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      MISCELLANEOUS . : : Court . — Her Majesty continues in excellent lth , enjoying her daily walks nnd rides around Bal-• al . The I ' rinco Consort and Prince Alfred shoot y , in which sport they have been joined by the int of Flanders and M . do Pcrsigny . The Belgian ice hns , however , now returned to London . On jsday , tho Queen gave a dance at tho Castle to a ill party . Her Majesty has also given a ball to servants and gillies . A short time ago , on the sen ' s embarkation ( it Clravescnd , her Majesty underc to present to tho Princess of Prussia a tastefully cutcd drawing , commemorating the presence of the ng ladies who wero the fair llower-strowors on tho

      » sion of her Royal llighness ' s departure , and inclcd as a souvenir of tho event . The Queen was ch pleased with it , and graciously promised to present o her daughter . Tho Mayor of Gravcsend has just jived a letter , sent by order of tho Princess Royal , in ich she says sho derives particular satisfaction from possession of so elogant a record of tho names of tho ing ladies who took an active part in a scone , tho uty of which her Royal Highness only has to regret having been ablo at tho moment of parting from her ivo country to enjoy as fully as she felt it . Tho or convoys to all those who have united to present so optablo nn offering tho warmest and most heartfelt like of her Royal Highness .

      Piik Pkinois of Wai , eh . — Aftor tho 9 th of Notibop next , tho Prince of Walos ' s 17 th birthday , Mr . \ V . Gibbs , C . B ., will retire from tho ofllco of tutor to Royal Highnoss , which ho has hold since February , 2 , and that Colonel tho lion . Robert Bruce will be ointed governor to his Royal Highness . The Rev . Tarvor will act as chaplain and director of tho nco ' s . studios . Tho futuro oquorrioo to his Royal ; hn , pss will probably bo Major Lindsay , Scots Fusllior ivrda ; Major Tooudulo , C . B ., Royal Artillery ; Cap-» G . Grey , Rlflo Brlgado 5 nnd Lord Vallotort . 1 ? HE Gukat Wkbtminstnu Bku .. —Suvh progress haa n mado in raising tho * ' Royal Victoria Boll " to its lined dwelling in tho Victoria Towerj that it may bo

      expected immediately to be heard by the inhabitants of the metropolis telling of the flight of time in tones that cannot be mistaken . Great skill and immense labour have been brought to bear in effecting the work . When tho bell is raised to its utmost height , it will be hung at a distance of 212 feet from the ground , and at least / thirty-six hours will have been employed in severe labour , notwithstanding the aid of admirable machinery , to place it in that lofty position . The weight of the metal to be raised is 15 tons . Baron \ Vari > . —This famous Yorkshireman , who played so prominent a part at the court of-Parma , died last week at Vienna . The history of this extraordinary man is full of remarkable events . He left Yorkshire as

      a boy in the pay of Prince Lichtenstein of Hungary , and after a four years' successful career on the turf at Vienna , as a jockey , he became employed by the then reigning Duke of Lucca . He was at Lucca promoted from the stable to be valet to his royal highness . This service he performed up to 184 C . About that period he was made Mastor of the Horse to the ducal court . Eventually he became Minister of the Household and Minister of Finance , which ofiice he held when the duke abdicated in 1848 . At this period he became an active agent of Austria during the revolution . As Austria triumphed , he returned-. to Parma as Prime Minister , and negotiated the abdication of Charles II , and placed the youthful Charles III . on the throne ; who , it will be remembered , was assassinated before his own palace in 1854 . It should be observed that as soon as Charles III . came to the throne , the then Baron "Ward was sent

      to Germany by his patron as Minister Plenipotentiary to represent Parma at the Court of Vienna . This post he held up to the time of his royal -patron ' s tragical end . When the present Duchess Regent assumed state authority , Ward retired from public life , and took to agricultural pursuits in the Austrian dominions . Without any educational foundation , he contrived to write and speak German , French , and Italian , and conducted the affairs of state with considerable cleverness , if not with remarkable straightforwardness . Baron Ward was married to a humble person of Vienna , and has left four children . Perhaps no man of modern times passed a more varied and romantic life than Ward , the groom , statesman , and friend of sovereigns . From the stable he rose to the highest offices of a little kingdom , at a period of great European political interest , and died in retirement , pursuing the rustic occupation of a farmer , earning with him to the grave many curious arcana

      unperu . Rei * resentatiox of Leomixsteu . —The election of a member , in the room of Mr . Willoughby , appointed a member of the Council of India , is expected to take place in the week after next . No opposition is expected , Mr . Wilde , the Liberal candidate , having resigned his pretensions , though he promises » at the next general election to make another appeal to the constituency . It is expected , therefore ,-that the Hon . Captain Haubury , a brother of Lord Batcman ( Lord-Lieutenant of Herefordshire and a large landed proprietor ) will be elected without opposition . Mr . Uaubury is a supporter of the present Government .

      Loisi > Cii . uti . KS Wism . Ksi , KV . —This nobleman , the youngest son of the late Duke of Wellington , died on Saturdaj-. His lordship had , for a long time , been in failing health , lie was for ten years in Parliament , and although he never took a prominent part in the affairs of that assembly , bo wus greatly respected for his amiable qualities . A Soucerek . —A negro , demi-doctor and demisorcorer , is making a furor in Paris—a line , handsome negro , well-made , covered with diamonds and jewellery , and drawn by a pair of valuable horses in an elegant carriage , living in luxurious apartments , demanding fabulous prices for his drugs , which he administers himself . His room is constantly filled with tho credulous and tho rich . —Medical Times .

      EnsrorAii , —The Archbishop of York , who was to have preached the sermon at tliu approaching consecration of the pariah church of Doneaster , has been obliged to decline that duty , in consequence of his fcublo state of health . Tho consecration sermon will bo preached by tho Right Rev" . Dr . Bickorstcth , Bishop of Ripon . —The Bishop of London has presented to each of his clorgy a programme of tho order of his approaching visitation , and witli it a letter , postponing the chargo to tha fifth day , on which ho hopes to see tho whole clergy of tho diocese ofrieinbled in the metropolitan cathedral . Tiik Kaiu . op Caiu . isi . k ani > this Kuir . K in India . — Tho Earl of Curlislo has presided at tho annual meeting of the Bradford Biblu Society . In tho course of his

      address tho noblo Lord said : —However brilliant have boon tho feats of our arms , and Jiowcvor heroic tho achievements and tho sMiflerings of our countrymen , wo must all desire- to mine on that vast continent other trophiea than thoso of tho avonging sword and other growths than that of tho blood-stained laurol . I fool sure that you will bo all dinpottort to agree with mo that ovon in India , oven among thoso to whom wo have boon obliged to apply all the rough and harsh methods , of punishment and conquest , ovon thorn wo should not seok to Introduce tho priceless btMiolits of Christianity itself merely by State influence and by actual compulsion . The Word of God in too precious a thing to bo made , Milder any circumstances , tho subject of a bribe or a .

      threat . I trust now that a Government , conscious of its high responsibilities alike to the parent country and to the subject populations , will speedily obliterate ^ all such painful traces of past convulsions and conflicts . But the spread of Christianity is not properly the work of any Government as such ; Christianity marshals her own votaries and . marches under her own banners ; and . so , asking nothing , from any _ Government " but a fair field and no favour , will the work—the Godlike work , I had almost said—of evangelising and christianising the heathen go on , relying on its own resources and sufficient for its own victories .

      The Society of Friends . —We are informed that not less than one hundred and fifty MSS . have been received in competition for the two prizes of one hundred guineas , and fifty guineas , on " The Decline of the Society of Friends . " The essays thus sent in are very varied in character , quality , and length . Several of them are from America . College of Dentists of England . — A large number of gentlemen assembled on Tuesday , at the College of Dentists , 5 , Cavendish-square , for the purpose of discussing the value of electricity as an anfflsthetic , with the view of testing its merits in dental operations . P . Mathews , Esq ., president of the College , read an interesting paper on the subject , in which his experimenfe

      and the mode of experimenting were described , with the aid of various machines , the utility of which he also pointed out . Lie could not at present admit that electricity is an anaesthetic . To be such the operation should be painless , as under the influence of chloroform ; but such it is not . Dr . Purland also read a paper on experiments made by him . He did not come to the conclusion that electricity is anaesthetic , but he considered that it has something of an electro-biological character , and that if the operator were firm with the patient , and could induce him to think there would be no pain , marvels might be effected . Dr . Elliotson proposed a committee to examine and report upon the subject , which was agreed to . After some further discussion the proceedings closed .

      The Presbyteuiaxs in France . — - The Scottish Church have established a regular service in Paris . Principal Tulloch ( of St . Andrew ' s ) , who has been for some months there , is to be the minister for eight months in the year . In the mean time the serviee , * which is performed at the Oratoire , Rue St . Honore , is carried on by other clergymen , and the Scottish Church are to send from time to time some of their best preachers . Principal Tulloch is described as a most eloquent and impressive preacher . The Scottish Church are , it appears , paying every farthing of the expense , and will probably do so for the next two years .

      Sir James Outram . —The Queen has directed letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal , granting the dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom to Sir James Outram , G . C . B ., Lieutenant-General of her Majesty ' s Indian Forces , and Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India , and to his heirs male . Death ok M . Varnhagen von IIense . —The celebrated Prussian historian died on Sunday evening at half-past eleven . A truer patriot never lived in Prussia . He was—it is now long ago , for he was seventy years old—the husband of that sprightly , genial Jewess , who , under the name of Rahel von Ensc , found admirers of

      her natural and original letter-writing , not merely in Germany , but in England and France . He leagued himself to the Prussian party of progress as far back 09 half a century ago . His ohief excellence in writing the history of his time consists in the treatment of personal details . Always a man of progress , he became more and more of a . vigorous Radical the older he grew . There is something touching in the fact that he has outlived only by twenty-four hours the period of reaction , which nobody bore more impatiently than he . Death has come very suddenly upon him ; it was only on Friday that he was scfln in tho streets in apparentlyunimpaired health .

      The Young Duchess ' s Prospects . —A punster , who , although ill-natured , must bo admitted to be witty , has set about tho story that when Mdllo . de Paniega was looking over tho splendid trousseau given her by the Empress , sho exclaimed , with a sigh , to her friends , who wcro in ecstasies about the beauties of the present , " Uui , j ' aime micux le present quo lo futur . " Adventurous Juveniles . —Two girls , aged eleven and nine years , disappeared from the house of their father , Mr . Bacon , of Woolwich Arsenal , residing at Plumstoad . Both children wero soon by their father safe in bed on Sunday night , but tho next morning they wero missing . They wore thought to have been decoyed away from homo , but this turned out to bo incorroct .

      It appears that before leaving homo they packed up tho whole of their clothes thoy could obtain inn carpot-bag , and having a small amount of money , thoy succeeded in leaving their homo unobserved : tho next that was heard of thorn wna that they called at a shop and obtained a loaf . From this point all traco was lost , and information was given to tho police A doteotivo oflioor , hearing that two young girls had taken up their quarters at a cotVeo-rthop lu Whitechapol , proceodod to the House , and questioned them as to who thoy wore , and whoro thoy 0111110 from , « hen , aftor some little hosiatlon , they acknowledged thoy had loft the homo of their father at riwmetoadr They wow at 01100 takon ohargo of and

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      Bv the Gambia , which arrived at Plymouth on Monv we learn that it is reported that the Sunbeam is iorein the Niger ; the Kroomen took to the boats Handed in Bonny river . The true condition of the nbeam is unknown . A supercargo is in charge . ^ Hie Governor of Accra has started with an expedition natives . to C roWboe , to subdue one of the Ashantee lefs , who refuses to pay the poll-tax . At Cape Coast Castle gold and ivory are very scarce , 1 trade is exceedingly dull .

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      CENTRAL AMERICA . . is reported at Greytown that the American forces 7 on the coasts of Central America are to support demands of the . United States minister to Central erica on the governments of Nicaragua and Costa a , for theoutragfs committed on the United States zens during the Filibuster wars and ravages of the orious Walker and his band of marauders . The junt claimed is eight million dols . from the governit of Nicaragua , and two millions from Costa Rica ; other Central American states expecting to have a on them of a like nature . The United States lister had already retired from the state of Nicaragua , was waiting on the Government of Costa Rica .

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      PERU . e ex-President of Peru ( Echinique ) had left Valpa-10 in a vessel for the north of Peru , with 7000 stand trms on board , and was expected to land either at yter or Guaquil . Afiother revolution was hourly exted in Peru . Trade at Arica was very depressed , on ount of the unsettled state of Bolivia . The new [ e at Piso was progressing very satisfactorily , eady 189 feet had been completed . It is to be 22110 ;¦ in length , and built on iron screw piles imported 11 England . It will , when finished , be the largest [ finest work of the kind on the Pacific const . General itilla continued to govern the country as President . ^

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      MEXICO . ¦ c ounts from Mexico report the vomito prevailing tensively at Vera Cruz , and numbers were dying ly Up to the 5 th ult . General Robles had not made aiding , but remained on board the British steamer ,-de , at anchor off the port . It was the impression ong a number of persons that he might be called upon succeed Zuloaga at the head of the Government . The iposition recently offered for the reeal of Santa Anna 3 strongly opposed by General Eeheagaray , who eatened to join the Liberal army in case the proposi-1 were persisted in . The final success of the Liberals 5 not doubted . Mr . Forsyth , the American Minister , 3 still in Mexico , atTacubaya , where he would remain several weeks , or until the vomito disappeared suffiitly to render travelling safe .

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      No . 447 , October 16 . 1858 . 1 THE IEABEB . 1089

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 16, 1858, page 1089, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2264/page/9/