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loffue" entitled " The Omnibus ; or , a Touch at the £ imps " The Omnibus has been running some time , and has already been classed among the " Favorites , S we need not report on it at length . It , of course , as its name imp lies , continually changes its passengers , and in accordance with omnibus law and Laurie , keeps moving ; but we do not observe that the ^ air conductor or appointments want changing . ± ne audience on Tuesday were quite of this opinion , and were prodigal of encores and applause .
Polytechnic Institution *— The bill of fare for the Easter holiday visitors is highly attractive . The useful and the am using are happily combined , so that people who go merely for amusement can hardly avoid clandestinely , or under false pretences being crammed with a deal of information on subiects which will be of much practical service to them provided they understand the various lecturer ' s who certainly do their utmost to familiarise science to the meanest capacities . The Institution deserves general patronage , and we hope it will
continue to . Madame Tussaui / s Gallery is more gorgeous in its array for the holidays than we remember to have seen it . There are many novelties , amongst which may be mentioned the effigies of their Royal Highnesses , the Prince of Wale . s and Prince Alfred . Mr . John Bright , M . P ., figures among the distnv guished dummies in all his bluffness . The costumes of the royal groups , and the regalia thereunto belonging , have been renovated , and their general effect is certainly dazzling .
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GENERAL , POST OFFICE . The report of the Postmaster-General for the past twelvemonths was issued on Wednesday ^ and we present a summai-y of the principal points of interest . In the inland . service the report describes many extensions , the number of postroffices in the United Kingdom having been increased by 134 , making the total 11 . 235 .
New sites have ^ been obtained to offices at Edinburgh , Dundee , and Dover , and similar steps are in contemplation for Canterbury , Lincoln ,, and Southampton . A site has also been secured at Manchester , but , in deference to the wishes of the inhabitants , an endeavour will be made to change it . The whole number of additional road letter-boxes put up last year was 465 , making a present aggregate of 1 , 168 , and they have been found to promote alike economy and dispatch .
In the London districts further accelerations are still hoped to be accomplished , so as to reduce almost to a minimum the time between , the posting and delivery of a letter properly addressed . The result of what has already been effected is seen in an extraordinary increase of correspondence , the annual rate of increase of metropolitan letters , Which in the ten years previous to 1857 was less than 1 , 500 , 000 , having been 4 , 239 , 000 in 1857 , and 6 , 270 , 000 in 1858 , a progress which promises to be increased in the present year . To the credit of the public , they have generally complied with the request that the initials of the district should be added to the addresses .
The arrangements for improving the postal service between London and Dublin have been completed , but owing to % \\ e time required for building the powerful steamers to be employed they will not pommence till the middle of next year . The distance over which mails are now conveyed within the United Kingdom is about 133 , 000 miles per day ( an increase of about 3 , 000 since 1857 ) . Of these 32 , 403 milos are by railway at an average charge of 8 £ d . per mile ; 31 , 949 by coaches , &o , at 2 id . j ( 55 , 712 on foot , at IJd . j and 2 , 669 by packets and boats jit OjcK Tho total number of letters delivered in the United
Kingdom during tho past year , was 523 , 000 , 000 , showing an increaso of 3 $ per cent . The proportion to each purson was 18 . Of the whole nearly a quarter were delivered in London and the suburban district , and , counting those also which were dispatched , nearly one-half pus 3 od through the London office . Tho proportion of registered letters is about 1 in 400 . The number of newspapers delivered was about tho flame us in each pf tho two previous years—viz ,, 71 , 000 , 000 . The number of letters returned owing
to the failure of the attempts to deliver them is about 1 ia 300 , and of newspapers 1 in 124 . There wore 7 , 250 , 000 of book-packets last year , being aa increase of more than one-fifth , With regard to money-orders the report states 127 now ofllooa wwo opened , making tho total 2 , ^ 00 , The number of orders issued was 6 , 089 , 390 for a total of 12 , 602 , 1052 . ( showing an increaso of 4 per cout . ) , and the commission received was 111 , 5011 ., which left a profit of 2 G , 9 MJ . Tho money-order system although now productive of a largo profit In England and Scotn «* na . is still carrlod on at a loss In Ireland , owing , in wo latter case , to tho smallnoss of the individual
the consequent improvements broug operation on the 1 st of August . The negotiations for a new convention with the German Postal Union proceed very slowly , and those with the United States make no progress whatever , notwithstanding our proposal made more than two years ago for a large reduction in postage and the establishment of a book-post . With Holland and Tuscany there are better prospects , and the negotiations for an improvement in the mails between London and Paris and London and Qstend , which are still pending , are expected ultimately to prove successful .
will be ht into sums . The void orders which lapsed to therevenue owing to non-application for payment , amounted last year to 1 . 9 O 2 Z ., the greatest proportionate number being in Ireland . In relation to foreign posts it is mentioned that a new treaty with Portugal will soon come into operation , and that proposals for new conventions have been sent to Brazil , Chili , Peru * Mexico , and all the other States in South and Central America where there appeared any hope of a successful result . A treaty with Nicaragua has just been concluded , and .- . _ _ ' _ . «•¦• t ¦ . - !¦¦ i- _ J . t » '
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The Dissolution , t—We believe that the writs for the new Parliament will be issued this day . They will be proclaimed in the several boroughs and counties on Monday , and when three clear days have elapsed from that date the elections for the new Parliament will begin in the boroughs , arid three days afterwards in the counties . Sir John M . Lawrbsce . — At a meeting ; held at at Willis ' s Rooms on Monday j it was resolved that a public banquet should be given to Sir John Lawrence . The banquet is to be confined to persons connected with the Indian service . New Street from Covent-garden to _ the Strand . —The works are going on with vigour . Near to St . Michael ' s Church a very large block is being proceeded with , from the designs of Mr . Chas . Gray . The new street will be 42 feet in width from wall to wall , and the sewer in the centre of the roadway , which is 4 feet by 2 feet 8 inches , egg-shaped , one brick thick * is already put in . The surveyor will forthwith cause the roadway to be formed , arid thus open but the thoroughfare to Burleigh-street . — Building N ' .
South Kensington Museum . — The prize drawings of the Metropolitan District Schools of Art will be exhibited during the Easter , holidays in the rooms provisionally prepared for the reception of the Vernon and Turner pictures . The class rooms of the training school will also be open during the holidays for the inspection of the public . National Defences .: —A public meeting was held on Saturday at St . Martin ' s Hall , to take into consideration the state of the national defences . The chair was taken by Vice-Admiral Sir 0 . Napier , M . P ., who , in a long speech , called attention to the defenceless state of the country . At this moment France possessed a fleet all but as large as that of 500000
England . She had an army of , men , ready to march at a mQfrienfs notice . She had also a large number of commercial ., steamers . She had on the north and west coasts 180 steam-vessels of all sizes , and in tho Mediterranean 150 . There was nothing to prevent an arbitrary and despotic Government like that of France from laying an embargo on those vessels and marching the men on board . In a week she could throw an overwhelming force into this country . It was not even necessary to invade this country . AH she need do was to send a fleet off the Seilly Islands . She would thus intercept all the American , West Indian , and Mediterranean trade , and give this country a blow from which she could
npt recover for many yenrs . Mr . Richards , Secretary to the meeting , read a letter from Sir De Lacy Evans , expressing his regret at not being able to be present , and urged the necessity of enrolling 1 volunteer corps . General Taylor moved a resolution : " That a tnomorial bo presented to the Queen , and petitions to both Houses of Parliament , urging the necessity of maintaining a sufficient Channel fleet ; of calling out the necessary militia , and enrolling volunteer rifle and other corps for the defence of the country . Sir Allan M > Nab spoko of the Canadian
militia and their serviced in the war of 1812 . When B . onaparto was marching his forces on Russia , the American President took advantage of tho supposed ombarransinent of England to uttompt the conquest of CanaiJft by an American army . Total defeat , however , awuitod them , and General Hull surrendered with his whole force to Sir Isaac Brock . But of what was the victorious army composed ? Of Canadian militia and volunteers ; for when the war broke ou t * the British " hud not ; in Canada 000 men ofull anna above tho city of Montreal . " Sir Allan expressed the hope that wo might some dny have la this co an try a force a « useful and patriotic
Great Boat . Race . —The great race for JE 100 > aside , on the Tyne , between Thomas White of Bermondsey , London , and Robert Chambers , of Newcastle came off on Tuesday evening , and was attended by thousands of spectators . The men were equally matched in age and performance ; but Chambers was the favourite ; Chambers havingr among other things , beaten Galley of Newcastle and Ralph , of London , easily , and White having won upwards of eight races easily , and : con ten ding hard in two . The men got to their posts both in excellent condition , looking confident and doing credit to their trainers . They started beautifully together , arid the conflict for half a mile was most desperate arid determined . White obtained a lead of several . / " * _« ... « . "D . *¦» ¦ m ' "D 1 " * / tn rf * V »* v * wl * An ** . WA An ' ^ V **» _*• " ! f \ r * %
lengths , rowing in his usual style ; but Chambers , with his powerful stroke , overhauled him soon aftear a mile had been rowed . Another desperate contest ensued , but it was so close that afoul occurred in the heat of it . Chambers drew away , and came in . first at the winning post by five-lengths . Public Health . — There was a decrease in the number of deaths registered in London during the week ended on Saturday , they having been 1 , 084 j while in the previous week they were 1 , 201 . The births of 865 boys and 771 girls were registered during the last week . Dr . Letheby reports that the mortality returns for the week in the City indicated a very favourable state of the public health , the number of deaths being 44 against 62 , the average for the corresponding week in the last three years . -The births during the week were 52—28 males and 24 females .
Thames Subscription Club— On Tuesday evening , at their anniversary dinner , at the Freemasons Tavern , the Hon . G . Denman in the chair , the members of the above-named club presented R . N Phillips , Esq ., with a handsome silver cup as a token of respect for his ability and services whilst holding the office of president , and as a mark of their personal esteem . Adam Bedb . — " George Eliot" writes to the-Daily News .:-r- " The Rev . H . Anders has , with , questionable delicacy arid unquestionable inaccuh columns that
racy , assured the world througyour the author of ' The Scenes of Clerical Life ' ' AdamBede ' is Mr . Joseph Liggins , of Nuneaton . I beg distinctly to deny that statement . I declare ,, on my honour , that that gentleman never saw a line of those works until they were printed , nor had he any knowledge of them whatever . The attempt to . pry into what is obviously meant to be withheldmy name '— and to publish the rumours which such prying may give rise to , seems to me quite indefensible , still more so to state these rumours as ascertained truths . "
The English Church in Paris . —A meeting was held at Meurice ' s on Monday , for adopting measures to secure the opening speedily of the English Protestant Church in the Rue d'Aguessau . The chair was taken by Lord Chelsea , who was supported by Bishop Spencer and Lord Gray . The church has been secured for £ 9 , 000 . Of this sum , the Colonial Church and School Society have agreed to raise . £ 6 , 000— £ 4 , 000 by subscription , and j £ 2 , O 0 O from another source . It was proposed to obtain the rest by public subscription , £ 2 , 000 in Paris from Ithe English residents , and . £ 1 , 000 in England . The church , when purchased , would be secured in perpetuity for Divine worship , and would be held in trust by the English Government for the Colonial Society . It was anticipated that in a month the
church would be open for service . COMPENSATION FOR RAILWAY ACCIDENTS IN Fkanqe . —The Western Railway has had to pay dearly for an accident that happened at the Vcsinet station in September last . Various claimants ^ got heavy damages ; but the most remarkable case was that of a man named Michel , whose wife was kuled . She had been the first fruit dealer at the Halle , and was said to have turned 10 , 000 ? . sterling a year , and to have cleared a tenth profit . She was the maker of her . own fortune entirely , came to Pans utterly unfriended , and never k-amt the arts at reading and writing . Her husband asked for UO . UOOf . damages , and obtained 50 , 000 f . Tho poor woman left upwards of 250 , 000 f . worth of property ot various kinds . . .
Paval JmvKLWBitv , — " -T »» ° l ' ° P ' ? a ' ^ JSf from Rome , ?• recently , in accordance with annual custom , blessed what is called the ' Golden Rose . This flower , which is made of thd purest gold , j mi ornamented with prooious stones , was rubuua witu ba ? m ? and incensed , his Holiness W . ting verses < oxplalninir tho mystic moaning of tho beuediouon j xfter which he took it in his left hand and blessed the ? peop S Wss was then celebrated in the SixUne chapel . Tlio « oid roses are ordinarily sent to iemalo Sovereigns , sometime princes , and sometimes , though rarely , to towns and corporations . 'I no otxq of last your was sent to tho Emproas of tho French * and that of tho year before to tho Queen of Spain .
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1 No 474 , ApkU , 23 , 18594 MiLEADlB . 535 ——^ M * nC ** liagM '" . !¦"¦ - ' ¦¦ ¦ . - ' ¦ ¦¦¦
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Leader (1850-1860), April 23, 1859, page 535, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2291/page/23/
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