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    the late Robert Vaughan Richards , Esq . The ceremony was first performed at the Roman . Catholic Chapel in Spanish-place , Manchester-square , by the Reverend Pierre Mailley ; and subsequently at St . George ' s , Hanover-square , by the Reverend Temple Frere , canon of Westminster . At the Catholic ceremony the General was supported by the Infante Don Juan of Spain ( brother of the Conde Montemolin . ) Lord John Manners , M . P ., officiated as the bridegroom ' s " best friend " at St . George ' s Church . The bride , it is said , has a fortune of £ 25 , 000 a-year . —Globe .

    The Marquis de lalaru , of France , who has just died , has left a large fortune . Having no direct heirs , he has distributed his property in a very generous manner . Out of four millions which he possessed , he has bequeathed 2 , 000 , 000 f . to the Count de Chambord , and another large sum to the Prince de Robecq , Gaston de Montmorency , gaying in the will that the sum was intended to pay the debts which M . de Montmorency had contracted in doing good . The friends of Father Mathew in Mobile have presented him with a purse containing 270 dollars . In his reply to their address he says that " the gift was most timely , his pecuniary resources being exhausted , and the fear of weakening his influence in the cause of temperance deterring him from making an appeal to defray the expenditure of his mission . "

    M . Carlini , the celebrated astronomer and director of the Observatory at Milan , announces in a letter to the Milan Gazette , that he has succeeded in obtaining three observations of a new comet ( discovered by Mr . Petersen on the 1 st of May ) on the Xlth , 12 th , and 13 th . Application having been made to Marshal Haynau to permit Kossuth ' s children to join their parents in Asia Minor , the petition was granted , and Madame de Rutkay , their aunt , and their tutor , will accompany the young people on their weary pilgrimage . The Pesth correspondent of Lloyd relates that Haynau , having sent The

    for the children , addressed the younger in German . reply was in the Hungarian language . On seeing that the Commander-in-Chief did not understand him , the boy spoke French , remarking that every general must certainly understand that language . Kossuth ' s offspring could not be induced to utter a single word in German . A letter from Dessau announces the commission of a brutal act of profanation perpetrated upon the last remains of her late Royal Highness the Duchess of Anhalt Dessau . It appears that some miscreants broke into the family vault in the church of Tessnitz , burst open the coffin , and divested the mouldering body of its last vestments .

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    The Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress gave a public dinner to the Judges on Tuesday , on a still more splendid scale than usual . About 360 guests sat down to dinner . The ancient ceremony of churching the judges , which takes place twice a year , on the first Sunuay in Easter and Trinity Terms , was observed at St . Paul ' s Cathedral , on Sunday . At three o ' clock the City Marshal met the judges at Temple-bar , and escorted them to the cathedral , where they were met by the Lord Mayor and the Corporation . The judges present were Sir . Thomas Wilde Sir Frederick Pollock , Sir J . T . Coleridge , Sir C . Cresswell , Sir William Erie , Sir T . J . Platt , and Sir Edward Vaughan Williams . A large crowd was attracted to St . Paul ' s by the ceremony . to

    The freedom of the city of London was presented Lord Gough , at a Court of Common Council , on Thursday . In the evening a banquet was given to him at the Mansion-house . Nearly three hundred guests were present , all of whom were in full court dress . On Wednesday the annual meeting of the National Society for the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church , was held at the central school , Westminster . The chair was occupied on the occasion by the Archbishop of Canterbury ; and on the right and left of his grace were the Archbishop of York ; the Bishops of Exeter , Oxford , Worcester , Lichneld , Salisbury , St . Asaph , Chichester , Gloucester and Bristol ; the Earl of Harrowby , Lord Redesdale , Lord J . Manners , M . P Mr . Page Wood , M . P ., Mr . Hope , M . P ., and a vcrv numerous body of the clergy of the Church of

    England on the platform and in the room . Jfrromthe report read by the secretary , it appears that accommodation for 15 , 863 scholars was provided , and during the last twelve months , eighty teachers' residences built . The electors and inhabitants of the borough of lunshurv are not relaxing in their exertions to obtain a park . Lord Robert Grosvenor has been communicated with , and it is understood will preside over an aggregate meeting of the borough in favour of the proposed measure . The great operation of turning round the third tube of the Britannia Bridge took place on Thursday , and was performed most successfully . Mr . Robert Stephenson , Captain Claxton , and many engineers of eminence , were present . The raising of the tube is to take place on the 10 th of June .

    About £ 800 has already been collected in Liverpool in furtherance of the great Exhibition in 1851 . The Earl of Derby and Messrs . Brown , Shipley , and Co ., have each contributed £ 100 towards the local fund . The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol has given £ 000 to the three small livings of Horsley , Oxenhall , and Deerhurst , Gloucestershire , towards the erection ot parsonage houses . —Bath Chronicle . On Wednesday last a preparatory meeting of the mayors was held at Derby , when it was decided that the Lord Mayor , the Prince Albert , the Royal Commissioners , and her Maiestv ' s Ministers should be

    invited to a dinner provided by the Mayors of England , to behold at some future time at York . The Lord Mayor of York , and the Mayors of Leeds , Bradford , Manchester , and Hull were appointed a committee to make the necessary preparations . —Nottingham Guardian . The Record states that under the patronage of a body of gentlemen , who are called Miss SHlon ' s committee , large sums , amounting to about £ 14 , 000 , have been

    promised for the erection of a new institution at Devonport . The total sum proposed to be employed in the erection of a building for thirty sisters , and intended for the reception , also , of orphans , comprising school-room and an infirmary , is £ 18 , 000 . Mr . Thomas S . Duncombe has addressed a letter to his constituents in Finsbury , in which , after complaining of the steps taken by a portion of the electors , he states that improved and improving health enables him to resume his parliamentary duties , and * ' being assured , as I am , that the great majority of my constituents do not consider a passing illness contracted in their service sufficient grounds for a withdrawal of their confidence , I shall , when the present Parliament has passed away , give to those on whose behalf you address me an opportunity of recording their votes against me , as some of them have done before . "

    During last week the London and North-Western took 13 , 000 holiday excursionists between Liverpool and Manchester at reduced fares , and 1300 from Manchester to London . The pleasure traffic on the lines in and out of Birmingham was unprecedented , being nearly 100 , 000 persons . On Whit-Monday and Tuesday the Midland Railway took 50 , 000 persons over their lines . It is understood that the Treasury has awarded to each of the four barristers of the Palace Court the money they paid for the purchase of their appointments . Mr . Best , M . P ., paid £ 2000 for his appointment as one of the four , and was the last purchaser allowed . The attorneys and officers are waiting the result of their application for compensation . It is rumoured that the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey are about to be sold , and that it is probable they will fall into the hands of Roman Catholics , who , it is stated , intend erecting a very splendid cathedral there . —Bristol

    Journal . The statues of the Duke of Wellington and Lord Viscount Nelson were removed from the railway terminus on Saturday alongside the pedestals on Southsea beach , on which they were to be placed this week , though the inauguration will not take place before the 18 th of June . The Gallic cock , placed in a degrading position under the foot of the Duke , has been removed— " chipped off , "without detriment to the effect of the statue . The band of the Royal Horse Guards commenced playing in Kensington-gardens for the season yester day week , and will continue to play on Tuesday and Friday afternoons , from half-past four until half-past six throughout the summer months .

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    During the debate on the electoral law the French Assembly has been protected by several pieces of artiller }' , in addition to an immense military force . The signatures on the petitions against the Electoral Bill already amount to more than a million . The Government has conceived much uneasiness at the great number of general councils which have pronounced against the Electoral Bill . A circular to prefects is said to be preparing at the-Ministry of the Interior on this fiubisct The Prefect of the Cote" d'Or has suspended from the exercise of their functions the two Deputy Mayors of Semur , for having assisted at a meeting of the Municipal Council , at which a resolution was voted against the Electoral Law . b

    The director of the Voix du Peuple was sentenced y the Court of Assize of Paris , on Tuesday , to ten months ' imprisonment and a fine of 3000 f . for an attack on the President of the Republic . The director of the Rtformateur of Toulouse has been sentenced to imprisonment for one year , and to pay a fine of 2000 f . for publishing a seditious libel . The directors of the National and the Rdpubhque de la Seine et Marne have been sentenced by the Police Court in Paris to three months' imprisonment and 200 f . fine , for publishing a subscription list to defray the expenses of a conviction . The director of the JRipublique du Peuple , who was prosecuted for an article attacking the rights of property and the Constitution , has been acquitted by a jury at Strasbourg .

    The amazing increase in the sale of fhe Evtnement forms the most striking commentary on the reactionary proceedings of the Government . This journal , whose sale was lately limited to 14 . , has since sold 41 , 000 . The Napoleon ( the Sunday Emperor ) has ceased to aP Letters from Lyons of the 24 th of May mention that amongst other precautions for the tranquillity of the city , General Castellane had prohibited the sale ot firearms to any one not furnished with a certificate ot good conduct , signed by the mayor and sous-prGfct . Ihe armourers were also ordered to remove the locks from the guns in their establishments . A private soldier was sentenced to death by courtmartial in Paris on Tuesday for revolt aud disobedience to his superiors in the fort of Charenton . . ain st ts of

    The Boulevards , the quays , and m ree Pans are about to be macadamized . . The portion of the forest of Chatellerault belonging to the Duke des Cars was set on fire by incendiaries on the 20 th of May . Fortunately the fire was extinguished before any considerable damage was effected . Ihis is the third attempt of a similar kind made since the revolution of February . The following prayer is being distributed at Caen , in Normnndy : —* ' In this month , consecrated to thee , invine Mary ! we raise our voices towards thee . Lena an attentive oar to our ardent prayers ; we have no hope but in thee . Patron of France , canst thou be untouched by her misfortunes , —thou to whom she is consecrate u . u Mother ! interccdo for us with thy Son ; he can not reiuse thee . Beseech him to deliver us from these cruel monsters who spread anarchy everywhere ; that he may restore to us our King , —ihat he may restore us Henry . He only can establish a really durable peace ; he only

    can preserve us from the fatal abyss into which out ty * rants would precipitate us . Be thou propitious , and the victory is ours . We implore thee in the name of the offerings of King Louis XIII ., and with the utmost confidence in thy maternal bounties , we say to thee , O , Marie , notre Mfire ! De nos lys releve * la bannidre : Aux rois sur la terre Dieu remit son pouvoir ; Vivre et mourir pour eux est le premier devoir . ' The National says that it was . not M . de Maubreuil who , in 1815 , affixed a rope to the statue of Napoleon to pull it down from the top of the column in the Place Vendome . " The honour of that action belongs to M . Sosthenes de Larochefoucauld , the same who paraded through the streets of Paris with a cross of honour tied to his horse ' s tail , and who was followed by a beautiful duchess seated behind a Cossack . "

    In Portugal the opposition to the Ministerial law against the press appears to be increasing in strength A pamphlet against the new laws , dedicated to the House of Peers and submitted to their consideration , has been " received with especial thanks" by a majority of 27 against 13 . Petitions against the measure continue to be numerously signed . The deficit in the public revenue , amounts to upwards of 2000 contos of reis . Reports of a Carlist movement were becoming more current in Madrid . It was said that , at the period of the Queen ' s accouchem ent , a general rising would take place throughout the kingdom . The Danish question , it is said , will be settled in London , by the representatives of England , Russia , Sweden , and France . The integrity of the Danish Monarchy will be respected .

    M . Czarniewsky , a Servian by birth , who gave himself out as a late agent of Kossuth , has been arrested by the police of Zurich . Some assert that he was a secret agent of the French Government , while , according to another report , a very important correspondence with the Austrian and Russian Governments , as well as a list of fugit ives , were found upon him . —Hamburgh Courant , May 25 . It was rumoured some days since in Vienna that Lord Ponsonby has been recalled , for having positively refused to obey some instructions received from Lord Palmerston , " because he considered their fulfilment incompatible with his honour as a British nobleman and his dignity as the representative of her Majesty . " It is true that Lord Ponsonby is retiring .

    The statistics of the population of the Austrian empire are about to be published for the year 1848 . The population in that year is said to have decreased very materially . A comparison with the previous year Bhowa that the number of births are less by 180 , 000 . The Archbishop of Lemburg has prohibited his clergy from wearing long hair like the peasants , and from smoking in public " like demagogues and sons of Baal . " —North German Free Press . An interesting antiquarian discovery has just been made in Kremusch , near Toplitz , in Bohemia . Some

    twelve feel , below the surface of the earth a tomb with six bodies in it was found . It contained , besides , a gold chain about a yard and a half long , three gold earrings , two gold balls of the size of a walnut , a gold , medallion with a cameo representing a Roman Emperor , and an iron plate thickly silvered , on each side of which is engraved a reindeer with a hawk on its hind quarters . The workmanship of the different objects , which evidently belong to the ante-Christian era , is remarkable for its neatness . Lumps of gold have been found in Podolia , in "Russian " Poland .

    The Courricr de Constantinople , of the 9 th of May , announces the pacification of Bagdad . The insurrection in Samos is also put down . The King of Greece has pent the grand cross of the order of the Saviour to Prince Schwarzenburg , president of the Vienna Cabinet . The Lloyd says : —On the evening of the Greek festivals of Easter-eve , Halil Pasha demanded a list of all the Greeks in Smyrna who were imprisoned for debt , paid all their debts , and liberated them from prison , and gave each of them a sum of money , to be expended by them during the Easter holidays . On the following day the Greek bishop waited upon him and returned thanks . .

    The Stadtholder of Tiflis has offered a premium of 100 silver roubles for a machine of the xnost simple construction for cleansing cotton , which , from its cheapness , may be within the reach of the poorest classes . This rau .-chine was presented to the grand exhibition at St . Petersburg . Letters from Amsterdam state that a communication by pigeons and telegraph between that city and Paris has been established by a private company formed for the purpose in Holland . The laying down of the Great Anglo-Indian Railway is now proceeding in earnest . Mr . Stephenson , the engineer , has lately quitted Alexandria for Calcutta with a whole staff of assistants , to commence this stupendous undertaking , which will exercise incalculable influence on the future destiny of the Eastern world . — Letter from Alexandria .

    We are sorry to learn from our Stranraer correspondent that the Felix , Sir John Ross ' s vessel , went to sea from Lochryan in a sad state of disorder , from tho continued drunkenness of the crew during the whole of the time the vessel was in the Loch . The sailing-master had drunk himself into a state of iiiHanity , delirium tremens ; the mate was little better , perhaps worse , lor he was furious with drink ; and the whole of the crow were much in the same state , and positively refused to weigh the anchor or make sail on the vessel . This had to be done by the crew of the steamer , and some particB from Stranraer , who wished to accompany Sir John out of Lochryan . On reaching the anchorage of Cairnryan , five miles down the Luch , the men insisted upon anchoring , and force had to be used to prevent their doing so .

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    June 1 , 1850 . ] ©!) * 3 Lt&htt + 225

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  • Leader (1850-1860), June 1, 1850, page 225, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1841/page/7/