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      of the natives , who , in two hours , literally stripped the ship , including deckhouse , bulwarks , stanchions , planks , masts , spars , &c , and it was only by the interference of one of the chiefs that the lives of the master and crew were saved . They at last found their way after much difficulty to Gambia , whence they were shipped in the Alert for England , " and arrived here last week .

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      DISASTERS AT SEA . The Phoenix pilot-boat brought into Cowes on Friday the crew and passengers of the brig Lincoln , bound from Boston , U . S ., to California , which had been destroyed by lightning . " In lat . 4 N . and Ion . 25 W ., at 10 . 30 p . m . of March 2 , during a heavy shower of rain , and without any menacing appearance of lightning , the vessel was struck with the electric fluid , which shivered the mainmast , and found its way into the hold . On opening the

      scuttle volumes of smoke were emitted , and finding it impossible to extinguish the fire they endeavoured to stifle it by closing every aperture . In this state they remained for nearly four days , with the fire burning in the hold , when they were relieved from their perilous situation by the appearance of the Maria Christina , of Altona , and taken on board . Previously to leaving the brig the hatches were opened , when the flames burst forth , and in thirty minutes afterwards the mainmast fell over the side . "

      The barque Emma , of Dundee , on her passage from Newcastle to Montreal , struck on some of the Orkney rocks , on the 1 st of April . The vessel had been driven from her anchorage off St . Margaret's , in a heavy gale . Those on board managed to make sail on her , and she stood to the Eastward , and then tacked and stood to the North , when she drove and struck on the point of the rocks with terrible force . Her fearful position was observed from tfie shore , but it was utterly impossible to render any assistance . The crew took to the rigging , and their cries and gestures for help were truly heartrending . Within half an hour the masts were carried away , and the whole of the unhappy creatures met with a watery grave .

      Several bodies have been floated on shore on the Essex coast , supposed to be the bodies of persons lost in the Royal Adelaide .

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      DOMESTIC MURDERS . A case of murder , in a sudden fit of jealousy , took place in Suffolk the other day . A number of young men and women who had been drinking together at the White Horse Inn , Balling , were walking home at midnight on Saturday week , when one of them , Charles Piper , put his arm round the waist of one of the girls . Another of the party , one Agar , told him he must go no further with the girl . Piper said he would , upon which Agar stabbed him with a knife several times ; and the wounds proved to be of so serious a nature that the man died on the following Wednesday .

      Elizabeth Hellier , who is described as " a pretty , interesting girl , twenty years of age , " was tried at Taunton assizes , last week , for the murder of an illegitimate infant child . The story of the case was very melancholy , though not uncommon . She had lost her situation as a servant , on her pregnancy being discovered , and had in vain tried to get a living by needlework . Having no friends who could assist her , she applied to the Poor Law guardians ; but they refused to give her anything . As there was no evidence to show that she had been guilty of the capital crime , the jury merely found her guilty of the misdemeanour—concealment of the birth . Her sentence was twelve months of hard labour .

      John Humblethorpe , a carpenter , aged twenty-one , was indicted at the Norfolk Circuit on April 9 , for having , on the 26 th of July last , shot at Susan Lingwood , aged twenty-four , with intent to murder her . The two young people had become acquainted in the harvest time of 1848 ; an attachment ensued , but the lady was fickle . John Humblethorpe found himself superseded , and , after various threats by letter and word of mouth , he one night fired a bullet through her bed-room window . The bullet passed through her dress , which was lying on her bed , and lodged in a chest of drawers . The prisoner ' s counsel pleaded that the young man had no intent to injure his mistress , but as he knew she had often changed her mind , he adopted that method of frightening her into a renewal of attachment . The jury acquitted him .

      Bird and his wife , who were recently tried for the murder of Mary Parsons and acquitted , were again apprehended yesterday ( Friday ) week at Coleridge , near Bideford , on a charge of having assaulted and otherwise maltreated the unfortunate girl . The prisoners were panic-struck when told the charge on which they were apprehended . They were both crying bitterly on the way to the magistrate ' s office , and the female prisoner became so ill during the examination that the proceedings were adjourned till Monday . After her removal she became delirious , and continued in that state , according to the latest accounts from Bideford .

      The final examination of Emma Sanderson , wife of a a bookseller ' s shopman in the New North-road , who is charged with the wilful murder of her male infant , six weeks old , took place on Thursday . From the additional evidence given it seemed clear that the woman was completely insane when she committed the crime ; however , she was committed to Newgate on the charge of " wilful murder . " Emanuel Barnett , described as " a rather well-looking man , " was tried at Gloucester assizes last week for the murder of Elizabeth and Samuel Gregory , by administering arsenic in an apple dumpling . The prisoner had lodged in the house where the poisoning took place , and it uppeared that he had provided the flour of which the dumplings were made ; but , as there was no evidence to show any motive for his committing such a crime , the jury returned a verdict of " Not guilty . "

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      MISCELLANEOUS . The Queen and Prince Albert , accompanied by the junior members of the Royal Family , left Windsor Castle for Buckingham Palace on Saturday afternoon . They were conveyed in a special train to Paddington , and thence went in several of the royal carriages to the palace , where they arrived at twenty minutes to six o'clock . On Thursday the Queen and Prince Albert , accompanied by the royal suite , visited the Italian Opera . According to the Court Circular of Monday , her Majesty ' s accouchement is expected to take place in about a fortnight ; and as soon after as her state will permit , the Court will return to Windsor , and remain there until after Ascot races .

      The Queen and Prince , with Prince Alfred and the Princess Helena , visited the Zoological Gardens in the Regent ' s-park on Monday afternoon . In the evening the Queen and Prince Albert visited her Majesty ' s Theatre . The second line of tube for the double roadway at the Britannia Bridge , says the Cheater Courant , is to be floated in May . The request to permit the attendance of the Prince of Wales , with his father , at a festival to celebrate the progress of this great work in engineering science , has been declined—for the Prince Albert , on account of the Queen's " interesting situation ; " for the Prince of Wales , on account of his youth .

      Nine horses , of the pure Arabian breed , presented to the Queen by the Emperor of Morocco , arrived by the South-Western Railway , on Tuesday , and were immediately conveyed to Buckingham Palace ; where they were inspected by Prince Albert and the Duke of Norfolk , as Master of the Horse . The singular appearance of the mares , being all rung and their tails of enormous size , and their hair being cut close , with the uncouth look of their attendants , attracted much attention . Prince Albert presided on Thursday afternoon at a meeting of the Royal Commission for the promotion of the Exhibition of 1851 . The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen on Thursday at Buckingham Palace .

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      The ex-King and Queen of the French , accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of Nemours , with their two sons and a daughter , went by special train from Reigate to Brighton on Saturday . A report is current that the great seal is to be put into commission ; Lord Langdale , who is destined for the Chancellorship , being reluctant to assume a political position . Bentham used to point to Bickersteth as the right man to be Chancellor . The Bishop of Winchester has presented the Reverend A . S . Canney , B . A ., to the incumbency of the district of St . Andrew , Lambeth , in which a church is to be erected as soon as circumstances will admit .

      The Reverend Mr . Ward , who recently seceded from the Church of England to the Church of Rome , has juat come into an entailed estate of £ 12 , 000 a year . We are sorry to hear that the health of the poet Wordsworth , who , we believe , is now verging on his eightieth year , is not so good as his friends and admirers could wish . — Westmoreland Gazette . M . Gustave de Rothschild , second son of the banker , has recently been naturalized [ in France ] . He presented himself before the mayor of the twelfth arrondisscment , where he made the required declaration , his witnesses and godfather being General Changarnier and M . Poissant , an old member of the Chamber of Deputies . — Jewish Chronicle .

      Letters from Sloperton , give a most painful account of the decaying health of the poet Moore , whose death was daily apprehended . For three months past Mr . Moore had not left his room , and altogether his condition was considered hopeless . About £ 2000 has been contributed for the proposed

      monument to Lord Jeffrey . Edinburgh , as we are informed , has contributed about £ 1300 ; London about £ 400 ; and Glasgow about £ 100 . The Marquis of Ormonde has made over to the National Board of Education in Ireland the spacious schoolhouse on his estate in the parish of Kilcash , and diocese of Cashel . The building was erected at a cost of nearly £ 600 . A Donaehadee paper says that , on the abolition of the

      Lord-Lieutenancy , Sir William Somerville is to be raised to the peerage as Baron Somerville , and that , consequently , there will be a vacancy for that borough . La Patrie of Bruges says it is probable that Louis Philippe and his family will visit Bruges in the month of May next . The Queen of the Belgians entered on her thirty-ninth year on Wednesday last ; she was born at Palermo on the 3 rd of April , 1812 .

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      Letters from Dresden state that a congress of So " vereigns is likely to be held there after the coronation oj the Emperor of Austria , and that the crowned heads wiU there and then publish a proclamation for a general amnesty for all political offences committed during the last two years . It is reported that the Austrian Government has relinquished in favour of the Pope , the placetum regiwn : that is to say , the Emperor ' s right of proposing and confirming the appointment of the bishops , and of permitting the publication of Papal ordinances in spiritual matters , &c , in Austria . The German journals almost every day contain letters from Poland , announcing the concentration of large masses of Russian troops in different provinces , estnat

      pecially in those nearest the frontier , and stating recruiting and military preparations are being earned on with great activity . The Vienna papers publish the memorial of the Minister of Trade , which has received the sanction of the Emperor , for the establishment of Chambers of Commerce throughout the empire . They are to be

      sixty in number , but will be completely under the controul of the Ministry . . . The Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Schwennhas just received the resignation of his ministry ( " the only remaining Radical Ministry in Germany " ) in consequence of his determination to modify the democratic portion of the constitution . On the 5 th of April the avenues of the Chamber were lined with gendarmes , to prevent the assembling of the members . The German Reform reports that there is an interchange of notes , of a very unpleasant nature , between , the cabinet of Vienna and St . James ' s . Lord Palmerston is said to have annouced the most decided measures against Austria ' s relations with Tuscany , and even to have expressed the suspicion , that Austria is fomenting the insurrection in Bosnia . _

      . . The Preussische Staatsanzeiger of the 3 rd contains a summons to all German and foreign engineers to send in plans and sketches for a bridge which is to be built over the Rhine at Cologne . A prize of 250 fredencs d or will be given for the best plan , and a prize of l ^ o frederics d ' or for the second best . The committee of the " Union Electorate ( the party of order ) has resolved that their candidate for the election of the 28 th of April shall be M . Ferdinand Foy . The democratic party have not yet named their candidate . .

      Nearly nine hundred persons have been tried by the Saxon courts-martial as implicated in the disturbances of last May . Nearly one hundred sentences have alreadybeen pronounced . Among these , 8 have been sentenced to death , 7 to imprisonment , 2 for life , 5 for 18 , 15 , 10 , 4 , and 3 years , 1 to the treadmill for 8 years . A telegraphic despatch from Berlin , dated April 6 , says that an imposing force is concentrated on the frontiers of Silesia , and that 46 , 000 cavalry are also ichelonnis at small distances from the frontier . The Statuto of Florence quotes a letter from Bologna

      of March 28 , stating that the celebration of the anniversary of the battle of Novara by the Austrians having met with great coldness from the population of Bologna , the Austrian general in command there has notified by letter to the Casino and other societies of a similar nature existing in that city , an order to close their rooms ; adding that such measuie was sufficiently warranted by the attitude which the whole country maintains towards the Austrians , and by the supposition that the Casino had given no balls during the carnival , to avoid inviting the Austrian officers . _ _ _ .

      The annual produce of wine in New South Wales exceeds 100 , 000 gallons . Wine of good quality sells at 10 s . a dozen , and will be much cheaper as the cultivation of the vine is rapidly extending . m # From Returns ordered by the Emperor of Russia it appears that there are in Russia and Poland 1 , 188 , 111 Jews , who have 2900 places of worship and 5308 schools . Fifty-two persons more have received their sentence by the court-martial of Arad ; of these thirty-five are sentenced to death . The sentences have been commuted by Haynau to from ten to sixteen years' imprisonment in

      . A serious engagement has taken place between the inhabitants of Rio Grande ( Brazil ) and some of General Oribe ' s Argentine bands , in which the former have been beaten , with the loss of nearly 500 men . The state of siege has been prolonged throughout the Grand Ducby of Baden for another month .

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      It is proposed by Dr . Gesner to light the city of New York with gas made of asphaltum from Trinidad , at a cost of 50 cents , per 1000 feet . By a recent royal decree linen thread of every size is freely admitted into Belgium , on condition of its being reexported when made up into cloth . m The return of births during the past year in Vienna shows a total of 19 , 241 , of which 10 , 360 were illegitimate , and only 8881 legitimate . A new postal convention has been concluded between France and Switzerland . The Panama Echo , a new weekly paper , states that wines and spirits will shortly be drunk as cheaply at Panama as in France , and that clothing will be as cheap

      as in England . The Archbishop of Turin , who opposes the abolition of ecclesiastical privileges , was vehemently hissed while leaving the Cathedral on Easter Sunday . The St . Petersburg journals of the 23 rd of March give news of victories gained over the Circassians . These accounts are , however , very little to be relied on . The insurrection , spoken of by the journals some weeks since , among the peasantry of Zagorya , a Slavonie province bordering on Styria , is said to be put down . _ The van of the Messagerica Nationales , containing 100 , 000 francs , was attacked by a band of robbers , on the 3 d instant , on its way from Lyons to Avignon : the

      men succeeded in carrying off several parcels containing 34 , 000 francs . Six of the robbers have been apprehended and 23 , 000 francs of the money had been recovered . The Wiener Zeitung publishes a long list of officers in the Imperial Russian service to whom various orders arc given , duty free , by the Emperor of Austria , in acknowledgment of their services during last year's campaign in Hungary and Transylvania . Among the prisoners recently released from the fortress of Spielberg , the Austrian state prison , was one who , according to the Gazette des Tribunavx , had been thirty-seven years continually confined in a subterranean cell . He was taken ill on being removed to the open air , and had to be sent to the hospital . His age is

      seventy-two . Many arrests of Russian officers have lately taken place at Warsaw and throughout the army in Poland . It is said that some of them , under the influence of torture , have revealed the existence of Recret societies . At Jever , in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburgh , 4000 pieces of silver money of the period of the different emperors down to Antoninus Pius , were lately dxs-

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 13, 1850, page 55, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1840/page/7/