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has, in times of peace that is to say certain, limits. It does not extend to foreign vessels even when within that three-mile zone of sea water which is supposed to be identified with the country which it enema puma and not even. '444 it Med, whce captains of those veggie's run down English ships and cause the death of English subjects. The captain of the " Franconia" does not plead that he is not gulilty to the charge brought against him, namely, that "being on a certain day within the jurisdiction of the High Court of Admiralty, that is, within three miles of the English coast,-he did feloniously kill and slay one Jessie Dorcas Young," the captain's plea is that he was not, at the time referred to, withist the jurisdiction of the High Court of Admiralty. This plea has been admitted by a majority of the judges. The Lord Chief Justice, whose opinion decided the case, rear talAhe assembled Court-the Court for erown Caseg Reserved-the very elaborate' and comprehensive judgment which his laded -
death, in the 37th year of his age, is a loss professor gave Monday and Wednesday to science and a deep affliction to his family ; afternoons to Virgil, Tnesday to Homer, and and although the Queen, says the Times, has Friday to Horace. Of Virgil we read Book FUNERAL OF CARDINAL ANTONELLI. graciously accorded a'peneion to his widow, vi., and of Horace the third book of Odessufficient to place her beyond want, the large that is, what we did read of them. The proKt the same hour at which the painful ' 1 .; Laind him requires some fessor was a perfect scholar, an orator, a message about the death of the Duchess additional aid, which will without doubt be poet, as inflammable as ptroleum, and r d'Aosta was brought to the Quirinal Palace accorded by those who admire genius and sensitive as the " touch-me-not " plant, with on the 8th inst., says the Roman Corresponsympathize with its misfortunes. The tablets a mind the quickest we ever knew, and a dent of the Morning Post, a lugubrious cortege obtained and forwarded by his care for the heart most affectionate, besides being truly a was leaving the gates of the Vatican from national collection have arrived, and are man of God. Well, the session had entered the court of the Zecca. A third-class munian additional claim on the consideration bf its fourth month, and we had gone through cipal hearse, containing the bier and corpse the public. The collections of Babylonian about three nundred verses of Virgil, while of Cardinal Antonelli, was followed by anand other antiqpities purchased by the late from Horace we were just learning not other municipal equipage and three carriages Mr. G. Smith at Bagdad have arrived 'at the /sepia meals tenses re parvis. Oae afternoon belonging to the pontifical palace, occupied British Museum. They consist of about the rector suddenly put in an appearance by General Kanzler, Chevalier Vannutelli, 2,000 objects Among them are the celebrated with some of the patrassi. As they had taken some of the Court prelate, and members of lion, with the name of the Egyptian Shep- their seats, the former asked what portions the Cardinal's household. This procession herd King Set inscribed on its breast, some of the Latin classics we tad been reading, reached the Campo Verano towards daypieces of sculpture, and a great number of " Cicero and Livy of the prose, Horace and break. ounts Luigi and Angelino Anclay tablets with inscriptions in Babylonian Virgil of the poets." " But what part 1" tonelli were expecting it there. The eldest cuneiform, supposed to be the deeds of a quoth he. " Any part," replied the master, brother, Count Gregorio, who resides at commercial firm which continued from the The rector looked puzzled ; the boys-wellTerracina, being unwell, sent his son to retime of Neriglissar to that of Darius. Some we do not know, for we had no looking, present him. Before carrying the bier to the ship had prepared, and which, in the light are dated in mausoleum the corpse of the Cardinal's of his clear intellect and lucid reasoning, name occurs the reign of Belshazzar, whose glass, nor did we look at one another-but as King for the first time in perfectly astounded at the coolness of the brother Filippo, many years governor of the makes the intricacies of the case clear and these cuneiform inscriptions. Some other teacher. One thing, however, all who have Roman Bank, and deceased in 1873, was ex- comprehensible to all. It appears from his of interest are among them. documents survived will remember the strange feeling humed from the provisional depot. The two Lordship's showing that the proverbial right that seized us ; for " Was he going to make a biers were then carried processionally, with of individual cations to a jurisdiction over a fool of every one of his boys 1" We were cross and tapers, by the Capuchins of S. three miles' circumference beyond their eleven in the class. It was a small college, Lorenzo to the upper part of the cemetery, shores is " entirely the creation of writers on DEATH OF LORD HERRIDS. in a provincial town, that has given some in which the just completed mausoleum is international law. It is true," observes his We deeply regret to announce the death very great men to the world, but of which situated. This monument, designed by the Lordship, "that the writers who have been Lord Baron did not sing enthusiastically. of Baron Harries, which occurred on Sunday architect Mercandetti, is simple but grand, cited constantly refer to treaties in support consisting of a square basement, with of the doctrine they assert. But when the morning last at his hotel in Berkeley -square. There we were on the pillory, in the stocks, His Lordship's health had been for some billeted for better for worse, for " what not?" candelabra at the cornet, surmounted by a treaties they refer to are looked at, it will time past in an unsatisfactory state. The The rector, with ill -disguised impatience, cone, and bearing the brief inscription be found that they relate to two subjects deceased, William Constable -Maxwell, Baron called for one of the boys, and, opening " Famiglia Antonelli." A door gives access only- the observance of the rights of Hurries of Terregles, in the peerage of Virgil at random, chanced on the very death to the lower floor, in which are &cub for the neutrality and the exclusive right of fishing." Scotland, was the eldest son of Mr. of Tumus. The poor boy, pale and trembcoffins, and another door opens into the The inquiry, therefore, naturally Marmadake William Constable -Maxwell, of ling, began to read, and on he went, while chapel above. The dimensions are sufficiently itself, to whom are calprita such as suggests Captain Carlaverock Castle, Dumfries, and Evering- the relentless questioner seemed carried colossal to render the effect of the mass very Freyn to be responsible ? The Lord Chief ham Park, York, by his wife Theresa away by the beauty of the passage, unconimposing. Here the wooden coffin containing Justice admits that, from the frequency of the Cardinal's corpse was enclosed in a leaden collisions round the coasts, it is desirable that Apollonia, daughter of Mr. Edmund Wake- scious of the torture to which he had doomed man, of Beckford, county Worcester. He the unlucky pupil. But, no ; we take the one, with the family arms, and sealed down commanders of foreign vessels should be was born on the 25th August, 1804, and word back because as he was advancing he by an employe from the Vatican with the amendable to local law, and suggests that married. 12th November, 1835, Marcia, seemed to become more self-possessed, and Pontifical seal Finally, placed in the the remedy must be applied by the action of daughter of the Hon. Sir Edward so much so that at the end he described the ensolease Arensttlhootaa cefrin the ....Leujejegure_ Betera,..kowev.ee,-Pailia- eldest he,,,Vavasorr, Bart., of Haalewood, in York- last victim of the Lavinian struggle with untaining the remains ut his brother Filippo, ment can act in the matter, it will be shire. By her ladyship, who survives him, common pathos, until, with a hoarse sound After the usual prayers the Cardinal's rela- necessary, in the opinion of his Lordship, tives and the persons who had accompanied that the Sovereigns of other States should he leaves a family of six sons and eight of his voice, be launched the soul of the his funeral cortege left the cemetery, no one be consulted. Mr. Justice Lush, on the con- daughters, three of whom are nuns, namely upstart sub umbras, just as the teacher would else having witnessed the ceremony. At trary, believes that Parliament has a perfect the Hon. Mary Agnes, the Hon. Eleanor himself have read to us a parallel passage. Mary, and the Hon. Emily Josephine. The It was evident that, although he had never 10 a.m. the same persons were attending the right "to legislate as it may think fit for Solemn Requiem Mass for the Cardinal's soul those waters," namely, the waters of the late peer's father, Marmaduke William before read those lines, he had caught their at the Church of Santa Maria in Traspontins, three-miles belt surrounding the coast, Constable, assumed by Royal license the spirit, and the recitation ended perfectly. additional surname of Maxwell, an eldest Then, as he was requested to render the in company with nearly all the Vatican which, says Mr. Justice Lush, are termed, colony and the members of the diplomatic " in the language of diplomacy and of inter- son of Lady Winifred Maxwell, only whole passage into vernacular, with a fluent daughter and heiress of William Maxwell, diction, choice words, and not once faltering, h'o'ly accredited to the Holy See. Of the national law, the territorial waters of Sacred College only Cardinal di i'ictro Briiain." However much learned Great called Earl of Nithsdale, by his wife, Lady he acquitted himself with universal applause. doctors Catharine Stewart, daughter of Charles, One or two more boys were called up, and attended in a reserved gallery, but the crowd may disagree upon the technicalities cif the of ex -Pontifical officers, soldiers, and em- matter, the result will very certainly be some fourth Earl of Traquair, who would have the visitors took their leave much pleased. inherited, but for the attainder of her grand- Then it was our turn to ask the master why ployes was so great that it was difficult to clear definition of the law by Act of Parliasqueeze into the church, although it was ment, whereby conduct so reprehensible as father, the barony of Herries of Traquair. he had done that. " Well, boys," said he, worth while to do so, if only to hear the ex- that of the captain of the " Franconia " shall Lady Winifred was descended from Sir " I expected it all along. You see it now. Herbert de Maxesivell, who sat in the How many times you have wondered at my quisite singing of the Pope's choristers. who not again be liable to escape without due Parliament of Scone, 5th February, 1283-4, keeping you so long on perhaps only three or are now rarm eves in Roman Church chastisement. when the nobles agreed to acknowledge the four lines a whole afternoon Now you solemnities. " Maiden of Norway " as Queen of Scotland, understand. We have not read Virgil, but Cardinal Antonelli's will has been found, and was of Sir Eustace Maxwe have grandfather studied Latin poetry, and you have in his own handwriting, and was to have well, the gallant defender of Carlaverock learned it. In future we shall skim the been opened on the 8th inst., and exhibited THE LATE MR, GEORGE SMITH. against King Edward I., and from him poets here and there, as I may choose, and to the proper authorities. The discovery of the manner of reading descended the Maxwells, Lords of Herries, of at the final exhibition you shall be ready Relative to Cardinal Antonelli, there to The read to appears to he a pleasure manifested in stat- the Persian cuneiform by Grotefend in 1830, Terregles, and Earls of Nithsdale. the auditorium any part of the ing from what a modest family he sprang. and the subsequent decipherment of the deceased nobleman was consequently heir of What does this prove 1 Have not the ma- Assyrian by the late Dr. Ilincks and Sir H. the body of Herbert Herries, Lord Herries, Greek and Latin authors the audience may jority of celebrated men risen from the most Rawlinson in 1836, followed by the researches of 1489. An Act of Parliament passed in think fit to call for." And so we did, and humble positions in the social scale to reach of Edwin Norris, Mr. Fox Talbot, and Mr. 1848 by which Mr. William Constable -Max- did it well. the most elevated ? Demosthenes was the Sayce, and in 1866 by the late Mr. George well and all the other descendants of the son of a blacksmith Virgil of a baker ; Smith, placed this country in the first rank body of William Earl of Nithsdale were Horace of a freedman ; Theophrastes of a of this branch of inquiry. Mr. Smith had restored in blood ; thereon Mr. Constable salesman ; Amyot of a currier La Moth of already attained ten years ago such an emi- Maxwell presented a petition to her Majesty THE LATE DON FRANCISCO MERRY. a hatter J. B. Rousseau of a shoemaker ; nence in this study that, at the recommenda- praying to be declared and adjudged enMoliere of an upholsterer Quinaut of a tion of Sir H. Rawlinson, he was employed titled to the honour and dignity of Lord on the Egyptian Herries of was Terregles. The petition recollections of the Museum, working baker ; Fldchier of a tallow Death has recently deprived the Carlist candler Rollin of a cutler Massillon of a and from his own powers of decipherment ferred to the Housz of Lords, when, on the cause of one of the oldest as well as bravest tanner ; J. J. Rousseau, Dupont, and and from the materials placed at his disposal, report of the Committee of Privileges, and most devoted of its defenders. Don Beaumarchais of watchmakers. Was not rapidly attained to the position of the most declared June 23, 1858, the dignity of Lord Francisco Merry was born in Seville on the Homer a Medicant ? Francois Arago had a advanced Assyriologist in this country. His Herries was granted to Herbert Loid Herries 6th November, 1793, his father being a resifarmer for his father Canova was attached chief works were a history of the Assyrian and the heirs of his body ; that it devolved dent merchant there, of Irish descent, and monarch Assurbanipal, or Sardanapulus, upon and was enjoyed by Agnes Lady his mother a lady of noble to the service of the House of Falieri Andaldsian exColumbus was the son of a wool -carder ; accompanied by the Assyrian texts and Herries, as eldest co -heir of the body of traction. He entered the British navy as that Mr. midshipman, and was present in the Stork Cook of a peasant ; Copernicus of a baker. translations, in 1571, and his discovery of Herbert Lord Herries, and D'Alembert, a foundling, was reared by a Assyrian tablets in the collections of the Constable -Maxwell was the lineal heir of the frigate at the seige of San Sebastian, in 1813, draper ; and Franklin and Fulton started Museum recounting the Chaldmao version of body of Agnes Lady Herries, and the barony for which service he afterwards received the from much more miserable positions in life. the Flood, communicated to the Society of of Harries consequently devolved upon him. naval war medal. In the Spanish navy, Jacquard was the offspring of a weaver ; Biblical Archaeology on the 3rd of December, The deceased peer is succeeded in the which he subsequently joined, he rose to the Herschel was a street musician Mongc, the 1872, at an evening meeting, at which Mr. Scottish peerage and extensive estates in rank of post captain, and during the revolueon of a hay dealer Bernard Palissy and Gladstone, then Prime Minister, was present. Yorkshire and Dumfriesshire by his eldest tionary troubles of 1820-23 was remarkable Laplace were the children of peasants; and He had already, at the close of 1871, dis- son Marmaduke, Master of Herries, born 4th for his truly Conservative and Royalist opinVolta was brought up on charity Sixtus; V. covered the value of most of the letters of the October, 1837, and married 14th April, 1875, ions. When Ferdinand VII. was arrested., was a herder of pigs, and Colbert was the Cypriote alphabet. Mr. Smith made three Hon. Angela Mary Cnarlotte Fitzalan by the Cortes and thrown into prison at expeditions to Kouyunjik, the ancient Howard, second daughter of Lord Howard Cadiz, Don Francisco Merry proposed to run son of a cloth -merchant. Nineveh, opposite the modern Mosul, in of Glossop. His lordship holds a commis- in his ship and carry the King off in triumph 1873-1874 and 1876-two for the Trustees of sion in the West Yorkshire Yeomanry to Gibraltar ; but the intention became the British Museum and the third for the (Hussars). The creation of the barony known through some on the part oversight Daily Telegraph, and died on his return from dates back to 1489. the motto of the house of the King THE FRANCONIA., himself, and Don Francisco, who the last in the autumn of this year, having being Dominus dedit.-Weekly Register. had gone to Selville to make certain arrangeThe anxiously -awaited judgment in the secured by purchase about 2,000 tablets and ments with reference to the affair, was case of the " Franconia," which was delivered other objects for the national collections. astounded to read in the revolutionary offiby the Lord Chief Justice while it decides Educated only till cial Journal the entire details of the plot, toupon the actual case of Captain Freyn, opens quainted with no his 15th year, and acMIILTUM NON MULTA. language than his gether with his own name as that of the up a question of vast importance in interna- own and the ancientother Assyrian, the admirable Exclude from your classes the cramming prime mover. He managed to rejoin his tional law, and one which it is earnestly to penetration, undaunted and research, logical system. Prof. Cram is the brane, the evil ship in disguise, and when the King re-enbe desired will be dealt with by Parliament acumen he showed in the in the coming Session. Britannia " rules the Assyrian texts entitle him interpretation of genius of our classical halls. Supporters of tered Madrid Don Francisco was on the to be considered the " forty lines a day " rule, listen It was occasion created a Knight Commander of sea," as we are all aware from our youth an instance of and reliant our good fortune to learn the classics in a the royal and distinguished order of Charles upwards, but her jurisdiction, it now appears, scholarship rarely self-taught found. His premature Jesuit college. We were in rhetoric. Our .
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