice on the 22 nd ultimo . fSrhe has travelled under the name of the Countess de Marnes , and is to pass the winter in that city , in the hotel of trie Duke de Bordeaux . The young wife of the Spanish King Consort's brother ( Don Henry ) has arrived in Madrid , and has been very kindly received by the royal family . The object of her coming is to induce the government to permit her husband ' s return to Madrid , now that all political difficulties concerning him nfe at an end . Don Henry is residing at Totilouso , where he is acting tfie Lothario in public with a " fair mischief , " a native of that city . It is with a-view of netting her faithless husband out of French temptations that , his Wife has applied to the ministry to authorize his return .
The artists and artiffins of Mttnich have made a present to King Louis of Bavaria , as a lasting Hi ' gn of their gratitude and acknowledgment of hia merits in the cultivation of the fin <; and industrial urts . The present of the artists is an Alburn , twenty-six inches wide , twenty inches high , nfid seven and a half inches thick ; it is bound in dirk red velvet , and decorated with clasps , omnmehtH , and basso-relicVoa . in gilded bronze , in the Gothic stylo of the fifteenth century . In the middle of the cover h u large medallion , encircled with brilliants , uud filled with u basso-relievo , representing tin ; King Hurrounded by his artists . The interior contains a collection of 177 drawing * , water colours , und oil paintings , executed by artists in Munich , Dresden , Berlin , DukhcIdorf , MttUtKurdt ,
The Kloe . tor of Hesse Cussel returned to his capital on the ' 2 (> lh ultimo , with all the pomp find circumstance of military ceremony . The timiHftction , to quote the words of tho Itetttscftc ' / . citumj , " was pervaded by an indescribable gloom and discomfort . The populace , wan tiilcnt and indifferent ; the troops were discontented and moody , for they hud been marched to the FrledricliH l'latfc at a * oty < iirly hour in tho morning , where they were kept drawn up in columns and exposed to nil the inoliMiituioy of u tmow Ktorin mixed wifh drizzling rain . " Mont of the highor furietionurlrH were usseiiihlou in tlin P « litc « to receive the Elector , by whom they " Were greeted with great condfiNCPnaion . " A decree of Count Leiiiingen , obliging all mtlzcnu to keep within their
The celebrated Prussian sculptor , Wolff , o known in England from having executed , besideB many classic groups , some busts of the Royal Family , and a statue of Prince Albert as a Greek warf ior , has just completed an exquisite figure of Paris- His four statues , personifying the seasons , have been purchased by an English amateur . Mr . Gibson is commencing the models of two very important works—Queen Victoria on her throne between two allegorical figures , representing Justice and Clemency , for the House of Lords j and the colossal statue of Sir Robert PeeL The American journals have set up a claim for the honour of the authorship of Junius , on behalf of General Lee , and assert that he had privately avowed himself to be the author .
whis well hctases after nine o ' clock , and shutting up all the public houtfes at that hour , had given great offence . He has since incurred Still more opprobrium by prohibiting every meeting , and all further action of the provincial assemblies , nrtder the threat of proclaiming martial law . The Journal des Ddbats reports that NrJrtvay has lost the most distinguished of her philologists in the person of M . Christian Lauritz Sverdrup , who had died in his seventy-ninth year . M . Srerdrup has oeotipied the chair of philology at the University of Christiana since the foundation of that establishment by Fiedeiick VI ., King of Denmark , in 1808 . .
Jenny Lind has reached Washington , and given her first concert , which was crowded to excess , and attended by the President and all the notabilities . She visited the Senate Chamber for about five minutes , but withdrew in consequence of the excitement which arose on her appearance . Jenny was eminently successful at Baltimore , the enthusiasm of the public in no wise abating . Large preparations have been made for her at Havanna , where a very sumptuous residence has been taken for her . A French paper states that the University of Heidelberg is about to confer the degree of Doctor of Theology on Mr . J . W . Pennington , a black Catholic priest at New York . Mr . Pennington is said to be the first negro who has ever received scholastic honours al a European university . He is reported to be the author of several works on theology . _ _ ' .
. _ , , „ , The Paris correspondent of the ivew York Herald , gives the following description of an English lady : — " Among the most distinguished ladies who have their season box at the Italian Opera , I will mention in the first rank Lady Aylesbury , an eccentric person , who is renowned for the luxury of her style of dressing all over thecity among the milliners , dressmakers , &c . This lady is about forty-five or fifty years old , but still bien conservee foVher a ^ e , and her monomania is to buy a dozen of every article she desires for her toilet . Thus , for instance , she buys at once twelve dresses of satin , twelve velvet bonnets , twelve Cashmere shawls , and so forth . She renews her wardrobe at the beginning of every season . A week ago , having remarked that the Marchioness of Las MariRmas wore a mantilla of a new fashion , short as a
gentleman ' s waistcoat , made of white watered silk , and trimmed with gold , she sent for her dressmaker , and ordered of her the ' usual' dozen . "
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The Courrier de Lyons states that between midnight and one a . m . of the 25 th ultimo , at the time the mass of Christmas was being celebrated in the churches , in the presence of a great number of people , about thirty police agents surrounded a cafe , penetrated into the interior , and arrested about twenty persona who were just sitting down to enjoy a copious banquet , which is customary on that night , and known by the name of reveillon , but which on this occasion , according to the information received by the police , was to serve as an excuse for a meeting of a very different character . Although certain roads in the Cantal , the Dordogne , tho Haute Garonne , and tho Hautes Pyrenees , and in the neighbourhood of Limoges , are interrupted in consequence of heavy falls of snow , the department of the north enjoys a mild temperature singularly in contruat with that of ordinary winters .
The statue of Liberty , which gained the first prize in 1848 , and which is the work of M . Sortoux , was placed by tho jury in tho centre of the gloat room of the Exhibition of the Works of Living Artists previous to its opening . On Saturday the police enter"d and carried awuy the statue . The jury of artiats have drawn up u formal protest . A letter from Rome in the Mcxsagcrc Modcnene , states that the Papal government has determined to order all naked statues in the churches to be covered , including the little marble anjrfls that have for ages been exposed to the public gaze , and the Genius at the tomb of Clement , by Cafiova . By the same nccoUnt , paintings are likelv to undergo the same ordeal .
Tlic Neapolitan government i « in a utate of great alarm , on account of a considerable number of " addr <> nn (; & , " which are supposed to emanate from Mazzini , having entered the kingdom . ISorne urrestft have taken place on thi « Account , arid the activity of the police is greater than rver . Letter * from Bologna « tftte that , on the 18 th ultimo , a purty of Austrian holdiers bad a nkirrnisli with nin «; banditti , headed by II Faswitorc hinieiclf . A soldier was killed and another Wounded in t . \ ir content ; the banditti were , however , put to flight after the loss of one man , on wfione body articles of value were found . A Leghorn letter of the 21 th ultimo , annoiinofH the arrival there of a luru < - number of KwIhs rce . ruitu , on thoir way to Nnplen . ITpwurdH of 2000 are nald to have panned in the course of the lust month , Tlit ! Austrian Ambassador at Frankfort has announced
to tin ! Electoral Minister that a Hessian named Beoker in acting iih chief of a revolutionary usMociiition in Switzerland with U 000 members , the eominktt ' e of which , furnishes thorn with passports , which art ; not onl y recognifteri by the police of Goiiova , Freiburg , and Neufchatel , but receive tho officiul olsu in order to give them authority in other cuntons .
Letters from Vienfia 6 ( the 29 th ultimo state that Austria and Prussia had resolved to march against Holstein , and that the Federal troops would immediately pa »» through the Prussian territories for that purpose , Tho accounts from Berlin ot the 30 th ultimo confirm this American visitors to the Great Exhibition are about to be conveyed to our shores at a very commodious and economical rate . Merchant vessels , which have
accommodation for sixty passengers , are to take them Hie entire journey from America and back , wifch first-class accommodation while on board , for £ 20 , allowing them sis weeks to remain in England . Another project , of a private kind , has been the engagement of a first-rate vessel by 100 gentlemen , who have subscribed , among themselves the sum of 25 , 000 dollars ( £ 5000 ) for its expenses , and who propose visiting London , and making the vessel their home , in which to receive visits i give parties , &c . during their stay among us . contains
The Stulgardt Anzeiger a royal ordinance against the press . The chief clauses or this ordinance are : —Every paper or publication must be signed by the editor , who must be a citizen , of twenty-five years of age at least , and have his permanent residence in the country . Any one who has beten condemned * to any punishment cannot be an editor . After any penal sentence has been passed on a « editor" 89 such , he cannot again assume editorial function * before the expiration of six months . M . Geofge Marius Heyn , a merchant o ( Huremburg , appeared on the 21 st ultimo , before the Court df Assize of that city , to take his trial , on a charge of having raised and equipped a corps of sixty men , and sent them to Schieswkf Hoktein , to assist in the insurrection
against the King of Denmark . The / acts were proved , and even admitted by the prisoner , who * declared that he had been actuated by a desire to incorporate two rich and fertile countries with Germany , The court unanimously returned a verdict of guilty , arid , irt Virtue of the law of 1697 , which awards the penalty of death against any Bavarian giving assistance to a foreign power or authority without the permission of his Government , sentenced him to decapitation ' . The Austrian General , Mensdorf-Pouilly , as federal commissary , has been charged to proceed tvrfh General
Thurfner , the commissary appointed for Prussia , to Holstein , in order to endeavour to persuade the Staathalterschaft to disarm , before recurring to coercive measures . On the other hand , the newg from Holstein is of a decidedly hostile character . A new and extensive series of promotions hasrbeen announced in the army . A considerable quantity of war material , with numbers of pontoons and wagons , are daily sent to wards headquarters at Rends ., burg , and it is affirmed that from 1500 to 2000 of the Prussian sub-officers and privates , recently called home in consequence of the order of mobilization , are reentering the Holsteitt army .
A sad story of the disasters of war is told In the German papers . A Holstein peasant , hearing that his son lay wounded in the military hospital , sought him out , and found that one of his arms had been amputated . Though grieved at the discovery , he sought consolation in saying , " Well , my boy , it ia a sad loss , but not so hard for you as for one who depended on his hands for subsistence . " "Ah , father , " replied the son , " that ' a not the worst of it ! " whereupon , lifting the coverlet , he showed that both his legs were gone , at which sight the old man fell down dead , and the younger one only survived the shock a few minutes .
At the meeting of the Spanish deputies , on the 23 rd ultimo , Puiz , one of the Catalonian deputies , enquired why the new theatre was called the ltoy » l Theatre , and whether the Government had anything to do with the management of it . The Minister of the Home Department said that everything relative to the theatre would be explained when the estimates for the Home department were examined . The Queen is said to have put 40 , 000 dollars of her private property at the disposal of the Home department for the expenses of the opera , lit which the King Consort and Queen Christina aro very much displeased .
Mr . Lovi , an hnglish engineer , inventor of a diving michiiip , by which a person can remain several hours under water , at a great depth , hus been called from Scio , in order to try hit * machine in the port of Constantinople , at the place where the Neiii-Chevket sunk . He found the vessel at the depth of about twenty fathoms , deeply embedded in the aaud . The fore part lay split open , uud her boats overturned on the dock , which was covered with remnants of the rigging . It is expected that he will bo appointed to raise as much of the vessel and stores as can be recovered .
An Indian officer who has recently come home states that Cairo ia extremely full of Italian emigrants , many men of high rank , who are obliged to perform the mout menial offices for the means of living . They were roccntly watching the negotiations of Austria und Prussia with u good deal of interest , und bad decided oil returning to Italy the instant u war nhould be declared . The cducationul causa in making rapid progress botli at Bombay and Calcutta . Schools arc rising in ull directions , uud under the most influential auftpiccu , for the
improvement of the nooicr cIuahch . The reports from China rt'luting to the rebellion are very contradictory ; iiothistH Heoinn certain concerning tlit ; acttt or intentions of the rebels , except that they levy u tax on the ten-boats and other produce of the interior on its way to the cuhIoiuh . It in , however , stated , and generally believed , that the CominisHioncr Heu had attempted to effect u pacification by distributing money ( 100 , 000 dollars ) mnongst them ,, and that liOOO troop " he had sent aguinut the insurgents hud frutcrinxcd will * them .
A spirited meeting has been hold in New York by the friundtt of cheap postugc . Keaolutiona wuie adopted urging urn immediate and gcneritl action in Congr # HH In favour of the bill reported ut the luut uc » tiion , providing for a uniform rute of two cento . pre * puid on lcttoin , iuid ono cent , on newspapers .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 4, 1851, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1864/page/8/
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