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      Acadian Iron Company has famished the steel , and the order is etlready in progress of execution . Dismissal of an Army Surgeon . —Acting Assistant-Surgeon Henry Bedwell , one of the surgeons against ¦ whom a verdict of manslaughter was recently returned by a jury for alleged negligence in causing the death of p rivate William Stinson , 38 th reg iment , to whom & quantity of opium was given in mistake for a cathartic mixture at the Garrison hospital , has re * ceived au intimation from Dr . Andrew Smith , the medical direetor-geaeral of the army , that her Majesty no longer requires his services . This proceeding has been loudly condemned , as it is , in feet , a prejudging of the charge against Mr . Bedwell , before he has been tried b y a jury for the crime of manslaughter , with whieh he aad aBBistast-surgeoa Turner stand charged .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . —The Queen held a levee ( the third this eeasom ) at St . James ' s Palace on Wednesday afternoon ; . and on Thursday she inspected a patty of soldiers who arrived that day at " Woolwich from the Crimea . Adumeiution of 'Food , &c—Dr . Challis , a physician , ict giving evidence before the committee appointed for inquiry into the adulteration of food , &c ., said the best bakers had admitted to him that they use twelve ounces of alum to one hundred and most

      994 boys and 931 girls , —in all , 1 , 925 children , —were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1846-55 , the average number Was 1 , 589 . —From the Registrar General's Weekly Betmrn . Mb . Panizzi is appointed chief librarian aad « ecretary to the British Museum in the room , of Sir H . Ellis . Statistical Society . —The paper for next Monday evening will be on the Bank of Eagland , its present constitution and operations by MJr . O . Jellieoe . Mr . Hopley , to whose earnest advocacy of the cause of Health and Education we have frequently endeavoured to draw the attention of our metropolitan sanitary societies , has been delivering a course of eight lectures at Brighton . — ,

      The Trlax . oi ? William Paliibb . —It is Understood that the trial of William . Palmer , of Rugeley , will be fixed for the May sessions at the Central Criminal Court , under the new Criminal Bill , which will shortly become an Act of Parliament . "With respect to Palmer ' s defence , it is represented that it Willie mainly a scientific one ; and that eminent chemists aad anatomists ( including Majendie , of Paris ) have been retained to resist , as far as possible , the deductions of Dr . Taylor and Dr . Bees .

      forty loaves , a ? a minimum—an amount injurious to healtn . The doctor denied that , as asserted by a previous witness , the chemical character of the alum undergoes & change in the process of baking : he had often found crystals of alum in bread . "With respect to beer , lie had seen a inan in a , state of comic * after drinking a single pint of beer at a , publics-house . He mentioned that in poor neighbourhoods it is a matter of notoriety that the meat exposed for sale is generally diseased , the viscera showing that the animal has died from disease , or been in a dying state when it was killed . He knew of one instance of a butcher who never ate a . morsel of the meat he Bold himself for this

      reason , and he ( Dr . Chailis ) believed that the disease called the carbuncle , which has much increased among the lower classes , is to be traded to the extensive use of diseased meat . Even the higher classes are not exempt . Although inspector are , appointed , yet there is a regular market for the sale of diseased meat , and not one case in ten is prosecuted , and even then it is difficult to procure a conviction . Mustard is now so mucb . adulterated as to be inefficacious , and he kaew of & child dying because a mustard piaster which had been prescribed had absolutely no effect , owing to adulteration . His own prescriptions had failed in consequence of the impurities ^ of the drugs . Mr . Gay , superintendent of the mustard department of the Victualling Yard , Deptford , said that , duiing the time lie was in business , he very seldom sent out a genuine article , being compelled to add the adulterating substances by orders of the wholesale houses .

      Adulterating Flour . — - Messrs . ' Rhodes and Itockett , millers in a large way of business at Snaith and QoqLg , have been fined £ 10 and oosts for adulterating their flour with alumina and white clay . The magistrates ordered the sixteen sacks of adulterated flour found upon their premises to be sold for feeding Bwine , and the proceeds to be given to the rector of Goole for distribution among the poor . Health op London . —The total number of deaths reg istered in London , which had been 1 , 029 in the previous week , rose to 1 , 082 in the week that ended last Saturday . The rate of mortality now prevailing is considerably less than has beeu generally experienced in the beginning of March . The difference is 170 in

      favour of last week . The present return includes the deaths of £ 70 males and 512 females . To the zymotio or epidemic class of diseases , 205 deaths ave referred , being a greater number than is found , in any of the other classes into which the causes of death ore divided . The tuberoukr class , including phthisis , has 192 deaths assigned to it ; the class of pulmonary diseases , princi pall y bronchitis , pneumonia , and asthma 191 ; diseases of the nervoue system , 126 ; diseases of the ? di gestive organs , 50 ; of the heart and other organs of circulation , 52 . Whooping-cough , which was fatal in 54 cases , appears to be tho most prevalent of the epidemics ; scarlatina caused 24 deaths , typ hus 62 . There were 2 deaths from influenza j and catnrrhal affections have beon common lately , though not often attended

      with , tho fatal results which alone place thorn in the registers , 15 deaths occurred frdni emall-pox , * 8 of t . liese in iiho Small-pox Hospital . 7 infants died in ooMsequonc © of malformation of Bomo part of the body . lf > women died of fever , or othor disease moideutal to obild-boaring . A man , aged 05 yoara , died on tho 8 th of February in the workhouse , Mileend New-town , from wnnt . A death from cholera is reported ; it ooourred after an illneaa of -very short duration . Tho particulars are as follow .-At 11 , Half-Moon street , Bishopsgate , on the 7 th of Maroh ' a journeyman blaoksmffch , aged 48 years , " oholora ( 10 hours ) . " The house ( adds tho registrar ) Is drained and ventilated , and there in no apparent ciroumatanoo to account fox * tho disenne . Two woman < liod in the wook at tho ago 94 youra . —LaBt week , tho birtha of

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      THE ! CONFERENCES AT PARIS . The Monitew announces that Prussia , who signedfhe treaty of tie 13 th of July , 1841 , has been in . vitfed to send Plenipotentiaries to Paris . Baron -Manteuf&l was to leave Berlin yesterday { Friday ) tpjoin in the Conferences . M . deHatzfeld , Prussian lOnister at Paris , will Ibe the second Plenipotentiary . The invitation addressed to Prussia by the CongreSB is more particulsarl ^ - grounded on the motive that the Conference of Paris is about to commence the discus sion of the treaty of the Dardanelles of 1841 .

      Count Orloff has made known at St . Petersburg that a definitive understanding has been come to dp . th e fifth point , and that , thanks to the instructions brought by M . Schcewaloff , peace is assured . Some special deliberations , wMch are to take place between Uussia and Turkey , have been reserved . Preparations ate being made at Moscow for the coronation of the Emperor , -which will take place after the cdhchl fiion of peace .

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      FRANCE . The august infant' is hourly expected at the Tuileries . M . Paul Dubois , the son of the man who attended upon Marie Louise in the same capacity , has been established en permanence at . the Palace for some days . If the shade of Voltaire be permitted to revisit Paris let him take up the Moniteur and peruse the programme of the ceremonial for the rec e p t i on of the infant b y the Great Bodies of the S tate , and let him ponder upon the progress of la sottisc humaine . I f the L eg itimists are justly shocked at the assumption of the title of " Children of France" by the unmatched offspring of an Emperor elected \* y the will of the peop le , s u rel y the intelligence of France has a right to revolt at this outrage upon a people the most sensitive to ridicule in Europe . There is a sort of di g n ity in the parvenu who avows his or igin : but the parvenu who affects hereditary insolence , deserves the fate of hereditary imbecility . It is now clear on which side the Second Empire will fall . It exaggerates the fatal vanity of the First . It is said that the Pope will

      be godfather to the infant and will be represented by his Nuncio . The Queen of Sweden , a cousin of the Emperor , is to be the godmother . Pity , we say , for tho mother , and compassion for the child ! The situation of Pxnnoo Jerome has been thought to preclude all hopo of his x-ecovery ; but ho has rallied within the last day or two . Tho Emperor has received a letter by which the Grand Duke of Oldonbourg notifies to him the marriage of his cousin , the Princess d'Oldenbourg , to the Grand Dulco Nicholas of Russia ,

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      LAST "NIGHT'S PARLIAMENT . HOUSE OF LORDS . PRISONS . The . Earl of Shaftesbury moved for certain returns relating to the condition of prisons , and showed thait many prisons in this country were in . an unsatisfactory condition . as regarded aanitary arrangenaents . THE LIBRARY QF THE LAMB iORD TRURO . The Marquis of Lansdowne communicated to the House an offer from Lady X ' ruro of the valuable Law Library of the late Lord Truro .

      and said that the question , of the payment of expenses if there was a -war would be considered hereafter . Mr . Gladstone characterised the cause of the dispute with Persia as trumpery and . insignificant , and protested against the doctrine that , . in case of a war , the House" Was not to know of it at an early period , and that the consideration of expense was to be an after instead of * a primary consideration . He deprecated a war with Persia .

      THE ATTACK ON THE REDAN . Mr . French asked whether inquiries could be made into the circumstances of the failure in the attack on the Redan , and complained that no reward was given to the troops engaged ia ifc . Lord Palmerston said the reports received on the subject were quite satisfactory , and gave his op inion that , sd far fironx the failure of the attack being a slut- on t !* e British , arms , it was a day of "great g lory to the troops , the opei'ation , notwithstanding its failure , contributing greatly to the capture of the MalakhoflE . A motion for the adjournment of the House till the 31 st instant was agreed to .

      THE CORPORATION OF LONDON . Sir G . Grey gave notice that on the JDst of April he should introduce a bill for the Reform of the Corporation of London . After discussions on several matters of minor imp or t ance , on the ( question of the Speaker leaving tne chair , the House went into Committee of Supply and proceeded with the Array Estimates . The rest of the business was disposed of and the House adjourned for the recess ^ . .

      LIMITED UABMITY . Lord Mqnteagle having moved for some returns bearing on the question of Limited Liability , suggested a Committee to inquire into tie subject . ^ - Lord Qversione , in a speech of BOine length , protested against the ^ principle of Limited Liability . « - * iSarl GranvilLe objected to granting a Committee . The returns were , howevei ' , granted . The House adjourned at twenty minutes after eight .

      HOUSE OF COMMONS . THE CLOCK OF THE HOUSES OF FABE-IAMENT . In answer to Mr . Hankey , Sir B . Hall said it was not intended to preserve the fanciful face now exhibited on the large clock of the Houses of Parliament . THE PAOLO VERONESE . In answer to Mr . Otway , Mir . Wtlsot ? said the purchase of the new Paolo Veronese 'in the National Gallery was entirely at the cost of the keeper of the Gallery , and there was no doubt it was a genuine work of the artist , being the best authenticated picture of the old masters extant .

      DESCRIPTIVE INSCRIPTIONS ON PUBLIC PICTURES AND MONUMENTS . In answer to Mr . Ewart , Lord Paxmerston said that the suggestion of having descriptive accounts attached to pictures and monuments in public places , was in courseof being carried otit . THE ADMISSION OF PRUSSIA . TO THK < 3 ONFERBNOES . Mr . Disraeli called attention to the announcement that Prussia had been invited to enter the Conferences at PariB , and remarked on Lord Palmerston ' s refusal to state the fact on tho previous evening , and hoped that reserve was not caused by the noble lord ' B disapproval of that step . Ho himself thought it a subject of congratulation and a good augury of a permanent peace . —Lord Palmekston said he was acting on the wisa resolution of tho Conferences , that their

      proceedings should be kept secret ; therefore he declined to answer tho question put to him the might befpre , He admitted tho importance of Prussia among the great Powers of Europe , and , if any general question were to have been discussed at the Conferences , PruBBie . would have beon invited to join thorn ; but the Conferences were confined to the question of . the war between the belligerent powers only , and the question was one in whioh she had taken no ; part . Nevertheless , part of the objects of the Conferences -wan tho revision of tho treaties of 1841 relating to tho Dardanelles and Bofiphorus , to whioh Pru » sia was a party , and it was always intended "that sho should bo iuvitoct to acoodo to tho result of the negotiations . An intimation to that effcot had beon given and accepted by Prussia .

      WAR WMII riflBSIA . Mr . Layari > inquired of tho Government whether there was to be an expedition to Poraia from India , and asked who was to pay tho expenses—thia country or tho Knut India Company ? Mr . V , Smith naid that some Bhipa had beon sont to Bushir to protect Britinh uubjeoba : ho declined to Bay whether an expedition was to bo sent to Persia ,

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      9 Leader Office , Saturday , March 15 .

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      " TURKEY . A < leapatol » from Constantinople , via Semlin , ottvtei that Haul Pacha , brother-in-law of the Sultan , ia doad

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      The Taldot Divonaia Cask ( for adultery ) is nov boforo tho Houao of Lords . Judgment han not ye been pronounced . Wo flhall give ft summary of th completed case next wook .

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      PRUSSIA . Tho Prussian King , tho Princess , aad m ost of the Ministers , together with some Generals , attondedthc funeral of tho lato President of Police on Thursday moruiog . AU the civil authorities of tho town and great multitwdoH followed him to the grave .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 15, 1856, page 251, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2132/page/11/