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      BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIETHS . On the 17 th of January , at Stratton-Strawlesa , Norfolk , Mrs . Charles Marsham : a son and heir . On the 19 th , at the vicarage , ] Vf apledurham , Oxfordshire , the Iiady Augustus Fitzclarence : a son . On the 19 th , at St . Leonard ' s-oa-aea , the wife of Colonel the Hon . 35 . B . Wilbraham : a son . On the 20 th , at Nice , the wile of Sir William Miller , Bart ., of Grlenlee : a son . On the 22 nd , at Rathminea-villa , Southsea , Hants , the wife of Captain T . K . McCoy , late Sixty-fifth Regiment , one of her Majesty ' s Hon . Corps of Gentlemen-at-A . rms : a daughter . On the 22 nd , at Wimbledon , tho Countess of Kerry : a son . MARRIAGES . On the 18 th of January , at the British Embassy , Stuttgard , Augustus , son of the Prinoe Wilding de liadali , to Matilda , daughter of Captain Qronow . On the 18 th , at St . Paul ' s , "Wilton-plaeo , the Rev . H . Sandham , to Sophy , fourth daughter of R . Bernal , Esq . On the 18 th , at St . George's , Bloomsbury , Henry Birchflold Swabey , of Doctor's Commons and Great Cumborland-placo , Esq ., to Charlotte , daughter of tho late Sir Robert Baker , of Montague-place , Russell-square . On the 19 th , at Genoa , in tho French Protestant Church , tho Rev . ICoesar Malau , minister of tlio French Protestant Church at Genoa , third son of the Rev . Cicaar Malau , D . 13 ., of Geneva , to Louiso , daughter and heiress of tho Into J . J . Bturzonoggcr , Esq . of St . Gail , Switzerland . On the 20 th , at St . John ' s Church , Notl ing-hill , tho IJov . William Holdsworah , M . A ., incumbent of ISToUing-hill , to tho Hon . Augusta Matilda Irbjr , daughter of tho late and sistor of the present Lord Boston .

      On the 25 th , at the parish church , Ecclca , Arthur Henry , third son of Sir Benjamin Ifoywoori , Bart ., of Cliiremont , to Alice , eldest daughter of William IiUngton , Esq . of tho Rookery , near Manchester . At St . Goorgo ' H Bloomsbury , tho Viscount Maiden , to Emma M . Meux , youngest daughter of ( lie late mid MHtor of tho present Hir Henry Meux , Bart , M . P ., of Theobalds-park , Herts .

      DKA . T 1 I . 8 . Killed , in a Hkirmish with tho Uurmoao , near Promo , on tho 19 th of November , 185 a , in tho thirty-third year of hia ago , Captain Edward Cornwall Oiirilix-r , Fortieth Uo gimont Hengul Native Infantry , third son of Liouteniint-Genoriil tho Hon . W . II . Gardner . On the 2 lst of December , of tho yellow fover , at Barbadoos , agod thirty-one , Mary Hul . ton , wife of 1 ti < : hit . r < l Holt llutton , Esq ., and only surviving daughter of tho lato William Btimloy RoHooe , Esq ., of Liverpool . On tho 4 th ofJanuary , acoidontally drowned in tho Nilo , near Ciuro , on his passage to Bombay , Hurry G . Krusor , Esq ., Cadet H . E . I . C . H ., in his sevontoonth year , oldest son of Major T . G Fr . wor , Twenty-ninth N . I ., Uoiiihuy Army , and Assisti ' inl . CommiHsary General , Bolgaum . On the < flh , at Oiigfiari , in Sardinia , alter a fow day . s illness Lieutonaut-Colonol Sir Hurry Kra . u . isOolvillo Dun-ll . UarL luto of tho Seventh Dragoon Guurds , aged thirty-eight . On the 17 th , at St . liOonard ' H-on-Hou , agod thirty-six , Major floury Pagol ., AssiHtiiiit Quai tormantor-Gonorul at Cork soii of tho lato General tho Hon . Hir Kdward 1 ' ugot , < J C » mid the Ijfidy Harriot Paget . " '

      On tho l » th , at his Heat , Eywood , llorofordshiro uged fortyfour , tho Earl of Oxford and Mortimer . On tho 20 f . li , at Christ ' s Hosnitnl , tho Rev . Edward Rico D . D ., in l . htt Hfty-Hcvonth year orliin ago . ' On ( he 20 th , ut his rtwidimdo , 47 , FiiiHlmry-tiquaro Jonathan Poreira , Esq ., M . I ) ., VM . H . ' On the 21 » t , ut Paris , ( ho infnht daughter of ( lie lion Mrs Dudloy Ward , agod three montliH . On tho 22 nd , in Portuiun-Hqutin ' , tho Right lion . Roginuld Ifiarl of Moauchamp , agod Hovouty-ono . On tho 24 th , ut 17 , llurringlon-Htrot't , Mornington -plaoo . Olurkmm Btuuliold , oldosl , won of Olarkson Htaulleld , Esq ., Jt . A . On the 25 th , at < J , Camdon-flquare , Goorgo Gregory , ' Esq ., M , D ., for thirfc ^ -one years physioictn to the Hmnll-pox Itonnitfti .

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      Saturday , January 29 . Peace continued conferring on its prosperous way at Manchester , on Thursday evening , and again yesterday . The following letters were read on Thursday . We give them as curiosities : — " Eglise Re'forme ' e da Paris , January , 1853 . " Dear Sir , —I deeply regret that the state of my health , and my ministerial duties at this season of the year form an insurmountable obstacle to my attending the conference of the friends of peace of Manchester . When my fellowcitizens of this large capital had named me , a Protestant Minister , by 111 , 000 votes , a member of the Constituent and Legislative If ational Assemblies , I considered it a political and religious part of the discharge of this mandate to lend my humble aid during the proceedings of the Peace Congress in . Paris .

      ' Time has flowed on ; very many things have changed ; I have the confidence to say I am not , and whatsoever may be the actual fate of political and religious liberty in Europe , still I feel fully convinced that public opinion is , and will be , the sovereign of the intellectual and moral world . When it shall be evident for all Governments and all nations that every statesman or citizen , true friends of their country , and every Christian of every denomination are fully convinced that they would act against the will of the Creator and of the Redeemer , and violate the commands of the Gospel , in not declaring against the absurd and impious custom of going to war between fellowmen and fellow Christians , then war will be utterly impossible .

      "Let public opinion advance , and , in proportion , war will recede . The day of this Christian triumph is dawning , thou g h through heavy clouds ; and that the congress of the friends of peace now assembled at Manchester may advance the sacred cause is the earnest prayer of rev sir , with high regard , your most obedient servant , ATHANASE COQUEKEL , " Pastor of the Reformed Church at Paris . " P . S . Allow me to add , that all this is equally in the name of my son , the Rev . A . Coquerel , junior . " N . B . Your friends will excuse this English from a Frenchman : if the words are not English enough , I am sure the ideas are . " Rev . Henry Richard , Secretary to the Peace Congress Committee . "

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      " Paris , Jan . 20 . " Sib , —In reply to the invitation which you have done me the honour to address to me , in the name of the Committee of the Peace Congress , I beg to say that family duties do not permit me to leave Paris at the moment when the conference will be held ; but I do not wish to allow this occasion to pass without expressing my sympathies anew for the work which the friends of peace are engaged in accomplishing . " In labouring to efface the last vestiges of ancient hatred , they prepare the pacific and mutual emancipation of the peoples , and lay the foundation of their solidarity . Woe to those who , by their resistance to progress , provoke the return of the barbarous conflicts of the past .

      "Already , in that which relates to England and France , tho task of tho friends of peace is almost accomplished ; the two nations are incited by the services which they have rendered to humanity , and tho culpable appeals now made will not succeed in reviving in their hearts tho sentiments of another age . " I believe I am tho interpreter of my more honourable fellow-citizens in declaring that they would regard an armed quarrel between Franco and England as an enormous evil , which would becloud the hope of oppressed , people . . England , which is to-day tho last bulwark of political liberty in Europe , tho only asylum whero tho defenders of right can lift their hands against persecution . " I have the honour to greet you , sir , with tho highest eousideration . "Caknot , Ancient Representative of tho People , formerly Minister of Public Instruction . "

      Mr . Cobricii was tho hero of the evening-. Ifo surveyed tho question of our relations with France at great length . Louving- out nearly all mention of Louis Napoleon , the despotic ; ruler over the French people and the French army , he argued tho l'Yeneh people had no kind of intention or wish for an invasion of England . We , ho insisted , misled l > y wicked persons , especially wicked silly persons connected with the press , were all in a ferment expecting invasion from a people who possessed the land , who were subjected to one of tho best systems of taxation in the world , and who enjoyed social and rcligioutJ equality in its fullest extent . Ho drew un Arcadian picture of France—happy , peace-loving , prosperous Franco . French labourers are better paid , better housed , bettor clothed than ours ; you get silver forks

      and napkins at road-. sido public-Iiou . ses ; the world copies the dresn of a Frenchman : and this is the nation whom wicked joiirnnlisl . H , and ii Government glad to avail itself of ho profitable a cry , uecuso of wanting to make a piratical descent on our const , to carry away our gold and our silver , nnd to burn our towns ! Throughout his speech , Mr . ( Jobden nHHumcd thut those who opposed the pence party did ho not because they mistrust tho French Usurper and the French army , but because they unjustly mistrust the French people . W « hiivo tin atonement to make to Franco for the hist war , nnd it in shameful for wicked persons to inllame ufl against the I'Ytmch Klmperor . Mr . Cobdeu intimated hut subscriptions would bo ruined to wend lecturers into very borough and every town in England to counteract

      the wicked arguments of those who spread the war panic . " We arc going to make this a revival gentleman . " ( Cheers . ) He explained , also , that he did nofc object to defence against actual aggression , to which he , Mr . Cobden , would be more likely to offer a strenuous opposition than those who are now crying out in a panic , " , I suspect , would be very likely to run away . " Having delivered a long and effective speech , in this taste , Mr . Cobden sat down amid great cheering . Mr . Carter , M . P ., and Mr . S . Bowley , spoke . The Conference yesterday opened at ten o ' clock in the morning , at the Corn-Exchange . The attendance was again large , and highly respectable .

      The Rev . Dr . Davidson , Professor of Theology m the Lancashire Independent College , as vice-chairman , opened the proceedings ; and was followed by Mr . Bell , M . P ., the Rev . H . Richard , Mr . Joseph Sturge , Mr . Gilpin , and Mr . Hindley , M . P . The speeches were of great length ; and the meeting separated at three o ' clock , having passed various resolutions declaratory of the principles of the Congress . At the close of the proceedings , Mr . Cobden gave us some reasons why he advocates a removal of the taxes on knowledge , which show that the reception of his letters by the wicked journalists has hurt Ins feelings :-

      —" Never had they such a proof of the evil effect of taxation upon anything as was to bo seen in the tone recently taken by a large portion of our press ; and continued : 'I am an advocate for a free press ; but the press must not assail me if I wish to apply to them the same argument as I have applied to every other trade . I advocated free-trade in corn because I thought it would improve agriculture . I advocate the freedom of the press because I think it would improve the character of the press—[ hear , hear]—because it would tend to save the

      community from the consequences of having the greater part of the press rushing headlong and without consideration into any cry or any panic on the vital question of peace and war . I want to see the press so free , that the Peace party might have what I promised them they should have if newspapers were emancipated from the trammels of the excise laws—namely , a daily organ advocating and reiterating the sound doctrines which had been enunciated in that conference . ( Cheers . )" The Conference met again last night , in the Freetrade Hall .

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      The fourth dramatic performance at Windsor Castle took place last evening . The pieces selected upon this occasion were a comed y in three acts by John Poole , entitled Paul Pry , and a serio-comic afterpiece , in one Act , "by Alfred Wigan , entitled A . TjucJcy Friday . On Thursday some friends of Mr . Gladstone entertained him at luncheon in the hall of IJalliol College . His health having been drunk , he made a speech , in the course of which he said—He would venture to say that , if the House of Commons afforded any criterion of public opinion , that opinion was , on the whole , friendl y and respectful towards the University , but that the

      retaining of that confidence and respect depended much on the course now taken by the University itself . There were resources , both pecuniary and moral and intellectual resources , which were not brought to bear on the proper work of the University , and which might be brought to boar upon it by such improvements as had already been commenced in some of the colleges . With respect to that within whose walls they were assembled , he could say with satisfaction that ho believed it was doing nearly the utmost that could be expected from the means it possessed . lint it was well known that in other cases there were

      large resources not hitherto ho usefully applied , and he trusted that all would co-operate in the endeavour to justify themselves in the eyes of tho country by making the bent use of their means for tho advancement of education . II' the University would do its duty in this respect , especially by extending its iMlvautagi's to more of the classes it now receives , and to as many as may be practicable of other clashes , who partake less of its benefits at present , lit ; felt confident that the country and the parliament of England would

      maintain its independence , and would only desire that it should continue to put in practice those fundamental principles on which it had ever hitherto worked , of the authoritative inculcation of religious trul . li , nnd something like a domesfic superintendence of pupils . Hut the continuance of public confidence depended on the course now pursued by the University . For himself , however he might fail of bis duly as the representative of the University , it could not be for want of an affectionate regard for its interests .

      Major Thomas A . Liu-coin , of the Koyul Engineers , and deputy-chairman of the Hoard of Works , has been appointed Undersecretary for Ireland .

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      HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK . The number of deaths registered in the metropolitan districts in the week that ended last Saturday is nearly the same as in the week preceding , being 994 . In the ten corresponding weeks of 1843—52 the average number was 1084 , which , if corrected for increase of population during these years , gives a mortality of 1192 for the present time . Last week ' s return , therefore , exhibits a reduction- of 198 on , the estimated amount . It will be seen from the observations of registrars that cases of fever , both typhus and scarlatina , have been numerous and fatal in particular parts ; but it is satisfactory to find that , taking the whole of London , the mortality of the epidemic class of diseases shows some diminution when compared with that of the previous weekand that it is

      , also less than the average of" corresponding weeks in former years . In the last four weeks scarlatina destroyed successively 67 , 66 , 63 , and 38 lives ; typhus , which has been more uniform in its results , was fatal in 51 , 43 , 62 , and 48 cases . Judging from the mortality , diarrhcea-shows no disposition to prevail , and no deaths have been recorded from English or other cholera during the last three weeks . But hooping-cough rose from 39 deaths in the previous week , to 49 in the last ; bronchitis from 67 to 82 ; phthisis ¦ was fatal in the last three weeks in 104 , 125 , and 134 cases . In connexion with this increase in affections of the respiratory organs , it may be noticed that the mean weekly temperature , which at the beginning of the year was so high as 47 . 5 deg ., and was afterwards 45 deg ., fell last week to 41 . 9 deg .

      Last week the births of 790 boys and 187 girls , in all 1577 children , were registered in London . In the eight corresponding weeks of the years 1845-52 the average number was 1427 . At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the me a n height of the barometer in the week -was 29 . 468 in . The mean temperature was on every day above the average of 38 years , but it showed much variation , having fallen on Tuesday to 37 . 5 deg ., or only 1 . 1 deg . above the average ; and thereafter having risen on Thursday to 49 . 6 deg ., which is 12 . 9 deg . above the average of that day . On Saturday it fell again to 38 . 9 deg . ; and the mean of the week was 41 . 9 deg ., which is 5 . 4 deg . above the average . On Monday , Tuesday , and Saturday the wind blew from the north-west ; on Wednesday from the south ; at other times from the south-west . The mean dew point temperature was 35 . 4 deg .

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      January 29 , 1853 . ] THE LEADER . 105

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      • The Monih'ur of yes ! crdny announces that the Mar-< jiuh do Caslelbajac , the I'Ycnch Minister at St . Teterslmrgli , had presented his letters to flu ? Emperor of R ( I 8 « iu on the 15 th , and that His MujoHl-y ox pressed in ¦ wftrTn terms his Hutisfuetion at the re-establishment of official rotations with tho French ( Jovorinnont

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 29, 1853, page 105, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1971/page/9/