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      MISpELLANE OUS / We remark in the records of the Court that the nuke and Duchess of Nemours , political refugees « md fusiohists , visited her Majesty on Monday . The T ? xrday ibe Prince Leopold of SaxerCoburg , who had been staying at "Windsor Castle since Saturday , left for ¦ Lisbon . The Queen , accompanied by Lord and Lady John ¦ Russell , have witnessed Prince Albert , the Prince of Wales , and Prince Alfred skate in the Home-On Thursday , at the Privy Council held at Windsor , Parliament was ordered to be further prorogued from the 3 rd of January until Tuesdays the 31 st of January 1854 , » nd a proclamation was issued summoning parliament to meet on that day " for the despatch of public business . "

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      The Reverend Edward Hartopp Cradock has been elected PrincipalofBrazenose College , Oxford . Mr . fiarington , son of the late Dr . Harington , has been elected a student of Christchurch . Dr . Mill , regius professor of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge , and canon of Ely , died on Christmas-day . Dr . James " Gillkrest , inspector-general of army hospitals , died on the same day . He was an old officer . His peninsula medal had twelve clasns . Dr . Gillkrest is also known for his services during the visits of cholera . The Emperor of the French has ordered the sum of 700 francs to be paid by Messrs . Orsi and Almani , merchants in " London , for the benefit of the Dreadnought Hospital establishment in the Thames . '

      It is quite true that the original petition has been withdraw ^ it is eqnally true that an amended one has been substituted , which prays not only for the unseating of Messrs . Horsfall and Liddefi , but that a commission may sit in Liverpool for the purpose of inquiring generally into the practices which prevail here during Parliamentary contests . It prays , further , for the entire disfranchisement of the freemen of the borough . —Liverpool Times . Mr . O'Connell gives the following description of his unsuccessful opponents at Clonmel , comprising the League deputation , Messrs . Gray , Lucas , Duffy , and Moore : — "I have stepped into the vacancy that otherwise might have been attempted ^ by a creature , or a co-conspirator of the newspaper-triumvirate of Dublin , who have taken upon themselves le

      to rule the country , and lefture prelates , priests , and peop upon their duties . . . . , " This ominous and heterogeneous conjunction of a Protestant advocate of high Catholicity , an English teacher and expounder of Irish rights and Irish feelings , and a Catholic plagiarist from the wild and half-heathen Carlyle , and panegyrist of the anti-Catholic Kossuth , the anti-Christian Alaz-2 mi , and their Bed Republican and murderous abettors decided that you , who were ever true to Ireland and her religion , required to be lectured upon your duty . Accordingly they invaded your town to spread , as is their wont , and to the utmost of their deplorable ability , dissension , calumny , bitterns , and confusion I " " John Archbishop of Tuam" has sent a letter of sympathy tb the " persecuted" Archbishop of Freiberg . mines has been established in

      A- Government school of Cornwall . Lord Palmerston has issued directions for the appointment of ji Koman Catholic priest to her Majesty ' s prisons . His }> ay will be legulated upon an average of the number of toman Catholic convicts , and not by the number of visits he may make . Tho Ranger of Hyde-park has recently caused fresh notices to bo affixed to the various gates » f the park , in lieu of the former ones , on the subject of the use to which the carriage drives and rides are to be appropriated . The admission of hackney carriages of all kinds is prohibited , and no laden oarW or other vehicles of the kind are to be allowed to pass through the park . No horses rid den by stablemen and others , for the purpose of exercise only , are to be admitted for that purpose .

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      The splendid Christmas weather has greatly exhilarated the denizens of London who can bear it . We have had frost and snow throughout the week . The pieces of water in tlio parks have been sufficiently frozen to admit of multitudes enjoying the pleasures of skating and sliding . Early in tlio week , the moro adventurous spirits met with severe duckings , hut no life was lost , owing to the great exertions of the iromen of the Itoyul Humane Society and the police . On Thursday , however , the ice was so thick in the parka , that thoiiKunds engaged in inspiriting exerciao with perfect safety . Tlio usual returns of the paupera in the metropolitan unions show n considerable increase , chiefly in the out-door poor , over last Christinas . Tlio customary heel , pudding , sweetmeats , and tobacco was served out to the p » upcr . i on Sunday .

      A reformatory school ha . s beon in operation near Gloucester for I ho last eighteen months . Twenty-thrco boya huvo been received ; four are failures , three have been provided 'or , the rest are uncjer treatment . The total coat of thti wshool has been 400 / . ; but deducting 170 / . for stock on the l « nd , tin acres , that cost is reduced to 230 / .

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      Engineers are ut work on tho Iiiiph around Devon port . TJiey have long been left incomplete : it hccum they will now 1 > d jfhutihetl . Tho opening of tho railway from Carmarthen to IlavcrforuwcHt wna celebrated with great pomp at the hitter town oil Thursday . The London mail of the 4 th of February next will ho despatched to Australia by the Bonp / ioms Herew steam-ves . scl , thn General Screw Steam Shipping Company having obtained th « oontrac' for its conveyance . It lias been decl . led that tho new rttoam yacht for Iho Queen « liall ho built of tho following dimensions and capnni-Iwio ; : —Length of lecol , 800 feet ; length on deck , » 15 feet ;

      beam , 40 feet ; depth of hold , 22 feet ; diameter of paddlewheel , 30 feet 6 inches ; stroke of piston , 7 feet ; diameter of cylinder , 84 inches ; tonnage , 2340 . The revolutions of the engines have been estimated at from 25 to 28 , which will yield , it is calculated , a speed of from 15 to 16 knots per hour . The engines are to be manufactured by Penn , upon the oscillating principle , but which , to obtain the speed calculated upon , must bo worked upon the high-pressure gauge . They will occupy great space in the body of the vessel , and consequently allow of less ventilation and working room for the engineer ' s staff , and admit of the stowage of a less quantity of coals .. The Cyclones , now loading in the London Docks , is to sail next week , and will convey the requisite apparatus for the Royal Mint , about to be established at Sydney . The melting pots , and other necessary apparatus , which are stated to be of a new and improved kind , have been supplied by Messrs . Morgan ; and Rees . —2 ) at 7 w News .

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      The late Mr . Pigott ' s library and manuscripts—a collection which comprised some curious and rare books on the occult sciences , scarcejftcetfaj , jest books and songs , and other works in general literature—has recently been disposed of under the hammer of Messrs . Sotheby and Wilkinson , of Wellington-street . Among some of the more curious , rare , and valuable articles , ° may be mentioned—Lot 35 , " Anderson's House of Yvery , " wanting some plates , 10 / . 12 s . ; 300 , the " Marriage of Heaven and -Hell , ' by Blake , 41 . 16 s . ; 352 , " Jerusalem , " by the same , 4 / . 16 s ; 595 , " Walpole's Hieroglyp hic Tales , " of excessive rarity , six copies -only having been printed , 71 . ; 653 , " Coryat ' s Crudities , " 8 / . ; 702 , " Gould ' s Birds of Europe , " 75 / . ; 846 , " Harington ' s Metamorphoses of Ajax , " 41 . 5 s . ; 884 , "Heydon ' s Theomagia , "

      41 . 19 s . ; 1011 , " Hoare ' s Monastic remains , " privately printed , 71 . 10 s . ; 1056 , " Merry Jests , " Eld , 1617 , 6 / . ; 1057 , "A Banquet of Jests , " Royston , 1657 , 6 Z . 8 s . 6 d . ; 1357 , a collection of early newspapers from 1645 to 1665 , 17 / . ; 1737 , Charles the First ' s copy of the " Annals of Tacitus , " 5 / . ; 2014 , " Vicar ' s Jehovah-Jirab , " 9 / . 15 s . ; 2033 , Dr . Dee ' s far-famed Speculum , 13 / . ; 2034 , the "Magic Crystal" of the same great astrologer , 15 / . 10 s . The manuscripts contained—Lot 2040 , "A Brief Chronicle from the Entering of BrUtus to 1595 , " 11 / . 5 s . ; 2042 , " Seyer's Collection "for his History of Bristol , " 20 / . ; 2044 , Byron ' s original " manuscripts of the " Curse of Minerva , " 221 . 10 s . ; 2045 , " -A Fragment , " by Chatterton , 61 . ; 2082 , " Heraldic Collections for Somersetshire , " 21 / . The lots generally brought very high prices , after much spirited competition .

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      Out of , 8 , 557 , 763 acres and 30 perches of land in the various parishes of the several counties in England , 61 , 496 acres 3 roods and 23 perches are occupied by railways , whilst in Wales , out of 639 , 427 acres 2 roods and 18 perches , 3550 acres and 23 perches are occupied by railways . Mr . Oliveira seems to have met with success in France in pushing his inquiries as to the practicability of an adequate supply being available for tho increased demand were the wine duties reduced . The present annual produce of France is stated at 900 , 000 , 000 gallons , while the capacity to increase is virtually illimitable . Under these circumstances , Mr . Oliveira observes , " Our present consumption from all countries being six millions of gallons , if it were in four years to increase tenfold , which is not at all improbable , producing with a Is . duty a revenue of 3 , 000 , 000 / ., we should require sixty millions of gallons , which France alone , to say nothing of Portugal and Spain , would supply without

      any effort whatever . " The Bey of Tunis , who has the reputation of being one of the four best chess players in tho world , has challenged tho Chess Club of the Passage Jouffroy , Paris , to a rubber game for 1000 / . sterling . The first game has already begun . Tho club drew the first move . Tho progress which chromo-lithography and nature printing has made since the year 1851 , and tho marked attention which has been recently called to the latter , in consequence of tho successful efforts of tho Imperial Printing-office at Vienna , have induced the Council of tho Society of Arts to bring together a collection of recent specimens . It is understood that upwards of fifty specimens of nature printing from Vienna , of every varietyj-botanical , geological , entomological—will be shown , and inso some of the earlier productions ( as far back as 1847 ) of I ? r . Ferguson Branson , of Sheffield , to whom , it ia believed , tho invention lft ( lllO Mrs . Bloomer and The Lily have emigrated to Mount Vernou , Ohio . In tlio last number of her journal , she says : " Ourhusband having purchased an interest in The Western Home Visitor , published at Vernou , Ohio , and determined upon removing to that plueo forthwith , we , as a true and faithful wife , are bound to say in tho language ot liuth ' where thou goebt I will go ; ' and ho , before- another number of The Lily reaches ito subscribers wo shall , if all is well , have settled in our western home . " —New York 'Tribune .

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      Tho number of murders in all parts of the country excites some attention . Last week , a man named Evans , cut tho the throat of a woman named Wilford , with whom ho was living , in order to prevent her from giving evidence against him on account of his brutality . A woman . named Cunningham was . shot while . sitting at her loom , in tho parish of lkith , Scotland . Tho investigation before tho coronor into tlio murder at York was concluded on Saturday evening id York . Tho jury returned a verdict of * ' willul murder " against Itmhellu Campbell and Caroline Nicholson . Tho coroner then bound over the witiicascH to appear and give evidence , and issued his warrant for tho committal of Campbell and . Nicholson to York Caatlo for trial at the Spring Assizes . An jiKiuest has boon held on tho naked and brui . s . d body of a boy found at K . i . st Acton ; and the evidence indicated both ciiinii and mystery . The body has been identified as that of Itichunl Jlcdliur . st , tho kou of a horsehair-cutter . He

      was last seen alive . some twven weeks ago . Then ho was induced to got u |» into a pony cliJiiao-ciiri , driven by a tall man , with a full face , ami wearing a fu . iti : in coat . Air . Thomas Francis , surgeon , Actn , mud that ho saw tho body

      on Monday , the 19 th , when it had the appearance of having been covered with a quantity of ointment . The hands ana feet seemed as if they had been tied with chord . The body was extremely emaciated , and there were sores all over it . There were also several scratches , as if done by some pronged instrument like a fork . There was a bruise on the bridge of the nose , and the right eye was black , swollen , and filled with echymosed blood . There was no food in the stomach or large intestines , and there were some dark spots on the mucous membrane . On the back and hips were sores as if from lying for some time in one position . On opening the brain , he found congestion of the vessels , and on opening the chest , he discovered the left lung / to be very extensively diseased . The inquest was adjourned in order that further evidence might be collected ; and that the coroner might ask the Home Secretary to offer a reward for the apprehension of the murderer . .

      • For no apparent reason a man named Heas , on Saturday , iirst attempted to murder his wife , and then committed suicide . The poor woman had recently been confined . Heas taunted her about her child . On Saturday , taking her mother out , lie lost her in the streets , ran home and stabbed his wife in bed with her infant at the breast . The wounds she parried partly with her arm , screaming murder , and rushing from the room . Heas stuck himself through the carotid artery . " .- ¦» ¦ No fewer than five bodies of infants have been found concealed behind brickwork in a cottage at Ditching , Essex . For some years the cottage has been tenanted by a labourer named Gatland and his daughter , the mother of two living illegitimate children . A judicial investigation is in progress . Game-preserving conflicts are common just now . _ 1 here was one on Sunday night in the preserves of Mr . Lewis Buck , M . P . for Devon . Fortunately , it was not fatal . lwo

      poachers were captured . Lieutenant-Colonel Layard , in a fit of temporary derangement , cut his throat in seven places . He was staying at Palmerstown ; Mrs . Layard bad left him for a minute ; when she returned she saw him gashing at his throat ! He soon died . Mr . Layard was formerly Member for Carlow , ¦ and was well known in political circles for his lively speeches and adherence to Liberal principles . Mr . James Hurst , \ solicitor , cut his throat on Monday ; cause , lowness of spirits . _ . Some mean fellows have robbed the ornamental water in St . James ' s Park of three white and one black swans .

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      SatukdAY , December 31 . Tins Mojiiteur of yesterday announces that , according to the latest advices from Constantinople , tho Divan was in perfect harmony with tho representatives of Franco , England , Austria , and Prussia , as to the conditions on which tho Porte could with honour concur in the re-establishment of peace . The intelligence of tho acceptance by tho Porte of

      the Note of tho Vienna Conference is confirmed by despatches received in Paris on Wednesday at tho Foreign-oflice . Turkey lms accepted the propositions of the allies ; hut of the intentions of Kusisia nothing certain is known—certainly not by the French Government . The only Power that is helieved to be deep in the confidence of tho Czar , and to be cognizant of the manner in which ho will receive these advancesis Austria—and Austria ifl silent .

      , It is important to remember that tho orders to tho combined fleets to enter tho Black Sea wore despatched ( if they were despatched ) no sooner than

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      There were no fewer than eight fires in the metropolis on Tuesday night . ¦ . .. , L . . Another serious fire occurred in Great Winchester-si-reet , City , on Thursday . It destroyed the house and property ot Mr . Burgin , upholsterer , and , damaged tho surrounding houses . There were \ also four other fires . The Royal Paper Mills at Esher , Surrey , were burnt down on Friday week . It was a very large building , full ot windows ; and . the flames darting out at these apertures , and curling upward , leaping from place to place , and overpowering the water from the numerous engines on the spot , formed a magnificent though terrific spectacle . About 250 persons are thus thrown out of employment . . _ _ ,

      There has been a terrific conflagration at New York , which consumed tho large publishing establishment of Harper , Brothers , and fifteen other buildings . The loss is estimated at 200 , 000 / . ,. The Prince , a Dublin steamer , saw , on Wednesday , a sliip in a strange state . Presently tho captain saw a flag of distress . Steaming up , they found about twenty persons 11 oating in tho ice-cold water on spars and pieces of wood , lhe sea ran high ; the captain lowered his boats , but the seamen would not venture into them ! A fishing-smack came up , and with a little skifF saved six . The rest perished ; the crew of tho steamer looking on—the captain running about

      weeping . . , There have'been heavy snow storms in divers parts ot the country , and tho winter has fairly set in with a seasonable rigour . . . Great mortality has occurred of lato in emigrant ships going from Liverpool to New York . During November , there wero no fewer than 1141 deaths in 13 , 762 passengers . A brewer at Selby has been drowned in a vat of ale . There is a story in one of tho Irish papers of a marriage between two sisters , to cover tho shame of one . They were united , it is said , in the name of the sweetheart to whom tJio lady had permitted too great an intimacy . But the story reads like a hoax .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 31, 1853, page 1257, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2019/page/9/