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      The Archbishop Of Canterbury Presided Ov...

      his congregation , which was at one tune greatly mcreasmg , that he abandoned his ministry . As an instance of the vast spread of homqeopathy , we raay record the fact that a grand morning concert , in aid of the funds of the Hahnemann Hospital , was given last w eek at the Hanover-square Rooms , under the immediate patronage of the Marchioness of Abercorn , Marchioness of Ailesbury , Marchioness of Clanricarde , Lady Seymour , Lady Charlotte Greville , Madame Bunsen , Countess of Chesterfield , Countess of Shaftesbury , Countess of Jersey , Countess of Kinridull , Countess of Bessbprough , Countess of Sefton , Countess of Erne , Countess of Wilton , Countess of Ellesmere , Viscountess Jocelyn , Viscountess Newport , Lady Mary Stanley , Lady Anne Charteris , Lady Robert Grosvenor , Lady Suffield , Lady Cremorne , Hon . Mrs . Seymour Bathurst , Lady Carew , Mrs . Leslie , Mrs . Thomson Hankey , and Mrs Leaf . Many of the leading artists of the day appeared on the occasion , and the rooms were well attended .

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      The Emperor Of Russia Has Conferred The ...

      The Emperor of Russia has conferred the Order of St . Anne , first class , with the crown , on General Gemeau , the commander-in-chief of the French army in Italy . The House of Assembly at Corfu was completely destroyed by fire on the eve of its opening . The circumstances suggest the agency of an incendiary . The Cologne Gazette states that the Duchess of Orleans , on leaving General Lamoriciere , who had accompanied her from Verviers as far as Aix-la-Chapelle , gave the daughter of the general a brooch which she wore , by way of souvenir .

      Mr. Sheriff Swift, M Accompanying The Lo...

      Mr . Sheriff Swift , m accompanying the Lord Mayor in procession to the Courts of Conservancy at Stratford , Blackwall , and Greenwich , dispensed with the attendance of Dr . O'Connor , his father confessor , who had formerly , on similar occasions , appeared in full canonicals . —Is this one of the results of the " Proclamation P " A boy named Frederick Smith was charged before Mr . Corrie , on Monday , with having thrown stones at the house of Dr . Kayne , a Roman Catholic priest , in Wilmington-square , Clerkenwell . " It was stated in evidence that similar offences had been frequently committed on the house of this clergyman , as well as on a nunnery in Northampton-square . The prisoner stated that he had been set on by a " respectable-looking gentleman , " who promised him a halfpenny . As a good character was given of the boy , he was fined one shilling , which was paid .

      The Sum Subscribed For The Relief Of Tho...

      The sum subscribed for the relief of those who suffered by the burning of the Amazon has now reached 14 , 000 / . The Leicestershire Chronicle mentions that 2600 paupers less were relieved last week in that borough than in tho corresponding week of last year . No fewer than 246 sail of merchant ships -entered inwards at tho Custom . House , on Monday . Of those 93 arrived from foreign and colonial ports ; 42 were coasters , including the regular trading steam-vessels ; and 111 , colliers . An inquiry has recently been made into the causes of a frightful mortality on board the ship the Lady Montague , which has recently returned to London , after a four years voyage . Two hundred and forty-five persons , chiefly 'Chinese , were found to havo died within four months . The cause is said to be that portions of tho provisions were unfit for use .

      A public meeting , attended by above one thousand persons , was hold on Wednesday evening , at the Domestic Mission House , Spicer-street , Spitalfields , at which Mrs . Chisholm . read a report which she had received from her husband at Port Phillip , on tho subject of emigration . Ho had received largo sums of money from colonists to pay for the passage of parents and friends , or , if these objected to go abroad , to afford them a pension in England . She stated that 10 , 000 females wore now required in Australia , and if emigration was properly managed , parties need not leave tho country without their wives . Tho Sabbath-day was religiously observed at the "diggings , " and in a fortnight they had erected a largo church , which was very fully attended . Very few robberies had taken place , and those only on drunken men . Sho urged parties to provide themselves with fonts , and those now making up of forty or fit I . y , to endeavour to get a medical man amongst the in

      A Man Named .John Lord, In The Employmon...

      A man named . John Lord , in the employmont of Messrs . Smith , distillers , _Whiteehapel , was found dead in ono of the vats , on Sunday morning . It is supposed that ho fell m by accident . There was a blower provided to force the gun out of tho vat , but he hud not made use of if . _^ Four men and a boy , descending the shaft of Elton Colliery , in Lancashire , on Saturday , were seventy yards below tho surface , when Iho engine suddenly lost ilio hold ol the rope und the whole party loll to the bottom , _sifcty . yards below them ! Two of them were killed , and a fhiril is not likd y ( _,, recover . The other two bad several bones broken .

      George Smith , aged fifteen , was seen to throw bis cap into tho area of Mrs . Wilson ' s house , in Hutlield-strcot , and then <<> spring over the railings after it ; to open the Kitchen window , enter , and carry off a mahogany teacadd y from a lnhlo close to the window . He climbed over he railings and made oil' with his plunder , but , was pursued and taken . Jlo was found fo be ono ol" u gang _inbubitirtg _onji of the arches of tho South _Western Railway . He said fhiil ! lie had not , slept , in a house for the lft & t six months i

      , U |„ i \ _Mi }„ , all ( i j _, jH companions did no work , but , lived on wlm | , they got by stealing . The owner of the ¦ en-cudd y did not wish to press the charge . Mr . Combe mod the prisoner must ho punished for the theft , but be Would _jrivo him bis choice whether ho Hhould ho sent , to 'ake his trial , or whether ho would prefer that ho ( the magistrate ) should deal sunimarily with him for the ofleneo p Prisoner : I should wish your worship to deal with me . . Mr . Coinbo : Then 1 shall commit , you for three "nontht . lo tho Hoiiho of Correction . Prisoner : Thank . you , bir .

      A Man Named .John Lord, In The Employmon...

      Mr . J- R . Hind has published the following discovery made by him from Mr . Bishop ' s Observatory , _Regent'spark : — " At 12 h . 30 m . mean time last night ( the 24 th ult . ) , I discovered a new planet on the borders of the constellations Aquila and Serpens , about 5 _degs . east of the star _Talu in Ophiuchus . It shines as a fine star of between the eighth and ninth magnitudes , and has a very steady yellow light . At moments it appeared to have a disc , but the night was not sufficiently favourable for high magnifiers . At 13 h . 13 m . 16 s mean time "its right ascension was 18 h . 12 m . | 58 _' 8 s ., and its north polar distance 98 deg . 16 m . 0 _' 9 s . The diurnal motion in R . A . is about lm . 2 s . towards the west , and in N . P . D . two or three minutes towards the south . This beautiful little planet is the fifth discovered

      during our systematic examination of the zodiacal heavens . ' Galignani gives us the following astonishing story from Guilleville , Eure-et-Loire : — "A small farmer had in a field about 250 beehives , containing a vast number of bees . He sent a man with a cart , drawn by five horses , to remove some earth from a wall near which the hives were placed . The carter having occasion to go to the farmhouse , tied the horses to a tree . Almost immediately after , a multitude of bees , either irritated at the shaking of their hives by the removal of the earth from the wall , or excited by the electricity with which the atmosphere happened- to be charged , issued from their hives , as if in obedience to a given signal , and with great fury attacked the horses . In an instant the poor animals were entirely covered with bees from head to foot ; oven their nostrils

      were filled with them . When the carter returned , he found one of the horses lying dead on the ground , and the others rolling about furiously . His cries attracted several persons ; one of them attempted to drive away the bees , but they attacked him , and he had to plunge into a pond , and even to place his head under water for a few seconds , in order to escape from them . The cure of Guilleville also attempted to approach the horses , but he too was put to flight by the enraged insects . At length two fire engines were sent for , and by pumping on the bees a great number were killed on the horses , or put to flight . The horses , however , were so ' much injured that they died in an hour . The value of the bees destroyed was 1500 f ., and of the horses 2500 f . A few days before bees from the same hives killed seventeen goslings . "

      HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK . In the week that , ended last Saturday , the deaths registered in the metropolitan districts were 990 . In the ten weeks corresponding to last week of the years 1842-51 the average number of deaths was 952 , which , with a correction for increase of population during these years and up to the present time , becomes 1047 . The mortality of last week is therefore , less than the estimated amount by 57 . In the present return the deaths of 490 males and 500 females are recorded , and they occurred at the following ages : 467 under fifteen years of age , 340 at fifteen years

      and under 60 , and J . 80 at 60 years and upwards . In comparing the facts of the previous weeks with those of last there appears an increase in tho total mortality of epidemics from 196 to 216 , caused by scarlatina , typhus , and other fever , which have apparently become more prevalent . The fat al cases referred to scarlatina last week were 58 , thoso to typ hus 47 . Intermittent fever carried off one person , remittent fever 2 , rheumatic fever 2 , erysipelas 4 , influenza 2 , diarrhoea and dysentery 18 , small-pox 24 . Three children and an adult died of syphilis . Five women sunk under puerperal fever , besides five others to whom other diseases incidental to child-bearing were fatal .

      The births of 818 boys and 736 girls , in all 1554 children , were registered in tho week . The average number in seven corresponding weeks of tho years 1845-51 was 1425 .

      Births, Marriages, And Deaths. Births. O...

      BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . On tho Kith May , nt Turner ' s-hall , in _Barbadoes , tho wife ot J . _Gt . Newton Alleyno , Esq . : a sou . On the 22 ml ult ., at Ilathmore . county Kildaro , tho wife of tho Rev . Hir James W . King , Bart . : a daughter . On tho 2 fith ult ., at _Chctiham-strout , Lady Hayes : a _daughter . On tho 25 th ult ., at , Baynard _Caatlo , _Oravosond _, tho wife ot TCdward Lacoy , Esq ., . 1 . I * . : " boh . On Saturday , Juno 2 ( i _, in _Groavenor-squaro , _Viacounfofw Kbrington : a . daughter . On the 2 « th ult ,., at BoRon-row , the Lady Louisa Alexander -.

      a son . On tho 27 tb ult ., at Connauglil ,-placo West , the wife ol Charles Baring Young , Rsq . : a sou . _MARRIAGICH . Ou the 1 Dt . li of May , at , the Cathedral , Bombay , CharloH Mason , limes Pollock , linq ., third _surviving Hon of tho lato Hir David Pollock , to Charlotte , oldest , daughter of Captain John Henry ' Wilson , formerly of Iho Indian Navy . On the 1 st , ult ., at , Ht . Thomas , Went Indies , Alexander Tower , Kn _(( ., lato of HI .. Croix , to ICIi / . aboth , roliel , of William Kort right , Duty , und daughter of- tho lato Huron _l'Yit / . Von _Hrilton , M . l ) ., of Ht . Thorium . On tho litth ult ,., at . Ht . Mary ' s , Lambeth , Kdward Samuel , second mm of the Into Charles llarman , _solieitor , to Mary Jemima , eldest daughter of tho lato John Hiirinan , solieitor , of Kcnnington .

      On tho 24 th ult ., at , Harming Rectory , West , Kent , Anthony KitzhorbciL , K . ao ., fourth son of Sir Henry KiUherhort , Hart ., of TiHniiiglon-hall , in the county of Derby , and of West Karloigh _, West Kent , to ICIi / . aboi _. h Martha Home , only daughter of the Rov . William Home , rector of Harming . Ou the VMlth ult ,., at Ht . George ' s , _ILinover-squtue , Richard Godfrey _liortanquot , _Ksq ., of OrmoHby , Norfolk ' , second _hoii ol the late Jacob BoHanqnot , _ICuq .. of Hroxboiiriiobury , Herts , to Grace _IwiheHii , daughter of the fate William ( 'lay ton Browne , ol Hrowno ' _s hill , Cnrlow , _lOsq ., and the Lady Letitia llrowno , and _gniml-diuigbtor of John Hist , Karl of Norlmry .

      j ) IOATHH . On the 2 f > l . h ult ., at , his residence , Kern Acre , Kubner _, Colonel William Hpillor , Bombay Army , mid magistrate for the county of Hooks . On tho 2 lil . li ult ., at Buoklobury Vicarage , _Herks , Richard Valpy , _Mtiq ., of ICdgbiiHton , Hinniiighain , eldot . 1 , son of Dr . Valpy , of Uoiulin _^ , aged ( ML On tho 2

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      Saturday, June 26. It Is Necessary To Se...

      Saturday , June 26 . It is necessary to set onr readers right with regard to the nature of "the verdict returned , by the jury in the Achilli case . Of course they could not do 6 therwi . se than find Dr . Newman guilty of having published tho libel . It is the other moiety of the verdict to which we refer . The jury , on the bare asseverations , and point blank denials of Achilli , deliberately set aside the mass of evidence of all the witnesses against him ; testimony which , in the main , was unshaken and uncontradicted . They , therefore , reject all Dr . Newman ' s pleas in justification , except one . The plea that they consider proven is this , and let our readers mark it well—that Dr . Achilli was suspended from his

      ecclesiastical functions by the Inquisition . For what ? For heterodox teaching—for teaching doctrine not soundly Roman Catholic ; and if not Protestant , then in Dr . Achilli ' s words , " neither Catholic nor Protestant , hut negative . " The jury thus reject the other half of the document put in at the trial from the archives of the Inquisition , stating that Dr . Achilli had , while in the prison of that abominable institution , confessed to diverse immoralities , and acts of incontinence . So that Dr . Achilli is not only acquitted of the charges brought against him by Dr . Newman , but by finding him guilty of being accused of Protestanism before the Inquisition , the jury attempt to elevate him to a higher place before the country .

      This is the most astounding result of a trial , the evidence given on which was all against the accused , and his own bare denial of the charges only for him , that we ever witnessed . The Times of this morning does not scruple to compare it with the infamous trial of the Popish Plot , when Charles the Second was king of England , and Titus Oates the chief witness . We cordially coincide with the following paragraph , from the noble article ill the leading journal :

      " If there is to be no presumption in favour of assertions attested by oath , no public writer can venture , should the public interest—as was admitted in the ease of Dr . Newman by the prosecuting counsel—ever so imperiously require it , to . make statements , however well founded , criminatory of the character of another . -Who can hope to be believed when such a mass of evidence has been flung aside as worthless P We consider that a great blow has been given to the administration of justice in this country , and that Roman Catholics will have henceforth only too good reason for asserting that there i . s no justice for them in cases tending to arouse the Protest ant feelings of judges and juries . "

      Dr . Achilli has , however , been acquitted by a British Protestant jury , and of course is henceforth safe from the like accusations . We only make these comments to set before ; our readers the exact , result , of the trial .

      Ihe Proceedings In The House Of Commons ...

      Ihe proceedings in the House of Commons last night were of that miscellaneous character which distinguishes the latter days of a session . The central and interesting discussion was on the Lords' amendments to Lord JoiW RuKStiLl / _g Corrupt Practices af Elections Bill . These , he stated , " tended in a great , degree to impair its efficiency , and to place obstacles in the way of inquiry into corrupt practices at elections . " These amendments , it will be remembered , provided that a commission of inquiry into alleged corruption by bribery in any borough or county , should not issue without the joint consent of both Houses to an address to the Crown for that purpose ; flint the word " treating" should be struck out , of the bill ; and that , the

      inquiry should not extend over a certain number ol years , but backward from election to election so long as ovidoneew of bribery turned up . The first of these , of course , gave the House of Lords a hind of joint jurisdiction over elections—a very suspicious proceeding . Nevertheless , after depreciating them as much as Ik ; could . Lord . John Kussell moved that" flu ; House do agree with the Lords' amendments in every case . " The supporters of his lordship in this course wen ; Sir Ai , | _. ; xani ) i : h . Cookiujhn , Mr . ( j ! i : oi . _ui : Hudson , Sir Di . Lady Kvanb , Sir Jamkk ( Jhauam , und Mr . BltOTiiKltTON . All these gentlemen condemned , yet accepted , the amendments , on the ground I hut- a hud bill was better than none at all .

      Mr . TllOMAH Dum . 'OM . _iK was very much dissatisfied with fhe course taken by Lord" John Russell , lie was afraid the amendments Imd been introduced lo defeat or delay the bill . Mr . Aoi _. ioniiv was still more dissatisfied , but , y ielded to Lord . John . Mr . II i / mk thought it would be better fo reject the bill altogether . _H would be better for tho Lords to attend lo their own privileges , mid not meddle with the privileges of tin House of Commons . Mr . . Iacoii Mi . M . Hiiid the bill would onl y fall heavily ou inexperienced parties who got info bud bands . Tho

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 3, 1852, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03071852/page/11/