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nin , " to hare a good " hamart-made" ( home-made ) gown ready by the time the Queen returns . Her Majesty wishes the gown made entirely of Scotch wool , or , properly , Highland wool , and similar to the one the " gude-¦ wif e" herself wears . Her Majesty has also left orders to get a number of cottages , similar to those erected last year , built during the winter , for the poor people on the estate ; and has also given particular directions , we believe , to Mr . Anderson , the parish minister , that they be well cared for during her absence .
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Lord Londesborough has taken possession of the splendid mansion and estate at Grimston Park , near Tadcaster , Yorkshire , which he lately purchased from Lord Howden , her Majesty ' s minister at the court of Spain . In addition to the very reprehensible omission of Lord Londesborough ' s name from the list of guests invited to the York Banquet , the Manchester Guardian mentions an almost equally infelicitous oversight in the fact of Mr , Bazley , the President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce , and one of the royal commissioners , being also uninvited ; The French Ambassador left London for Paris unexpectedly on Wednesday morning . His sudden departure was caused by the receipt of intelligence of the serious illness of his father . His absence probably will not extend beyond a week or ten days .
A report has got abroad that , abandoning his hostility to the industrial festival , Lord Brougham actually intends to exhibit a " double-armed" net , and to show the mode of using it in the neighbouring piece of water , after giving due notice to the magistrates that he wishes to try the question whether the Solway Aot extends to the Serpentine . —Morning Chronicle . It is said that Lord Stanley of Alderley is about to resign the Under Secretaryship for Foreign Affairs . Nothing is said as to who his successor will be , in the event of his doing so .
The Right Honourable Richard Lalor Shell has been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary at Florence , in the place of the Jate Sir George Hamilton . He will remain for a short tiirie in England for the purpose of assisting in carrying into effect the oontemp lated reforms in the Mint . A notification has just been issued to the following effect : —That it is the intention of the Lord Chancellor ( as soon as practicable ) to issue an order , directing that all
the causes and matters in the Court of Chancery , which , at the time of the resignation of the Vice Chancellor Sir James Wigram , were attached to his Court , shall be transferred and attached to the Court of the Vice Chancellor Sir James Lewis Knight Bruce , and that all the causes and matters which , at the time of the death of the late Vice Chancellor of England , were attached to his Court , shall be transferred and attached to the Court of the new Vice Chancellor .
It . is reported that Mr . M . D . Hill , Queen ' s Counsel , Recorder of Birmingham , has been offered , and has accepted , Mr . Baron Ilolfe ' s seat in the Court of Exchequer , in the event of the learned baron being appointed to the vacant Vice-Chancellorship . Dr . Wiseman , the newly-created Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster , is a Spaniard . He was born at Seville , where his parents ( natives of Waterford ) had resided for many years . The father of the present Cardinal was an extensive wine merchant in the Andalusian capital . It is rumoured that the Reverend Dr . Okes , the lower master of Eton School , will be selected to fill the vacant appointment of Provost of King ' s College . The Reverend Dr . Hawtrey , head master of Eton , has , it is stated , declined to be put in nomination . have
The General Board of Health appointed Mr . H . R . Williams , the accountant of the General Steam Navigation Company , to be treasurer and accountant under the Metropolitan Interment Act . H . Sickling , Esq ., is appointed Master of the Supremo Court at South Australia . At the late York banquet an incident occurred which shows the estimation in which Mr . George Hudson is at present held in his former stronghold—the corporation of York . In preparing for the reception of the guests , the paintings , chiefly portraits , were all transferred from the Mansion-house to the walls of the banqueting-room in the Guildhall , with the sole exception of that of Mr . Hudson , which was left alone in its glory , thus depriving the treble ex-mnyor of the privilege of witnessing the dinnereven in effigy .
, . . „ The committee for the management of the Bombay steam fund have presented the widow of the late Lieutenant Wnghorn , through their agents in this country , with a Government annuity of £ 25 for the remainder of her life , out of the unappropriated balance of the fund in their hands . This fund was constituted by the proceeds of a public subscription at Bombay in 1833 for the purpose of promoting the great object of steam commuinotion with England , and the amount raised has been jippropriatecl from time to time in accordance with that dciHirti .
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Shortly before the Emperor of Austria ' s visit to Bre-Kimiz tho report wns current that he had demanded the l rim ; es > K SUlonia , niece of the King of Saxony , in marriu ^ r . Tho local pnpers now state the negotiations for tho same luive already been concluded . The princess is Kixtei n years of age . The ( iui't'iv of Spain has authorized the Duchess of MuntiuMinicr to absent herself , with the duke , one month from \\ w kingdom , in order to condole with the ex-Queen of tlic French . The political labours of the President of the French leave him some intervals Tor the indulgence of his disposition for V ' Arts . In addition to the proof furiiish < il by the n cent au | uisitioiis to the Louvre from the Jyii »! -r of Holland ' s sale , we loam that he has been lately sitting to our distinguished countryman , Sir Win , Ross , for his miniature portrait .
The illness of the Duke of P alraella terminated fatally on the 12 th ultimo , when he expired in the midst of his numerous family . He was conscious of the approach of death , and prepared himself by receiving the rites of the church , retaining his faculties almost to the last moment . The Duke was born on the 8 th of May , 1781 , and had consequently completed his sixty-ninth year . A very considerable part of his life was dedicated to the diplomatic service of his country , which he represented at the Congress of Vienna and in London . He was also selected to attend at the coronation of Queen Victoria ; and his great wealth enabled him to vie on that occasion with the representatives of the other Courts of Europe .
Flotow , the composer , is about to bring out a new opera , entitled , The Crown Princess . It is to be performed on the 19 th of November , the birthday of the Queen . The parts are already distributed , and he himself directs the rehearsals . One of the Paris journals states that M . Emttraus Lmd , a chemist of some distinction , and brother of Jenny Lind , has just arrived in Paris , and is about to proceed to Havre , to embark for the United States , to join his sister .
It is reported that Feldzeugmeister . Haynau intends to migrate to Vienna . Military circles still occupy themselves with the promotion of the gallant womanflogger to the dignity of a field-marshal . Meyerbeer is , we are informed , at present engaged in composing the music for the choruses of the Eumenides of JEschylus , which is about to be represented at Berlin . He has undertaken the task at the special request of the King of Prussia , whose passion for the old Greek drama is well known . The great composer is taking vast pains with the work , in order to render it not unworthy of the mighty original . ,
..... The poet * Freiligrath , has received orders to leave the village of Bilk , in the neighbourhood of Dusseidorf , where he was residing , and to quit the Prussian territories within a fortnight .
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The Municipal Council of Paris has recently directed the taking of a detailed account of the labouring population of that city , with a view to ascertain precisely their number , various occupations , condition ( as to daily earnings , locality of residence , and of labour , house-room , &c ) , and whether migratory or constantly resident in the city . A great part of the materials have already been collected , and are found to be so far complete as to warrant the expectation that the final result will be a closely detailed and tolerably accurate view of the industrial operations of the French capital . The enquiry has been conducted , and the digest of the information obtained is being prepared , under the immediate superintendence of M . Horace Say .
M . Courville , a printseller in the Rue de Bac , and M . Jeanne , a printseller in the Passage Choiseul , were tried before the Court of Assizes of Paris last week , for exposing and offering for sale in their shops certain signs and emblems calculated to propagate the spirit of rebellion and to trouble the public peace . The emblems in question were busts and portraits of the Comte de Chambord . The jury returned a verdict of acquittal in both cases . The announcement of the verdict was received by the audience with shouts of " Vive le jury I " The political prisoners recently confined in the fortress of Doullens have now been all removed to Belle Isle sur Mer , with the exception of M . Barbes and M . Blanqui , who have been retained in one of the prisons of Paris , in consequence of the bad state of their health . The authorities refused to allow the families of the convicts to see
them , when passing through Paris , or to allow any sort of communication . The reason given for this rigour is , the discovery of a conspiracy among the prisoners to effect their escape ; but the National says that this is a mere pretext . The steam-boat containing the prisoners passed by Nantes on the 23 rd , on its way to Belle Isle sur Mer . The prisoners were kept below , and the deck was ocfupied by gendarmerie mobile . The prisoners chanted the " Marseillaise , " cried "VivelaRepublique !" and waved their caps from the cabin windows . The editor of the Iiepiiblicain do la Dordogne has been condemned by default to a fine of 500 fr . for infraction of the provision of the press law relative to the signature of articles . This is the first condemnation of this kind which has been recorded , as verdicts of acquittal have been civen in all other cases hitherto . been given in an omer cases mineno .
On Friday evening , at nine o ' clock , a man broke a pane of glass in the window of M . Asbruc , a money changer , in the Rue Vivienne ( one of the most crowded quarters of Paris ) , and carried ofF a bowl containing 7000 f . in gold . lie was at once pursued and seized , but he had dropped a considerable quantity of the gold , which was consequently lost . The thief was immediately carried to the police-station and locked up . An hour afterwards he was discovered dead in his cell , having hung himself with his neckcloth . A crowd of persons assembled in the Champ do Mars , on Sunday , to witness the proposed tournament . But the weather scowled upon tho pageant quite as discouiagingly as on the occasion of theEglinton jousts ; but the knights did not exhibit the same mettle , for no champion armed at all points appeared , and the tilting was put off till
Thursday . The Milan Gazette publishes an official announcement from the Lieutenancy-General of Lombardy , dated tho 21 th ultimo , informing the public that the lyeeiuns of the Lombardo-V < nctian kingdom are to bo opened on tlie 3 rd of November . No lyceuin is to admit students that are not of the province in which it lios . Private philosophical teaching , as it is called , is suppressed . The two universities of Pavia and Padua are to be opened at the same time . Certain restrictions are imposed on tho admission of students who are not of the kingdom ,
rannieal , laws which were octroyed in the beginning of June last , are proving so disadvantageous to the book trade in Leipsic , that it is not improbable that the great central book mart of [ Europe will be removed to Berlin . The booksellers and publishers of Leipsic have represented to the Minister of the Interior the enormous losses which the town will receive if the laws are not altered , and the town council , on the motion of the celebrated bookseller , Brockhaus , resolved to petition the Government .
The Augsburg Gazette states that the Russian Court will pass the winter at Warsaw . The motive for this is said to be the twenty-fifth anniversary of the accession of the Emperor Nicholas , which it is not wished to celebrate ^ at St . Petersburg , because , according to the Russian laws , after the twenty-fifth year of a reign , the Senate must cease its functions , and the Emperor cannot be present at that time . Since Peter the Great , no Russian Sovereign has occupied the throne for twentyfive years .
At the intercession of Prince Paskiewich , the Emperor of Russia has granted permission to several Polish emigrants , who were living in exile , to return to their own country . Persons thus amnestied will noj , however , receive their confiscated property again , neither will those who weife of noble birth be permitted to resume their titles or privileges of nobility , which had been declared forfeited . Several Poles who had been banished to Siberia have just been amnestied by the Emperor , and permitted to return to Poland .
From an official report of the operations of the credit establishments of the Russian empire for 1849 , it appears that , on the 1 st of January , 1850 , the debt had ehcreased to 336 , 219 , 000 silver roubles . This , however , is a moderate amount compared with the future resources of the empire . But it is not so with the floating debt , which , after deducting the value of guarantees , exceeds iM million roubles . For a state which has no more than 500 millions annual revenue , this proportion of the floating debt to the ordinary receipts , indicates an .
irregular state of finance , and doubtless presages a newloan , most likely more considerable than was that effected last year in London through Messrs . Stieglitz , of Petersburg , and Baring , of London , for £ 500 , 000 . By the Overland Mail , which reached London yester day morning , we learn that India continues undisturbed , even the Afredees were said to be perfectly quiet up to the latest date . Sir Charles Napier was expected to leave Simla , on his way to Bombay , about the 5 th of November .
Private letters from the Mauritius state that a French merchant at Re-union has effected a commercial negotiation with the Queen of Madagascar , by which , for a present payment of £ 50 , 000 , he had secured t e monopoly of the trade with that island . The resumption of commercial intercourse on any terms will be hailed with considerable satisfaction in both the Isle of France and Re-union Island , to both of which the event is of considerable importance .
The Boston Transcript suggests , on the authority of a correspondent , that a line of first-class packets will agree , provided 100 passengers can be obtained , to furnish a passage to Liverpool and back , with good accommodations and excellent fare , for 60 dollars each passenger- — to leave Boston at the middle of May next , and to sail on the return about the 1 st of August . It is stated that the trip can be made , including the expenses of three weeks' residence in London and three weeks devoted to excursions in various parts of England , at a cost of 100
dollars . A terrible accident occurred at New York on the 12 th ultimo . The ship Western World , from Liverpool , had been unloading for the last two or three days at pier 8 ; and , on Saturday , a quantity of pig iron , amounting to about 150 tons , had been removed from her and laid m one spot on the dock , and several carts and men were engaged in putting it on board a barge , which lay at the end of the wharf . From the great weight of the iron ,
being all on one spot , the pier gave way , precipitating carts , horses , men , and women into the river , with a terrible crash and commotion of the water , lhe ship and barge were caused to roll for a consiJerable time . The three beams upon which the planking rests broke off near the stones on which they rested , while the pressure of the iron downward caused the planks to start up , and some of them were cut ofF as short as if they were sawed . Three persons were drowned and several severely
An immense room called the " Tripler Hall" has been erected in New York for musical purposes . It has been taken by Mrs . Bishop and Bochsa , who will open it and give a series of concerts , with 200 performers .
in polities , legal and mathematical faculties . The new preas laws in Saxony are likely to prove of advantage to Berlin * It is an ill wind that blows nobody good , as the old proverb says ; and the strict , if not ty «
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The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress gave a grand bail and entertainment on Tuesday evening , in the Egyptian Hall , which was attended by between GOO antl 7 The Co ? n ^ and Works have now completed the arrangements for carrying into effect the projected park in Battersea-nelds , and have purchased , for the sum of £ 11 , 000 , the celebrated shooting-grounds and premises so long known as the Red House , lhe present occupier is to be allowed to remain in possession for fifteen months , as it is the intention of the commissioners to commence without delay the erection of tho iron fiunpoMion-bridKe . vrhioh i . to cross the Ihnmes immediately below the Royal Hospital on the Pimlioo si t «/•
de * _ _ _ « . « . « * * _ •_*;_ - Tho annual meeting of the Midland Association of Literary and Mechanics' Institutions , was held at Leicester on Tuesday . The chair was taken by Mr . Denison , M V An interesting discussion on the causes ot ttic small use made of these institutions by working men took place . It resulted in a recommendation to we several institutions to consider the desirableness of having low subscriptions to separate departments , to m-
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 2, 1850, page 752, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1857/page/8/
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