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the police station-house at Tooting , and gave him in custody . On the way he said he should like to lay hands on Lord John Russell . The police surgeon having stated that there was no doubt of the prisoner ' s insanity , an order was made for his admission into the County Lunatic Asylum .
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MISCELLANEOUS . The Queen , after viewing the gigantic Tweed viaduct at Berwick , to be called henceforth , by her Majesty ' s command , the " Royal Border Bridge , " was pleased to testify her sense of the eminent scientific skill of the engineer , Mr . Stephenson , by offering him , through Sir George Grey , the honour of knighthood . Mr . Stephen , son , no doubt , fully appreciated the honour so gracefully tendered by Royalty to science , but gratefully and respectfully declined it . A few days after Queen Victoria left Ostend an order arrived to the effect that no alteration was to be made in
the state of the apartments temporarily occupied by her Majesty . It was thought that , in consequence of this order , a second visit might be expected . On Monday , however , it was reported that the Queen of the Belgians , in accordance with the advice of her medical attendants , will visit the town for the benefit of sea bathing . It is added that the widow of Louis Philippe will also visit Ostend , to pass a few weeks with her daughter . A package has arrived at the port of Southampton by the vessel Pacha , from Lisbon , containing pictures for the Queen , which have been forwarded to Buckingham Palace .
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The Duchess d'Orleans , who at present resides , and will do so for a month , at Richmond , with the Count de Paris and the Duke de Chartres , has just rented a house in the village of Esher for six months from the 1 st of October , in order not to be any more separated from the Royal Family . Esher is only a quarter of a league distant from the residence of the Queen . This decision of the Duchess d'Orleans proves that she is in accord with all the Princes of her family in the resolution they have taken to remain closely united . The Queen consents to remain in England , unless her health should render a
change of climate absolutely necessary . —Galignant . Madame de Chabannes , formerly dame d'honneur attached to the person of Marie Amelie , has arrived in Paris from Claremont , and gives fresh details concerning the death of the ex-King . This lady states that the Queen kneeled continually by the body with a Prayerbook in her hand during twenty-four hours , without taking any nourishment . Her sons did not quit her for an instant . The Duchess of Orleans was deeply dejected . The family were extremely grateful for the orders given by the English Government that all the wishes of Marie Amelie relative to the funeral should be complied with , as well as for the deference shown to the house of
Orleans in the mourning of etiquette adopted by the English Court . The Evenement mentions a report that the Duchess d'Orleans has written to M . Thiers to inform him that the Queen , her mother-in-law , and the other members of the family , are desirous of his presence at a conseil de famille , to be held at Claremont in the course of the present month . A parcel of pictures have arrived at Folkestone , by a steamer from Boulogne , for the Duchess of Orleans , which has been forwarded by the authorities at that place to the metropolis for delivery at their destination . Lord Clarendon and suite left Dublin , on Saturday , for
Caledon , in the county of Tyrone , where his Excellency was to remain until Wednesday , when he would proceed to Crom Castle , the seat of the Earl of Erne , in Fermanagh . From Friday to Tuesday the noble earl will be the guest of the Marquis of Londonderry at Garron Tower , in the county of Antrim ; and on the Wednesday following he pays his promised visit to Belfast , where he will stay until Friday , when his Excellency will be for a second time the guest of Lord Londonderry at Mountstewart , the noble marquis ' s residence in the county of Down . This will complete the tour to the north , and on Saturday next Lord Clarendon will arrive in Dublin . Tuesday night ' s Gazette announces the appointment of the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Norwich ; the
very Reverend Archibald Campbell Tait , D . C . L ., Dean of Carlisle ; the Reverend Francis Jeune , D . C . L ., Master of Pembroke College , in the University of Oxford ; the Reverend Henry George Liddell , M . A ., Head Master of St . Peter ' s College , Westminster ; John LuciusDampier , Esq ., M . A ., Vice-Warden of the Stannaries of Cornwall ; the Reverend Baden Powell , M . A , Savilian Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford ; and the Reverend George Henry Sacheverell Johnson , M . A ., of Queen ' s College , in the University of Oxford ; to be her Majesty ' s Commissioners for enquiring into the state , discipline , studies , and revenues of the University and Colleges of Oxford . Also the appointment of the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Chester : the Very
Reverend George Peacock , D . D ., Dean of Ely ; Sir John Frederick William Herschell , Bart . ; Sir John Romilly , Knight , her Majesty's Attorney General ; and the Reverend Adam Sedgvvick , M . A ., Woodwardian Professor of Geology in the University of Cambridge ; to be her Majesty ' s Commissioners for enquiring into the * iate , discipline , studies , and revenues of the University and Colleges of Cambridge . A set of richly embroidered lace curtains , manufactured on a novel principle , has been presented to Lady John Russell by a number of operatives residing at Snenton , in testimony of their approbation of Lord John Russell ' s ministerial policy , and their admiration of him as a public man .
Lord Stanley has consented to lay the corner-stone of a literary institution in the manufacturing town of Bury , where the Derby family have large landed possessions . The Baroness Rothschild died on Thursday afternoon at Qunnerabury-park , near Ealing . Baron Lionel Rothschild ,
who was on the Continent when the baroness was taken ill , on the receipt of the news instantly returned , and had the gratification of reaching home before his mother's death . Sir Anthony Rothschild , Baron Nathaniel , and Mrs . Fitzroy , wife of the Right Honourable H . Fitzroy , M . P ., were also present at her dissolution . The deceased baroness , who was in her 68 th year , was widow of the celebrated capitalist , and third daughter of Mr . L . B . Cohen . By the baron , who died in 1836 , she leaves issue four sons and two daughters—Baron Lionel , Sir Anthony , Baron Nathaniel , and Baron Meyer , Baroness Anslem and Mrs . Fitzroy . The Reverend Mr . Balhurst , late Fellow of Merton College , Oxford , has resigned the benefice of Kibworth Beauchamp , worth £ 1500 a-year , and joined the Roman Catholic Church . Lord Fielding , a leading Puseyite , has also gone the same road .
The New York Herald mentions two distinguished arrivals in the persons of the wives of two governors-general . Lady Elgin , and the Countess Alcoy . Both have arrived there without their husbands , and both are in search of health . Both are understood to be on their way to the seaside for the purpose of bathing . We regret to announce the death of the Right Honourable Charles Watkin Williams Wynn , M . P . for Montgomeryshire , which melancholy event took place at halfat his residence
past four o ' clock on Monday afternoon , in Grafton-street . He was the father of the House of Commons , having sat for Montgomeryshire since 1797 , and for about a year previously for Old Sarum . He held the offices of Secretary at War ( in the Grey administration ) and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster , from December , 1834 , to April , 1835 . The right honourable gentleman was in his seventy-fifth year . His death makes the fourth vacancy in the House of Commons since the close of the session .
It is said that Captain Herbert Wynn , of the Seventh Fusiliers , will offer himself as a candidate for the county of Montgomery , on Protectionist principles , in consequence of the death of his uncle , the late Right Honourable Charles Williams Wynn .
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Louis Napoleon is said to have expressed himself in terms of deep regret at the death of Louis Philippe . He also stated that he could not forget the magnificent funeral given by the Government of Louis Philippe in December , 1840 , when the remains of the Emperor were brought from St . Helena to be buried in France , and expressed an intention of taking the initiative in proposing to the Orleans family that the remains of the illustrious deceased should be brought into France , in order to be laid with those of his family in the royal vault at Dreux . It is reported that considerable changes will take place in the President ' s household . M . Chevalier , the Secretary-General , is to be replaced by M . Romieu , author of the E > e des Cesars , a pamphlet which demonstrates the necessity of military despotism .
M . Geoffrey St . Hilaire has been appointed Professor of Natural History at the Sorbonne . A solemn service for the repose of the soul of the late King Louis Philippe will be celebrated on Tuesday , in the Cathedral of Amiens . The Ambassador of Nepaul and his two brothers were received on Friday by the President of the Republic at the palace of the Elysee . Napoleon received them with courtesy , and conversed with them for some time through their interpreters , Captain Cavenagh and Captain James .
The President observed that the costume of the Ambassador ' s suite were much more brilliant than those of France , to which the Ambassador replied that they served to mark the distinction of class , but that , though more splendid than those of France , France was the first nation in the world , by her science and enlightenment , and the organization of her government , &c . The Ambassador was proceeding in the same strain , when one of the interpreters cut him short by reminding him that France was under a Republic .
The Moniteur publishes a decree of the French President , declaring the Professorship of Mathematics in the Colleges of France , held by M . Libri , to be vacant , in consequence of his absence , and that the amount of salary due to M . Libri is to be returned to the Treasury . A second decree declares that the seat in the Academy of Science ( section of geometry ) , hitherto occupied by M . Libri , is vacant , in consequence of his having quitted France on the 28 th of February , 1848 . An English gentleman , named Bowes , has contracted for the lease of the Theati e des Varietes at Paris for a number of years , for an enormous sum , the French papers say £ 60 , 000 , but other accounts say that it is only £ 40 , 000 or thereabouts . This dramatic Mecreuas , intends , say the Paris journals , to confide the management of the theatre to Mdlle . Delorme , an actress of
reputation . The French Opera-house , which has been so long closed , reopened its portals on Monday . Alboni was to appear in the Favourite . Frederick Lemaitre is going to migrate still higher up the Boulevards , and is going to act at the Gaite 6 during the winter . From some law proceedings before one of the Paris courts , reported in the newspapers , it appears that M . Ledru Rollin has had to bring an action against the purchaser of the copyright of his famous Decadence oj England , to recover payment of the bills of exchange given for the work . The unfortunate purchaser has pleaded in his defence that the work has not sold at all , and that he has got whole rooms full of copies , or , as he expressed it , " nightingales" ( the technical term of French publishers for unsaleable works ) .
Letters from Vienna state that the coronation of the Emperor , which was to have been celebrated during the present month , is to be postponed . At the accession of a new Emperor the provinces used to send deputations of the Slates to take the oath of allegiance ; but these , being abolished by the new charter , have been replaced by the provincial diets , which ought to be assembled
simultaneously , and this simultaneous assemblage cannot take place until after the promulgation of the constitutions of Italy and Hungary . The Prince of Prussia , on his return from Frankfott , last week , was stepping into the waiting-room on the Baden railroad , a traveller , a Swiss , from the canton pi Berne , with his paletot in one hand and travelling cap in the other , saluted the Prince . The Swiss , respectfully addressing his highness , said that Prussia was greatly respected in Swiizerland , and only one word need be pronounced in order to win the sympathies of the whole population . The Prince enquired what that word might be ? " Renunciation , " was the reply , the claims o \ Prussia on Neuenberg being intended . " You 11 never hear that word , then , " said the Prince , drily , and turned into the waiting-room .
The Spanish Court will go into mourning for one month , as a mark of respect for the late King of the French . The Vienna journals announce the arrival of Count Etienne Batthyany from Constantinople . The count returns under the provisions of the amnesty recorded to political offenders . ¦ _ , The Deutsche Reforme states that the house of L . Behrends and Son , well known for its extensive smug ' gling transactions , has again been mulcted in 840 , 000 marks , with forfeiture of its rights of transit . In Leipsic , also , where this house has a branch establishment , its right of importation has been withdrawn . The house must have been fined in all to the amount of nearly half a million marks .
Rossini is carrying on the rehearsal at his residence , and with great secrecy , of a new chef-d ' oeuvre , to which . it is said he attaches the highest importance . A great portion of his time is occupied with the tenor Donzelli in the perfection of this work . It is thought it will be produced at Bologna in the course of the ensuing month . —Globe . Professor Webster has made another and full confession , in which he admitted the premeditated murder of Dr . Parkman , thus falsifying his previous statements . This confession was in the hands of the authorities , but was not to be made public until after the execution , which was to take place on the 31 st ultimo .
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The criminal Court of Strasbourg has published a hue and cry after two individuals accused of having : conspired against the life of Louis Napoleon . The Parisian hawkers of journals , the sale of which in the streets is prohibited , resort to numerous tricks to evade detection . Many of the men wear very large trousers , lined with journals ; others make false calves with them , and some increase their natural rotundity . The other day a female hawker , who appeared to be in an interesting situation , was arrested . She was searched
by a woman , and safely delivered of forty-eight copies of the ffipublique and the Evinement . A man committed suicide in Paris , on Monday , by throwing himself from the top of the column of the Place Vendome . A young lady who was passing at the moment narrowly escaped being crushed by his fall . The guardian of the monument immediately brought the police to the spot . The body of the unfortunate man , dashed to pieces on the asphalte pavement , was borne away amid a dense crowd of people , who hurried to the spot . ___ __
The Civil Tribunal of Le Mans has Just condemned a person named Design . ! and his son , of Parigne" 1 'Eveque , department of the Sarthe , to pay 10 , 000 f . to M . Foy , the well-known marriage negotiator , for having negotiated the marriage of the son with a Mademoiselle de Bruc , niece of the Marquis de Malestroit . M . Foy was applied to by the father and the son to find a wife for the latter ; Foy introduced them to Mademoiselle de Bruc , who was possessed of a certain fortune , and tne son eventually married her . By an agreement duly drawn up before the marriage , the father and son bound themselves to pay M . Foy 12 , 500 f . for his services . This ,
however , they on different pretexts subsequently refused to do , and so Foy brought his action , but reduced his demand to 10 , 000 f ., he having consented , after some negotiation , to accept that sum . After hearing counsel at great length on both sides , the Tribunal gave judgment in Foy ' s favour for the full amount claimed . It appeared in the course of the proceedings that M . Foy is specially licensed to act as a marriage agent . — Galignani . The operative carpenters of Angouleme , in the Chaiente , have struck for higher wages . Letters from Vienna of the 29 th ultimo , say that in several provinces of Russia the peasants are in insurrection against the nobles , and that in fact a veritable
jacquerie raging . The Kolner Zeitung has a telegraphic despatch from Frankfort , of the 3 rd instant , stating that the Danish Plenipotentiary has summoned the Federal Committee sitting in that city to ratify the treaty of peace of the 2 nd of July . Another despatch from Kiel of the same date states that the Holstein Diet has been convoked by the Stadtholder . The Diet is to meet at Kiel on Monday , the 9 th instant . By an ukase of the Emperor of Russia , it is ordered
that in future all Jews liable to serve in the army shall commence military service at the age of thirteen . From that age till eighteen they will be educated in special schools ; from eighteen to twenty-five they will serve in the navy , and from twenty-five to thirty-six in regiments of the line . Letters from Prague announce that the elections for the common council of that city have terminated in favour of the Czech party—that is , of the Slavonian or anti-German party in one district , and the Middle party in two others .
Lucerne , in Switzerland , was visited with a violent hurricane on the 23 rd ultimo , which blew down a house in construction as it it had been built of cards , carried away carts , uprooted trees , &o . One man was killed .
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Sbpt . 7 , 1850 J &tft & ** & **? ' 559
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 7, 1850, page 559, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1852/page/7/
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