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      fendant with allowing a nuisance to exist of a threefold character and injurious to the health of the inhabitants of the 'locality . The nuisance on the premises ot the company was described as follows : —Several open pits for the reception of refuse from the gas purifiers , very offensive ; open tar tanks , very offensive ; also method of slacking glowing coke by foul water , giving off filthy effluvia ; the premises altogether a nuisance and injurious to'health . " After a long discussion , Mr . Selfe made an order for the abatement of the whole nuisance in one month , and it was arranged that Mr . Fulcher , the Sanitary Inspector , should see the thing done in an effectual manner . _ _

      A suit for divorce , by reason of adultery , was brought in the Arches Court on Wednesday by Mr . Omwell Lloyd -Evans , of Cheltenham ! Sir John Dodson , "in pronouncing judgment , felt obliged to come to the conclusion that , notwithstanding a verdict in Mr . Evans ' s favour on a second trial for crim . con ., the evidence against Mrs . Evans was not sufficiently strong to justify him in granting the suit . The adjourned examination meeting in the affairs of Edward Baldwin , the late proprietor of the Moi-ning Herald , Standard , and / jft . James ' s Chronicle newspapers , took place in the Court of Bankruptcy on Thursday . The copyright , plant , and machinery of those journals have been sold for 16 , 500 / . We believe they have been bought by the Derbyite party . An adjournment for three weeks was ordered .

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      ASCOT RACES . Tuesday was a bad -day for the first of the Ascot Races . The clouds gathered heavily , and a steady rain drenched the ground and -damped the spirits of the pleasureseekers . Nevertheless , the Grand Stand was crowded with fashionable company , and the races came off in due course . They consisted of—The Trial Stakes of five sovs . eaoh , with fifty added , won by Mr . T . Walker ' s Early Bird ; the Ascot Derby Stakes , of fifty sovs . each , won by Mr . R . E . Cooper ' s Claude Lorraine ; the Gold Vase given by the Queen , added to a sweepstakes of twenty sovs . each , -won by Mr . Howard ' s Arsenal ; the Fibst Ascot Biennial Stakes ( First Year ) , of ten sovs . each , with , one hundred added , won by Mr . Howard ' s Clydesdale ; and the Seventh Ascot Triennial Stakes (/ Third Year ) , won by Captain White ' s Aleppo . _ ¦ _ ¦ '

      „ , The races on Wednesday were—The Coronation Stakes , of one hundred sovs . each , won by Lord Exeter s Beechnut ; tie Windsor Casti . e Stakes , often sovs . each , with one hundred added , won by Baron Rothschild ' s Sydney ; the Royal Hunt Cut-, apiece of plate value two hundred sovs ., by subscription of ten sovs . each , with one hundred added , won by Lord Londesborough ' s Rosa Bonbeur ; Handicap Plate , of fifty sovs ., for all ages , won by Mr . B . Land ' s Amelia ; Sweepstakes , of ten sovs . each , with twenty-five added , won by Mr . Merry ' s Lady Albert ; and the Fekn Hill Stakes , of fifteen sovs . each , with fifty added , won by Mr . Barber ' s Polly Peachum .

      Thursday was the Cup Day—the chief day of the races . The weather was fine , the company brilliant , and the Queen honoured the occasion with her presence . Lord Pnlmeraton , on horseback , was in attendance on her Majesty , and among the royal and fashionable visitors were Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar , the Duke i of Cambridge , the Duke of Beaufort , the Duke of Montrose , the Russian Ambassador , Earl Derby , Earl Granville , Lord Molmesbury , Sir William Codrington , and many others . The first race was for a Sweepstakes of ilfty sovs . eaoh ; this was walked over by the winner of the Derby and the Oaks , Ulink Bonny , who was afterwards , by desire of the Queen , paraded in front of the Royal Stand . Then came a Handicap Swekpstaices of five eove . each , with fifty

      ad d ed , won by Mr . La Mert ' Maggie Lauder ; and then the Gold Cup , -which was won by Lord Zetland ' s Skirmisher . As the horses concerned in this raco wore proceeding to the starting post ( say the daily papers ) Winkfleld * bolted ' for the gateway through which he is accustomed to enter the courso daily . Bartholomew , his rider , instantly pulled him up , but in doing eo his stirrup-leather broke , and he fell heavily to tho ground . His horse was instantly stopped , and Bartholomew waa only for the moment stunned . After a little delay , ho remounted , and joined the horses at tho starting-post . Much anxiety and compassion were evinced for Bartholomew by the spectators , for ho was one of tho most severely injured jockeys in tho fearful accident at Goodwood lost year . Ilia second mount since that occurrence was on Thursday .

      The conclusion of the race for tho Gold Cup ( which , toy tho way , Ss a Oliver cup ) ia thus doscribocl by tho learned gentlemen who report these matters for our contemporaries : — "' Ab they rounded tho turn by the brick kilns , Skirnriahor began to croep forward , and soon joined Sauntorer , and these two were now in close company with Ohov « lier d'Industrio . On entering the straight , tho OhevnHer had completed his work , and dropped back , leaving Saunteror with a slight lead , 'Skirmisher taking second placo , with Polostiu- and Gemma di Vergy In oloso attendance They ran thus to tho half distance , whore Skirmishor headed Sauntoror , 'Opposite tho Grand Stand , Gomma dl Vorgy passed "Poleutar , caught fiauntoror within a fow strides of tho

      chair , but failed to reach Skirmisher , who won easily by a length and a half ; a head only separating the second from the third ; two lengths dividing the third from the fourth ; Rogerthorpe and Chevalier d'Industrie passed the post , side by side , fifth and sixth , about six lengths behind Polestar ; Tasmania was seventh , Warlock eighth , Winkfiold ninth , Wardermarsko tenth , and Leamington eleventh ; Pretty IJoy walked in . " The last important race of the day was that , for th New Stakes , of ten sovs . each , with one hundred added , won bv Mr . Howard's Sedbury .

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      NAVAL AND MILITARY . Return of Troops from Ind . lv . —The East India Company ' s troopships Owen Glendower and Veruon have arrived at Graveseud , having on board nearly five hundred invalid troops from regiments serving in India . The Owen Glendower , Commander Watson , sailed from Kurracheo on the 11 th of February last , having on board two hundred and thirty-five non-commissioned oflicers and men belonging to the 8 th ( the King ' s ) , 2-JLth , 27 th ( Enniskillens ) , Slsr , S 7 th ( Royal Irish Fusiliers ) , and the Royal Artillery , with thirty-three women and children . During- the voyage , six men died , ami one insane soldier , named Mahon , belonging to the 24 th regiment , jumped overboard when the vessel was near St . Helena , and was lost , although every effort was made to save him . Military Banquets . —A banquet was given by the Grenadier Guards at the London Tavern last Saturday evening . Covers were laid for sixty . The chair was taken by his Royal Highness Prince Albert , and among the company was his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar . —The ollicers of the 17 th Lancers gave their annual dinner at the Clarendon Hotel on the previous day , when they were honoured with the company of the Duke of Cambridge . A Goat for the Welsh Fusiliers . —The Queen lias just presented to the 23 rd Regiment ( Royal Welsh Fusiliers ; a beautiful Cashmere goat , from the herd in Windsor Great Park . It was despatched on Wednesday week , under the charge of Drum-Major Knight and a drummer of the same regiment , to the head-quarters in Portsmouth garrison . This is . the fifth present of a similar kind made by her Majesty as a special mark of her favour to this regiment , the other goats having died at various periods . One , which had become very docile and trained to march before the regiment * died on its passage from the Crimea , since which time it had been replaced by another goat from Windsor Great Park . This died a few weeks ago , and the present animal , which is perfectly white and two years old , is intended to replace it . — Times . The French War Medal . —Sir John Pennefathcr has assembled the regiments at Malta , for the purpose of presenting the French war medal to those on whom the French Emperor had bestowed it . The General called the men out , and personally pinned the medal on their breasts . He also assembled with them all those who had previously received it , and addressed them in a spirited speech . Shipwrecks . — The barque John Calvin , Captain Duncan , which left Grconock on the loth ult . for Quebec , foundered at sea about one hundred and eighty miles west of Tory Island ; but her crew , consisting of seventeen , were picked up by the brig Mary Young , which arrived at Greenock from Trinidad on Saturday . The Venus of Bath , laden with limestones , was lost about four a . m . on Monday morning opposite Abcrdovery . The captain swan on shore , but his crow , three in number , were drowned .

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      M ISC E LLANEOUS . The Court . —The Queen held a Drawing-room in St . James ' s Palace last Saturday afternoon . This reception , the first public Court held by her Miijosty this season , was very numerously nttended . —The baptism of the infant daughter of tho Prussian Minister and Countess Bcrnstorff took place on Monday at tho Prussian Legation , on Carlton-house-terrnce , on which occasion the Princess Royal stood sponsor to the infant . Prince Albert and the Princess Royal arrived at tho residence of tho Legation soon after one o ' clock , attended by Lady Caroline Barrington , tho Marquis of Aboroorn , Lord George Lennox , Mnjor-Goneral Wylde , and Colonel F . H . Seymour . After tho christening , tho royal party remained to luncheon , nnd returned to Buckingham Palaco at hulf-past three o ' clock . —The Court on Tuesday left town for Windsor Castlo . —Tho Duchess of Mecklonburg-Strelitsc and suite started from Dover for Calais on tho snmo day , in one of tho Dover Royal Mall Company ' s boats . A sympathetic reporter rooords that , shortly after thoir arrival , her Royal Highness and suite partook of a smnll quantity of chloroform and water In ordor to allay tho soa-sioknosa . —Princo Frederick of Prussia arrived at Dover on Wodnosday evening , rathor unexpectedly . Thonco ho immediately started for Windsor .

      Tun Crush ah thtd DnAWiNCi-UooM ..- >— Correspondents of ' Vimaa , who evidently speak from oruol experience , ropoat tho complaint , uttered by tho fair 1 Verbena ' two yonrH ngo , of tho bail managomont at her Mnjosty ' s Drawing-room with respect to tho ndmlualon of tho visitors . More aro invited than can bo conifortubly packed In tho nntoroome 5 nnd tho consoquoncoa

      are , hours of stifling pressure , a fierce stmrr « , i , """ ITJmme-room , and a . general xumpW SK A' of tho ladies' suks , matins , gauseTKes 1 * 18 twba ^ e Many of the faircourtiersi freSSSMto ?* ^ and their entrance into the presence of ^^ hS so smooth and composed as the occasion wouldsW ? require or would lead one to expect . For theser « £ w- * arrangements the Lord Chamberlain is to bW r ? Saturday ,. he caused to be constructed in one JT approaches a barricade of old benches , over vhicl , ever , some adventurous Irish ladies leaped in aiin ?*" style , to the great admiration of all beholders miZr ^ the officials . The reader will no doubt XfafZ r * publican simplicity of this proceeding . The Exhibition

      of Art Treasures at Max ™™ ter . —We have authority to state that the Queen "f ^ Prince Albert , accompanied by the Princess Royal tl , » Prince of Wales , the Princess Alice , Prince Alfred ' ami Prince Frederick William of Prussia , will visit M-T Chester on Monday , the 29 th inst . They will honour the Earl of Ellesmere by residing at AVorsley-hall the noble carl ' s seat , near Manchester , during their star Her Majesty will pay a formal visit to the Exhibition on Tuesday , the 30 th inst . On Wednesday , 1 st of July , the Exhibition building will be reserved for the private examination of its contents by the Queen ; and it is expected that her Majesty will return to London on Thursday , the 2 nd of July . The Secretary of State in attendance upon her Majesty will be Sir George Grev —Times .

      The Nile Expedition . —Mr . A . "VY . Twyfbrd , who was the only Englishman in the late scientific exnedition to discover the sources of the White Nile , has returned to England by the overland mail . lie had proceeded up the Nile with the steamers and boats under liis charge as far as the fourth cataract ( Mcroe ) , when ha was recalled by the Pacha of Egypt , who had determined to break up the expedition . Open-Aiu Pkeaching . —Between thirty and forty clergymen and Dissenting ministers of Bristol have arranged to carry out a scries of out-door services during the summer months .

      The Rotten 2 ? ew Cathedral at Plymoith . — Another fall occurred at the new lionian Catholic cathedral 011 the evening of Friday week , happily without injury to any one . The remainder of the western transverse arch of the transept gave way first , and was followed by the eastern arch , which brought down tlie roof of the transept and all the roof of the chancel except the small portion of the apsip , or semi-octagon , at the eastern end of the cathedral . OnDINATrON SADRATIT-BREAKING . —The Bishop Of London held his second ordination at St . Paul ' s Cathedral on Sunday . There were forty candidates for priests ' and deacons' orders . The service lasted about five hours . Hard work , thi . s , for Sunday !

      Finsuury Park . —A report from the committee of Works and Improvements , on the subject of the formation of Finsbury Park , was brought up on Friday week before the Metropolitan Board of Works . The architect ' s estimate of tho cost of making the park was -stated fl 3 follows : —Purchase of property , including all interests , 175 , 000 ^ . ; formation of the park—viz ., fencing , gates , aud boundaries , 033 ( 5 / . ; levelling ground , filling ditches , making drives and footpaths , 9750 / . ; plantations , roads , and iron bridges over the New Kiver , C 03-H , mailing together 22 , 120 / . ; addition of ton per cent , for contingencies , 19 , 710 / . ; maintenance of the park , constables , gardenerslihting&cat 3000 / ., and capitalized at

      , g , , four per cent ,, equal to 25 years' purchase , 75 , 000 / .--making a grand total of 291 , 830 / . 0 " the other side , the report showed a return from the sale of ground rente , 50 , 000 / . ; by rents ' from grazing lauds , 3000 / . —rooking a total return of 53 , 000 / . A letter from the Secretary of tho Treasury to tho Vestry Clerk of Islington , oxplaining the conditions upon which the Lords ot ine Treasury are prepared to propose to Parliament to vow mouey for making the pnrJc , vraa also read . Ihe eol ations are thus stated " 1 . Tho amount to bo flimUUeti by tho Government to be in tho proportion of ¦ one-t"ra of that furnished by tho Metropolitan Board of YVofla , 2 ihe Gov

      but not in any case to exceed 50 , 000 / . . ernment to propose to Parliament to vote ono-thlrd of tM sum of 50 , 000 / . in tho proaent session , ami ono-Uiin 1 « each of tho sessiona of 1858 and 1859 . 8 . XhoOo ^ rn mont to make tho actual is 9 uo of tho money aft r 1 1 a been voted , but at no time to bo called upon fo « mnim a sum equal to one-third of that wliioh » 1 >» " '"Vg actually expended from time to Umo by tlw Moliog «» Board of Works . " The report was received ; Wi for the formation of tho park was introduced . « m discussion , after extending over nemo clnum-j , ^ journod . Several of tho clauses wore agreed to on

      sequent days . eMrrnw U < J ° ' Thk Luicus Ei . ica-noN . -Mr . George Sk uo vj oroft ( Conservative ) has boon elected to » n ' ° . tll of in tho representation of Leeds caused ^ ° ^ iQai , Mr . Robert Hull . Ho obtained 2070 votes to ^ - given to Mr . MIIIh , tho Liberal candidate . A hoiu la threatened by tho friends of tho I "" ' - Sllnday Dmwonu FAiu .-Soino poraona vho 0 r 1 n morning wore making preparations at l ) o »« o ^ monco a fuir , wore arroflted by the police , « ^ brought before the Greenwich F ««» "Jj to AnU following day . Tho chief oilbndor waa ogjwj tllfl ball in * V and to enter lite own rocogni *»»«

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 13, 1857, page 562, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2197/page/10/