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In contradiction of the statement that the Erfurt Parliament is to meet in July , the Prussian Ministerial organ states that the different laws to be submitted to it cannot be prepared by that time , and that the Chambers will not be called together till August . Dr . Maitini , who has officially examined the assassin Sefeloge , is engaged for several hours every day in the bureau of the Judge conducting the inquiry into the case , reading the certificates of the prisoner ' s conduct and notices of his manner of life for several years , and
comparing the acts described with passages in all the best works on psychology and mental disease , to see if they agree with the phenomena there described . The doctor has himself already come to the conclusion that the man is decidedly insane . The merchants of Konigsberg have declared in favour of a customs line between the Baltic provinces and the Avest of Prussia , in case the Government persist in its policy of raising the import duties on foreign manufactured goods . _ ...
Another convocation of the Austrian bishops is shortly to be held at Vienna . They are to settle the educational question . The Austrian Minister of Commerce has appointed a committee to inquire into the measures necessary to put an end to the enormous amount of smuggling carried on from Trieste into the rest of the empire . The census in Hungary has excited the greatest dissatisfaction among all classes whether Magyars , Slovacks , Wallachians , or Germans . In many places threats of force have been necessary to compel the peasantry to afford the desired information as to the number of their families and the cattle on their farms .
Private letters from Madrid state that the royal accouchement may be expected shortly . The Duchess of Montpensier has been created an Infanta of Spain , with all the honours due to the rank . It has been decided that , as soon as the royal accouchement takes place , Queen Christina and the Duke and Duchess de Montpensier shall proceed to the palace of the Escurial . A melancholy accident has happened at Seville . On the 14 th a tartana , containing eight persons , was precipitated from the Triana bridge into the Guadalquiver . Four of them , consisting of a married , two unmarried ladies , and a gentleman , were drowned . Clouds of locusts have commence 1 ravaging the country in the vicinity of Madrid , " which they have not entered , however , doubtless , " says a Spanish paper , " because it is so full of officials of the same genus . "
The Senate of St . Petersburg has published an imperial ukase , according to which a special committee of inquiry is appointed for examining all school books published by private persons , as well as all pubiications for young people , be they original or translations . The committee , which is instituted for two years , is to pay special attention to the moral tendency and the mode of
instruction . Notwithstanding the success that has attended the labours of Mr . Anderson , the great Norwegian temperance advocate , it appears by the excise returns that the consumption of spirits in Norway is still excessive . By the returns between October , 1849 , and April , 1850 , there appears to have been distilled and excise duty to have been paid upon no less than 7 , 700 , 000 quarts of ardent spirits , a tolorable quantity for a population numbering only 1 , 400 , 000 . A letter of the 17 th of June , from Semlin , states that an insurrection against the Turkish Government has broken out in the three Bulgarian districts of Widdin , Gurgissova , and Belgradsisza , and that the small fort at the latter place has fallen into the hands of the insurgents . _
.... .. Letters from Tunis state that the cholera continued to rage in that place ; and with even greater violence at Sousa , an adjacent port . From all three places the emigration was very large , and there were not sufficient vessels to meet the demand ; one of them had received as many as 600 persons on board . Accounts from the west coa ^ t of South America mention that her Majesty ' s ships Enterprise and Investigator had passed through the Straits of Magellan . The last private letters from California bring the intelligence that three Berliners , who left for that settlement at the height of the gold fever a year and a half ago , have been hangedby sentence of Judge Lynch ,
, The Rochester knockers have gone to New York , and now converse with ghosts for one dollar a ticket . ^ The ghosts appear to be a very ignorant eet of beings . They have had the experience of two worlds , and yet know very little of either . It is to be regretted that they have received the support of some very respectable parti ( s , who have heard the rappings , had an occasionally correct answer , and cannot explain why the sounds are made ! There are four women and two men engaged in these developments , and there is therefore no want of confederates . There never was any scarcity of fools . —New York Correspondent of the Daily News .
A paragraph has appeared in several papers , apparently extracted from the New York Sun , announcing the arrest of two individuals who had arrived in the United States from Liverpool , on the 31 st of May last , by the Yorkshire , and who are said to have been clerks in a bank in Ireland , who had absconded with £ 25 , 000 , which was found in a carpet bag . The facts are , that but one of the parties was a clerk in a bank in Ireland , who had absconded with £ 600 only , that he was arrested at New York in consequence , and that about £ 400 has been recovered from him .
There arc six papers in the United States under the editorial charge of ladies . They are , the Pitt&bury Visitor ¦ , Mrs . Swisshelm ; the Windham County Democrat ( Vt . ) , Mrs . C . J . H . NichoUs ; the Lily ( Seneca Falls ) , Mrs . Bloomer ; the Lancaster Gazette ( Pa . J , Mrs . Pearson ; the Yazoo Whir / , Mrs . Ilorn . ; the Mountain Bou / h , Mrs . Prevvett . During the whole of Thursday the principal streets of the metropolis were paraded by men . bearing placards ,
calling upon the citizens of London to meet Lord Palmerston at the House of Commons that evening . Accordingly , at half-past three , a large number of individuals were collected in the Palace-yard , and round the doors of the House of Commons , lining both sides of the way from Poet ' s-corner to Great George-street . Lord John Russell was the first who arrived , and was received with loud and unanimous cheering . Lord Palmerston arrived at five o ' clock in a close brougham , and owing to this he passed through a great part of the crowd without being recognized . On stepping out , however , he was immediately recognized and saluted with loud cheering from all sides , as well as from numerous Members of Parliament who were congregated about the doors of the House . — Stm .
The Lord Archbishop of Canterbury gave an entertainment on Thursday , according to ancient usage , to the Lord Mayor and the Stewards of the Sons of the Clergy Festival . The guests assembled at the Palace at half-past six , to join in divine service in the private chapel previously to the banquet . All the preliminary arrangements are completed for erecting a building on a site of the Rolls estate sufficiently large to contain the public records and archives . The Rolls-house , Rolls-court , and present public buildings on the Rolls estate , are to be preserved in the first instance for the transaction of business . Besides affording ample room for arranging and preserving the records now in the custody of the Master of the Rolls , the new structure will give room to the public records which may accrue for the next twenty years . —Globe .
Among the many improvements now in progress in Windsor is the formation of a new road to Datchet intersecting a portion of the Park on the north side of the Castle . Between this road and the Thames there are nearly 100 acres of the Home Park , the whole of which has just been given up by her Majesty for the sports and recreation of the inhabitants of Windsor . This important event was celebrated on Friday by a grand cricket-match between the new-formed " Home ParK Club " and the officers in garrison at Windsor , which terminated in favour of the former , and a dinner of the inhabitants took place in the evening .
The banking concern conducted by Messrs . Nash and Neale , at Reigate and Dorking , Surrey , which has been established upwards of forty years , has suspended payment . The proprietors of this bank consist of Mr . Joseph Nash and Mr . Thomas Neale , the age of the former being eighty-four . On its being ascertained that Mr . Neale had overdrawn his private account , between £ 16 , 000 and £ 17 , 000 , which it did not appear he was immediately prepared to replace , Mr . Nash , "without hesitation ,
resolved to close the bank , and apply his separate estate , consisting of funded , freehold , anci other property , estimated at about £ 15 , 000 , and wholly unencumbered , to supply any deficiency . The claims upon the bank are about £ 60 , 000 , including the outstanding issue of local notes , amounting to £ 10 , 766 , and which was £ 2934 below the authorized limit . It is expected the assets , by the aid of the separate estate pi Mr . Nash , will be almost , if not quite , sufficient to satisfy the claims .
The Commissioners of her Majesty ' s Customs have issued instructions to the officers at Dover and Folkestone to examine the baggage of passengers arriving at any hour of the night from the continent . A large party—amounting to sixty-one—of the young females being sent out to Australia , under the auspices of Mr . Sidney Herbert ' s society , embarked on Wednesday , on board the tine ship Northumberland , a teak-built Indiaman , and bound on the present occasion for Port Phillip . Arrangements are pending for directing this stream of female emigration upon , other quarters as well as upon the Australian colonies . Mr . A'Court , a relative of Mr . Sidney Herbert , has proceeded specially to Canada , where he is rapidly organizing committees of ladies and gentlemen in the most suitable towns , and
whither it is in contemplation to despatch a small party during the present season . Letters have also been received from the Cape of Good Hope , begging that that part of the world may not be forgotten in the operations of the society . Mr . Richards and Mr . Elihu Burritt , delegates of the Peace Society of ihe United States and Great Britain , have recently visited Paris , to make preparations with the French committees for the Peace Congress of 1850 , which is to be held at Frankfort . These gentlemen convoked a meeting , at which were present M . de Cormenin , member of the Council of State ; MM . Carnot , Francisque Bouvet , and Coquerel , representatives of the people ; Dunoyer , of the Institute , and other distinguished men . After a long discussion it was decided that the Congress shall be held at Frankfort on the 22 nd of August .
The mayor of Bath having been to some extent eclipsed at the banquet of mayors in London , in consequence of his deficiency of an official collar , and the splendour of those badges of distinction worn by other civic dignitaries , the citizensof " the Queen City" determined that such an occurrence should not take place again , and at once commenced a subscription for the purpose of presenting to his worship a collar worthy of the municipal importance of their town . The badge has been made , and will , no doubt , be worn henceforth on great occasions . It is four feet in length , and contains fifteen ounces of gold .
On Thursday morning , at an early hour , the metropolis was visited with a terrific thunder storm , which lasted for above an hour , during which time the rain fell in toirents und the lightning streamed in vivid flashes . It has not been ascertained that any damage was sustained , with the exception of some cellars being overflowed with water on the south side of the river . A party of Polish refugees , forty-six in number , left Southampton on Wednesday week for Spithead , to embark on board the ship American Eagle , for a passage to America . Itnthcr more than oue-lmlf the original number having decided On remaining in . England , at
least for the present , most of them have come to London , where they will endeavour to obtain employment , until they can return to their own country . Others have resolved on going , as soon as they can obtain passports , to France , Belgium , and Prussia . ,. * ,,, As the Ant steam-boat was leaving Dyer s-hall Pier , on Wednesday morning , a young man who had been , sitting on the pier had h is leg caught by the rope used for mooring the boat , and before it could be extricated the rope drew his leg round and actually cut it off . from the lm
A lamentable instance of death arising - proper ^ use of medicine occurred near Peckham , last week . WHenry Hind , a young man , who is described as " about to publish a work called * The Hieroglyphical System of the Ancient Egyptians , ' " finding himself unwell , took a quarter of a pound of quicksilver , and afterwards a large quantity of turpentine . The result was mortification of the stomach and bowels of which he died . A whirlwind visited a hayfield on the farm of Lord Braybrooke , near Saffron Waldren , on Tuesday , and rather astonished the troop of haymakers by hurrying off part of the material upon which they were labouring , carrying it in fantastic shapes over the tops of the tall trees , and depositing some of it half a mile off . —Essex Herald .
Tiverton gaol is at this moment empty for the first time during the last seventeen years , so that , out of a population of 12 , 000 inhabitants there is not now a single felon in custody . —Exeter Gazette . A prize fight took place at Long Eaton , near Nottingham , on Monday , between two men named Hall and Brown . The men fought an hour and a quarter , at the end of which time Brown was so much exhausted that he had to be taken away . He died before they reached Nottingham . One of the seconds has been apprehended . We are sorry to learn that the strike of the colliers in Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire still continues .
Thomas Williams , a collier , who belongs to the sect of the Dippers , was in the act of immersing a woman in the river Tvvrch , in a pool about four feet deep on Sunday , before a crowd of spectators , when he somehow lost hold , and both he and the female , a married woman , sank to the bottom , and were for some moments out of sight . A man named Richard Davis , jumped in just as the woman was sinking a second time , and rescued her . Williams was also fished out , but with great difficulty . A , young man , named Smith , residing in Sheffield , killed himself last week by the incautious use of chloroform . He had been in the habit of inhaling chloroform
for the purpose of allaying the face-ache , and had several times , when he inhaled it , directed a person to sit with him , and to rouse him when falling into a state of insensibility . At the inquest held on the body , the coroner said that the case reminded him forcibly of Mr . Walter Badger , his nephew , who died under similar painful circumstances in London . He had called upon Mr . Robinson , the eminent dentist , to have a tooth extracted , and , having inhaled chloroform previous to the operation , threw back his head , and died almost instantly . The jury returned a verdict that the deceased ' s death had resulted from chloroform , incautiously administered by himself .
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A tenant-right demonstration took place at Omagh last week . Other meetings are organizing through the country , but not much is expected to be done in the way of meetings on a great scale previous to the assembling of the conference in Dublin in the beginning of August . The London correspondent of the Dublin Freeman hints that some communication between Lord John Russell and the Irish landlords on the Rubject is on foot , and that a compromise , by which the Ulster tenant-right and the part-improvement compensation of the south would be sacrificed , is to be apprehended .
In consequence of the rescript from Rome , recently noticed , the Roman Catholic bishops of Cork and Galway , where two of the Queen ' s Colleges are established , have forwarded letters to the Hol y , containing a representation of their views and opinions respecting those
. A member of the Irish bar is about to assume the position of defendant in a breach of promise of marriage trial at Dublin . At the Dublin Commission Court on Saturday , a lady , Mrs . Jemima Phillips , the wife of a solicitor , was indicted for conspiring to aid Miss Octavia Henrietta Thompson to escape from the Four Courts Marshalsea Prison , where she was confined for debt . It appeared
that Mrs . Phillips was in the habit of visiting Miss Thompson in prison . A party was invited to sup with Miss Thompson on the evening of the escape . The servants of the prison were employed in preparing for the festivities , and Mrs . Phillips went , in and out several times on various messages . About dusk Miss Thompson attired herself in the bonnet , cloak , and dress of Mrs . Phillips , and effected her escape . Mrs . Phillips was acquitted . The repeal rent at Conciliation-hall on Monday only reached the sum of £ 7 16 s . 8 Ad .
A savage and cruel mode of revenge or malicious injury of property has lately become a practice , to the disgrace of several parts of Ireland—cutting off the tails and tongues of animals to injure the owners . It was reported on Saturday last to the board of guardians of the Limerick union , over which Lord Clare presided , that 300 boys had broken out of one of the auxiliary houses , having no beds to He upon , and after
being without dinner till eleven o ' clock at night . A pauper , named Shea , who was enabled to emigrate to America by a subscription of the officers of the Kilkenny workhouse has written home thanking them and detailing how fortunate he has been in the State of Iowa . He is well paid , and sits at table with his employer and his family . However , he winds up by saying , It is thought ut home that a man has nothing to do in Amerioa but get rich . He must work hard for it or he can't have it here even as good as ho would at home . "
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June 29 , 1850 . ] fff > £ % * && *? + 321
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Leader (1850-1860), June 29, 1850, page 321, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1844/page/9/
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