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We have what we think authority for announcing that their Majesties the Xing and Queen of the French, attended by some of the junior branches of the Royal Family, contemplate paying a visit to her Majesty the Queen about the latter end of June or early in July. Of the fact of the intended visit there is, we believe, not the slightest doubt. Some fear has been entertained that the approaching elections for the Chamber might interfere with the French Monarch's intention; but, as these do not take place before the end of July, and as, judging from previous experience, her Majesty will be able to re- ceive her Royal visiters in the latter part of June, there seems little reason to apprehend the occurrence of any obstacle calculated to prevent the con- templated exchange of Royal hospitalities.—Morning Post.
It is believed that Prince Albert will lodge at Knowsley Hall, the seat of the Earl of Derby, during his visit to Liverpool. A postponement of the visit till the first week in August is to be suggested, in order that there may be high-water in the harbour and river; thus allowing the scenery on -both sides of the Mersey to be seen to advantage.
The Gazette of Tuesday announces several appointments—The Honourable and Reverend George Neville Grenville, to the Deanery of her Majesty's Chapel Royal in the Castle of Windsor, with the Registry of the Knights of of the Garter; Sir George Baillie Hamilton, K.C.H., now Secretary of Legation at Berlin, to be Plenipotentiary to the Grand Duke of Tuscany; G. Barney, Esq., late a Lieu- tenant-Colonel in the Corps of Royal Engineers, to be Lieutenant-Governor of North Australia, and to administer the government of that colony, under the style and title of Superintendent thereof.
The new Dean of Windsor, the Honourable and Reverend George Neville Gren- ville, is the father of Mr. Neville, one of the Members for Windsor. The value of the Deanery, including the fees of Registrar of the Order of the Garter, is esti- mated at from 3,0001. to 3,5001. The new Dean relinquishes the Mastership of _Magdalen College.
Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, son of the late Chairman of the Board of Excise, and who recently held the office of Assistant Solicitor of the Excise, has been appointed Receiver-General of the Customs, in the room of the late Sir William Boothby. The salary of the office has been reduced from 1,5001. to 1,2001. a year. The amount of security required is 30,0001.
Mr. Smith O'Brien anticipated the result of Mr. Shaw's motion for his release, and prepared a pillow for softening his fall, by writing a letter on Saturday to the Speaker of the blouse of Commons; intimating that if the payment of the fees was to be interpreted as an acknowledgment on his part of the right of the House to subject him to fine and imprisonment for having conscientiously performed his duty to his constituents, he would rather remain in prison than make such an ac- knowledgment. Foreseeing that the House was not likely to trouble itself beyond ordering the door to be opened and the money to be paid should he wish to walk out, Mr. O'Brien resolved to compound the matter with himself, and intimated that he should pay the fees "under protest." To make the most of things, Mr. O'Brien requested the Speaker to communicate his letter to the House. In this, however, he could not be gratified: the Speaker stated in reply, that there was no precedent for making a communication of such a nature to the House.
Lord Stanley was prevented by indisposition from attending the closing debate in the House of Lords on Thursday.
Several of the members of the Stock Exchange have expressed a wish that the Railway Committees would make a point of keeping their decisions unknown to the public until after five o'clock in the afternoon. This being after the hours of business, would give every dealer an opportunity of possessing the same infor- mation as his neighbour; whereas at present, parties have been known to watch for exclusive information, and when it is obtained, to come with all possible rapid- ity from the West-end to the City, hoping to take advantage of the less en- Iiihtened. As it cannot be the intention of the Legislature that the best bargain ,should be owing to the fastest cab, this hint is worth attention.—Tinies.
The Sidon steam-frigate, constructed from a design by Commodore Sir Charles Napier, was floated out of the dry dock at Deptford Dock-yard on Monday last. Sir Robert Peel and Sir James Graham went over the vessel on Sunday, accom- panied by the Master Attendant. Previous to the launch, Lord John Russell and Lord Radstock arrived and minutely inspected the steamer, under the guidance of Sir Charles himself. The Sidon has stowage for 800 tons of coals; her engines and boilers are placed four feet under water-mark; and her powder-magazines are equally secure. Her length is 210 feet; extreme breadth, 37; horse-power, 560; burden, 1,328 tons.
Immediately after the race for the Derby on Wednesday afternoon, a carrier- pigeon, belonging to Mr. Oxley, the proprietor of the Windsor Express, was toesed on Epsom Downs, with the names of the three first horses attached in the usual way. Within less than thirty minutes afterwards the bird alighted on Mr. Orley's pigeon-house. The distance from Windsor to Epsom is very nearly thirty miles, straight across the country.
On May the 5th, at Rome, Cardinal Acton received into the bosom of the Catholic Church the Reverend George Dudley Ryder, his wife Mrs. Ryder, his sister Miss Sophia Ryder, and his three eldest children. The Reverend G. Ryder is the second son of the late Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, nephew of the .Earl of Harrowby, and first cousin of Ambrose Lisle Phillips, Esq., of Grace Dien Manor. Mrs. Ryder is the sister-in-law of the Bishop of Oxford, Dr. Wilberforce. Mr. Ryder held preferment in the diocese of Winchester, being Rector of Easton, near that city.—The Beacon.
We beg to caution the public against a forged half-sovereign of the present reign, the execution of which is remarkably good. Some of them are struck off in silver, and strongly gilt; and they defy detection except by the weight or sound. ...Midland Counties Herakl.
The Dahlonega Times notices a diamond of the first water, about the size of a large pea, belonging to the Reverend P. Cheek, of Henry County, which was found recently in the Union Gold Mine. This discovery of diamonds in Georgia will probably give an impetus to mining operations in that State.—New York Sun.
The tide of emigration still flows: no fewer than 6,396 persons, of all sizes, sexes, and denominations, arrived at New York during the month of April; this being an increase of 2,055 over the month of March. Great Britain sent 4,986; France, 1,078, chiefly Germans; Bremen and Hamburg, 115.—New York Heraki.
Accounts from Lubeck, dated the 18th May, state that a greatnumber of ves- sels laden with wheat and rye had caught Cue, at St. Petersburg, and that in litooaqueuee 180,000 chetwerts of wheat and rye had been destroyed.
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