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    St . Margaret's Churchyard . —A correspondent of the Times , who , under the signature of " Resur" -am " called attention last spring to the rotten state of the so ' « rSt . Margaret ' s Churchyard , close to Westmin ster Abbey , and who suggested the covering of the around with turf , now again writes , to point out a confir mation of hia views . He had occasion , a few evenings 3 cr , pass the locality . "I had scarcely , " he relate ° 'W foot into the west « nd of the churchyard , when "" I tumbled into what seemed a hole of considerable diinen sions . I fell on my face , and if my nose had been Yihl the noses of the Pauloffsky regiment , it would hav ? suffered severely . After scrambling out , I passed on but on Saturday morning , returning to look at the place '

    by dayhglit , I found , I cannot say to my surprise a chasm several feet in extent , formed by the subsiding of ntwo gravestones , which had carried a considerable quantity of soil with them . A bystander informed me that the yawning gulf had been there for some davs , but lie believed it was going to be filled up ' to-morrow / Even if it has been filled up , any of your readers whose business or pleasure may lead them across St . Margaret ' s Churchyard will not fail to recognize the spot by the freshness of the : gravel , and at the same time may ' see how much the general level of the whole area has changed since the improvements last spring , how many of the stones hare tipped up , and , if the day be rainy , how many little plashes and pools there are all over the surface . "

    Sir S . Bignold , M . P ., met his constituents last Tveek at Norwich , and reviewed the present position of public affairs , objecting to the present Government on the ground that it was weak and vacillating , and that it had no definable policy . He advised Conservatives to be watchful , and to follow out their true policy of seizin" - every really sound measure of reform ( including I ? aiTia ° mentary reform ) , and of rejecting " hollow schemes . " Expressing his approval of the disfranchiseineut of local policemen , he said ho believed that , at liis own election , the police were compelled to vote against him , though many would gladly have supported him .

    The Bridgenorth AGRiciri / ruRAL AssoctATroN met on Thursday week , Mr . M . G . Benson presiding at the dinner . Alluding to the ' politics' of agriculture , Mr . Benson said that two important questions had occupied the attention of the Legislature during the last session , one ^ having reference to the collection of agricultural statistics , and the other as to whetheT England could produce sufficient corn for its own population . As regarded the latter , he did not think the problem would be satisfactorily solved in the present generation . If the population remained stationary , wheat enough for home consumption might be grown in this conntry , but , as the population increased with the improved system of cultivation , he much doubted whether it could be done .

    There were 11 , 000 , 000 acres in the country not cultivated which - were capable of producing cereal crops , and be thought that the land now under cultivation might be made one-third more productive . In reference to the subject of agricultural statistics , though he was strongly opposed to any inquisitorial prying into the private affairs of the agriculturists , he thought the measure a wholesome one , and calculated to benefit the farmer as much as anybody else . —Mr . W . Whitmore contended that the produce of this country in corn is double that of France , though we possess only half the acreage of that country . —Viscount Newport thought that agricultural statistics hould be obtained voluntarily , not compulsorily , and hould be confined to large items . —After the delivery of ome other speeches , the meeting broke up .

    A New Use for Holford-house . —Holforcl-house , Regent ' s Park , the appropriation of which has frequently been a matter of speculation , and which was only recently in view for the residence of the ex-Queen of Oude , is to become a Baptist college ; that is , ( Stepney College is to bo removed to this now and advantageous site . Health op London . —The return for the week that ended last Saturday exhibits a low rate of mortality . The deaths , which in the previous six weeks have been on an average 1085 , declined last week to i ) 39 . In the corresponding weeks of the ten years 181 G-55 , the average number -was 1003 , and , if this is raised by a tenth part for increase of population , it becomes 1103 )

    compared with which the present return shows a reduction of 16-i . Of the total number , 484 were deaths of males , 455 those of females . Deaths from the zymotic or epidemic class of diseases , which in tho previous week were 25 G , were last week only 234 . Of those , M were from small-pox , 25 from measles , 28 from hoopingcough , 42 from typhus , 40 from scarlatina- The deaths from diarrhoea have now filllen to 16 . No fatal cn « s of choleni is recorded . There wcro 11 of erysipelas , four of syphilis , and two of purpura . Seven of tho deaths from typhus occurred in Pancms , five in ShorcdWeh . Tho

    Ascisnt of Mount Iytna . —Two Englishmen mid a j'onng lYus . sinn officer ascended Mount Etna on the ' 22 nd of September , nntl renched tho summit . They atcutcd at eight , v . m ., and gained the ton hv sunrise .

    having been made to Mr . Mechi to inaugurate the winter session of the Woodbridge Literary Institution with an address , and that g-entleman . having consented , he was invited to a public dinner , at which the High Sheriff presided . In replying to the toast of hia health , Mr . Mechi discoursed afc large on model farming , and gave same interesting particulars of Mr . Boydell's traction engine . " It was slated that it drew ploughs after it and cultivated land at a great depth , at a cost of only one-fifth of the expense of ploughing by horses ; and that the-work it was doing , which would cost 15 s . by horse power , was done by it at 3 s . But let them give 7 s . 6 d . in , and say it did for 10 s . what with horses they could do for 15 s ., then see what the result of that saving

    would be to the agriculturist . Instead of the horses being obliged to leave on ? at half-past one or two ( and sometimes when the work was really wanted to be done ) , which was necessary to enable them to continue at work from day to day , if they had got a steam horse they would not require to be quite so kind to him , but would make hay while the sun shone . When he ( Mr . Mechi ) said to him , 'I want this engine , ' he replied , ' TheEmperoi of Russia will have me and my engine in a fortnight . He has secured my engine and me with it , in order that it may be used in Bussia for various purposes , ttut above all , for drawing cannon , for it was a remarkable fact that that engine would take a weight up or down hill or

    over a svramp where horses could not go , a fact he recently saw illustrated at the Arsenal-hill , at Woolwich , which had an inclination of one in ten . First of all , he saw ten powerful artillery horses attached to a gun , but they failed to move it ; but , twelve being put on , they at last got it up the Mil ; -whilst Boydell ' s engine took the gun ( which weighod ten tons , and itself twelve ) up the hill , and , what was still more surprising , down the hill as well ; in addition to which the commanding officer told him it had gome over rough ground and deep ravines in an extraordinary manner . " —It is said that Mr . Mecli means to put up for Maldon in Essex in the Liberal interest ,-whenever a vacancy occurs .

    St . Mart's Hospital Manchester . — -This institution , known of late years under the title of the Manchester and Salford Lying-in Hospital , is now provided with a new building , which was formally opened on Friday week by the Countess of "Wilton , in the presence of a large number of ladies and gentlemen . The company assembled in the lecture hall of the newly-erected hospital ,. in Quay-street , and included the Earl of Wilton , the Countess of Ellesrnere , the Lord Bishop of Manchester , Sir Harry and Lady Smithy the Rev . Dr . Vaughan , Miss Atherton , and Mr . J . C . Harter . The Countess of "Wilton presided .

    Diseased Meat . — -Dr . Thomson , the medical officer of health for St . Marylebone , has laid before the parochial authorities 'his monthly report , in which he says , "I have great reason , with regret , to state that a large amount of diseased meat has been sold to the poor in the course of the month . Mr . Porter , one-of the inspectors , seized the entire carcase , and the hindquarters , with some fragments of two cows in a slaughter-house in Middlesex-mews . One of these carcases was traced from a

    cowkeeper s near Kensall-green . The animal was affected -with disease of the lungs , and , when on the point of death , it was killed , and sent , in the middle of the night , to the slaughter-house in question . The flesh was in a most flabby state , and possessed a peculiarly offensive smell , characteristic of the animal being in the ^ . last stage of pleuro-pneunionia , while the fat , which was deficient in quantity , presented a watery aspect , and feculent matter was detected in considerable quantity in more than one portion of the animal . "

    Return of the British Special Mission from Russia . — -The members of the Special Embassy sent to Moscow to represent this country at the coronation are on their way back to England . CLEnKENWiiL . il Incumuency . —The dispute with referonco to this incumbency still proceeds , and presents another lamentable instance of our clerical ' civilization . ' Mr . Magiure wa 3 elected to the incumbency by tho vestry board on the evening of Friday week , and on the following day , the Rev . Mr . Roberts , one of tho defeated candidates , issued a placard , in which he stated that he and his committee had taken stops for giving to the parishioners the power of exercising their right of confirming or setting aside the choice of the vestry—a right , he asserted , which they have exercised without opposition for two hundred years , but which has been usurped by tho vestry . Should these efforts result in the

    reatorasonal chastisement , and said that some ladies who had recently T > een visiting the workhouse had effected great good by kindness , and had succeeded in placing some of the penitents in respectable situations , from which only a few had lapsed . The subject was again adjourned . The Castle Howard Reformatory Institution . — A meeting of the supporters of this institution , was held at York on Thursday week ; Lord Bolton presiding . From the report , -which was read by the Rev . T . Mj'ers , one of the honorary secretaries , it appeared that about 40 07 . are yet required to fulfil the objects the society has in view . After the delivery of some speeches , and the carrying of sundry resolutions in support of the institution , the meeting separated .

    The ward op Coleman-Street . — - Mr . Alderman Hale , tie nevrly-elected Alderman of this ward , was sworn in at a sitting of the Court of Aldermen on Monday . A Snake Ef Rags . — -A large and venomous snake was discovered a few days ago in the watch room of the Custom House , Bristol . One of the men was entering the room , when the creature was heard to hiss , and was presently seen among some rags . It raised itself , with the design of springing at the intruder ; but , a rope having been procured } it -was strangled . Probably it was brought from , an African or other foreign ship .

    Australia . —The last advices from Australia describe a generally prosperous state of trade . In the labour market , there -was a steady demand for agricultural labourers . Six miles of the Melbourne and Geelong Railway have been opened , and it was expected that the whole would be ready for traffic by Jfew Year ' s-day . A very prosperous state of the commerce of Victoria is indicated by the half-yearly report of exports and imports . In the northern portion of South Australia , Mr . B . Hersehell Babbage has discovered geological indications of coal beds . In Tasmania , the search for gold continues to be prosecuted , and two Welsh miners have discovered both silver and copper . Messrs . Meredith and Hume , pioneers of the colonv , have died .

    Eclipse of the Moon . — An eclipse oC the moon took place on Monday night . The eclipse began at 9 h . 21-lm . ; greatest eclipse at lOh . 54-lni ., ending at 12 h . 27-lm . . First contact 1 , 170 , from the moon ' s vertex towards easfc ; Last contact 1 , 550 , from the moon ' s vertex towards west . This eclipse was visible to the whole of Europe , Africa , and South America , nearly the whole of Asia , including the islands of Sumatra , Borneo , and Java , the western parts of Australia , the eastern parts of North America , and an extensive surface of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans .

    The Railway Robbery in France . —Among the passengers on board the Asia , which arrived on Monday at Liverpool from New York , were Mr . Goddard , late one of the principal officers of the police-office , Bowstreet , London , who had been sent to America by Messrs . Rothschild , and has succeeded in capturing Louis Grelet , Eugene Grelet , and Auguste Parot ( who had changed his name to Dubud ) , charged -with others in the great robbery of the Northern Railway of France . A considerable sum of money was found in their possession , and on Parot several railway coupons and private papers .

    Malta . —Great indignation has been excited at Malta among the friends of the late Captain Graves by the verdict given on the trial of Giuseppe Meli for tlie murder of that gentleman . In consequence of the medical testimony of four witnesses for tho defence , who said that death did not necessarily follow from the wounds inflicted ( though this was in direct opposition to the evidence of fourteen other medical men on the opposite side ) , the jury decjaved that Meli was " Guilty of severe bodily liarm , wilfully inflicted upon the person of

    Captain Thomas Graves , followed by death , owing to a supervening accidental cause , and not to tho nature and consequences alone of such harm . " Meli has been condemned to labour at tho public works for a period of nine years . —The writer of a letter in the Times of Monday says , as tlio result of personal experience with respect to trial by jury in some of our possessions , " that no scheme ever succeeded better in promoting perjury , lawlessness , and injustice than has the extension of this Anglo-Saxon privilege among tho hybrid populations of our Eastern and Southern dependencies . "

    Agricultural Dinners . —Tho Wnltham Agricultural Association dined at Waltham , on Wednesday . Mr . Norton , of Elton , took the chnir . After dinner , the chairman , speaking of tho advisability of increased cultivation of the land , said : — " When ho saw neariy 300 , 000 , 000 / . invested within tho last forty years in railways , tho return from which was ' not extremely profitable , and when he considei-ed that tho investment of 100 , 000 , 000 ? . would bo siuTicient , ns bad been proved by calculation , to bring all tho sterile land which it was possible to reclnim into cultivation , ho thought it would bo obvious to them all that « ho wealth of tho country would bo so materially increased that an ample return would bo made for tho capital invested . " Mr . Chowler afterwords spoke , and nnUX ho sincerely trusted thnt the prosperity of tho manufacturers might continue , tliey being tho best customers of tho fanners .

    tion to the ratepayers of their privilege , Mr . Roberts proposes to solicit their votes . —A largo congregation gathered in the church on Sunday morning , drawn there by the anticipation that Mr . Roberts would claim tho right of preaching ; and this proved to bo tho case . Tna , t , gentlemarj , backed by his friends , insisted on his « ght to prcacli tho sermon , and Mr . Maguire , rather than create a disturbance , yielded . The sermon was -then , delivered , Mr . Maguiro remaining in tho churchwardens pew . Groat excitement prevailed , and it may S 9 £ J f « rcd that no one waa much edified by a discourse preached under such circumstances ^

    . illB WmiAN-FLoaaiNG at Maryi . icbone . — Mr . vLtrv Il ? % t T ° oVMW" ™ tions in tho Marylcbono vostry , last Saturday , with reference to the violence late y employed towards refractory young women in tho workhouse . 3 Io called attention to thS * frS ncs of Attempting to reform abandoned girl * by mcanTof

    permedical attendant of a woman who died at <> U , Drummond-street , Somers-town , of malignant typhus , reports certain nuisances in tho rear of tho house , an d states that tho wholo of this neighbourhood is niwo or I e 3 fl affected with low fever ; the drainage , he j uldn , h everywhere defective . A girl died of tetanus ap parently idiopnthic ; and si child of erysipelas mid nbHccs .-u- 's , consequent , it is said , on purulent infection of tho hlood after vaccination . Two persons died of carbuncle . I ' " 111 persona died at tho ngo of 90 yenra or unwarily ; two women who wora 1 ) 0 years old , a Clrooinvich pensioner who vaa 91 , nnd a gnrdcnur'n labourer who died i » tllC

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    994 _ THE LE APEIl , [ No . 343 , Saturday .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 18, 1856, page 994, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2163/page/10/