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    Miscellaneous. The Couut.— Her Majesty C...

    questions to a woman he visited for the purpose of mlministering spiritual consolation . In the event of that Son of the case being proved , the Commissioners will enter- upon a consideration of the general question , and this will necessarily involve a wide and very important field of inquiry ; inasmuch , as all casesrwhich have occurred of this sort since the consecration of Boyne-hill Church , nearly two years , have to be investigated . . ' „ ,. -rrr j Illustrations op Tkactakianism . — The Western Times reports as follows : — "In administering the Holy Communion on the first Sunday in August , at a

    fashionable watering-place near Exeter , the officiating clergyman allowed the clergy only to take the cup into their hands , firmly holding it in his own hands whilst the laitv drank of the sacramental wine . A mother and son communicateel that morning side by side . 1 he son was a clergyman , not of the High Church , and had the chalice placed in his hands ; the mother had the cup held to her lips by the officiating minister , but none of the wine reached her . Another step towards Rome . It is expected that choristers in white surplices will soon form another grade in the same direction . " The Manchester Examiner

    Questionable Story . — publishes an extraordinary letter , to the effect that a person is in custody at Gibraltar , charged , on his own confession , with having been employed by the murderer Hush to shoot the Jermy family . He states , so it is affirmed , that he , and he only , fired the fatal shots . If it is true that a person in Gibraltar has told su & li a storv , he is probably a lunatic ; Gough and ms Teetotallers . — A splendid soiree has b ^ en given to Mr . J . B . Gough at Edinburgh . It was graced by the presence of some of the leading Ternperance Reformers of Scotland , who expressed great indignation at the charges preferred against Mr . Gough . That gentleman ' s reception was most enthusiastic , and in the course of his speech he magnanimously announced his intention not to require from Dr . Lee 3 payment of Ms costs , amounting to 100 Q 7 ., but to pay them out of

    hi 3 own pocket . Dr . Livingstone ' s Steam Launch . — We { Liverpool Albion ) have been favoured with the following interesting letter from Dr . Livingstone , the distinguished African explorer . Our readers will be glad to see that the pretty little launch , built by Mr . Laird , and taken out by Dr . Livingstone , in compartments comfortabty stowed away on board the Pearl , is satisfactorily doing her part in the great enterprise .: — "Ma Robert , Zambesi , June 21 , 1858 . —My dear Sir ,--As you will no doubt feel anxious to hear how we get on with the launch , 1 am happy to be able to inform you that we entered what has been called West Luabp ( properly Luave ) on the 15 th of May , and finding a fine safe harbour , we proceeded at

    once to take out the three compartments of the Ma Robert from the Pearl . The first day was sufficient for getting her into the -water and putting her together , by the admirable and . ' simple contrivance your son invented . We had only to stand on a compartment in sufficient numbers to sink it down , and , drawing it to the middle section , the bolts slipped in with the greatest ease ; pn the evening of the third day she was ready to act as pilot to the larger vessel , and has been doing admirable service ever since . She goes puffing away on this great Zambesi now , to tl » a infinite disgust of the hippopotami , whole herds of which rush off pell-mell as soon as we approach them , and the crustiest old bachelor amongst them dares not do her battle . It would be an immense

    boon if Government would send out such vessels to run tip creeks and rivers and chase slavers , instead of taking it out of the poor sailors' musolos at the oar , but you > . »» w ¦** t t " * ' * o ^ 6 B * ke them broader than this , And not quite so long ; the length might be bomo with if they were four or five feet broadur , and no objection would be taken to this , as the men-of-war could carry them with ease between masts . Allow me also to suggest , as an improvement , two plates near the bottom of each compartment , with plugs which , when the compartments were onco put together , might be taken out and bolts

    inserted . I mention this because our after-compartment shows some symptoms of the bottom bolts , or dowels , becoming looso . I ' venturo also to suggest the grouibor width , as wo can ' t carry luggago at present , and fo u r foot additional width , with , perhaps , a little more power , would make her porfect . She lias dono exceedingly well , and tows a largo launch fur bettor than wo oxpootod . Now , ns I am dono with criticism , which you may think sufficiently presumptuous , I bog lo bo most kindly remembered to Mrs . Laird and all your family . ( Signed ) David Livingstone . John Laird , Esq .

    Statue : to Sir Isaac Nbwton . —This noblo llgure , the inauguration of which takes place ut Grautlmm on Tuosduy next , is now removed from tho mould , and ia roiuly for inspection , at Messrs . Robinson and Cottom ' a foundry , Punlioo . Thoistgtu o i s ono of , tho boat , and moat . oharaoteristtoniraT ^ TrTTHeT ^ fasever givon us . Tho lilwnoss is said to bo a perfect copy of tho philosophor in his prime of Hfo and fame . Mr . Thood , to roiulqr this , had tho mlvantngo of forming his model from the jnost ncourato contemporary portraits of Nowton , and from a . small bust of him done during his lifetime , and , which , from , its rosomblauco to tho portraits , is evidently « roliablo work . Tho features , though not deficient hi an almost animated look , and full of a happy expression , yot convey also tho idou of tho most profound ,

    doonsearching thought . Though we could have wished that this fine work had remained to ornament the metropolis , we cannot dispute the claim of Grantham to possess this memorial of our great philosopher . Here it was that Newton ' s education commenced at the grammar-school of Grantham , and his birthplace , Wbolsthorpe , is only six miles off . In Mr . Timbs ' s School-days of Eminent Men , a little volume replete with information and in ^ terest , we are told that at Grantham , according to his own confession , Newton was extremely inattentive to his studies , arid stood very low in the school . When he was last in the lowermost form but one , the boy above him , as they were going to school , kicked him on the stomach ; Newton subsequently challenged the boy to

    fight , the combat took place in the churchyard , and Newton was the victor . His antagonist still stood above him in the form , until , after many a severe struggle , Newton not only gained the individual victory , but rose to the highest place in the school . By watching the workmen in erecting a windmill near Grantham , Newton acquired such knowledge of its mechanism , that he completed a large working model of it , which was frequently placed upon the top of the house in which Newton lived at Grantham , and was put in motion by the action of the wind upon its sails . Although Newton was at this time a " sober , silent , and thinking lad ,

    who never took part in the games of his schoolfellows , but emploved all his leisure hours in " knocking and hammering in his lodging-room , " yet he occasionally taught the boys to " play philosophically . ' He introduced the flying of paper kites , and is said to have investigated their best forms and proportions , as -well as the number and position of the points to which the string should be attached . He constructed also lanterns of " crimpled paper , " in which he placed a candle , to light him to school , in the dark winter mornings ; and in dark nights he tied them to the tails of his kites , which the terrified country people took for comets .

    The English axd French in Madagascar . —The rumour of a French expedition to Madagascar is contradicted . The Patrie says : — " We believe we know from a very certain source of information that there is absolutely no foundation for the rumour 3 which have been circulated by several journals with respect to an expedition alleged to be projected by France , and to be undertaken shortly against Madagascar . 1 M & possible that such au expedition may have been talked about at the ministries a few days ago , because as France has never renounced her ancient claims upon that island the news of the departure of a detachment of English troops from the Mauritius to Madagascar has naturally recalled everybody ' s attention to this question . But on the one hand the English operation referred to is hot yet officially confirmed , and , pn the : other hand , we are assured that the Emperor ' s government has not pronounced an intention lately to send any force whatever against

    the Malgaches . Colonel Wauoh . — " A Sufferer" writes to the Times that Colonel Waugh is in London ! The writer saw him in a cab , on Sunday , near Hyde Park . u My friends are sufferers by the Eastern Bank , having lost all they possess . Why should this wholesale plunderer be at large while they are starving ? Pray use your influence by giving publicity to this , that he may be apprehended and be compelled to disgorge some of ins ill-gotten wealth . You will have the thanks of the widow , the orphan , and the ruined soldier . "

    Ovkkcrowdino of Steam-ships . —1 lus practice is attended with so much danger , and is so frequently seen on the Thames , that tho wonder is public attention has not , long ago , been directed to the subject . We observe that the evil has become the subject of magisterial examination in Glasgow , ou Monday . The Thistle steamer , on her way from Londonderry to the Clyde , was found to have 8700 passengers on board , and the muster was , under tho Merchant Service Act of 1854 , ordored to pay a fine of ono shilling for each passenger in excess of the number allowed by his certificate . Ho also iius to pay a penalty of 10 / ., — in all , 681 . lls .

    endeared him to all with whom he came in contact , th ( never-failing benevolence , the simplicity , and the truthfulness which shone in every word and act—these arc best known to us , and as we recal them , we are made to feel how poor and inadequate is this tribute to the generous , noble man whose loss we deplore . " Self-defence of British Coi-ontes .- ^— In Sir ELytton ' s despatch to the Governor-General of the Leeward Islands , the colonial authorities are earnestly recommended to raise from their local resources such a local force as will place the colony in security from internal disturbances . They are advised , in short , to keep the peace for themselves , instead of reposing habitual reliance upon the troops of the mother country , -which the paramount emergencies of the empire may at any time

    remove ^ . . Dr . Letheby and the Sewers . — At a court of the City Commission of Sewers , holden on Tuesday , Dr . Lethebv , the Medical Officer of Health , presented a voluminous and very valuable report on the composition and properties of sewage and sewer gases and on the ventilation of sewers . The report alluded to the condition of the sewerage of the metropolis , and showed that ; with the best arrangements for the disposal of the liquid refuse it underwent decomposition before it left the sewers , and evolved gases which are dangerous to the

    inhabitants . The Council of India . —The Council sat on Wednesdav , and remained in deliberation for two hours . Lord ' Stanley submitted to them his scheme for the revision and arrangement of the various departments both in Leadenhall-street and Cannon-row . The ratification of this scheme now rests with the Queen in Council . We are enabled to enumecate the principal offices in the new establishment of the Secretary of State for India , and to furnish the names of the several gentlemen in charge , as secretaries of the various departments . . They are as follows :: —Revenue , Mr . Prideaux ; Judicial , Mr . Hawkins ; Political , Mr . Kaye ; Railway and Telegraph , Mr . Danvers : Public Works , Mr . Thornton ; Public or

    General , Mr . Bourdillon . In the Military Department the Secretary is not yet known ; the Assistant-Secretary is Mr . Eade . In the Marine and Transport Department the appointments are —Superintendent , Mr . Plowden ; Accountant-General , Mr . Friend ; Auditor , Mr . Sandoz 5 Cashier , Mr . Dunsmure ; Inspectors-General of Stores , General Bonner ; Agent to Administrator-General , Mr . Clarke \ Statistical Department and Keeper of Records , Mr . Hornidg ? , Chief Clerk , Mr . Onslow . The officers of committees are as JofioTT . — -S ^ cretar ^ to _ FlngnQe , _ Home , and Public Works Committee , Mr . Danvers ; Secretary to Revenue and Judicial , ATr , Prideaux ; Secretary to Political and Military , Mr . Eade . The gentlemen named above have , we believe , all been in

    charge of the duties which they have now to perform under a different denomination . Mr . Kaye , besides the responsible office he has heretofore filled in the Examiner ' s Department , is known to literature as the author of " The Life of Sir John Malcolm , " and the " History of the Affghan War . " Mr . Danvers has been connected with railwaj's and telegraphs from their introduction , into India , and was the first witness examined by the parliamentary committee of last session . Mr . Thornton was selected for the Public Works Department upon ita formation a few years ago . Two distinguished men , Mr . John Stuart Mill and Mr . Philip Melvill , retire , from the public service , with which they have been long aiid'honourably idontined , the former as the head of the Examiner ' s Department , and the latter as the Military Secretary' . —Times . de

    A Significant Fact , —^ The Journal Brtmellea points out a singular fact , which , it states , is n o w taking place in Belgium . According to it , a French company is buying up all the Belgian journals that can be purchased , and has already become the proprietor of tho Observateur , tho Journal de la Belyique , the T 4 Ugraphe , & c . The company appears to have made an offer for the Precui'settf of Antwerp , which resisted the temptation . But the Journal de JBruxellea remarks that if the Antwerp paper has not given itself up , to the French company , it 'does riot the less reckon among the members of Us committee of surveillance the gentleman who has purchased the other journals . " There is O'luystery in all this , " says tho Journal de Bruxelles , which the Belgian press has not boon able to penetrate . " Reduction 01 ? the Allowances to the Lord Mayor . —We aro informed that it is the intention of the

    MicmoronTAN Toll Rkkokbi . —Tho Jioyal Cornmission appointed towards the close of- tho last session of Parliament to inquire into the practicability of providing a substitute for tho metropolitan toll-gates within six miles of Charhig-oross , will commence its sittings onrly noxt month , in ordor to bo ablo to roport at tho commencement of next session . Viscount Evorsley , Into Speaker of tho Houso of Commons , will preside over tho commission , and will have tho valuable assistance of Sir J . T . Ooloridgo , lato a judge of tho Court of Quaon ' s Bench , in conducting tho investigation .

    Corporation Revenue Committee to recommend a material reduction henceforward in the salary of Lord Mayors , to commonco the ensuing year . Tho amount hitherto allowed hus boon paid out of tho wino duties , and other Lord Mayor ' foes , but wo understand it will bo proposed to pour all tho receipts into tho City Chamber , and fix tho allowance for tho chiof fflaffMTftt 0 . fti , Q , QM ( t . irertire ^ vlb'yodr : ¦ ¦ Rigging and Tacki . ii oomi » lrti !] ron Lapies . —Tho

    Tins lath Wilham Wiim . —This gentleman , who has boon the principal editor of the Daily News sinco tho doath of Mr . Frederick Knight Hunt in 185-1 , died at his town rosidunco , ou Wuilnesday , a ft or an illness of u Jmv ^ la-y . s .--J \ Ii ' »» WoUMv"iis ^ btnn > -in ^ cot'laiic ^ n ^ -8027 'ln ) < studied at the University of Gottiugon , and returning to his native country , was called to the Scottish bar in 1820 . llo relinquished , the legal profession to undertake tho management of , a loading Scottish newspaper . Removing to London , ho at onoo took a high position in his profession , and joined tho Spectator ,,, On tho establishment o tho . Duilif Nawa his knowledge and groat ability attracted tho noliuc of its comluctor * , who associated him to their editorial staff . His private character is tints alluded to by ono of his colleagues : —r- " Tho genial qualities which

    Mechanics' Magazina for laat week gives tho following description o patent No . 198 , dated Fob . 0 , 1858 : — "Improved apparatus for raising and lowering U '" sJtirts of ladies drossos .. This consists , in the wso of a girdjo with oords ' unitod at ouo end in a knot , xrhllati tholr otnor oxtroniitles aro attached to tho ffannont . » y drawing thorn up bv hand at tho knot tho dross will bp raised to tho distance required , uniformly all round . The cords arc passed ovor nulleyq , "

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 18, 1858, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18091858/page/11/