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A report prevails that an attempt was made to shoot at Prince Albert, while riding up Constitution Hill, on Tuesday last. Two gentlemen, Colonel Knight and Mr. Arnold, saw a young man point a pistol at the Prince; and told the Equerry, Sir Edward Bowater. Sir Edward followed the man towards Bucking- ham Palace, intending to give him into custody; but no Policeman was to be
seen-' the man was lost sight of; and he has evaded search. Whether the pistil was real, loaded, or pointed at the Prince in earnest, nobody knows. The Timis informs us, that " the Police Commissioners have, in consequence of this occur.- rence, stationed an extra constable on Constitution Hill"!
Rumours have gained ground within the last few days, which it is impossible altogether to discredit, of the probable early retirement of another member of the Cabinet, in the person of Mr. Gonlburn. As lately, in Mr. Gladstone's case, this intended step is not attributed to any differences with his colleagues on matters connected with his own department of public business, but to the influence of religions convictions, which from Mr. Goulburn's first entrance into public life to the present moment he is known to have always strongly and consistently else- rished. We understand that the same cause will lead to the retirement of Mr. Pringle, one of the Lords of the Treasury. It is rumoured that Mr. Pringle's place will be filled by the Earl of March. We have not heard any rumours as to Mr. Goulburn's successor.—Morning Chronicle. .[" Tames," says the Standard, queere?" Quiz would have been more appropriate; for both the original " ru- mour " paragraph in the Chronicle, and a subsequent contradiction in the same journal, were evidently political squibs.] Mr. Edward Copleston Buckland, son of Dr. Buckland the eminent geologists has been appointed by Sir Robert Peel to a junior clerkship in the Treasury.
The King of Sweden has issued an order of the day to his army announcing that his youngest son Nicholas Augustus has entered the service as a private soldier in the Norwegian Chassenrs.
In Tuesday's Gazette, the Railway Board notified, that having had under can- sideration the following schemes for extending railway communication between London and York and in the intermediate districts to the East of the present'lines of railway, they have determined on reporting to Parliament in favour of the Bedford, London, and. Birmingham, Cambridge and Lincoln, Direct Northern (as to the portion between Lincoln and York), Eastern Counties (Brandon and Pee terborough Deviation), Eastern Counties (Hertford and Biggleswade Junction), Great Grimsby and Sheffield, Midland Railway (Syston and Peterborough), Mid- land Railway (Nottingham and Lincoln), Midland Railway- (Swinton to Lincoln, as to the portion between Swinton and Doncaster), Tottenham and Farringdon Street Extension, Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole; and against the Barnsley and Goole, Direct Northern (as to the portion between Lincoln and London), Eastern Counties (Cambridge and Huntingdon), Eastern Counties (Ely and Lincoln Extension), Ely and Lincoln, Goole and Snaith, Hull and Gainsborougb, London and York, Lincoln, York, and Leeds, Midland Railway (Swinton to Lin- coln, as to the portion between. Doncaster and Lincoln), Rotherham, Bawtry, and Gainsborough, Sheffield and Lincolnshire, York and North Midland and Done caster, York and North Midland and Goole.
Since our last, other specimens of this kind of sugar (Louisiana) have been re- ceived in Liverpool, two of which were yesterday shown us by a gentleman con- nected with the sugar-trade. He informed us that they were of excellent quality, and well suited for the market. The last letters received from America estimate the present year's growth of the cane-sugar at 160,000 hogsheads; a quantity little short of half the present consumption of the United Kingdom and they state that this quantity is likely to be rather increased than dimi- nished, sugar being at present. a more profitable article of growth than cotton The reduction of the duty on foreign molasses to 8s. 3(1. per hundredweight, will also have the effect of bringing considerable quantities of that useful article from Louisiana.—Liverpool Time&
A glass-manufacturing firm at Sunderland are erecting three additional glass- bottle-houses in consequence of the proposed abolition of the duty. It is stated that glass has been partially employed at Paisley for loom-mount. ings instead of wood or metal; and it is expected that in future it will be extens siveff used for such purposes. Besides its easy and complete formation, glass is invaluable from its being unaffected by damp, heat, or cold; which wood and all the metals less or more are.
Lord Radnor publishes a letter to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ragland, drawing attention to the case of the Reverend Mr. Palmer, Curate of Bollingtan chapelry. The Commissioners added 961. to the living, and thus made it 1501.
In 1842, they offered to build Mr. Palmer a e-house worth 9001. if he would contribute half He wanted to have a house of leas pretension than that proposed; but the Commissioners' regulations would not admit of that; and ha raised 4801i, which he actually paid. In June 1843, the Commissions® had altered their rules, and Mr. Palmer was told that as the house would cost 1,0004 he must pay 501. more. In February 1845, he was told that the House would cost 1,1901., and that he must yet again pay 1151. more. Lord Radnor hopes that the Commissioners' determination will he reconsidered; and he asks, " Who is to compensate Mr. Palmer for all his anxiety and trouble, ay, and expense too, in wasting and despatching 'more than 8,000 letters and notes '; and all because you think he ought not to be content with a house which would be per- fectly satisfactory to him, and one suited to his means, and as, I confess, it ap- pears to me, more adequate to the incenne of the living?" Mr. Mazzini still maintains that the Bandieras were entrapped; though at the same time he acquits Lord Aberdeen from any charge of insmcerity. He insists, " that the twenty-one Italian exiles have been allured to Calabria by dark, snake- like proceedings of the Austrian and Neapolitan Governments; and that these Governments were enabled to do so by their attention having been awakened to the subject by the secret communications extracted from my correspondence by the British Government. I believe that Lord Aberdeen did never dream that such evil consequences might possibly arise from his communications; but I believe at the same time, and with equal sincerity, that should Lord Aberdeen have earnestly, .impartially, and by himself, have examined the facts, instead of implicitly relying upon diplomatic informations and reports of agents at Naples,-.evidently grounded upon statements of the Neapolitan Government, he would have said to the House= I feel safe and untouched by remorse in my own conscience; for I could never suspect that such base and treacherous pro- ceedings could be adopted by any established government. Lord Aberdeen de- clares, that he never had the most distant conception of any attempt being about to be made from Corfu upon the Italian States, at one time or another'; that ' it was impossible that he could have such a conception, for the whole of the ex- pedition was planned and executed in a single week'; that the Bandieras ar- rived at Corfu on the 5th June, and on the 12th June the expedition took place': that this is decisive, and proves that it was impossible for any information to have been given to any quarter by the British Government." " It was," continues Mr. Mazzini, "and still is rather difficult for me to reconcile Lord Aberdeen's absolute ignorance of any intended attempt to be made from Corfu upon the Italian States with the fact of the opened and inspected letters addressed to me from Corfu containing little else than debates on such schemes. I would quote espe- cially from a letter of the 10th May, written by Attilio Bandiera, and unfolding two different landing-schemes to me. Lord Aberdeen's assertion is, however, by far too explicit to admit of a single doubt on my part. But as to the assertions derived, as seems, from reports of Lord Seaton or others, I feel entirely at liberty to state what follows. It is not true that the Bandieras arrived at Corfu on the 5th June: Attilio Bandiera arrived at Corfu on the 28th April; Emilio Bandiera long before that time. Somewhat before the 22d April, the mother of the Bandieras was herself at Corfu, endeavouring to get back Emilio, with a promise of pardon from the Viceroy of the Lombard-Venetian provinces." Mr. Mazzini then cites four letters by the brothers, written from the 22d April to the 21st May; one of which, signed by both and consisting of a threatening answer to the sumrnonings issued against them by the Austrian Government, was published in the Mediterraneo, a Maltese paper, on the 19th of May. "It is once more, not true that there were no troops m Calabria. Plenty of troops dad flocked there from all points of the kingdom, since the open insurrectionary movement that had taken place, many months before the expedition, at Cosenza. A few months before, a royal decree had put the two Calabasas under martial law. It is, once more, not true that the exiles were attacked and overthrown merely by inhabitants and not by troops. They were suddenly attacked at San Giovanni, where, let it be remembered, a single soldier is never to be found, by Civic Guards, Gendarmes, and troops belonging to the Second Battalion of Chasseurs. The proof lies in the royal decree of the 18th July, containing a list of rewards to those who had distinguished themselves during the action. The fact of there not having been troops at the landing-point means nothing. How could the Neapolitan Govern- ment•know beforehand the landing-point, which had to be so suddenly decided, perhaps in the very boat in which the Bandieras left Corfu, and which, moreover, could be every moment changed by winds and tides ? To have a traitor amongst them, intrusted with the mission of leaving them as soon as they had landed, and of going to apprize the authorities of the direction they had taken, was the proper plan to be followed; and accordingly it was."
Among the veterans now departing so rapidly, has been Mr. Samuel Hassell, " the father of the stage." He will be best remembered as Jerry Sneak, in the Mayor of Garrett; but his name is immortalized as associated, in the high days of English drama, with Lewis' Elliston, Minden, Dowton, Mrs. Jordan, and such performers; not to mention the grandees of tragedy. Sam Russell was born in 1766; was a public performer at nine years of age; was twice married, and had by each wife a numerous family. In 1842 he took a farewell benefit; the pro- ceeds of which he lost through the bankruptcy of a large discounting-firm; and he never belonged to the Drury Lane Fund, from a mistaken notion that he should not need the aid. He died at the house of his daughter, in Gravesend.
Another of the departed is Miss Linwood, who died last week at Leicester, where she usually resided. She was in her ninetieth year: she was taken ill last autumn, while paying an annual visit to her singular exhibition in Leices- ter Square; was conveyed to Leicester, and seemed to be getting better; but being seized with influenza at the beginning of the year, she gradually sank. The f.eicesfer Mercury says, that in her the poor will miss a benefactress.
John Frederick Daniell, the Professor of Chemistry at University College, and Foreign Secretary to the Royal Society, was struck with apoplexy on Thursday afternoon, while attending a meeting of the Council of the Royal Society, and died five minutes after, despite the plentiful professional aid which surrounded him When attacked.
Notwithstanding the advance of the season, the frost has continued with great severity during most of the week. On Thursday morning it was very cold, ac- cOMpanied by a piercing North-east wind; and on Friday morning the frost was still more intense, but was succeeded by a brilliant sun. But this is probably no titeee:to anybody, for we understand that other places are visited in the sameway at London is.
Advices from Barbados report a- terrible conflagration, which destroyed great part of Bridgetown. It broke out on the night of ad February; but the accounts differ as to the cause: one story is, that it was caused by some carelessness of a servant-girl at a small cook-shop; another, that a child playing with lucifer matches in the house of a Jew storekeeper was the innocent incendiary. The fire began in the part of the town principally devoted to commerce, where the stores and houses are thickly studded. The buildings being built principally of wood, old and worm-eaten, the flames spread with the greatest rapidity, and defied all efforts to suppress them. The civil, military, and naval authorities, bravely seconded by those under them, exerted themselves to check the progress of the Stein every possible way; but it raged for three days. The Negroes are accused of looking on in apathetic indifference. From Swan Street to Cumberland Street, comprising 150 or 200 houses, was one tract of blackened ruins. The damage is variously estimated between 400,0001. and 1,000,0001. The news of the fire had caused a great rise in the price of wood, shingles, &c., at Martinique.
of letters, of the 4th instant, announce the decision of the superior tribunal of the Lisbon Relacao in the case of the woman Marie Joaquinit, condemned to dierth in Madeira, several months ago, on a charge of heresy and apostacy. That sentence was now commuted to one of three months' imprisonment, with a. fine of six milreas.
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