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      The Return Of The Pope. The Rejoicings T...

      erected for the purpose in the balcony * The houses were illuminated , and the cannon again roared . The excited correspondent proceeds to describe the reception , on the following morning , at which he himself assisted . There he beheld the foot of his Holiness " kissed gracefully and with emotion , " and heard those charming words from the pontifical lips—•* our sorrows are over . " At Genzano , that wondrous day , " General Baraguay d ' Hilliers had to send to Albano for two cutlets and bread , the supplies of Genzano being exhausted . " So grandly are related the rejoicings at " Villetri . of the at the

      The accounts doings Capitol are , strange to say , comparatively meagre . In the procession there were troops and couriers , outriders and officials , and finally the Pope , who descended from his carriage amidst cheers and waving of handkerchiefs . Very few , however , knelt , the pageant being the interest and not the circumstance in which it originated . At night there was a not very brilliant illumination . Our own letters state that the signs of rejoicing were confined to the Government employees the police , the priests , some few strangers , and a small crowd of the lowest of the population hired for the occasion . The correspondent of the National says : " The attitude of the people was gloomy and silent . " " The illuminations were a failure . Some of those forced to light up exhibited the colours of the Republic . " " Hissing was heard even in St . Peter ' s . "

      Cobbe Lived The Most Affectionate Apri* ...

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      The Great Tunnel Of The Alps. To Complet...

      THE GREAT TUNNEL OF THE ALPS . To complete a direct line of railroad communication between Boulogne or London and the Adriatic , only one obstacle remains to be surmounted—the chain of Mont Cenis and Mont Genevre , running nearly northeast and south-west , with an elevation of 11 , 000 feet . If not surmounted , this obstacle is soon to be traversed ; and a correspondent of the Times describes the method : —

      " From London , as far as Chambery , by the Lyons Railroad , all is smooth enough . But rail can and will , and indeed is now about to , push further , ascending to Mont Meilland , and St . Maurienne , and , by an ulteiior effort , it will yet reach higher , as far as Modane , at the foot of the northern crest of the Graian and Cottian Alps . ^ Once there all further progress is arrested , and no train can hope to reach the Italian side to Susa and Turin , and thence to the eastern coasts of the peninsula , unless a subterranean wayfare be pierced through the

      snowcapped barrier . " What a magnificent problem is here presented to the inventive genius of the age ' What splendid results to be attained by its successful solution ! Such a problem has been actually under the consideration of the Sardinian Government since August , 1845 . Its solution is no longer a matter of doubt . The possibility of boring through the heart of Mont Genevre , and of linking Chambery with Susa , north and south of that range , is a demonstrated truth . The great tunnel of the Alps is about to become a reality , under the auspices of Victor Emmanuel and the Piedmontese Parliament .

      " The author of this gigantic scheme is the Chevalier Henry Maus , Honorary Inspector of the Genie Civil , the same who devised and executed the great works on the Liege Railroad . After five years of incessant study of this question , and many practical experiments ^ and calculations , including the invention of new machinery for boring the mountain , this officer made his final report to the Government on the 8 th of February , 1849 . " A commission was thereupon named on the 13 th of

      July , 1 S 49 , consisting of several distinguished civil engineers , artillery officers , senators , members of the Government , and a professor of geology , to examine and give their opinion on the nature and feasibility of Chevalier Maus' project . That commission on the ^ 1 st of November last decided unanimously and entirely in favour of the project ; and their report , together with that of Chevalier Maus , has recently been printed for private distribution by order of the Sardinian

      Government . " An application for a part of the fund 3 required to begin the great tunnel will be made to the Chambers forthwith , and the work , which it is expected will occupy five years , will cost 14 , 000 , 000 f . ; while the entire railroad of the Alps , connecting the tunnel with the Chambery Railway on the one side and with' that of Susa on the other side ( in length 20 $ English miles ) , will cost 2 l , 000 , 000 f . more , forming a total expense of 35 , 000 , 000 f . " The great tunnel itself will measure nearly seven English miles in length ; its greatest height will be 15 of of

      ) feet , and its width 25 , admitting , course , a double line of rail . Its northern entrance is to be at Modane , and the southern entrance at Bardonneche , on the river Mardovine . This latter entrance , being the highest point of the intended line of rail , will be 4092 feet above the level of the sea , and yet 2400 feet below the highest or culminating point of the great road or pass over the Mont Cenis . It is intended to divide the connecting lines of rail leading to either entrance of the tunnel into eight inclined planes of about 2 $ English miles each , worked like those at Liege , by endless cables and stationary engines , but in the present case moved by water power derived from the torrents .

      " The most remarkable part of the project , however , is the newly-devised machinery and motive power by which the Chevalier Maus proposes to bore the <* rcat tunnel . It is as ingenious as it is new , presenting some extraordinary facts in mechanics which could hardly have been anticipated , but the truth of which has been tested and verified by practical essays made with working models of the natural size before the Government commission , already raentioaed , "

      The Solution Of The Last " Seaserpent." ...

      THE SOLUTION OF THE LAST " SEASERPENT . " The great sea-serpent is " very like a whale . " The New York Journal gives the following account of the " monster's" capture : —" The renowned expedition of Captain Barn well up Broad River , in search of the monster snake , were much chagrined , on approaching his worship , by the discovery that they were in the proximity of four -whales , one large and three smaller , which generally preserved their respective positions—one immediately following the other , and in their movements having all the appearances of a single animal . The largest whale , which was calculated to be about sixty to sixty-five feet , and the head of which was several times raised about six feet out of the water , had below the mouth what resembled a white beard—the * floating mane' so often described as belonging to the sea-serpent . "

      Divorce. The Application Of Mr. Edwin Fo...

      DIVORCE . The application of Mr . Edwin Forrest for a divorce from his wife , Catherine Sinclair , after going through various stages in the senate at Harrisburg , was finally rejected by 17 against 16 . The New York Herald publishes a portion of the correspondence on which Mr . Forrest founded his application , along with his own affidavit , in which he refers to a letter he found in his wife ' s drawer , in the handwriting of G . W . Jamieson , addressed to Mrs . Forrest under the name of " Consuelo , " and which she admits to have received from the writer of it when she and her husband were on board the steam-boat about to leave Cincinnati for Pitsburgh . Although unfairly published , these letters are now public property

      among the goesip me day . me siyie curious : — " And now , sweetest Consuelo , our brief dream is over—and such a dream ! Have we not known real bliss ? Have we not realised what poets loved to set up as an ideal state , giving full license to their imagination , scarce believing in its reality ? Have we not experienced the truth that ecstacy is not a fiction 1 I have ; and , as I will not permit myself to doubt you , am certain you have . And oh ! what an additional delight to think—no , to know that I have made some hours happy to you . Yes , and that remembrance of me may lighten the heavy time of many an hour to come . Yes , our little dream of great account is over ; reality stares us in the face . Let us peruse its features . Look with me , and read as I do , and you will find our dream is not all a dream . * * * A doubt of thee can no more find harbour in my brain than the open rose could cease to be the humbird ' s harbour ; and as my heart and soul are in your possession , examine them , and you will find no text from which to discourse a doubt of me . * * * I wish I could tell you my happiness ; I cannot . No words have yet been invented that could convey any idea of the depth of that passion , composed of pride , admiration , awe , gratitude , veneration and love , without being earthy , that I feel for you . " Adieu , adieu ! and when thou art gone , My joy shall be made up alone Of calling back , with fancy ' s charm , Those halcyon hours when in my arm

      Clasped Consuelo . Adieu , adieu ! Be thine each joy That earth can yield , without alloy , Shall be the earnest , constant prayer Of him who on his heart shall wear But Consuelo . Adieu , adieu ! When next we meet , Will not all sadness then retreat , And yield the conquered time to bliss , And seal the triumph with a kiss 1 Say , Consuelo . Christiana Underwood , who had been housekeeper to Mr . Forrest for many years , makes an affidavit in which she draws another well-known name into her story : —

      " One day , in 1844 , before Mr . and Mrs . Forrest went to England , I went to the house , and Mr . N . P . Willis came to see her ; she went down to see him , and spent considerable time with him ; when she returned , her cheeks were flushed , and her hair disordered , and I thought he had been kissing her : some time during the year 1847 , Mr . N . P . Willis was in the habit of coming continually to see Mrs . Forrest , and uRed to stay for some hours at a time with her , with all the blinds of the diningroom closed . The frequency and privacy of his visits attracted the attention of the servants , and on one occasion , when he was up in the library in the evening , Mrs . Forrest came to me and expressed great anxiety to get him out of the house without the servants seeing him . "

      A letter from N . P . Willis also appears in the Herald : it implies a disclaimer to this charge , but it does not contain any explicit or direct contradiction to the statement . It is said that another attempt will be made by Mr . Forrest to obtain a divorce .

      The Second Reading Of Mr. Cobbe's Divorc...

      The second reading of Mr . Cobbe ' s Divorce Bill took Place in the House of Lords on Tuesday evening . The Petitioner in this case was Mr . Thomas Cobbc , who sought by the bill to dissolve the marriage in which he had entered with his cousin , Azelie Anne C ' obbe , in 1838 . Mr . Cobbe was a member of an Irish family , the son of a large landed proprietor , and at the period of the marriage he was studying for the bar . He was a member of Lincoln Vinn , and was " called" in the yrar 1811 . Irom the moment of their marriage up to the discovery of the circumstances which gaye rise to the present proceedings ,

      Mr . and " Mrs . Cobbe lived upon the most affectionate terms . After the marriage the parties resided in Queen Anne-street , Cavendish-squarfe . It happened that Mr . Talmadge , the gentleman with whom Mrs . Cobbe had eventually gone off , had been an old college friend of Mr . Cobbe , and after his marriage he became an intimate and a frequent visitor at his house . Mr . Cobbe had been in the habit of quitting his home between nine and ten o ' clock each morning , and proceeding to his chambers in Lincoln ' s-inn ; and it would appear that for a length of timfe it had been the custom of Mr . Talmadge to pay hie secret visits to Mrs . Cobbe during the absence of her

      husband at chambers , which usually was for the greater part of the day . The intimacy between Mr . Talmadge and Mrs . Cobbe continued from that time up till the 13 th of March , 1843 , when she left her husband ' s house . Mr . Cobbe had since brought an action for compensation , and had recovered £ 500 damages , which had , with the costs , been paid by Mr . Talmadge , with whom Mrs . Cobbe has ever since lived , and was now living in France . Several witnesses were examined , and proved that on various occasions Mr . Talmadge spent the whole night in the lady ' s bedroom . The bill was read a second time , and ordered to be committed .

      Disasters In The West Indies. The West I...

      DISASTERS IN THE WEST INDIES . The West Indian Mails , by the Avon , bring an account of a tornado of terrific violence which passed over the town and harbour of Nassau ( Bahamas ) about one a . m . on the 30 th of March , bearing down everything in its course . A great deal of damage was done , about fifty houses were destroyed , many of them being actually smashed to atoms ; trees of immense size were torn up by the roots . Several small vessels in the harbour were sunk and others dismasted . The squall in its course passed over a ship-yard , and a large schooner on the stocks was blown over and damaged * Eight persons

      were killed and several badly wounded . One man had his head blown off . The tornado lasted not more than one minute . Nassau presented an aspect of the greatest desolation from the effects of this sudden squall , unequalled for violence and destruction of property in so short a space of time . In Barbadoes , from the end of February to the sailing of the packet on the 27 th of March , considerable uneasisiness had been created by a quick succession of fires on the sugar-estates , some caused by the long drought , others said to be occasioned by incendiaries . A great many acres of the new crops had been consumed , and the fires were still of frequent occurrence when the

      packet came away . , A destructive lire took place at Port-of-Spain , in Trinidad , on the night of March 7 , the most extensive since the memorable conflagration of 1808 . The damage is estimated at 12 , 000 ? . From St . Thomas we are informed of a desperate act of piracy . The American schooner J . B . Lindsey left Port-of-Spain on or about the 1 st of February . While yet in sight of that place , at night , the mate and a passenger were murdered and thrown overboard by the crew . The master was severely wounded , but contrived and for

      to secure the cabin-door against the murderers , some days kept them at bay . After ransacking the vessel for money , the mutineers took to the schooner ' s boat , and with an axe attempted to scuttle the vessel ; but their design was defeated by the cook , who cut the boat ' s painter and set them adrift . The master then managed to crawl on deck , and by threatening to fire on the boat prevented the mutineers from returning on board . The boat then made for the Spanish Main , and the master contrived to reach St . Thomas in the schooner , where he was taken care of by the American Consul . the of

      From Montserrat come accounts of prevalence smallpox , and of terrible distress among the people . Governor Higginson , in his message to the Legislature of Antigua , stated that all the local means were insufficient to do more than partially alleviate the mass of suffering . Cultivation had been almost entirely suspended . Things were , however , somewhat mending . The smallpox had not yet disappeared from St . Lucia . In St . Christopher a cutaneous disease resembling smallpox was spreading throughout the island . The long-continued drought at St . Lucia , St . Vincent ' s , and St . Christopher ' s was much deplored .

      Destruction Of The Cathedral Of Sarragos...

      DESTRUCTION OF THE CATHEDRAL OF SARRAGOSSA . The cathedral of Sarragossa has been destroyed by lightning . On the 7 th instant the whole population , gaily attired , had assembled in the cathedral to follow the procession of the Holy Sacrament . Scarcely had the procession issued from the massive portals of the cathedral ere the heavens became clothed with darkness , a huge black cloud hung like a pall over the town , and suddenly the rain descended in such torrents that the crowd was forced to take shelter within the cathedral . The people told their beads , and were overwhelmed with terror at the Cimmerian darkness which enveloped the sacred edifice . Presently there was heard a terrific crash , accompanied by a loud noise as of the roaring of had struck

      artillery . It was found that the lightning the spires of the cathedral , and , entering through one of numerous interstices of the light and graceful architecture , struck dead the bell-ringer , and penetrated to the timber roofing , which immediately blazed forth with a fury admitting of no control , although the heavens continued to pour down their waters upon the burning rafters . The crowd , preferring even water to fire , rushed forth into the streets , through which the water was pouring in torrents , and left the unquenched flames to do their fiery work . The roof fell in towards the afternoon , and then the priests incited the people to attempt the preservation of the interior , and the course of the flames was at length arrested . Thus has perished the noblest specimen of ecclesiastical architecture in all Arr & gon , perhaps in all Spain .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), April 27, 1850, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27041850/page/5/