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      ? he House of Commons without taking the Oath of Ab iuration . Under the direction of the presiding judge , Baron Martin , the counsel on either side , Sergeant Channell and Sir Fitzroy Kelly , agreed to turn the facts of the case into a special verdict . In this form the nuestion at issue between the parties , which turns entirely upon the construction of various statutes , will be broug ht " before the judges .. In the course of next term fsays the Times ) we may expect a conclusive settlement of this intricate and troublesome question . A public meeting of the inhabitants of Newcastle was held in the Lecture-room , on Monday evening , the 8 th instant , Mr . Gunn in the chair . The following resolution was proposed by Mr . Watson , supported by Messrs .

      Charlton , Thomas , and Harney , and carried by acclamation : — " Resolved , That the solidarity of the peoples being a great truth , and the fraternity of the nations a great duty , the persons composing this meeting feel called upon , individually and collectively , to declare their heartfelt sympathy for all the oppressed peoples of Europe . That foremost amongst the betrayers and opposers of our brethren stands the perjured usurper Bonaparte ; and inasmuch as he has treacherously and forcibly overthrown the liberties so gloriously achieved by the French people in February , 1848—having extinguished the parliamentary representation , the press , and all the other guarantees of freedom ; having , to

      consummate his treason , let loose a bribed and brutal soldiery upon an unarmed people , whose blood he has caused to flow in torrents , he has stamped and proclaimed himself perjurer , traitor , brigand , and assassin—an enemy not only to France , but to the world ; and , as such , worthy of the execration and vengeance of the human race . That in the pursuit of freedom and justice , the peoples are bound to aid each other ; that the existing aristocratical Government of Great Britain is the great obstacle in the way of the people of this country performing their duty to their brethren ; therefore it is the bounden duty of the unrepresented millions to forthwith struggle for , and win , democratic parliamentary reform , based upon universal and equal representation . "

      Rear-Admiral Houston Stewart has issued an address to the electors of Greenwich , declaring his intention of coming forward as a candidate , in the event of Admiral Dundas being sent on foreign service . Sir John Gladstone , baronet , died on Sunday , in his eighty-seventh year , at Fasque in Scotland . Mr . George Dunbar , Professor of Greek Literature in the University of Edinburgh , died on Saturday , at Kosepark , Trinity . He had been ill some time . Mr . Basil Montague , Q . C ., died on the 27 th ultimo , at Boulogue in the eighty-second year of his age . He

      was the son of Lord Sandwich and Miss Margaret Keay , the subject of a tragic story . A young officer named Hachman became passionately attached to Miss Reay , he afterwards entered the Church , and begged her to marry him , but in vain . She was bound by affection to Lord Sandwich and to her children and would not desert him or them . Hackman armed with pistols then met her as she was leaving the theatre on the 7 th of April , 1779 , and shot her dead . He levelled the other pistol at his own head but it missed fire . He was taken , tried , and hung . Lord Sandwich acted very nobly and tried to save him . But he refused all mediation and died on the gallows at

      Tyburn . We understand that Mr . B . Peacock , Q . C ., is to have the appointment of Legal Member of the Supreme Council of India , rendered vacant by the death of the late Mr . Drinkwater Bethune .

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      The Count and Countess of Trapani are at Florence , where several balls have been given in their honour , The Countess is daughter of the Grand Duke . The Duke de Chambord , the Duchess de Bern , and the Grand Duke Constantine of ltusaia , are at Venice , where they will spend the winter . The English Minister at Vienna , Lord Westmoreland , has not yet been received by the Emperor , although his Majesty is having public receptions twice a week . This is understood to be a sliu ; ht offered him . to avenge the reception of Kossuth in England . A conference for the establishment of preventive and reformatory schools , as the only means of checking the progress of juvenile crime , was held at Birmingham on Wednesday . Mr . Recorder Hill occupied the chuir . In the evening a public meeting was held , at which resolutions for the above object were agreed to . anti

      The Teviot , which arrived on Thursday , brings - cipated news from the Cape up to the 4 th of November . The character of the conilict had not altered . There had been much skirmishing , and the Kafirs are said to have been repulsed . General Somerset , on the J' 2 ih of October , with a large division penetrated into the Waterkloof , drove out Macoino , and destroyed his camps . But all the frontier districts , except Albany , have been swept by the cattle-lifting Kafirs . Some Scotch clergymen , members of the 1 < ree hootch Church have attempted to establish a church of their persuasion at Rome ; but no kuocc-kh crowned their efforts . of

      Tin ; AuKtro-Italiiia press still publiuhcB its quota political hentencet * . These offences arc unceamng , and « 'ven Austrian martial law Hceins unavailing to crush the subversive spirit of the anti-Austrian league . Many fresh arrests arc said to have been made at J ' lorence , I'intoiu , lY . Hcia , and Arez / . o , in Tuscany . The liiKlioiiH of Sardinia have addreHScd u protest to the king a aiiiHt the construction of the new I roteKtant . « luuc . li at Turin , in which they Htnto that , the penniHsion ¦ icconled is contrary to the Constitution . A church ih >"''> g placed at the disposal of the I ' roU-Htunt remdent . s of Genoa . . , Nmiih , who was condemned to death at , the lantHeHsion « f the Central Criminal Court for murdering hw own 'Ultimate eliild , him Ixen f ^ ved , and his hent . ci . ee commuted into transportation for l » f <' - A fi ,, ur mill « , u the Greet , which flows into the lrc . it i » 'url ' ibkeiton , uot far from Newark , wan debtro veil l > y nro

      on Monday , and five men lost their lives . The men were removing the stock when the roof fell in , and floor after floor crashed down without the least warning . A young man named Ricketts who had been drinking with Bush , the milkman found murdered near Bath , has been arrested on suspicion . An inquest has been held on the body of the plasterer killed on the 29 th ultimo , by the fall of a large portion of a pile of buildings in Gloucester-road , Kensington . It was clearly proved on the inquest , which terminated on Monday , that very bad materials had been used ; that the district surveyor had warned the owner , Mr .

      Inderwick ; and that Mr . Bean , the architect , had also been duly warned . In the face of these facts , the jury returned a special verdict : — " We find that Robert Woolen was accidentally killed by the falling of the cornice of the parapet of certain houses , the property of Mr . John Inderwick , situated in Gloucester-road , Kensington , upon the 29 th of November , 1851 ; and we further find , that the cause of the accident was by reason of the bad materials furnished by Mr . Inderwick . We also find that Mr . Bean , the surveyor , was to blame for having permitted the works to proceed under such circumstances . "

      A riot of navvies took place at Grantham , on Wednesday . They were on strike for an advance of wages , and were deemed sufficiently dangerous to warrant the calling in of troops from Nottingham . The men were dispersed without resistance .

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      The Smithfield Club Cattle-Show has been held this week . As compared with the entries at the preceding show , the number at the present one shows a trifling diminution ; the falling off , however , in numbers is more than made up by the generally improved character of the stock exhibited . Probably at no previous exhibition has there been so much deserving of real praise , or more worthy the attention of those interested in this important department of agricultural occupation of grazing , as in the present one . There is no feature more deserving of attention in the exhibition of the present year , than the specimens which illustrate the great advance which has been made in bringing young classes to an early maturity . Among oxen and steers a large preponderance of the prizes has been carried off by the Herefords ; and of cows and heifers , the most successful , as a class , have been the " short horns . "

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      Saturday , December 13 . The state of the departments is the important point in French news . Besides the departments already under martial law before the coup d'itat , which were the Ardeche , the Cher , the Nievre , and the Rhone , the state of siege has now been proclaimed in the departments of the Seine , 13 asses-Alpes , Allier , Saone-et-Loire , Herault , Gard , Var , Lot , and Lot-et-Garonne , in the city of Strasburg , and probably in many other places not as yet known to us .

      The entire district situated between the nvers Yonne , Allier , and Rhone , from the town of Joigny to the neighbourhood of Lyons , and beyond the Rhone to the department of Ain , and to Poligny in the Jura , has been in a state of popular conflagration . Languedoc and Provence , the Basses Alpes , the Var , Gers , the Herault—throughout , in fact , this vast proportion of the country , not to speak of those parts from which we have no accounts , military operations are going on with the utmost vigour , and general orders have beed issued by the Minister of War to the officers commanding in all the departments that all persons resisting the Government are to be shot .

      The Moniteur of yesterday publishes various decrees ; and among them one organizing the Consultative Commission . The commission will be called on to scrutinise the votes on the ballot which is to take place on the 20 th and 21 st of December , and the result will be promulgated by the executive power . The other duties of the Consultative Commission will be , first , to give its advice on the projects of decrees in legislative matters , which may be submitted to it by the President of the Republic ; and , secondly , to fulfil the functions of the Council of State . The commission will be presided over by the President of the Republic , and in his absence by M . Baroche , who is appointed Vice-president .

      Another decree provides that the indirect imposts and revenues will continue to be raised till the 1 st of April , 1852 ; and that the tobacco monopoly , granted to the state by the law of the 28 th of April , 1816 , shall be extended to the 1 st of January , 1853 . The same decree provides for some financial operations , and limits the 13 ons du Tresor in circulation to 150 million of francs . General Harispe and General Vaillant are made Marshals of France ; and General Randon appointed to the Government of Algeria . The vote of the Navy as far as known on Thursday stood as follows : — Number of voters 85 G 7 For the acceptation ( of the President for

      ten years ) C 242 For the rejection 2151 Abstained from voting 171 The Morning Chronicle ridicules the idea of a Socialist or other conspiracy . " Why was the coup d ' etat the sole alternative ? Alternative in the teetli of what ? A Socialist plot—a Royalist rising—a mountain—or a mouse—a Red Republic , or the ( Iruprau blanc ? The one is equally as probable as the other ; and we shall believe in either when we see evidenco of its existence . As it in , the alleged fears of a planned Socialist jdequeric , have had their antecedents only in Rye-house and Meal-tub plots ; for a conspiracy is the ordinary excuse for a dragonnade . "

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      Protection exhibited itself on a grand scale yester day . The National Association mot in the morning at the London Tavern , under the pretsidence ol " the Duke of Richmond , and adopted a " declaration , " in which firm adherence to the old gospel is declared . The Duke of Richmond recommended the fanners to make no mintako us to the opinions of the cundiilaU . H at tho next election , exclaiming — " Awk them on the hustings—and thank

      (/ iod we have not yet . got tin : ballot , when a man dare not . avow the sentiments oi his / nittd , " & <• . Ih ; would answer for the utanehimis of I ami Derby—he knuw thai , high and I'hivalroiiH nobleman wan not " a man to bach round and ( lihgui . so the Hcnt . iim : iittt that ho fell , ! " Mr . K . lwnrd Hall , of Harwell , a Hentimental farmer , with strong feeliugn moved the luloption of tho declaration . Mr . Mall , in the cour . se of Iuh speech defended Mr . Disraeli , whom he pictured uh "towering in thu triumph of hit * argument , " &e . The

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      HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK . ( From the Registrar-General ' s Report . ) The state of the public health , as indicated by a constant increase of mortality , is far from being favourable at the present time . During four weeks of November the deaths registered in the London districts increased in the following progression : —989 , 1022 , 1132 , 1279 ; and in the week ending last Saturday they rose to 1316 . During the same five weeks the deaths among old persons , of 60 years and upwards , have numbered successively 202 , 207 , 242 , 277 , and 305 . It will be seen

      from a review of ten previous years ( 1841-50 ) that , in the week of 1847 corresponding to last week , influenza raised the deaths to 2454 ; but , with the exception of that year , they did not in any corresponding week exceed 1146 , and were generally much less . The average of the ten weeks was 1123 , and if corrected for increase of population , 123 / 5 , compared with which the deaths of last week exhibit an excess of 81 . It is hardly necessary to remark that , if the unusual mortality of 1847 were excluded from the comparison , the result would be still more unfavourable for last week .

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      BIRTHS . On the 2 nd instant , at Ileli ? an , Cornwall , the wife of the lteverend J . Towntjheiid Uoscawen : a son . On the 4 tli instant , at St . Helen's , Southsea , the wife of Captain Lnn ^ ley , Koyal Marine Artillery : a daughter . On the 4 th iuHtaiit , tin ? wilt ) of Mr . John Croekford , publisher of the Law Times , and the Critic , London Literary Journal : a daughter . . . On the oth instant , in the Strand , Mrs . Samuel Harvey 1 wining : a sou .

      MARIU . W . KS . On the . : 5 rd inHtnnt , at Trinity Cluire . h , Marylebone , Alexander Atherton 1 ' , Kalj ., to Henrietta , only daughter of tin : late Major Burton l ' owlclt William Wallop . On the 3 rd iiiMtnnt , ; it . Croydon , John \ V . M'l . mvii , Ksq ., ot I'hilpot-laiie , City , ^ " . l Douro-place , Kciitanirton , to Minn Anna K . Maberley , late of l » rtinK « 'ln . On tin : Dili instant , at . St . Mary' . s , Chi : lti : nliiini . Major Li . hlell , ol the Tw . 'nty-Hev . MiLli lt .--im . Mit , Homl > ay Native Infantry , to Amur Moore , eldest daughter . if the late Miijor Newport , of tho Twenty-third IU-j , ' iinent . Bombay Native Int'iiiitry . On jhe'Jl . hiiiril . aiit , atSt . l ' auera . 4 New Church , John C . Howard , Kh < i ., of 9 , UUliter-HiMisiro , to Laura , yountf . ^ t . daughter ol Oeor ' tfe Hurley , Ksq ., of AujfiiHtus-MMiaro , l ' ark-villa-t : Must , UuL'ent'b-park . DKATI 1 S . On the "Jlst ultimo , at . Draveot-Htreet ., Chelsea , JMutthew Deluval OWleara , late Depii ty-CoiiimiMMaiy-Ceiu ;! al .

      Ou the Llth ultimo , ai ; ed ninety-two yeara and ei ^ hl . month . * , at . lii : < reitidrnc . e at . Canterbury , William Uankeiville , Kmj ., late Injector of ltiriiiiff OllleerH , her Miijeaty ' ii Cavalry . On tin- . ' trd iiiMtant , at hi : ) house . New lirnad-st leet , alter a loiiff ilhii-HS , Algernon I ' Vampt . oii , Ksij ., M . I ) ., of St .. JoIiii ' h College , Cambridge , K .-llow of the Koyal College of I'hyui .-ianti , and lor nijiny yearn , pliytu ' e . ian to the London Hospital , in hht fort . y-niut . ii year . On the . " ( id instant , at Oxford , Hiiddenly , at . t . h « reni . 1 . Mice of his brother , Lieutenant A . O . Haiif-anl , Royal Navy , nec . ond non ol the latr Lulu : ( jravex HaiiHiird , Ks <| . On tlmllh iiiMliiut , at Cbailtoii-houiie , Malrnenbury , the Karl of biull . dk , a ^ ed Mcve uly-llve . Ou the ¦ ' ! h iiiMl . ant , in Chr . diani-plne . e , I lie Lady Caroline King . Ou the ( Jl . h mutant , at , llay . ti-plae . c , Liunon-grove , Ilear-Admiial C . I '" . Ihdy . C . li .

      On the 7 th instant , at . bin rejudeiici-, in ( ireat , Ciiinlirrliind-Mtrert , Lieuteiiant-t » cneral Sir (< ror < ro Aii ;; iisMih Qwentin , ( Ml ., K . C . 1 L , formerly Colonel < if Ilie Teiilli Itoval lliiusarn , Aidi' - 'le-Oan : p to hlH late MiijeMty ( ieoige IV ., and Crown K . Mierry to her Miiji'Mty and tlnsir lain Majenl . i . H ( Jeurgu IV , and William IV ., in the ninely-wecond year of his n ^ e .

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      BIRTHS , MAltniACllSS , AND DEATHS .

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      The funeral of Marshal Soult , Duke de Dalmatia , took place at St . Amand la-Bastide , on the Gth . An immense concourse of people assembled on the occasion from the departments of the Herault , Tarn , and Lot . The Archbishop of Aldy and the bishop of Cahors officiated , and were assisted by a lar ^ e body of the clergy , occupying the whole of the choir and part of the nave of the small church where the last service was performed . The authorities of the Tarn and of the neighbouring departments were prevented from attending , in consequence of the disturbed state of the country . They sent formal excuses to the DuohenB for their ulisence . Everything passed over with great pomp and in perfect order .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 13, 1851, page 1181, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1913/page/9/