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      k , Richard PJantagenet Grenville Nugent Chandos tiple ( commonly called Marquis " of Charidos ) ,. the lit Bori . Edward Cardwell , Vice-Admiral William , ishawe Martin , Sir James Dalryrople Horn Elphini , Bart ., Captain John Shepherd , Royal Navy , ring the rank of commodore ; William Scnaw Lind-, Esq ., John Shepherd , Esq ., Deputy Master of the aity House ; and Richard Green , Esq ., to be her i « aty ' s commissioners to inquire into the best means canning the navy . " Ir . Dickems , on Thursday , read , at St . Martin ' s il , " The Poor Travellers , " " Boots at the Holly Tree , * ' and " Mrs . Gamp . "

      ' he Case of Sir Henry Meux—This protracted ury , de lunaiico , concluded on Thursday . The evipe for the defence tended to show that Sir Henry was ectly sane at the time the disputed will ' and ^ codicil e made ; and family matters were gone into to a great int . Sir Henry , it . appears , was rather a hard ii ^ er , and there is no doubt as to his present imility . The finding of the jury left the case in all the : urity out of which it was sought to be dragged . The -j while , agreeing as to Sir Henry's present insanity , 3 unable to agree as to whether or not he was in a id state of mind when he wrote the codicil to his , by which , in the event of his death , the whole of vast fortune would come into the possession of his wife

      child . The . three sisters , who promoted the suit , ear to have been amply provided for by Sir Henry ; their conduct has therefore excited some disapproba-. among the public . > r . Bernabd has been lecturing at Newcaatle-onfyne on tlie present political condition of France . ¦ was very well received . ' he Recent Division on the Ballot .- —The Ballot iety has put forth the subjoined as an analysis of the division on Mr . Berkeley ' s annual motion : —Ayes 'resent , 197 ; pairs , 23 ; tellers , 2 : total , 222 ; Noes sent , 294 ; pairs , 23 ; tellers , 2 : total , 319 , Maty against the motion , 97 . Total number of votes 30 th sides , 541 . Baron Rothschild , favourable , but

      hie to vote , 1 ; Speaker , 1 ; absent Liberals , 29 ; 3 nt Conservatives , 8 ; absent opponents , 60 ; absent nds , 14 : total , 654 . ' au , of Rock at JLlanberis . —On Tuesday night , a vy thunderstorm occurred in the vicinity of Snow-, and it is supposed , that the lightning must have t one of the mountain masses in the Pass of Llanis , as , about three miles up the pass , immense heaps Tock block up the road and render it completely > assable . The disjointed rocks , riven from the fjhts above , must amount to many hundreds of tons . Destruction of Old Rochester-bridge . . — The truction . of the remaining arches of old" Rochester-Ige was successfully accomplished on Thursday

      after-> n , under the general direction of Colonel H . Sandhatn , E ., Director of the Royal Engineer establishment at atham , by the troops of the Royal and East India npany ' s Engineers , in the presence of a large number Engineer officers and other spectators , who crowded banks of the Medway . Iealth ob- London . —The population of London v appears to be in a very healthy condition . In a tropoiis which in a few years more will be able to int its third million of inhabitants , the deaths in a ak do not often fall below a thousand ; for a reduo » of the weekly deaths below this point occurred only e times in 1857 , though the total mortality of that ir was less than the average . At this season of the

      ir , the mortality has been observed to be least ; I last -week , ending June 12 , the deaths which [ been about 1100 , fell to 963 . In . the ten irs 1848-57 , the average number of deaths in i weeks corresponding with last week was 982 ; but , the present return is for a population which has tually increased , for the purpose of comparison the srage should be raised in proportion to this increase , 1 it will appear then that the deaths of last week re less by 117 than -would have occurred under the urage rute of mortality for the early part of ae . Eighteen persons died of diarrhooa last week , lich is juat the average for this season ; and ir of cholera . With one exception , the cases of

      olera occurred to children not above seven years ago , and are described as " English cholera . " is stated that frequent cases of fever have occurred in ghbury-vale , and that they are supposed to owe their gin to a largo open sewer which runs near the dwelg 3 , and to which public attention has bcon repeatedly tied , but hitherto without effect . The nuisance is not bo abated till it can be included in the general ( linage of the north of London . —Last wcelc , the births 854 boys and 772 girls , in all 1626 children , were Jistered in London . In the ten corresponding weela the 184857 the

      years - average number yros 1507 . — am the Registrar General ' s Weekly Jietum . The Oxford Commemoration . —This has been Cotnimoration week at Oxford . The noblemen and genimen honoured with the degree of D . C . L . were Lord ratford de Redcliffe ; Viscount Eversley , Into Speaker the Houseof Commons ; the Right Hon . Sir Laurence r ' v 5 ? Ju 8 tice of Bengal ; Sir John Shaw ilovre , K . C . B . ; Major-General Inglis , the hero of l ° « , ^ ' omn 8 DykoAcland , M . A . ; and Mr . istice Haliburton . Captaw Grant's ( Abmt ) Kitchens . — Several

      official papers on the working of Captain Grant ' s kitchens now in use at Aldershott and Woolwich were lately printed for general circulation . The report of a board of officers appointed JSy the Commander-in-Cbief is very favourable to the invention of Captain Grant , as being decidedly superior to the present apparatus for cooking . But , although the general principle is approved , there are " many points of minor detail" which are objectionable , and might be improved . A Rare Bird . —A bird of the eagle species , from Costa Rica , was landed at Southampton from the royal mail steamer Atrato a few days since . It is a comparatively small bird , with a powerful beak . Its name in Central America denotes the king of the eagles . All other birds retire from / where it feeds , through fear of its disposition and prowess .

      Destruction of the Barque Henry Jones by Fire . —A report was received at Lloyd ' s on Thursday , from the receiver of wrecks at Southampton , of the loss of the barque Henry Jones , of Caernarvon , by fire , while on her voyage from Liverpool to Coquirobo , with a cargo of 530 tons of patent fueL The cause appears clearly to have been spontaneous combustion . Bubninq Paper Monet . —The amount of the Russian paper currency just publicly burnt at St . Petersburg is twelve millions of silver roubles . Mr . Hodge , of Glastonbury , Somersetshire , Orsini ' s testamentary executor , has left Genoa for England , by the long sea . route , on board the British steamer Teneriffe . ¦¦ . ¦' : ' ' ' ¦ . * - ; ' , ¦ " ¦ . ' : \ ' '

      The Fares to Manchester . —The London and North-Western Company announce that , " from and after the 2 lst of June , " their fares between London , Liverpool , and Manchester , will be assimilated to the Great Northern . New Submarine Telegraph . —The Jersey papers announce that the arrangements for laying dowm the submarine telegraph cable between Portland and ^ the Channel Islands are completed , and that a telegraphic communication between England and those island ) will be established in the course of a montb .

      The Lord Chancellor , it is stated ; has issued an order , declaring that , having regard to the present state of the business in the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy , the vacancy occasioned by the death of Commissioner Stevenson ought not , in his opinion , to be filled up , and directing that it shall not be filled up until further order . ~ Gored to Death by a Bull .- —On Tuesday an inquest was held at the Salisbury Iufirhiaryj before Mr .

      R . M . Wilson , on the body of John Wingrove . The deceased , who was about sixty-five years of age , was attacked on the previoua Friday by a bull belonging to Mr . Selfe , of Woodford . Some of his ribs were fractured , and he was bruised on the riglit shoulder . The p . oor man was removed to the infirmary , -where he died . The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death . " The bull had alway been considered to be a very quiet animal .

      Prizes . —The gold medals founded by the late Sir Robert Blane , to be presented to the naval surgeon whose diary shall possess the greatest merit , "have just been awarded by the President of the Royal College of Surgeons and the Director-General of the Medical Department of the Navy to Messrs . William Richard Edwin * Smart , M . D ., ' of her Majest 3 '' s ship" Diamonp ( 1855 ) , and Alexander Eugene Mackay , of her Majesty ^ ship Fantome .

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      Leader Office , Saturday , June 19 th . LAST NIGHT'S PARLIAMENT . HOUSE OF LORDS . THE INDIA BILL . The Marquis of Lansdowne asked whether the reso lutions on the subject of the Government of India , which had passed the House of Commons , would be brought before their Lordships previously to tlie bill coming before them . —The Earl of MAlmesbuky said that Lord Derby was still unable to be in his place , and asked for a repetition of the question on Monday . —A long discussion took place with regard to the mode of conducting private business in Parliament . Soveral bills were advanced a stage , and the House adjourned at half-past seven .

      HOUSE OF COMMONS . NKW "WRIT . A * now writ waa ordered to issue for the election of a member for Enst Norfolk , in the room of Sir Edward Buxton , deceased . TIIR G 1 KRMAN LKOION AT T 1 IK CAPE . Sir Dk Lacy Evans begged to ask the Secretary of State for War , from what fund the German Legion at the Cape of Good Hope have been paid during the last year the field allowances and full pay which the governor of that colony is stated to have uauetl to thorn . —Genera

      . ¦ ' " ¦' " ' ¦ " " ' ¦¦¦ ?¦ ' ' = ar Peel said they were paid out of tlie ConunisMriat chest , by order of the governor ; orders had been given that no further payments of tbe kind should be made . KISSING A . LADY . Mr . Fitzroy , begged to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to a case which has recently occurred before the Wareham Petty Sessions , when a carpenter of the name of Craft was sentenced , under the Aggravated Assaults Act , to six months' imprisonment , -with hard labour , for kissing the daughter of the Reverend H . C . Collins , of Farringdon Rectory , Devon , on landing from a steamer between Poole and Swanage . —Mr . Wai ^ olb said his attention had not been called to the case , but if the facts were laid before him he would look into it and see if the Act of Parliament did not require amendment .

      china . . Mr . Horsfall , begged to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether there is any truth in the reports which appear in the French papers of an arrangement restricting the discretionary powers of the Plenipotentiaries in China , and ordering then to negotiate at Canton , Pekin , or elsewhere . —Mr . Setmoub Fitzgerald said there was no truth in the report .

      THE MILITIA . Colonel French begged to ask the Secretary of State for War if it is his intention to recommend the disembodiment of any additional regiments of Militia , and if he will inform the House on what principle the sixteen regiments lately disembodied were selected . He complained , of the manner in which liis regiment—the Roscommon—had been treated . —General Peel said it was not the intention of the Government to disembody any more regiments , and no more would be embodied . The sixteen regiments in question were selected on the ground that they did not give their quota of men to the Line : ' . ' ¦ . '• " ¦ . ' /¦ ' '¦ ' . ¦ ¦ . ¦

      THE WELLINGTON MONUMENT . Mr . Stirling begged to ask the Chief Commissioner of Works if it is the intention of her Majesty's Governmenc to order any one of the prize designs for the Wellington monument , now exhibited in tbe Conference Room , to be executed for St . Paul ' s ; and , if not , whether he will state the course which the Government proposes to adopt with regard to the design and construction of the monument .

      THE THAMES . Mr . Ross Donnelly Mangles begged to ask the Chief Commissioner of Works what steps he has taken , or proposes to take , to preserve the health of the members of the two Houses of Parliament from being destroyed by the present pestilential condition of the River Thames . —In reference to JEr . Mangles ' s question ^ Mr . Alderman Cubitt defended the Metropolitan Board of Works , stating that they had been required to do an impracticable work , and in which they were thwarted by the late Chief Commissioner of Works . —Mr . Warben urged the inability of tl » e Metropolitan Board of Works to prevent the s&wage of London flowing into the Thames . He asked Sir Benjamin Hall

      if he was satisfied with that strange body . —Lord John Manners , answering the above questions , said , that with reference to the Wellington monument , he had come to the conclusion to select one design which had been mentioned by the authority of Mr . Pearson . It was the design , numbered 18 . With reference to the state of the river , he could only say that he had no power or jurisdiction to interfere . He daily received reports from Mr . Goldsmith Gurney as to what he proposed to do with regard to permanentlj' cleansing the river , which amounted * to a statement that lie could do nothing ; but

      he could place contrivances against the windows of the Houses of Parliament tokeep out the stench , and he was also throwing quantities of lime into the mud of the river . —Sir Benjamin Hale , said that he had exercised his right , as Chief Commissioner of Works , in rejecting the plans submitted to him by the Metropolitan Board of Works for draining the river Thames , because they were contrary to the Act of Parliament . He thought it would be best for the Government to take tho matter in their own hands . —After some further discussion , the subject dropped .

      TUB MURDER . OF MR . ELLIS . In answer to The O'Donoghue , Mr . Wiutesidk entered into a statement of the facts connected with the murder of Mr . Ellis , in Tipp-erary , and the circumstances connected with the trial of tho murderer , denying that the trial was not a fair one . He declined to state whore tho witnesses were whoso evidence had obtainod tho con . viction of the murderer .

      THK COKFESSIOHAL IN UHI . QKAVIA . Mr . Butler begged to ask tho Chancellor of tho Exchequer , whether it is tho intention of her Majesty's Go . vernment to take any stops in consequence of the practices alleged to hnve taken place at the Confessional in the district of St . Barnaban , Pimlico ; and tho statements that similar practices are being continued by other ministers of our Church in that neighbourhood ; and whether her M / ijesty ' s Government is in communication with tho proper ecclesiastical authority , in order to tho punishment of all who may have taken part in such practices . —Mr . Wali'Olk answered tho quostlon an

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 19, 1858, page 589, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2247/page/13/