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      The Marquis Of Clanriefir.Le Has Appoint...

      The Earl of Rosse , as President of the Royal Society , held a levee of the members and fellows on Saturday , at his mansion in Great Cumberland-place . The reunion ¦ n-as attended by a large number of distinguished visitors , including several members of the nobility and corps diplomatique . The death of Lord "William Hervey creates a vacancy in the post of secretary of the British embassy in Paris . It is said that Mr . Jerningham , formerly secretary of embassy at Madrid , and at present holding the same rank at Constantinople , will be promoted to the vacant post . The inauguration of the Earl Fitzwilliam , as High Steward of the town of Cambridge , took place on Wednesday . In the evening there was a dinner in the Town-hall , at which 100 guests were present .

      All that is earthly of the venerable and distinguished "Wordsworth was consigned to earth , at the little church of Grassmere , the favourite valley of the poet , on Saturday . The funeral was intended to be as private as possible , but the attendance of ladies and gentlemen assembled to pay honour to the remains of the illustrious dead was very large . There was a long procession of carriages and horsemen , and the church was filled with ladies and gentlemen of the neighbourhood attired in deep mourning . —Westmorland Gazette . Wordsworth has left a poem , consisting of fourteen

      cantos , descriptive of his life , reflections , and opinions , with directions that it should be published after his decease , together with such biographical notices as may be requisite to illustrate his writings , under the editorial care of his nephew , the Reverend Christopher Wordsworth , D . D ., canon of Westminster , whom he has appointed his literary executor , so far as his biographical memoir is concerned , with the expression of a desire that his family , executors , and friends would furnish his biographer with such materials as may be useful for his assistance in the preparation of the work . —Morning Post .

      It is a remarkable coincidence that Wordsworth died on Shakespeare ' s birthday , which is also the anniversary of his death ; Shakespeare having died on his fifty-third birthday , 1616 . —Idem . On his way to the House of Commons on Monday night , Mr . W . J . Fox met with an accident which will prevent him from attending to his Parliamentary duties for some days . It was stated by Sir George Grey , in the House of Commons on Tuesday evening , that the Lord Chancellor is already so far recovered as to be able to attend to business connected with his office , although he has not

      yet resumed his sittings in the Court of Chancery . At the beginning of this term he intimated to the leading counsel of his court that he was ready to hear , in his house , any appeals that might require immediate attention . There was only one case of that nature at the time , upon which , after hearing it argued , he pronounced a very able judgment . Another such case is now under consideration . —[ How far this will satisfy suitors and the public we know not ; Lord Cottenham ' s absence from court has caused , and must cause , serious inconvenience ; to an extent of which , by the tenor of his reply , Sir George does not seem to be aware . ]

      In the Consistory Court , on Wednesday , a suit was promoted by the Earl of Lincoln against the Countess , for a divorce on the ground of adultery . The Queen ' s Advocate was absent to open the case , when Dr . Haggard interposed , and said that Dr . Jenner and himself had considered the evidence , and they felt that they could oiler no effectual resistance to the suit . Dr . Lushington then pronounced for the divorce . In the Court of Queen ' s Bench , on Monday , Mr .

      Cockburn , Q . C ., moved for a rule , in order to file a criminal information against Mr . John Murray , the publisher , for a libel upon Count Pulszky , in the last number of the Quarterly lieviexo . The article contained a violent attack upon the Hungarian leaders , endeavouring to connect them with the murderers of Latour , and evidently having for its object to prevent the Hungarian refugees from receiving English sympathy . Lord Campbell refused the rule , on the ground that Count Pulszky was not clearly pointed at in the libel . office of dElOOO

      On the death of Sir T . Marrable , an per annum , in the Board of Green Cloth , and a house in St . James ' s Palace became vacant . The appointment was promised by Lord John Russell to Mr . Norman Macdonald , in consideration of the long and arduous duties of Adjutant-General , faithfully performed by his father , the lute General Sir John Macdonald . The appointment of Mr . Macdonald , though it is one in the gift of the Prime Minister , did not take place . The house has been conferred upon the Honourable Colonel Grey (—( when will there be an end to the good things that fall into the lap of the Greys ?)—and a gentleman , a clerk in the office , has obtained the vacant post , the salary being limited to 4 J 500 per annum , thus leaving a surplus of £ 500 to the privy purse , and which will doubtless be judiciously appropriate d . —Daily Aeivs .

      We are informed , on very good authority , that the report of the Health of Towns Commission will be issued next week . It is said that they recommend the supply of water for London to be brought from the Malvcrn Hills , in Wo , cestershire . We should like to know what would be the size of the culvert . — Tha Architect . [ We are informed , on the best authority , that the ComriiisihioiHTis will recommend the supply of water from a spot not more than thirty or forty miles from London . ]

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      It Is Stated That A Strong Remonstrance ...

      It is stated that a strong remonstrance against the issue of any Commission from the Crown' for inquiry into the afl . urs of the two Universities is in course of signature , and has already received the names of nearly all the heads ol houses at Oxlord , and is likely to meet with a similar reception at Cambridge . The Commissioners of the Board of Customs have just issued an order that no person can be appointed to till a clerkship in the Customs hereafter who has not a

      knowledge of the French and German languages , and of arithmetic and algebra . The directors of the Southwark-bridge Company are in treaty with the Corporation of the City of London for the sale of the bridge . A combined deputation from the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association , and the Associated Surgeons of England , accompanied by several members of Parliament , waited on Sir George Grey , on Thursday , the 2 nd inst ., to present a memorial , in which they ask for an

      extension of the franchise of the College of Surgeons , and the admission of surgeons in general practice to form part of the governing council . They also requested that , before the Queen ' s sign manual should be put to any new amended charter for the College of Surgeons , a draft of the same might be submitted to the inspection of the deputation . Sir George Grey said the latter request was very reasonable , and should assuredly be granted ; the other points in the memorial he should take time to consider .

      Lord Ashley has written a letter to the Short Time Committee stating that he will support the clause introduced by Sir George Grey , for limiting the hours of labour to sixty hours per week , and recommending them to accept the compromise , as the best thing they are likely to get this session . The factory operatives are determined not to accept the Government bill . Nothing but the Ten Hours Bill will be received by them . Sir George Grey ' s amendments have excited the greatest indignation in the manufacturing districts * where meetings are being held almost daily to protest against the measure . In consequence of an attempted reduction of ten per cent , in the wages of the nailers , the workmen throughout the district of Dudley have been on the " strike " during the past week .

      Thursday last being Holy Thursday , the annual custom of beating the parish bounds by the charity children was gone through in the morning in nearly all the metropolitan parishes , much , to the amusement of the " boys " and amazement of the pedestrians . The salaries of all the officers of the Dorchester Poorlaw Union , with the exception of the relieving officers and the master of the workhouse , have been reduced by the Board of Guardians fifteen per cent . —Dorset County Chronicle .

      The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the Lincoln and Lincolnshire Penitent Females * Home took place on Thursday the 2 nd inst . The stone was laid with full masonic honours by the Right Honourable the Earl of Yarborough , assisted by the freemasons of the province of Lincoln , the mayor and corporation , and certain of the clergy and dissenting ministers of the city and neighbourhood . The following , which is a copy ot the inscription on the scroll which was deposited in the cavity of the stone will explain the origin , natuie , and principle of the institution : —

      " This edifice , the first stone of which was laid , with full Masonic honours , on Thursday , the 2 nd of May , in the year of our Lord , 1850 , by the Right Honourable the Karl of Yarborough , President of the Institution , Provincial Grand Master of Lincolnshire , and Deputy Grand Master of England , is styled the Lincoln and Lincolnshire Penitent Females' Home ; and was erected by Messrs . Barnes and Birch , of the city of Lincoln , builders , from the design of Mr . Pearson Bellamy , also of the city of Lincoln , architect , by the voluntary contributions of the inhabitants of the city and county of Lincoln , assisted by other friends and favourers of its object , for the temporary residence , moral reformation , and religious instruction of unforit formed the 11 th

      tunate females . The 8 oeiety erecting was on of June , 1847 , at a public meeting held at the City Assemblyrooms , over which the Worshipful the then Mayor ol Lincoln , . Richard Carline , Esq ., presided ; and at the second annual meeting of the Society , held at the Corn Exchange , Lincoln , on Monday , the 25 th of June , 1849 , the Riuht Honourable the Earl of Yarborough in the chair , the following among other rules was adopted , and incorporated in the deed of trust , viz ., That the principle on which this institution ia established , and shall be conducted , is that of entire religious freedom ; the object being not to make proselytes to any particular denomination of Christians , but to reclaim those who are living in practices condemned by all pious persons . '"

      The Accounts From All Parts Of Ireland G...

      The accounts from all parts of Ireland give the most favourable description of all the crops , and should the potato plant escape disease this year , even so well as it did in the last , the abundance of that esculent will be beyond any former precedent . A large number of sales of landed property took place in the Encumbered Estates Court on Tuesday . About £ 54 , 000 worth of property is said to have changed hands in the course of a few hours . The estates brought prices varying from ten to twenty-six years' purchase . The month of May , this year , has been unusually cold . The first six days of the month , compared with the corresponding days in 1848 , show a diminution in temperature of 17 . 43 degs . in the shade , and 27 . 40 degs . in

      the sun . . , A numerous meeting of the tenant-farmers in the vicinity of Cork took place on Sunday , at Mittstead , and Sir William Somerville ' s bill was denounced in good set terms , and resolutions adopted in favour of the Ulster tenant-right . . . At the meeting of the Irish Repeal Association on Monday , Mr . John O'Connell said that the Pope , on his restoration , wished to have an Irish body guard formed , but that the answer of the British Government was that such a guard , if formed , must not be employed to r

      The Orangemen of the Portadown district , following the example of their brethren in other towns , have renounced their allegiance to the Crown , and pledged themselves to burn the banners and insignia of the association within a specified period . The preliminary arrangements for establishing steam communication between Ireland and America having been wade , the Viceroy steamer has been chartered , and

      will start from Galway for Halifax on the morning of the 1 st of June . None but first-cabin passengers will be taken , and they will be conveyed free from Glasgow , Liverpool , Belfast , Bristol , and Dublin to Galway . The fare to Halifax or New York is fixed at £ 25 . The Marquis of Downshire has commenced the opening of a coal mine in the locality of his seat at Hillsborough . The shaft has already descended a considerable length . It is said that his lordship also intends to open a copper mine in his own park , where it appears there is every

      sign of a plentiful supply of that ore . Two Roman Catholic priests belonging to the Carmelite Chapel in Whitefriars-street , Dublin , while in the act of celebrating divine service on Sunday morning , were attacked and severely beaten by a dangerous lunatic , who had before been under the surveillance of the police , and was released from custody on an undertaking from his friends , who are respectable people , that ne would not be permitted to go at large without being vigilantly watched . Within the last four or five days the mountains of Wicklow and Dublin , within near sight of the metropolis , have been thickly bordered with snow .

      In one parish alone of the county of Galway the friends and relations of emigrants have received in the last eighteen months , from forty-eight persons in America , the large sum of £ 686 , to bear the expense of outfit and passage to the same promised land . Two-thirds of the persons sending the money are labourers and servants . One of the clerks in the Limerick branch of the National Bank took his departure on Saturday last , it is supposed , for Liverpool , via . Dublin , on his course to America , accompanied by about £ 700 of the bank money ; at least that is all the amount of the deficiency yet discovered .

      M. Dupin, President Of The French Assemb...

      M . Dupin , President of the French Assembly , has absented himself for some days , on account of his health . The cellular system is going to be adopted in all the prisons called " Maisons centrales " of France . A cellular branch of the prison will be set apart for offenders otherwise incorrigible . . M . de Blainville , the successor of George Cuvier intne chair of comparative anatomy at the Museum of Natural History in Paris , was found dead on Wednesday last in one of the carriages of the night train on the Rouen , railway on his way to England . He was seventy-two years of age . Letters from Warsaw assert that the Emperor Nicholas would arrive there on the 7 th inst ., and that after the return of the Emperor of Austria from Trieste he will proceed to Warsaw to confer with his imperial brother .

      Owing to the recent discovery of another conspiracy against Russia , passports are refused to most applicants ; only a few merchants and foreigners can obtain them . The Emperor of Russia has ordered that two counsellors shall be appointed , the one at St . Petersburg , the other at Odessa , to examine the specimens of agricultural products which are to be sent from Russia to the great Exhibition in London in 1851 . The town of Bingen , on the Rhine , has been visited by a most destructive fire , which , from the defective means at hand for repressing it , raged frightfully for an entire day . Nearly fifty houses are destroyed . The wsperwind—a breeze that once a-day blows for some time up the stream of the Rhine—is said to have much increased the violence of the flames . _ __ ..

      _ . The Prussian Minister of Commerce and Public Works invites engineers of all nations to submit plans to him for the construction of a fixed bridge across the Rhine at Cologne , for the purpose of uniting the Belgian andI French . Railways with the Grand German line towards Vienna . Since the time of the Roman occupation of the country , no German Government has succeeded in establishing a permanent bridge on this river , either in wood or other materials , and the modern system of locomotion is reduced to a mode of passage that has not improved for 1270 leet

      centuries . The bridge is , from bank to bank , . The bridge is to consist of three arches or openings , and must support a railway for the loaded railway waggons , a roadway for ordinary carriages , and a footway for foot passengers . Neither the engines nor the entire trams will traverse the bridge ; the passengers will be otherwise conveyed from one station to the other . A nrst prize of 250 Frederics in gold will be given to the best plan ; and second prize of 125 Frederics to the second The Archbishop of Turin has refused to attend to the order of the Civil Court , citing him to appear and answer for his letter advising the clergy to resist any ordinances which should militate against their privileges . He declares that he cannot obey without the special

      authorization of the Holy See . . The Smyrna Impartial gives the following account from the Island of Samoa : — " A serious insurrection has broken out—the authorities were obliged to use force against the rebels . One of their chiefs was arrested ; 400 having taken up arms , the troops fired on them . I he combat lasted forty-eight hours , and terminated in the complete discomfiture of the revolted . " The Deutsche Allgemcine Zeilung has letters from Trieste of the 1 st instant , stating that , according to the latest advices from Dalmatia , the city of Stagno had been utterly destroyed by frequent oarthquakes and a sudden irruption of sulphurous springs . No lives were lost , as all the inhabitants left the city before it was

      finally destroyed . . The French colony of Guadaloupo is described to be in an alarming position , great irritation existing between the black and white populations . , A new comet was discovered in the constellation Draco , on the 1 st of May , by Dr . Peterson , at the Royal Observatory of Alton . Letters from Cadiz state that the Prince and Princess Joinville were about to leave Lisbon for London . Smallpox and cholera are committing great ravages in

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 11, 1850, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11051850/page/7/