ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Evening Post, Issue 79, 11 May 1865, Page 2

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

A few days ago, Sir C.G. Young, Garter Principal King of Arms, with his assistants, placed the arms and banner of the Marquis of Lansdowne in the choir of the Chapel Royal of St. George, Windsor Castle. The position occupied by the arms of the newlycreated Knight of the Garter is next to the carved stonework of the Royal closet. The trophy consists of a helmet surmounted by a gilt beehive, a blue silk scarf embroidered with silver thread, and sword, above the whole of which is the banner richly emblazoned. The number of Knights is restricted to 25, exclusive of the Sovereign, the princes of the blood royal, and foreign princes. The Duke of Newcastle's arms and banner have not yet been removed. Earl Spencer's arms will shortly be placed in the chapel. The Lords' roll for the session has been issued. Beginning with three peers of the blood royal — the Prince of Wales.the Duke of Cumberland (King of Hanover), and the Duke of Cambridge— it passes on to the Primate of all England, the Lord Chancellor, the Archbishop of York, the Irish Archbishop (Dublin), on the rota this year, the Lord President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal ; and then follow, according to their rank, the dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts, bishops and barons who have seats in the House of Peers. The roll differs little j from that of 1864. No new temporal peer has been created ; the list still ends with Lord Houghton. The name of Lord Wentworth (by courtesy Viscount Ockham), now appears ; and that of Lord Dunsany, as a representative peer of Ireland is also new. The list of spiritual lords is changed, first by the death of Bishop Davys, of Peterborough, bringing the new Bishop of Ely into Parliament, and also by the customary change in the rota of Irish bishops attending Parliament this session, the Bishops of Meath, of Killaloe, and of Kilmore being the prelates now in attendance. By the addition of the two new names above mentioned the number of temporal peers was raised to 424 at the commencement of this session ; the spiritual lords are also thirty in number. This is counting Lord Auckland as a spiritual lord only, and not twice over. Young King George of the Hellenes re. mains surrounded by faction, trouble, and difficulty ; his uncle and all the Danish talent once about him, have been driven from Athens ; the discontent of the people increaned daily ; revolutionary placards are exhibited ; and unless the protecting powers speedily interfere, the worst may be apprehended. There exists in Paris, in the Rue de Reuilly, the Convent de Picpus, where, since the execution of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette, prayer has been offered day and night for the release of their souls from purgatory. Two nuns, who for that special purpose assume robes of blood-red colour, pray during one half-hour to this intent, being then relieved by two others ; and soon ceaselessly, day and night, without a single moment's intermission. Great preparations are already being made by the executive committee of the Dublin International Exhibition for the musical part of the opening ceremony, on May 9. The orchestra will be arranged after model of the one at Birmingham. The organ, which will be very large and complete, is building by Messrs. W. Hill and Son, of London, The number of performers will reach 1000. It is intended to make the music, on this occasion, as great a success as it was at the opening of the first Irish Industrial Exhibition at Dublin, on May 12, 1853. Vocalists are to be invited and selected from the choirs in Liverpool* Manchester, Bradford, Leeds, Birmingham and other towns and districts within easy travelling distance of Dublin. — The allotments of space to exhibitors in the United Kingdom have been issued, but owing to the space demanded being seven times in excess o£ the whole quaatity at the disposal of the executive committee, it has been necessary to refuse many applicants and considerably reduce the demands of others. The Corporation of the City of London, the National Academy, the Royal Aoademy, and numerous private individuals, lend pictures for exhibition. There will be a very fine display of furniture, most of the principal London makers exhibiting. Glass and china will also be well represented. Nottingham and other manufacturing towns will make a collective display. The British colonies will be creditably represented. Besides those from which announcements have been already received, Nora Scotia will have an admirable

collection, the legislature having voted a large sum for the purpose. Canada and some of the other North American colonies will also be represented, and Natal and Mauritius to show. The foreign contributions will be varied and attractive. The Emperor of the French has promised to send Sevres china and other objects. Krupp, of Esson» will exhibit steel ordnance. A very fine collection of textiles is promised from Rhenish Prussia ; lamps and bronze from Stobwasser, of Berlin ; pianos from Zurich, and other maunfoctures from Switzerland j and a good collection from Russia. The Dublin Express says:— "Of all modern Premiers, we believe Lord Palmerston is the luckiest in filling the two benches which are most coveted in this world — the bench of Bishops and the bench of judges. It is not universally known that at the Feast of the Epiphany her Majesty carries, by deputy, offerings to the alter in *memory of the gold, the frankincense, and the myrrh which the kings of the East brought to the Holy Child at Bethlehem. The ceremony took place at noon on the Feast of the Epiphany, when twe gentlemen of the household offered the casket containing the Queen's offering at the altar. The Poet Laureate is a candidate for election into the Royal Society. His name was among those read at a recent meeting of the society. Amorvgst the muniments of Waterford Ireland, is preserved an ancient illuminated roll, of great interest and beauty, comprising all the early charters and grants to the city of Waterford, from the time of Henrj 11. to Richard 11.. including Edward 111. when young, and again at an advanced age. A full length portrait of each king, whose charter is given, adorns the margin. These portraits vary from three inches to nine inches in length, some in armour and some in robes of state. It deserves to be rescued from obvious danger by the publication of fac-similies of all the illuminations, and this it has been determined to do as soon as 400 subscribers are obtained. It will be edited by the Rev. James Graves. The scientific world has just discovered a new cure for headache — the application of metal to the part affected ; a band of brass, worn a la ferronniere, is found to be a sovereign specific. If brass fails, zinc, copper, or any other metal, is to be tried. The French Doctors Dufraigne and Burg divide the honours of these " metallo-therapeutics." The Edinburgh theatre, which was recently burnt down, was close to St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, the space between the two buildings being filled up by a cloister or private chapel. All the evening the church had been the scene of great activity to rescue the property consisting of the altarpiece, a "Descent from the Cross," by Vandyck — lately insured for £300, and more recently for £1500, but really regarded as invaluable—several copies from Vand/ck, and the offerings and relics preserved there. The pictures were taken out in safety, but the altar rail and some of the interior carved work was destroyed by the falling in of the roof. The picture by Vandyck referred to is said to have had a somewhat remarkable history. It was sent, a number of years ago from the Continent, and the vessel containing it was wrecked on her homeward voyage The painting was recovered from the wreck j but the address being lest it was sent to the office of her Majesty's Customs. An offer of several thousand peunds is said to have been made for it by George IV., but the proper ownership of the picture having been established, it was sent on, as at first intended, to St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church at Edinburgh. This is the second occasion on which it has been hastily removed from the church, the last time being in May, 1853, when the Adelphi Theatre was burnt to the ground on the same site. The strike in the building trade in England, may,is is presumed, be considered at an end. A meeting of the masters and men has been held in Coventry, for the purpose of nominating a committee to draw up rules and regulations, which, it is hoped, will be a means of preventing future misunderstandings, and consequent strikes and lockouts. A series of propositions were, after some discussion, agreed to. By these the following object was secured : — The appointment of delegates, representing the masters and men, authorised to make all the necessary rules, which both sides bound thetn- , selves to observe. It -was thought that matters being in this satisfactory state the men would resume work immediately. At an interview previously between the master i builders in Birmingham and their men an

answer was given that the discharge note was definitively withdrawn, and preliminary arrangements were made for having a set of ruleß drawn up to prevent further disputes. Among the presents made to the Holy Father during the recent festivals was a specimen of cotton cultivated in the soil of Rome. This ma9B of cotton ia worked in a most elegant way in the shape of a pelican piercing its breast to feed its young with its own blood. This specimen is so artistically devised that it is to be kept in a glass case. Beldotn has diplomacy been better illustrated than by Lord Lyons at Washington ; but few were aware, until it was elicited from Mr. Layard by a question the other night in the Commons, of the extent of his labours, which are statistically stated by the mention of sixty folio volumes in one year, and 137,948 despatches, with hundreds of inclosures, in three years. The sale of a wife has actually taken place ia England, though not at the traditional Smithfleld, and with a halter round her neck. The vendor it is stated was Mr. Samuel Jones, of Wolverhampton. The purchaser was an American gentleman, and the price was £150. This, however, included three children, so that one is still at a loss tor a standard at which to estimate the market value of a wife. Whether the children were considered in the transaction as valuable pieces of property, or encumbrances, is a question upon which no light has been thrown. But the most singular part of the affair is the conduct of the vendor. After the Sale had been completed, and the goods handed over, the lady complicated matters by returning to the gentleman who had disposed of her, and the unfortunate speculator was compelled to offer an additional £50 in order to recover his purchase. The transaction seems to have been managed with mutual caution, if not suspicion. It was settled that Mr. Jones should biing the property to the railway station in time for the 7.15 train, and deposit it in the carriage with the buyer, who was then to place in his hand a note for £50. After the train had started, the note proved only a £5 note, on which the injured husband and bereaved father telegraphed on : — "Tall thin man run away with my wife and three children, two boxes, two band-boxes, and a carpet bag. He is an American, with a belt round him, with a bowie-knife in the belt, and a revolver. They are going to London, but husband will be at Birmingham by the next train, booked from Wolverhampton to New street Station. To be detained. Happily he was detained, and being confronted •with the man he had wronged, was compelled to make reparacion ; ttiat is to say, he paid the balance, £45, Dr. Manning, in closing his sermon on Cardinal Wiseman, on the occasion of the requiem mass at Moorflelds, said s— '• The last year, and the last days especially, brought ont the love of God that was in him 1 He was a true Englishman, for he always shrunk from making professions by the lips. One near him during his illness said, ' I fear you suffer greatly.' ' I don't suffer at all,' he replied ; ' think of the poor. I have a good bed to lie upon, ar.d I have made it a rule never to call anything pain until it is unendurable.' When they told him it was necessary to undergo another painful operation he said, under tho promptings of nature, 'I cannot/ but he immediately recalled the words, and said, ' That will not do ; if it is right it must be done.' When he was to receive the Viaticum he was only then impatient because they were delaying what was his chief solace. When the last op tation was announced to him, and it was said if he did not submit he could not live out the night, he remarked, ' Row unkind of them to operate— otherwise they said I would have been in heaven to-night.' Just when they they were offering for him, in his own chapel, the sacrifice of redemption, his last breath was departing. One said of him, •We have lost a man worthy to represent the universal Church in the face of this great people which> strong sometimes in its resentments, had learnt to revere him.' " Then, turning towards the bishops, Dr. Manning continued, "It is for you, right rev. fathers, to bear him out and lay him under the green sod outside this wild multitude of men, where the holy cross towers above the tombs, and where they who were round him in life will be round him in death. He is not here ; he will not be there ; but he is before the throne of the great Pastor of the shepp, his hands lifted up in prayer for those whom he loved so well, for you, for England, and for the Church." Ti& Effects of Drinking Champagne. — Wilhaai Williams and Julia Bishop, both of

whom were stated by the police to be well connected, the former being a colonel in th e array, and the latter the wife of a clergyman of the Church of England, were charged before Mr. Barker, at the Clerkenwell Policecourt, London, with being drunk in the St. Pancras-road and assaulting the police in the execution of their duty. A polioe-eon stable said that about 1 o'clock in the morning he was called to the Duke of Clarence publichouse, St. Pancras-road, and found both of the defendants inside drunk and creating a disturbance. The landlord asked him to assist in ejecting the defendants from the house. He did so, and both the defendants were very violent. The woman struck him two or three times on the face and hurt him very much. The male prisoner kicked him and struck him in the back of the neck with his fist, and the blow caused him great pain, as did the kick. The woman was so tipsy that it was found necessary to have her removed to the police-station on the stretcher. Both defendants made U9e of bad language.— Another police-constable said that he assisted the previous witness, and while doing so the woman struck him about the i&ae f and pulled his hair. They were both very drunk, and both made use of ba«l language — The male defendant said that he was not aware that he had kicked or struck the constable, and if he had he was very sorry for it. —The woman denied that she was tipsy, or that she had ill-used the police. In the house from which Bhe and her friend (the other defendant) had been ejected they had 10 bottles of champagne, for which her friend had paid 10s. per bottle.— Mr. Barker imposed on the male defendant a fine of 203., and on the woman a fine of 10s., which were at once paid. A son of Shelley, the poet, has been appointed Sheriff of Sussex for the ensuing year. _______^^__.