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      delays and obstructions to the coinage of silver , as well as by other means , the government have contrived to- reduce that metal to a discount of ten or dteyaa per cent . They are consequently enabled to obtain such supplies as they require at this depreciation and , as they can coin at pleasure what they want for their own use , they conceive themselves to be acting with great acuteness , especially as the loss apjpars t » fell upon such visitors as may bring foreign silver into the country , or the merchants who have to remit it in payment . At the same time , also , they are accused of receiving large bribes from such parties as may see fit to tempt them by those means to allow the Mint to operate in their favour . —Times . s - r > c b a - i s r s r

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      SUNDAY RECREATION . I . ^^ PETITION' FOB THE OPENING OF THE CRYSTAL PAESCE ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON . The petition of the undersigned , sheweth , that among all classes of her Majesty ' s subjects there is felt to be a necessity for providing means of healthful and innocent recreation on Sunday , in a manner consistent -with the religious feelings of the people . That after labouring hard for six days in the week , it is no rest , but weariness and vexation , for the working man to be confined on Sunday to the scenes and circumstances of his accustomed toil , and that while the rich have ample facilities at their disposal , there is a lamentable deficiency of means of relaxation adapted to the physical , intellectual , and moral needs of the families of the poor . That the Crystal Palace , so splendid in its architecture , so rich in its accumulation of natural and artificial objects of extraordinary beauty and interest , and with its healthful and magnificent gardens , affords the noblest provision for the recreation of the people which any age hath seen : and your petitioners believe that the opening of this great Institution on Sunday afternoon would have the happiest and most beneficial effect , and would be an inestimable boon to the working population , whose imperative duties will not permit them to devotfe any portion of the week to visiting it without a very heavy pecuniary loss , which they cannot afford . Your Petitioners therefore pray that your Honourable House will effect such changes in the law as may enable the Crystal Palace Company to open that Institution on Sunday afternoon . And your Petitioners will ever pray , &c . &c . i ' '

      II . PETITION FOR THE OPENING OP MUSEUMS , PICTURE OALLEBIES , AND BOTANICAL GARDENS , THROUGHOUT THE UNITED KINGDOM ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON . Your Petitioners take it for granted that museums and other collections of a similar character are established for the instruction and moral improvement of the people , and that in proportion as such Institutions are made available for popular education do they fulfil the purposes of their origin . That the labours and necessary avocationB of the great body of the community leave little or no opportunity of visiting such Institutions during the week , when they are open to the public , and hence , that the main object of their formation iB lost to those whom they are intended to benefit . t and leisurewhen the

      The Sunday , as a day of res , thoughts of men , released from the engrossing labour of mere existence , turn naturally to the beauties of the universe and to its Creator , is the time most fitted for the exercise of the reflective faculties : and your Petitioners , boing firmly convinced that all true education must tend to the reverenoe and lovo of tho Deity believe that if such Institutions as above enumerated were open to the people on Sunday afternoon it would be an inestimable boon to the labouring population , would raise up an opposing principle to intemperance and immorality , and in evory way advance the condition of the people . Your Petitioners , therefore , pray that all restrictions and impediments may bo removed , so that Museums , Picture Galleries , Botanical Gardens , and Bimilar collections generally of parochial or municipal foundations , throughout the United Kingdom , be opened to the public on Sunday afternoon . Aoxd your Petitioners will ever pray , &o . &c .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . THB CotittT . — Captain M'Clure , R . N ., has beon knighted at Windsor . Visoouut and Viscountess Canning and Sir Colin Campbell have arrived at tho Caetle on n . visit to the Queen . Tho royal theatricals have rooommenced ; and on Wednesday the Rivals was performed , with Mr . Bartloy , Mr . Wigiui , Mr . Horley , Mr . Keeley , Mr . HucIhou , Mrs . Walter Lacey , & 0 .. in tho principal parts . . Tub SKOWKTAHYSiur of this Colonies . —Hio mgnt Hon . H . Labouohere has been appointed tho auoousBor of the late Sir William Molesworth in the Sooreturyslup of the Colonies . . .. Thh PoBTMAfiTBn-aniNiflRAL . —Tho Duko of Argyll will Bucoeod Viscount Canning as PostmaBtor-Clcnoral ;

      his grace retaining for the present his office of Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal . Thh Latb Lord Mayor . —A vote of thanks to the late Lord Mayor- was proposed and carried in the Court of Alderman on Tuesday , not , however , without considerable opposition on the part of Alderman Copeland , who moved , asan amendment , "that it be referred to the General Purposes Committee to prepare a vote of thanks . " Tbia was defeated by eight to seven , the vote of thanks was afterwards agreed to . Among other objections to the late Lord Mayor , Alderman Copeland mentioned bis inattention to business . * ' Alice Obey . " —This extraordinary woman , a few nights' since , set . fire to the bed in her cell , with a view to destroying herself . The act , however , was discovered in time , and she was saved , without being in the least hurt . The Manchester Turn-out continues , but as yet no outrages have occurred . Messrs . Fothergill and Harvey ' s workpeople are reported to have compromised the question with their employers , and to have resumed work at Id . per 1 , 000 hanks' reduction , instead of 2 d ., as first offered . The operatives of Messrs . Pooley and Co . have joined the strike ; and the number now amounts to between three and four thousand . The Elections . —Sir Charles Napier has been returned , without further opposition , for Southwark . Captain Jolifle ( Conservative ) has beaten Mr . Kinglake , the Liberal candidate for Wells , by 146 to 121 . Reformatory Institutions . —A large meeting of the magistracy , gentry , and clergy of Suffolk has determined on the formation of a committee for taking steps towards establishing a reformatory institution for that county . The P ^ olish Insurrection . ;—A meeting will be held in St . Martin's Hall , on the 29 th of the present month , to commemorate the Polish insurrection . Oxford ITkion Debating Society . —The subject for consideration at the Debate last Monday night was , " That the conduct of the Government in expelling the refugees from Jersey is tyrannical and deserving of the severest censure . ** To this , an amendment as proposed , " That the conduct of the refugees has been such as to justify the course which they have pursued "; which was carried by a maiorifcy of eight , the numbers being sixteen to nine . Can A Clergyman Marry Himself ?—This perplexing question has been answered in the affirmative in the case of Beamish v . Beamish , lately brought forward for decision in the Irish Court of Queen ' s Bench . The poiut to be determined was , whether the issue of a marriage between the Rev . John Samuel Sweyne Beamish , a Protestant clergyman , and Isabella Frazer , performed by the former , was legitimate . The unanimous opinion of the Court confirmed the legitimacy ; but Judge Crampton , in delivering that decision , said that the marriage was irregular and clandestine , and that it would be for another tribunal to decide whether the practice would not lead to great evils in society . Archdeacon Denison . —Sir Fitzroy Kelly , on Thursday , obtained from Lord Campbell a rule , calling upon the Archbishop of Canterbury to show cause why a mandamus should not is . me commanding the Rev . George Anthony Denison , Archdeacon of Taunton , to appear before him according to the Church Discipline Act , and to proceed against him according law . The suit was instituted by the Rev . Mr . Ditcher , on account of the alleged heretical doctrines of the Archdeacon , and in consequence of the refusal of the Bishop of Bath and Wells , and of the Archbishop of Canterbury , to interfere , notwithstanding that a commission issued by the latter , had reported that there wns sufficient prima facie ground for proceeding . Petty Intolerance . —The Sunderlund Times announces that tho directors of the Northumberland and Durham District Bank havo ordered all their clorks , &c , who woar the moustacho , to shave or rosign . If these gentlemen were the directors of a Chinese kink , they would order those who might have the ill-luck to serve under them to go buldherulod , and to hoc that tho feet of their wives and daughters were well cramped , under pain of dismissal . It is lucky that such potty tyrants havo no opportunity of exhibiting their despotism on a larger stage , or every man would have to accomodato his moral , religious , and political faith to their whims , at peril of tlie stake . Bread Meetings on Sunday . — Three open-air meetings wero held on Sunday in South Staffordshire and tho neighbourhood of Birmingham upon the subject of tho high price of broad . Two of these meetings wore in the morning ; one at Spon-lnne , Statturu-Bhiro and tho other at Doritend-pool , near Birmingham . At tho fovraor 10 , 000 puoplo were present , ami it wan roBolvod to sond a deputation to tho Queen to represent tho alleged grievance * of the people m tho matter of dear bread . At Doiitoud-pool about 1 , 000 persons wore present , and Hovoral Hpceuhcn were made by operatives . The afternoon meeting took place at Hookley Pool , near Birminghmn , and was attended by 1 , 200 persona . Tub Biblh Burnings in Iukla . np . — The Attorney-General for Ireland having directed tho immediate

      prosecution of air the persons , whether lay . or clen cal , who have been in any way conneoted with the late burning of Bibles in Ireland , informations have been sworn against the Redemptorist father , Pet chinini . The late Tragedy at Brighton . —Tho Brighton Herald states that Dr . Forbes Winslow and others , who have speculated on the death of Dr . Franek and his son , have written without , a knowledge of the facts ; and that the body of the youth presented " palpable external marks of strangulation , " the face being livid , and the knees drawn up under the bedclothes . The Sunday Meetings . —A large crowd—though not so large as on previous occasions—again assembled in Hyde-park last Sunday ; but the members of which it was composed did not attempt any demonstration . A police force , similarly disposed to that of the previous Sunday , was present ; and the mob , after waiting in vain for several hours for some sport , withdrew , without having inflicted any damage . A Frenchman ' s Sketch of three English Workmen . —The first is that of a London cutler ; the second , a Derbyshire iron-founder ; the third , a Sheffield cutler . The London cutler , to be near bis master , lives in a small dark street between Fleetstreet and the Thames , in "Whitefriars . But where his master lives , M . le Play does not point out . The children of the London ctjtler go to play in the Temple Garden from six to eight iu the evening . Else , they have no fresh air or exercise at all . The clergyman never goes near this cvitler , who is totally destitute of religious knowledge , and who never enters the church . All that we fear , may be but too true . He lives iu a house all to himself , for which he pays a weekly rent of nine shillings and sixpence halfpenny , " including water-rate . " He lives in the kitchen or cellar ; the learned engineer ' s term for this part of the cutler ' s mansion being rather ambiguous ; and he lets a room on the third storey to his brother , at the sum of one shilling and a halfpenny a-week . The total area of each stage or storey is 32 square feet nine square inches and a bewildering decimal . His property—which may mean his tools—is worth seven pounds , thirteen shillings , and five pence farthing , and the fraction of a farthing which has no English , represantative . Our cutler has twentyfour towels , but less linen generally than would be found among the same class in Germany or France . His furniture is of mahogany , and worth twenty-four pounds , thirteen shilling * and eightpence halfpenny . We include two umbrellas , a white metal teapot , a boiler , worth two shillings hii < l a halfpenny ; and other things in the same proportion . Tho family is very sober , belongs to the Odd Fellow ' s Society , and earns ninety-nine pounds seventeen shillings and eightpence in the year . It goes to the parka on Sunday , and once a-year to the theatre ; twice in tho year to Greenwich— whioh two joumoyn coat it five shillingB four pennies and a fraction of a i irthing .

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      Leader Office , Saturday , November 24 . PROGRESS OF THE WAR . The Indus , which has arrived at Marseilles ) , bring . * the following headts of intelligence : — " It wan reported at Constantinople on the 12 th , on the strength of news from Asia , that tho « iogo of Kara was raised , and that the Russians wore lulling back on Tiflis . Omer Pacha had arrived within twenty leagues of Kutais . Solim Pacha hrul ] effc Trebizond , with Egyptian cavalry and artillery for Kara , " Berlin , Thursday Evoning .

      M . doManteuffol has had two or three long interviews with Baron do Budberg , the Russian Ambassador . Theso interviews aro Baid to bo for tho no ! , tlonient of new bases of negotiation , to emanate from JLtumjia . Tho Baron < lo Budborg will lay thorn-before tho Czar on hiB almost immediate vinifc to St . Petersburg . Athens , Nov . 10 . M . Triooupi will not acoept office , and duos not come to Athens .

      SIR COLIN CAMPBELL . Wo havo much pleasure in stating that , at tho oxpiration of Iris woll-eamed leave , Sir Colin Campbell will return to tho Crimea , to renumo the command ot the Highland Division . — Qlobe . Great Fire in WArriNa . —An immense conflagration burst out yesterday morning on tho I' ™"" "' ° [ Messrs . L < miH , Cowan , and Son , tallow morol . ni t « and soap manufacturers , New ^ f ! . ' ,, ff J Burning Hakes wore driven toward * ( ho « h ppn « in the rivJr , whioh w »» at ono time on'l ™^'' ™ § i i ^ e » .. n Mm firo waii subdued . Unwiuun or Til oSSCS 5 of propt ^ urod ) h « boJn lost Anothm Germ an hL dfod from imurioB rocrved in tho late boiler exp loflioii In Katoliff Highway .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 24, 1855, page 1127, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2116/page/11/