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      The New Chief Editor Of 'La Presse.' We ...

      We- noticed -with pleasure that the very first Bulletin o the new editorship contained a few words full of good sense and good feeling , in reply to the senseless clainoursof the Univers and the Gazette < te France on the just severities exercised by our troops at Delhi . If we ^ rare disposed to retaliate upon French sympathizers with Sepoy miscreants , -we might recal Voltaire ' 8 definition of his countrymen by way of explanation and excuse for the sympathy . But we leave the correction of this ' indignation in cold blood' to the good faith and generous impartiality of men like M . Peyrafc .

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      Miscellaneous. The Oottrt.—The Court Goe...

      MISCELLANEOUS . The Oottrt . —The Court goes into mourning for the Duche-sse de Nemours from Thursday to the 3 rd of December .- —Prince Frederick William of Prussia arrived at " Windsor Castle from the Continent , on Tuesday . — . The Siamese ambassadors were received at Windsor on Thursday . They presented several rich and costly objects of Siamese art , and a long- address . At the termination of the audience they partook of luncheon in the Waterloo Gallery . HK-ALrir of London .- —In the week that ended last Saturday , the total number of deaths registered in London -was 1161 , ¦ which approximates verv closet v to

      the number in the previous week . In the ten years 1847-56 , the average number of deaths in the -weeks corresponding- with last week was 1068 5 and in the present population , which has received an increase , the same rate of mortality would produce 1175 deaths . The difference therefore between the actual number of deaths and the number as estimated is inconsiderable . But the returns show that there has been a decided increase of deaths in the last two weeks ; for the weekly number in October was only about a thousand . Last week , the births of 907 boys and 830 girls , in alT 1737 children / ¦ were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1847-56 , the average number was lrido . — -Fromthe Repister-GenerciVs Weekly JReturn .

      Consecration or the City CiouiTEKY . ^ -TheBishop of London , pa Monday morning , consecrated the new City of London Cemetery , situate at Little Ilford , a few miles eastward of Stratford-le-Bow , in the presence of the Lord Mayor and a large number of civic officials . The musical services -were performed by the gentlemen of the choir of St . Paul ' s Cathedral . Quarantine at Madeira . —The passengers "by the Royal Mail Steam Company ' s ship Tyne , from Southampton to Madeira , have forwarded to the English papers the following statement , dated Lazaretto , Madeira ,

      October 23 : —• " In consequence of the prevalence of yellow fever at Lisbon , that port was declared infected on the 8 th inst ., and the passengers by all vessels touching there on their way to Madeira are placed in quarantine for fifteen days on landing at Funchal . The Board of Health of this place assuming , as we firmly believe , illegal powers , has condemned us to seven days more than the utmost period sanctioned by the quarantine laws—namely , eight days . "We are also subjected to restrictions quite unnecessary for the preservation of the quarantine , and dictated by a spirit of despotic power . "

      The Crystal Palace . —The winter concerts at the Sydeuham palace have commenced . FUN'ERAt OP TlfE DUCUESSU DE NE 3 IOUKS . — The funeral of this princess took place last Saturday morning , at Weybridge . The remains were deposited in the vault which contains those of Louis Philippe . Prince Albert attended the funeral . Refokmed Bread . — Mr . Stevens , the Reforming Baker , of Cambridge-road , Hackney , has sent us the folio-wing letter , which we think well deserves attention : — " On reading Dr . Letheby ' s Annual Report and Statistics upon Disease and Death , I find from his investigations that all classes have their peculiar diseases , phthisis being

      the malady of bakers , and the Times observes— ' I 3 ut surely the fact that particular complaints can be so easily apportioned among particular trades , justifies the hope that , with ordinary care , their prevalence can be very much diminished . ' After reading Dr . Letheby ' s report , I calculated ho-w many journeymen bakera bavo died who bad' worked for me within the last ten years . The result was to me saddening . My men have generally lived with mo some years , but I can count fifteen young men ,, none forty years of age , who have fallen -victims to this 'bakers' malady , in ono form or other of the disease . Now , sir , I know that if bakers would do away with the present unhealthy , dirty , and barbarous manner of kneading bread , our trade for ono would soon show a

      more encouraging account in the future reports of the City ' s cbief medical oflicor . Sincerely thanking you for the encouragement you have given mo in favourably reviewing my endeavours to promote the sale of pure tread in the metropolis , I am , & c . "—Mi . StovenB has been good enough to furnish us with a practical test of hit ) own u nadulterated * panification , ' in tho shape of along loaf , in the French fashion , pure household bread , which "WO can very cordially and sincerely certify to bo of the purest , soundest , and most nutritious quality . Who -will deny that pure water and wholesome bread are tho moat univeraal desiderata for all cIuhhch of society , and well ' worthy thocaroful consideration of sanitary reformers and social economists ? Mr . Stevens , wo believe , hns for more than ten years , distinguished liimsclf in his very

      perilous and often ungrateful business , as an advanced reformer of our . daily bread , and ho dosorves the thanks of the community for his etrorts in their behalf . Wheu we say ' perilous * trade , w speak not only of the . peculiar perils which j as Dr . Letheby ' s . report haslately proved , attach to the making of bread , and - which in effect shorten the lives of working bakers , but we allude also to the commercial risks of a business which has been too often conspicuous in the Gazette . In no department of trade are the evils of a prevailing rage for cheapness , and of a consequent anarchical competition , more widely disastrous than in tho bread manufacture ; and to these evils the public , ever willing to be deluded , are quite as culpable as tho tradesmen

      who adopt th « JPopidtte vuttthcipi , tiocipiatur motto . The public will have bread impossibly cheap and impossibly white , and it suffers for its unreasonableness in diseases for whioh ifc cannot find an easy explanation , but of ¦ which those who are acquainted with tho mysteries of bakehouses know the causes only too Well . It is surprising that , In an article of such inevitable and indispensable importance as the bread we eat , the most clumsy and filthy processes should he still prevalont , and that the employment of a machine by which these processes are got rid of should be still a rare exception . We cannot at present pursue this subject , but wo shall return to it , and meanwhile we heartily wish bread-reformers like Mr . Stevens all the encouragement and success -which , as true sanitary reformers , they deserve .

      The Biixxngsgate Salesmen . —Several of the -wholesale and retail fish salesmen of Billingsgate Market assembled on Tuesday , at the Coal Exchange Tavern , St . Mary-at-Hill , to take steps for resisting what they contend to be an illegal charge which the Corporation of London ^ since the op ening of the new market , have called upon them to pay for their standings , in the shape of a weekly rent , in addition to the authorized tolls on the fish sold . Resolutions intimating the determination of the salesmen to resist the extra payment were unanimously passed . ' ., ; . ' . : • ' . ¦ . ¦ .-. ¦ ¦/ ¦ ' - .: - . - ; ' . ;• . ... ¦¦¦'¦ .- . ¦ .. ¦ .

      THEMBTBOPOUTAsr Drainage Question . —A special meeting ; of the Metropolitan Board of Works was held on Monday in the Court of Common Pleas , Guildhall , to consider and proceed upon the report of the Chairman of the Board respecting the interview between him and Sir Benjamin Hall on the main intercepting drainage of the metropolis . Mr . Thwaites presided , and Mr . Bristbw moved a resolution to the effect that the Board reiterated their conviction that to extend the point of outfal to Sea Reach ( ns proposed by Sir Benjamin Hall ' s referees ) , at the expense . of the rote-payers , would be unjust to the rate-payers and in contravention of the Local Management Act . After a long discussion ,

      this motion was carried . Mr . Bristbw then proposed that a conference should be held in the Council Chamber of the GuiUlhall between the Board nndtho . M'otrnpolitan Members of Parliament upon the present position of the metropolitan drainage question , and that the clerk should write to the several metropolitan members , requesting their presence at such conference . Mr . Wilkinson moved ' the previous question , ' which was carried by a majority of seventeen to thirteen . A resolution was then passed that the further consideration of the report of the chairman should be taken next Monday , in order that the members of the board may have an opportunity of considering the new report received from Sir Benjamin Hall's referees .

      The Income-Tax Commissioners for Iinsbttky . — We have received the following from a parishioner of Finsbury , whom we leave to tell his own tale : — " I am encumbered with expensive house and premises , where we ( sel f and partners ) conduct a largo concern , in which we have for the last three years sustained a loss , owing to tho dearness of provisions and other causes , of above 500 / . ayear . Under such stateof my affairs , I emphatically ask , are the Commissioners justified in assessing me for Income-tax ( Sched . B ) ? As Englishmen have the invaluable blessing of a free press by which to raiwe their voice against oppression , I invoke your powerful aid , for myself and equally oppressed fellow tax-payers , to ascertain how such oppression , nay robbery , enn bo

      resisted—by what right these Commissioners . shall dare to assess by caprice , setting equity and law at defiance . When I appealed before theso worthies at Finsburysquare , where I had been summoned to produce my balance-sheet , I was treated with a specimen of these gentlemen ' s scurrility , and discovered their inaptitude for business . After putting to mo irrelevant questions , not ono of which alluded in any way to my balancesheet which was the subject of my appeal , tlie verdict ' You must pay it' wau uttered by the gruff chairman , and I had to leave tho room , worses than 11 criminal , because condemned against the rights which a prisoner

      claims at the bar of justice . The tax-gatherer has therefore now called for 201 . to bo paid agreeably to tho base fiat of tlio ' Finsbury Commissioners . ' What is robbery , if this deserves not tho name ? Aro men liko these to go on , uucxposeil , committing acts of wrong that the Knglish ear is hurt to hear ? Is it not a fundamental principle in tho British Constitution tliat the peoplo aro to bo taxed only by themselves , nnd that through their representatives V Hut I whh told by tho Solicitor of the Inland [ Revenue , nt Somerset Hoii . mc , to whom 1 applied for advice in this unpleasant matter , that those Commissioners nro nmennblo to no law ! The question , then , which every EngliHhmnn must naturally ask is—What

      have ! to do in the- election or rejection- of- these 1 W Commissioners ? This query concerns not alone the-Electors of Finsbury to put to their borough members tosol ve * but is of vital importance to every elector in the kingdom to see that this loathsome yoke is unriveted from the free English heck . I send you my name and address , together with the balance-sheet above alluded to , for last year , which shows a / , loss of more than 500 £ ; andl shall be willing to come forward publiclyif required , to organize means for resisting tyranny irt taxation . Yours obediently , A Bmito . v . —p " s . I hope that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will acknowledge the receipt of my 20 ? . as the proceeds of a robbery which the '; patriotic Finsbury Commissioners have made on me for the use of the public purse . —November 17 th . 18 o 7 .

      Death of tub English Consuk-Geskuai ; at Venice . —Mr . Harris expired , in the forty-iirst -year of his age , at Venice , on the 13 th inst . lie was grandson to Lord Malmesbury , the celebrated diplomatist , and private secretary to the present . Earl during h is tenure of the Foreign-office in 1852 . The Polytechnic . —Mr . Pepper has produced at this institution a kind of entertainment , entitled 'A Scuttle of Coals from tho Pit to the Fireside . ' He traces , with

      the aid of numerous dissolving views , the progress-. the coal from- the primeval forests out of which it has beta produced , through the various stages of its pit existence . down ( or rather up ) to the pleasant fireside banquets giS'en by the Marchioness of Londonderry to her colliers . A picturesque account of the mode of working the collieries , together with disquisitions on lire-damp , the safety-lamp of Davy , « Sfec , are included in this instructive and agreeable lecture , which has met with thu success it deserves .

      Sm Robert Peel at TAMWoimr . —A speech was made on Tuesday , by Sir Robert ' Peel ; at a dinner given at the Town Hall to the ex-Mayor . It was very d is - cursive , and , hi the course of it , Sir llobert blamed * Lord Palmeraton for having , at the Mansion House , so highly eulogised Lord- Canning , while he omitted all praise -of Havelock , Neill , and ^ Nicholson . Lord D ; dhousu > was regarded by the speaker as one of tin . ' greatest Governors-General we had ever , had in India . Lord Palmerston had shown great energy in sending out troops ; but the men should have been despatched from the first across Egypt . The outbreak in India was attributable to the mismanagement of the East India Company , nnd that body must be reformed . As to the political Hcform Bill , he supposed it would by shelved for the present , though a great many people desire it . Sir Robert concluded with an eloquent tribute to" . the . merits ' of Lord Pabnerston .

      Mit . Massey , M . P ., at Salyokd .- —Mr . Massey addressed a meeting at tSalford a few days ' . ago , chiefly i : i reference to India . He advocated a most , summary ami tor ' rihlv chuMtiairmciit of the mutineers , and hoped thai : they would be ' held up as an example to future ages , and as a dreadful specimen of tho vengeance a Christian nation can inflict . ' To . tolerate the worshippers or ' misarable bloodstained idols' would be a mere abuse of toleration . After Mr . Massey had gonu on for some time , a voice called out , " We have seen all that in tho newspapers ; " aiul ' tlio orator was requested to give ? omi i

      information with respect to Lord Palmerston s promised Reform 14111 , seeing that he is connected with tho Government , and might therefore be supposed to know : He replied , however , that he knew nothing ; ho was not one of the Cabinet , and was as ignorant as thoy . He had no doubt , however , that Lord Pulmerston wmild bring in a bill when he had made up his mind , seeing tliat lie is a . man of his word . Tho meeting , not being satisfied with this , passed a resolution ailinning that they would have no Reform 15111 which does not include the ballot .

      Tins Hoi * Duty . —The following is the answer of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the memorial of the hop plan : era presented to him by M ' r . 11 . Dodson , M . P ., yesterday week : — Downing-struct , Nov . 14 . —My dear Sir , —I have taken into consideration the memorial from tho hop-planters of the county of Subbox , which was lol'fc in my hands yesterday , suggesting that upon prompt payment of one-half oi the accruing November instalment of hop duty now duo , tho payment of tho romaining moiety may be postponed until May next ; and 1 rc ^ vd

      to Hay tliat I cannot comply with this request . At the same time , 1 Itavo no objection , under the peculiar circumHtnnccs of tho ease , to nccopt from the nioinoriali ^ b a inoioty only of the duty now due , and to gran I them until the 115 th of February next for payment of tho remainder , on the express understanding , however , that tho duty on tho first moiety of thia year ' s growth , due on tho 10 th of May next , shall bo paid at that period . Instructions to this effect have been issued to the Jtonrd of Inland Kovonuo . —I am , dear sir , purs faithfully .

      G . C . Lkwih . " Tiik Inotan Rkmkp Fund . —Tho English subjects resident at Alexandria have transmitted to the Central Committee the sum of 4291 . 10 s . Tho ( . omnulUv-Iiiin also-recently received from Knglish residents abroiid tin 1 - following Hums : ' —From Cairo , 15 ) 2 / . 1 h . JJd . ; from . St Petersburg , UV 2 I . 11 h . od . ; from Lisbon , 2 (>(»/ . ; ami from Corfu , 161 / . 12 s . od . City Commission ok Sewkhh . —A good deal of irritable discussion toolc plno . o nt a meeting of tho court , on Tuesday with reaped to tho alleged bad arrangements for the accommodation of tho City gentlemen who Jit-

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 21, 1857, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21111857/page/10/