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The Court . — Her Majesty ' s stay at Osborne has at ^ SgthTrminated , and the Court returned to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday morning The rovai family continue in good hea tli . On Wednesday evening the Queen and the Prince Consort were Sent at the performance of " King Henry-the Kf th " at the Princess ' s Theatre ; and on Thursday , her Majesty had a dinnerparty Among the guests wie the Earl and Countess of Delaware and the Ea SSs tv 7 BAKOKETs-It is very natural and very legitimate of Lord Derby , before resigning office to recommend to the Queen certain gentk-Sen of Iris own party for elevation to the . peerage . The thr ^ e new peers are , Sir Charles Morgan , of Tredegarin Monmouthshire , a kind of chieftain of
, the Welsh Marches . The second is Mr . Egerton , of Tatton , in Cheshire , who , after the decision in the Bouse of Lords upon the celebrated Will cause , divided the Bridgewater property with Lord Alford . He , too . is a man of large property , and a staunch Conservative . The third is Colonel George Wyndham , of Petworth , in Sussex . It would be superfluous to enlarge upon the territorial dignities and wealth of the Egremont family , or the manner in which they have devolved upon their present possessor . Not a word can be said against any of the gentlemen upon whom Lord Derby ' s choice has fallen . There will also be a promotion of Lord Derby ' s followers to the rank of the baronetcy ; but the names are not ' yet announced . —Times .
Great Northern Railway . —An extraordinary general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the King ' s Cross Station , for the purpose of considering several bills promoted by _ the company , and which are now pending in Parliament . E . B . Denison , Esq ., M . P ., the chairman of the Board of Directors , presided . The meeting- was very thinly attended . : The proceedings having- been opened from the chair , the Bill No . I . was read in extenso . A discussion ensued , out -of which a kind of infant storm made its voice heard , fully sustaining the
characteristics of Great Northern annual hurricanes . The chairman interposed to keep the dissentients in order , and said that he had lived long enough to disregard- the personal abuse that had been heaped upon him during the time he had been a director of the Great Northern Railway . An lion , proprietor observed , "I dare say : you have the impudence of ' Old Nick . ' " ( Laughter , and cries of " Order , prder . " ) A little quiet having been restored , after a lengthened debate the bill was adopted , as were also the remaining ones , with the exception of three > ¦ w hich were hot so perfect as the directors desire to
make them . _ The De Beaumont "Vassy Affair . — The judge of Instruction , M- Rohault de Fleury , is charged with the investigation of the case of Viscount de Beaumont Vassy , charged with swindling on a great scale . The Journal De Havre relates an amusing episode of this scandalous affair , which , though it reads like a chapter of " ' Robert Macaire , " is really true . There lives in the Rue Richelieu a M . Babin , ¦ who lets out for hire masquerade and court dresses , of which he lias the largest collection in Paris . About ten days ago an unknown individual came to his warehouse and selected the costume of a French general , which , on his paying the usual after this
deposit was . lent to him . Immediately simple event the review of the Imperial Guard was announced , and then a horrible idea , suddenly flashed across the conscientious mind of M . Babin . * ' Good God , " stiid he to himself , " I have lent a general ' s uniform to a man whom I do not know . What if he should go to the Tuilerics under falso colours , and join the Emperor ' a Stall unobserved ; what if he should bo a conspirator 1 " M . Babin went straightway to the nearest commissnry of police , to whom he confided his misgivings . An inquiry wag set on foot , the result of which was that the falso general was arrested just as he was stepping out of a board-room where Viscount de Beaumont Vassy was presiding over a general meeting of a newly-formed saltpetre company
Hounded by himself . The mooting had been conyoked for the ticklish purpose of voting a " call . " In the very nick of time the " general " presented himself , and , addressing the chairman , said ho was commissioned , by the Minister at War to congratulate him upon tho brilliant proepoote of the company , and ho bogged alb tho same time to Jiand in his own subscription of lo . ooof . Tho Havre journal suggests that M . do Beaumont Vassy must bo out of his mind , because his wife showed to tho officers who came to arrest hini , papers shOAving that aha had an income of 80 , 000 f , a year . Tho argument is not conclusive . The wife of a Councillor of State has been arrested on some charge connected with this affair , and . she is at this moment in tho prison of St . Xaaaro . Tho Earl of Minto is gradually improving in health after his recent severe iUnosg .
Bankers' Haw Holiday . —A further very numerous meeting of gentlemen holding leading positions in the several London banks was held in the rooms of the Early Closing Association on Mopday , in furtherance of the above object . The minutes of the previous meeting having been read , the names of several important firms were given in , in addition to the influential list of houses who had previously expressed themselves as favourable to the banks closing on Saturday at two o ' clock . It was also announced that some other leading firms , who had hot signed the memorial had verbaly expressed themselves as approving of the memorial . Hoads in India . — "The number of roads opened for
traffic in the several Presidencies of India since the year 1848 is as follows , viz .: —In Madras , number of first-class roads , 13 ; length in miles , 2 , 222 ; number of miles constructed since 1848 , 684 ; cost of construction and repair since 1848 , 36 . 26 . 673 rupees ; second and third class roads—number of miles constructed since 1848 , 3 , 709 f ; cost , 52 . 46 . 944 rupees ; canals , 512 miles ; cost , 25 . 71 . 960 rupees . In Bombay , first-class roads , 188 miles ; cost of construction , 14 . 72 . 995 rupees ; second and third class roads , 3721 miles ; cost , 23 . 02 . 709 rupees . In Scinde ,
, 1 , 929 £ miles of first-class roads , cost , 1 . 51 . 569 rupees ; and of second and third class roads , i , 835 £ miles ; cost , 1 . 97 . 425 rupees ; canals , 223 miles ; cost , 2 . 21 . 089 rupees . In Bengal , 64 miles of first-class roads ; cost , 10 . 98 . 993 rupees ; and 389 miles of of second-class roads ; cost , 4 . 46 . 472 rupees ; second and third class roads , 3 , 853 miles ; cost , 12 . 33 . 776 rupees ; canals , 12 miles ; at a cost of 79 . 572 rupees . In the Punjab , 1 . 141 miles of first-class roads ; cost , 95 . 95 . 877 rupees ; and second and third , class roads , 9 , 285 miles ; cost , 23 . 20 . 196 rupees .
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. Last week a monument was erected in the south aisle of the choir of the cathedral at York , in memory of the officers , non-commissioned officers , and privates of the 33 rd Regiment of Foot who fell during the Crimean war . Lord Edward Cavendish , Lord Richard Grosvcnor , and the Hon . JG . Ashley were at Washington when tho last letters were received . They purposed leaving for Now Orleans , and afterwards would visit Cuba andCulifornia . The Oountcas oi" Harrowby expired this week , in Grosvenor-squarc . Her Ladyship was married in 1823 , to the Earl of Hdrrowby , by whom she leaves surviving issue Viscount Sandon , M . P .
The Prince ofWales , on St . Patrick ' s Day , visited the Irish friars of St . Isidore , and the members of the Irish college at St . Agatha , wearing a large bunch of shamrock in his buttonhole . The Prince left the friars a handsome _ present . Archbishop Cullen attended the Prince ~ to the door upon his departure . Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary , attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Purves , were present in the House of Commons during part of the debate on Tuesday . A grand fancy dress ball will be given at the Palace in May , in honour of the visit of the Prince and Princess Frederick William of Prussia . - The Ceylon Times understands " that Sir . Charles McCarthy will be the bearer of ' Lankas' gift ' to the Princess Frederick William . It will consist of a richly worked silver box , mounted on an elegantly carved ebony pedestal , and surmounted by a gold elephant . Beside tho elephant will be placed bracelets set -with the choicest pearls from the Arjppo . Fishery . " . The Right- Hon . the Speaker will hold his second levee for tho present session on Saturday
During the absence of the Queen from town a number of workmen have been employed in renovating the grand hall of Buckingham Palace , portions of tho staircase , and tho picture-gallery . Alexander Dumas is already turning his Eastern travels to account . ' * Episodes of the Wai's of tho Caucasus " is tho title of tho novel in which they are embodied . Tho work seems to bo of tho usual feuilleton kind , with tho oustomary number of short lines and Jong exclamations , such as wo always find in this sort of fiction out of brcatli .
Tho Rev . Mr . J 3 inhey has baen lecturing in Melbourne and its suburbs with groat success . A mooting has been hold at Delia , at which it was resolved to erect " a plain and handsome monument in tho Delhi Churchyard over tho remains of tho victims of tho massacre of May , 1807 , which have boon rocoverod . and there intorrod . " Tho Calcutta Fhcanix roports that tho ox-King of Outdo will shortly bo . released from confinement , and permitted to return to his house in Garden Roach . The promises are being refitted for his reception .
" With the close of spring ( says the Friend of China ') the Bishop of Victoria leaves Hong Kong on a voyage to Japan . His lordship proposes to remain for a considerable period , procuring materials for a report on the capabilities of that little known field for the introduction of Christian missionaries . The amount subscribed towards the gift to Burns ' s nieces , the Misses Begg , as advertised in the Ayr papers , is upwards of 560 / . Several French officers have been sent to Moldavia and Wallachia to drill the Eoumans . The private view of the French Exhibition will be given on Saturday . Mr . Hayne , of Exniouth , has died , leaving the Devon and Exeter Hospital a legacy of 15 , 000 * ., and large sums to the Blind , and Deaf and Dumb Institutions of Exeter .
Among other additions to the South Kensington Museum , there have been lately acquired several interesting specimens from the Museum of the Collegio Romano . The Young Men ' s Christian Association is endeavouring to obtain the commodious premises now known as the Whittington Club , in order to make it the central institution , the large hall being well adapted for special Sunday services . His Excellency Mr . Reed , late Envoy Extraordinary and Minister-Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to China , has arrived in Paris . The chief of a , band pt gipsies encamped near Indianopolis offers the hand of his daughter , with a dower of 10 ^ 000 dollars , to any respectable man that will marry her . . ¦¦ ¦' ¦ ¦'
_ The Rev . Dr . Cumming , of the Scotch Church , London , is to preach at the Oratoire , Paris , on the afternoon of Sunday next . Several gentlemen , we are told , have agreed to act as office-bearers , whatever that may be . . The Duke de X . arochefoucauld has had a bad fall from his horse ; an arm is broken , and he is otherwise seriously injured . Prince Alexis Soltykofi ; a Russian nobleman well known in English society , died suddenly at Paris , on Friday , of apoplexy .
Last summer , says the Globe , when the Emperor visited Count Walewski , at his villa of Etiolles , he saluted his eldest boy with the title of Count d'Etiolles . His Majesty did not know that it was Rachel ' s son whom he addressed , but the boy keeps the title s and still forms One of the family circle , as all Paris knows . The International Congress on Telegraphs which met last year at Berne , is to meet this year Government
at Paris , at the request of the French . Tins Chwolwk Nuisance ^— The rustling of crinoline the other evening in the House of Commons was so * noisy , perhaps owing to the had and stiff quality of the cranks , leversy pulleys , and double joints , &c , used in this machinery , that the members thought that it was a storm of rain , and looked up in inquiry and doubt , till they were reassured as to the fact by a bevy of beauties just depositing themselves in their seats . —Court Journal .
Yesterday the Duchess of Kent loft Frogmore Lodge , for St . James ' s Palace . Her Royal Highness afterwards paid her Majesty a visit tit Buckingham Palace . The Abyssiuians received a few days back by the Emperor are the same that a short time back had an audience of the Pope , to lay their homage at his feefc as converts to the Roman Catholic church . They aro still accompanied by the Abbtf Sapeto , and who has been for
acting as their interpreter , twenty years a missionary in their country . Donati's comet , which created such a sensation last autumn , is now stated by tho French scientific journals to have two tails . The second one was not remarked by the observers of Paris . Tho Rocordership of Noi'wich , rendered vacant by tho death of Mr . M . Prondergast , Q . C ., has been conferred upon Mr . I \ F . O'Malloy , Q . C . Tho emolument of the oflico is loss than low . por
annum ; The Doon has been in such a swollen state , that few salmon havo been killed , although thoro is a groat appearance of numbers . Lord Ausu itiliaa several lino salmon last week at Ciuwiliw with tiio rod , one weighing 114 lbs . It is announced lhnt M . Meyerbeer * now opera , to bo called thd Pardon do Pharmol , will positively bo produced at tho Opera Comiquo to-iuglit . " Tho Prince o /' Wuloa , " my « n letter ivom Rome of tho 20 th ult ., " continuos toonjoy excellent health , nnd to visit with entailing interest the treasures oi art and arohiooloff y with which Rome jiboundij . lite royal highness has dorived tho greatost gratification from tho contcinphition of tho Colossoum by moon-K Earl of Softon and Sir George "WombwoU will shortly loavo town for Romo and tho Italian States .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 2, 1859, page 427, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2288/page/11/
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