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sympathy therefore of the merchants ^ and traders in 2 £ i ? lands is not quite so fervid and indifferent -to iweauences as the journalists and professors of the ffl coSies . The people of ^ Northern sea coast do not forget the part played by Austria and ^ other Southern States in the matter of th 6 German ^ Fleet , not tp sJLk of the occupation of HamTmrg . by . the Austrfans awl the betrayal . of Schleswig Holstem , that is , according to German ideas .
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The new Canadian cent , pieces received from England are so peculiarly alloyed that _ 100 cents , exactly equal one pound in weight , while a single coin measures one inch , thus forming an ever-ready check upon the dishonest dealer . '„' , n A lady has been disgracefully expelled from Aikin , South Carolina ; for having written a letter descriptive of the slavery there , which got into the northern papers . She was staying at the place with a sick daughter , and was commanded by the mob tp leave in forty-eight hours . _ / ' . The public meeting of the National Society , fixed for Thursday , May 19 th , is postponed in consequence of her Majesty ' s birthday drawing-room . The Archbishop of Canterbury will preside at a meetingin June . . ' .
_ . The Pope is about to address a circular letter to all the Catholic bishops , inviting them to order public prayers for peace . The Ecclesiastical Gazettestates , that the , office of " Vice-Principal of Cuddesdon College has been conferred on the Rev . W . Harrison Davey , Perpetual Curate of Appledram , Sussex . The Deanery of Glasgow , rendered vacant by the elevation of Dr . Wilson to the bishopric of that diocese , has been conferred upon the Rev . A . Henderson , M . A ., incumbent of St . Mary ' s Church , Hamilton .
The Bishop of London has appointed the Rev . Henry Vincent Le Bas , M . A ., late curate of Paddingtori , to the vicarage of Bedfont , Middlesex j the Rev . Beauchamp Henry St . John Pell , M . A ., of Asliwell , Hertfordshire , to the rectory of Ickenham , Middlesex ; and the Rev " . Thomas Sier , D . C . Li ., late vicar of Ravensden , Bedfordshire , to the incumbency of St . James ' C hapel , St . Jaffies ' s-square . . The late Mr . Joseph Tunnicliff ,, of Mayfield Hall , near Ashbourne , has left 30 , 000 ? ., all derived from his own earnings , for the endowment of an hospital , provided that a suitable building is erected , at a cost of not less than 5 J 000 Z ., within ten years .
The unfortunate English clown ( Boswell ) who was attacked with apoplexy after his evolutions on the summit of a pole at the Circus , the other day , in Paris , has fallen a victim to his dangerous employment . He rallied a little at first , but the system was so shaken that he died . From the constant despatch of small pieces of money for the army in the Lombardo-Venetian provinces , the scarcity has become so great that the plan of cutting the paper floral into four morsels has been adopted , which ( each representing a quarter ) are given and received in payment the shops and public offices .
The South Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Cavalry , under the command of Col . Holden , have assembled for eight days' training on Balwell Forest , near Nottingham . The men are well mounted and equipped , and have a very soldier-like appearance . One' consequence of the defeat of Mr . Layard at York has been the establishment of a Reform Club in that city , its principal object being to attend to the registration , which has been much neglected of late years . The Legislative Council of Canada have taken a firm stand against death-bed bequests , enacting that no bequest will be valid if made within six months of the testator's death .
In St . Pancriw it has been discovered that Mr . E . F . Browne , collector , of No . 5 ward , had not paid his weekly collection into the bank , and on sending to his house he was gone . The amount is not yet kbown . Miss Martineau . is shortly to present us with an " Essay on England and her Soldiers , " and will demonstrate the disastrous consequences of too much red tape . A committee has been fonnod in Paris for the
The introductory lecture , to a course of twelve lectures on Public . Health , was delivered on Friday in the theatre of St . Thomas ' s Hospital , by Dr . Headlam Greenhow . For the Oxford Middle-class examinations we understand that the total number of candidates for e xamination this year exceeds 900 . . The examination' will commence on Tuesday , the -14 th of June , and will be continued from day to day until it is completed . The high-mastership of the Manchester Free Grammar School will be vacant in September next , by the resignation of the Rev . Nicholas Germon , M . A ., the present high-master , who has been connected with the school for the long period of nearly forty years . Sir Edward Cust , of Lensowe Castle , will preside at a public meeting of the inhabitants of Birkenhead next week , to consider the propriety of enrolling a volunteer rifle corps in the township . It is said that the list of applicants for admission into the proposed corps already includes 100 of the principal residents . The whole North American continent has only 36 millions of inhabitants , hardly as much as France or Austria . The whole of Central and South America has only 23 millions ; less , then , than Italy . European Russia , with its 60 millions , has as many inhabitants as America , Australia , and Polynesia together . More people live in London than in all Australia and Polynesia .
Mr . Robert Mallett has been elected a common councilman for Walbrook ward , for the remaiuder of the current year , in the rboin of Mr . Conder , lately elected alderman of BassishaW ward . The Grand Trunk : Railway of Canada , with an uniform gauge of five feet six inches , embraces the most comprehensive system of railway in-the world . It engrosses the traffic of a region extending 809 miles in one direct line from Quebec and Portland to Sarnia , on Lake Huron . The vineyards of Savoy never presented a finer appearance at this season of the year than at present . The garden and orcliards also promise abundant crops .
A scrap of paper , on which the following was written , was found in a bottle by some seamen belonging to Fareharn , whilst sailing between Ryde and Cowes : — " Bolton leaves all his property to his servant , Doogan , if he is not brought home alive . " The Austrian spy who , as stated by telegraph , was shot at Biela by the Picdmontese , was named Dossona , a native of Pa via . He was sent out to ascertain if tho roads had been broken up , and had in his possession a quantity of Austrian zwanzigers . M . Guizot has left Paris for his country seat at Val Richer , where he purposes to pass the summer . He will there complete the third volume of his Memoirs .
The Journal des Depots states that before leaving Austria , to take up his residence in Holland , the Count de Chambbrd , accompanied by the Duke de Levis , had a private audience of the Emperor of ¦\ -a * flf 1 * 19 , ¦ ¦'¦ '¦ Sir Arthur Ingram Aston died at Acton Hall , near Runcorn , Cheshire , a day or two since . / The deceased was envoy ' extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Madrid from February , 1840 , to November , 1843 . He received the order of the Bath on his return to England . _
The Rev . W . Hugh Richards , incumbent of All Saints , Margaret-street , says , that the statement of the W eekly Register that the Duke of Leeds was , " a short time before his death , received into the Roman Catholic Church by the Bishop of Beverely " was incorrect . His Grace , on the evening before his death , was visited by the rev . incumbent , and received the sacrament . - »* : ¦ . A French journal announces that M . Nicholas Clary , who is in possession of an income of 300 , 000 f . a year , has engaged as a private soldier in a cavalry regiment which is about to take the field . at
A butcher having lost several halters , was a loss to account for it . His wife happening to go into the servant ' s bedroom , noticed a dress presenting more than the ordinary appearance of fulness ; upon examining it , she found the missing halters , with the ends cut off , and the rope neatly bound with calico . _ For sixteen years the title of the Earl of Coventry has been held by a minor , and during the whole of that period the family property in Worcestershire and elsewhere has been accumulating . The young lord came of age on Monday last , and the event was celebrated by festivities on the largest scale ever before known in the district .
The Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha , in returning from England , visited the King of the Belgians on Thursday , at ; the palace of Laeken . His Royal Highness left on Saturday morning for Germany . A small moveable printing-office is , by order of the French Emperor , to be placed at the disposal of the Marshal Major-General of the army of Italy . That which was used in the Crimean war is now being re-organised for that purpose . M . de St . Georges , the director of the Imperial printing office , has to select the compositors . The Empress Eugenie gave audience to several persons on Wednesday at the Tuileries . She likewise signed several decrees as Regent .
At the late fire at Brody , bOO public buildings and private houses were destroyed . Ten persons lost their lives . It is thought the fire was ' the work of an incendiaryi It was affirmed , says the Pays , that Rear-Admiral Jurion de la Gra-vifire , who has his flag hoisted on board the Algesiius , screw line-of-battle ship , has left Genoa for the Adriatic , to signify to the military authorities tho bloekudo . of tho ports and coast ot" Austria in that sea . Boron Poerio has just arrived in Paris .
At Genoa the extraordinary enthusiasm winch prevails for ' i nostri liberatori , " as the French are called , has made it necessary for Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers to issue an order of the day against drunkenness , and a notification to the inhabitants , that any one found treating a French soldier to la goutte would be subjected to a fine varying from five to twenty lire . , '„ . »; .. * -, . ' , We have to record the death of Vice-Admiral Percy Grace , which occurred at his residence , Green- , street , Grosvenor-square , on Wednesday last , in the seventieth year of his age , , ¦
At the Curragh camp , Dublin , on Wednesday , while a firing party of the 14 th regiment , under the command of an officer , were shopting at a target , a private soldier , who was acting as buttsman , was acqidentally shot dead . The officer in command bas been placed under arrest . Commodore Vanderbilt is about to run another monster steamer , called the Ocean Queen , between Cowes and New York , Such is the number of steamers now running between those ports that French goods are oonveyed by them for ten dollars per ton , including their conveyance from Havre to Cowes , tho ordinary pay ing freight being twenty and twenty-five dollars per ton .
Among the articles forgotten in Belgium railway carriages during tho month of April , says tho Emancipation of Brussels , wo notice a wig , a pot lid , a small straw mattress , a portrait on canvas , a corkscrew , a pipe tube , and a bag full of snipes . This last must certainly be at present in a condition to require immediate delivery . Tho Emperor of the French , in leaving the Tuileries , said to one of tho persons who had come to tako leave of him , "We shall sco each other
It has been stated that the Duke de Chartres has left Turin , and returns to England by the advice of the Princes of Orleans ; Wo ( Times ) are requested to declare that this statement is without any foundation . The young duke is at the advanced posts of the Piodmonteso army with his regiment . The corps of Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers , in the late rainy weather , must have found their quarters anything 'but comfortable . A French officer savs , " au ' on vienne nous parlor dn beau del
again shortly . . , , At Genoa , a few days ago , an . innkeeper declined to accept money for a glass of brandy supplied to a Chasseur do Vinconnes , < md when thp soldier insisted tho other said , " No , instead of money , you must kill an Austrian , formol" "In that caso /' cried tho soldior , " givo mo another glass ot brandy , " ° i& % flte ^ w ^ y ^ *<>»^ ff&toS ^ ra ^ y-W ^! Count Nicuwkorko , tho director of tho liuporwl museums , while driving two spirited horses in tho Champs ElyeC-os , was thrown out of his carriage and vorrnWXrt : This is tho third or fourth timo that an accident of tho kind lias happened to him within a short period .
d'Italia , mats e ' est pira qn ' en Crimea . A good many men have had to be sent into the ambulances with fever and dysentery , but tho men are in excellent spirits . Tho last fail * at Nijni Novogorod has passed off well . One-tenth more goods were brought than in 1857 , and not more than one-fourteenth remainded unsold . Tho total value amounted to i ) 5 millions of roublefl . of which 69 millions wero in Russian produco , 10 millions European and colonial , and tho remaindor came from Persia , China , and other parts of Asia .
purpose of raising subscriptions , to enable Italian refugees resident In that city , iri which there are great numbers , to return to Italy . They had raised about . £ 180 for this purpose . Tho Austrian frigate RTovara , on a scientific mission , put into Tahiti , and the crew and tho Austrian men of science mot with a cordial reception from the French Naval Commandant , who of course was Ignorant of the fact that his countrymen in Europe wore about to meet the Auatriana on the field of battle .
Madame Hooho , widow of tho French general who made a descent on tho south of Ireland at the time of the first revolution , has juet diod .
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PACTS AND SCRAPS .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 14, 1859, page 615, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2294/page/11/
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