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      Achini von Arnim , her husband , and Clemens Breutanoj her brother , -were likewise among the most celebrated poets of the romantic school . Gifted with the highest imaginative talent , and endowed with a soul of the tenderest sensibility , ' . Bettina was , unhappily , wanting in the more earnest and solid requirements of composition . She . remained as she was born—a child of genius . With her another of the surviving heroes from the great epoch of German literature has gone to the grave .. She was born the daughter of a patrician family at Frankfor £ -on-the-Maiue , and married . to a scion of one of the noblest houses of Prussia . One of her sons is Councillor -of Legation in the service of Prussia .

      Mechanics' Institutes .- —At the Shad well Sailors Institute Mr . Buckmaster has delivered an interesting lecture on mechanics' institutes and the education of the working classes . The lecturer was evidently strongly impressed with the desirability of making these institutions schools for the education of the working man in the principles of social science . He also condemned the class prejudices which distinguish our literary societies . Intense Provincialism ojf the Scotch . ^ —At this moment a Scotchman is the Queen ' s representative in Ireland ; a Scotchman is the Chief Justice of our Highest Court ; a Scotchman has been entrusted with thfe . mission of bringing China and Europe into working intercourse : a Scotchman was ttie last

      Governor-General of India . Gould such honours have been within their reach had the efforts of Scotland ' s most gifted sons been confined to that small section of country which lies between the Highland boundary and the little river Tweed ? In the South , when they come among us , they are considered as bone of our bone , and flesh of our flesh . But Jet us go northwards , and we suddenly find ourselves among men wrapped up in a kind of transcendental notion of their own perfection . They are Scotchmen , we are Englishmen , and must hide our diminished heads . The . plain inference we draw is , that a Scotchman is

      provincial still ; he cannot shake off the prejudices of his own parish and family . We should as soon expect to hear an Englishman declare that his heart glowed with an indescribable throbbing at the recollection that ; he teas an inhabitant-of St . Pancras ^—born and bred there , " as we should to find him flying in the face of a countryman because he was born in one county , and his neighbour in another . It will probably take another haliVcentury before Scotchmen have shaken off this provincial vanity , '' which , sadly mars their many claims to regard and respect . — -Times .

      Pojnos in St . PANCRA 8 ;~^ Tue vestry directors of the poor have received a very satisfactory rap over the knuckles with regard to the Rev . Mr . Pugh . At the meeting of thie board on Tuesday the following letter from the Poor-law Board was read : — - " Poor-law Board , Whitehall , Jan . 24 , 1859 . —Sir , —! ani directed by the Poor-law Board to inform you that . they have received a communication from the liev . Thomas Pugh , stating that be has been dismissed by the vestry of the parish of St . Panoras from the officeof chaplain of the workhouse without notice . The board find that Mr . Pugh was appointed chaplain in August , 1856 , at which time the order of the Poor-law Commissioners , dated the 9 th of December , 1846 , was in force . The board- desire me to refer the directors to article 68 of that order , which provides that every officer appointed to , or holding any office under it ( the chaplain being one of such officers ) , shall continue to

      hold the same until he shall die , or Tesign , or be removed by the Poor-law Commissioners . The board request to be informed whether-the directors have ordered Mr . Pugb to discontinue the discharge of his duties as chaplain to the workhouse . If so , the board will be glad to receive any explanation or observations upon the case that tho directors may desire to make . —I am , sir , your obedient servant , —Courtenay , Secretary . —To E . Plow , Esq ., Clerk , & c . "—On Wednesday , at the meeting of directors , a repoi . t was presented detailing the evidence taken before a committee in the case of . Mary Ann Hodge , recently brought before the public in consequence of the observations of Mrf . Tyrwhitt , the magistrate of Clerkcnwell police-court , as to the refusal to admit , her into the workhouse . The report stated that no blame attached to Goodman , the gate-porter , or to the master in this case . Tho conftnittee had to remark on the

      conduct of Mr . Tyrwhitt , the Clerkenwell police magistrate , and recommended that the attention of the Scoretatty of State should be called to tho remarks made by him . Mr . Tyrwhitt ' s observations wore altogether mos unjustifiable and uncalled for . t Turn French Mercantile Marine . —According to an . official statement prepared on the 1 st January inst ., the French commercial navy consist ** of 14 , 900 sailing ships . Of these 11 , 090 belong to French ports on the Atlantic , and 8810 to ports on the Mediterranean , Tho French commercial navy , moreover , poasosaes 880 stoain vessels , of which 182 belong to ports on tho Atlantic , « nd 148 to ports on the Mediterranean

      through from , " the latter place , and thus announce the complete resumption of operations . Their message is dated from the steamer Elba at 10 . 40 Tuesday night , fourteen miles S . by W . off Maritimo . The weather was then fine , and all was going oh well . Decrease of PAuimsrism . —The comparative state of . pauperism in England aud Wales for December 1857 and 185 § , now published , confirms , what we have already stated of the decrease of pauperism in 1 S 5 S . At the close of the year the diminution of the total number of persons receiving relief , as compared to the end of 18 o 7 , was 78 , 912 , or 8 . 42 per cent . ; while it was in the first week of October only 2471 , or 0 . 31 per cent . The number of the poor , which had augmented

      considerably in the enrly part of 185 S , declined considerably , relative to 1857 , in the latter months of the year . This is of some importance relative to the complaints now so rife of destitution in the metropolis . . The nuhiber of persons who received in-door and out-door relief in the metropolis in the last week of 1858 was 6046 , or 5 . 93 per cent , less than in the last week of December , 1857 . In the North-Western division , including only Cheshire and Lancashire , in . which , in the early part of 1858 , the increase of pauperism was very great , the diminution at its close was 38 , 382 , or 29 . 61 percent . In the North Midland district , Leicester , Rutland , Lincoln , Nottingham , and Derby , the decrease

      of paupers at the end of 1858 was 10 , 265 , or 17 . 03 per cent ., and in York it was 9340 * or 13 . 65 per cent . ; while in the Northern district , Durham , Northumberland , Cumberland , and Westmoreland , the decrease at the end of 1858 was Only 0 . 61 per cent . ; m the South-Eastem district , Essex , Suffolk and Norfolk , it was only 2 . 92 per cent . ; and in the South-Western , Wilts , Dorset , & c ., it was only 2 . 72 P «« " cent . The increase of destitution in the metropolis is less due therefore to its own population or the population of the manufacturing districts than to the population of the . rural districts . In these , though the season is particularly favoui-able to out-door labour , employment is in general somewhat slack and wages low .

      The StoxeLeigh Estates . —A wilt of ejectment has been served upon Lord Leigh , inrespeci of ' .. Stoneleigh estates , at the instance of Thomas Leigh , of Darwen , and Thomas Leigh , of Haigh . The case , we are informed , will be tried at the next Warwick assizes . —Manchester JExavwiet \ . Council of India . —On Wednesday , a Council was held at the East India House , when Mr . James Ranald Martin , F . R ^ S ., was appointed Examining Physician to the Secretary of State for India in Council . Convocation . — -We have reason to believe that Convocation , at its meeting on Friday , the 4 th of February , will be prorogued to Wednesday , " the 9 th of February , when it will proceed to business .- —' Times .

      Judiciai ,. —Sir Matthew Sausse , late 1-uisno Judge of the Supreme Court of Bombay , has been promoted to the Chief Justiceship of that Court . The vacant Puisne Judgeship has been conferred on Mr . Arnoiihi , of the Middle Temple and the Home Circuit . Mr . Arnould is the author of a well-known work , The Law of Marine Insurance . The Comet . —The Astronomer-Royal at the Ciapo writes to inform the readers of the Cape Monthly Magazine for December that " the comet is still observable by means of a good telescope armed with suitable appliances ; and altogether a valuable series towards

      investigating the orbit will be furnished from the Cape . " North Stafjporpshixie Railway .- ^ —The di vidend on the stock of the company is announced at the rate of 2 ^ percent , per annum , against 2 per cent , nor an nun ? at the corresponding period of last year . Although this company have suffered from the inactivity which has prevailed in the iron districts , coupled with the general depression of trade , their prospocta arc considered to be now good , pwing to the recovery which is in progress in the traffic , and to the favourable arrangements which are understood to have been recently concluded with tho London aud North Western Wnilway Company .

      Stock-johbing : Tjijs Tuimsries ani > the Bourse . —The Bourse has lately offered us a startling example of tho demoralisation that exists in official quarters , for it is tlio Ministers , and the people attached to the Court , who have made most profit out of tho panic caused by tho words of the Emperor to XVI . do Hubner . It is by millions tho members of the Court count their recent gains . Many of them , moroovor , had great need of the chance . But it is deplorable that these riches . liavo been acquired not only at tho expense of people on the Bourse , and groat capitalists , but many poor pooplo have , in some cases , lost their all , and , in nioiit , have had

      their profits cut off for months . Evpry day wohave failures announcod on tho Bourse . Two or three wore mentioned yesterday—a couliseicr , who was found hunging dead in hia own house ; a Lyons agent , who has absconded , leaving liabilities to tho amount of 120 , 000 or 160 , 000 francs ; und a Bourse speculating firm Unit has suspended payment . In the niMst of nil those disasters , scandal also has its place . A regular atand-up fight took place the other day on the Bourse b ' otwgon two agent ? do chango . This ignoble state of immorality is only tho consequence of the regime and institutions tlmfc now govern tho fortunes of Franco—Continental Review .

      , Mediterranean TKLEORAPH .- 'Communioation by the cable of tho Mediterranean extension lino is ascertained to bo porfoot between CAfillnri and tho west coast of Sicily near the island of Maritime ) . This ia about half ( lie entire length from Cagllari to Malta , and tho engineers engaged in tooting the cause of tho recent interruption intimated an expectation that in tho course of Wednesday they would bo able to communicate

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      ¦ ¦¦ ¦ . * - ; : Leader Office , Friday Evening , January 28 th . TIKE PRINCESS FREDERICK WILLIAM . A despatch , dated Berlin , Friday , Jan . 28 , ten a . m ., informs us that the Princess has -passed a most favourable night , and is , together with the new-born Prince , as well as can be expected under the circumstances .

      France. A Parisian Letter, In The Indepe...

      FRANCE . A Parisian letter , in the Indeperiduncc Behjey contains a statement which , if correct , is important . " Kngland , " says the fndependance , " has proposed to France who has accepted- ^ -to d « clare to Austria that she desired to see the offers made in 1848 to the Cabinet of Lord Palmerston considered as not having been withdrawn ;" and , "if Austria accepts purely and simply this proposition , all disquietude about war breaking out next spring is dissipated . " All which means , that if-Austria grants , everything France and England ask her , war will be postponed some months longer . England and France demand , according to the Indvpendatice , nothing less than the surrender of her Lombardo-Venetian possessions . It is true that M . Hummelaucr presented to

      Lord Palmerston , in May , 1818 , a memorandum to the effect that Lombardy should cease to belong to Austria , and be at liberty to remain independent , or to unite herself with any other Italian State , at her choice , but that Venetia should remain under the sovereignty of the Emperor , though with a separate and national administration , & cf At the period referred to Austria was on the brink of ruin . With her empire shaken to its base , Austria might very well submit to a partial mutilation to save lier life ; but she lias been at work since the year 1848 to strengthen herself against future tempests , and Lombardo-Venetia , which , according to tho hidependance , France modestly prays . her to give up , is . precisely that portion of her territory which she holds most securely in her grasp . , ,

      Affairs in France continue to wear a most warlike appearance . The Paris correspondent of the . Globe says : — " That the French . War-office should make contracts for the purchase of horses on a large scale is nothing unusually striking among the various other warlike preparations ; but the tenders required for the supply of 1200 mules do point to a passage of the Alps lor artillery , and need no comment . " The steam-cutter Ariel has seized sevdn English fishing-boats , surprised within tlie limits of the French oyster-beds , near Carteret . The pretty summer theatre in the Pro Catalan at Paris was entirely destroyed last night by a lire which raced for four hours .

      It is decided that Prince Napoleon and his bride will make a public entry into Paris . The day now spokcu of is Friday , February 4 . The city of Paris is making preparations for a brilliant reception .

      Russia. The Last Accounts From St. Peter...

      RUSSIA . The last accounts from St . Petersburg consider as nearly concluded the loan with Messrs . Rothschild which has been under negotiation for some time past It is to amount to thirty millions of roubles , and tho busis of the transaction is said to bo already agreed ou .

      America The Stoamer City Of Manchester, ...

      AMERICA The stoamer City of Manchester , from New York , tho 15 th , arrived at Liverpool this day ( Friday ) . Sho brings 189 passengers , 124 , 000 dollars specie , and the United States mails . Mr . Scward has introduced into tho Senate ft bill amending the existing act for the suppression of tho African slave trade . It provides for tho employment of stenmers for the capture of slaves , authorises the suverni States to pass laws to suppress the trafllc in foreign slaves , and appropriates 1 , 000 , 000 dollars to carry into effect the provisions of the bill . establish

      A bill was introduced in tho same body to a lino of steamers betweon American and British ports . A rcaolutipn . was pending , directing tho Secretary of tho Treasury to prepare a plan ibr raising revenue . adequate to the wants of tho Government , by tho imposition of specific instead of ad valurem duties . Tho l ' aeilio Kailroad Bill was being fully debated by tho Senate . The President had officially notified to tho Sunato that tho yacht Wanderer had landed a cargo of sluvoa on tho southern coast , and that moasuros woro being takon to punish tho guilty . Goneral Jerez had boon recognised at Washington 03 Minister from Nicaragua . Huvannah advices report groat activity in tho slavo trado .

      Mexico. Additional Advices From Mexloo O...

      MEXICO . Additional advices from Mexloo of tho 9 th i » flt . fltato that Juaross had refused to . llttton to tho Comn » ifl «» oriora from Koblcs . Zuloaga before his fall had approved tho propositions from Franco and England for i \ sottlumonc of tho Spanish quostion , ond tlio Spanish authorities haw oxprosaod their satisfaction that there wore llvo Frenoli , four Spanish , and three Engllah nion-oi ' -war roseola ftC Sacrifices ,

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 29, 1859, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29011859/page/10/