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      Leai > rr Opficio , Saturday , February 21 . LAST NIGHT'S PARLIAMENT . I 1 OTJSK OF LORDS . The Houses sat for but a nhort timo . The only business done was tlio passing of a resolution of Earl Stanhope , appointing a belect committee to inquire into the system , of keeping the minutea and reeorunof tho House ; and a statement of the Karl of HAitnownv , that the subject of making a general provision for retiring Hinliops , oiitt the divi . fion of the See of London , was under consideration .

      HOUSE OF COMMONS , mn / wicii cou . ixac . In answer to Mr . Dijncomiie , Mr . H-AiNrcs Raid it waa Llie intention of tlie ( Jovemment to bring in a bill to regulate Dulwich College . TIIK VICTORIA C 1 COH 3 . In answer to ( Juptaiu ticioiini . L ,, Lord PAiMinurxoxi s luted thai the list for the navy of thoao who were to

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      Eqoity and Law Life Assurance Soribty . —Tie annual meeting was held last Thursday , G . L . Russet , Esq ., in the chair . During the year X 856 , 161 policies were issued , insuring 162 , 745 ? ., and producing in new premiums 50041 . 2 s . 7 d . This exhibits an increase of 17 T > er cent , upon the new premiums of last year . Sinee the society was established , 1703 policies have b « # n issued , . amounting to 1 , 602 , 538 ? . ; of these , 539 have lapsed from vaeious causes , leaving in force 1164 = policies , assuring 1 , 148 , 6802 . The total premium income

      is now 35 , 2042 . 10 s . lid ., and tbat from other sources , 8 , 4482 . 15 s . 4 d . The balance of assets , Dec . 1855 , was 168 , 8481 . 17 s . 2 d ., making a total of 212 , 502 / . 3 s . & 3 . On the other side are : —Claims and surrendered policies , 12 , 766 / . 14 s . 6 d . ; annuities , 9 £ 3 £ ' " 9 s .. . 10 d ,-, reassurances , 3259 / . 2 s . 2 d . ; proprietors' dividend , 27507 . ; expenses , &c , 3 , 345 / . 10 s . 8 d . ; commission , 1553 ? . 9 s . lid . ; other items , income-tax , &e ., ' 644 / . 4 s . 93 . ; making the total expenditure , 25 , 262 / . Us . 10 ( 1 ., out df an income of 43 , 653 / . 6 s . 3 d . ; leaving 18 , 390 / . 14 s . 53 . to add to the realized assets of the society ' .

      Health of London . —The deaths registered in London in the week that ended last Saturday were 1264 , and exhibit a decrease on those of the preceding week , when they were 1368 . In the ten years . 1847-56 , the average number of deaths in-weeks corresponding with last week was 1135 . But , as the deaths in the present return occurred in an increased population , it is necessary for comparison that the average should be raised in proportion to the increase , in which case it will become

      1219 . The rate of , mortality last week was therefore very near the average rate in the second week of February . The decrease on . the previous week , amounting to about 100 deaths , is referable in a principal degree to a diminished mortality from pulmonary diseases . —Last week , the births of 917 boys and 904 girls , in all 1551 children , were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1847-56 , the average number was looO . —FromtheJiegistfar-General ' s Weekly Return .

      Tice Kegistkar-Gexeral . s Qctatiterlt Retukn <—Prom the Quarterly return recently published of Marriages , Births , and Deaths , in England ( Marriages , July , August , and September , 1856 ; Births and Deaths , October , November , and December , 1856 ) , we learn that 78 , 304 persons married in the quarter , and that" this number exceeds by 4002 the number of persons who married in the summer quarter of 1856 . The marriages rose from 37 , 151 to 39 , 152 . An increase of the marriages is observable in every division . " This is partly attributable to tbe return of soldiers and sailors from the

      ¦ war . —" The births of 157 , 615 children were registered in the last quarter of 1856 . They exceed by 8762 the births in the last quarter of ihe preceding year , tin some districts , this is ascribed to tbe return of men from the war . Westmoreland is the only county in whiah there is a decrease of births . The deaths of 96 , 521 persons were registered in the last quarter of the year 1856 . —In the same quarter , 39 , 063 emigrants sailed from the ports of the United Kingdom ; " and for once , there was an excess of English over Irish ! The number of Scotch was but small .

      , M 1 S . C 11 IANEOUS . f DEATSfOP iHE . EARt . oF Eluebmebe . —Literature and the arts have lost . a sincere admirer and patron in the -Earl of : Ellesnaei » , K . 6 ., whodied at Bridgewater House , on Wednesday , ' having ; but recently attained his fiftysevmihyear . In 1828 , Ireiwas'Chief -Secretary : to Lord Anglesey , then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ; aiidin 1830 , under the administration of the Duke of Wellington , he was Secretary at War . His political opinions were always liberal ; but his tastes led him chiefly in the

      direction of the line arts— -a tendency which may have been fostered by the knowledge that he was descended from that Earl of Bridgewater who produced at Ludlow Castle Milton ' s masque of Gomus . To the same family , also , belonged that Lord Bridgewater who projected the celebrated canal which tiears his name . The deceased Earl was the author of some poems ; his collection of pictures was celehrated for its splendour ; and to this -the public have always found ready admission . His eldest son , Viscount Brackley , succeeds to the title .

      The Late Mr . Joseph Haydn . —The orphan son of the late author of the : Dictionary of Dates has been elected into the St . Ann ' s School . One lady alone subscribed 50 / . towards the attainment of the object . The Sailobs' Home and the Destitute Sailors Asylum . —The monthly meeting of the directors of these institutions was held in Well-street , on the 12 th instant ; Vice-Admiral W . Bowles , C . B ., in the chair . The secretary presented the accounts , by which it

      appeared the average daily number of boarders during 1856 was 224 ; the total amount paid for board being 30 , 262 / . 10 s . lOd . During the same period , 40 , 363 / . 12 s . lid . was remitted to the friends of sailors living in the country ; and since the establishment , last October , of the Seaman ' s Savings Bank , under the management of the Board of Trade , 2564 // 4 s . has been deposited therein . The institution contains beds for the accommodation of upwards of 300 boarders , and on several occasions within the last twelve months the whole of

      these have been occupied , so that a great many sailors ¦ were unable to obtain admission . The report also showed a large increase in the number of inmates of the Destitute Sailors' Asylum . Preferment . —The Lord Chancellor has appointed the Hon . and Rev . S . Waldegrave to the Salisbury . Canonry , vacated by the elevation of the Rev . Dr . JBickersteth to the Bishopric of Kipon . Mr . Waldegrave is the second son of Admiral the Earl of Waldegrave , C . B ., -whose eldest son , Viscount Chewton , died at Scutari , in 1854 , from the effects of wounds received at the battle of the Alma .

      "Western AusTBAL . iA . —A dinner was given last Saturday , at the London Tavern , by a number of gentlemen interested in the prosperity of Western Australia , and desirous of presenting a testimonial given by the colonists to Captain Fitzgerald , R . N ., C . B ., the late Governor . The chair was taken by Mr . Mangles , M . P . ; and the guest of the evening , in addressing the company after dinner , spoke of the adaptability of Western Australia to the purposes of a convict settlement . Corporation Refoem . — The Court of Common Council has been discussing the propositions for reform agreed to by the Corporation Inquiry Committee , and submitted for its ratification . Some of these it has accepted , others rejected ; and the subject lias been referred back to the Committee , the members of which are instructed to confer with the G overnment , and to report to the Court .

      The Parks . —Various works are in progress in the parks . The lake in St . James's Park has been temporarily drained , and the bottom spread with concrete . A new suspension bridge is in course of erection ; but all the works will probably be completed by next May . In Hyde Park , a new path , planted with shrubs , ia" beingmade from the Marble Arch to Victoria Gate ; and a new illuminated clock has been set up at Hyde Parkcorner . It has been made on a new principle , so as to secure greater clearness at night . This , if successful , will be adopted with the monster clock at the new Houses of Parliament . Baron Martin has been added to the Royal Commission for Inquiry into the Statute and Common Law Courts , and the Courts of Assize , in the room of Baron Aldereon , deceased .

      The Cask of Mrs . Allsop . —With reference to the case of the widow AUsop , who recently brought her alleged distresses boforc the Murylobono police court , and who asserted that she had been refused relief by Prince Albert , though she had lost five sons in the army , Mr . Broughton , the magiBtrate , ban written to tho Titncs to say that the woman is an impoator , and a notorious bogging-lotter writer . He therefore conceives tliat Princo Albert waa quite light in refusing to send her money ; and he speaks somewhat severely of the " attacks" which have been made by some of tlio papers on Ins Royal Highness , on account of that refusal . Mr . Broughton also intimates that ho shall wilhhold the subscriptions until the case is concluded . —On Tuesday , Mrs . AIIsop appeared again before Mr . Broughton , ¦ when , after a long examination , tlio magistrate dismissed her as unworthy of credence .

      the fatal act is of importaace-to the world on account of the distressing symptoms which exhibited themselves for some -five -hours previouslytoiiis death . On-proceeding to view the body , the coroner ' s jury ifomnd de- ' ceased in the same position , in bed , in which he died , and he presented a most fearful sight . His eyeballs seemed ready to burst'frorn . their sockets ; "'his teeth "were tightlj closed ; the features drawn and contracted , and the whole countenance frightfully distorted ; his fists , too , were firmly clenched ; his feet forced out beyond the foot of the bed , and his limbs in a state of fixed rigidity . The poison was bought by the servant of the

      suicide . The druggist recollected the latter coming to his shop and asking for arsenic to kill rats . He gave him -three grains of strychnine . "I have sold th . e same , " said the druggist , " for killing rats for four or fivey « ars to many persons . I write the word ' Poison ' on my packages , and have not a printed label . " The coroner and ju . ry observed it would be much better to have a printed label . The deceased took the whole three grains . Half a grain is enough to destroy life . — A servant at Peters Beld , Sussex , has killed herself b-y the same means . The strychnine was contained in a powder vended as " vermin-killer . "

      Suicide . — Mr . Phillip Alford , an elderly gentleman of property , residing at Sunbury , Middlesex , has committed suicide by placing the muzzle of a pistol in his moutli and discharging it . He purchased and built several houses , and latterly became possessed with an idea that his agent was conspiring with some other persons to wrest his property from him and reduce him to absolute want . There was no foundation for such , a belief , and various attempts were made to set him right , but to no effect . FriiES . —A fire broke out last Saturday night on the premises belonging to Mr . Zoucado , a general merchant , St . Mary-axe , Leadenhall-street , whose stock received

      considerable damage . Mr . Zoucado was insured . The origin of the fire is not known . —A second fire broke out on tlie premises of 'Mr . Kaufman , boot and shoe maker , Oulston-street , Whiteebapel . JNearly the whole of the stock-in-trade was destroyed , and the premises were considerably burnt . —A third fire took place on the premises of Messrs . Allen , manufacturing chemists , Upper Heathstreet , Bow-common , Bromley . Considerable damage was done to the stock , machinery , and buildings . —Other fires have taken place in the Kingsland-road , Shoreditch ; the Commercial-road East ; theHaymarket ; andDratnmond-crescent , Euston-square . The two first were serious ; the two latter but slight . ;

      Juvenile Vagrancy-. —A general . meeting of the joint members of the Law Amendment Society and the National Reformatory Union was held at No . 3 , Waterloo-place , on Monday evening , to consider the bill recently brought before Parliament for the suppression of juvenile vagrancy . Lord Brougham presided , and among others present were the Bishop of London , Sir Stafford Nortlicote , M . P ., Lord Robert Cecil , M . P ., the Lord Mayor , the Hon . Mr . Liddell , M . P ., the Rev . Sidney Turner , and a deputation , was also present from the Birmingham Educational Association . The Bishop of London moved , " Tliat in the opinion of this meeting it id desirable that . a measure for the suppression of juvenile vagrancy , which is a fertile source of crime , should be enacted . " This was carried unanimously , and considerable discussion ensued , in the course of which Sir Stafford Northcote modified booic of the details of his bill

      Death of the Dean of CANTKnnuitY . —The Ifccv . William Jtoivo Lyoll , D . D ., Dean of Canterbury , died on Tuesday morning of paralysis , from which he had been suffering for . some monlliB . Lom > IluouGiiAM lias left Kngland for his Heat near Cannes , in tlio south of France , in order to avoid the cold winds of tiny ami the following month . Equalization of the Poou ' s Rates . —A meeting of delegates from various parishes took place , at tho Vestry-hull , St . Andrew ' s-court , Holbom-hill , on Tuesday evening 1 , to take into consideration tlie bent stops to bo adopted for promoting this equalization of tho poor ' s rules throughout tins metropolitan districts ; Mr . Gilbert , of the parish of Kensington , in the chair . It wan finally rusolvcd that an association be formed for cu ' ecting tho deuired object .

      Aged Poor . Society . —Tho anniversary festival of this society , established as early as the close of the 17 th century , was held at the Albion Tavern on Monday evening . His Eminence Cardinal Wiseman presided , supported by the Right Rev . Dr . Grant , the Right Hev . Dr . Morris , j \ Ir . Swift , M . P ., &c . Large subscriptions were collected before the closo of the proceedings , and the company were entertained by the performances of Signor Picca , the blind Sardinian , nnd other musicians . Disputation op Suu-ownehs to Loud Palmeuston .

      —A deputation of shipowners had an interview on Saturday with Lord Palmerston , to press upon Government tho necessity of amonding those parts of the Merchant Shipping Act by which persons arc enabled to recover damages against shipowners , for loss of life or injury , to a larger amount than the Btatutory amount fixed ( namely , HOI in each case of death or injury ) ; and by wliich , besides , shipowners are made liable to the extent and value of the ship find freight ; tho value of such nlnp and freight being taken at 15

      Suicii > e iiy Stuyciininh . —A painful Bcnuntion was created in Newport last week ( . Hays tlio Hants Advertiser ) , ny tho report of tins death of Mr . William Ciuinmow from stryehnino , administered by his own hands ; and

      A Murderer ' s Knife . — The knife -with -which 11 Peppermint Billy" committed the murder at Thorpe toll-bar , near Melton Mowbray , was found a few days ago in a ditch near the bar . It is a butcher ' s knife , about five inches long in the Wade and four and a half inches long in the handle . It is nearly rusted through , but the marks of the blood are quite perceptible ; and it is a little bent as if by violence . Tho field is situated on the opposite side of the road to the toll-house , near Melton , and is doubtless tho one Brown went up after committing the murder , as it is in thedirect lino he took for the Scalford dyke , whore it is supposed lie washed the clothes lie had on when he committed the murder . The knife is in the possession of Mr . W- Condon , superintendent of police , Melton-Mowbray . —Stamford Mercury .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 21, 1857, page 179, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2181/page/11/