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June<\/strong> 18, 1853.]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GRAND ENTERTAINMENT TO COMMODORE VAN\u00adDERBILDT, AT SOUTHAMPTON.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The town is proud of being \u201c the most go-a-head place in the south of England “\u2014and appears resolved to maintain the characteristic. Ame\u00adricans 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.<\/em> The arrival of Commo\u00addore Vanderbildt, in his great steam-yacht, is also considered an occa\u00adsion demanding one of the Southampton fraternizations; and it was early determined to invite that gentleman and his family to an enter\u00adtainment, in the shape of a dejeuner,<\/em> to celebrate the event, on Monday afternoon, at the Royal Victoria Archery Rooms; the Mayor (Mr. Joseph Lankester) presiding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 de\u00adcorated 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 after\u00adnoon. 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 South\u00adampton, last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The customary loyal and national toasts were given from the chair, and drunk with all the honours; after which the health of ” The Pre\u00adsident of the United States of America ” was drunk with great enthu\u00adsiasm, followed by the band playing ” Hail, Columbia 1 \u201d 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, pro\u00adposed by Mr. Aiderman Laishley, was, “” Her Majesty\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mayor then, in a brief complimentary address, proposed the toast of the evening, \u201c Commodore Vanderbildt: may every happiness accrue to himself and family during his interesting voyage, and every success attend all his spirited enterprises.\u201d The gentleman in whose honour they were assembled that day was one of the merchant princes of Ame\u00adrica\u2014a 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\u2014and that was the foun\u00addation 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Clarke, in an eloquent address, dwelt with great force on the common interests of England and America, and the deep debt of gra\u00adtitude they (the children) owed to their parent nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several other appropriate toasts were drunk and the company sepa\u00adrated about half-past seven o\u2019clock, highly delighted with the festivities of the occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previous to the conclusion of the proceedings, Commodore Vander\u00adbildt invited the whole company to take a \u201c trip \u201d with him in the North Star,<\/em> 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,<\/em> 131; Ajax,<\/em> 60 ; Blenheim,<\/em> 60 ; Hogue,<\/em> 58 ; Edinburgh,<\/em> 58; Sidon,<\/em> 22; Odin,<\/em> 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\u2019clock, prepa\u00adrations were made on the garrison battery to return the American gen\u00adtleman\u2019s salute, which he fired about four o\u2019clock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next week we shall engrave the North Star.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newspaper Correspondence across the Sea.\u2014Occa\u00ad<\/strong>sionally 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:\u2014Letters. 780; newspapers, 3850. But this newspaper corre\u00adspondence seems to increase vastly. A few weeks ago a vessel called the Orestes,<\/em> 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 con\u00adtents 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 \u201c William,\u201d the other the words ” All Well.\u201d 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<\/em> added to the last letter of the banker\u2019s name. Thus Bilham would be written Bilhame, the final e<\/em> communicating the fact that Mr. Kilham, in France, had received safely the \u00a320 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?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanitary Properties of Wool.\u2014Professor Simpson, of <\/strong>Edinburgh, has been the means of bringing to light a curious corrobora\u00adtion of the sanitary value of the ancient practice of anointing with oil. It appears, that the learned Professor, when recently visiting the manu\u00adfacturing 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 ascer\u00adtained 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\u2014a result in almost every instance attained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More Nuggets.\u2014The great event of finding the monster <\/strong>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 mag\u00adnificent 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11 oz. 10 dwt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c The Good Time Coming.\u201d\u2014Drapers\u2019 assistants in the country towns of Ireland have become so scarce, that their salaries have risen from \u00a320 and \u00a340 per year, to \u00a360 and \u00a370. Large numbers of them have lately emigrated, and the demand for them in Dublin during the Exhibi\u00adtion has been very great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u201c Erocia \u201d symphony of Beethoven, the reading of which by Costa is one of his most poetic \u201c conductingsand the \u201cLeonora\u201d overture by the same composer; besides the romantic \u201c Der Freyschutz\u201d overture of Weber, and the Shakspearian creation of Mendelssohn in the \u201c Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream.\u201d 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 re\u00admarkably well, but whose voice was never in finer condition. The loftiness of style of this incomparable vocalist was developed in Handel\u2019s air, \u201c Lascia ch\u2019 io pianga;” whilst in the animated duo from Meyerbeer\u2019s \u201c Huguenots,\u201d with Herr Formes, Viardot amply proved that she is the Valentina par excellence:<\/em> and that, in lyric passion and declamation, she remains unrivalled. Miss Louisa Pyne was to have sung; but, being in\u00addisposed, Madame Castellan took her place in the graceful duettino, \u201cQuesta volta,\u201d with Gardoni, from Costa\u2019s \u201cDon Carlos;\u201d and in Righine\u2019s quartetto, \u201c Gran Nume,\u201d with Viardot, Gardoni, and Formes. The part song, \u201c Ye Spotted Snakes \u201d (in the Mendelssohnian selection), was given by Miss Chambers and Madame Viardot\u2014the former appearing for Miss Louisa Pyne, and making a very creditable debut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The eighth and last concert will be on the 27th inst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE MUSICAL UNION.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the sixth meeting, on Tuesday, Herr Ferdinand Hiller, the founder and director of the \u201c Rheinische Musicschule,\u201d at Cologne, and a com-  poser and pianist who ranks high in France and Germany, performed in  Beethoven\u2019s trio in D, Op. 70, and in a clever sonata Op. 47, of his own composition. Haydn\u2019s Quartet in B minor, No. 68, and Mendelssohn\u2019s Quartet in E flat, No. 5, were the other pieces\u2014the executants being Vieuxtemps, Goffrie, Henry Blagrove, and Piatti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOTES OF THE WEEK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This has, indeed, been a formidable week for soirees and con\u00adcerts. 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.\u2014Mrs. Arthur Stone, the vocalist, convened her friends at Willis\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sister singers, the Misses M’Alpine, assembled their sup\u00adporters 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Wednesday, the captivating pianiste, Mdlle. Clauss, delighted a fashionable auditory at a matinee, at Willis\u2019s 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 mel\u00adlifluous 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.\u2014Mr. F. Bodda. the barytone, had an evening con\u00adcert 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.\u2014Madame 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. \u2014\u2014Miss Greenfield (the \u201c Black Swan \u201d) 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Harmonic Union had a field day\u2014or, rather a night at\u00adtack\u2014on Thursday, at Exeter-hall, by the performance of Mr. F. Mori\u2019s clever cantata, \u201c Fridolin,\u201d and the music to Mendelssohn\u2019s \u201c Midsum\u00admer Night\u2019s Dream,\u201d 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 fan\u00adtasia on this occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two tiny pupils of Mr. Pelzer, the Misses May, who play the pianoforte and concertina, ventured in the midst of the crash of orches\u00adtras and soloists, to present a soiree musicale<\/em> on Wednesday, at the Queer Anne-street Rooms, and were sustained by Miss Fanny Rowland, Herr Kumpal, Hausmann, Witt, Cooper, and Mdlle. Anne Pelzer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019s arrangement of Welsh Na\u00adtional Melodies, which were sung by a chorus. M. Billet\u2014strengthened by Vieuxtemps, M. Paque, and M. Prudent, Madame Greiffenhagen, Hen Reichart and Herr Brandt\u2014had an afternoon sitting at his residence, in Charlotte-street.       Last night Mr. Suchet Champion, the tenor, congre\u00ad<\/p>\n\n\n\n

gated his admirers at the Music Hall, Store-street; his programme in\u00adcluding 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<\/p>\n\n\n\n

matinee yesterday, at the Queen-Anne-street Rooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This morning will be the final concert of the Orchestral Union; and next week will be Benedict\u2019s monster concert, and that of the Choral Union, besides matinees and soirees of divers artists, native and foreign.\u2014Alboni has returned to England from America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Willis\u2019s Rooms.\u2014Professor Filopanti, late a member of the Constituent Roman Assembly, commenced on Monday a course of lec\u00adtures 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 an\u00adnounced 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\u2019s specific objection. The lecturer\u2019s style is florid, and his delivery vivacious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gloves at Fairs.\u2014At 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.\u2014At Free Mart, at Portsmouth, a glove used to be hung out of the Town-hall window, and no one could be arrested during the fort\u00adnight that the fair lasted. F. O. Martin.\u2014Notes and Queries.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Pence.\u2014About 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 Com\u00adpany\u2019s works. When the late calamitous fire occurred in this manufac\u00adtory, about one hundred of the hands had upwards of \u00a3300 in their \u201c bank,\u201d put by against a \u201c rainy day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freemasonry in China.\u2014A. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chloroform and Ether.\u2014The use of the vapour from ether and chloroform combined, as a substitute for ordinary steam, was tried a few days ago<\/em> 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, be\u00adyond doubt, that the new force not only presents great economy, but has none of the inconveniences which were feared.\u2014French Paper.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parks for Edinburgh.\u2014The 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 \u00a3240 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 Carlton\u00adhill, the King\u2019s Park, Salisbury Crags, and Arthur\u2019s Seat, there is no city in Britain better provided with places for recreation and exercise than Edinburgh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

epitome of news.\u2014foreign and domestic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prize of one hundred guineas, offered by the Associate In\u00adstitution, for the best essay on the Laws respecting the Protection of Wo\u00admen, has been awarded to Mr. James Edward Davis, barrister-at-law, of the Oxford Circuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number of emigrants arrived at New York from Europe, during the three days ending the 30th ult., was 9132.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A steam-packet communication is about to be established be\u00adtween Hamburg and Southampton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Adelaide,<\/em> Capt. Tremaine, has arrived from South Australia, with 10,667 ounces of gold, valued, at \u00a3163,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Monday morning, many of the mackerel-boats at Yarmouth brought in from 1000 to 1800 mackerel each\u2014the largest catch during the present season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. M\u2018Hale, Archbishop of Tuam, is so far recovered as to be able to sit up for several hours each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a shipyard, near Devonport, a pair of sawyers sawing through a piece of elm timber came to a bird\u2019s nest containing three eggs in a cavity in the centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The King of Denmark has just been put in possession of the estates of the Duke d\u2019Augustenburg, in the Duchy of Schleswig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A couple of rabbits lately burrowed  under the dog-kennel at Letham Grange, near Arbroath, and there, within an inch of the fox\u00adhounds, brought up a hopeful family of fourteen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 The Austrian police have recently made a fresh discovery of a depot of arms and ammunition at Milan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young man, named Ackerman, a native of Southampton, ac\u00adcording to the latest papers, had been hung at San Francisco, along with two men, his accomplices in a murder. Ackerman and one of his com\u00adpanions smoked cigars on their way to the scaffold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several shocks of earthquake have been experienced of late at Ragusa\u2014the strongest on the 25th ult.\u2014accompanied by a loud detona\u00adtion, terminating with a violent upheaving motion. The inhabitants left their houses, and bivouacked in the fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The preamble of the Boston and Midland Counties Railway was declared proved on Monday last by a select committee of the House of Commons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The balance-sheet of the Literary Guild has been published, and shows a sum of \u00a33790 16s. 11d. to its credit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The agricultural reports from Ireland are cheering and satis\u00adfactory in the extreme. The late rains have been of immense advantage, and hopes of an early and abundant hay harvest are revived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby and suite arrived at Bonn on the 8th inst., en route<\/em> on a tour in the states of Germany and Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An iceberg, estimated at three miles in circumference, and 300 feet high, was seen by the ship Anglesea,<\/em> in her recent voyage from Aus\u00adtralia, as she rounded Cape Horn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sum of \u00a34000 has been left by a gentleman of Southampton to that town, for the purpose of providing for a larger and better cultiva\u00adtion there of \u201c natural history, physical science, and classical literature.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The singular phenomenon of the \u201c instantaneous \u201d blossoming of flowers has been exhibited at Brompton. Roses and geraniums placed in mould had a liquid composition poured on them, and blos\u00adsomed in ten or fifteen minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the great horse fair recently held at Oldenburg, 4000 horses were purchased by agents of the French Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Irish witness before the recent Clare Election Committee, having said he had been \u201c all day canvassing,\u201d was directed to \u201c define \u201d canvassing, which he did thus:\u2014\u201c To try to induce and force the voters to vote for Corny O\u2019Brien, and, if they would not, to give them drink till they could not vote at all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The yellow fever, at St. Thomas\u2019s, in the West Indies, was, at the end of May, fatally prevalent. A slight shock of an earthquake was experienced on the 24th ult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first mixed Portuguese and English jury has met at Oporto under the treaty of 1842, and convicted the editor of the National<\/em> of a libellous paragraph against Mr. Shore, one of the most respected British merchants established at Lisbon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Harmer, many years a member of the Court of Aldermen, died on Saturday last, at a friend\u2019s house at Cricklewood, in Middlesex, after a few weeks\u2019 illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gipsy King,<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rev. H. R. Poole Sandford, B.A., has been appointed an assistant-inspector of schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Monday last eight members of the St. James\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A post-office has been formed at the Camp at Chobham: there are to be two deliveries and despatches daily. All letters should be ad\u00addressed \u201c The Camp, Chertsey.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eleven new petitions were filed in the Encumbered Estates Court last week, and the payments to claimants amounted to \u00a364,330.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

King Maximilian of Bavaria arrived at Florence on the 4th from Rome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The deliveries of tea in London we large again last week, though not equal to those of the preceding week, being 1,708,255lb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Society of Arts have just awarded a medal to Mr. Toyn\u00adbee, F.R.S., Aural Surgeon to St. Mary\u2019s Hospital and the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, for his invention of an artificial membranum tympani<\/em> (drum of the ear) in cases of deafness dependent upon perforation or destruction of the natural organ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The authorities of St. John\u2019s College, Cambridge, have deter\u00admined to add to the number of their assistant tutors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

June 18, 1853.] THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS 499 GRAND ENTERTAINMENT TO COMMODORE VAN\u00adDERBILDT, AT SOUTHAMPTON. 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":659,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-253","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/253\/revisions\/746"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}