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      ^ ^__ ;;; ^ ^ Mg « l ^^ 1 ^^^— Place . Name . Date . i ^ OCKPOiiT . . Mr . A . J . Kersbaw ^ X .. April 30 . Mr . J . B . bmita , JU .... Stoke-xtpon- Mr . Copeland , C ...... do . Trent Mr . J . L , Ricardo , L ,.. Mr . Pope , L ... -- ^ Stroxjd ..... Mr . Horsman , X . .... . do . Mr . Scrope , L . , SUKMa , A 1 , D .. Mr . G . Huds , n _ C ... . * . Mr . Femvick , X . ...... Swansea ..... Mr . L . L . Dillwyn , L .. Re-elected . f Imworth i i .. Sir R . Peel L ........ April 30 . Lord Ravnham , Li .... Mr . W . ? r . S . Daniel , C Taiinton ...... Mr . Labouchere , L .... do . Mr . A . Mills , C Mr . G . C . Bentinck , C \ Tavistock .... Sir John S . Trelawny , L . Mr . A . G . Russell , X , .. Tbvosbury . . Hon . F . Lygon , C April CO . Mr . J . Martin , I / ...... Thbtford Lord Euston , L Re-elected . Mr . Locock , L ........ Mr . A . Baring , C do . Tjhirsk Sir W . G . Gallwey , C .. .. Tiverton Lord Palmerston , L- ... April 30 . Hon . G . Denman , L .. .. Totneb ........ Earl Gifford , L do . ¦ Mr . T . Mills , L . Mr . Dunn , C ......... Tower Hamws Mr . A . S . Ayrtoh , L ... do . Mr . C . S . Butler , L ..... Tkuro . ; .... ; . Mr . A . Smith , L ....... . Captain Vivian , L Mr . M . Smith , Q ; C , C . Tynemottth .. Mr . H . Taylor , L ...... Elected . Wakefibld ., Mr . J . C . Charlesworth , C April 30 . Mr . H . Leatham , L .... , Wallingford . Mr . R . Maiins , C ...... , do . Mr . Freeman , £ ¦ . Walsail ...... Mr . C . Forster , L ....... dp . Mr . C . Bagnall , C .... Waeehaji .... Mr . J . H . Calc ' t , L .. do . Mr . Drax , C ... ... Warrington . . Mr . G . Greenall , C .... Re-elected . Warwick Mr . G . W . Repton , C .. Re-elected . Mr . E . Greaves , C ; ... do . Wells Sir W . G . Hayter , L . ... April 30 . Mr . H . Jolifie , C ...... Wenlgck . ..... Colonel Forester , C .... do . Mr . M . Gaskell , C Westbtjry .... Sir Lopes M . Lopes , C Re-elected . Westminster . Sir De Lacy Evans , I .... . do . Sir J . Shelley , L do . Weymoutii ... Colonel Freestun , L ... April 30 . Mr . Campbell , L Lord Grey de Wilton , C Mr . G . It . Brookes , C .. Whitby ...... Sir R . Stephenson , C .. Re-elected . Whitehaven . . Mr . G . Lyall , G Elected . Wilton Mr . Antrobus , C May 2 . Wig AN ........ Mr . F . S . Powell , C April 30 . Mr . II . Woods , L Hon . Colonel Lindsay , 0 Winchester .. Sir J . B . East , C do . Mr . T . Fleming , C .... Mr . J . B , Cayter . L .... Mr . G . Shaw Lefevre , L Windsor Mr . W . Vansittart , C .. Mr . G . M . Hope , C .... Mr . C . W . Grenfoll , L .. Wolveriimptn Mr . C . ViUicrs , L .... Re-elected . Sir , R . Bethell , L .: do . Woodstock .,. Lord A . Churchill , C .. April 30 . Worcester ... Mr . W . Laslett , L .... Ro-elected . Mr . O . Ricnrdo , L .... do . Wtcombe .... Sir G . Dashwood , L .. Mr . T . Smith , L Yarmouth .... Mr . Wntkin , L Mr . . Young , L Sir 13 . Lucon , C Sir II . Stracey , C York Mr , Wosthcad , L Aprtt 30 . Mr . Lnynrd , L .. i Colonel Smyth , C ......

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      The Court . — The royal family are still at Windsor , in good health . The Queen and her daughters ride and drive out daily when the weather permits , or take exercise in . the riding-house . The Princess Alice ' s sixteenth birthday was celebrated on Monday , and on Tuesday her Majesty had a- grand dinner and evening party . The Dukes of Saxe Coburg and Oporto have continued to be the guests of the Queen . National Defences and Rifle Volunteers . — On this important subject Mr . E . S . Cayley ; ( late M , P . ) writes to the Times comparing the military spirit and training of this country fifty years ago with the present state of things . He proposes the battalions of 250 in

      raising of volunteer men every parish or township who should be drilled and exercised as marksmen , and armed at the expense of the public . In addition to this formidable body of stout yeomen and mechanics trained to , warlike exercises ; he suggests an improved volunteer cavalry . He says : the rifie is the weapon of the day . Let it be the newest and best . Hedgerows are our fortifications . There are in each county of England one or two or more " hunts , " formed of men whose business and pleasure it is to cross the country over hedge , ditch , and brook . Let these , or each of these , be the nucleus of mounted rifle corps to which thousands of young farmers would attach themselves . In the united kingdom you

      might have 50 , 000 of them . Let them be trained to fire at a mark from horseback ; then to dismount and fire simultaneously with still surer aim at a mark , and again rapidly to remount : —varying their position in fields , behind hedges , or on the crowns of hills . These rifles carry 800 or 1 , 000 yards . Let 3 , 000 or 5 , 000 of these mounted rifles on each wing of an invading army be ready to harass its advance from fields and behind hedges , whither they could not be pursued , and if pursued , know how to cross country for a field or two , until , they reach a point where they could dismount and pour a deadly volley on their pursuers . Under such a system , with railways , how could an invading army live ? It could have neither pickets , skirmishers , nor foragers , nor even artillerymen long . Viennaof the 22 nd

      An Omen ; - —A letter from " , instant , says : — ' * The most wonderful Aurora Borealis witnessed for several hundred years was observed last night in many parts of the empire . The north-west region of the heavens appealed in a . blaze for more than an hour , the deep red colour of the phenomenon at one time increasing' and anon fading away , like the fitful rising and falling of the flames of a great conflagration . In the minds of the peasantry—and perhaps in those of many more educated persons as well—the extraordinary vision seems to have been productive of feelings akin to those harrowing the fearful breasts of the European nations at the period of the Thirty Years' War . To-day , into whatever society you chance to enter , you fail not to hear quoted the following words from Schiller ' s Wailenstein : ' —

      Und vora Himmcl sclber Hftnpt unscr Herr Gott don Krfegsmantol hiaunter , FUrchtcrlicb . ct schi'Ciclihai ' t ZoicUeu , ' & 0 . . . ( ' And from Heaven itself , God our Lord drops down the fiery cloak of war , a terrible and fearful symbol , ' &c ) . Even enlightened people , not unaqquainted , with names like Faraday , Herschel , 8 cc , under the exciting influences of the political crisis of the moment , havq had their impressions deepened by the " red cloak of war *—involuntarily believing strife and "bloodshed to ' be a little nearer realisation to-day than they were before . "

      War Enthusiasm to Oupeh . — -A Paris letter says . ' : —It is impossible at present to define the impression produced upon the people by tlio sudden announcement of the pertuinty of war . It js evident , however , that public sympathy is not with the measure . The instincts of the populace have not been as yet sufficiently worked upon , and , therefore , bands of street ; singers are in course of organisation by the police to stir up tho public enthusiasm at the

      barriers . One of these met with rather , an unfavourable reception on Sundny last at the Barrier do Clichy { for on tho popular song of " Eu avant lo trento-douxlomQ , on avunt " . being struck up , tho groups of workuiou to whom it was addrosscd immediately began singing in an ironical tone , " Malbrough s ' on va ' t-en gucrro , " undforcod thointrudqrs to desist . The workmen of Prance , like thoir brethren of other countries , have fult tho blossings of r ^ eaco too long not to havo luarnt thoir value

      Thk Dutch and theih Colonies . —A Java correspondent of tho Singapore Frca Press , noticing tho Dutch expodiiiou to JDoni , oxposos the l'ollios and evils of their colonial administration . Tho press is fettered , projected , railways aro not executed , tolographs wero made so budly that they last for but two yours , monoy has been disbursed from the treasury for tjie erection of liuht-huuaos that are still

      wanting , the fleet is useless ^ harbour Samarang , represented as the finest in the islands , is uncared for , and public works are quite unknown , and the policy so fanatical that tumults and religious outbursts are continually taking place . Yet Java yields £ 3 , 000 , 000 annually to Holland . If the British had but kept Java when they had it , what a different state of things would be presented now ! The Dutch show some inclination to accommodate themselves to progress by proposing to the States General that from 1864 an alteration in the : tariff shall take place . Cotton manufactures of Netherlands origin , " which at present are admitted at an ad valorem duty of 9 . J per cent ., and others at 17 per cent ., -will gradually be reduced , until in 1870 , the duty on all of whatever origin will be 6 per cent .

      Baron t > e Goldsmid . —This gentleman , more generally known as Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid—one of our most noted finauciers , died on Wednesday morning , after an illness which had for some time removed him from active participation in affairs . He was created a baronet in 1841 by the Govern ^ ment of L , ord Melbourne , and received the title , of " Baron" from the Queen of Portugal for success in negociating the settlement of the claims of Portugal upon Brazil . ¦ ¦ " " , The Friend of India says : — " A rumour reaches us froin several quarters , that no less than twenty thousand Germans will be permanently stationed m India . It is not apparently intended to keep this

      force \ n separate legions , but to add two companies of Germans to every regiment . England , it is said , cannot stand the drain of men inevitable in sucn a climate , and foreigners of some kind must be obtained . Germans are most easily enlisted and managed , and are perhaps viewed with peculiar favour in high quarters . The innovation must be sanctioned by Parliament , and consent may be difficult to obtain . The employment of European mercenaries , though not opposed to our practice's entirely at variance with English theories . The pretext is even worse than the act . If we cannofc had better

      maintain India by our own strength , we abandon it to anarchy , and descend at 6 nce to tftat humble position which befits a nation unable to protect its own . We believe , however , that the " dram is a bugbear . India even with 100 , 000 men needs only 10 , 000 recruits a year , or one-eighteeriUi of the annual increase of the male population . The extreme efforts of the past three years are no evidence of the necessities of the future . During those three years we have consumed- three armies , and because the single class from which we recruit shows symptoms of pressure , we imagine the resources of the

      entire nation exhausted . Who Shall Decide ?•—In order to put an end to the controversy respecting the capture of the ?' disputed " gun at Alma , we have been favoured with , a copy of an official doqument from the Horse Guards which sets the question at rest , and , like the fable of the chameleon ' s colour , shows each party to have been right and each wrong . From this it appears that , contrary to general belief on the subject , the two guns taken at the Alma were both captured by

      the English—one by Captain Bell , winch was immediately hurried to the rear , and one which was taken by the Guards , and left in the battery till the following day . It was the confusion consequent oa the belief that this latter was the only gun taken which has led to such conflicting statements , as to fts having been wheeled down to the river or left in . the redoubt . The fact of both guus being taken on the same spot , and within five minutes of each other , only served to make the confusion , which arose out of tho two events being regarded as ono ,

      still worse . The matter now , however , is mqsc satisfactorily cleared , up . —Tiniest The American Chess-player . —On Tuesday Mr . Morphy , at the St . James's Chess Club , played simultaneously five of their most export members , including"the President , Mr . Lowenthal . The tables wore arranged in a row , each table being occupied on tho one side by a player , and ou-the other a passage was left free , along winch their single antagonist might pass backwards and forwards , ine players against Mr , ' Morphy wore—first table , M . do llivlere ; second , Mr . B . JB odon ¦ , third , Mr . W " . Barnes ; fourth , Mr . Bird ; fifth , Mr . LowcnthaJ . Tho play commenced at six o ' clock , and wijs kept up with groat spirit till a lato hour of tlio night . £ ho following was tho result : The gaino at the first tablo was won by Mr . Morphy j at the socond the game was drawn j at tho third jt was wnbyMr Barnes : at tho fourth by Mr . Morphy i ftt tho fifth

      tJ « Bessemer Pnocuss .-It is said from Sweden that this process for tho manufacture of iron , which for atime niadoso much noise in England , has been tried with much sucooss In the casting ot steel . In . tho o . NPerimonts that had been made with iron oreit was found impossible to produce mptal of a suitable kind ; but it is affirmed that by it's adoption eteel can bo oaet of a superior quality aud at a comparatively trilling oxponso .

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      Gold in North "WauJh , —Mossrs . S . Grbucutt and Sons havo discovered tracings , not only of copper and silver , but also of { joUl , in thoir iron ore minerals at Owm , having had somo of thoir mineral analysed by first-class men . A moderato per contago of sold , silvor , and copper , has t » oon extracted . —' North WaUsa C / ironicla . Art Union ov London . —On Tuosdav tho annual naeotjng of tho subscribers to the Art Union of London was hold at tho Ailolphi Theatre , under tho

      presidency of Sir C . Barry . Tho report road by tho secretary , Mr . Godwin , F . K . S ., was a document of xnuch interost , and was unanimously agreed to . The office-bearers in connexion with the institution having been olootod , a ballot took place for those who had gftinod prizes in connexion with it , Tho following were announced as the winners of the great prizes : —200 / . William Dixon , Oranthamj 150 * . G . Wiiloughbridgo Tunnlollflb , Market Dray ton j 140 * . J . Doinone , CTiristclmroJi . The mooting then separated , after a vote of thanks to the chairman .

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  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), April 30, 1859, page 567, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2292/page/23/