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Llewellyn ' s divorce bill has been thrown out of the Lords . A clerical election-contest took place on Tuesday for the rectorship of St . Ann's Blackfriars—the Reverend Mr . Webster , of King ' s College , beating his opponent , the Reverend Mr . Wilkinson , of the Irish Church Missions , by 159 to 139 . Mr . Richard Swift , of Hatton-garden , was elected Sheriff of the city of London on Monday , in the place of Mr . Hartley , who declined to serve . There was no opposition ; but , as Mr . Swift is a Catholic , some bigoted individual shouted " You might as well propose Cardinal Wiseman "—an ill-natured exclamation , which was immediately stifled with " loud cheers . "
Captain Meilvill , Fifty-second N . I ., has invalided , and is , it is reported , about to join the Calcutta Englishman as one of its editors . He was one of the Affghan captives , and published a capital account of the events of those days under the signature of " A Quondam Captain , " in the paper of which he is now about to assume joint editorship . Terence Bellew M'Manus , whose escape from " Van Diemen ' s-Land we have before mentioned , arrived at San Francisco on the 5 th of June . The Mayor gave him a public dinner ; the senators and representatives attended . M'Manus looked in capital health and spirits . When he escaped , O'Brien , O'Donoghue , and Doherty were likewise to have got off ; but some one peached , and they were secured .
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The Queen of Spain attended at the Church of our Lady of Atoche on Sunday , to " pray for her safe delivery . " The Duchess of Coburg left for Ostend on Wednesday . The King and Queen of Prussia left Berlin on the 2 oth on a tour through the Baltic provinces . General La Hitte is appointed president of the committee of artillery , vice General Paillhon , retired . The Duke of San Paolo , charge des affaires of the King of Naples , went to Rome last week . The Court of Appeal , reversing the decision of the court below , have acquitted M . Cabet of the charge of swindling and embezzlement , in the fullest manner .
General Guillabert , commanding the second division of the army of Paris , is appointed to the command of the fourteenth military division , whose head-quarters are at Nantes , vice General Gerard , retired . M . von Bodelschwingh was gazetted to the Ministry , of Finance on the 25 th .
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THE EXPOSITION . The attendance at the Crystal Palace has been at the usual average this week . Great preparations were made for the expected darkness during the eclipse , which did not occur . One of the stone fountains fell down during the week , and also some of the fitlinps of the mediaeval room gave way , doing damage to the extent of about . £ 100 . The price for season-tickets is reduced from £ 3 and £ 2 to 30 s . and £ 1 ., and the Commission have come to a resolution by which the sale of those tickets ceases on the 31 st of August , The 5 s . entrance fee on Saturdays is to be reduced immediately after the prorogation of Parliament to 2 s . 6 d .
How anxious Russia is , upon every opportunity , to injure and insult , in her indomitable hatred , the Polish nation , will be seen by the following fact , given in a letter from Warsaw , smuggled over the frontier : —When all the nations of the world were invited by Great Britain to send in their contributions for the great Exhibition , the Russian government graciously allowed the Peoples , groaning under its despotic sway , likewise to take a part in that industrial congress to which Great Britain hud invited all nations , without distinction . Jiut in granting such permission to his subjects , the autocrat made it imperative upon Poland's exhibitors , to send the articlts they intended to exhibit , within itiuii wi . kks from the day the ukase reached them , to St . Petersburg ; and after that period no one was to be allowed to add any thing , nor would new exhibitors' articles be admitted .
1 be tiled of this arbitrary proceeding wan , that scarcely anything worth exhibiting could have been forwarded ; in fact , nothing could have been expressly prepared for the Exhibition . Thus it i . s that the Crystal Palace can show nothing indicative of the true state of the industry or the progress of arts in Poland ; but that is precisely the object Russia had , viz ., to cast Poland , eten in this respect , into the . shade , and to lessen her in the eyes of other nations . Russia did not like the attention of tin- English and other foreign visitors , to be drawn from her malachites and furs , to things , certainly not ko costly , but more useful and arlistical .
It is erroneously stated by some of our contemporaries , amongst others by the Weekly Times , that the calculating machine , which created lately some sensation , and in exhibited amongst , the Russian productions , ia the invention of Mr . Mnffi-1 , who was hut its manufacturer . The inventor is M . Stern , of Warsaw , belonging to the Israelite tribe , who , for that invention , waa elected number of the society of the Friends of Sciences in Warsaw ; a tiocicty which , like many other useful institutions , was , jifter the revolution of lH ' . H ) 31 , dissolved by the imperative will of the northern Colossus .
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MISCELLANEOUS . Parliament , it is understood , will be prorogued on the 8 th instant . The thoroughfare of Blackfriars ' -bridge is now stopped , except for foot-passengers , in order that the crown of one of the arches may undergo repair . The Archaeological Society of Great Britain and Ireland met at Bristol on the 29 th ultimo Austria has contracted a loan with the house of Rothschild . Letters from Madrid of the 26 th ultimo state that the Senate had passed the bill for the Settlement of the Debt by 59 to 29 . The Siecle was seized on Tuesday for « n article libelling the character of Louis Napoleon , and it is to be prosecuted for exciting hatred and contempt against the Government . Thp incriminated article relates to the private life of the President . Accounts from Canada , of the date July 14 , state that the Toronto Board of Trade have censured the Council , by a vote of fourteen to two , for memorializing the Government to impose differential duties upon American manufactures . A man , who had lost his all in the great fire at San Francisco , shot his wife , and then himself , with a revolvrr , in a moment of phrensy , during the fire . On June 10 , a Sydney man , named John Jenkins , alias Simptoii , wasdettcied in carrying off a safe from an olliceon Long-wharf , San Francisco , and after a struggle was arrested in his boat , lie was immediately taken before the Committee of Safety , consisting of one or two hundred citizens , tried , found guilty , and hung within an hour .
Mrs . KHen Blake , wife of the gentleman killed on the Midland Railway , near Clay-cross , has obtained £ 4000 ditnuigcH from a jury , us compensation for her financial louses by the death of her husband . The case was one of great hardship : Mr . Blake having died intestate , his properly went to hi * brother-in-law . The French fetes in honour of the Royal Commissioners of the Groat Exposition commence to-day . The Lord Mayor of London left town yesterday , lie vtill have apartments in the Hotel < le Ville . Paris will be very gay . A deputation of fifteen working-men from Paris have
been in London for Home time , on a visit to the . Exposition . Their captain ia M . Lnrchet , formerly u compoMtor on La /' reuse , now a contributor to that journal . Alexis Soyer , of the Symposium , gave them an excellent dinner on Snturday , which concluded English fashionwith toasts and speech-making . () l course the " Health of the Queen and Prince Albert whh drunk with enthusiasm by the Republicans ; " whereat great i . s the wonderment , as if the drinluiH were not Frenchmen as well as Republicans !
The Advocate of St .. Helena tells a ntrange , story of the seizure of a sea captain by ii land captain on ( he high seas , and the confinement of said sea captain in the hold till the vessel reached ( St . Helena , on the 21 ) 1 h of May . The ship wan the Levenside , carrying a detachment of an Artillery corps . The captains were , Campbell , master of th
trial . Afterwards Campbell laid an information against Vesey for piracy , -which it is said the magistrates refused to take . Of course an inquiry will be ordered .
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The York Catholic Association met on Wednesday and passed an address severely commenting on the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill ; denying that any aggression had been made ; denouncing " persecuting liberals , " " intolerant rationalism , " the " Whig press ; " and calling on the Catholic electors to organize and agitate in selFdefence . . . The South Church Union , at its annual meeting jn the Town-hall of Brighton on Thursday , resolved that the revival of synod ical action was u cause of " sincere congratulation for the Church "; and in the event of Convocation being summoned deprecating the idea of " lay element deliberating or deciding upon questions even indirectly affecting doctrine , without the
prior restoration of that godly discipline contemplated by the Church in all her canons and services . " A claim has been filed in the Vice-Chancellor Lord Cranworth ' s court , for an inquiry into the will of Ann Tucker , who died in Westminster some time ago , and left one half of her property to various Roman Catholic priests , and one half to her brother in law and sister . These persons caused the claim to be filed for inquiry , and the case was heard on Monday . The ground upon which inquiry was sought was that suspicion was entertained that there was some " secret trust , " that the money was intended not for the benefit of the said ecclesiastics , but for " superstitious uses . " Lord Cranworth refused to make an order .
The contest at Limerick between Lord Arundel and Surrey and Mr . Russell will be hot and close . Lord Arundel arrived in Limerick on Tuesday , and was met at the terminus by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Limerick and a host of friends . On stepping from the carriage , he knelt and received the Bishop ' s blessing . The crowd was so dense and so enthusiastic , that the procession which formed could scarcely make its wav to Lord ArundeFs committee-room . At night ,
men ran about the streets with blazing tar-barrels . The excitement has since continued , and increased every day The contest is alleged to have been described by a Roman Catholic priest as " a struggle between God and Lucifer —between Heaven and the pit of Hell . " Mr . Monsell , M . P ., is also at Limerick , assisting Lord Arundel . The Roman Catholic clergy have engaged warmly in the election . Both sides say they are certain of success ; but the public excitement is all on the side of Lord Arundel , who most probably will carry the day .
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A meeting in favour of Jewish Emancipation was held on Wednesday , at the National Hall , Holborn , Mr . D . W . Ruffy in the chair . Resolutions were agreed to in upport of the above object . A meeting of the Chancery Reform Association was held at Exeter-hall on Wednesday . Lord Erskine occupied the chair . The meeting was addressed by Sir De Lacy Evans , M . P ., Mr . D . W . Harvey , Captain Scobell , M . P ., Captain Saumarcz , and Mrs . Cobbett . The ballast-heavers held a great meeting at Shadwell , on Wednesday , to receive a report from a deputation to Mr . Labouchere , urging upon him the necessity of passing a bill to relieve them from the intolerable evils to which they are subjected , owing to the present system of employment .
A public meeting of the Anti-Clergy Reserve Association , convened in Toronto on July I ) , was broken up by the interference of the opponents of the association , headed by several clergymen of the Established Church , who claimed a right to be heard , on the ground that the meeting was public . The excitement ran high , but no one was hurt . We understand that the Fraternal Home in Turnmills ' reet , where so many Polish Hungarian refugees have been lodged , fed , and clothed , will close on the 14 th of August . By far the greater proportion of the exilesmore than one hundred and foriy—have either found employment , or have 1 < ft for the Continent . Some further subscriptions are required to liquidate the liabilities of the committee . Mr . W . Biewn MillVe ^ -eivcs subscriptions .
The " League of Universal Brotherhood" held its fifth annual meeting on Wednesday , at the London Tavern . The attendance was very numerous . In the midst of the proceedings the Paris deputation of workmen entered , and were warmly received . The meeting was addressed by the . Chairman , Mr . Charles Gilp in ; Mr . T . Beggs ¦ the Reverend Dr . Burns ; Mr . Elihu Burritt ; Mr . II . Vincent ; und Mr . Joseph Sturge . Two foreigners , the Chevalier Leucieca , and M . Bou < t , coeditor of ] , 'Evhiement , also addressed the meeting . The Suffolk Agricultural Association wan formed some time ago for the attainment of the following objects : —• 1 . The repeal of the rnalt-tax . 2 . The alteration of the
present unjust tithe system . . ' { . An cquituble meusure of tenant ritfht . 4 . A thorough revision of the present mode of maiiiiginur the county expenditure . 6 . 1 he abolition of the K' ^ rie , laws . The association met at Ipswich oh Wednesday publicly , and a great many Financial Reformers attended . The speakers exprcHsed strong feeling respecting the conduct of their leaders in promising n return to Protection , and then when an opportunity offered , an in the spring , di cluing the perilous honour of assuming oflice . under Protectionist colour" . There was it decided display of pluck iimong the Suffolk farmers , and Mr . Charles Lattimorc and his Fin »" cial Reform notions were well received . The meeting reaffirmed the above objects .
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Eight working-men huve been found guilty < Jf conspiracy to raise , wages , at Stafford . We slum recur to this next week . . The ivHHizes for the county of Tipperary have cloned without u single cam : of highway robbery , murder , takn » K of urmti , sending of threatening letters , or any agrarw "
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ATROCIOUS Mllltlliai IN I'AKIH . The Parisian police arrested , on Sunday , the young man who murdered u girl named Julie-tie 1 ' lame in n public-house in the Rue du Cherche-Midi . Jfi « name in Joseph Jlinnblot , Iiib age 19 , and his occupation that of a waiter in a coffeehouse . The arrest was effected at 110 Rue St . Honored , in the resilience of a concierge , who is a friend of his mother . He reiulily answered the question put to him , und made this statement : — " 1 know " he said , " I have , committed a horrible murder , ami know the fate , that awaits me . But 1 am not a mounter—1 waa detracted—1 h « d an attack of bruin
fever . During eight months , " he continued , " I had intimate relations with Juliette ; I loved her passionately , but at last I fancied I perceived she deceived me . I do not know whether I was right or wrong , but a violent jealousy took possession of me , and I resolved to kill her first , and myself afterwards . I was under the influence of these ideas when I met her on Wednesday . We went into the public-house , and ascended to a bedroom . A bottle of wine was brought us , " and Juliette seated herself on the bed . It was nearly nine o ' clock , and vertigo seized me . I passed my hand over her throat , which appeared to surprise her ; but before she had time to make any observation I seized a razor which I had for some time carried in my pocket , and , in one cut , made She had
a severe wound in the throat . Poor wretch ! only time to cry ' Mother ! Mother ! ' when she fell dead . I was troubled , and for a few moments knew not what I did . But at last I recovered my self-possession . I washed the blood from my hands and face . I opened the door ; but when half-way down the staircase , the idea of seeing her again recurred to me , and I went and kissed her for the last time . I hurried avray . I went to the river and washed my trousers . Afterwards I went home , and said to my father and mother , ' Kiss me , for you will see me no more ; I am a great criminal , and deserve the scaffold !' In their stupor they did not think of stopping me . I went out of Paris , and slept in a lodging-house at one of the barriers . In the morning I was agitated , and did not know where to go . So I resolved to commit suicide . But before dying I determined to try to see Juliette once
again . I went to the Morgue , where I thought her body would be taken ; but I arrived too late—she had been recognized by her mother , and the body had been removed . I listened to what was said in the crowd . ' A young girl has been murdered , ' they said , « and the murderer afterwards threw the body into the river . ' I shrugged my shoulders and went away . I went to a church , with the intention of confessing to a priest ; but not finding one , I wandered about the streets for some time , and at last left Paris . I only returned this morning . And now I have only to request that I may be condemned to death . My repentance and my chastisement will open to me the gates of heaven , and it is there alone that I can hope to see Juliette again . " The statement was made with the greatest calmness . The prisoner had on a shirt stained with the blood of his victim . The expression of his features is remarkably mild . He had procured himself a passport for a foreign country .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 2, 1851, page 726, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1894/page/10/
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