APRIL
25, 1857.]
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
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• of t:1e French entered on his fiftieth year on JVfonhaving been born on the 20th of April, 1808. J.\'fanchester Art-Treasures Exhibition Committee intend to devote the entire proceeds of their proposed coneert~ in the Free-trade Ha~l. on the 5th of }fay (at which his !loyal Highness Prince Albert will be present), to the use of the 1fianchester Royal Infirmary. The audience given by the King of Holland, on the 15th inst., at Amsterdam, was very numerously attended. During the time the Queen visited different chrtritabJe institutions. A grand dinner of 70 ool'~r8 was ,2;iven at the palace in the afternoon. The Elector of Hesse arrived at Frankfort on the 14th inst., with the Princess of Hanau. His Royal Highness on his way from Cassel '\\'ent to Brunswick, in order to consult Dr. Grcefi, the celebrated oculist, fi!ll: a complaint of his eyes, which, without causing any serious lllleasiness, required attention. SundaY lust being the first Sunday in Easter Term, her Majesty's Judges ari'd the Corporation of the City of London attended in state the afte£noon service in St. raul's Cathedral. is now undergoing of the Emperor and Empress the course of the summer. placed at the disposal of the visit to the western ports. appropriated a large piece of at Canton, in the immediate neigl1bourhood of Cardiff, for the a park for the recreation of the inhabitant« of that I'alermo says the ex-King of Bavaria tlrriwd under the name of Count d'Augsbourg. ion " fi·om the tenants of Lord be allowed to vote a~ they think Lord Waterford'S''agent replied Clark and Sir H. Bruce.'' , 1 .. ecnuerg and Baron de Lconrod, Aides-de-Camp to the proeeed to l'aris at the beginning'of 1\Iay to jein who will reach Paris about the middle of May. understand a matrimonial alliance is, arranged between Mr. nd son of the late Sir 1Villiaro:"\Vrixon Beecher, and theLa,dy seeond daughter of the lnte Earl of Listowel. Duke of St"L'i:e-Altenbourg and the Duke of Brunswick Lt Hanover on the 14th inst., on a visit to the Royal family. Mr. F. Peel, the rejected candidate at Bury, will, it is thought the Bristol Adcati~;er), fiJtd a seat in the Lansdowne b0rough ®f ~. where Sir Vf. \Yilliams of Kars will make way for him. The numerous official relations which Fenik-Khan, the Pfilrsian arrival in Europe will detain him in hopes to return to l'ersia. \ rOllZHWS Bravo, the Spanish ::\finister at this Court, evening for raris, en rbute to li'Iadrid. His Exat the openii115 of the Spanish Corte,s, and will m at the end of next month. James JI,Jerl)", Esq., M.P. for the Falkirk District of Burghs Thursday admitted an honorary burgess of the Royal burgh of
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CHINESE CARICATURE OF ~:AN ENGLISH SAILOR. THE MoucHARDS OF P ARis.-Apropos to the very considt;rable THE accompanying is a Chinese caricature of an English sailor issued alarm felt by the entoumge of theTuileries latterly touching the Emperor's personal safety, I think it i8 possible your readers may be amused by an during the last war with China, in the province of Che-keang. It The Dun~fries CouriPr announces the forthcoming publication of describes the British Tar in much the same style as the mythological aec~mnt of~hat. I am royse~· a. P<!rsonal ~·itness to. Three days aao. wlulst walkmg m the Rue l-t1voll with a fnend, my attention was caifed "Ilumfrie~ Album," wllieh will contain contributions from Mr. and other monsters are spoken of in an old Chinese work, called the by the latter to a gentleman who was walking leisurely some paees before Carlyle, Profcs5or !Hackie, !fr. James Hannay, Professor Nichol "Shanhae King; or, Book of Hill ancl Stream." The descriptive us. "Do you know who that is? " was the question put to me· and, to Rev. George Gilfillan,l\Ir. Thomas Aird, Mrs. Johnstone,&e. text proceeds :-" Thi~ creature appeara in the Tsing-teen-heen dis- my negative rt;pl.y,." If you l1ave anY; curiosity about him," added my of Russia v;ill not go to Rome, as ori- trict of Choo-chow-foo, of the capital of Che-keang. Several troops fne~d, •· we WlllJOlll him, al}d make h1m talk upon a subject very familia1• to l~Is under~tand1pg. He IS no other than .:n~., one of the prefects of at ~iee. of men surrounding it, it then changed into blood and water. Soldiers pollee of the Repuolic of 1~48, who held the position for the longe~t period of the Civil Court of Western Australia is should shoot it with fire-arms, for bows and arrows are unable to injt:tre of time, nnd best discharged very difficult office.'' Of course I proit. ·when it appears, the people and troops should be informed that fited by my friend's proposal. tlitat resignation of ~Ir. Barry. 1Ve joined M. ; and, the mutual presentaof the Council of the Empire, and of whoever is able to destroy or ward it off will be most amply rewarded. tion effected, we journeyed on, all three together, up the Champs Elysees, If tho monster find itself surrounded by soldiers, it turns and falls and. on to the outer side of the Arc de Triomphe ; aft10r which we reat St. Petersburg on the nth. into the water. When it meets any one it forthwith eats him. It is descended the Clmmps Elysees by the side opposite to that by wliicli we of the Geographical Society o truly a wonderful monster." As a specimen of caricature, and as had entered them. Our su(}ject of conversation soon became that by L~vil!gstone in Centra showing the terms and exaggerated notions which prevailed on the whicl;t I commenced my letter-the &I1Xiety, namely, of the Government east coast of China, it is a curious illustration of the immense self- touchi}Jg the Emperor's safety. "Yes," remarked our new companion "I immolation of the Chinese which p1·evailed at the capture of Ching- do not need to be apprised of that; I need only look around me as I walk·" this phrase our interlocutor explained thus :-"If it is of any inter~st keang-foo. The smoke from the mouth is probably meant for fumes of 11.nd ~ Y<?U, I wil~ po~nt out, as we .go along,, the individuals, under every tobacco. Imagmable d1sgmse, who, some few years smce, were tlte soldiers of my army. They are everywhere, and by twenties, thirties hundreds· they THE PosTJUASTER-GENEiaL's REPORT.-The third report of are lounging, or wa!kmg quick, apP.aren~ly hurried by bm>iness ; old and the Postmaster-Gene~al on the .rost-oflice, presented to Parliament by you!lg, rich, _Poor, slCk <?r healthy, listen~~g to y~m and me as we converse. command of llCr MaJesty, has JUSt been printed. It commences with prymg, spymg, watchmg all around; and, m truth, it was beyond not~cing the extension of inland service during the last year, in whieh measure~to sec the men M. poi.nted out .to us, and with whom he every periOd 368 post-offices have been added, making the whele present number now and then exchanged lUI Imperceptible sign of recognition. Out of m ~he United Kingdom W,866. The establishment of pillar-boxes is those that struck me. most I will ~otice a few. One was a lame beggar~oticed as a successful experiment, and it is intended in a short man, who went halting along With a most piteous mie:R, and who, our tm~e to put up a. large .additional number in London, Dublin, and infor~ant told us, was rema:r:kably clever at his trade. " Observe," he Edinburgh, and m varwus part.'! of the country. The measures smd, · how he alway~:' contnves to stop and seem to rest himself whenadopted _for accelerating the delivery of letters in London ~including eve1: tw? an~ three men meet upon ~,he foot pavement and begin to talk : William Bowyer Smith prO})OEe to testif)r their ~he sortm"' of co!lntry letters before they reach town and the division }Ie .Is h~tenmg to what _theJ: say: Another was also very ingenious. principles he supports by inviting him to a public mtQ post;.'i' distncts-have been so far successful that the morning deli- ~lns wa~ an elderly-lookmg rnvalld, closely wrapped up, attended by a. Chelmsford on the sth of May. ver;y: of letters commences 33 minutes earlier and is completed 45 minutes hver;v servant, ~nd who had. enscQnsed himself in one of the now very scaffolding in the Cour earlier than before. 1:he conveyance of mails, exclusive ot ;;team- comf~rtable chmrs t~mt garmsh the Grand.Avenue: He bad placed himhave been !liven that all ves~els, a~d not countmg the walks of letter-carriers, within the s_elf m the very middle of a gr<?UP of Sitters of both sexes, whom the of May next. The Umted .Kmgdom extends to over a distance of 61,000 miles per first rays .of this premature sun slime ~ad seduced to what are usually the at the entrance of day, bemg about 2600 miles more than in the end of 1855. 1he haunts of a month later. Others, agam (and a great many), were dr~?ssed nanlC of " Daru " number of letters delivered in England last year amounted to 1 as :vork.men-some in bl0uses, some in warking jackets; several were 388 millions, being an increase of about 5! per cent on the prL>ced- attired ~n "shabby-genteel" costume, looking like poor professors or ing year. The letters delivered in Ireland in the same period were employe;;; whilst some.were as elegantly dres~ed and appeared as gentle42,000,000, and in Scotland 48,000,000 ; the former being an increase of manlike as the generahty of dancers m Paris bnll-rooms. " The place only 1-25 per cent, and the latter 4-! per cent on the ye::tr preceding. The where you may see the mo~t of these gentry," said M., "is-if you will l!roportion of letters is in England 20 to eaell person, in Ireland 1, and in ~ome ~ far as ~he round pomt of the Champs Elysees-ihe fountain. It l:icotland 16. The reduction of the postage on letters to India f1·Qm ls. to IS their gathermg place; they know that, m the eourse of the day, they 6d., made in the beginning of the year, has already caused an increase can always be su.re to find each other ~here." Sure enough, when we from soo,ooo to nt-,arly l,lou,ooo. The correspondence with France has also rcaehed the fountam, w~ found a smal! Circle of these police heroes; and, mcreased, owing to tile reduction of postage. about 1,000,000, or nearly one- as we appr?ached, onr mformant designated them ~o us. "You see the thrrd of the whole former number. The interruption of the packet service seedy-l<?okmg n~an Wit~ a bundle of papers unqer his ann, the journeyto the United States consequent on the exigencies of the late war, caused man pamter lollmg agmnst the edge of. the basm, the dandy examining a considerable diminution in the correspondenee, and, though last the play of the w:ater through his eyeglass, and that tall raw year there was an inerease of 125,000 letters, the number is still con- ragged youth trymg to make a brt of a boat sail along. commenced at the Hotel de Ville for the siderably less~ t~an it was before the interrup.tion. The nui!lber of Wel!, I, ~now every man of them. They are all m?uc!u~1·ds!" newspapers which passed through the Post-offiee last year IS esti- (police . spres). As we passL:f qmte clo.se to these mdivJduals, Il;mted at n,ooo,ooo. Of letters returned, owing to imperlellt direc- we noticed tl~at our C{)mpamon was cyidently known to them; tions, there were about 2,4oo,ooo, and of newspapers 550,000. The but,. as ~e lnmself remarked, "they d1d _not venture to bow'' money :transmitted through the agency of money-order office" , to him. 1 urther on, however, close to the tr~umphal arch, we met an . amounted last ye.tr to £ll,B05,562 for the United Kingdom, and the el.derly man, dressed extr<!mely >yell, an~ earry1pg "respectability" on has dectded to take profit from the transmission, after deducting all expenses, was £22,674. 1 Ins every f~ature. "To th1s o.ne, If you hke," sa1d l\1., "1 will speak;" The gross revenue of the l'ost-ofliee last year is stated to have been ' and accordmgly he accosted lum thus: '' \Vell, so ancl so, then you carry £2,867,954, being an increase of 5~ per cent. As compared with the first o11.your trade s~ill'r ~ sl~,ould have t.hought it, wa~,yretty nearly time to year of penny postage (1H±UJ, the gross revenue was inereased by 111 per rettrc from busmcss. Ah, ~fon~Icur.ie Prcfet! was th? answer o:f c:mt, and, even as compared witll the last year of high rates of postage, tl~e man, who could not ~a~e up l!!s mmd to.treat as an ordinary mortal t:wre has been an increase of 20 per cent. The report notices the con- him who. had once been Ius llllmcd1ate. SL~:penor; ~"I really ea1!not c_ol1tmued practiee of semllng money and other valuables in unregistered sent ~o give up my young men (nws pctds Jennes gens) and t~c fan· ladies; letters as offering great temptation to theft, and as not unfreqnently rais- they mtercst me; not that they a_re worth much-b!Jt tht>y mterest ~e~ ing groundless suspicion7 Numerous instances are mentioned of blamP f!.Ue voule:; vous? . I h.ave the.lHtbit of them!" . Tlus needs. explanatiOn. bt.;mg attachecl to the J>ost-oflice, and to the letter-carriers, when the Ill<: man m q.uestJO~liS e~pecut_lly charged to waEe~l over a ~(Jrtain clas_s of fault8 arose trom negligence of the parties sending the letters, or from the laa1es tn their relationships ~nth yoy.ng men or fnm!ly; _lu~ observations roguery of the perwns to whom they were intrusted to be put into the :Cll went. to prove that never many tifne had the yo~lth of l• ranee been. so Post-office Tbe recent reeommendation to adopt district initials to Immoral, so degraded; but he always !'nded by s<tymg he could not giYe letters has been res110llded to very satisfactorily. Alre>:~dy about 55,000 t~em np yet, because he J:ad "the habit of them. "-Pm·ts Correspmutent letters dailr, or one-third of those posted in the London districts, are so oj tltr' Aianchester Guanlum. addressed. AN A~IERICAN DuEL.- The BaLtimore Republican J:!:~Yes an Tun MoNKS AND TIIE PnEss.-The Capucine Monkt> of account of an extn · Grasse, in fair Provence, have afforded another absurd proof of the spread. . h . ing intolerance of a fraction of the clerical party in France. These \\ 1llC JS individuals, after having denounced from the pulpits as criminal the modern literature of the country (including the works of Ihiers and Lamartine), caned upon the parishio::1ers to deliver up to them all the books tuconnected with rciigious subjects that they might possess. On Easter Thursday, at nine in the evening, a procession, headed by three ;:;tupid friars, proceeded to one of the market~ places of the town, where a stake llad been prepared ; all the books, including the history of the revolution by Thiers, the poetry of Lamartine, and llalzac's works, with a heap of productions by Dumas, Sue, and G. Sand, were then thrown , ~ with much ceremony into the flames. · · t·.1e l'~onte!1egro _ . . ~ ~ ~ . I Huss1a failed to alllmlulate F EROL:K hHAN AND Lo.nD STRATFORD DE REDCLIRFE.-The ' go to ,Jcmrnal de T£heran receive:d by the last Levant mail eontaim; a note from '· Ferouk Khan to Lord Stratford de Hedcliffe, from which it appears that, tlle during his stay at Constantinople, the Persian diplomatist evinc<>d the mostcopciliatory spirit, aud the most pacific disposition, in all his nego- m~""""''o "'"""""'"""' tiatwns with the British .Ambassador. But, being at last out of all Greek Christhuts. patience with Lord i'ltratford's obstinacy, he told him that. in consequence of his systematie refusal to give any answer to the successive proposition::; made, he shoulcl withdraw the eoncessions which he had ofl'ered t{) make . h . for the sake of peace, and should proceed at once to Fra:uee. This dooustates t at ~everal f.1.rmers m the ment proves clearly that Lord Palmerston wilfully dis,toxted facts wh.en he the wages of the1r labourLors from I5s. to 1 t?ld the House of Commons that}-<?rd de Redclitre.was in no way responSlble for the rupture of tlle negotiatlons.--A.1semblee Natwnale. of Norway has unanimously resolved to increase dollars the annual revEnue of the Prinee Royal as
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