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      producing evidence that they had attended a Sunday School , and some other school during the week , and thus kept up their education . " The same speaker also stated that the experiment has been already tried in Staffordshire , and has succeeded . Resolutions approving of the plan , and invititing" co-operation for carrying it out , were unanimously passed . The Cjkops . —Another change in the weather , from warm and dry to cold and rainy , has had a deteriorating inf luence upon the crops ; but a large part of the harvest has been already got in , and , though the yield will not be equal to that of last year , there seems to be no probability of the wheat crops being under the average . The blight has unquestionably made its appearance among the potatoes in Ireland ; but it has not as yet spread to any alarming extent . Health of London . —The returns of the metropolitan registrars continue to exhibit a rate of mortality which is not high for London at this period of the year . In the week that ended on Saturday , the deaths from all causes registered were 1031 , of which 559 , or considerably more than a half , occurred under 20 years of age , 19 at 80 years or above that age ; and the remainder occurred , in nearly equal numbers , in the three intermediate vicennial periods of life . Diarrhoea appears in the last two weeks to have Buffered a check . It was fatal in 134 ca » eo last wettk , of which . Ill occurred to infants less than two years old . Eighteen deaths are returned variously as caused by cholera , English cholera , choleraic diarrhoea , infantine cholera . In one case , the disease is described aa " Asiatic , " and is stated to have occurred without premonitory symptoms to a man who lived in Drummond-crescent , Somers-town , and died after twelve hours' illness . The house which he inhabited is reported to be in bad sanitary condition . In 8 of the 18 cases enumerated the sufferers were adults , 20 years of age and upwards . Two children in a family in Upper Johnstreet , Tottenham-court-road , died on the same day of small-pox . The death of a man , aged 51 years , was caused by haemorrhage from the gums during five or six days . A boy aged , aged three years , died from " convulsions caused by fright on seeing a dog by which he had been bitten a fortnight before . Last week , the births of 840 boys and 831 girls , in all 1671 children , were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1845-54 , the average number was 1393 . —From the Registrar-General ' 8 Weekly Return . The Filthy Condition of Belleisle . —Mr . William May , superintendent registrar of Islington , has addressed a letter to the registrar-general , complaining of the pestiferous condition of the district called Belleisle , Islington , with reference to which it will be recollected that a public meeting was recently held . The noxious manufactories complained of cover , according to Mr . May , a space little short of eight acres of ground . It is often impossible , he adds , to open the windows in the west district of Islington when the wind blows from the infected quarter- The poisonous establishments consist of places employed for horse-slaughtering , bone-boiling , fat-melting , and grease-manufacturing , together with houses for producing a kind of artificial manure , by baking night-soil , blood , putrid fish , meat , and vegetables , and all the garbage that can be collected from the dunghills of the metropolis . The Captain of a River Steamboat fell overboard a few days ago , and was drowned . Railway Accident- —A man name Harrison was recently killed during the night between the buffers of some waggons on the Manchester and Sheffield Railway . He was found dead on the lines in the morning . The Shipping Returns of the Board of Trade for the month ending the 31 st of July exhibit an increase of employment , especially for British vessels , and confirm the other indications of a recent extension of trade . —The Excise statements for the first half of this year have also been published . A decline appears in each article as compared with the corresponding period of last year , more especially in paper . Of this article , the quantity charged with duty from January to July , 1854 , was 91 , 435 , 935 pounds ; in the same period this year , the number of pounds was 80 , 226 , 607 . This decline is rather singular , considering the sudden impulse given to newspapers by the repeal of the stamps . Now English College at Rome . —The Pope is about to establish a new English college at Rome for the education of Roman Catholio priests . It is to be called after his own name . Rise in the Price of Bread and Flour . —On Wednesday , throughout the metropolis , a rise in the price of bread took place of one halfpenny on the four pound loaf , and a corresponding increase in the price of flour . The Lord Mayor bktwken Loyalty and £ a . d . —At the Exhibition of Amateur Art at Burlington House this season , in aid of the Patriotic Fund , there was a great rush to see the drawings of the " youthful members of the Royal Family . " A drawing by the Princeas Royal , on which that august young lady at the modest price of 51 ., but for which 2001 . was offered by an enthusiastically loyul Great Britain , was selected for engraving-, and the subscribers wore very numerous . The print has lately been sent round to the subscribers , with the bill . Conspicuous in the list was the liigbt Hon . the Lord Mayor : to him in due course coitics tho i

      print , with the bill . Sir Francis G . Moon , Bart ., presents his compliments to the Committee and begs to say that he considers himself entitled to receive the print at ¦ trade price . O ! Francis Moon , Bart . ! This is really too bad after the Baronetcy . A Fatal Boat Accident occurred m Plymouth Sound on Monday evening , Mr . Douglas Dent , Storekeeper of Her Majesty ' s dockyard in Devonport , having been drowned hy the upsetting of a boat . His two sons , who were with him , were with difficulty recovered . Our Clerical Civilisation . —On Tuesday afternoon , Mr . Alderman Farebrother attended atGarraway ' s coffeehouse , for the purpose of disposing , by public auction , of the advowson and right of presentation to the rectory of Lytchett Maltravers , in the county of Dorset . The incumbent was thirty-three years of age , and some representations had been made as to the state of his health . He ( the alderman ) would not say what those representations were , but intending purchasers might easily satisfy themselves on that point . A formal proposition was then made that some one should say 35001 . for the advowson , but no one ventured . It fell step by step to 2000 £ , when some pne £ &ajde a bid . The competition was by no means brisk . ^ Offers were made slowly , until the amount reached 2450 i ; and for that sum the rectory of Lytchett-Maltravers was knocked down . What do our Mahometan allies think of this ? What will all men think of it a thousand years hence ? The Irish Flax Crop this year is 37 £ per cent , deficient . The New Act with Respect to Parishes . —The Metropolis Local Management Act , which is to come into force on the first of next January , directs that all parishes with more than two thousand rated householders shall be divided into wards containing not less than five hundred rated-householders , the number of wards not exceeding eight . The proportion of vestrymen to each ward is to be determined by the number of persons rated to the relief of the poor in each ward , and to the aggregate amount of the sums at which all such persons are rated ; and the number of vestrymen appointed to each ward is to be a number divisible by three . —The four assessors nominated for carrying out the foregoing sections of the act commenced their work on Thursday , and proceeded to divide the several parishes into wards , and to apportion the number of vestrymen to be elected . Sre James Graham on " the Sod . "—The ceremony of cutting the first sod of the Silloth Railway was performed on Friday week by Sir James Graham . The new line is to join the Port Carlisle Railway at Drumburgh , and to run to a point on the coast of the Solway Frith called Silloth Bay , a distance of about nine miles and a half . The act for its construction , with a floating dock at the Silloth terminus , was obtained during the last session of Parliament after a protracted and expensive contest with the Maryport and Carlisle Railway , and a double defeat . The third time the company were successful . Sir James made two speeches ; one before the sod-cutting , and another after a repast which was given in a tent . His present anti-war feeling was exhibited in the remark that he had to perform his work in the midst of "the prodigal and fruitless expenditure of millions of the public money ; " but he afterwards congratulated the nation on its victories , and hoped we should have more . Alluding to Sir Robert Peel , he declined to discuss what that statesman ' s policy would have been under the present circumstances ; but he remarked that he was an advocate of competition in railways as in all other matters .

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      THE " NEW SORT OP DESPOTISM . " "We are engaged in a crusade abroad . But the first and best of all crusades for nations , as for men , is to be true to honour at home . Can Englishmen say that they are true to honour when they worship the author of the Coup d ' etat ? After making all allowances for good motives and natural illusions , we are obliged to own that we feel grief and shame for our country . "We feel grief and shame for her want of sense , if not for her want of morality . The motives of XiOtris Napoleon ' s career are patent . Twice in a time of profound peace and of constitutional government he raised the standard of civil war in France for his own selfish ends . Is this what one calls promoting the cause of peace and order ? will Gbanijer de Cassagnao himself dare to say that these facts are consistent with the disinterested patriotism and philanthropy of his hero ? What was the conduct of the President of the Republic ? Did he loyally and dutifully endeavour , by reconciling factions , calming fears , initiating good measures , to carry the Commonwealth safe through a period of revolution , and to consolidate its liberties on a basis of order ? Or did he , with repeated oaths and protestations of loyalty , set himself to aggravate disorder , to debauch the army , and to gather round him the accomplices of his preconcerted treachery ? Shout , gentlemen , but your shouts will not drown history ; and history will not be written by the Times , or by Dr . Veron . If Louis Napoleon was the friend of order , why was it necessary for him to gag nnd exile the " party of order ? " It is easier to see why with Bcliinh designs he should do einiate tho honour and ability of his country , as one tyrant of antiquity advised another lo cut off tho heads of the tallest poppies .

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      Leadjeh Office , Saturday , September 8 . THE BALTIC . Dantzic , Thursday , Sept . 6 , 8 p . m . The Vulture has arrived . She is not so seriously injured as was at first supposed . There is no news of importance . The weather is very bad . The fleets are healthy .

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      862 THE LEADER . [ No . 285 . Saturday ,

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      There is nothing 30 revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , aa the strain to Keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation m eternal progress . —Db . Arnold

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      St . Petersburg , Sept . 5 . An imperial ukase has been issued , abolish ing , on the proposal of Prince Paskiewitcli , the Field Commissariat of the army on active service ; Commissary General Annenkoff resuming his former charge .

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      A letter from Berlin in the Duaaeldtnrff" Gazette states that Austria is intent upon negotiating a new loan of from 250 ( o 300 millions of florins ( the florin I is about 2 fr . 50 c . ) Councillor de Mock is to proceed to Paris for that purpouo ; but many doubt tho pos ability of Austria ruising such an amount of money in Franco .

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      Wreck ov tub Ship Amanda . —North Uist , August 28 . —The Aniiuidn , of nnd for Bel nst , from Prusttia , with wheat , was wrecked on tlie 2 fuh of August , on the Point ot Airdmiie , went side of fciouth Uittt ; crew unU some of the materials tawed .

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      NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . " Paprkwoek . "—The mistake is on the side of our correspondent . It was not to " Paperwork , " but to " One who has examined at Oxford , " that we alluded in our article .

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      No notice can be taken of anonymous comxmuncations "Whateveris intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and add ress of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , but ai > a guarantee of his good faith . Communications should always be legibly written , and on onesideof thepaperonly . If long , itincreasesthe difficulty of finding space for them . > We cannot undertake to return rejected communications .

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      * * Fivbpence is now the price for an Unstamped copy of the Leader , and Sixpence if Stamped . A Stamped copy of this Journal can be transmitted through the Post-office to any part of Great Britain as frequently as may be required , during fifteen days from its date , free of charge ; but it is necessary that the paper should be folded in such a manner that the stamp be clearly visible on the outside . The Leader has been " registered" at the General Postoffice , according to the provisions of the New Act relating to Newspapers , and a Stamped copy has , therefore , the privilege of transmission through the post beyond the United Kingdom on payment of the proper rate of postage .

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      TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION TO « ' © ije Heafcet . " Fora Half-Tear : _ .......... » ... ... * 0 18 0 To be remitted % n advance . iSf Money Orders should be drawn upon the Stbahi > Branch Office , and be made payable to Mr . Aifbed E . Qamowat , at No . 154 , Strand .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 8, 1855, page 862, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2105/page/10/