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      The Meetuig of Pabuament . —The following circular has been issued by the Premier to the supporters of the Government : — " Downing-street , Nov . 20 . —Sir , —I have the honour to inform you that , Parliament having teen called to meet on Thursday , the 3 rd of December , business of great importance will then immediately be brought forward , and I trust that it may be consistent / with your convenience to attend in your place in the House of Commons on that day . —I have the honour to be , Sir , your obedient servant , Palmerston . "

      Thb late General Neiix . —A resolution expressive of gratitude to , and admiration of , the late General . Nei . II , was passed unanimously at a recent meeting of the Commissioners of Supply of the county of Ayr ; and it was also agreed to send a copy of the resolution to the bereaved widow and mother of the General . The Times says : — " We have much pleasure in announcing that the Chairman of the East India Company , will propose to the Directors a grant of 50 O £ a year to the widow of General Neill , in addition to the allowances due to the family of an officer of his rank -who falls in action . Her Majesty has also , in the most gratifying terms , signified her permission that the widow may assume the title of ' Lady Neill , ' -which would have accrued to her if her husband had been fortunately spared to enjoy the dignity of a K . C . B . "

      Metropolitan Boakd of Works . —A special meeting of this Board was held on Monday , when , after a motion for the rejection of the main drainage plan proposed by Captain Galton , Mr . Simpson , and Mr . Blackwell , had been defeated , and various other motions had also been negatived , it was agreed that the rival plans should be referred to the engineer of the Board , together with two other civil engineers , and that they should give estimates of the expense . It was further agreed that Mr . Thomas Hawkesley and Mr . George Bidder should be the additional referees ; and that Sir Benjamin Hall should be requested to transmit further information -with respect to the plan favoured by him , certain sections , &c , already sent , being incomplete .

      The India * Relief Fuicd . —Tlie treasurer of the Calcutta Relief Fund , writing to England on the 8 th of October , says : — " I am glad to see the Relief Fund so heartily gone into at home . Our collections have amounted to 234 , 000 r ., including , howeverf 60 , O 00 r . from Madras and 2 O , O 00 r . from Ceylon . We have spent 75 , 000 r ., and are going on at the rate of 10 , OOOr- per week . ¦; . - . ' : ¦ ¦ :. ; .... - ... ' . . . ¦ . / ' The Drama Run Mad . —We may here note , in further illustration of some remarks made last week , that Mr . Robson has reappeared at the Olympic Theatre in a

      wild combination of farce , melodrama , burlesque , and vision , by Mr . Sterling Coyne , called What will they say at Bromptdni ' Mr . Robson performs the part of a gentleman in paroxysms of fear , and interests the audience by his well-known fantastic combination of tragedy and comedy . —A rather wild pieee of humour , from the pen of Mr . Maddison Morton , has been brought out at the Hay market . It is called Take care of Dowb , and gives occasion to Mr . Buckstone to convulse bis audience with laughter . —At Astley's , The Storming and Capture of Delhi is nightly using up a fortune in red fire and gunpowder , to the infinite delight of Lambeth .

      The Parliamentary Vacancies —Mr . W . Deedes has issued an address to the electors of East Kent . It is of the vaguest possible description . Mr . George Ward Hunt , of Wadenhoe , a Conservative , is about to etand for North Northamptonshire , vacant by the death of Mr . Stafford . The name of Mr . Fitzpatrick Vernon , connected by marriage with the family of Earl Fitzwilliam , is also mentioned . Colchester Camp . —Major-General Slade has succeeded Major-General Lawrence in the command of the Colchester Camp , the latter officer having been appointed to a command in the south-eastern district .

      Another Break-down with Troops The hired screw-steamer Austria , with troops for Kurrsichee , received damage in the Bay of Biscay , and was oMiged to put put back to Plymouth . She again started on the 14 th inst ., but broke down once more last Monday , and was forced a second time to return . The troops have been landed . This Baron j > k Fjeuciieuks . — -Tho funeral service at St . Thomas d'Aquin for Baron Feucheres came off not Without a speech from Marshal Mngnan , who might ns

      well not have spoken . To sa 3 ' that the deceased soldier had served in the wars of the Republic and Empire , had even joined Bonaparte when , he left Elba , to , afterwards , become a Body Guard of the Bourbons , and lend the sanction of a respectable name to cloak the presence of Sophy Dawcs at Court , was not quite the eulogy to grace his toinb . Ilftmt le jfrfaiiidre , non h blamer , not less a sad confusion of right and wrong . Four thousand pounds of the inheritance of Condi ? is now to go to soldiera' children—and bo ends the memory of that royal and illustrious line . — Paris Correspondent of the . Gloha .

      Tub late Dotjblk MAnniAoi ! : in I . oni > on- —Tho metropolitan and Liverpool policu havo discovered that John Blair Willa , one of the brothers concerned in tho infamous double marriage in London , was in Liverpool from the 4 th to the 6 th inat ,, and that on the 7 th inst . ho sailed in tho ahip Great Western for Now York taking with him some luggage and a little boy . ' A Man Found Dying in an Uniniiaiutkd IIousk . ¦ .-Mr , Bedford , the coroner for Westminster , received \ ff

      formation last Saturday of the death of a man named Michael Welsh , aged thirty-six years , a shoemaker , residing in Dudley-street , who died at Charing-cross Hospital the same morning . A few days previously , a policeman on duty in Denmark-street , Soho , at about half-past two in the morning , heard moaning in the cellar of a dilapidated house . On going down , he found Welsh in a state of stupefaction , apparently produced by an over-indulgence in drinking . A stretcher was procured , and he was removed to Charing-cross Hospital , where the medical officer found he-was labouring under congestion of the brain , produced by intoxication . After lingering for a few days he died . —The old woman who was found last week in a starving condition , together with her brother , has died . It appears that in this case also there had been intemperance .

      Alleged Death of a Factory Operative fbom Wast . —A melancholy death has taken place at Preston . A factory operative , named Ralph Holden ., a widower , -with six children , has for several weeks past been unemployed , through the depression of trade . Xast week , however , he obtained employ , and on the Friday morning left hi 3 home to go to work about half-past five o ' clock , but , as lie was proceeding along Moor-lane , suddenly became faint , and fell . He only lingered a few minutes , and appears to have perished from exhaustion .

      A Tekrible Death . —A man walked off one of the wliarfs of St . John ' s , New Brunswick , during a dark night , when the tide was out . He groped his / way along in the mud , but did not take the right course , as he ultimately found himself among the piles beneath the wharf , where he was soon cut off by the advancing tide . He shouted , and attracted the attention of persons in the vicinity , but it was too late . As the tide rose , he climbed to the top of the | pu € S , and through an aperture in the wharf spoke to those abo > ve . Extrication was impossible , and

      he therefore shook "hands with hi 3 friends , passed through the hole all the money and valuables he had on his person , gave some directions concerning his family , and said farewell to those above . In a few minutes more he was engulfed . Sxieh is the story related by a ZbTew York paper ; but to one unacquainted with the locality it does appear strange that some portion cf the wharf could not have been cut away , so as to make the aperture through which the money , &c , was passed sufficiently large to admit the man ' s body .

      A Woman's Love of Display . —The culpable love of display which has recently exhibited itself among ladies , was illustrated on Monday in the case of Miss Kate Elizabeth Terity who petitioned the Insolvent Debtors' Court under the Protection Act . Her debts amount to 140 / ., and are chiefly due for millinery and articles of personal decoration . She is 28 years of age , and lives with her mother , who receives about 2001 . a year , whil e she herself has 601 . a year from her friends . In 1852 she was discharged by the Insolvent Debtors Court'from debts amounting to 230 / . ; but her extravagance did not receive any check . In the present instance , one creditor claimed 84 / . for dresses . The Commissioner said it was clear tliat the debts had been contracted without reasonable expectation of payment ; and he therefore refused protection , and adjourned the case sine die .

      A Story fkom Wiiitkcuoss-street Prison . —A rule was obtained on Monday , in the Court of Exchequer , calling on Mr . Brown , the keeper of Whitecrossstreet prison , to answer the matters in the affidavit of Mr . Ilealey , an insolvent debtor in that prison , who complained that the keeper had been guilty of oppressive and malicious conduct towards him , and had unjustly caused him to be imprisoned in a place called the strong-room of the prison , where he had scanty room , food , air , and light for thirty-six hours . It appears that in this prison the discharge of all tho menial offices falls on the prisoners themselves , who , however , by subscribing to a fund , and paying those among them of humble

      origin , yet tho work performed by officers of their own appointing . Among other rules is one which appoints certain svats at the table at meal times to tho older inmates ; . and this arrangement led to the present proceedings . Mr . Healey is the so-called ' steward * of the prisoners . A new prisoner , namod Gunnery , recently entered tho gaol , and subscribed to the rules ; but one day he took a wrong scat at table . A scuffle followed , and Mr . Gunnery came to the ground . He then complained to tho keeper , who , without permitting Mr . Healey to cross-ex amino liis accuser , ord « red him into the strong-room . This treatment was now stigmatised as tyrannical and malicious .

      A QuKSTioNAiiLE Rankkuitcy . —A woman , named Leah Isaacs , who has been carrying on busiuess in Piccadilly ns a tobacconist , under the style of Piekard and Co ., has appeared in the Court of Bankrnptcy . II cr brother , Mark Wilson , is said to have recently absconded during the night with his housekeeper , a photographic inaicliine , and several huudrc : l pounds ' worth of tho bankrupt ' s property . Thcro is a very strong Hiispicion that this was performed with the Hi . stor's knoyvloilgo nnd for her advantage ; but , when Air . Commissioner Goulburii gave judgmont on Monday , lie snjil that , as this could not be aabolutoly proved , tho bankrupt must have the benefit of the doubt . He observed , however , that ho liad a very adverse iinprosslon , nnd tkut his decision upon thocliargo must only l ? c rpgardod w similar to that of a Scotch jury w } ien .

      returning a verdict of ' Not proven . ' The bankrupt was granted a third-class certificate , " and , " added the Commissioner , " she may conside r herself fortunate . " The Reverend James Marshall , M . A ., of Exeter t-oUege , Oxford , and Curate of St . Bartholomew ' s , Moor-lane , has been received into the Roman Catholic Church .

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      THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES . "I am informed , " says the TVmes Paris correspondent , " that a note has been addressed by the Porte to the Powers that signed the Treaty of Paris , intimating that , in consequence of the state of the Danubian Principalities , it may become necessary to move a body of troops to the Danube . "

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      - ^ r- — _ ... Leader Oti'icii , Saturday , November 28 . INDIA . Some further telegrams give a few more items of intelligence besides , those we publish in another column : — "At Chuntra , near Ghazepore , Major English has dispersed the rebels ; Brigadier Stewart ' s detachment has taken Dhar and routed the rebels . The 32 nd Bengal N . I . has mutinied at Deoghur , and two regiments of the Kotah Contingent have risen , killing Major Burton , his sons , and the other Christians in the Residency . A conspiracy has teen discovered among the Bombay Grenadiers at Ahmedabad ; the conspirators were executed . " Brigadier Showers ' s column was scouring the country round Delhi , advancing to Kootule , and afterwards to Renaree , which was found abandoned by Rao Jooleran , who left his guns , &c , behind him . In the Bombay Presidency there has been no serious disturbance ; but the Punjab , and Rajpootana especially , are unsatisfactorily situated for-want of troops . " A camp of 2000 British troops is being formed at Raneegunge , by order of the Gommander-in-Chief . . ?¦ ' Troops are daily arriving from England , and by the end of November there will be 100 , 000 British troops in India . . ' . ¦ . ¦ ' ' . ¦ ,. '¦ . . ; '; . ¦¦' -. ... " ' " '¦ ¦ ¦ . / . " Of the Bengal native army , only two regiments , the 31 st , at Saugor , and the 73 rd , at Jbulpore , have not mutinied . "

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      DEPARTURE OF LORD liEDCLIFFE FEO 3 E CONSTANTINOPLE . A telegram has been received in town from Constantinople announcing the departure of Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe from that capital en route for England .

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      CHINA . " The latest accounts from Hong-Kong , " says the Pnys , " mention a report which unfortunately appears to be correct , amV according to which persecutions have , l )> - order of the mandarins , recommenced against the Eoinan Catholics in several of tlie provinces of China . "

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      Oi'enino ov Pakmasien'jv—The Queen has signified her intention of opening Parliament in person . Accidents . —The Duke of Newcastle has been thrown while hunting with the Earl of Scarborough ' s hounds , and has dislocated his shoulder . Tho Earl of Scarborough is himself indisposed , owing to a fall received while shooting a few months ago . The Bank Cjiaktkk Act . — The inhabitants of Glasgow met on Thursday , nnd passed resolutions condemnatory of tlie Bank Charter Act of 1844 . A deputation was appointed to confer with Lord Palmerston and the Chancellor of the Exchequer . AitMKD Ahduction in Iuei . and . —Eight men , armed , broke a few nights ago into tho dwelling of Michael Egnn , a farmer at Cnppngolnn , near Mount Bolus , King ' s County . They then forced Miss Egnn out of bed , nnd carried her off almost in a state of nudity , for tho purpose , it is supposed , of murrying her to one of tliemsolves . It is stated that sho has a marriage portion of 300 / . Mr . Egan was absent from home at the time . I ' mncksb's Theatric . —The exquisite representation of the Tempest is given for the hist time this evening , to make room for tho reproduction , on Monday next , of liichnrd the Second , Tho attraction of this magnificent historical revival was so little exhausted by ita former extraordinary run of success , tlmt we may fairly predict for it ix second life of even longer duration and greater glory than the first . Tins Leviathan . —We bcliev « that a further attempt will be made to-day to lower tho Leviathan tolow-Wftter murk , to wait for next week ' s spring tides .

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      No . 401 , November 28 , 1857 . J THE LEAD ER , 1137

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 28, 1857, page 1137, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2219/page/9/