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    them to do the work thoroughly at once ; He would suggpa ^ . to the ineeting that they should prepare evidencej ; and submit it to the commissions which Government was about to form in connexion -with the subject . " After , the delivery of several other speeches to the same effect , and the adoption * of resolutions condemnatory of the scheme of the Board of "Works , and expressing approval of the Government Commission for investigating the subject of the utai&ation of sewage , the meeting separated . Seizure and Sale of Pubxic Works at Rotherham . —The Board of Health for the town of Rotherham , in the West Riding of Yorkshire , -which was appointed after the passing of the Health of Towns Act ,

    immediately inaugurated expensive systems of drainage ana ¦ water supply . The members borrowed , on the security of the rates , and in accordance , with the powers given them by the act , io the extent of 32 , 000 ? . ; but even this sum they largely exceeded . They undertook to execute private drainage through their own contractors for a very small per centage above the actual cost . To meet these expenses ^ it was found necessary to impose heavy rates ; . but the townspeople became dissatisfied , a meeting was held , and a committee was appointed to investigate the board ' s affaire . A strongly condemnatory report was sent in ; new memfcers were elected out of the committee to serve on the board ; and a stop -was put to further expenditure . It was found impossible , however , 'to meet tie engagements already entered into . Leg # l proceedings were consequently resorted to by several of the board's creditors , and a few days ago their

    expensive waterworks , engines , offices , &c , were seized by the sheriff ' s officer at the suits of the Earl of Effinghana for 1100 / .,. llr . Simpson ( contractor ) for 900 ? ., and Beecroft , Butler , and Co ., for atout 1500 ? . At the close of last week , the works were sold to the seizing creditors on ait appraisement by the sheriff's officer . The . consequence is that , after an expenditure by the board of abffut 40 , 000 ? ., the inhabitants ; are entirely at the mercy Of th . e creditors for their water supply , arid also in a great measure for their drainage , the efficiency of which is largely dependent upon the -water supply . Claims to the amount of 40 O 07 . or 5 OO 0 / . are still unsatisfied ; and it is feared that the disasters of the town will be further aggravated by proceedings in the Court of Chancery on . the part of the unpaid creditors . In the neighbouring town , of Worksop , the local Board of Health have likewise involved themselves in pecuniary difficulties , and a few days ago had their offices fixtures , fee , seized for

    rent * * ¦ ¦ . ¦ . •; . . ¦ . ¦ . : ¦ Kail-way Assessment . —The Assistant Judge at the Middlesex Sessions gave judgment on Tuesday in the appeal cases of the London and South-Western Railway Company , against the poor-rate of Staines . He said the claim on the part of the appellants was that the rate should be reduced to 159 ? ., while the case for the respondents was that it should continue at 656 ? . The decision of the court would be that the rate be fixed at 460 ? . Costs would not be given , because , although this litigation had lasted from 1861 , great fairness had been shown by both parties , and the proceedings had been most properly conducted . An arrangement was then made with respect to the other rates , and a list of eighteen caees was disposed of .

    Pbincb Adam : Czartoryski . —The venerable Prince Czartot-yski , in his capacity of President of the Polish Historical ^ Society at Paris , has recently addressed its members in a long and interesting speech . While reviewing the political events which have just been accomplished—events pregnant with hopes for the Polish cause —he seemed to reproach his countrymen with not having quickly profited l ) y the circumstances occasioned by the late war ; but he also averred that the attitude of the Allied Powers towards the Poles was not of a nature to encourage their efforts . Still , he believed that the foreign policy of Europe had of late become broader and more liberal , and he thought that there is still hope for Poland .

    AaaENic in the Tea-kettl-r . —The trials of Palmer and Dove have caused a great deal of investigation into the nature of arsenic , not only in England , but abroad . Professor Otto , of Brunswick , being aw Are of the fact that metal invariably exists in the ochreous deposits of water , thought of examining for arsenic in the crust which had formed on the inside of his teakettle , and had not the slightest difficulty , by the application of Marsh ' s test , in demonstrating its presence there . The water wed m London deposits a laTge amount of crust on the iaside of teakettles . That crust holds a variable portion of oxide of iron , and , probably , if subjected to chemical t « atsv Will be fotmd to contain arsenic .

    H « alth ov Londow . —The total number of deaths rogistered m London in the-week that ended on Saturday u 1069 , being -very nearly tho same as in the preceding waek . In tho corresponding weeks of the years 1846-56 the average number of deaths was 1247 ; but the deaths of last week occurred in an increased population , and , if they are to ke compared with the average , tho latter should be raised proportionately to the increase , in which oasa it will bocorne 1872 . It appears that tho number xa th « present return is less by 300 than would have t >< Sen returned if the average rate of mortality ¦ had pre--vniltid . The number of deaths referred last week to diabases of the zymotic class is 211 j the corrected average of corresponding weeks is 2 73 . HoopingeOugby which for soven pro-vioua weeks bad shown great

    uniformity of results , the weekly number of deaths having been , about 40 , increased , last week to 55 . Typhus and common fever ranked next in the order of mortality , and were fatal to 38 persons . The deaths caused by diseases affecting the respiratory organs were 233 , nearly the same as in . the previous week , and considerably less than the average . Fatal cases of pneumonia or inflammation of the lungs decreased in two weeks from 93 to 67 . Phthisis or consumption , -which is not included in the class above mentioned , caused 128 deaths , the corrected average being 135- Only two nonogenarians died in the week , viz ., two widows ,, aged respectively 91 and 92 years . —Lasfc week r the fcirths of 749 boys and 723 girls , in all 1472 children , were registered in London . In the ten corresponding -weeks of the years 1846-55 , the average number was 13 & 2 . — From the Eegistrar-GeneraPs WeeMg , Return .

    The United Association of Schoolmasiebs held their third annual meeting on Monday at the Society of Arts , under the presidency of Mr . W . M'Leod . The report gave an unfavourable account of the state of the society . The Rev . Dr . Booth delivered the inaugural address . —The second meeting took place on Tuesday j when the Kev . G . R . Gleiglectured " On the Influence of the Teacher in Promoting Civilization . " Australia . —There is a Ministerial crisis at Sydney , the Governor having refused to dissolve the Legislature Mr . Cowper has laid on the table a despatch announcing the establishment of a line of steam , communication with Great Britain . —Gold is said to have been discovered at Dwyer ' s Creek , near Mornya , Melbourne ; and black lead ore has been found on the side of Mount Kembla .

    A new gold , field has also turned up at Callan ; and there appears to be no doubt that the whole country round about Eocky . River teems with auriferous ore . —A good summer trade was expected at Melbourne . The prices of gold was 75 s . to 77 s . per ounce . 85 , 000 ounces of gold had "been shipped in the week ending October 18 . —Mr . R . H . Home has offered himself to the electors of Rodney , "Victoria , as a candidate for their suffrages on democratical principles . Mr . Thackeray ' s Lectures . —Mr . Thacfeeray , on Tuesday evening , delivered at the Marylebone Institute tie first of his celebrated lectures on " the Four

    Georges , " which he first delivered in the United States last winter , and has subsequently Tead in Scotland and the manufacturing districts . The first George engrossed the whole of the discourse on Tuesday evening ; and to him Mr . Thackeray gave but a poor character , personally , though admitting that he served the country well . The lecturer was received with the greatest cordiality . Christmas Charity . —A considerable number of indigent persons have been relieved from the poor-box by the Marlborough-street magistrates during the week ending last Saturday . About sixty applicants received small but very welcome sums , varying according to

    character and circumstances from 5 s . to 10 s . It was found necessary to limit the amount for distribution , as the donations of the benevolent , though liberal in amount , have not reached in the aggregate the average of former years . The class of persons relieved were widows -with families , old and infirm people , servants out of place , occasionally supplied with suitable clothing ; when situations were obtained , sempstresses , and any of those cases which the Poor Law aa administered would not reach . The number relieved during the year has been from four hundred to five hundred . All cases are investigated by the chief usher before any money is disbursed .

    Suicide . —Mr . John Jackson , a middle-aged man , the chief warder of Millbank Prison , has killed himself by taking prussic acid . The motive ^ for the act is not known , and the coroner ' s jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity . The Roman Inquisition has issued an encyclical letter declaring that the Church does not admit the practice of animal magnetism . Death from Starvation . —An inquest was held on Tuesday at Dudley , before Mr . Robinson , coroner for Worcestershire , on the body of an old man , name unknown , who was found lying in the road « loae to tho town on Sunday morning last . He was in a dying state , and was conveyed by the polico in a wheelbarrow to tho workhouse , but died before he reached that refuge . The stomach was afterwards found to be perfectly empty , and it seemed probable that the man had died from starvation , exposure , and disease .

    ment * being uneducated ; and tharf . Mr- Wegaelin . w-a the right man .. These , opinions : ha nepeated two or three times . Mr . Andrews , on . hearing this , wrote to Lord Palmerstort * requesting to be informed , whether the exr pressions had really been , used by him . Lord Palmer ston , in reply , admitted the truth , of the statements , while at the same time complimenting Mr . Andrews on the high position he had attained in the municipality , which he considers his- proper sphere . His lordship , however , deprecates the idea of intending , to interfere iu the election in any way , and say * that he has written to lTr . Lankester ( the : tradesman ^ who had committed " a gross violation of confidence " in . making public that which was merely a private conversation ! After consulting , with , his friends , Mr . Andrews wrote again to his lordship on Monday , requesting ; permission , to publish the correspondence . To this letter no repJIy has yet been received *

    Burning , os a Ship . —The Myta , of Sunderland ,. was totally consumed by fire on her -way to Egjpt with a cargo of coals from Newcastle . The catastrophe appears to have resulted from spontaneous combustion . The crew escaped . Death of Mb . Sows . Bbitto-n , F . 9 . A . —Mr . Brittoo . died on Th . ursday morning , at bis residence * , Burton-, street . Burton-crescent , at the age of eighty-six . Bis autobiography is . left unfinished . His birth was humble ; his career chequered and laborious ; and hia education of his own acquiring . He was born in Wiltshire , but the greater part of his life waa spent in London .

    Felo i > m Sb . —A girl , not nxoch more -than , fifteen years old , has drowned herself at Exeter r owing to disappointed lovey the object of her affection being a lad about eighteen , who tad quarrelled with her . A verdict of Jfelo de se has been returned lby the coroner ' s jury , followed by the usual petty vengeance . Fire at a Railway Station ^—A few nights since T the Great Northern Eailway station at Lincoln narrowly escaped being burnt down . In one of the rooms a huge fire had teen left burning through the night for those who came . by the early morning trains . At five in the morning , the watchman smelt burning , and discovered that the heated hearthstone had set fire to the rafters under the floor . Part of thef uraiture was also scorched and charred . As soon as it was discovered , the danger was averted by a plentiful supply of water .

    Floods in the Weak . —A heavy fresh m the river Wear , on Wednesday , did damage to the amount of upwards of 1000 / . among the shipping in the harbour at Sunderland . Another . Railway Fraud . —A warrant Tvas obtained on Thursday of the Leeds magistrates for tfce apprehension of a young man , named Edward Antey ^ of Bentinck-street , Leeds . Antey , who has been , a clerk for some months in the office of Mr . Martin Cawood , secretary to the Leeds , Bradford , and Halifax . Junction

    Railway , was taken into custody on that afternoon , at the offices of the company , in Bradford . He ia charged with having forged the names of the directors to three dividend warrants , by which he netted about 407 . The prisoner was lodged in the Leeds lock-up yesterday afternoon , and is debarred all intercourse with any pro - fessional adviser until the railway company are in a position to be able to prosecute . Antey , wto is respectably connected , was to be brought up before the magistrates on Friday morning , on the charge ; but it Ls expected that a remand will be necessary .

    Destructive Fiee at Bombay . —We lately ( says a letter from India ) had a calamitous fire in Bombay , which though not occasioning any very enormous amount of loss in the aggregate , is lamentable from falling almost entirely on the property of military officers ill able to bear it . During the dry season the officers connected , with the native regiments * of the Presidency have to provide themselves with , quarters aa they beat can , these for the most part consisting in tents , in thatched cottages , and a thatched mess-house , all in the last degree combustible . A week ago a oook room in

    the midst of these caught fire , and in a moment the whole flimsy structures around , it were in a blaze Within half an hour property to the value of some ten or fifteen thousand pounds had been consumed , none of it insured , and all of it belonging to men of moderate or scanty means . Destructive fires had occurred in the end of October at Rangoon , and on the 22 nd of November at Kurrachee ; and these breaking out close to each other havo been set down by the natives as direct visitations fro no Heaven for some act of sacrilege lately committed at the ahrino of some < mo of their numberless

    The Kkcent Escape from the House ov Detesttion . —Notwithstanding the vigilance of the police and the officers of the prison , Davis , tho prisoner who recently escaped from tho Houso of Detention , still remahis at largo . A melancholy incident in . connexion with tho matter occurred last Sunday , in the death from nervous excitement of Nathanial Forth , an old officer of the prison . Forth was warder in charge of that division of the prison from which tho escape was effected ; ani it seems that the circumstance ao preyed upon him that no went out of his mind , and died in a stato of raving madness . He has left a wife and a large family . Nkwspapkr OnixvARY—The Sheffield Jrw , formerly edited by the poet Montgomery , waa published for tlio laBt time on Wednesday morning .

    deities . Personation op a Juryman . —Soon after the commencement of the second trial before the Recorder at the Leeds Borough Sessions a few days ago , it was discovered that one of tho petty jurymen wlu * had answered ! to the name of William Edmund Lee , draper , Kirlcgate , and who had sat tho whole of tho day before , was not tho person represented , but a shopman named Gcorgo Ryder , in tho employ of Mr . Lee . The trial was immediately stopped , and another juryman sworn . George Ryder was ordered to be detained in custody . His defence is , that his master was exceedingly busy attending the wool sales , and thnt he requested liim to attend on tho jury , and answer to his ( Mr . Lco'a ) name when called upon . He waa quite unaware , ho aays , that ho waa committing nuy oftenco . We understand that th « Recorder will communicate witl * the Attorney-General

    Sou'mAMiTON . EMtcTiON Gosstp . —It recently came out tkatLord Palmerston had said to a tradesman of lua at HroadlamK Hampshire , that Mr . Andrews though " a good Mlow enough , a not lie for 1 ' arlia-

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 3, 1857, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2174/page/10/