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    Juno , 1851 . He died on the 28 th of June , at the age of three years and twenty-six days . Another Minister of the -Anglican Church , the Reverend W . Wilkinson , of Sheffield , has betaken himself to streetpreaching . Peterborough and Sheffield are blessed ! The Bishop of Bath and Wells was " confirmed" at Bowchurch , on Sunday ; and did homage to the Queen for his Bee on Monday . On Wednesday , a Court of Directors was held at the East India House , when Lieutonant-General the Hon . George Anson was appointed Commander-in-chief of the Company ' s forces on the Fort St . George establishment , and second Member of Cottncil at that Presidency .

    The Scots Greys left Nottingham on Monday— " those grey horses" being ordered on " foreign service , " that is service in the East . Before they marched , Nottingham , worthily representing the fueling of England , met them in its market-place , and there , through its mayor , Mr . Reckless , passed round the " loving cup" and kept up a gallant custom . To the men ale was distributed- — " Nottingham ale "—not the worst in England . There were 30 , 000 people present . Mr . Albert Smith has received from the Queen a diamond pin , as an acknowledgment of the pleasure she experienced during her reccjnt visit to the " Ascent of Mont Blanc . " Mr . Gladstone lias been unwell . Towards the end of last week he had an attack of chicken-pox , which has kept him from the House . He is now- recovering . The Duke of Devonshire is also getting the better of his attack of paralysis at Brighton .

    The widow of Noy , the bravest of the brave , died at Pans on Monday last . The Turkish Ambassador presented to the Emperor of the French , this week , Mustapha Iiey the brother , and Omar Bey , the nepliew of Omar Pasha .

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    Kossuth addressed a meeting at Glasgow , on Wednesday , in support of his views of the duty of Englaad in the pending conflict . Those views , well known to oar readers , were advocated by M . Kossuth with his accustomed eloquence and force . The meeting resolved that we ought not to ally or compromise ourselves with Austria , and that we should restore Poland . The 4 th of July was celebrated in England by Mr . George Pcabody , a worthy citizen of the United States , by a dinner at Richmond . It was tho seventy-eighth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence . Among the guests was Sir James Emerson Tennent , and the toast he proposed was the memory of Washington .

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    There is great doubt after all whether Odessa is blockaded with sufficient rigour ; and the more than suspicion of laxity , and the obvious advantage which uncertainty is to neutrals , caiises great dissatisfaction among traders . Last week the arrivals of specie were unusually largeabout 850 , 000 ? ., including 40 , 000 ? . from Russia . The agitation which slumbers often , but never dies , against Sunday trading in liquors , showed itself last week in the House of Lords . A petition , praying that the sale of liquors on a Sunday may be prohibited , and signed by the Archbishop of Canterbury , the Bishop of London , and lot ) other priests was presented to the House of Lords . The " Ornar Pasha" has been adopted as the sign of a new bcershop n « ar the iufautry . barracks , Windsor . [ Will he succeed the omnipresent Marquis of Granby of the last century ?] The June returns of tho numbers attending the Museum of Ornamental Art at Maryborough House , show an increase of 7956 over thoso of last year : the total number is 13 , 033 .

    The merchants engaged in the tobacco trade have agreed to close their business at two o ' clock on Saturdays . Our import of rags for making paper varies from 7000 to 10 , 000 tons in a year ; a . return just issued shows that lust year it was 0687 tons . Our export has seldom exceeded 600 tons , but in 1852 it suddenly rose to 171-1 Ions , and in 1850 no less than 2-162 tons , almost all British and Irish , ¦ were exported . A set of old coins , collected by tho late Mr . Cuff , and disposed of by Sotheby and Wilkinson , lias realised tho largo amount of 705-lif . Recent explorations at Pompeii have brought to light a new bath-house , larger than that discovered in 182-I . A moro valuable discovery is Unit of iv piece of glass shaped like a magnifying glass . Some intelligence of tho state of the harvests in different countries lias been received ; nrul the crops nro described aa abundant in France , Algeria , Tuscany , mid Portugal .

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    Mr . Charles Muthewa received judgment , on Saturday , in tho Bankruptcy Court , Nearl y all tho creditors petitioned for ti higli class certificate- for him . Mr . Commissioner Fane , in reviewing tho cjisc , exonerated Mr . Miuhewa from everything but " tho greatest <> f all faults , " ho had almost Brtid crimes — that of flying ia the face , of tho law ami sotting up hia own ideas of right instead of i ! s provisions ; in otliur words , Mr . Mnthows , on two occasions , renewed dobta from which ho was legally free . Hu ynvo a Jinl-chus eurtiliuato with pleasure . ( Applause . ) Two actions for unirwigos fur seduction worn successfully prosecuted in tho Court of Common l'lca . s , on Monday . The

    she declined , but made an appointment for the same evening-Dufour took her to his private house ; they partook of sherry ; and " ho succeeded in seducing me , " said Miss Isabella Forman . He took her home ; he met her again by appointment ; went with him to Verey ' s ; she passed several nights and days at his lodgings ; and he brought sweetmeats , but not a silk dress lie promised , and declared he would take care of her if anything happened . A baby was born . Miss Forman is 29 ; Mr . Pufour 32 , and a married man . The defence set up was that Dufour , who had no reason to suppose tliat he was a seducer , was made a victim in an action for seduction . Chief Justice Jervis told the jury that the verdict must be for the plaintiff . It is not necessary in order to > give foundation to the action that the woman should be a . virgin ; but it was not an aggravated case , and in estimating damages they must take all the circumstances into account . Damages , 50 / .

    lirat was extremely blinplo . Juno Uritllths , iige-J yft , wont to keep liouso for Mr . Toi't ^ en , u U > yslioi > ko < 'i > er , in Hishops . gate- Without , while Mrs . Tuetgftn was in tlm count it . She wont on tho lllh April , itSfj . J : on the ' 2 nd . May , Tootgen , who had taken away tho Icey of Iku- room , cuiiiu ' in at night . Ho repwitt-d hia vihitH . No <> uo wan in tlm liumo except nn old woman and n servant , girl , ulcepiug nt a dihtnnee . On tho lllh Mny Hho wont nw .-iy . In tho . laiuury following her father luruud her mil . of dooirf . It , wim contended tlwu ithere was no Ioim of horvieo lu tho father . Lord ( , 'hivl Justice Jorvis said Unit Iomi of Ht'ivko is n fiction of law fur providing n remedy . Verdict , damages ' 26 / . ' 1 ho other ensa waw uinftulur . Iciibclln Fonnim nut Dufour , n 1 ' rencliinnn . in Hogent-Htm't , ono Sundnv afternoon , in Woccmbcj , 1 « 62 . DiuW « ibkoU her to " walk" with him

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    Some of the cases of murder which have recently shocked tlie public were disposed of , on Thursday , at the Central Criminal Court . Anne Alice Seago , the woman -who killed her step-son , on a Sunday afternoon , by subjecting him to brutal ill-usage , beating him , throwing him across the room , knocking him down , Sec , has leen found guilty of manslaughter , and sentenced to transportation for life . Henry Simmons , the man who murdered Rosina Murray , his landlady , has been acquitted on the ground of insanity , and ordered to be detained . During the past fortnight the chief magistrate at Bow-street has been called upon , almost daily , to issue his warrant for the apprehension of convicts who have been liberated under the ticket-of-leave system . They have been generally brought by the warrant-officers from Edinburgh , Aberdeen , Exeter , Isle of Wight , and oth « r distant places , and then conveyed back to " Dartmoor , Portland , &c , to undergo the remainder of the term for which , they had been sentenced to penal servitude .

    The investigation into the cause of the death of the child Richardson , at the Free . Hospital , has been continued this week . From the evidence of Mr . Curcenven , who performed a . post-mortem examination of the body , we learn that Mr . Cooke , the operator , missed tbe bladder and cut into the urethra ; that there was a stone iu the bladdeT , "which Mr . Curcenven took out and produced . The rnedical men examined differed in opinion as to whether the operation was unskilfully performed or not , but the weight of testimony acquitted Mr . Cooie of great want of skill . From the evidence of Mr . Steele , the solicitor , welearn that he paid the 100 / . to Evans on his own responsibiuty , and at his own discretion , his object being to prevent a publicity that would injure thu hospital . But he did riot pay it until Evans had shown him a document signed by the father ot the chill withdrawing the inquest .

    Lines , the industrious -workman , who put tlie legs of his termagant wife on the- fire , as a punishment for the burning of his trousers , hiis been sentenced to six weeks imprisonment , by the Assistant Judge at the Middlesex Sessions , who gave tins lenient punishment in consideration of the repeated provocations of the wife . It seems that Latour , the French aeronaut , who insanely went up in a parachute attached to a balloon , and descended therefrom in this dangerous vehicle , did not alight safely , but fractured his ribs . Mrs . Emma Smitlie , a Brighton person , has been sent to prison for cruelty to a pupil . Mrs . Smithe kept a school , and among her pupils was a little girl named Browne , only three years old . The child was dirty in her habits , and Smithe was inhuman in her notions of reformatory discipline . Her idea of improving the little thing in cleanliness was to strip her naked , nud in that state to shut her up in the coalcellar ; or to throw « s many as four pails of water over her , and give her no food . Surely our teachers should bo sent to reformatories and training institutions . r

    I wo old houses on Saffron-lull , in process of demolition , fell down on TucsJaj ' , and six men wore buried in tho ruins . One was killed , three had their limbs fractured , and two were du < j out , not much injured . Mr . renrgus O'Connor has n sister , Harriet O'Connor . She is in < leop distress , and applied this week to the Murvlebono magistrates for relief . She imputes her poverty to the detention of her bruther in a lunatic asylum , which prevents lior from obtaining property . Ono of tlio pohcciin-n employed at ( ho Crystal I \« laco lias been committed to prison for stealing a silver spoon .

    Isabel and M .-u-y Itus ^ oll , two young ladies , went down to the bench ne ; ir Kincraig , Fife , to bntho . Both were drowned . It is conjectured that ono got into deep water ; and that tho other perished in trying to assist her Mstar . . Mr . K . C . Luurd illustrated tho neglect of tho Southampton Harbour Commissioners L » st week , by his death . A part of tho town quay is quite unprotected imd unlit ; Mr . Luurd , i \ near-sighted portion , going to see some friends off to Jersey , jiL midnight , wulkud into tho vnter , and was drowned . Tho jury recommended the ooininissiiowra to provide saino protection ugaitiht such disasters .

    A corpulent German lady abused tho lius > ian Government iii Si . Voterslmrg . Ono day slio w < ih Hiiinmono . l to tho piiUce-ollicc , and lectured l . y tho prelect * , and before shu could reply slio sunk through tho floor ! Nothing was aeon nf her [ nit her arms nnd crumiiU'd clothes , ami in that position thirty blown were doull below . After this alio rose again and wiib towed out .

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    1 'ho Afoiutcur of T'lemluy contains tho following : — " Some persons havn , it U'Uuited t' > thii Government uu active * intori ' uionco wiilfivsiiovt to tho qiu-sikiii of keeping tho Sunday its a Sabbath . T \« wv Ims tho Government Intd thin thought " ; it , drMrea that the religious l , » w hln n ihl l > , ' ubseivud ; it tieth every whero thv «> x ¦ imp ln ; liul . il lH'ithci wUIcm nor ought to do nioro ; th . it It t '> r every ( HID / t i | i | e . itioii of l ' re < f eollacii-iico , which udinitH neither eoiihtraiut nor iiitiniidation . " Tho Uriti . ih AhsocLition arotouieet ut Lisei i > o > . I t ' ii . 1 year , th « Kni'l of 11 urn ) why pros ' ullng . Tho Hint gener . il meetii . j ; will bo hold nt . eight nYWk I ' . m . on tho 'JUtli of September , when tho mv = i < k'nt will deliver his luliircjjti : and ihu last on

    Wednesday , the 27 th of September , wlien'l 3 xe ia ^ 8 | S (^ fi 8 Si will be adjourned to its next place of meeting . -Evening meetings will take place for discourses and general conversation . Professor Owen has promised totiqnduct one oltbesej discourses ; but there mil be no regular lectures .. 'Excorssions have been arranged , but these are npt suuleientlj matured to enable us to report upon them . HoscevBt the salt mines of Northwicb , and the harbour Tjrtjrbs ^ t ^ c ^ w head , with the great tulular bridges betwe . eni 92 s 6 SKt ^^ ypBisea , are likely to be visited . There will be-several ^ Ji ^ iiiSv either in the Philharmonic-hall or Towu-faaU , -dtnTOgtiio meeting , and a dinner before the adjournment , dO 5 ilrtfe $ 9 V « d usual . —Liverpool Times . It has long been a desideratum in the adaptation of fia&srt to the refined wants of daily life , as well as for purposes of science , that works of Sculpture should be capable of being produced at a cheap rate . Many processes have been , tried to

    render plaster solid ; b-ut none has hitherto proved in every respect successful , the requisite degree of transparency not having been obtained . Dr . Emil Braun has at length sneceeded , we are told , in the production of a material adapted to plastic purposes which affords the same sharpness of outlines as plaster of Paris , is scarcely inferior in whiteness to the finest statuary marble , and' even sarpasssit in impermeability of surface , being perfectly impervious to wet , and capable of resisting all incieittencies of -weather The inventor has already exhibited several busts and statues of this composition , which have been viewed by the sculptors and artists of Rome , who ara unanimous in their opinion as to the beauty and vabae of _ the

    material , the fracture of which even presents a crystallised structure . This material is well adapted for the most delicate objects a s for works of colossal size ; the former exhibiting the utmost refinement of execution , whilst the latter proves that it is capable of resisting any degree of weight arising from the bulk of the objects themselves . In this material fac-similies oi the most beautiful monuments of ancient or modern times , architectural ojnaments , &c ., _ niay be reproduced at a price not greatly exceeding that of plaster casts . Thus not only houses and museums , but also gardens and parks , and all open court-yards , or spaces destined foe decorative purposes , may be . adorned with the finest works of sculpture which the world affords . —The Builder .

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    Fi ' om a parliamentary return / just published , it appears that 146 , 882 persons paid income-tax under schedule D in . the year ending April 5 , 1853 . Of these 33 persons possessed more than 50 , O 0 OZ . per annum ; 373 , from 10 , 000 / . to 50 , O 0 O £ ; 664 , from SOOo £ to 10 , 000 £ ; 380 , from 40007 . to 5000 ? . ; 683 , from 3 O 0 O ? . to 4000 Z . ; 1456 , from 2000 Z . to 3000 Z . ; 4843 , from 1 O 00 Z . to 2 O 0 OZ . ; 815 , above 900 ? . ; 1703 , above 800 £ ; 2004 , above 700 L ; 3021 , above 600 / . ; 52 G 0 , above 500 / . ; 7187 , above 400 / . ; 14 , 679 , above 300 / . ; 30 , 142 , above 200 / . ; 40 , 473 , above 150 ? . ; and 33 , 158 , below that amount . The four [ classes which contribute the most to the tax are those from 150 Z . to 200 ? ., from 200 / . to 300 Z ., from 1000 ? . to 2000 ? ., and from 10 , 000 ? . to 50 , 000 / ., each of which pays nearly the same sum on the whole . Under schedule E 49 , SO 0 persons paid income-tax , of whom 54 paid on incomes of over 5000 ? . a year , and 21 , 296 on iacoines tinder 150 ? .

    A general meeting of the committee of the Society for the Preservation of Life from Drowning , was held afc he offices , John-street , Adelphi , on Thursday . Mr . T . Chapman , F . R . S ., deputy-chairman , presided . Various pecuniary rewards were granted for saving life on tho coasts . The attention of the committee was afterwards directed to the necessity of providing , without delay , carriages fvr eight lifeboats which it had recently placed on different parts of the coast . A carriage is now being constructed , under the direction of the institution , by Messrs . Kansoinc and Sims , of Ipswich , which , with the exception of its cost , which we understand will be upwards of 100 / ., is

    likely to answer the purpose admirably . Tho committee sanctioned tho sale of a considerable portion of the small funded property of the society to meet the expenses on lifeboats , boathouses , &c . They earnestly appealed to the public for increased pecuniary support , to enablo them to carry on successfully the operations of tho institution , in wliich : ippe ; il we cordially join , for wo believe that few societies are more deserving of support than this is , considering its ivally . national and benevolent objects . Sir . Hamilton Fitzgerald hiving been announced as giving tho liberal donation of 100 guineas , and a grunt in aid of the Haitlepool soiunon ' s lifeboat votcJ , tho proceedings closed .

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    Tho Sheffield Times , July 1 , says : — " It seems that when supplies arc required the Board of Ordnance send out to contractors list .-i of articles so multifarious that only a vory limited numl > e . r of persons—factors — can entertain , thorn , and that those factors find out where tho roquisito goods can bo hiul at tho lowest prices and shupo their tenders accordingly . Under such a system as this tiio quality of the ; " goods is altogether u secondary consiiluration . The proper course , it ia obvious , ¦ wo uld bo for tho Board ol' Ordnance to clnitsify tho articles and , invite tender .- ! , for Slu-tliold goo . ld from SliefTiold manufacturor . s , Birmingham waros from Birmingham manufacturers , and tho liko iu all tho other departments of stores . Si fur from diminishing competition , n » yslein like- this would ii ; eie . i * o il : und wo can answer for it that , as ( ar as

    edge-tools and other Shefliold mnnufacturoro nro concerned , thu very boat nrliulus might ho pi-DUiircd at fair prices . It turns out , us we antieipated , that tho lmlohots , billhooks , axes , . Jte ., fmni . jin . ii to tho army were none of thorn from MieHi-ld . It may bo lh . it they hud boon purchased below thisSlieilielil l'l-u'i's ; but thoir utt .-r wortldesmess was tho surest proof that t l , w h . ul l > een Ijnight too dear , however small tho cohI . In case the prooondiiigu which liavo boon tulu-n mid am iu eontemiilatloii pro . luco tho cIllicit of placing ; t lio <> ilge-twol nidnuf . u'lureraoii a fulr footing with rospoctto ( iuvoniiiK'iit eoiiliMut . i , and ( jiiullty to bo made , aa it uugUti In be a , « imi i / un "'"< i wo will aiwwur for it that tiicro will ho . in en 1 > i ili- iuJL'u ; mt eoiidomniition of that dencui |) lion of tiiiilis ( iii aceount I'fthvir boing unfit for tho usc » for which they aro ( tctitrneJ . "

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    Jujly 8 , 1654 . ] THE LEADER- 635 ' . s „> \ j

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  • Leader (1850-1860), July 8, 1854, page 635, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2046/page/11/