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      rience , as well as reasonable in itself to believe , tha some time will elapse before the effects of a change o temperature are fully jnanifested in the registration This return includes the deaths of 634 males and 621 females . Forty-four men and women died whost Iive 3 had been prolonged to 80 years or upwards The deaths produced by bronchitis received a con siderable accession ; for , having been 119 in each oi the two previous weeks , they rose last week to 161 , oi which 45 occurred to persons under 20 years of age , and almost exclusively infants ; 9 between the ages oi 20 and 40 ; 39 in the period of 40-60 ; 60 at the ages 60 to 80 ; and 8 were deaths of octogenarians . The deaths from pneumonia or inflatnniation of the lungs , amounting to 80 , and , falling principally among children , are not so numerous as in some previous weeks . Against 60 from bronchitis in the period of life 60-80 years , are to be set 60 from phthisis ( or consumption ) , which occurred in that period of greater vigour , 20 . to 40 years , being about half the total number from this disease . Fatal cases of typhus rose from 45 to 65 , of which there were 10 in Shoreditch ; of these 10 four occurred in Haggerstone West . Typhus , measles , Avhooping-cough , and scarlatina prevail now more in the East districts than in the other divisions of London . Four deaths from scarlatina occurred in Hoxton Old Town . Three deaths were registered aa caused by intemperance , 4 by delirium tremens , 3 by carbuncle , 1 by want of the necessaries of life . Last week , the births of 759 boys and 763 girls , in all " l , 522 children , were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1845-54 , the average number was 1 , 434 . —From the Registrar-General ' s Weekly Return .. Novel Subjects of Taxation . —A bill has been presented to the Legislature of Tene 3 see , levying a tax of five dollars on every gentleman who wears a moustache , and a fine of five dollars upon bachelors over thirty years of age , for the purpose of raising money to increase the school fund . —New York Journal of Commerce . The late Samuel Rogkrs . —" We have , withm the last dozen years , " says the Athenamm , "heard Mr . Kogers describe how he had seen Marie-Antoinette dance , and illustrate the same by himself walking a minuet . There is also an anecdote of his having left an eax-ly poem at Dr . Johnson ' s door only a day or two before the Doctor ' s death . Till an accident confined him to his chair , Mr . Rogers continued to be an attendant ' at the Opera , the Ancient Concerts , and , when these died out , at the Exeter Hall Oratorios . Till a very late period he might be seen at midnight feebly hurrying home from these on foot—no matter what the weather—thiuly dressed , and as resentful of the slightest offer of attendance as was "the Duke when he was scarcely able to mount his horse . The passion for pleasure did not forsake him till a very Iat 3 period . Only a few years since a street accident caused by this imprudent manner of wandering home alone , sentenced him to a chair for the rest of hiss days . " Mr . Rogers has bequeathed to the nation three well known pictures from his collection—the Titian " Noli me Tangere ; " the Giorgione , a " Small Ticture of a Knight in Armour . ; " and the Guido , "Head of Christ crowned with Thorns . " The remainder of the collection will , it is presumed , be sold in the course of the ensuing spring . Strange Present to an Officer in the Crimea . Mr . W . Thomas , of Rntton , Sussex , has despatched to his brothei * , Major Thomas , of the Royal Horse Artillery , now in the Crimea , a pack of fox-hounds , for the purpose of hunting the Russian foxe . s . Baking Companies—Two joint-stock bread associations have existed in Birmingham for several years . A correspondent of a contemporary says that , fifty or sixty years ago , the elder of the two companies embarked . € 8 , 100 in the trade , divided into as many shares . They havo saved a surp lus capital of botwoen . £ 40 , 000 and £ 50 , 000 . They sell their bread at the market price , and yet divide cent , per cent , per annum on thoir subscribed capital . So much for the comxnorcial stability of this concern , testod by the experience of more than half a century . 1 ho junior oompany is also prosperous , its shares selling ii . ir more than twice their original value . The Birmingham poor thus obtain genuine bread made of good flour , and their loaves arc of full weight . No sinister interest exists , furnishing motives to fraud in those particulars ; and , with regard to price , competition i » all powerful to bring that to the lowest point . A Cmi'iM . K Buiined to Dkai'ii . —A widow with Hovoral childivn has boon burnod to death at Preston . Tlio poor creature was a cripple ; and thero wera evidences that , being quite alono at the time , bIio had wandered over tho greator part of the house ( probably in Honrcli of assistance ) while her clothes wore on lire Fixim at tub Duke of Lkinbxku ' h Mansion . —An extensive conflagration , resulting in the doHtruction of one wiug of tho Duke of Loiuntor ' n mansion at Carton , Ireland , broko out on Friday week , but was got under in time to Have tho rest of tho building . It i » supposed to lmvo originated in a hot-air fluo in one of the upper rooms of tho wing , « nd to have amoulderod for flomo days .

      t [ Death prom Fire . —Mrs Mary Brown , who was f recently injured in a fire which occurred at Bristol , . and whose legs aud ribs were broken in endeavouring $ to escape , has died in the Infirmary . She was in her ; sixty-fourth year . Fire in a Prison . —The following shocking par-- ticulars of a fire in a prison at Baden are from the F Cologne Gazette : — "The fire broke out on tho ground F floor , and , having immediately after caught the , wooden staircase , cut off all communication with the ? upper floors . The gaolers had gone thoir usual i rounds at nine o'clock and at eleven , but saw nothing wrong ; and they were themselves roused from their sleep by the flames . The prisoners on the first floor succeeded in escaping , some of them by tearing away the iron bars from the "window of the water-closet , bnt many of them were severely hurt in their attempt . Those on the second floor were not so fortunate , as the flooring being burnt through gave way beneath them . In consequence of the severe frost , the engines could work but very imperfectly , and the fire continued burning during the whole day . Fifteen carbonized bodies have already been got out from the ruins , and the body of one unfortunate man was found jammed in the pipe of the water-closet through which he had endeavoured to force a passage . " . The Fire in Mint-Street *—An inquest has been held on tho bodies of Lydia Robins and her children , who were burnt to death in the fire in Mint-street , Southwark . on Tuesday week . The circumstances were peculiarly tragic , inasmuchas the poor woman was > pproaching her confinement at the time of the disaster , and it would seem that the infant was actually born durin the conflagration , perhaps prematurely from the a ^ oiiy an d . terror of ? the mother . Thefire appears to have " originated from a beam of wood having ignited owing to the bad setting of a copper . The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against the man who set the copper . He was taken into custody , but admitted to bail . Christmas-day . —Last Tuesday was tho second Christmn . s-clay since the commencement of the war ; and of necessity there were many households , from the highest to the lowest , where mournful recollections ° of the absent and tho dead precluded the accustomed festivity . The weather , also , though mild , was gloomy ; the streets were encumbered with mud ' aud dirty puddle , from the recent thaw and heavy falls-of rain ; and London , consequently , did not present the most holiday aspect . But it may he safely stated that , as usual , a vast amount of eating and drinking laughing and toast-pledging , went on as usual , and in the workhouses the really Christian custom of looking after the comforts of the poor was not forgotten . We are sorry to add , however , that the returns with respect to the pauper inmates , and to those receiving out-door relief , show a lamentable increase of poverty as compared with last year . Railway Accidents . —The mail train on the Eastern Counties line which was proceeding on Monday night , from Peterborough to Ely , struck down two men , named Thomas Motts and David Knight , who died almost immediately from the injuries they received . The train was on the down line—an arrangement which is adopted while a bridge is being repairedabout eight miles from Ely . The driver of tho engine whistled , and it was a moonlight night , but the men had been drinking aud were heedleBS of the Bignal . The bodies of both men were much injured . The wife of Mott , who lives close by the spot where tho occurrence took place , is a young woman with four little children , aud the other man had a wife and family . —Owing to the negligence of a switchman on tho North Kent Railway , a train from London on Christmas-day ran into a siding at the btrood fetation and dashed against soverol empty carriages in conse- quenco of which the engine and a portion of tho tram were thrown off tho Hue , and several of the pniMcngora were severely bruUcd . One of those , a widow who was going to spend her ChriHfcmns at ShoorncfM , was bo seriously injured in the spine that , Any-hope * are entertained of her recovery . Edward Kmgton , tho switchman , is in custody . It is stated that ho had nealceted to turn tho points from tho direction oi the flidiuK —A catastrophe of a very fearful nature , but happily not attended by loss of life l . iw beem-rea on one of tho branch linos belonging to tho St . Helen h Railway Company , a short distance from Liverpool . Tho line is a single lino , and thoro > a n Hwmg-bridgo over a canal . An engine with a train of empty con trucks was pacing along the rail , and , having cleared tho mving-bml «« , ol-Horvecl another locomotive coming down the line Tho former ongiuo wnH rovowocl , to avoid a collision ; but tho nwing-bridgo had bcon ruined f « . r tlio panHii ; , 'O of a boat on tho o : uml , anil the ongino-drivor , not seeing this , allowed tho onyino to K o through the aperture and fall on tho boat bonoiith . Tho c-Mipling-ehains snapped , bo that the trucks < lul not follow . Tlio driver und stoker aavod themselves , and no bisrioua injury re « ultod . Al . I . lCGKD EOIWINO OV A CHIlTUriOATB OF I ^ NA-JY . Tj / lv w It Wilkinson , asHWtuut to Mr . It . Cl . I lor- ton , Burgeon of Leeds , has boon committed for trial on a charge of Boning tho name of his employer Without tho loave or knowledge of that gentleman )

      Peter , their great monarch , to have a-foot tn some the Western 2 > art 3 of Europe : many of his schemes and treaties were directed to this end ; but , happily for Europe , he failed in them all . A fort m tho power of this people would be like the possession of a floodgate : and whenever ambition entered , or necessity prompted , they might then bo able to deluge the whole western world with a ¦ barbarous . inundation . Believe me , my friend , I cannot sufficiently condemn the politics of Europe , who thus make tliis powerful people arbitrators in their quarril . "

      of case also . " Goldsmith on Russian Augression . — A correspondent of the Times has pointed out the annexed passages in Goldsmith ' s " Citizen of the \ S orld , as an interesting evidence of the long-standing apprehensions of Russia as an encroaching power : — " / cannot avoid beholding the Russian empire as the natural enemy of the more western 2 > arts of Europe -as an enemy already possessed of great strength , and , from the nature of the government , every day threatening to become more powerful . It was long tho wish ot

      posted in the United Kingdom addressed to France or Algeria , or , when they are convoyed by the French Mediterranean packets , to any of tho places in Turkey , Syria , and Egypt at which Franco maintains post-oflices , must , on the 1 st of January next and thenceforward be paid ia advance , and no further charge of any kind will be levied upon their delivery . Under the new arrangement , many kinds of books and other printed matter , which have hitherto been liable to the letter rate of postage , will be forwarded at a greatly reduced charge ; and , as the charges on newspapers and other periodical literature levied on delivery in France have , in most instances , been much greater than that now to be paid in advance , a considerable reduction of postage will be made in their

      to a document stating that a young woman named Ann Ash was insane ; in virtue of which certificate , the woman has been placed in a lunatic asylum There seemed to be no doubt aboub Ann Ash's insanity ; and in defence it was stated that Mr . Hort ' on , being too ill to attend to business , had given Mr . Wilkinson a general permission to sign for him , though it-was not contended that he had any knowledge of the present act . The accused was admitted to bail . Postal Convention with France . —A Convention with France , dated General Post-office , December , 1855 , has been published . It contains the following notification : — "The en tire postage , British and French , chargeable \ ipon newspapers and other priuted papers

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      Leader Office , Saturday , December 20 . LATEST NEWS FROM THIS EAST . Ni : wd from Constantinople up to tho 17 th inat . has been received , and contains some facts of interest . The Crimean submarine telegraph is broken . —Several English gun-boats arc cruising in the Sea of Azof , destroying , where tho ice docs not hinder them , all the Russian fisheries . —General Williams and tho prisoner of Kara have been sent to Tiflw . — Colonel

      Schwaitzen-, ; , berg has ( succeeded in reaching Erzoroum . — -Count Prokesch has arrived at Constantinople . —The conferences on tho settlement of fchoPaiiubiiiu Principalities will soon open . —A note of Lord Stratford proposes the union of Moldavia and Wullnchia , to bo governed by an Hereditary Princo , with a national anny . Advices from Trobissonde , of tho 11 th of December , state that Omar Pacha has ( Mtabliahod lii

      , . , , < head- > quartera at Rodout-Kaleh . STRKKT ltODDERY NEAR LONDON TJllTIXlK . A ruffianly looking man , named Edward Channor , was examine . ! yesterday at Southwark on a charge of anatching a watch with great violence from thoinastor of a vessol in tlio port of London . Tlio time- was botwoon seven and eight in tho evening , aud tho Hcone the crowded thoroughfare of Wellington-atruet , South walk . Tho man irt committed for trial . JlANKIHJITCY / l Mi

      , , ^ t /> „ , „ ,, k , ittim ( :,. VMIHKlONKIt OK OUTRAOK ON THE CoMMIHHlONKIl OK JI » u .. w —A Htrango rcouo occurred in Hi" <*>»* <> f litmkruptcy yesterday morning l' « t » -een twelve and one o'clock . A respectably droned i . mi . wont 1 .. I 0 tl , « Court , uttered » ,, mo word- in ,, » iaoohore -. t .. * . » . and threw two <> n . » g « H at hm Honour , hufjoituu o . y , » ot , lo any injury . 'J h « n . «» ^^ Hecurocl taken out of Court , and dolumo . I . , n o . dcr

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 29, 1855, page 1245, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2121/page/9/