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      Miscellaneous The Court.—Prince Frederic...

      The Orient .- —The preparations for the expedition , to tie Persian Gulf are continued on a large scale . A detachment from the army before Herat has seized the Arfghancity of Furrathy arid sent the Governor a pri-Bonen to' Teheran . Advices have been received from Cahul to the 1 st of October . They represent Herat aa still holding out . Other accounts state that it has fallen . The Directors of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway have issued an advertisement for tenders for * a line from . "Wasama to Nagpore , a disbance . ofi four hun dred and eighty-sevein miles .. The- native troops , at peshawur are suffering much from fever . Exchange at Bombay , 2 s . Id . ll-lGths , with an easy money market . The new Government loan is making very little progress . Prices in the import market are steady . The-Calcutta market has been subject tovery little change . Exchange , Is . Hid . to 2 s . 3 d .

      Freedom of the Bridges ., — A report has been presented to the Board of Works from the Committee of Finance to the effect that ; in their opinion , the only practicable way of . thnbwing open Southwarkand Wa- » terloo bridgesnis by purchasing the interest of the proprietors . The report was adopted . The Board of Works is about to negotiate with the City of London for the purchase of part of the site of the late Fleet Prison ^ in JTarringdoiv-street , in order to build thuareonac set of offices for the Board . De . Livingston . — The arrival of Dr . Livingston , the African traveller , in this country , is expected , according to the Leeds Mercury , in about a fortnight .

      Thh ? Poo » -IiA \ v Boakd an » the Parish ov St . Panckas . — -At the weekly meeting on Tuesday of the Board . of Directors of the Poor of St . PancraSj a communication from the Poor-Law Board , directing attention to the overcrowding of the workhouse , and threatening legal proceedings in case the Board ' s orders were longer disobeyed , was read . Tins elicited some expressions of indignation ; but finally the subjoined resolution was carried on the motionof Mr . Cooper : — " That the numbers in the workhouse be reduced , as soon as practicable , to 1380 , and that there be no orders given for admission , except by magistrates and to the infirmary . That out-door relief be given to any other applicants entitled to receive it ; that Little Bedlam be no longer used for female lunatics , and that those there be removed to some asylum . "

      Health of London . —The total deaths in London , which-inr the previous -week were 969 ^ rose to 1006 in the week that ended last Saturday . The average number in the ten weeks corresponding to last week , of the years 1046-55 , was 1032 ; and , if this number is to be- compared -with the deaths now returned , it must be raised in-proportion to increase of population , -when it will become 1135 . The comparison shows a difference of 129 in favour of the return of last week . The births registered last week exceeded the deaths registered in the same time by 605 . —Last week , the births of 820 hoys and 791 girls , in all 1611 children , were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the yeare 1846-55 , the average number was 1514 . —From the Registrctr-Generars Weekly Return .

      Remarkable Escape . —A singular escape from a lingering and horrible death happened about a week ago to a malster and his horse , near Earningham " Wood , in Kent . The maltster , -whose name was Squib , had been present at a ploughing-mateh , which was held at Swanley , but he left about three o ' clock in the afternoon . He rode across the fields , as being the nearest way home , and was passing through a hedgerow , when , his horse suddenly halted . The rider , not seeing any reason for this , struck the animal with his whip . The horse then plunged into-what seemed to be a hush of briars , but which afterwards turned out to ho a deep -well . Both liorse- and man fell a depth of fifty feet . Mr . Squib was thrown on to some sand that had been previously flung

      down the well , and his horso -was afterwards precipitated eight or nine feet lower . Neither of them was seriously hurt ; and when Mr . Squib had recovered from the first shook of his fall , he sat do wn on n few sticks that he had collected , and was obliged to pass the night with his horse in this subterranean prison . On the following morning , hearing several people pass above , he tried repeatedly to make his situation known to them ; but nobody heard him until four o ' clock in the afternoon , ¦ when a man shouted down into the pit , and Mr . Squib "was . then extricated from his perilous position , quite Unharmed , but in a very exhausted state . His horse ¦ was got out ; also unhurt , the next morning , in the presence of a great many persons .

      A Miserable Tale . —A -very distressing narrative has appeared in tho daily papers . Amongst the recent applicants for pecuniary relief from the poor-box of the Worship-street polico-oflicc , was a native of 'Wnllachia , named Constantino Cantacuzenc , a young man of gentlemanly address and deportment , but evidently in impoveriehad circumstances , and a wretched state of health . * lls d « plorablo condition oxcited an unusual degree ofconsideration and sympathy . It appeared from his statement , Wnch was authenticated by documents hi his possession , wtat , about'five yenra ago , he held tho situation of private secretary to the Russian Prince Demidofr ; at his palace , > m Dlorenco , in whose service he remained until his ?« r ? ^ uddcnJy hroko up his establishment and repaired to St . I etorsburg , for tho purpose of placing his vast resources at the disposal of hia Imperial master for tlio prosecution of tho la to war . CantacuzGno shortly

      afterwards returned , to Bucharest his native capital , which was then in the occupation of the Russians , and , finding that his mother , a lady of fortune , had died during , hia * alaence ^ . he . entered the- Landwehr off the province * intbe ' ranks of which 1 he served as a volunteer until an arbitrary order -was issued for their incorporation with the invading army , in consequence of which he abandoned his military duties in common with a number of his countrymen-, and succeeded , with some difficulty , in escaping from the Principality . He proceeded , in the first instance , to Vienna ,-whence he passed over into-Ital y ^ . where-he endeavoured to obtain a temporary subsistence as a teacher and translator of languages , as he was an accomplished linguist , and had received a classical education ; but , having failed in all his efforts , he made his way to Paris , on reaching which

      his health had become so greatly impaired from the trying vicissitudes and privations he had undergone ; that his energies were completely prostrated . On partially recovering , from his illness , he was advised to come over to this country , where he was given to understand that he would be able to turn his abilities to profitable account ; but , ; on lm arrival in town about a fortnight since , after repeated unsuccessful attempts to procure employment at Liverpool and some adjacent towns , he was again seized with a severe attack of the pulmonary affection under-which he had long suffered , and , having sold everything he possessed , he was reluctantly compelled to submit his ca 3 e to the notice of the magistrate at Worship-street . The result of the application was that he was supplied with temporary funds , and ultimately he was admitted into the Victoria Park Pulmonary Hospital .

      Pkokogation of Pakliajient . — -Parliament was on Thursday further prorogued by Commission until Tuesday , the 16 th of December next . The LrrrtE , Shabby , Lean , Old Wizard of Queen Anne Street . —In that region of dull and decorous streets which radiates to the north and west from Cavendish-square , Queen Anne-street is one of the dullest and dingiest ; and of that dreary Queen Annestreet the dreariest house ,- any of the thirty years before 1851 , was No . 48 . Judging from its weather-stained and soot-grimed walls , its patched windows , dark with dust and foul with cobwebs , its woodwork unfresliened by paint , its chimneys from which curled no smoke , its unscoured threshold , it might have been

      in Chancery , it might have been haunted , it might have been the scene of a murder . Yet it was not uninhabited . Not unfrequently a visitor might be seen to knock , and , after long waiting , the door would be half-opened by a withered and sluttish old woman , or , "before 1830 , by a little shabby , lean , old man . Nay , repulsive as the house might be , and grim as might be its guardians , carriages would sometimes be seen drawn up hefore its door for hours , while their gay and elegant freight found occupation inside . Could they be prying into the laboratory of an adept , or consulting- a wizard , or driving a hard bargain with some sordid old hunks of a money lender ? Truly , neither deep alchemy , nor potent witchcraft , nor hard-fisted nearness was wanting inside that dreary door . But it was the alchemy that coins sunlight from pigments—the witchcraft that evokes

      beauty out of the brain—the nearness that is capable of life-long self-sacrifice to consummate an . intention of noblest patriotism . In that desolate house—48 , Queen Anne-street West , —from 1812 to 1851 , lived Joseph Mallord William Turner , the greatest landscape painter of tho English school . Hanging along a bare and chilly gallery on the first-floor of that gloomy house , stacked against the walls , rolled up in dark closets , flung aside into damp cellars , the rain streaming down the canvasses from the warped sashes and pnper-patched panes of the ill-fitting skylights , were collected some hundred of the noblest landscapes ever painted , while piles of drawings even more masterly , and reams of sketches , the rudiments and first thoughts of finished works , were piled away in portfolios , and presses , and boxes , in every nook and corner of the dark and dusty dwelling . —Times .

      Mr . Thackeray ' s Portrait op Sir Robert WalroLE . —The great satiric novelist has been delivering at Edinburgh his lectures " On the Four Georges . " He introduced Sir Robert Wnlpolc , on . his way to Richmond-lodge , to nnnouncc to tho Prince of * Wales the death of hia royal father , and his accession to the throne . " Dat is von big lie , " roared out his sacred Majesty when the statesman , after having pushed his way to tho bedchamber of the polite prince , communicated the important tidings . George tho Second hated Walpole ; and it -was thus that ho received the great minister who , for fifteen subsequent years , served him with admirable prudence , fidelity , and success . But for Sir Robert

      Walpole we should have had the Stuurts back again ; but for hia love of peace wo should have been involved in a war which the nation was not strong enough to havo endured . In religion he was little better than a heathen ; he cracked ribald jokes at all tho big-wigs and bishops , and spent his Sundays tippling witli courtiera nt St . James ' s , or booxing with boors at Houghton . Ho cared for letters no more than his master did ; ho judged human nature so meanly that wo are ashamed to own ho was right . But with his hireling House of Commons ho defended the liberty of the country ; with his incredulity he kept down priestcnift . Ho gavo Britain peace and freedom , tho Threo per Cents , nearly at par ,

      and wheat at fiVe-and-twenty shillings a , quarter . Thtt troubles of England after th » Hanoverian succession began with a- king who had been- bora * in the country aspired to rule it . The love of the two fiiafc Georges for Hanover was of great benefit to the country . Under them- the dangerous spirit of loyalty nearly passed away " wiule the state churches deprived of ? the support fnriniflhed by that spirit , almost emptied themselves .

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      ; '¦ Leader Office, : Saturday, November...

      ; ' ¦ Leader Office , : Saturday , November-15 ; LATEST FROM THE CONTINENT . The influence of the Roman Catholic Church has beeavictorious wifeh the Tuscan Government . The ascendancy , of secular institutions , which that State had' adopted in , imitation of the Leopoldine reforms- in Austria in the last century , is to be sacrificed , and a concordat entered into with the Holy See . From Vienna we hear that Sir Hamilton Seymour is to accompany the Emperor of Austria on his journey to Italy . The Austrian journals look upon thia as one symptom more of the satisfactory relations between the English and Austrian Governments . " The French Government , " says theTimes Paris corfrespondent this day , " is in complete accord with Englandrelative to the Neapolitan question , and is prepared , ifnecessary , to assume a more energetic attitude . The Marquis Antoninij King Ferdinand ' s representative here , was yesterday informed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs that there was no chance of his staying in Paris , and that he and the whole of the Legation will have to retire . ' . ' ' : : ¦ ¦ ' ; . : ' . " ¦ ' ¦/ . . ' : ¦ .. ¦ .. - ' . ¦ A letter from Vienna states that Sir Hamilton Seymour , our ambassador , is to accompany the Emperor of Austria to Italy , and that he is the only member of the diplomatic corps who is to accompany his Majesty . A Russian squadron has arrived at Cherbourg , and is expected to remain there a fortnight .

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      : . ' ¦ ¦¦ ¦ : ; ¦ .: ; : V : ¦ : ' THE EAST . ' ¦ , . - - '' - , . Reschid Pacha has already presided as Vizier at a State Council , IVIehemet Pacha will retain his post of Minister of Marine in the new Ministry . Fuad Pacha remains Minister of the Interior . News from Bombay has Krrived by the Vectis , to the 17 th nit . The Delhi Gazette , of the 13 th , confirms the fall of Herat by famine . The Governor and his family have been put to death . £ An account , from another source says that the Persians were afterwards expelled by the Affghans . ] The Persian army has been reinforced to the number of 100 , 000 men . Dost Mahomraed is without supplies . His troops in Kandahar are in a state of mutiny . The East India Company will send him funds . The Calcutta journals criticize freely the projected Euphrates Railway . They maintain that its rates of transport will be too high .

      The Bryn Maxxy Colmery Explosion. ¦— The...

      The Bryn Maxxy Colmery Explosion . ¦— The coroner ' s jury have returned their verdict . They deliberated for an hour and a half , and then found that the deceased came to their deaths accidentally , in consequence of a body of water having burst into and inundated the mine . They expressed an opinion that the mine ought to be surveyed , and that the drivings should be more frequently marked on the plans than had been the case hitherto . The new Chief Justice and the Repbesentation of Southampton . —Sir Alexander Cockburn has , we believe , accepted the Chief Justiceship of the Court of Common Pleas . There will consequently be a vacancy in the representation of this town . A preliminary meeting of tho liberal party was called for yesterday evening at the Royal Hotel , to consider what steps should , bo taken in the emergency . Sir Alexander Cockburn ' s successor in the office of Attorney-General is Sir Richard Bethell . No gentleman has yet been selected to succeed Sir Richard . The names of Mr . Collier , Mr . Atherton , and Mr . Keating who are in Parliament ,, and of Mr . Edwin James ,, ace mentioned . Crystal . Palace . —Return of admissions for six days ,, ending Friday , November 14 , 1856 , including season ticket-holders , 6635 .

      Flogging At Eton. All Eton, And Other Pu...

      FLOGGING AT ETON . All Eton , and other public school men , will entirely concur with tho Times on the recent flogging casje at Eton . It -was monstrously nbsurd and improper on tho part of a father to send his son to a public school with tho paternal injunction to resist the well-knowr discipline of that school ; and it is evident that , according to tho existing discipline , there was no alter native for the head-master but to expel the boy wlu would not bo flogged . The case of a boy of eighteer . incurring tho penalty of tho birch for the offence of smoking , suggests tho unndvisableness of anj boy of eighteen remaining at school ; Hogging if a Draconic penalty for smoking , but smoking amonj boys at a public school has all the character of , at epidemic disease . Doctors diilbr about the injurious

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 15, 1856, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15111856/page/11/