New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-24

81 the Queens Secretaree oil STATE VINO WIZ P'""~'|
be the Duke of Newcastle.
The confirmation Of Priuse Alfred was to take
place at Windsor Castle on the 5th inst IN ra'ne'
ratronizipg manner the Court Journals STAYED
would be no state observed, and toat tne reS'ou1 TVS
would be performed with every simplicity
Alta recen, levee of Queen Victor'a, there was
one oirouuas ance which gave to politicians peculiar
Interest VIZ the presence OF the swiss envey NJ dc
Ia Rive Never siuce Der Majesty accession even
du,o the complications respecting Neufchaso has the
freoubtc sent an envoy to England.
81, The Prescott Historical Prize for the bes. Essay
an the Hartford Convention by a student Of Trinity
Couees, Conn.,, has been awarded TO air. Charles a.
Stocking of the Sevior Class Geo. Ticknor OF Bos-
CON, suthOr of History of Spanish Literature, wa,
the Judge who made the award.
Paul MendelssobD, the brother Of the composer,
proposes TO publish collection of the lAtters
pundence, and he calls on all who have any manu-
scripts from bis hand to allow him TO them. Herr
Drcysen viii edit the velume.
Mile. Titens, who Is now about commencing an
engagement at Her Msjsstys Thestsr, in London was
recently singing at Barcelona, in SpaiD her admirers
on her benefit right presented her laurel crown in
silver with berries In gold.
IN. w. Lyon, a Revolutionary soldier, died at his
inst, in hs 1Olst year. He engaged in tue Con-
Eissariat Department of the Army for some time.
"A Paris musical critic, in paying q compliment to
The talent of Miss Isabella HmcAley Of Albany, now
the priua donna of the Grand o pera st Amsterdam,
calls her Mile. Isabella InoIii
The Academy of Sciences of Paris occupied part
OF ts last sitting in discussing the question whether
there stl remained any bears in the County Of McH
gan, United States.
Mr. Albert Smith recently closed his entertainment
aChinav with its four hundredth repetition. Gu Eas'
ter Monday he was to give a remodoled edition of
I" Mont Blanc"
There are now in the Massachusetts, State Prison
st Charleston SD convi;s, larger number than it
ever before contained.
--JulIens widow, an English woman, is said TO be
: IN great distress in Paris.
The st. Georges Society of Toronto instead of
providing their annual dinner Monday, celebrated
the occasion in the cathedral and gave to the poor the
money the Banquet would have cost. 4
Mr. Alexander Parker, citizen of Philsdelphia,
died ON Friday, at an advanced age. lie was ex-
cellent botanitt, and psssOnstey fond OF flowers
and shrubbsry, and was the proprietor of sn institution
favorsbly known to tbs past generation as Parkers
Garden" When Tenth street was opened, twenty five
years ago. it was cat tough the middle Of bis gardens
this sorely distressed him, and caused harmless men,
tal alteration.
The Flnence correspondent Of The Ne,cGrk Id
eefisey saws that the wife and children of Dr. Achil
about whom some excitement was recently created in
Hoboken, are in perfectly destitute condition. living
on the aims Of our eountrymen in Florence. He
shipped them at NewYork last year, under sPscious
pretex with the promise to supply their wants month
L. h. b;lIs If which only inten-
Cenoe they have had of hin was through the news
psper report of his having another and child In
Eev-Jersey Measures have been taken TO call him to
account
George Smith, the mate Of the schooner A. L.
Packer run down and sunk last week in the Sound has
returned safely to bis home The last the captain Of
him he was floating in the water; boat from the yes
sci with which the schooner came in collision went al
Ter him, and after much exertion he was saved. So
the only person lost by the accident is Frank Stearns
the cook.
Another step toward what il is to be hoped will be
final settlement of the quarrel about the little Ella
Burns has Just been taken at Cincinnati. The father
Mr. Whitten, appeared petitioner in a suit agans
Miss Martha Pollock, alias Burns. The respondent
did not appear. The petitioner alleged that there had
been an mfr action of the covenants Of the ndenure IN
tbs: that Miss p undertook therein TO provide main
tensnce for the child whereas she has been exhibiting
her making her not only support herself bat furnish
ing large revenue to the respondent The father OF
the child also objected having his daughter brought
out in public claimed thas the respondent had no right
TO take her out of the State, and that she was not
proper guardian for her, being woman of lswd aud
bad reputation These points seemed to be sustained
by the evidence, and the verdict of the Jury was
ths the defendant had violated ths contract of in
denture, and was guilty of gross cruelty toward the
child and also for $3.50 damages AL this is very WELL
but the woman Pollock is not to be found, and the
child Ella, is with her.
Senator Andrew johnson recently made a speech
on the Homestead bill In the Of bis remarks,
he quoted passage from Mscaulays HOradus," and
introduced it thus: "To show what the policy of
Rome in her most prosperous days. will read portion
of one of the old Roman lays, translated and pub
Hshed by Mscaulay."
MIR. h, X. Jones, the late editor of The Hhig and
Republican fourishing daily printed at Quincy Ill.,
has retired and his place is to be taken by Mr. j. W.
Ray late of The aurora Beacon.
Tho railway conductor by whose negligence the
accident on the Grand Trunk Road occurred last
Wednesday near Strstford Canada has been arrested
on a charge Of granddaughter, the Coroners jury find.
ing verdict calling for the issue of such warrant.
1t is said though the tale is not conoborated that
recently FIVE members of family residing in Fayete
vile, Brown County, Ohio died by poison, which had
been mixed with -four. The miller had missed consd
cradle quantities of -four and, determining TO detect
the tbiei mixed arsenic with bag Of the staple com
mod " which he placed in 8 conspicuous place and