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of beer exported from October , 1858 , to October , 1859 , from the United Kingdom , was £ 2 , 420 , 670 . On Sunday Evening last there were the usual disturbances which , have for months past disgraced the parish church of St . George ' sin-the-East . : . ' ¦ ' ' _ _ , On Saturday morning : last , at Mincing Lane , Tom Sayers was presented with a purse containing one hundred sovereigns by the sugar brokers , indigo dealers , and other members of the Commercial Sale Booms . - .. '¦¦ ¦ Most of the volunteer rifle corps in the metropolis had their inarch out on Saturday ; that day being , as regards the majority of members , the most convenient for practice , and the performance of military evolutions . ; ¦ ' ; . . - llLord PriSealwill
It is understood that the Duke of Argy , vy , undertake the duties of Postmaster-General in the absence of the Earl of Elgin , now on a mission to the Court of Pekin . Reform Meetings have been held during the week in various parts of the country , in support of the ministerial measure . Oh Tuesday morning last , a meeting of noblemen and gentlemen took place at the Society of Arts , Adelphi , for the purpose of promoting a communication between the districts lying north and south of Hyde Park ; the Right Honourable Earl Grosvenor , M . P ., in the chair . The necessity for a new road across Hyde Park was recognised by a Committee of the House of Commons in 1855 * Resolutions in favour of the object were made , and that petitions be presented to both Houses . . The members and friends of the Church Missionary Society held their Annual Meeting at Exeter Hall ,. ' on -Tuesday . morning .
A brilliant volunteer ball took place last evening , in the magnificent room of the Whittington Club , under the patronage of the Right Honourable Viscount Ranelagh and other distinguished officers . On Tuesday night a ball and concert , under the pati'onage of the general committee for the benefit of the superannuated members of the Royal Standard Society , was held in St . James ' s Hall , Regent Street , and very largely attended by the members and friends , there being somewhere about 700 present . At a meeting of the Governors of Queen ' s Hospital , Birmingham , on Monday , Dr . Wade was unanimously elected a physician , in the rocm of Dr . Waller , , resigned . ^ - The annual meeting of the Protestant Reformation Society was held on Monday in ^ fclie Hanover Square Rooms . The anniversary meeting of the Zoological Society of London , for the election of council and officers for the ensuing year , was held at their House in Hanover Square , on Monday , the 30 fch ulfc ., Professor Owen in the chair . Reports from the council and auditors were read , detailing the proceedings of the society since the last anniversary . On Wednesday evening about five o ' clock , a fire broke out in the Euston Hotel , Euston Square . By eight o ' clock the fire was extinguished , but not until sixty-two rooms were partially destroyed , and the roof right round the building burnt off . The origin of the castastrophe is not precisely known . All the persons who were in the Sailors'Home at Liverpool on the night that it was destroyed by fire , have been found , with the exception of two , who are , however , supposed to be alive somewhere in tKeTwvnT ^ Vitl ^^ the walls have been so seriously injured , that they will have to be entirely rebuilt .
The trial of small bore rifles proposed to be made at Hythe by the Council of the National Rifle Association took place on the 2 nd inst . The result of the trial showed the superiority of the Whit worth rifle , as Mr . Goodman and the united gunmakers withdrew from the contest before the appointed number of shots had been fired at 800 yards range . London General Omnibus Company ( Limited ) : —Traffic receipts , week ending April 29 th , £ 10 , 780 . 19 * . Id . On Wednesday evening , the 18 th Anniversary Meeting of the friends and supporters of the Field Lane Refuges and Ragged Schools took place at St . Martin ' s Hall . The report stated that upwards of 10 , 000 of the poor and destitute had been participators in the benofits of these charities , and of this number 1 , 580 had been removed from tho streets and placed in positions where , by the exercise of their own industry , they were enabled to maintain themselves l-espectably and independently .
The quarterly return of the Registrar-General shows that 101 , 000 persons married in the last quarter of the yoar 1859 . The births of 183 , 206 children were registered in tho quarter that ended on the 31 st of March last . 122 , 012 deaths woro registered in tho winter quarter .
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^ From Vienna , April 30 : —Count Apponyi and Messrs . Munnann , Schoellcs , and Vay will , it is said , bo appointed Councillors of State . From Naples , April 27 : —After tho destruction of tho town of Carini , tho royal troops returned by steamer to Palermo . , A fight between * tho insurgents and tho soldiers has taken placo at Alcano . More ambulances have been despatched to Sicily . Letters from Naples to tho 28 bh inat ., con ( inn that Carini had boon taken by assault after three days' lighting . Tho town had qufibred greatly . From Turin , April 30 th , wo learn that the treaty of tho 21 th March will bo discussed after tho boundaries of tho two States have been regulated with France . The JPatrie nntl JPa ?/ . * of May 1 state that despatches have arrived from Spain , confirming 1 tho statoment that Count
Montomolin and his brother have proposed to recognise the sovereignty of Queen Isabella . Prince Chigi , colonel of the Papal Guard , has tendered his resignation ; in order to take service as a simple gunner . . . The clipper ship Ocean Chief , Captain-Brown , which saOfli from Melbourne on the 24 th January , has arrived at Queenstowm , and brings 32 , 000 ounces of gold . By telegram , April 21 st , we learn that great misery prevails i& Palermo . Letters assert that within the last twelve months successive levies have raised the Neapolitan army to 160 , 000 men . The intelligence from Naples , April { 24 th , is that tranquillity prevails . The head quarters of the royal troops have been remove to Aquila . It is rumoured that they are destined to co-operate with General Lamoriciere .
Vienna , April 29 th . The ofiicial Weiner Zeitung of to-day publishes an Imperial decree , annulling paragraph 29 of the Civil Code , according to which " it was necessary for foreigners , who were the proprietors of any business requiring a regular domicile in the country , to become Austrian subjects . " The same paper also publishes an autograph letter of the Emperor dated the 22 nd instant , decreeing the dissolution of the provincial governments of Cracow and Czernowitz . Berne , April 28 th : —The Bund contains a statement to the effeet that a communication had been made by France to Switzerland , asking the latter power to relinquish , her right in reference to the neutralised districts of Savoy , in consideration of an indemnity of
50 . OOO , OOOf . Letters from . Rome to the 21 th insfc ., state : " The Bishops of the Romagna" have received a pi'ohibition against taking any part in . the reception of King Victor Emmanuel . The correspondent of the Journal des Debats , whose expulsio * from Rome had been commanded by His Holiness , has obtained a delay of twenty days . The Moniteur of Wednesday , May 2 nd , publishes a note of M . Thouvenel of the 7 th of April , relative to the neutralization of Savoy . In this note M . Thouvenel contests the pretensions of Switzerland , and declares that France fully accepts the execution of Article ninety-two of the Final Act of Vienna . From . Bologna we ' learn that .-the ' inhabitants of Central Italy have " . everywhere given the king- an enthusiastic reception during his progress . __ . _ _ ¦ _____ . , ¦ ;¦ - . ' ¦ of the
From Berlin , May 2 nd : —The Military Commission Chamber of Deputies resolved , at its . last sitting , to propose the granting of a credit of 5 , 500 , 000 thalers for one year , to-be applied to army reforms . ~ . * = ¦ " ,,. ' ' ~ Iii Tuesday ' s sitting of the Hanoverian Diet the Military Committee moved that , the plan proposed by Government for the fortification of the coast should be rejected , and the necessary supplies refused . A decree granting a general amnesty has been published at Madrid . Count de Montemolin and his bi-other will take their departure from -Spain . ¦¦ *¦»' - News from America , to the 21 st ult ., has arrived . A resolntio * had been passed in the Senate , at Washington , for inquiring into - ^ WexptjdieRey-of ^ 'aising ^ the-Savdm class . .. _ _ . _
The Attorney-General , Mr . Black , had received and declined a challenge from ex-Governor Waiker . The Charleston Democratic Convention was the topic which absorbed public attention . The treaty which had been concluded with Spain provides for the ascertaining and settling- of all pending claims . The steamer Roanoke will land the Japanese Embassy at ! Ng w 'Yovl ? t The town of Sorisburg had been entirely destroyed by fire . The Biink of Tennesse had suspended payment .. Madrid , April 28 . The . official Gazette confirms that the treaty of peace between Spain and Morocco was signed on the 20 th inst .
TUe mail steamer Niagara , which reached Queenstown ok Sunday , brings the following latest intelligence : New York , April 19—The Arago arrived here yesterday . Stocks active and better . Cotton market dull ; sales in three days 400 O bale * Bread stud ' s quiet , but firm . Provisions firm .
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At tho Royal Italian Orjrua , Covisnt Garden , Madame Miolan-Carvalho has added to her reputation among us , by her delightful singing in Anbcr's popular opera " Fra Diuvolo , " and her admirable dramatic personation of is heroine Zerlina . The effect of her first air , " Quell uomo al fiero aspotto , " was dimmed by the reserve of tho numorous amateurs who thronged tho house or Tuesday , and who wcro reluctant to award tho npplnuse they hnd been used to lavish upon her predecessor , Madanio Bosio . As the oporn progressed , however , sho gained the sympathy of all , « isplnvin' -, particularly in tho bedchamber scono , all tho delicacy ana nt tho
brilliancy of sinking- which has made her fiiino OporiVLyrique at Paris . The Lord Alhaoh of tho « wst in llonconl , » vhr > enters with immenao spirit into tho comic business of tho pnrfc . Gardoni is tho brigand chief , Fra Dtavoh ; and Zclgar his aidede-camp , Giacoiho . A- full and extremely fiwluonablu house were so liberal of their demonstrations of approval on Tuosduy , aa to render tho run of this delightful work an almost certainty . On Monday evening , when for tho benefit and lust appuanmco or Mndllo Piccolomini , ' Cnnipmia's now opera , of " Alininu" ww given , a thin lioiwo . consMoriiipr the form or . /) troro excited hy this elmrminff lyric netroflfl , attondod llicn Majiwi'Vs Tiikathr . Tho lovable
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May 5 , 1860 . J The Leader and Saturday Analyst , 433
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Leader (1850-1860), May 5, 1860, page 433, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2346/page/21/
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