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¶ 1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 June 18, 1853.]

¶ 2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS

¶ 3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 499

¶ 4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 GRAND ENTERTAINMENT TO COMMODORE VAN­DERBILDT, AT SOUTHAMPTON.

¶ 5 Leave a comment on paragraph 5 1 Southampton has of late years become celebrated for its hospitality. Its inhabitants seem to seize every opportunity for proffering a welcome to strangers from all parts of the world. The cosmopolitan position of the town, arising from its widely-extended communications with distant countries, and its rising importance as a port and packet-station, render public demonstrations almost necessary on the part of the authorities in the present competition for public advantages such as those enjoyed by Southampton. Accordingly, whenever a new steam-packet company locates itself at Southampton, or when one of the old-established ones renews a contract with the Admiralty, a banquet is sure to be given to inaugurate the event. The advent of a frigate from the United States, of a Turkish war-steamer, or the landing of a distinguished revolutionary exile in the shape of M. Kossuth, in like manner gives occasion for the display of enthusiasm and hospitality, and feasting and speech-making follow in profusion.

¶ 6 Leave a comment on paragraph 6 1 The town is proud of being “ the most go-a-head place in the south of England “—and appears resolved to maintain the characteristic. Ame­ricans are sure of a hearty welcome here. The Government of the United States first fixed upon Southampton as its packet-station in the British Channel, and has established two lines of steam communication, from which the town, of course, derives material benefits: hence the reception  accorded to the American frigate St. Lawrence. The arrival of Commo­dore Vanderbildt, in his great steam-yacht, is also considered an occa­sion demanding one of the Southampton fraternizations; and it was early determined to invite that gentleman and his family to an enter­tainment, in the shape of a dejeuner, to celebrate the event, on Monday afternoon, at the Royal Victoria Archery Rooms; the Mayor (Mr. Joseph Lankester) presiding.

¶ 7 Leave a comment on paragraph 7 1 About 200 persons sat down, comprising the family of Commodore Vanderbildt, the captain and officers of the ship, Mr. Sheriff Carter (of London), Mr. Deputy Bennoch (of London), the leading members of the Southampton Corporation, the principal tradesmen and other inhabitants of the town, with a large sprinkling of ladies, whose presence formed a most agreeable novelty in the proceedings. The room was de­corated with flags of various nations, in which, of course, the national colours of England and America were predominant; and a first-rate quadrille-band occupied the orchestra, while a second band performed several popular airs on the green outside the rooms. The whole scene was of a very gratifying and complimentary character, and seemed to be much enjoyed by the American guests. In addition to the orchestra, a party of vocalists from London heightened the festivity of the after­noon. Neither the Lord Mayor of London nor any of the provincial chief magistrates could avail themselves themselves of the invitation given them at the Mansion-house conference by the Mayor of South­ampton, last week.

¶ 8 Leave a comment on paragraph 8 1 The customary loyal and national toasts were given from the chair, and drunk with all the honours; after which the health of ” The Pre­sident of the United States of America ” was drunk with great enthu­siasm, followed by the band playing ” Hail, Columbia 1 ” the whole company standing, and paying the same honours to the toast as they had previously done to the health of the Queen. The next toast, pro­posed by Mr. Aiderman Laishley, was, “” Her Majesty’s Ministers and the Statesmen of England and America; may all their deliberations tend to promote the welfare of mankind and the civilisation of the world.”

¶ 9 Leave a comment on paragraph 9 0 The Mayor then, in a brief complimentary address, proposed the toast of the evening, “ Commodore Vanderbildt: may every happiness accrue to himself and family during his interesting voyage, and every success attend all his spirited enterprises.” The gentleman in whose honour they were assembled that day was one of the merchant princes of Ame­rica—a gentleman who owed his present high position entirely to his own industry and perseverance, and the extent of his knowledge of mankind. He had ever been an enemy to all monopolies—and that was the foun­dation of his great success. He was the largest steam-boat proprietor in the United States; and now, as a sort of frame to the picture, had brought his splendid yacht into the Southampton waters, to show what Americans could do in steam ship-building. His position in America was equal to that of any of the ducal houses in Great Britain.

¶ 10 Leave a comment on paragraph 10 0 The toast having been drunk with enthusiastic applause, Commodore Vanderbildt, who was very warmly received, returned thanks for the honours that had been awarded to him and his family in a few brief sentences, and called upon one of his sons-in-law (Mr. Clarke) to perform the duty more efficiently than he could.

¶ 11 Leave a comment on paragraph 11 0 Mr. Clarke, in an eloquent address, dwelt with great force on the common interests of England and America, and the deep debt of gra­titude they (the children) owed to their parent nation.

¶ 12 Leave a comment on paragraph 12 0 Several other appropriate toasts were drunk and the company sepa­rated about half-past seven o’clock, highly delighted with the festivities of the occasion.

¶ 13 Leave a comment on paragraph 13 0 Previous to the conclusion of the proceedings, Commodore Vander­bildt invited the whole company to take a “ trip ” with him in the North Star, next day. Accordingly, on Tuesday, the Commodore with a large party of ladies and gentlemen on board, having made the circuit of the Isle of Wight, ran two or three times through the anchorage at Spithead, to give the company a good opportunity of seeing the fine squadron (Duke of Wellington, 131; Ajax, 60 ; Blenheim, 60 ; Hogue, 58 ; Edinburgh, 58; Sidon, 22; Odin, 16) moored there. On first coming up to Spithead, Commodore Vanderbildt fired a Royal salute, of which act of gratuitous courtesy no notice was taken until the Commodore and his guests must have landed at, or been near Southampton. But at six o’clock, prepa­rations were made on the garrison battery to return the American gen­tleman’s salute, which he fired about four o’clock.

¶ 14 Leave a comment on paragraph 14 0 Next week we shall engrave the North Star.

¶ 15 Leave a comment on paragraph 15 1 Newspaper Correspondence across the Sea.—Occa­sionally some accident occurs which reveals the composition of some of the colonial mails. Several months ago a sailing vessel was wrecked, and the contents of its mail-bag were brought to light, and were found to stand thus:—Letters. 780; newspapers, 3850. But this newspaper corre­spondence seems to increase vastly. A few weeks ago a vessel called the Orestes, met with an accident on its way to Australia, and its mail-bags were sent back to England, to be forwarded by another ship. Their con­tents consisted of 15,000 newspapers. There were no letters. Such was the simple statement, without comment. Who can say how many of these were mere newspaper letters, transmitted solely for the intelligence conveyed in the mere direction on the cover! And this intelligence is often varied ingeniously to embrace facts that pertain to business as well as affection. In some cases persons have seals, cut in glass for 2d., one bearing, for instance, the simple name “ William,” the other the words ” All Well.” These items are superadded, in wax, to the manuscript direction on the cover. Receipts of money and other facts are indicated frequently in a way more simple. A gentleman travelling in France, a few months since, received from his banker in England a remittance, which, in order to save the postage on a special letter, he was requested to acknowledge by sending an old newspaper, with an e added to the last letter of the banker’s name. Thus Bilham would be written Bilhame, the final e communicating the fact that Mr. Kilham, in France, had received safely the £20 for which he had written. Thus, under the present high rates of postage on letters, the Post-office is swelling the bulk of the mail matter conveyed across the ocean by crowding into its bags and boxes tons of old newspapers, despatched for no earthly purpose, but to convey what may be expressed in the direction on the cover. Does not this fact plead for the establishment of an Ocean Penny Postage?

¶ 16 Leave a comment on paragraph 16 0 Sanitary Properties of Wool.—Professor Simpson, of Edinburgh, has been the means of bringing to light a curious corrobora­tion of the sanitary value of the ancient practice of anointing with oil. It appears, that the learned Professor, when recently visiting the manu­facturing town of Galashiels, was casually informed that the workers in the wool-mill in that place were exempt from the attacks of consumption and scrofula. On inquiring of the medical men in the vicinity, the truth of the statement was confirmed, and it was then deemed expedient to pursue investigation on a broader scale. Communications were accordingly sent to physicians residing in Dunfermline, Alloa, Tillicoultry, Inverness, and other districts where wool-mills are in operation; and in the case of all, it was ascer­tained that similar immunity was enjoyed from the fatal diseases mentioned. It farther appeared that, in some of the localities, scarlatina had been added to the list, and also that employment in the mills not only preserved health; but children of delicate constitutions were sent to the wool-workers for the express purpose of acquiring strength—a result in almost every instance attained.

¶ 17 Leave a comment on paragraph 17 0 More Nuggets.—The great event of finding the monster nugget in Canadian Gully, Ballarat (weight 1341b. 11 oz.) has been eclipsed by a more brilliant discovery, viz., the finding of two enormous masses of gold in quartz, weighing upwards of 176 lb. troy. These mag­nificent specimens of our mineral wealth weighed as follows:-Larger . mass, 93 lb. 2 oz. 5 dwt.; smaller mass, 83 lb., 9 oz. 5 dwt.; total, 176 lb.

¶ 18 Leave a comment on paragraph 18 0 11 oz. 10 dwt.

¶ 19 Leave a comment on paragraph 19 0 “ The Good Time Coming.”—Drapers’ assistants in the country towns of Ireland have become so scarce, that their salaries have risen from £20 and £40 per year, to £60 and £70. Large numbers of them have lately emigrated, and the demand for them in Dublin during the Exhibi­tion has been very great.

¶ 20 Leave a comment on paragraph 20 0 PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS.

¶ 21 Leave a comment on paragraph 21 0 The seventh concert was by command of her Majesty; but, owing to the anticipated arrival of his Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the brother of Prince Albert, the subscribers were disappointed in the visit of the Queen. The programme, however, displayed the taste and judgment of the Royal and accomplished amateurs in the best light. There was the majestic and pathetic “ Erocia ” symphony of Beethoven, the reading of which by Costa is one of his most poetic “ conductingsand the “Leonora” overture by the same composer; besides the romantic “ Der Freyschutz” overture of Weber, and the Shakspearian creation of Mendelssohn in the “ Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The vocal portion of the scheme was rendered remarkable by the return to this country of the grandest singer of the age, the gifted Viardot, who is not only looking re­markably well, but whose voice was never in finer condition. The loftiness of style of this incomparable vocalist was developed in Handel’s air, “ Lascia ch’ io pianga;” whilst in the animated duo from Meyerbeer’s “ Huguenots,” with Herr Formes, Viardot amply proved that she is the Valentina par excellence: and that, in lyric passion and declamation, she remains unrivalled. Miss Louisa Pyne was to have sung; but, being in­disposed, Madame Castellan took her place in the graceful duettino, “Questa volta,” with Gardoni, from Costa’s “Don Carlos;” and in Righine’s quartetto, “ Gran Nume,” with Viardot, Gardoni, and Formes. The part song, “ Ye Spotted Snakes ” (in the Mendelssohnian selection), was given by Miss Chambers and Madame Viardot—the former appearing for Miss Louisa Pyne, and making a very creditable debut.

¶ 22 Leave a comment on paragraph 22 1 The eighth and last concert will be on the 27th inst.

¶ 23 Leave a comment on paragraph 23 0 THE MUSICAL UNION.

¶ 24 Leave a comment on paragraph 24 0 At the sixth meeting, on Tuesday, Herr Ferdinand Hiller, the founder and director of the “ Rheinische Musicschule,” at Cologne, and a com-  poser and pianist who ranks high in France and Germany, performed in  Beethoven’s trio in D, Op. 70, and in a clever sonata Op. 47, of his own composition. Haydn’s Quartet in B minor, No. 68, and Mendelssohn’s Quartet in E flat, No. 5, were the other pieces—the executants being Vieuxtemps, Goffrie, Henry Blagrove, and Piatti.

¶ 25 Leave a comment on paragraph 25 0 NOTES OF THE WEEK.

¶ 26 Leave a comment on paragraph 26 0 This has, indeed, been a formidable week for soirees and con­certs. On Monday, at Exeter-hall (in addition to the performances at the Hanover-square Rooms), the celebrated Choral Union from Cologne gave a sacred concert, at which Herr Schneider, who, as an organist, holds the first place in Germany, performed on the organ.—Mrs. Arthur Stone, the vocalist, convened her friends at Willis’s Rooms on Monday evening; and was supported by Mdme. Anna Zerr, Signori Gardoni, Ciabatta, and Regondi; M. Jules Lefort, M. Paque (violoncellist), Herr Kuhe, Herr Nabich (trombone), Herr Jansa, Mr. Aguilar, Mr. Apthomas, and Signor Zamboni.

¶ 27 Leave a comment on paragraph 27 0 The sister singers, the Misses M’Alpine, assembled their sup­porters on Tuesday night, at the Hanover-square Rooms; and were assisted by Madame Zerr, Miss Bassano, Messrs. Harrison, C. Cotton, Kiallmark, Goffrie, V. Collins, Piatti, G. Cox, Bennett Gilbert, and Signor Schira.

¶ 28 Leave a comment on paragraph 28 0 On Wednesday, the captivating pianiste, Mdlle. Clauss, delighted a fashionable auditory at a matinee, at Willis’s Rooms, playing works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Weber, Handel, and Sterndale Bennett, in such a style of commanding excellence as to indicate that she had thoroughly studied in all schools. With the superb vocalisation of Viardot, the mel­lifluous voice of Gardoni, and the clever speciality of Jules Lefort in French romances, the programme was of great interest. Mr. F. Mori was the accompanyist.—Mr. F. Bodda. the barytone, had an evening con­cert at the Hanover-square Rooms, on Wednesday. His scheme included the talents of Madame Zerr, Mdlle. Angri, Misses Birch, Poole, K. Fitz- william, Lascelles, E. Birch, Messent, and Dolby ; Messrs. Sims Reeves, A. Pierre, Land, and Herr Pischek; Mrs. Thompson (piano); Hausmann, Regondi, Schira, Pilotti, and F. Mori.—Madame Verdavainne, the pianiste, gave a matinee, on Wednesday, at the Hanover Rooms, with the co-operation of Misses L. Pyne, Hermann; Herr Pischek, Boleyne Reeves (the harpist), Vieuxtemps, Hausmann, and Jacques Herz. ——Miss Greenfield (the “ Black Swan ”) mustered the musical emancipationists in great force at Exeter-hall on Wednesday night, and put in requisition the abilities of Bottesini, Piatti, Valadares, H. Distin, the band of the Orchestral Union, conducted by Mr. Mellon, Mrs. Thompson; Miss R. Bentley, Misses L. Pyne, Dolby, Stabbach, Ursula Barclay, Mdlle. Favanti, Mrs. Wokie (formerly Miss Fanny Russell); Messrs. Sims Reeves, Brandt, Cotton, Signor Gardoni, and Herr Pischek ; Mr. F. Stevens being the accompanyist.

¶ 29 Leave a comment on paragraph 29 0 The Harmonic Union had a field day—or, rather a night at­tack—on Thursday, at Exeter-hall, by the performance of Mr. F. Mori’s clever cantata, “ Fridolin,” and the music to Mendelssohn’s “ Midsum­mer Night’s Dream,” under the experienced directorship of Benedict; the vocalists being the Misses Pyne, Dolby, Freeman, and Ransford, Messrs, Sims Reeves and Weiss. M. Emile Prudent performed a pianoforte fan­tasia on this occasion.

¶ 30 Leave a comment on paragraph 30 0 Two tiny pupils of Mr. Pelzer, the Misses May, who play the pianoforte and concertina, ventured in the midst of the crash of orches­tras and soloists, to present a soiree musicale on Wednesday, at the Queer Anne-street Rooms, and were sustained by Miss Fanny Rowland, Herr Kumpal, Hausmann, Witt, Cooper, and Mdlle. Anne Pelzer.

¶ 31 Leave a comment on paragraph 31 0 Yesterday (Friday), Mr. Brinley Richards, the composer, gave his second performance of classical and modern pianoforte music; assisted by Piatti, Mr. W. Macfarren, Miss Messent, Gardoni, and Weiss. A novelty in this programme was Mr. Richards’s arrangement of Welsh Na­tional Melodies, which were sung by a chorus. M. Billet—strengthened by Vieuxtemps, M. Paque, and M. Prudent, Madame Greiffenhagen, Hen Reichart and Herr Brandt—had an afternoon sitting at his residence, in Charlotte-street.       Last night Mr. Suchet Champion, the tenor, congre­

¶ 32 Leave a comment on paragraph 32 0 gated his admirers at the Music Hall, Store-street; his programme in­cluding the names of Mrs. A. Newton,;Messrs. F. Rowland, L. Champion Thirlwall, S. and C. Cole, Bassano, Madame Macfarren, Madame Sainville, Messrs. C. Cotton, Thirlwall, Haines, Signor Nappi, Miss Spratt and Mr. F. Theseus Stevens           Signor and Madame F. Lablache had a

¶ 33 Leave a comment on paragraph 33 0 matinee yesterday, at the Queen-Anne-street Rooms.

¶ 34 Leave a comment on paragraph 34 0 This morning will be the final concert of the Orchestral Union; and next week will be Benedict’s monster concert, and that of the Choral Union, besides matinees and soirees of divers artists, native and foreign.—Alboni has returned to England from America.

¶ 35 Leave a comment on paragraph 35 0 Willis’s Rooms.—Professor Filopanti, late a member of the Constituent Roman Assembly, commenced on Monday a course of lec­tures on the secret traditions of Rome, in which he reasserted the historic claims of the early legends repudiated by Niebuhr. His first lecture assumed a free masonic sodality as the basis of his inductions, and dealt with the story of Rhea Sylvia. His two following lectures which are an­nounced for delivery on next and subsequent Mondays, will embrace the story of Romulus and Remus, and other transactions down to that of Camillus. Each lecture concludes with a refutation of Niebuhr’s specific objection. The lecturer’s style is florid, and his delivery vivacious.

¶ 36 Leave a comment on paragraph 36 0 Gloves at Fairs.—At Macclesfield, in Cheshire, a large glove was, perhaps is, always suspended from the outside of the window of the Town-hall during the holding of a fair; and, as long as the glove was sc suspended, every one was free from arrest within the township, and, I have heard, while going and returning to and from the fair. EdwarD Hawkins.—At Free Mart, at Portsmouth, a glove used to be hung out of the Town-hall window, and no one could be arrested during the fort­night that the fair lasted. F. O. Martin.—Notes and Queries.

¶ 37 Leave a comment on paragraph 37 1 The Power of Pence.—About twelve months ago a bank for savings, or deposits of wages, was established by H. F. Barclay, Esq., for the benefit of the men and boys employed at the Gutta Percha Com­pany’s works. When the late calamitous fire occurred in this manufac­tory, about one hundred of the hands had upwards of £300 in their “ bank,” put by against a “ rainy day.”

¶ 38 Leave a comment on paragraph 38 1 Freemasonry in China.—A. gentleman has arrived in this country from China, with an epergne and also a tea-service of silver plate, which were presented to him by the Freemasons in Canton and Hong- Kong respectively, as a mark of their especial esteem and respect. The articles are inscribed with masonic emblems and his initials; and the epergne, with a statement of the cause of presentation by his brethren in that far distant part of the globe.

¶ 39 Leave a comment on paragraph 39 0 Chloroform and Ether.—The use of the vapour from ether and chloroform combined, as a substitute for ordinary steam, was tried a few days ago at Marseilles, in a steamer belonging to M. du Trembley,the inventor of the system. The Prefect, General Carrelet, Senator, General Rostolan, and other distinguished persons, were on board. The steamer navigated for two hours with perfect success; and it was ascertained, be­yond doubt, that the new force not only presents great economy, but has none of the inconveniences which were feared.—French Paper.

¶ 40 Leave a comment on paragraph 40 0 Parks for Edinburgh.—The Lord Provost stated at a meeting on Wednesday that forty acres belonging to the city at the Dean would be given up to the public as a park, for £240 a year; and that, if desired, forty acres more in the Meadows would also be given up, thus forming two splendid parks, one at the north, and one on the south side of the city. What with the East Princes-street Gardens, the Carlton­hill, the King’s Park, Salisbury Crags, and Arthur’s Seat, there is no city in Britain better provided with places for recreation and exercise than Edinburgh.

¶ 41 Leave a comment on paragraph 41 0 epitome of news.—foreign and domestic.

¶ 42 Leave a comment on paragraph 42 0 The prize of one hundred guineas, offered by the Associate In­stitution, for the best essay on the Laws respecting the Protection of Wo­men, has been awarded to Mr. James Edward Davis, barrister-at-law, of the Oxford Circuit.

¶ 43 Leave a comment on paragraph 43 0 A surgeon has been committed for trial at Aberdeen, on a charge of culpable homicide, by administering an overdose of dangerous medicine to a child, in consequence of which it died.

¶ 44 Leave a comment on paragraph 44 0 The number of emigrants arrived at New York from Europe, during the three days ending the 30th ult., was 9132.

¶ 45 Leave a comment on paragraph 45 0 A steam-packet communication is about to be established be­tween Hamburg and Southampton.

¶ 46 Leave a comment on paragraph 46 0 The Adelaide, Capt. Tremaine, has arrived from South Australia, with 10,667 ounces of gold, valued, at £163,000.

¶ 47 Leave a comment on paragraph 47 0 St. Petersburg letters mention the death of M. P. Ponomaroff, one of the most eminent merchants of Russia, and well known in London. The deceased was of an advanced age, and has left a large fortune.

¶ 48 Leave a comment on paragraph 48 0 On Monday morning, many of the mackerel-boats at Yarmouth brought in from 1000 to 1800 mackerel each—the largest catch during the present season.

¶ 49 Leave a comment on paragraph 49 0 Dr. M‘Hale, Archbishop of Tuam, is so far recovered as to be able to sit up for several hours each day.

¶ 50 Leave a comment on paragraph 50 0 The Emperor of Russia has ordered the construction of an electric telegraph between Odessa and St. Petersburg; and that the posting establishments on that road should be completely re-organised.

¶ 51 Leave a comment on paragraph 51 0 Owing to the discoveries of gold in Texas, it was supposed that emigration from the United States on a large scale would take place to the diggings. Several had proceeded there already.

¶ 52 Leave a comment on paragraph 52 0 In a shipyard, near Devonport, a pair of sawyers sawing through a piece of elm timber came to a bird’s nest containing three eggs in a cavity in the centre.

¶ 53 Leave a comment on paragraph 53 0 Accounts from Panama state that the total amount of specie and bullion entered for transport there across the Isthmus during the four first months of the present year has been twenty-nine million dollars.

¶ 54 Leave a comment on paragraph 54 0 The King of Denmark has just been put in possession of the estates of the Duke d’Augustenburg, in the Duchy of Schleswig.

¶ 55 Leave a comment on paragraph 55 0 A couple of rabbits lately burrowed  under the dog-kennel at Letham Grange, near Arbroath, and there, within an inch of the fox­hounds, brought up a hopeful family of fourteen.

¶ 56 Leave a comment on paragraph 56 0 A man was recently executed at Naples, who was proved to have been guilty of murdering twenty-nine persons, including his father and mother, and several others of his own family.

¶ 57 Leave a comment on paragraph 57 0  The Austrian police have recently made a fresh discovery of a depot of arms and ammunition at Milan.

¶ 58 Leave a comment on paragraph 58 0 A young man, named Ackerman, a native of Southampton, ac­cording to the latest papers, had been hung at San Francisco, along with two men, his accomplices in a murder. Ackerman and one of his com­panions smoked cigars on their way to the scaffold.

¶ 59 Leave a comment on paragraph 59 0 Several shocks of earthquake have been experienced of late at Ragusa—the strongest on the 25th ult.—accompanied by a loud detona­tion, terminating with a violent upheaving motion. The inhabitants left their houses, and bivouacked in the fields.

¶ 60 Leave a comment on paragraph 60 0 The preamble of the Boston and Midland Counties Railway was declared proved on Monday last by a select committee of the House of Commons.

¶ 61 Leave a comment on paragraph 61 0 Jesse Hutchinson, the eldest of the Hutchinson family, so famed as vocalists, died oh the 17th of May, at a water-cure establishment near New York.

¶ 62 Leave a comment on paragraph 62 0 The balance-sheet of the Literary Guild has been published, and shows a sum of £3790 16s. 11d. to its credit.

¶ 63 Leave a comment on paragraph 63 0 The agricultural reports from Ireland are cheering and satis­factory in the extreme. The late rains have been of immense advantage, and hopes of an early and abundant hay harvest are revived.

¶ 64 Leave a comment on paragraph 64 0 The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby and suite arrived at Bonn on the 8th inst., en route on a tour in the states of Germany and Italy.

¶ 65 Leave a comment on paragraph 65 0 An iceberg, estimated at three miles in circumference, and 300 feet high, was seen by the ship Anglesea, in her recent voyage from Aus­tralia, as she rounded Cape Horn.

¶ 66 Leave a comment on paragraph 66 0 The sum of £4000 has been left by a gentleman of Southampton to that town, for the purpose of providing for a larger and better cultiva­tion there of “ natural history, physical science, and classical literature.”

¶ 67 Leave a comment on paragraph 67 0 The singular phenomenon of the “ instantaneous ” blossoming of flowers has been exhibited at Brompton. Roses and geraniums placed in mould had a liquid composition poured on them, and blos­somed in ten or fifteen minutes.

¶ 68 Leave a comment on paragraph 68 0 At the great horse fair recently held at Oldenburg, 4000 horses were purchased by agents of the French Government.

¶ 69 Leave a comment on paragraph 69 0 A Parliamentary return states, that in England and Wales there are 46,114 schools; of which 15,584 are public, and 30,530 private. The scholars in the public schools number 1,417,300, and in the private schools 727,077.  There are 23,498 Sunday-schools, and 2,407,409 scholars.

¶ 70 Leave a comment on paragraph 70 0 An Irish witness before the recent Clare Election Committee, having said he had been “ all day canvassing,” was directed to “ define ” canvassing, which he did thus:—“ To try to induce and force the voters to vote for Corny O’Brien, and, if they would not, to give them drink till they could not vote at all.”

¶ 71 Leave a comment on paragraph 71 0 The committee which has been sitting for the last seven days on the Great London Drainage Bill, have declared the preamble not proved, and the bill is consequently lost.

¶ 72 Leave a comment on paragraph 72 1 The yellow fever, at St. Thomas’s, in the West Indies, was, at the end of May, fatally prevalent. A slight shock of an earthquake was experienced on the 24th ult.

¶ 73 Leave a comment on paragraph 73 0 The first mixed Portuguese and English jury has met at Oporto under the treaty of 1842, and convicted the editor of the National of a libellous paragraph against Mr. Shore, one of the most respected British merchants established at Lisbon.

¶ 74 Leave a comment on paragraph 74 0 Mr. Harmer, many years a member of the Court of Aldermen, died on Saturday last, at a friend’s house at Cricklewood, in Middlesex, after a few weeks’ illness.

¶ 75 Leave a comment on paragraph 75 0 The Gipsy King, Dundee clipper, 1100 tons, Capt. Fitzroy, was off the Start on Wednesday morning. She was 98 days from Adelaide, and brings 25 passengers, with nearly half a ton of gold.

¶ 76 Leave a comment on paragraph 76 0 A brutal murder was committed at Glasgow early on Sunday morning: two men were enticed into a low house, drugged, and one of them was thrown out of the third story window and killed on the spot. The offenders are in custody.

¶ 77 Leave a comment on paragraph 77 0 The robberies at Ascot Races were much less this year than usual. Only three watches were stolen; but one of these was from Captain Labalmondiere, of the police!

¶ 78 Leave a comment on paragraph 78 0 The Rev. H. R. Poole Sandford, B.A., has been appointed an assistant-inspector of schools.

¶ 79 Leave a comment on paragraph 79 0 On Monday last eight members of the St. James’s Society, at Ealing, Middlesex, succeeded in ringing, on the bells of Christ Church, a true peal of Grandsire Triples. The peal was rung in three hours.

¶ 80 Leave a comment on paragraph 80 0 A Russian ukase has been published in Poland, prohibiting the Jewish women there from wearing false hair. Several infringements of the law have already been punished.

¶ 81 Leave a comment on paragraph 81 0 A post-office has been formed at the Camp at Chobham: there are to be two deliveries and despatches daily. All letters should be ad­dressed “ The Camp, Chertsey.”

¶ 82 Leave a comment on paragraph 82 0 The Common Council of Brussels has voted 50,000f. for the fetes to be given in that city on the marriage of the Duke de Brabant and the Archduchess Maria Henrietta.

¶ 83 Leave a comment on paragraph 83 0 Eleven new petitions were filed in the Encumbered Estates Court last week, and the payments to claimants amounted to £64,330.

¶ 84 Leave a comment on paragraph 84 0 King Maximilian of Bavaria arrived at Florence on the 4th from Rome.

¶ 85 Leave a comment on paragraph 85 0 The deliveries of tea in London we large again last week, though not equal to those of the preceding week, being 1,708,255lb.

¶ 86 Leave a comment on paragraph 86 0 The Belgian journals announce the death of Madame Van de Weyer, mother of the Belgian Ambassador at London. She was seventy- three years of age.

¶ 87 Leave a comment on paragraph 87 0 In its sitting of the 9th, the Piedmontese Chamber of Deputies passed the bill for the concession of the Turin to Pignerol Railway to Messrs Edward Pickering and Co.

¶ 88 Leave a comment on paragraph 88 0 The Society of Arts have just awarded a medal to Mr. Toyn­bee, F.R.S., Aural Surgeon to St. Mary’s Hospital and the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, for his invention of an artificial membranum tympani (drum of the ear) in cases of deafness dependent upon perforation or destruction of the natural organ.

¶ 89 Leave a comment on paragraph 89 0 The authorities of St. John’s College, Cambridge, have deter­mined to add to the number of their assistant tutors.

¶ 90 Leave a comment on paragraph 90 0 A cargo of Barbadoes sugar reached Dublin last week in a Prussian vessel. This is the first arrival of a foreign ship from a British colony at that port.

¶ 91 Leave a comment on paragraph 91 1 In the year ended the 5th January last there were 9,669,605 gallons of spirits imported into this country. The quantity retained for home consumption was 4,872,118 gallons. On the 5th January the quantity under bond was 8,474,674 gallons. There were 6,793,304 gallons of wine imported. Duty was paid on 6,614,679 gallons. For home consumption, 6,346,061 gallons were retained in the year.