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tatives of the late Lord Keane , being the amou nt of the one eighth of the Ghuznee prize-money , reserved for final appropriation by the Government . — United service Gazette . , , The Trinidad papers announce the marriage of Lord Harris , the governor , on the 15 th of April to the daughter of the Archdeacon of Trinidad . The Schooner selected by Sir John Ross to proceed to the Arctic regions in search of Sir John Franklin and his companions was launched at Glasgow , yesterday week . It is not yet known when he will sail . Lady Franklin , it is said , will visit Stranraer to be present at Sir John ' s departure . Commander Carmichael , R . N ., commanding her Majesty ' s steam-sloop Spiteful , succeeds to the handsome fortune of about £ 6000 a year and a baronetcy , in consequence of the death of his brother . — United Service
Gazette . _ . , _ , The latest accounts from Van piemen ' Land say that the Commissariat had received instructions to furnish such a scale of allowance as Mr . Smith O'Brien ' s previous position and treatment entitle him to . Mr . O'Donoghue has started a paper which is doing well , and promises to afford the unfortunate gentleman the means of obtaining a reputable livelihood . We understand that Elihu Burritt , the distinguished
American philanthropist , may be expected to arrive in Liverpool , from Boston , about the 1 st of June , en route to the Continent , to promote the Peace Congress to be held ia Frankfort in August . —Liverpool Albion . It is currently reported that the Carlist chief , Cabrera , now residing in London , has succeeded in obtaining the hand of a lady of immense fortune , and that he is going forthwith to the north of Spain to raise the standard of revolt , and once more endeavour to place what that party termed the legitimate brancli of Bourbon , on the
throne . A gentleman of highly respectable family and connections , the owner in fee of different estates , not many miles from Newport , in Tipperary , with a rental of over £ 1000 a year , died within the last few weeks a recipient of indoor relief in one of the Dublin workhouses .
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M . Thiers , after seventeen years' marriage , is about to become a father , and he and his lady are to visit Italy , for the purpose of having the child baptized by his Holiness . —National . The nuptials of the Princess Charlotte with the Hereditary Prince of Leiningen were celebrated on the 18 th instant at Charlottenburg , in the presence of the King and Queen of Prussia and the Royal Family , the diplomatic corps , and of those persons having the entree . The royal couple proceeded immediately after the ceremony where the Marble Palace has been
to Potsdam , prepared for their reception . The marriage trousseau of the bride was exposed to public view in the palace for two days , and attracted many spectators , especially of the fair box , who looked with longing and admiring eyes upon the rich dresses , costly jewels , exquisite Brussels lace , tantalizing shawls , massy silver toilette and dinner services , : ind the prodigious stock of linens , cambrics , and embroidery , spread before them . The greater part of these articles were presents from the Royal Family , and from Prince Alurecht and the Princess ' s mother .
The Marchioness of Beauharnais , mother-in-law of the Grand Duchess of Baden , died in Paris on Sunday night . We have the pleasure of announcing the appointment of the ' rimes correspondent ' s son to a diplomatic post in the service of the King of Naples . The affairs of Italy have been disposed of by that functionary in a manner so satisfactory to the royal feelings that it were impossible to overlook such claims , and it is delightful to find
gratitude in Majesty . —Globe . Donna Alexandra Munoz , sister to the Duke de ltianz ires , Queen Christina ' s husband , and widow of the late General Fulgosio , Captain-General of Madrid , who was assassinated during the riots of May , 1848 , has been appointed deputy-governess to tho expected heir to the ctown . The Countess de Povar , daughter of the Duchess de Gor , Mistress of the Robes , has already been named principal governess . under sentence of
The counsel for Dr . Webster , now death at Boston for the murder of Dr . Parkman , of that city , have taken his case up to the Supreme Court of Massachusetts , on a writ , of error , on account of some alleged informality in the proceedings , and they have ? . oino hopes of a new trial . The newspapers of Posth announce that ^ Madame Mess / . elenyi , in whoso care the children of Kossuth at present are , has received permission from llaynau to send her young charges to their parents in Kutayah . We learn from llazenpret that Goorgey is living there in great comfort , keeping his carriage , and employing his whole time * with chemical studios .
The Annual Meeting Of The Royal Agricult...
The annual meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society was held on Wednesday , ut their house in Ilunoversquare . There was a very full attendance of agriculturists from all parts of the kingdom , but the proceedings were not of much interest . The counsel have decided upon holding the in xt country meeting of the society at . . Exeter , and h ; ive entered into at raugoments with the Commissioners of tlie ExhibitUrn <> f tho Industry of all N itiou . s for holding a cattle . show in llyde-park in 1851 . Tho London llurticultural Society ' s first exhibition this season took place at tiie socii ty ' s gardens , Chiswiek , on Saturday , and under much more favourable auspices than could have been predicted from the unpiomising state of tho weather in the curly part of tlve d . iy . There ums a full attendance of visitors . l > y far \\\ o most
attractive objects m the exhibition , us showing the results of a well-matured cultivation , were the hcatl . s . There were some beautiful specimens of cinerarias , exotic orchids , and calceolarias , roses , and a variety of miscellaneous plants , of great excellence . The most extraoidinary and inliTObting feature of the exhibition was a
specimen of that huge water lily , the Victoria Regia , grown on the estates of the Duke of Northumberland . The flower was seen under a glass case , and its gigantic dimensions , combined with its beauty of form , were the objects of surprise and admiration . The leaf , which is displayed in a tank of water , kept at a fitting temperature , is as large as a round table of ordinary
circumference . The Archajological Institute has appointed the 18 th of next month for its meeting at Oxford , to continue to the 25 th inclusive . The great meeting of the National Association for the Protection of British Labour and Capital , appointed to be held at Liverpool on the 4 th of June , has been changed to the Gth , to suit general convenience , at which the Earl of Wilton has consented to preside . Delegates from all parts of the kingdom will attend . — Shipping Gazette .
The thirty-fourth anniversary of the Peace Society was celebrated at Finsbury Chapel , Moorfields , on Tuesday evening . No report was read , but the secretary took a glance at what the society had done during last year . He congratulated the meeting on the progress which the cause was making . The Members of Parliament who voted in favour of Mr . Cobden ' s arbitration motion represented a much larger number of the people of England than the Members who opposed him did . With reference to the Exhibition of Works of Art in 1851 , the
committee hailed it with satisfaction ; but they hoped that no instruments of warfare would be admitted into that exhibition , and they have memorialized Prince Albert , praying the commissioners to exclude such weapons as are constructed only for the destruction of human life . Mr . Sturge stated that an application had been made to the United States Government to grant a ship to convey the American deputation to the Peace Congress at Frankfort , and that the request was likely to be conceded .
The annual meeting of the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Institutes was held at Darlington on Wednesday . The reports presented gave a very gratifying account of the institutes and the success of the union . The Dean of Ripon and many other distinguished advocates of education took part in the proceedings . Edward Baines , Esq ., of Leeds , was again elected president of the united
. The amount collected up to the present time , in aid of the proposed building and endowment of King ' s College Hospital , reaches nearly £ 4000 , in addition to the firstpublished list . An amateur performance by Artists took place on Saturday at the St . James ' s Theatre , in aid of the funds of the Artists' General Benevolent Institution . The plays were Jerrold ' s Rent Day and Colman ' s Poor Gentleman , both excellently performed . Between the two pieces , Mr . George Cruikshank provoked immense laughter by his humorous singing of the ballad of " Lord Bateman . "
Mr . Wakley , M . P ., has addressed a letter to the electors of Finsbury , in which he says he is not surprised at the feeling of discontent among his constituents , but adds that it is illness alone which has prevented his attendance in Parliament . If allowed to choose his own course lie says he would prefer continuing to be their representative until the commencement of next session of Parliament . Should his health not be reestablished by that time , he would then resign his seat . The Southwark Reform Association have resolved to convene a public meeting to tako into consideration the unsatisfactory conduct of Sir William Molcsworth , as representative of the Borough .
Whitsuntide has been more than usually auspicious for holiday-folks , this year , so far as regards weather . On Whit Sunday the steam boats were crowded " from mom till dewy eve . " In that part of the river between Chelsea and Woolwich the number of passengers was nearly 200 , 000 . Oa Monday the number of persons who went to Greenwich Fair , by railway , was 51 , 000 , not to speak of the crowds who went incessantly b y the river . Sir Charles Napier , in a letter to the Times , says : — " The late Board of Admiralty built an iron fleet without ascertaining that iron was a fit material for ships of war . The present board of Admiralty are getting rid of them without ascertaining that iron ia not a fit material for ships of war . "
The directors intend opening the great bridge over the Tweed at Berwick in June , all that is now necessary to complete it being the laying of the rails for the trnins . The submarine telegraph between Dover and Calais , which was to have been opened this month , will not bo completed and opened until the end of June . One hundred and fifty additional hands have been taken on at the Britannia-bridge , in order to the preparations for the iloating of the third great tube , which will take place-on the 10 th of . June . A few persons in Dublin have been taking steps during the last week to organize some means for the revival of Irish manufactures and general industrial enterprise in the country .
The Belgic Xof/'On Says That " Since Pro...
The Belgic Xof /' on says that " since Providence lias restoreil the Pontilical ( . lovornnient to Rome , condemnations , imprisonments , and executions have had an uninterrupted succession . " Two new guillotines are being constructed . The great theatre of the Opera is about to be converted into a prison . Uaroni , chief-surgeon ot tho Papal army , has been dismissed and exiled for having , during tho siesjo , profaned the Quirinal l \ ila < o by pi . icing the wounded thcte . Cernusehi remains in prison awaiting las . sicmd trial . The Miit-in-luw of C « euciMcc . ia , tho chief of police , was i ' uuud dead tliu other night , stabbed in seventeen places .
Letters of May M state that . Rome was lull of a rumour that the Pope had attempted to abscond again . He is now vigilantly guarded , and for the future an escort of French cavalry will accompany him in his
airings . The French garrison in the city is reduced to 7000 men ; 5000 more are in the environs . Attempts are being vainly made to organize a Roman army , but the only good officers are Republicans , and the people refuse to enlist . The correspondent of the Morni ng Chronicle is obliged to confess that the ' insolvency and final destruction " of the Papal Government " are not far off . " A convention between Austria and Tuscany is under consideration : its principal object being to continue the Austrian troops in Tuscany during the pleasure of Austria , and to authorize the Austrian commander to declare Tuscany in a state of siege whenever he may deem it expedient so to do .
It is said that an English vessel has been dispat ched to Naples , to demand compensation for damages done to British subjects during the bombardment of Messina . The dispute between the Ionian Senate and the Lord High Commissioner increases . The venerable Count Rome , ofZante , has refused to accept the order presented to him by Queen Victoria , and his son has laid down the office of Senator , being resolved not to contribute to the deprivations of national liberty intended by England . On the opening of the Chambers , the members resolved that they would no longer conduct their proceedings in the Italian language , but in Greek . Mr . Ward had ordered some arrests in consequence .
A letter from Constantinople of the 1 st states that the long-expected modification of the Ottoman Cabinet had taken place . The Minister of Finance , Nafiz Pacha , and the President of the Superior Council , Arif Pacha , both of the retrograde party , had been replaced , the former by Halet Effendi , an able functionary of the finance department , the latter by Rifaat Pacha , who had previously held the post three times . The disturbances in Bosnia had extended , and measures had been taken to put them down . The disturbances at Bag dad had ceased . Those of Samos had also ended .
Fifty-four Polish and Hungarian officers , who have embraced Isiamism , have arrived at Varna . They will be sent to Syria . The Italian legion , which after the fall of Hungary took refuge in the Turkish territories , arrived on the 6 th instant , in a Turkish frigate , at Cagliari . The Grand Council of the Swiss Republic has , by a vote of 150 against 27 , authorized the Government to take extraordinary military precautions against the reactionary party in Switzerland . The Convent of the Carmelites at Vienna has been prepared for the reception of the Jesuits ; and the names of eight ladies are already given who have resolved to abjure the world . One of them will bring the convent a dowry of 80 , 000 dollars .
It is reported that General Below , who was sent by Prussia to Copenhagen , has just returned , naving successfully accomrjlished his mission . The great activity at present prevailing in the Danish fleet may , therefore , be considered only as an imposing demonstration to Holstein . The Cologne Gazette says that an attack is expected . The Clamor Publico of Madrid has undergone the second of eight prosecutions , and been condemned to a fine of 20 , 000 reals .
Letters from Tarragona mention the escape of nine convicts , who were being conducted to the hulks . Several of them are highwaymen of some renown . The diligence between Malaga and Grenada was attacked , on the 8 th instant , by a band of armed men , who fired at the guard and wounded one of the passengers , the Duke of San Lorenzo ; after which , according to custom , they obliged every passenger to lie full length in the middle of the road , and submit to be rifled of everything valuable . The Duke of San Lorenzo was left in a little in a b y the roadside , and fetched home the next day by his friends . His wound is not dangerous . The Aranjuez railroad is being rapidly proceeded with , and it is hoped that it will be finished by the time of the Queen ' s delivery .
Three workmen who were employed at the new Spanish Cortes have been crushed by the fall of a beam . This accident has given occasion for the Carlist journal , which is conducted by priests , to inveigh against the Government's obliging workmen to toil on the Sabbath . An extensive emigration to Algiers continues from Alicante , Almeria , and Murcia , in consequence of the extreme misery prevailing there . If we may judge by the arrivals on Monday and Tuesday , the dread of a rupture with this country has greatly diminished in England . About 300 English have come here within the last twenty four hours . It was time for the tide to flow this way , for the hotel keepers were beginning to complain bitterly both of Lord Palmerstou and General la Hitte , without troubling themselves with discussions as to which of the two was right or wrong . — Paris Correspondent of the Globe .
The country in the neighbourhood of Dombaslc , in the department of the Meurthe , was covered with a heavy fall of snow on Friday last . The French emigrants in New York celebrated tho anniversary of the Republic on the -Jth instant . Several of the Italian patriots wf re present ; among them General Av ( zzana , and Signor Forrcsti , formerly the prisoneompauion of Silvio Pcliico . Dining the month of April , 15 , 757 emigrants from Envv >|> e . arrived at Now Yoik . A collision occurred between two Canadian stennx rs on Lake Erie a fortnight ago , one of which , witha portion of the tweiity-third ivegiment on board , sank in ; i fo . w minutes , in eight fathoms of water , and Surgeon ( irantliani , twenty-four soldiers , and thirteen women and children were drowned .
A New York paper says : " Tho Legislature of Pennsylvania lias recently created rift ecu new banks , and granted nearly half-a-dozen divorces . What next ? " Eighteen camels have arrived at New Orleans from Malta . They arc destined for one of the overland route * to California .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 25, 1850, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25051850/page/8/
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