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      Personal News And Gossip. The Court Is S...

      Llewellyn ' s divorce bill has been thrown out of the Lords . A clerical election-contest took place on Tuesday for the rectorship of St . Ann ' s Blackfriars—the Reverend Mr . Webster , of King ' s College , beating his opponent , the Reverend Mr . Wilkinson , of the Irish Church Missions , by 159 to 139 . Mr . Richard Swift , of Hatton-garden , was elected Sheriff of the city of London on Monday , in the place of Mr . Hartley , who declined to serve . There was no opposition ; but , as Mr . Swift is a Catholic , some bigoted individual shouted " You might as well propose Cardinal Wiseman "—an ill-natured exclamation , which was immediately stifled with " loud cheers . "

      Captain MellvilJ , Fifty-second N . I ., has invalided , and is , it is reported , about to join the Calcutta Englishman as one of its editors . He was one of the Affghan captives , and published a capital account of the events of those days under the signature of " A Quondam Captain , " in the paper of which he is now about to assume joint editorship . Terence Bellew M'Manus , whose escape from Van Diemen's-Land we have before mentioned , arrived at San Francisco on the 5 th of June . The Mayor gave him a public dinner ; the senators and representatives attended . M'Manus looked in capital health and spirits . When he escaped , O'Brien , O'Donoghue , and Doherty were likewise to have got off ; but some one peached , and they ¦ were secured .

      726 Se)N %T&*Tt+ [Saturday,

      726 SE ) N % t &* tt + [ Saturday ,

      The Queen Of Spain Attended At The Churc...

      The Queen of Spain attended at the Church of our Lady of Atoche on Sunday , to " pray for her safe delivery . " The Duchess of Coburg left for Ostend on Wednesday . The King and Queen of Prussia left Berlin on the 25 th on a tour through the Baltic provinces . General La Hitte is appointed president of the committee of artillery , vice General Paillhon , retired . The Duke of San Paolo , charge des affaires of the King of Naples , went to Rome last week . The Court of Appeal , reversing the decision of the court below , have acquitted M . Cabet of the charge of swindling and embezzlement , in the fullest manner . General Guillabert , commanding the second division of the army of Paris , is appointed to the command of the fourteenth military division , whose head-quarters are at Nantes , vice General Gerard , retired . M . von Bodelschwingh was gazetted to the Ministry , of Finance on the 25 th .

      1 He ( Fleet Of Ibis Arbitrary Proceedin...

      1 he ( fleet of Ibis arbitrary proceeding ; wan , that scarcely anything worth exhibiting could have been forwarded ; in fact , nothing could have been cxpresbly prepaied for the Exhibition . Thus it is that the Crystal Palace can show nothing indicative of the true state- ot the industry or the progress of arts in Poland ; but iliat is precisely the object Russia had , viz ., to cast Poland , even in this respect , into the shade , and to lessen her in the ejes of other nations . Russia did not like the attention of the English and other foreign visitors , to be drawn from her malachites and furs , to things , certainly not so costly , but more useful and artistical .

      It is erroneously stated by some of our contemporaries , amongst others by the Wcc / ify Times , that the calculating machine , which created lately some sensation , and in ex liibiled amongst , the Russian productions , in the invention of Mr . Mallei , who was but . its manufacturer . The inventor is M . Stern , of Warsaw , belonging to the Israelite tribe , who , for that invention , was elected member of the society oi the l- 'j ieiuls of Sciences in Warsaw ; a society which , like many other useful institutions , was , lifter the revolution of l ) S , 'i () , 'il , dissolved by the imperative : will of th ( -northern ( John . sum .

      How anxious Russia is , upon every opportunity , to injure and insult , in her indomitable hatred , the Polish nation , will be eeen by the following fact , given in a letter from Warsaw , smuggled over the frontier : —When all the nations of the world were invited by Great . Britain to send in their contributions for the great Exhibition , tho Russian government graciously allowed the Peoples , groaning under its despotic sway , likewise to take a part in that industrial congress to which Great Britain hud invited all nations , without distinction . But in granting such permission to his subjects , the autocrat made it imperative upon Poland ' s exhibitors , to send the articles they intended to exhibit , within rouu v / j . kks from the : ( lay the ukase reached them , to St . Petersburg ; and after that period no one was to be allowed to add any thing , nor would new < -xhi \> ite > r » ' articles be admitted .

      THE EXPOSITION . The attendance at the Crystal Palace has been at the usual average this week . Great preparations were made for the expected darkness during the eclipse , which did not occur . One of the stone fountains fell down during the week , and also some of the fittings of the mediaeval room gave way , doing damage to the extent of about £ 100 . The price for season-tickets is reduced from £ 3 and £ 2 to 30 s . and £ 1 ., and the Commission have come to a resolution by which the sale of those tickets ceases on the 31 st of August , The 5 s . entrance fee on Saturdays is to be reduced immediately after the prorogation of Parliament to 2 s . Gd .

      Atkocioiis Lullkdkr In I'Alict. The Pari...

      ATKOCIOIIS lUllKDKR IN I'AliCt . The Parisian police m rested , on Sunday , the young man who murdered a gill named Juliette l ' lame in a publie :-house in the Rue < lu Cherchc-Midi . J 1 i .-t name in Joseph Ilumblot , his nge 1 !) , and his occupation that , of a waiter in a eofleehout ; e . The arrest was effected ait 110 , Rue St . Honors , in the : residence of a concierge , > vlio is ii fiiend of his mother . Ho readily answered the question put . to him , und made thin smtt ment : — " 1 iuiow , " lit ; Hiiid , ' 1 have ; committed a horrible minder , nutl know the fate that awaiitH me . But I am not . u monster—1 waa distracted—1 hud uu uttnek of bruin

      fever . During eight months , " he continued , " I had intimate relations with Juliette ; I loved her passionately , but at last I fancied I perceived she deceived me . _ I do not know whether I was right or wrong , but a violent jealousy took possession of me , and I resolved to kill her first , and myself afterwards . I was under the influence of these ideas when I met her on Wednesday . We went into the public-house , and ascended to a bedroom .. A bottle of wine was brought us , and Juliette seated herself on the bed . It was nearly nine o ' clock , and vertigo seized me . I passed my hand over her throat , which appeared to surprise her ; but before she had time to make any observation I seized a razor which I had for some time carried in my pocket , and , in one cut , made She had

      a severe wound in the throat . Poor wretch ! only time to cry ' Mother ! Mother ! ' when she fell dead . I was * troubled , and for a few moments knew not what I did . But at last I recovered my self-possession . I washed the blood from my hands and face . I opened the door ; but when half-way down the staircase , the idea of seeing her again recurred to me , and I went and kissed her for the last time . I hurried away . I went to the river and washed my trousers . Afterwards I went home , and said to my father and mother , Kiss me , for you will see me no more ; lam a great criminal , and deserve the scaffold !' In their stupor they did not think of stopping me . I went out of Paris , and slept in a lodging-house at one of the barriers . In the morning I was agitated , and did not know where to go . So I resolved to commit suicide . But before dying I determined to try to see Juliette once

      again . I went to the Morgue , where I thought her body would be taken ; but I arYived too late—she had been recognized by her mother , and the body had been removed . I listened to what was said in the crowd . ' A young girl has been murdered , ' they said , ' and the murderer afterwards threw the body into the river . ' I shrugged my shoulders and went away . I went to a church , with the intention of confessing to a priest ; but not finding one , I wandered about the streets for some time , and at last left Paris . I only returned this morning . And now I have only to request that I may be condemned to death . My repentance and my chastisement will open to mo the gates of heaven , and it is there alone that I can hope to see Juliette again . " The statement was made with the greatest calmness . The prisoner had on a shirt stained with the blood of his victim . The expression of his features is remarkably mild . He had procured himself a passport for a foreign country .

      Miscellaneous. Parliament, It Is Underst...

      MISCELLANEOUS . Parliament , it is understood , will be prorogued on the 8 th instant . The thoroughfare of Blackfriars' -bridge is now stopped , except for foot-passengers , in order that the crown of one of" the arches may undergo repair . The Archaeological Society of Great Britain and Ireland met at Bristol on the 29 th ultimo Austria has contracted a loan with the house of Rothschild . Letters from Madrid of the 2 Gth ultimo state that the Senate had passed the bill for the Settlement of the Debt by 59 to 29 . The Sicclc was seized on Tuesday for an article libelling the character of Louis Napoleon , and it is to be prosecuted for exciting haired and contempt against the Government . The incriminated article relates to the private life of the President . Accounts from Canada , of the date July 14 , state that the Toronto Board of Trade have censured the Council , by a vote of fourteen to two , for memorializing the Government to impose differential dutied upon American manufactures . A man , who had lost his all in the great fire at San Francisco , shot iiis wife , and then himself , with a revolver , in a moment of phi cissy , during the fire . On J une Hi , a Sydney man , named John Jenkins , alias iSiinpton , was detected in currying off a . safe from an nfiiceon Long-wharf , San Francisco , and after a struggle was arrested in his boat , lie was immediately taken before the Committee of Safety , consisting of one or two hundred citizens , tried , found guilty , and hung within an hour .

      Mrs . Ellen Wake , wife of tho gentleman killed on the Midland ftsiilway , near Clay-cross , has obtained £ 1000 damages from a jury , us compensation for her financial losses by the « leath of her husband . The cane was one of great , hardship : Mr . lilake having died intestate , his property went to hiu brother-in-law . The French fetes in honour of the Royal Commissioners of ( he Great . Exposition commence , to-day . The Lord Mayor of London left town yesterday . lie will have apartments in the Hotel < le Ville . Paris will he very gay .

      A deputation of fifteen working-men from Paris have been in London for some time , on a visit to the Kxposilion . Their captain is M . Larchrt , formerly a compositor on Lit I ' re . sse , now a contributor to that , journal . Alexis Soyer , of the Symposium , gave them an excellent dinner on Saturday , which concluded English fashionwilh toasts and speech-making . Of course the "Health of the Queen and Prince Albert wus drunk with en-Ihusiann by the Republicans ; " whereat great is the wonderment , as if the drinkers were not Frenchmen as well an Republicans !

      The / l (/ iwv //( i ( if , S | . . Helena tells a strange story of the seizure of a sea captain by a land captain on the high seas , and the confinement of said sea captain in the hold till the , vessel readied . St . Helena , on the ' JAHh of May . The ship was the Levcnuide , carrying a detachment , of an Artillery corps . The captains were , Campbell , master of the baMjue , and Vesey , commander of the soldiers . There was a quarrel about shutting down a hatchway . Captain Campbell in said to have threatened to shoot Captain Ve . sey , whereupon the latter ordered his men to fall in , to arrest . Campbell , und confine him in the hold He wan kept , there , and given up to the police on the churgo oi i iitciit to unudiT Vcticy , iuiU committed for

      trial . Afterwards Campbell laid an information against Vesey for piracy , which it is said the magistrates refused to take . Of course an inquiry will be ordered .

      The York Catholic Association Met On Wed...

      The York Catholic Association met on Wednesday and passed an address severely commenting on the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill ; denying that any aggression had been made ; denouncing " persecuting liberals , " " intolerant rationalism , " and the " Whig pres »> " and calling on the Catholic electors to organize and agitate in self-defence . The South Church Union , at its annual meeting in the -Town-hall of Brighton on Thursday , resolved that the revival of synodical action was a cause of " sincere congratulation for the Church "; and in the event of Convocation being summoned deprecating the idea of " any lay element deliberating or deciding upon questions even indirectly affecting doctrine , without the

      prior restoration of that godly discipline contemplated by the Church in all her canons and services . " A claim has been filed in the "Vice-Chancellor Lord Cranworth ' s court , for an inquiry into the will of Ann Tucker , who died in Westminster some time ago , and left one half of her property to various Roman Catholic priests , and one half to her brother-in-law and sister . These persons caused the claim to be filed for inquiry , and the case was heard on Monday . The ground upon which inquiry was sought was that suspicion was entertained that there was some " secret trust , " that the money was intended not for the benefit of the said ecclesiastics , but for " superstitious uses . " Lord Cranworth . refused to make an order .

      The contest at Limerick between Lord Arundel and Surrey and Mr . Russell will be hot and close . Lord Arundel arrived in Limerick on Tuesday , and was met at the terminus by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Limerick and a host of friends . On stepping from the carriage , he knelt and received the Bishop's blessing . The crowd was so dense and so enthusiastic , that the procession which formed could scarcely make its way to Lord Arundel ' s committee-room . At night ,

      men ran about the streets with blazing tar-barrels . The excitement has since continued , and increased every day . The contest is alleged to have been described by a Roman Catholic priest as " a struggle between God and Lucifer —between Heaven and the pit of Hell . " Mr . Monsell , M . P ., is also at Limerick , assisting Lord Arundel . The Roman Catholic clergy have engaged warmly in the election . Both sides say they are certain of success ; but the public excitement is all on the side of Lord Arundel , who most probably will carry the day .

      A Meeting In Favour Of Jewish Emancipati...

      A meeting in favour of Jewish Emancipation was held on Wednesday , at the National Hall , Holborn , Mr . D . W . Ruffy in the chair . Resolutions were agreed to in support of the above object . A meeting of the Chancery Reform Association was held at Exeter-hall on Wednesday . Lord Erskine occupied the chair . The meeting was addressed by Sir De Lacy Evans , M . P ., Mr . D . W . Harvey . Captain Scobell , M . P ., Captain Saumarez , and Mrs . Cobbett . The ballast-heavers held a great meeting at Shadwell , on Wednesday , to receive a repojt from a deputation to Mr . Labouchcre , urging upon him the necessity of passing a bill to relieve them from the intolerable evils to which they are 6 ul > jected , owing to the present system of employment .

      A public meeting of the Anti-Clergy Reserve Association , convened in Toronto on July 9 , was broken up by the interference of the opponents of the association , headed by several clergymen of the Established Church , who claimed a right to be heard , on the ground that the meeting was public . The excitement ran high , hut no one was hurt . We understand that the Fraternal Home in Turnmills ' . rect , where so many Polish-Hungarian refugees have been lodged , fed , and clothed , will close on the 14 th of August . By far the greater proportion of the exiles— - more than one hundred and fori . y—have either found employment , or have left for the Continent . Some further subscriptions are required to liquidate the liabilities of the committee . Mr . W . Biovvn still jreceivca subscriptions .

      The " League of Universal Brotherhood held its fifth animal meeting on Wednesday , at the London Tavern . The attendance was very numerous . In the midst of the proceedings the Paris deputation of workmen entered , and were warmly received . The meeting was addressed by the Chairman , Mr . Charles Gilpin ; Mr . T . Beggs ; the Reverend Dr . Buni 6 ; Mr . Elihu Burritt ; Mr . II . Vincent ; and Mr . Joseph Sturge . Two foreigners , the Chevalier Leucieca , and M . Bouit , coeditor of L' livinement , also addressed the meeting . The Suffolk Agricultural Association was formed somo time ago for the attainment of the following objects : — 1 . The repeal of the malt-tux . ' 2 . The alteration of the

      present unjust tithe system . 3 . An equitable measure of tenant right . 4 . A thorough revision of ihe present mode of managing the county expenditure . f > . The abolition of the game laws . The association met at Ipswich oh Wednesday publicly , and a great many financial Itcformers attended . The speakers expressed strong feeling respecting the conduct of their leaders in promising a return to Protection , and then when an opportunity offered , as in tho spring , declning the perilous honour of assuming oflice under Protectionist colours . There was a decided elispluy of pluck among the Suflolk farmers , and Mr . Clutrlen Luttiinore and his 1 'inunciul Reform notions were well received . The meeting reaffirmed the above objects .

      Eight Working-Men Huvo Been Found Guilty...

      Eight working-men huvo been found guilty of conspiracy to raise wages , at IStufford . We sluill recur to this next week . The- uHttizi-H for tho county of Tippcrury have closed without u single cast ! of highway robbery , murder , taking of anna , oi-uuijig of threatening letters , or any wgriuift "

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 2, 1851, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_02081851/page/10/