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      ground with excessive rapidity . The town of Banialuka has , however , again fallen into the hands ot the Ottoman troops ; and the insurgents suffered a severe defeat before its walls . There is a dull sameness in all that concerns France at the present time ; the only conclusion we come to after reading all the news thence , is merely that the country finds itself every week one step further from the way of human progress . All the efforts to create a combination Ministry under Odillon Barrot have been frustrated , after keeping public expectation on the rack from day to day . The Moniteur gives an official announcement of the President's signal failure to make up a Cabinet . Political observers , French and foreign , endeavour to explain the nature of the difficulties thrown into the way of a good

      understanding between Barrot , and Leon Faucher , Rouher , Baroche , and Fould , who , were designated as his colleagues . The real secret is , most probably , the immoderate ambition both of raen and parties : and the readiness . on the part of almost every statesman in that rotten country to sacrifice principle to intrigue . The point at issue at the present moment is said to be the law of the 31 st of May , which Od illon Barrot deems it necessary to submit to revision and modification , whereas the others insist it should be preserved in all its integrity . These men , as well as the President , are well known to have grounded all their hopes on the result of a Presidential election on the basis of universal suffrage , and are now supposed to oppose Barrot out of mere contradiction , and with a view to " bother" him .

      The electors in France , in conformity with the words of the Constitution , were in 1848 reckoned at 11 , 250 , 000 . The electoral law of March 15 th of that year , however , by declaring some of the citizens incapacitated for several good reasons , reduced the number to 9 , 936 , 004 . The new law of May 31 st , 1850 , further limited the electoral list to 6 , 809 , 281 . In this number are comprised : 1 st . All the citizens paying for three years the personal tax , about 5 , 028 , 973 . 2 nd . Persons paying the tax in kind , 449 , 221 . 3 rd . Sons of families inscribed in the certificates of their parents , 546 , 545 . 4 th . The army , 338 , 949 . 5 th . Public functionaries , 110 , 304 . 6 th . The clergy , 32 , 492 . 7 th . Servants continuing for three

      years in the same family , 124 , 336 . 8 th . Ouvrters , 36 , 466 , Now , according to official statements , there are no less than 2 , 500 , 000 ouvriers in France . The law of May 31 st was therefore evidently got up with the almost exclusive view of robbing these working men of their right of suffrage . It is even thus that Freedom is understood in Republican Fiance ! M . Victor Hugo has addressed a letter to M . Michelet , in condolence for his dismissal from his Professor ' s chair at the University of France . The poet laments that the freedom of thought and language has been violated in the person of Michelet , and the liberty of conscience in that of his illustrious colleague and fellow-sufferer , M . Jacques .

      The Recctte Gtimirale , . Receiver-General ' s house , of Lyons , has been burnt . The specie was saved ; but an immense amount of property iu paper securities has been irreparably destroyed . The Asscmblee Nationalc has been bought by Messrs . Guizot , Duchatel I ) e Salvundy , Dumont , and St . Priest , the heads of the party of " fusion . " All negotiations with the press lor the same purpose have been broken off . The uttention of the Assembly has lately been called to the great subject of railways and electric telegraphs . A plan for expediting the construction of the Avignon Railway has been rejected by a

      majority of IMl ) to 305 . 'Ihe railway between Avignon and Maiseilles is already in operation : nothing could well be more important than to continue tlie work so as to connect the capital with the Mediterranean . The work lias been estimated at ' 200 , 000 , 000 of francs ; and might be executed in four yearn . The Government bus no means of defraying thin enormous expense , and it wus proposed to leave it to be achieved by a company . The railway to Strasbourg has been granted to two different companies , one for construction , the oilier for exploitation ; hucIi being the way things are managed in France . M . Ranee

      proposed , therefore , that by an analogous arrangement the Government should pay lbr the construction of the Avignon Railway , and that it nhould borrow the money from the company to which the ; lease ; oi the line shoulel be awarded . The proposition was , however , negatived , and the railway will be constructed by Government , whenever funds may be raised . A plan for establishing seven elill'eient linen of electric telegraphs has been referred to a committee : the line between I ' arin and Marseilles does not figure amongst , them . Messrs . Leverticr and Collas have been appointed president , and secretary of the committee : the latter is the author oi the

      projected scheme . The French Government makes up for its remissness in these m ,-tiers , by an extraordinary activity in the preservation of " order . " Although the Socialists are represented us ( Jincordant and ditpirited , and all their plots detected and foiled , yet new precautions are taken everyday to prevent explosions on their p . m . The I ' aiih Hotel de Ville has been literally converted into a fortresa .

      The President of the Assembly , M . Dupin , has asked for a month ' s leave of absence , in consequence of ill health . He , indeed , tendered his resignation in the same letter ; but the Assembly by acclamation declined to accept it ; the " Mountain" alone remained sitting at its place , in sign of dissent . General Bedeau was then discharging the office ot President . The disturbances at Fribourg , in Switzerland , are at an end . The peasants were repulsed with severe losses . The newspapers have subsequently given some accounts of new xiots , and even of the roaring of cannon within the walls of that town ; but such reports arose from some involuntary mistake .

      Prussia is said to have sent a note to the Cabinet of Vienna , intended as her ultimatum on the great question of the German Confederacy . If the terms therein proposed are not accepted , Prussia , it is again stated , will send her representative to Frankfort—a step equivalent on her part to an acknowledgment of the necessity of restoring the old Diet on its primitive conditions . M . de Merrier , the French envoy , has left Berlin for St . Petersburg . The Queen of Bavaria and the Grand Duchess ot Hesse Darmstadt are on a visit to the Prince of Prussia , their father , who is suffering from severe illness .

      The discussion on the income tax has been brought to a close in the Lower Prussian Chamber . The Royal Family and the minor Princes of the Hohenzollern are exempt from it . The same Chamber has also adopted the new penal statute- 'book , elaborated by M . Simpson , the Minister of Justice , and the law offieers of the Crown . This new code will bring about a perfectly equal and uniform penal law throughout the monarchy , capital punishment included . Some of the Polish deputies from Posen opposed the measure to the best of their abilities , insisting that capital punishment should be abolished , at least in political cases .

      Count Alvensleben has been offered the portfolio of Foreign Affairs in Prussia . It is confidently expected that he will not accept it . Baron Manteuffel seems at a loss how to carry on the Government , and a Ministerial crisis is looked upon as imminent . The Second Chamber of Hanover has come to a determination to refuse the payment of taxes to the Government . The latter , however , backed by the Upper Chamber , question the right of the Lower Chamber to such a refusal ; and , as the deputies evince great stubbornness on the subject , the difference will most probably be settled by a dissolution of the Chamber itself .

      There have been some poor squabbles at Cassel between the Hessian Government and the commander of the Prussian garrison , the former having either flatly refused permission to the latter to celebrate the Prince of Prussia ' s birthday by a grand review of the Prussian garrison , or amicably prevailed upon the Prussian commander himself to countermand the review , to avoid all chances of a disturbance . The Berlin and other German papers have been quite savage on the subject , and the explanations given by the Ministerial organs have not proved satisfactory .

      The King of Bavaria left Munich on the 27 th , on a visit to South Tyrol , under the assumed name of Count of Werdenfels .

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      THE TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE . The Committee of the Literary Institution , Johnstreet , Fitzroy-square , held a meeting in the large hall , on Tuesday evening , to promote the objects ot the association lor obtaining the repeal of the taxes on knowledge , and in particular the penny stamp on ne wspapers . The chair was taken by Dr . Eppa , who expressed a hope that at the next election no man would be returned who was not pledged to demand the repeal of the duties on newspapers , advertisements , and paper . Mr . R . R . Moore , who moved the first resolution , said the press was an essential element in the advancement of morality and knowledge , and whatever

      professions might be made in favour of popular rights and the increase of knowledge , that Govurnment must be a despotism which , by its fiscal or other regulations , interfered with the freedom of the press . The question of education was agitating the sects greatly ; but leave the ; matter to an unfettered press , and he had no fear of the result . The people were much more anxious lbr the repeal of the newspaper duly than for the abolition of the other taxes on knowledge ; , but the majority of their representatives had no regarel lor that . Tin ; Whigs , he : said , when in e > pposilion , calleel for the ) freedenn of the press , but when in power elid nothing U > remove the shackles which bound it .

      Mr . ( -edlett moved n vote of ccmuro em the conduet e > f the Hoard of Inland Revenue in permitting a number of rcgimcreel newspapers to stump only a part e > f their e : elitie > n , while denying Unit privilege } to others . Mr . Holyonke ; seconded the re . 'solution , which was cm ried uiiiiniiuouMly . In answer to a eiue'Htion from Mr . ftrholcficld , in the House of Common ;* , ou Monday , Sir George

      Grey stated that the delay in the prosecution of the Household Narrative arose from a disagreement between the heads of the Inland Board of Revenue and their solicitor . Mr . Scholefield pressed for a definition of an unstamped paper , but the Home Secretary declined attempting it .

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      THE EXHIBITON . This has been a busy week at the Crystal Palace . Thursday being the last day for receiving goods for exhibition , there has been a general crush for admission from all the four quarters of the g lobe . Although , the operation of unloading was carried on with remarkable despatch , the train of conveyances in waiting extended sometimes from Kensingtonroad to the end of Sloane-street . Such a spectacle was never witnessed in London , or , indeed , in any other part of the world ; and passers-by stopped to gaze at the long procession of industrial products , much more wonderful in its character than the rows of splendid equipages assembled in the ring in the height of the season . On Monday 600 wagon loads were received ; yet the whole of this vast consignment was deposited with the utmost regularity , and without any inconvenience to the ordinary traffic . Wednesday being the last day for admitting carts and wagons laden with packages into the building , an immense number of vehicles of all kinds continued to arrive throughout the day . Now that the admission of carts and wagons into the building is stopped , exhibitors will be enabled , without annoyance , at once to proceed with the unpacking of their goods ; and we understand that a notice calling upon exhibitors to take that step will be immediately issued by the executive .

      Prince Albert presided at a meeting of the Royal Commissioners on "Wednesday . The meeting broke up about five o'clock , at which hour the Queen and the Princess Helena arrived at the Exhibition building . They were attended in the building by Colonel Reid , Dr . Lyon Play fair , Mr . Dilke , Mr . Pusey , M . P ., and other gentlemen , who explained to her Majesty and the Prince some , of the more important arrangements of the various classes which they represented . The royal party left the building shortly after six o ' clock . Among other articles to be seen at the Exhibition will be the famous diamond of which we have heard so much . In a prominent position in the nave the " Koh-i-noor" is to be exhibited , the Queen having consented to allow the whole world to see the

      farfamed " mountain of light . Extraordinary precautions are to be taken for its safety , yet of such a kind that the curiosity of the public with reference to this most precious of all precious stones will not go ungratified . The manner in which the public opening should take place , and whether it should be accompanied by any pageant or ceremonial , is at present under the consideration of the Royal Commissioners .

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      TAYLEUR'S DIVORCE . Mr . William Houlbrooke Tayleur , a wealthy Liverpool gentleman , the eldest son of a well-known merchant in that town , being desirous to obtain a divorce from his wife , for very sufficient reasons , and being rich enough to pay the large sum required to obtain such an act of simple justice , the case came before the House of Lords this week in the usual form . Mr . Tayleur was married at the parish church of Stoke-upon-Trent in May , 1835 , to Miss Emma

      Elizabeth Heathcotc , daughter of a Staffordshire gentleman . Soon after marriage they went abroad , travelled some years on the Continent , then returned to Liverpool , and ultimately , on Mr . Tayleur retiring from busine-ss in 1812 , removed to a house he had bought in Chapel-street , Park-lane , London . In 184 / 5 they took a house at Ge > odwood , and , while residing there , became acquainted with Lord Arthur Lennox , but nothing occurred at that time to excite suspicion of an improper intimacy between Mrs . Tay leur and that nobleman . In 1849 , Mr . and Mrs . Tayleur ,

      during a tour in Scotland , renewed their intimacy with Lord Arthur Lennox , and in September of that year , Mrs . Tayleur having ge > ne to resiele in the house of her medical adviser , on account of delicate health , which required frequent medical attendance , she again met his lordship on various occasiems . In November , 1841 ) , Mr . Tayleur was hastily summoned to Torquay , em account of the dange > re > UH iHhchh of his father , but before leaving town he calleel viw

      at his own liemse in I ' ark-lane , where his wife then residing , she having recovered her health apparently . Ne > sooner had her husband gone than slu ; instantly drove e > ff in a cab to the United Service ' Club , taking the mime , whom she ne : nt into the olubliejiiMtt to inquire if Lorel Arthur Lennox was then ' - He ; was absent then , at which she seemed much di « - appointiiel , but she returned again at a later h <» ur , when he came out and took his place in 'he ; e :: il > , while ; lh < i nurse Htexul outsiele . After some

      conversation , Lorel Arthur enune out of the eutl ) , the nurse wont in , and hhe mid her inistre . HH drove home to Chitpcl-Htrcct , Park-lane . In the evening Mrs . Taylenr told the ; muse that Lord Arthur would ( : <»»« - ' in the ceiurae of the night , and asked hor te > le : t li" « in , which uho refused " to do notwithstanding her

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 5, 1851, page 314, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1877/page/6/