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HECORI) OF THE WEEK. HOME AND COLONIAL.
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the Governments concerned , for a . line between Oldenburg , Bremen , and Brake on the Weser , and for another line between Oldenburg and Amsterdam . 1 lately travelled from Oldenburg to Amsterdam , vid Cloppenbnrg and Lingen , per carriage , and it struck me that the road presented a capital opportunity for trying a line of steam omnibuses ; for along 1 the whole line of road there is not the least r isk of accident . With the exception of a few straggling , thinlypopulated villages , very far apart , there is not a dwelling to be seen . The road is perfectly level , macadamised , and straight as the crow flies , while , in consequence of the thinness of the population , and
and the little traffic formerly going on between these parts Holland being diverted by the railway from Bremen and Hanover to Lingen , not a vehicle of any kind is to be met with . During the journey from Oldenburg to Lingen , which lasted from six A .. M . till eight p . m ., I saw not one farmer ' s cart or vehicle of any kind . I believe there are several steam omnibuses now rotting in London , useless there , because of the crowded roads . Their owners might , I think , easily obtain a concession of the roads between Bremen , Oldenburg , Lingen , and Amsterdam . A glance at the map will show the advantages which might be derived from such a speculation .
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Heb Majesty the Queen held a court on Saturday afternoon , at Buckingham Palace . . Senor Gutierrez had an audience of the Queen , and delivered his credentials as Minister Plenipotentiary from the Republic of Honduras . Count Ludolf had bis first audience of Her Majesty , and delivered his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from His Majesty , the King of the Two Sicilies . Mr . Holman Hunt ' s picture , " The Finding the Saviour in the Temple / ' was submitted to the inspection of the Prince Consort on Friday . On Friday afternoon , May 11 th , a very heavy thunderstorm broke over the northreast coast , at Ryho pe , near Sunderlarid ; two stacks of wheat were destroyed by the lightning . ~
The fiftieth anniversary of the Artists' Benevolent Fund , which was established in 1810 , for the relief of the widows and orphans of artists , was celebrated-at the Freemasons ' -Tavern on Saturday . Its income for the past year amounted to £ 1 , 120 , of which £ 630 was derived from property invested . The sum granted in relief was £ 880 . The progress of the Artists' Benevolent Fund since its first establishment has been steady and uninterrupted . It has accumulated £ 20 , 000 of invested property , showing an average saving of £ 400 per annum .
The brig George , of Plymouth , Captain McKellar , with sug ^ vr from Pernainbuco , went ashore on Saturday morning at 2 o'clock , in Whitsand Bay , during a thick fog . The crew consisted of ten parsons , and all but one took to the long boat , which struck against a rock and capsized immediately . Seven were unfortunately drowned ; one able seaman and the master were hauled up the cliff by ^ lre ~^ coastn ? ffai'd ^—Two ^ icmrs ~ afteinyard 3 r"a ^ 'oieket ~ line was passed across the George , and the remaining man was pulled ashore through the sea .
On Monday morning , May the 14 th , an influential deputation waited upon Lord Palmerston , at his residence in Piccadilly , to lay before him plans of the route of the intended line of telegraph to America vid the Faroe Islands , Iceland , and Greenland , and to solicit the Government to despatch two or move vessels to make soundings , and otherwise survey the facilities offered by the proposed line . On Monday evening , a public meeting of the letter-carriers employed in the London district was held in St . Martin ' s Hall , for the purpose of explaining the nature of the grievances under which they at present labour . A resolution to the effect that a parliamentary inquiry is necessary , in order to obtain redress of their grievances , was put and curried . An explosion , attended with loss of life , took place on Saturday morning-, May 12 th , in one of the pits of Messrs . Aston and Grazebrook , at Gonpel Oak , nenr Wedneabury , Staffordshire .
The annual meeting' of the Servants Benevolent Institution was Ijeld on Tuesday , at the Hanover Square Rooms , Lord Ebury presiding . The object of the Institution is to reliovo honest and industrious domestic servants , of both sexes , by granting thorn annual pensions , when rendered incapable of active duty by unavoidable misfortunes and the advance of age . The donations and subscriptions amounted to £ 1 , 563 6 s . 9 d ., and after providing for the payspent of pensions and other expenses , a balance of £ 112 4 * . 5 d . wa $ kept in hand . The members of the Licensed Victuallers Society assembled on Tuesday , at the Crystal Palace , for the purpose of promoting the charitable designs of the institution . Upwards of 1 , 400 persons snt down to dinner . Contributions were announced in the course of the evening amounting in the whole to not less than £ 2 , 000 . There were about 170 inmates of the Asylum , partaking of its advantages , hut it was the wish , of the society to extend them to a greater number . A'Parliamentary paper lias been issued purporting to be a return of " the total cost of the general elections in 1857 and 1859 . " This return states the cost of the Gloucester election in 1859 to have been £ 1 , 930 ; the Commissioners of Inquiry reported that the candidates spent upwards of £ 4 , 900 . The return states tho cost ut
Wakefield in 1859 to have been £ 1 , 030 ; the Commissioners of Inquiry reported that the candidates spent above £ 8 , 000 , -. «• Mary Eugenia Plummer was convicted of perjury on Monday evening , and on Tuesday she . was sentenced to be , imprisoned m the gaol of Holloway for three weeks , and that she theu be sent to a reformatory school for two years , which was the lowest period allowed by the statute , and any alteration that would take place in this sentence must be made by the Secretary of State . The prisoner , who did not evince any emotion , was then removed ; and in the course of the day she was taken to Holloway Gaol by Mr . Weatherhead , the governor of that establishment . A sentence had been where she
proposed by her friends for her being placed in a position would receive a proper education . w ,,. At the Central Criminal Court , on Wednesday last , William George Pullingeiv the late cashier to the Union Bank , was placed at the bar to receive the judgment of the Court . He pleaded guilty to two indictments , one of which charged him with stealing £ 350 , and the other with stealing £ 3 , 000 , the moneys of his employers , the Union Bank . He was sentenced to be kept in penal servitude for fourteen years , upon the first indictment , and to undergo a further period of six years' penal servitude upon the second , in all twenty years . The prisoner , who appeared quite overwhelmed at the sentence , was then removed .
The body of a woman named Hart was discovered on Tuesday morning , at No . 40 , Philip Street , Kingsland Road , under circumstances which lead to the supposition that she was murdered by a man named Raddon . -The deceased was found lying upon the bed , upon the left side , in a pool of coagulated blood : She must have been murdered while fast asleep . The wound nearly severed the head from the trunk . A razor was placed in the deceased ' s left hand . The body of Raddon has been since found in the Regent ' s Canal . The return for the week that ended last Saturday exhibits a considerable reduction in the deaths of London . In the previous five weeks they ranged from about 1 , 200 to 1 , 400 ; they have now declined ' to l , ill . Last week the birthsof 786 boys and 819 girls , in all 1 , 605 children , were registered in London . At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 . 639 in . >
The funeral of the late Sir Charles Barry will take place on Tuesday , the 22 nd of May , at one o ' clock p . m ., in-Westminster Abbey . On Sunday last , the Rev . James Bouwell was served , in the vestry of the church , with a prohibition from the Bishop of London , ordering him not to continue to minister to the congregation of St . Philip ' s , Stepney , during the proceedings now pending against him concerning the birth of a child in the schoolroom of the schools belonging to that church . The articles delivered to him called upon the rev . delinquent to appear and answer certain charges contained in articles before Dr . Lushington in the Ecclesiastical Court , at the instance of the Bishop of London . Her Majesty the Queen gave on Wednesday evening a State Ball , to which a party of 1 , 811 were invited .
The seventy-first anniversary of the Royal Literary Fund was celebrated by a dinner at the Freemasons' Tavern on Wednesday evening . The subscriptions to the fund announced iu the course of "file evening amounted ~ EoTJetween £ 700 ahd ~ £ S 00 T ~ A special festival in aid of the'funds of the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest was held on Wednesday evening , in the Albion Tavern , Aldersgate Street , with the intention of forming a special fund for extinguishing a mortgage debt of upwards of £ 8 , 000 , which had tended to impede tho usefulness of the charity . The sum raised on the occasion was £ 1 , 722 .
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Turin , Sunday , May 13 . The journals publish a proclamation of Garibaldi to the Italians , in which ho calls upon the inhabitants of the Marches , Umbria , and Subina , and the Neapolitans to revolt . The French Government has forwarded to tho Sardinian Government a quantity of muskets and ammunition , uud uboub 400 cannon , the greater part of which are for marine service . The JPatrie , Pmis » , May 12 , states that the Neapolitan Government is in a position to resist all attacks . Tho rumours of Russian military movements in the southern provinces of the empire are entirely false . The number of troops in those provinces ( loos not exceed 50 , 000 . They have made no forward movement , neither is there any sign of unusual activity . From Naples , May 13 , we learn that the firing of the * two Neapolitan frigates oft ' Marsala killed several of the filibusters . As regards the two vessels in which they hud arrived , the Lombardo was sunk , and tho Piemonte has been captured . The royal troops inarched on to meet those who hud disembarked .
At Palermo , May 12 , in five churches , at tho termination of mass , shouts of " The Immaculate Virgin for evurl" " Italy fox * over 1 " " Liberty for ever 1 " were raised . In the evening tho populace , to the number of about 10 , 000 , assembled on the promenudes . The troops were summoned , and fired on the people , killing three , and . seriously wounding ten . Piedmont intends to remain apart from tho disputes 1 between Fiance and Switzerland resulting- from , the annexation of Ohablais and Fuuoigny , On this declaration Austria now founds her refusal to admit Piedmont to the proposod conferences . Frauce consents that the said districts shall remain without the lino of the French , customs , and thut they shall form a separate commercial zone under special regulations . France will not consent to any cession whatever of the territory of Savoy in fuvour of Switzerland .
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480 The Leader and Saturday Analyst . [ May 19 , 1860 .
Hecori) Of The Week. Home And Colonial.
HECORI ) OF THE WEEK . HOME AND COLONIAL .
Fokeiqx.
FOXIEIGN .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 19, 1860, page 480, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2348/page/20/
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