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      Osborne MISCELLANEOUS . . , ^

      The Court.— Her Majesty?S Stay At _Nas A...

      The Court . — Her Majesty ? s stay at _ nas at Sth ^ rminated , aid the Court returneeI to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday P > ° rnmg ^ The her MajSty haa a dinner-party . Among the guesg were the Earl and Countess of Delawarr and the Earl of aialmesbury . .. ¦ .. _ . _ , natural New Pjejers and Baronets . —It is very natural and very legitimate of Lord Derby , before , rescuing office , to recommend to the Queen certain gentlemen of his own party for elevation to the peerage . The three new peers are , Sir Charles Morgan , of Tredegarin Monmouthshireakind of chieftain of Mr .

      , , _ the ^^ lsh Marcher Tlie second is Egerton of Tatton , in Cheshire , who , after the decision in the House of Lords upon the celebrated ^ ill cause , divided the Bridgewater property with Lord Alford . He , too , is a man of large property , ^ a staunch Conservative . The third is Colonel George Wyndham , of Petworth , in Sussex . It would he 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 . Wot a word can he 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 ,

      Bankers' HAXf Holiday . —A further very numerous ' meeting of gentlemen holding lead ing positions in the several London banks was held in the rooms of the Early Closing Association on Monday , 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 hanks closing on Saturday at two o ' clock ; Ifc was also announced that some other leading firms , who had hot signed the memorial had verbaly expressed themselves as approving of the memorial . Roads 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 £ ; 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 s miles of first-class roads , cost , 1 . 51 . 569 rupees ; and of second andthird , class roads * 1 , 83 . 5 £ 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 rupeeis .

      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 liad 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 , order . " ) 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 , which were not 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 3 though it reads like a chapter of ' Robert Macaire , " is really truei There lives in the Rue Richelieu a M . Babin , who lets out for hire masquerade and court dresses , of which he has 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 deposit was lent to him . -Immediately after this Guard

      simple event the review of the Imperial was announced , and then a horrible idea , suddenly flashed across the conscientious mind of M . Babin . " Good God , " said he to himself , " I have lent a general ' s uniform to a man whom I do not know . What if ho should go to the Tuilerics under false colours , and join the Emperor ' s StalF \ inobeerved ; what if ho should be a conspirator 1 " M . Babin went straightway to the nearest commisanry Of police , to whom he confided his misgivings . An inquiry was set on foot , the result of which" , was that the false general was arrested'just as ho was stepping out of a board-room where Viscount de Beaumont Vassy was presiding over a general meeting : of a newly-formed saltpetre company been

      tounded by himself , The meeting had , conyoked for the ticklish purpose of voting a " call . " In the very nick of time the " general " presented himself , and , addressing the chairman , said he was commissioned by the Minister at War to congn \ tu-Jate him upon the brilliant prospects of the company , and ho bogged at the same time to hand in his own subaqrl ption of lO . OOOf . The Havre journal suggests that M . de Beaumont Vassy must be out of his mind , because his wife showed to the officers who came to arrest him , papers showing that aha had an income of 80 , 000 f . a year . The argument is not conclusive The wife of a Councillor of State has ween arrested on some charge conneoted with this affair , an & she is at this moment in the prison of St . Lazare . The Earl of Minto is gradually improving » n health after his recent severe illness .

      Tacts And Scraps.

      TACTS AND SCRAPS .

      The Prince Ofwales, On St. Patrick's Day...

      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 button hole . The Pxince 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 CeylonTimes 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 the elephant will be placed bracelets set with the choicest pearls from the Arippo Fishery . " The Right Hon . the Speaker will hold his second levee for the present session on Saturday next . 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 .

      . With'the close of spring ( says the Friend of China ) the Bishop of Victoria leaves Hong Kong on a voyage to 4 " apan . 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 amoiuit subscribed towards the g if t to Burns ' s nieces , the'Misses Begg , as advertised in the Ayr papers , is upwards of 560 / . Several French officers have been scut to Moldavia and Wallachia to drill the Roumans . The private view of the French Exhibition will be given on Saturday . Mi \ Hayne , of Exmoiith , has died , leaving the Devon and Exeter Hospital a legacy of 15 , 0002 ., 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 nowknown as the Whit tington Club , in order to make it the central institution , the large hall being well adapted for special Sunday services . His Excellency Mr . Heed , late Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to China , has arrived in Paris . The chief of a band of 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 Kev . Dr . CuinnuJig , of the Scotch Cliurcb , 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 he . The Duke de Larochefbucauld has had a bad fall from his horse ; an arm is broken , and he is otherwise seriously injured . Prince Alexis Solty kofF , a Russian nobleman well known in English society , died suddenly afc Paris , on Friday , of apoplexy .

      Last summer , says the Globe , when , the EniperOr visited Count Walewski , at his villa of Efiolles , he saluted his eldest boy with the title of Count d'Etiolles . His Majesty did not know that ; it Avas Rachel ' s son whom he addressed , but the boy keeps the title ,, and still forms one of the familycircle , as all Paris knows . . The International Congress on Telegraphs which met last year at Berne , is to meet this year French Government

      at Paris , at the request of the . Tiije Crinoline Nuisance .: —The rustling of crinoline the other evening in the House of Commons was so noisy , perhaps owing to the bad and stiff quality of the cranks , levers , 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 left Frogmore Lodge , for St . James ' s Palace . Her Royal Highness afterwards paid her Majesty . a visit at Buckingham Palace . The Abyssinians received a few days back by the Emperor arc the same that a short time back had an audience of the Pope , to lay their homage at his feet as converts to the Roman Catholic church . They are still accompanied by the AbK Supeto , acting us their interpreter , and who lias boon for twenty years a missionary in . their country . Donati ' a comet , which created sucli a sensation last autumn , is now stated by the French scientific journals to have two tails . The second one was not ; remarked by the observers of Paris . The llcoordership of Norwioh , rendered vacant by tho death of Mr . M . Prondergast , Q . C , lias been conferred upon Mr . P . I * . O'Malloy , Q . C . The emolument of the offico is loss than loo / , per annum . The Dbon has been in such a swollen stuU > , thufc fGAV salmon havu ' boon killed , although tlierci w -a great appearunocj of numbers . Lord Ail / su . JaIloa sovoral lino salmon last week at CusuilJis with the rod , one weighing 11 J lbs . It i » announced that M . Muyorbeor ' a now opera , to bo called the Pardon < ltt I'lovrmcl , will positively be produced at tho Opera Coniiquo to-nighC . " The Prince of W » lo « , " * i ys a letter roniRomo of the 2 ( lth ult ,, " continues to enjoy excellent health , and to A-iBit with mUUUhitf interest the treasures ol ' art and archeology with which Homo abounds . His roval luu'Iuiose has derived tho gretitost gratification from tho contemplation of the Colosseum by moonlight » Tho Earl of Softoh and Sir George Woiubwoll will shortly l « uvo town for ltomo aud tho Italian States .

      Lord Edward Cavendish , Lord Hicliavd Grosvenor , and the Hon . E . Ashley vere at Washington when the last letters were received . They purposed leaving for New Orleans , and afterwards would visit Cuba antlC / ilifornia . The Counter of Ilarrowby exphred this week , in Grosvenor-scLuaro . Her Ladyship was married in 1823 , to the Earl of Harrowby , by whom she leaves surviving" issue Viscount Sandon , M . P . II .. _ . ! . * „» 4 , 'i . n ^ 1 \ . ^/ M ^ nn *» v + * + 1 »^» I limiivt 4- » . /^»^"» + rtt ^ fl ^ O

      JU / L 11 . J 11 IU LJJiU iVhJ ! 3 UJUl * U Ul Wi \ 3 \ . £ l *\ iVi * A AJIV * A * IV 1 I" * w number of worltmeq . have been employed in renovating the grand hall of Buckingham Palace , portions of tho staircase , and the picture-gallery . Alexander Dumas is already tm-nirig his Eastern travels to account . " Episodes of tho Wars of the Caucasus" is tho title of the novel in which they are ombodicd . The work seems' to bo of tho usxial fauillcton kind , with the customary number of short lines and long exclamations , euoh as wo always flnd in this sort of notion out of breath .

      • The ltov . Mr . JLKnnuy has been lecturing in Molbourno and its suburbs wltli great success . A meeting Uas been held at Delhi , at which , it wtis reBolved to erect " a plain « nd handsomo monument in tho JDelhi Churahywrd over tho l'omalns of tho victims of tho massaoro of May , 1857 , whlqh have been recovered and there interred . " Tho Calcutta' JPhamix reports that tho ox-King of Oudo will shortly be roleused from oonflnonjont , arid permitted to roturn to his house In Garden Roach . The premises arc being refitted for his reception .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), April 2, 1859, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_02041859/page/11/