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      France bj Charles II . The , skirt of tha dress was composed of rich g » ey watered silk ,. trimm « d with gold and silver lace , and ornamented with hows of rose-coloured ribands fastened by bouquets of diamonds , Th « front d the dress was opes , and the undei skirt was made ei cloth of gold , embroidered in a shawl pattern in silver , scolloped and trimmed with silver fringe . The glov e * and shoes embroidered alternately with rosea and fleurs de lis in gold . Her Majesty wore on the front of the body » £ the dress four large pear-shaped emeralds of immense value . . " Prince Albert wore a coal of cloth , of gold * ornamented with , bowa of rose-coloured riband and jewellery . ; a hat trimmed with rose-coloured and white feathers ; stockings of grey silk /*

      The peculiarity of the evening : waa the National Quadrilles , danced by eight ladies and eight gentlemen , dressed in a common costume , in the Esgliaa Quadrille , conducted by the MareMonesa of Aileaburv—The ladies were dressed in blue silk dresses , with rose-coloured and go id ornaments ; the gentlemen in scarlet , gold , and blue velvet ; and the page wore the livery of the King of England . In the Scotch Quadrill * , conducted by the March ioaess of Stafford—The ladies were a very elegant ikting : habit of pale green taffeta , ornamented with bows of pink riband , etey hats ornamented with white and pink

      feathers ; the gentlemen were in Highland costume ; and the page in a Highland dress of Royal Stuart tartan . In the French Quadrille , conducted by the Comtesse de Flahault—The ladies wore white satin dresses with bows of light blue riband . The under skirt of cloth of gold , trimmed with silver fringe ; the gentlemen wore the uniform of " Les Mousquetarres Noirs , " scarlet coata , trimmed with silver ; jackets of dark blue , trimmed with silver ; gold crosses , ornamented with Hear de rye , worn upon the chest aad baek ; led stockings , and . Bed feathers in the hat ; , and the page wore the livery of the King of France .

      In the Spanish Quadrille , conducted by the Countess Granville—The ladies wore black silk dresses with black Spanish veils ; the dresses trimmed with gold lace and pink-coloured rosettes ; the undei dresses were of grey damask , ornamented with grey and gold fringe ; the gentlemen were in black velvet , ornamented with gold , and all wearing the order of " Calatrava , " embroidered in red silk , upon the eoat and cloak ; grey silk stockings , black velvet hats , with red and yellow feathers ; amd the page wore the livery of the King of Spain .

      At the conclusion of these dances , which were performed before the Throne in succession , the general dances of the evening commenced in the ball-room . A State supper was served as usual , and the company separated at a late hour .

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      The mysterious railway accident on the Brighton and Lewes Railway is as mysterious as ever . The jury met yesterday , and examined Mr . Woods , a civil engineer , respecting the effect of putting the tender first . The pith of his evidence is , that the engine is best first , and that the guard to the engine wheels would , in all probability , in this particular case have thrown the sleeper on one side , but that he did not apprehend the slightest danger from running the tender first . He had been connected with the Liverpool and Manchester line since 1834 , and he had never heard of an accident arising from running the tender first . The whole interest of the sitting turned upon the examination of the boy Boakes , and those who alleged facts tending to incriminate him .

      Acton , the superintendent of the railway police , and Langley of the detective force , visited Mrs . Boakes on Monday night . They seemed to have concluded that young Boakes placed the sleeper on the line . They asked him leading questions to that effect , and his father naturally interfered to protect his child . However , there was no need . The boy ' s answers were direct and positive that he had not been on line , and that , consequently , he had not placed the sleeper on the rails . It must be stated that the solicitors were , in the opinion of the jury , " very hard " upon Mrs . Boakes , who , they said , gave her evidence fairly . When young Boakes waa examined , it was necessary to ascertain whether he knew the nature of an oath , and after sundry questions from the coroner it was found that " M r . Green , the clergyman of St . Ann ' s , " had told Boakes that if he did not speak the truth when he waa sworn he would " goto hell . " That was held

      sufficient , and he was then sworn . Some discussion arose at * to whether it was not right to caution Boakes that he need not incriminate himself , but he could not understand ¦ what that meant . They told him to speak the truth , and they told him he need not say that which would tell against himself . Nothing waa elicited from hia evidence beyond the one asbertum that he had not been on the line at all . Httnry Boakes , father of the boy , wits * next examined . He related that Langley had anked hia son whether he had put the sleeper on the . railn , and that he said lie had not . " Acton then said , ' You told me down at the Dolphin that you saw the sleeper ou the rail * . ' The hoy fluid ' No ; 1 did not tell you bo . ' 1 heard what my boy had suid to Acton , mid he did not aay that . Acton , at . the Dolphin , told the boy , ' You got over the quick . ' The hoy aaid he did not . " The inquest had not concluded when the reporter left , and it was expected that it would be adjourned until to-day . Kimihir evidence produced u aiinilur verdict , to that roported elHt'where , from the jury who sat to inquire into the death of two men who died of scalds at . the boiler cxploHion near Briutol .

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      Yesterday tho price of admission to the . Imposition wiih ' 2 s . 0 , ) ., and £ 2200 6 a . was the amount taken at tho doors , the number of visitors being 2 \ , 6 ' 1 () . M . Charles Hugo , son of Victor Hugo , han been nenteuced to pay n heavy line and bo irnprinoned nix months Jor writing ait article against public executions in th © Eoincmant !

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      GUILD OF LITERATURE AJND ART . HA NOVER-SQUARE ROOMS . —The THIRD PERFORMANCE by the AMATEUR COMPANY of the GUILD of LITERATURE and ART , in the The * tre constructed for ike purpose , and first erected at Devonshire House , will take place-at the Hanover-aquare Rooms , on WEDNESDAY next , June 18 , when will be presented Sir Edward Bulwer Lyttoitfs New Comedy , in Five Acts , entitled "NOT SO BAD A 3 WE . SEEM ; o * , MANY SIDES TO A CHARACTER "; and the New Farce by Mr . Charles Dickens and Mr . Mark Lemon , called " Mr . NIGHTINGALE'S DIARY / ' — Tickets ( all the seats being 1 reserved ) , 10 s . each , to be had of . Mr . Mitchell , 33 , Old Bond-street ; Messrs . Ebers , 27 , Old Bond-» treet ; Mr . Bookham , Ift , Old Bond-street ; Mr . Andrews , Old Bond-street ; Messrs . Chappell , 50 , New Bond-street ; Mr . Robert Ollivier , 19 , Old Bond-street ; Mr . Sams , l ^ St . James ' sstreet ; Messrs . Cramer and Beale , 201 , Rejent-street ; Messrs . Smith and Elder , 65 , Cornhill ; Messrs . Keith and Prowse , 48 , Cheapside ; and Messrs . Leader and Cock , S 3 , New BoDd-street . Doors open at a quarter before 8 even ; commence at exactly a quarter before Eight .

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      THE SITUATION . " Alarmist" is the epithet cast at you in reproach , if you survey the position of Europe or of your own country , and even name its principal incidents . Such ia the effeminate state of public feeling in this country , that if you simply turn men ' s eyes to the broad facts which lie before us , Apathy sneers at the trouble you take , or Timidity turns pale at the prospect . The practical politician of the day prefers to rub on , and thinks it wiser to take no account of the social or political dynamics at work around him . It is this too wide-spread effeminacy among the educated classes on the Continent which made the

      popular attempt of Europe too weak to stand against the combined forces of Reaction ; and which enfeebles the people of this country , not only to aid in that popular movement , but to meet its own future with mastery over circumstance . In this country we see a Government possessing no knowledge of the people , carrying on affairs entirely according to a routine , and rendering every public interest entirely subservient to the objects or crotchets of its own small clique . Thus the part taken by England in foreign affairs is rendered entirely subordinate to Lord Palmerston ' s system of

      making all foreign policies not only fit the ruling parties in the countries to which they belong , but also fall in with the plans and practice of diplomacy . In foreign affairs , cajoled by Lord Palmerston ' s " Liberal" professions , England is the unconscious but powerful tool of that diplomacy which at once serves Absolute power and feeds upon it . In colonial affairh , the whole policy of the Ministry is bent upon cajoling or bullying the colonies into so much submission under Lord Grey ' s crotchets as shall stifle noise ; thus evading the notice of the apathetic English People , and not obliging Ministers to give up the advantage of Lord Grey ' s presence in the Cabinet . At home the policy is to conceal every great public truth , but to set up a sham in

      the place of each truth ; and thus it is that Ministers are able to stave oil' all public movements by one grand system of mystification : ProtestantiHin and Cutholieisin , Church Reform , Financial Reform , Water Supply , Parliamentary Reform , Education , Chancery Reform , Colonization , Sanitary Reform , Agricultural Diflioulties , Poor Imw lleform—all those subjects , and others , are entertained and disposed of in Home shape or other—ar « effectually rendered dormant in the shape of Blue Jiook , Commission , Hoard , Inquiry , Debate , Bill , or Promise . You cannot learn the truth about any one of them ; you may pursue any movement until it eiulu iu a " Ministerial measure" : that ia the final bog . The continuance of this state of thingti i « tho beau ideal of Whiggery .

      To maintain it , Ministera rely upon these resources . First , a standing army or dasn of prtvfessional arms-bearers , which can always suppress in detail the movements of un unarmed Peopleexcept when those movements are very general , and impelled by fierce motives . Secondly , a miridleclaatj , over-gruteful for enfranchisement , to the exclusion of the numbers that enabled them to get

      it , over-confident in the domination of trade ; overconfident in the duration of the existing- state ot things , and repaying the Whig patronage by buying up every movenaent . Lastly , the Whigs rely upon the disunion of the People—upon the generally prevailing" falsehood which makes men distrust each other—upon the effect of trading competition , which has set class against class ; they rely upon the long disuse of arms , which has made the People contemptible in their strength ; they rely upon the disappearance of chivalrous feelings , upon the total extinction of nationality .

      And in all these things the People is helping the Whigs . That such a state cannot last , the most eursory student of history knows , unless lie is beaotted by the common pree-revolutionary feeling —the dream that "it will last out our time / ' But it will not . The session has been an empty form ; the Ministry itself is a despicable form ; parties are content in negation ; they agree to wait—to see what will turn up—what will come out of the next discontent . It will not be long first . Already , in many branches of trade , the ioar of prosperity is abating . The woollen trade has felt that for some

      months ; the linen trade is now beginning to feel it ; and , though ribbons hold out , cottons are growing uneasy . The tailors in London can say—What are prospects for the autumn ? Will they be reassured by the reproach of Moses and Son to the London tradesmen , that business is leaving them , becaicse they da not sell cheap enough ? The carpenters of London have been too busy this Exposition season ; but they know it will not last . The Protectionists are at the end of their tether , but neither farmers nor agricultural labourers are at the end of their distress . The session is passing away ; we have leached Whitsuntide , and

      journalists are casting up the empty account of measures ; the Exposition season has come and will pass away ; parties have exposed each other ' s tricks , and stand confessed in mutual disparagement ; the Ministry is passing away , to be succeeded no one knows by whom ; and we are drifting onward to a Future additionally obscured by our own mystifications , with resources doubly weakened by dissensions , and the extinction , at least the suspension , of patriotic national feeling . It is our consolation that we cannot sink lower , for a rougher period of distress holds out the hope of revived activity , and with it revived national health .

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      THE COMING STRUGGLE IN EUROPE . The great European struggle is gathering the forces on both sides for a recommencement . It is notorious , says the Morning Chronicle , that at the recent Congress in Warsaw , the three Monarchs of Austria , Prussia , and Russia " have been engaged in concerting a plan for the effective employment of their combined military forces , in the event of

      another success of the Parisian populace in May , 1852 . " There is to be no violation of neutrality , no invasion of France ; " but it is intended to organize a system of cooperation , under which the Prussian , or Austrian , or Russian army may be indifferently made available in cutting off or treading out the first conflagration which the sparks from a new French explosion may kindle on German territory . "

      But there will be a counter-alliance . The first stej ) lias been taken in the true path to the revolution of Europe . The central Democratic Committee has adopted the two ideas which are essential to the progress of popular power—the true fellowship of nations , and the principle of Association . We , who have long laboured to advance those ideas , though at posts less conspicuous than that occupied by Ledru Rollin , Da-rasa , Rugo , and Mazzini , cannot but welcome the new manifesto an a most important event in the inarch of popular emancipation .

      The two ideas which we have mentioned as distinguishing tho new manifesto we uphold as necessary , not only for the results which they must ultimately produce , but alno nn essential elements iu any present policy which would hope for suceesH . Tho organized Governments of Europe , which did postiest * . some nationality of " feeling while- they were ) ruled hy the old traditions

      of chivalry , and even of Kupeistifion , have totally ceased to < lo so now that they art ) no more than combinations of particular families and gentlemen po . s . seHsing hereditary expectations of official employment ; and th « absorbing Him of their efforts is , not only t « i maintain thuir own existence , but to keep thoir « ov « ral countries in the stale most favourable to weaken any influences that might disturb th « rn . II © nee Austria keens down tho

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      There is nothing so revolutionary , "because there nothing so -unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed -when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Dr . Arnold .

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      ^ y SATURDAY , JUNE 14 , 1851 .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 14, 1851, page 557, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1887/page/9/