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took leave of their royal parents , and returned to Berlin . Wherever her Majesty appeared , she was received with the loudest acclamations . Her Majesty and his Royal Highness arrived at Dover in the Royal yacht , at half-past twelve on Tuesday morning , where they landed . Her Majesty and the Prince left Dover soon after by special train for Portsmouth , and there embarked for Osborne , -where they arrived on Tuesday at half-past four in the afternoon . The Queen will leave Osborne on Monday next for Leeds , where her Majesty lias consented to be present at the opening of the Town Hall on the fallowing day . Her Mnjesty thence proceeds to Edinburgh , arriving in that city on Tuesday evening at seven o ' clock . On Wednesday morning she resumes her journey to the Highlands , and is expected to arrive at Balmoral at six in the evening .
Will . —Tho will of the Hon . Sir Charles Abney Hastings , Bart ., of Willesley Hall , Ashby-de-la-Zouch ami Cavendish-square , was proved in London on the 17 th of August . The personalty sworn under 120 , 000 / . Bequeaths the books , pictures , tec , at Willesley Hall to be as heirlooms , and go with the landed property . To William W . Abney , Esq ., 5000 / . The house in Cavendish-square , with the furniture , he has bequeathed to Lady Edith Clifton , together with the bulk of the property , appointing her residuary legatee . There are a few " pecuniary legacies to his executors and friends , and to those of " his establishment : —100 / . to the Derby General Infirmary , 100 / . to the Leicester General Infirmary , 20 / . to the poor of Packington , and small legacies to other parishes .
Legacies . —The late Mr . Anthony Dodd Newton , shipowner , of Sans-street , , has bequeathed per the residuary legatees and executors . Messrs . William Dawson and James Richardson , 100 / . to the Wesleyan Missions , 100 / . to the Bible Society , 100 / . to Sans-street Wesleyan Chapel Trust , 50 / . . to " the Worn-out Ministers Fund , " and 50 / . to the Sunderland Benevolent Society . The deceased was a member of the Wesleyan Methodist Society for upwards of fifty years , and a class-leader for the greater part of that time . —Xeiocasth' Chronicle . Baron Rothschild . —The following memorial to Baron Rothschild , prepared pursuant to a resolution of a public meeting held on Thursday at Aylesbury , lias been numerously signed , and will be forwarded without delay to the baron : — " To Baron Lionel X . de Kothscbild , M . P ., &c . &c . &c . —We , the undersigned
inhabitants of Aylesbury , assembled in public meeting , desire to congratulate you on having your name associated with the triumph of civil and religious equality , as the first Hebrew member of the House of Commons . We rejoice that this honourable distinction should have been earned , after an arduous struggle of eleven years' duration , by the head of a family so weir known in this neighbourhood by their private virtues and unostentatious charities . We trust that the final removal of an invidious test will be followed by the entire abolition of all religious distinctions as affecting the civil rights of British subjects . We feel confident that the important functions ¦ with which you are now entrusted will be exercised in promoting the cause of freedom and progress ; and we pledge ourselves to use all legnl means to forward the same objects . "—Aylesbury News .
Lynch Law at Cuievf . ' —A sort of no er-do-wcel married labouring man , has for some time past , it appears , been living , as the saying goes , upon his own meal-poke , separate from the rest of the family . It seems that on last Saturday night the uc'cr-do-wcel went home as usual half-seas over , and not being satisfied with what his better half had prepared for supper , he resolved to bo revengod for what he considered to be an insult , and forthwith proceeded to the garden at the back of the house and commoncod to dig tho potatoes , which ho throw into tho mill-ladc . The fool had nearly all tho potatoes dug and put into the water , when tho matrons in tho neighbourhood turned out in force and uoizod tho follow , whom they immediately pitched into tho lade and kept him struggling there for some time—/ Stirling Journal *
The Dean of Banoou . —On bunday last , this dignitary , while assisting ut divinu service , was soiled by ono of those epileptic fits to which ho has of lato become unhappily subjoct , and prostratod on tho floor of tho chanoel , to tho great alarm of tho bishop and tho whole congregation . Assistance being at hand , ho was promptly removed , and had bo far rocovorod , that in tho afternoon ho was again edited ut hid ofiioiul desk in the choir . Miss Amy Sgdgwick . — Wo regrot to learn that this lady still continues seriously 111 at Manchester . Sine has not boon able to play sinco Monday , tho Kith ult ., nor Is it probable she will rcaumo her professional duties ¦ ¦
... f ^ fflPV ^ rltlfoiyV'H rftlM . fi - . .. - Thw IPrinoio Alfred . —The young Prince has , wo believe , boon two days this wook before thu JiTaval Examiners , and is to have two days more of ft noxt week . When the -visit to Potednm wus arranged , it was decided that Prince , Alfred should accompany nor Majesty , and he loft at the Unlversfty of Bonn to nursuo JjJs ^ tudies ; but it has since boon doomed oxpodiont that lus Itoynl Highness should make a sou voyage first , nud a trip to tho Mediterranean has boon arranged immediately after the " passing . " Tho establishment at AlverbankwlU then be at once broUcu up . —Court Journal .
An Alphabet for the Atlantic Telegraph Company . —We learn from llerapath that the Atlantic Telegraph Company are selecting and classifying words most used in communications on different subjects , and constructing what may be called a stenographic alphabet , for the purpose of expediting transmissions . -Instead , of taking an average of nearly two minutes , to a word , they can already transmit two words in a minute , and expect —when they shall have constructed proper alphabets , and got competent persons to use them , very much to
increase that rate . It has been calculated that out of about 40 , 000 words in the English language , the most copious writers seldom use 3000 . As , therefore , in stenography , one symbol is often employed to signify several different words , the distinctive meanings of which are discovered from the context , it is clear that a small telegraphic alphabet maybe made to express a great number of words , and consequently afford , if classified for different subjects , a copiousness of language in skilful hands suited to almost any purpose .
Writing and Reading . —Ah , how easy it is to read what it was so difficult to write ! There is all the difference between running down from London to Manchester by the railway after it has been made , and of making the railway from Le-ndon to Manchester . You , my intelligent reader , who begin to read a chapter of Mr . Froude ' s eloquent ' History , " and get on with it so fluently , are like the snug old gentleman , travellingcapped , railway-rugged , great-coated , and plaided , who leans back in the corner of the softly-cushioned carriage as it flits over Chat-moss ; while the writer-of the chapter is like George Stephenson , toiling month after month to make the track along which you speed , in the face of difficulties and discouragements which you never think of . And so I say it may sometimes be somewhat easy
and pleasant to write , but never so easy and pleasant as it is not to write . The odd thing , too , about the work of the pen is this : —that it is often done best by the men who like it least , and shrink from it most , and that it is often the most laborious writing along which the reader ' s mind glides most easily and pleasurably . It is not so in other matters . As the general rule , no man does well the work which he dislikes . Xo man will be a good preacher who dislikes preaching . No .-man will be a good anatomist who hates , dissecting . Sir Charles Napier , it must be confessed ,. was a great soldier , though he hated fighting ; and as for writing , some men have been the best writers who hated writing , and who would never have penned a line but under the pressure of necessitv . —Frctser ' s Jfaoazine for September .
The East India Company . —On . Monday a special general court of the proprietors of the East India Company was held at their house in Leadenhall-street . The first matter laid before the court related to the confirmation of a resolution for granting an annuity of 2000 / . to Sir J . L . M . Lawrence , Bart ., G . C . B . On the motion that it be confirmed , Mr . Jones proposed an amendment , but the chairman said as the amendment went only to modify the resolution , which must either be confirmed or rejected , it would be irregular to put it to the meeting . After a few observations from some of tho proprietors the motion was carried unanimously . The
chairman then said the court was made special for the purpose of laying before tho proprietors the opinion of counsel upon certain points submitted for their consideration by the committee of proprietors appointed by tho general court on the 11 th inst . Tho questions to , and answers by , counsel were then read , and a discussion took place respecting them , when it was agrcod that the questions and answers should be printed for tho use of the proprietors . The rcappointmeut of tho committee was thon proposed and agrcod to , and tho proceedings terminated . fou tub Blub Coat
Gymnastics Boys . —A new gymnasium for tho scholars at Christ ' s Hospital hasjust been completed , and exercises of ( ho most approved and healthful character , in tho military stylo , aro in future to bo taught both at Hertford and at Nowgato-street . Tho Duke of Cambridge has manifested -much anxiety for tho instruction of tho youths under education in thoso royal establishments in all kinds of athletic games , subjecting them also to a regular system of easy " drill " two duyri in each wook . The spacious aito on tlio wostcrn sido of Christ's Hospital linn been carefully laid out , and covered with a bituminous mixture forming a suitable surface for tho purposes intended . During tho holidays tho whole of tho interior of tho groat hall and ofiicos has boon thorougly clounsoil and paiutod , tho vonLilation of tho extensive oetablishnienfMiavlug boon particularly attended to .
Lkahnko Boys . —I havo soon silly parents trying to got their children to say that they liked school-time 'irottor ^ tirairnnmnn ^ fiT ^^ than play . I havo soon , with joy , manly little fellows repudiating tho odious and unnatural sentiment , and declaring manfully that thoy proforred criokot to Ovid , And if any boy ovor tells you tiiat ho would rather loam liis lossond than go out to tho play-ground , bowaro of that boy . F . ithor his health is drooping , and his mind becoming prematurely and unnaturally developed , or ho is a little humbug . Ue is an impostor , lie is seeking to obtain credit under falno protoncos . Depend upon it , unless it really bo that ho is a poor little spiritless man , deficient in nerve and musolo , and unhealthily precocious
sido of Lord Lucan , ami tho two quondam advoraarlos amicably dlacussod togethor the cavalry engagement of which thoy wore respectively tlio heroes in tho valley of Balakluva . " Fuom 1-lAMnuno to San FuANOiseo . —Wu translate the following from tlio Jlumimty Advertiser/— " I'M somo dnys past Colonel T . T . Shoemaker hns beou staying hero . Ho hns oomo to Germany as tho head engineer , entrusted with tho entire mnnntromonfc of tho Central Pacific Kuilroad Company lu tho United States , to arrange tho auaira of this routo in connexion with tha Grand Trunk Jtulhvay of Canada , to draw up the « r-
effect :: —A countryman armed with an immense club , presents himself before the president of the society and claims the first prize . He is asked to describe the act of humanity on which he founds his claim . "I saved the life of a wolf , " replies the countryman ; "I might asily have killed him with this bludgeon , " and he swings his weapon in the air , to the intense discomfort of the president . "But where was this wolf ? " inquires the latter , " what had he done to you ? " " He had just devoured my wife , " is the reply . The president reflects an instant , and then say 3 : " My friend , I am of opinion that you have been sufficiently rewarded . "
Representative Peer . —The Earl of Bandon has been elected a representative peer of Ireland , in the room of the late Earl of Glengall . Lord Stratford de Redcliffe . —The > St . James ' s Chronicle says : — " A great number of absurd reports are in circulation about his Lordship ' s . visit to the old scenes of his diplomatic triumphs , and a political character has been given to his return . The fact is , Lord Stratford de Redcliffe goes again to Constantinople simply to take leave of the Sultan . He will not remain long , " as he proposes to spend the winter in Rome . "
The Bishop of Exeter . —It is stated that the Bishop of Exeter " has refused to grant a license to the Rev . Mr . Ord , as curate of Silverton . The rev . gentleman had been selected by the rector , the Rev . Dr . Tripp , and during the short period of his ministrations in the parish , he has won the high esteem of the inhabitants . It is alleged that the right rev . prelate refuses the license on doctrinal grounds . Mr . Ord has received six weeks ' notice to quit , and the Bishop is said to have appointed a man of his own selection . Mr . Ord is not a Tractariaiii- —Western Times .
Telegraphic Mistake . — The Xew York Tribune has the following : — " Not long since a gentleman telegraphed to a friend at Cleveland an interesting family a flair , as follows : — ' Sarali and little one doing well . ' The telegraph reached its destination , when it read thus : — ' Sarah and litter all doing well . ' The recipient telegraphed back the following startling query : — ' For Heaven ' s sake , how many V " Missionaries for Bkitisii Columbia . —The Society for the Propagation of tho Gospel in Foreign Parts ha 3 resolved to establish without delay a mission in tho new colonv of British Columbia .
Funeral of Mr . Harley . —The mortal remains of this much respected comedian were on Saturday morning removed from his residence in Gower-. str . eot , Bedfordsquare , and finally deposited in the family vault at Kcnsal-green , Tho funeral was attended amongst others by Messrs . II . Bennett , B . Webster , Bedford , Cooper , James Vining , Si-lby , and Donald W . King . Mr . Koan was absent from illness . Representation of GiiKENWiCH . —Mr . Townsond , M . P ., has forwarded a communication to the secretary of a 1 peal political association , in which ho states his
deterinitiation to resign his scat . Tho only candidates at present in the ilokl are Alderman Salomons and Mr . Ernest Jones . Tho luttor is making some progress amongst tho supporters of Mr . Townsoml , and sovoral committees linvo boon formed to secure his return . Mr . Chambers at present declined to appear ; but a numerous section of tho electors aro about to communicate with tho Hon . Mr . Cumnbvll , requesting him to become a ouiuiidnto . Singular Mkktino . —A letter from Berlin of tho 27 th , in tlio Brussols Jut / rpem / ance , snys : ¦— " Tho Iloto ! du Nord was tho scene yesterday of a curious roncontre . Prince nortsohakofl found himd ' ullLiUa ^ d ^ iLiiU ^
luJiy-LtJLtfin intellect , he has in him the elements of a sneak ; am he wants nothing but time to ripen him into a pick pocket , a swindler , a horse-dealer , or a Whig statesman —Eraser ' s Magazine for September . Humboldt rx Hebrew . —A curious Hebrew publica tion has just issued from the Berlin press—a biography of Alexander von Humboldt , written in , tbf ancient tongue of Moses , and destined to extend the knowledge of the life an / 1 scientific labours of this celebrated man in the wide circle of the Russo-Polish and Asiatic Jaws . The full title is " Alexander von
Humboldt . A Biographical Sketch . Dedicated to the Nestor of Wisdom on his 88 th Birthday . By S . Slominski . " The . author is a Russian Israelite , who some years ago invented a very clever calculating machine , and drew upon himself at that time , by his mathematical knowledge , the attention of the celebrated astronomers , Herren Bcssel and Jacdby , of Koiiigsberg . —Jewish Chronicle . ¦ ¦ French Wit . — -In France the Society for the Protection of Animals does not enjoy that popular respect which it deserves ; moreover , the small wits of the capital indulge in endless jokes at its expense . The last is to this
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No . 441 , September 4 , 1858 . ] THE X E A P E B , 899 _
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 4, 1858, page 899, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2258/page/11/
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