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      More Money Is Still Roquired For Tho Law...

      only give us fogs , but ague and influenza j and what is more to the purpose in these days—it was proved that it would pay to drain them . Steps were taken for making a beginning ; and it would really seem that something effectual is about to be done . " t The last annual report of the Westminster ^ Freehold land Society ' states'that the present number of shares is 1576 , and making , with those taken up on the distributed estates , 1774 . The entire subscriptions have reached the sum of 22 , 187 ? . 12 a , of which 6777 / . 7 s . Ad . has been received during the present year . The number of votes

      obtained by the members previous to the last registration was , for uEast Surrey , 35 ; and West Surrey , 77- The recent revision has , however , added considerably to the number in both divisions of the county . The numbers attending the Museum of . Art , at Marlborough House , during the month of October , were as follows : — ' 25 , 807 persons on the public days , and admitted free ; 1466 persons on the students' days , and admitted as students on the payment of 6 d . each , besides the registered students of the classes and schools . The numbers during this month have nearly doubled the usual average .

      Novejmujer 5, 1853] The Leader. 1065 Fee

      Novejmujer 5 , 1853 ] THE LEADER . 1065 fee

      A Meeting Of The Electors Of Salisbury W...

      A meeting of the electors of Salisbury was held las ? week . Resolutions in favour of the ballot "were unanimously adopted . At a crowded meeting in Cheltenham last week on the Turkish question , resolutions in favour of resistance to Russia , and adverse to secret diplomacy , were adopted ; and a memorial was drawn up for presentation to Ministers , founded upon them . At Tipton , in Staffordshire , a 2 % d . rate was proposed last week , which was objected to , and a penny one was

      proposed in its stead . The latter was earned hy 843 to 356 . At All Saints , Southampton , the opponents of church-rates have gained a triumph by 424 to 378 . Sir Henry Barkly , the new Governor of Jamaica , arrived at Kingston , on the 4 th of October . He was received with the greatest enthusiasm . His inauguration took place on the 6 th . His first public act as Governor was to prorogue the Assembly until the 18 th of October , then to meet for real work . Sir Charles Grey had taken private lodgings in Spanish town .

      At The Opening Of Term, On Wednesday, Fo...

      At the opening of Term , on Wednesday , four new Queen ' s Counsel , from the Common Law bar , were called within the bar . They were , Mr . Temple , Mr . Montague Smith , Mr . Edward James , and Mr . Grove . The curious case of Lumley versus Gye is still pending , and will be tried at the sittings after the ensuing Michaelmas Term . It is an action against Mr . Gye for inducing , as is asserted , Miss Johanna Wagner , the celebrated German artiste , to break her alleged contract with Mr . Lumlcy , who lays his damages at no less a sum than

      30 , 000 / . The principal witnesses , including Miss Wagner herself , being beyond the regular jurisdiction of the English Courts , a commission has been issued to take their evidence at Berlin , where their examination and cross-examination will he conducted by English counsel , through the medium of a sworn interpreter . Mr . Hayward , Queen ' s Counsel , has been named sole commissioner , and will discharge , pro tanto , the duties of a judge at a nisi prim trial . The commission is to bo opened at Berlin on the 7 th instant . — Morning Chronicle .

      A New Promenade And Pier, At Yarmouth, N...

      A new promenade and pier , at Yarmouth , named after the Bukc of Wellington , was opened on Monday by the civic authorities . The Argo made the passage homo in sixty-four days ; eho came round Cape Horn ; in going out her course was round the Cape of Good Hope . The General Steam Screw Shipping Company have reason to be proud of her . lho Victoria made the passage out in sixty days ; but it was from Graveaend to Adelaide . Sho belongs to the Australian Mail Company . . 1 wo sailing ships have alno mado quick passages from ¦ Liverpool to Melbourne . The Indian Queen wont in ei Knty-t ! ireo and the Falcon in eighty-four days . , A 1 < rench clipper of 1100 tons , the largest yet constructed m the dockyards of the- Loire for the merchant naw , ha . s just been built by M . Guibcrt at Nuntes . It is culled the higtsbcrt Oezard .

      The novel mode of ballasting with wator is now being tnwl on board the Snipe , Captain Girdbam . Tho wnt « r in secured in gutta pcreha vessels , and the filling and emptying processes aro simple and expeditious . It is behoved 'nut much time and labour will bo saved by this new method , and that in tho end it will prove much cheaper than Life old laborious plan . UwJTorth British Daily Mail " believes that noino of ^ »« shippers at Loith havo ' recoived information Mint their veas ,, ^ | ylng . at Cronytudt liavo received notion from tho riiiHli consul to bo in readiness to put to sen at four or "vo Hoi ,,. N' aoticowith or without "

      , cargo . Fill m -. - j ,, « ' ¦• \ rA II JIIIM / KI / AilV * t' \ F * imi ih a very general impression in naval eirchifi that w II 1 0 <> y vl'y oi' ( ll ° north juwsago by Captain M'Ulimi '" no followed up next year by tho despatch of two ^ 'aine ™ , tho J'hainix and another of about equal jiowcr . otl > '; . ' «« " « proceed through tlio i < : <» near to oacli ic () ° V iorwar ( l "" otion of tho liwl . vohhoI provonls llio wh , , ' ! "" # . llg | l >»» ho soon as it is otherwise lialilo to do ¦ nil '• ' ( ° ' ' j < mo vcshcI , and coiiHi !( jiicntly it is much _ > <<> " proceed when two are oinployod instead of ' ono . an I I " Jia < l <>< zl < i Iioh issued an " ordor allowing-wlumt () to |)(» imported into Lombardy fren of duty . Tlui m man authorities aro taking stock oflJicir grain "

      . . r j " '" ¦ ° ' > day , tho balim-H throughout , tlui inoU'upolm ngiiin mi . J ) n < ' (>( ' ' 4 | l ) loul > OI ' ° l' » l ' l > " » nv . Tho Jii-Ht-( ( ' » ftli « rH at tho West-end , tho Htrand , lloll . orii , tho ?<> I ' ( !! " ' ' i ° navc l"' ' * charging II % iL , now I'hnr ^ o Is . froj , * ' *' " best whoatou broad ; Lho Nooond-mto , fho n ¦ i ' ° ' < W" l ' ^ h # > weighed on delivery . Many of , ' "' I -rat < i , or what nro called " ohcap bnkors , " in " tho cvi ! vl ! diHtp " - 'l * <> f Whitocliupol , Npi fulfil In , H . 'thnal-| J '" . llli uikfriara-roiMl , tlio JVow-cut , Wostminnlor , & c \ , WoiV T" ^ K <« tW . for good wlioWwomo broad , also >] k " . ° « < l « fivory . J la a prison at Swansea thut olowly ronuirca a visit

      from Lord Palmerston's subordinates . That prison consists of four damp rooms , without furniture , in old Swansea Castle . Debtors are confined there ; no provision is made for feeding them ; if they have Mends , the Mends supply food and firing ; if they have no friends , they rely on oharity . Water they have none , unless the gaoler visits them , and he only looks in now and then . The real turnkey of this place is the Duke of iBeaufort , who holds the office under a charter of James the First ! The municipal elections were carried on throughout the country on Tuesday . Some disturbances took place at Liverpool , ending in the assassination of a policeman . At Blackburn there was a dreadful riot . Several persons were injured j and two , it is believed , will die . Both Tory and Liberal partisans have suffered in . their property and

      persons . Four distinct charges of flagrant fraud have been brought against a stock-broker , William Le Grand . One is a sad case : Philip JSTewberry and Ann his wife entrusted JLe Grand with their savings—102 ? . 10 s . —to buy an annuity . When they went to the annuity office to receive it , they found no money had been paid in . Petitions from the sufferers have been sent in to the Court of Aldermen , and referred to the city solicitor . A host of fellows , supposed to be gentlemen , caught in a common gaming-house in St . James's-street , were brought before the Marlborough-street magistrate , and no proof being obtainable , they were , of course , set at liberty . Mr . Hammill , of the Worship-street office , was occupied for a considerable time , on Wednesday , in the investigation of a summons obtained by the guardians of the

      Stepney Union against the directors of . the Eastern Counties Railway , for having suffered a dangerous nuisance to exist immediately adjoining the Victoria Cemetery . The nuisance consisted of a pond of stagnant water about 140 yards in length and from 40 to 80 yards in \ vidth , situated in the centre of a piece of waste ground continguous to the goods station at Mile-end . For a long time past the pond had been used as the common receptacle for all sorts of filth and rubbish , including decayed vegetable and animal matter , and other refuse o ± the most offensive description . Two gentlemen stated that —the one , that he had lost two , the other , three children by fever , owing to the foul vapours of the place . Mr . Hammill made the usual order for the removal of the nuisance witliin fortyeight hours , but suspended its operation for four days , in order to afford sufficient time for its suppression .

      There Was A Collision On The South Devon...

      There was a collision on the South Devon Railway , on Monday . The accident illustrates the inefficiency of breaks . A train that ought to have pulled up at Totness could not be stopped , the rails wot with rain sliding under the breaks . It dashed into a passenger train . S " oborly was killed , but , of course , some were hurt . Two accidents also occurred on the Midland Railway , on Thursday ; fortunately only tho property of tlio company was damaged and the goods in the trains . A convict who would disobey orders , and walk on an iron travelling carriage , in the Woolwich Saw Mills , slipped up and fell into the saw , and was sawed up . lie was taken out of the monster's grip alive , but died afterwards . There have been tremendous floods in the South of

      Ireland . Cork has suffered severely . The streets have been flooded ; the river rising to a great height , dashed along with fearful force ; some piers of a bridge wore carried away and lives lost ; portions of tho quays have fallen ; and fcaxa were entertained for another bridge . Soldiers , with fixed bayonets , wore out aud obliged to use force to prevent the people from . rushing into danger . Articles of furniture wero floating down from tho country districts . A man was seen clinging to a bed ; ropes were thrown and ho was saved . The loss of lifo and property has been groat , and the Hoods had not reached their height . Tho quantity of rain that has fallen during tho twelvemonths ( snding October , 18 GJ 1 , greatly oxceeds the average of corresponding periods for thirty-seven years . Tlio quantity is 34 " 5 ; the average iH 27 - l .

      Tho Austria of Vienna announces that tho new road , commenced this year , which is to connect ; l-iombardy with tho Tyrol , through the defile of Tonnle , situated at ( $ 250 feet above the level of tho sea , i . s in uctivo progress . It is to supersede 1 , 1 in old road over the Stills , which is upwards ofBOOOfoot above tho lovol of tho sea , and is often impiisaabln for months together on account of the snows . The population of Prussia in Donmibrr , 1 H 52 , was 1 ( 5 , 0 ; 15 , 4 < 20 souls , giving an increase , during throe years , from 184 $ ) , of 637 , 072 kouIh , or 3 . 'J 8 per cent . A correspondent of tho Boston Post , who lias travelled extensively in various par to of tho world , . says that after he had lot Iuh hoard grow for wix weeks , it was u <» xt to impossible for him to catch cold . "And thin , " remarks tho

      writer , " with tho damp fogs of England , . sleainboafing in tho . Baltic , coasting Uy Norway , ' whoam-ring' in the Arctio Ken , camping oul , in Iceland , . swimming tho cold rivers , sleeping on tho ground , climbing' snow mountains , and various ' moving accidents by Hood and field ' - —this is saying something for nearly throo years' experience ! of throwing away the razor . " Tlin Committee of tho

      Tho turnouts at Fronton w <; ro hoaxed last week hy receiving a . letter , dated " Horeland Hound , Cholms ' ford , October 24 , " signed "< John Tyrrell , " and containing something in tho nhnpo of a cheque for 500 / ., which it was thought wiih a donation from Sir John 'tyrroll M P the colleague of Mm noted " W .. H . " A . moteor of unusual size Iuih boon observed near Nottingham . I Ih diameter was about , half tlu » apparent , diamoter of tho sun . It foil obliquely , and burst into fragments with , u loud report , and passed beneath a cloud .

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      Saturday, November 5, 1853.

      SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 5 , 1853 .

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      There Is Nothing So Revolutionary, Becau...

      There is nothing so revolutionary , because there ia nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things flxed-when all the-world is by the very la ~ w 01 its creation in eternal progress —Db . Abnold .

      Britain And Ireland Is To Be Found In Th...

      Britain and Ireland is to be found in the Edinburgh Revietv , itself the work of a clergyman . The writer , whoever he may he , is well acquainted with the anatomy of the ¦ " Uhurch Parties" whom he undertakes to describe ; and lie points out their characteristics with relentless fidelity , tempered with toleration . He lays bare to us the Low , the High , and the Broad Cliurch parties , and he subdivides these further by marking the

      CHUKCH ANARCHY : DISMISSAL OF PROFESSOR MAURICE . The profound disquietudes of the Church of England again become apparent to the public gaze . Bishop is again protesting against bishop , and four archbishops against the unauthorized movements of their clergy . A notable Professor , one of the most subtle and eloquent of modern divines , has been ousted from his professorial chair for dangerous teaching , and low church organs are rampant at his fall . But a still better proof of the internal discords of the state ecclesiastical establishment of Great

      extremes of each . He has no mercy on the depraving and judaizing tendency of the Low Church , of which the j Recorcl is the fitting prophet ; he does not spare the Komanizing adherents of the High Church with their love of gewgaws and gesticulation ; he settles down himself in the Broad Church , that , medium ground where clever men of taste and culture take refuge from the inroads of modern science upon historical Christianity , and of modern ethics upon doctrinal beliefs . The writer settles down in tho Broad

      Church after pleasantly discussing the others ; and having perused these descriptions , we feel more than ever tempted to ask , where is tho boasted unity of the Church of England ? Thero is abundant evidence in the article of an immense change from the general apathy and low morality of tlio Church in tho hist century , to the vast activity and responsive perturbation of the Church in this . But as apathy was unity , so activity has led to discord .

      In trio latter half of tho last century tho Cliurch was corrupt , without thought , without ; learning , without great men . Education wan neglected , charities wore perverted , nepotism abounded , and many clergymen holding preferments openly professed a disbelief in tho fundainenlal articles . But Wesley roused the Church from its luxurious Hloop , and making plentiful use of dam nation , rendered it essential that clergymen should feel , think , and believe ; Wilber / bive , being the minister ' s friend , turning his fervid gaze on great

      national sins , made it essential that they nhould act ; education spreading among the hiily , made it further essential that clergymen should be learned . Thought once encouraged , the change from quieHconce to juitivity oneo made , and the mere political and sporting parHonfl once got rid of , the wide Hpread of education , tho onsets of free thought , the influx , of dermaii speculations , throw the whole institution into a ferment , which for the last thirty yearn has increased day by day . Churchmen , like the other intellectual

      classes , were caught up and ( tarried away by tho spirit of the age . All mon were out upon oxploringexjxiditions— -in scioiuio , in . history , in theology . Inquiry could not l > o evaded . Active minds and restless spirits abounded ; some sought am I found peace and safety , with a not quite easy conscience perhaps , in science ; some were carried by their gloomy natures into what we call evangelism ; some thought and syllogized themselves Imelt to the borders where old Anglican ennuis and systems touch upon the thin partitions which divido them from Romanism , and some dashed through and became J . ' apists . As a result of tho fierce controversies and conflicts , out of tjio torturoB of private Btruggloa be-

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 5, 1853, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05111853/page/9/