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      Galley , I have not seen the slightest indication . " { Cheers and laughter . * ) The President having coupled the names of Mr . Dickens and Mr . Thackeray In one toast , as illustrating the connexion between literature and art , those gentlemen made brief replies . Mr . Dickens said : —" Following the order of your toast , I have to take the first part in the duet to be performed in acknowledgment of the compliment you haves paid to literature . In this home of art I feel it to be too much an interchange of compliments , a 9 it -were ,

      between near relations to enter into any lengthened expression of our thanks for the honour you have done us . I feel that it would be changing this splendid , assembly into a sort of family , party . £ . 1 laugh . ' ) I may , liowever , take leave to say that your sister , whom I represent , is strong and healthy ( a laugh ); she has a very great affection for , and an undying interest in , you ; and it is always a very great gratification to her to see herself so "well remembered within these walls , and to know that she is an honoured guest at your hospitable board . " { Cheers and laughter . ) .

      Mr . Thackeray said : — " My Lords , Mr . Chairman , and Gentlemen , —Permit me to say that ,, had it nut been for the direct act of my friend wlio has just sat down , 1 should most likely never have been included in the t oast which you have been pleased to drink ; I should have tried to be , not a writer , "but a painter , or designer of pictures . That was the object . of my early ambition , and I can remember , when Mr . Dickens was a very young man , and had commenced delighting the world with some charming humorous works of -which I cannot mention thena , me ( laughter ) , but which were coloured light green , and came out once a month ( a laugh ) , that this young man wanted an artist to illustrate his writings , aad I recollect walking up to his chambers with two or three drawings in my Land , which , strange to say , he did not find suitable . ( Laughter . ) But for that unfortunate blight which came over my artistical existence , it would have been my pride and my pleasure to have endeavoured one day to find a place on these walls for one of my performances . This . disappointment caused me to direct my attention to a different walk of art , and now I can only hope to be ' translated' on these walls , as I have been , thanks to my talented friend Mr . Egg . QHear rhear . ) I shall , however , ever think with pride and pleasure of my name having been mentioned from that chair , always connecting it with the person who first . sat-. in it" ( ^ Sir Joshua Reynolds ) . The chairman ' then left tiic chair , and the company dispersed themselves through the different saloons , admiring , the pictures till a late hour .

      BANQUET TO THE DU 1 CK OV MALA . KHOFF . A banquet was given on Thursday by the members of the Army and Navy Club to the new Trench Ambassador . A large ' number of guests were present ; and ' the chief speeches were those of the Marshal himself , Sir W . F . Williams ( the Chairman ) , Sir John Paltington . Major-General Yorke , Sir William Codrington , and Colonel Daniell . The Duke of Malakhoff , in acknowledging the toast of his health , said ( speaking in French ) : — " It is with a feeling of brotherly pleasure that I iind myself sitting among you . It gives me deep satisfaction to see your cordial anxiety to give me a -welcome . As a soldier , more than one among you know me ; as Ambassador , my principles are invariable , and , as I have already had the opportunity of explaining them , it is not necessary to speak of them again here . But . what I wish to tell you is , thnt I feel a pride in finding myself again in the midst of my companions in arms , and that I recal to memory our valiant standards , our glorious nags , the witnesses of your great efforts as well as ours , under the shadow of which we have conquered the peace of the world . Let us in future know how to maintain that peace , so productive of civilization , and so fertile , so necessary for us and for youthat peace so indispensable for the welfare of all . I hope that peace will be durable , for it was cemented by generous blood—by blood shed sido by side in succouring a faithful ally , but shed with equal and mutual eagerness . It is for us , soldiers and sailors , to remember this . It is for us to propose , without hesitation , an enthusiastic toast of lasting concord , and wo who have joined our heroic efforts together for the advantage of all have the right to say to two great people , ' Let us know how to unite the two fleets and the two armies , and lot our sentiments bo mingled together in one common feeling . L . beg to propose * The imperishable union of our fleets and armies . ' " Tho evening passed oil' with the \ itmo 3 t enthusiasm .

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      S A NIT A RY MA . TTK IIS . Tub Registrar-General has issued his Quarterly Return . We hero road : — "This return comprise * the birlhy mul deaths registered by 2 UM > registrars in all the districts of England during th <; winter quarter that , ended on March » Lsl , 1858 ; and the marriugus in 12 , 272 dlurches or chapels ' , about iV . )\ V . ) registered places of worship unconnected with tho Established Church , anil l > 2 !) superintendent rcgiatraru' ollicea , in tha quarter Unit ended on l > cceinlicr Glut , 1857 . " Makkiaokm . — Nin « ty-ono thousand bcvou hundred

      and seventy-two persons married in the last tliree months of 1857 . The marriages of the quarter were at the rate of 1 * 878 persons married to 100 living in a year ; the decennial average . rate of the corresponding quarter being 1-994 . " Births . —The births of 171 , 001 children , lorn alive , were registered in the quarter that ended on March 31 st ; " a number exceeding by 620 the births in the corresponding winter quarter of 1857 ; and the highest number that was ever registered within the same time and season . Children were born at the rate of 1-900 a day . The births in the quarter were at the rate of 3-568 annually to 100 of the population ; the average being 3 * 518 . The births fluctuate little in comparison with the marriages and the deaths in the sereral divisions of the kingdom ; but the decrease of births in the Northern counties is worthy of note . "Ikckea . se" of Population . —171 , 001 births and 125 , 902 deaths were registered in the first ninety days of the year , and the natural increase of population in that period was therefore 45 , 099 , or 501 daily . The natural increase in the winter quarter of 1857 was 687 daily . The falling off in the increase of population is referable to the excessively high rate of mortality during the past winter ; for the births exceeded by 7 daily the births in the winter of 1857 . The natural increase of population in the United Kingdom was probably about 750 daily . " Emigration . —19 , 146 emigrants sailed from the ports of the United Kingdom at which there ate Government emigration agents ; of whom , 7230 ( or , allowing for persons of undistinguished birth-place , 8142 ) were of English ' origin . Nothing is more remarkable in the movement of our population than the decrease of emigration since the war . " The Weekly Return of the Registrar-General states : —• " The deaths registered in London in the first three weeks of April were successively 1221 , 1207 , and 1144 ; in the last week , ending Saturday , Hay 1 st , they were 1125 . In the last ten years 1848—57 , the average number of deaths in the weeks corresponding watli last week was 1045 ; but , as the deaths in the present Teturn occurred in an increased population , tliey should be compared with the average , after the latter is raised in proportion to the increase , a correction which will make it 1149 . The deaths of last week were , therefore , less by 24 than the number which the average rate of mortality would liave produced . The births returned for the same time exceed the deaths by 592 . —Last week , the births of 851 boys and 8 G 6 girls , in all 1717 children , were registered in London . In the tea corresponding weeks of the years 1848—57 , the average number was 1 G 13 . "

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      AMERICA . Coi-osei , Johmston has been superseded in the command of the Utah force by Major-General Persifer F . Smith . The colonel will be placed in command of a brigade . General Harney has also been ordered to the seat of operations , and the reinforcements and supplies are to be pushed forward with all haste . The remains of the late Colonel Uenton were interred at St . Louis on the lGth ult . Business was generally suspended ; the houses and stores were draped in mourning ; and the streets were crowded with spectators . ThcJvear . se was followed to the Bellefontaine Cemetery by the most imposing procession ever formed in St . Louis . The Kansas Bill has been purloined from the Speaker ' s desk , and taken to Senator Green . The theft has excited the utmost indignation , and it is thought that it will lead to the expulsion from tlie House of the guilty party . A personal collision has occurred in the House of Representatives , and another in the Senate . Duels are expected to result from them . Tho papers and correspondence between Lord Napier and the Secretary of State , relating to the slave-trade , arc now before tho Senate . In reply to Lord Napier ' s remark about tho habit of vessels on tho coast of Africa hoisting the American Hag as a protection against the British cruisers , General Cass says that the United States deny the right of the cruisora of any other Power whatever to enter their vessels by force in timo of peucl-. In conclusion , Mr . Cass is instructed hy the President to inform Lord Nppier that , while he ( the President ) ia determined to executo the treaty of 1842 with fidelity and efficiency , lie iy not prepared , under existing ciroiunstaiu es , to enter into any new stipulations on the subject of the African slave-trade . Among the letters is a statement from Mr . Mason , United States Minister to 1 ranee , dated February 10 th , in which he states that he had it conversation with Count Wulcwski on the subject of the French scheme of African emigration . The count slated that England did not object to that ( scheme , « a the British colonies are being supplied by the Coolie Ira do . The Africans , ho added , would bo buttered by tho plan , and would be Christianized and humanized by tliuir contact with the French colonists . Tho Red Republicans have honoured the memory of Or . siiu mid lMorri with a torchlight process km through the atreota of ISTuw York , composed of t \ w thousand ivo hundred pursuna . Inflammatory npeceU' 3 wore delivered .

      In the United States Senate , a proposition is pending directing the President to demand satisfaction of Paraguay for firing into the steamer "Waterwitch . The resolutiott was regarded as tantamount to an authoriza * tion of a declaration of Avar . The British residents in 2 ? e \ v York have celebrated St . George's Day , as usual , -with a banquet , at -which Lord Napier was a guest and one of the princi pal speakers . The frigate Susquebanna has arrived at New York from Kingston , Jamaica . The crew had suffered fright . fully from yellow fever , and there had been a great many deaths on board . The vessel was put in quarautine . Terrible casualties have resulted from the overflow of the Mississippi . The flood is the greatest that has happened since 1844 : on each side of the river , the land has been covered for a a distance , in length , of several hundred miles . Several animals have been swept away . Some details has been received in New York of the late Indian massacre in British Honduras . When the Indians took the town of Beccalaw , they killed one hundred and four persons , and took forty prisoners . Ransom amounting to four thousand dollars was offered for the release of the latter ; but it was refused , and the entire number—? thirty women and ten men—were brought out and put to death , after the persons of the women had been violated by the Indians . From Venezuela we learn that on the 21 st of March the opponents of Monagas overthrew tlie existing- Government , and proclaimed ex-Governor Serrano Provisional President . The Monagas family took refuge with the French Minister , but were given up on demand , and placed in confinement . Monagas appears to have iilclied enormously from the Custom House receipts . A sanguinary battle took place at Callao on the 7 th and 8 th of March , which left Castilla master of Arequipa . Vivanco has retired to Bolivia . The loss ou both sides was more than 2000 killed , aud the city Was filled with wounded . New Grenada is said to be seeking annexation to the United States . The Americans have long contemplated the purchase of Mexico , and Mr . Houston has a motion in the Senate , proposing the assumption of a protectorate . The absorption of the Spanish-American . into the Anglo-American States seems , therefore , as if it was about to begin . Sixteen olliceTS , leaders in a projected Santa Anna movement in Mexico , have been arrested on board the British steamer Dee at Tampieo . Letters were found on them , tending to show that Santa Anna had entered into an arrangement with Spain to subjugate the Mexican Republic and to establish a monarchy , " or to-make it a foreign dependency . lie had applied to the Captain-General of Cuba for two thousand men to aid his supporters in Mexico ; but this was refused . Subsequently , he asked for a Spanish steamer , but with no better success . Nicaragua ia torn witii civil war . General Xaircz is in arms against the Government of Martinez , and affairs are in as great confusion as ever . The steamer San Carlos has been . seized and sunk bv the ISiearaguans , the ( Josta Rican guard which was on . board having been previously driven oft " . It is reported that eight British gunboats have been stationed round Ilavanuah on coast survey , and to pre-. vent the landing of negroes .

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      CONTINENTAL NOTES . That narrow . and unchristian feeling is Lo Lie condemned which regards with jeuLouay the'progress of foreign , nations , find cares for no portion oi the human race bub thnt to which itself belongs . DH . ;\ 13 NO 1 P . 1-KANCK . It was rumoured last week that the rigour of despotism in , France wah to be somewhat relaxed ; but this week we _ hear that M . Proiidhon ' s new work , Dc la Justice duns la Involution ct tftuts VKgUsc , lias been seized , and that a prosecution has been instituted . The committee which had been charged to examine the bill tending to grant assistance and pensions to the families of tlie victims and of tho persons wounded in tlie attempt of the 14 th January , lias proposed unanimously in its report tho adoption of tlie measure , but with a modification , accepted by the Council of State , establishing ii distinction between the suUonu's who had been attracted to the upot hy mere curiosity , and those who were struck when in the accomplishment ol' their duty . The amendment increases tlie amount of pension accorded to tlie latter or to their families . A bazaar has been hold at the English Embassy f < - > r the relief' of the Knglkh poor at Psiris . The ; ensemble of the Budget for 18 , ">!> lias been adopted in th < i Legislative Body byi ^ G votes against 3 . Th . ! number of voters was 2 al ) . The French consul at Alexandria has rendered himself so obnoxious to thu refugees ( mainly Italians ) wlio ; ire congregated there , Unit . Koriou . s riots have tuln'ii place , and , cries Ijjivu been rniscd of " Down with tliu Kinperor ! " "JKnvu with tho consul I" Thu writer « letter from tlie city in question alates that tin- Kn ; nch representative , in coi ' mnou with the other European consuls , hud found it necessary to take eiieiwtio moft-

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      440 THE LEADER , [ No . 424 , May 8 , 1858 . §

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 8, 1858, page 440, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2241/page/8/