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Mr . Angus Mackay ; formerly piper to her Majesty , has been accidently drowned in the nver N ith , Dumfriesshire . . ... , The Bishop of Rochester is again indisposed ; his illness is stated to be of a serious character . An old Russian soldier , who was made prisoner in the first wars of the Consulate , has just died in the hospital of Avesnes ( Nord ) , aged 104 . On Saturday Mr . Edward Conder ( sheriff ) , was elected alderman of Bassishaw Ward . with
Some Russians in Paris , in conjunction some French literary men , are about to bring out a new « Sclavonic Review . " . ¦ _ . The Kino- of Bavaria , has offered a prize of 961 . for the best drama illustrative of German history The competition is open to authors of all nations . At the weekly meeting of the discussion class belonging to the Ixmdon Mechanics' Institution , the proposition was debated ^ and carried , " That the prevailing system of apprenticeship is both impolitic and unjust . " On the 30 th ult . Lords Grosvenor and Cavendish and the Hon . Mr . Ashley were visiting the island of Cuba . ___
. The hew Society of Painters in Water Colours have addressed a memorial to the Lords of the Treasury in prosecution of their claim to share in the benefits to be derived from a permanent National Palace of Art in Piccadilly . The journeymen bakers of -London held a meeting on Saturday , for promoting the movement to shorten their period of labour to twelve hours per day , which is long enough to work , in all
con-. . St . Mark ' s Chapel , Fulhani-road , took fire on Sunday ; two-thirds of the roof were burned off , and the rest of the chapel and fittings damaged by breakage and water . Mr . John Taylor , for fifty years connected with the Bristol Mirror , of which he was of late years the editor and sole proprietor , died on Monday , to the great regret of his fellow citizens . The Sadler ' s Wells troupe of pantomimists—Charles Fenton , Deuliri , Miss Parkes , and others have gone to Hamburg , enroute to Berlin , where they intend to produce the last pantomime played at Sadler ' s Wells , under the direction of Mr . T . I ,. Greenwood .
A new Secretary , Mr . Sclater , lias succeeded to the management of the Zoological Gardens , Mr . David Mitchell having undertaken , at the Emperor ' s request , the arrangement of a new gardeii in the Bois de Boulogne , in Paris . Sir Charles Barry , we ( Athenceumy hear , is named the architect of the new Palace of Art in Piccadilly , to be built for the Royal Academy . Messrs . Barry and Banks are the architects or the adjoining Pahiee of Science . It is intended to erect a monument to the late
Marquis of Waterford . One idea is the erection of a bronze equestrian statue ., which would cost about 1 , 500 / ., in the demesne of Curraglunore . Another is , erecting such a monument in the centre of the Peqple ' s-park , Waterford ; while « - third is to raise funds to build and endow an institution tor the relief of jockeys or huntsmen who are disabled by accident , or overtaken by old age . The condition of the Cambridge men after their upset in the boat ou Friday was rather distressing . They were stripped of their wet clothes , and they
were not many . How to get dry ones was a difficulty not got over till they arrived at Putney . The bow-oar in the Cambridge boat was so ill thnt he was carried , helpless as a child , out of the London Rowing Club boat , and kindly received by Mr . Gregory , of the Hex Club , into his house at Barnes , whore he received proper medical treatment . Our " detectives " nave been doing good service to the Picture Gallery at Amsterdam , by recovering for it , in London , from the hands of thieves , a picture by Vandorwertt " , lutoly stolon thonee , and valued at the figuro of . £ 2 , 000 .
On tho X'rmce Consort's farm at Windsor some boys pickcul up what appeared to ho a lump of lead , but upon further investigation proved to bo a luadou caso ^ containing upwards pf 150 piecos ' of silver coin , principally half-crowns , of tho reigns of Elizabeth , James I ., and Charles I ., in admirable preservation . Tho Lord Mayor lias fixed tlxo election of high bailiff of Southwark for Thursday , tho 6 th of May next . Tho salary ( independently of foos , which will be of but trifling amount ) is to bo 100 guineas par annum . Mr . Greshmn , of Farrlitgclon Without , is th . Qon . ly candidate at present in tho flold . Two Hnytian envoys had an interview with tho Queon on Saturday , to announce to hov Majesty tho establishment of a Republic in Hayti . The Bishop of Bangor has just died , at tho age 0 * 80 .
King ' s Newton , HalL Derbyshire , was : destroyed by fire on Sunday ., The origin of- the fire is not known . King > s Newton was built by a member of the Hardidge family about 400 years ago . Of late years King ' Newton . Hall became the property of Lady Palinerston . Montague House , Whitehall , the old residence of the Duke of Biiccleuch has been levelled to the ground . The new building will be a spacious and magnificent edifice , in the Elizabethan style of architecture , with a broad and imposing frontage to the Thames . The National Scotch Church , Regent-square , is advertised for sale . The church was erected in 1827 for a congregation of 1 , 500 .
At Aleudia , in the province of Cadiz , a mob recently assembled vociferating against the dearness of bread ; but the municipal authorities had , after causing the gendarmes to fire their carbines in the air to fri g hten the people , succeeded in re-establishing order Horace Vernet is going to be married , at the age of sixty-seven . The banns are now placarded at the mayoralty of the 10 th Arrondissement , in the Rue de Grenelle , Paris . The illustrious painter has gained the heart of a widow , Madame Marie Amelie Fuller , whose first husband was a M . de Bois liicheux .
The journals of the Loire record a rare case of longevity in a horse . : —Count de Foudras , of the chateau of Origny , near Eoanne , purchased in 1821 a 7-year old horse , and the animal has just died aged 45 years . Up to the age of 40 , it is added , the animal worked regularly , and remained " in good spirits" during the last five years of its life . The Messagerie di Modena announces that the Duke has nearly recovered from his attack of the
measles . The Duke d'Avaray , who at one time was Chamberlain to Charles ' X-. and military conirnander of the department of Loir-et-Cher , has just died at Paris , aged 88 . , The Osservatore Triestlno announces that , by a special favour , the city and territory of Trieste is this j'ear to furnish only half of its contingent of recruits for the army . Tiie National Defence Question . —Apropos o an article in the Times ou this subject , a member of the University writes from Oxford to that'journal : — " When next term begins there will be some thousands of us strapping young fellows up here , whose average height , weight , and activity might , I have no doubt , equal , if not excel , that of any regiment in her Mawill be
jesty ' s service . In three years' time they scattered all over the empire . What useful results might not ensue from their being instructed in the ars militaris us well as the am logiea ? And as they stand , they would be a corps behind none in pluck and vigour to tackle invaders , be they from Europe , Asia , Africa , or America . Why should not the Royal Oxford University Yolunteers be embodied and drilled in Port-meadow or Christ Church-walk ? If I remember right , tine Royal Hurse Guards are , properly speaking , the Oxford Blues ' to this day , and were raised among us in King Charles ' s time . What man lms done man can do . Two hours' drill twice or three times a week would set us up bravely , and a blue flannel tunic and white ' trousers could ruin nobody . Verbuin sat *'
Politics and AouLTEUY .- ^ -The New York , correspondent of a contemporary says : —In Sickles ' a case the community is divided into two great parties on the morality of the deed , and , in addition to this , the afluir has unhappily assumed somewhat of a political aspect , from a remark attributed to Key , previous to the catastrophe . A friend remonstrated with him on the impropriety of his attentions to Mrs . Sickles , and warned him that it would come to her husband ' s knowledge , and mischief would follow . The reply was , it is . said , " that Sickles wnsa d——d Yankee , and would do nothing if ho did find it out . " The peaceable habits of the Northerners , and their dislike to violence , have long beqn tho subject of Southern sneers , ns in the South a brutal readiness to slied blood on ' small provocation is ono of tho
marks of gentlomanhood . It is this circumstance that gave point to ICoy ' s course allusion , if ho over mudo it , and unfortunately it constitutes in the eyes of many poo , nlo who would otherwise condemn Sickles a juatUieation of tho latter ' s conduct . No doubt , is ontortaineil by anybody as to the result of the trial j and in fact , ao fur as tho affair has gone , tho prisonor ' s friends have arrnngod to make it an ovation for him . Tho competition for the notoriety attendant on noting as his counsel , was immense , and all his old political friends of tho legal profession , besieged him with protfbra of their serviced . Amongst them figures Tlioniaa Fruiuii ^ Moayhor . Mr . Meaghcr ' s legal attainments arc " of a very iHmlnutivo order , and whatever Bervlco ho might ronrior in expending an oration on tho jury , hia opinion on points of law would not bo of much value ,
Imminence of War . —The Globe of last nigixfc Well remarks : — " It is a hideous satire on the sincerity of Christendom , that on this day we are compelled , to notice a step , as rash as it is deliberate , to break the peace of Europe , and to commence a war , the violence , destruction , misery , and crime of which defy all estimate . If we may trust diplomatic dispatches , which we : have no means of contradicting Austria has thrown away the scabbard , and has virtually , although not actually , declared war again ?* Sardinia ; the three days of grace which she has allowed , expiring to-morrow , if they do not , indeed , to-day . It is on tliis memorable anniversary that
the head of "the Holy Roman Empire" declares peace to terminate . Should the intelligence prove to be accurate , Austria will then stand in antagonism , not only to Piedmont or to France , but to all the Four Powers collectively , for she will have slighted their counsel , defied their authority , and set their manifest interests at naught . She . will have placed herself in the wrong all . round , andfalsifiedher own conduct in appearing to listen and negotiate It is on this acc ount that , even now , especially since the receipt , at the last moment , of the brief notice in the Moniteur , we cannot help looking for some further information of a kind to modify the belligerent character of the recent intelligence .
The Agricultural Society of Algiers has offered a premium of 5 , 000 f ., raised by subscription among the members , to any person who shall , discover tlie means of preserving tobacco plants , during their vegetation , from the ravages of insects . The Gra > td Trunk Roajd . —Mr . Russell says —It is the liveliest road in the world s —not in the sense of the departed stage coachman , but in constant life and change of objects , The natives are essentially gregarious : rarely or never do you see a solitary man or woman , but they march in groups , men , women , and children , the first with brass lotahs or earthen pots arid gourds , and stout Ions sticks and light loads ; the last with big bundles
on their heads , the heavy baggage on their backs . Owing to their food , men and women of the lower classes when advanced in life become excessively thin and shrivelled . Those who are better off , on the contrary * grow fat ns they advance in life , so that a man ' s pecuniary condition might be not quite unfairly estimated by a . weighing machine—a suggestion I humbly place at the disposal- of any Income-tax Commissioner who may be hereafter appointed in India . In the fair sex these peculiarities are distressingly exaggerated . A . futy yards of very thin fine cotton , frequently patched or torn , around the lower portion of the person is all the covering which these people can afford . As you
approach Calcutta turbans disappear , and the natives march about bareheaded ; but their scalps are not shaven , and the thick crop of coarse black hair , aided by an umbrella of leave ? , enables them to bear the rays of the sun . Now and then a man of substance passes in his palkee , " larding the lean " bearers , and followed by pipe-bearers and baggage coolies , who jog along swifcly with very oddlyshaped tin portm anteaus , something like the tea chests in gvoeers' windows . This 1 $ the marrying month ; and I met several processions of men and women in yellow or saffron coloured robes , matchlock-men , palkees with concealed beauties inside , corpulent young bridegrooms with the usual serious aspect of which
that evanescent species of man , and luggag « would much astonish the London-bridge porters , musicians hurrying to assist at the festivities , servants charged with the care of nothing more weighty than a purrot , and a trail of mendicants of holiness at least a quarter of nn inch deep . Sometimes ono encounters a native gentlemen going out sporting—that is , a train of elephants bclloinJlg melodiously , laden with accessories for the ehaso , head a long line of- doolies , in which tho Ninirods are smoking their pipes , and behind th ' om ar . e the falconers , with beautiful peregrines perehod . on their wrists , which fly up , and with a quick jerk are brought down again us they strive to yet . away h'orn the approaching gharry . How tho open elieds avrarm with little brown Cupids and Psyches , withwho be
out wings or bows and arrows or clothes , - have ua most children < lo under tho influence pro-, duued by the sight of anybody in riinul . motion , and yoll and clanoe after tho manner o ( Hie juvenile aborigines of HainpsioaJ ! All tho sheds are shops , and so it would eoom as if each man in order to encourage trade . boutf ht from his neighbour , or Bold his UUlo stock of rice , grain , dull , ghoo , or calioo to lilinaclf . Long * llus of Atffelinna , leading gaunt camels , stride past towards tho westward , and the elephant ehuflles along by the olectrio tolegrapU noats , suKgoatlng strange contrasts and joBtlmgs ot idtiiis in tho mind of tho rollealve pnssunger , unlea . o ho bo , us is much more likely , occupied in calculating what aro his uliunoos of getting tv morsql to oat or drink at tho bungalow whore ho intends to make Win ne . \ t halt .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 23, 1859, page 527, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2291/page/15/
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