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      the unusual severity of complaints of this kind will be apparent from the number in corresponding weeks , which . Was 143 , and this , with a correction for increased population is 157 , Sixty-eight children died of hoop ing-cough . There was only one . fatal ease of small-pox last week ; there were 21 of measles , 40 of scarlatina , 41 of typhus , 2 of intermittent fever , 2 6 f remittent fever , 4 of rheumatic fever , one of purpura . Last week the births of 816 boys and 755 girla , in all 1571 children , -were registered in London . In the eight corresponding weeks of 1845-52 the average number was 1410 .

      At the -Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean height -of the barometer in the week was 29 * 773 in . The reading of the barometer decreased from 29 * 79 in . at the beginning of the week to 29 ' 64 in . by 9 h . a . m . on the 3 rd ; increased to 30 < 01 in . by 9 h . P . M . on the 4 th ; and decreased to 29 * 46 in . by the end of the week . The mean temperature of the week was 47 * 9 degs ., which is 3 * 8 degs . below the average of the same week in 38 years . On the first two days the mean daily temperature was above the average ;

      on all the following days it was below it ; and this depression amounted to 8 * 8 degs . on Friday , and 14 * 2 degs . on Saturday . The highest temperature was 65 5 degs . on Sunday ; the lowest was 36 * 3 on Saturday . The greatest difference between the dew point temperature and an * temperature occurred on Sunday , and was 18 * 7 degs . ; the mean of the week was 4 * 5 degs . The wind which in the early part of the week blew from the south-east changed to northeast in the last four days .

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      BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . On the 25 th of April , at Bruges , Belgium , the wife of the Baron Elphege Van Zuylen : a son , On the 4 th of May , at Ryde , Iale of Wight , the -wife of Commander H . W . Hill , E . N . : a son . On the 4 th , at Hamilton-terrace , St . John ' s-wood , the wife of Colonel M . E . Bagnold : & son , stillborn . On the 6 th , at North Shields , Northumberland , the wife of Charles Nightingale , Esq .: a son and heir . On the 7 th , at No . 6 , Norfolk-street , Park-lane , the wife of Captain Bruce , Grenadier Guards : a daughter . On the 8 th , at 5 , Albany-terrace , Regent'e-park , the widow of F . H . Medhurst , Esq ., Kippax-hall , Yorkshire : a son . On the 9 th , at 3 , Mylne-street , Claremorit-square , the wife of Lieutenant-Colonel J . B . Bellaaia , Bombay Army : a son . MARRIAGES . On the 19 th of March , at the Residency , Indore , Lieutenant A . R . E . Hutehinson , ' of the Bengal Army , son of James Boss Hutcbinson , Esq ., to Constance Eliza Aon , eldest daughter of JR . N . C . Hamilton , Esq ., and granddaughter of Sir Frederic Hamilton , Bart . On the 14 th of April , at St . Stephen ' s Church , Philadelphia , U . S ., William Harding , son of Robert Warner , Esq ., of Svrindon , Wilts , to Annie Taylor , youngest daughter ot the late Hon . Robert Johnston , of Annandale , Jamaica . On the 4 th of May , at St . Saviour ' s , Southwark , Richard Harvey Crakanthorpe , Esq ., of H . M . Civil Servioe , Hongkong , to EnuJy , youngest daughter of Robert Spencer , Esq ., of Bridgewater-square , London .

      On the 10 th , at St . Matthew ' s Church , Brixton , the Rev . Edward Lamb , son of the late Dean of Bristol , and Domestic Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Portland , to Rosa Harriett , youngest daughter of the late Benjamin Pead , Esq ., of Hacton , Essex . On the 10 th , at St . George ' s , Hanover-square , the Rev . Godfrey Faussett , B . D ., Fellow of Magdalen College , Oxford , second son of the Rev . Godfrey Fausaett , D . D ., of Heppington , Kent , Canon of Christ Church , Oxford , to Jemima Ann Amy , only daughter of the late Rev . Thomas Edward Bridges , D . D ., president of Corpus Cbristi College , Oxford . On the 10 th , at Buxhall , Suffolk , William Edward Surtees , JCsq ., D . C . L ., barrister-at-law , to Caroline , widow of Lieutenant-General Sir Stephen Remnant Chapman , C . B ., K . C . H .

      On the 11 th , at Chelsea , William Edward IJuller , Esq ., late of the Fourteenth Lig ht Dragoons , to Ellen Eliaa Mary , only surviving daughter of William Kent , Esq ., and granddaughter of the late Judge Bagga , of Deraorara . On the 11 th , at St . Anne ' s , Wandsworth , Hamilton Earle Alexander , of St . John ' s , Cambridge , Vice-Priucipal of St . Thomas ' s College , Colombo , Cey lon , son of Colonel Durnford , R A and nepnow of the lute General Durnford ^ R . E ., to El ' ' nora Wing fleld , third daughter of the late Kev . Thomas Hatch , Fellow of King ' s College , Cambridge , and vicar of Walton-on-Thames , Surrey .

      DEATHS . On tho 4 th of February last , at sea , on board the ship Vimiera , Sarah Catharine , wifo of Dcputy-Coinmissary-Genoral Ramsay . On the 26 th of March , Robert MiusKav , Esq ., lato her Majesty ' s Vico-Consul at Maracaibo , South America . On tho 12 th of April , at Funohul , Madeira , in bis twontyfourth year , James Crawford William Conyboaro , sixth son of the Denn of LlandaJF . On tho 20 th , at Woolwich , Justina Juno , oldest daughter ot Brigade Major Charles Uing ham , Koyal Artillery , in her eleventh Oii the 1 at of Muy , » t Naplos , ot consumption , Louisa , Viscountess Fielding , ag « d twenty-four . On the 4 th , at Battle- Abbey , Hutu-ox , Rir Godfrey Webster , Bart ., Commander tt . N ., in the thirty-eighth year of bin ago . On t | m 4 th , at Bruges , in Belgium , in tho fifth year ot nor ago , Aliuo Anno , second daughter of tho Baron JJlpluigo Van r Z \ iy \ on . m On tho 4 th , at sea , on her passage from India , the Marchioness of Dftlhrtuuie .

      On tho 5 th , in London , Elizabeth Graham , widow of tho Hon . William Frasor of Haltoun , aged llfty-oight . Oit tho Oth , at the Ik nine of 1 uh son-in-law , tho Rov . R . H . Fioldon , Bonohurch , IhIo of Wight , Lioutonant-Ooneral Hir Robert Arbuthnot , K . C . B ., and K . T . S ., Colonol of tho 7 < llh Regimont . On tho 7 th , at IiIh roni « lonon , Croham . neur Croydon , in , hin thirty-Hovonth year , Robort John Pollock , Esq ., second son of tho Lord Chief Huron . On tho 8 th , at Wontoii-Hupor-Maro , doeply lamonted , John MoiiHon Currow , ' Km ., agoil forty-flvo , Judge of tho County Court of Homorsetfllure , Kooorder of tho City of Wells , and a nnufintrate and Doputy-LioutoniiiiL for the County of Hotnornnt .

      Ou tho 9 th , at Nirmuighain , in Iiih mxty-Uuril yoar , Mr . Georiro Holyoake , father of Mr . George Jacob Holyoakn . On tho ttth , at 87 , G «> HV « nor-pliu * a . in hor eightieth yoar , the Hon . Buhiui HaU Cornwall , widow ot tho lato John Cornwall , Eurt of Hondon , in tho eounty of Middlesex , and daughter ol Admiral Alan Lord Gardner . On I ho Oth , at Brighton , Agnes , »« oond daughter of Rear-Adiniml Sir . lamoHHUrlmg , aged Hov (! iit « o « jn On the 10 th at HI .. iv « 'hh ' h U » iA , Hoiid-ntroot , lilwitonantti £ . « r 4 Sir witor Kaloigh Gilbert , Bart ., U . CD ., iu tho « i * tyeighth yoar of liin u-go .

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      ENGLISH GOVERNMENT : ITS PRINCIPLES AND STATESMEN . Truth finds its outlet in strange places ; and although many truths have then- fountain home in the Italian Opera , political analysis is not always among them . Yet it happens so at times . The lyric drama for the mghfc is the shocking story of Jjucrezia Borgia , rendered into music by one of Italy ' s most gifted and most unhappy sons ; and interpreted by some of Italy ' s choicest singers . An act is orerj the audience rests from the fatigue of tragedy and

      attention , and small talk resumes the scene . At this interval approaches a tall blond Englishman , an exquisite" M . P ., with more bulk than fire in any part of him , a solid youth somewhat whipped up into trifle by the cunning hand of fashion— " a heavy lightness , serious vanity . " He is performing a great political coup : he has left the House of Commons , not only because he prefers the voice of Grisi to that of Chambers ( Thomas ) , but because the ballot is coming on . If he had stopped , he confesses , he must have voted for it ; but , he cries entreatingly , to a friend of more Norman complexion , " Go down

      yourself ; you can vote against it , and if you don ' t , it may be carried . " So here is a young legislator pledged to his constituents to support the ballot , skulking when the question comes on , and actually busying himself to whip for votes on the other side ! We are relating not a fancy , but a plain fact . Of course , when a candidate , the Serious Vanity professed to be an advocate of ballot ; and these aro his real sentiments : ergo , ho must have told to his constituents that which Mr . Stafford calls " a formal expression . " " Rut of such children is the House of Commons

      made up , " the people's chamber . ' The colonies often serve as tests to show forth tho real principles on which we are governed at home , and lot us see how Lord Derby thinks that communities ought to bo ruled . He maintains " tho right of tho mother country to overbear the most absolute decisions of the colonists . " If Lord Derby would grant any concession to tho strong feeling of tho colonists , it would be as an net of policy or courtesy on tho part of the statesman , as ono might humour a child ; but tho right to settle such questions as the admission of convicts into Van Diomen ' s Land , lies

      with the mother country , and not with the people . From the context , also , it appears that when Lord Derby says " mother country , he means tho official department ; and that ofHcial department is commanded by gentlemen born to eligibility , or appointed to it by tho possession of considerable wealth . In other words , to decide whether tho colonists shall admit convicts amongst themselves or not lies not with the people of Van Diemon's Land , still less with tho people of England , tho majority of whom cannot vote for the Memhora of their own Parliament , but with gentlemen of tho names of Stanley , Russell , Groy , and some others , their personal

      acquaintances . But , you may say , it is a Tory who flays bo . Wait awhile , and hear tho same doctrine from Earl Groy , son of tho Reform Bill Groy , and the original whom Lord Derby waa copying *

      " Let tbe colonies be treated with justice , but he denied that Parliament and the Government were bound to give up to all their demands , whether just or unjust , ttnd to listen to every clamour , reasonable or unr « asonable > that might be raised . If it was said that they were bound to do all that they were asked to do , important as it was to retain their colonies , he said it was better to part with them at once than to retain them upon such terms—that this country must protect and defend them , but must have no substantial authority

      over them . He trusted that an argument bo lowering to the dignity of the Crown would not be used . The Imperial Government and Parliament ought to listen to tbe demand * of the colonists with every disposition to ¦ Accord to them whatever was just and consistent with the common good of all , but demands which were not based on justice , and were inconsistent with the common good of the whole empire , they ought to reject . The difference between the statesman and the mere shallow politician consisted in being able to dierriinmate between the one case and the other , and to

      know when justice required concession , and when duty prescribed firmness . Let them apply this rule , and consider how far the demand was just and reasonable , that they should not only put an end to transportation to Van Diemen ' s Land , but that they should do it bo precipitately as not to leav ^ e time for the consideration of any other mode of punishing convicts , or for taking Parliament into their counsel , as they were bound to do by the constitution . "

      There are many beggings of the question here ; but the point with which we have to deal is the origin of authority . Earl Grey assumes that he is to be the judge of what is just or reasonable in Van Diemen ' s Land , to grant or withhold it as he thinks fit ; but surely the colonists ought to have at least a concurrent voice . Lord Grey , however , denies it ; the " dignity of the le

      Crown" refuses to let him sanction a princip so dangerous . If he chooses , the colonists of Van Diemen ' s Land must continue to undergo the admission of convicts until Lord Grey , or his equivalent in office , shall have found a new plan ; and all representations to the contrary must be set at nought . Now there is no real distinction between the people of Van Diemen's Land and the people of England ; it is the people whose claim Lord Grey denies to be judges of right in their own case .

      We would go much further than to deny his position : the question of right or wrong is one which it does not become an individual statesman to raise as against a people . All human affairs have their admixture of right and wrong : but it is clearly the right of a people to settle its own arrangements accordingly to its own conviction and pleasure . A Lord Grey may refuse to but it

      be a party to that which he thinks wrong , is not his to grant or withhold it at his own pleasure , like a feudal lord . At least it would not be , if certain parts of the British constitution wore fact instead of notion . As it is , the English Eeop le does , like the people of Van Diemen ' s and , wait upon the pleasure of a Grey , a ltussoll , or a Stanley , and puts up for representatives with Radical " swells" like our operatic

      balloteer . It would bo alarming if these principles found men capable of carrying them out ; but luckily , or unluckily , our leading statesmen aro not strong enough for their own principles . Lord Grey shrinks from asking the Lords to act on that which he advances . Lord Derby has descended to bo the willing second of any discontent-monger . Mr . Disraeli is lost in the entangled little corruptions and little " formal expressions" of Mr . Stafford . Lord John Russell is preaching to tho

      British and Foreign School Society on " body , mind , and soul . " Lord PalmerHton , who was lately led by the Times and polit-o npieH on a false scout after Kossuth , is at Stafford Itouaw , assisting at tho ovation of Mrs . Stowe , whom ho takes for an impersonation of America ! Iho Peel Conservative Dulco of Nowciuitlo proves to be , in political action , tho moat Jludiciil man of our Conservative Itadiml Government ; as tho Oxford casuistical Mr . Gladstone in its moBt revolutionary statesman in finance .

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      ANOTHER BLOW AT TIJHKEY . Of all nightmare monsters , that must bo tho most torriblo for a foeblo stato , which in ombodiod in tho person of a diplomatist always with an untold " ultimatum : " for hoiuo months Turkey haa been lying under tho infliction of that torturo . First camo Lavaloito , with his proposal about Iho Holy Plftoon ; then . Leiningen with

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      TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receire . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter j and when omitted , it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . No notice can be taken of anonymous communicationo . Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications . All letters for the Editor should be addressed to 7 , Wellingtonstreet , Strand , London . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space lor them .

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      Tliere is nothing so revolutionary , because there ia nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law ot its creation in eternal progress . —De . Abnolts .

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      SATURDAY , MAY 14 , 1853 .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 14, 1853, page 467, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1986/page/11/