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April 20, 1850.] &$£ &£&&£?* S*
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The Lady Franklin, Captain Penny, and th...
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In consequence of the vote on the eccles...
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The Palace Of St. Juan And A Suite Of Ap...
in 1817 . Injl 825 he was elected Vice-President ; and in 1831 the Legislature of South Carolina elected him to the Congressional Senate . To that , the highest branch of the Federal Legislature , the rest of his public career was confined , with the exception of a brief interval , du ring which he held the office of Secretary of State under President Tyler . At a Court of Common Council , on Thursday , an address was agreed upon to Lord Denman , on his retirem ent from the office of Lord Chief Justice . The members of the Junior United Service Club gave a banquet to Lieutenant-General "Viscount Gough , G . C . B ., late Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies , oii Wednesday evening , as a mark of respect for his minent services . ... _ .
Oh Thursday week the masters and scholars at Rugby Scoool took occasion to show their respect for Dr . Tait , their late head-master , previous to his departure to the Deanery of Carlisle , by presenting him with a beautiful piece of plate , and a copy of the Benedictine edition of St . Chrysostom , in thirteen volumes folio . To Mrs . Tait was presented a portrait of her husband , by Richmond , a clock , and a pair of candlesticks . The Keverend H . P . Hamilton , rector of Wath , near York , is to be the new Dean of Salisbury . The Reverend W . E . Buckley , M . A ., Fellow and Tutor of Brasenose College , has been appointed Professor of Classical Literature at the East India College , Haileybury , in succession to the Reverend J . A . Jeremie , D . D ., lately elected Regius Professor of Divinity at
The Liverpool Albion says there is no foundation for the report that the Reverend Dr . Vaughan , Principal of the Lancashire Independent College , is a candidate for a professorship in the new college at Manchester endowed by the late Mr . Owen . The appointment of Judge-Advocate in Ireland , now held by Mr . Walker , and the entire establishment , is to be abolished , and the duties to be transferred to the office of the Judge-Advocate-General in London . — United Service Gazette .
Captain Douglas W . P . Labalmondiare has been appointed Chief Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police , in the place of Captain Hay , who has succeeded Sir Charles Rowan as Joint Commissioner with Mr . Mayne . The state of public affairs at Geneva has induced the celebrated botanist , De Candolle , to resign his chair and the direction of the Botanical Garden of Geneva .
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The Lady Franklin, Captain Penny, And Th...
The Lady Franklin , Captain Penny , and the Sophia , Captain Stewart , sailed from Aberdeen on Saturday for the Arctic regions , in search of Sir John Franklin . Captain Penny has been to those regions almost every year for the last twenty years , and has an intimate knowledge of the various inlets and sounds in Davis Straits , lie firmly believes that Sir John Franklin is yet alive . The Lady Franklin and Sophia have twenty-five each , including officers , and are provisioned for three years . All the appointments of the vessels are of the most
simple and practical description . They have boats similar to those of the ordinary whaler ; ice anchors , ice saws , warping apparatus , and every sort of machinery necessary to enable them to make way through the ice . There is also a full and complete assortment of geographical and astronomical apparatus , and , what is of no small value in this important expedition , a large amount of discretionary power conferred on the commander . Captain Penny is to pursue his search in the first instance in Admiral Jones' Sound and the Wellington Channel .
Richard Oastler writes to the Morning Post , expressing great alarm at the symptoms of improvement in agriculture which are going on everywhere under the quickening influence of free trade . " I never hear , " he says , " of the ravages of machinery and the triumph of steam in connection with farming without thinking of old John Wilson—as gnod a tenant as ever landlord had . He occupied a farm at Lindley , under the late Squire Thornhill . This was his tale : —• It was well for me my father taught me how to manage a farm . Twice have I been driven from my livelihood by steam machinery . I was first a domestic clothmaker—the mills
robbed me of that trade ; then I became a clothdresser—the ' gigs ' spoiled that trade ; but now I have fairly beaten both steam and machinery ; I have become a dajiry farmer , and always keep two of the best bred bulls ! ' Those bulls were not of ' the Tamworth breed , ' they were true Yorkshire bred . Poor John Wilson ! Had he been living now steam and machinery would again have unhorsed him ! lie , good honest soul , never could have learned the scientific philosophic mode of farming , breeding , and rearing . "
Mr . Ferrand's recommending to form a " Farmers ' Wool League , " is causing great excitement among the farmers of Yorkshire . lie is to meet them in Doncaster on the 20 th ; in Beverlcy on the 27 th ; and in Malton on the lth of May . It is expected that meetings will also take place at Richmond , Selby , Itipon , Knaresborough , Tliir . sk , and other agricultural towns in the county . On Friday morning a gentleman of Oxford University undertook to ride from Oxford to London and back , a distance of 108 miles , in six hours , unlimited to horses , lie started from Magdalen-bridge at five o ' clock , arrived in London at twenty-live minutes past seven , and returned to Oxford one minute before ten ; thus completing the distance one minute under five hours .
The Marquis of Granby had a narrow escape from drowning the other duy . While hunting between Meiton Mowbray and Kirby the fox crossed the river , the marquis charged it at full speed where it was impossible for a horse to leap over , ami it was with difficulty that the horse and rider wore extricated . A lar ^ o and influential meeting of shipowners , shipmasters , and other persons interested in British shipping , was held fit the London Tavern on Wednesday , Mr . Iliinif , M . I ., in the chair , to adopt measures for inducing the postponement of the bills affecting the British mercantile marine , recently introduced into Parliament
by Mr . Labouchere , until the subject has been more fully investigated , and until British commerce has been relieved of all unnecessary burdens . Resolutions to this effect were passed unanimously . A number of gentlemen interested in Australia and New Zealand had a conference with the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the East India Company , yesterday week , on the subject of steam communication with these colonies . The Chairman said the great obstacle to any arrangement for the purpose contemplated arose from the unwillingness of Government and the East India Company to surrender to any private company the management of the steam navigation between Bombay and S ^ uez . At a steeplechase a jockey was thrown from his horse , on Wednesday week , in the county of Waterford , and killed on the spot . A large number of men and women connected with the spinning trade , left Drogheda last week for St . Germain , in France , where they have been engaged at a considerable advance of wages . The boats about Howth continue to pick up portions of the cargo of some ship that has foundered and that appears to have been chiefly freighted with soap . The library of the British Museum contains 450 , 000 volumes , and it has been calculated by an officer of the institution that , if they were all required to be placed on one shelf , that shelf would be at least twelve miles in length . In a certain town of Bedfordshire , a rural couple called at the Registrar ' s Office , one Sunday morning lately , with a request that he would marry them instantly . The Registrar said he could not perform the ceremony till the regular forms had been complied with , which would occupy three weeks . " Please , sir , if we micst wait all that time , " said the rustic bridegroom , " could you not manage to do the christening at the same time ?" A vase containing about 180 very old Roman copper coins , a dozen silver ones , and a broken gold ring , was found last week by some labourers , while digging in a field near Dungarvon , in Ireland . The advantages resulting from the admission of British vessels into the indirect trade with the United States , consequent upon the repeal of the British navigation-laws , are beginning to be felt in the orange trade from the Azores . The cargoes being of a perishable nature , the exporter prefers British to Portuguese vessels . The latter can be chartered at a lower freight , but they take longer time to the voyage , and thereby damage the cargo . A valuable collection of ancient marbles and statuary has been offered to Cambridge University by Mr . John Disney , of the Hyde , in the county of Essex , with the view of its being placed in one of the public buildings of the University , and being kept together as an Archccological collection bearing his name . The Clare Journal says that , a few days ago , several spirit dealers sent in samples of whiskey , according to order , in a competition for the contract to supply the Gort Union with that native beverage , to be used , of course , only medicinally . There were a good many samples , and the guardians , of course , deemed it their duty to taste all . But it never occurred to them that whiskey , even when tasted in the course of duty , has certain effects , even upon boards . The board in question , it is said , tumbled down stairs , and some of the planks were as deeply saturated as though the whole affair had occurred in the usual course . A large sugar refinery is about to be built at Southampton , for the refining of sugar in bond for exportation . It will be calculated to refine from 80 to 100 tons of sugar per week , and will be rented for twenty-one years by a London house in the sugar trade , who intend to import their cargoes of sugar for refining into Southampton direct . The Waterford Neios mentions , amongst the emigrants from Kilmacthomas , " John Neill , the father of a large family , now ci » hty years of aye ; and Mary Nugent , seventy-nine years of age , the mother of nineteen sons , and three daughters . " Mr . J . B . Phillips , of Ardington , was attacked on his way home from Abingdon market last week , by six men , who tore him from his horse , rifled his pockets of six sovereigns , and a cheque for £ 31 , and then ran away across the fields . Two of the robbers have been apprehended . The Fanny and Jane , a brig bound for Bristol , from London , while proceeding up the Bristol Channel on Saturday afternoon , had her masts , bowsprit , and everything above deck swept away by a waterspout . James Brown , who gave himself into custody for stealing a letter-carrier ' s bag , was brought up on Thursday for re examination . Peckhiim , the letter carrier , explained the manner in which lie had lost sight of the bag , which had been set down at a door , while he was talking with a friend . The prisoner was remanded . Charles Holdcn , a labourer , aged forty , has accused himself , to the police , of the murder , twenty years ago , of a young woman with whom he kept company . One night in going across a field-path with her , between Cltertscy and Lak'hain , they had a quarrel , nnd he gave her a blow with his left hand under the cur , from the effects of which she instantly expired . He then carried the body into a plantation , near to the mansion of the Karl of Lucan , where ho buried In r , having fir . st rn . ide a hole two feet d < 'cp with a spade which In * got . from the tool-house of Lord Lucan ' s gardener . He then stated thf > exact place where he had laid the body , and went with two policemen to point out the spot . It appears that in November last a skeleton was found in this very place , but for sonic reason or other no inquest was held . At Mallow sessions , a poor man was indicted the other day for stealing turnips , the principal witness being a man called " Mad Torn Eager . " The attorney who defended the prisoner endeavoured to shake the testimony of this
witness , who swore that he was as near to the prisoner as " the length of himself ; " but upon being further pressed , he coolly said— " Didn't I know what the attorney would be at , and what he'd try to make me swear ? Faith I did so ; and when I caught the prisoner I knocked him down , and took out my knife and cut off a piece of his ear , that I might match it next day . " This terrific statement was mournfully corroborated by the prisoner in the dock , who turned his mutilated ear to the bench , crying out at the same time in a piteous tone , " Oh ; wisha me Lard , shure enuf he did crap me !" The worthy assistant-barrister , who was justly horrified at the act , vented his indignation in the strongest terms . The witness seemed to think that he had deserved a reward rather than a reprimand .
_ . . . A serious riot has been created in Liverpool , m an endeavour by a bankrupt to r egain possession of goods about to be sold by order of his assignees . The bankrupt is a merchant and broker of Liverpool . His petition was opened on the 28 th of February ; assignees were chosen , and put in possession of the property , consisting of furniture , plate , & c . On the loth of March the officer was ejected by the bankrupt ; on the followingday , however , the resistance was withdrawn . Shortly after the assignees ordered the property to be sold ; and the auctioneer , Mr . Gaskill stationed six men in the bankrupt's house , but afterwards withdrew four , as the bankrupt offered no interference . The two men remained
for some time unmolested , but at length , one morning , eight men entered by the window , and turned them out . The auctioneer then dispatched thirteen men , who , after a fight , turned out the eight . So matters rested till next morning , when Mr . Gaskill received information that his men were being murdered . On going to the house a most riotous scene presented itself . * ' There was a force of fifty men inside the house , and as many outside , the object being to recover possession of the furniture . The bankrupt was taking an active part , and he and his men were assailing the messengers with , pokers , sticks , pieces of chairs , or any other weapons that came within their reach . Some of the men had
jugs , teacups , and other articles smashed over their heads . During the encounter the bankrupt drew a sword-stick from a sheath , and was about to use it when it was wrested from him , and broken in two . The messengers , unable to resist the onslaught of their more numerous antagonists , were ultimately obliged to give way , and finally leave the house . The goods were then removed , but were subsequently recovered by the officers of the court . The doors and windows of the house were smashed to pieces , and other damage committed , amounting in the whole to upwards of £ 30 . "
In Consequence Of The Vote On The Eccles...
In consequence of the vote on the ecclesiastical courts , the Papal Nuncio has demanded his passports of the Sardinian Government , and left Turin . The Portuguese Cortes have been prorogued to the 2 d of June . They have already voted the taxes . A fearful accident was reported in the French Assembly on Wednesday . The iron bridge at Angers has broken down . A battalion of the Eleventh Infantry was crossing ; the men were carrying their arms and baggage ; the wind blew a hurricane ; the chains on one side gave way . The number of the drowned is calculated between 200 and 300 .
The theological professors of the A cademy of Munster ( Germany ) refuse to take the oath to the Constitution , except under the express restoration of the Roman Catholic Church . They are , in consequence , suspended . A letter from Madgeburg of the 15 th instant , in the Cologne Gazette , announces the sudden and violent outbreak of the cholera at Halberstadt . The Prussian Supreme Tribunal of Justice has sentenced an editor and a printer to one year ' s imprisonment " for exciting discontent against the Government
by publicly insisting on and spreading garbled and false statements . " The culprits had been acquitted by a jury . All the clubs and democratic societies of Berlin have dissolved themselves since the promulgation of the new law on the right of meeting ; but the organization was such that they are still able to keep up their correspondence . Letters from Bosnia in the Austrian Lloyd of V lenna report that Omar Pasha was marching at the head of 40 , 000 men against the insurgents of that province .
The Patria anl Clamor Publico ( Madrid ) have been again seized by order of the Government , which seems resolved to ruin both by a series of persecutions . The booksellers and printers of Milan are petitioning for the liberty of the press , as granted by the constitution of 1849 . „ , A letter from Vienna r . tatcs that Count Modem , tho Russian Ambassador , had presented a note to the Austrian Cabinet , inviting it to intervene in the Sehlcswig-IIolstein question . Tho letter adds that the Austrian Ministers would comply with the demand .
A letter from St . Petersburg announces that the caravan which transports the gold extracted in tho mountains of the Altai had arrived in that capital . It brought 7172 kilogrammes , equivalent in value to about £ 1 , 000 , 000 . This is the . second caravan that has arrived since the winter set in . A law has passed the Legislature of Ohio modifying the nKury laws of that state , and making it legal for parties to contract ( except with banks ) for a rate of int « n . st rrjual to ton per » : r « t . per nnnuiri . The 17 / 1 Had Service Gazette . says that Government is so confident of tho termination of the dispute with Greece that t . hc reduction of the fleet is to take j > laco immediately . The statement that Sir William Parker is about to roaign tho command of the fleet , in the Mediterranean is flatly contradicted by the Times .
Many curious objects for the Archaeologist have been discovered in drugging the bed of the Soino , nt Paris : arrrin of all kinds , all epochs , medals , vases , & o . M . Ludwig Simon , of Triers , one of the Frankfort deputies , the friend of Hubert Blum , lias been con-
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Leader (1850-1860), April 20, 1850, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20041850/page/9/
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