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      which difficulties he travelled through many lands i connection with the Missionary Society . He is tl author of many works , such as the Pictorial Bible , Hi tory of Palestine , Cyclopcedia of Biblical Literature , & > Mr . Arthur Russell—whose father was employed f < many years in the diplomatic service—has been appointe to succeed Mr . Charles J . Grey as one of the Priva Secretaries to Lord John Bussell . Mr . Gongreve Brackenbury , who has been for sontime doing the duties of Consular Assistant to tl British Mission at Madrid , has received the appointmei of her Majesty's Consul at that capital . Sir John . Atho Bannatyne Murray Macgregor is appointed Preside ! and Senior Member of Council at the Virgin Island Mr . Philip E . Wodehouse , for some years employed i the Civil Service of Ceylon , District Judge and Membi of Council in that island , will succeed Major Faneourt ; Superintendent at Honduras . Mr . Sergeant Byles , the Protectionist candidate f < the vacant seat in the representation of Aylesbur having retired , Mr . Montague Gore , of Barrow-cour Somerset , has issued an address to the electors , solicitor thoir stiffmo-ps as a sinner * friend to nrotection to natii

      industry . The nomination took place on Thursday . Th candidates were Mr . John Houghton , a farmer and Pr < tectionist , and Mr . Frederick Calvert , a Buckinghan shire gentleman * ' of stanch and unflinching Protestar principles . " The show of hands was in favour of M Houghton . Colonel Williams , formerly M . P . for Ashton , died ; Wootton , near Liverpool , on the 19 th instant . At tweh years of age he joined General Burgoyne's array i America , and carried the flag of truce upon the menu rable occasion of the surrender at Saratoga . It is sup posed that he was the last survivor of that army . Aft < twenty-five years of active service in Nova Scotia , S Domingo , and Jamaica , in Holland and in Ireland , 1 quitted the army in 1800 , at which period the career < most of the military heroes of the present day commence ! His political opinions and consistent advocacy of th cause of civil and religious liberty during the last hal century are well known . Amongst recent admissions to the bar is Mr . Wriotl esley Baptist Noel , son of the distinguished seceder fro ] the Church of England to dissent . An address has been presented to the Bishop of Lor don , signed by a large number of Mr . Bennett ' s congn gation , some parishioners and some non-parishioneri entreating the Bishop to reconsider his decision respec ing Mr . Bennett ' s offer of resignation . The Bishop , i his answer to the address , states that he is under th painful necessity of adhering to that decision . A statement lately appeared in a Paris journal that th

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      rnents to visit . London on the occasion ot trie jjjxuiomon By the Constitution , the President is forbidden to qui the French territory without the authority of a specie law ; but it is not certain that Louis Napoleon has ex pressed even a wish to go to England . A few days agi an English gentleman , who had an interview with th President , expressed to him a hope that he would visi the Exhibition . He replied simply , " My position is j curious one . Three years ago I was not allowed to se my foot in France , and now I am not permitted t ( leave it . " Letters from Madrid state that a rumour is prevalen that the Queen is once more in a way to give an heir U ? Vw » thrrmf »

      tradicted in every part of his statements ; neverthelt he obtained a good character from M . Yon , his employ and from M . Barthelemy , member of the Assembly , ti both expressed belief in the statements he had made . The Constitutionnel says , with reference to the 1 failure of Government to obtain a loan on the terms tl

      The King of Denmark has by a decree rehnquishe < the exclusive right which he enjoyed of sporting over ; certain number of what were called royal districts , am given permission to the peasants henceforth to spor over them , under the regulations prescribed by th came laws . In the preamble of the ordonnance hi Majesty says , " We in no way wish that our subject should be deprived of the exercise of a right useful t < them , merely because it contributed to our advantage o pleasure . " The Prussian Moniteur announces the appointment o M . Manteuftel as President of the Council and Foreigi Minister , of M . do Uaumer as Minister of Pubil Worship , and of M . do Westnhalen as Minister of tin

      Interior and Agriculture . The merchants of Leipzig have presented to M . Mantcuttel a valuable civic crown , supported by branches oj oak and laurel , of solid gold , as a tribute of their gratitude lor his successful efforts towards preserving the greatest of nil blessings—Peace . KOjThe eldest daughter of Schiller , Madame Caroline Junot , died suddenly , on the 19 th , at Wurzburg , in Bavaria , It is said that Mademoiselle Rachel has applied to the Theatre Frati ^ ais for a cong of iiftecn months , and that an offer has been made to ' her by an English gentleman of 800 , 000 francs for this conge , Mademoiselle Rachel to be at hits disposal during the fifteen months for theatrical speculation at St . Petersburg and other places . MiiiiiiKia T . ruiia Pull / it , lif < viiiir niiiinimp . cfl hor intention

      of publishing the private correspondence between the late Madame Recamier and the late Benjamin Constant , which had been placed in her hands by the former , the families of the two persons applied to the Court of Appeul to prevent the publication , on the ground that the correspondence whs of a strictly private and confidential nature . The court , after hearing lengthened arguments , has decided that confidential correspondence cannot be published without iho consent of the parties by and to whom it was written , or their heirs , and it accordingly not only forbade the publication , but directed Madame Collet to give up the copy of the letters she holds . The Paris papers of Wednesday are chiefly taken up with the trial of Alluis , for having accused several perbous of a design to assassinate M . Dupin and General Chungarnicr . The trial occupied the whole of Tuesday ,

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      prupUBKUj . l / llcll , 111 B lrxUUSiei Ul J . .. ukg " »» * wov *> xv put up to adjudication , in the beginning of January , 2 , 000 , 000 of . Rentes which were not disposed of on M < day . " A grand ball was given in the Grand Opera at Vi on Saturday night . The object was charitable , being ; provide for destitute workmen . The salle was crowd all Paris being there . The President of the Repul occupied his box . M . Baroche sat on his right ha and during the evening the Princess Matilda seve times accepted his arm . The publisher of the ne Republican journal , Le V Universel , was tried on Monday for an attack on , right of property , contained in two articles published that journal about a month ago . On the first he \

      acquitted , but on the second he was found guilty , sentenced to six months' imprisonment and a fine of 61 francs . Two . cases of suicide took place in Paris last we One that of a young man only nineteen years of a residing at the Rue Notre Dame des Victoires , v suffocated himself by means of fumes of charcoal . T young girls about the same age , to one of whom he y ; engaged to be married , shared his fate , the whole be : found past recovery when the door was broken open , letter was found in the room , written by the young m stating that he was disgusted with life , and determh

      to put an end to it . The other wasia the Crrand Ifcue , La Chapelle . A smell of burning being perceived proceed from a room in a house in that street the d < was forced open , and the bodies of a young girl anc young man were discovered on the bed in each othe arms . They had put an end to their existence with ch coal , in consequence of their friends refusing to cons < to their marriage . The decrees of the Council General of Switzerland lative to sending foreign refugees into the interior t being carried into execution in the canton of Gene On the 19 th instant the Council of State of that cant published a notice ordering all refugees residing

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      eight leagues from the frontier , and on the 20 th a nui ber of French refugees left Geneva to go and establi themselves in the canton of Vaud . A report was curre however , that they had received an assurance that th « removal would be only temporary , and it was on t faith of that promise that they showed themselves prompt in submitting to the measure of which they we the object . A letter from Naples of the 10 th , in the Risorgimen of Turin , states that the police have been of late active engaged in preparing materials for the prosecution those persons who caused the expulsion of the Jesui from Naples in 1848 , and that legal proceedings ha actually been commenced against them . The King of Prussia has granted an amnesty to i those who , having entered the army in obedience to tl order of . the 6 th of November , are now suffering punis ] ment for crimes and misdemeanours not exceeding s

      mofiths , or a fine not amounting to above 100 thalers . The Government of Saxe-Weimar , in a recent sittii of the Diet , submitted bills for putting an end to t exemption from taxes which the clergy , the professors universities , the members of courts of appeal , &c , present enjoy ; also for establishing a tax on incomes . The railway between Vienna and Pesth is now opi throughout , but only two hours will be thus gaim over the steamers going with the current , in consequent of the slow rate of travelling and the great detou made . Anything is , however , better than the detestab roads of Hungary , and therefore merchants and othe whose business or pleasure may carry them in th ; direction have good cause to rejoice . Religious disputes are running almost as high in Au tria as in England . The Pope nas addressed an aut

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      bishop of Prague , on the government of his diocesi and the Consistory has been summoning the editor of religious paper belonging to the sect culling themselvi Young Catholics to appear before them at Vienna . The accounts from Hamburgh state that the Dam have thrown a bridge over the Schlei Capello , west the Missund , which is being strongly fortified . Tl works will be defended by heavy artillery , so as to mal any part of the Schlei at this point impassable . One proof of the encreasing interest felt abroad in tl Exhibition , is the publication , for the use of the mar . Netherlandish visitors , of a guide-book at Amsterdar to be called— " Het Leven in London " —Life in Londo

      The Gomer Pols 7 ci announces that the affair of tl Hungarian refugees has been finally arranged—Americ has oifered them an asylum which they have accepte < and has undertaken to provide for their wants ; the Otti man Government pays their expenses to Liverpool , an the English Government their expenses from thence 1 America . This arrangement waa proposed by the Oct < man Government and acceded to by England an America . The Canadian press is occupied at present in the dii cussion of a local topic of some interest , —the Jesuiti

      ! , Many deaths occur among the Californians , both , land and sea . Several persons have died o n the Isthn o One house lost three agents at Panama within months , and the forwarding merchants are continu e changing the names of their firms , in consequence of f mortality among the partners . 0 Oberlin College , in the United States , has la b awarded diplomas to eight young ladies , one coiou who had completed the ladies' course . The degre A . B . was conferred on eleven gentlemen and one * la s and that of A . M . in course , upon nine gentlemen 1 one ladv . Three erentlemen and two ladies enmnh ^ w ^~^ h ^ v ^—^™ m w — - — f j — — — —— ^ —— — ^ ——¦ -- » ^» v ^ v ^ v ^ fcAL 1 M M r

      ^^ — — ^ ' ^— ^ ^^ . ^^ ^^ ^ *^ p ^ I , the theological course ; and it is stated that one of c latter expects to " devote herself to pulpit labours . " L , The Panama Star says the Panama railroad is be , 1 made , and it is the confident expectation of those i have its management , that by the 4 th of next July it e be ready for the transportation of passengers and n e chandise from Limon Bay on the Atlantic to a point a the Chagres river , between Palanquilla and Gorge s The distance from . Limon Bay to the point where i road will strike the Chagres river , is between twei 3 seven and thirty miles only . The remainder , extend to the Pacific , it is their intention to make passable lrw > nmn ( : ives hv t . hfi 1 st " , of . Tnlv . I S / 52 . AUvl / lMUwAi kj v » AV // Mt

      0 ^> *^ J vuw * wu x ^ a v * j j v , Two sugar planters are engaged in extensive preps j tions to make sugar iu Australia . With this viej large quantity of sugar canes has been imported b 3 provisional committee , and sold by public auction . r J r canes , in number about 1000 , were brought f l Tahiti . , An extensive and well-organized band of robbers is . « 1 to keep the city of Lima in great alarm . Nigl t attempts are made upon houses , notwithstanding 3 active measures of the Government in addin'g bodies r troops of the line to the regular police . The coun i house of a French gentleman just outside the walls 3 Lima was lately attacked , himseif seriously wounc - and his wife , an interesting young lady , dreadfully

      estates . These were alienated some years ago , when th order of the Jesuits was suppressed , and applied to put poses of general education . The Catholics are auxiou to get the whole in their possession again , which , cause some jealousy and excitement on the part of their Pro testant brethren , but no attempts at change have ye been made . The Empire City arrived at New York from Sai Francisco , on the 8 th instaut , with nearly 2 , 000 , 00 ' dollars in gold , on freight , and with an additions

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      . At the weekly meeting of the directors of the Bank Thursday morning , they adopted the resolution of vancing the minimum rate of interest on discounts ; loans from 2 ^ to 3 per cent , per annum . The ostensi object of this movement is said to be mainly to clu what the directors consider an undue speculation in r way stock , which it is supposed might be carried mi further by the importance attached by speculators to 1 effect which they assume will be produced upon th income by the Great Exhibition of the ensuing ycur . Circulars were sent from the Home-office , on Mom

      afternoon , to all the police courts and other offices ci nected with the Government , directing that no Chri mas boxes shall in future be given away to those perse who have for mauy years been in the habit of receivi them . No less than 50 , 000 persons visited Hyde-park , Thursday , to see the great structure of iron and gl ; now being raised there . The spectators were bew dered at seeing the speedy progress of the works , a certainly , from the rapid way iu which the Glass Tern ] is being erected , it might afford mutter of amazement persons more knowing and scientific than the general of holiday folks are . A mflPtinc of the members of the Westminster * Fr «

      hold Land Society , who , by priority of position , are < titled to allotments in the East Moulsey Estate , nc Hampton-court , recently purchased for the society , vt held on Monday evening for the purpose of balloting f choice of allotments . Mr . Jonathan Duncan iu theehu Mr . Huggett , the Secretary , read the restrictions , framed by the committee , which appeared to give genei satisfaction . After some discussion on the subject of l cf i * infinnD A / Tf W rrnnuin n nrl \ Tr f-r -Trill ti sifmi \ vrvm fi

      pointed by the meeting as scrutineers , to superintend t ballot . The ballot having been completed the mernbe adjourned to the Exeter-hall Hotel , where an excc > lle supper was provided , and the evening was spent ve agreeably . The Executive Committee of the National Chart Association held a special meeting on Thursday evenin when Mr . John Arnott was appointed secretary , and M 4 rv Km r \ t + i ? "

      1 ) AU / vuli T •>* . l ) l ^** t « l - t * nj-tft *^*** -k ** 14 * •**•• £ -fiiMM + H < "t 1 JLlobert Le . blond treasurer , it was also agreed tnatti committee should meet for business every Wednesdi evening . It was resolved to issue an address to tl people on . the position and prospects of Chartism . I the address , the committee state that they have resolve

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      the 3 rd of March , to consist of forty-nine delegates , li committee will , next week , " submit a list of places r < quired to send representatives—based , not upon tl ] wealth or contiguity of individual localites , but upon th numbers of the democratic portion of the populatic throughout the country . " A conflict is going on at this moment in the parish Islington which involves not alone the characters of tl vicar and clergy and the trustees of the S tonefiel Estate , a large body of the niosr . opulent parishioner but also the redistribution of no less a sum than £ 1 S , O ( a-ycar . The Stonoiield estate was left by a lioma Catholic gentleman , named Cloudcsley , in the time i Henry VIII ., to the Catholic Church for the salvation < his soul by means of annual masses , as well as to give dole to a certain number of noor nersons of the pariah <

      St . Mary . To obtain this estate from the hands of th Church for the uso of the poor and the promotion of edi cation in the parish is the object of a large body of rat < payers denominated the Parochial Reform Associatior who have made several efforts to apply the funds to th relief of the poor-rates . Mr . Adams , civil engineer , has published a paper re commending the extension of railways to every towr village , and even farm in the kingdom , by laying dow sunk rails in the turnpike roads ( . similar to the rails s

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 28, 1850, page 942, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1863/page/5/