_Miscellaneous.

The tenth anniversary of Queen Victoria's accession fell on Sunday last.

Prince Albert has subscribed twenty-five guineas to the Caxton me- morial.

The Duo de Nemours left Paris on Sunday, for the waters of Bardges.

A letter from Berlin, of the 14th instant, states that Baron von Hum- boldt has recovered from his illness, and that he appeared at Court the day before.

The alarming rumours respecting the health of the King of the Belgians turn out to have been greatly exaggerated. His Majesty has been ill with a bilious attack, of which the symptoms were aggravated by the use of the Wiesbaden waters; but the indisposition has never assumed a dangerous form.

We regret to learn that Mr. Bouverie, M.P. for Kilmarnock, has heen prevented from attending the House of Commons for some time by a se- vere attack of the measles; from which he is now satisfactorily recovering. —Globe.

The advocates of sanatory reform have lost an active coadjutor in Dr. Lynch, of Farringdon Street Ward: be died on Wednesday, after a few hours illness, at the early age of thirty-eight. The cause of death was in- flammation of the throat.

Mr. Rawlinson, the Magistrate of Marylebone Police Court, died yes- terday morning, after an illness of about ten days. Mr. Rawlinson was the oldest Magistrate on the Metropolitan Bench.

The Mi ming Chronicle announces, with an expression of regret that finds a response in the press generally, the death of Mr. David Leahy, Judge of the Lambeth and Greenwich County Court district, and an able newspaper- writer— "Mr. Leahy, who was a native of Newcastle, county Limerick, was a member of the English bar; and was known to a very wide circle of friends, by whom he was much respected and beloved. His abilities. and his attainments, general as well as professional, were of a very high order. His legal knowledge was exten- sive, exact, and always at command ; his fanfiliarity with literature, both ancient and modern, was that of a laborious and accomplished scholar; and the masculine vigour of his intellect, which loved to grapple with and master the hardest pro- blems, eeldom failed to appear even in his casual conversation. It was impossible, indeed, to meet Mr. Leahy even once in society without being struck by his un- common power of clear and consecutive thought, the energetic play, so to speak, as well as the wide range of his mind, and the singular impressiveness of a man- ner which naturally sprung from the strength of his convictions and the earnest- ness of his character. Mr. Leahy was attached to and eminently fitted for his profession; although his success in it, from causes intelligible enough to those who know on what legal success depends, was not commensurate either with his learn- ing or his intellectual capacity. His official appointment, however, was a tribute paid, by a high authority, to real judicial qualifications. Mr. Leahy's leisure was employed partly in literary relaxation, and especially in re- curring to the ever fresh fonntaius of the Greek and Roman classics, for which his relish never diminished, and partly in writing on public questions of that class which involves legal as well as political considerations. His occasional contribu- tions to some of the Metropolitan journals on those subjects evinced the same mental qualities and accomplishments by which he was known in private life. He was well acquainted with the condition of society, and especially with the whole working of the administration of justice in his native country. Daring the continuance of the vehement and persevering attacks made upon Lord Normanby's Government nine or ten years ago, he was one of the ablest and most efficient of the writers by whom that Government was defended. At a later period, the Irish State trials, and the appeal to the House of Lords, presented a subject well suited to the exercise of Mr. Leahy's powers. Though strongly opposed to the O'Con- nell politics, and utterly disapproving of the Repeal agitation and the monster meetings, Mr. Leahy entered into the constitutional question opened up by the State prosecutions with the ardour of an advocate; and from the very first en- forced the same principles of constitutional law, and used in behalf of them the same reasonings, which were afterwards established and employed in the judg- ments of the House of Lords. * • • The series of politico-legal articles upon the O'Connell trials which appeared in the Morning Chronicle in the early part

of 1844 were from his pen. . • In all the private relations of life Mr. Leahy was distinguished by a scrupulous nicety of honour and an inflexible up- rightness of conduct, which commanded the respect of all with whom he came into contact."

The Gazette of Tuesday announces the Royal grant of several minor honours— James Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, and John Earl of Stair, each receives the dignity of a Knight of the United Kingdom. Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.B., has permission to wear the grand cross of the Portuguese order of the Tower and Sword, the cross of a Knight of the order of Mena Theresa of Austria, the cross of the third class of the order of St. George of Russia, and the insignia of the second class of the order of the Red Eagle of-Prussia.

The Thirty-first Regiment is to bear on its colours and appointments the word " Orthes," in commemoration of Peninsular achievements in 1814.

Several regiments receive similar permission on account of achievements in the recent Indian battles: these regiments are the Third, Ninth, and Sixteenth Light Dragoons, and the Ninth, Tenth, Twenty-ninth, Thirty-first, Fiftieth, Fifty-third, Sixty-second, and Eightieth Foot: they are to bear on their colours the word " Sobraon "; and several of them in addition the word " Moodkee," " Feroze- shah," or " Aliwal," respectively, according to the battles at which they were present.

The Commissioners appointed to adjudicate on the oil-paintings sent into Westminster Hall on the invitation of the Fine Arts Commissioners have adjudged the prizes as follows—. First Class (5001 prizes)—Mr. F. R. Pickersgill, Mr. G. F. Watts, and Mr. Edward Armitage. Second Class (3001. prizes)—Mr. John Cross, Mr. Paul Falconer Poole, and Mr. J. Noel Paton.

Third Class (2001. prizes)—Mr. James Eckford Lauder, Mr. Charles Lucy, and Mr. John Callcott Horsley.

The collection includes one hundred and twenty paintings, many of them of great size. It will be open to the public inspection on Monday next.

The Queen has continued to the orphan children of the late Thomas Hood the pension of 1001. a year, originally granted to their father and afterwards to his widow.

Father Mathew has just arrived in London, to give evidence, it is sup- posed, before the Colonization Committee of the Peers. As he embarked to cross from Kingstown to Liverpool, Mr. Gray, the manager of the Dub- lin Steam-packet Company, presented to him an order from the directors, conferring a free passage in the company's vessels at all times, as a mark of admiration for Mr. Mathew's services in the promotion of temperance.

A Manchester paper announces that Jenny Lind is to perform in that town twice—on the 28th of August and the let of September—in La Sow 'lambda and La Figlia del Reggimento. All the seats throughout the home, except the open seats in the gallery, are to be reserved, and secured for the first chooser on taking the admission-ticket, at six or seven times the com- mon theatre prices. In other towns of the Three Kingdoms we hear of in- credible sums which are to be paid nightly by managers to the Swedish songstress.

The British and Foreign Institute, set on foot and conducted by Mr. J. S. Buckingham, has ceased to exist. The cause assigned is want of funds, arising from the omission of members to pay up their subscriptions.

The representatives of the Irish Boroughs were invited by Mr. Labou- chere to a meeting at the Irish Office, on Monday last, to hear a statement on the provisions of a bill about to be introduced for shortening the duration of borough elections in Ireland. The Solicitor-General for Ireland, Mr. Monahan, explained the scope of the bill; with which the majority ex pressed themselves satisfied. Mr. Roche, the Member for the County of Cork, who was present by mistake, objected to the bill, as hasty and im- mature. But he appeared to stand alone in opposition.

Mr. Ackermann has sent us specimens of a new kind of " Binding Pin." It consists of two small bent wires, which clip the ends of a paper, such as a pamphlet or newspaper, and keep the several leaves together. We have had it in use for some time, and find it very convenient. It is simple and easily applied; it does not wound the paper; and while it is very cheap, it may be used over and over again.

The Reverend Dr. Lang has communicated to the Glasgow Argue his views respecting the practicability of growing cotton to a great extent in the North-eastern portion of Australia. Dr. Lang states that at Moreton Bay, in latitude 27* S., he has plucked pods of cotton pronounced in Glasgow to be of first-rate quality. The climate is well adapted to the constitution of Europeans; there are inexhaustible tracts of fertile land; and great facilities for the shipment of produce. Dr. Lang looks to a plan of colonizing this district as the readiest means of rendering England inde- pendent of supplies of slave-grown cotton.

The Paratnatta Express publishes an account of " the apocryphal animal" said to exist in the interior of New South Wales. It is supposed to be a quadruped " of the order farm," (?) and to frequent the inland waters about the Murrumbidgee.

"The Murrumbidgee Blacks assert that this animal is big as him bullock'; they describe it as having a head and long neck like an emu, with a thick mane of hair from the top of the head to the shoulders; four-legged, with three toes on each foot, which is webbed; and having a tail like a horse. They call it the Katenpai,' whilst by the Watts Watta tribe (who similarly describe it it is called Kyenprate '; by the Yabala Yabala tribe on the Edward River it is known as the Tunatbah'; whilst the Burrula Burrula tribe call it 'Dengue. The Blacks on the Great Carangamite Lake, in the Portland district, describe a simi- lar animal, which they call the 'Bunyip'; and Captain Howell heard various ac- counts from White men (shepherds and others) who profess to have seen the animal at its gambols in the water."

The Captain Howell here mentioned had returned from a visit to the Murrumbidgee district, and had brought back the bones of a quadruped, supposed to be those of the animal in question. Cuts of these bones are printed in the Express. The bones appear to have belonged to two indivi- duals, one larger than the other. To one set the portions of the integu- ments were still attached, and there was recent blood on the skull. The teeth were as big as those of an ox; the condyle of the femur was fifteen inches round; a portion of the tibia measured eight and a half inches in cir- cumference.

We elsewhere allude to the case of Mr. Langslow; but it is as well to give the original narrative. It is communicated to the Times in a letter signed " T." After a reference to the case of Sir Eardley Wilmot, to show that it is not singular, the writer proceeds-

" Mr. Langslow was appointed Attorney-General at Malta in 1832, Sir F. Pen- sonby being Governor. The Governor and the Attorney-General lived very well together; and the latter was recommended for promotion by Sir Frederick, when he died, and General Bouverie governed in his stead, arriving at Malta at the end of the year 1836. By May 1838, (the cholera having broken out, and the At torney-General being absent from illness during about ten months of the time,) Governor Bouverie had formed most unfavourable opinions regarding his Attorney-

General He was an enemy to all persons in authority'; the leader of a fac- tiousparty ' • in the Generals opinion extremely ill versed in law '; and in the habit of making use of all the low vulgar arguments which are common among persona of his description.' Mr. Langslow's son, moreover, was ' constantly at Issas. with the police, whom he annoyed and insulted in every way, and as con- stsntly by his father.' However, in most instances, the Magistrates did their duty and fined his son.' Such were the Governor's confidential opinions re- garding the incendiary Attorney-General. The office was presently abolished in the island; Mr. Langslow became District Judge of Colombo with a promise of promotion to the supreme bench, in 1840; and Governor Bouverie's confidential opinions were tied up and put away carefully for further use.

"Now' the post which Mr. Langslow • was about to occupy in Ceylon had hitherto been in the gift of the Colonial Secretary of that happy island, and was considered one of the chief prizes of the civil service there. Should the expert

merit succeed in his case, that prize was for ever lost to a most deserving yr of men. He took his seat on the bench; did his work with prodigious assiduity; and in a couple of years gained the applause of the bar, the affection of the Na- tivepopulation, and—strange to say—the displeasure of the aristocracy of the colony. Singular to relate, too, he had a squabble upon technical points with the Queen's Advocate. All the gentlefolks of the island, in brief, were against him; and while the Natives, the Ditch merchants, and the Colonial press rallied round him as their champion, and admired-hint as a • great, just, and benevolent ex- pounder of the law, the Government House folks, and Governor Sir C. Campbell, K.C.B., detested his principles, andirembled at the audacity of his liberal notions.

" The Queen's Advocate and the District Judge fell very early to talking and writing against each other:

" That the District Judge was no match for the Queen's Advocate in writing, is evident from the letters of both. The Queen's Advocate's letters to the Go- vernor against Mr. Langslow are compositions of the most lively, facetious, and amusing description. He apologizes for imitating Mr. Langslow in the length and tiresomeness of his representations; shows how the Colonial bar are fairly. starving from his dilatoriness in doing. business '; vows that one of his judg- ments was scandalous and indefensible"; charges him with hostility against all'who have the misfortune to be gentlemen'; m a word, is as excited and as angry as the District Judge on the other side; who, too, holds forth to his parti- sans, promises the Natives that he at least will do them justice, and sells his law- books by auction with the air of a martyr. "The Queen's Advocate's letter is sent privately to the Governor; the Governor sends it privately home; the Colonial Secretary fetches Bouverie's letters off the shelf, couples them with Campbell's despatches, and dismisses Langslow from office altogether—not upon this charge or that, not upon any accusation of in- capacity or injustice, but upon the.consideration of things in general. Every man of the bar petitions for -his restoration.; the colony sends him addresses, condo- lences and. numberless marks of respect and affection; there is no stain on his character: bathe goes to the wall, as the weaker .party. After twelve years' further- service, his character not spotted but tarnished by failure, broken in health and age, he comes back to petition for justice, and to begin his profession anew.

" He goesfrom one•Colonial Minister to another, crying, Why have you ruined me? .what have I done ? what-are thecharges against me ? May I not be heard ?' MIS Gladstone's Ministry- has some little show of compassion, and sends to Gover- nor Campbell to ask if he has changed his opinion. Lord Grey's Under-Secretary points out that it is no business of his Lordship's—that Mr. Langslow was dis- missed-in Lord Stanley's time; and so shuts the door in his face with a bon jour. It is only for informers that the Colonial Secretary is always at home. "This is the beauty of the confidential' system. It ought to be well under- stood in the Colonies, that if persons will but write perseveringly any man may be turned adrift- and rained. Secretary Stanley having done a man injustice, Secretary Grey-is not answerable.. It is no part",af Lord Grey's &Ay,' writes Mr. Hawes-to Mr. Langslow, 'to inquire-whether his predecessor acted rightly or not. Lethygones be bygones: a change of Ministry closes a case.' *So it is ruled, that a gentleman -may be ruined upon no charges in particular 7-upon. charges which arelaid asideand raked up again—upon charges which he is not-allowed to rebut, not even-Acrknow until the operation of ruin is complete- anclupon charges which are not -true. Of this sort are the first or Bouverie charges with which- the. AttornepGeneral is ridden down. It appears that the legal functionary was-versed in law. His chiefs at Malta and Ceylon come for- ward-and vouch:for his.: competency. It is also pretty clear that he was not vul- gar. Persons of-his description may not have the refinement acquired in barracks, or theaccornplishedlearning notorious in heavy dragoons ; but that they are gen- Heinen is surely proved by- the Queen's commission. And the 'most instances' in which the Police Magistrates fine Mr. Langslow's son end in one case, in which the yoeng incendiary-was. fined- bs: for smoking a cigar in front of the theatre. As for the Ceylon charges, the Colonial Secretary declined to express an opinion upon them ': which verdict, any. one who tries to peruse the papers, and to hear clear in the jangle. and din. of 'the-Colonial squabble, may be apt to coincide."

ThaNetv:York•correspondent of the Birmingham Journal states that a large number of letters and papers addressed to Birmingham have been sent, by the carelesaneas of the.Poso-offine, clerks_ to a small town of that name in Con- necticutt The correspondent suggests that letters and papers from the United States for Birmingham in this country should be addressed, Birmingham, not Connecticut."

The Fall River Railroad Company, at Boston in the United States, have paid 4,5BOddollaes imDr. Alfred Hitchcock; of Ashby, as compensation for the death of Ins-brother, Dr. Hearylliteheoek, of Middleborough, who was killed by a collision on the railroad.:

By the schooner Newport, arrived' at Galway, tidings have come of the loss of thopaaket-ship Euialia.• This-vessel was bound from Havanna to Galway, and had-thirty-seven passengers and a crew of sixteen; on the 21st of May she got into :a field of ice, and one of the icebergs struck the ship in the middle, cutting her down :to. the water's- edge; as the Eulalia was found to be filling, the boats wear lowered, and. the people entered them; unfortunately, the rope which held one of the- boats-to- the ship had- not been cast off, and on the vessel's suddenly sinking; this-boat-was carried dowervrith it, and twenty people perished. On-the following day, the other-boats fell in with the Newport.

A farmer of Varteg, near Pont”ool, went down- into a lime-kiln by a ladder, and stirred up the mass of maters to give the fire vent; the gas which issued overpowered him; andr he fell senaeless. A man, in attempting to rescue his master, was also suffocated. A third person, a young man who was at hand, deseendeitheladder: he_tooasould.not resist the gas; and when further assist- ance arrived, all three were takewont dead.

Blewett, a travelling tinker. ofc-Dudley, has murdered his wife by throwing a large quantity of boiling wets/sever, her.