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      elected him Governor , on the retirement of Mr . E . Woofctou . The retiring governor has held the situation for sixteen years , and has during that time won the esteem and regard of the ratepayers , the guardians , and the poor who had been dependent upon the Union . He withdraws to cultivate a farm which he has purchased near Dover .

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      NAVAL AND MILITARY . Nurses ax Naval Hospitals . — An Admiralty order jusfc promulgated directs a considerable increase in the pay of nurses in the naval hospitals . It is to be hoped that a better class of attendants on the sick will thus be attained . "Wrecks on ran ? Welch CoAstf . —An immense quantity of wreck has been washed up along the shores of the Welch coast , a great portion of which has been recognised as forming part of the vessels recently lost with lamentable sacrifice of life . In the Bay of Cardigan a large amount of timber hag been picked up , and it is feared that during the late heavy ¦ weather more vessels were lost than were reported , as several have been missed . The bodies of those lost in the Catharine Jenkins have been recovered . No doubt is entertained as to the'fate of the crew of the French ship Buono , lost at Porthcawl , as bodies , no doubt forming part of the crew , have teen "washed , ashore .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . —The Queen and Prince Albert , last Saturdays -visited the National Gallery in company with the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice . On her return to Buckingham-palace , the Queen received forty-three of the Guards who have come home wounded from the Crimea . The anenj after the reception , -were regaled in the lower dining-hall . The King of the Belgians is expected on a visit to the Queen , to be present at the confirmation of his goddaughter , the Princess Royal .

      Writ of Habeas Corpus to produce the Body op a child supposed to be detained in ajunneet . — On Tuesday last Mr . Cook Evans instructed by Mr . Clarke , of Bedford-row , applied to Mr . Justice Crompton , at chambers , for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of Mary King , the mother of Mary Ann King , who it was supposed was detained in the Norwood Nunnery . The affidavit of the mother ( who is a Roman Catholic ) stated that when her husband died | in 1850 sheplaced her child in the Nunnery at Norwood iov two years ; after which there was- an intimation of her being sent abroad , to which the mother stx-ongly objected . A request was then made to allow the child to remain six

      from Marylebone also concurred in the prayer of the Hampstead memorial , and approved' of the suggestion of the deputation of Marylebone with regard to providing the money necessary to secure Hampstead Heath for the public . The deputation then retired . The Bedford-row M / order . — "Westron , the mur- < derer of Mr . Waugh , is , by the decision of the Homeoffice , to be condemned to penal servitude for life . The jury , it will be remembered , found him guilty of the murder , but also found that he was " predisposed to insanity . "

      Suicide of a Large Brioksiaker . —Mr . William Rhodes ) an extensive brickmakei " , has committed suicide , after suffering severely from mental depression . An inquest has terminated in the usual verdict of temporary insanity . Sir George Grey ' s Police Bill . —The court of Common . Council , on the advice of its Consolidated Committee , has resolved to petition the Government against the Home Secretary ' s Police Bill , on the ground of its centralising ; tendency . Rutla-nd Election—The Hon . G . H . ISeathcote , son of the retiring member , now a peer , was on Tuesday elected at Oakham , without opposition , to represent the county of Rutland .

      The Unity Bank . —The subscribers of the Unity Bank ha ^ ve completed the requisite payment of 50 per cent , on its capital of £ 600 , 000 , and it is stated that , immediately on the receipt of its charter from the Board of Trade , which is expected in- the course of the present month , the Bank -nrill commence operations . — Times' City Article , Wednesday . The Eastern Counties RiiLWAT . — The shareholders of the Eastern Counties Company at their meeting-on the evening of Friday week , adopted the report so far as relates to the rate of distribution , and , with regard to the election of directors , a poll has been demanded . The discussion throughout was of a turbulent character , a strong feeling , being exhibited against a continuance of the late management .

      The National Reforj £ atorx Union . — -A meeting of this soeiety—the object of winch is to extend and encourage the present movement in favour of the reformation of criminals—was held last Saturday afternoon . Several members of Parliament and persons o f high station were present ; the report was adopted ; a deputation , was appointed to wait on Prince Albert , to request his co-operation ; and a motion was carried , appointing a sub-committee , for the consideration of the two bills- with relation to Scotch and Irish reformatories now befoi'e Parliament .

      months longer , to which-the mother consented . The child after that saw her mother always in the presence of a null ; and at length , when the mother began to express her determination to take her child home , she w-as only allowed to see her child through a lattice work or grating . Finchly , the mother , was refused permission to see her daughter at all . At the latter end of last year the mother met one of the priests , and asked him concerning her daughter , and the prieBt said that her daughter had been sent to " France

      some months since . The mother applied to a magistrate , who could not assist her . She was then recommended to apply to her attorney , Mr . Clarke , who went with her to the convent and demanded her daugMer . The nuns replied that she was not there , but liad been sent to France twelve months . previously . Mi \ Evans urged that if this Iiubcas eorpus was not effectual the law of this country -was a complete blank to the mother , and to any parent under similar circumstances , His Lordship granted the writ , which he made returnable at his chambers on Monday next .

      Enclosure op Hampstead Heath . —A special mooting of the Metropolitan Board of Works was held , yesterday morning at the Council Chamber , GuiLdhall , Mr . J . Thwaites in the chair , to receivo deputations from the vestries of Hampstead , NTarylebone , nnd St . Panoraa , " On the subjeot of fcho adoption of niotisures for securing Hampstead Hoath for the recreation of the public , " in consequence of the bill now before Parliament , to gave Sir Thonjas Marion Wilson , Bart ., power to enclose and build on thia Heath . The memorial from Hampatoa < l urgod upon , the board the necessity of their speedily intorfering in this matter , and adopting measures for the purchase of tho ground in question . The ooafc of the three

      hundred and ton acres was estimated at . £ 100 , 000 , nnd tho memorial suggested thnt the approaches to the heath phould be improved . It also enforced tlxc necessity of an application to Parliament by this board , in acoordanco with tho clause in the Metropolitan Board of Works Act . Applications had been made to Government on this question ; and on tho lo , Ht occasion tho deputation waB told , to wait and lay their oiwho boforo thia board , -which -was thon in contemplation of being formed . Tho deputation Dram St . PonoraB concurred in tho recommendationa mentioned in . the Hamp&tend memorial , and added tka , t tho expanse should bo dofrayod by a general note on tho inhabltantH of tho metropolis . Tho deputation

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      THE BALTIC , Two RusBian war-steamers , accompanied by three gun-boats , have got out of Sweaborg by breaking ; the ice . These ships have appeared in the Baltic . ,, - 3 § £ ft

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      CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT ( YESTERDAY ) . Frederick Quennell , a supernumerary at the Surrey Theatre , was tried for a murderous assault , within the building , of William . Hurcum , a dresser and assistant . He was found guilty ; and , though , reconv mended to mercy by the jury on account of some provocation which they " believed " he had undergone ( though none was Bpeoified ) , he was condemned to ten months' imprisonment , the last week to be in solitary confinement . James Sjdeuham , a wheelwright , has been acquitted of a charge of killing a little boy eleven years of' age . They wer « at the Surrey Theatre ; and the man , in order to induce the boy to sit down instead of standing on a bench , pinched hkn in a delicate part of his person . The child died from peritonitus ; but tho medical r oan could not say that he might not have died without the injury .

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      Leader , Office , Saturday , March 1 . LAST WIGHT'S P 1 RLIAMMT . HOUSE OF LORDS . Their Lordships sat only for a short time , and merely advanced one or two Bills a stage . In the ear-ly part of the evening a Koyal Commission was held and the royal assent given to two Money Bills . HOUSE OF COMMONS , THE ROAD THROUGH ST . JAMES ' SrPARK . Sir B . Hall brought up the report of the coinmittee appointed to inquire into the question of a road through St . James's-pavk . It stated that they rejected the plan which proposed that tho roadshould pass through the park ; as well as another which passed through part of the Green-park j and they

      in by the Attorney-General to amend a provision of the Metropolis Local Management bill of last session but he was stopped by the Speaker on the ground ithat the bill -was one of the orders of the day and ought not to le discussed . He , however , persisted , : and urged that the amendment bill would neutralise ^ the intention under which the original bill was passed He hoped it would not be brought on late that evening , and begged that it might be postponed . The Attorney-General said the bill was only intended to make clear doubts raised on the operation of the Bill relating to vesfcries , and to prevent heavy litigation which , was impending over the parishes of the metropolis . »

      THE GBAVES OF THE BRITISH OFFICERS IN THE CRBIBA . . Sir J . FergubsoN inquired whether a pledge would be taken from Russia not to disturb the graves and monuments of the British officers and soldiers in the Crimea ^ iii the erven * of the Allied Armies evacuating their present position . Lord PAXioiBSTOir BaM" the subject would be attended to in the negotiations , and he thought there could be no difficulty in getting an assurance from the Russian Government , that the graves in question would be respected . He paid a tribute to the generous conduct of the Russians during the war , and especially alluded to their conduct after tlie victory at Kara . Sir De Lac ? Evans pointed out that the population of the Crimea had been ruined by the -war , and . that certain portions of ground should be set aside and guarded , and a rent-charge paid for it , with a . view to preserving thegraves in question . THE APPELLATE JUBlSDlCTION . OF THE HOUSE OF XOEDS . On going into Committee of Supply , Mr . BdWTBB rose to- bring the question of the condition of the Appellate Jurisdiction of the House of Lords . The House then went into Committee of Supply on the Amiy Estimates . The Estimates occupied the House till one o 6 lttelc . The otlie . v ordeis were quickly disposed of , and the House adjourned at half-past one .

      recommended a road passing from Pall-mall , by Marlborovgu-house , and continuing along the roadway in the Mall in the park , and theuco to Buckingham-gate > they recommended a foot-bi'idgc to be thrown over the water in St . James's-pavk ; that the Duke of York's column and the steps bo removed , and an opening for carriages from Trafalgar-square into tho Moll bo made .

      SEtA VINCI ON SUNDAY . In answer to Mr . Murrougm , Sir G . Grey said ho had inquivod into the case of Joseph Wolatonoham who was fined forshaving a man on aSunday atOldham ; but he had no power to remit the fino ; that tho person on whom it was inflicted had not complained , and that it was nn arrangement among tho barbers of Oldham uot to alvavo on Sundays , and it was at their inwtanoe that tho present offondov waB brought boforo tho magistrate . METROPOLIS LOCAL MANAQKAfJfCNT AMMNDMHN 1 KILL . Mr . T . DuNOOMiua protontod against tho bill brought

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      THE TURKISH REFORMS . We leam ( says a letter from Vienna in the Post Gazette of Frankfort ) that Lord Stratford de Redcliffe has presented a note from the English Government , asking the Porte to aflbw , as a guarantee for thepiro '' mised reforms , the occupation by English troops , foe an indefinite period , of Varna , Gallipoli , and CancUa . It was thought at Constantinople that , if this question be discussed at Paris , Russia will' oppose it . Reinforcements are no longer directed on Kamieschy but on Maslak . Marshal Peliasier has been summoned to Paris .

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      Boston Election . —Mr . Ingram ho » been returned for Boston . Ho supports Lord Palmerston . The late Fire at Covbnt-garden . — Prince Arthur visited tho ruins of tho theatre yesterday , and , say the- ponny-a-linors , exclaimed " Hoiv dreadful J " It is hard to say which is the most oliild-like—the oxcJamutiaa or the chronicle of it . Of the two ^ the first was certainly tho more natural . The Duke * of Cambridge also visited tho ruins . —Mr . Kingston , treasurer to Mr . Anderson during his late management will have a benefit at fcho Lyceum Theatre , on TueB d « y next . The members of tho Covont-gorden companj will perform , and an addroas written by Mr . l&ober , Brough will bo dolivored . Tho courageous conduq of Mr . Kingston at tho fire deaorvotj all reward . The Royal Commission oip Gknebal Offiobrs . ' - Tho boar <} of general officors formed to inquire int tho Crimean report of Sir John M'Noill and Co Tulloch , will hold its roeetinga in the Great Htall the Royal Hospital , Ohulsoa .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 8, 1856, page 227, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2131/page/11/