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      Public Meetings. Hanqu ' Lvt At The Uov....

      Gallery I have not seen the slightest indication . " j t < 5 f SSt' £ W coupled t o « -. of Mr . ' ' Dickens and Mr . Thackeray in one toast , as illustrating SS cSiSIL between , literature and art , those gentleme ^ tJ ^ r S £ -- "* ono ^ S the order of your toast , I have to take the first part in the duet to be performed in acknowledgment of the compliment you have paid to literature . In this home of art I feel it to be too much an interchange of compliments , as it were , between near relations to enter into any lengthened

      expression of our thanks for the honour you nave uu .. « u » . I feel that it would be changing this splendid assembly into a sort of famil y , party . ( . I laugh . y I may , however , take leave to say that your sister , ^ vhom I iepiesent is strong and healthy ( a lauyfi ); slw has a very great affection for , and an undying interest in , you ; and ¦ i t is-always a very great graduation to hex to see herself so well remembered within these walls , and to know at iiusii *

      that she is an honoured guest your »» . u « .- w »~ C ( ^ £ SSSSJ ; - « My Lords , Mr Chairman , and Gentlemen , —Permit , me to . say that , , had , t nut been foi the direct act of my friend who' has just sat down I should most likely never hare been included in the toast which you have been pleased to drink . -, I should have tried to be , not a writer , "but a painter , or designer of pictures . That was- the object of my early ambition , and I can remember , when Mr . Dickens was a very young i —» -- ¦

      man , and had commenced tteiignnng wo ™«« » "" charming humorous works of which I cannot nienUon ¦ ta enameCfai «/ Ate > - ) , but which were coloured light gr een ,. and came out once a month ( a kutgli ) , that this young man wanted an artist to illustrate his writings , and 1 recollect walking up to his chambers with two-or three drawings in my Land , which , strange to say , he did not find suitable . ' Laughter ^ But for that unfortunate blight which came over my artistical existence , it would have been my pride and my pleasure to have endeavoured one day to find a place on these walls for one ot my performances . This . disappointment caused me to .. "' c . .. . i- - , a : an ... nn * TOolt nf nrt . ailtl HOW to uui

      >»—direct mv attention a « u . o „„„ . , I can only hope to be ' translated' these walls , as 1 have been , thanks to my talented friend Mr . Egg . (¦ Sear ,-hear . ) I shall , however , ever think with pride and pleasure of my name ' having been mentioned from that chair , always connecting it with the person who first sat in it" ( Sir Joshua Reynolds ) . The chairman then left tlie chair , and the companydispersed themselves through the different saloons , admiring , the pictures till a late hour . BANQUET TO THE DUKK OF MALA . KHOFF . _ Thu in ^—

      A banquet was given on rsday uy * .. . - the Army and Navy Club to the new Trench Ambassador . A large number of . guests were present and the chief speeches were those of the Marshal himself , bir \\ . F . Williams ( the Chairman ) , Sir John Pakingtou . Mjhoi-General York , Sir William Codrington , and Colonel I Baniell . The Duke of Malakhoff , in acknowledging the toast of his health , said ( speaking in French ) : — It is with a feeling of brotherly pleasure that I trad myselt sitting among you . It gives me deep satisfaction to see vour cordial anxiety to give me a -welcome . As a soldier , more than one among you know me ; as Ambassador , my principles are invariable , and , as I have already had the opportunity of explaining them , it is here wui

      not necessary to speak of them again . uur . a . wish to tell you is , that I feel a pride in finding mvsolf again in the midst of my companions m arms , and that I recal to memory our valiant standards , our glorious flags , the witnesses of your great ettorta as well as ours , under the shadow of which we have conquered the peace of the world . Let us in future know how to maintain that peace , so productive ot civilization , and so fertile , so necessary for us and for y««— I that peace so indispensable for the welfare ot all . i hope that peace will be durable , for it was cemented by generous blood—by blood shed side by side in sue-™ ,, ri » r .- .. fntt . hfnl iillv . but shed with equal and mutual

      eagerness . It is for us , soldiers and sailors , to remember this . It is for us to propose , without hesitation , an enthusiastic toast of lasting concord , and wo who have joined our heroic efforts together for the advantage of all have the right to say to two great people , ' Let us know how to unite the two fleets and the two armies , and let our sentiments bo mingled together in one common feeling ' L . to propose * The imperishable union of our I ileets and armies . ' " The evening passed off with the utmost enthusiasm . ¦

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      1 . THE LEADER . [ No . *** . Mat 8 , 1858 ^ |§ , , ¦

      America. Colonel Johnston Has Been Super...

      AMERICA . Colonel Johnston has been superseded in tlie command of the Utah force by Major-General 1 ersifer * . I Smith The colonel will be placed in command of a brigade . General Hamey has also been ordered to the seat of operations , and the reinforcements and supplies are to be pushed forward with all haste . The remains of the late Colonel Uenton were interred at St . Louis on the lGth ult . Business was generally suspended ; the houses and stores were draped in mourniuo- and the streets were crowded with spectators . The hearse was followed to the Bellefontaine Cemetery i ,. r fi-. r > , > ir . cf imimsin . i' nroeession ever formed in St .

      ¦ . . ¦& t In the United States Senate , a proposition is pending , . ;¦ , directing the President to demand satisfaction of Para- . £ cuay for firing into the steamer Waterwitch . The 11 s i solution was regarded as ' tantamount to an authorise ' < tion of a declaration of war . ¦ ' . The British residents in Hew York have celebrated ^ ; St George ' s Day , as usual , -with a banquet , at -which , ¦ Lord . Napier was a guest and one of the principal ^ speakers . , . -T v , h - The frigate Susquehanna has arrived at New York ] . from Kingston , Jamaica . The crew had suffered fright- 'j fully from yellow fever , and there had been a gr « at \ many deaths on board . The vessel was put in quarau- ,

      * Terrible casualties have resulted from the overflow oC the Mississippi . The flood is the greatest that has happened since 1844 : on each side of the river the laud has been covered for a a distance , 111 length , of several hundred miles . Several animals have been swept away . Some details has been received in New > ork of the late Indian massacre in British Honduras . When the t _ . i :.. _ 4- ^ -h . n , n t « n of "Beccalaw , they killed one ,

      nundred and four persons , and took forty priiowfc J Ransom amounting to four-thousand dollars was offered , for the release of the latter ; but it was refused , and the t entire number—thirty women and ten men-were i brought out and put to death , after the persons of tho ; women had been violated by the Indians . From Venezuela we learn that on the 21 st of March the opponents of Monagas overthrew tlie existing Go- ; vemment , and proclaimed ex-Governoi Serrano Froyi-_ : „_ .. ! t > .. L ; , ian + Tho TSfrtiiaoras family took refuge -with ;

      the French Minister , but were given up on demand , and £ placed in confinement . Monagas appears to have ; iilched enormously from the Custom House receipts . _ , A sanguinary battle took place at Callao on the / th and 6 th of March , which left Castilla master of Anquipa . Vivanco has retired to Bolivia The lo » a cu both sides was more than 2000 killed , aud the city ^ Yas , filled with wounded . New Grenada is said to be seeking annexation to the United States . The Americans have long contemplated ( the purchase of Mexico , and Mr . Houston has a motion t ;« ¦ ti . r . Rp . nate . Dronosino : the assuniption ot a

      protectorate . The absorption of the Spanish-American into the Anglo-American States seems , therefore , as if it was about to begin . . a ,,,,, Sixteen oiliceTS , leaders in a projected Santa Anna movement in Mexico , have been arrested on board the British steamer Dee at Tampieo . Letters were found on them , tending to show that Santa Anna had entered - | into an arrangement with Spain to subjugate the Mexa- | can Republic and to establish a monarchy , or to make vv it a foreign dependency . He had applied to the Cap- , | . ^ _ .. „ . _! . a- n .. i ,., f , w iwn thmisjind men to aid nis *;

      tillll-VjldlUTill Ul VJUU » v * w « . « » . w , , ; _ , supporters in Mexico ; but this was refused . Subse- > queiitly , he asked for a Spanish steamer , butmtb . no ^ better success . ¦ . > Nicaragua is torn with civil war . General Xarcz is , ¦ ¦ .. in arms against the Government of Martinez , and affairs arc in as great confusion as ever . The steamer San Carlos lias been . seized and sunk by the > learaguans , the Costa ttican guard which was on board having been previously driven off . It is reported that eight British gunboats have been , stationed round llavanuah on coast survey , and to pre-. vent the landing of negroes . r

      Louis . . , The Kansas Bill has been purloined from the Speakers desk , and taken to Senator Green . The theft has excited the utmost indignation , and it is thought that it will lead to the expulsion from tlie House of the guilty party . A personal collision has occurred in the House of Representatives , and another in the Senate . Duels I are expected to result from them . Tho papers and correspondence between Lord Napier and the Secretary of State , relating to the slave-trade , arc now before tho Senate . In reply to Lord Napier ' s remark about tho habit of vessels on thocoast of Africa i iuum Mh 1

      hoisting tlie yvnicricaii nag us ; .-v . «« " """" * - ~ British cruisers , General Cass says that the United States deny the right of the cruisors of any other Power whatever to enter their vessels by force in timo of peacl ' . Iu conclusion , Mr . Cass is instructed by the President to inform Lord Nppier that , while he ( the President ) is determined to executo the treaty of 1842 with I fidelity and eflicieney , he is not prepared , under existing circunistani es , to enter into any new stipulations on the subject of the African slave-trade . Among the letters ia a statement from Mr . Mason , United States Minister to ¦«» . 1 II I -rirflil ¦ 1 a . l . K ik . ii . ilA . 1 4 lKI ^ ll / l 1 111 ii

      * lrance , dated 1 ' curuiiry nun , * wmen » u » unra m < - . » . had ji conversation with Count Wulcwaki on tho subject of the French scheme of African emigration . Tho count stated that England did not object to that Hchcmc , us the British colonies arc being supplied by the Cool trade . Tlie Africans , ho added , would bo buttered by the plan , and would be Christianized and humanized by tliuir contact with the French colonists . 1 The Red Republicans have honoured tho memory of Orsini and Piurri with a torchlight procession through tho . streets of ISuw York , composed of two thousand livo hundred persons . Inilamnuilory Hpccclics wore delivered .

      Sanitary Matters. Tub Regisirar-Gencml H...

      SANITARY MATTERS . Tub RegisIrar-Gencml has issued his Quarterly Return . Wo'here read : — " This return comprises the births and deaths registered by 211 ) 0 registrars in all the districts of England during the winter quarter that ended on March iJlst , 1858 ; and tho nmrriiurus in 12 , 272 dlurches or chapels , about ii ' . )\ V . ) registered places of worship unconnected with tho Uritablished Church , and Hi ' . ) superintendent I registrars' ollices , in tho quarter that ended on December GLst , 1857 . " Makkiaoks . —Nin

      and seventy-two persons married in the last three months of 1857 . The marriages of the quarter were at the rate of 1-878 persons married to 1 Q 0 living in a year ; the decennial average . rate of-the corresponding quarter ^"" birtiis . ' —T he births of 171 , 001 children , lorn alive were registered in the quarter that ended on March 31 st ; ' number exceeding by 620 the births m the corresponding winter quarter of 1857 ; and the hi-hest number that was ever registered within the same time and season . Children were born at the rate of 1-900 a day . The Lirtha in the quarter-were at the ,. nfO ne 3 . SR 8 annually to 100 of the population 5 the

      average being 3-518 . The births fluctuate little m comparison with the marriages and the deaths in the several divisions of the kingdom ; but the decrease of birtlis in the Northern counties is worthy of note . _ « Incheask of . Popur . ATioN .-171 . 001 births and 125 902 deaths were registered in the first ninety days I of the year , and the natural increase of population in that neriod was therefore 45 , 099 , or 501 daily . lhe 00 /

      | natural increase in the winter quarter of I 80 , was dailv The falling off in the increase of population is referable to the excessively high rate of mortality during the past winter ; for the births exceeded-by 7 daily the births in the winter of 1857 . The natural increase of population in the United Kingdom was probably about I 750 daily- ., , - .-. „ " Emigration . —19 , 146 emigrants sailed from the ports of the United Kingdom at which there ate Government e migration agents ; of whom , 7 _ 230 ( or , allowbntu

      | in- for persons of undistinguished -piace , vi *^ j were of English origin . Nothing is more remarkable in [ the movement of our population than the decrease of emigration since the war . " . . ^ , The Weekly Return of the Registrar-General ' " Tlie deaths registered in London in the first three weeks of April were successively 1221 , 1207 , and 1144 ; in the last week , ending Saturday , May 1 st they were 1125 . In the last ten years 1848-57 , the average number of deaths in the weeks corresponding " with last week was 1045 ; but , as the deaths in the present return i siiomu

      occurred in an increased population , ney ^ w--pared with the average , after the latter is raised in proportion to the increase , a correction which will make it 1149 The deaths of last week were , therefore , less by 04 than the number which the average rate of mortality would have produced . The births returned for the same time exceed the deaths by 592 .-Last week the births of 851 boys and 8 G 6 girls , in all 1717 children , were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the vears 1848-57 , the average number was 1 G 13 .

      Continental Notes. That Narrow And Unchr...

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . That narrow and unchristian feeling is to V > c : condemned which regards with jealousy Lhc . P ^ ^ of foreign nations , and cares for no portion 01 tm . human race but that to which ltselt bel p . K - l-KANCK . It was rumoured last week that the rigour of despotism in France wan to be somewhat relaxed ; but this wceK we hear that M . Proiidhon ' s new work , 1 M la Juma dans la Revolution et Jans VEylisc , lias been seized , ami that a prosecution has been instituted . Tim committee which had been chare d to examine Ui

      the bill tending to grant assistance and pensions to families of the victims and of the persons womulea in the attempt of the 14 th January , lias proposed unanimously in its report the adoption of tho measure dui with 11 modification , accepted by the Council ol ai . ' - establishing a distinction between the sufferers wiiu , 11 a been attracted to the Mfiot by mere curiosity , ana u 10 a who were struck when in the accomp lishment 01 u » t dutv . The jimcndinciit increases tlie amount ot penaioi accorded to the latter or to their families . a i > ,,-,,.,. ^ ii ,. u Unon lw . 1 . 1 . it the EiiL'lish hnxbari . sy iui

      the relief of the EnglJrtb poor at Psiris . The ; ensemble of the Budget for 1 . 8 . VJ h « s _ !«¦« adopted in the Legislative Body by 250 votes siganisi o-Th . ! number of voters was 2 al ) . , The French consul at Alexandria has romlurcd iinist so ( ibnoxioua to tho refugees ( mainly Italians ) w 1 " >/¦ congregated theiv , thuL writ . u . s rlols have tuln-n } " ¦ > and , cries have been raised of " Down with die h » ipc ror ! " "Down witU tho consul I" The wnttr o ' letter from tho city in question states that tin ; > ' « ' representative , in common with the other 1 ' ;! ir \ consuls , hud found it necessary to take cnortictic

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 8, 1858, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08051858/page/8/