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Lord Stratford de Radcliffe had an audience of Louis Napoleon on Thursday, and was to leave Paris for Vienna yesterday.
M. de la Cour, the accredited Ambassador from France to Constanti- nople, will, it is said, call at Rome on his way.
The Emperor of Austria has conferred the order of the Iron Crown on Count Leiningen.
The sudden death of the notorious General Haynau, at Vienna, on the 14th instant, is announced.
Lord Brougham had arrived in Paris on Thursday, on his way to Cannes.
The statement that Commissioner Mayne is about to retire from his office has been authoritatively contradicted.
Orfila, the renowned chemist and chief authority on all matters con- nected with poisons, died at Paris on Saturday last, after a severe illness; aged seventy. Orfila was by birth a Spaniard, but under Louis Philippe lie became a naturalized Frenchman. While the Monarchy of July 1830 lasted, M. Orfila was at the head of the Faculty of Medicine ; but after ebruary 1848 the Provisional Government revoked his functions. He was engaged in the notorious Laffarge case. His works on Toxicology and Legal Medicine have a world-wide reputation.
An experimental removal of troops and artillery took place on Wednesday morning from the Bricklayers' Arms station of the South-eastern Railway, fur the purpose of ascertaining the time required to load and unload heavy artillery, with horses, ammunition, &c., for conveyance by railway. A portion of a battery of the Royal Artillery, with the full complement of men, horses, ;guns, ammunition, waggons, kc., was loaded in a train at the Bricklayers' Arms station, conveyed to Woolwich, and there unloaded, all in two hours aud thirty-eight minutes, thirty-five minutes of which were occupied in constructing a temporary platform to unload the guns.
While men were boring on the Dalziel estate at Motherwell for the pur- pose of ascertaining the nature of the strata beneath, at fifty fathoms depth a great gush of hydrogen gas occurred ; by some unexplained means it ignited at the surface, and a jet of flame was produced forty feet high. Even when the bole had been partially plugged up, and water collected round it, the fame still ascended to twelve or fifteen feet, with a diameter of from four to six feet Of course this magnificent illumination attracts thousands of the curious to the spot.
Edwin Bates, who was examined last week for sending threatening letters to Prince Albert, was to have been bronht up again yesterday ; but in the mean time he died of constipation, in the infirmary of the House of Detention.
The sale of the wardrobe and "properties" at Her Majesty's Theatre did not take place on Monday, no offer being made for the whole at the upset price of 12,009/. On Thursday, the whole was again offered for auction at the upset price of 11,0001.; in vain. A sale in separate lots then com- menced, to be continued for ten more days. Yesterday costly articles of the wardrobe were going at the price of old rags.
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