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    rmer Inn , Bagshot . He had been shot through the ad , and it is supposed that the act was committed by nself , and that , he had been robbed of his money after ith . The coroner ' s jury brought in a verdict of ' ound Dead . ' Health of London . —In the week that " ended on turday , June 13 , the total number of deaths registered London waa 934 , of which 519 were deaths of males , 5 those of females . In the ten years 1847-56 , the erage number of deaths in the weeks corresponding th last week was 951 ; but , as the deaths returned t week occurred in an increased population , the srage , to admit of a comparison , should be raised in ? portion to the increase , in which , case it will become 46 . Hence it will be seen that the present rate of

    irtality is so far reduced that the deaths were less by 2 than would have occurred under the average rate of irtality , as calculated on former experience at this iod of the year . —Last week , the births of 824 boys I 778 girls , in all 1602 children , were registered in ndon . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years £ 7-56 , the average number was 1396 . —From the gistrar-CreneraVs Weekly Return . Drrsr Nuisances . —In his last report on the health of s City , Dr . Letheby calls attention to several courts i passages which are in a bad sanitary condition , and nts out other nuisances which need removal . SIr . Bertolaoci ' s Case . —The petition of Mr , Francis Bertolaoci ( Duchy of Lancaster ) has been referred to elect committee of five members of the House of

    Comns , appointed by the General Committee of Elections , eir names are Mr . T . H . S . Estcourt , Lord Godeh , Mr . Bramston , Lord H . Vane , and Mr . J . Hans milton . The West Indies . —The proposition of Messrs . vies , Son , Campbell , and Co ., of London , solicitors to : holders of the bonds of the Demerara Railway , to : e over the line , to extend it , and put it in complete rking order , and also to pay off the 45 , 000 Z . due to ; colony , on condition that the colony guaranteed the rraent of interest' not exceeding six per cent , for the n of 150 , 000 ? ., has undergone considerable discussion the Combined Court of Dernerara . Several resqluas were ultimately agreed to , in effect sanctioning the iposed arrangement , under certain conditions . The urt had voted the sum of 35 , 000 dollars for payment bounty on Portuguese immigrants from Madeira and

    I Western Islands , to be free of indentures on their ival and at liberty to choose their own employers . e Merchantman , from Calcutta , arrived at Demerara the 13 th of May , after a voyage of ninety days , with > hundred and sixty coolies . The mortality on board 1 been fearful , one hundred and thirteen having died ring the passage ; and , of sixty who were conveyed the hospital on their 'arrival , five died while being ided , and several others subsequently expired in the ipital . —The Legislative Assembly at Grenada has ourned prematurely on account of a difference be-3 en the members and the Executive Council with reence to a contemplated repeal by the Assembly of the popular charcoal tax . The new Governor of St . cia , Mr . Henry Hegart Breen , F . S . A ., assumed the ministration of the Government on the 21 st ulf . A art shock of earthquake was felt the next day . Trade the islands is dull , but the sugar-canes have yielded II . VTr . Palmer , M . P . for Berles , has been very ilL in isequence of a copious and long-continued bleeding at i nose which caiv . e on during the Cup Day at Ascot , was found very difficult to stop the hemorrhage , and at exhaustion was the result . He is now recovering . The Silk Crop . —The general result of the European 1 Asiatic silk crop can now be approximately estited , and according to advices front M . Aries Dufour , Lyons , it is likely to provo better than was at one te anticipated . From a rfoumti which he furnishes , following statements are gathered respecting oaoh of i producing countries . Tho news from Turkey and 2 eco ia as favourable as possible . At Naples , the first

    p , although reduced to ono-lialf , is much bettor than b year . In Sicily and Calabria , the prospects were iouraging , but the latest advices announce that at ir fourth stage the worms have become severely icted . Iu Spain there is only half a normal crop , but 9 still much , better than tho last , both as regards mtity and quality . In Tuscany and tho Roman itofi , appearances nro very promising . From Lomdy ' it is stated that in tha districts of Brianscin , jsoia , Bergamo , and tho lovor Tyrol the seed has not ceeded , and tho produce will bo very poor ; but that tho Frioul and tho high Tyrol all is going on most Isfactorily . In Piedmont there are general complaints , ; the results are much bettor than those of last season .

    Franco , also , which next to China and Lombardy is richest silk-producing country in tho world , it is v believed tho yiold , notwithstanding all drawbacks , 1 be superior to that of 1850 . M . Dufour adds that , ietod by tho gonorally favourable temperature , the p , but for tho disease in tho seed , would have boon rvolloua . This persevering malady , ho considers , has origin in tho bad food which the worms lmvo received ing six or seven yoavB of moist and warm winters owed by harsh springe ; and , as tho son , flon lias now irnod to a natural character , tho hope is entertained gradual improvement . — Tines . Tkw Zmajuand . —There ia now no doubt whatever of

    the fact that New Zealand produces gold . Mines have been discovered in the Aorere Valley , near Kelson , and several persons are how at work there . The yield of the week ending the 20 th of March was mare than two hundred ounces . . The Evangelical Alliance ;—A large attendance of clergy and laity , members of the Evangelical Alliance , took place , da Friday week , by -the permission of the Archbishop of Canterbury in the guard-room of the Archiepiscopal Palace at Lambeth , to receive' from the deputation , consisting of the Rev . J . Carr Glyn , the Rev . Dr . Steane , and the Rev . Hermann Schmettau , recently sent to Berlin , a report of their proceedings in preparation for the Christian assembly in that city next

    September . Among those present on the occasion , besides the Archbishop , were Lord Calthorpe , the Bishop of London , the Bishop of Manchester , the Bishop of Ripon , the Bishop of St . David ' s , the Bishop of Rupert's Land , Bishop Carr , late of Bombay , his Excellency the Prussian Minister , Count Bernstorff , Sir Culling Eardley , the Rev- C . T . A . Steinhopf , minister of the German Lutheran Congregation , Savoy , Strand ; Professor Martin , Aberdeen ; the Dean of Canterbury , the Rev . William Niven , the Rev . Henry Venn , the Rev . J . S . Jenkinson , the Rev . J . Jordon , Mr . F . Crosslej ' , 31 . P ., Mr . J . I . Briscoe , M . P ., Mr . C . Cowan , M . P ., the Hon . W . Ashley , and others , including Dissenters . The chief speech was that of the Rev . Dr . Steane , who gave an account

    of the proceedings of the recent deputation in Germany , and of the plans organised for the next September meeting in that country . He said that the King received the deputation with the utmost kindness , and spoke of the Evanegelical Alliance as ' the sublimest and most Christian conception which had entered into the human mind . ' The speaker then went on : — " His Majesty expressed great satisfaction at the Archbishop of Canterbury and many of the Bishops of the Christian Chnrch having evinced an interest in the approaching Berlin Conference , and he said it would highly gratify him . to see his Grace at the September meeting . The conference will open on the 9 th of September , and the first meeting will be entirely of a devotional character ,

    in order that their proceedings may be inaugurated by prayer . The proceedings "will be conducted in the three principal languages of Europe—German , French , and English . The proceedings will continue through the week , and on to Friday ia the week following—ten days altogether . There will be two sederunts each day , from ten to two , and from half-past four to eight . The meetings will all be open , and will be concluded with devotional exercises . A part of the arrangement is one of a very novel but at the same tune very gratifying kind ; it is in reference to the praises which they will offer up , inasmuch as they will be using so many different tongues . There are some most time-honoured and beloved melodies and psalms in Germany , in France , and

    in England , and it is thought that it would be possible to exhibit on the same page—say , for example , the Old Hundredth Psalm in English , French , and German , in the same metre and the same tune , so that the English ¦ would sing one version , the French another , and the Germans another , all to the same tune , without discord , but in perfect harmony , and in concord with one faith and one love . With regard to the subject of religious liberty , the general feeling is that the principle should be discussed , but that any practical application of it should be reserved for a committee . " Alluding to the present state of religious liberty in Prussia , Dr . Steane said that the Lutherans exhibit a most bitter hostility

    to the Reformers . This feeling prevails throughout the whole of Germany , and is especially strong in Bavaria . The Rev . Dr . Steinkopf ( a German ) said that the animosity between the Lutherans and the Reformers alluded to by Dr . Steane did not exist to the extent stated by that gentleman . Another German , tho Rev . Hermann Schmettau , said that religion was just beginning to 1 revive ' in his native country ; but Wurtemberg had always kept free from ' all infidelity and rationalism . ' After some more addresses , tho meeting separated . — Thoro is something hopeful for Christian charity and union in this meeting , where wo find Episcopalians and Dissenters meeting in harmony in tho palace of tho Primate of England .

    Phbaohino in Exeter Hall . —Tho fourth of the Sunday services in Exeter Hall took place last Sunday evening . Tho attendance was very large ; but the worshippers included very few from that humble class tha members of which are specially appealed to . Tho congregation represented little olso than the middle cIobb ; and , say tho daily papers , "it would seem that tho novelty of a Church of England service in such a building had allured almost tho whole of the crowd from thoir own parish churches . Efforts wero made with groat oarnostnoss , but with Blight success , by an agent of tho

    commit too under whose auspioos tho services have been undertaken , to persuado euoh of the most miserably olad people who happened to bo passing along tho Strand to enter tho hall when the Uoora wore opened . " This , we conceive , ia a mistake : it looks too like coercion . Suppose tho Arohbiehop of Canterbury , and the various reverend gentlemen forming the committee , wore to bo pertinaciously solicited , whilo pausing by an infidel looturo-raom , to enter and listen to tho rationalistic arguinonfcs of some popular spoahor : they would bo greatly annoyed , and Bomowhut horrified . Why , then , should ' tho miserably clad' be drugoonod into piety , with

    whatever gentleness the thing may be done ? Besides , -suet touting is too much like the " Walk in , gentlemen—jsst going to begin ! " which we hear outside the cheap waat work show-room or the ' penny [ gaff . ' The Coknish Fisheries . —The fishermen of Portb .-leven , near Helston , have brought in daily some hundreds of fine mackerel , and so far they have had A ( tolerably good season . At . St . Ives during the past few daj's the mackerel fishery has been somewhat unsuccessful . Some fine herrings , however , have been taken , which were retailed at Id . each . A National Disgrace . —Mr . Walter Savage Landor writes as follows to the Times : — " I have been reading in Howitt ' s Haunts and Homes of British Poets a statement that some of Shakspeaxe ' s family are living in obscurity and destitution . God forbid it should continue so ! ..... I know not whether I have said it

    anywhere , but I have often thought it , that all the poetry that has existed , from the song of the angels at the Creation down to the present hoar , is not worth his and Milton's ; nor has there been aay philosophy so applicable , so generous , or so sound . He and Defioe have afforded the most delight to their native land . Some little was done for the descendant of Defoe * Bludl nothing be done for the descendant of Shakspease ? Pardon , sir , my importunity . You have once made my voice heard ; raise yours above it now , in a cause more noble still . During the short term of my life , I will subscribe 5 L yearly to avert a national disgrace . 1 ^ as Mr . Howitt says , every man who has been delighted by Sbakspeare will give only one penny , once for all , it will be done . "

    Decrease op Pauperism . —A return , published on . Tuesday , shows that , in every week of the quarter ended Lady-day last , the number of paupers relieved in Englasd and Wales was Jess than in . the corresponding weeks of the quarter ended at Lady-day , 1856 . The difference varies from 1-6 to 3-8 per cent , in-doors , and from 0 * 2 to 5 " 2 per cent , out of doors . The Hobbies . —We have received the following letter from Mr . Newby : —• ' 30 , Welbeck-street , Cavendishsquare , June 16 , 1857 . —Sir , —1 am sure I need make no apology in requesting the insertion of the following statement of facts , in reply to a letter which has been printed in the papers from Miss Julia ELavanagh , which absence from town has prevented me from , sooner

    noticing . Nearly twelve months since Miss Juha Kavanagh ' s father brought the manuscript of 'The Hobbies' to me , with a view to its publication , telling me that a considerable portion of it had been written "b y his daughter , who had carefully revised the whole as its editor . The manuscript fully bore out this statement , inasmuch as I found a large part of it , as well as innumerable emendations , in Miss Kavanagh ' s hadwriting . I was also shown several letters of Miss Kavanagfa's , in which , she wrote ia high terms of the merits of the work , and of her having made such alterations as she thought would make it more acceptable to the public . These circumstances , and the fact of her having herself previously offered the work to one of the leading

    publishing firms in London for publication , on the understanding that it was to be announced as edited by her , induced me to believe her father ' s statement , and in this belief I undertook the publication upon Mr . Kavanagh's express written authority to publish it , ' as edited by his daughter , Miss Julia Kavanagh , author of ' Nathalie , " " Daisy Burns , " &c , the Baid work having undergone the editorial revision of the said Julia Kavanagh . ' I was unaware when I accepted the manuscript that unhappy family differences had arisen between Miss Kavanagh and her father ; nor had I reason to suppose that any objections existed to the use of her name as editing her parent ' s work until I was called upon by her solicitor to withdraw it . Immediately , however , on being requested to do so , a new title-page

    was printed , and sent to every library to which copies of the work had been sold j and , in further compliance with Miss Kavanagh ' a request , her solicitor was promised that immediately after my return to town , the fact should be announced to tho public in a form that would be most agreeable to her wishes . I was therefore much surprised —and I think I have reason to complain of Mies Kavanagh's publishing her letter of tho 9 th inet ., threatening me with tho penalties of the law , when aha could not fail to be aware that everything , and evea more than any legal proceedings could have effected , liad already been dono by mo to comply "with . Tier wisiieB , and that if any ground of complaint existed , it ought rather to bo settled between her father and herself than between horsolf and mo , —I am , sir , your obedient servantT . Cautley Nicwby . "

    , Mn . Coxwkll ' s Balloon ascondod from tho Pavilion Gardens , North Woolwich , on Monday night , at Iialfpast eleven , and descended safely the following morning about tliroo miles beyond Tavistock , Devonshire , having traversed two hundred and fifty miles in five hours . For some time , the balloon kept hugging the coaetj but everything passed off in the most desirable manner . Mb . Knowles is , it is said , about to resign tho offko of Attorney-General to tho county Pulatine of L « noaster , in consequence of hia intention to retire from tbo Northern Circuit .

    Saobkp Harmonic Sooibty . — A speoiul performance of Mr . Ooata ' s Eli was glvpn at Exeter Hall on Wwinga day opening , to which all tho performers from tho country engaged at tho Ilandol Festival wore invited .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), June 20, 1857, page 587, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2198/page/11/