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      from Stambnl ; ' but even under this character Dr . Bartli considered himself not entirely free from danger , owing to the complicated character of the political powers which exercise sovereign sway over Timbuctoo—the inhabitants being composed of various nationalities . There are , first , the S <> nray , tbrming the great balk of the people ; then Arabs of various tribes , Fellatas and Tuaricks , together with a small number of Bambara and Mandingo . One faction was not at all favourably disposed towards Dr . Barth , bat wished his death ; so that it was necessary for him to observe great caution in his movements and intercourse with the people . Fortunate , indeed , it was that the traveller had secured the sincere and unequivocal friendship of the Sheikh , under whose immediate protection he lived at Timbuctoo , and who had promised to have him safely escorted on his return to Sakatu . "

      Dr . Barth a health has suffered from this long and dangerous , journey , and also from his residence in the town , of Timbuctoo , -which is full of closelypacked houses . Its exact latitude and longitude differs from that in which it is set down on most maps and globes . " The city cf Timbuctoo , which to reach has been the life ' s ambition of so many celebrated travellers , is placed by Dr . Barth in 18 deg . 3 min . 30 jjec to 18 deg . 4 min . 5 sec . north latitude , and 1 deg . 45 min . west longitude from Greenwich . Its form , is that of a triangle ; it is closely bruit of houses mostly of clay and stone , many with handsome and tasteful fronts , the arrangement of the interior being similar to that of Airadez . visMftd bv Dr . Rar +. h in

      1850 . The population is estimated at 20 , 000 souls . Dr . Barth found the market of Timbuctoo , which is celebrated as the centre of the North African caravan trade , to be of less extent than that of Kario , but the merchandise of a superior quality and greater , value . He has obtained a complete imana from the . Sheikh for any English traders that may . wish to visit Timbuctoo . The country in which Timbuctpo 33 . situated borders on the Sahara , and is similar to that region , being of a 4 ry and barren description except towards the Kowara ,. where it assumes a more fertile appearance . ^ September formed the height of the rainy season , and the rains , though not very heavy , then occurred every second or third day . "

      He is not yet aware of the expedition under Dr . VogeL , sent to his aid in February , 1853 , nor of the steamfcoat expedition about to visit the regions discovered by him in 1851 . We derive these particulars from a letter addressed to the Morning Chronicle by Mr . A . Petermann .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . Qoe $ x Victoria held a Privy Council on Wednesday at Buckingham Palace , when the various Orders in Council for the conduct of the war were ordered to be Issued . Her Majesty has been to the Olympic . On Saturday , Prince Albert visited the Crystal Palace . Lord Cardigan , Brigadiers-General Buller , Scarlett , and Pennefather , have been guests of the Queen . Mr . Macaulay also dined at the Palace on Monday . . The Queen will open the Crystal Palace , at Sydenham , in person , on the 24 th of May .

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      The elections for Tynemouth and Liskeard came off on Thursday . At Tynemouth the candidates were , Mr . Lindsay , Liberal-Conservative , and Mr . Dickson , Tory . At the close « f the poll the numbers were . Lindsay , 357 ; Dickson , 340—a narrow victory At Liskeard there were three Liberal ' candidates : —Mr . R . W . Grey , Lord Palmerston ' s private secretary , 138 ; Mr . J . S . Trelawney . formerly member for Tavistock , 118 . ; and Mr . Haythorne Reede , 11 . Westmoreland election is fixed for the 4 th of April . The Tories have put forward the Earl of Bective , son of the Marquis of Headfort , and son-in- law of the late Alderman Thompson . The Liberals have requested Mr . Strickland to stand . The Lord Chancellor , yielding at length to the solicitations of the bar , has consented that the Equity Courts shall sit in lincoln ' s-inn .

      Meeting } of Roman Catholics hare been held at Liverpool and Dublin to protest against the Chambers' Inquisition committee . The Philanthropic Farm School , established at Redhill for tbe reformation of juvenile criminals , has successfully demonstrated the utility of the system . Since 1849 , it haa in five years received 606 boys , and sent 412 to our colonies And America fitted to earn their living . At the anniversary dinner of the friends of the institution , on Saturday , 1300 / . were subscribed towards its expenses . Mr . Richard Hassley Kennedy , proposed by Mr . W . H . Ashurst , is the new Alderman of the Ward of Cheap , in the room of the late Mr . Alderman Thompson . His opponent was Air . Thorpe , nephew of the late Alderman Thorpe . Mr . Kennedy gained the show of hands at the nomination , and Mr . Thorpe demanded a poll , but finding the majority- against him ho withdrew .

      A great number of pilots from Hull have departed to join the Baltic fleer . The Lambeth baths and washhouses were opened on Wednesday by a public ceremony . The Archbishop of Canterbuiy was present .

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      1 ' a . rngraph inditera assure us that the C / . nr has had an uttJt-k of erysipelas : it has been cured by the j . iurnuy through the anows of Finland , prescribed by his phyauiana to save him from a personal interview with an Englishman , the Bight of any of that nation ( Quakers excepted ) being hkcly at this moment to give a Hevero shock to the Imperial nerves . The King of Denmark was last week indisposedto » e « Sir Charles Napier . The King of Prussia , during an qfla--dinner walk in hia orchard ( "his custom always of ' an

      afternoon" ) , has ran bis head against an apple-tree , and is confined to bed in consequence . It' is to be hoped the Emperor of Austria may escape this epidemic among crowned heads : a fit of sickness in the honeymoon would be a sad contretemps . King Otho , it is feared , shows symptoms of the falling sickness . —Daily News . Benedetto Negri , the once distinguished teacher of singing , died on the 24 th ulfc ., at Turin , in the 71 st year of his age . Th « Duke of Portland died on Monday at Welbeck , aged 85 . He was in 1807 a Junior Lord of the Treasury , under Mr . Canning ; Privy Seal in 1827 ; and President of the Council in the Ministry of Lord Goderich . He married the sister of Mr . Canning . He is succeeded by his son the Marquis of Titchfield .

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      The cholera has somewhat abated in the north of Ireland ; but it still seizes its victims here and there in county Cork . One of tbe most recent is Captain Hopkinson , of the Shctv- * second Regiment , who died after six hours * suffering in Fennoy barracks . Since the appearance of the cholera at Kanturk , up to the end of last week , 129 persons have been attacked , 51 have died , and 66 then remained under treatment . The deaths from cholera in Scotland have been considerable . They have occurred at Glasgow , FsUdrk , Alloa , Calderbank , Bathgate , and Edinburgh .

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      A new comet was observed on Wednesday , near the western horizon , in the constellation Pisces . It is of a fine gold colour , as brilliant as a star of the first magnitude , and its tail stretches oyer many degrees . The last Western mail coach was finally taken off the road on Saturday last . It ran from Exeter to Dorchester * On the night of the 19 th inst ., at half-past ten o'clock , a smart shock of an earthquake was experienced at St . Sebas tian , north coast of Spain . The walls of houses trembled , and the horizontal osculations which accompany such phenomena were apparent . Tbe famous car of Juggernauth was totally destroyed by fire on the 6 th of February last . The " proprietors" are inconsolable . They can't conceive bow they had offended theur god . ;

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      A mixed gauge is now in course of formation on the railway between Basingstoke and Oxford , to complete a direct narrow gauge communication between Southampton and th « North of England . Tie Commissioners of Customs have given notice of their intention immediately to commence taking stock of all the goods at tbe bonded warehouses throughout the United Kingdom , in conformity with the clauses in the Customs Consolidation Act , requiring that process , and its repetition every five years . A very remarkable exhibition took place on Thursday at the Marylebone Workhouse , by Messrs . Morlan , Martin , and Joturnef , a French firm , who undertook to demonstrate before a committee of the board of guardians that , by a peculiar modification in tbe fermenting process , the amount

      of bread from a given weight of flour could be . increased to at l « ast 50 per cent . This singular method was invented by a French gentleman , a pupil of Orfila . Two sacks of ' nour were made use of , both under seal , and issued by the authorities of the workhouse . One of these was manipulated in the ordinary way , the other by the associated French manufacturers . The results were in the highest degree satisfactory . The first sack converted into bread by the usual method produced 90 loaves weighing 360 lbs . The second bag : of flour placed in the hands of the French bakers , produced 134 loaves , weighing 520 lbs ., giving an increase of very nearly 50 per cent ., under circumstances very disadvantageous to the owners of the secret .

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      There have been three men convicted of murder at toe Assizes just now coming to a close . At Norwich , William Thompson , who murdered Lorenzo Beha , the jeweller , on tie highway , in broad day light j apparently because he owed an instalment for a watch , is sentenced to be hanged . At Shrewsbnry , John Lloyd is under sentence of death for shooting John Gittins , at Nowclifl " . Gittins accused Lloyd , who lodged with him , of being too intimate with his wife ; aud one day called to Lloyd to come and nurse his bastard . Lloyd shot Gittins through a window . At Bodmin , James Holman will surely be hanged for the brutal murder of iis wife , then pregnant . He killed her with a hatchet ; and aft « r hiding the weapon , fetched in his neighbours , saying his wife had fallen on the grate . Holman predicted the death of his wife , and had proposed for her sister 1

      iho sentence of death passed upon Abel Burrows , for the murder of Charity Gleniater , harsj been commuted into s « ntence of penal servitude for life . A terrible murder and suicide lias been perpetrated in Clarence-gardens , noar Regent ' s Park . Behind with bis rent , and fearful of an execution in the house , with a prospect of the workhouse , James Martin , shoemaker , tirat cut tiio throat c » l his wife and then cut his own . The bodies were found , dressed in night-clothes , lying one over the otlier , on tho lied , on Wednesday morning . Martin left beliind him a letter to his landlord , declaring that he would kill hia wife and himself , as he could not pay his rent .

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      Tho alh-ged fraudulent huy-contractors , " Sturgeon and Sons , of Grays , E . sacx , " have petitioned Parliament fi » r a full examination of their ense . The ? upsetting of a naptha lump en use ci a severe loss-by fire , on Tuesday , at the West India Docks . Tho Mastor s oflkc and storehouse were burnt down ; but fortunately no vessels were destroyed . Tho vessels in th « river sent tlieir crovrs to assist the firemen . The famous dipper Marco Polo , carrying C 01 emigrants to Australia , got ashore off Melbourne , and it waa feared ahe could not bo got ofl " . No lives wore loat .

      Paus Alb in Ihma . — " I fear when the genuine Cockney carelessly reads the words AUsopp ' s India Ale , ' in going through the streets of London , he seldom realises to himself the delight with which tbe vwj traveller in Indit or Ceylon sees these words on the outside of a full bottle—1 say a full bottle , for your planter has as little affection for an ' * empty one as Falstaff had for an « unfilled can . ' Champagne is an excellent drink if yon don't anticipate a dinner after it ; but for a breakfast after a hard ride , or a luncheon in the jungle , tbere is nothing equal to the sparkling glasa of cool Aixsopp . The frame is perhaps on fire , this is the potation

      to extinguish the flame ; exhausted with physical or mental fatigue , -with the thermometer ranging between 80 deg . and 90 dee ., nothing is half so gently inspiriting as the whitecapped draught of Pale India Ale ? . but then it must be of the right description , hot opened a month too early or too late —a gentle simmer of white foam on the top—not breaking oat into a deluge of froth , which proves it over ripe nor having to . be coaxed into a little foam , which proves it too flat . But it most be qnafled , not . hurriedlyi Wt without pause ; be the quantity wage or smujJ ^ it'thbuid not rtma jQ in the glass a mmute . —J 5 ft # A * £ ^ p 3 wwrf Life m Ceylon , tl

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      „ , . ; A , BMtotoA ^ April 1 st Both Houses last night debated the Address in reply to the Royal Message . In the Hoiwe of iLorda it -was moved by XorcT Clab $ nj > on , and was worded as follows : — " That a humble address be presented to her Majesty * to return to her Majesty the thanks of this House for her most gracious message , and for the v communication of the several Bpers which have been" laid before it in obedience to her ajeaty ' s commands ; ' to assure her Majesty of the just sense we entertain of her Majesty's anxious and uniform endeavours to preserve to her people the blessings of peaces and of our perfect confidence in her Majeaty ? s ; disposition . to terminate the calamities of war , whenever tljat object can be accomplished consistently with the honour of her Majesty's Crown and the interest of her p ^ p | e ;; that we have qbnAmrml with ilixin /< Anof > rn that tiai > 'ftfat < uiWi > Ar «) i . jw « n « Vin . M

      been frustrated T > y the > spirit of ajg ^ ri ^ on di splayed > y ih « J Emperor of Russia in Ms , invasion ^ and continued occupation of the provinces of Walluchia and Moldavia , in the rejection of equitable terms of jpeace proposed ' under the sanction of the four principal Powers of Europe , and in the preparation of immense forces to support his unjust pretensions ; that , these pretensions appear tons ' bubversiire / of the independence of the Turkish empire ; that We fc ^ l that the trost reposed in us demands on our part a firm determination to oo ^ operito with her Majesty jn ar vigorous ; resistance to the project of a Sovereign whose further aggrandisement to the independence ol Europe . '' . t -, ' [] > . Xord Clarendon expressed his deep sense of thefimportance of the occasion which terminated a peace which it w . as hoped would never haVe been interrupted .

      He spoke in terms of praise of the public spirit which had : been exhibited by the country notwithstanding tho sacrifices which tlie war would entail upon them ; - and expressed his belief that the opinion of the people was favourable to the . policy which had been pursued b y the Government , arid which had tended in his belief to create the 'Spirit , which now predominated ; He stated that the cbnuubt of the Emperor of Russia alone had induced the production of the secret and confidential correspondence recently published ; but he felt satisfaction that it had seen the hght , because it had proved that the coarse of the Govexnment had been straightforward arid honest ; their disbelief in the approaching dissolution of Turkey * , and scouted any idea

      of her dismemberment . They pointed put the course the Emperor should take with regard to Turkey , and received bis promise so to act , —not only on the word of an emperor , but a gentleman—not to the Cabinet , but the Queen ! He read an autograph letter from the Czar , containing an opinion that Turkew-should not be humiliated by overbearing demands on the part of any of the great Powers . That was in April last , and before the real nature of MensohikofTs mission was known , and would have led any one to believe that Turkey was safe from any- aggression from Russia . He then wont into a summary of the acts of aggression by the Czar on Turkey , and the negotiations which have takfen place . He declared that a sense of duty and national honour which had induced this country and France to make the final demand of

      the evacuation of the Principalities , to which there was no answer from the Emperor ; and he declared that the war was undertaken from no selfish motives , but from a sense of duty and honour , and self-respect only . He stated that he was not yet able to lay the text of tiie convention with France and Turkey on the table at present , ^ but he could assure the House that it contained no stipulations for a future Protectorate over Turkey . The definite object of the war was to ropel the unjust aggression of Russia , and to securte an honourable peace , which would j prevent Russia from possessing Constantinople . The question was

      not merely tho Eastern question , out that ol civilisation itself , which was perilled by tho dexterous policy of Russia to cause division among tho Western Powers . He said that there was every reason to bo satisfied with the conduct oi Austria ; but the neutrality of Austria and Prussia in the war about to be waged was impossible ; he hoped that those two Powers would see their true interest in the coming struggle , and that thoy would side with us in securing a solid peace , which would only be done by curbing the aggression of Russia , as well as the establishment of the right : of tho Christiana of Turkey by tho Sultan . He concludec with an expression of his belief that he might look with hopi and confidence to tho result of tho war .

      The Earl of Dkriiy said he did not mean to offei opposition to tlie address , because this was a momeni and occasion when there should be no expression oi

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 1, 1854, page 297, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2032/page/9/