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the neighbourhood of Sticker-lane , where the couple resided , -shortly after eight o ' clock , accompanied by thousands ou its onward march , the multitude still increasing in density & 9 it passed down Leeds-road and op Vicarlane to the Old Church . It was led by amaa on horseback with -white hair , ninety-seven years of age , dressed in a scarlet cloak , and this patriarch of the cavalcade gave way the drilling bride . Two other horsemenfollowed—one dressed in a soldier ' s coat and a sorry hat , with his face painted as red as the coat : ; and the other in a bearskin j acket or cape , with hat to match , and his face painted like that of a savage New Zealand chief . Then followed , in « cart , the i > rMe and bridegroom , -with an object sitting low between them , resembling in his crouched position , the figure of " Old Nick" playing the bagpipes in . '¦* ' Tarn O'Shanter . " The bride sat calm and meek , seldom looking round her , but the excited bridegroom 4- ^ to tnctfWl'l ^ WYfTrihrwml r » S ^ i ^ lraT ^ -inina + V * n <— m ..... ^>^
often gesticulated violently , showing the intended ¦ wedding-ring on the little \ finger of has right . hand . Thirty riders , on patient-looking donkeys , came next . Many of them were smoking , had their faces coloured , and were dressed in all imaginable costumes . Behind these came several vehicles full of " we&dingers " and others enjoying the singular iseene : ; and to add excitement . to all , a band of musicians made the welkin ring with , their furious execution , of ¦ " See the conquering hero comes . " By the time the procession had reached the top of the Church-bank , no feVer . than 20 , 000 persons , who had escaped cMefly from mills and warehouses , crowded the churchyard and many of the adjacent -streets . When the knot was tied , they were prevented , from parading through the town by the police , and went to a public-house up Harrowgate-road , thousaads still following . —Manchester Examiner . . ¦ ¦ " , '
They will be delivered in Gravesend in time far reply by the London mail which leaves that place in -the evening . —By command of the Postmaster-General , Eow- - land Hill , Secretary . — - 'General Post-office , 16 ta April , 1 * 57 . The Maidstonb MTraDEfc . r—An inquest ias been held on the body of Elizabeth Jones , a girl of light character , who was killed by a bargeman striking her a , violent Wow on the head 5 n a boat . A verdict of Wilful Murder has been returned against 1 * he man . Discovert of a New Piahet . —Mr . M . J . Johnson writes to the IPzttks from the Radcliffe Observatory , Ox- ford , tinder date April 16 th : — "I wiH thank you to inform yoror astronomical readers that another planet , the ' forty-third of the system between Mars and Jupiter , ' was discovered last night at this observatory by Mr . ' Pogson . " _— _ »»* _ ' a' _ a __ . ^ - * __ .. * .. «
Sir Henry Bulweb at Bucharest . —The landed proprietors , advocates , and young boyards « f distinction , of Bucharest , have been presenting to Sir Sentry Ijytton Bnlwer , our Commissioner in the Principalities , an . address of esteem and confidence . They observed : — u The Houmans "welcome with delight in . you the worthy representative o * free England—the Envoy of her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen of Great Britain . They indulge in the firm hope that your presence among them will powerfully contribute to deliver them from all restraint , and thereby secure to them an unshackled manifesta-tion . of the wishes of the country , with entire
independence in the elections . We have the greater right to expect an attentive care on the part of the Commissioners in the application of the electoral law , as -we have not taken any part in drawing it up . We have too long lived without liberty for abuses not to be rife , particularly at a distance from the capital . We solicit the attention of your Excellency to this point . We take great pleasure in reminding you that at the Congress of Paris the representative of her Britannic Majesty was the first to insist strongly on the necessity of bating into account the free -vmhesof the country . " Sir Henry made an appropriate reply .
Wemh-spjeaking Bishops . —Letters from Lord John Russell and tie Earl of Derby , relative to the appointment in Wales of Bishops who know Welsh , are published by th-e K . W . Morgan . Middleton . Both statesmen are in favour of the Welsh Bishops understanding the language of the Principality ; but Lord John Russell does not see the necessity for all Welsh Bishops being natives of Wales . TitR Pian-o as a Room OrnAment . —Too often a huge music-box , shaped like a coffin , and called par excellence , a . grand piano , is foisted into a room , utterly regardless of effect . And , generally speaking , a grand piano , at best , is no beauty , either in colour , form , or execution . Whatever progress may have been made in
the internal parts of pianos , externally they remain much the same as when first rising into fashionable repute . They are rarely so constructed as to be ornamental in a room decorated according to the present taste . There is much scope for improvement in the external ornamentation of pianos . They retain their old features too strongly , and are evidently designed by " cabinetmakers , " and not by artists . Why should they not become ornaments to a room , instead of mere pieces of " furniture . " They are nearly all of one prevailing type , and stick to the same form and pattern as pertinaciously as if designed by Chinese artists , —who conserve old patterns in everything . But who would pay for an artistically-designed piano ? Who cares for a
combination of art and beauty xn tho external case of a piano ? Very few , it is'to be feared . They are treated as mere music-boxes on a large scale ; as mere cases to cover an ingeniously-contrived combi nation of hammers and wires . But why should they not be so formed as to please the eye as well as tho ear ? Let us hope that the time is not far distant wlien the case of a piano will be looked upo . n as a work of art , and so designed as to he an elegant and appropriate ornament to a tastefully decorated apartment . Its conspicuous size in a modern room imperatively demands ornamentation , in harmony with the general features of tho prevailing decorations ; to which at presont they violontly contrast in every particular . —The Builder .
This Fokce op run Anglo-Saxon Tongue . —Tho great lesson to be drawn from tho fact that Anglo-Saxon underlies , lileo original granite , all tho strata of tho English language , is , that to writo in it is to Avrito for tho hearts of tlie people . It is their mother-tongue , strong , sinowy , and expressive ; and thoy cling to it with a fondness which no change of usage can uproot , and no caprice of fashion can destroy . Just compare , in point of force and significance , a " sanguinary action , " with a "bloody deed j" " eternal felicity , " with " everlasting happiness ; " and " tho exemplar of tho cclcstiala , " in the llhonish version of tho Scriptures , with " the pattern of things in tho heavens , " in our own ; nnd you will feel at once how the language is emasculated by such attempted equivalents . —Frctser .
Tina Ikisii Cimci ? SRCKETAirrsmr . — Tho Dublin papers state that tho report of Mr . Ilorsman ' s resignation , which originated in a Scotch newspaper , is perfectly correct , and that tho right lion , gentleman is no longer Irish Secretary . Mr . ltalph Bernnl Oaborno , Secretary to tho Admiralty , is mentioned ns 'Mr . llorsman ' s successor . —Times .
Pbogress of Free Trade xn Russia . —Free trade makes progress alike in free and despotic countries . ' Russia recently published a new tariff , in which considerable reductions are made on the duties formerly levied on tvumeTous articles of import , and the Government of the Pope has lowered its tariff by 50 to 70 per cent , on cotton and woollen fabrics , clothes , soap , oil , and other commodities . The United States have also taken another / stride towards free trade . An Act was passed at Washington last month which reduces the import duties -on no "fewer than eight schedules of articles of trade . The duty on spirits is reduced from 100 to 30 per cent . ; on cut glass , rosewood and cedar manufactures , prepated meats , comfits , cigars , wine , and alabaster ornaments from 40 to 30 per cent . ; and on beer , clothing , coal , coke , Confectionary , dolls , furniture , glass , hats , hemp , ironj jewellery ,
manufactures of various kinds , muskets , olive oils , paper , saddlery , soap , sugar , tobacco , &c , from 30 to 24 per cent . Reductions of smaller amount are made on a multitude of other articles . It is true the schedules , lengthened as they are , do not include epme articles , such as iron , which constitute the head and front of the Protectionist system in America , but these changes are nevertheless considerable , and every new tariff reform in the United States has the effect of isolating the more injurious monopolies and preparing an assault under which they must ultimately fall . It is gratifying to know that the good cause of free commercial intercourse make 3 progress in all latitudes and under all forms of government , and that we are daily approaching nearer the happy condition when mankind , whatever other differences may divide them , will be knit together in the bonds at least of material interest . —North British Daily Mail .
Thk Education Question . —Lord Robert Cecil , M . P ., addressed a meeting at Stamford on Wednesday afternoon on the subject of educatipn . Ho enlarged on the importance of education at the present moment , when it is proposed to extend the franchise , and pointed to the late revelations of witch suporstition in the country as signs of tho existence of a great deal of debasing ignorance . Tho increase of crime was also an alarming feature , and this must be stopped at tho fountain-head by raising tho intellectual and moral condition of tho people . He believed " there is nowhere in tho world
that stolia , invincible , insuperable ignorance that is to be found in the genuine English peasant . " His Lordship spoke more osspecially » of tho men of Sussex . The " poor benighted savage , " ho said , is far above them . — A meeting was held on Monday , in tho parish of Brooke , of the members and friends of throo associations which have been at work during the past winter in different parts of this county in tbe promotion of adult evening classes , the circulation of a simple , wholesome ( chiofly illustrated ) literature among the cottages , nnd tho delivery of conversational lectures on useful and practical subjects , and of tho most familiar kind . All classes arc
co-operating m this good work , and thoy appear to bo successful . Additional Mail to Gravesend . —On nnd after Monday , tho 20 th inst ., an additional mail will bo made up at this office for Graveecnd , to bo despatched by tho train which leaves the London-bridge station at 4 . 50 r-M . Sundays oxooptod ) . Letters for this despatch muat bo posted at tho receiving oilices in London before -i pm . ; at tho branch offices in Charing-cross and Lom-Dam-atroet , tho south-eastern district office , 170 , Hitfhstreet , Borough ) , ana the . western district office ( Old Cavendish-street ) , before 8 p . m . ; and at tho General Post-office , St . MartinVlo-Graud , before 3 . 30 v . m .
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SPAIN AND MEXICO . —PORTUGAL . " The . Mexican question , " says the Courier of Madrid , " has made a great step towards a pacific and satisfactory solution . The letters and journals received from that country bring the latest intelligence down to the 3 rd of March , and give the important news that the crime committed on the persons of Nicholas Bennejillo and his companions has been punished . The military commission established at Cuernavaca has succeeded ia arresting four of the assassins , and caused itliem to be shot upon the spot . " An expedition is about io leave Lisbon for Macao , in order to enforce the treaty of 1796 between tlie Portuguese and the Envperor of China . It is alleged that the Chinese have usurped the authority then acccorded to Portugal .
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GREECE . Tho Finance Committee has declared that the Alinistry has extravagantly spent the public revenue .
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The Royal British Bank : Dividend Meeting . — Yesterday was appointed for tho anxiously expected dividend meeting , and a great number of persons who had not proved on tho previous occasions were generally admitted without opposition . There is little doubt that the dividond will bo 2 a . < Sd . in the pound . West Indies , &o . —From BarbadocB ive learn l > y tlie last mail that the financial condition and prospects oi tho country wero moat satisfactory . The unusuiu state of the weather at St . Lucia had overthrown all the calculations of the agriculturists . The quantity of -ram had been detrimental to- tho young canes . From JN icaragua there are rumoim of tho death of ex-President liivas of Nicaragua by assassination .
Tnrc French Republican emigration have just lost one of their most onorgetio mombers , M . Ko « gc e . Tho refugees of all nations and tho English Democrats have been invited to attend Ms funeral on Sunday , the 19 | n inst ., at half-post nine , a . m . They will meet ut the residence of the deceased , No . 36 , Charlotte-street , Blackfiiars-roadL
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; Leadeb Ouicis , Saturday , April lstb . * FRANCE . ( By Electric Telegrap hy tut n-r V ^ ris , April 17 th . M-Mocqita ** , Private Secretary to the Emjeror has addressed from the Tuileriea a letter to the joumaK characterising ihe assertion in the Times of the refusal << tf Prince Napoleon to proceed to Toulon to receive tte Grana Duke Constantino as ^ apurenrvention " Sofar so good . M . Mocquard ' 3 letter however , are not usuaUv accepted as undeniable , either in Paris or in London The Mon&eur polishes a contention , by the terns of which England gives up the right to trade between theemboucW of St . Jean arid Porteudre , iaretu n for the cession of Albreda . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ . ¦ - : ¦ ¦ ¦ . I *" . ** wW : ,. ¦ ¦ ¦ ' '
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TXEFEAT OF THE ^ S ^ M ^^ I ^ S ^ ASSLl "The Circassians , attockfl ^^ l ^ ^ ign ^ nB ia ^ last days of March , " says a tojMtffci&Mtot iVi ^ " repulsed the strong columny # &&&& .. pifetrateahrto the mountains of Tnah . The fe ^ SjSiMt'i ^ !) men ae Circassians 300 . Meheniefc . l 8 SipiiigiBDircaiaa military organisation . Thee *^ * fcj ^ ag ^ st £ U 1 ha , captured Forfc Saliah andm rajggjlgtffb ffi ^ iftison , The garrisons of the nei ghbourin ^^ RigpllSjrifcered . " ' ¦ " ¦ ¦
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• .. . ¦ .: ; ¦¦• . . :. . •—^ - -rr-KKtmtf i . } - * : . . . military w ^ c ^ fig ^^ tsrs :. « 'A report was ciinenty ^ Ll ^ - ^^^ he German Journal of JPraakfort of thja Mth , " 4 hat a quarrel hod taken place between the Prussian and Austrian soldiers of the garrison of Mentz . The rumour is no-w con . firmed , and it is further stated that the whole garrison has been confined to barracks . A local journal speaks of four vehicles rilled with tilled and wounded , and another version states that five Prussians were killed on t te spot ^ but both accoonts are doubtless greatly exaggerated . " .
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DENMARK . The Supremo Council has unanimously adopted the treaty for tho settlement of the Sound Dues . M . Tillisch has not succeeded in forming a Ministry .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 18, 1857, page 370, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2189/page/10/
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