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SATURDAY.
Good Friday is rarely productive of news, and yesterday was no ex- ception to the rule. In the Metropolis the streets had all the air of a Sunday, and the churches were well-filled. But the Crystal Palace was open, and upwards of 27,000 persons assembled there to hear the per- formance of a selection of sacred music. Among the guests was Prince George of Saxony. The musical fete seems to have been successful.
The Diplomatic changes announced last week were last night gazetted, with an appendix. Mr. Frederick Doveton Orme, Secretary of Legation at Copenhagen, becomes Charge d'Affaires and Consul-General of Bolivia ; the Honourable Julian Fane, Secretary at St. Petersburg, is to be Secretary at Vienna' Mr. William Lowther, late Secretary at Naples, is to be Secretary at St. Petersburg; Mr. Augustus Berkeley Paget, Secretary at Lisbon, is moved to Berlin ; Mr. Edward Herries, Secretary at Dense, succeeds Mr. Paget' Mr. Joseph Hume Burnley, first paid Attache at St. Petersburg, becomes Secretary of Legation at Dense; Mr. William Campbell Manley, paid Attache at Athens, becomes Secretary at Copenhagen.
The Queen has appointed Mr. Edward Stanley and Mr. James Paget to be Surgeons Extraordinary to her Majesty. Mr. Frederick Waymouth Gibbs, preceptor to the Prince of Wales, has been appointed a Companion of the Bath. The Queen has accepted a work of art presented to her Majesty by Lady Chantrey,—a picture from the pencil of Sir Edwin Landseer, re- presenting a terrier of the Pepp9r and Mustard breed given by Sir Walter Scott to Sir Francis Chantrey, and in the background, Chantrey's studio, containing an unfinished bust of Scott, the " Chantrey woodcocks," and other memorials.
Lord John Russell, immediately after the holidays, will resume the occupation of his residence in Chesham Place, just vacated by Lord Pan-
mure.—Morning Post.
A portion of the overland mail has reached London this morning, but the summaries at present published do not give more information than the telegraphic despatches.
The Kangaroo, which has arrived at Liverpool, brings some particulars under the standing heads of American intelligence ; the single point of interest being that Mr. Crittenden has joined the Douglas party against the President on the Kansas question.
Intelligence has been received from Melbourne to the 15th February. The House of Assembly had adopted the principle of representing mi- norities by 25 to 23. The original scheme proposed was to allow a voter to vote for the majority of the members to be returned for his district. The plan carried was the "cumulative plan" in force at the Cape of Good Hope. According to this plan each elector has as many votes as there are members to be returned, which he may distribute as he pleases. He may heap all three on one head, or he may give two to one candidate and one to another ; or he may give one to each. The House has voted 25,0001. for the relief of the sufferers by the Sepoy mutiny.
The elections for New South Wales had been favourable to the Cowper Ministry, and democratic changes in the constitution were looked for.
Signor Bosco, whose sleight of hand attracted so much attention in London some time hack, astonished the Manchester peo.ple, after his performances on Thursday. night, by attempting to commit suicide. He threw himself into a pit ; but is reported to be all right ; only that he is to answer for the "rash act" before the police.
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