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      Miscellaneous. The Count.—The Queen, Who...

      City , sat at the top of the Treasury Bench on the right ° Australia . — By the last maUs we learn that O'Shaughnessy succeeds aa Chief Secretary at Melbourne ; Coster , Treasurer ; Greeves , Trade ; Duffy , Crown Lands ; Hone , Public Works ; Chapman , Attorney-General ; Wood , Solicitor-General . The-Assembly adjourned for one month to give time for the elections and other arrangements . The exports of gold from Melbourne to the 13 th of March were—517 , dld ounces , against 613 , 041 ounces last year . Money was plentiful and credit good . At Sydney , two public meetings had been held—one for the formation of an Electoral Reform League , the other to establish a society for the promotion of a Protectionist policy . . Business was rather inactive , but without positive

      depres-The Hop Plantation . —Reports from all parts of the country represent the bine as coming in a very weak and sicklv condition , from the bleak north-east winds which have prevailed so much lately ; the cold nights and cloudy days being most unfavourable for a healthy and strong development of the plant . — Maidstone Journal . The Russian Railways . —It is affirmed that the Russian railway subscription in London has proved an almost total failure . The applications in France , Amsterdam , and Germany are stated to have been limited and unsatisfactory , but the want of success in this country has been still greater . —Times . Religion in Scotland . —Mr . Armistead , one of the

      candidates for Dundee at the late general election , was accused by some of his enemies of having danced at Memel on a certain Sunday . This was denied by Mr . Armistead , and he brings documentary evidence from Memel to prove the truth of his denial . But what if he had ? New Passport Regulations at Calais . —The following notice has been given by the authorities at Calais : — " His Excellency the Minister of the Interior has just ordered the suppression of the visa of passports for all travellers , without exception , coming from England through the port of Calais , having for their destination either Paris or Belgium and Germany . "

      The Margate and Broadstairs Boatmen . —The medals and awards allotted by the President of the United States to the lifeboatmen of Margate and Broadstairs , who saved the lives of the crew of the Northern Belle , were delivered to those gallant men last Saturday morning in the Town Hall of Ramsgate by Thomas Whitehead , Esq . The recipients were addressed by Mr . Whitehead in an appropriate speech . John Lang , Esq ., of Broadstairs , returned thanks on the part of the men . Mr . Thackeray delivered one of his lectures on " The Four Georges" at the Victoria Rooms , Bristol , on the evening of Friday week . The attendance was not large , owing , it is said , to the mismanagement of those who had the conduct of the entertainment .

      Letter from Mazzini . —The treasurer of the Hawick Italian Committee has received the following letter from Mazzini , accompanied by an acknowledgment of a sum of money collected in Hawick in aid of the fund for the emancipation of Italy : — "My dear Sir , —Will you be so kind as to forward the enclosed to the committee , and with it my most sincere thanks for your noble exertions in a noble cause ? There has been a great deal of misgiving spread in the hearts of my

      countrymen since 1848 by the ever doubtful , and sometimes hostile , conduct of your Government in Italian affairs ; but such a warm , liberal , eflicient sympathy as evinced by your own and some other Scotch towns will dispel the cloud . Through long sojourn and directions , I look upon Great Britain as upon my own second country ; and so far as my influence on the Italian people allows , no seed of the future alliance now sown by you will bo lost or neglected . —Yours faithfully , Joseimi Mazzini . April 29 , 1857 . "

      This Kino ok Oudic . — A mooting was held on the evening of Friday week at the Manchester Athenaeum , to take into consideration our recent seizure of the kingdom of Oudo . Major Bird was present , accompanied by Mouldee Mohammed Musscehood-deon , the King ' s accredited agent « nd the writer of a book on the subject which has just boon published . A long address was delivered hy the Major , who gavo a rather cloudy account of the alleged grievances of the Oudoan royal family . Tins Clicrkisnivisll Ragoicd Schools . —Tho twelfth annual mooting of tho friends of these schools took placo on Monday ovoning in the Am well St . Schoolrooms , the Eiirl of Carnarvon in tho chair . Tho report showod an encouraging condition of things .

      Tiit / NDicitsToitM . —Tho neighbourhood of Doncastor was visited by a heavy thunderstorm , accompanied with hail and rain , on tho afternoon of Friday week . A man in tho service of Mr . G . Innocent , farmer , Rossington , was employed in dragging in a field nunr that villago with three horses , all of which woro struck dead by tho electric fluid ; tho awinglotroos woro split from ond to end , and tho man holding tho stilts was thrown down , and it was necessary to carry him homo . Ilia logs woro found to bo quite black . Ho is now recovering . A Ciurucu btkuck » y Lightning .. —Tho steeple of tho pariah church of Wisborough Green , Sussex , was struck by lightning and not on lire hint Saturday about BOOH . Tho engines , ^ oro ( moodily brought to tho spot ,

      but it was not until six hours had elapsed that the flames were subdued . This is the third time that the steeple has been struck . Persia and the Persians . —Lieutenant-Colonel Sir H . Rawlinson , K . C . B ., delivered on Monday afternoon , to a numerous and fashionable audience- assembled in the lecture theatre of the . United Service Institution , Whitehall-yard , a lecture on Persia and the Persians . Lord Elgin , Envoy Extraordinary from the English Government to China , embarked at Marseilles on the 1 st inst ., on board the English Post-office packet Caradoc , for Malta .

      Seizure for Church Rates . —Some goods belonging to Mr . Joseph Proctor , a miller at Wallsend , and a member of the Society of Friends , have been seized for a church-building rate , which Mr . Proctor refused to pay . The clergyman is a Puseyite , and the parish will not grant him a church rate ; but a special act exists for levying an annuitant or church-building rate . Mr . Proctor ' s goods are seized every year , and always for a greater amount than the rate for which they are taken . The Very Rev . Dr . Manning , formerly a clergyman of the Church of England and Archdeacon of Chichester , but who recently went over to the Church of Rome , was on Tuesday morning inducted into the office of canon and provost , of the Papistical church in Horseferry-road , Westminster . The service was conducted by Cardinal Wiseman .

      The Suez Ship Canal . —M . Ferdinand de Lessep made a statement on Wednesday with reference to hi projected Suez ship canal , before the directors of th e Manchester Commercial Association , who held a special meeting for the purpose . Having set forth his views , M . de Lesseps retired , and received in the course of the day a letter from the Secretary thanking him for his exposition , and enclosing a resolution promising the support of the Association provided proper guarantees are given for the neutrality of the canal . Lady Ashburton died at Paris on Mondaj ' , aft er a long illness . Field-lane Ragged School and Night Refuges . — The fifteenth annual meeting of this institution waa held on Wednesday evening in the Lecture Hall , 165 , Aldersgate-street . The Earl of Shaftesbury took the chair , and the chief speaker was Lord John Russell . The report showed that the institution is prospering .

      The Victoria Cross . —The Gazette of Tuesday contains a notification of the bestowal of the Victoria Cross on four military officers ( including an assistant-surgeon ) for brave conduct in the Crimea . Equalization of Poor Rates . — A deputation of clergy from the east end of London in favour of this object , had " an interview on Wednesday with' Poor Law Board . Mr . Bouverie , the President of the Board , did not hold out the least hope of the Government acceding to the wishes of the reverend gentleman . — A meeting of City ratepayers , in furtherance of the desired reform , was held on Thursday evening at the London Coffee-house , Ludgate-hill . Mr . Alderman Sidney took the chair , and a petition to Parliament was adopted . Suicide of an Officer of the House of Commons .

      — Mr . James Gudge , who for the past forty-two years has held some important offices in the House of Commons , and for the greater part of that time has filled the position of Chief Clerk of the Journals , a highly lucrative post , put an end to his existence at the Houses of Parliament , on Wednesday morning , between twelve and one o ' clock . lie had been in a low and irritable state for the last few days , owing , it was supposed , to overwork ; and , on Wednesday morning , he was observed to lower himself gradually from the coping-stone of the terrace outside tho river frontage of the House , and to drop into the water . Ho was speedily got out , and lingered for some hours , when he died from congestion of tho brain and lungs , owing to tho immersion . He had been suffering from an irritated state of the brain for ten or fifteen years , and at times ho wandered in his mind . His ago was sixty-two . Tho jury returned a verdict of Temporary Insanity .

      King ' s Collkgk , London . —We havo authority for stating that the paragraph which is going tho round of the papers , headed " Reinstatement of the Rev . F . D . Maurice in his Professorship , " is wholly without foundation . — Ximeif . . Nicw Catholic Sick . — Tho Weekly liegister announces thnt it is intended to divide tho preaunt Roman Catholic diocese- of Liverpool , and form a now see for North Lancashire , at either Preston or Lancaster . Gakuicic ani > Foun . — Garrick waa an honoured member of the Steaks . Perhaps tho hat and sword now among tho insignia of tho club wero tho identical ones ho woro that night , when , announced for Hanger at

      Drury Lane , bo lingered at the club so long , that tho pit began to growl and tho gallery to ring with tho ominous cull of " Manager , manager I" Garrick had boon sent for to Covont Garden , whore tho Steaks then dined . Carriages blocked up Kussoll-stroot , and detained him nt tho crossing . When ho reached tho theatre , ho found Dr . Ford , one of tho patuntooa , walking up and down in anxiety . As Gurrick como panting in , " I think , David , " said Ford , " considering tho stiiko you and I lwivo in tlm houso , you might pay more attention to Its buslnosa . " " True , my good friend , " returned Garrick ; « tbut I wim thinking of my steak in thp pthor houso . " - —National Review ,

      Coining . —Now I am telling you odd events , I must relate one of the strangest I ever heard . An elderly woman gave information against her maid for coining ' , and the trial came on at the Old Bailey . The mistress deposed , that having been left a widow several years ago , with four children , and no possibility of maintaining them , she had taken to coining ; that , she used to buy old pewter-pots , out of each of which she made as many shillings , & c , as she could put off for three pounds , and that by this practice she had bred up her children , bound them out apprentices , and set herself up in a little shop , by which she got a comfortable livelihood ; that she had now given over coining , and

      indicted her maid as accomplice . The maid , in her defence , said , " That when her mistress hired her , she told her that she did something up in a garret into which she must never inquire ; that all she knew of the matter was , that her mistress had often given her moulds to clean , which she did , as it was her duty ; that , indeed , she had sometimes seen pieces of pewter-pots cut , and did suspect her mistress of coining ; but that she never had had , or put off , one single piece of bad money . " The judge asked the mistress if this was true ; she answered , " Yes ; and that she believed her maid was as

      honest a creature as ever lived ; but that , knowing herself in her power , she never could be at peace ; that she knew , by informing , she should secure herself ; and not doubting but the maid ' s real innocence would appear , she concluded the poor girl would come to no harm . " The judge flew into the greatest rage ; told her he wished he could stretch the law to hang her , and feared he could not bring off the maid for having concealed the crime ; but , however , the jury did bring her in not guilty . I think I never heard a more particular instance of parts and villany . —Letters of Horace Walpole .

      A Point of Law . — Dick Wilson , Eldon ' s portwine-loving secretary , deserves to be mentioned , as a member of the Beefsteak Club , for the great singularity of his fortunes . He was first steward and solicitor , and afterwards residuary legatee , of Lord Chedworth . Pie is said to have owed the favour of this eccentric nobleman to the legal acumen he displayed at a Richmond water-party . A pleasant lawn , under a spreading beech-tree , in one of Mr . Cambridge ' s meadows , was selected for the dinner ; but on pulling to the shore , behold a board in the tree proclaiming , " All persons landing and dining here will be prosecuted according to law ! " Dick Wilson contended that the prohibition clearly applied only to the joint act of " landing and

      dining" at the particular spot . If the party landed a few yards lower down , and then dined under the tree , only one member of the condition would be broken ; which would be no legal infringement , as the prohibition—being of two acts , linked by a copulative— -was not severable . This astute argument carried the day . The party dined under Mr . Cambridge ' s beech-tree , and it is presumed were not " prosecuted according to iaw . " At all events , Lord Chcdworth , who was one of the diners , was so charmed with Dick ' s ready application of his law to practice , that he engaged him in the management of his large and accumulating property , of which , as we have said , Dick was ultimately left residuary legatee . —National Review .

      May 9,1857.1 _ The _ Leader. 441

      May 9 , 1857 . 1 _ THE _ LEADER . 441

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      Leadei: Office, Saturday, May 9. House O...

      Leadei : Office , Saturday , May 9 . HOUSE OF LORDS , In this House a renewed discussion took place in the case of General Ashburnham , and Lord Campukll obtained the appointment of a Select Committoe to inquire into tho present state of the law relating to reports in newspapers , and another on the subject of altering tha mode of administering oaths to witnesses in tho House of Lords . Tho House adjourned early . HOUSE OF COMMONS . MAYNOOTH . Mr . SrooNBU gavo notice of hia usual motion as to tho grant to Mnynooth , amidst groat laughter , runnoiioi / siss and beer-shops . In answer to Mr . Kick Sioymisk , Sir George Grky tmid that tho present state of tho law relating to publichouses and beer-shops required revision , and would meet with tho consideration of thq Government . THE ADDRESS . Mr . Dodson brought up the report of tho Address in answer to tho Speech from tho Throne . —Mr . Hadfhcld made some objections to that part of tho Speech which referred to tho commercial prosperity of tho country , and especially as regarded our trade with India and tho Colonies , tho restrictions on which require to bo removed , Tlllfl TRANSIT . Mr . Lindsay brought tho subject of tho Transit troop-whip before tho House , nnil miulo i \ statement of tho condition' of tho ship ai ^ co hor departure , aftor her repairs from hor first acculont . Ho also drew attention to recent disastrous voyages of tho Porflovomiico ana the Urgont whon convoying troopn . Thoso ships woro built hy Moasra . Mnro , ' but it was snlil they hac 1 boon Oltwoa BliUM thoy had boon boug ht by tho Government ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 9, 1857, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09051857/page/9/