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      civil marriage , put on some other sacerdotal garments , and , accompanied by two clergymen bearing wax tapers , read , standing in the middle of the church , the sentence of excommunication against M . Sonntag and his lady . He then extinguished the tapers , saying that the persons named were not -worthy to see the day of the Lord , and , throwing the candlesticks to the ground , breaking them to pieces , exclaimed , " Let the bells sound the funeral knell !" Immediately was heard the sound of bells and the chants for the dead . The dean , in conclusion , proclaimed that no one whomsoever was to hold relations with the excommunicated , to salute them , & c . This prohibition has not had much effect , fox- their house has been filled ever since with visitors , and at night they have been serenaded . —Letter from Coblentz ( Dec . 12 ) .

      Gunpowder Explosion and Loss op Life in South Staffordshire . —A frightful catastrophe occurred on Friday week , at Coseley , near Sedgley , in South Staffordshire , which has already killed four persons , and injured several others , some of whom are not expected to recover , in addition to destroying a considerable amount of property . It is customary in the mining districts of Staffordshire for the overseers of pits , either of iron , stone , or coal , and who are technically called " butties , " to keep in their possession large quantities of blasting gunpowder , which

      is not unfrequently kept in unsafe places , and used with a guilty want of caution . The present catastrophe is one of the results , it is feared , of this reprehensible practice . At the Coppice , on the road leading to the nearest station of the Stour Valley branch of the London and North-Western Railway , stood three small houses , inhabited by men employed in the neighbouring mines and others . On the morning of last Friday week , the occupant of the middle house , a man named David Millard , went with his son and two fellow-labourers to work at a collierv in

      Priorfields . Af ter they had worked about a couple of . hours , Millard sent a boy to his house to fetch some gunpowder from the cellar where a stock was kept . Soon after , Millard ordered his son to bring some horse-corn from one of the houses ; on arriving at which he met the first boy with the gunpowder he had been desired to fetch . Having to wait some time for the horse-corn , young Millard went out to his father ' s house to warm himself , and had not left the corn-shop many minutes when a tremendous explosion took place , which blew up both that and the two adjoining houses with all their inhabitants . Four persons were immediately killed by the explosion . These were David Millard ' s wife and three children , including the boy who had been sent for the com . Several others were more or less injured , some very seriously . The doleful news of his family was communicated as rapidly a 3 possible to Millard , who repaired at once to the spot where the accident octhe first t he the

      curred , and where objec saw among ruins of his dwelling was one of the lower limbs of his wife , quite crushed . The rest of her mutilated remains were afterwards dug out from the rubbish . Seeing the head of one of his little boys amongst the ruins , he was extricated , and is likely to recover . The other dead bodies were afterwards discovered and disinterred . The cause of the explosion ia not positively known , but it is quite certain that Millard kept gunpowder in the cellar of his house . He admits the fact , but adds that , iu the barrel , there was on Friday only a small quantity . From the position of the body of his son , and from , the circumstance of gunpowder having been found in his pockets , there is no doubt that , with the desire of possessing some powder—a desire incitod , probably , by seeing his companion with some—ho took a light into his father's cellar , and was obtaining the dangerous prize when a spark ignited the powder , and the explosion ensued .

      North West London Reformatory . — This institution , which has been almost wholly rebuilt , was opened on Wednesday by a public meeting , at which Sir Benjamin Hall , M . P ., and other gentlemen of note , were present . The chair was occupied by the Hon . W . F . Cowper , M . P . The now building is capable of accommodating one hundred inmates . TntE Metropolitan Board of Works . —This now board held its first sitting on Wednesday , on which occasion the salary of the chairman was fixed at £ 1 , 500 a year . . Medical Reform . —A deputation of medical men waited on Sir Qeorgo Grey , on Thursday , to roqucnt his support , and that of the Government , to the medical bill of Mr . Headlam . Sir George replied that ho would give the bill his individual support , after it should have received oortain modifications ; but that ho could not pledge the Government .

      Suffocation by Coke . —Two men have been suffocated at Middlosborough by slooping iu a room with burning coko . Firb and Loss oif Life . —A fire broko out on Thursday morning on the promiaoa of a gas-fitter in Mint-street , Southwark , by which a Mro . Robinson and her ohild have boon burnt to death . FlVM PlSRSONS ACCIDENTAL ! . V PoWONISD . FivO persona havo been poisoned ( two of whom huvo died )

      at Uillesdown , Leicestershire , by partaking of a pudding in which arsenic had been mixed in mistake for egg-powder . The two who died were an old woman and a child . Dr . Haslewood has written to the Times to defend the course he took in connection with the death of Mrs . Wooler , in concealing his suspicion of poison . He Argues that , had he made known his conjectuz-es to the poor lady , it could not have saved her life , as she was doomed , while it would have subjected her to an unnecessary horror , and have precipitated her death .

      *~ Ascent of Mount Ida , in Crete . —The ascent of the highest peak of Mount Ida , in Crete , was accomplished on the 3 rd of last month—probably for the first time by any of our countrymen—by two English officers and myself , the rest of our large party having proceeded only so far as the grotto ( about 5 , 000 feet above the level of the sea ) , in which , according to the old legend , the infant Jupiter was concealed . At six o ' clock a . m ., on the morning of the 3 rd , we commenced the ascent of the mountain , and in two hours and a half reached " Jupiter ' s" Grotto . So far the path is passable for mules , and winds up under precipitous cliffs and through a magnificent forest of evergreen oaks . Half an hour above the grotto we reached the base of the central cone of the mountain , which reminded me of that of Parnassus : and here

      we left our mules . The toilsome and abrupt ascent of this cone took us two hours on foot before we reached the summit of the highest of the three peaks in which it terminates , and which , as nearly as it can be ascertained , is 7 , 674 feet above the sea . This point commands one of the most extensive , most beautiful , and most interesting panoramic views in the world . The whole of Crete was spread out like a map below our feet ; the outlines of the White Mountains to the west , and those of the Dietroan Mountains to the east , with the coast line of the - < E gean to the north , and of the African Sea to the east , are perfect in variety and beauty . In clear weather many of the "isles which crown the JEgean deep" are visible , as also Grandos ( the Clauda of the " Acts of the Apostles " ) , in the African Sea . — Letter in the Times .

      The Placard Bible .- —We learn from the Brzttsh Banner that a proposal has been set on foot for posting placards all over the City containing passages from the Bible , printed in the largest characters , so as to arrest attention . Each placard tojeontain only one verse , and sometimes only one sentence ; and to be renewed as frequently as the funds obtained will permit . The Sound Dues . —The United States and Denjl 4 . uk . —Mr . Marcy , the Foreign Minister of the United States , has addressed to the Danish government a despatch relative to the proposed convention at Copenhagen to settle the Sound dues question . The President declines to send a representative to the conference ; and Mr . Marcy says : — " The convention is to assume as a basis of its proceedings the very right on the part of Denmark which the Uuited States deny . It is assembled without any power to pass an opinion upon the right of Denmark to levy a contribution upon commerce , but only authorised to adjust the sum to be paid by each nation in lieu of the collections theretofore assessed upon their respective vessels and cargoes . The United States , however , contest their liability to pay any contribution whatever . The main question at issue between this government and that of Denmark , is not how much burden shall be borne by our commerce to the Baltic , but whether it shall be subjected to any burden at all . " The Bishojl' ov Manchester on Church-rates . . . The Bishop of Manchester , who ia at present engaged in the triennial visitation of bis diocese , makes tho following remarks on church-rates iu hifl charge to the clergy : — " Tho returun culled for iu

      August , 1854 , at tho request of tho committee or Convocation of the province of Canterbury , nhowed that , in the majority of iuutancon , the recovery of church-rates in this diocese in almost , if not quite , hopeless ; and that tho number of parishes refusing was , if anything , on tho increase . An a principle expressly recognised eight hundrod years ago in tho laws of Canuto , and acknowledged uninterruptedly sinco by both ecclesiastical and civil courts , the obligation to contribute to tho repair and nuHtontatiou of churches cannot bo denied . It may bo doubtful , however , how far now , iu tho altered position of those not connected with the establishment , it may not bo wine to limit tho demand on tho public to tho maintenance of tho fabric of our ancient odifieoH , leaving tho cost of tho norvico to tho private contributions and tho pioty of those who benefit by itn performance . "

      Another Cabe of Suspected Poibonino . —An mquont was hold at tho Three Tuhh Inn , Catuorine-Htroofc , Dovonport , before A . B . Bono , Una ., coroner , touching tiro death of Louisa Mitchell , alias Lou ' ihu Hallott , living an tho wife of Mr . John Hallotfc , drugging of JamoH-Htroofc , but commonly known nx Dr . Hallott . It appeared that tho decouuod had lived with Dr . llalk'lt urnvurdH of * gvun yearn an liia wi /' o ,

      and , from the evidence of several witnesses , they had lived in a state of discomfort , and had quarrelled frequently . The deceased had been ill several months . At the inquest , a great deal' of irrelevant evidence was given . The medical witness stated that deceased died from congestion of the lungs , not arising from natural causes . The jury here pressed the witness to give an opinion whether poison had been administered ; and he replied that it was his opinion , that something of a doleterious nature had been administered , but he was unable to say what . The inquest was adjourned to Monday , the 31 st inst , to give time to have tho contents of the stomach analysed .

      Erratum . —In our last week ' s paper , news article " The Monomania of Jealousy , " middle column , for —Handcock was " induced " to leave the room , read , was " requested . "

      December 22, 1855.] The Leadee 1221

      December 22 , 1855 . ] THE LEADEE 1221

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      Leader Office, Saturday, December 22. Wa...

      Leader Office , Saturday , December 22 . WAR MOVEMENTS . The Journal dc Constantinople says , that after tho passage of the Unfour or Ingour , Omar Pacha moved rapidly forward , crossing several tributaries of the Rion , without meeting serious resistance . On the banks of the Chopi stands a fortified village of tho same name , having " a very considerable dep 6 t of ammunition and provisions , and eight battalions to defend the position . " According to the Journal , Omar Pacha attacked at once , and the Russians resisted but feebly , and quickly gave way , retiring without either carrying away or destroying his stores . Of what these consisted , beyond 12 , 000 sheepskins , the Journal says nothing , but adds that Omar Pacha continued his march ; that the last news from Batoum ( via Trebizond ) stated him to be on the banks of the Rion , opposite Kutais ; and that he would soon be in pos " session of that town , which was defended by 8 , 000 or 10 , 000 Russians . The Invalide Jtusse publishes tho following : " Aide-de-Camp General Prince Gortschakoff has forwarded the following , under date * bf the 28 th of November ^ lOthDecember ) : —' Everything goes on satisfactorily in the Crimea . On the 26 th of November ( 8 th of December ) , Colonel Oklobjio , with a small portion of the detachment of the Upper Belbek , crossed the mountain pass which gives access to the valley of Baidar , attacked the advanced post of tho n emy at Ourkousta , and at Baga , and , having dislodged them from those villages , throw them bock upon the Tchernaya . Twenty prisoners remained in our hands . ' "

      Diplomatic Movemknts. The Swedish Ambass...

      DIPLOMATIC MOVEMKNTS . The Swedish Ambassador at Vienna has formally uunounced to the Austrian Minister for Foreign Affiiira , that hitt Cabinot adheres to the views of tho Wostern Powers in regard to tho four poiutn of guarantee . It is aaid that Count Stackelborg brought propomla of peace to Vienna from St . Petersburg , Homowhat diiferent from Uioho agreed on by Austria and tho allied . The Hubjoct of tho PriucipaliticH in reported to bo finally adjourned , and Count Coronini i « consequently to resume the command there .

      Mr. Triixawney, Formorly Member For Tavi...

      Mr . TriiXawney , formorly member for Tavi » tock ha . s been invited by that borough to come forward ou tho Liberal interest iu tho event of it dissolution of Parliament . Death ov Three Childukn jvhom Starvation ;—Au iuiiuoHt wan hold in Hope Town , JW . 1 i / jm ] Uroou , on the bodies of thro © children , niugiitfi from two to woven years , who have recently < li < xl from utarvation .

      Their mother , who wiw a widow , wm loft in a Htato of destitution , and » ho received from tho jmriwh two quartern * and ii-hulf of broad , and 1 h . 3 d . iu money , pur week . HUo 1 » " » tlir 00 ot'Ilor cl'il ( lrftn l > o » idoH tliowo who havo diod . Tho latter had mi / Iorcd fvum hooping cough and iuilu . mmu . tion of tho JiiiigH ; nud it in but tow clear that < l < iuth wui Jiantenod by tho want of ooinmoii nooo » Hario « . Tl » o jury rotunn-d a verdict of " iMvtl hy tho Visitation of G « k 1 . "

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 22, 1855, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22121855/page/9/