Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-05-09

Micready the actor nov in his sixy-eghth year, has
Just married Miss Cece L. f. Spencer who is only in
her 23d year. Macready has LEFT his home at SherbOurnc
take up his residence elsewhere. Before leaving he
gave public reading for the benefit of Wesleyan Cha
pei in the town, the selections being 'lhe Landing Of
the Pilgrim Fathers Bridge Of Signs Dying Chris
tan, and act from "lIenry W. After the enter
tanment, Episcopal clergyman Of the place and
after complimentary speech, proposed that vote OF
thanks be presented to w g. Macready Esq, ac-
compauied by a sincere desire that Gods blessing may
rest himself and family wherever they 60 This mo-
lion was carried with accliuaion.
Queen Victoria has built in S. Georges Chapel Wind
sor beautiful monument 20 tie Duchess OF Gloucester
IL is Of marble, and ornamental with groups OF figures il
Illustrative of Of charity AMI pety 1t bears the fol-
lowing inscription This tmb has been erected by
Queen Victoria tribute o respect and affection to
her beloved aunt Mary Duchess Of Gloucester, Ammo
Domni 1859
Russia fas found commercial opening for her stores
OF ice line Of vessels on tt Caspian carry that
commodity TO the port OF Bender Buschir to the great
reireshmett OF all Persia whep sherbets the tap and
ice has worshppers than fire.
Articles of agreement have been signed between the
Atlantic Royal Mail Steamship Navigation Company and
the English Admirably for th establishment of line of
steamers To run from Galway to New York once fort
night aud from Galway to Boston fortnight touch
ing at St Johns Newfoundland, each way. The con
tractors bind themselves deliver teegraphic messages
St JOhus within six days from the time OF leaving Gal
Inc vessels are 10 De nov tnir TWO thousand
tons builders measurement withC ngiucs of less than
45O horse power and the company is to receive q 5O9
for each entire voyage. The cntract is To
not later than the 1T Of June 1860 and the contract
ors bind themselves under t2OOoO for It's full perform
ance.
Lord Ebury in the House of Lords has given notice
that in the first week in May, he will move "Tlt hum
bic address be presented the Queen praying her Ma
jesy to be pleased TO appoint commission to consider
whether the Book OF Common Prayer and the canons
OF the Church of England be rot susceptible of atera-
tons which will give increased efficacy and stability to
the religious institutions of the country"
Il is said that the Quakers are gradually disappearing
from England Two hundred years ago their proportion
in Great BG,ain about Que in every one hundred
and thirty Inhabitants. At present they DO count
one ia a thousand There is a collection of old Quaker
tracts preserved in the Bodlean Library, with note
written upon them by Oxford Professor, stating that
he had collected them and placed them in the Library,
that persons who should wish in aftertmes to know
what the belief OF Qulkers was could find the statement
OF their tenets in these tracts
Over 400 emgrants took their departure from England
for America by the mail steamers which left Queenstown
for New York aud Portland. While the were
in the harbOr considerable number Of country people,
friends of the emgrants accompanied them board to
bid them farewell, intending 10 return either by boat or
by Of tlestam tenders, which they supposed would
remain alongside. To their dsmay however the mails
being placed board, the steamers ct uld r weigh,
being bound under heavy penalties to be o. the route by
given time aud before any could b. piocur to
send the parties ashore the Gamers were route TO
America having twenty-siX OF them on board. Sever
of these unuciy individuals had actually left their carts
and some Oft tie members OF their fan Ne behind them
in Qeenstown, and the ncC ngeneace aud alarm ca
stoned By the unwelcOme p TO VIII ca they Ia been
treated may be easily imagined
A Belgian journal gives an example of husband who
is ready do justice under the most trying ccumstan
ces The wife being accused Of poisoning, aud on the
point of being convicted begged that the husbans tes
timony might be admitted in Ler favor The request
granted and the declared that the best proof of her
innocence was the fact that he was alive "or said he
Il am that my wife had possessed the least dspo
ston to poison any one she would have begun with me,
whom shu has hated cordially 70? ten years" This evil
dence conclusive the jury laughed, aud the woman
acquitted.
Francis Victor Hugo, son of Victor Hugo is trans
ating Shakespeare into French. He gives new idea
in regard to the Classification Of the plays. In Engih
books they simply divided into tragedies, comedies
and histories 0ne Of his volumes is entitled Fairy
Tales it contains Midsummer Nights Dream and The
Tempest. Another, 4" The Tyrants" composed of Mac
beth, King John aud Richard ILL., third Plays of
Jealousy" consisting of Troilus and Cressdl Much Ado
about Nothing A Winters Tale 0thelo, &c.
Madame LenOrmant, the widow of the learned Aeade-
mican sold at auction in Paris few weeks since an
original portrait of Madame Recamer, by Gerard, for
10000 francs The of the purchaser is not given.
An of Madame L. sale of pictures is contained
in l. Union Of March Sth.
A translation of Prescotts History of the Reign of
Philip II into French by G. Renson p Ihier, has been
published oy the Didot Brother, of Paris.
A learned work upon Indian Races has made its
appearance in Paris. History of the Indians of the
United States, from official statistics and reports pub
shed by Congress in 1851, by NJ. Mondot." Svo
A new book of American travels by a Frenchman, +.
Dabadie has appeared "Rects ct Types Americans u
is its title 3SS pages limo