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    2250 £ , aadit seams provable that there wfflT ) a one more penalty to the fall amount . " The same writer speaks of the rapid and enormous spread of Melbourne , and o the increasing tendency to build handsome , arcmtectoral houses . He thinks , however , there are some indications of over-speculation in building . . The Assembly at Melbourne has resolved to abolish the public grant for the support of religion . Wetton ' s offer for the establishment of a line of steamers between Sydney and Panama has been accepted by the Government of New South Wales . Edinburgh Castle . —Considerable changes are contemplated in the interior of this venerable building . further portion of this

    Old Rochester Bridge . —A bridge was destroyed last Saturday by a troop of the Royal Engineers . The explosions were of terrific force , and hurled large masses of stone about , to the great terror of the many spectators , who uttered a cry of alarm as they saw a mass , supposed to weigh one and a half hundredweight , descend close to where they stood . It fell , however , just within the yard of the City Arms public-house , where it was embedded nearly two feet in the ground . Here it will remain as a memento of the occasion . Fortunately no one was hurt . A further attempt at explosion in the afternoon did not succeed , the arch remaining firm . This portion , however , yielded on a subsequent day . ale leton Court

    A Bishop ' s Residence foe S . —Stap , the residence of the late Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol , is , with its contents , to fall under the auctioneer ' s hammer early in October . The Bishop of London , also , has intimated his intention of not residing at Fulham Palace , which will therefore be sold with the grounds about it . These latter vrill probably be built on , and some noble trees will thus be sacrificed to the speculators in bricks and mortar . British Archaeological Association . —The fourteenth annual congress of this society was held at Norwich on Monday afternoon , under the presidency of the Earl of Albemarle , and was well attended . Convocation . —The Convocation of the Prelates and Clergy of the province of Canterbury was prorogued on Tuesday , in the Jerusalem Chambers , Westminster , by the Vicar-General , Dr . Twiss , under a commission from the Archbishop of Canterbury , to Friday , October 9 . Turn Archbishop oh Canterbury and the Indian

    Revolt . —r-The Archbishop- of Canterbury has addressed the following letter to each of the archdeacons of his diocese : — " Addington Park , August , 1857 . My dear Mr . Archdeacon , —At the present period of sorrow and peril to our fellow-countrymen in India , there can scarcely be a parish in which much anxiety does not prevail amongst many of the inhabitants . I therefore write to request that you will acquaint the clergy of the diocese that they have the authority of the Ordinary to invite the parishioners to special services at which the Litany may be used alone , and that they may be exhorted to such private prayer and humiliation as the occasion demands . —I am , my dear Mr . Archdeacon , yours faithfully , —J . B . Cantuar . "

    The British Association held its first , meeting for the season , last Saturday , at Dublin . The first general meeting took place in tho Round Room of the Rotundo on Wednesday . The new president , the Rev . Humphrey Lloyd , S . F . T . C . D ., was inaugurated , and the Lord Lieutenant delivered an address . After some routine business , the Association adjourned . Literary Discoveries . —The Duke of Manchester has just discovered the whole of the letters addressed by Horace Walpolo to his intimate friend and Eton schoolfellow , George Montagu . They will bo published . —

    Mrs . Everett Greene lias found in tbe State Paper Office a letter in the handwriting of Bon Jonson , addressed to Sir Robert Cecil . This letter shows tho disagreeable fact that « glorious Ben' was employed by the Government ns a spy in detecting some of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators . —A copy of an old folio edition of Shakspearo ' s plays ( 1 G 32 ) was sold , together with several other rare books , last Saturday , at Messrs . Southeby and Wilkinson ' s . On tho margin are a great many emendations of tho text in an old handwriting . This copy fetched 10 ? .

    Health ojc London . —^ The deaths registered Lorn don , which in tho last week of July roso to 1288 , and in the first and second weeks of August were respectively 1224 and 1187 , exhibit a very decided decrease in tho week that ended last Saturday , tho number being 1091 . The . heavy thunderstorms and rains of the preceding week have doubtless been powerful agents iu producing this result . It can also be shown that the deaths of last week were rather less than the number which tho average rate of mortality in corresponding weeks of ten years ( 1847-50 ) would have produced , if , for better comparison , the deaths from cholera in two epidemic years are

    excluded from tho calculation . Since tho last week of July , there has been a constant decrease in the deaths from diarrhoou . In the week referred to they wore 802 ; thereafter they were successively 258 , 244 , and ( in the present return ) , 215 , In tho same periods , tho numbers returned as caused by cholera ( in moat inatancca oho-Jera infantum' and * choleraic diarrhoea ') woro 24 , 80 , 21 , Mid 12 . Scarlatina exhibits an Increase . —Last week ,, tho births of 800 boys and 882 girto , In all 1002 children , woro registered la London . In the ton corresponding weeks of tho yoare 1847-56 , tho average number w /\ e was 1400 . —Prom , tha Jieaiitrar-GeitfraV * fVeekfy Jleturn .

    ^& 6 ^ s ^ G ^ kT WT ^ ~ Emi Ts ^ aamrs . — A plan is being matured , says tne Times , " for the formation of a short line from , Battetsea , running through Brixton , Clapham , Dulwicb , Camberwell , and the suburban districts on the Surrey side of the water and communicating with ^ S the lines of railway going south . Prom Battersea it crosses the river on an iron bridge , to be built for the purpose , and at once enters the bed of the present Grovesnor Canal , along the course of which it continues to the central terminus to be erected on the site of the Grosvenor basin—an immense area at the end of Victoria-street , Westminster , within a stone ' s throw of Buckingham Palace and Grosvenor-place , a quarter of a mile of the Houses of Parliament , and less than a

    thousand yards from Charing-cross . " The Marquis of Westminster , who made the canal , has given to the company a lease of the property for 999 years , stipulating for nothing more than the present rental of the canal . " addition to this large space the promoters have already secured no less than forty . acres of ground round the basin , so as to admit , if necessary , of the terminus being extended to more than twice its at present proposed size . There will be more than sufficient space in all for every line south of the Thames . For the accommodation of these , there will be sixteen departure and six arrival platforms . Only a small number of the latter is requisite , for an arriving train is empty in a few minutes , while those starting have generally to occupy the platform nearly half an hour . "

    Mosquito . —A correspondent of the Daily Jvews eomplains of the lawless state of our settlements at Mosquito , and of the apathy of the authorities there . Suicide from Disappointed Love . —Edwin Wilkinson , a youth of sixteen , has hung himself on a tree in the estate of Mr . Edward Gurney , near Reigate . He was much attached to a nurserymaid in Mr . Gurney ' s family , but his friends discouraged the intimacy because of Wilkinson ' s youth . This filled him with despair , and he put an end to his life . The alleged Commercial Failure and Suicide at Liverpool . —The Liverpool Albion denies the truth of the story circulated last week of a Liverpool merchant having committed suicide , and left behind him liabilities to the extent of 300 , 000 t , of which one-third were forged acceptances .

    Holyrood Palace . —Improvements are being carried out at this palace , chiefly with a view to secure privacy in the gardens whenever the Queen shall please to take up her residence there . She has hitherto neglected the place on account of her being stared at from the road whenever slie has been walking in the grounds . The Death of Lady Babklt . —The Melbourne correspondent of the Daily N & ws states that the death of Lady Barkly , wife of the Governor , was caused by her being upset from her pony phaeton by an omnibus , the harness of which was in a disgraceful condition , and the reins broken . A collision ensued , and lady Barkly was taken up almost fainting . In a week or ten days afterwards , she was delivered of a son and died , the child following in about a fortnight . The driver of the omnibus was taken into custody ; but Lady Barkly would not let any one appear against him , saying , " It was an accident . "

    Fires . —The premises occupied by Mr . Granvillo , gun and pistol manufacturer , No . 44 , Holborn-hill , were burnt down on Tuesday night , and several of the adjoining houses were greatly damaged , the conflagration at one time being of the most alarming kind . —The premises of Mr . Spratt , builder and saw-mill proprietor , Langtonplace , Brixton , were burnt down on Wednesday afternoon . Tho whole of tho contents , including tho workmen s tools , fell a sacrifice . Tho proprietor of the works was insured .

    Romanism in Borneo . —Mr . Spencer St . John , the Consul-General at Brunei , has addressed a letter to tho Bishop of Labuan ( Borneo ) , who is temporarily away from his diocese in consequence of recent troubles , in which ho says : — " The Popo has appointed a bishop for Borneo , who arrived last week al Labuan with five followers—Italian and Spanish priests . They aro going to build a church and school-house , and to spread their mission nlong tho coast . They have two prahus ( pinnaces ) n ' t their disposal . Six Jesuits will bo enough to startle tho quiet community of Labuan . I am daily expecting tho arrival at Brunei of tho Roman Bishop of Borneo and hia suite . They say he is a vory pleasant fellow . "

    Vknioe . —Thoro is something in the air of Venice which disposes the mind to meditation . Tho tranquil beauty of tho scene , tho solitude , tho ; absence of thoao idlers in pursuit of pleasure who swarm in every largo city , tho quiet , modest demeanour of the women , who occasionally cross your path in tho narrow and ill-frequented lanes , and , above all , the frequent vieita which a traveller must inevitably make to those splendid churches , and which , indeed , form his principal occupation , —all tend to soften the mind , and abstract It from worldly feelings . The eplendour with which Religion ia hero surrounded , tho noble and costly pictures in which her history is commemorated , create a combination of feelings , in which tho love of tho Arts Is blendod with respect for the Divinity , and though , perhaps , commencing by nn appeal to tho eeneoB , cannot fail to produce n bpwftflclftl effect on the worldly mind , and gradually load it to the contemplation of bettor thlnge . Vo aro all by nature worldly } aoino , more or lesa

    hardened by habit in worldly pursuits , perhaps , i ? ecpm . e inaccessible to the ordinary modes of conversion .: if , then ,, such minds can be touched by impressions more suited to their state of feeling ; if , instead of being led by admonition , they can be awed or persuaded into another and better path , why , if the result be the same , may not the One sort of influence be as admissible as anothef" ? I ain no advocate for the Catholic religion—none mo > r 6 " attached to the simplicity of our creed- —but the entrance into the Church of St . Marc , and the contemplation of that gorgeous pile , has constantly filled me with sensations of veneration , which the whitewashed walls of a parish church in England could never produce . I have seen its effect on those whose hearts never softened with such ideas before , and , whether lasting or not , they still must leave a trace behind , which may turn to good .

    Another circumstance , also , has never failed to strike me with peculiar force , as coming immediately home to my own feelings on the subject . These churches , splendid as they are , remain open at all hours ; here , when a real impulse guides the penitent sinner or the afflicted mourner , he may come and seek that consolation which the world cannot give ; here he may sit alone and commune with himself , or prostrate himself before that Being who has said , " Come unto me , all ye that are heavy laden , and I will give you rest . " Contrast this with tho stated hours , the well-dressed crowds , the vacant faces , and the long formal routine of an English church , where some few , perhaps , can keep up their attention , and are really intent on the duties of the day , but where many are only fulfilling a form before the world , in which their heart is little interested . — Journal of T . Raikes , Esq . -

    The Carrion Crow . —Compared with the gorctvnr , the raven is magnanimous ; The former respects nothing except his mate and his young ones . The Scotch and other shepherds well know that when the gravid ewe seeks some quiet spot where human eyes may not see her , and where , as she thinks , she may bring forth her young in secret , the villanous crows hasten to the quiet nook , and , if they are undisturbed , woe to the parturient mother and her tender offspring . j ; On such occasions two or three pairs have been known to combine , and watching for the time when the poor ewe is exhausted by her pains , fly upon her , with diabolical cries , pick out her eyes , tear off pieces of her protruded tongue , and , attacking the umbilical cord , exenterate the new-born lamb .

    Instances are not wanting of the destruction of both mother and offspring by these base black bands . It is most daring in its attacks on birds and beasts in full health . Montagu saw one in pursuit of a pigeon , at which it made several pounces like a hawk , but the pigeon escaped by flying in at the door of a house . He also saw a carrion crow strike a pigeon dead from the top of a barn ; and he truly says that it is a great destroyer of young game and poultry . Young hares and rabbits seem particular objects of its persecution ; and Mr . Hogg saw one pursuing a maorfowl which had been seized by-what he calls ' a glede '—the common buzzard , probably;—but the moorfowl escaped from both enemies . By the way , when the grouse was seized by ' the glede ,

    it screamed like a domestic hen when she is suddenly laid hold of ; but , as it passed Mr . Hogg , after escaping from ' the glede' but pursued by the crow , it uttered cry of uk , uh , now and then . The modes of execution are multitudinous . A crow has been seen to pounce upon a young duck in a pond and carry it off in hia bill . In this case the assassin did not drop the duck in order to kill it , but laid it on the ground , and then walked backward and forward and trod upon it till it was dead . The crow then carried it off to his nest . We eaw one spear a young duck on dry land with his beak and fly off with it ; but , alarmed by our shout , he dropped his prey , which was dead , and with nn unmistakable hole

    in its sida about tho region of tho heart . Another opserver saw a crow pounce upon on old sparrow which was enticing its young ones out , hold it between its claws , tear it to pieces like a true bird of prey , and devour it . Of eggB tho crow is ft great consumer , and these it has generally been thought to carry off by thrusting its bill into them 5 but Mr . Weir relates that as he was one day sitting at tho side of an old wall , reading a book , a carrion crow flew over hia head with an egg in its bill . He halloed , and down dropped the egg into the middle of tho field . On going to tako it up , Mr . Weir found , to his astonishment , that the egg—a common wild duck ' s—was whole . —F raser ' e Magazine .

    The Nicw Commajsdkr at Dklhi . — Major-General Thomas Reed , C . B ., who w « s appointed to the command of tho troops before Delhi on tho death of General Barnard , is an officer of experience , and has Been much oervico . He entered tlie avmy in 1818 , and was present at the Battle of Waterloo . Since ho has commanded a a division of the Bengal army ho haw piircipitated in several important engagements . In 1840 Miijor-Goiieral Reed commanded a brigade of the nrmy of tlie SiUtoj , and was wounded and had a homo killed undor him at the battle of Ferozcshah . A medal was conforred upon him for his bravery this occasion . -JXW *«?»•

    upon '" D ^ TH O ; M «/ uwin « , R . A . ~ M r ,, TJoma * Uwlne a Royal Academician , and Surveyor of WoturM to tho Quee n , dic ( J nt Stainen , on Wednesday , in tho sevonty-^ ssi JSi'Kar . T - "rrvs : «•? 55 S ? t « ° " raKFcA & 'Si '

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    (^ s ( is ^ No . 888 , AgsgST 23 , 1857 . 1 fP ^^^^^^ m

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 29, 1857, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29081857/page/11/