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    dinners , in Joseph de Maistre ' s correspondence , just Bublished , there- is a passage worth quoting : — ' Caulaincourt ( Napoleon I . ' s ambassador to St . Petersburg ) gave a dinner yesterday , at which , among other features , I noticed seven * pears , which cost 300 fi a piece . ' Paris in 1858 has left St . Petersburg in 1806 for behind . At Chevet ' s , in the Palais Royal , there are pears in the -windows equal in size to small pumpkins . Curiosity prompted me the other day to make inquiries as to the price of one of them , and Madame Chevet politely informed me it to » to be had for 25 £ ! They are , however , but ve * y seldom purchased , but let out in the same ¦« ray aa plate or chandeliers ; to make a show , for 5 f . a-piece . " contains

    Burial of the Dead . —Tuesday ' s Gazette several Orders in Council , which , under the authority of the Act to amend the laws concerning the burial of the dead , direct the discontinuance of burials , with certain exceptions , in various provincial towns . The Orders m Council which follow refer to the burial of the dead in the metropolitan churches and churchyards of St . Martm-an-the-Fields , St . Anne , Soho , Sfc . Pancras ISFew Church , and CamdenNew Church . It directs that the coffins in the vaults and catacombs of the churches be imbedded * with Soil mixed with charcoal or M'Dougal ' s disinfecting powder , and entombed in an air-tight manner , an * that ventilating pipes be connected with airchannels leading to the roof of the churches . DiPiiOMATic . —It is said that the Mr . Howard who made fhe sudden and still unexplained retreat from Florence last summer is to be appointed Minister at the

    Hague . —Times . . Public Health . —The cold air and fogs much increased the rate of mortality last week in the metropolis ; the deaths were 1349 , being an excess of 132 over the previous week , and of nearly 200 over the average rate for the same season . Scarlatina is Still very fatal , carrying off 145 victims . The number of births for the -week -was 1814 . Dr . Letheby also reports an increase of deaths in . the City , viz . 132 , being an excess of 11 over corresponding periods . Election of Lord Rector of Glasgow University . — -The election took place on Monday forenoon . There were three candidates—Sir Edward Bulwer Lyttoh , Bart ., Bf . P ., Lord Shaftesburyj and Mr . Charles Dickens . Between : the two former a keen contest took place , which resulted m the re-election of Sir Edward .

    Coujit of Aldermen . —At a court held on Tuesday a vote of thanks was awarded to Sir K . W . Carden , the late Lord M > yor , jfor the satisfactory mariner in which lie discharged his duties as chief magistrate , for the kindness and urbanity with which he had presided over the Court , and called extra Courts when necessary , for his hospitality to those invited to his dinners , and also for his philantrophic care of the poor of the metropolis , as illustrated , we presume , by his fatherly conduct towards all street fruitsellers and costertnongers of both TT 4 * 1 X 13 fail BtZCCtt UUitOvllvJl *} «*** « . ^ v ^ vwAuvfUQv ^ M w » * # wv ~*

    sexes . The Atlantic Telegraph . —A Dublin journal makes the announcement that great excitement prevails . at Valentia- in consequence of the dismissal of the electric staff connected with the cable , and the unexpected closing up of the company ' s premises . The Society of Auts opened its one hundred and fifth session on Wednesday . The inaugural address was delivered by Mr . C . W . Dilke , the Chairman of the Council . Society of the Friends of Poland . —On Wednesday , the fourth anniversary of Lord Dudley Stuart ' s death was commemorated by a meeting of the Society . Major Szulczeswski delivered an appropriate address , in which lie appeared to regard the emancipation of tbe serfs by the Emperor Alexander as a measure calculated to prepare the way for the restoration of Polish independence .

    convened to consider the question of the paper duties was held at Peel ' s Coffee-house , on Thursday . Mr . Cassell presided , and several well-known London printers took part in the proceedings . Besolntions condemning the paper duty as a tax upon raw material , and as . an obstacle to the intellectual improvement of the people , were passed with but one dissentient . Dr . Vogel . —M . von Humboldt has received a de ^ spatch from the English Consulate at Murzuk , stating that new vigorous measures are being resorted to for the recovery of poor lost Dr . Togel . All the prisons of Wadai are to be searched for hiin .

    Italian Pulpit Eloquence . —The inhabitants of Isoverde , near Genoa , have recently brought their cure to book under curious circumstances . The worthy man , with a frankness unusual in these slipshod days , was accustomed to commence his sermons with the most terrible apostrophes to the female members of his flock . Thus he would call them " strumpets , " " daughters of Satan , " " filthy wenches , " and by other flowery terms which do not now pass current in polite society . The husbands , fathers , brothers , lovers , &c , of the women , became at last indignant . They hauled the Catholic Spurgeon before the police tribunal , and he was fined ten francs , and sentenced to five days' imprisonment , for allowing his tongue to let fall such dirty words .

    Indian Telegraphs . —Sir W . B . O'Shaughnessy , the superintendent of electric telegraphs in India , has been congratulated by the Supreme Government of India for having completed the electric telegraph line from Kurrachee to Bombay , and for laying- down the Ceylon cable across the Gulf of Manaar , signals being sent across the latter place with one cell . Private Theatricals .- —Sudeley Castle , the residence of Mr . Dent , is about to be enlivened with a " masque , " or theatrical performance , founded on the play of Henry VIII . Miss Strickland , the authoress of The Queens of England , wiJl , it is said , have charge of the arrangements . — -Cheltenham Examiner . LrfiEssED Victuallers' Ball . —The Guildhall , still

    relief of the homeward bound vessels * I am , sir , your most obedient servant , — : W . G . Romaime . " Fox-hunting at Rome . —The Times correspondent says : —" There is quite a sensation among the English sportsmen , horse-dealers , and livery-stable keepers in Koine , on account of the Government having prohibited hunting-. Yarious reusons have been assigned for the veto , and among others it has been said that its motive was the damage done to rural property . This is false and even absurd ; the true reason is quite of a different nature . It appears that some Italian Nimrod , who could not ride , got spilt at a small ditch and broke something or other . The degenerate Roman matrons

    became alarmed for the physical integrity of their lords , and exerted themselves to get the dangerous sport forbidden . ' Ce quefemme veut , JJieu le veut , " says the proverb ; therefore it is not surprising that the Pope was prevailed on . I learn that efforts arc being made to obtain permission for the English , exclusively , to pursue their favourite sport , and they expect to know their fate on Saturday next . When I say " exclusively , " it is to be hoped that other foreigners , as veil as English , will not be debarred the excitement of the chase , ' which some of them keenly relish . I hear of one munificent Muscovite who offered to pay the whole cost of the pack sooner than see it given up .

    CuiNonxK asb Pknny-a-linixg . —Some ingenious but desperate penny-a-liner has palmed upon the editor of the . Liverjiool iVIercvry a narrative in which , under the title of ' * Unparalleled Outrage upon a Young Lady , " he describes an assault committed by two men upon an unprotected young female . In thrilling and impassioned language tlie writer tells how they nourished knives and first threatened to cut the young lady ' s " hoops , " and if she resisted . ' . to stab the . yoitng lady herself ; but how ultimately they did neither , contenting themselves with snatching a kiss and a white pocket-handkerchief , after which they ran away . The narrative makes about a column in length .

    The National Defences . —An able pamphlet just published by the Messrs . Richardson , of Cornhill , shows that this topic is still exciting attention . The pamphlet is entitled " Beware ! " The writer speaks of preparations going on in . France to invade England , and suggests that our only security lies in making every freeman learn how to fight . " Why , " says he , " should not every youth of fourteen be acquainted with something allied , to arms ? and why should not every freeman , before his admission to his freedom , be bound' to prove that he has some ability to defend that freedom ? A population thus trained from their vouth would form a

    refulgent in all the glories of Lord Mayor s day , was on Thursday night taken possession of by the licensed victuallers for the purposes of their grand annual charitable ball . Until eleven o ' clock there was a constant inpouring of the votaries of Terpsichore , who were soon seen to be busily engaged in all the complicated movements , of the modern , waltz and polka . The music of Adams ' s band was well selected and admirably performed , and Mr . Frampton made a most efficient master of the ceremonies . The company was exceedingly numerous , including the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress .

    The Fire at Bishopstowk . —The following has been issued by the Bishop of Exeter : — " BishopstQwe , Nov . 11 . —The Bishop of Exeter is anxious to offer his warmest thanks to the many kind friends and neighbours who gavo their prompt and valuable aid in extinguishing the fire on Sunday last , which was thus ( with God ' s blessing ) prevented from destroying the house in which he writes . So long as lie shall be permitted to remember anything , he will retain a grateful recollection of the great exertions thus rendered by neighbours who were unable to make more exertions , and of the sympathy of many others , from whom sympathy * was the only , but not the least gratifying , support , which he and his family could receive in that hour of trial . "

    defence for this island which the world might look at with envy . A million of active young men no novices at the ride , thousands of horses trained to stand fire , with a complete knowledge of the country , would operate as a powerful barrier against the most infuriated and scientific enemy . In short , > vc want a national guard , " Comets . — From lir . st to last , Donati ' s comet has thrown off more chips than people in general dream of , some of them verv considerable ones . It has turned out to be a sort of celestial egg enclosed in a multitude of shells , which it got rid of as it approached the sun , like the traveller who cast aside his cloak wider the mild persuasion of Phccbus Apollo , although Boreas had in vain endeavoured to force it from him . Uoiiati s comet exiuit formed

    The Winter in Italy . —In the memory of the oldest Roman such weather lias not been seen here iu November as for the last ten days Ua 3 afflicted us . We have had rain , hail , snow , and frost . In ninny j-enrs so severo a temperature is not experienced in the depth of winter as we have had . in this first third of November . The mails have come in of a morning with their roofs white with frost . This morning tlio rain came down in torrents , converting tho streets into rivers , and for some time the snow flakes fell thickly und heavily . Such weather ia tho more surprising as this is in general the period of tho short fine season known as St . Martin ' s summer . Twice in tlie lust week we have had a beautiful day , unusually cold for tho time

    bited one very remarkable phenomenon ; successively , around its central nebulosity , a series of luminous onvolopcs distant and distinct from each other , till they attained the number of eight at least ; so tliot the comet seemed to bo a never-ending nest ot boxes of light . Similar phenomena wwe observed by tfte first Hurediol and by Gibers in the grand comet of ISU . What physical condition , of tho star itself can be conjoined with such * continual casting oi luminous &kiM , it is difficult for us to imagine iu our wildest revolts . It would sown at least to broken tlw impossibility mat the hairy wanderer ( comota , derived from « 'ip / , coma , a head of hair ) , should be the dwolling-ulaco of any animated l > olng » whatever . Ami yet , if ) ° J 1 JL never bock iish , nor water insects ond >« " »» JJ and had further experience of water than u »

    of your , but . sunny and cloudless , and giving ua liopos of settled weather , but each time wo have been disappointed . Fires are lighted everywhere , and indeed are indispensable . From other parts of Italy wo hear that the season has been tliero « 1 ho inclement . Not a fortnight ago , At Naples , tho lightest clothing was tho most desirable , and it wus almost too hot to -walk in the mjddle of tho day . Tho variation in tho thermometer there iu , the course of three days must have boon somothlng prodigious , —if , at least , as we are told , they have shared our premature winter . —Latter Jrom Home . This Hojikwabd Bouwb . — Tlio subjoined

    communino ( 4 ItVI 11 UU » V * ltibft « vi v . «» ji *~ - — - ' . t „ - it drowned us whenever wu fell into it una v malnud submerged , wo might be tempted to aay tug it was impossible for organised creatures-to ex" » water . Therefore wo must hesitate before dcuiding " »»« oven Donati ' s comet may not have its inhabitnniU , whom we may suppose to wuko up and ««» » *'' . swarm of gnats , at their approach to tho sun , and to ioh again into torpid lethargy wlioii their longj ^ i'fc w > commences . —Dic /< cns ' v " lluusvliohl Words . Nuuri 3 Wantimj . — Wanted , a nuwo , who ims w * * t _ n „ . .... i l . ituii a llo III UP " accustomod to tho « of omniuunorf V" '""

    nursing" . bo well acquainted with all tlio oumi duiuts <¦*> « " " omnibus is liable , and must kuow l »« w to ma . n fa " many charges na may bo thrown by tlio polloo iipo « lumda . He will bo expected to give flutlafuctoi ) 1 » < j tliat lie fully understands tlio rearing » l liorao * , iw , as tho biii | gii | g up before tho magistrate of « . ' !» 1 ««'" omnlbueoa , An unoxeoptionablo bad c > ar «« tor l » oin n » lastplaco roqulrod . Unliiiiitod » eordia all * jwoU , fl that the omnlbuH that Is bolng " nursod" nmy ™ V * out of tho way ns soon nn possible ^ PP »> , General Nulsonco Company , at « "J 1 » our' ' . / , Dlrootora aro not engaged Iu ft polloo court . —/ ««<¦ '

    cation , announcing tho dc » putch of two Government steamers for tho relief of tlio homeward bound , hna boon recolvod by tho Secretary of Lloyd's : —" Admiralty , Nov . 18 . —Sir , —In renly . to your lettor of tho 17 th inst ., requesting that , in conaoq , uonco of tho long prevalence of easterly -winds , a man-of-war may be despatched for tho roliof of tho homewwtl bound , I am aommundod by my Lords Commissioners gf tlio Admiralty to state , for the information of tho committee for managing tlio affairs , of Lloyd ' s , that yostorday two steam sloops were ordered to bo held rowdy iov $ oti , and that they wore this morning directed by telegraph to proceed nt once for tho

    Remittances from Australia . —It is said that the last Australian mail , which -was delivered in Dublin on Sunday last , contained the almost incredible number of 1400 registered money letters transmitted by emigrants to relatives and friends in the old country . A Canarp . —A propoe of canards , a lettor from Parma states that a diabolical attempt has been mado there to murder Madamo Ristori by administering to her some real poison in a cup from -which she was to drink on the stage . Of course the Austrian Government is charged -with the crime .

    This KX-SsonaTAjiY for tub Admiralty . — Mr . Benml Osborno , who is at present at his seat near Clonmel , lias been Bcriously indisposed for some days past . A local paper , however , states that the hon . gentleman was much better . ' Beggars Paid in tiikib own Coin . —" When a beggar asks me whiningly for charity , " says a City magistrate , " I always give it him , either in the shape of advice , or a moral precept , or a bit of consolation , Imt never in the shape of monoy . I always pay beggars in thoir " own coin- ^ wordB , and it is singular h < w they atollko that form of payment 1 "—Punch , The Shkbwsuuuy Casic . —Tlio Commissioners sont out to take evidence in tills case have returned to England . The whole of tlio evidence has been taken , and the trial is expected to como on at tlio next March assizes . Thje Papuii Duties . —A mooting of master printers

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    1250 . ' ¦ T . H E X E AD E R . [ No . 452 , November 20 , 1858 ^

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 20, 1858, page 1250, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2269/page/10/