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      TVe noticed with pleasure that the very , first JBtdletin of the new editorship contained n few words ¦ . ' . fall of good sense and good feeling , in reply to the senseless clamours of the Univers and the" Gazette rfe France on the just severities exercised by our troops at Delhi . If -we -were disposed to retaliate upon French sympathizers with Sepoy miscreants , -we might recal Voltaire ' s definition of his countrymen by way of explanation and excuse for the sympathy . But we leave the correction of this ' indignation in cold blood' to the good faith and generous impartiality of men like M . Peyrat .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . —The Court goes into mourning for the Duchesse d « Nemours from Thursday to the 3 rd of December . —Prince Frederick William of Prussia arrived at Windsor Castle from the Continent , on Tuesday : — The Siamese ambassadors -were received at Windsor on Thursday . They presented several rich and costly objects of Siamese art , and a long : address . At the termination of the audience , they partook of luncheon in the "Waterloo Gallery . Health of Loxbos . —In the week that ended last Saturday , the total number of deaths registered in London was 1161 , -which approximates very closely to the number in the previous -week . In the ten vears

      1847-56 , the average number of deaths in the -weeks corresponding with , last week was 1068 ; and in the present population , which lias received an increase , the same rate of mortality would produce 1175 deaths . The difference therefore between the achial number of deaths and the number as estimated is inconsiderable . But the returns show that there has been a decided increase of deaths in the last two weeks ; for the weekly number in October . was only about a thousand . Last week , the births of 9-07 boys and 830 girls , in all 1737 children , were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1847-56 , the average number was 1455 . —Fromthe Reyister-GenevaVs Weekly Return .

      ConseckJltios of the Citt Cesietekv . —The Bishop of London , on Monday morning , consecrated the new City of London Cemetery , situate at Little Ilford , a few miles eastward of Stratford-le-Bow , in the presence of the Lord Mayor and a large number of civic officials . The musical services were performed by the gentlemen of the choir of St . Paul ' s Cathedral .. QcARAJiTtSE at Madeira . — -The passengers by the Koyal Mail Steam Company ' s ship Tyne , from Southampton to Madeira , have forwarded to the English papers the following statement , dated Lazaretto , Madeira ,

      October 23 : —" In consequence of the prevalence of yellow fever at Lisbon , that port was declared infected on the 8 th inst ., and the passengers by all vessels touching there on their "way to Madeira are placed in quarantine for fifteen days on landing at Funchal . The Board of Health of this place assuming , as we firmly believe , illegal powers , has condemned us to seven days more than the utmost period sanctioned by the quarantine laws—namely , eight days ; We are also subjected to restrictions quite xmnecessary for the preservation of the quarantine , and dictated by a spirit of despotic power . " at

      The Crystal PALACE .- ^ The winter concerts the Sydenha . ui palace have commenced . FUSEBAL OF THE DUCHESSE DE NeMOUUS The funeral of this princess took place last Saturday morning , at Weybritlge . . The remains were deposited in the vault which contains those of Louis Philippe . Prince Albert attended the funeral . REFOitsiED Bread . — Mr . Stevens , tho Reforming Baker ,. of Cambridge-road , Hackney , has sent us the following letter , which we think well deserves attention : — " On reading Dr . Letheby's Annual Report and Statistics upon Disease and Death , I find from his investigations that all classes have their peculiar diseases , phthisis being the malady of bakers , and the Times observes— ' But

      surely tlie fact that particular complaints can be so easily apportioned among particular trades , justifies tlie hope that , with ordinary care , their prevalence can be very much diminished . ' After reading Dr . Letheby ' s report , I calculated how many journeymen bakers have died who hod . worked for me within the last ten years . The result-was to mo saddening . My men have gcnerully lived with mo some years , but I can count fifteen young men , n . one forty years of age , who have fallen victims to this ' takers' mahidy , ' in one form or other of the diaease . Now , sir , I know that if bakers would do away ¦ with tlie present unhealthy , dirty , and barbarous manner of kneading bread , our trade for one would aoon show a more encouraging account in the future reports of the chief medical officer

      City ' s . Sincerely thanking you for the encourngoment you have given me in favourably reviewing my endeavours to promote tho snlo of pure bread in the metropolis , I am , &c . "—Mr . Stevens has been good enough to furnish us with a practical test ot his own unadulterated * panifieation , ' in the shape- of a long loaf , in the French fanhion , of pure household bread , which wo can very cordially and sincerely certify to ha of the purest , soundest , and most nutritions quality . Who will deny that pure wnter and wholesome broad arc the moat -universal desiderata for all cIuhsch of society , and "well worthy the careful consideration of sanitary reformers and social economists ? Mr . Stove . ™ , we believe , * has for more than ten years , distinguished himself ia hia very

      perilous and of ten ungrateful business aa an advanced reformer of our daily bread , and he deserves the thanks of the community for his efforts in their behalf . "When -we say perilous' trade , we speak not only of the peculiar perils which , as Dr . Letheby ' s report has lately proved , attach to the making of bread , and which in effect shorten the lives of working bakers , but we allude also to the commercial risks of a business which has been too often conspicuous in the Gazette . In no department of trade are the evils of a prevailing rage for cheapness , and of a consequent anarchical competition , more -widely disastrous than in the bread manufacture ; and to these evils the public , ever willing to be deluded , are qxxite as culpable as the tradesmen

      who adopt th . ePointhi $ r > tiZtdecipi , decipiatur motto . The public will have bread impossibly cheap and impossibly white , and it suffers for its unreasonableness in diseases for which it cannot find an easy explanation , but of which those who are acquainted with the mysteries of bakehouses know the causes only top well . It is surprising that , in an article of such inevitable and indispensable importance as tlie bread we eat , the most clumsy and filthy processes should be still prevalent , and that the employment of a machine by which these processes are got rid of should be still a rare exception . We cannot at present pursue this subject , but we shall return to it , and meanwhile we heartily wish bread-reformers like Mr . Stevens all the encouragement and success which , as true sanitary reformers , they deserve .

      The Biixiugsgate Salesmen . —Several of the wholesale and retail fish salesmen of Billingsgate Market assembled on Tuesday , at the Coal Exchange Tavern , St . Mary-at-Hill , to take steps for resisting what they contend to be an illegal charge which the Corporation of London , since the opening of the new market , have called upon them to pay for their standings , in the ' . shape of a weekly rent , in addition to the authorized tolls on the fish sold . Resolutions intimating the determination of the salesmen to resist the extra payment were unammously passed . ¦ - .- ¦ ¦ .. " . ' . ' '¦ ¦ . . ' . - ' •' ' ¦ - , ' .. ; ¦ . - .

      The Metropolitan Drainage Question . — A special meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works was held on Monday in the Court of Common Pleas , Guildhall , to consider and proceed upon the report of the Chairman of the Board respecting the interview between him and Sir Benjamin Hall on the main intercepting drainage cf the metropolis . Mr . Thwaites presided , and Mr . Bristow moved a resolution to the effect that the Board reiterated their conviction that to extend the point of outfal to Sea Reach ( as proposed by Sir Benjamin Hall ' s referees ) , at the expense of the rate-payers , would be unjust to the rate-payers and in contravention of the Local Management Act . After a long discussion , this motion was carried . Mr . Bristow then proposed that a conference should be held in the Council Chamber

      ot the Guildhall between the . Board and the Metropolitan Members of Parliament upon the present position of the metropolitan drainage question / and that the clerk should write to the several metropolitan members , requesting their presence at such conference . Mr . Wilkinson moved ' the previous question , ' which was carried by a majority of seventeen to thirteen . A resolution -was then passed that the further consideration of the report of the chairman should be taken next Monday , in order that the members of the board may have an opportunity of considering the new report received from Sir Benjamin Hall ' s referees .

      The Income-Tax Commissioners fou Fixsbury . — We have received the followng from a parishioner of Finsbury , whom we l « ave to tell his own tale : — "I am encumbered with expensive house and premises , where we ( self and partners } conduct a large concern , in which we have for the last three years sustained a loss , owing to tlie dcarness of provisions and other causes , of above oOOf . ayear . Under such stateof myafmirs , I emphatically ask , are the Commissioners justified in assessing me for Income-tax ( Sched . 13 )? As Englishmen have the invaluable blessing of n frco press by which to raise their voice against oppression , I invoke your powerful aid , for myself and equally oppressed fellow tax-payers , to ascertain how such oppression , nay robbery , can bo resisted—by what right these Commissioners shall dare to

      assess by caprice , , setting equity and law at doriancc . When 1 appealed before these worthies at Finsburyaquare , where I had boon summoned to produce my balance-sheet , I was treated with a specimen of theso gentlemen ' s scurrility , and discovered their' inaptitude for business . After putting to me irrelevant questions , not one of which alluded in any way to my balancesheet which was the subject of my appeal , tho verdict ' You must pay it' was uttered by tho gruff chairman , and I had to leave the room , worse than a criminal , because condemned against the rights whieh a prisoner clniuiH at the bar of justice . The tax-gatherer has therefore now called for 20 / . to bo paid agreeably to tho base fiat of tho ' Finsbury CommiN ^ iouei-H . ' What is robbery , if this dcservcfl not the name ? Aro men like theso to

      go on , unoxposed , committing nets of wrong that tho English car is hurt to henrV Is it not a fundamental priiiciplo in tho British Constitution that , the people nro to bo taxed only by thotnuolves , and that through their roprosontativea V Hut I win told by tho Solicitor of the Inland Ruvenue , at Somerset House , to whom I applied for advico in thin unpleasant matter , that these Commissioners nro amenable to no law ! Tho question , then , which every Englishman must naturally ask ia—" Wlia

      have ! to do in the election or rejection of these Tax Commissioners ? This query concerns not alone th ' Electors of Finsbury to put to their borough members to solve , but is of vital importance to every elector in the kingdom , to see that this loathsome yoke is unriveted from the free English neck . I send you my namo and address , together with the balance-sheet above alluded to , for last year , which shows a loss of more than 500 / . ; and I sliall be willing to come forward publicly if required , to organize means for resisting tyranny in taxation . Yoxirs obediently , A Bnrrox . —p . S . I hone that tlie Chancellor of the Exchequer will acknowledge the receipt of my 201 . as the proceeds of a robbery which the patriotic Finsbury Commissioners have made on me for the use of tlie public purse . —November 17 th 1857 . "

      Death of the Exuijisir Coxsul-Genkral at VENrcE . —Mr . Harris expired , in the forty-first year of his age , at "Venice , on the 13 th inst . lieVas grandson to LordMalmcsbury , the celebrated diplomatist , and private secretary to the present Earl during lib tenure of the Foreign-office in 1852 . The Polytechnic . —Mr . Pepper has produced at this institution a kind of entertainment , entitled ' A Scuttle of Coals from the Pit to the Fireside . ' lie traces , ^ UK

      the aid of numerous dissolving views ; the progress of tlie coal from the primeval forests out of which it has boon produced , through the various stages of its pit existence . down ( or rather up ) to the pleasant fireside banquets given by the Marchioness of Londonderry to her colliers ; A picturesque account of the mode of working the collieries , together with disquisitions on rire-claihp , tlie safety-lamp of Davy , &c , are included in this instructive and agreeable lecture , which has met -with the success it deserves .

      Sin .-Kohejrt Pert , at Tamwortii . — A speech vas made on Tuesday , by Sir Robert Peel , at a dinner-given at the Town Hall to the ex-Mayor , It was very discursive , and , in the course of it , Sir .. Robert . Warned * Lord Palmerston for having , at the Mansion House , so highly eulogised LotiI Canning , while he omitted all prai . se of Havelock , Neill , and Kicholson . Lord Dalhousir av : i ^ . regarded by the speaker as one 6 ftlui greatest Governors-General we had ever had in India . Lord Palinerston had shown great energy hi sending out troops ; but the men should have been despatched from the ,. ' lirst across Egypt , The outbreak in India was attributable to the mismanagement of the East India Company , and that body must be reformed . As to the . political' Reform Bill , he supposed it -would be shelved for the present , though a great many people desire it . Sir Robert concluded with an eloquent tribute to the merits of . Lord Palmerston .

      Mn . Massey , M . P ., at Salford . ^ - Mr . Massey addressed a meeting at Salford a few days ago ,, ch icily , irt reference to India . He advocated a most summary and terrible chastisement of the mutineers , and hopeil that they would be ' held up as . an example to future ages , and as a dreadful specimen of the vengeance a Christian nation ean inflict . ' To tolerate the worshippers oi ' miserable bloodstained idols ' would be a more : iliusc < of toleration , After Mr . Massey had gone on for some time , a . voicu called out , " We have seen all that in tho newspapers : " and t lie orator was requested to give sonic

      information with respect to Lord Pulmcrston ' ti promised Reform Bill , seeing that he is connected with tin . Government , and might therefore bo supposed to Unowi He replied , however , that he knew nothing ; he was not one of tlie Cabinet , and was as ignorant ; is tlioy . lie had no < loubt , however , that Lord Piilmcroton would bring in a bill when'he had made up his mind , sci / iiu ; that hu is a man of his word . Tho meeting , not uein ^ satisfied with this , passed a resolution - ' . niUriuing that they would have no ¦ Reform . Bill which does not include the ballot .

      Thk Hoi' Duty . —Tin ; following is the answer of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to tlie memorial of the hop plan ' ors presented to him by Mr . O . JJodson , M . P ., yesterday week : — " Downing-street , Nov . 14 . —My dear Sir , •—I have taken into consideration tlie memorial from the hop-planters of the county of Sussex , which was left in my hands yesterday , suggesting that upon prompt payment of one-half of this accruing November instalment of hop duty now duo , this payment of the remaining moiety may bo postponed until May ' next . ; ' and I nonet

      to say that I cannot comply with this request . At the same tim

      Trire IwmAN Rkmkp Fund . —Tho Knglisli . subjects resident at Alexandria have transmitted to the Central Committee tho Hum of 429 £ l () s . The caiiiinittee Iium also recently received from English rcnidenLa abroad the . following sums ;— -From Cairo , 11 ) 2 / . In . H < 1 . ; frnin St . 1 ' otorHbur ^ , WVi . 1 . lla . Oil . ; from Lisbon , t'Od / . ; r . ud from Corfu , 161 / . 12 s . fid . City Commission of Hwwrcns . —A good doal of > ~ tablo disc iiHHion took plnc . a at ; amcctingoftheeoiiit . cn Tuesday with re . spcet to tlio alleged bn « l HiTange . iuentH for the ( K'commodntion of the Oily gentlemen wlu » ' ^~

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 21, 1857, page 1114, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2218/page/10/