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    The Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress have alread y expressed their intention to give , during the great Exhibition in the ensuing year , in addition to the usual cmc entertainments at the Mansion-house , several public evening receptions , to which will be invited , not only the remarkable men of our own country , but all foreigners of distinction -who may then be in London . . It is intended , by a new act to be applied for in tne ensuing session of Parliament , amongst other purposes , to take power , with consent of the Cathedral authorities , " to lay part of the ground area or space in the west front Of St . Paul ' s Cathedral into the public street . " The business connected with the Ordnance department of the public service , now transacted at the Tower , is to Pallmallwhere suitabl

    about to be transferred - , e accommodation is to be provided . The present Ordnanceoffice at the south of Pall-mall having been found too confined for the efficient despatch of business , the houses Nos . 83 and 84 , originally erected in the reign of Charles II ., where they abutted upon the private gardens and " chase , " have been pulled down , in order that additional offices may be built on the site . The new building , the front of which will be towards Pall-mall , is to be of white brick , with stone dressings and cornices , the character being plain Italian . The elevation and general appearance will be , as regards design , totally distinct from the present Ordnance-office , but the intention is to raise the wings of the old building , so as to render the whole of one uniform design . The additional accommodation which these alterations will afford will be about

    sixty rooms . The great pressure of business which has existed at the Stamp-office since the new Stamp Act came into operation , is likely , in the course of a week or ten days , to assume the regular routine . Last week between 200 , 000 and 300 , 000 stamps , deeds , transfers , leases , insurance , bonds , &c , under the new act , were sent to various parts of the United Kingdom and Scotland , which will about complete the remaining orders that had been sent from those localities . The number of stamps of various descriptions sent to Ireland has been very considerable , and far exceeds what was at first expected at Somersethouse . The quantity of parchment sent into the Stampoffice during the last six weeks or two months has been

    King of Denmark and hia subjects 1 Nothing ; unless all the powers of Europe are disposed to be policemen to the bear of Russia . ( Laughter . ) We could understand policeman Manteuflel and policeman Louis Buonaparte ; but for England to play such a part we cannot understand . ( ' Hear , and cheers . ) Mr . Cobden , in condemning the war system , said he had been sorry to find a writer in Chambers ' s Papers for the People recommending Great Britain to go to war with Japan in order to make her enter into commercial relations with this country . It was a great mistake to suppose that war would promote commerce . Look to

    China , our trade with which is less by £ 100 , 000 a-year than it was before the war . Mr . Bright congratulated the vast assembly before him on the rapid progress which peace principles were making in England . He gave a glowing description of the wretched state of Ireland , where a standing army of 40 , 000 men had been kept up so long to enable the landlords to obtain their rents , and where a costly Established Church had been unable to hinder the mass of the inhabitants from becoming Roman Catholics . In conclusion he alluded to the great gathering of foreigners In London next year as an event which would promote the cause of peace .

    " "We shall by that means break down the barriers that have separated the people of different nations and witness one universal republic ; the year 1851 will be a memorable one indeed : it will witness a triumph of industry instead of a triumph of arms . ( Tremendous cheering . ) We shall not witness the reception of the allied sovereigns after some fearful conflict , men bowing their heads in submission ; but , instead , thousands and tens of thousands will cross the channel , to whom we will give the right hand of fellowship , with the fullest conviction that war , rather than a national aggrandizement , has been the curse and the evil which has retarded the progress of liberty and of virtue ; and we shall show to them that the people of Englandnot a section of them , but hundreds of thousands—are ready to sign a treaty of amity with all the nations on the face of the earth . "

    The inhabitants in Pall-mall had their slumbers broken in a rather alarming and extraordinary manner on Tuesday morning . By some unexplained cause the gas in one of the pipes which run along Pall-mall blew up with a tremendous report , tearing up the street , and spreading confusion in every direction . Great damage was done to several houses in the street , the premises occupied by the London Joint Stock Bank , and others in that immediate neighbourhood , having scarcely one whole pane of glass in their windows . The banking-house suffered most from the shock ; it looked as if its windows had been perseveringly pelted with stones .

    Fresh remains of the ancient inhabitants of the Roman Corinium . are daily being brought to light by the workmen employed in digging the foundations of houses , &c , in various parts of the town of Cirencester . A large quantity of very curious pottery has been found , chiefly of the pseudo-Samian description , together with many interesting articles in bronzes , glass beads , coins , &c . A considerable portion of the wall of the ancient to « vn has also been exposed to view . The pottery is , as usual , chiefly fragmentary , but it sufficiently shows the treasures that might be obtained by a well-directed search .

    The curate of a church in Bedford having conducted that part of the evening service to be found in the " Book of Common Prayer , " last Sunday , ascended the pulpit , and after repeating the collect " ordered to be said before sermon , " proceeded to lay open the usual depository of his didactic eloquence , when , lo ! «• the covers were bare , " and his reverence , in great consternation , descended and made his exit . After considerable delay , during which the organ played several lengthy pieces , an announcement was made by the clerk that , " owing to some unavoidable circumstance , there will be no sermon in this church this afternoon . " ____ _

    An explosion at the mills of Messrs . C . Ward and Co ., of Bradford , took place on Wednesday evening . The effect was terrific , and the destruction of property immense , besides the loss of two lives . The heavy boiler of wrought iron , weighing many tons , was torn to pieces , and one portion of it , some tons in weight , was tossed into the yard beneath ; and another nor don , weighing six tons , was thrown into the air to a distance of fifty or sixty yards . Five persons were severely scalded . Four hundred persons were pursuing their employment in the works at the time of the explosion . The cause of the sad disaster is unknown .

    Mr . Shaw , woollen draper , of Dudley , was crossing the North-Western ltaihvay at Four Ashes one day last week , when he was knocked down by the express train and killed on the spot . He had just put his wife and children into a train on the up-line , which was waiting until the express had passed by . m As one of the royal gamekeepers , named Foster , with , his helper , named Parker , was out in the Great-park , near Cranbourn-lodge , on Friday night , they were attacked and overpowered by a party of poachers . The gun of Foster was wrenched from him , he was most brutally beaten about the head with , the barrel of the piece , and he now lies at his residence , High-standinghili , suffering severely from concussion of the brain . An affray with poachers took place in Whitwell-wood , near Bolsover , Derbyshire , on Saturday . On the poachers making their appearance , the keepers could plainly

    discover , by the light of the moon , thirteen of them , with their faces blackened and a white chalk mark on each of their arms , for the purpose of recognizing each other . The head keeper summoned the poachers to surrender , a struggle commenced in which one of the poachers was killed on the spot , and one of the keepers mortally wounded . Three of the poachers were apprehended . A youth , the son of Mr . Richard Bolton , of Great Horton , Yorkshire , was playing a few days since with a juvenile companion , who was pretending to place a pea in his oar and to make it come out of his mouth . Bolton , believing the feat to have been really performed , was induced to make the attempt himself , and thrust the pea so far into his car that it could not be got out . In a vain endeavour to extract it , it was sent further in , and the poor boy died four days afterwards from the effects .

    In a notice to his subscribers last week , the editor of the Banffshire Reporter , which " is written in one county and printed in another , " says that " during the period it has been in existence ( eleven weeks ) we have travelled little short of six hundred miles between our editorial garret and the press , besides acting as our own clerk , reporter , and not unfrequently as our own postman , or distributor . " Mr . VT . Chambers , lace manufacturer , Orchard-street ,

    Nottingham , rose at half-past five o ' clock , on Monday morning , as usual , to prepare for the occupations of the day , and proceeded to the factory , leaving his wife and a female child , four years old , in bed , and another daughter , Mary Ann , seventeen years of age , asleep in another room . At twenty minutes before seven he returned home , and had occasion to go down into the cellar , when he fancied he saw something on the ground unusually white . He ran up stairs and brought a candle , when he found his wife with her throat cut from ear to ear .

    Seeing that she showed no signs of life , he ran up stairs to ascertain whether his children were safe . Going first to his own lodging-room , he looked at his infant , Eliza , who seemed to be asleep , and then proceeded to the dormitory occupied by his eldest daughter . Having aroused her , they returned to the child , and upon more closely inspecting it , they observed a handkerchief and a garter tied tightly round its neck , and taking the child up they discovered it to be warm , but quite dead . Mrs . Chambers was forty-two years old , and her husband some twelve years older .

    The court at the Town-hall , Carlisle , was crowded to suffocation , on Saturday morning , it having been currently reported that four desperate characters , who had robbed and made a murderous midnight attack upon Mr . Palmer , farmer , of Hall-fiatt , near Carlisle , would be brought up for examination . The names of the prisoners are William Mounsey , John Thompson , William Graham , and Robert Pinnick , all well known to the police authorities . The prosecutor , John Palmer , who evidently suffered much , stated that he was a farmer , living at Hall-fiatt ; and that , while on his way home

    with his cart from Carlisle on Saturday night week , about eleven o ' clock , Mounsey and Pinnick came behind the cart and asked for a ride . They got upon it behind , and soon after Graham came up and seized his horse by the head . The prisoners in the cart then seized him by the throat , and struck him some severe blows , which rendered him insensible . The last words he heard were , " Stick the . ' » On coming to his senses he found that he had been robbed of 30 a ., a silver watch , and about 351 b . of beef . The evidence left no doubt as to the guilt of the prisoners , who were committed to take their trial at the next assizes .

    A determined act of suicide through jealousy was committed on Tuesday morning , by a young man about seventeen years of age , named Simner Staines , residing at Green Coat Cottage , Artillery-row , Westminster . The youth was much attached to a young female in the neighbourhood , who he conceived reciprocated his affections . Some of his fellow-workmen , however , had in joke told him that they had seen her walking with a young man , which gave him such a shock that on going home on Tuesday morning to breakfast he went into a back room and hung himself . Hia father , in consequence of his not answering when called , went into the room and found

    him suspended from a peg in the wall . Surgical assistance was called in , but life was extinct . The new Dublin Corporation , called into existence by the elections of Monday last , numbers , as nearly as it is possible to ascertain , in religion , politics , and occupations , as follows , the entire number , including aldermen , being sixty : —There are 32 Protestants and 28 Roman Catholics ; 24 Conservatives , 22 llepealers , and 14 Whigs ; 4 barristers , 10 solicitors , 4 brewers , 2 distillers , and the remaining 40 general merchants and traders . In the late corporation there were 46 Roman Catholics , all Repealers , and 14 Protestants all Conservatives and no Whigs .

    ... Itissaidthat Mr . Guinness , jun ., son of the celebrated XX brewer , will be the Lord Mayor for the ensuing year . If elected , he says he will rival Sir Timothy O'Brien in his entertainments , and further no prince merchant could be expected to go . This promise has secured the interest of the wives and daughters of the great majority of the town council , who are looking to the Mansionhouse as the Almack ' s of Dublin , now that the Castle is doomed to red-tapists of the fifth or sixth order . Mr . Sheil , the new ambassador to Tuscany , paid a visit to Dublinlast week , with a view to take counsel as to the

    , selection of a successor in the representation of Dungarvan . The first and most anxious wish of the Government was to get the new Solicitor-General into the vacant seat , but all hope of carrying out that project being abandoned , Mr . Ball , a son of Judge Ball , and at present a poor-law commissioner , has been selected as a candidate likely to succeed . Mr . Ball , is a Roman Catholic , a gentleman of considerable ability , and of sound liberal views ; but it is doubted whether all these qualifications will not be outweighed by the odium which just now attaches in Ireland to any connection with government .

    The weekly collection , at the meeting of the Repea . Association , was £ 14 . The association has been retmntized by the cognomen of " The Royal Repeal and Catholic Association . " Dr . Ryan , the Roman Catholic Bishop of Limerick , Is about to convene a meeting of his clergy , for the purpose of adopting a congratulatory address to Cardinal Wiseman , on the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy of England . The Kilkenny Moderator says that two women who had been transported eighteen years ago have returned to that city , their term having expired , from Australia , with , a large sum of money and quantities of rich wearing apparel , which they had earned in that country under a ticket of leave .

    many tons weight , but now the warehouse is becoming pretty well cleared , to accomplish which from 80 to 100 stampers have been at extra work from 8 a . m . till 8 , and even 10 and 11 , p . m . daily ( Sundays excepted , with the exception of the first week ) , and the number of stamps of every description despatched already exceeds 2 , 000 , 000 , so that no time has been lost in expediting the business . The Registrar-General has drawn up the form of the householders' schedule , which will be filled up on Monday , the 3 l 8 t of March , of the ensuing year . It is divided into eight columns , under the following heads : — Name and surname , relation to head of family , condition ( i . e .. whether married , single , widow , or widower ) , sex ,

    age , rank , profession or occupation , where born , if deaf and dumb or blind . Persons who refuse to give correct information incur a penalty of £ 5 , besides the inconvenience and annoyance of appearing before two justices of the peace , and being convicted of having made a wilful misstatement of age or of any of the other particulars . The return is required to enable the Secretary of State to complete the census , which is to show the number of the population—their arrangement by ages and families in different ranks , professions , employments , and trades—their distribution over the country m villages , towns , and cities—their encrease and progress in the last ten years . A correspondent of the Builder suggests a plan ' to

    improve the noblest range of buildiugs m . London , one which would let daylight in upon the majestic Strada , Pall-mall , and at the same time give to the inhabitants of the great city a direct approach to Hyde-park without a hill—a plan which could be accomplished by the purchase and demolition of only eight houses , viz ., one at the corner of St . James ' s-street , six in Cleveland-row , and one ( Lord Sydney ' s ) facing the Green-park ; and , above all , a plan that would not require any expense beyond the formation of about a quarter of a mile of road ( and for this the rubbish of the prostrated walls would yield materials ) from St . James ' s Palace , in the line of Pall-malldirect to Constitution-hill . This line would

    , strike out ( as before indicated ) at about 200 yards southward of the duke ' s colossal statue , and terminating at chevaux do frize of Buckingham-gardens , would give a sylvan termination at one end of a boulevard , the other end of which would originate from the tympanum of the National Gallery . The whole expense of this suggested improvement could not exceed , say £ 80 , 000 . Ihe line of palaces from the Gallery , by the Opera-house , the United Service , the Athenojum , Reform , old St . James s , and Lord Ellcsmere ' s , would be an avenue worthy of London . "

    A meeting of the Chancery Reform Association was held on Tuesday night in the theatre of the Mechanics ' Institute , Southampton-buildings , Lord Erskine , presiding , at which , after several interesting statements had been made , showing in strong colours the evils of the present system of proceedings in that court , resolutions were carried declaratory of the necessity of a reform in the equity courts of the country , and approving the course pursued by the association of organizing local committees throughout the country , to extend a knowledge of the objects and proceedings of the association .

    A proat ponce demonstration was held m the Birmingham Townlmll , on Wednesday evening , the Mayor in the chair , to receive a report on the subject of the recent conference at Frankfort . The chief speakers were , Professor Worms , of Hamburg , Mr . Cobden , and Mr . Bright . Professor Worms said the people of Germany had been greatly alienated against Kitglund by t . lic acrimonious uimrirrH against Schloswig-Jlolstein . and Germany . Ho nroUBtcd against the interference of England in the Danish quarrel : — ** >\ hat ! m 3 England to do with the disputes between the

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 30, 1850, page 848, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1861/page/8/