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, . . ... — . ¦ w ¦ . ¦ . ¦ Her Majesty is now not expected to return to Buckingham Palace until Tuesday . At the latter end of May her Majesty will pay a visit to Qsborne . A R-esentation Drawing-room will be held shortly after the return of the Court to town / at which the Princess Alice is expected to be present . This Drawing-room will be followed by the birthday celebration . The illness under which the Bishop of Rochester lias been suffering for the last few days has been so severe as to incapacitate his lordship from the dis ^ charge of his episcopal . functions .
Count de Moray inet with an accident while driving ' a tilbury , with a friend , on the Quai des Tuileries . . The horse ran away , and the count and his companion were hurt , but not seriously . The vestry have determined upon the removal of the police station , on Islington-green , and the erection of a public drinking fountain in its place . Alderman Hale has offered , at his own expense , to erect a drinking fountain in the locality of Unionstreet , Southwark . The Scotch , wlio are getting up at Aberdeen a great exhibition of Scottish historical memorials , are about to ask the Dean and Chapter of Westminster for the loan of the stone from Scone , on which their kings were crowned , long and still a part of the coronation chair of the kings and queens of England .- ' ¦ ' ¦¦ . ' ¦ ¦' ¦ : ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ '_ . • ¦ .
The first three volumes of a new " Life of Peter the Great , " by Ustrailov , the Russian historian , have just appeared at St . Petersburg * and have produced a greater sensation than any other historical work in Russia since the masterpiece of Karamzin . An impression has been created that the sum of ¦ money which was offered , conditionally , for the endowment of a library in connection with the literary Fund , was the property of Miss Burdett Coutts . We ( Literary Gazette ') ^ areytow authoritatively informed that such is not the case . At Ross , in Herefordshire , a lady named Collins was gored so seriously by a stag in her husband ' s grounds , that she died of the injuries . She was a descendant of Kyrle , "the man of Ross , " and inherited his estates .
Mr . Sinclair , from Scotland , has been lecturing with great success in Montreal and Toronto . He forms what are called Bands of Hope among the children , pledging their immature intelligence to a particular course in life . Meetings are held on the Sabbath , and the religious element introduced . L . ord Saltpun , the Earl of Morton , and the Earl , of Haddington are to be candidates for the vacancies In the 1 . 6 representative peers of Scotland , caused by the elevation of the Earl of Seafield and JLord Elphinstone tp the British Peerage , and the resignation of X . ord Sinclair . ; In the Legislative Assembly of New York , a niember named Rutherford applied ouch terms as «' . thieving dogs" to his colleagues , and told them in open session "to go to hell . " He was given into custody of the serjeant-at-arms .
The Liverpool Albion states that a lady who was staying at an hotel in that town a short time back , went with her footmftn and her nurse to the workhouse and purchased a baby from its mother for 5 / . The Louisville Journal said of Piccolomini , that as a true lover of the grape never dilutes his wine , she never mixes anything' with tup pure purple poetry of the drinking song . " The Boston Post evidently does not understand the remark , he says " Perhaps not , but wo pan swear to her making quick work of a very Jarge pot of porter , just after the aong . " In Easter week , says the Bulletin-, some operatic performances by Turks , will take place nt tfic Imperial Theatre at Dolma Baktche . " Attila" is the opera selected , after which there will bo some of * Trovatore . " There is nlso to be a pantomime after the English fashion , with clown , harlequin , and . columbine—the last pJaycfl by a man . The bishop of Exeter has contributed 1002 . towards the fund about to be raised by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign , Parts for promoting missionary operations in Japan , and lias promised td contribute an annual sum of so guineas for the support of a China missionary student at St . Augustine ' s College , Canterbury . The open winter and hitherto mild spring have / been particularly favourable to grouse and blacksamo * n the Highlands . The birds are unusually strong and healthy . __ . ¦ ,. There is a vacancy among the Military Knights of Windsor , through the death of Lieutenant-Colonel John Clarke , late of the 60 th Regiment , an officer of high merit
. A ' joint-stock company is in the- course of nSSlncua ! PUrP ° ° ^^ *™ W « At Milan the Italian ladies send a little tov tn every able-bodied young man still to be seen in t £ streets . Upon this is inscribed the word-s " Ymi country will remember the- services you have rpn aered . it . " The hint is broad enough , it SZtX confessed , to be appreciated by the dullest capacity We see from the Lucknow Herald that Lucknow can already boast of a public library and reading room , and is ahead of even Calcutta in having I coffee club , where " the newspapers of the day are received , and tea and Coffee supplied . "
The Coiirricrde Marseille mentions , as a further proof of Austria being greatly in want of funds that the Emperor Francis Joseph has caused the crown jewels to be deposited with the heirs of the wellknown banker , Baron Sina , as a guarantee for a loan of 32 millions of florins . Mr . Ferdinand Glover , the baritone , died on Saturday , at Hull , where he had been performing in connexion with the other members of the Pvneiuid Harrison English Opera 'Company . At Pavia the police have been looking on all sides for General Garibaldi , who is said ° to have taken a little excursion in that direction , disguised as a priest or a Capuchin .
According to the Bombay Gazette , the Supreme Court is held in the worst locality in the city ; " a horrible sewer" in front of it poisons bench and audience alike , and a " volcanic din " is kept up by a dockyard factory adjoining . Letters from Home state that the Austrians have increased their garrisons in the legations , but that the works ' which , had been -ordered on the fortifications of Ancona had been countermanded . Kan Jellachieh , the Viceroy of Croatia , and chief pillar of the Empire -during ' the trouble ' s-of 1848 , is seriously ill .
A requisition has been numerously signed , asking the Mayor of Leeds to convene a public meeting , to consider the propriety of addressing the Queen in favour of non-intervention by England in the impending continental war . A Lyons journal states that the Princess . ¦ of Montenegro has received from the Empress of the French a magnificent cradle , surmounted by a golden crown , for the princess to whom she has just given birth , and of whom her Majesty is godmother . The Congregation of the Index at Home has , by a decree of the ' llth , prohibited M . Michlcl ' s work , entitled " jL ' amour . "
SixtQ . cn men , part of the crew of the American ship John Bright have been sent to prison for refusing to proceed to sea after the ship had cleared the docks at Liverpool , Pukljc . Hkalth . —There was an increase of 42 in the number of deaths in the metropolis last week ; but as the total number , 1 , 126 ,. was 40 less than the corrected average , the public health may be considered in a favourable condition . Diptheria ana scarlatina , we regret to say , arc again on the increase ; 79 fell victims to those diseases last wook , being 28 more than in the previous week . -Hie births during the week were 1 , 099 . Found . —Always . An inmien . se flock of S ^ Jf believe in preposterous advertisements . A great deal of money belonging to nobody , on its way io
borouglis and counties to do nothing . An <»«»«"" example , set by the treasurer of St . Bnrthp lomevva Hospftal , who fins mercifully employed him self in turning the gravelled airing ground , whift toms the hospital quadrangle , into a garden for oW fit of convalescent patients . A little es timateioi expenses for improving London , issued by tho Metro politnn Board of Works , and »» y ountI £ f } ° M On of ( say ) Twenty Millions , sterling . K «» V »? SInt of all housekeeper * , who may find tho present taxes too light for them , is purticii arly dirccteO to this gratifying document . A conaiaorablo yuanUg of reudy-mado political sympathy f ° ^ « XtX bassos , scattered nrlnoipolly about the large electoral t
The Scotsman states : —We ran an express from Dunfermline last night , to bring us Mr . Aytoun ' s speech ( at Stirling ) , we have got , instead , a speech by Mr . Caird ^ consistingchiefly of unpleasant remarks upon ourselves . " ; A meeting ¦ of ' tyomen was held in . the Welsh Chapel , Aldersgate street , last week , in favour of the Maine Law . Mrs . Fletcher of Brompton , presided ; other *' ladies" made long speeches , and proposed resolutions , to which we believe nob more than two spoke at once . A petition to the Home Secretary and thanks to the chairwoman closed the proceedings . ¦ ¦;• ..- . ' .
The present of the Ceylon colonists to the Princess Frederick William of Prussia is at last to be forwarded . It is a silver box richly worked , mounted on an ebony pedestal , the whole surmounted by a gold elephant and howdah set with gems , among which a large cat-eye is conspicuous , and a pair of bracelets set with the choicest pearls obtainable . At night on the 18 th of April a slight shock of earthquake was felt at Malta , and two more equally slight at about 1 p . m . on the 19 th . Qn the 12 th irist . the people of Galatz made a ferocious attack on the Jewish inhabitants of the city , whom they accused of having taken blood from a Christian boy , in order to make use of it in their Easter ceremonies . The synagogue was destroyed , and about 200 Jews more or less injured .
At the end of the 'fourth week in March , the number of paupers in England shows a diminution of 96 , 448 . A journal has just , been started at Alexandria , entitled La Presse Egyptienne . It is to be published every Monday and Thursday at the Maison du Prince . Ahmet Pacha . On Tuesday the ceremony of opening the tteSv park at Camberwell .. ( well known as Camberwfellgreen ) took place in the presence of a vast assemblage of persons . The Hon . Win . J . P . Gore , died on Saturdaylast , he was second son of the late Colonel the Hon . William John Gore , and brother of the Earl of Arran , and held the appointment of barrack master at Gosport .
The premises recently erected in Stationers - hall-court are to be occupied by Messrs . Simpkin , Marshall , and Co ., shortly after Midsummer . Prince George of Saxony , who is to many the sister of the King of Portugal , is expected shortly in Brussels , where he will meet the reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg Gptha oh his return from London . Galignani states that the Pontifical Government has Just purchased the museum of antiquities and sculpture of the Marquis Gampana for 5 , Q 00 , 0 Q 0 f . Upwards of 40 , 000 persons visited on Sunday the Exhibition of the Works of Living Artists at Paris .
Since the abolition of the usury laws , the Madras Courts have been compelled to issue decrees on bonds at 255 per cent . The law in that Presidency is considered unwise . No decree for interest should cover a sum greater than the principal . Four of the persons concerned in the plot against Prince Couza are Poles , two are Hungarians , and one is a German . The conspirators , who were seized in the Polish hotel at Bucharest-, were in possession of revolvers , rifles , and the necessary materials for making Orsini bombs . The fugitiyc slave arrested nt Philadelphia lms been discharged . It was proved that ; he was in Pennsylvania [ eighteen months before the time he is said to have' run away , and that he was three inches shorter than the measure of the runaway .
A convict effected his escape from the Dartmoor prisons a few days ago , but was hotly pursued over the moor by tho authorities . Tho fugitive whs ultimately captured at Buckfastleigli , a distance ot fourteen miles from the prison . « , The only general geological change which has taken place in Scotland since it has boon inhabited by man is an elevation of tho whole country to a height of from fifteen to thirty feet abovo its previous level . Traces of this upheaval occur all round Scotland and its islands . It is reported that tho English Government have refused the Submarine Tolograph Company permission to land their new cable on British shore , except upon condition that tho company shall give up their exclusive concession .
dlatrto 8 . Tu bo sold , in the course of e njj - weeks , for tho benefit of the original »»»»" ^ 3 Apply at tho hustings . In a few slioota oi tovnxona country newspapers , supposed to have boon aropgg by a gang of cofners , a mass of base > ti itto , ticow _ "literary Intelligence , " am 1 several flash notes , dorsod from our London Correspondon fjj have been forwarded to tho nearest du 8 t-c ^ nt « ioi ° n but dealers in small talk are ^"" jjn ^ ffSSi ' thi wary ncpoptanco of any moro of thw b so . coin may still be current . It is cluoflv to the eflocc tho eminent John Jones ' s P' ^ 'fJ ^^ Wta tour . two . six . and twonenco half-penny . ^ 'i ' f ,
Wo have authority to announce that her Majesty will give a concert at Buckingham Palace , on . Friday , tho * 8 th of May next . " It is not true , " eays tho SMolo , " that the Emperor Francis Joseph sent the summons to Piedmont without consulting his ministers ¦ , inasmuch as tho ultimatum boro tho countoraJguuturo of M . Buol . "
Smith has . uiked Thompson to toll wyg g ^ Johnson thinks Wilkinson has F ™ JSo yJftSWilaon « thousand pounds a in nutoiorfi > o j owp Dichcna ' H AH tho Year Hound . '
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Leader (1850-1860), April 30, 1859, page 24, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_30041859/page/24/
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