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TnE Suspected Poisoning at Richmond. —« ...
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The Duke De Padoue Is Startling The Worl...
A Turin correspondent writes : — " This afternoon I was at the bankers N While -waiting there a private soldier of the line , in his great coat and side arms , appeared at the counter and presented a letter containing a credit in favourol Count ;¦ ¦ — ., on , Milan , for 50 , 000 francs , ¦ The banker asked where the count -was ; ' I am he , -was the answer . " , ' ,,. ' ¦ % * Princess Clotilde has bought the celebrated fan which belonged to the late Queen of Oude , The handle , of ivory and gold , is ornamented with rubies and seventeen large diamonds of the purest water . In Munich , as well as in Stuttgardt and Dresden , female societies are forming for the purpose of pledging as many of the fair sex as possible to refrain from wearing crinoline , or any other article of French manufacture . The Pope on receiving the Duke of Grammont , a few days ago , as the bearer of a letter from the Emperor Napoleon , promising him protection , his Holiness , holding up a crucifix , observed , " Behold my only support . " Some of the native gentlemen of Calcutta propose to establish a club on the European model , to be called the Union Club . They are assisted by several European gentlemen , who hope to make the club a point of union between Europeans and natives . _ The anniversary meeting of the Royal Geographical Society will be held on the 23 rd inst ., at their house in " Whitehall-place , when the gold medals will be awarded . The members of the Mechanics' Institute , Melbourne , have determined upon erecting a new hall , at an expenditure of £ 7 , 500 .
Cardinal Wiseman has- returned to town , from Norfolk , . where he has visited the Catholic chapels and congregations in Norwich and Yarmouth , and also proceeded to Norwich Cathedral . The sum ot 3 , 000 ? . has been voted by the corporation of Melbourne for this year ' s quota towards the erection of public baths and fountains . Arrangements have been made for erecting twenty-four water taps at the junctions of the principal streets of Melbourne . It is rumoured that before the meeting in Parliament , Sir E . Lytton will formally resign the seals of the Colonial department , and his successor will be appointed from the secondary ranks of the administration .
The apprehension that blockades will be enforced at various foreign ports during the war ( says the Norfolk Chronicle ) has already begun to operate upon the prospects of the herring fishery , and many curers are inclined to have fewer boats than they contemplated . Mr . Gavan Duffy , Minister of Public , Works , Victoria , has resigned . The Melbourne Age , in annouucing the fact , says that" Jonah has been thrown overboard , and the mariners who navigate the ministerial vessel are buoyant with hopes of fair weather and a calm sea . "
The English are very ill-received just now in Italy , and especially at Genoa , says a correspondent of the Indepandance Beige . In . order to hinder quarrels , the captain of a large ship , whose name escapes me , has several times kept his crew on board ; he has determined even upon quitting the port and going towards Leghorn . The Early Closing Association got up a meeting on Thursday to shut up the Burlington Arcade an hour sooner than at present . Lord Shaftesbury presided . The shopkeepers are to " confer" on the subject . Arrangements have been made for the erection of St . Helena into a distinct episcopal see , and the Rev . Piers Calveley Claughton , M . A ., of Brasenose College , Oxford , and rector of Elton , near Oundle , has been nominated the first bishop .
The Marquis de Campanay of Rome , noted for hisi fine museum , his defalcations , and his late condemnation to imprisonment , was last week set at liberty and exiled . He is about to enter a monastery at Florence , to which city he went on leaving Rome . At the Mersey Dock Board , Mr . Bold moved a resolution in favour of the application of electricity to the clock on the summit of the Victoria tower , in order to ensure more perfect accuracy in the dropping of the time-ball on the top of the same tower . The resolution was adopted . The marriage of Mdlle . Hubner , daughter of the late Austrian' ambassador at the French Court , with M . de Maupassant , a rich landowner , of the department of the Maine and Loire , was solemnised on Wednesday morning in the chapel of the Pope ' s Nuncio , in the Hue Grenelle St . Germain , Paris . A new bishopric is spoken of for the North of England , to be created out of the see of Durham .
The Colombo Examiner notices the success of the pearl fishery at Aripo . The oysters were selling at £ 6 to £ 6 lbs . per 1 , 000 , and money was abundant . Bates , the ' chief of the European divers , was under water for three hours . The operations of the European divers are expected to produce very beneficial , results , both in the discovery of new banks , and in determining the age of the oysters . The French Minister of State has permitted three writers to accompany the French army in Italy—M . Pierron , of the Ministry of State ; M . Dreolle , and a gentleman connected with an English journal . .
The Court of General Sessions , says the New York Tribune , opens with a bloody calendar . Eleven prisoners are to be tried for murder and four for manslaughter . ; The death of the Ri g ht Hon . Francis Stuart , eleventh Earl of Moray , in the peerage of Scotland , and Lord , Stuart , of Castle Stuart , in that of the United Kingdom , happened at Hayes-park , Middlesex , on the 6 th inst ., in the sixty-fourth year of his age . . The Weekly Register says- —the fact cannot be disputed or denied upon any ground whatever , of the conversion of the late Duke of Leeds to the Catholic faith , and we may also state that Miss Fox , a niece of the duke , was received into the Church at Everingham , on Maunday Thursday .
The Nottingham Town Council , after a protracted and warm discussion , have agreed to a site of land being given in the Arboretum for the purpose of placing thereon a statue of the late Feargus O'Connor . This decision has created great dissatisfaction in the town . Mrs . Susan Cushman Muspratt died at her residence , near Liverpool , on Tuesday last . Mrs . Muspratt will be well remembered by most of our readers as' the accomplished Susan Cushman , the sharer of her sister ' s early popularity in this countrj ' , and the representative of Juliet , Pauline Deschapelles , & c , to her sister ' s Romeo , Claude Melnotte , & c .
The Earl and Countess of Erroll have lost . their infant and only daughter . The Duke of Marlborough ' s infant son died on Thursday . The Earl of Fife ' s youngest daughter died , after a very short illness , on Sunday . The Rev . O . V . King , Fellow of Trinity Collego , Cambridge , has been appointed to the rectory of St . Mary-le-Bow , Durham j the Rev . C . P . Jones , curate of Peterston , to a minor candnry in St . David ' s Cathedral ; the Rev . G . W . T . Carurthon to the rectory of Ashprington , Devonshire . Mi \ Henry Drummond Woolf , private secretory to Sir Edvvard Lyttou , is named as Government
Secretary at Corfu , in succession to Sir Thomas Bowen , who is appointed governor of the new colony of Queensland ( Moreton Bay ) , in Australia . In chaining the Calcutta grand jury , Sir M . Wells stated , that during the six weeks he had boon presiding as one of the judges of the Supreme Court , ho had witnessed more perjury and forgery than during the course of eighteen years' practice at the English bar . ¦ Mr . G , V . Brooke has become the sole lessee of the Theatre Royal , Melbourne . Mr , Hudson , the Irish comedian , has appeared there . Miss Emma Stanley seems to be meeting with considerable success , and Mrs , Butler ' s " roadings " attract largo
audiences . Letters from Liege state that the English Government is entering into contracts with different manufacturers for the supply of 200 , 000 rifles .
A letter from St . Petersburg states , that the joy caused by the taking of SchamyFs stronghold was damped by the fact that he himself and his principal supporters made good their escape . A squadron of dragoons , -which pursued them , would have been entirely destroyed , but for the timely succour of a detachment of cossacks ; The Augsburg Gazette calls on . the German ladies to give up purchasing any French articles of millinery . " We must not , " it says , " let German money pass from our . pockets into those of the French , and enable them to make war on us . " Among the passengers by the Arabia from New York , on Saturday , were Lords Cavendish and Cecil , and the Hon . E . Legge and , E . Ashley . Mr . :-Joseph Sturge , of Birmingham , died on Saturday morning . As the foe of slavery , as the
friend of peace , as the promoter of temperance and education , and numerous schemes of benevolence , both local a « d general , liis name stands on honourable record . Archdeacon Colquhoun Campbell has been nominated by the Crown to the bishopric of Bangor , worth 4 . 500 Z . a year , rendered vacant by the death of the Right Rev . Dr . Christopher BetKell . In consequence of the elevation of Archdeacon Campbell , the Crown will claim the right to the rectory of Merthyr Tydvil , worth about 800 J . a year . The ceremony of opening the new Homoeopathic Hospital , in Great Ormond-street , Bloomsbury , took place on Thursday , in the presence of a numerous assemblage of ladies and gentlemen , amongst whom were the Earl of Wilton and Lord Ebury . . ¦ __
___ The beautiful church in Margaret-street , the opening of which has been so long expected , is to be consecrated on Saturday , the 28 th inst ., when the Bishop of London will-preach the sermon . A young girl , named Susan French , w , as burnt to death at a fire which took place on Tuesday , on the promises of Mr . Nicol , publisher , High-street , Edinburgh . A return mado to the Court of Aldermen of the traffic over London-bridge in 24 hours , ending at 6 p . m . on Thursday , the 17 th March last , shows that during that time 4 , 483 cabs , 4 , 286 omnibuses , 9 , 245
waggons and carts , 2 , 430 other vehicles , and 54 horses led or ridden—making a total of 20 , 498 passed over the bridge . The passengers in the eame period wore , iiv vehicles , 60 , 836 ; on foot , 107 , 074 . Total ; 167 , 010 . On the 23 vd of April last the Iron Crown of Lombardy was solemnly removed by the Austrians , under the protection of » strong body of horse , from Monza to the fortress of Mantua , The crown is made of gold , but has inside an iron ring , of which the legend relates that it has been forged from the nails of our Saviour ' s cross .
Open the window , and lot in more light I" wore the last words of Goethe . The sun shone brilliantly in the room where Humboldt died , and it is reported that the last words addressed to his niece were . " Wie herrlich diese Strohlen : sic scheinen die Erde zum Himmol zu rufen 1 " ( How grand these rays ; they seem to beckon Earth to Heaven ! " )
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TnE Suspected Poisoning at Richmond . —« Yesterday Mr . Thomas Smethurst was again brought before the magistrates on the charge of adxninisteririg poison to Isabella Bankes . A great deal of additional evidence was heard . Professor Taylor and Dr . Todd were of opinion that arsenical poison had been administered . The case was adjourned till Monday . Great Fire ix the Cut . —Yesterday morning , between six and seven o ' clock , a fire broke out in the premises belonging to Messrs . Hubbock , in Lime-street . The building was filled with turpentine , paint ,, saltpetre , sulphur , & c . Some men were stacking away-carboys filled with turpentine , when one of the bottles split , and the spirit running out came in contact with a light , and in an instant the turpentine was in , a flame , firing in rapid succession various other carboys , which exploded one after another . The loss must be very considerable . Three men have been taken to . St . Thomas ' s Hospital , where their wounds have been dressed . A young man , ' named Watts , is missing . Reliques of Molikre . — --The discovery of three pieces of unpublished verse by Moliere cannot fail to be interesting to all lovers of literature , and such a . discovery is supposed to have been made . The pieces in question were found , gome time since , amongst a mass of old papers , some of which had reference to Moliere , by the Marquis Henri do la Garde , amongst the lumber of an old bookseller ' s in the town of Avignon , where Armande-Gresnidc Bejart do Modene , who became the wife of Moliore , was born . The papers referring to Moliere consisted , first , of a number of epitaphs , epigrams , and sonnets , on the death of the great comic poet } and secondly , two epitaphs , followed by two madri » gals , attributed to Moliere by the writer of the papers . With these were some other documents having reference to the family of Des Achards , with which fa mily the Marquis do Portia d'Urbanauthor of » " Dissertation on the Marriage of the celebrated Moliere , " a " Dissertation on the Wife of Moliiire , " and a " Supplement to the various editions of the Works of Mollcre , " & c—was connected . — - The Critic . ' _ Tub Austrian Commander-in-chief . — -Franz Count Gyulai , of MUros-N 6 mothy and tfadaaka , was born on the 1 st September , 1798 . His family boast of the purest Magyar blood . His fathor fought ux the battles of Dresden , Loipsic , Brienno , and Barsur-Aubo , and had the reputation of boinga skilful commander . The prosent Count Gyulai entorod the army in 1810 , roao in 1846 to the dignity of JToldmSshaH-Lioutenant , and during the revolutionary troubles ofl 848 served with groat distinction in tho capacity of Commander in Dalmatia He saved the Austrian navy from the attack of the insurrectionists . Trieste , Polo , and other important points on the coast were at that time fort fled according to his Sana . From June , 1849 , to July , i 860 , he held the offlce of Minister of War , afterwards was sent to take tho command of the 5 fch corps d armeo at Milan , and proceeded by gradual steps to the command of tho 2 nd Army corps , and to tho military superintendence of Lombardy and v enotia .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 21, 1859, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21051859/page/11/
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