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    Mt^Nitttamw Nttq Misoellaneous

    The Field-lane KEFUGEi- ^ -The graphic description nivena few days since in the columns of our contemporary the Times , of the Field-lane Itefuge for the Destitute _^ of the awful sufferings of the houseless poor—of the ha rrowing histories of the wretched guests at that caravanserai of sorrow—and of the judicious and truly Samaritan relief administered to their necessities—has deservedly created a very considerable amount . of excitement among the public , and elicited a corresponding amount of material sympathy in the shape of money contributions towards the funds of the Refuge itself . We cannot wonder at this prompt response returned to an appeal to public generosit } -, made more especially at a season of the year when the hearts of men should be directed by a thousand associations towards charity and mercy . For days following the publication of the article to which we allude , a considerable portion of our contemporary ' s space has been occupied by serried files of announcements of subscriptions received by Mr . Tawell , the secretary to the Refuge . From our nobles and merchant princes , who . send their fifty pounds apiece ; from the " Countess de Morella , " with ten guineas , and the splendid donation of a hundred pounds from the Crystal Palace Company , to the twenty-five shillings and sixpence from a " child ' s money box , " to the modest three shillings of " Anonymous , " and the half-guinea sent by some eccentric philanthropist , who chooses to adopt the pseudonym of the blackest ruffian living" Nana Sahib "—we can form an idea of the extent to which the moving recital of the writer in the Times has pepmeated through all ranks and conditions of men , and cease to wonder at the stream of benevolence that has flowed into the coffers of a most deserving institution . The PrkSher and Mk . T . S . Duncomhi :. — -Between Lord Derby and Mr . X ) uhcombe there has been a correspondence that relates to the character of the former in matters military .. In a correspondence previously published between Lieutenant-Colonel Dickson and the hon . member for Finsbury , the latter emploj-ed an expression which Lord Derby . imputes to himself * and . which Mr . Duneombe does not deny was intended to rcfur to the Premier , though he . declares lie had no wish to inflict pain . The imputation reads that no officer was " safe when a , Commission of Inquiry was screened by the favoured influences of Grosvenor . and St . . James ' s squares . " Lord Derby shows that he knew nothing whatever of what had occurred . '' to LieutenantvColonel Dickson , until he saw the published letters between the Colonel and Mr . Duncombe . The latter feels the force of this remark , and has sent a copy of his correspondence with Lord Derby to all the daily journals , so that his lordship ' s justification may be published . Testimonial , to Mk . J . S . Mill . —The officers in the Examiner ' s Department , in the India House , have presented this gentleman with a silver inkstand , as 11 mark of their respect and regard on the occasion of his retirement . Poor but Proud . —A highwayman undertook to rob Major Jones . He met Jones in a wood over in Jersey , He asked Jones fur his pocket-book . Jones refused to yield . Highwayman took Jones by the neck , and undertook to choke him . Jones mrid . e fight , and kept it up for half an hour . At the expiration of that time Jones caved , and the highwayman commenced rifling his pockets . The contents nmouutod to eighteen cents . "Is that all you ' ve got ?" . " Every cent . " "What made you fight so long ? " " Didn ' t want to be exposed . Bad enough to have only eighteen cents ; a great deal worse to have the whole world know it . " — Weekly Council ' s Bluff ' s Jiuyle . Cosah dk Espana . —Now we turn off seaward to the right , down a sort of court , and conic to a porticoed barn they call the Custom Houso . Wo . English passengers —the florid redundantly good-natured Yankee-Irish wine merchant , " the bagman all whiskers , with the red suffering f ace , the man who swears by Murray , and compares ovory place to Constantinople , where he has novor been , and who dresses in a gamekoopcry sort of way , which hp thinks marks , the veteran traveller—wo are all there , " grumbling , putting , swearing , chafing , seeking comfort in cigars , and in preparing ostentatiously our bunches of keys . A littlo army of Atlas porters , with redropo sashes round their waists , follow us , and condole and encourage ua with timid looks of defiance cast towards tho entrance gate . Cosaa do Eapniia ! Nothing iaready . Tho officer is not come ; ho may bo five minutes , or an hour ; ho ia a Government ollloor not to bo hurried j ho is cheapening rod mullot , or at mass , or out riding , or at li is chocolate . Quion sabo ! Dios sabo ! Who knows ? In Spain , thoonly thing ovor ready is unreadiness . Storm a Spanish fort at . a dash , says Ford , and you will find tho guns unloaded , and tho gunners at their Bloato . Ovor tho door of the custom-houso room is a scaffold , on which n negro mason stands plastering in a lazy , lotos-eating way , that , after tho chronic fever of London workors , is calming and grateful to see .. Jn England , by mutual'fretting , wo chafo oaoh other into fovorisli" action ; ovory day , with us , Scorns tho last day : only fiulod , worn-out traditions talk of yesterday : wo live In to-day . But In Spain inert grow lazy by sympathetic idleness : thoy live in tho morrow . To-morrow Is their God . Thoy never do to-day what thoy can loavo till to-morrow . So worked this mason , ^

    till , trying to make room for the porters pass , the plank he worked on fall , arid all but killed a covey of us ; who , however , with a little benediction of whitewash , escaped . At last , down the hot white lane , slowly strolls the officer , swinging his keys upon his brown fore finger , lie greets us with a stolid official look , and goes slowly to work . He cannot understand hurry , and goes no quicker , though a dozen portmanteaus , red and greenbadged , are opened round him , as if the owners were showing him samples . Some mariners kneel down , and slip their hands between shirts and under-coats , smile , nod their heads ; , and £ ay , " Buerio—basta ! " and hand you your keys ; but , if you have a pomatum-pot that ¦ will not open , or a tooth-powder-box that is screwed tight , woe betide you . All right ! We are good ! And so off we go , following the moving carpet-bag mountains to Blanco ' s . —Household Words . The Austrian Viceroy in Milan . — -With increased watchfulness and suspicion , and preparations for the worst , the importance of the Archduke Maximilian , who is identified -with , a conciliatory system , naturally dwindles , since it becomes evident that his mission has failed , and that his occupation is in some degree gone . He must assuredly feel much aggrieved at the failure of his generous and well-intended efforts . He has recently made a change in his personal habits . A short time ago , as I told you , he went abroad very little ; now , on the contrary , he shows himself a great deal , and walks unattended in the streets . He is everywhere allowed to pass unsaluted and seemingly unrecognised . Although the Lombards generally do justice to his character and kindly intentions , it is a question whether it be not temerity on his part , in the present exasperated state of the public mind , to trust thus entirely for his protection to the esteem that maybe entertained for him personally . The detestable Mazzinian faction , although discredited and weakened , is not extinct , and the hand of a single desperate fanatic might suffice for a deed which , were it perpetrated , would be as injurious to the Italian cause as it assuredly would be deeply deplored by that large and increasing Moderate Italian party which would fain pursue by rightful paths the emancipation and regeneration of their country . —Times . Correspondent . . ' Parochial Education— St . Mary-le-Strajnd . — From a pastoral letter sent by the rectorof this parish , the Rev . J . F . L > enhain , to his parishioners at this season , it appears that there are no less than six schools in the parish , containing 2517 souls , besides other institutions for the benefit of the labouring classes . Four of these schools are ¦ ' wholly maintained by voluntary , contributions , and all of them are out of debt , although " the funds are very low . ' It is pleasing to contemplate this instance of a parish provided with means for the religious and secular education of its poor children fully ' commensurate with its requirements . . Djsskntehs in Berlin . —Roman Catholics in Prussia are not dissidents , the Evangelical and Catholic Churches being equally established with parity of rights . The Dissenters are- —1 . The Evangelical Lutherans , 1900 adherents and one church . " 2 . Tho Moravian ( or Bohemian ) Brothers , introduced into Berlin as far back as 1 . 7 , 'J'A , now reduced to 2 ( M members , and one meetinghouse . These two denominations are recognised by the law as Dissenting bodies , and possess corporation rights . Tho following are unrecognised : —3 . The Baptists , 350 members , one meeting-house ; 1 . The Irvingites , 400 members ; 5 , The Christian Catholics , 300 members ; ( J . Tho Christian Catholics of the Leipzig Confession , 2000 ; 7 . Jews , 12 , 700 . There are besides three churches whore service is performed in French , fur about 500 Q of French descent or tongue . The English residents have a chapel of their own in the Palace Mont " bijou , and there is Greek service in the Russian Embassy . Oysters . —Besides their valuable digestive qualities , oysters supply a recipe not to bo despised in the liquor thoy contain . It is produced by the sea-water thoy have swallowed , but which , having been digested , has lost that peculiar bitterness of salt water . Tho oyster water is limpid , and slightly saline in tasto . Far from being purgative , like seu-wator , it promotes digestion . Some physicians havo endowed it with a multitude of extraordinary properties , none of which it possesses , however . It has been compared to tho waters of Vichy and I'lombieres ; but this ) is chimerical . The only thing certain iti that tho water in the oysters keeps them fresh , prolongs their life for some timo , until it is destroyed in our stomachs , or until tho oyster has boon transformed into a portion of ourselves . As for tho condiments to bo eaten with oysters , tastes differ ; true amateurs eat them as nature has made them , for thoy fear the loss of thoir exquisite flavour . Somo persons , however , prefer a lUtlo poppor and lemon juice , which destroys any purgative ottVot thoy may poaaoea , and which some highly susceptible stomachs suffer from . It is a moot point whothor milk promotes tho digestibility of oysters ; at any rate it docu not require a beggar ' s stomach to digest tho mollusk . Still our author know a gouty person who curod Ilia disease , as fur as it could bo cured , by an abundant use of oysters and milk ; but , as the latter might have produced tho effect alone , tho fact ia not conclusive . Another point is , whether it is necessary to drink wjno with . oysters , ami if white is preferable to red . Aa Mr . Addlaon a « goly remarked to Sir Richard tie ^ .

    , Coverley , " , on . "'JBenf ley ' s Miscellany . The Canadian Press . —The press of Canada now . numbers 20 daily newspapers , 156 weekly , and 33 issued tri-weekly and semi-weekly , making a total of 209 public journals in Canada , East and West . These are distributed over 88 cities , towns , and villages . The smallest amount of population in these places , enjoying , the luxury of a newspaperj range from 200 upwards . The greatest circulation of a daily journal is 5000 copies , and of the weekly journals 75 , 000 is the highest issue . The newspapers of New Brunswick , Nova Scotia , Newfoundland , and Prince Edward's Island , not included in the above , number from 40 to 50 , and are chiefly weekly publications . — Canadian News . Hot Water with America . —Another serious complication with America is unfortunately to be ; apprehended . Yesterday an individual arrayed in ah ample coat of broad cloth , with brass buttons , a buff waistcoat , and drab breeches , his legs encased in top boots , his upper story surmounted with a broad-brimmed hat , his hands in his pockets , and a eudgel under his arm , calling himself John Bull , was conveyed to the police-office on . a charge of swindling . In his pockets were found abundant evidence that his real name was Obadiah Brum , of Brumville , N . Y . ; on the manifestation of which fact he cut up rough , " and declared that the British constabulary officials had in his person violated the privileges of an American citizen by exercising the . right of search . Correspondence on the subject has taken place between Mr . Dallas and Lord Malmesbury . —Punch . Dutch the Language of the Japanese Court . — - The Javasche Courahi contains a detailed account of the last voyage of the Netherlands Commissioner to the Japanese Court at Jeddo . For the iirst time the commissioner was received by the Emperor of Japan in person . His Majesty , who was seated upon a magnificent throne , condescended to address a few remarks to the envoy without the interposition of an interpreter . His Majesty speaks Dutch " with a pure accent . " The Javasche Courant adds that Dutch has been for some time the language of the Court , of the savants , and of the diplomatists of japan , arid that Dutch literature is held in high esteem . Dramatic Readings at Bombay . —The Bombay papers state that Mr . Edward Macready , son ofthe . emiueut tragedian , purposes giving a short series of poetical and dramatic readings at Bombay , where he resides , and also of including in his list . of entertainments the five . Christmas stories by Charles Di « kens . Oi'R Jury Svstem . — Q . What foreign institution does starving a jury approach the nearest to ?—r--l . The Diet of Hungary . —Punch . City Benefices . —A meeting of City incumbents was held at Sion College on Tuesday . After an animated discussion it was resolved that a committee be appointed I to consider whether a further union of benefices would I be desirable . A resolution declaring definitely that such i a change would be desirable , was defeated . Inpcstbious Students . —The practice of taking down sermons in short-hand notes had reached such a height in Frankfort that the consistcries both of the ' Calvinistic and the Lutheran bodies have thought it necessary to prohibit it . for the future . " The church , " says the ordinance , " is not a lecture-room , fcut a house of prayer . " Madame : DcpEVANT .-r-Georges Sand lately caused M . Breuillard , a provincial schoolmaster , to be prosecuted before the Tribunal of Correctional Police of Auxerre ,. for libel , in having , in a speech delivered to his \ pupils in n distribution of prizes , in August last , said ;—> " What could we not say of tho impudent boldness and 'cynicism of Georges Sand ! It was reserved to this woman , old and worn out by all the debaucheries of | mind and body , to represent in a novel a species of love I against nature , which was nlone capable of . reawakening i for an instant a heart and senses used up by oth , er pas * sions ! It was further reserved to this woman , possessed of fine talents , to crown a life full of scandals by a still greutor scandal , tho Histoire do Ma Vie , ' a production not loss wearisome than it is immoral ! " Not content with delivering this speech , M . Breuiljard had it printed and circulated . The tribunal decided that his language was libellous , and it condemned him to lOOfr . fine and 501 V . damages . It alao authorised Madame Dudovaat to seize all tho copies of the speech she could find , and to havo tho text of tho judgment inserted in a certain number of newspapers . Paymkst ob' Mkmuishs of Parliament . —Distinctly wo boliovo that every member of Parliament ought to receive a . handsome salary — COO / , a year at least , perhaps 1000 / . —and bo bound to give the nation hia undivided energies . Tho la ' w still subsists by which Uo may claim wug « s from his constituents , but with modern notions this cannot easily or generally bo roausQitated . To bo paid by them would bo thought degrading j to bo paid from the Queen ' s Treasury ia an honour , — - Westminster Jiovicto . Bumttu Musicuar . —It ia said that tho Government purposo to transfer tho library and museum nt tho East India House to the British Musoum , though it is not stated what rooma are assignable for tho reception of tUoso troaeuroa . * * ^ .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 8, 1859, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08011859/page/9/