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      and every other appliance that could soothe the deoline of his own protracted existence . Fall 40 years practising at the bar , nearly 20 years in the Honse of Commons , twice Attor - ney- < 3 ene * al , oace Chief Justice of the Common Pleas , twice Lord Chancellor of Ireland , le retired from public affiurs ia 1841 , and jwuvived , as we have said , till Wednesday . "

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      General Pezuela , the new captain-general of Cuba , has arrived in the island . General Oanedo left Havana on the Ilth of December . We hawe news from Jamaica up to the 9 th of November Matters were proceeding steadily ^ and there was every probability , that" responsible government" would be adopted ? The last mail which reached us from Hongkong brought intelligence of a mutiny on . "board of Sir Fleetwood Pellew % flag-ship , the Winchester . This occurrence took place on the 8 th of November last , when the crew of the Winchester ) , who , it is said , had not been . permitted to go ashore for eighteen months , resolved at last to send a petition to tie Admiral upon the subject . There is no suggestion made in the report ; we have received that the petition was any hut one orthe humblest kind , and presented without any trincumstanee of insolence or disrespect . The onlv reply "which

      the Admiral vouchsafed to it was , that the ship should be got ready to go to sea . The answer seems to nave caused great discontent among the men , which did not , however , display itself in any otaer form than " a noise below in -the course of the evening . " Sir Fleetwood Pellew immediately ordered that the drum should beat to quarters . Some of lie men refused to come upon deck , upon which the Admiral ordered the officers to go below with drawn swords , and drive them up at the weapon ' s point . These gentlemen had , of course , no option , and descended to execute Sir Me « twood ' s orders . In the course of this operation two men—so runs the intelligence—were severely wounded . "Wihea as Captain Pellew { Sir Fle « twood ) commanded the Resistance , in 1813 , a similar mutiny occurred . Until selected by the Duke of Northumberland in 1852 , Sir Tleetwoocf had held no conuuaiidibribrtyTears .

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      The Marylebone Vestry have resolved to establish schools for the reformation -of destitute and criminal children . A communication -was made by the Post-office authorities to the governor of "Whitecross-street prison that the pestbox would be discontinued after the 6 th inst .. A similar communication was made to the keeper of the ( Queen ' s Prison . Efforts are being made to continue the privilege to the prisons . On Monday forenoon , the Victoria Bridge , ( xjasgow , -was formally opened by the Lord Provost and Magistrates , and other members ; of the Bridge Trust , in the . presence of an immense concourse of spectators . The ' ceremonial was eonducted under precisely- the same arrangements , as those folrlowed at the opening of the Glasgow Bridge , eighteen v « ars

      ago , when the late' James Ewing , Esq ., LL . B ., occupied the civic chair . —Nar&i British BaUg Mail . Dr . Brown , Roman Oatholie parish priest of Olonlagh and Camus , and vicor-generhl of Deny , has forwarded -a tetarn to the income-tax commissioners , stating his income at under 10 D 7 . Should it exceed that sum , he declares he will appoint a committee to'dispose of the excess for charitable ¦ putposes , snd -should that course be illegal , he will ask for an * ' assistant . " fie protests against the right of any commissioners to levy a tax . on his income ; because he does not hold his cure from the Queen , and his bishop is not recognised by law . " The Ipswich Boronffh PoBce officers are to be allowed to wear monstaohes and beards . They -preferred aTeport to the watch committee for 'permission to dispense with the r&zox , which was readil y granted . Some of the committee-expressed their intention , it is said , of adopting the moustache themselves . —Ipswich Express . i

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      Twe persons have died from exposure during the cold , one a lias . car , the other aujEnglishman . Both were -wretchedly clad . Thece was a great loss of life daring the year 1853 from acciflents ttt sea , fires , founderings , and wrecks . The total lives thus lost amount to no fewer than 920 . Several families at Eoscrea were poisoned-on Chris " tttasday by eating whole meal bread , in which some seeds of beardued darnel hud mingled . Medical aid was prompt , and fatal results obviated . A duel was arranged to come off near Eltham on Tuesday last , -between a military and naval officer from Woolwich , who were said to hove quarrelled about a female . The seconds , however ,-having more common sense and discretion than the principals , brought the affair to an arrangement b y bitnself

      proposing that each of the belligerents should present before the young woman for her to make choice between them , ft is whispered that Bhe was so prudent as to reject them both , aB they deserved . —South Eastern Gazette . An old "woman , a * miser , was found dead in her room at Chelsea . Her nam « was Handel . No less than 116 / 1 in notes were . found in her clothes , Bank receipts for 250 J ., besides plate and jewellery . The granofmemorkl in nonour of the firet President of the American Republic ia Washington proceeds apace . It is now ifiO feet bign , or rather more than a fourth of the proposed heiglt . Since the works were actually oommenced , it appears to have been discovered that the monument wilL stand exactl y in the centre of " the ten miles square . " Folkstono is becoming an important revenuo station . Trade with Primon lias so much increased that an ad < litionul

      Custom officer -has been appointed . Vary of | ten , what has not been done by any higher inducement , is done for interest ' s sake . Thus , the conflicting interests of Sardinia , Austria , and Switzerland , will open a number of passages over the Alps , bcneficiul , in fine , to the cause of civilisation . A new road has been made from Vul Cainonica , over -Aprictt , to Tirano , conjointly with the completion of that over the Berninu , which will lead direct from the Engadin to Tirano—a new rtidiua of Alpine communication . —77 ie Builckr . In consequence of a report by the Committee of Public fioalth , the Austrian Government || a 8 allowed butchers to Bell horse meat to the public in the markets .

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      From some tables on religious worship just pubBrijecl , it appears that in England and Wales , comprising a popula tion of 17 , 827 , 600 , there were on the census Sunday 34 , 467 places of -worship—of which 30 , 859 were separate buildings , and 8508 not separate buildings . On Sunday , the 30 th of March , 1851 ,. there were in attendance 4 , 428 , 338 in the morning , 8 / 030 , 280 . in the afternoon , and . ' 2 , 900 , 772 ia the evening , tbe religious ! bo < Ses in England andm&S bam 34 , 467 places of worship , and the number t £ attendances on the ceasas Sunday was , lft , 89 f 6 , 066 . It is estimated , that 7 , 261 , 032 persons attended gome . religions service on that day . At the time of the census there were nwrefhan ^ 5 ^ 000 teachers in Sunday school instructing , every Bundaj , in religious knowledge , as maoy as 1 , 600 ^ 000 vmh&pen . 3 ! he total number of Sunday . fidbiuaxs en the book&iof the £ C&ools was about 2 , 400 , 000 , and about two . teachers to every . 15 scholars .

      A retnra just printed shows a great increase in beer and ale exported . In eleven months -ended * he 8 tih tilt , the T » lne of sach eammodities exported was 1 , 134 * 147 £ , against 669 , 573 ? . for the same period of tfee previous year . In the month ended the 6 th ulL ao less than 107 922 Z . was exported , against 72 , 208 £ for the same petted of the previous 1048 sei apprentices bavg been bound during the fast twelve months , at the ShleldjEj'Custam-hottsa . Xn the previous year 913 only were articled Ibr sea in the Bame establish ment ^ consequently there las been an increase in sea-found

      apprenucerenrolled at Shields during the last year of 130 .. The exports of saddlery and- harness Tmve great 3 y increased , as appears by a return just published . In this month ended the 5 th uiL , the declared value was 32 * 9741 ., being an increase of 14 , S 2 ii . on tha like period of 1 « 52 . Intimll months ended the 5 th ult .., the goods were of the mine of 280 , 231 ? ., being an actual increase of 121 , 1882 . on ( h » like period of the -preceding yeac . Between January and December the value of coals and culm exported was 1 , 494 , 9871 ., against 3 , 272 , 6761 . for the pvevhros year .

      The numbers , attending the Museum of Ornamental Art at Marlborough House , daring the month of December , were as follows : —19 , 680 persons on the public days , and admitted free ; 457 personB -on the students'days , and admitted as students on the payment of sixpence « ach , besides thetegw tered students of the classes and schools— -an increase -of 5567 over the corresponding period of last year .

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      Saturday , January 7 . We have no authentic and positive intelligence relative to the movements of out fleet in the Bosphorus later than that which will be found -elsewhere . We should have no difficulty , in common with some of our contemporaries at home and inroad , in inventing later than the latest information , but . at the present crisis of affairs we taay , without an inordinate exercise of patience , await the march of events . It is known that the last despatches to Admiral Dundas were to the effect that he should cleir the Black Sea from Russian cruisers . The previous instructions to " cotrvoy Turkish transports , " ¦ were not carried into execution , as the Turk * kaow to their cost . These last instructions are turt

      tantamount to an attack on Sebastopol , or even to an engagement at sea , since they do not forbid Unssian ships remaining at their moorings , ^ or if met with at sea , making the best of their way , without resistance , out of the reach of British or French guns , Still , we need scarcely add , the movements of the Admirals must be determined in a great measure by professional and techaiea ! considerations , "with which the orders from home do not interefere . When the Admirals have , orders to move , 'the weather must be very foul , and the Kussians uncommonly ^ quiet to present a striking dinotiment . '

      Nothing can be more dignified and moderate than the last official and unanimous reply of the Divan to the Four Powers : that " since the Sublime Porte had taken up war for the maintenance of its rights and the integrity J > f its dominions , it would not reject a peace calculated to preserve them both in the present juncture , and for the future . " This reply admits of no equivocation or subterfuge . It forces friends and enemies to declare themselves , No one believes that the Czar will yield . He meanB mischief , and all the Powers of Europe

      on their knees to him will only exasperate Ms pretensions and inflame his blasphemous vanity . It must not be forgotten that the Emperor Nicholas is as vain and as cruel a . 8 a coquette . On that one man ' s sovereign caprice , on the state of his humours , on his digestion , on his temper , now rests the peace of the world . Constitutional and Parliamentary Governments may hare their weaknesses : —such iB the strem / lh of an Autocracy . It appears that Austria chums a monopoly of mediation at St . Petersburg , at the bidding of the Czar , who repudiates nil intervention of the Western Powers . The report of the capture of Batoua by the Russians is not confirmed .

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      It is remarked that the notification of the Stfttime Porte speaks of a fetva confirming its aeHberations . A fetva is a declaration that the policy is in accordance with the supreme Saws oi the empire . In great emergencies , the ftgi ^ n demands * fytva -of the Council of Ulemas . In 1839 Mahmoud d <> manded a fetva Approving the war with Mehemet Ali , "Viceroy off Egyjxt . The pzeaaot Sultan demanded a . fetva approving of th « declaration of war agairut Bussia . S . fetva hasnonr ^ uthorisedthe . Uinifl tecs ta Jiegotiate dkocorduag to tihe ^ feermB of Hha notiftcaticm . The «« CKte of the Softas , ^ jr « tud « irts , ^ r « s of little consequence . Some have been tempxriraTfly banislied ; the greater number were set at liberty the day after .

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      X . < te Peyronnet , fbrmeriy earcic xfe « Scemar to Irani XYIIL , « nd Mmiater of the Interior to Charles X , lum 4 ied ia retirement 4 t his Ghawm do MooifiscnuidLia t&d'Gixonde .

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      NOTICES TO COHSEePOWDHNTO . The jwurt of Mr . Charles PanTs letter is jrnrelywti tSnapij ^ a commercial -question . W * ortodt nBdertal « t » giv ««» opinion upon amputation ^ vtiich ^ iieinsaBerdi y eocoxntxeaai amst be deternaned by jprivate omBiderations . A CojtaxANT &B ^ DSB . ^ --By the ^ Lst Henry " VIII ., Cap . 6 . If the deceased kept house , and there has been UronVtunQ immemorial a' ^ ed and certain enstom in tha parish to pay the priest »^ nortuary ; he Is ^ fe « or « lKH * % eatitted t » Be . 4 d ., if i ; b » 4 ecea » ed hiiatsny ^ eraonalseBtate !; to 6 b . « Bd . if the personal « st * te ranged from A 0 i to mi . ; ondlto the 10 s . nougat to be Exacted iu the present cise ^ if tha personalty exceeded that value . We . say theoreficdfly . Ton piacficauy , Hhe recovery would ¦( 6 e extretoely doubtful if payment were refosedand wot 03 onl'be « btwned 4 ift 8 r

      , y am . expenditura of at ltast 1 QQL « . . . . ¦ ¦ - We have recteived a letter &om a corresponderit ^ iftking . « xc « ption to the statement in oar laat number , that" the Danes , however opposed to the Itassianising teadency oF idieir court , nuTse violent in 4 igna . tibn'against tliB country of Nelson . " ^ '"Widely dfflferent , ' ^ wrifcesiar . OBver BraoSslaw , "is the conclusion to which I'have come , ondM have had isome experience of thie Danes . TWieaat Gqpen-Jtajgen lust sammec , . 1 was pacdculady desiroaa to « sc » r » tun their feelings towards England , and eagerlj snatoheii every opportuaity that presented itself for grat 3 ftong my cariosity . I talked with mm e ( f -all ckuisee on ^ that subject , . and invariably -fonnd them exceedindr ( coracteoos 1

      and « imple-h « arted * 'We like the English , said ' . they s . ' wo are relations , ; the Danes and English are au of one blood : we like the English people , but wa cannot trust the English Government ; vteether Peel is in office , or Hussell in office , it a all the 'eatao thing : what they flay one day they will rvtract Aha 3 iezt . ' I confess I was much surprised at their thus admirably distinguishing hetween , people . and Gtoyernmeat ^ Mr . Bradshaw proceeds with manly English feeling to express hie sense of shatne at the -policy of "the British Governments towards Denmark—> a 'policy tending to 'pronote the " -disuniting and "weakening Assigns of ^ h " mcoeasors of Peter the Great . Our cgureapondttflt

      stiematoaea the treaty of Mayj 8 , 1852 * signed in iAndon by th « representatives of the Five Great Powers , " wTiich strack oat eighteen of the twenty-oile heads stosdnog between the Throno of Denmark and'tbeHoiweof Socnanoff ;'' and left only the young Prince Christian of © lnokiberg and his two aons between -the Czar and the Daman Monarchy , as , by " the new . SaJiqae Law iutwxluced into the Danish Constitution , ' no woman can ascend the Danish throne : " a law , Bays Mr . Bradshaw ,- * ' sanc ^ umed by the Ministers of an Englisli Qneen , the deMendbht tff

      « n Elizabeth Tudor . " Wo jregxet to have no-WMoe ^ rar * fc « re $ t of Mr . Bradahaw ' a gloom / predictions . M » > c ^> eh 61 nought save the dark wings of the Muscovite eagle fast Btretchuig from pole to pole . " " I -would « Q 11 J ^ he concludes ) hope against hope : it is a neceuafcty for me to labour while it is still day , for lo 1 the Russian -night cometh when no freeman can work . " At least iwa havft one drop of comfort for hit * Bwukhaw . The Bagsioa - policy sanctioned by the Treaty of Max ^ , 1852 , remains to be accompliebed , and it has already received , a Bevero check ia the Danish Barlioraflnt . .

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      Erratum 'in ounlast Wumber . In the " News of the Week , " Sir George Grey wsas described as Member for A Imcick . It should have btan Morpeth Alnwick dx > e » not return a naember , though Ahnwick Cattle has beeniBtipposed to exeroiao tliat consUtiitSimal privilege . till recently .

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      The oflBcers of the Russian army- on the Danube are deeply demoralised by the defeat-at Qltenitza . ^ m S 10 ^? 5 P ™ * *« Bai * « f fsointerpoise an . the Turkish Minurtxy to the inftflnce of « iza Pacha .

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      January 3 , 1854 . ] THE LEADS a . tl

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      Tteee fires occurred yartwday ia « w wetwpafiBv btit atthorngh they did cMasMecable dmamgs , t iwy wtxnwt « UB > ci «] it ^ destru « tiv « to rjMtit * deiaa »( iacooazit » Th « weather is , after all , the ffeafc topic ; Polit »» l CSas sandras see ia a Muscovite winter the signs of ft CosssetddsedT Enroje . The Londoner innooenQy tbinka thmt * tfasir if going on because th » snow in the streets tea tornvd into , slushr mud . Certwnlywo . who liv « in XnodoB kwnraofe : whetter tb » thaw b ©» thwr or ttbt . The Parka were deserted yesterday , which looks like * a thaw . Die river it still not navJeableA except to sea . going steamers . Therft were more vehicles Id 1 ibB-streets , bnt high fives ireJwnttSntatned . Aoeidcnts on the raHw&yv « re « ttuitter 4 f -ewaww W « b » veao details .

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      Abeautiftil anrora boiealis . was observed at Tanbridee Wells on T-uesday . It lasted lialf an hour . A certain Marion of Anxerre has been fined for having named his child Robespierre . U appears that by the ! Flr « sch kwOhristian names most be borrowed either feum » ny of the authorised almanacs or from ancient history .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 7, 1854, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2020/page/11/