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Msceiillaneotjs. The Court.—Her Majesty ...
TtoTAi , London Yacht Club . —Mr . Thomas Rroadwood , of the Dawn cutter , has been elected Vice-Cora taodore of the above club . The vacant office of Bear is expected also to be filled up in a few davs This yachting society already numbers above five hundred members , and boasts a very large fleet ^ tS ' crinan Canai .. —A farmer on the banks of the canal , who suffered by the late terrible overflowinff of the waters , says , " My farm was swept over ^ almost every foot of it , excepting the knowe , where the dwelling-house stands ) by a volume of water not less than ten feet deep . Six of my corn stacks were taken away clean , and as far as I saw them , eoiriff down towards the sea , they were quite wholersheafbf them removed from another The
not one . place where the water broke forth and entered into the canal is about 100 yards above Carinban Innr It carried walls , embankments , locks , and everything that stood in its way before it . The walls and roof of the inn are still standing , but all the man ' s furniture and effects are < a total wreck . You can , have no idea , nor can I describe to you , the appearance of the first approach of the flood coming down my meadows , about a mile above my house . The noise of the waters was most alarming ; they carried everything before them , the cattle and people that happened to be on the road at the time flying for their lives . I was in bed when the alarm was first given ; and you miay depend upon it there was very little time lost in . dressing . I had . just got all my cattle and horses out of the byres and stables , and up on to the high ground at my own door , when in a few minutes I was completely surrounded— -nothing to be heard but the roaring of waters on all sides of me , my friends and neighbours meanwhile jrunning found the sides of the hills seeking me , thinking they would never see me again until they found me iii Loehfineamong the fresh herrings . The canal is in the hands of Government , and it is hoped that they will not allow me and others to conae to such a sad loss . " — - Glasgow Herald . The Prince of "Wales at Rome . —Of course the visit of the heir to the throne of England to the city of Romulus will be a season of vast interest and excitement to the tuft-hunters—whose name is legion—and the quidnuncs , who are as innumerable as the sands of the sea-shore . The English colony at Rome have already , we hear , gone out to meet the Prince , en masse , in curricles , tandems , and onehorse chaises . The members of the English Club will be anxipus to secure the eldest son of Queen Victoria as an honorary member j and the subscribe ers to the Roman Hunt will be eager to enlist his Royal Highness for a scamper across country , and to show him that a fox . can be as malodorous arid as cunning in the campagna as in Leicestershire . There may be some wiseacres who look at the young Prince ' s sojourn at Rome as the first step towards a concordat between our Sovereign and the P _ ope , or the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Court of the Quirinal . Another section of the idle and impertinent may be intent on matchmaking , and build up straightway a phantom marriage between the Prince of Wales and the sister of Prince Albrecht of Prussia . Darker misgivings . may exist nearer home ; but we trust they are destitute " of" foundation . We do not think there is the slightest necessity for Claphatn to be up in arms , for the Protestant Asso * ciation and Mr . Paul Foskett to sound the warning '
trump , or for Exeter-hall to match the popguns of its platform against the " thunders of the Vatican . ' ^ Poor old i ' apal thunderbolts ! tlicy are very . flimsy and wiredrawn now—are useful as tropes to point a paragraph and adorn a diatribe—but nothing more . The Protestantism of the Prince of Wales vests on too sure and firm a basis to be shaken by iill the bulls in Bulldom , from " unigenitus " to " in carn / i Domini "—by a \ l the shovel-hats . of tiio I ' ropoganda or exempts of the-Holy Office , or by nil t , ho persuasive artillery brought to beat on the distinguished stranger by the General of the Jesuits . Tliat ProteBtantism has its firmest foundation in the
education and the precepts of an < admirable mother , and in the enthusiastic confidence of a free people , whose Protestantism , is the chiefest element of the liberty they onjoy- ^ -who have poured forth their blood and their treasure for ages in the maintenance ofl ' rote & tant principles- ^ -and who , nl \ traditionally loyal as they are , sternly bade the Itcir of a hundred Icings stand aside , and shook the genealogical tree of Europe to its very last bough to find a , descendant of the Stuarts who professed the tenets of Lugther , Of scarcely any political or theological importance , the visit of the Prince of Wales to Plo Nono ia , nevertheless , one of considerable social significance , - ^ Telegraph . of
Sib W . Armstrong . —At her Majesty ' s levee , the honour of knighthood was conferred upon Mr Armstrong , the inventor of the new rifle gun ,. who is further described as " Engineer to the War Department for Rifled Ordnance . " This appointment is a very significant fact . Indeed , the effect that will be produced upon . our armaments by the introduction of the rifled ordnance invented by Sir . W . Armstrong is the most important branch of any question respecting the National Defences : If these new inventions turn out to be as formidable in
practice as they are start-ling in description , it would seem as though all the old military and naval arrangements of the world must soon pass away like the airy dramatis personce of a morning ' s dream . What known fabric that floats upon the seas—aye , or what existing fortress raised by human handscould resist a storm of bolts and shells , each of 80 lb . or ' 90 ' 1 ' b . weight , and cast from a distance of from five to seven miles ? We congratulate her Majesty most loyally on her last new knight—Sir William Armstrong . — Times .
Singular Statement . —At the last ordinary meeting of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society , the Rev . W . Gaskell read the following extract from a letter , f * Admiral Cosby told me that at the time that we were in possession of Corsica , and When Sir Gilbert Elliott was Govenor-General of the island , General Paoli introduced Bonaparte , then a young man , to . the Governor and to the Admiral , as a friend of his who would be glad to be employed in the service of England ; but these men , not having Lavater ' s skill in physiognomy , rejected tlie proposal , which obliged Bonnpur . te to offer his services to the 'French , and this was the rise of Bonaparte ' s fortunes . " ;
Deaths . —On Wednesday was announced the decease of Mr . Abel Smith , the head of the banking firm of Smith , Payne , and Co . Mr . Smith' was in Parliament for up wards of thirty years , and sat for a greater part of that time for Hertfordshire . —Mr . W . Baker , tlie coroner for the eastern division of the county of Middlesex , died at his residence in the Regfent ' s-park on Tuesday . His duties , for a time , will be transferred to Mr . Wakley .
Election Items . —The Enniskillen election ended in favour of the Hon . Mr . Cole . Three other Candidates were far behind , one of them polling Only one vote . —For Greenwich , we hear that Mr . Montague Chambers will not stand , and at present the unopposed candidate is Mr . Angerstein . —At the East Worcestershire election , Mr . Calthorpe has been returned . The numbers polled were : Calihbrpe , 2 , 284 ; Piikington , 1 , 963 . —Mr . Edwin James was elected for Marylebone on Thursday , by a majority
of 3 * 202 , Dk . Bunting ' s New System op Horse-Breaking . —Dr . Bunting had the honour of appearing before her Majesty , the Prince Consort , and the Members of the Royal Family , by command , on Thursday the 17 th instant , for the purpose of displaying his hevr Horse-break , and his method of subduing horses . The exhibition took place at the Riding School , Buckingham Palace , under the superintendence of Mr . Meyer . One of the royal carriage-horses was first put into the break , and her Majesty and his Royal Highness expressed their entire satisfaction of the simplicity of the construction of the machine , as well as of its great utiljty . A horse belonging to
Mr .. R ; V . Boyle . — This gentleman , the civil engineer of the East India Railway , whose services in the defence of Arrah were as conspicuous and valuable as his share in the fighting and his skill in preparing the feeble little post were great , has been munificently rewarded by the Government . He has received a grant of land worth 1 , 000 / . ; per annum , free of taxes during his lifetime ; after his death to be charged with 500 / . per annum . The lands belonged to Koer Singh . A correspondent of the Times says , " In this case the Government seems to arid ther
have set an admirable precedent , e are surely many gentlemen to whom similar grants might be made , with advantage " to the State and to their own contentment . I do not mean to disparage the services of my old schoolfellow , but he would , doubtless , be glad to see others of the class of Englishmen in India to which he belongs rewarded , in proportion to their services , by the Government , on which they have not the claims possessed by the covenanted or uncovenanted servants of the old Company , or the soldiers and sailors who fought side by side with civilians in the common cause . "
French Artillery . — The rifled cannon , with which Louis Napoleon expects to : do so much , are thus described in a letter from Paris : —¦ " The new system of artillery which has been under examination for more than two years past is , I am assured , completed , and the last experiments have decided its adoption . The various calibres that before existed are , according to this plan-, reduced to two —L 2-pounders or siege guns , ancl : 4-pounders fieldguns . The pieces are . rifled ; the projectiles are hollow , and produce a double effect—that of solid shot and of shell . Their form is conical , and leaden aileUes give to the ball a precision never obtained before . In order to give an idea of the terrible
effects of these new pieces , it suffices to say that a 12 rpourider ( new model ) will , with one-half the number of shots of the old pieces of 24 , produce the same effect ; and the new pattern 12-pounder . produces at 70 metres the same result as the old 24 at 35 , and requires no more than one-sixth of the charge . The projectiles penetrate . into a block of stone of the hardest cement , to an extent of 80 centimetres , ^ and an enormous breach is mad e by the explosion . The advantages of the 4-pounder are still more remarkable , It requires but 500
grammes of powder to throw a ball a distance of one kilometrical league . The precision is such that at the distance of 3 , 100 metres it strikes a single million horseback , and at that distance would destroy a body of cavalry or infantry . All the pieces constructed on the new system are loaded at the muzzle , the loading at the breech being given up , as many experiments have shown it to be inconvenient , and even dangerous—so much so as to counterbalance the advantages . Scientific men affirm that these improvements have raised the art of destruction by artillery to all but perfection .
SoMETHiNGLiicE a Question . — -Happening to be in Court during the trial of the case Dickson v . Lord Wilton * Mr . Punch was much struck with the briefness , neatness , and precision of the questions which her Majesty ' s Attorney -General , Sir F . Kelly , put to the . witnesses . One of these questions was so beautifully epigrammatic , that Mr . Punch could not help taking a note of it , that , he might preserve it as a model for cross-examining counsel . The punctuation is exactly Sir Fitzroy ' s : —" Now Colonel Diekson will ypu be kind enough—I hope that you will indulge me so far \ ny Lord—I any now coming to more general matters-r-but X wish just to satisfy my 3 ejf on one or two points affecting these matters went into
Colonel M'ountjoy Martyn , 2 nd Life Guards , on which every previous effort to tame had proved unavailing , was then exhibited / when Dr . Bunting , without the use of straps , indiicod the animal to lie down , get up , follow him ,, curve , pivot , and stand on a sort of platform . This exhibition elicited the warm approval of the royal party , and the horse is now , we understand , rendered so perfectly tractable as to be ridden with the greatest ease . The doctor then operated upon one of the royal ponies belonging to her Majesty , without the assistance of the break , with which her Majesty and the Prince also expressed their great satisfaction . Many of the nobility and others interested ' in the management of horses have since witnessed the advantages to bo derived from the use of Dr . Bunting ' s invention , at Mr . East ' s stables , White Horse-street , Piccadilly , ot
of account—those I mean we yesterday— -Colonel Dickson now are you prepared to say from nil your lengthened experience both in the Line and in the Militia here arid elsewhere in the service of Her Majesty speaking as an officer you know to to give me an answer—X ami obliged to put this my Lord to give me an answer to one simple ques-r tion— -You have here two iteuna Colonel Wilton—I mean . Diokson—can you I say from your own knowledge now do lot me ask you looking * at the fact that after perusing these accounts I must take the the answer as you give it to me you know you yourself being most capable in many ycurs' service both in the Line nnd in the Militia since you paid the money as you told me yesterday—Can you say I say— ' ( Lord
and from the simplicity and inexpensive nature the machine , it will no doubt bo generally adopted . By its use , the breaking and bitting of colts ana other horses , which have hitherto been a work ot time , and attended with considerable expense , may bo performed in a few days , and at a trilling cost , with the certainty of tho moat vicious nniiunl being rendered perfectly and permanently tractable , witliouttho adoption of either violenco or punishment . Dr . Bunting , who has recently arrived from Montreal , will shortly take his departure to exhibit his invention to the crowned heads of Europe . MiNiBTjBuiAi-, —It is stated that Lord Derby has issued a circular to his Conservative supporters , inviting them to meet him on the first of noxt month , that is to say , on tho day after Mr . Disraeli has submitted his inform BUI .
C . " Roally Mr . Attorney" )—I really must say my Lord that my learned friends who had more time to devote to this particular head of inquiry than myself oanno . t And at least in those vouchers how to account for certain discrepancies—can you of our own knowledge and tell me us briefly as possible I will thank you not to waste time by many words—Now be good enough to give vio rt plain UMwer . " No wonder the trial was so short , and tho verdict so logical . «—Punph , Lone Cowi . my . —His Excellency arrived in Loridon from Parts this wuok . He haa been entrusted with a special mission to Vienna . wjth tho object of effecting a nacino arrangement botwoen France and Austria . ,
Ewsooi > AL .- ^ -On Thursday the ceremony consecrating Dr . HMIfa , late incumbent of Great , Yarmouth , to the bishopric of British Columbia , took Place in Westminster Abboy , in tho presence of a largo number of bishops , clergy , and former pftriahlonors of the now prelate
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 26, 1859, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26021859/page/9/
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