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The Week.
munication announces , and as previous intelligence of his illness had prepared us to expect , is no more . On the Stock Exchange this week there has been comparative quiet , but this is more the consequence , we believe , of a resolution adopted to give all parties concerned time to enter into arrangements , than of a restoration of confidence . Composition and settlement in the best possible manner are recommended and adopted , and little business done , because at present it is not known who can be trusted . Among the passengers to England by the Cape mail is tho Lord Bishop of Grahamstownwho comes home for the purpose of
, making an appeal for aid in carrying out the mission work of his diocese . The election of the sixteen representative peers of Scotland was to take place in the Palace of Holyrood yesterday . There are three vacancies to be filled up , and the candidates are the Earls of Morton and Haddington , and Lord Saltoun . No opposition was expected . Mrs . Leatham , of Heath , near Wakefield , has two sons and a son-in-law returned as members of the House of Commons . Her eldest son , Mr . W . H . Leatham , for Wakefield ; her youngest son , for
Huddersfield ; and her son-in-law is John Bright . A Spanish paper has received a message from our ambassador at Rome , that it is desirable to increase the garrisons of the Balearic Islands by 10 , 000 men , in case the Pope , in the event of having to abandon his capital , should decide on establishing the seat of tho Holy See in one of our Mediterranean islands . The Earl of Derby has offered the bishopric of Bangor , rendered vacant by the death of Dr . Bethell , to the Rev . E . Bomioi' , vicar of Ruabon , near Wrexham . The reverend gentleman is said , in clerical circles , to owe his elevation in the church to the influence of Mr . Gladstone . Iu tho Paris corn market during the past week prices both of wheat and flour have advanced . The four marks were quoted as high as 47 f . 56 c . and 48 f , the sack
of 157 kilogrammes , inferior qualities of flour being from that price to 44 f . Mr . Sheridan Knowles , the dramatist , has arrived from Cadiz ancl Gibraltar , where he has been staying for the benefit of his health . Hereford Cathedral , says the Builder , is undergoing a process of renovation with a vengeance . The fine old Norman pillars and arches are now supporting a roof which is painted and decorated to resemble one of the singing halls or galleries with which our metropolis abounds , while all that once was venerable has vanished . In a discussion which took lace at the Liverpool Town Councilon Wednesdaythe town clerk stated
p , , that the total cost of St . George ' s Hall , up to the present time , amounied to £ 330 , 659 . The effect on the merchant service of the Government bounty offered to seamen can scarcely yet he ascertained . The supposition is that it will lead to tin increase of between 20 s . and 30 s . per mouth in the rate of wages . The population of Milan , according to a recent census , is , exclusively of the garrison , 132 , 742 souls . This is greater than that of Rome , and of every city in Italyexcept Naples . -The legitimist journalthe Unionstates that the Count
, , , de Chambord is about to leave Austria and take up his residence in Holland . M . Horace Vernet ' s marriage with Madame du Bois Richeux , was celebrated on the 29 th ult . in the private chapel of the Archbishop of Paris .- The Duke of Vallombrosa has just presented his rich museum of antiquities , collected by himself in Egypt , Syria , India , and China , to the Museum at Turin . There is to be a congress of musical composers and artists iu Leipsic , from the 1 st to the 1 th of Junewhich will comprehend four musical performancesAt the
, . second of these Dr . Liszt ' s " Gran Mass will be produced : at the third the MUM ol Sebastian Bach . The Hon . Mrs . Leland Noel died at Exon , Rutland , on Monday last . She was the daughter of Mr . J . S . Foljambe , of Osberton Hall , Notts , and married , hi 182-1 , the Hon . aud Rev . Leland Noel , brother of the Earl of Gainsborough .
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS ; AT the Royal Italian Opera , Covent Garden , the performance of Saturday evening \ yas the most brilliant of the season . The opera was the " Huguenots , " chosen for
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The Week.
munication announces , and as previous intelligence of his illness had prepared us to expect , is no more . On the Stock Exchange this week there has been comparative quiet , but this is more the consequence , we believe , of a resolution adopted to give all parties concerned time to enter into arrangements , than of a restoration of confidence . Composition and settlement in the best possible manner are recommended and adopted , and little business done , because at present it is not known who can be trusted . Among the passengers to England by the Cape mail is tho Lord Bishop of Grahamstownwho comes home for the purpose of
, making an appeal for aid in carrying out the mission work of his diocese . The election of the sixteen representative peers of Scotland was to take place in the Palace of Holyrood yesterday . There are three vacancies to be filled up , and the candidates are the Earls of Morton and Haddington , and Lord Saltoun . No opposition was expected . Mrs . Leatham , of Heath , near Wakefield , has two sons and a son-in-law returned as members of the House of Commons . Her eldest son , Mr . W . H . Leatham , for Wakefield ; her youngest son , for
Huddersfield ; and her son-in-law is John Bright . A Spanish paper has received a message from our ambassador at Rome , that it is desirable to increase the garrisons of the Balearic Islands by 10 , 000 men , in case the Pope , in the event of having to abandon his capital , should decide on establishing the seat of tho Holy See in one of our Mediterranean islands . The Earl of Derby has offered the bishopric of Bangor , rendered vacant by the death of Dr . Bethell , to the Rev . E . Bomioi' , vicar of Ruabon , near Wrexham . The reverend gentleman is said , in clerical circles , to owe his elevation in the church to the influence of Mr . Gladstone . Iu tho Paris corn market during the past week prices both of wheat and flour have advanced . The four marks were quoted as high as 47 f . 56 c . and 48 f , the sack
of 157 kilogrammes , inferior qualities of flour being from that price to 44 f . Mr . Sheridan Knowles , the dramatist , has arrived from Cadiz ancl Gibraltar , where he has been staying for the benefit of his health . Hereford Cathedral , says the Builder , is undergoing a process of renovation with a vengeance . The fine old Norman pillars and arches are now supporting a roof which is painted and decorated to resemble one of the singing halls or galleries with which our metropolis abounds , while all that once was venerable has vanished . In a discussion which took lace at the Liverpool Town Councilon Wednesdaythe town clerk stated
p , , that the total cost of St . George ' s Hall , up to the present time , amounied to £ 330 , 659 . The effect on the merchant service of the Government bounty offered to seamen can scarcely yet he ascertained . The supposition is that it will lead to tin increase of between 20 s . and 30 s . per mouth in the rate of wages . The population of Milan , according to a recent census , is , exclusively of the garrison , 132 , 742 souls . This is greater than that of Rome , and of every city in Italyexcept Naples . -The legitimist journalthe Unionstates that the Count
, , , de Chambord is about to leave Austria and take up his residence in Holland . M . Horace Vernet ' s marriage with Madame du Bois Richeux , was celebrated on the 29 th ult . in the private chapel of the Archbishop of Paris .- The Duke of Vallombrosa has just presented his rich museum of antiquities , collected by himself in Egypt , Syria , India , and China , to the Museum at Turin . There is to be a congress of musical composers and artists iu Leipsic , from the 1 st to the 1 th of Junewhich will comprehend four musical performancesAt the
, . second of these Dr . Liszt ' s " Gran Mass will be produced : at the third the MUM ol Sebastian Bach . The Hon . Mrs . Leland Noel died at Exon , Rutland , on Monday last . She was the daughter of Mr . J . S . Foljambe , of Osberton Hall , Notts , and married , hi 182-1 , the Hon . aud Rev . Leland Noel , brother of the Earl of Gainsborough .
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS ; AT the Royal Italian Opera , Covent Garden , the performance of Saturday evening \ yas the most brilliant of the season . The opera was the " Huguenots , " chosen for