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      Wynclham-road , Camberwell , at the age of 94 years . — Last -week , the births of 782 boys and 757 girls , in all 1539 children , were registered in * London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1846-55 , the average number was \ 3 Gl . ~ FromtheJRegistrar-GeneraVs Weekly Return . . ¦ Sanitary State op the Cityy—Dr . Letheby read his first annualreport of the state of health in the City at a meeting of the City Commission of Sewers on Tuesday . The main results are thus stated in the first paragraph : — " In accordance -with the Usual practice of my predecessor , I lay before you a series of tables having reference to the mortality of the City of London for the year ending at Michaelmas ; and , although these tables exhibit many facts that might be made the subjects of

      ingenious speculation , and even of eloquent discourse , yet I will not venture , -with the experience of a single year , to do more ilfari give 3 'ou a very simple account of their signification and value . You -will perceive by the first of them that the total mortality of the year is 2910-This number is 400 , or nearly 7 per cent ., less than the average of the last eight years . In fact , this deathrate of the whole City has been reduced from a general average of 24 per 1000 of the inhabitants to 22 . How much of misery and desolation are represented by the difference in these numbers is more than can be expressed , but you can easily imagine that an improvement to the extent of 11 per cent- in the health and vitality of a population is a matter of no mean importance . "

      Translations of the Bible . — -At the annual meeting of the Doncaster Auxiliary Bible Society on Tuesday afternoon , the Right Hon . Earl Fitzwilliam , - who presided over the meeting , made some remarks upon the question of a new translation of the Bible , against which he expressed a strong opinion . Death from : a . I'ight .- ^ -Aii inquest was held at Leeds on the body of John Mensey , aged twenty-six . The deceased , a single man , was a tailor . On Saturday night last , after drinking with a workman and fellowlodger , named Patrick King , a fight ensued between them , during which Mensey fell and broke his neck . The matter was mot properly attended to , and on Monday the man died . A verdict of Manslaughter was returned against King , who was then committed .

      Treatment of Criminals— Mr . Payne , at a meeting of the ^ magistracy of Middlesex on Thursday , moved that , in the present state of society , avhen a large amount of crime is rampant , when numerous convicted offenders are at large , and the respectable part of the lower class is being contaminated by contact with the vicious , it is desirable that " a committee of magistrates be appointed for this county , whose duty it shall be to take notice of all matters in relation to criminal jurisprudence within the county , and to suggest , from time

      the Royal Scottish Academy ' s Exhibition , and whose name is no doubt familiar to those who take an Interest in the fine aits . Mr . Gibson was educated in Edinburgh , and although his early artistic career was not marked by anything very notable , those who knew him well entertained hopes which were likely to he fully realized , when death removed him from the scene of earthly labour . His first decided success was in the Royal Academ y's Exhibition in 1855 , when be exhibited two pictures of very considerable merat , the largest of which -was called " The Little Stranger . "—¦ Scottish Press .

      The BoyalMail Steamer Tay has been totally lost in a squall off Lobos Island in the Gulf of Mexico , on its journey from Vera Cruz . Only two lives were lost . The boats landed the crew on the island , about eight miles oflj whence they were taken off by the Mexican steamer Iturbide . Some of the stores have been saved . The catastrophe happened on the 30 th of August . The "Wreck of the Bark Irrawaddy , -with loss of life , has been reported at Lloyd ' s . She was on her passage from Glasgow to Rangoon and Moulmein , with a cargo of seven hundred tons of goods . Striking near the south , end of the Blackwater Bank , on the coast of Ireland , she very speedtty bilged . Three seamen were washed overboard , and drowned . Afterwards , th « vessel floated off , and drifted on the main land .

      ^ Murderous Encounter near Bradford . - —A middle-aged man named Jeremiah Milnes , a fishhawker residing at New Leeds , Bradford , went om Tuesday evening to Pudsey and Stanningley , accompanied by a young man named Jbwett , and having witl him a small cart and donkey . About twenty minutes to eleven o ' clock , they were returning home , when , at a spot nearly two miles from Bradford , just beyond the junction of the old and new roads , a man , who was apparently in liquor , came up to the cart , seized the head of the donkey , and began to turn it round in an opposite direction towards Leeds . Milnes was sitting at the side of the cart , and his companion Jowett was in the rear . Milnes immediately got off the cart , seizing his steelyard as he did so , and told the man to

      leave the donkey or he would compel him . Tie man persisted in turning the donkey round ; angry words passed , and a struggle ensued between them , the man endeavouring' to caiTy but his purpose , and Milnes trying to keep the donkey and cart in their proper path . At that moment , Jowett came up to them , saw Milnes strike his antagonist with the steelyard , and discovered , to his gTeat alarm ; that the man held in his hand a knife or some other sharp instrument . Jowett , who is rather a simple young man , immediately ran off in-fear ., leaving Milnes and the man struggling . He went to Ne"w Leeds , a distance of a mile , to tell his master what had occurred , passing a great number of houses on the way . On his return with his master , Milues was found lying dead in a pool of

      blood-Errata . —In the Miscellaneous paragraph , last week , on Mr . Ernest Jones ' s Political Soiree , the words " of the hfbd" were accidentally omitted after " He complained of the misappropriation . "—A blunder also occurred in the paragraph headed " Religious Persecution of Spain , " which deserves to be mentioned for the sake of its absurdity . The Protestant Alliance is said to have brought the case of Senor tie Mora under the notice of Lord Cardigan , The reader , no doubt , perceived for himself that this should have been Lord Clarendon .

      to tune , any measures that they may deem desirable in connexion with so important a subject . " After some discussion , the motion was agreed to , with slight modifications . —The Chairman observed upon the too great readiness with which magistrates commit trifling offenders to gaol ; and he mentioned the cases of an old woman of eighty-four who was imprisoned for asking alms in the streets , and of a boy for kicking and struggling to get away from a woman who had seized him for breaking a . window .

      The Tornado of the 22 nd uz / t . —Mr . T . Mayhew communicates to the Times some particulars of the atmospheric phenomena observed on the 22 nd ult ., and which had most of the characteristics of a tropical tornado . lie says : — " The weather in the morning was cloudy and stormy , the wind blowing from the south . About one p . m ., the wind changed to the south-east , and it was observed that the higher clouds were at the same time rapidly moving from the south-west . Soon after , there was a heavy fall of rain . At about half-past two p . m ., the clouds became denser and blucker in the direction of Northover , about a mile distant from this town ( Glastonbury ) , and suddenly were observed to break up and rush wildly about in an unusual manner . At this moment ,

      a mass of heavy clouds descended rapidly towards Northover , enveloping the trees in a kind of mist , and throwing them into a . state of fearful commotion . Here the whirlwind commenced , and hero commenced the devastations which marked its progress , six fine elm-trees being wrenched from the ground like weeds and thrown aside . Passing on towards Glastonbury in the direction of the wind , now blowing from , the west-south-west , thin terrible visitant left in its track evidences of power which will long bo remembered in these localities . I will not occupy your spneo by describing them , but will merely add , respecting the course taken by the whirlwind , that its ravages are traceable in a line passing from

      Glustanbury to North "NVootton , thence through 'Wiirmiiister , Croscombe , and Nettlebridge to Rndstock . Much farther on thero are accounts of its undiminished violenco at Clyftb Pypard , near Swindon ; and , farther still , it appears probable that a terrible storm of wind at Oxford the same afternoon was but a more diffused action of the sumo phenomenon . It is worthy of remark respect ing this whirlwind that its greatest power was exercised in hollows , that the breadth of its devastations varied throughout its courso , and that it evidently roso and fell m the air , doing mischief only at tho points of contact . " lino i . atisMu , David Gibson . —We regret to have to record the early doath of Mr . David Gibson , a young avtiat of great promise , who was a frequent exhibitor in

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      Leader Office , Saturday , October 18 . THE MEDITERRANEAN SQUADRON . Admibat . / Dundas has left Ajaccio with his squadron . The French squadron at Toulon is ready to start . Four Sardinian ships of war are also ready at Genoa . " I understand , " says the Paris correspondent of the Morning Post , " thnt both the English an < l French squadrons have received orders to approach Naples . The allied Admirals will discountenance any demonstration on tho part of the Neapolitans . This tho people of Naples perfectly understand , and they desire — according to advices I have received—to leave their cause entirely in tho hands of England and France . Two steamers , I learn , will bo placed at tho disposition of her Majesty ' s mission . "

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      DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS IN CIRCASSIA . Advices from Constantinople , of tho Jltli instant ' stato Sefor Pncba has gained two victoria * over the Russians in Circnssia , and has taken from them about 800 prisoners and " 21 guns .

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      AMNESTY AT ROME . The _ Pope ( says the Univers ") has sigtied an amnesty comprising about thirty persons , for the most part condemned for the affair of November 16 , 1849 . This act of grace is to be published on the occasion of the inauguration of the monument in memory of the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception .

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      THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK . TniRT > SALE OF DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS YESTERDAY . Mr . Slxittleworth yesterday proceeded with a sale ( being the third since the stoppage of the bank ) of depositors' accounts current , at the Auction Mart , City The sale comprised twenty-five lots , the sur as varying from 157 . to 40 Gt , and the biddings at no time reached more than 12 s . 6 d ., the majority being alxmt 9 s . or 9 s . 6 d . It is thought that depositors are anxious to hold their accounts in consequence of the general opinion that the results to the depositors will be beiieficial , as there is likely to be an aniicable termination of the dispute between the representatives . of ¦ the respective courts into which this matter has been brought . The general impression amongst the depositors present was , that they could realise 15 s ., and many expressed a-determination , not " to part with their accounts below that sum . The only two lots sold were a deposit account for 122 ? . Is . 8 d . at 9 s . 6 d ., and a deposit note for 15 / . 5 s . 3 d ., sold previously , at 9 s . in the pound . The remainder unsold

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      were . JLOUlUlUULil . TlViC UUOVlUi CiiYsrAT- Palack . —Return of admissions for six days ending Friday , October i 7 th , 185 6 : — Nuinber admitted , including season ticket holders , 17 , 303 .

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      THE " TKA . VIATA" CONTROVERSY . A letter has been . addressed to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland by the Rev . Mr . M > Hugh , a Roman Catholic clergyman formerly resident in France , beseeching his Excellency to prohibit the performance of La Tracietta on tlie Dublin stage , on " account of its immoral and dangerous" character . The Lord-Lieutenant replied to this request by directing his secretary to inform the reverend gentleman that he has no power to

      interfere , and that lie does not sec any reason to believe that the opera in question is more exceptionable than others which arc constantly performeil without objections being made to them . ' Mr . M > Hugh then , ' winds up the conversation by another attack on tho much-offending' performance . In the first of his letters / the reverend objector states that the u infamous" character of the opera has been denounced by " tho most able and distinguished portion of the London and Knglisli press ; " and he proceeds to give a list , in which lie includes the Leader . N " ow we are very ¦ willing to be riinkcd among "the most able and

      distinguished" of the press ; but we claim to be classified rightly in other respects . "We did not denounce the presumed immorality of Ire Traviata ^ but on more than one occasion expressed our dissent from the cant which tried to run the perfornmnco down . "Wo showed that its tendency was healthy and generous by awakening sympathy for the outcast , and showing that the most abandoned vice may be redeemed by a true affection . Our opinion on tho Troriufu controversy ih indeed plainly indicated in a few words at another part of our this day's impression ; and therefore , with all respect , we must decline to walk in the train of Mr . H'llugh .

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      the Danabian Principalities will give rise to grave debates . It is asserted that a note of Count Walewski has been received at Tienna , in -which it is openly stated that the continued occupation by Austria is in flagrant contradiction with the stipulations of the Treaty of Paris . We learn that at Vienna no- readiness is displayed to evacuate the provinces . This question will be decided by the Congress of Paris , and Austria will probably be compelled to give way , " The Porte is sending troops to Trebizonde . Austria refuses to pay the dues levied for tho maintenance of a lighthouse at the Suliua moutTi of the Danube , on the plea that sho was not consulted respecting its establishment .

      ATTSTRIA AND TITRKEY . " It is prolmlile , " snys a letter from nerlin in tho German Journal of Franl-fort , " that tho evacuation of

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      DISMISSAL OF LORD ERNEST VANE TEMPES T AND W . J . BIRT FROM HER MAJESTY'S SERVICE . ( From the London Gazette of Friday Evening . } Memorandum . —Cornets Lord Ernest Vane Tempe st and AVilliam J . Birt , of the 4 th Liglit Dragoons , are dismissed from her Majesty ' s Army , In . consequence of conduct unbecoming officers and gentlemen , and subversive of good order and military discipline , as reported to her Maj esty by his Royal Highness the Gene ral Coinmanding-in-Chief . —Dated 17 th October . 1856 .

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      FREE TRADE IN FRANCE . " The Emperor , " says tho JJaihj News , " has decided that , in order to give French industry timo to prepare , tho project submitted to tho Corps Lcgislutif , Telntivo to various prohibitory enactments , shall not come into ofl ' uct until tho 1 st of July , 1801 .. " The project referred to repealed prohibitions nnd substituted protective duties .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 18, 1856, page 995, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2163/page/11/