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      Miscellaneous. The Frenchman, Le Tour, W...

      A Eeverend Mr . Kainforth , the rector of the parish ( city ) of All Hallows , Staining , has been summoning before the Lord Mayor , under a statute of Henry VIII ., various inhabitants of that parish , who decline to pay him his tithes , several of the summoned being Dissenters , and one a Jew . The defendants pleaded sufficingly that they had never calculated on the claim , had taken houses , & c , without reference to it . and generally that they did not want to support a rector whose religion they disliked . The Lord Mayor , puzzled , suggested that an attempt should be made to bring tie rector to reason ; and no order was made . The first public sale of captured Russian cargoes since the commencement of hostilities took place this week at Garraway ' s There was an immense attendance of brokers on tne occasion . The gross proceeds realised by the sale of the cargoes of the 11 vessels were 3 , 903 ? . 14 s . 6 d—a dead bargain for the brokers .

      There are some new Queen ' s Counsel : Mr . Commissioner Erie , Mr . Denison , of the Chancery Bar , and those two clever legal Members of Parliament , who hare so admirably contrived to remain Radical members and yet become useful Ministerial—Mr . Phinn and Mr . Collier . According to the Nottingham Revieio , the Duke of Devonshire has stripped his walls and pedestals , at Chatsworth , of the' numerous portraits and busts of which he had been , possessed , representing portraits of members of the Russian royal family . A fountain , -which bore the name of the " Nicholas Fountain , " is re-baptised into the " Victoria Fountain . "

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      A Dismal Story.—This Strange Story Comes...

      A Dismal Story . —This strange story comes out in a letter hoinefrom one-of the English soldiers in the East :- * ' And another thing : I have to inform you , -we found a young flrl here—an English girV She was a slave to some Greek ere ; she was found working in . the fields t > y one of the ¦ women of the 26 th Regiment , who was going across the fields to go to market , when the poor creature called her over , and asked her for ^ drink of water , and then she told her she was an English woman , and had been , slave to this Greek four years ; she was shipwrecked "with her father when she was 12 years old . She says this fellow was a pirate . when he first took her . Bnt the soldiers went and got some cine to -where these fellows were , and pulled the nest about them , and brought five of them prisoners , and brought 20 women away with them—all slaves . But they had the English woman confined in irons somewhere else but they told the men they would hang , them all there and then to a tree , if they would not tell where the English -woman was ; and to save their lives they told , and they then fcraad the poor girl in a dungeon underground , and in irons , 'with a great weight on her chest ; so they released her . These men are to be tried and they are sure to be shot . The soldiers are going to make a subscription for her ; she is a native of Essex . " The " Society of the Frie ^ tos of Italy . "—This confederation of earnest and able men has published a " Record " of its progress . Two or three sentences tell the whole story : — There has been no recent opportunity for action on the part of the Society . There has scarcely even been any thing new to record ; and it is for this reason , as well as for thesako of husbanding their resources against the time , which may at any moment arrive , for clearly detiwed and active exertion , that the Committee have waited so long to communicate again , through a number of the Record , with their constituents ; and even now they have no active course to recommend . We must bide our time—silently organising and earnestly watching the course of events . In the mean time , we beg to remind those of our Membors whoso subscriptions are due at Midsummer , that without their aid , we ace powerless even to sustain the humble part of waiting . " Following is an able essay on " Secret Diplomacy" well worth publication in a form for general circulation , The Via Apf-ia . —" The Via Appia , or Street of Tombo . is one of the grandest sights , of Rome—an appropriate and affecting approach to the gates of the fallen mistress of the world ; liko her , in absolute ruin , but mujostic in its fallen state . Mnch as I have rend and seen of this approach , the solemn reality far exceeded my expectations . Extending in astraifjht line from the tomb of Cecilia Mettella , the long vista ot ruins open outstretching for miles over the desolate Campagna ; stones , towers , monuments , shapeless masses . lie on every side piled upon each other , forming an avenue oi ruin impossible to conceive Beneath is tho original Roman pavement , and very bad and rough it ia . Then there ia auch an enchanting view of Rome and its nnciont walls , tho aqueducts atrotclung across tho plain for miles and miles beyond tho Appenines , ending in Mount Soracto , shaded in every colour from purple to pnle-yollowisli pink . In front lies Frasonti , nestled in tho folds of tho mountains , dotted with forests and villages ; above is Albano ; wliilo around oxtoncls tho long level lino of th ' o Cuimpagnn , that earthen Dead Seacalm , immovable , interminable , and looking equally accursed , " —New Monthly . CowAKmoJC— " Readily confessing to comirdico , Cardan tolls of a storm on tho Lugo < li Guardn , ia which ho w-aa pearly drowned . It was in tho year that ho was rector , at <» time when ho was forced by \ nint of funds to make an expedition homeward . Ho had pushed off into tho lake , unwillingly enough , with iv few companions , tmH they hud on board the boat oomo horacs . Thou- aail was torn , they \ u \ d their mast broken , lost also their rudder and ouo of their two oars , when night enmo oil . At last they c « mo ashoro « t Siamione , when they were all despairing or a rescuo , Cardan most of all . They cumo ashoro in good timo , for voi-y few minutca afterwards , whon they wore hoimed safely in their inn , n . fierce burst , of tho storm arose , which their disabled boat could \> j no chanco ) mvv weal liorod . Tho iron hiugoa of the windows in tho inn wore Lont by it . Jcroino , who . hud bevn out of doors ix confeased coward , t « U « philosophically how nil his valour oamo to him when a fine piko was brought to tnblo , and Iiq aupped joyously , though hla coinpaniona could not cat . Tho only youth , oxcopt Carchin , who had Jin appetup , w « a ho whoso riiulineaB lod tho pnrty into danger , and whoso courago found « oufo way out of it . "—Jerome Cardan . J

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      Saturday, July Loth. Foreign News. The L...

      Saturday , July loth . FOREIGN NEWS . The latest telegraphs renew the story about the concentration of Anglo-French troops at Rutschuk ; the items of intelligence being somewhat varied ; the date being now to the 9 th , and the number of troops 18 , 000 , instead of 15 , 000 . The persistency of this news begins to render it a probability ; and , if it be true , we may expect soon to hear of the allied armies being in actual contaet with the Russians . Letters from Odessa " concentrate" the allied fleets ( fifty-eight sailXin the " direction of" Sebastopol . On the other hand , it i 9 reported that positive orders- from St . Petersburgh have reached the Russian generals in the Principalities to , re-occupy the positions sacrificed by Paskiewitsch . A letter from Madrid ( July 12 ) represents the insurgents as routed in "Valencia .

      Parliamentary. In The House Of Lords The...

      PARLIAMENTARY . In the House of Lords the early part of the sitting was occupied by the Earl of Shaftesbuby , who defended the Board of Health , against the attack made on it by Hord Seymour in the House of Commons , in asserting that the Board had by its conduct completely checked the progress of sanitary measures in this country , and , by its despotic course of proceeding , disgusted the whole nation , and that upon it , and it alone , was chargeable the non-progress of

      those great beneficial measures which were so much required by the physical condition of the people . The noble Earl gave a flat contradiction in the first place , and then proceeded to make out his case by elaborate arguments and lengthy documents from different parts of England in favour of the proceedings of his Board . He was heartily supported by the Bishop of London , the Earl of Carlisle , and Lord Brougham ; the result being a complete vindication of Mr . Chadwick . Lord Lytxlbton then made an elaborate attack on the administration of New Zealand by Governor Sir G . Grey , especially as regarded the manner in which he had dealt with the new constitution of the colony , and the changes he had made in the prices of land . The Duke of Newcastle warmly defended his officer , going with his usual fulness into all the details of the affair . The other business was of no importance .

      In The House Of Commons, In Answer To Mr...

      In the House of Commons , in answer to Mr . Heywoop , Sir J . Young stated that he had received an intimation from the authorities of Dublin University , stating that they had applied for a Queen ' s letter , in order to-enable them to take steps to cause a reasonable number of exhibitions to be increased in value , and placed on tho same footing as the scholarships—these to be open to persons of all religious denominations . Mr . J . Q'Connell . drew attention to tho outbreak of cholera on board tho omigrant ship Dirigo , and urged the passing of a bill to stop emigration from any port where cholera prevailed .

      Mr . F . Pkbl said , in tho particular case alluded to the disease had been corrected j and as to a general measure , it was too late now to introduce any measure , and emigrants must talc © their chance till next session , when tho Government could prepare a bill . Tho Oxford University Bill was brought down from the Lords , nnd the amendments ordered to be considered next Thursday . Sir 0 . Wood , pressed by Mr . Otway , declined to recommend any recognition of tho rank of officers in tho Indian army beyond that which they now enjoyed ; such as it is .

      Mr . 8 ii > nbv HnanEnT answered interpellations on tho subject of army clothing by stilting that now patterns of uniforms wore decided onj but they could not bo issued till next year ; and ho positively asserted on authority that the English soldiers had leas

      to carry on their backs than the French troops . The hospital waggons ( ambulance ) had been sent off some time , and were by this at Varna . BRIBERY BILL .. The House then went into committee on the Bribery Bill , and resumed its discussion at the 17 th clause , which , all through the debate , was characterised as the main feature of the bill . It provides for the appointment of an officer to be called " Auditor of Election Expenses , " through whose hands all the money spent at elections waa to pass , and who is to audit the accounts and publish them in the newspapers . Considerable discussion followed on the minor question of the mode of appointment , and the sort of officers that would be appointed ; but there was an almost universal concurrence on both sides of the House with regard to the principle of creating such an officer—who would secure publicity with regard to all money spent ai elections . Finally Mr . Bentinck . moved the omission of the clause , but only on the ground that while going the right way to work in the appointment of the election officer , it failed ia denning his duties . On a division , the clause was carried—the numbers being for the clause , 133 ; against it , 74 ; majority 59 . The clauses which were next proceeded with , were of less importance , and dealt principally with detail . On clause 21 , which provides that no payments be made except through the election officer , except personal and advertising expenses , Xord Robert 'iRpsvENOR moved its rejection , and a division took placer—and the clause was carried by a majority of 148 to 67-The Chairman then reported progress . . . The other business disposed of was formal .

      To Cokhespondents. It Is Impossible To A...

      TO COKHESPONDENTS . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of tho communication . No notice can bo taken of anonymous communications Whatover ia intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of tho writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications . All letters for the Editor should bo addressed to 7 , Welling ton-street , Strand , London . Communications should always bo legibly written , and . on one side of tho papor only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them .

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      Satuedat, July 15, 1854.

      SATUEDAT , JULY 15 , 1854 .

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      There Ia Nothing Bo Revolutionary, Becau...

      There ia nothing bo revolutionary , because there 13 nothing so unnatural nnd con-vulaive , t \ o tho strain to koep things fixed -when all tho-world is by the very law of itB creation , in etornnl progreea . —Dr . Amnoud

      What Is The Duty Of The Liberal Party? T...

      WHAT IS THE DUTY OF THE LIBERAL PARTY ? Titm House-of Commons is drifting rapidly into the recess—which ia a period when freedom , in our climate , is not m season—in apparently utter iudifteronco ob to what , during tho rocoas , tho Government may do with tho war . Mr . Layard has incessantly indicated , since hia entrance into Parliament , that ho ia not a competent leader on tho Eastern question ; aud yet , ao far aa House of Commons

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 15, 1854, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15071854/page/10/