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Her Majesty is now not expected to return to Buckingham Palace until Tuesday . At the latter end' of May her Majesty will pay a visit to Osborae . A Presentation Drawing-room , will be held shortly af ter the return of the Court to town , at which the Princess Alice is expected to be present . This Drawing-room will be followed by the birthday celebration . . The illness under which the Bishop of Rochester has been suffering for the last few days has been so severe as to incapacitate his lordship" from the discharge of his episcopal functions .
Count de JMorny niet "with an accident while driving ' a tilbury , with a friend , on the Quai des Tuileries . The horse ran away , and the count and his companion were hurt , but not seriously . The vestry have determined upon the removal of the police station , on Islington-green , and the erection of a public drinking fountain in its place . Alderman Hale has offered , at his own expense , to erect a drinking fountain in the locality of Unionstreet , Southwark . The Scotch , who are getting up at Aberdeen a great exhibition of Scottish historical memorials , are about to ask the Dean and Chapter of Westminster for the . loan of the stone from Scone , oh which their kings were crowned , long and still'a part of the coronation chair of the kings and queens , of England .
The first three volumes of a new " Life of Peter the Great , " by Ustrailov , the Russian historian , have just appeared at St . Petersburg , and have produced a greater sensation than any other historical worl ? in Russia since the masterpiece Of Karamzin . An impression has been created that the sum of money which was offered , conditionally , for the endowmentof a library in connection with the Literary Fund , was the property of Miss Burdett Coutts . We { Literary Gazette ) are ' nqw authoritatively informed that such is not the case . At Ross , in Herefordshire , a lady named Collins was gored so seriously by a stag in her husband ' s grounds , that she died of the injuries . She was . a descendant of Kyrle , "the man of Ross , " and inherited his estates .
Mr . Sinclair , from Scotland , has been lecturing with great success in Montreal and Toronto . He forms what are called Bands of Hope among the children , pledging their immature intelligence to a particular course in life . Meetings are held on the Sabbath , and the religious element introduced . Lord Saltoun , the Earl of Morton , and the Earl of Haddington are to be candidates for the vacancies in the 16 . representative peers of Scotland , caused by the elevation of the Earl of Seafield and Lord Elphinstone to the British Peerage * and the resignation of JiOrd Sinclair . In the Legislative Assembly of New York , a member named Rutherford applied euch terms as '«• thieving dogs" to his colleagues , and told them in open session' ' * to go to hpllf" He was given into custody of the serjeant-at-arms .
The Liverpool Albion states that a lady who was staying at an hotel in that town a short time back , went with her footman and her nurse to the ¦ w orkhouse and purchased a baby from its mother for 5 / . The Louisville Jouimal said of Piccolomini , that as a true lover of the grape never dilutes his wine , She never mixes anything with the pux-e purple poetry of the drinking song . " The Boston Post evidently does not understand the remark , he says " Perhaps not , but we can swear to hqr making quick work of a very large pot of porter , just after the song . " In Easter week , says the Bulletin , some operatic performances by Turks , will take place at the Imperial Theatre at Dojma Baktcho . " Attila" is the opera selected , after which there will be soroo of
•? Trovatore . " There is also to be o pantomime after the English fashion , with clown , harlequin , and columbine—the last played by a man . The bishop of Exeter was contributed 100 ? . towards the fund about to bo raised by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign Parts for promoting missionary operations in Japan , and has promised to contribute an annual sum of 30 guineas far the support of a China missionary student at St . Augustine ' s College , Canterbury . The open winter and hitherto mild spring have been particularly favourable to grouse and black * gam © An the JBHghlands . The birds are unusually strong and healthy . There is a vaeancy among the Military Knights of Windsor , through the death of Lieutenant-Colonel John Clarke , late of the 66 th Regiment , nn officer of high merit
The Scotsman states : —We ran an express from Dunfermline last night , to bring us Mr . Aytoun ' s speech ( at Stirling ) , we have got , instead , a speech by Mr . Caird , consisting chiefly of unpleasant remarks upon ourselves . " A meeting of women was held in the " Welsh Chapel , Aldersgate street , last week , in favour of the Maine Law . Mrs . Fletcher of Brompton , presided ; other " ladies" made long speeches , and proposed resolutions , to which we believe not more than two spoke afc once . A petition to the Home Secretary and thanks to the chairwoman closed the proceedings .
The present of the Ceylon colonists to the Princess Frederick William of Prussia is at last to be forwarded . It is a silver box richly worked , mounted on an ebony pedestal , the whole surmounted by a gold elephant and howdah set with gems , among which a large cat-eye is conspicuous , and a pair of bracelets set with the choicest pearls obtainable .. At night on the 18 th of April a slight shock of earthquake was felt at Malta , and two more equally slight at about 1 p . m . on the 19 th .
On the 12 th inst . the people of Galatz made a ferocious attack on the Jewish inhabitants of the city , whom they accused of having taken blood from a Christian boy , in order to make use of it in their Easter ceremonies . The synagogue was destroyed , and about 200 Jews more or less injured . At the end of the fourth week in March , the number of paupers in England shows a diminution of 96 , 448 . A journal has just been started at Alexandria , entitled La PresseEgypiienne . It is to be published every Monday and Thursday at the Maison du Prince Ahmet Pacha .
On Tuesday the ceremony of opening the new park at Gamberwell ( well known as Camberwellgreen ) took place in the presence of a vast assemblage of persons . The lion . Win . J . P . Gore , died on Saturday last , lie was second-son of the late Colonel the Hon . William John Gore , and brother of the Earl of Arran , and held the appointment of barrack master at Gosport . The premises recently erected in Stationers ' - hall-court are to be occupied by Messrs . Simpkin , Marshall , and Co ., shortly after Midsummer . Prince George of Saxony , wlio is to marry the sister of the King of Portugal , is expected shortly in Brussels , where he will meet the reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha on iiis return from London .
Galignani -states that the Iontifical G overnment has just purchased the museum of antiquities and sculpture of the Marquis Campana for 5 , 000 , 000 f . Upwards of 40 , 000 persons visited on Sunday the Exhibition of the Works of Living Artists at Paris . Since the abolition of the usuiy laws , the Madras Courts have been compelled to issue decrees on bonds at 255 per cent . The law in that Presidency is considered unwise . No decree for interest should cover a sum greater than the principal .
Four of the persons concerned in the plot against Prince Couza are Poles , two aTO Hungarians , and one is a German . The conspirators , who were seized in the Polish hotel at Bucharest , were in possession of revolvers , rifles , and the necessary materials for making Orsini bombs . The fugitive slave arrested at Philadelphia has been discharged . It was proved that he was in Pennsylvania ^ eighteen months befo re the time he is said to have' run away , and that ho was three inches shorter than the measure of the runaway . A convict effected his escape from the Dartmoor prisons n few days ago , but was hotly pursued over the moor by the authorities . The fugitive was ultimately captured at Buckfustloigh , a distance of fourteen miles from the prison .
The only general geological change which has taken place hi Scotland sinco it has been inhabited by man is an elevation of the whole country to a height of irom fifteen to thirty feet above its previous level , Traces of this upheaval occur all ' round Scotland and its islands . It is reported that the English Government have refused the Submarine Telogmph Company permission to land their now cable on British shore , except upon condition that tho company shall givo up their exclusive concession .
We have authority to announce that her Majesty will give a concert at Buckingham Palace , on IMaay , the 13 th of May next . " It is not true , " says tho / SiiicZo , " that tho Emperor Ifrancis Joseph sent the summons to Piedmont without consulting his ministers ; inasmuch as the ultimatum bore the co untorsig-natu . ro of M . Buol . "
- A joint-stock company is in the course of sr ^ purpose of procurins * -w « At Milan the Italian ladies send a little toy to every able-bodied young man still to be seen in tw streets . Upon this is inscribed the words « YnrZ country will remember the services you have rmT deredit . " The hint is broad enough , it must ? : confessed , to be appreciated by the dullest capacit y . We see from the Lucknow Herald that Lucknow can already boast of a public library mid readin * room , and is ahead of even Calcutta in havinir a . coffee club , where " the newspapers of the day are received , and tea and coffee supplied . "
The Courrier de Marseille mentions , as a further proof of Austria being greatly in want of funds that the Emperor Francis Joseph has caused the crown jewels to be deposited with the heirs of the wellknown banker , Baron Sina , as a guarantee for a loan of 32 millions of florins . Mr . Ferdinand Glover , the bariton e , died on Saturday , at Hull , where he had been performing in connexion with the other members of the Pyneand Harrison English Opera Company . At Pa via the police have , been''looking on all sides for General Garibaldi , who is s aid ° have taken a little excursion in that direction , disguised as a priest or a Capuchin .
According to the Bombay Gazette , the Supreme Court is held . . the worst locality in the city ; " a horrible sewer" in front of it poisons bench and audience alike , and a " volcanic din " is kept up by a dockyard factory adjoining . Letters from Home state that the Austrians have increased their garrisons in the legations , but that the works which'had ' been ordered on the fortifications of Ancona had been countermanded . 13 an tTcllacliich , the Viceroy of Croatia , and chief pillar of the Empire during the troubles of 1848 , is seriously ill .
A requisition has been numerously signed , asking the Mayor of Leeds to convene a public meeting , to consider the propriety of addressing the Queen in favour of non-intervention by England in the impending continental war . A Lyons ' journal states , that , the Princess of Montenegro lias received from the Empress of the French a magnificent cradle , surmounted by a golden crown , for the princess to whom she lias just given birth , anil of whom her Majesty is godmother . The Congregation of the Index at ll <> mc has , by a decree of the 11 th , prohibited M . Michlet ' s work , entitled " L ' amour . "
Sixteen men , part of the crew of the American ship John Bright have been sent to prison for refusing to proceed to sea after the . ship had cleared the docks at Liverpool . Public IIkalth . —There was an increase of 42 in the number of deaths in the metropolis last week ; but as the total number , 1 , 120 , was 49 less than the corrected average , the public health . may be considered in a favourable condition . Dipthena and scarlatina , we regret to say , arc again on the increase ; 79 fell victims to those diseases last weeK , being 28 more than in tho previous week . J . » o births during the week were l . COi ) .
, Found . —Always . An immense flock of gulls to believe in preposterous advertisements . A greiii dealof money belonging to nobody , on its way to boroughs and counties to do nothing . An excellent example , set by the treasurer of St . Bartholomew s Hospital , who . has mercifully ^ "l ^ V-T firms turning the gravelled airing ground , wine »»™ the hospital quadrangle , into a garden for the tone fit of convalescent patients . ¦ . A lltt e cst matg of expenses for improving London , issued by the Metro politnn Board of Works , and amounting to . thosum of ( say ) Twenty Millions sterling . /^ ' ^ jittenUon of alf housekeepers , who may find the r pwjJJ taxes too light for them , is particu nrly JrectoJ to * i ! a o « nt !^ M - nrr / i , v > iimf » nfc . A considerable qunnuitf b
, of rcady-madS political sympathy for tho > vomng classes / scattered principally about tho . largoc ertorg districts . To bo sold , in thocourso ot to next ?>* weeks , fpr the benefit of tho original » ia »»^ J"S Apply at tho huttings . In a few shooU ol town . » na country newspapers , supposed lo have been dronpoa by a gang of comers , a mass of base t « ti ? , twc , ow » "Literary Intelligence , " and Bovcrol flash noteB , w dorse < l " Prom oifr London Corrosnondent . l * J have booh forwardod to tho nearest ( lust-contriwror , but dealers in small talk aro cautioned j ^ nj ^ wary acceptance of any more of this Jjjo f » ffi may still tie current . It is chiefly to tl o oMot the eminent John Jowps ' s private »«» como » " ™ four , two , six , and twopence half-penny . Aleo . i « w Smith has asked Thompson to toll Wo } 80 " *» J Johnson thinks Wilkinson has pronitood to B vq Wilson a thousand pounds a mlnutoior nvo yciu « niokom ' a " All tho Year Round . "
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568 THE LEADJEE . [ No . 475 , Airil 30 , 1 S-5 Q
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Leader (1850-1860), April 30, 1859, page 568, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2292/page/24/
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