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      any like occasion , received with more affectionate warmth . It is one of the marked characteristics of lier intercourse with her people that she inspires a personal regard-wherever she goes ; and her visit io Birmingham , undertaken as it was to give eclat to a thoroughly popular uiirtiertaldiJg , has * e&te , "Wished that feeling iu the strongest possiblar man . ner . The object was to open Astyan Hall and Park * which the Birmingham people lifcse bought for . ^ municipal museum and . pleasujt ^ roimd . JialMje AliBERT throws a German seriousness over the

      national question of play ; and the Queen takes a pride in identifying herself with her people , their works , their glory , and their happiness ; and the people , knowing it , identify her aucl 3 icr power with their own life .. Tim : lesson-might , he read usefully in some other lands : The news from India exhibits the rebel forces unr subdued but falling back before the ^ British . Our fiercest enemy at present is the hot weather , which is trul y terrific ; but our men . appear to bear up even against the unconquerable sunbeams in aii

      almost surprising manner-. It appears that , with the / exception of Calpee—which must have fallen long ere this—our commanders ha-ve to contend against no great bodies of the enemy . The war has been reduced to a war of posts , as a , writer in the Globe well says , and- fatigue and the sun are what ¦ we have mbsfe to . dread "encountering . With , the exception of Brigadier "Waxpole's unfortunate attack -uponv the fort of Ehodamoxv , all the latest movem ents reported have been successful , and with Oude settling do-wn into peace , and Rohilcund well in hand , all appears to rest with time .

      While the American . Senate has placed at the disposal of the President extraordinary means for defending the American marine again st f urth er outrages from British . cruisers , and , if need be , of making reprisals , which would be tantamount , to making war ,, the tone of the Press and of the Senate Itself is somewhat softened . Nothing new , in fact , has occurred to increase the difficulty , which stands in a fail way of being amicably adjusted . America , too , has domestic troubles on hand . New Orleans has been in a state of revolt , not against constituted authority so much as in defence of social

      order . l ? or years the Crescent City has been the theatre of outrages of the most tremendous kind , robbery and assassination being common incidents of its daily experience . These crimes the authorities of the city left wholly -unchecked , and the evil became so monsitrous , that after the fashion set them by the citizens of San Francisco , a number of the inhabitants formed themselves into a Vigilance Committee . The Mayor opposed the proceedings of these persons , and called out the militia against them , but was ultimately compelled to resign hia authority into their hands . So the matter stood when the latest advices were despatched .

      A great change has taken place in the administration of an important office in France ; General Espinasse has been removed from the Home-office , and M . Disljungle pub in his place . The change is most significant . General Espinasse was feared and hated by-all who valued the civil liberty of their country , which he has constantly shown him-Bclf ready to trample on . The appointment of M . DeIiANGle is accepted as the -promise of a milder rule , and hope runs high in Paris . Even the Pi-css takes heart of'grace and ' whispers ' , " Anew phase opens itself Jfov the administration and politics of the country , to which M ; Dela-wous is destined to render great sevvicosi "

      Oar home news is painfully tiacturcd with scandal . The Bclgiwian " disclosures" take the lead , and , it is satisfactory to . know , meet with pretty gcmciul reprobation . The course taken by the Hon . Mr . Bajbung in making a public appeal against the curate of St . Barnabas for alleged scandalous proceedings in connexion with the administration of auricular confession / at the very time when the case was before , the highest * ecclesiastical authority for final

      adjudication , is consist ed * to have been , unwise . an unjust in tTSia ^ e xtr eme , and has done tlie high Protestant party ^ . of" whicli Lord S iiaftesbuey is one of the leader ^ no small amount of inj ury . In our laa ^ ccmrts wo-have a petition for a ^ divorca sued aa $ ie . Strength of a-t diary writ . tcnibyv-ai . lady undeTs-the influence of a , distempcrcd imagination , and -M'Jiich many emhicufcrpbysieians declare renders her liaMe toy . confound f&ct aitd fancy . AaotLcr

      case presenfefea man wb ^ lias tuejmisfoituaait ' O' have succeeded to a large fortune , beset by an anonymous letter-writer , who has set her wits to do him all the injuvy . ppssible | by suo . lt means . A lady : oft title , a near relative , whose daughter would have inherited the . 'fortune but for his succession to it , is the person : who in . he accuses . It is a < very pretty example of the " curseof wealth , "'about whichoutat-elbQw moralists , say svich . good . and ; as we oeca * sioitally discover , such true-things .

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      The Ktcnsengto > s ^ Gore Estate . —Some correspondence has taken place between the Royal Exhibition Commissioners and the lords- of tlie Treasury in reference to the Kensington-gore estate .: The commissioners on tlie 1 st of May informed their Lordships that the position occupied by them in relation to the Government has tended serioasly to interfere with the prosecution of tbeir plans for the advancement of science and art , as originally set forth , and they expressed their readiness to repay to

      Government the whole of the sums advanced by Parliament towards the purchase of the Kensington-gore estate , amounting to 177 , 500 ? ., the whole of the estate to be made , in return , the absolute property of the commissioners . To this proposal , tlie Treasury , on the 11 th of May , acceded ; so that the connexion between the Royal Commissioners And the Government will be forthwith dissolved . A bill has been-brouglit in to give effect to this arrangement . \ . , ¦ ,

      The Admission of Jews to Parliamekt . —Lord Derby has , it is said , issued a circular announcing that , while his atstract opinions on the Jeiv question have undergone ho change , he will not offsr any further obstacles to the admission of Hebrews to Parliament . The Chorcb of Sax Zaccaria , Venice .- —The organ , in strains more brisk and jerking than I ever met with from that instrument , except indeed in similar places , like some florid drawing-room piano , began to play airs running off into rouladfcs and flourishes , "which

      had certainly much more of the gay and giddy dance tlian of the anthem or voluntary in them . Any beings whomsoever , would , I feel convinced , in moving to that highly ornamented melody , find it very difficult to abstain long from those motions which are proper and peculiar to the polka . Indeed , the strain drove our own weak thoughts into so flighty a dance tbat we could not , for the life and gravity of us , help thinking of it as Santa Rosalia ' s , or Santa Lucia ' s , or Sant Agata's Polka . Nevertheless , in common candour it should be admitted that the harmonies af San Zaccaria were not

      always of this skittish , jerking , and operatic kind , for on the last occasion a pure and delicately streaming hymn to the Virgin suddenly rose in our ears , sung by a number cf tender infantine voices ; and , on turning to discover from whom these sounds proceeded , lire saw a procession of very little girls demurely ushered round and round the church , and offering up these deputed strains to their imaginary heavenly " mamma . " Their hymn , in small fine notes , penetrated even into an inner

      and very sacred chamber of the heart , and woke the sluggish sleepers there , and stirred them into some swcot movements , with a sacred , a divine , indeed a mighty power . Bellini ' s holiest Infant ( I clearly saw it ) looked down on them with a yet gentler and more benign air as they passed beneath him . San Zaccaria should then have lifted up his too absorbing book ; for thosight was a living moving text , preaching with celestial persuasiveness tlio beauty of tender innocence and unestrnnged humanity . I marvel he did not . —Art Journal .

      The ItEpRicHisisrrATioN of East Norfolk . —Sir Henry Stracoy , of Rackhoath Hall , near Norwich , has issued an address to the electors of East Norfolk , tho scat being vacant l ) y tho denth of Sir Edward 13 uxton . The division was represented by Sir Henry Stracoy ( who is a supporter of Lord Derby ) from July , 1850 , to March , 1857 ; but , in the general election iu the latter month , lie lost -his seat . Tho-lion Wen man Coke , brother to the Earl of'Leicester , will be tho Liberal candidate .

      Thk IVkst Indies . —The last advices from tho West Indies present very few facts of interest . Tho islands aro generally healthy ; trade has , recently ahown greater activity than it has exhibited for some time past ; and tho crops promise well . — Tlio Demcrara papers report the arrival on tho morning of Sunday , the 9 th oflsiay , per mail steamer Princo , of Governor and Mrs . Wodchouso . The roeoption was . a very cordial ouo . It wiie understood tlmt tho Governor ' s mission to Venezuela , hud fniled of its object , in consequence of tho present unsettled state oftlie country .

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      ¦ JS / Fonday , June \ 4 th . In tile . House * of Lords , the Royal assent was given by cornmissionito ; , several bills , chiefly private . THE : B 4 « KnUrr j \ N » INSOLVENT LAWS . The Lord CitEVNCELLOR presented a petition from twenty bankers' firms and 8000 of the principal merchants of Lbndon ,.. praying for an amendme nt of the bankrupt . andtii * s « lvent lavvs , and for assimilating the £ r ocee < lirigs- nubankruptcy .-and insolvency . He trusted tliat in the course of a few days he should be able to present to their Lordships a bill that would embody in its piovisions all the amendments that the commercial world in general require .

      THH ASSISTANT BARRISTER FOR KEIUtr . The M-arquis of Clanricardk said lie had a petition to present from Mr .- M&cdermotfc , assistant barrister for the county of . Kerry , in reference to . the charges brought agftuiat : h , iiu by tlie . EarLof . Donoughmore . The petitioner stated that he had . not had sufficient notice to prepare himself for examination before their Lordsliips , and prayed that their Lordships would postpone tlie period indicated for his appearance before them .

      THE JEW QUESTION . The Earl o f Clancakty having . given notice that upon the second reading of the Oaths Substitution Bill and the Jew Bill he should move as an amendment that the bills be read a second time that day si x months , the Earl of Malmesbury mentioned that Lord Derby was detained from the House by indisposition , which might possibly last some days . Me hoped , therefore , that the further progress of the billa , which , stood on the paper , for Friday , might be postponed . —The Earl of Ltjcan consented to the postponement , as far as Ms measure was concerned . —• After some further conversation , tlie subj eel dropped .

      THE PROBATE AND DIVORCE ACTS . The Probate and Letters of AdsulxistuAtion Act Amendment Bill , and . the Divorce asd Matrimonial , Causes Act Amendment Bii ^ l , / were respec-. tively re-coinmittedj and passed ; through committee . — . ; During a discussion before the . re-coinuiittal of the , Divorce Bill , the Lord Chancellor announced that at present he could not recommend the Government to introduce a measure for Ireland ; whereupon Lord Cranwokth suggested that parties in Ireland seeking fox a , divorce should come to the court established for Engr laud , and not to the House of Lords ; but this Lord Campbelj ; objected to , and submitted that a separate measure should be introduced for ^ Ireland . MILITIA STAFFS . Iu answer to questions put by the Duke of Bugclisugii , in reference to calling put and training the Militia and Ihe appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into tlie organization . of . the Militia . Staff , Lori Hardinge stated that a Commission would be appointed to inquire into the subject . The instructions "to the Commission had not yet been published-, but tlie point 3 involved in the Duke of Buccleugli ' s questions would be fully investigated by the Commission . A portion of tie Miljtia would be called out for training during next autumn . —Earl Grey wished , to know if the Government intended to make the -Militia an instrument for recruiting the regular army , or whether ( hoy designed it simply as a reserve force . —Tlie Marquis of Clanricardic hoped the * attention of the War Minister would be directed to the state of the-law "K'ith respect to tlio Irish Militia , which is in a highly unsatisfactory state . —The Duke of Cambridge said he understood , tliat the . in ( juicy by tlie Commission would be very full and ample- He could not concur in the idea that they were- not to get any recruits or volunteers for the Line from the Militia . The Militia force could be made n » ost valuable to some extent for both the purposes referred to by Earl Gaey . The Militia might be kept in a complete state for tlie defence of the country , and lender valuable assistance iu recruiting the ranks of the regular army . It was very doubtful whether the country would not grudge tho sum nccessnry for building bin-racks for the Militia -, besides , it would take a very long time before tho barracks could Lo « erected . They still continued ¦ to receive daily largo additions to tho nrmy , and tho greatest good feeling iu coming forward , was evince *! in all parts of tho country . —Lord Lyttleton protested ngainst that view of tho Militia whicli regards the forco simply as . a meansi of recruiting the regular army . !'»* Militia ought to bo considered as a rosorvc force lut home service . " With regard to the statement that men aro not got for tho army fast enough , the roason U to bo found in the fact thottlioy aro not paid enough , me not mado comfortable enough , and have no sutticient prospect of a provision for their old age . Our system fit iukIs self-condomned by the oxistenco of a bounty as a lKc-es-| srtry adjunct to recruiting-. WJiy should there he nny necessity for a bounty ? There ought to bo sufli ^ e " ' military spirit in tho country tb bring men into the i » r « jy » if their position thcro were made what it oug ht to he . Tho proper system > vould bo that tho bounty , whir" ^ now wasted , should bo given to tho soldier at tho end m hid lima of service iiiHteud of at tho beginning . II w « s worth consideration whothov there might not be a . reserve established , consisting of men who had jMisaM

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      IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 19, 1858, page 578, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2247/page/2/