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• well satisfied with-the plans decided upon at the Berlin Conferences respecting the coast defences . Thus much is known at present , that it is not ' intended to erect fortifications along the coast , hut to connect every point at which a landing is . possible -. with . the grand arsenals and fortresses of the interior by railways , which will prove as useful in peace as in war . Corps . of observation , on the'first alarm of war , will be stationed near Harburg on the Elbe , and near Bremen on the Weser . A fleet of gunboats is likewise to be formed , which it is hoped will become the nucleus to a German war fleet . Should this plan be carried into effect , the Governments of Germany will be as secure within as from without . ^ Every new railway and " every new telegraph strengthens the Governments ; , rendering a combination of malcontent- ; iimpossible , or very difficult . A petition lias been sent-to the Chambers from East Prussia , praying , amongst other . things , that" the army should he sworn upon -the Constitution . The . gentlemen who drew up this petition must be of exceedingly sanguine temperaments .
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ON ! Saturday-, Jan . 28 , the Prince of Orange arrived at Windsor Castle on . " a- visit to the Queen . —On Tuesday , Jan . 31 , the Queen gave a dramatic entertainment at Windsor . ; , the pieces performed were " The Bachelor- of Arts" and " Nine Points ' of the Law . " . The Registrar-General ' s return of Tuesday , Jan . 31 , gives a higher rate of mortality tlian any previous-week of the year ; the deaths 'during the week amounted to 1 , 380 , and the births to 2 , 067 . On Monday , Jan . 30 , died Lord North , the eldest sOn of the
bound for America , took fire at her anchorage i ' . i the Mersey . No livas were lost , but the damage will be very great . At Mincing Lane , on Thursday , Feb . 3 , refined sugars were dull ; brown lumps were quoted 51 s . to 51 s . 6 d . Coffee , sales numerous , and a good deal bought in . Tea , market firm . Tallow * brisk . At the Corn Exchange on Friday , Feb . 3 ; there was- only a mode ? rate supply of wheat—the best supplies meeting with a good , demand . —On Tuesday , Jan . 31 , the Consolidated Copper Mines of Cobre declared a dividend of £ 2 per share ; and the General Mining Company of" Nova Scotia , one of 15 s . per share . —On the same day the Electric and International Telegraph announced a dividend of ' Si per cent . —On Tuesday , Jan . 31 , the- Bank of England advanced the rate of discount 1 per ' cent . ; making 1 the minimum 4 per cent ., in order to stop the efflux of bullion . On Thursday , Feb . 3 , at the close of business , Consols were 9 i § 94 i for money , and account . . On Sunday ,. Jan . 29 , arrived the Cape ^ Isiil of December 22 , announcing the death of Chief Justice Wylde , at the Cape , aged seventy-nine ; he had been twenty' --eight years- chief justice . Preparations were making to receive Sir George Grey with high honour on his return to the colony . On Sunday , Jan . 29 , the Indian mail also arrived , with tidings of the final extinction of the rebellion . Nana Sahib has died of fever . On Monday . Jan ., 30 . the West Indian mails brought news only of local interest . The Jamaica Legislature was prorogued on Jlcr . 30 : the Barbadoes House of Assembly met on the 10 th January .
Earl of Guilford , at the age of thirty . He has left three children , the eldest , a boy , succeeds to his honours . —^ On Friday , Jan . 27 , General Brisbane , formerly Governor of New South Wales , died , aged eightyr « e . ven . He had been a distinguished officer in the Peninsular ' War . —The last Cape mail brought intelligence of the death of Colonel Rose ( IJoyal Engineers ) , who was drowned at Algoa Bay on the 27 th November . —On Wednesday , Feb . 1 , Dr . Thomas Alexander , Director-General of the Army Medical Department ; died , He had been twenty-five years in active service , and hnd ^ been made a Companion of the Bath . Hall
Oil Thursday' , Jan . 2 G , at a grand soiree : in the New Town of ' Leeds ' , Dr . F . R . Lees was presented with addresses ( accompanied by a testimonial of 1 , 000 guineas ) by the Temperance 'Reformers of the kingdom . On Saturday . Jan .. 21 st , the Rev . Charles A . Wodehouse , Canon of Norwich , resigned the whole of his ecclesiastical emoluments , on account of conscientious scruples in rega .-d to many points in the discipline and doctrine of the Church of Englaml .- —On Sunday , Jan . 29 / 7 / , was a clfcirraeeful riot at the church of S . Georgp ' s-inthe-East : the Revs . Bryan Ivinir and Lowder were the officiating 1
priests ; the church was cleared of the disorderly mob by the police . —On Wednesday , Feb . 1 st , at Willis ' s Rooms , a public meeting was held by the Marriage Liiw Defence Association ,, the Duke of Marlbprough presided ; the audience consisted chiefly of ladies ; the Bishop of Oxlord and Earl of Shaftesbur . y were present . Resolutions were adopted deprecating any change in the existing law . —On the same ofaj / , there was a meeting of the clergy nn'd laity 61 " the Deanery of Ifiwnpton , which passed resolutions to cooperate with the Bishop of London in providing for the spiritual wants of the diocese . 3
On Tuesday , Jan . ' Mst , a deputation from the Shipowners Society waited on the President of the Board of Trade to forward their views on international law . —On the same day , the same Society sent a deputation to Lord John Russell , sis member for the City , asking him to present a petition for ay Parliamentary Committee to inquire into the present state of" the shipping interest . Lord John Itussell consented to take chargo of the petition . —On Monday , Jim , 30 th , there was held a meeting nt Coventry of ribbon weavers to appoint a deputation to protest against the commercial treaty with France , — On Tuesday , Jan . 31 , nt the Pontofi-act election , Mr . Childcrs ( Liberal ) beat Mr . Waterhouse ( Conservative ) bv a majority of 03 . — On the same
day , at Bererley , Mr . Walker ( Conservative ) won the election from Mr . Gridltjy ( Liberal ) by 323 . —On Wednesday . Feb . 1 , the Scarborough election was decided in favour of Mr . Dent ( Liberal ) , who had been opposed by Colonel CauKiold . On Saturday , Jan . 28 , the trial for libel , " Lord Brougham v . Atkinson , " was settled by agreement of defendant to apologise to Lord Brougham , and pay costs of trial . —On Monday , Jan . 30 , a new trial , at the instance of General Beat son , was granted in the case of Bent son v . Skcne . ^—On the samo day , in the matter of the Rev . J . H . Hatch v . Pratt , nn attorney , the rule was discharged ;
tlie judges considered that J \ lr , Pratt had not exceeded Iiih professional duty . T-On 2 \ iesdity , Jan . 31 , the two mates of the American barque An mi , accused ofinimy murders at son , wcro again brought up before the Southampton magistrates , at the instance of the American Consul , and again remanded . On Friday , Jan . 87 , three men were buried alive in a landslip on the Dover railway line j they were dug out on Sunday , Jan , 529 , < lead . * --On Saturday , Jem . 21 , " a collision took place about k hundred miles west of Lisbon , between two British vessels , the barques Stalk and Wijiam . Marsland ; both ships foundered ; the Grew of the Stalk saved ; twenty . five on board the William M't rsland drowned . —On Tuesday , Jan . 81 , the JSndytnion , nn emigrant ship
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ukign . On Sunday , Jan . 29 th . died the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden , at the ajre of seventy-one ; she was the adopted daughter ot the Emperor- Napoleon 1 . —On Monday , Jan . 30 ( h , a decree appeared in the Moniteur suppressing the TJnivers newspaper , the ( ii-o ; iin of the Ultramontane party .- ^ -On the same day , a semiofficial article . in the Constitution ? iel dwhired that the Pope having refused to follow the ad vice of Louis Napoleon , the duty of France is fulfilled . —On Tuesday , ' Jan . 3 \ st , it was announced that the Univers would be continued at Brussels ' . —On the same day the famous Correspondani received its " second warning . " ¦ circular to the
On Friday , Jan . 27 / 7 ; , Count Cavour addressed a Ambassad-urs of Sardinia at foreign courts , stating that the Emperor Napoleon's . let-tor to the Pope , ' and-Queen Victoria ' s speech at the opening of Parliament , proved the impossibility of a restoration of Central Italv to its former government ; and that the Congress cannot take place at . present . —On the same day Count Massimo d'Azeglio was appointed Governor of Milan . —On Sunday , Jan . 2 W / tT whs an energetic ' demonstration at Chanvbery of republicans anil others against the annexation of Savoy to France ; the G ivernor of Chanibery addressed the people , and said tliat King Victor Emmanuel would not willingly cede Savoy to France/—On the 24 th January , Garibaldi was -married to Mdlle . Raimoiuli , at Fino , near Coimi . —On Wednesday , Feb . \ . it , orders were received to expedite all the work in progress at'tlie'Bardmian arsenals . officers attacked and
On Friday , Jan . 21 th , seven Austrian were wounded'by the populace in Verona ; a riot ensued , and the streets were cleared by cavalry . —On . the 20 ^< January , attempts were made to raise ' the tricolor at Chioggin , Porto Secco , ami Palcstrina .--At Venice , on Friday , the 27 M Jan , Count Bissingon declared the Emperor Franz Joseph ' s determination not to cede or sell Venetia while he has a musket loft . On the same day numerous arrests were made . At Florence , on Saturday , Jan . 28 , Baron Ricaaoli presented flags to the National Guard . In his spoec . h he said , " We requiro great prudence and large forces to preserve our independence . " On the 2 'lnd January , at Rome , an iuiinonse political do-nonslratiou took place , with cries of " Viva Vil . torrib Einiuanuele ! " and " l > jwn with Anlonelli and thu Priests ! ' General . Goyoi-i had to interfere to preserve order .
Symptoms of revolution appeared at Naples on Friday , Jan . 27 . Cries of" Viva hi C . mslitimonw ! " were raised . General Piwuelli was rforced to ask for reinforcements . ' Oii Thursday January 2 ( 5 , the King of Portugal opened tl » e Cortes , and in his speech dwelt upon his friendly relations with all nations . On Thursday , February'I , arrived n Madrid telegram announcing another attack by the Moors on the Spaniards—the former dispersetl wiili 2 , 000 loss ; Spanish loss 200 *
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At the Lycjei 7 M , on Monday , Hie Ji 0 //< ult ., was produced , under the immediate superintendence of Mr . Chnrlos Dickens , a dramatiu extract from the " Tale of Two Cition . " A shrewd critic has remarked , rather satirically , that a pluy founded upon a popular book should never bo regarded apnrt from its source , inasmuch as the dramatic adapter ldics upon tlio intercut already created in the spectator ' s mind ; and if this general riilo was not made for thy occasion , it certuinly might have been . The dramatised " Tale of Two Cities" ( it is , by the wny , n talc of only one city ) would , but , for the glimmer of fig ) it ri'iluotcd from tlie spectator ' s memory of the boyk , bo . barely intelligible . It iw Ions « i eonstrmjted drama than a series of well-mounted tableaux . Tlio period of the" firrtt is m 1703 , when the French people were writhing under the pressure ol the profligate noblesse , led by the Orleans party ; of thu BccomJ , wiion the rospeotable Loiiis XVI . was oiKh-avonring , by iiiip «« HiUIo compromiries , to stave off the revolutionary deluge ; and the tlurU ,
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Feb . 4 , I 860 . ] /\ -The Leader and Saturday Analyst ? 121
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 4, 1860, page 121, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2332/page/21/
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