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To the statuary glories which have been heaped upon him even tor satiety, the Duke of Wellington is about to have an opportunity of add.- lug—if so disposed—the popular banquet honours paid to a Peel and. a Grey. A statue of the Duke is to be inaugurated in a short time at Edinburgh, and a committee has been appointed by the Town-Council to report on the expediency of the Magistrates and Town-Council taking part in some public demonstration on the occasion, and also in the prO- priety of inviting the Duke to a public banquet to be given by the citi- zens of Edinburgh. Whether at his advanced age the "hero of a hun- dred fights" may be disposed to undergo the fatigue of such a popular apotheosis, is uncertain; but if be should, there can be no doubt of his
- being received with a "end mills fealtaigh." The Scotch have a passion for military, glory; and there is something in the quiet., undemonstrative character of the Duke, and his unimaginative sound judgment, akin to the Scotch, and possessing great attractions for them. Such a banquet would indeed be a gathering of Highlander and Lowlander, Borderer and Shet1ander.
Sir George Bonham, Governor of Hongkong, has arrived in London, and had an interview with Sir John Pakington on Saturday, at the Colo- nial Office.
The Western coast of Africa is erected into an episcopal see embracing in its jurisdiction Sierra Leone the Gold Coast, and the Gambia; and has been placed under the spiritual superintendence of the Most Reverend Owen Emerie Vidal, D.D., of Sierra Leone, as the first Bishop.
Mr. Lewis Ricardo M.P. has met with a bad accident. While riding in Rotten Row his horse stumbled from treading in a hole, and Mr. Ricardo was thrown of His shoulder was dislocated; but he is doing well. This is the second accident which has recently occurred from the bad state of the road in Rotten Row.
The New York papers announce the arrest of an Englishman. Dr. An- drew Ploomer' a married medical man living at Brighton, recently eloped to the United States with a girl of nineteen, the daughter of a neighbour; and to add to the turpitude of his conduct, he carried away 19001. belonging to Colonel T. A. Howard. Colonel Howard had implicit confidence in the doctor, and when about to make a trip to France intrusted him with the money, at his suggestion, to place it for security at Ploomer's bankers. As soon as Colonel Howard left England, Ploomer fled with the money and the girl. The Colonel followed his false friend, discovered his hotel at New York, and had him arrested on a civil suit. After he had been sent to gaol, Dr. Ploomer gave up 1500/. of the spoil to obtain his liberation. The girl was to return to her parents.
A specimen of the gold ore found in Queen Charlotte's Island was shown on board the West India steamer Parana, which has just arrived at Southamp- ton. It was a piece of quartz about the size of a nutmeg. There were several veins of pure gold running through, and at one part the vein pro- truded and formed a knob of gold about the size of a pea, and as yellow as a guinea. It is said there is every reason to believe from specimens, that the quartz in Queen Charlotte's Island will be remarkably auriferous. During the storm which passed over Ipswich last week, a young woman named Stevens was struck by the electric fluid. She had retired to rest, and noticed nothing during the storm, beyond being greatly heated ; but upon rising on the following morning she discovered that the whole of her hair on the right side and part on the back of the head had been burnt off by the lightning, the other portion being much singed. The left side was uninjured. The hair removed is about a foot long.—Ipswich Express. On Friday morning between the hours of six and seven o'clock, a heavy -shower, which lasted for upwards of twenty minutes, fell over our city and a considerable district adjoining. This rain proved, upon examination, to have been of almost an inky blackness, and had all the appearance of being impregnated with soot or charcoal—Kilkenny Moderator. While a train was proceeding from Havre to Paris, a large boa constrictor, part of a collection of wild beasts, broke out of a box, crawled along the ex- terior of the carriages, and terrified the engine-driver by suddenly thrusting up its head quite close to him. 'The train was stopped, and the reptile put into a stronger box. The passengers became "nervous," and "expressed a strong dislike to accompany the boa to Paris " ; but no further mischance occurred. The Dumbarton _Herald states that a gentleman who was fishing in the Garde& for trout " caught a Tartar "—in fact, a shark ! It was a female, four feet seven inches long. The angler had a contest for two hours before he got the fish into his boat. It was hooked on the exterior of the jaw.
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