The preparations which were making at Lansdowne House for the
grand dinner to his Majesty were countermanded at three o'clock on Wednesday ; it being signified that his Majesty, at the conclusion of the Levee, would return direct to the Castle. —Herald.
Messrs. M. D. Hill, Thesiger, and W. Erle, have lam, appointed King's counsel.
The preamble of the great Western Railway Bill has been carried in the Committee of the House of Commons, after an unexampled contest of fifty-five days. The Dungurvan Election Committee have confirmed the return of Mr. Jacob.
Paganini bas written a long letter to a Parisian journal, in denial of the charge of seducing Miss Watson. He declares that she left her father's house, where she was badly treated, in order to receive instruc- tion in music from him. Ile says that her father at one time gladly accepted his offer of three years' gratuitous instruction, but afterwards refused it.
The programme of the Rees of July has been definitively fixed. Arrangements similar to those of last year will be made, with the ex- ception of the mock vessel of-war, anal tine ball at the Hotel de Ville. There will be a display of fireworks, dancing inn the Champs Elysines, some young girls portioned and married, free represent:along at the theatres, and a review of the National Guards.—Frenek Punier. [This Pre must be regarded as a bitter mockary by the End:wed dupes of the Kim; of the Barricaees.] On Sunday evening, a young woman threw lie:self out of a window in the Rue de l'Eaout. She fell upon a women carrying a child, both of whom were seriously hurt, whilst she esaaped without the sligh:est injury.—Paris Paper. The olive-trees in the South of France have all flowered, notwith- standing the extreme dryness of the season, which has done so much injury in Provence : but the olives have all dropped from the tee so that there will be no oil harvest in the department of the Var. There is a very extensive exportation of wiles to Algiers.
The great canal in Burgundy, which was begun many years ago, is at last opened to navigation. The States of Burgundy had ordered the first works in 1775, and the Emperor had continued them. The sums expended on this prodigious undertaking may be estimated at about 1,600010/. sterling. Its length is forty-eight French leagues, and a line of interior navigation of three hundred leagues is now thus aasurad to trade. There are 189 edicies, and a subterranean gallery, pierced through a mountain to the extent of about one-third of a league.
Another canal between the Rhine and Rhone is opened to to de within the lust few weeks. It is supplied with water by the Saone at St. Synphonien, and in the Rhine at Kilstet, a small village near Strasburg.
An Antwerp journal states, that on the preceding Sunday, no old custom, that of blessing the sea, which had been discontinued for the last forty years, was revived at Ostend with great pomp. A very nu- merous procession, consisting of priests and a great number of in- habitants, with lighted tapers, fuming censers and banners, and attended by the civic guard and the troops of the garrison, marched to the shore, where, after the prayers proper on the occasion, the chief clergyman gave his benediction to the ocean.
A subscription is about to be entered into at Stuttgatd, for the pur- pose of raising a monument in honour of the poet Schiller. The statue is to be of colossal dimensions, and represented in a sitting posture : the head will be copied from the fine bust, the work of Dannecker. Thorwalsden, the prospectus states, has offered to make a sketch of the statue, and to watch over the execution of the model.
The David Scott, a remarkably fine ship of 775 tons register, but capable of carrying 1000 tons, left Graveseud on Thursday, for Sydney, New South Wales. She had 350 passengers ; of whom '2C) were fe- males, aged from fifteen to thirty. With a few exceptions, they were provided with their passage by Government, on payment of 51. each. Some other emigrants were also on board, who were furnished with passages on their own notes of hand for If. each, payable some time after their arrival. The young women were generally in high spirits ; though some of them were deeply affected, and even fainted at parting from their friends and their native land. Among the passengers, were Mr. and Mrs. Gibbons, from Kinsale in Ireland (the lady a cousin of Mr. O'Connell), with their family ; and fifteen other agricultural families from the Home Counties. The David Scott was in all respects well found. The officers of the Emigration Committee supetintended the embarkation of the emigrants. The ship was towed by a steamer to the Name, and set sail amidst loud cheers.
A judgment was pronounced by the First Division of the Court of Session, on Saturday lust week, which involves a question of the highest national importance. Sir George Warrender raised an action of divorce against Lady Warrender, whom he accused of adultery. She asserted her innocence ; but pleaded in bar of trial, that she was an English- woman ; and as the marriage had been contracted in England, accord- ing to the rites of the English church, it could not he dissolved except by the authority of Parliament. She referred to the famous case of Lolly, who twice contracted a marriage in England, and being tried criminally for bigamy, was convicted, although he had obtained a decree of divorce from his first wife, in the Courts of Scot- land. Lolly was sentenced to seven years' transportation, and actually confined for a considerable time in the bulks pursuant to his sentence. Since that time, the parties to English marriages have been repeatedly divorced in Scotland, after acquiring a domicile here ; but none of
these judgments have been taken to appeal. The Court repelled the preliminary defence of Lady Warrender; and as it is expected that the
judgment will be appealed, the country cannot fail to look with anxiety to the mode in which the Lord Chancellor, who is bound to administer Scottish law in a Scottish cause, will decide a case in which there is a direct cortflictus lequm between the laws of the two countries. Upon this subject the laws of England, it is believed, differ from those of every other Protestant state, and ninny Roman Catholic states.— Edinburgh Courant.
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