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      this overtures were made to young Brunet , and he eagerly accepted them . The courtship was carried on , the marriage contract drawn up , the wedding dreads purchased , and the hanPV day fixed . Al lat once it occurred to Brunet , thefather , fhatne might as well consult his lawyer on the subject . He Sid so and produced the Bishop ' s letters . Themanof law immediately declared that they must be forgeries , as it was utterly impossible ! for a prelate to be concerned in such a transaction , or . \ Wite' in such W extraordinary way . An application was tfiade to the prelate ' s secretary , and he at once declared the letters forgeries , and that the Bishop knew nothing whatever of Mademoiselle Leonie . On this tv , a vnnrurladr and her mother were arrested . As to the against him he from first

      father no charge arose , as was to last the dupe of his own credulity . The amount out of which different shopkeepers were cheated was considerable ; When called on for her defence , Leonie frankly admitted that the letters were forgeries , and that she had written them to get herself fine clothes , and if possible a husband . The mother , in answer to all questions , only exclaimed , " It was in the letter ! it was in the letter !" It was contended by the public prosecutor that she knew all along that her daughter was guilty of imposture ; bufc it appeared from her naivetS that she had been deceived as we ll as the father , and she was acquitted . Mademoiselle Iconic , for whom no excuse was possible , was condemned to eighteen months' imprisonment .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . The first Cabinet Council of the new Ministry took place on Saturday afternoon , at the Foreign Office , Downingstreet , and lasted for three hours . The Ministers present were _ The Earl of -Derby , the Lord Chancellor , the Earl Of Lonsdale , the Marquis of Salisbury , Mr . Secretary Walpole , the Earl of Malmesburyi the Eight Hon . Sir J . S . Pakington , the Eight Hon . B . Disraeli , the Duke of Northumberland , the Eight Hon . J . W . Henley , the Earl of Hardwicke , and Lord John Manners . The Cabinet met at the same hour and place on Monday , and sat for three hours . The Earl and Countess of Eglinton arrived at Dublin on " Wednesday , shortly before two o ' clock , having landed at Kingston about one o ' clock . Lord Eglinton rode to the Castle on horseback , wearing a large shamrock On his breast , and surrounded by a brilliant staff . Lady Eglinton followed in a chariot drawn by four horses- On the arrival of the cortege at the Castle , the ceremony of swearing in was at once proceeded with , and at its conclusion a feu de Joie was fired by , the troops stationed at College-Green . The Lord-Lieutenant subsequently held an undress : levee , which was very numerously attended . The Earl of Ebden was one of the first persons presented . A strange riot

      occurred in Dublin on the occasion of Lord Egliriton ' s entry . Some students of Trinity College hung out an orange handkerchief on a lamp-post , A policeman ordered the rag to be struck , but was not obeyed . He struck it himself , a fight ensued—it was replaced , fresh accession of students ana townsmen—considerable fighting—military calledrout—arrests of " gentlemen" r ingleaders , and summary punishment of fine and imprisonment inflicted on the rioters . Such is the first spectacle attending the now Lord-Lieutenant . In the course of the afternoon , and before the orange rag was hoisted , a body of students had paraded round the statue of William III . on College Green , keeping time to rounds of " Kentish fire !"

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      The latest news * from the Cape , which came by the Windsor in the course of Saturday night , was of a rather favourable character . The general tone of feeling at Cape Town , and throughout the colony , had considerably im-5 roved , and the reduction of the Kafir forces was confiontly expected . It was rumoured that Sandilli was about to abandon his hostile position . Major-Goneral Somerset had captured bix thousand head of cattle , Colonel Eyro seven thousand , and the two officers were in close communication , and preparing for a vigorous attack on the enemy . The Fingoes had rallied faithfully round tho British troops , who were in high spirits and health . Major Wilmot , Eoyal Artillery , commanding at Fort Poddio , an able and gallant officer , was shot on New Year ' s Day , while loading on his men to an attack' upon tho enemy in tho junglo of tho Fish Eivcr , whero it was said Sandilli had taken shelter .

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      On Wednesday , tho 3 rd inst ., tho Popo ' s Nuncio presented Queen Isabella of Spain with a complete sot of «> aby linen , blossod by " His Holiness , " for hor infant daughter . ^ t ° Wmphio despatch , dated Vorona , midnight , tho 1 st <> t March , announces tho arrival of tlio Emperor of Austria in that city . Ho was'received in grand utiito by Marshal -Kadotzky at tho head of his staff , and tho torminus of tho railroad was illuminated .

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      , p '; Xoato , for nearl y a quarter of a century hoad-mastor 01 JUon Collogo , oxpirod at his house in Hartley Wostimii on tho morning of tho 5 th inst . Tho losa of this oxcoHonfc man is nn event that will bo folt moro widoly and raoro sincerely than tho death of many a potentate . His name has long been a household word to all " old Eton rouows / —and where are not " okl Eton fellows" to b « round P Heartily echoing © very word of the brief

      tribute to his memory we have found in the Times , we are confident that from the Earl of Derby to the lag of the lower school , all generations , past and present , with whom FiiOBEAT Etona is an abiding watchword , will cherish the memory of Keate , and . the fond traditions of his severe and firm , but ever kindly and generous sway . And we may add that' the rare merits and the eminent services of hia ¦ successor in authority at . Eton have especial claims' upon the-present Premier , who is himself an Eton man . Dr . Hawtrey has maintained the noblest school in England in the highest state of efficiency , and , as might have been expected from his own enlightened judgment and liberal taste , in harmony with the advanced spirit of our times . For all the best and heartiest elements in our aristocracy we may thank Eton , —the nursery of our caphers

      tains our statesmen , our poets , our philosop . "In Dr . Keate , " writes a correspondent to the IHmes , " Eton has lost the most distinguished of her scholars . During nearly a quarter of a century he guided the studies and preserved , the discipline of this school with unparalleled success . The vigour and accuracy of his scholarship ^ particularly in composition , was not more remarkable than his modesty , and the extent of his mental powers was less known than it might have been , only because a strong sense Of duty disposed him to concentrate their whole force on the instruction of his scholars . He was just and fearless in the exercise of authority ; A certain sternness of manners veiled in a slight degree , but never concealed , a singular kindliness of heart , and few have ever obtained in the same position somuch of the respect and affection of Eton boys and Eton men . " Peace be to his ashes J

      Major-General Lacy , director-general of artillery , died at his official residence , at Woolwich , on Tuesday , after fifty-six years' service in the Eoyal Artillery . Mashal Matmont died at Venice , on the 2 nd inst ., in the seventy-eighth year of his age . He was born at Chatillon-sur-Seine , on the 20 th July , 1774 . He served with Bonaparte in Egypt , and accompanied him with Murat and Lannes , on , his sudden return to France . In the campaigns of 1805 , Marmont commanded a corps-d ' armee ' , and having invaded the Eepublic of Eagusa , and defeated the combined Eussians and Montenegrins , he received from the Emperor the title of Duke of Ragusa . In 1812 , he was completely defeated by Wellington , at Salamanca ,

      and was severely wounded by a splinter from a sliell , which rendered amputation of the right arm below the elbow necessary ^ In 1814 , he was operating on the Marne , in-conjunction with . Mortier , for the defence of France from the Allies , and was compelled to retreat on Paris . Ten days afterwards , HF capitulated , and the next day marched out of Paris . JEewtobk the oath to Louis XV III ., and kept it during the Hundred Days . It was his singular fate to surrender Paris a second time , in 1830 , when he had bee n entrusted by Charles X . with the command of all the troops . Since that period he never returned to France . Marmont was an accomplished scholar , and published an interesting volume of Travels in the East , and several works on Military Science .

      Lady Jane Dalrymple Hamilton , whose death took place at Paris last Sunday , was the eldest daughter of the celebrated Admiral Lord Duncan and sister of tho Earl of Camperdown . In her youth she was reckoned one of the most beautiful women of the day , and attracted much admiration on that remarkable occasion when , hanging on tho veteran arm of her stately and gajlant father , she appeared in the Eoyal procession which went to St . Paul's after tho battle of Camperdown to give thanks for the frcat naval victories . She afterwards married Sir Hew > alrymple Hamilton , of Rargeny and North Berwick , in Scotfana , . Their only child , and the heiress o f the great Bargeny estates , was married to tho Duke de Coigny , and their eldest daughtor and heiress is married to Mr . Dalrymple , tho Lord-Lieutenant of Wigtonshire , and heirpresumptivo to tho Earl of Stair , who also married tho sister of Lady Jano Dalrymplo Hamilton .

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      Tho report in favour of tho Fleet Valley Improvement Bill was carried on Thursday in the Court of Common Conncil , by a baro majority of two . Tho fifth of tho Courso of Working-men ' s Scientific Locturos was delivered on Monday evening , at the Musoum of Practical Geology , Jormyn-streot , b y W . W . Smyth , M . A ., " On tho Mode of Occurrenco of Motals in Nature " The loefcuro was chiefly explanatory of tho arrangomont of the Museum . Thoro was a meeting of factory delegates at Manchester on Sunday , to consider tho propriety of applying to Parliamont to insert tho words " no child" in tho Act of 1860 , so ns to prevent relay working , but ultimately it was dotormincd only to apply to tho prosont Government to bettor onforco tho regulations of tho present Act through tho inspectors .

      Throo important declarations in fav our of Frco Trado havo lately been made ; on Monday , by tho Manchester Commercial Association , a body of Conservative tondoncios , which seceded from tho Anti-Corn-Law League at tho time that tho Radical , Mr . Georgo Wilson , was appointed its chairman ; and on Tuesday b y tho Manchester Chambor of Commorco , and by a mooting of eminent merchants at Liverpool . At all tlioso meetings petitions to Parliament woro adopted , praying for an ndhoronco to tho policy of free imports of food .

      On Friday woolc a mooting of tho inhabitants of Holmfirth and tho neighbourhood was hold at tho Town Hall , Halifax , to consult regarding tho state of tho Holmo StycS Rqsorvoir . Mr . James Oharlosworth presided , and said that having with his own oyos eeon tho state of tho Reservoir , ho was in groat approhonsion as to its stability . Tho following resolution was passed : — " That in consideration of tho recent statements concerning tho Holmo Styes Reservoir , this mooting reuolvos to petition Parliament to take immediate steps to boouto us against danger in future , and to make the commissioners responsible in law m they

      are in fact . " A petition to that effect was adopted , and is to be entrusted to Mr . E . B . Denison , M . P ., for presentation . The town council ofSalford , on Wednesday , after an animated discussion , affirmed the following proposition : — Proposed by Alderman Higgins , and seconded by Councillor-Langworthy , — " That inasmuch as there are two schemes now before the public , and about to be discussed in Parliament , having for their object the better education of the children of the working 1 classes , and both based

      on a public rate , this council admits that there is great need of increased education amongst the working classes , and that it is desirable to supply the means by a public rate , to be limited in amount , and to be under local management . " The votes were seventeen for the motion ( including that of the mayor ) , and fourteen against it . Only one member of the council was absent , and all present voted . The assessment of the seventeen gentlemen who carried the motion is 9243 ? ., and of the fourteen who formed the minority , 18262 .

      A public meeting in favour of the National Public School Association was held in the Exchange Hall , Nottingham , on . Thursday week . Mr . Felkin , the Mayor , pre * sided- The Rev . Sir . Stevenson , Baptist minister of Nottingham , moved , " That this meeting recognises a great deficiency in the existing supply of the means of popular instruction , and records its conviction that that need will be best met by a general system supported by local rates , and under local management , and that shall provide secular instruction only . " Mr . Alderman Hermann seconded

      the motion . Dr . Watts supported the resolution in a lengthened speech , in which he thoroughly elucidated tho scheme of the National Association . It was then put and carried nem . con . The Rev . J . A . Baynes moved , and Mr . Councillor Eyre seconded , that a petition praying for the adoption of the scheme be forwarded to the House of Commons . A working man in the garb of a " navvy , " whose name was given as George Woodward , expressed his approval of a compulsory educational scheme , but remarked that something was radically wrong in the present system , or the people would be able to educate their own children .

      Mr . John M'Clean , the chief engineer of the Rose steamer , which trades between Bristol and Waterford , committed suicide by blowing his brains out in his own house at Bristol , on Friday week . He has left a wife and five children . - Shortly after work had commenced , on Tuesday morning at Mr . Edward Dorset ' s naphtha and tar works at Raven ' s Bond-creek , Deptford , an explosion took place , the premises burst into flames , and the combustible materials ran in liquid fire over the ground , ; and floating unextinguiBhed on the water of the creek , burnt . one side of a sailing barge . Six engines arrived , and , after some hourB' work , succeeded in preventing the fire from spreadingT ; o any of tho adjoining buildings . A great deal of property was destroyed , and the works were not insured .

      On lasb Sunday morning , there was such a disturbance Created in the workhouse of the Pulham Union , Norfolk , by the able-bodied paupers , that it was found necessary to send for the police . Superintendent Witherford and six constables arrived , and in a very short time a regular battle commenced , which terminated in favour of " law and order . " On Monday twelve of tho ringleaders were brought before the magistrates , when three were sent to prison for two months , and two for six weeks , with hard labour ; tho remainder were discharged with a severe reprimand .

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      On the 3 rd of March , a grand dinner was given by the garrison at Malta to Admiral Sir Wm . Parker , Bart ., and to General , Ellice . Several guests of distinction , among whom waa his Excellency the Governor , were invited , and the party sat down 127 . Tho room was tastefully hung with flags , men in armour were in the passages , and a guard of honour , supplied by the 3 rd regiment , the Buffs , received tho guests of tho ovening . The samo authority from which wo gather tho above also states that the Vengeance , 84 , and Terrible ( steam frigate ) , left Malta on tho 1 st instant . Tho sudden departure was matter of much speculation , and the whereabouts being kept a profound secret , servos to increaso tho wonder . England , however , is assigned to thorn by some , and Port Marion by others . Tho Albion and JBellerophon lino-ofbattlo slups aro also ordered to got ready for soa .

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      About twolvo o ' clock on tho night of Thursday week , a couplo of profane thiovoa effected an entrance into Auckland Palace . After scouring tho culinary and reception apartmonts without profit to themselves or loss to episcopacy , they ascended to tho next story . Thoro the irreverent scamps found thoir way into tho room whoro the Bishop of Durham and Mrs . Maltby slept ; and thence , notwithstanding tho very natural inquiry from Mrs . Maltby , " who was thoroP" they managed to retire , carrying off with thorn tho bishop's purso . Tho contents , howovor , probably disappointed tho rogues , as they aro reportod not to havo exceeded three pounds . Next day tho bishop ont crtaineel tho judges on circuit I An inquest was hold at Hampton-court Palaco on

      Wednesday last , before Mr . Frodonck John Manning , coroner of hor Majesty ' s household , on tho body of Miss ( Julia Gordon , a young lady , aged fiftoon years , ono of tho daughtors of Lord Hohry Gordon , residing in Hamptoncourt Palaco , who mot her death by tho accidental burning of her night-dross . Miss Gordon was in tho habit , in tho morning-, of sitting near tho flro in tho study , which was near tho bod-room , with no other clothes on than hor night-dross ; and that on Saturday morning tho nurso was Alarmod by perceiving Miss Julia Gordon running out of tho study enveloped in flames , with no ofchor covering but her night-dross , which was partially burnt upwards . Tho screams of tho young lady attraotoo tho attention of Lady Henry Gordon , who rushed from her bed-room , and , regardless of herself , with the presence of mind prompted by a mother ' 0 affection for bet child , succeeded , in extinguish

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      On Sunday evening , tho Rov . Georgo Evison , lato chaplain of tho Roman Catholic congregation at Portsea , renounced tho doctrinos of that communion , in tho church of St . Paul ' s , Bormondsoy . Tho Roy . William Blood , ono of tho fow survivors of tho loss of tho Amazon , and who proachod a sermon « ifc 1 lymouth , doscribing a sorios of " particular providonces " and mysterious warnings , which lo < l to his oscapo , hns boon presented to tho incumbency of Tomplo Grafton , near Alceaton , in tho diocoso of Worcester .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 13, 1852, page 245, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1926/page/9/