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      Miscellaneous. The Queen And Prince Albe...

      Alansion-house last night , and take his departure from York at an early hour this morning . The Duchess of Gloucester has arrived at Woburn Abbey on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Bedford . Captain Forbes has just returned from the interior of Africa , where h e was engaged in negotiating a treaty with the King of Dahomey , for the purpose of putting an end to the export of slaves from that kingdom . In the possession of his Majesty of Dahomey was an interesting child , eight years of age , of high rank , detained as a prid in all doomed to life of

      soner of war , an probability a misery . This child , as a mark of especial favour , the Ivin 0- presented to Captain Forbes . Queen "Victoria , having been informed of the circumstance , has been pleased to direct Captain Forbes to bring the Princess to London , and has graciously signified her intention of taking charge of the child . The interesting if not " illustrious stranger " is now sojourning at Winkfield-place , and has several times accompanied the family in their drives to Windsor . In the course of a few days the child will be taken to Osborne . by command of her Majesty .

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      The Countess De Neuilly Left Dover On Tu...

      The Countess de Neuilly left Dover on Tuesday morning at eight o ' clock by express train on the South-Eastern Railway and arrived in London at half-past ten . She was accompanied by the Due de Nemours , the Prince de Joinville , the Duchesse du Saxe Cobourg , the Due de Marmier , and the Baron de Montesquieu . She proceeded to Claremont immediately upon her arrival in town . Lord Stanley , of Alderley , expired at Alderley-park , Cheshire , on Tuesday , at the advanced age of eighty-four . He was the eldest son of Sir John Thomas Stanley , sixth baronet , and was raised to the peerage in 1830 . He married , in 1796 , the eldest daughter of the first Earl of Sheffield , by whom he had Edward John , created Lord Eddisbury , and the Honourable William Owen , twin with the latter , and two daughters . In politics he was a Whig . The family property is situate in Cheshire and in the

      Isle of Anglesea . The Stanleys of Alderley claim a common progenitor with the noble house of Derby . Lord Eddisbury succeeds to the title and family property . General Sir John Grey is appointed commander-in - chief of the Bombay presidency . The gallant officer , we believe , does not possess the use of his limbs , and it is supposed he will take the command in his arm-chair . This is the second nomination of a Grey within the last fortnight . It is really unjust to the Elliotts . —Daily Netcs .

      The Lord Chancellor has appointed the 2 nd of November for the reception of the Lord Mayor elect , in order to sienify her Majesty ' s approbation of the choice of the Livery of London . The ceremony will take place ^ athis lordship's residence in Eaton-square , at eleven o | clock . On the same clay , at twelve o ' clock ( the first of Michaelmas Term ) , the Lord Chancellor will receive the Judges , Queen ' s Counsel , & c . The noble and learned lord will afterwards proceed to Westminster-hall . We have reason to believe that , before next Hilary Term , Sir John llomilly will take his seat on the bench as Master of the Rolls ; but that his able services in the cause of law reform will be demanded by the present Government , so long as they remain an administration . — -Morning Herald .

      There are now two Vice-Chancellorships vacant—one occasioned by the death of the late Sir Lancelot Shadwrll , the Vice-Chancellor of England , in August last , and the other by the recent resignation of the "Vice-Chancellor Wigrain , on account of continued indisposition . It is understood that one Vice-Chancellor only will bo appointed to supply the places of the two judges whose ofiices have thus become vacant . It is expected thut the Master of the Rolls , together with the Vice-Chanctllor Knight Bruce , and the Vice Chancellor who is to bo appointed , will be enabled to keep down the business of the court , oven assuming that the Lord Chancellor will be exclusively engaged in hearing

      ap-X _ . _ . . « . ** " » ^ ^^ "IP A A ^_ _ _ . There is a rumour current that Sir E . B . Lytton has sustained the entire loss of his heai-ing . For some time one of Sir Edward ' s ears has been defective , and it is stated that whilst , recentl y undergoing an operation at an aurist ' s in town Sir Edward suddenly lost the use of both ears , and has been in a very desponding way ever

      . Mr . Monahan , the late Irish Attorney-Geiicral , was sworn in before the Lord Chancellor as Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas on Wednesday . At the same time Mr . Hatchell took the oaths as Attorney-General , and Mr . Henry George Hughes was sworn in as Solicitor-General . The Reverend John Harries Thomas , M . A ., curate of St . James ' s , Westminster , has been appointed one of her Majesty ' s crhnplains in the room of the Reverend Dr . Knapp , sub-dean of St . Paul ' s , deceased . A similar chaplaincy has just become vacant by the death of the

      Reverend Dr . Thackeray . We understand that Government have just appointed ji gentleman of colour to the office of British Consul at Liberia . This is , we believe , the first instance on record in which a man of colour has received a similar appointment from our Government . On the introduction of the now British Consul , on Friday last , at the Foreign Office , his personal appearance excited no inconsiderable interest , lie is a man of superior intelligence and of hiirhly polished manners . —Globe . from

      Miss Catherine Hayes has received an invitation Mrs . Knox , lady of the Bishop of Dromore , to make the KCi' -hnuse her residence during her forthcoming engagement by the Anacreontic Society of Belfast . The Reverend T . Crybbace has been itinerating during the last few days through Devonshire , lecturing in the principal towns upon those doctrinal matters which are dividing the Church of England into Dissenters and . Roman Catholics . He styles himself , in his advertisement , The Reverend Thomas Crybbace , M . A ., Christian Bishop of Exeter . pro tem . *'

      The President of the Republic has presented to the Museum of the Louvre , David ' s celebrated painting of Napoleon Buonaparte crossing the Alps . The Debate announces two new works from the pen of M . Guizot , to be published at the end of this month . The first is entitled " Monk ; Fall of the Republic , and Reestablishment of the Monarchy in England in 1660 . " The second is " Washington ; Foundation of the Republic of the United States of America . " Letters'from Warsaw of the 15 th instant announce

      the arrival of the Emperor of Russia in that city , at five o ' clock on the morning of the previous day , accompanied by his aide-de-camp , General Count Orloff . Count Nesselrode had preceded the Czar , and there were also at Warsaw Count de Brandebourg , representative of Prussia ; and the Baron de Meyendorff , Russian Ambassador at the Court of Vienna . The Constitutionnel says that the object of the meeting is to deliberate upon the best means of removing the difficulties connected with the German and Danish questions .

      The court mourning for the late Queen of the Belgians , which commenced last Sunday , will cease on Sunday the 10 th of November . The funeral of the Queen of the Belgians took place on Friday , and was attended by King Leopold , his motherin-law , the royal family , the members of the household , and the chief officers of state . It is announced that Cardinal Wiseman , the new Titular Archbishop of Westminster , who is at present in Florence , proposes to pass through Paris on his way to London . He will visit the Irish College in Paris , which is about to be considerably enlarged .

      Poor General Haynau has been nothing but a butt for the jests of the wits of Vienna , since his return from England ; and not even his flight to Gratz , and abandoning the gay city at the commencement of the season , has been able to save him . The last bon mot on the unlucky man of wars is that , finding his glory tarnished in Austria , he went to England , sich wichsen zu lassen , the joke turning on the word wichsen , which means " to brush or polish up , " and is vulgarly used in the same sense as our own verb " to whack , " which is , perhaps , derived from it . — Vienna Correspondent of the Morning Post .

      John Pragay , formerly General Adjutant to Kossuth , is about to found a great colony in Texas . He has presented a petition to the Administration of the State in question , which has been well received . The proposal is , that every Hungarian who may arrive before 1862 shall receive a certain allotment of land in some appointed district at a low fixed price , which is to be paid to the State within ten years . The colony is to be named after Kossuth , who , in case of his arrival , is to be entitled to four such allotments of land on similar conditions .

      In Leipsic a monument has been erected by the German agriculturists to Herr Thaer—the man who has done so much , amongst them , for that science . It consists of a marble column , nine feet high ; on which stands the statue of Thaer , life size . It is surrounded by granite steps and an iron balustrade . The column bears the inscription : — " To their respected teacher , Albert Thaerthe German Agriculturists , 1850 . " M . Gustave de Rothschild , son of the head of the celebrated house in Paris , is at present in Constantinople . His presence in that city has given rise to a host of refinances is ht to

      ports , which the actual state of the thoug justify . Projects of a loan to the Turkish Government are talked of . The latest American accounts state that Jenny Lmd was to sing in Harvard Hal ) , Providence ( Rhode Island ) , after leaving Boston . The edifice will hold only 1880 persons . The first ticket fetched 650 dollars , 25 dollars higher than was paid at Boston , and 125 dollars higher than was paid for the first New York ticket . The English lady , formerly wife of Dr . Millingen , who some time since killed one of her eunuchs , has been condemned to five months' imprisonment , and her accomplices to a more severe punishment .

      A Few Evenings Ago The Political Prisone...

      A few evenings ago the political prisoners at Belle Isle mutinied . The mutiny commenced by the refusal of a great many of them to enter their chambers . The next day the director proceeded to arrest ten or twelve of the ringleaders , but met with such resistance that he had to put fifty-eight in the dungeon . The director subsequently left for Parie . . ,. ,. .. An attempt at escape , skilfully organized by the political prisoners condemned at Versailles , was made at DoullenB on the 14 th . A subterraneous passage , twelve yards in length , had been dug from one of their rooms situated near the yard . This , when completed , would have led out to a bank on which a scaffolding had been erected for the purpose of some repairs , and would have enabled them to have got out of the place . They had tools lor ineir

      provided themselves with & U the necessary work , and had concealed the earth , & c , which they dug out , in the trunks provided to carry their property to Belle Isle . The suspicion of the director of the prison had been , however , excited , the guards both within and about the citadel were doubled , and the scheme defeated . Some of the Paris papers state that General Changarnier has taken offence at the mode in which his name has recently been brought forward by the organs of the Elyse ' e , and especially by the Conslitution . iel . One of them says that the general has not only refused to give any satisfactory explanation to the President of the liepublic , but that he has allowed some expressions to drop which show that his opinions are opposed to the renewal otner

      of Louis Napoleon ' s tenure of office . Among things he is said to have replied to a friend of Louis Napoleon ' s , who hinted at the propriety of giving the President some more money , and an additional lease , 1 as un jour de plus , pas tin sou de plus . " A religious society in Paris has purchased one of the finest houses in the Rue de Crenelle , Faubourg St . Germain , for a double object—namely , the education ot missionaries and the reception of converts to the Roman

      Catholic Church . It is also stated by the friends of the society that the labours of the society will be particularly devoted to Great Britain . Public opinion—that is , the opinion of newsmongers in Paris- —seems to be rather puzzled than divided by the appointment of General Schramm to the War Department . Some would like to consider it a reculade on the part of the President of the Republic in thus separating himself from General d'Hautpoul , who was warmly attached to him . This opinion seems to prevail amongst the Legitimists ; others go so far as to say that it is a sign of a still more unfriendly feeling to General Changamier . , The Moniteur du Soir announces that a grand tournament is to take place in the Champ de Mars . Fifty horsemen , armed cap-a-pied , are to figure at this representation . _ _

      A shocking murder was committed about dusk on Monday evening , in the church of the Madeleine , in Paris . The victim is the Suisse of the church , who , when making his round previous to closing the church , discovered three or four men in the corridor trying to conceal themselves . The Suisse insisted on their quitting the church , when they refused , and fell on the unfortunate man , whom they left at the point of death . Ifc is presumed that they were hiding in the spot with the intention , as soon as the doors were closed , of robbing the church . A duel with swords took place a few days ago between , the editor of a Toulouse paper and the editor of the Gazette du Languedoc , in which the latter ( M . de Launay ) was slightly wounded by his antagonist , M . Lucet .

      At the election which recently took place near Interlacken , in the canton of Berne , there were serious disturbances , in the course of which several persons were wounded . The elections had been annulled . They were favourable to the moderate party . The Federal Club assembled in Mannheim has made a resolution respecting the Grand Duchy of Baden ; according to which , that country , and also the fortress of Rastatt , are to be evacuated by the Prussian troops within a term of three months . The Baden regiments

      are to be removed from Prussia , and they are to , to their own country . The Austrian army in the Vorarlberg is to be placed at the Grand Duke ' s disposal . The line of electric telegraph between Vienna and Pesth is now at the disposal of the public . The tariff for the transmission of despatches has been fixed as follows : —By day , 50 words , 3 florins ; from 51 to 100 words , 6 florins ; from 101 to 200 words , 9 florins . By night the prices are doubled . From an official report of the operations of the credit establishments of the Russian empire for 1849 , it appears

      that on the 1 st of January , 1850 , the debt had encreased to 336 , 219 , 000 silver roubles . This , however , is a moderate amount compared with the future resources of the empire . But it is not so with the floating debt , which , after deducting the value of guarantees , exceeds 163 million roubles . For a state which has no more than 500 millions annual revenue , this proportion of the floating debt to the ordinary receipts , indicates an irregular state of finance , and doubtless presages a new loan , most likely more considerable than was that effected last year in London through Messrs . Stieglitz of Petersburg , and Baring of London for £ 500 , 000 .

      Twelve war-steamers of the Russian fleet in the Danish waters have gradually returned to Cronstadt , and thejrest are expected before the beginning of winter . The long expected Constitution for Galicia has at length appeared . That Crown land will have three districts—Cracow , Lemberg , and Stanislawow—each with a separate administration . In Cracow the specific Polish , and in Stanislawow the Ruthennian element , is prevalent . Lomberg , the capital of Galicia , is the seat of the Provincial Government . In the Lemburg district the two branches of the same race ( the Sclavonic ) are mixed . The Constitution for the Bukowina has also been

      published . This remote Crown land is divided into six districts or captaincies , which are under the immediate control of the Stadtholder of the province , who has still to be appointed . Count Goluchowski had been sworn in as Stadtholder of Galicia . Letters from Ravenna of the 13 th , in the Genoa Gazette , give appalling accounts of the progress of brigandage in the Roman states . Two persons , considered as spies by the bandits , had been decapitated by them in the vicinity of the above-mentioned town , and their heads placed on poles at a cross-road . The diligence of Imola has lately been stopped and robbed of 1000 scudi ( 5500 f . ) belonging to the Pope . At Lugo , three individuals carried off 11 OOOf . from a bank , and passed triumphantly through the town with their booty , without any one daring to

      The ship Frolic was despatched from Malta on the 11 th of October , in quest of a Greek pirate , which had attacked and plundered an Austrian vessel on the coast of Barbary . The plundered vessel was found without a soul on board . According to a correspondence from Constantinople , under date of the 5 th instant , the question concerning the Hungarian refugees is not yet solved . Frequent communications on this subject have been carried on between the Porto and tho Austrian ambassador , and a recent conferenco has been held between Sir Stratford Canning and General Aupick , the French Minister . The Divan has written on the subject of the refugees to its ambassador at Vienna , directing him to confer with , the Austrian Cabinet .

      An extensive conspiracy has recently been discovered at Teheran . The most influential members of the clergy were at the head of it , and its object was to overthrow the present Shah , to replace him by a descendant of Ali , and to drive all the Turks out of Persia . Numerous arrests have been made at Teheran , and in the principal towns . The greater number of thoBe arrested belong to the body of Ulemas . I

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 26, 1850, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26101850/page/7/