The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-07-17

Letters from Alexandria of the last of Nv state
that difficulties had occurred between the lceroy
and the Consuls of France and England. \rtn-
Bey had been sent for, TO return to Cairo andegu-
late the affair. The Consus complain of thad-
minstration OF Justice and the continual insul TO
which they are subjected There is, also, anoter
cause of complaint in the fact that the officers of
the way to India, in direct contradiction of tn
words Of the treaty. The viceroy refused TO see
the Consuls who wished 10 make personal
monstrance, on the plea Of sickness. II is also
stated that the Consuls Of England and France al
Gedda had been insuted. They were summariIy
advised To leave Gedda, which is one of the Holy
States, under threats of diragreeabe treatment.
Gedda, in the days of Mehemer Ali and lbrahim
Pacha, belonged to Turkey, the population of which
entertained more tolerant feelings towards Chris
tians than the Egyptians do. There was much dis
satisfaction in the army, probably IN consequence
of the adoption Of uniform like The Turkish,
which is nearly European, instead of the old Ma
hometan garb
The library of the Duke of Buckingham, recent
ly sold in England, was one of the most recherche
private collections in the kingdom. Among other
treasures of antiquarian interest the following,
many Of which strike us as too valuable to have
been allowed to be purchased by an individual col
lector they should have been procured for the
British Museum, or for of the great universe
ties
| A collection of original Ango-Saxon charters,
from the 7th to the llth century, on parchment in
large folio volume. The first charter is that of
Wilfred, King of Kent, A. d. 697, by which he
grants certain lands to the nuns of Lining, in
Kent The subscriptions are in the same hand as
the text The first subscriber is the King, who
says that, being ierate, he only makes the sign of
the cross, and that he has asked proper witnesses
to subscribe it.
The Annals of the Four Masters, comprising the
ancient history of Ireland from the earliest period
to the 18th century, in the original autograph of
Michael O'Cleary, one of the four masters 4to.
This volume begins, like most chronicles of the
middle ages, with the Deluge, which it dates with
the Septuagnt A. M. 2242, and ends with the An
gloNorman invasion of Ireland, A. D. I'LL
small volume, containing 1876 pages of veIlum,
each about ar inch square, which are written in
English the seven penitential psalms 1t is bound
in gold, enameIed in black, and furnished with two
small gold rings, by which it might have been sus-
pended round the waist of its possessor. This book
was given by Henry VIII. to Anne Boleyn, and
by her presented at her execution to her maid of
honor, Mrs. Wyatt
An original authority from Queen Mary to the
Lord High Treasurer and the officers of the mint
to take, throughout England, art6cers, metals, and
other materials for making money, with authority
to imprison such should resist the order, with
the sign-manual of Marye the Queene One of
her majesty's titles in this curious document is
defender Of the Faythe, and in earthe of the
Churche of England, and alsoe of Irelande the SUI
preame hedd.'
An original letter from Lady Arabella Stewart to
Charles Gosing, dated March %, 1909. The
postscript is as follows: Remember the old buck
Of Sherland, and the roasted tench and other
if thou be still good fellow and an honest man
show it now, or be hanged"
Oliver Cromwell. A warrant under the sign
manual of the Protector, dated January L. 1854, and
directing payment of salaries due to certain officers
of the Parliament and others, with autographs of
the receivers--the most remarkable among which
are those of rhurloe, the Secretary to Cromwell
The Forgeries of William Henry Ireland, with
his Original Confessons-sixteen tracts, containing
the MS. notes, which Ireland endeavored TO impose
upon the world as the handwriting of Shakespeare,
Lord Southampton, &c.