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    tain . But as he got on step by step the gradation took off the force of Contrast ; each successive step appeared natural enough , no doubt ; and now , when he is fairly at the top of the tree , if that most amiable and able Judge-should ever wish to realise his elevation , I suppose he can do so only by recurring in thought to the links of St . Andrews , and to the days when he drilled his pupils in Latin and Greek . Student of Divinity , newspaper reporter , utter barrister , King ' s Council , Solicitor-General , Member for Edinburgh , Attorney-General , Baron Campbell of St . Andrews , Chief Justice of England—each successive point was natural enough when won , though the end made a great change from the Manse of Cupar .: —Fraser ' s Magazine . ' _ ' _ . w ' ' . m ¦ ¦ ¦ « - ¦¦ ¦ _ ' »¦

    Spurgeon . — -On Monday about 1000 of Mr . Spurgeon's followers held a tea-meeting a Park-street Chapel to aid the funds for the new tabernacle . The meeting was addressed by Messrs . Spurgeon , Hugh Allen , Davis , and others . Uptrards of 800 / . was collected and promised ; hundreds of devotees were unable to gain ad-. xnittance . Dr . DtnLCAMARA , M . P . —One human institution remains perennially unchanged—the institution of imposture . One man among us can boast of a field of action which never contracts or changes ; that man is no other tban our beloved old quack ; our eloquent , our far-famed , our magnificent impostor , Doctor Dulcamara , M . P . Freed bv the arrival of the autumn from his

    engagements on the politico-operatic stage , this eminent and melodious public man has , of late months , been going his rounds gaily in provincial England . He has assumed a great variety of characters , taking especial care ( for the Doctor knows his public intimately ) to seek his originals in the world of rank and title , and never to impersonate any individual who stands lower than a member of the House of Commons . Now as a noble lord , now as a noble and learned lord , and now simply as M . P ., he has been calling meetings all over England . Among other announcements , he has proclaimed his discovery of a new soothing syrup , to be taken largely in a great many table-spoonfuls , called " Social Science . " ( Wisely saying nothing whatever of

    the many years during which it was endeavoured , by hard labourers , to force that nostrum on his attention ; or of his taking no heed of it until it by slow degrees became popular ) . He has referred , with his usual brazen self-complacency , to his long-established pills and powders , devoted to the cure of exhaustion and weariness in mechanics institutions ., and artfully adapted never to attain the end which they profess to accomp / jsh . He . has revived with greater success than ever , that admirably-impudent performance of his which he calls " Giving an account of his stewardship to his constituents . " And in each and all of these cases , he has once more achieved that amazing fljat of oratorica jugglery on which the main foundation of his celebrity has from time immemorial reposed . In other words , he has talked for hours together without the slightest intermission ,

    and , at the end of the time , has said—nothing . The one striking difference which we discern between the practice of this consummate conjuror on the metropolitan stage and his practice on the country platform , is , that , in the former case , he does actually produce his specifics as well as talk about them ; while , in the latter case , he merely promises to produce them when he goes circuit again nest year . That next year will como ; the platform -will be swept again for use ; the waterbottle and tumbler will be set upon the little table ; our Dulcamara ' s nearest friend and admirer will solemnly preside in an arm-chair ; and the Doctor ' s audience will be just , as unaccountably large , just as amazingly patient , just as unreasoningly ready to believe , as ever . Wonderful institution of Quackery ! Unrivalled , unblushing , unchangeable Dr . Dulcamara !— 'Household Words .

    Curious Discovert . —Dr . Beck , of -Dantzic , has found an antidote , or rather a counter-poison , for ardent spirits . It is a mineral paste which lie en © loses In an oliVe , and which once absorbed destroys not only the rising effect , but likewise the disastrous consequences of drunkenness . He tried several experiments on a Polo , an irreclaimable drunkard . The individual , named Kadevil , swallowed three bottles of brnndy in succession , and after each bottle eat an olive prepared by the doctor . He experienced neither the effect of drunkenness nor the slightest sickness .

    TractAtiiANisw . —On Thursday a public meeting of members of tho Church of England waa held at Exoterhall for the purpose of taking into consideration certain practices , bordering on tho ceremonies of the Church of Borne , which are reported to bo in use in the church of St . George-in-tho-East , in that of St . Barnabas , Pimlico , and several other places of Protestant worship in tho metropolis . Condemnatory resolutions wore ngreod to after considerable uproar . Tjih Ahmy Contract Inquiry . —In tho course of Wednesday , Sir Thomas Hastings , formorly storekeeper of tho Board' of Ordnance , waa examined at great length , and tho chairman afterwards stated that tho proceedings must bo adjourned sine dig . ' Some converaation took place respecting tho publicity that had been given to tho proceedings of tho commission , It appears that this publicity has boon of great advantage . . Couht of CoamoN Coukciu-t-A siiooial Court waa

    day , after a short illness . The lamented gentlemanT " ceived patients and was out in his carriage on Sahfrafter which he complained of indisposition and r ^ to his chamber , which he was destined neVertolo ^ again alive . The deceased was born !„ aJJit ?™ tember , 1789 , so that'lie was in his seventieth vear # " second wife was a sister of Sir William- Follett Kt . ti . li > Ootdo . nk —M . Ballogh , a Himo-ar ; ' „ that he has managed to square the d « £ , SJRJ just sent copies of his work on the subject , which on taina numerous diagrams , to the Academy of Scien ™ ; ienna and Paris , and to the heads of the Univer , iH of Cambridge and Oxford . versifies ^ _

    Status- of a Gentleman ok the Pris * —The r long Weekly News of the 3 rd of September has an ar " count of an indignation meeting of navvies , which B « reported by a gentleman who " was acco mmodated with a giddy seat at the top of one of the wheels of a £ ri < y " The vehicle seems to have been driven about to various points during the proceedings of the meeting ! Flattering . —In the window of the library , No 212 Kue do Itivoli , there has lately been exhibited an en ' graved portrait of Mr . Charles Dickens , with a beard a I'itnpirude , sitting- at a desk in a thoughtful position ami writing . The police entered the shop the other day and told the proprietor in very angry terms to take the engraving out of the window-. They mistook Mr . Dickens ' s portrait for a caricature of the . Emperor !

    Ihk Ijamii . V ok AunoTSFonn . —The announcement of the death in London , o » the 11 th hist , of the only son of Mr . Hope Scott , Q . C ., cannot but interest the public . This child , the only living male descendant of Sir Walter Scott , whose name he bore , was only a year and a half ohl , and lias survived his mother , the poet ' s granddaughter , littlo more than six weeks . An infant sister died here a fortnight ago , on the 3 rd ; and thus since the 2 Gth October , the date of Mrs . Hope Scott ' s death , the afllictctl father has had also to lament the loss of two children . Only one little girl remains . — Scotsman .

    Dhulkep Sinoii . —The Maharajah is at Vienna , under the travelling name of Captain Melville . Hig Highness has chartered a steamer belonging to . the Austrian Steam ^ Navigation Company , and is going down the-Danube on a shooting expedition . Life vx Victouia . —It must bo a life singularly re " pulsive , in its aspects to our Upper Ten Thousand-Those diggers—that horrid b . illot—that odious republicanism—are the natural disgust and dread of the Dowagers and the " Dowbs / ' liut somehow-one fancies that the vigorous sons of freedom ami adventure may find a certain attraction in a land which has no national debt , no oppressive taxes , and no restricted citizenship . —iJaily A ' aics .

    IxTOLKitANi-K in Swkdkx . —A Mr . Uochmuer , a respectable tradesman , has nieeh-lly lieen committed for trial before , the Swedish courts of ' justice , on the charge of -having brought over a . inumber of the Lutheran Church tu Baptist tenets , and of having administered to him the rite of baptism . This irf an ofVeiice wliich , if proved , will c-ntaU banishment , and the confiscation of his properly . The tritil is fixed to take place on the . to of February next . Wu understand that tho Swedish Government is not disinclined to repeal the laws woicU no > v exist against conversions from Lutlieranism , Out that these luwa are uphold by the Legislature .- /^ Mercury .

    _ „ „ LiTXKMnouim and Rome . — The thnmbcr of tk Duchy of Luxembourg four days ago held a " » ' % ™ which tlio Government stated that tin- I'm < - before concluding a concordat wanted to be «*» uwu tiiai it would not bo rejected by the Chamber , ami thelOovenunent therefore wished to have an opinion ^ P ™ on it . Tho Chamber resolved to diMUiss tho matt or JW in ita bureaux , it is stated that nniogst other ning * the concordat makes Luxembourg an episcopal citj , aw that this will occasion an expense of 2 U , O 0 Ulr . n } «»«¦

    IOKi » ouNi > . —Tlio steamer Kilii . burgli , which «»«»« Hhort time ago from Loith , was frozen in at ^ wnj-JJ It Wua feared that she would remain > " that podtfo » JJ some months , and it was proposed , rather ; tha •> « 5 crow home , to place them on half-pay . V'V I fS Iiowever , has just arrived by telegraph that 11 u . boon broken up by n sudden thnw , and that tlo w » burgh last Sunday morning w «« once more on »« to the port of Leith . ( AUSTRALIAN Ma . I , SlCHVIOK .-Tho O ^ jJ ^ " Now South Wales havo deputed an agent l 0 , i . ; n ^ tlon ln . nl to confer with tho Coloiilol-ofllco . ' in eonjjnci ^ with Homo voprosontutivos of tho colony , » lr 0 ' > .. , ftD 1 conntrv , on tho best means for eatabliMmitf ft nlft "

    held on Thursday , at which a voluminous report of the Coal , Corn , and Finance Committee , on the finances of the corporation , was discussed at great length , and unanimously adopted . An animated discussion took place on a report brought up from the City Police Committee recommending that 200 / . per annum should be allowed to the Commissioner instead of a residence . The discussion assumed a somewhat personal character , and ultimately , instead of the report being adopted , it was ordered to be laid on the table . A Case in Point . —" Talk of introducing 1 the ' Pointed Style' into the Tublic Offices , " said Bernal Osborne to Sir Benjamin the other day , " look what a mess Bulwer Lytton has made of it 1 "—Punch . !__ % . _ 1 ^ rtM _ . - ¦ % . _ 1 _ I . ' « . ' # » i 1 ^^^^^^ .

    Society of Arts . —On Wednesday , Mr . J 5 . J . Reed read a valuable paper on the modifications which ships of the Royal navy have undergone during the present century . Mr . Reed rather objected to our devoting too much attention to enlisting every possible scientific appliance in our service , lest the very greatness of our power should cause the nations to combine against us . New Safety Lamp . —Messrs . Wilkins and Co ., the eminent constructors of lighthouse apparatus , upon whose perfect conscientiousness in their calling hang from hour to hour such mighty interests , furnish as the detail of a new safety lamp as follows : —In it the flame is surrounded completely with glass or talc . The gauze , which in thte Davy lamp is continued from

    the level of the wick upwards , obscuring the light , commences here some three inches higher . The draught or circulation is maintained by the external air passing through the bo . ly of the oilcan by means of four large tubes around the wick , communicating with a lower chamber in connexion with the external air through the meshes of-a fine ' . metal gauze . Thus the circulation of air is kept up even better than in the Davy , in which the air is admitted on a level , and directly opposite the wick . Lamps have been designed to obviate the objection to the Davy on the score of the gauze surrounding the light , but the admission of air freely through the body of the oil-can has not been attempted until now . Two varieties of the new lamp are now being

    manufacturedone for use in situations where the existence of explosive gases may be remedied as soon as dis _ r covered , as in sewers , gas-works , &c . ; and the other where men work continually in an atmosphere charged with explosive gas . In the first , the light is surrounded with a dioptric lens , which concentrates and emits the rays all round ; in the second , the light is surrounded with talc or other indestructible light-transmitter , which will allow , as is sometimes required , the gas to inflame and fill the whole interior of the lamp , until it becomes red hot , when it will have to be substituted for a cold lamp , the operation being repeated as soon as the second lamp becomes too hot to be safe . The lamp has been in use by the Metropolitan Board of Works in the sewers on tho south of tho Thames for four

    months with success . Shakxpkahe ix Rcssia . —A letter in the Nord , from St . Petersburg , eulogises in strong terms the performances of Mr . Aldridge , and states that in the celebrated scene with Iago the effect he produced on the St . Petersburg audience can be compared to nothing hitherto seen there , except that attending the performance of Rachel in tho fourth act of Lea Horaces . By way of a climax , the writer mentions that the young lady who had to play Desdemona was at the first rehearsal so terrified at the expression of the Moor's physiognomy that she rushed screaming from the stnge , and only after some trouble could she be persuaded to resume her part .

    . SouvKHins r > ic i . ' E . MiMcniuju . —In addition to tho reconstruction of the houso at Longwood , in St . Helena , occupied by Napoleon I ., and of his tomb , tho French Government has resolved on having reconstructed in that island tho house in which General Bertrand resided , and also on having a statue of Napoleon placed on an eminence in view of the sea . An engineer officer has jnst been sent out to execute theso works on plans approved of by the Km peror . Education iy tiiic Eastkun Commies . —Tho iniddloclaas examination instituted by tho University of Cam " bridge—or rather the examination of students not members of tho University , for tho authorities deprecate the use of tho term « middle class "—at Norwich , commenced on Tuesday , and has since boon continued de die in diem .

    Tiik Westminster Play . —The Bclcation for tho present year is tho comedy of Phormio . Tho prologue , apokon by Mr . Goodevo , the ouptain of tuu school , laments , as usual , tho deccuuo of " aid "Westminsters , with ospociul uUuslous to tho Indiuu rebellion . Iho epilogue , which is smart and witty abovo tho ordinary level , not only turns Phormio into a duncing-mastor learned in quadrilles and polkas , but makoa NnuaistraU put on a huge crinoline petticoat , and , what la moro extraordinary , take it off again , in consequence of tho derision -which it occanionH . Among the visitors who crowded tho theatre on Thursday , wore—Tho Lord Chancellor , Viscount lJurringlon , Sir G . lioso , Sir U . Hall , Sir W . Copo > Mr . Justice WUlos , Archdeacon Froor , Profosfior Thonjuson , Professor Coekoroll , Mr . Sludo , Q . O ., &o . Du . Biuuux Thin eminent nliyaleian diud on

    Thuyasorvico vi& Panama . . Scully v . IN-ORAM .-In thifl case steps linvt taken on tho part of tho dofoiulaiit to obtain i I 0 ; torm —a motion for which will bo mailo In the eiwui . « b . J in January next . No public roferonco wH , 110 ' ulcll bo made to tho elrouiiwUiiwoa connected witn » , will bo fully detailed in tho oouroo ol ful »» o 1 U » coodinga . . . j rtya Cuyhtai , 1 ' ai . aoic—Kottirn of «( l'l'li 8 i o "t . , ° £ »«• ending l'VUIuy , December 17 th , JHflHi- ^ uiubU mittod , including season-ticket liuldurn , OSHo .

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    1378 THE LEADEB , [ No . 456 , December 18 , 1858 ¦ ¦ ^^^

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 18, 1858, page 1378, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2273/page/10/