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M . Guizot has addressed a long letter to each of the five classes of the Institute , to declare that he cannot accept the candidateship offered him for a seat in the Superior Council of Public Instruction . M . Guizot founds his refusal on the character of the law , the effect of which , in his opinion , will be to revive quarrels which it is intended to appease , and to dimmish the moral influence of the state . . , M . Victor Hugo has either applied , or intends immediately to apply , for a month ' s leave of absence on the ground of indisposition . It is stated that he has what is called an extinction de voix from his exertions at the last Bluing at which he spoke . ¦««
m ..,.. The founder of the Napoleon journal , M . Briffault , secretary of the President of the Republic , had received , it is said , by way of assistance in his enterprise , upwards of £ 2000 , when it was considered prudent to discontinue the publication , he refused to do so , or to render an account of the money , and the affair was likely to get into the hands of the Procureur of the Republic . This was prevented by a timely concession , and the pecuniary affair has been regulated to the satisfaction of bo . th
parlies . The distinguished Italian refugees , Montanelh , Manin , Saliceti , Pianciani , Mazzini , Amari , and Accursi , have addressed a letter to the Presse , protesting against a calumnious correspondence in the Patrie , which describes the . features of an atrocious conspiracy , including plans for assassinating the leading Ministers in Europe , and attributes the chief part in these machinations to Mazzini and the chiefs of the Italian emigration in France and England . Much astonishment has been excited in Vienna by an announcement in the official journal that the Emperor has decided to remove General Haynau from his position as commander-in-chief , and to deprive him of the full powers granted him in Hungary . The cause of his disgrace is said to be his having lately acted with more mildness towards the Hungarian prisoners than was
consistent with Austrian notions of justice . The Pomeranian pastor , Meinhold , whose singular romances , the " Amber Witch , " and " Sidonia the Sorceress , " are well known in England , through more than one translation , has just been condemned to three months' imprisonment , and a fine of 100 thalers , besides costs , for slander against another clergyman named Stosch , in a communication published in the New Prussian Zeitung . The sentence was rendered more severe than usual in such cases by the fact that Meinhold , who appears to possess more talent than temper , had previously been condemned for the same offence against another party .
A New York paper mentions that state rooms have been taken for Jenny land and friends in one of the United States mail steamers . The party will consist of Jenny Lind , Mr . Julius Benedict , Signor Belletti , and Jenny Lmd ' s secretary , female companions , and servants .
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The French papers express fear lest the negotiations the French Government with General Rosas will not be attended with a pacific result . The court of assizes of the Seine Infcncuro has condemned a person of the name of ltoney , n restaurateur sit Havre , to a month ' s imprisonment , and a fine of lOOf ., for putting up a sign representing the Goddess ot Liberty with the bonnet rourje , and the inscription , A la Duesso de la Liberia . " The sign was ordered to be destroyed . . The manufacturers of Paris have received a number of orders from abroad , sufficient to keep all their operatives employed until the close of the year . It is said that many extensive factories have not been idle a single day since the month of September last . _
A dreadful fire broke out on the 15 th instant at Fontenay , near Versailles . Firemen were at onre _ desputched in considerable force , and after great difficulty succeeded in getting the fire under . The celebrated HoraceVcrnet , wearing his uniform as colonel of the National Guard , was on the spot at the head of his men . The rase for emigration to California is said to be very great in Paris at present . There arc new companies forming , and some of them have really respectable directors . The Annonccs Monstrcs in the Robert Macaire style , which fill an entire page of the large-sized journals , attract hundreds , and cause money to flow in freely , A new Socialist journal , La Jleformc Sociale , is to appear ot Troyes .
, A minder , attended with circumstances of more than usual ferocity , was committed in Paris on Sunday last on the person of an unfortunate woman . This is the fourth murder committed in Paris siuco the 1 st of the present mouth . Captnin Dumont . onc of the survivors of the melancholy Khipwrrck of the Medusa , died lust week at Maintenon , in the 7 o ' th year of his ago . The Austrian ( . lovemmcnt is erecting on the WJcncrlxrg nn arsenal and citadel , covering thirty-five acres of giouud , capable ot accommodating 20 , 000 men , and to be surrounded by a continuous wall , mounting eighty-five pieces of cannon . Marshal
It . is stated that a civil governor is to join lladi-tzky in Italy , and that General Weldon will be replaced at ' Vienna by urommnudant , who is ks-s hostile to t . ! u > slate of siege . Baron Haynau , who is now at ( ira ' z , intends , it is uaid , going to Hesse Cusscl , to pass the remainder his days in retirement . An ainic ; ilik" annugcine . nt is about to take ]> laeo beturrn Austii . i and l \ u * si : i us to the Kxrcmive Power of ( ii'i'iuany or liitrrim , the Prince of Prussia and Prince St hwaix . i r . hiMLj having had several private interviews at W ; irsnw , where the points contested were amicably dis cussed , Piiin'e Si hwai zenbeig stated that the presidency <> f the Kxceutivo Power or Interim could be made the fiibjoet of deliberation , and that Austria and Prussia bhould take the cluiir nltenuUelv . The rcbiilt of the
meeting at Warsaw was that Count de £ ernsdorf forwarded a confidential note to the Austrian Prime Minister , of which the principal points were : the perfect equality of Austria and Prussia , and that the two powers shall submit their proposals to the other German states . , , The insurrection in Bulgaria is said to be becoming more important . The Turkish troops from Varna , Shumla , and Widdin have been concentrated for the purpose of mutual support . Two battalions and two commissioners have been sent from Constantinople . Letters from Semlin of the 3 d announce that the Bulgarians had taken the city of Belgrade , after an obstinate resistance , and had captured eight cannons , ihe force of the Bulgarians amounts to 19000 men .
, The professors of the University of Leipsic , who have refused to proceed to any election under the old law ot 1831 , have received the writ requiring them to choose a representative in the Landtag . Among the Prussian exhibitors m the great English Exposition of Industry will be the sculptors Rauch and Kiss ; the former sends a cast of his gigantic equestrian statue of Frederic the Great , now almost ready to be set up ; the latter a model of his Amazon . From enquiries which have been made for the purpose of imposing an income tax in Berlin , it appears that the total income of those rated above 300 thalers , amounts to considerably more than fifteen million thalers .
One of the bookselling houses in Berlin has gjyen notice to its correspondents to send it no more pamphlets or political works , large or small , for sale , if they refer to Prussia , as in the present state of the law the vendor is liable to punishment if the tenour of the works is unfavourable to the Government . The Pope has sent to the President of the French Republic the Grand Cross of the Order of Pius in brilliants , and a magnificent present , consisting of a painting of Sebastian del Piombo , and a breakfast-table in mosaic repesenting the shield of Achilles , after the designs of Flaxman . The latter article has been worked at the mosaic studio of the Vatican .
Henry Cernaschi , formerly a member of the Roman Assembly , had been tried , charged , with having provoked revolt on the day the French troops entered Romenamely , 3 rd of July , 1849 . A verdict of not guilty was given unanimously . He was then charged with plunder and devastation at the Farnese Palace , and at the residence of Count Ludolph , Minister of his Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies . Verdict , not guilty , with one dissentient voice out of seven . Letters from Madrid state that everybody is flying from the intolerable heal that is now calcining that City of the Desert , which , according to a saying of its own inhabitants , enjoys— " Tres messes de invierno , Y nucve del inlicnio ;" or three months of winter and nine of hell .
Letters from Madrid mention that an angry discussion took pl .-ice lately between the King Consort and Maria Christina , on the subject of the title of prince proposed to be given to Narvaez . The Queen-Mother consented to grant the title to Narvaez , provided the same be given to all her own children . The King is understood to have refused . . Among the degrading punishments provided by the penal code of the Netherlands , there is one called het zaijen van hot zioard , or the brandishing of the sword , which consists in the culprit being placed on his knees on the scaffold with his eyes blindfolded as if he were about to have his head cut off . The executioner then whirls several times over the culprit ' s head the sword which is used for the decapitation of criminals . The application of this extraordinary punishment took place
in the town of Bois-le-Duc lately , and was attended with a fatal accident . On this occasion the executioner had caused his son to take his place , a young man of twenty-two , whom he is instructing in the exercise of his functions . The young man had posted himself behind the individual to be operated upon , and the executioner stood behind his son—doubtless in order to give him the necessary directions . The apprentice executioner then grasped the sword and brandished it about a dozen times over the head of the culprit ; but , in bringing it back again towards himself , he unfortunately struck his father oil the lower part of the head , and inflicted a fatal wound . The young man has been arrested . He stated that his arm had grown weak in the act of whirling the sword , which is a heavy one , and that , having lost his command over it , the sword had fallen on his father .
The United States Government have demanded of the Spanish Cabinet the liberation of the American prisoners composing a part of the Cuban expedition , which , if not complied with , is to bo immediately enforced by the United States squadron lying off Cuba . Some anxiety pievails at Washington in relation to the United States' claims against Portugal , and which it appears the Portuguese Government refuse to satisfy . It is rumoured that a payment of the » e claims will be insisted on and enforced , ut whatever cost or risk .
On the 1 Uh of June , II . M . steam-ship Vixen , cruizing off Cuba , tirt'dagun , aii'l huving causedthc- 'AmerjCHiisuhoouur Entcrpri / . c , iiom Chagrcs , bound to New York , to heave to , sent a boat on board to euquiie as to her pursuit . * . This very simple affair , arising out of the late American proceedings at Cuba , is obseived upon with no liltle violence in some of the papers , one ol which declares tluit " John Bull shall never stop the cour .-e of the eagle upon the ocean , to search what he has under Ids wing . " Air . Cass has given notice of his intention to move a , resolution in the senate on the subject . The entire immigration lor . Tune into New York shows a decrease * of neatly 2 O , ( iOO , us computed with the immigration of June , IS 19 .
It is stated that a line ot telegraph is about to be established , to extend from St . Louis through the towns on the Missouri river .
At a Temperance " Jubilee " held a few weeks ago at Boston , several of the Southern delegates refused to sit on the platform with coloured men ; and one of them ( an Irishman by birth ) begged the reporters to make no mention of the fact that there was a section of coloured boys in the procession , " as it might hurt the cause at the South !" A portion of the Table Rock , at Niagara Falls , about forty feet long , gave way on the 29 th ult . A carriage was passing at the time with six passengers , who saved their lives by leaping from the carriage , which was thrown over the precipice . It is reported that a guide and several visitors were under the rock when it fell , but this statement is not confirmed . The shock was felt to the distance of several miles .
On board the Griffith , on Lake Erie , near Cleveland , during the recent burning of that steamer , there was a party of thirty-one Englishmen , principally from Cambridgeshire . Most of them were intending to settle in Medina county , where they had relatives . Only three of the party survive . One of them , Robert Hall , lost his mother , his wife , two sons , two daughters , two brothers , and two sisters—ten in all . The Galway steamer Viceroy was wrecked during a fog on Shag Island , near Cape Sable . All the passengers and crew were saved ; but it was feared that the vessel would go to pieces , as the tide rises and falls in her . Her Majesty ' s steamer Columbia took out of her many valuable effects . A certain cure for the cholera has been discovered in Mexico . It is obtained from a root called the " Rais del
Indio . " A new religious sect has arisen in Persia , in consequence of the preachings of a man named Bab , who has written a new book to take the place of the Koran . He is said to have already made several thousand proselytes ; and eighteen of these Babee 3 , as his followers are called , have been publicly beheaded by order of the Shah .
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In consequence of the estimates which remain to be disposed of , and of the obstructions to business during the last week or two , the prorogation of Parliament is not expected to take place before the middle of August . A very numerous and enthusiastic meeting in favour of Parliamentary Reform was held at Norwich on Wednesday . About 5000 persons were present , many of them farmers . The Sheriff of Norwich presided , and the meeting was addressed by Sir Joshua Walmsley , M . P ., Mr . Alexander Mackay , Mr . George Thompson ,
M . P ., Mr . J . II . Tillett , and Sir Thomas Beevor , in favour of parliamentary and financial reform . The meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society was held at Exeter this week . The formal proceedings did not commence till Wednesday , but the preliminary arrangements , which appear to be on a magnificent scale , have occupied the inhabitants for the last two or three weeks , the good folks of Exeter having evidently determined to make the Agricultural Exhibition of 1850 the greatest that has yet been , and , judging from all the descriptions , they seem to have succeeded .
The annual distribution of prizes for proficiency in the various departments of knowledge cultivated in Putney College took place on Wednesday . The Earl of Devon in the chair . The reports of the Principal and Professors having been read , all of which were highly satisfactory , the chairman delivered the prizes , accompanied by suitable addresses , to the students , after which the proceedings closed . An association is about to be formed for the purpose of effectually eliciting and supporting the opinion of the public so unequivocally expressed at various public meetings against the recent interference with the delivery of letters and newspapers in the country on Sunday , with the view of obtaining the rescinding of the recent postal regulation .
Mr . Medwin , of Regent-street , in transmitting a cheque for five guineas to the funds for defraying the expenses of the Exhibition of 1851 , says it was his intention to have subscribed only two guineas , but , in consequence of the misrepresentations and ridicule cast upon the Exhibition and its royal projector , he had increased his subscription . He wishes to mark his opinion that the Commissioners arc right in keeping to Hyde-park as the site , and not yielding to the clamour with which neither the public at large , nor even the holders of property in the neighbourhood , sympathize . Mr . Jervis , the son of the late member for Chester , now Chief Justice Jervis , has withdrawn from the contest for that borough , which now lies entirely between the Honourable W . O . Stanley , son of Lord Stanley of Alderley , and Mr . C . E . Egerton , the Protectionist candidate .
Sir John Romilly was reelccted for Devonport , without opposition , on Wednesday . The election of a member for Southampton , to fill the vacancy caused by Mr . Cockburn ' s acceptance of the office of Solicitor-General , took place on Wednesday , when that gentleman was rtelected without the slightest show of opposition . Another doctrinal conflict impends in the diocese of Exeter , the urowu having appointed to the valuable living of Stoko Climsland a firm opponent of tin ; doctrines of the Trautariuu paity on the subject of baptismal regeneration . t
, , _ The investigation into the loss of the Orion is not yet completed . A special meeting of the Justiciary Court will bo held about the middle of August , at which the captain and second mate , will be brought up for trial . Robert Stephenson , the celebrated engineer , whose last eyelopcan exploit threw Xerxes into the shade , died at Edinburgh on Friday lust . At Darlaston GOO gun-lock filers have struck , and that just at the time when a Government contract for 50 , 000 locks hns been taken . It is said that the contractors
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Leader (1850-1860), July 20, 1850, page 392, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1847/page/8/
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