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    • .. a * v » nioht before on the Queen , and tendered her uTettY ^ & ^ iye reSgn ^ n of ( he members of the HneT The Oueen refused to accept the resignation # w Ministers who consequently retained their portfcltoTby SrtuTof a royal order . It appears that tbe Drte tonk oSence at a cold reception he had experienced from Queen Maria Christina , and prevailed on W colleagues 10 Be ? lL p l " e « ° ntiOfl that Prince Schwarsenberg , Who Is unmar ? ie d and without property is a son of the Princess who perished In the dreamt conflagration of fhe saloons d « Sng the celebration of Napoleon * * nuptials S Paris They might add that be is the same Prince who figured S a defendant in a YSfy scandalous trial whfch took place i » this country some twenty years ago ,

    Somedays before her death , which took place lately in Paris Mdlle . Eliza Forgeot , ex-directress of the Theatre Francais at London , was conversing with some friends , when * some one knocked a * her door , upon which her fZmedVchambre whispeted some words in her ear . « ? t is my marchande de modes come to try me on a pew dress / ' said the actress , ?• will yoa com . to see it ?' She hen led the way to her dressing-room , and her friends who followed her were ¦ uprised and pained to « ee that the new gown was a—coffin . Ine coffin was m Josewood , lined with white satin , and was placed against the wall . She entered it to try It . "Yes , she said , smiling , "It fits well , and I am pleased with it . Several well-known men of letters were tried before

    the Paris Tribunal of Correctional Police , on Saturday , for bavinir been concerned in a duel , which happened thus : —On the 30 th of October last , an article signed by M . Viennot , reflecting on M . C . Hugo , one of the editors of the Evenement , appeared in the Corsaire , ot whictt M . Viennot is an editor . M . Hugo took offence at this , and sent M Me > y and M . Dumas , the eminent authors , to demand reparation . An explanation w * s given , bat some misunderstanding subsequently arose , and a duel was resolved on . As , however , M . Hugo is a vert young man . and M . Viennot a very old one , it was settled that

    M Viennot ' s son should fight in his place . The meeting took place with swords in the wood of Meudon , and M Hugo was slightly wounded . M . Viennot , iun ., and his seconds , M . de la Piarre and M . de Gritnaldi , and the two seconds of M . Hugo , M . A . Dumas and M . Mery , were tried for this offence . Each of the accused gave explanations , and , in the course of his , M . A . Dumas said that he only consented to act as second to M . Hugo on the express wish of his father , M . Victor Hugo , that he should fight . The tribunal condemned M . Viennot , M . de la Pierre , and M . de Grimaldl to lOOf . fine each , M . Mery and M . Dumas to 200 f . each . ultimostates that

    A letter front Borne , of the 26 th , the funeral of M . Frederic Bastiat , the distinguished French political economist , took place in that city on that morning in the church of St . Louis . At an annual festival of the "New England Society , ' hold in New York on the 22 nd of December ( anniversary of the landing of the " Pilgrims" on Plymouth-rock ) , Sir Henry Bulwer and Daniel Webster were among the guests ; and , in reply to a speech from Mr . Webster complimentary to England and its Minister , Sir Henry made a very eloquent speech , which was most warmly received and applauded .

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    The report of the committee on the proposition of M . B . Kaspail , for authorizing legislatively the marriage of priests and persons in holy orders , has been presented to the French Assembly . The committee expresses its opinion that the Assembly cannot seriously enter on the question , that the proposition is full of dangers and inconveniences , and that only priests who have renounced their allegiance to the Church could avail themselves of it . The report therefore recommends its not being taken into consideration . A letter from Florence of the 80 th ultimo states that the delegates of that city had communicated to the booksellers a long list of works which the government had thought proper to prohibit . Those books are divided into two categories—one , of which the introduction is prohibited , the other of which the sale i « forbidden .

    1 he German papers state from Dresden that an opinion prevails among the Austrian agents at the Congress that the executive against Holstein will have effeoted its purpose by the 1 / nh instant . Hitherto the committee , only of the Congress have been sitting , and a general assembly , or " Plenum " of all the agents in not likely to take place before the middle of next week . The Austrian corps marching towards Holatein contains a Hungarian regiment which served in the insurrection . There are also a number of Hungarian officers of rank condemned to nerve as privates in all the Austrian regiments ; Count Sandor ia doing duty as a common artilleryman .

    The reduction of the Prussian army ia at length being proceeded with in earnest . The Minister of War has ordered the first class of the militia , or landw * hr , to be reduced to 000 men per battalion , aiid the militia cavalry to fiO () men per regiment . The electric telegraphs managed by the Prussian Government do not pur their expense * , and a grant of £ 1 . 5 , 000 will be demanded of the Chambers fur this branch of Ht-rvlco ia tho coming year . The Chambers ought to recommend an encrcase of apparatus and a great induction of charges ; the encrease of public telegraphic communication would then speedily raise the income above tho costs .

    A ^ rent opposition thrt monopol y of tobacco and clgftTH han been got up in Hungary , where the eternally Hinoking population Buffer severely from the restriction luict upon their favourite pastime . It 1 h , however , a fruitful subject of discontent everywhere , and it 1 * not "urprinlng that the discontented purty in Hungary should lay lxold ( lf It . I / Pttern from Onnoa state that a riot took place there on tin ; ; j r , l inotuut . Several persons were wounded . In

    order to ensure the tranquillity of Ttaly " tae ~ Trench Government proposes to station sundry steamers along the coast . The Mikm Gazette , of the 20 th ultimo , announces officially , that all the foreign consulates at Milan would cease to exist from the 1 st of January , 1851 . They are to be transferred to Venice . The Concordia of Turin makes some severe remarks upon the Sardinian Envoy at Rome , for his having appeared at the official reception of the Vatican with an azure cockade , instead of the tricoloured one , which has been adopted by Sardinia since 1848 . The Heraldo publishes a letter from Cadiz , stating that the influx of travellers who had repaired thither to embark in the Caledonia steamer for Cuba was so considerable that a great number could not find room on board .

    The Courier d'Athenet states that bands of robbers continue to infest the country . A party of brigands lately pillaged the principal houses of the village of Melissima in open day . A few days after this exploit the robbers had a skirmish with a party of soldiers , of whom one was killed and another wounded . Scenes of a similar description have occurred in Euboea , Livadia , Boeotia , and Attica . At Gortyna a party of ninety travellers were attacked And robbed on their way to Tripolizza . A numerous band attacked the village of Machala , in Acarnania , pillaged several houses , and put some of the inhabitants to the torture . On the 17 th ultimo , a band of twenty robbers , under the orders of Contzomili , attacked the Turkish village Zatanti , and had a skirmish with an Ottoman detachment , which lost two men .

    Letters from Jamaica to the 15 th of December bring frightful accounts of the ravages from cholera , which had almost disappeared in Kingston , but still prevailed in the inland and country districts . In some parts there was scarcely a house in which there was not either a dead or dying person , and in several instances whole families were swept off in the course of a few hours . Another portion of the rock at Niagara fell down with an awful crash about the middle of last month . The Niagara Fails Iris , ofDecember 14 , says : — "On Tuesday evening last our citizens were startled on hearing a loud and terrific noise , resembling , as near as we can describe it , the heavy booming of artillery in quick succession , which shook the earth around us very sensibly . Part of the Horse-shoe Fall on the Canada side had fallen , carrying away about ten rods of the rock in length , by four

    in width . The canal boat , which had been lodged for the last few months on the brink of the rock which has fallen , and which has excited the admiration of all who beheld it , was also carried over with the rock . It is now in the whirlpool , two miles down the river , dancing attendance on the freaks of that great maelstrom . The crash occurred about seven o ' clock In the evening , and it is indeed providential that it fell at such an hour and at this season of the year . Had it been in the summer , when so many thousands of strangers are here , there undoubtedly would have been persons crushed to death ; for it is precisely the spot whence so many contemplate the grandeur of nature and behold the waters of the mighty cataract above them rushing terrifically over their heads that is now filled with huge masses of rock which have fallen from above . "

    John W . Stump , of Bell Air , Maryland , was lately tried for the murder of Henry Hammond , by shooting him while in his garden . Hammond was accused of seducing Mary Stump , sister of the prisoner , while she was on a visit to his family , and Stump was charged with shooting him for the act . The jury returned a verdict of not guilty , and the announcement was loudly cheered by the people .

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    It is said that Government intend to bring in a bill for the purpose of protecting from piracy inventions , &c , not already protected by the Designs Aot of last year . The Postmaster-General han given orders that all the town receiving houses in the kingdom shall resume receiving registered lottera , a practice which had for some time ceased . The British Museum was reopened to the public on Wednenday , at ten o ' clock , and will now be open on every Monday , Wednesday , and Friday , between the hours of ten and four o'clock , from January till May and from September till January , and during the summer months between the hours of tfen and seveit .

    The Morning Post informs us that " amongst the novelties which the ' Crystul Palace' will contain at the Great Exhibition of 1851 will be pome plans nnd models on the most entensive scale ever known in this country , intended with a view for the better protection of the coast in the event of nny attempt at foreign invasion . Its adoption would entirely abolish the present facilities afforded for smuggling , ami thereby to render the Coast Guard unnecessary ; or , rather , it would have rhe eflect of transferring their services to another branch of duty . " The repairs and restorations which have been in

    progress for hohic time pant , in the interior of St . Stephen , Walbrook , having been completed , it was reopened for the celebration of divine service on Sunday . At morning service , which was celebrated b y tho Revereud Dr . Croly , the rector of the parish , the church was very much crowded In every part . The Lord Mayor and Sheriff * , accompanied by several members of the corporation of the City of London , were present , and occupied pews whieh , during tho late repair * , were fitted up for their use . The Bishop of London reud the Communion service and nrmched .

    During the la « t few days from twenty to thirty men have been busily employed in sawing limber and preparing piles to sink in tl ><> river , prepurntory to beginning operations for the erection ol ihe proposed and longtalked of nuHpenwion bridge between Ch « lnea and Uuttersca . The bridge , which in to be constructed for rarrlii ; r « «« well oh piiMHemcer traffic , in to be- c . rmneneed on the north nidi ) of the river , about three hundred yards

    below the garSens in front orChelsea Hospital , and w ^ o cross the river in a direct line in front of the old Battersea Red-house , so long known to and frequented by Cockney sportsmen . The Bed-house is to be pulled down entirely , and an elegant approach is to be made on the site of it and the gardens attached , to the southern end of the bridge . On the north the bridge is to be approached by a road to be constructed running in a direct line from the now notorious chapel of St . Barnabas . A public meeting was held at the Denmark schoolrooms , Islington , on Tuesday ' evening , to concert measures for obtaining the immediate , total , and unconditional repeal of the Window-tax . It appears that much dissatisfaction exists in the parish in consequence of the authorities having neglected the invitation ^ of St . Marylebone to appoint delegates in common with other pato the im

    rishes , to wait upon Lord John Russell , urge - mediate repeal of the aforesaid tax : and , conseqently , the Parochial Reform Association had taken upon themselves the office of calling a public meeting on the subject , at which they requested the presence of several Members of Parliament , and of the delegates who had been appointed by some of the principal metropolitan parishes upon the subject of the window-tax . Deputations and delegates attended from various metropolitan parishes , among which were St . James ' s , Westminster ; St . George ' s , Southwark ; Clerkenwell , Greenwich , Paddington , and Hackney . Mr . Wyld , M . P ., and Mr . Wakley , M . P ., among many other gentlemen , addressed the meeting . Mr . Wakley renewed his pledge of resignation , if ill health continued to prevent his attendance in the House : and votes of satisfaction with him , and of censure on the parish authorities , were carried unanimously .

    A meeting was held at the Assembly Rooms , Theobald ' s-road , on Thursday evening , consisting of trie inhabitants of the parishes of St . Andrew ' s , Holborn , and of St . George the Martyr , for the purpose of faking into consideration the urgent necessity of appointing a public prosecutor . After some discussion it was argued that a petition to that effect should be presented to the House of Commons , and that the two members for Finsbury should be requested to take charge of it . The first anniversary of the Printers'Dramatic Society New Year's soiree was held at Anderton ' s Hotel , on Saturday evening . Mr . W . H . Wills , who filled the

    chair , in the absence of Mr . C . Dickens , explained the purport of the society . It took its rise from the circumstance of so many of the operative printers having fallen victims to the vicissitudes of cholera , which occurred a year or two ago , leaving their widows and families in a state of comparative destitution . To commemorate the success of the society , a pleasant evening was arranged at Anderton's Hotel , Fleet-street , for the members and their wives and families . A very agreeable party was thus assembled , who were entertained throughout the evening by the vocal and dramatic efforts of a number of amateurs , male and female , which in many instances would have done no discredit to regular professionals .

    A public meeting was held at Manchester , on Thursday , to consider , or rather to adopt , a scheme devised by Mr . John Potter , Mayor of that town , for establishing a Public Free Library and Museum for the working and other inhabitants of the borough . Among the gentlemen present were : —The Mayor of Manchester , the Lord Bishop of Manchester , the Very Reverend the Dean of Manchester , the Mayor of Salford , Mr . Jos . Brotherton , M . P ., Messrs . J . A . Turner , Thomas Bazley , W . It . Callender , Richard Birley , Charles Hickson , J . Fereday Smith , and a considerable number of clergymen , ministers , and other leading inhabitants . The Mayor stated that he was indebted for the suggestion to Dr . Watts , who , about a year ago , had proposed to him that the Hall of Science might be purchased cheap ,

    and made available for the purposes of a Public Library and Museum . The Mayor accordingly took up the matter and worked so assiduously that he procured subscriptions to the amount of £ 4319 , to which the overseers of the poor have added £ 2000 , entrusted to their care for public purposes , making altogether £ 6310 . In addition to a reading-roorri and library for reference , it is proposed to have a free lending library . A large committee was appointed to authorize the necessary alterations in the Hall of Science , which has already been bought for £ 2147 , including the ground rent , —to prepare rules , appoint a librarian , and promote the speedy establishment of a Free Library and Museum . The Ruttler , from Genoa , arrived at Liverpool a low days since , having amongst other cargo , a complete suit n » sacerdotal habits for his Eminence Cardinal Wiseman .

    The case containing these novel imports ih at present lying in tho transit shed at the Nelson dock until his Eminence shall have certified that the vestments are required solely for the purposes of thecclcbration of divine worship ; otherwise , a duty will have to be paid on the material of the habiliments , being foreign manufactured silk . Besides the pallium , the red stockings , and varioiiH richly embroidered vestments , tho case contains a mitre , and a hat of more than quaker dimennionH of brim . There are also several suits of liveries for his Eminence ' s official attendants .

    The Jersey papers contain a copy of the mandate oi justice iu tho cane of Miss Julia RiihIi againm Cardinal Wiseman . The proceeding was instituted for the pur-]) oh < - of recovering a sum of £ 402 advanced by Mikm Rush to build 11 convent in Jersey , ai . d us the price of the purohn . se of tho hvIo on which it h ; is been erected . For Home reuHoiiH that do not . uppear in th « report , J ) r . Wiseman withdrew bin consent to have the convent ; established us originally agreed upon , though taking the . conveyance of the premises to hiniMell and other tniHlces . On the motion of his proctor the wise wiih allowed to Bland over until the first day of next term , when Cardinal Wiseman and liia co-trustees will havo to pay the amount claimed , unless Htttinfactory cuuse to the contrary bo chowii .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 11, 1851, page 33, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1865/page/9/