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      the experiments , made in the presence of a large number of officers , were considered to be very satisfactory .- The invention is likely to supersede the voltaic battery . Self-Mutilation . —Private George Drower , 81 st Regiment , who deliberately shot off Ids right leg at St . Mary ' s Barracks , Chatham , has since died at the garrison hospital from the effects of the injuries . Good-Conduct Medal . —At Maidstone , a medal and cratuitv of bl . have been presented to Michael Doogan , the 12 th for two

      a private in Iioyal Lancers , twentyyears ' good conduct as a soldier . There was a general parade ordered for the occasion at which were present drafts from the 12 th Lancers , Doogan ' s own regiment , the Enniskillen Dragoons , the 9 th Lancers , and the 14 th Light Dragoons , accompanied by the band . A square having been formed , the warrant of the Secretary at War was read , and Doogan was then called from the ranks ; Captain Miller placed the medal on his breast , aud handed him the gratuity . The whole of the troops then marched past . Transport Foundered . —Advices have been received of the loss of the ship Lady Ilodgkinson , Captain Young , on the , coast of Malabar , while on her voyage from London to Bombay , with 3 G 1 soldiers . The telegram adds that she was " likely to go to pieces , " but that the troops , crew , and part of the cargo were saved . The Deserter Tole . — -The trial is concluded of private Thomas Tole , 1 st Battalion 7 th Fusiliers , on the charge of having deserted to the Russians in the month of January , 1855 , and by the information he then gave caused the slaughter by the Russians of a number of his comrades . The court found him guilty of the treasonable crime , and sentenced him to be kept in penal servitude for life .

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      ST . MARTIN'S-IN-THE-FIELDS" LIBRARY AND HEADING IiOOM FOll . THE FORKING CLASSES . This Institution , situated in Castle-street , .. Long-acre , was founded by the late Vicar of St . Martin ' s , the Rev . H . Mackenzie , in the year 1852 . It is supported by voluntary subscriptions , and a small annual payment of 5 s . a year from the members . There are several classes for Vocal Music , Latin , French , Mutual Improvement , &c . &c . It has stimulated many young men to con = tinue their studies . The Library contains 1200 volumes , and a series of lectures are annually delivered in the spacious school-rooms at the back of St . Martin ' s Hall . . On Tuesday evening , Edwin Canton , Esq ., Surgeon to Charjng-cross Hospital , delivered a lecture on- * " The Human Hand " to a large and attentive audience . The lecture was instructive , impressive , and eloquentgiving a general view of the anatomy and physiology of this organ , and pointing out its importance to the welfare of each individual man and the benefit of society . Mr . Canton alluded to the many points on which we should be grateful to our Divine Maker for so great a gift as the human hand , by the aid of which we are enabled to form weapons for our defence , rendering us superior to the most powerful animals ; by which we have conquered the hostile influences of climate , nnd planted civilisation and the arts where our remote ancestors could only obtain a scanty aud precarious existence .

      The human liniul , as Mr . Canton observed , was tho great instrument by which Raphael , Michaol Angelo , and a multitude of paintors and sculptors , had transferred beauty and life to canvas and to stone . Ouv spaco will not permit us to give all that our scientific lecturer told us . After delineating the useful and ornamental powers of tho hand , ho proceeded to show tho various organs of animals which bear analogy to tho prehensile powers of tho hand of man—tho trunk of tho elephant , by which this creature can

      pick up a pin or root up a tree ; tho tongue of the chameleon , which can bo darted forth with the velocity almost of electricity to capturo his prey ; the tails of monkeys nnd other uniinuls , by which they hold themselves while bounding from tree to troe . Altogether this was one of tho most suitable and best adapted lectures for tho audiences collected at such institutions aa tho St . Martin ' s Library nnd Roadiug-room , and wo cannot concludo our pleasing task bettor thau by recommending tho managers of the Institution to socuro the able assistance of Mr . Canton on some future occasion .

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      Electric and International TcLBGUArii . — In paying a woll-meritod tribute to tho arrangements of this company on tho occasion of tho Manchester mooting last Friday , tho Times anys : —" Tho first portion of tho report was recelvod at the tologrnph-ofllco at Manchester at 10 55 on Friday night , and tho last at 1 25 on Saturday morning . Tho whole report , occupying nearly six columns , was in typo at a quarter to throo o ' olook on Saturday morning , ovory word having boon transmitted through tho wiro a distance of nearly 200 miles . This report was transmitted ontiroly by young girls . An avorago snood of twenty-nine words per minuto was obtained , principally on tho printing ; instrumonts . Tho highest speed on tho uoodloS' was thirtynine words por minuto . Four printing instruments and one noodle wora engaged , with one receiving clork onch , and two writers taking altornato shoots . Thoro was hardly aa ewor in tho wholo report . "

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      CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRANCE , The Gallican party in the French Church , it is said , realising a desire long entertained , have made arrangements for starting a new religious journal in opposition to the Univers , to be called the Union Religieuse . : The old laws of the feudal times against regrating and forestalling are still acted upon in France . The Indi cateur of Bordeaux states that game having lately become very scarce and dear , the authorities instituted an inquiry . They soon discovered that certain individuals bought up all they could find , and kept back a large portion to raise the price , at the risk of it being spoilt . Proceedings are to be taken against the offenders .

      It is not true that the commission of which Prince Napoleon , is president has already decided that the French slave trade is not the slave trade . The only semi-official statement is that the evidence hitherto taken favours that conclusion . We are even told that the French Government have invited the presence of English naval officers , who have served on the African coast , in order to obtain their information and evidence upon the subject of the free emigration of negroes . It is stated also that Sir F . Rogers , one of her Majesty ' s commissioners for emigration , is about to proceed to Paris , and , with Lord Cowley ' s assistance , wilLendeavour ; o frame some convention by which the colonies of France may obtain a supply of coolies as fully protected in every respect as our own .

      Senor Mon , Spanish ambassador to the Court of the Tuilerie ? , has been officially received by the Emperor of the French , who , to the address of the Spanish statesman , has replied with the assurance that France esteems the preservation of amicable relations with Spain , beyond everything . The wishes of the Emperor of the French were doubtless consulted by Marshal O'Donnell before his selection of Senor Mon for ambassador was made . The Court of Cassation has rejected the appeal made by M . de Curzon , II . de Maillc , and others , condemned in October last . The condemned parties , it will be recollected , were Legitimists , who had sent a letter of sympathy to Henry V . They have got as much by their appeal as M . de Montalembert is likely to get . SPAIN .

      The Spanish officer ( Alvarez ) , and the six Spanish subjects taken along with him by the Riff pirates , have been sent back by order of the Emperor of Morocco , together with the indemnity lat e ly agreed to be paid by the Moorish Government for the Spanish vessels seized two years since . On the 6 th inst . the Queen of Spain signed the decree fixing the land forces of the country for the ensuing year at 84 , 000 men . On the 6 th inst . General Sanz brought forward his motion in the Senate for a vote of censure on the Spanish Cabinet , but , after an ineffectual effort to accomplish his object , he withdrew his motion , a circumstance that produced a very depressing effect on the opposition members of all shades .

      In one of the Into sittings of tho Chamber of Deputies , Marshal O'Donncll seized an opportunity of making some observations in defence of the Cabinet against the insinuations thrown out in little preliminary debates , nnd gave a graphic history of tho difficulties which his predecessors had met with in attempting to carry on the Queen ' s Government with a Parliament composed of a number of potty factions , each following a leader who could neither command nor obey . It is stated that the building ground in the Puerta del Sol , at Madrid , had not been sold , no bidders having appeared on account of the excessive price at which the lots were offered .

      Tho answer to tho Queen ' s speech has ( says the Peninsular Corretpontlani ) been already drawn tip , and road in tho Senate . Two members of the committee who have had to report upon tho spooch hnvo drawn up separato reports upon the clause relating to tho ponding questions with Rome—questions upon which it is most possible the principal interest of tho dobato in tho Upper llouso will turn . Tho provincial papers still continue to record disasters occasioned by tempests nnd inundation .

      PRUSSIA Queon Victoria , it is nssertod in well-informed circles , will repair to Berlin in llio month of February , or earlier , to act as godmother at tho baptism of her prospective grandchild . Tup National Gazctta givos somo information regarding tho measures to bo brought forward next session . " Wljat appears tho most urgent , " Says tho Gazette , ' « is to comploto tho constitution hi its essential basos , namoly , tho organisation , of tho communes , districts , and provinces . Tho costly silver rfjiorgno valued at 5000 / ., presented by tho city of Cologno to Prince and Princess Frederick William of Prussia as a marriage-gift , has boon stolon j ft servant succeeded la abstracting it from tho socalled "Ancient Throne Room" of the Royal ScUloee .

      Though the thief has been discovered , the epergne is gone . A letter from Florence states that the King ' s health has not improved there , and that the air of Florence does not seem to agree with him . He never goes out , and the Queen ' is seldom seen in public . The central committee of the Bank of Prussia has decided that the discount on letters of exchange shall be lowered from 5 to 4 per per cent ., and advances on bonds ( Lombard ) from 6 to 5 per cent . A letter from Berlin states that it is believed the Prince Regent will open the two Chambers in person , on the 12 th of next month . The last of the supplementary elections at Berlin has ended , after a very close contest , with the success of the most Kadical of the three Liberal candidates , who alone were in the field .

      The finances of Prussia are , speaking generally , in a very healthy condition . This is owing to the rapid development of the material and industrial powers of the country , which in all these respects is in the period of its vigorous youth . Notwithstanding , the expenditure of the Government more than keeps pace with revenue , which is due to the fact that the system of taxation continues at this moment precisely what it was thirty years ago ; that it has never been adapted from time to time to the altered circumstances of national economy .

      AUSTRIA . The Austrians are aware that " M . de Persigny is likely to take a trip to Italy , but the news has not produced the impression which might have been expected . The exact strength of the Austrian army in Italy is known only to a few military men of the highest rank , but there is reason to believe that not more than 90 , 000 men are now in Venice , Lombardy , and the Papal Legations . There are 13 regiments of the Line with three , and 4 regiments with four , battalions , 10 companies of Rifles , 24 squadrons of mixed Cavalry , and an immense force of Artillery . In case of need a reinforcement of 12 regiments' of the Line and 16 squadrons can be in Lombard v within a week .

      It is stated that an Imperial ordinance relative to the colonisation of Hungary is about to be published , but there is reason to doubt the correctness of the report . The Austrian Government is exceedingly desirous to introduce German colonists into Hungary , but it must be well aware that it will be useless to invite German Protestants to emigrate unless the privilege of self-government in ecclesiastical matters is accorded to them . Afc present the air of Austria is not good for Protestants , aa it is very heavily laden with the miasma which , comes from Rome . BUSSTA . The Empress Dowager has been taken seriously ill . Information of the fact has been telegraphed to all the members of the imperial family now absent from S& Petersburg . '

      The Grand-Duke Constantine of Russia is expected in Paris on Sunday next . It has been reported that his visit would not take place in consequence of the illness of tho Empress Dowager , but her state is not believed to be so dangerous as to necessitate any change in hig plans . » ' We hear that the Czar of Russia has dismissed M . Mouravielf , the Intemlant of the Crown , because he secretly opposed the emancipation of the serfs . According to a private letter from St . Petersburg 1 , tho " Noble Committee " there have just thrown cold water on the imperial project for the emancipation of the serfs . 31 . Nicnnor has been consecrated Bishop of Czernagora ( Montenegro ) in tho Isaac ' s Church at St . Petersburg . Soon after the ceremony the prelate had an audience of tho Emperor , and he is now on bis way back to Cettinye .

      KOME . A correspondent from Rome writes , on tho 4 th off December : ¦— " If it rain five more days following , it will be as in tho Dolugo—it will have rained forty days and forty nights . Since tho end of October we have not seen tho sun . As was expected , the Tiber has overflowed its banks . Tho Kipetta , the Ghetto , and tho Place of tho Pantheon are inundated . The Pantheon presents a singular aspect . On tho outside the columns rise from tho bosom of the waters , and in the interior a vast liquid carpet covors tho ground . A person might : imagine that ho saw one of those bath-rooms of the Thormcs of Caracalla , tho mosaics of which still exist . Tho watoi * is upwards of four foot and a half doop . "

      Somo uneasiness is felt in the Holy City on account of tho surveillance kept up by the police . Two persons , formerly officers of General Garibaldi ' s army , have beoa arrested . Tho Papal and French Governments lmvo had more than one disagreement during tho last few wooka . His Hollnoas thought of leaving tho Fronoh Court without a Nuncio for a timo , but tho Emperor Napoleon did not approve tlio idoa , and very unceremoniously communicated , his opinion to tho head of tho Church . Iho request of tho Papal Government tlint General Goyon might bo roeallod mot with a positive denial . _ Cardinal Antoiielll has declared war upon foreign correspondents , stops their letters in tho post-offloo , and tluoatons to turn them out of tho Eternal City . At tho Consistory , to bo Jioldon on tho SJQth , It la

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 18, 1858, page 1375, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2273/page/7/