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Bill stood erect , with a look of exultation depicted upon his countenance . Indeed , while being doubly ironed , he repeatedly stated that he had but one anxiety , and that was the fear that the work was but half done—that it would not prove fatal—during which he evinced as much coolness as though nothing of any particular moment had occurred . Mr . Davis is in a very critical situation , though the attending physicians say the wound will not prove fatal . — American paper . A fearful conflagration took place at San Francisco on the 4 th of May , and destroyed one-fourth of the entire city damage £ 1 , 000 , 000 . The lists of hotels , stores , and residences burnt occupy more than a column in the Pacific News . T he fire is supposed to have been the work of some miscreant incendiary , and a reward of 5000 dollars is offered for his apprehension .
The returns of deaths at Rio , from yellow fever , give 14 , 000 inhabitants , 120 English residents , 150 English seamen , including 8 masters and 18 mates ; a great number of foreign seamen , not computed . The advices from Guadaloupe by the last American mail report that the insurrection among the negroes had been completely quelled by the Government , several of the principal ringleaders having been shot . Among the notabilities of Pugwarra , twenty-four miles north of Loodianah , where the roads to JaHunder and Ilosheyarpore separate , is a Brahmin devotee doing penance . He stands upon one leg all day , repeating muntras to himself , never speaking to any one , and the greater part of the night also , existence being supported by two chittacks of milk only , daily ; and this has been going on for seven years . —Bombay Telegraph .
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The public dinner given by the citizens of Dublin to the Lord Mayor took place on Tuesday , in the round room of the Rotunda , and exhibited a very unequivocal demonstration of popular satisfaction at the success which Mr . Reynolds has had over the persecutions carried on with such animosity against him by the Conservative clique in the corporation . Conciliation Hall is in extremis . The rent on Monday was only £ 5 6 s . The Orangemen of Dublin have fallen into sad obscurity , for it appears for the first time to be just heard of , that on the 1 st of July , the " Boyne day , " they had a dinner-gathering at the Rotunda , and drank the " glorious , pious (?) , and immortal memory . "
The widow of a once very influential magistrate of the county of Mayo was on Monday last appointed assistantmatron of the Clanmorris workhouse , at a salary of £ 15 a-year . Derrynane Abbey , so long the home of the O ' Connells and palace of the Liberator , whose name has conferred upon it a share of his own immortality , is announced for sale—an act which , it seems , is prompted by some half dozen creditors . The Netory Examiner gives an account of a party conflict in that town , in which one man has been so dreadfully mutilated that his life is despaired of . The same journal states that three of the Orange party have been arrested , charged with being implicated in this affray .
It is stated that the Attorney-General will go down specially to the ensuing assizes of Armagh for the purpose of prosecuting , on the part of the Crown , the men implicated in the assassination of Mr . Mauleverer . As the mail train of the Great Southern and Western Railway from Cork was on its passage to Mallow , on Sunday , some scoundrel standing on one of the bridges let fall an immense stone upon the roof , which dashed through the guard box , but fortunately the guard was not in his place at the time , else he must have been killed . The engine-driver proceeded on without taking the slightest notice of what had happened , or making the least effort to have the offender secured .
Some serious rioting took place , last week , at Newry , between the military and the civilians . It originated , as is usual in such cases , in a public-house broil , and several of the civilians have been severely wounded by blows from the soldiers' belts . A man in a respectable station of life , named Patrick Costelloe , in the county of Kilkenny , has been apprehended on a charge of having caused his wife ' s death by violence . The body had been interred , but by authority of the coroner was exhumed , and , on examination by a medical man , there was no doubt that violence caused the woman ' s death . " Jacob Omnium , " of the Times , Mr . Ouscley Higgins , has left London for Mayo as a candidate on the Liberal interest for the seat vacant by the death of Mr . R . D . Browne .
Although it is fully expected that the 12 th of July will be suffered to pass over this year without any of the usual armed processions of the Orangemen in the North of Ireland , still Government has deemed it necessary to take some precautions against any breach of the peace on the occusion . Some militnry reinforcements , although very trilling ones , have accordingly been sent down to Ulster , and sin additional police force has been concentrated in some localities . The triennial exhibition of manufactures , now in progress at the Royal Dublin Society , is remarkable for the great variety of specimens in all departments of manufacturing industry ami enterprise , including products
from various parts of England , us well as from Dublin , Belfast ., and ninny other places in Ireland . It has been determined to establish a Presbyterian college in Derry , in connection with the General As-Hcmhly of Ulster , for which a lady , named Magec , has bequeathed £ 20 , 000 . The Londonderry Journal states that the Irish Society of London arc to grant ten or twelve tir . res of land for the Rite of the college . A correspondent of the Freeman says it is arranged that a gold medal is to be presented on the 12 th to a gentleman who took a leading part in the horrible transaction of Jlolly's Brne , to reward him for his services on that occasion , and that this commemoration is to take place in a church .
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The Parliamentary Voters ( Ireland ) Bill and the Metropolitan Interments Bill were both read a third time and passed , in the House of Lords , last evening . In the House of Commons , last evening , Lord John Russell moved : — " That the House resolve itself into a committee on the subject of an address to the Crown , praying that her Majesty will be graciously pleased to direct that a monument shall be erected in the Collegiate Church of St . Peter , Westminster , to the memory of the late Sir Robert Peel , with an inscription expressive of the public sense of the great and irreparable loss which the nation has sustained in the death of that late right hon . gentlemanand to assure her Majesty that this House will
, make good the expenses attending the same . He did not intend to dwell upon the political services or public character of Sir Robert Peel . He took for granted that the House would be anxious to testify its sorrow for the loss the country had sustained , and the only question now was in what way that testimony should be made . He could not think in the present instance of proposing that ^ the course should be adopted which , was followed in the cases of Mr . Percival and Mr . Canning , when the House agreed to make a provision for the families of those public men who had . rendered great services to the country , and added to its
lustre" There remains , therefore , only one proposal , which I mean to make , for a public monument , by which we should endeavour to show our sense of the loss which we have sustained . Perhaps , I may in this place add that her Majesty , having been anxious to show the sense that the crown entertained of the services which have been rendered by Sir R . Peel to the crown and the country , desired me to inform Lady Peel that her Majesty was anxious to bestow the same rank on her as was bestowed on the widow of Mr . Canning . ( Cheers . ) I received the answer of Lady Peel , which f immediately forwarded to her Majesty ; and that answer was , that she wished to bear no other name than that by which Sir Robert Peel was known . Lady Peel
adds that there is a special direction which has been left for his family by the late Sir Robert Peel , that he desires that no one of his family will accept any title or public reward on account of any services which he may be supposed to have rendered . This is , 1 think , a stronger reason why this House should desire that some testimonial should remain by which this House may show that it had not let an event so sudden , a calamity so great , pass by without their notice . ( Hear , hear ) . I have stated that I do not mean to enter into any question of the public services of Sir R . Peel , still less would I enter at this time into any notice of the measures of which he was the mover or the advocate . ( Hear , hear . ) Sir , I
think it far better that I should refer to an example which has been lately given by the commission which has been directed by her Majesty to consider the mode in which the arts may be made to contribute to the ornament of the Houses of Parliament with respect to the statues that arc to be placed there . A committee of that commission , composed of persons of different opinions , have considered that the two men who ought to have statues erected to their memory in the new House of Commons , should be John Hampden and Lord Falkland . I imagine that what these gentlemen felt was , that they were both men who by their splendid talents and manly virtues adorned the age in which they lived , and that however different were their lives they showed that what they had most at heart was the welfare of their countrywait till has
{ Hear ) . Let us not now a long period elapsed before we take occasion to do honour to a departed statesman , let us do at once what was not done till two centuries after thetimeof Hampden and Lord Falkland had elapsed—{ Hear ) . What I propose to you is to follow the precedent adopted on the occasion of the death of the Earl of Chatham . When the Earl of Chatham diedColonel Barre moved that a public funeral should take place in his honour , and a gentleman who was then in office , and belonged to an administration whictf was opposed to the Earl of Chatham , said that it would be far better to have a monument to his memory . That suggestion was immediately adopted and assented to by the House , and Lord North , the then prime minister , on coming into the House before the debate closed , gave his cordial concurrence to it . "
The House then went into committee , and the address was put and unanimously agreed to . Mr Hume moved an address to her Majesty to appoint a Royal Commission m enquire into the causes which led , since the year 1841 , to the employment of the naval and military forces of her Majesty and the Honourable East India Company on the northwestern coast of the Island of Bonco , and which resulted in a heavy loss of lift ; on the part of certain native tribes of that island , called fcsarebas and Sa « kairan , reputed to be pirates . Ho wont into a long
examination of the destruction of alleged pirates by-Sir James Brooke , argued that such destruction was wanton and cruel , and asserted that the whole affair was ?' murder on a large scale . " Mr . Cojiden seconded the motion . Mr . Plowdkn complained of the incessant and persevering attempts to vilify a giillnnt and good num . Mr . H . Djiummond , stigmatizing the accusations against Sir James Brooke as slanders placed in the mouth of the Manchester school by a man who was disappointed in his endeavours to entangle Sir James in a trading partnership , read copious extracts from correspondence between Sir James and that
individual ( Mr . Wyse ) , to show that the latter had been constantly repelled in his efforts , until his original fidelity and energy in the cause of Sir James had turned to bitter hatred . He ridiculed the attempt to impose upon the well-known credulity of the pious population of England through the humbug of Aborigines Protection and Peace Societies . Mr . Cochbane bore a warm testimony to the character of Sir James Brooke . Colonel Thompson denied that there was any proof that the persons who had been put to death , were pirates . Sir Harry Verney declared that the country had never been served by a more self-sacri - firing and more discreet officer than Sir James Brooke , who , he argued , had clearly shown the piratical character of the parties he had attacked . Sir R .
H . Inglis wished the voice of Captain Aaron Smith could be heard in answer to the supporters of the motion , as it had been heard in the middle of a peace-meeting . Mr . Cobden was desirous to knowwhy the Government had been so suddenly anxious to repeal the law which gave head-money to pirates . He contended that the Dyaks who had been destroyed were not of the same class as the persons ordinarily called pirates , and he protested against our being charged with . £ 30 , 000 for exterminating people who were never proved to have molested us . Sir F . T . Barin g said that the bill for abolishing the head-money system had been prepared a year before the Dyak affair occurred . Sir E . Coi / ebrook . supported the motion . The House then divided , negativing Mr . Hume ' s motion by 169 to 29 ; majority , 140 .
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Writs for new elections were last night moved for in the House of Commons for Devonport and Southampton , Sir J . Romilly and Mr . Cockburn having accepted the offices of Attorney ^ and Solicitor General . The ceremony of swearing in the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Wilde , as the new Lord Chancellor , took place this morning in the New Hall , Lincoln'sinn , before the Right Honourable Lord Langdale , the Master of the Rolls , the Vice Chancellor Bruce , and Mr . Baron Rolfe , the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal . The late Attorney General , Sir John Jervis , M . P ., who , in consequence of the elevation of Sir Thomas Wilde , has been appointed to succeed him as judge in the office of Chief Justice of the Common Pleas , will be sworn in as Chief Justice , singularly enough , before the same judge on Monday
next . On the motion of Mr . Goulburn a new writ was ordered for Tamworth , in consequence of the vacancy caused by the death of Sir Robert Peel . We have not heard what course the electors mean to pursue , but it seems to us that they could not do better than elect Mr . Frederick Peel , who has already shown that he possesses no small share of the family talent , and who would , no doubt , readily resign his present seat to sit for Tamworth .
The interment of the remains of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is fixed to take place on Tuesday next , in a vault under the parish church of Kew , and closely adjoining the cottage in which his Royal Highness has resided for so many years . The body has not been subjected to any post-mortem examination , nor have the remains been embalmed . The body is contained in a mahogany shell , lined with white satin , which is enclosed in a leaden coffin . A second coffin , of the finest Spanish mahogany , covered with crimson velvet , forms the outer covering , and is surmounted by a plate , upon which are enumerated the stvle and titles of the deceased Prince . The interment is hour and
to take place at an early on Tuesday morning , the funeral will be conducted in the most private manner consistent with the rank of the deceased . The present Duke of Cambridge ( Prince George ) will attend as chief mourner . His Royal Highness Prince Albert will also be present . The vault in which the Royal coffin will be deposited is under the entrance portico of the church . It is said , however , that it is not intended this shall be its final resting-place , but merely a receptacle for the Royal remains until a mausoleum can be erected . We mentioned some time ago that Prince Albert would visit Fort George this summer . Our intimation is fully confirmed by the official announcement that the Prince will visit Fort George while her Majesty and the Royal family remain at Balmoral . —Inverness Advertiser .
We understand that , on occasion of the occupation by Royalty of the ancient palace of Holyrood , it is proposed to erect a statue of her Majesty in the central quadrangle of the building . A subscription paper , for the purpose of raising the funds necessary for the accomplishment of the object is , we believe , in course of signature ; and the subscriptions , in order to afford to all classes of the community an opportunity of contributing , arc to be restricted to one guinea . —North British Mail . The subscriptions to the Manchester monument to Sir Robert Peel have increased as rapidly as could be expected . The total amount collected since Tuesday evening ( np to which time £ 1800 had been received ) was £ 1218 5 s . lid ., making the total upwards of £ 3000 . At the Townhall , Salford , a meeting took place on
Friday morning to consider the propriety of erecting a monument to Sir Robert Peel , in the Peel-park , in that borough ( one of the public parks purchased a lew years ago there for the u ? e of the people ) , and it was very numerously and influentiully attended . The meeting was unanimous as to the desirability of erecting a memorial in the Peel-park , and 230 guineas were subscribed towards the amount before the meeting terminated . A concert was given at the Italian Opera-house yesterday morning , m which all the principal members of
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POSTSCRIPT . Saturdat , July 13 .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 13, 1850, page 370, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1846/page/10/
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