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The EARL OF CARLISLE has recently given two lectures before the
Tradesmen's Benevolent Society of Leeds, and the Mechanics' Institute of
the same city, upon the Scenes, Institutions, and Characteristics of the
United States, which he visited when Lord Morpeth.

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LEIGH HUNT has probably done a foolish thing in again becoming an
editor. He is too old. We have, by the last steamer, "Leigh Hunt's
Journal: a Miscellany for the Cultivation of the Memorable, the
Progressive, and the Beautiful"--certainly a characteristic title.

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A Posthumous work of JOSEPH BALMAS,--(the celebrated Spanish priest,
whose book on Catholicism and Protestantism has lately been translated,
and published in Baltimore, and who perished prematurely in 1848), has
just been published. It is entitled _Escritos Posthumos, Poesias
Posthumos_, and contains prose and verse on science, literature, and
politics.

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The Death of the late MRS. BELL MARTIN, at the Union Place Hotel, in
this city, was briefly noticed in the last number of the
_International_. It appears from a statement in the London _Times_ that
the vast estates known as the Connemara property, to which she had
succeeded as the daughter and heiress of the late Mr. Thomas Martin, of
Ballinahinch Castle, in Galway, was among the first brought into the new
"Encumbered Estates Court," and has been for some months advertised for
sale. The Dublin _Evening Mail_ has the following remarks upon the
melancholy history of Mrs. Martin, whose novel of "Julia Howard" must
preserve for her a very distinguished rank among the literary women, of
our time:

"The vicissitudes of life have seldom produced a sadder or more
rapid reverse than that by which the fortunes of this excellent
lady were darkened and overthrown. Born to a noble inheritance
which extended over a territory far exceeding the domain of
many a reigning German prince, her name was known throughout
the United Kingdom as that of "the Irish heiress." Five years
ago her expectancy was considered to be equivalent, over and
above all encumbrances and liabilities, to a yearly income of
5,000_l._ Before two years of the interval had elapsed she
found herself at the head of her patrimonial estates, without a
shilling that she could