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      ingress or egress were thereby cut off . As soon as the doors had been unscrewed , and the rooms examined , it was discovered that some miscreant had placed some hay under Lady Kircudbright ' door , and had afterwards forced under a lighted cigar , having previously fastened down the door , so that in the event of the house taking fire , her ladyship must most inevitably have been burned to death . " « . n , The Times contains a letter from Captain Cook , who states thatin 1822 , the ship he then commanded was

      , " boarded and taken possession of by a boat from a piratical schooner near the island of Cuba , which boat was commanded by an Englishman named Aaron Smith . " When the said Aaron was tried for this act of piracy , he rested his defence upon having been compelled to act as he did by the pirates , upon which Captain Cook emphatically remarks— " He acted so admirably that , for my life , up to this hour , I have never been able to divest myself of the idea that he was a real pirate and no * mistake . '"

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      Two printers in Paris have been fined 3000 f . each for having printed two political songs without their names being attached to them . Among the petitions presented to the French Assembly on Saturday was one from a young female , praying that a tax might be placed on all bachelors . The Presse , in its weekly commercial bulletin , states that 40 , 000 workmen are employed in executing orders for articles of Parisian manufacture . There will , it says , be specimens of all kinds of articles sent to the London exhibition , accompanied by great numbers of visitors . An old order of the school administration that has been

      forgotten for some years is about to be reinforced as a sanitary measure in France . It forbids all attendance at school in the afternoon , if the thermometer in the forenoon reaches twenty degrees of Reaumur . The Paris Savings Bank deposits on Sunday and Monday amounted to 487 , 434 f ., while the money withdrawn only reached 230 , 138 f . A return of the price of meat just published shows that beef , mutton , veal , and pork are cheaper in France at the present moment than they have been for the last twenty years , and that the price has been gradually coming down for the last four years . old soldiers of the Brunswick

      More than 600 corps , that served in the Waterloo campaign , and at that battle , sent in their names as guests at the *• Waterloo Festival , " at Brunswick , on the 18 th . The Nassau Brigade , which was engaged at Quatre Bras , was represented . An officer of artillery has quitted the Prussian service to proceed to Turkey , in order to assist in the instruction of the Turkish troops in this branch of the military art . The Director of the Lunatic Asylum at Leubus , Dr . Martini , has examined the criminal Sefeloge in his prison , and has stated not only that he is quite insane and irresponsible for his actions , but that , accordingto the evidence collected , he must have been a monomaniac before 1848 . Other medical men have expressed , from observations of Sefeloge ' s conduct in confinement , the same opinion . It is doubtful whether any criminal inquiry will be now instituted .

      The foundation stone of the memorial which is to be erected in honour of the soldiers who fell at Berlin in the course of the year 1848 , " fighting against insurrection , " as the programme says , was to be laid on the 18 ih inst ., in honour of the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo , and it was expected that the Prince of Prussia would return from St . Petersburg in time to represent the King on the occasion . At Mayence , forty persons accused of having formed part of a free corps during the insurrection of Baden , have been tried and acquitted ; all of them have been nine months in confinement during the preliminary investigation into the charge ; the process has also been very expensive .

      The German journals express considerable apprehensions at the preparations for war by land and sea reported from Denmark . They state that , if Denmark marches troops into Schleswig , Prussia will immediately occupy Holstein . The Free-Trade Society of Stettin has issued an address to the landowners of the provinces , exhorting them to support the cause of free trade , as their interest is wound up with that of the whole community . The Parliament of Hesse-Cassel was dissolved on the 13 th inst ., in consequence of the opposition to the Ministerial proposal to grant the taxes tor three years . The German-Austrian postal union has been joined by the Governments of Mecklenburg Schwerin and Oldenbcrcand the lianse TownBremen .

      , , The Austrian Gazette of Juno 12 contains the longexpected ordoimance for abolishing the Hungarian Austrian customs frontiers . This measure , the credit of which docs not belong to the present ministry , as it was naturally superinduced by the events of the revolution , will give a great impulse to the home-trade of the Austrian empire . Letters from Gottenburg state that the River Glommen , which fulls into the Fiord of Drammen , in Norway , had risen so suddenly that seven villages were swept away . This nreident , which has caused great loss of life and property , has been caused by the sudden melting of the snows in the mountains . The waters were , at the latest dates , twenty-nine feet above their ordinary level ; twelve feet , higher than during the inundation of 178 o .

      Whilst the Supreme Court of Denmark was sitting , on the lHh inst ., at Copenhagen , a violent wind suddenly forced open a larije window just behind the President , M . de Lnuxow . The President hastened to slmt it , but just as lie hud caught hold of it he in tide a false step , lost his buluuc . c , and ( ell to the pavement below . The Court being on the first floor , the height was considerable , and the unfortunate judge frautured his skull . That terrible scourge the locust , which has never entirely disappeared from Spain , has shown itself on the

      fertile plains of Pinto . Energetic measures have been adopted to keep it under as much as possible . The Spanish and Portuguese governments have resolved upon putting the capitals of their respective countries into easier communication with each other . As there is no practicable road from the Spanish frontier to Lisbon , the Portuguese government intend making one , which is to be the continuation of that which unites Badajoz to Madrid . A large stone bridge is to be thrown over the river , which separates Spain from Portugal , the expense of constructing which is to be shared by the two

      . - . Accounts from Madrid state that the guns which are to announce the birth of the royal infant are already placed in battery . The director of the public fetes m P . aris has been engaged to preside over the illuminations and decorations which are to take place on the occasion . The Florence papers of the 12 th state that the trial of the members of the Provisional Government and its accomplices is about to take place . The Chamber de rmse en accusation has found that , out of the forty-four accused , no true bill has been found against twenty . The remaining twenty-four are to stand their trial , but seventeen of them are contumace .

      The Concordia of the 15 th gives the following account of the state of Rome : —" All the Roman youth have either emigrated , are imprisoned , or under suspicion , and are not allowed to be abroad after sun-set . The perquisitions are no longer confined to men , women , and children , but extend to cravats and hats . Yesterday a Frenchman ' s hat was searched , and he had to walk home bare-headed . All the letters of the English consul ( except official ones ) are also intercepted and examined . " A naval education institution is to be established at Trieste ; plans for a great arsenal are in preparation . Several frigates and smaller men-of-war are ordered to be built .

      A party of Italian refugees , who had served in Hungary under Kossuth , lately arrived in the island of Sardinia , under the command of Colonel Monti , formerly in the Austrian service . General La Marmora , commandant of the island , received Colonel Monti and his legion with great cordiality , and pronounced a speech professing his esteem for their valour . Another California has been discovered , and within a few days' sail from Trinidad , in the province of Yuruary , in the country of Venezuela . Several young men are already talking of an early trip from that island to the diggings . The Jamaica papers speak of the progress of emigration from that colony for Chagres . The tot-il number of persons who have already taken their departure is estimated at 500 .

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      On Saturday morning between the hours of nine and ten o ' clock , there was a slight fall of sleet and snow at Lincoln , sufficient to lie upon the flag pavement . The mornings and evenings have been very cold . —Boston Herald . It is said that Mr . Maurice O'Connell , M . P ., has been promised the new situation under the Dublin Improvement Bill , for which so many industrious Whigs have been haunting the purlieus of the Castle of Dublin , and the Irish office to boot , and which bears the title of Collector-General of Taxes . The salary fixed by the act is £ 800 per annum . The present rate of mortality in the Kilrush workhouse exceeds forty a week . There are between 700 and 800 now under medical treatment .

      Another atrocious murder has been committed in the north of Ireland . The name of the unfortunate victim was James Nocher , the gamekeeper of the Reverend W . B . Forde , a magistrate of the county of Down . It appears that the man was in pursuit of some poachers on Sunday morning , when he was suddenly shot down from behind a hedge , not , it is supposed , by any of those of whom he was in pursuit , but by some assassin who lay in watch for him . In the Court of Queen ' s Bench , Dublin , an action for a breach of promise was tried , on Monday , in which a widow lady named Sparling was plaintiff , and a Scotch gentleman named Paul was defendant . There was nothing particular in the case beyond the proof of the promise , and the clear and decided breach of it , which

      led to a compromise , by the defendant consenting to a verdict of £ 100 against him . A gentleman named Kelly , an extensive farmer in the county of Roscommon , who some time ago was worth £ 10 , 000 , has , at the age of sixty years and over , emigrated Lately with his family , and accompanied by some others of the same class , to America , carrying with him only £ 300 , the wreck of his property . The Dublin News Letter says , " Government have at last consented to grant a commission of inquiry into the suitableness of one of the Irish ports for an American packet station . This concession is one of the utmost importance , and shows what may be obtained at the hands any Ministry by united resolve and determined action on the part of the Irish representatives . "

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      At the residence of Mrs . Fisher , Grimsby-house , near Banbury , a nightingale has recently built its nest in a rose-tree ? which is trained against one of the columns of the portico of the house . On Saturday last , Mr . Reynolds , Lord Mayor , was served with nine writs of summons for penalties of £ oO each for acts done in his capacity of Lord Mayor . These proceedings arc taken under the recent Process Act passed by ' Parliament , which places members of Parliament on the same footing in relation to law proceedings as ordinary subjects . The New Enylander says , " Lottery-tickets were sold in Providence , the . other day , the scheme of which was drawn on Monday week , in ' thc State of Delaware , ? for the erection of an academy , and Jurnishing the Episcopal Church in George-town . '"

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      UNITED STATES . The arrival at Liverpool this morning of the steamship Asia , on her first homeward trip , has placed us in possession of one week ' s later intelligence from the United States and British America . The Asia left Boston on the 12 th inst ., and Halifax on the 14 th . No progress has yet been made in the slavery question . General Lopez was arrested at New Orleans by order of General Taylor . The latest dates from . California are to the 1 st of May .

      One million and a half dollars of gold-dust had ar rived by the Cherokee steam-ship . The Cuban affair is likely to be settled amicably .

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      The Marquis of Lansdowne , in moving , last evening , for a committee to report upon the best mode of accommodating the diplomatic body in the gallery of the House , explained that the Chevalier Bunsen had not been to blame for taking his place where he did , because he was admitted to the seat by one of the officers of their lordships' House ; and , secondly , because on the door through which he passed into this seat were inscribed the words " seats for diplomatic persons . "

      Lord Brougham seconded the motion , and at great length endeavoured to show that he had done nothing wrong , and that he had acted towards the Prussian Ambassador in the most courteous manner . According to his account the only one to blame in the affair was the Chevalier Bunsen himself , who had kept his seat after having been told , "in the most courteous terms , " that by sitting there he was excluding two peeresses from their places . It had been alleged that he and the Earl of Carlisle had been frequently seen in the peeresses' gallery : —

      " To be sure we have , over and over again . ( Laughter . ) But no one has ventured to say that either my noble friend or myself occupied a seat when peeresses were standing and could not find room to sit down . There is no gentleman in England , be he a member of this House , or , I believe , of the other House—( Great laughter ) —but I can only speak with certainty of the House to which I have the honour to belong—there is no gentleman , in Parliament or out of it , who would keep a seat to the exclusion of a lady who is unable to obtain one . ( Hear . ) he at the unfortu

      Earl Gkey owned that was present - nate affair which had been adverted to , and took shame to himself for not having interfered , but , owing to the rapidity with which the matter was gone through , he had not expressed his opinions against the enforcement of the order . The Marquis of Londonderkt condemned the conduct of Lord Brougham , and referred to a letter addressed by the Chevalier Bunsen to Lord Palmerston , which stated in detail what had taken place , and that , in a somewhat different way from the account of the noble and learned lord . He wished to see that letter laid upon the table / Lord Brougham said there would be no end of producing papers if such a document as this were to be laid before the house .

      The Marquis of Lansdowne objected to the production of the letter . The Marquis of Breadalbane : Did not the noble and learned lord personally address the illustrious individual , from the body of the House , and say to him , " Now , you must come down " ? Lord Brougham ( with great energy ) : No ; and that I am asked the question shows the total ignorance of the rules of evidence of one of the hereditary judges of the land . ( Laughter . ) I do not speak of the noble marquis in respect of his office of Lord Chamberlain , nor do I mean to allude to the noble marquis ' s predecessor m the pages of Shakspeare ; but he , being a peer of Parliament , is a judge , and as such ought to be more cautious in sifting and weighing evidence . ( Laughter . ) He admits that he himself was not present . What I want to ask him is , whether his informant was present in the

      House ? The Marquis of Breadalbane : He was very near you too . ( Hear , hear . ) Lord Brougham : But did the noble lord hear me use the words ? The Marquis of Brtcadalbane : He was net a member of your Lordships' House—he was a peer ' s son . ( Hear . ) . , , , Lord Brougham : He totally , entirely , and grossly misinformed you . Do you hear that ? ( Laughter . ) And you may tell him , whoever he is , that I said so . ( Renewed laughter ) . . last f his inten

      Mr . Hume gave notice , evening , o - tion to move an amendment upon the motion of which Mr . Roebuck hnd given notice for Monday night , in reference to the foreign policy of the Government . Mr . Hume ' s motion is for a resolution to the effect that , taking into consideration the difficulties with which the Government has had to contend , Lord Palmerston ' s policy has been , in the opinion of the House , calculated , upon the whole , to promote the interests of tho nation , and that the House will , therefore , continue its confidence in her Majesty's Government . This announcement was received with Ministerial cheering , answered by

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 22, 1850, page 298, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1843/page/10/