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_ Miscellaneous. __ _ The Coukt.—Tho Onl...
The Duke of Devonshire , the Duke of Wellington , and the Earl of Harrowfcy w 3 l have the vacant Garters . Ghekhlaitd Weule Fxshbkt . —The small town of Prterhead , oo the east coast of Scotland , this year sends twenty-eigfet vessels to the Greenland seal and -whale fishery , involving a capital of 200 , 000 / ., and employing 1600 men . The neighbouring town of Fraserburgh sends fonr ships to the same fishery , two of which are managed on temperance principles . The Botal British Bank . —The negotiation for the sale of the notorious Welsh mines , upon which the British Bank spent 84 , 000 ? ., has been concluded . The assignees have only been able to obtain 6000 * . for them . The Weather . — The winter now drawing to a close seems to have been a remarkably cold one in most
parts of tbe world . It will be seen in another column of this paper that the temperature has been most severe in sunny Constantinople ; and the captain of the Peninsula and Oriental Company's steamship Indus , jus * arrived from the East , reports that , on the outward voyage , there ¦ was very cold weather at Malta , where there had been a slight fall of snow , and that much snow was observed en the mountains of Africa . There-bad also been a fall of snow at Cairo , to the great astonishment of the inhabitants , who had never seen such a thing there before . ItLKGrnMAcy ts Scotlakd . —The Registrar-General ' s Social Statistics just published show the startling feet that , vhHe in Edinburgh and Glasgow the proportion of illegitimate children born in those cities is seven per cent , of the total births , it is thirteen per cent , in Jhindee , Perth , and Aberdeen . The per-centage ia only
five in London . . The Straits of Negropont . —The works undertaken by the Greek Government for the purpose of deepening the straits which separate the island of Eubcea ( Negroponty from Bceotia have progressed so far that vessels drawing about fourteen feet of water may pass through at any time . Mr . Hexht Bradbury . —The King of Sweden has presented a gold medal of merit to Mr . Henry Bradbury , in acknowledgment of his successful application of the art of nature printing .
The Late Sir Henry Bishop . — ' The children of the late Sir Henry Bishop , ' who were recently said to be in great distress , are , it appears from a letter from a brother of Lady Bishop , not the immediate offspring but the grandchildren of the composer . The father—who was a confidential clerk m the office of the present Lord Mayor—died recently at the age of forty-eight , leaving a widow and five young children unprovided for . The family of the musician by his second wife are comfortably supported by their mother out © f the funds liberally bestowed by the public , immediately after the death of Sir Henry . The Bbv . Db . Bull , Canon of Christ Charch , Oxford , died on Sunday morning , after a long illness , in the sixty-ninth } -ear of his age . Mr . Bates , of the felon firm of Strahan , Paul , and Bates , ha * been set at liberty in consideration of the circumstances which palliated his guilt .
A Royal Present from Prussia . — Mr . Vincent Williams , B . N ., commanding officer of the Amiralty yacht Banshee , has received a magnificent gold ring from Berlin , through the medium of the British Consul at Antwerp , in testimony of the courtesy which the Royal Princes of Prussia were anxious to acknowledge as having experienced on board the Banshee on the occasion of their late visit to England . The testimonial contains , on a small blue enamelled ground , three clusters of brilliants representing the rose , shamrock , and thistle , snrroiuided by a garland of small cut diamonds Of the purest water . Mr . Stephbns's Bankruptcy . —The creditors of this gentleman have not succeeded in apprehending him upon the warrant of the Sheriff Substitute of Midlothian . In his absence liis agent , Mr . J . F . Wilkie , was on Tuesday examined before the Sheriff at Edinburgh on various matters connected with the bankrupt estate . The proceedings , however , wore conducted in private .
Thb Siege of Luoknow , —Captain R . P . Anderson , 25 th Bengal Native Infantry , who commanded one of the outposts during the whole of the Bicge of Lucknow , has safely arrived in London . His interesting narrativo of the Mege is now in Messrs . Thacker and Co . 's hands for publication , and is expected to be ready in time for the next mail steamer for India . — -Three of the surviving defenders of Lucknow have reached England—Mr . O . W . Campbell , of the 71 st Regiment , Dr . M'Farlane , of the Artillery , and Mr . L . E . Bees . The latter gentleman , formerly attached to one of the colleges in India , is a Calcutta merchant , who unexpectedly found himself involved in the meshes of the siege , and having lieen by force of circumstances obliged to take a part in the defence , ho recorded from time to time tho interesting ~^ ovcnt 8-in-AVhi < Jh-rT-he-Ttook ^ pm ? t ^ and-those-whioh—passed before him . Wo understand that Mr . Iteos ' s journal will bo Immediately published .
Lewis Swkyd , M . A ,, P . G . S ., Warden of AH Souls ' , Oxford , died on Sunday night In his seventieth year . Hp had hold the wardenship more than thirty years . Impolitic * lie was a Liberal Conservative ) , and n supporter of Sir Robert Peel and Mr . Gladatouo . A FuaiTxvn Slave in Livukfool . —A black man ia At pfOHCnt In Liverpool , who arrived from Now Orleans , stowed away In the hold of a cotton ship . Ho hus buoit
examined at the poli < M * omVe , and has given a fpiteous narrative of his ili-nsage in America , of his attemptsto escape , of his being hunted and torn by Woodhonnds and shot hi the hip by a savage overseer , of his ultimate flfeht , and of the perils he lad to encounter on his -way to the sea-shore . He was taken on board the American cotton ship Metropolis by the coloured seamen , and was hidden away among the bales ; but one of the coloured men betrayed him , and he was searched for , but not found . The man exhibited at the police-office the marks the dogs had left upon his legs ; and there appears to be no doubt of the truth of his narrative .
Remarkable Escape . —A London detective pohceoffieer was a few days ago conveying a ticfcet-of-leave man from Lockerbie , in Scotland , to the metropolis , by rail . The prisoner requested to be allowed to sit near the window of the carriage . He was allowed to do so ; but the ofiicer , while talking with another passenger , heard a noise . Looking round , be saw the ticket-ofleave man in the act of jumping ont of window , though the train was progressing with great velocity . The train did not stop until it reached Carlisle , and no tram the fol
started for Lockerbie until next morning ; On - lowing day , the detective ,- with various railway and , police officials , returned along the line ; but nothing waa seen of the man . The marks of his leap , however , were plainly visible ; two or three stones were spattered with blood , and on one a quantity of hair was observable . The man must have made a flying leap of seven feet from the carriage before he touched the ground , and must then have rolled down a declivity of some eighteen or twenty feet into a ditch . He has since been recaptured in Edinburgh . ¦ named John
Superstition and MAtarEss .- ^ A man . Hodgson was charged at the Halifax , police-court on Tuesday with having practised as a conjuror . Two young women , Elizabeth Bonny and Ellen Ambler ( the latter a teacher in a Sunday-school ) , went to Hodgson ' s house paid him money , and were told their fortunes . Ambler was informed that her cards were very bad , and that she would be unfortunate in love unless she read the first chapter of Ruth on getting home , and wished three times . On going back with her companion , Ambler said she felt alarmed , and was afraid of reading the first chapter of Ruth lest the devil should take her . After she got worse , and at length went raving mad . Hodgson was apprehended , and was found to be wearing a belt inscribed with cabalistieal emblems . He was sentenced to imprisonment , with hard labour , for three months .
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Sobtaript-1 —?—Leader Office, Saturday, ...
SoBtaript-1 —?—Leader Office , Saturday , February 27 . LAST NIGHT'S PARL 1 AMEOT . HOUSE OP LORDS . THB OAGLIAItl-Lord Lyhdhurst presented a petition on behalf of the two persons arrested on board the Cagliari steamer . . It complained of the ill-treatment to which they had been subjected , and by which the health of both had been very greatly impaired . THB CASE ! OF AZZOVXRDl . Lord Lyndhcrst said he -wished to explain a statement he had made respecting Azzopardi , who , on Monday last , he had stated was hanged . He had since received a letter which stated that the sentence of death hod been commuted to transportation , and that he had been sent to Norfolk Island in 1843 . LAW OP LIBKL BILL , Lord Campbell announced thnt , " in consequence of certain circumstances , " he thought it would be better that the second reading of this bill ( fixed for next Monday ) should be postponed until a future day . —It was postponed accordingly . THUS ifBW MINISTRY . The Marq-nifl of Salisbury Baid his noble friend at tho head of the Government ( Lord Derby ) had tliought It would bo more respectful to tlie House if he abstained from making tho usual ministerial statement until next Monday , and he accordingly moved the adjournment of the House until that day . —Tho motion was agre « d to , and their Lordships adjourned . HOUSE OF COMMONS . The ' appearance of tho Lower House yesterday evening ( as well as of the Upper House ) wna of courso greatly changed from what tho public have boon accustomed to for Borne years paet , Tlie Government supporters and the Oppositionists had changed sides , None of the niombera-of- "the-oId-or-now-Mii ) latr > -wcrof-prouent ^ iit . fliiat ^ but Lord Palmerston afterwards arrived , and sat liimaolf down in tho cold shadow of tlie non-official side ) ol the House . Tho lato Attorney-General want , as if by instinct , to his old place , but , soon discovering his mistake , crossed over , amidst much la ugh tor . NEW "WRITS * On tho motion of Sir W . Joi . ijuwk , tho'following now writa woro ordered ;—For BiicMngharnahiro , in tho room of Mr . Disraeli , who has acooptud thuofllce of Chancellor of tho Exchequer ; for Klnue Lynn , lit tho room of Lord
Stanley ; University Cambridge , room of Mr . Warpole—who have been appointed Secretaries of State ; fbr Droitwicb , in tEe room of Sir John Pakington , who has accepted the office of First Lord of the Admiralty ; for Huntingdon , in the room of General Peel , appointed Secretary , for War ; for the county of Oxford , in the room of Mr . Henley , appointed President of the Board of Trade ; for the North Division of the county of Wilts , in the room of Mr . Sotheron Estcourt , appointed President of the Poor Law Board ; for the Northern Division of Stafford , in the room of Mr . Adderley , appointed Vice-President of the Committee of Education ; for Stamford , in the room of Sir Frederick Thesiger , appointed Lord Chancellor ; for the Eastern Division of Suffolk , in the room of Sir Fitzrby Kelly , appointed
Attorney-General ; for Belfast , in the room of Mr . Cairns , appointed SoTicitor-Creneral ; for the northern division of Leic ester , in the room of Lord John Manners , appointed First Commissioner of Works ; for the southern division of Salop , in the room of Viscount Newport , appointed "Vice-Chamberlain of her Majesty ' s Household ; for the County of Dublin , in the room of Captain T . E . Taylor , appointed one of the Lords of the Treasury ; for Bridgenorth , in the room of Sir . Whrtmore , appointed one of the Lords of the Treasury ; for Cockermouth , in the room of Lord Naas , appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland ; for the County of Tyrone , in the room of Lord Claude Hamilton , appointed Treasurer of her Majesty ' s Household ; in the room of Colonel Forester , appointed Comptroller of her Majesty ' s Household .
ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE . Sir W . Jolliffe , on bebalf of the new Ministers , said it was the desire of Lord Derby that the House should meet again on Monday for the despatch of business , and that he ( Sir W . Jolliffe ) should then ask t & e Honse to adjourn to the following Friday week , the 12 th of March . —Sir Richard Bet-hell took the opportunity to defend the opinions he had already expressed relative tothe Alien Laws . —Mr . W arrest dissented from tins view , and Mr : WmTEsroE coincided with the opinion of Lord Campbell .
NOTICKS OF MOTIONS Mr . Monckton Milnes gave notice that he should ,. on that day fortnight , bring under the notice of the House the present passport regulations . Mr . Spooler gave notice of his annual Maynooth motion , to come on shortly after Easter . EAST INDIA LOAN BILL . After a short conversation , the further consideration . of this bill was postponed , on the opposition of the hon . member for Devonport ( Sir Erskinb Perry ) on the ground that the House had had no time to discuss the principle of the bill . It was adjourned till Monday , tcascertain the views of the present Government . The House adjourned at six o ' clock .
Havelock And Hayter. Mr. Hayter Is Made ...
HAVELOCK AND HAYTER . Mr . Hayter is made a Baronet by Lord Pahnerston . This is an act of gratitude , says the organ of the late Ministry . The same honour i 3 accorded to Havelock and to Hayter , remarks the Morninp Star . If the one be an act of Ministerial gratitude , the other was an act of tardy concession to public gratitude . Such , an acknowledgment from the minister of corruption to the doer of the dirty work is handsome , and well deserved , no doubt ; but where is the monumental tribute to the remains of poor Coppock ? Quoth Palmerston— "If you seek his monument , look around at the Liberal benches . "
Trial Of Orsini And His Colleagues, Thb ...
TRIAL OF ORSINI AND HIS COLLEAGUES , Thb trial of Orsini and Ilia colleagues commenced oa Thursday morning , before tbo Court of Ansizes of the Seine , M . Delangle presiding . The court waa crowded to excess , and the anxiety to obtain admission waa extreme . The early part of the day waa taken up with the reudingof the indictment , which toof great length . Gomez denied any participation in tlie act . Ho only knew of it at tho last moment . Rudio confessed everything . He threw one bomb . Ho incriminated th « rest of the prisoners . Oraini
confirmed hia former account , and accepted the full responsibility of the part lie had taken in the affair . He confessed he wanted to kill the Emperor , and be waa ready to die . He never confided hia intention to Mr . Allaop . M . Bernard brought the bomba to Brussels ,, but did not know for what purpose they were intended . He would not Bay anything as to the other prisoners . Picrri denied « U participation in the conspiracy until th « day the attempt w « a inadw , and then repented . Mr . Taylor ,-of ~ Birmirigh » m , _ 4 id « not _ JUWwer _ t ^ Everything passed off calmly .
Thb R«V, Gbouob E. L. Cotton, Master Of ...
Thb R « v , Gbouob E . L . Cotton , Master of Murlborough College , haa boon appointed to the Btahopriu of Calcutta , vacant by tho death of the late Dr . Wilson . Fatal Coi , liicry Ejkjwhsion . —An explosion took place on Thnradny In Powell ' ** Colliery at Mountain A » hr near Merthyr . Nineteen portions have perished . Madkliunh South , tho young lady accused ot P ^" soiling L'Aiiffollur , haa arrived at Ballarat .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 27, 1858, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27021858/page/10/
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