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Leader (1850-1860), 29th June 1850, Edition Town of 1, Page 320, Untitled Article

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      His Royal Highness Prince George also called at the Palace to enquire after the Queen ' s health . Sir George Grey arrived at nine o clock at the Palace , and remained until twenty minutes past nine o ' clock , when the Queen and Prince Albert , with the Prince of Prussia , left for the Royal Italian Opera House , to honour the performance with her presence .

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      ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA . The Royal Italian Opera was last night the scene of a magnificent demonstration of affectionate loyalty . The intelligence of the disgraceful outrage must have spread with extraordinary rapidity ; for when , in the second act of the Prophele , her Majesty was observed to enter the royal box , the audience , as if moved with a sudden impulse , rose en masse , and burst into a perfect tempest of congratulatory uproar , m which thpv were instantl y joined by the performers in

      the orchestra , and the whole of the chorus then on the stage for the skating scene . As soon as the cheering had partially lulled , the opening bars of the national anthem were heard in the orchestra . A fresh round of applause followed , in the midst of which Madame Viardot and Madame Castellan , followed in a minute or two by Madame Grisi , come down to the foot-lights , and « ' God save the Queen" was sung with the greatest spirit and effect , the ladies we have named taking the solos . The line , " Frustrate their knavish tricks , " caught up , and applauded to the echo , and it was some time after the anthem had been sung before the applause and excitement subsided so far as to permit the opera to proceed . Her Majesty was evidently affected by the heartiness of the greeting which she received , and acknowledged it by repeatedly bowing and smiling to the andience .

      It is with feelings of the utmost pain that we state that the mark inflicted by the ruffian ' s stick was plainly visible on the Queen ' s right temple . —Morning Chronicle .

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      CASES OF SUICIDE . A boy , aged only seven years , the son of John Hanson , a waterman , in Newark , drowned himself last Saturday . The boy had frequently complained to his schoolmates of his mother beating him , and the day before his death he cried and said she had been flogging him , and that if she did it again he would drown himself , and unhappily on Saturday last he carried his threat into execution . He took off his clothes , and walked into the water deliberately till he was beyond his depth , when the stream carried him away . An inquest having been held upon the body , the jury returned a verdict to the effect that , " being an infant , and not having discernment between good and evil , he drowned himself . "

      A girl , named Frances Walker , only seventeen years of ago , was brought up at Worship-street Police-office , on Tuesday , charged with having attempted to commit suicide . She had been found that morning in a waterbutt , into whiah . Rhe had gone head foremost with the intention of drowning herself ; and on bein « rescued she said she would take the earliest opportunity of putting an end to her life , although she refused to assign any cause for this strange determination . The magistrate said it would be unsafe to let her go at large while in such a state of mind , and , therefore , he would commit her for a week to the House of Detention .

      A respectably-dressed female , of lady-like appearance , named Catherine Williams , was caught in the act of attempting to throw herself into the Thames , from the « ' dummy " bar ^ e at Waterloo-bridge , on Monday afternoon . She said she had lost hrr purse , containing upwards of £ 7 , and she had not a farthing in the world . She stated that she was the widow of an officer who was killed in India . She was brought up at Bow-street on Tuesday morning , when Mr . Jardine said she must be remanded until Friday , unless she had friends to take

      charge of her . Mr . Lloyd , of the firm of Lloyd , Franco , and Co ., Pope ' s llead-olley , who has been residing at the lodginghouse of Mr . Abbott , Jermyn-street , for some weeks , and who has lately boon labouring under some slight mental derangement , which has had the effect of altering his ordinarily sedate and -temperate habits , threw himself from the second-floor window of that honse on Monday afternoon , and was killed on the spot . He is described as an elderly gentleman , of about fifty or sixty years of age , and of a kind and benevolent disposition .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . The Queen and Prince Albert , with the Princess Iloynl and the Princess Alice , took an airing on Saturday in an open carriage . On the same day the Countess do Ncuilly visitorl her Mnjesty at Buckingham Palace . On Monday the Quren , with the Princess Royal and the Princess Ildrna tooknn airing in the Park . On Tuesday evening t . lio Queen anil Prince Albert , accompanied by t \ v Piiunc of Prussia , went to the Italian Opera . The Court , it . is sniil , will remove to Osborne again on or about , the 17 th of July . The Duchess of Kent took leave of the Queeu and Prince Albert on Sunday evening , and on Monday morning left . Clarence House , accompanied by the Prince of . Li'ininm ' n , en route to Brussels , where she arrived that evening .

      Priuuu Albert , having received an invitation from the Lord Provost of Edinburgh to honour that city by laying the foundation stone of its new intended National Gallery , has Kignified , through his private secretary , that he will he happy to compl y on condition that he be not invitrd to uticiul any pulilie . banquet . The time has not been yet fixed for the eeri'tnony , and must depend upon that fixed for tho departure of " the Court to Balmoral . Among the improvers on Deeside we may now rank his ltoynl Highness Prince Albert , who has rebuilt all

      the offices on his estate at Birk-hall , and is putting the arable land on it into a high state of cultivation . New grounds have also been laid out both in Birk-hall and Balmoral . As it is now officially announced that his Royal Highness is to visit Fort George , and review Prince Albert ' Own Regiment , during the visit of the Court to Balmoral this summer , it is hoped that the Prince will be present at the cattle show of the Royal Northern Agricultural Society in August . — Scottish Farmer

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      The Duke of Richmond has been invited to a public dinner to be given to him by the Protectionist party in Edinburgh , on the 8 th of August , m The dinner to be given to Sir James Duke , M . P ., m return for his hospitable entertainment to the chief magistrates of English and Sc ottish towns during his mayoralty , and which was agreed , at a recent meeting of mayors and provosts at Derby , to take place in Edinburgh , is fixed for Thursday the 11 th of July , at six o ' clock . The marble monument to the memory of the late Dr . Howley , Archbishop of Canterbury , by Mr . Richard Westmacott , has this week been erected in Canterbury Cathedral , nearly opposite the throne . the electors of the

      A movement is on foot amongst Falkirk burghs to induce the Earl of Lincoln to resign his seat . —Edinburgh Courant . In a special convocation held at Oxford , on Monday , the honorary degre of Doctor in Civil Law was conferred on the Marquis of Northampton and Mr . William Henry Prescott , author of the History of Ferdinand and Isabella , &c , &c . Three hundred and forty-one peers recorded their opinions on Lord Stanley ' s motion , in person , by proxy , or by pairing off . Of these one hundred and fifty-one were in favour of Government . Out of these one hundred and fifty-one , no fewer than eighty peers were created by the Whig Administrations since 1830 , or had their titles called out of abeyance , or have received an increase of rank in the peerage of the United Kingdom . — Morning Chronicle .

      The meetings held at the house of Mr . Justice Coleridge for the purpose of initiating a subscription to do honour , in some form , to the memory of Wordsworth , have resulted in the formation of a powerful committee , with the Bishop of London at its head . The objects which this committee have in view are , to place a wholelength effigy of the deceased poet in Westminster Abbey , aud , if possible , to erect some monument to his memory in the neighbourhood of Grasmere . The list of subscriptions is headed by the Queen and Prince Albert with a sum of £ 50 .

      Lord Howden , recently appointed Ambassador to Spain , ha 3 sold his estates in Yorkshire to Lord Londesborough for £ 200 , 000 . Grimston is one of the most beautiful houses in England , and contains a unique collection of ancient arms , with many valuable pictures and statues , and furniture of the most costly description . The Hight Hon . T . B . Macaulay , accompanied by his sister , Lady Trevelyan , and her daughter , arrived at Edinburgh on Friday , by express train from London , on their way to the Highlands , vid Blair Atholl . The new church in itochester-row Westminster , erected by Miss Burdett Coutts , was consecrated by the Bishop of London , on Monday . Amongst the company were the Duke of Wellington , the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland , the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminsterand others of the nobility .

      , It was stated in the Court of Chancery on Monday evening that the Vice-Chancellor of England was in a state which excited serious alarm in his family . He had reached Piccadilly on his way to court , but was compelled

      to return . It has been arranged that , on Mr . Tufnell ' s retirement from the secretaryship of the Treasury , the political duties of the office will devolve on Mr . Hayter . General Garibaldi arrived in Liverpool on Saturday afternoon by the steamer Queen , from Gibraltar . The general , who was accompanied by an aide-de-camp , looked exceedingly well in health , and appeared in excellent spirits . Indeed , we are told that he was

      particularly cheerful and agreeable during the voyage . We believe the general will remain in Liverpool for a short time , and that he contemplates a visit to America . A Paris letter , written some few weeks ago , says , " Garibaldi , the well-known Roman Republican , is now residing at Tangicrs , in Africa , and he is very busily engaged in writing memoirs upon the great events in which he took such a large part . The manuscript has been sold to a bookseller of Paris , who will publish it at the same time in the French and Italian languages . "—

      Liverpool Albion . It is said that the coronation of the Emperor of Austria will take place towards tho close of summer , and that a complete amnesty will be published at the same time . The Const it utlonncl announces that the President of tho Republic is to attend the opening of the section of Paris and Strasburg Railway between Metz and Nancy , and that he will afterwards visit Strasburg . It adds that , probably before returning to Paris , the President will pay a visit to Lyons . Bavaria arrived at Aix la

      Tho King of Chapelle on Sunday evening by special train from Cologne . He travels under the title of Count of Werdenfels , and has taken up his residence at Nuellen ' s Hotel , in the Frederick William Plat / ., where a suite of apartments have been fitted up for his accommodation during his stay there , which it is understood will extend to four or five weeks . ,. , M . Guizot nnd the Due de Broglie state that they found the ex King of tho French in far better health and spirits than they could have hoped , and that there happily appears every prospect of his being spared for some time longer to his family . The Stockholm official gazette announces that the mariagc of the Crown Prince and the Princess Louisa of

      the Netherlands would take p lace on Wednesday , the 28 th anniversary of the marriage of his Majesty King Oscar ] and Queen Josephine . Mr . " Fairbairn , the engineer , has arrived at Stockholm , on his way to St . Petersburgh . He is charged by the emperor with the construction of a tubular bridge in Russia . Jenny Lind recently gave six concerts at Stockholm , in aid of the pension fund for the wives and orphans of the performers at the Theatre Royal of that city . The clear profits amounted to upwards of 60 , 000 f .

      M . de Lamartine passed through Lyons on the 18 th . inst , en route for Smyrna . In order , doubtless , to avoid any demonstration , he had informed no one of his arrival , except some privileged friends . About eleven o ' clock he left the hotel by a door which opens on to the Quai du Rhone , and embarked on board a steam-boat which was to convey him to the south . The delicate state of his health and his appearance of suffering made a deep impression on all who had an opportunity of speaking to him . —Saint Public . The latest accounts from Paris state that M . Drouyn de Lhuys was making preparations to leave Paris for London , to resume his diplomatic duties ,

      The return of the Duke of Leuchtenberg from Madeira ( whither he had gone for the benefit of his health ) to St . Petersburgh has caused some speculation in Paris . The Duke is understood to have expressed a desire to visit his first cousin , Louis Napoleon , at Paris , on his arrival at Southampton . His father-in-law , the Emperor Nicholas , was said , however , to have been opposed to any such , visit at the present time , and equally so to any diversion , on the part of the Duke , in the course of his return homeward , to the British metropolis .

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      M . Laugrand , the publisher of the Voix du Peuple , was tried on Monday by the Court of Assizes , for a seditious article under the head of " Organization of Famine , " in that journal , on the 26 th of April last , and sentenced by default to four years' imprisonment , and 10 , 000 f . fine . Workmen are at present occupied in placing in the galleries of Versailles several objects of art recently removed from the museums of Paris . A statue of

      Napoleon is to be put in a vacant place in what is called the Escalier des Princes , leading to the Galerie des Batailles . In the gallery at the bottom of this staircase statues of Turgot , Malesherbes , and Laplace are to be deposited . Busts of Generals de Barral , Regnault , Duvivier , De Br 6 a , and Negrier ( the last four generals were , it will be remembered , killed in the insurrection of 1848 ) are to be placed in the collection of generals who have fallen in battle . — Galignani .

      The French Minister of War has just ordered the admission into the Hotel des Invalides of an old soldier , a Pole by birth , named Kolombeski , aged 126 . He is to arrive in a few days at the hotel . According to his age he was born at the commencement of the reign of Louis XV ., was present at all the wars against Frederick the Great , had been some time in the service at the period of the battle of Fontenoy , and was too old for active service at the time of the revolution of 1789 , being then nearly seventy years of age . At the fall of the empire he was ninety . He has seen ten forms of Government in France . The heat in Paris for the last few days has been excessively oppressive . On Wednesday the thermometer stood , at two o ' clock , above 91 degrees in the shade .

      It is calculated that there are at present at least 150 , 000 operatives employed in the department of the Seine in the various buildings in progress . The suspension bridge o ; Fumel , over the Lot , fell , last week , whilst undergoing repair . The fall took place in consequence of one of the piers giving way . Three "men were killed , and two were seriously , and , itis feared , mortally wounded . A young man fell into the water and was rescued by a person who had hastened to the spot to render assistance ; this person was the young man ' s father . — Galignani . The Journal de la Haute Loire relates a horrible act

      of cruelly committed by a child four years old on an infant of ten months . The little monster , being left alone with the infant , seized a knife , and , while it was sleeping in its cradle , cut off its nose , and inflicted several severe wounds upon its face ; and , after thus mutilating it , covered it with a mask of wood-ashes mixed with water , in order to stanch the flow of blood and stifle the cries of the helpless little sufferer . Meunwhile the mothers of the two children , who were at work in front of their dwellings , attracted by the screams , ran to the spot , and beheld with horror the spectacle before them . The guilty urchin had made his escape , but was soon afterwards found , his hands dyed in the blood of his victim .

      The Tuscan Monitor publishes a notification directing that the exhibition of manufactures , which was fixed for 1852 , shall take place immediately . The most remarkable articles exhibited are to be sent to the London exhibition of 1851 . The Venice Gazette states that the first experiment of the electric telegraph between Verona and Venice is to be made on the 27 th of this month . Two days afterwards the public are to be admitted to the use of this mode of communication . A letter from Naples states that on the 17 th instant , at five o ' clock a . m ., a part of the Grenaglio , an immense edifice which the troops occupy as barracks , gave way and fell down , swallowing up in its ruins 400 or 500 persons .

      The weather has been excessively hot in Italy . A party of infantry arrived in Rome the other day after a forced march of nearly forty miles , three of the soldiers were so much overcome with the heat that they died by the way , and a number fainted . The fees hitherto paid by the Jews in Hanover to Christian clergymen are to be abolished from the 1 st of July ; the present recipients are to be compensated by an annual charge on the Treasury , ceasing with their lives .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 29, 1850, page 320, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1844/page/8/