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      on Friday , on a visit to the Kins of the Belgians . The ex-Queen of the Freooh , who ha * been some days at Laeken , went to the railway to meet them . M . Dupin , the president of the French Assembly , went from Paris on Friday night to Brussels to visit the ex-Queen pf the Freno and the Duke de JTemours . The tfucheas of Cambridge is at Coblentz . Her presence has caused a report that the visit of we Prihde of Prussia to London is likely to lead to a close connection with the royal family . A marriage between the son pf the prince and the Princess Royal is hinted at as in codtemplation .

      Jenny land ' s concert * at New York continue to be immenvely crowded , § he is said to have been received with the same warmth and enthusiasm as pf old . The desire to hear her is greatest among those who have seen her oftenesf . M'EIevey , the tailor , who bought the prize-ticket to Jenny Lino ' s first concert in Cincinnati , is one of thefew men in the world woo are as sharp as Sarnum . The way he worked things was this : tor some days before the concert he went around among his friends betting ten dollars with this one , and with that . one , and so on , until he had one thousand dollars bet that he would buy the prize-ticket . The ticket wa * knocked down to him at 67 $ dollars , thus leaving him 425 dollars in pocket . — Madison Courier . A very larfte number of wealthy inhabitants of Cassel

      have determined on emigrating : This resolution seems to have startled the Elector , who has ordered the chief magistrate to report immediately- on the subject . M . Chavoix , representative , has been condemned by the tribunal of Perigueuz to pay a fine of 30 , 000 francs to the family of M . Dupont , whom he killed in a duel . The public anxiety as to the future continues to have a sad effect upon trade in France , and to cause great depreciation of property . Last week a house near the Boulevard Beaumarchajs , which was sold by auction in 1847 for 300 , 000 f ., was again brought to the hammer by the mortgagee , and btodght only 130 , OOOf . The Prussian authorities on the Belgian confines rigidly persist in admitting nobody from England whose passport is not countersigned by the Prussian Ambassador or Consul . Not a day passes but travellers are stopped to their very serious inconvenience .

      The Colonne newspaper , published at Boulogne , gives the following particulars of an affair which terminated fatally on the evening of the 2 J } rd instant , about two miles from the town : —• ' On Wednesday last four Frenchmen , residents of London , landed from the steamer at Boulogne with the intention of terminating , on French soil , some serious political quarrel which had arisen between two of them . On Friday afternoon the fvlro parties set out for Font-de-Briques , tw 6 travelling per train and two on foot . Arrived at the appointed place , they entered a warren in the commune of Coudette . The adversaries were placed at a distance of twenty-five steps ; at a given signal the two pistols were discharged , but without result . The seconds recharged them , and the combatants approached five steps nearer . Again neither was struck .

      Instead of this contest terminating in the ordinary manner , the pistols were charged a third time , and the principals brought to within only fifteen steps of each other . This time one of the two fell , struck by a ball which pierced him through . The unhappy man never spoke a ¦ word . The two witnesses of the tragedy and the surviving principal immediately left the spot , and the second of the deceased went to Pont de Briques to seek a surgeon and inform the mayor of what had occurred . Those who hearing of the catastrophe were attracted to the spot , found the body lying on the back , the hands clasped and pressing the breast . The three survivors , fearing the consequence , returned to Boulogne with all speed , and embarked in the night . The deceased is said to have borne the name of Petit , and to have acted as foreman to a London tailor . "

      At Nuernberg the municipal authorities lately came to an agreement with persons in neighbouring villages to bring up some parish children ; the sending them into country places being cheaper and more healthy . By the railway train , by which some children were being dispatched , there happened to be some Catholic missionaries travelling . A report was spread that the Jesuits had purchased of the magistracy a number of poor children , the first batch of which had just been delivered and sent off under strict ecclesiastical escort , but whether , or for what purpose , nobody inquired . In a short time an immense mob met in the street and commenced demolishing the windows of sqme dwellings and public offices , so that the military had to be called out , and quelled the riot , but not without the use of arms .

      Lord Cowley gave a brilliant entertainment at Frankfort , last Saturday , in celebration of Queen Victoria ' s birthday . It was honoured by the presence of the Duke of NaHsau and his newly-married duchess , whom his lordship had personally invited at their beautiful chateau of Biberich .

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      Mr . John Power , of Gurteen , who committed suicide lately , has left a fine property of £ 9000 a-yeur , of which Jt | 800 l ) a-year it * out of settlement , and will pay his eiigageinentfl . It is now ascertained that the cause of suicide was the receipt of a solicitor ' s letter announcing prompt proceedings against him aH security for £ 10 , 000 for h receiver , whoso debts , however , di < i not exceed £ 2000 . He Insured his life for £ 6000 , which ho assigned for a valuable consideration some years ago to a bank , and thut stun will be paid by the Itoyal Kxohang « In-Hur » iioc Company within three months . His widow bus £ 1000 a-year by her marriage settlement . He has loft seven children .

      A gentleman paid into the Commercial Bank of London , Lothbury , last week , under the assmed name of bharle « lng « s , the sum of seven hundred pounds in sovereigns , directing that it ahoiild be applied to the purposes of the Metropolitan Convalescent Institution . I he board of managem ent ponsesa no olue for discovering tno person who ha * thus proved no liberal a benefactor .

      The subscription to the Bushton testimonial , which amounts to £ 8500 , has been closed , and the sum has been placed in Heywood ' s bank , to be disposed of as the family of the deceased stipendiary may desire . The celebrated collection of Pictures at Castle Howard , the seat of the Earl of Carlisle , including the Marys , by Annibal Caracci , one of the most renowned pictures in the world , will , it is said , be immediately brought to London , to be exhibited , by permission of its noble proprietor , at the gallery of the British Institution , during the next six months .

      A picture , painted by Sir David Wilkie , has arrived at Liverpool by a vessel from New Orleans . This picture , which i » called the " Grace before Meat , " was painted by this great artist to the order of a gentleman in America , in whose possession it has until now remained . An action will be shortly tried at Guildhall , wh ich excites great interest among military circles , as well as in the sporting world . The plaintiff is a gentleman well known on the turf , and the defendant an officer on full pay in an infantry regiment . The action is brought upon a bill

      of exchange for nearly £ 2000 , given in satisfaction of a bet lost on the Derby of 1850 . The plea setup is gaming . In the village of Baslow , near Chatsworth , a man named John Heathcote , who for a number of years has been ( juite blind , is regularly employed not only in meeting the gig mail , but also in delivering the letters . The plfcn usually adopted is as follows : —Having received the bag from the mail-driver , it is duly handed to the postmistress , by whom the letters are sorted and deposited On different parts of his person , and , aided by a blind man ' s memory , they are duly delivered to the proper

      persons . It was intended that the pensioners of the Woolwich and Deptford divisions should have assembled on Blackheath to go through their evolutions preparatory to assembling for review in Hyde-park on the 3 rd of June , but the assembling on Blackheath of 500 men of the Woolwich and Deptford divisions , and the review of the whole of the 1600 pensioners of the London district , under the command of Colonel Tulloch , is dispensed with by order of the Commander-in-Chief , who does not consider it advisable to have a review in Hyde-park while the Exhibition in the Crystal Palace is open .

      The United Service Gazette says : —It is rumoured that a review upon an extensive scale will take place in the course of the summer in Windsor-park . We understand there is no foundation for the reports that the Teviews in London will take place as soon as the weather is settled . Major-General Brotherton . will make his annual inspection of the different cavalry corps as a matter of course , but there will be no regular brigade work , as stated by some of our contemporaries . Dr . Duff , in his speech at the ann jversary meeting of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society in London , thus described one of the heathen temples in India : — " In Seringham you have the hugest temple that can probably

      be found from the north to the south pole . Itis a square , each side bejng a mile in length , so that it is four miles round . Talk of your Crystal Palace ! Why , as a man would put a penny into bis pocket , you might put your Crystal Palace into the pocket of this huge pagoda . The walls are twenty-five feet high , tind four or five feet thick , and in the centre of each wall rises a lofty tower . Entering the first square , you come to another , with a wall as high , and with , four more towers . "Within that square there is another , and within that again anotherand you flnd seven squares , one within another , crowded by thousands of Brahmins . The great hall for pilgrims is supported by a thousand pillars , each cut out of a single block of stone . "

      An awfully tragical event occurred in Madrid a fortnight ago . The following are said to be the details : —A general officer had detected his better half in an amorous intrigue With a reverend gentleman holding a high clerical appointment , and the latter finding himself at the point of being run through the body by the husband's sword , fired a pistol at the gallant officer , which , however , missing its aim , had only the effect of further irritating him , and the consequence waa that the clergyman was conveyed to his own home in a very dangerous state . The wound proved mortal , and he was , as customary in thoi-e climates , buried within twenty-four hours .

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      The President was to be at New York on the 13 th instant , for the purpose of being present at the opening of the now railroad to Lake Erie . This ih the grandest work of the kind in the United States , and though only one line of rails is as yet laid down , has cost about 25 , 000 , 000 dollars . The latest accounts from Boston state that the suits Instituted by the abolitionists against Messrs . Knight and Hughes , who claimed William and Ellen Crafts , were likely to bo abandoned . The suit against the district attorney , Mr . George Lunt , for the false imprisonment of A . Burton , a coloured barber , has also fallen to the

      ground-The amounts contributed in the firet week in May at the anniverHuricH of the various rcligimiH and philanthropic societies in New York were nbout 15 , 000 dollars more than last year , which exceeded by 200 , 000 dollars ihe receipts of 1849 . The HiibBcriptioiis of ten of the principal societies urn us follow : —American Tract Society , 310 , 618 dollars 09 c . ; American Bible Society , ' 27 <> , H 5 ' 2 dollars /) . ' $ (! . ; American B . C . Foreign MismoiiH , 17 (> , ( V 7 C ) dollars H . 'ic . ; American Home Mitmion Society , 100 , VMl ) dollars 26 c . ; American and Foreign Christian Union , 4 ( i , G 2 / i dollttrH 82 <; . ; American and Foreign Bible Society , f ) 5 , HT , i ( lollurn 4 lo . ; American liaplitttH Home Missionary Society , 2 !) , o * 48 dollars 28 c . ; Amcriouu Seamen ' s Friend Society , 18 , 262 dollars ( ilc . ; New York State ( Colonization Society , 22 , 000 dollars ; Aincricuu Society , for Ameliorating the Condition of the Jcwh , 1 I , !(> . ' { dollarw 2 c total , 1 , 01 ) 8 . 790 dollars 84 c .

      A letter from Van Diemen ' s Land , which appears in Saundorx ' s News Letter , states that Mr . Smith O'Brien h » B become tutor to a gentleman ' s family In the colony ,

      and that Mr . Meagher is about to vary the monotony of " convict life" by taking unto himself a wife , in the shape of a Miss Bennett , a farmer ' daughter . The Nation says the letter is not to be credited . An Oswego journal , speaking of the revolution in female costume , says , " Quite an excitement was produced at the steamboat landing the day before yesterday , at the appearance of a couple of ladies with the short Turkish dress .- They were travelling in company with gentlemen , and ! were evidently people of cultivation ^ A revolution in female costume is undoubtedly irt preparation . There can be nothing more ungraceful than the long drabbling dresses which sweep the streets and steps wherever ladies move . As a m&tter of per sonal comfort

      the Turkish dress must be most agreeable , in addition to its beauty . " During an anti-siavery convocation at Syracuse , again , " Mrs . Burleigh and the two Misses Burleigh , the -wife and daughters of the poet Burleigh , entered the meeting . They were dressed in the new costume that is now being adopted by the ladies . The upper garment was close fitting , and reached to the knees . Underneath was a loose trousers reaching to the ankle . The feet were enclosed in buskins , and gipsy straw hats crowned all . The eyes of the meeting were immediately turned towards the ladies . The walked up leisurely through the aisle , took their seats upon the platform , and entered into conversation with Abby Kelly , George Thompson ( M . P . for the Tower Hamlets ) , and W . L . Garrison . "

      A writer in the San Francisco Herald states the probable yield of gold in California for this year at 70 millions of dollars . A destructive fire occurred on the 22 nd ultimo , at Santa Fe , by which the Exchange , with all its outhouses , &c , were burned to the ground . The loss is estimated at upwards of 20 , 000 dollars . A curious commentary is appended to the report in the New York Tribune : — " The fire has proved very injurious to Santa Fe , as the Exchange was the principal gambling and drinking place in town . You are aware , probably , that several murders have taken place in the Exchange , and a thousand fights beside . Mr . Green , of Missouri , one of the proprietors , was an amiable man , and the public deplore his loss . Gambling still continues unabated . "

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      THE COLONIZING RAILWAYS OF NORTH AMERICA . The idea of constructing great trunk railways across our North American possessions arose from the remarkable experience of-New Brunswick in the making of common roads , and the consequent promotion of settlements on those roads . The people of New Brunswick found that the land on either side was settled and peopled in proportion to the number of labourers employed upon the making of the roads . Twenty years ago the intercommunication of our North American colonies was peculiarly bad . It is less so now ; but still very defective . In New Brunswick , especially , the settlements still extend in narrow bands , following the course of the coast and the rivers , or scattered along the few roads which have as yet been . made . Travelling from one of these belts of cultivated territory to another is quite an enterprise , attended with peril , and involving the necessity of sleeping in the woods . As late as 1849 , Sir Edmund Head had to camp five nights in the woods in making his way from the Valley of St . John to the Hay of Chaleurs ! Direct communication between the provinces there was next to none ; and , as a consequence , the interest of the colonies , like the population , became local instead of general .

      The effect of roadmaking in a country like New Brunswick , thickly wooded and mostly desert , was striking and instantaneous . By providing immediate employment for the emigrant , it attracted great numbers to the spot , opened a way into the wilderness , enabled the settlements to be extended , and thereby augmented at once the wealth and the population of the colony . We give two instances , mentioned by Mr . M . II . Perloy , in evidence before Lord Montcaglc ' s committee , in 1847 , the one of an English and the other of an Irish settlement : —

      " Two very striking instances of the success attending the formation of now settlements in the wilderness , by asHociatious of settlers having the privilege of making their own roads at a reasonable rate , exist in York County . The Harvey settlement was farmed in 18 J 57 by a party of emigrants from the north of England , who landed in New Brunswick in a . very destitute condition . A report upon thi . s settlement wuh presented to his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor by the Honourable L . A . Wilinot , the . commissioner who formed it , on the 9 th of February , IS 14 , accompanied by a statistical return . This report stales , that it . is shown by the return that : from the land where not a tree was felled in July ,

      1837 , there had been tukendurinsr the preceding iiutunm 2 ( i () tons of hay and straw , and 1 / 5 , 000 bunhelH of grain , potatoes , and turnips ; and that the great success winch had attended the labours of these industrious and valuable settlers afforded an unqii'Htionalilc proof of what might be done on the millions of wildorncHH land in New Hrunswick . The return nIiowh the , number of ucUleru to be 4 1 , and the value of the improvements to le £ 4280 10 , ) . " The settlers accompanied the return with the following observations , written by him : of the parties themselvi'H : — ' The climate of New lirunswick agrees well with the constitution of . Knglishmen ; the air in salubrious , and the water as pure and us wholesome uh uny in the world . Daring the nix yearn of our location but two deaths Imvu occurred , while there have been thirtynlno births without the presence of medical aid . 8 ik

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      May 81 , 1651 . ] & !) * fLlJl< * 309

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 31, 1851, page 509, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1885/page/9/