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    the Exchequer , and Sir E . Lande ^ er , R . A . On the meeting of the . commission ,, on tljte 21 st May , thefoilowr irig resolution was . unaniinousljr adopted , viz .: —" I'hat , after the consideration of various sites suggested to the commissioners , they are of opinion that their choice is confined , to the site of the present National Gallery , if sufficiently enlarged , and the estate at Kensington Gore . " At the next meeting , the final decision was taken . The chairman ( Lord Brpughton ) , the Dean of St . Paul's , and Mr . Coekerell , voted for the site of Trafalgar-square ; Mr . Richmond voted for the site of the Kensington Gdre estate . Professor Faraday stated *• that he felt the weight of the opposed considerations ( preservation of the pictures and access of the public ) to be in his mind so equally balanced , that he could not select one site in preference to the other ; he therefore declined to vote . "

    The Harvest . —A considerable portion of the wheat harvest has been got in in the southern parts of England , operations being unusually early on account of the extraordinary fine weather . The grain is of the finest kind , and the total yield will probably be most abundant . In Scotland , it appears that the result is not likely to be so favourable , though the crops will not be below the average . The Birmingham Election . — Efforts are being made by several of the electors of Birmingham to return Mr . Bright in place of the late Mr . Muntz . A meeting was held in the Town-hall on Tuesday , when the show of hands in favour of Mr . Bright , as against Mr . Baron " Webster , son of , a gentleman living in the neighbourhood , was very considerable .

    The Metropolitan Board of Works . —The 200 th . section of the Metropolitan Local Management Act requires that each year the board shall report as to what it has effected . A document of this kind has just been issued , the period embraced in which is from the 1 st of January , 1856 , to the 30 th Of January , 1857 . Works involving an outlay of 110 , 8922 . 8 s . lOd . have been undertaken by the board during the first fifteen months of its existence . The board have likewise examined and approved designs for drainage by the . local district boards of 44 £ miles of sewage , at an outlay of 100 , 0001 . loans have been sanctioned to be raised by local boards to the extent of 34 , 000 / . A careful examination of all the main sewers of the metropolis has been made , and estimates have been prepared' for putting them in an efficient state of repair . Plans for two new streets , one

    in Southwark , and the other from King-street , Coventgarden , to St . Martin ' s-lane , have been decided on , and bills are now before Parliament to permit their formation ; these works will cause an outlay of 322 , 781 / . The removal of Middle-row , Holborn , -and the formation of a new street from the end of Old-street , St . Luke ' s , to New Oxford-street , have engaged the attention of the board , and plans and estimates are being prepared . Various other street improvements have also been duly considered . Inquiries have been made and are still pending with reference to throwing open all the bridges across the Thames to afford increased facilitation of traffic , and the board have entered into negotiations with the City of London to see how for that body will co-operate -with them in the purchase of Southwarkbridge .

    Death of Db , Dick . — The Scotch journals record the demise of Thomas Dick , LL . D ., F . R . A . S , the wellknown author of The Christian Philosopher , other kindred works . Dr . Dick , who was in the eighty-third year of his age , expired at Broughty Ferry , near Dundee , on Wednesday week . Cape of Gooi > Hope . —The last news from the Cape contains nothing of general interest . Lambeth Election Festival . —A dinner was on Tuesday given to Mr . Roupell , at the Surrey Gardens , to congratulate him on his election to the borough of Lambeth . One of the speakers was Sir Charles Napier , ¦ who highly eulogized Mr . Roupell .

    Mercantile Suspension . ' —The suspension of Messrs . Forster , Rutty , Hall , and Co ., Scotch and Manchester -warehousemen , has been announced in the City . Their liabilities arc supposed to , be considerable—probubly more than 50 , 000 / . ; and an impression is said to prevail that the liquidation will be very unfavourable . Raxlway Competition . — / The competition of the Giaat Northern and Manchester and Sheffield Railway Companies -with the London and North Westorn , for a share of the traffic between Manchester and London , commenced last Saturday . The length of the new route is said to bo about eight miles more than that by the London and North Westorn , but the diatnnco is said by railway men to be capuble of being accomplished in four hours and a half .

    Ou « COVNTRYMKN IN THE EAST . —TllO Bishop of London has issued a form of prayer , to be used in private or family -worshi p * for our countrymen and countrywomen in the East , under tlio circumstances of peril by which thoy are now surrounded . This Charitable Uses and tub Roman Catholic GxiARjTiica Bills . —The select committee of the Houao of Lords , to whom wore referred the Charitablo Uaes Sill and tho Roman Catholic Oharittos Bill ( House of Lords , ) , as well as a certain petition praying for amendment of the latter bill , hnvo just handed in their report to the Houao . Having examined several -witnesses , Including Mr . Bagshawo , Q . G ., and Mr . Harting , a solicitor Cboth naniate ) . tho result of tho evidence ia that all

    or nearjjr qjl J ^ e- ? OQ > jsfe charltie ^ i » pouafxy ajre nibs » 4 W Wth what has bean decided * n the Court of Cjjancery tp , be f a superstitious ufle » ¦ » 8 # that tfcfiy are therefore , in ajl probability , absolutely void a , nd iHegaL Thus , a bequest of money tip a Bornjsh priest for saying prayers and celebrating masses for the ' soul , ' of the testator was decided by Lord Cofctenham to be bad , as ' a superstitious use' ( West v . Shuttleworth ) . Now , the evidence taken before the committee shows that a condition to pray for the soul of the founder of a Boman Catholic charity is sometimes expressly , always implicitly , annexed to every charitable foundation . The petitioners , however , point Out that it is part of the devotional practices of the Romish Church to offer up prayers for the dead , and they urge that as the exercise of . the Romish religion is now freely tolerated in this

    country , the doctrine of superstitious uses— sq far , at least , as relates to praying for the souls of the dead—ought not to be held to attach to their charities so as to affect their validity , and that the bill , therefore , ought to go the length of making all their charities valid where their invalidity solely consists in their having infringed the law relating to superstitious uses . The committee , without expressing any opinion on this claim , feel that it is one entitled to grave and deliberate consideration , but as the session is now so far advanced as to approximate its close , they recqjnme ' nd that the bill should be dropped for the present , and the inquiry resumed . early next session . This course will render necessary a short bill , to suspend for another year the jurisdiction of the Charity Commissioners in respect of Roman Catholic charities . Thh Charitable Uses BUI has not ; been considered , as the postponement of the other measure renders it unnecessary to do so at present . —Times ;

    Heroic Conduct . —As some lads were bathing last week in the river Nene , at Peterborough , one of them , named Brown , about twelve years old , got out of his depth and sank . Fortunately , thie Rev . J . J . Beresford , Precentor of Peterborough Cathedral , happened to be rowing up at the moment . Although in ah extremely weak and delicate state of health , he at once jumped ashore , threw off his clothes , and commenced diving . At the first dive , he got so entangled in the . weeds that he had great difficulty in extricating himself . Nothing daunted , he continued his gallant efforts and succeeded in four or five minutes in recovering the body and bringing it ashore . It was not until the next morning that the lad , under able treatment , was restored to health .

    Three Men Drowned at Spithea : d . ^—A very calamitous accident occurred on Wednesday night at Spithead , which had its origin in an act of great folly . A party of Royal Marine Artillery sergeants , six in number , with the canteen-keeper at their barracks , a Mr . Pearson , went out to Spithead in a frail dingy for a sail . Sergeant Wainford recklessly climbed to the top of the pole used , as a mast , his weight overbalanced the boat , and she capsized- Three of the party were drowned , viz ., Sergeants Wainford and Edey , and Mr . Pearson .

    The escape of the remainder was miraculous . One of them , Sergeant Ursmer , remained twelve hours in the water , keeping himself afloat by the dexterous use of an , oar , and was picked up next morning by a collier . He has been sent to Haslar Hospital The three other sergeants managed to get the boat on its keel , but oars , sails , gear , and everything else was gone , and they had to paddle with their hands some five miles , across Spithead to Langston harbour . After severe trials , they ultimately reached Fort Cumberland at one o ' clock on Thursday morning .

    Mr . Huohes Innes Cameron , of British Bank celebrity , has been discharged from custody by order of Mr-Commissioner Fane . Black and Green Teas . —The disputed question of whether black and green teas w ere the products of different plants , has been finally settled by Mr . Fortune . Though there are two species , one called by botanists T / iea Bohea , nftcr some mountains in China , and the other Thea Viridis , it yet is a mistake to aupposo that black tea alone ia made from the first , and green tea frotn the second . Both sorts are made alike from each —tho inferior teas from tho bohea which is cultivated

    near Canton , and tho finer kinds from the vtrtdis , 1 he difference in tho colour depends solely on the mode of preparation . The leaves for the green tea , being roasted almost immediately after thoy nre gathered , and dried off very quickly , retain move of their natural hue , while tho black teas owe their colour to longer exposure to tho air , and to being more slowly dried . Tho finer descriptions of both are made from the young loaves when they first unfold themselves in spring ; but tho beat kinds manufactured are too lightly 11 red to bear a voyage , boing apoilt by tho slightest damp , and can never bo tasted out of the country . The soonted teas owe

    their flavour to boing mixed , when perfectly dry , with tho freah-gatherod flowers of the orange , or somo other odoriferous plant , and after twonty-t ' oiu hours tho dry tea hiis absorbed the fragrance of tho inoiwt flowora , which arc then sifted out . Tho Chinese- oxorciao their Ingenuity in giving to tho coarser samples of their ataplo commodity tho apponrwnco of tho most eatoomod sorts ; but Mr . Fortune conveys the comfortable assurance that the English merchants on tho spot understand their business too well to bo deceived , and are too honost for ( ho most part to deceive More than titia is not to bo attained . AVith adulterations of ovorv description at

    ham . e , jfrja wild to swppose : tb * t commoditiea aftroad q be kept M * their pristine p » r » fcy :, o * thai a . ragcaljy Chir man will not be able to find a iWJeaJly foreigner to ,. eg spjre with him in cheating- | he publi «? beyond the seas . Quarterly Meviev ? . Wanderings amiw Tombs , —The ancients perht invested their sepulchres with more of solemnity a sublimity , but th © moderns have thrown a tenderer a * timent and softer feeling around the homes of the < parted . Their principle has been , not to struggle wi corruption , but to cover over arid surround its operatic with the luxuriance and beauty of present life- Strange enough , the men of the dark cold north , rather than t sons of the sunny" south , have developed most fully t

    poetry of the tombs . We all know the green gras mounds and tree-shadowed churchyards of our oi land ; and everywhere along the shores of the Bait arid in the islands on the coast of Sweden , the buris places are little gardens encircled by fences of geraniu and sweetbrier—the , graves beds of sweet fresh flowe In a land and among a people where we least expect them , did we find a most beautiful expression of th sentiment and poesy Avlnch the hearts of the living ofl as a tribute to the shades of the dead . It was in cemetery at St . Petersburg , attached to the convent a church of St . Alexander Newski . The church was fi of the triumphs of life and the roj-alty of death . Czg and czarinas lay there % n their state , with the signs

    their conquests waving above them . We passed hen into a large open space , where slept the thousands \ t \ could only claim the turf as a covering for their da and the vault of heaven as the canopy of their mprtalit Rows of cypress and dropping wulpws cast their shadow o ' er the place , and the -wild tall grass almost confound the divisions of the graves . Almost all these grav were of turf—few were of stone . None were unuiarke the lowliest and most solitary had a rude cross at th < head . Over some were placed sculptured emblems a ; allegories , which told , more truly and tenderly than le tered epitaph or inscription , the story of those who 1 beneath . A bare tree , reft of its branches , its greenm blighted , its trunk scathed and blackened by the ligl ning-stroke , bespoke the grief of a father mourni over the graves of a household—the lone heart utteri

    its plaint of utter desolation and bereavement . N < this was a softer touch of pathos . There was a tiny sin mound ; at its head stood a marble cross , beside whi was the figure of a rose , with its bud hanging snapp and broken from the stem , yet seeming even then to cli : closer and closer to its support—an image of the you ] soul passing away in the beauty of its bloom and tl pureness of its faith , unwithered , unblighted , unstaine We place these among the choicest thoughts we hai culled in our wanderings amid the tombs . —Blachioood An Antiquarian Loss in Edinburgh . —The anciei and handsome block of buildings , consisting of houses < immense height , at the head of ' the Mound , ' Edinburgl has been destroyed by fire . It is estimated that at leas eighty persons are thrown upon society by the calamity The houses were associated with the names of Davi

    Hume and Boswell . The Jekrold Performances . —The Frozen Det ( which is acted to-night at the Gallery of Illustratio for the last time in London ) will be performed at th Free Trade Hall , Manchester , on Friday and Saturday the 21 st and 22 nd inst . The ladies' parts will bo sus tained on these occasions by professional actresses . I was at the request of a deputation of the most innuen tial men in Manchester , at the end of Mr . Dickons reading of his Christmas Carol , that he consented t give these extra performances for the benefit of th Jerrold Memorial Fund .

    The New Managument at the Olympic—Th Olpmpic begins its new management on Monday , whe ; Mr . llobson will produce Mr . Wilkie Collins ' a drama The Lighthowe . This will bo the first time that one o Mr . Co ' llins ' s productions has been brought forward in i regular theatre , though within tho last few weolcs tin public have had a few irregular opportunities of touting his dramatic powers and his command over theii emotions . The story of The Lighthouse is intonselj interoating , and the writing of a character to bring ou the capabilities of tho actors to the full . Mr . Uobsoi will perform Mr . Dickons ' s part of Aaron Gvrnbck . W doubt not that ho will have an overflowing house—tin earnest of a long course of success . The Rebuilding of Covisnt Garden will connncne on Monday , and bo completed next May . Mr . Barr ; is tho architect ; Messrs . Lucas tho contractors .

    This Great Shrewsbury Casic—Another imjiortan paper has just been laid upon the table of the Houso o Peers . It consists of sixteen pages folio , and is entitle * 'The Cusb of Lord Edmund Bornard Howard , an Infant by his father , tho Duke of Norfolk , petitioning to bohotirc against tho claim of Earl Talbot to tho Kiirlilom o Shrewsbury . ' It follows up seriatim tho various koik-uIo gical points brought forward by Lord Talbot in his ' case , and more oHpeoially adverted to tho fact that tho UlonU' : is far from being satisfactorily established botwcoi William Talbot , tho father of tho Bishop of Durham ol that name and tho William Talbot from wham tho now claimant naserta hia ulroct descent , Tho question l » n now bogun to aaaumo a very intricate appearance , nn < there is little doubt thnt no decision on the mattor wn jo given by tho Commltto of tho Houao of LordB during tho cantiiiiifinnu nf tlin nrnnnnt . Hoaslon .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 8, 1857, page 754, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2204/page/10/