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* May 11, 1850.] ©|l$ &£&&£*+ 149
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THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. The four vessels ...
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M A Y M E ETINGS. 'ii'i. • animal genera...
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STATE OF GERMANY. The most noteworthy of...
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THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. The anniversary of ...
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CONDITION OF ROME. '•The Pope is at Rome...
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Russell , but on account of his superior talents and acquirements . ' * Why Lord John Russell was to ne ° ! eet siich worth , " says our contemporary , " because the possessor happened to be a connection , we are at a loss to discover ; and he has acted with spirit and justice in not allowing the apprehension of groundless taunts to overrule his discretion in the use of his patronage . " No one ever accused Lord John of any want of moral courage when he wanted to promote a Russell or an Elliot to a good place . The complaint is that he exhausts it all on such
occasions . Mr . Ridley H . Herschell , a converted Jew , proposes that a conference of Christians of all nations shall be held in London , in connection with the Industrial Exhibition of 1851 . In order that the assemblage may not consist of a motley collection of persons holding opposite views , Mr . Herschell recommends that invitations be sent only to those who believe in the divinity of Christ and justification by faith . While disclaiming all party and sectarian feeling , he says , " With those who deny the inspiration of the scriptures , and who view Christ simply as a gifted man , sent to be an example to us , we have no Christian sympathy or fellowship . " Sir Culling Eardley Smith is in favour of the proposal , and promises to promote it pecuniarily and otherwise .
The Leeds Mercury says , that the Committee of Council on Education has forbidden the- schoolmasters in Wesleyan schools receiving Government money , to act either as local preachers or as class leaders , or to assist in holding a prayer meeting . Mr . Henry Wilson , a Wesleyan local preacher on the " Manchester circuit , " is threatened with expulsion from the body for taking part in a reform meeting at the Free Trade-hall . His accuser and judge , Mr . Osborne , superintendent of the district , is one of the most active opponents of popular education , unless it be mixed with sectarianism .
Dr . Cullen , the new Roman Catholic Pnmate , arrived in Dublin on Friday , and almost immediately proceeded to visit the College of Maynooth .
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The Arctic Expedition. The Four Vessels ...
THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION . The four vessels comprising the Arctic Expedition , under Captain Austin , namely , the Resolute , the Assistance , the Pionei-r screw-steamer , and the Intrepid steam-vessel , left their moorings at Greenhithe , un Sunday morning , for the Arctic regions , the officers and crews in the highest spirits . Among other preparations for their arduous undertaking , they have taken with them eight gutta percha
{• ledges or boats of 20 lbs . each . These were ordered by tiie Admiralty , and arc so contrived as not only to carry from seven to eight cwt . of provisions , but also to float on the wooden sledges to which they will be attached when launched off the ice into the sea . Turned upside down , they will be found admirably adapted to serve as n . shelter to the men during the night . Mr . Shepherd has supplied nearly a waggonload of balloons for the conveyance of messages ; and
every requisite- has been provided for pruning the slips and despatching them . Should the wind prove favourable on arriving at the edge of the ice , these aerial messengers will be sent up to announce the approach of the searching expedition . The sailing orders of Captain Austin insist upon his using every exertion to reach Melville Island , and detaching a portion of his ships to search the shores of Wellington Channel and the coast about Cape Walker , to which point Sir John Franklin was ordered to proceed . From a diligent examination of those several places it is hoped that some certain trace or record of the missing expedition will be obt . iinecl , so as to enable him to form an opinion as to thu bust course to bo adopted for their rescue .
The ships are fully equipped and provisioned for three year ? , to meet any emergency which may arise . In addition to these svipplies there are stores and pro - visions left by Sir James Ross at Port Leopold ; and a fun her store was sent out in the North Star last summer . These , however , are not to be considered as a part of Captain Austin ' s stock , but as a reserve for the aid of any of Sir John Franklin ' s party who mnv reach that spot , or as a depot on which any
party may fall back , should it unfortunately be separated froia its ships . In prosecuting the search , the orders arc to use every effort during the summer , losing no opportunity of getting to the Westward , and to f-ecure the ships in some safe harbour before the winter sets in . Next year the search is to bo ren > . wed if necessary ; but the expedition is to return homo in the autumn of 1851 , unless it have found such traces of the missing expedition as may encourage a prolonged search .
Commander Philips left for Ayr on Friday to proceed with Captain Sir John Ross to the Arctic rrj'l . - ins .
M A Y M E Etings. 'Ii'i. • Animal Genera...
M A Y M E ETINGS . 'ii ' i . animal general meeting of the British and i ''¦»• > . i ' : u School Society was held in Exeter-hull on aV .-: < ¦ : > ¦ ¦ ' . The . Karl o ! Caj ] isk ' , who presided , — - ' C -: . I tlienccf : * sii . y of merging all minor disputes and 'Aitl ' orenccs on matters of faith , which ought to Btano
silent and rebuked before the seething and fermenting ignorance that threatened to engulf their teeming population . " Society at large , notwithstanding many most encouraging symptoms of improvement and progress , appeared to him still to be labouring under evils which , he could portray by no other epithet short of terrific . They wore a hundred forms and presented themselves in a hundred ¦ ways ; but , perhaps , they might be roughly classed as mainly coming under the general heads of ignorance , poverty , and crime . " He looked upon it to be the mission—the true , obvious , and paramount mission , both of all individual men and of all corporate bodies , to wage incessant war against those evils which still disturbed and desolated our globe . " From the report of the Committee it appears , that upwards of 1000 children are in attendance at the model-schools , and that the normal-schools continue prosperous ; 142 students having been under tuition during last year , and , in the training-school for females , 132 teachers . Seventy-two new schools , accommodating 7000 children were opened last year—45 in England , and 27 in Wales . The annual meeting of the Protestant Association was held at Exeter-hall , on Wednesday ; the Earl of Roden in the chair . The reports read enumerated a long list of cases in which attempts have been made to elevate Roman Catholicism above Protestantism : — *• On the occasion of her Majesty ' s visit to Ireland , the titles of the Romish Archbishops and Bishops were recognised , and precedence given to them which ought to have been accorded to the native nobility . Then there was the removal of a distinguished nobleman from the commission of the peace for having taken part in a loyal and legal procession . That nobleman was too highly esteemed to be disgraced by any measure , whether suggested from the Vatican , the Castle , or Downingstreet . The blow struck was not against Earl Roden alone , but against the Protestant party . { Cheers . ) The committee also notice the fact that a coin recently issued—called a * florin '—was altered from the usual form of coinage by the omission of the words ' Fidei Defensor , ' and , on inquiry being made , it was found that the Master of the Mint was a Roman Catholic . ( Hear , hear . ) When the Jesuits were driven from Home they found shelter under the British flag at Malta . " When , subsequently , Protestants sought that shelter , so readily accorded to the Jesuits , it was denied them . On inquiry it was found that the Governor was a Roman Catholic . ( Cheers . ) An attempt was now being made to make the Roman Catholic religion the state religion at Malta in spite of the opposition of the Roman Catholic Governor himself . "
State Of Germany. The Most Noteworthy Of...
STATE OF GERMANY . The most noteworthy of the German news is the circular addressed by Austria to its ambassadors at the German Courts , announcing its intention of convoking the representatives of the diiferent States * at Frankfort , on the 10 th instant , in order to create a new central power , in place of the Frankfort commission . Austria bases this step upon the treaties of 1815 . This " latest movement" is in fact a retrogression to the state of things before 1848 .
According to the recent privileges granted by the Emperor of Austria to the clergy , no one can henceforth officiate as religious teacher or professor of theology in public seminaries without being duly authorized by the bishop in whose diocese the institution is . The Roman Catholic bishop can at any time displace the deputed functionary . The bishop has the option of selecting for his pupils ( Alumneri ) the be
lectures to be read at college , and causing them to examined upon these lectures in his seminary . For the rigorous examinations of the candidates for a doctorship of theology , the bishor > names one-half of the examiners from those who have attained the depree of doctor of divinity ; and no one can get this degree who has not , in the presence of the bishop or his deputy , sworn to tho articles of the Council of Trent .
The Wurtemberg Government has laid before the Chamber a new law of election , which excludes universal suffrage , and introduces a property qualification . Bavaria , it is said , intends to withdraw from the Zollverein in 1853 , when tho present treaty expires . Munich is expecting another beer-riot , the price of beer having been raised a kreuzer the pint . The city has the appearance of being in a state of siege ; the guards at the palace and gates are doubled ; the public buildings are filled with soldiers ; end the streets are regularly patrolled by detachments with loaded arms . The cause of the commotion may seem slight ; but not if the German satire be deserved , — that every Bavarian gets up in the morning as a beercask , and goes to bed as a cask of beer .
The Court of Assizes of Cologne has . just acquitted the many persons accused of participation in the insurrection of May , 1842 , at Bonn . Tho chief of them was Kinkel , a poet of some colebrity , and formerly a professor at the University of Bonn . Ho had previously been condemned to doath for his share in the insurrection at Baden , but the sentence had been commuted into ono ofimprisonment for lift * . " the trial at Cologne hud concluded , ho was taken back to prison . Tho Court of Assizes at Wcscl is occupied in trying sixty-seven persons for having been concorned in tho insurrection at Iscrlohn ; and . tho Court
of Mentz will , in a few days , commence the trial of seventy-seven accused , including some deputies of Frankfort , for different acts of insurrection . The first trial by jury in Hanover took place on the 1 st inst . The Prussian and Hanoverian Governments have ordered their troops to remove the German national cockade ( red , gold , and black ) from their caps . Chamber at
In the sitting of the Second Saxon Dresden , on the 30 th of April , great sensation was created by a declaration made by Zschinsky , one of thejMinisters , to the effect that , although the punishment of death was abolished by the fundamental rights in the constitution , the Government did not intend to be guided by that abolition , nor by any other of the fundamental rights , if they were thought to be dangerous to the preservation of order .
The Grand Duke of Baden has , by decree of the 4 th inst ., prolonged for another month the state of siege of the Grand Duchy . The Frankfort Journal states that the reigning Duke of Coburg contemplates abdicating the Duchy of Gotha to Saxe-Meiningen , receiving in its stead a part of the Duchy of Hildburghausen . The object of the exchange is to render the respective territories more compact .
The Prussian province of Posen is in a most deplorable state of anarchy and misery . The police and military are totally incompetent to suppress tho numerous bands of robbers , who carry on their work in open daylight , and before the eyes of the authorities . Neither life nor property can be considered safe . The province of Silesia merits a similar description . Letters from Copenhagen anticipate that it will be
impossible to terminate by a pacific arrangement the question of Schleswig . Denmark insists on maintaining the bases of the preliminaries of peace laid down in the convention of 10 th July last , which would lead to the separation of Schleswig and Holstein and the incorporation of Schleswig in Denmark ; but as the majority of the population of Schleswig is German , it refuses to consent to what would be its political annihilation .
The French Republic. The Anniversary Of ...
THE FRENCH REPUBLIC . The anniversary of the establishment of the Republic was celebrated in Paris and throughout France , on the 4 th instant . The Paris fete is described as very magnificent in its appointments . There were lofty triumphal arches , statues , pillars crowned with flowers , festoons of flowers , and tricoloured flags , and bands of music . The obelisk of the Place de la Concorde was surrounded with an . immense platform , at each angle of which were placed immense sphinxes ; whilst against the four sides of the pillar stood Egyptian figures , of huge size , as if the guardians of some treasure mentioned in the
hieroglyphics above them . The fountains in the centre of the Place were sloped gently down to the ground , and covered with green turf , interspersed with beds of living flowers , whilst the waters above danced in the sunbeams amidst a profusion of evergreens and plants in full bloom . The sun shone brightly , and all was very gay , except the people . The illuminations and fireworks at night were very brilliant . No private houses , however , were lighted up . The cost of the fete amounted to 300 , 000 francs , one-third of which was subscribed by the city of Paris , the remainder being granted by the Assembly . None of tho authorities assisted at the fotc .
The new Electoral Law was moved by M . Baroche , in the Assembly , on Wednesday . Its consideration was declared urgent by a majority of 453 against 197 . Generals Cavaignac and JLamoricioro voted in the minority . The six democratic candidates returned for tho department of the Saone-et-Loire have a larger majority than at tho former election . The lowest on tho list has 24 , 782 votes more than the highest of his Conservative opponents .
For sornc days past there has boon a strike among the workmen in the employment of tho paper-stainers of Paris . The workmen demand that their day ' s work shall be limited to ten hours , as in the period of the Provisional Government . It is thought that the affair will be compromised . Some disturbance took place on the 1 st instant at Toulouse , in consequence of a number of persons going through the streets singing revolutionary songs .
Condition Of Rome. '•The Pope Is At Rome...
CONDITION OF ROME . ' The Pope is at Rome , " says tho correspondent of the Morning Chronicle , ? ' in full plenitude and power , supported by 2 / 5 , 000 bayonets ( French and Austrians ) , but hated by the majority of his subjects . He has an empty treasury , and tho paper currency , which was at nine per cent , before his lloliness's return , is now at sixteen per cent . ' The Romans complain that they are ' doomed to submit to men in petticoats , cowards , bigots , and as incompetent to govern as prone to revenge and repression ! Those are the words of all the Romans I know ; and the facts I am an eye-witness of . ' " The punishment of tho bastinado has been re-
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Leader (1850-1860), May 11, 1850, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11051850/page/5/
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