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      th * t # {»» bfe *^ £ ^ ° ^^ S ^ v 2 arf * f «* # ** i # 4 i » 9 § are «« - ***> ou * the ex-ewrfvisetsrof ^ aa rigibters * m «* r o # «* e worst are known to wwSSfaea whp have been reduced , by the cruelties of . Norfolk island to tb » single faculty of endurance—perhaps the bestmode rf dealing with them wpnld be to transfer them •** '¦ Waste ** Australia , where the people a ^ atoll willing to have convicts , though , I believe , it will be impracticable to send English convicts to any part of Australia , in a few yeaifc . — - Timer .

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      THE CRYSTAL PAXAGE . Tnfe Crystal Palace Cottipuny have issued a report wrepatfttory to their meeting oa the 8 tti ot rebntarVj in which they Teeomra&nd a avn&MMv < tf 4 s . -per share , or at the rate of 8 per cent per ann-nm , for the half-year ending the 9 Ut of December . The amount expended up to the present time is stated at 1 , I 3 * , 338 / ., consisting of the snare capital of l . OOOvOWi , ( less 14 , 225 / . remaining tmissaed ) , 61 , 550 / . ¦ borrowed on debentures , and certain sum ' s from loans and current receipts . The revenue of the 29 weeks from th « opening , on the 10 th of June to the 31 st of December , has been 113 , 586 ^ , and the expenditure 38-, 798 / ., including about . lO- . OOipi . incidental to the opening ceremony . The balance nominally available is therefore 74 , 789 / . % and as the proposed dividend will absorb only 3 ^ , 43 li , a surplus wul remain of 35 , 3 S 7 £ to the credit of revenue account for the present year .

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      ' { ME ., iUCA-iB'S ' MISSION TO ROME . The Dublin Telegraph has been amusing itself and ita readers- by detailing the opposition offered , step by step , to the progress of Mr . Lucas at Borne . Such accounts iare amusing enough ,. but the opposition papers are furious in their denunciation of such " falsehoods . " The Nation thus replies to the Telegraph : —¦ __ " We have refrained from writing upon the progress of this important _ mission , both out of respect to the Court whose jurisdiction has been appealed to , and because the

      nature of such proceedings is intrinsically private . But they have been so grossly misrepresented in the Govern- ^ ment press , that we can delay no longer in declaring that the business entrusted to the deputation progresses most favourably ; and that the communications published in the Evening Post and Telegraph on the subject are shamefully untrue . It would be premature to say more at present . Our friends must bear in mind that the Holy See is slow and cautious in its decisions ; and wait patiently for a result which they may confidently rely will be favourable to their just and reasonable expectations . Those best informed of what has been done are abundantly satisfied . "

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      . _ THE . ; . PUBLIC ^ HEALTH . (¦ FVom the Registrar-General ' s Report . ' ) The coldness of the weather has severely affected the public health—a fact which , though it is generally known by the prevalence of colds and influenza in families , is remarkably confirmed by the returns of mortality . The deaths were 1404 and 1466 in the first two weeks of this month ; in the week that ended last Saturday they rose to 1549 , of which 763 were deaths of males and . 786 of females . The births last week were 1514 , leaving an excess on the part of deaths , which is not usual except in seasons of epidemics . Last week the births of 779 boys and 785 girls , in all 1514 children , were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1845-54 the average number was 1476 .

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      VARIETIES . ARCHDEACON DENI 80 N . We are sincerely glad to hear that the Bishop of Bath and Wells has , of his own accord , refused to sign the letters of request against Archdeacon Dcnison . The only proceeding now open to the Ditcher party is to obtain a viandamtis from the Court of Queen ' s Bench to compel the Bishop to sign , and there is no temerity in asserting our conviction that there would bo very little chance of tho mandamus being granted . Failing this , the sole remaining alternative would be for the Archbishop of Canterbury to carry out the matter in person , a solution of the dispute even more improbable than tho mandatmu . The disinterested zeal of Ditcher and Co . ia likely to find ita charitable hunger after victims unsatbfiwL HOW TO PRONOUNCE " 8 EIJABTOPOL . " Sw WnxiAar Molesworth , when in Edinburgh lately , instructed the eavans by his pronunciation of Sevastopol . He laM tho accent on the penultimate syllable , calling it&erftatfpoL The Russian letter " 6 , " the third letter m the alphabet , Is pronounced vay . Tho correct pronuncfatloa la SevaystdpoL i TOR TKOTB OA 11 I . YLIAN STYLK . In tfte current number of tho Westminster Review Mr . ' Oartyle relates tho following anecdote of Moritz , one of

      the Electors & £ Saxony , an immensely strong uaant" Walking onee the streets of London ,, he came , mta eoUfeioa with a dustman , had- words with the dustman , who . perhaps bad splashed Mm with his mud-shovel or the like . Dustman , would make no apology ; witting toirV a round of bdxiag instead . Moritz grasps him sudaenly by the back of the breeches , whirls him aloft , in horizontal position , pitches him into his own mudcart , and walks on . " , ¦ ACTrVTTT OF THE ttZTSH FOiiCH . At Dublin , William Nolan , 167 B , brought up a dumb man , and made the following rafter eanous deposition regarding him : — "On this morning , the 18 th instant , I found the prisoner , a dumb i » an , disorderly , by shouting , &c , in Exchequer-street , to the annoyance of the inhabitants and passengers in said disfriet . "

      CELESTIAL MUSIC . A company of French artists Stave been performing at Hong Kong , and intend to follow up their success by visiting Japan , and other remote corners of the globe , where musical art has not hitherto penetrated .

      MRS . CHISHOLM . The Melbourne people are about to raise a sum of money as a testimonial to Mrs . Chishoim for her services in promoting family emigration . They intend to subscribe 2 , 800 / ., and ask the legislature for 5 , 0001 to purchase a house . There has been a meeting , and some speech-making about it , and it seems likely to succeed , at least as far as the voluntary part is concerned . SIR COLIN CAMPBELL . We have reason to believe that the second command of the British army in the Crimea has , after due deliberation , been conferred upon our distinguished countryman , Sir Colin Campbell . —Scotsman .

      NOVEL FEATURE . IN SHIPBUILDING . In the East Dock at Woolwich , there was a splendid vessel , the Perseverance . It was very complete , only every one but the builders saw that the masts were far too heavy . Every one but the builders was quite correct , for the Perseverance quietly laid down on her beam ends , like a prize pig at a Cattle Show . -

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      MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . —The Court has been at Windsoi ^ throughout the week . The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred have been skating—the usual exercise sufficing for the other members of the Royal Family . On Monday Prince Albert came to town to preside at a meeting of Governors of the Wellington College . The Saxon Minister , Count Vitzthum . has had an audience of Her Majesty . The Earl of Aberdeen has been constant in attendance . On Thursday he tendered the resignation of Lord John Russell . Cabinet Councils were held last Saturday , also on Tnesday , Wednesday , and Thursday . The Court is now in mourning for her late Majesty the Queen of Sardinia , and also for the Dowager Queen of- Sardinia * -The-period of mourning , will expire . on February 15 th .

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      Indian Civil Service . —We understand that the maximum age of candidates for admission into the civil service of the East India Company has been fixed at 23 years instead of 22 , as previously announced . Scuttling a Ship without Reason . —George Watson , late master of the Sir Howard Douglas , of London , has been charged with aiding in scuttling that vessel on the coast of Denmark . He was fully committed to take his trial at the next assizes . Storm and great Loss op Life . —The southern coast has been visited by a violent gale of wind from tho north-north-east , and heavy falls of snow . On Saturday morning a fine barque , called tho Janet Boyd , of Glasgow , last from Hamburg , was totally lost on the Margate Sands , with , we regret to add , every soul on hoard .

      Convicts . —Tho report of Lieutenant-Colonel Jcbb , i on tho discipline and encouragement of convict prisons and the disposal of convicts ( 1853 ) , contains some interesting statistics . Illustrative of the increased cost of provisions , wo find tho victualling chnrgo 8 / . 19 s . per head for 1854-5 , as compared with 11 . -Is . lOd . for 1858-4 ; clothing is estimated at 21 . 19 s . 5 d ., as against 21 . 13 s . lOd . for each prisonor ; and clothing and travelling expenses of prisoners " on liberation , " at 15 s . 8 d ., as against 4 s . 2 d . Tho gross total cost per prisoner is 26 / . 3 s . 10 d ., and the number of prisoners 8 , 359 in 1854-5 , as against 7 , 264 in 1868-4 .

      Death of Archdeacon Hare . — The venerable Julius Charles Hare , M . A ., Archdeacon of Lewes , died on Tuesday , at Ilurstmonceux Rectory .. Tho reverend gentleman , who was a very distinguished minister of tho Church of England , was ono of her Majesty ' s chapla ins , Viear of . Herstmonccux , and a prebendary of Chtchestcr Cathedral . Thb Great Britain is being surveyed at Liverpool by Captain Bovis , R . N ., with tho view of chartering her for tho conveyance of troops for tho Crimea . Other stcumors are also being surveyed at tho same port ; and several sailing vessels havo boon taken up for tho conveyance of hay .

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      Leader OriFicfi " , Saturday , January 2 * 7 . The House of Commons assembled" in great numbers last night , to listen to Lord John RusselTs statement and the debate on Mr . Roebuck ' s motion . Every part of the House was crowded , and the-greatest excitement prevailed . ¦ In the House of Commons , Lord J . Eussell rose and entered Into a statement of the reasons for his resignation . He said— " On Tuesday last , when I was present in this house , the hon . and learned gentleman tie member for Sheffield ( TVIr . Roebuck ) gave notice of a motion for a ' select committee to inquire into the

      condition of our army before Sebastopol , and into the conduct of those departments of the Government whose duty it has been to minister to the wants of that army . ' I of course thought it probable that some member might move for an inquiry of this kind . I had not , however , fully considered the course that I ought to take thereupon ; fhat course depending much upon the nature of the motion , and I shoald say , likewise , partly upon the quarter from which it might come . The hon . and learned member for Sheffield , it fa evident , is in a position to evince no hostility to the Government which he has supported ; and I could not conceive that he had any other object than that which we ought all to have at heart—the vigorous prosecution of the war . "

      Fully admitting the value of the power of inquiry in that house , he proceeded to say : — "A motion for inquiry , however , may be resisted upon two grounds : the one , that there are no evils existing of sufficient magnitude to call for inquiry ; the other that sufficient means have been taken to remedy those evils ; and that they will best be cured by other means than by a resort to the inquisitorial powers of this House . With respect to the first of these objections , it is obvious that it was impossible to urge that . No one can deny the melancholy condition of our army before Sebastopol . The accounts which arrive from that quarter arc not only painful—they are horrible and heartrendingmoment

      and I am sure no one would oppose for a afly measure which he thought likely , not only to cure , but even to mitigate , those evils . And , sir , I must say that , with all the official knowledge to which I have had ^ access , there is something which is to me inexplicable in the state of this army . If I had been told as a reason against the expedition to the Crimea last year that the troops would be seven miles from the sea—— seven miles from a secure port , which at that time , when in contemplation of the expedition , we hardly hoped to possess ; and that at that seven miles distance , they would be in want of food , of clothes , and of shelter , to such a degree that they should perish at the rate of from 90 to 100 a day

      —I should have considered such a prediction as utterly preposterous—such an objection to be entirely inapplicable and unfounded . And yet we are all aware of the notoriety of the melancholy condition of our army . It was not , therefore , by denj'ing the existence of the evils that I cottld hope to induce-this House to rebutthc proposition of the hon . and learned gentleman . But I had further to reflect , if I was in no position to give a faint ' no' to the proposition , not to express in vague and equivocal terms a wish that the motion might not be carried , or to use any evasion with respect to the matter of its terms , with a view to defeating that motion . It was my duty—a duty , I trust , I have performed when I was in that situation—to stand in the front of the

      battle , and manfully to take my part in opposing the appointment of that committee . " Ho then stated that the only other ground he could take in opposing was his ability to state that measures were being taken to remedy the mal-adminiatration of the war . He then entered into the history of the separation of the War Department from the Colonies and tho Duke of Newcastle ' s appointment ; and after alluding to the necessity for Ministers being able to recruit their health in tho country during the vacation , and defending himself against tho charge of going lecturing about tho country , ' ho stated in the month of November ho became dissatisfied with the administration of tho affairs of the

      war , and proceeded to show that ho had entered into a correspondence with Lord Aberdeen , urging that tho offices of Secretary of State for tho War Department and that of Secretary at War should bo filled by ono person , and that person a member of the House of Commons , of great abilities and large experience in the administration of tho army , and urging that that person was Lord Palmorston , who ought to bo appointed at once . Lord Aberdeen , in a lengthened correspondence , extracts from which ho read , stated his reason * for declining to accede to the proposition , and as ho

      was urged not to press it by several of his friends , and by Lord Palmorston himself , he did not press it . He then went on to say as follows : —" The only chango ¦ which I had been able to commend in the session boforo Christmas was that the commissariat department had been placed under tho War Minister . With regard to any further change I heard no mention of it till the proposal made on Saturday lust . I reflected upon that proposal , and having reflected upon It , I told my noble friend at the head of the Government thut I considered t incomplete and insufficient , and I gave him a paper

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 27, 1855, page 82, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2075/page/10/