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      the church of Santa Maria Formosa . It is well to look at her , for we are coming to those days when such saints as these were no longer painted ; but in their places whole tribes of figures with faces twisted into every trick of sentimental devotion , imbecile piety , and pretended fervour . But before this time , somewhere about the middle of the fifteenth century , the fashion of painting pictures upon panel for private purposes , though as yet religious subjects / were principally chosen for treatment , had already begun ; and we find the masters of the early part of the sixteenth century represented with tolerable fulness at Manchester . English collectors have long had a passion for Raphael , and England is almost as rich in his works in oils as Italy herself . Italy , however , keeps his frescos ; and may she long keep them ! There are more than thirty works ascribed to Raphael hanging on the walls of the Exhibition . Many of them are of doubtful genuineness ; many of them have been restored . — The Atlantic Monthly .

      Prolific Speakers . —Scotchmen are not merely prolific when looked at from the Registrar General ' s point of view ; they are prolific in most things . They are prolific speakers . The amount of palaver that takes place in a Scotch kirk session or a Scotch town council passes knowledge . It is a luxury that can be had cheap . It costs them nothing , and certainly they don ' t grudge it . I once attended a town council meeting where the subject under discussion was , whether an additional six-and-eightpence should be given to the parish beadle . The wut , wisdom , eloquence , and loquacity of that meeting will haunt us to our dying day .

      They sat six mortal hours , abused each other like pickpockets , and then , on the motion from a corpulent bailie , adjourned the discussion till the following month . So the unlucky beadle did not get his increase of salary for another month at least ; probably he has not got it yet . For anything I know to the contrary , they may have talked on till this very day . —/ Eraser's Magazine . Judicial Appointments . —Mr . Serjeant Byles will be the new judge , in the room of Mr ^ Justice Cresswell , appointed to the Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes . Mr . Serjeant Wills is appointed the new judge of the Supreme Court in India .

      Madame : Pfeiffeb . —It appears from information received by the Atkenceum , that , after great difficulty , Madame Pfeiffer reached the sea-coast , at Madagascar , and embarked again for Mauritius . She had caught the terrible Madagascar fever , and was seriously ill after her arrival at Port Louis . Thanks to the climate of that island , and the kindness of her friends at Vacoa , she was quite convalescent at the departure of the overland mail on the 14 th of November . Madame Pfeiffer was then meditating a vovage to Australia .

      A Giant Chimney . —Messrs . Crossley , of Halifax , are just completing a new chimney in connexion with their -works at Dean Clough , which will be of extraordinary dimensions and weight , and will outstrip every other that has ever been built , even in Lancashire . Although placed in a valley , it has attained a level with , the summit of Beacon Hill . Its height is one hundred and twentyseven yards , the width at the bottom being ten yards . The weight of brick and stone used in the erection is estimated at 9685 tops . —Builder . Earthquake in Algiers . — The Echo cVOran states that a shock of earthquake was felt on the 19 th ult . at St . Denis-du-Sig . The oscillation lasted about fifteen seconds , and the direction was from the S . W . Thia shock , although violent , caused no accident ; on the contrary , it is stated that one of the inhabitants , who was laid up in bed by a violent fever , was cured by the emotion excited by the shock .

      Refusal to Serve Aa High Sheiiiff . ' —Mr . Smyth , of Ashton Court , who has been elected as High Sheriff of Bristol , has refuaed to serve , on grounds not specifically stated , and has obtained legal opinion to the effect that he is not liable . The Town-Council , however , have resolved to take legal steps to forco him to do so . The Reform ; Movement , —A . meeting of working men was held at Birmingham last Saturday night , at which resolutions were carried in favour of a broad and liberal reform of Parliament .

      Relicuous Services for the Working . Classics . — A aeries of services for the benefit of the working classes has beon held during the present week in four different parts of London—viz ., St . Pnncrus ; St . Mary , Whitechapol ; St . Gilcs ' a-in-the-b'ields ; and St . Barnabas , Kensington . The proaohora have included the Bishops of Oxford and London , the Very Rov . Chenovix Trench , Dean of Westminster , the Rev . 0 . J . Phipps Eyre , &c . Collision between English and French at Madagascar . —A rather serious collision has occurred on the coast of Madagascar between an English cruiser and a

      ^ FreHoh ^ BlJlp'taWiiig'Afrlcanson-board-to- 'workat-tho-Iledo la Reunion . Angry feelings are sought to bo created by this right of search on the oa » t const of Africa , and it is said that Russian influence seeks to envenom tho affair . Spontaneous Combustion . —A largo quantity of alum shalo cast up from a mine In Wosterdalo Ho « d , in the Nortjli Riding of Yorkshire , has taken 41 ro spontaneously , and there does not appear to bo any immediate prospect of tho combustion ceasing . Tho only inconvenience arising from this circumstance is a very strong and offensive sulphureous smell .

      The Mersey Dock and Harbour Board . —The first meeting of the new board , which takes under its management the dock works on both sides of the Mersey , the collection of the town dues , the conduct of the Liverpool Observatory , the conservation of the river , Leasome embankment , &c , was held on Tuesday at Liverpool , the whole of the members , elective and Government nominees , being present . Mr . C . Turner , who presided over the defunct committee , was elected chairman . Christianity Revised . —A correspondent of the Times states that he saw , a few afternoons ago , a lady refused permission to take two charity children into the choir of St . Paul ' s Cathedral . He also once saw a poor man fiercely * driven out of St . Martin ' s Church . In Westminster Abbey , ' no praying is allowed' outside the choir .

      South Australia . —There has been a succession of Ministerial crises at Adelaide . The , Government of Mr . Finnis resigned at the latter end of August in consequence of a dispute between the Legislative Council and the Assembly . A cabinet was then formed by Mr . Baker ; but this was overthrown in a few days by a direct vote of want of confidence . The Governor next sent for Mr . Torrens , the mover of the resolution , by whom another Ministry was formed ; but this in its turn speedily gave way , in consequence of a resolution passed by the Assembly , on the motion of Mr . Hanson , censuring its conduct with regard to the waste lands . Mr . Torrens had advised the Governor to revoke the regulations for granting pastoral leases under the Old Waste Lands Acts . This was stigmatized by the Assembly as unwarranted and illegal . The Hanson Ministry had , not been perfected at the last dates . Architectural Photographic Association . —An

      exhibition of the collection of photographs made by the committee of this association was opened at the galleries in Suffolk-street , on Monday evening . The chair was taken by Mr . Cockerell , R . A . The exhibition will continue open daily till February 24 , and on every Thursday evening till January 18 , at half-past seven o ' clock . Suicide . —A Miss Stewart , an elderly maiden lady lately living with her sister in Charles-terrace , Lewisham-road , was found by a policeman , on Wednesday morning , dead in a water-butt in the back yard . Her manners had been very strange for some time past , and her sister had recentlv left for the country .

      Health of London . —The total number of deaths registered in London in the week that ended last Saturday was 1431 , of which 755 were deaths of males , 676 those of females . In the ten years 1847-56 , the average number of deaths in the weeks corresponding with last week was 1288 ; and if , for comparison with last week's return , the average is raised in proportion to the increase of population that lias taken place since the deaths in those years occurred , it will become 1417 . Hence it appears that the number of deaths in the present return differs only to a small extent from the estimated amount . Six , nonagenarians are included in the present return . One was 90 years of age at death , one 92 , two 93 , one 96 , and one 97 years . Besides these , a man in Aldgate was registered at the age of 100 years . —Last week , the births of 1041 boys and 892 girls , in all 1933 children , were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1847-56 , the average number was 1437 . —From the Registrar- General ' s Weekly Jleturn .

      Francis Davis , the Belfast poet , has received from Government a pension of 501 . a year . Chkistianity in India . — A public meeting in aid of the propagation of Christianity in India , was held , under the presidency of the Earl of Shaftesbury , at Exeter Hall on Tuesday . The resolutions which iverc adopted affirmed that the Christian Scriptures should be taught in all public schools in India ; that there should be perfect toleration of all faiths , but that no religious system should receive the direct encouragement of Government ; and that all cruel and obscene rites should be suppressed .

      Young Washington . —Himself of the most scrupulous gravity and good breeding , in his communication with other folks he appeared to exact , or , at any rate , to occasion , tho same behaviour . His nature was above levity and jokes ; they seemed out of place when addressed to him . Ho was slow of comprehending them ; and they slunk as it were abashed out of his society . " Ho always seumed great to ino , " suys Harry Wurrington . in one of his letters many years after the dale of which we are writing ; " and I never thought of him otherwise than of a hero . When ho came over to

      Castlewood and taught us boys surveying , to seo liim riding to hounds was as if he was charging an army . If ho fired a shot I thought tho bird must come down , and if he flung a net tho largest fish in tho river wore sure to bo in it . His words were always few , but they were always wi 80- ;~ they-were ~ not >« -idle ,-as-our ^ -words-aro ,-. th . Gy- ^ voro grave , sober , and strong , and ready on occasion to do their duty . In spite of his antipathy to him , my brother respected and admired tho General a ? much ns I didthat is to say , mpro than any mortal man . "—The Virginians . No . III .

      TIik Adklphi CmUflTMAH PxeOB . —In taking our aerial flight , last week , through tho Christmas fairy world at the theatres , we omitted , by an accidental slip of attention which we greatly regret , to notice tho pleasant combination of pantomime and burlesque produced

      by Mr . Webster under the title of Harlequin an Loves of Cnpid and Psyche . It is very elegantly bro out , and includes some graceful acting and singin Miss Marie Wilton , Miss Mary Keeley , Mrs . Billinj and others , to say nothing of M . Desirais ' s troupe of and monkeys . Printing by Water Power . —The Montrose Star is now printed by water power . The engine consii two oscillating cylinders with pistons acting on the i of a driving pulley , the pistons being moved by w as those of a locomotive or other steam engine ar

      steam . The late Dr . Paris . —It is with much satisfa we are able to state that her Majesty has granted a sion of 1501 . per annum to the daughters of the lat « Paris . This gracious act of the Sovereign was con nicated to the Misses Paris by a letter from : Palmerston , forwarded to them through Sir H Holland . This honourable testimony to the wor the late Dr . Paris cannot fail to be gratifying t ( especially to men of science and to the medical profes We have pleasure , also , in announcing that Mr . P the eldest son of the family , has just received an appi ment from Mr . Justice Cresswell , in the new Cou Probate—an office for which his literary habits re him especially qualified . —Lancet .

      A Tremendous Idea . — A member of the Acad des Sciences of Paris , who is also an eminent ehei has invented ( says a Paris paper ) an apparatus whic thinks will enable human beings to breathe as free ! the bottom of the sea as on the surface of the earth , proposes to form an association for collecting all treasures now lying at the bottom of the ocean , and mates at about 800 , 000 , 000 ^ . sterling the harves treasure to be gleaned on the route between Englaud India only .

      Accidental Deaths from Poison . —The Moul Advertiser records the melancholy death from poiso Mr . J . C . K . Bond , assistant surgeon on the Ma medical establishment , and civil surgeon , Moulmeii his thirty-fifth year . It appears that the doctor retu in the best possible health from a friendly visit neighbour in the evening of the 28 th of October , previous to retiring to rest , took what he supp to be two blue pills , but which unhappily pr < to be pills containing a grain of strychnine ea < prepared for the destruction of the pariah c with which the compounds of all the ho

      in the . vicinity of his residence are infested , unfortunate gentleman , who was very highly respec expired in a few hours from the effects of his fatal l take . —An inquest has been held at New Cross toi ing the death of a manure merchant named Willii who recently died in a fit , accompanied by much vo ing . The body exhibited no evidences of poison ex a very slight trace of mercury , which might have given as a pill ; but there was a mysterious entry it deceased ' s letter book with reference to a certain ' E ] beth' having threatened him with strychnine . The , returned an open verdict .

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      The late Mademoiselle Rachel . — 'Tho remain tho groat French actress were buried at Paris yestoru Loss ok Limi by Fire . —Two accidents with lire curred yesterday . The first case was thut of El Emily Sowell , aged live years , who resided in Isabel street , Blackfrlars-roud . The mother left her aw younger child in tho room by themselves , while she w down stuirs . The infant got playing with % btod I > "I and sot her sister ' s dress on fire . Tho inmates w aia ? WOT * l ) y ^ lK IBlcs 7 ~ an '( ron-cnterlng-tho- * room'foiu »< lchild nearly burnt to a cinder . She was taken to Gu Hospital , but died shortly after her admission . — -In second case , Ann Glover , aged sixteen years , in tho a vice of a lady at Peck ham , was in tho act of talc tho ten-ltottlo off' tho flro when tho wind wafted apron against tho grate , and sho was enveloped in flair She rushed up tho kitchen staircase , the flames mou ing Jn tho air , when sho dropped down . After a tir tho flro was extinguished , but not the slightest ho arc entertained of tho girl ' s recovery .

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      Leader Office , Saturday , January i THE LATE GENERAL HAVELOCK . We hear it questioned in some quarters whether Baronetcy intended for General Havelock does not mally fall to the ground , from the fact of the deati the lamented General preceding the date of the pat Ho died on the 25 th of November , and the Baront was conferred on the 20 th . It may therefore be error to describe Captain Havelock ns ' * Sir He Marsham Havelock , second baronet . " Lady Havel is Lady Havelock by reason of Sir Henry having I previously created a K . C . B . The grant voted by I liament is also not yet completed , tho bill authorizin , having been postponed till after tho recess . Some tirely new arrangement must therefore be come to ; i it is needless to say that the Government and Parliarai in providing for his family , will give every considorat to the long and distinguished services of General lie lock . —Globe .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 9, 1858, page 32, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2225/page/8/