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      immmmmmimmmmmmmm \ : : original debt . Mr . Linklat « r announced a dividend of Us . 6 d . in the pound for those creditors who had sot hitherto received any dividend . There -would be a sum of idOOh at 80007 . in hand after this payment , to which tronld be shortly added 16 , 000 * . landed over by the official rcanager . Other steps were behig taken to realize assets . It -was hoped that a farther dividend night be declared in about a month from this time . The dividend was declared projbrmd , after the reception of proofs , amounting in the aggregate to 150 , 000 ? .

      The Bahkrvftcy of Jobs Paot * , the Dkfaui / tikg Coixjectob . —Hr . Henderson , in the Court of Bankruptcy last Saturday , presented a petition against John Paul , the defaulting collector to the City of london . Union ; he is described aa of Bedford , and of 51 , St . Mary-axe , corn and seed merchant . The petitioningcreditors are Messrs Laugbton and Laughton , shoe manufacturers , of Leadenhall-stree * . The matter was balloted to Mr . Commissioner Goulborn . Paul has been a bankrupt twice before—in 1827 and 1837 . Taitthe Bishop

      The Bishop of London . —Dr . , new of London , took the customary oaths in the Court of Queen ' s Bench , last Saturday . The Kev . W . H . Milman , Librarian of Zion College , and son of the Dean of St . Paul's , will , it is stated , be Archdeacon Hale ' s successor at Cripjlegate . The Discoveries of Ikon in th « neighbourhood of Seend , Wiltshire , continue , and several furnaces will be erected immediately . The County Court Judgeship , -vacant by the death of Mr . Kekewicb ., will be filled by Mr . Charles Dacres Btvan , of the Western Circuit .

      Betting-houses . —The police have been making some Very -vigorous and unanticipated descents into the Westend betting-houses . Several clerks and visitors have been taken into custody , and the ledgers carried away . Alarmed at these indications of a hot campaign , the proprietors of some of the other houses have prudently closed their doors . Steps have alsobeen taken to abate the nuisance arising from the large gatherings of disreputable trornen and their followers in the streets at an early houi of the afternoon . —Some keepers of betting-houses were on Wednesday fined by the Marlborough-street magistrate in various large sums .

      Curme refrained from pressing the matter further at that time . The election tfcea took place ; Mr . Lloyd , one of the Bishop ' s chaplains , being chosen by a large majority . Murdkb bt A Maniac . —Ensign Penoefather , of the 40 th Regiment , stationed at Melbourne , Australia , has committed a series of outrages of a moat horrible character . He suddenly rushed out of his room -with a sixbarrelled revolver in his hand , shot Ensign Keith , then

      Dr . M'Cauley , then Ensign Lucas , who ran forward to wrest the pistol from him , and finally himself . There appears to be no doubt that he -was in a maniacal state . Dr . M'Cauley tva& shot dead at once ; Edsigns Keith and Lucas are in a dangerous state ; and the assassin himself shortly afterwards died . He had been an invalid for some time ; and a change in the weather seems to have nad a bad effect on him . There had also been a review that morning , and it is thought that this excited him .

      Thb Will of Mr . John Keston . —Mr . John Kenyon , who died on the 3 rd ult ., left the following liberal bequests to personal literary friends : —To his cousin , Elizabeth Barrett Browning , 40 00 ? ., and to her husband , Bobert Browning , 6500 / . ; to Bryan W . Procter , better known as Barry Cornwall , 6500 ? . ; to Dr . Henry Southey , 8000 Z . ; to Catherine , the daughter of Robert Southey , the Poet Laureate , 250 ? . ; and to each of the other daughters , 100 ? . ; the son and daughter of Mrs . Henry Nelson Coleridge , 250 ? . each ; John Forster has 500 / . ; George Scharf , 500 Z . ; and Antonio Panizzi , 500 ? ., with all the wines iu the cellars at

      Devonshire-place and at Cowes ; Agnes Catlow , 105 ? . ; and Walter Savage Landor , Henry Chorley r Mrs . Jameson , and Sir Charles Fellowes , each lOO ? . The furniture , books , prints , and articles of vertu in Mr . Kenyon ' s cottage at Wimbledon are left to his friend Miss Bayley , and James Booth , one of the executors , to whom is bequeathed 5000 ? . ; Thomas Hawthorne , the other executor , having 20 , 000 ? . The whole of the residue of the property , after payment of the legacies , is to be divided by the executors . A bequest of 5000 ? . is made to the London University Hospital . Many legacies are also left to the relatives of Mr . Kenyon and many others in whom he was interested .

      Health of London . — The deaths registered in London , which in the two previous weeks had been 1135 and 1171 , rose in the week that ended last Saturday to 1216 . In the ten years 1847-56 , the average number of deaths in the weeks corresponding with last week was 1177 . But , if the deaths of last week are to be compared -with the average , the latter should be raised proportionally to the increase of population , in which case it will become 1295 . Hence it will be seen that , although the rate of mortality has been rising lately , it is still below the average . In comparing the results of the last two weeks , an increase is observed in

      the deaths of old persons ; for , wliereas 41 men and women , who had attained the age of 80 years or upwards , died in the former week , the number last week was 74 . In these 74 old persons , an unusual number of nonagenarians is found , namely , 14 ; a man and a woman were each 95 years of age , and the two oldest were -women -who had reached the age of 96 years . — Last week , the births of 904 boys and 885 girls , in all 1789 children , were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1847-56 , the average number was 1553 . —From the Registrar General ' s Weekly Return .

      The Princess Hohewlohk and her daughter have arrived in England on a visit to the Duchess of Kent . Incumbency of St . James ' s , Clerkenwtsll . —The Loids Chief Justices of Appeal have decided that the right to present to this incumbency has not been affected by the Local Management Acts ; that the Rev . Robert Maguiro has been improperly elected by the vestry ; and that the vestry must bo restrained from presenting him to the Bishop of London for induction or license . A fresh election will now bo made by the general body of parishioners ; and it is said that there are several candidates ready to take the field . Thueb Women havo been frozen to death in the snow in . the county of Torfar . ^ A . Mercantile Law Conference , under the presidency of Lord Brougham , was held on Wednesday at Willis s Rooms , St . James ' s .

      The Bishop or Oxford and his Clergy . — Tho beneaced clorgymon of the diocese of Oxford met on Ihursday at St . Mary ' s Church , Oxford , at twelve 0 dock , to elect a proctor in the Lo-wrer House of Convocation , in the place of the late Professor Hussey Th « Bishop of Oxford presided . "Considerable opposition was offered by the Kev . Thomas Cutitio , M . A ., vicar of Sanclford , Oxon , and domestic chaplain to the Duko of MATlborough , who objected to the constitution of the synod , and thought ( as lie subsequently explained ) that tuo liishop hnd

      no more right to interfere in an election for the Lower llouso than a tomnorjil peor in tlio elections for the House of Commons . Tho Uiahop said ho could not allow nny ono to apeuk till tho synod was fully constituted . But Mr . Cumio still endeavoured to proceed ; on which the Bishop directed tho registrar to send for n policeman . The nintter , however , was Bottled without that apostolic functionary , tho Bishop consenting to hear Mr . Curmo when tlio synod was properly constituted . Subsequently , tho Bishop Hftid Mr . Curmo could not protest till after the proceedings had closed , and Mr .

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      Leader Office , Saturday , January 31 . THE MERCANTILE LAW CONFERENCE . DEPUTATION TO LORD PALMEESTON . According to arrangement , a deputation from the Mercantile Law Conference—which has been sitting during the last few days at Willis ' s Rooms—had an interview yesterday afternoon with Lord Palmerston at Cambridge House , Piccadilly . Lord Brougham -was the spokesman , and in a concise address pointed out the necessity that exists for several important amendments in our laws , instancing more especially the law

      of bankruptcy and insolvency . With respect to the 17 th section of the Statute of Frauds , he said that the provinces generally are in favour of a repeal , while London is averse to such a step . The conference , he added , wished to see established some tribunals of commerce , somewhat similar to those of France and Belgium . —Lord Palmerston said the Government would give the subject all the attention that its own importance , together with the high authority of Lord Brougham , and the other members of the conference , demanded .

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      Naples and Sicily . —The King of Naples has concluded a convention with the Argentine Republic for the reception of such of his political prisoners as may consent to be exiled thither . The offer has been made to Poeiio , but he has declined to go . —An insurrection in Sicily appears to be imminent , Mrs . Seacole ' s Bankruptcy . — Mrs . Seacole appeared in tho Court of Bankruptcy yesterday , and , there being no opposition , she was granted immediate certificates of the first class . She was warmly congratulated by the court , and said she was quite ready to go out to India , if sho could be of any service to tho army .

      Henderson v . Goddaud—The Royal British Bank . —Lord Campbell , in tho Court of Queen ' s Bench yesterday , said , in this caso , which , as in many others , raised a question as to the liability of shareholders to execution under judgments obtained against the official manager of the Royal British Bank , that the same question has arisen in the Court of Common Pleas and Exchequer , and tho court had consulted the judges of theso courts , and they were unanimously of opinion that tho shareholders were liable , and thcrcforo tlio rulo would bo mado absolute for execution . Vicrqek's Tkjai ,. — T lie Court of Cassation , on Thursday , refused Verger ' s application for a new trial . Switzerland . —It is statod that tho conferences on the Neufchatel question are to bo held at Turin . Viscount Downe died at Torquay , on Monday , in his forty-fifth year .

      Okkicial Ari'OiNTMENr-H— - Mr . Thomas Price , late lren . sur <; r of Antigua , has Iccn appointed to the Presidency of tho Virgin IhIuiuIh . Mr . 0 . J . Bayloy , lato Colonial Secretary iu tho Mauritius , ia appointed Govornor of the Hrthnnms .

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      IMPERIALISM IN ITALY . Catheeine of Russia , when she made a progress through , any part of her empire , was duped by a perpetual series of stage effects . N ~ o such , illusion has been found possible in Italy . The Austrian -Brnperor has been confronted by the scowling discontent of tho Venetian a-nd Lombard populations . lie has conciliated no good-will , enforced no respect . Tliongh the official Gazette of Milan , printed hi imperial blue , records the ebullition of joy

      and loyalty that greeted IFbaitcis-. Toseph , neither Italy nor the Einperor can have been deceived . The Emperor broke down in the delivery of his speech , to the municipality of Milan . Ministers and councillors sought to hide his confusion ; the police . endeavoured to suppress the satirical criticisms that glanced from tongue to tongue ; but the mishap was irretrievable ; the Austrian rule had always been hated ; the Austrian ruler was now ridiculed . " We are governed by a ninny " said the Milanese .

      The Emperor ' s reception in Italy has been purely official . The King of Naples , inspecting a state prison , would be welcomed by its officers with demonstrations of loyalty ; the prisoners might be curious to sec their principal gaoler , and would not dare to manifest their hatred . Exactly parallel havo lie en the circumstances of the Austrian visit . AG-erman bureaucracy , taking precedence of the Italian nobles , crowds round the Emperor ; tho functionaries crook their knees and applaud him ;

      the municipalities levy a tax of light to illuminate the cities ; but Italy herself stauda sullenly apart , and , on the day that l ^ itAtfOis-Joseph enters Milan , a Lombard deputation presents a statue to Piedmont , and a subscription for the guns of Alessandria . Nor can the police prevont the circulation by myriads of a lithograph representing a wreath of death ' s Leads . Even among tho flowers of a trium phal arch a cbaplet of skulls is p laced ,

      by night , that a Kaiser , long of men , may understand how his reprcscntutives have been whitening the sepulchre . There was not only an utter absence of enthusiasm from Yenico to Milan , thcro were displays of national animosity . It is vain to hope that tlio general amnesty will coiu'crt Lombardy to an Austrian allegiance . It has como too laic ; it is a mockery ; tho amnestied persons arc not ; relieved from surveillance ; tho police may , at any moment , reclaim them . ISTo Imperial concessions can now Mifle the cry for national independence . Every

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      NOTICES TO CORKESrPOTTOEKTS R- «¦ . —There is no publication containing the name * «? « , private soldiers of the army , nor do Wknow how & lfat „ the men of the regiment named by our correspcuuw can be obtained unless l > y going to the orderly roomSf the regiment and giving a good reason for seeking HwThT formation . . If our correspondent wishes to find out wh 2 " tier a particular individual is in the corps or not , a -otMtZ note to the Adjutant would no doubt bring him the lV ? & motion . It is even possible ( we do not say probable «? £ * ZZS 8 £ fc i ®* ^ complied ** ' * offlce # 88

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      SATURDAY , JANUARY 31 , 1857 .

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      __ . There is notling so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed w ! hen all the worldis by thevery law of its creation in eternal progress . —De . Abjsold . . ¦ ? ¦ ¦

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 31, 1857, page 106, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2178/page/10/