MISCELLANEOUS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 2, 6 May 1863, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Home Secretary, not content with the apointnient of a Royal commission to inquire into the subject of criminal treatment, is said to have decided upon an immediate change in the ticket-of-leave system. According to this reported arrangement no convict, after a second conviction, will under any circumstance obtain a ticket-of-leave.

Captain Burton and M. du Chaillu have j settled to visit the gorilla country in company on a sporting tour. General Tom Thumb is about, for the tenth time, if puffs are to be believed, to be married, Mr. Barnum has announced to the public of New York that the future bride of the famous homuncuius is Miss Lavinia Warron, 21 inches high, and granddaughter of General Warren, who was killed at the battle of Bunker's Hill. As the diminutive couple can in future only be exhibited to the j " crowned heads of Europe," the beneficent Barnum offers the New Yorkers a final op- j portunity of attending the general's levees at the American Museum, and at the small | charge of 25 cents, a-head. Garibaldi has now quite got rid of his doc- j tors, but he cannot yet walk about without the aid of crutches. M. Basile, who was in attendance upon him until the 21st of Jan., thinks that he will be able to ride on horseback in about a fortnight. Advices from Turin announce the marriage of M. Ratazzi, lately the head of the Italian Ministry, and the Countess do Solms, nee Bonaparte-Wyse. Although but a few days have elapsed since his death, it is said that the correspondence of the late Marquis of Lansdowne is being prepared { for publication. It is probable that his lordship . commenced the work himself. i The Yelverton marriage case has been set down for hearing on appeal in the House of j Lords, but it will probably not be heard till immediately after the re-assembling of the House at the close of the Easter recess.

A strange story comes to us in relation to the famous Roupell will case. It is said that a witness has turned up who swears that he saw old Mr. Roupell sign the deed of eift of his estate to William Roupell. This deed of gift William Roupell declared he had forged, and for forging it he is now under sentence of penal servitude for life. If the new story should turn out to he true, the case will he in a very curious position, as between the mortgagees of the estate and the claimants to the property. At Rome, a few days ago, a body of gendarmes in uniform invaded the apartments of Lady Herbert, at theLazzano Palace, to protest against the too Italian combination of scarlet and white drapery with green laurel branches at her ladyship's balconies. The danger of a demonstration before the palace, which the gendarmes appeared greatly to apprehend, was avoided by the additioirof a few yards of gold brocade ribbon twined round the laurel branches by Lady Heibert's orders, thus combining tho Papal yellow with the Italian tricolour.