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    The xate Professor WtrRM . —This gentleman , w was well known in England , has just died ««• Hamburg ; He was renowned as a publicist on mercantile subjects , and , during his tast visit to London , appeared as a witness before the Parliamentary committee-instituted for the investigation of the Stade-due question : His writings on English history are justly famous , and a larger work on this subject is contemplated from the valuable materials he has left behind . He was a warm admirer of British , institutions , which be never ceased recommending to his countrymen , and possessed many personal friends amongst the best London circles . Visit ov -an Abyssinian Prince to EtrROPE .- ^ -A

    letter from Alexandria , dated the 27 th nit ., says : — * ' We have here at this moment one of the sons of the Emperor Theodore of Abyssinia . This young Prince , who has an-extremely interesting appearance , js accompanied by a numerous suite , and intends visiting Paris . He is the bearer , it is said , of magnificent presents from his father to the Emperor Napoleon . " Whittington GiitiB . — On Monday evening the halfyearly meeting of the members was held . Mr . Alderman Mechi presided , and said be had examined the accounts of the club , which bad his entire approval , and be was convinced that the institution was in a solvent condition . The secretary read the report , which was unanimously adopted . A managing committee was then appointed , and the proceedings closed by a vote © f thanks to the chairman . .

    ( Protestantism in iTALY .-e-The police in Tuscany bave been very lenient of late to Protestants , and permit them to hold their conventicles , if not in safety , at least without fear of imminent danger . It has now happened that a certain BartolomeoGualteri , curate of San Donato al Cjstio , in the diocese of Florence , informed his archbishop in a letter that he not only resigned his curacy , bat that it was also his . intention to abandon the Roman Catholic Church , for his conscience no longer permitted him to teach a . false doctrine to the faithful entrusted 1 to his care . The archbishop left this letter unanswered , and the curate , after having consulted his own safety by leaving the Tuscan state , and after : having waited eight months without receiving any reply , published a pamphlet , entitled A Christian ' s Letter to Alonsignore the Archbis / iops of .. Florence ; At the appearance of this

    pamphlet the ; priesthood were struck dumb with amazement ,, and this the more , as the renegade priest was not only a man of excellent reputation , but also because the living lib voluntarily abandoned was known to be a very lucrative one . Ho professed to prefer the salvation of his soul to the comforts of life , and to the affection of his family and bis parishioners , who notoriou ? ly loved and respected him . The pamphlet is written with a truly edifying calmness ; there are in it no exaggerations of sentiment and verbiage , and . it is consequently most assiduously read by the lower classes . You will hardly believe it how seriously Papism is endangered by such small facts . But the court of Bome is also exposed to the attacks of most valorous writers , who undermine its existence by means of works of great profundity . — Continental . Review ,

    : Tbb Elderly Gentlesien of the House of Commons . — ' Seventy-one members of the present House of Commons claim exemption from serving , on election committees as being above the age of sixty years . The list of these worn-out veterans of the Senate includes the names of : the Hon . General ^ Arbutbnott , Mr . J . Bagshaw , Mr . E . Ball , Colonel Boldero , Mr . Adam * Black , Hon .- P . P . Bouverie , Mr . W . Brown ( Lancashire ) , Major C . Bruco ( Elgin ) , Sir C . M . Burrell , Mr . Hales Calcraft , Mr . , E . Denison ( West Riding ; , Mr . H . Drurnmond , Mr . Divett , Mr . T . S . Duncombe ( Finsbury ) , Right Hon . E . Ellice , Hon . J . E . Elliot , Sir Do Lacy Evans , Sir . Jamea Graham , Mr . Hadfleld , Mr . Granville Hnrcourt , Mr , Honley , Mr . J . Heathcoat , Mr .

    Hope Johnstone , Mr . W . Long , Hon . Colonel Lbwther , Sir C . Napier , Sir J . Owon , Viscount Palmers ton , Sir G . B . Pechell , Mr . O . Ricardo , Lord J . Russell , Mr . Poulett Scrope , Mr . Slartey , Mr . R , Spooner , Lord J . Stuart , Mr . Aspinall Turner ; Sir W . Verner , Admiral Walcott , Mr . Wrjghtson , aud General Wyndhanv Sir Charles M . Bur roll , the " father '' of the Hous . o of Commons , is no loss than eighty-five years of ago , and had sat for jShoreham and the Rape of Bramber since 1800 , tho memorable year when tho ministry of ' All the Talents" ( including Mr . Fox ) was farmed . Sir 0 . Burroll is only exceeded in ago by Lord Lyndhurst , of ( he Upper House , "Who is in his eighty-sevonth year . RAJUAmns at THiiiBiHTJSH'MusEUM .- ^ . Attention baa

    been drawn by soyeral contemporaries to tho inadequate enlaries paid to tho Able and , meritorious gentleman -whose services give auch o < Hcnqy to the British Museum ; and truly it is a matter for national shaino that when euch vast sums of tho publio monoy are lavished , not to say wasted , in other directions , the country should Boom to deal so niggardly by those who are among tho xnost zealous ana accomplished of her servants , Wo eay gecm , because , wo bellovo ¦ that it is only needed for tho nation to . undoratand tho question to bavo it Immediately rcihodjod . Lot it bo romembored , in tho first place , that tho body of employfo at tho British Museum comprises men who arc really eminent in tho various departments of human knowledge to which their attention has boon dlrcated , and that their labours at tho

    Museum are really of a very arduous description ; and then let us ask whether salaries , of which 245 ? . is the maximum , can be regarded as adequate remuneration ? Take , for example ; Mr . George Gray , whose name is known throughout the scientific world as an ornithologist of established reputation ; take Mr . John Bennett , the eminent botanist : these gentlemen have served the Museum for twenty-eight and thirty-two years respectively , and are now paid such salaries as 2451 . and 2251 . In the library , too , where there are necessarily employed many gentlemen highly skilled in languages , this same meagre tariff prevails , and salaries are paid to linguists of world-wide reputation such as a City merchant would be sorry to give his foreign corresponding clerk . We have every reason to believe that this state of things is most unsatisfactory to Mr . Panizzi , whose active and

    intelligent management of the Museum has at length secured him a proper appreciation from the public , in spite of much clamour and prejudice ; and we are given to understand that he has done as much as he possibly can do to induce the trustees to recommend a more liberal scale of pay . Mr . Panizzi is too great a master of the art of organisation -not to know the stimulating influence which liberal pay exercises over even the most honest official ; and he doubtless knows that a continuance of such a cheese-paring system cannot but be otherwise than detrimental to the interests of the Museum . So long as these gentlemen are so ill-paid , it is not to be wondered at if they employ their talents in other channels , whether by writing books or other congenial occupations . Strange indeed would it be if it were otherwise . —Critic . .

    TheWinans . Steam-ship . —The novel iron steamer , built by Messrs . Winans , of Baltimore , a sketch of which recently appeared in the Illustrated News , has maxle an experimental trip . The accounts as to the result are very meagre . The Baltimore Sun says : — " With a pressure of fifty-six pounds of steam ( half her capacity ) a satisfactory headway was made . The points of the bow and stern barely touched the water , and the even progress of the vessel caused no commotion of the waves , but left a smootlr wake : like a groove . The steamer passed Fort Carroll until off" North Point , when she was put about . The steamer returned about two o ' clock yesterday afternoon ,, and after playing about the open water , was returned to her moorings at the yard of the builders . The average speed attained was . about twelve miles an hour . The ventilation below decks was

    perfectly preserved during the running of the machinery , and at no time did the thermometer rise above sixtyfive degrees Fahrenheit . We believe the builders regard the trial as satisfactory , aud a guarantee of success when a greater distance is attempted . " Tub Corporal at the Play . —The corporal of Dragoons who sits next me , and who has given hostages to the drama at the playhouse door , leaving there so many ot his accoutrements that his bulk is diminished by about onej-half , would astonish me by his presence in an orchestra-stall ; but that knowing how completely it is a part of the present system in France to pet the army in every conceivable way , it would not the least surprise me to hear that the members of the military profession got their places in the theatre for half the sum demanded of their more peaceful countrymen . I have ,

    howevei-, nothing to say against my neighbour ; but , 6 n the contrary , am proud to be able to state that ho was extremely courteous and affable to me , though ho was a corporal , and I only a civilian 5 and that he conversed freely with me between the acts , making many guileless inquiries relative to the manners and customs of the ' Engli s h , which it was my agreeable duty to answer , in such French as I could command , and with an ingenuous modesty . What a house I What a country for the arts ! The people on tho Place do la Bourse to-day wore talking about th « now play almost as much as about francs . Tho corporal of Dragoons settled himself in his place , with a deep-drawn breath of prophetic satisfaction , as tho curtain rose ; and I proceeded , for i » y part , to considor the course of tho play with close and critical attention . —Diokens ' a Household Words . The Pkospeots ob 1 War for FRBNOHM » CN .-r > If tho

    thoughts of war are unwelcome in England , what a shudder runs through martial but disgusted Franco 1 Much as that warlike- country loves the sword , ip is , notwithstanding , true , and perfectly well known to all who have had an opportunity of observing tho habits of tho French peasantry , . that among thorn tho conscription is about as popular as was tho appouranco of a press-gang among tho shipping in tho Pool during tho lato war . Joan-Mario and PiorrorLouis havo no object nearer their stout Gallic hoarts than to bo allowed to cultivate tho patornal squaro furlong in ponco , duly subdividing the estate ,

    and to solicit with horny hand from tho ungrateful soil as mnny potatoes as they conveniently may . With us Sergeant Kite does tho work . An unblushing brow , a voluble tongue , a bunch of ribands , and a gallon of alo soduco tho young , ploughmen of our agricultural districts and the Idle artisans of our towns into tho ranks ; but they enlist of their own free will . In Franco they uro driven to glory , whon there is not monoy enough to purohaso a rcniplugai } t , and how can a IProneh peasant find monoy enough ? Servo ho must , if 1 ) 0 draw tho fatal lot . Who that has over witnessed it own forgot tho anguish of that scone outsldo tho provincial viairio ,

    when young heroes are first taken up from grass ? Of course they submit , because they caniiofc help themselves , don the red trousers , and in time what with the friendly bonnesj and thiJ regimental band , arid the pleasure of being stared at , try to persuade themselves that they like the service , which they probably do much in the same sense that an omnibus horse enjoys his daily runs from Putney to the Bank . But when there are threatening ? of war , it is then that the distress of France at this military man-hunt rises to its culminating point ! The effect of the few words with

    which Louis Napoleon was pleased to inaugurate the opening of the new year must have . shot like a spasm through the heart of rural France . In what cause was it that all these poor fellows were about to be instructed , first in the mysteries of the goose-step , and secondly id the far simpler process of getting their brains knocked out amid the poplars of the Lombard plains ? It could not be very intelligible to them what damage had been done , what insult had been offered to themselves or their Emperor . He had spoken , however , and the petit verre of destiny must be drained to the very dregs . —Times ,

    The Paper Duty . —Yesterday afternoon , a deputation on the subject of the repeal of the paper duties waited upon the Earl of Derby , for the purpose of urging upon him the repeal of the paper duties . There were a large number of members of the House of Commons present , amongst whom were Mr . William Williams , Sir Joseph Paxton , Colonel Sykes , Sir John "V . Shelley , Dr . Brady , Colonel French , Mr . John Locke , Mr . W . ' lirown , Mr . Roupell , Mr . M . Gibson , Mr . E . Craufiml , Mr . M'Mahon , Mr . E . Ball , Mr . Edwards , Mr . Ilatchell , Mr .

    Salisbury , Mr . Roebuck , Mr . Ayrfon , Mr . Conynghara , &c . Mi * . M . Gibson introduced the deputation : Mr . Colletr , Mr . Vizetelly , Mr . Cassel ] , Mr . Francis , Dr . Gray , Mr . Hollingshead , and Mr . Moy Thomas . Sir . W . Chambers and other gentlemen addressed his lord :-ship , urging the usual arguments in favour of the repeal of the tax . The Earl of Derby said that in the present state of the national finances it was impossible for him to make any definite promise ; and he feared that it was more probable be should have to impose new than to remove old taxes . ' ! ¦ ' ¦ •' ¦ .

    A Point for Litigation .-:-A nice point , winch may unfortunately . give rise to , much litigation , arises out of the recent deplorable accident at Beacon-terrace , Torquay . It will be remembered that Mr . and Mrs . Edward Hambling , the occupants of No . 4 , when removed from beneath the debris caused by the fall of the high wall upon their sleeping' apartments , were both dead . At the Probate Court of London last week an application was made on the part of the heirs of Edward Hambling to administer to his estate . It was contended that , though the body of the wife was warm when they wero extricated , it could not be proved that she survived her husband ,. and the heir-at-law to the latter was therefore entitled to inherit his estate , and not the heirs of tho wife . The motion was grunted . —Plyyiouth Journal .

    A Banker Playwright . — We iind the following in a Paris letter ;— "We have had a dramatic novelty at the Palais Royal Theatre within the last ten days , which , in spite of the public anxiety on the subject of war , has been much talked about . It is along furqe , in three acts , with tho curious title of My Niece and . Bear , and tho author is no less a personage than the famous financier and capitalist , M , Millaud ! M . Millaud , who is fond of entertaining literary men , ono day engaged in a discussion with some dramatic authors upon tho relative difficulties of thqir profession and his own . Tho writors for the stage hold that finance must be one of tho easiest of occupations , and , at tho same time , the most profitable . M . Millnud , on tho contrary ,

    maintained that it was exceedingly difficult , and that , itt his opinion , dramatic authorship was infinitely more simple . Tho discussion continued with animation on both sides , until at lasttho nullionnaire" ofl ' urcd to support his views by . a practical demonstration of their soundness—in other words , to write a piece himself , a piece , too , that should ploaso the audioncoauu bo a legitimate success ! His proposal was accepted , ana ratified by a bet ; and tho speculator turned author at oneo sot to work upon his , npyv employ . My JSmco and my Bear , just produced at tho Palais Royal , w Die

    result of his labours . M . Millaud has won his wagors tho piece is a roal succosa , AH tho Parisiftn critica say so , and of course they ought Jto know . Ju . Millaud ' s namo does not nppoar on tho play-WU . That document assures us that M . Frasoati is tho author . Such is tho pseudonym tho flnunoior has assumed . W course , tho production of tho pioco has caused a goad deal of sensation in the dramatio and financial world . Well it may . What would bo said , in London , I wondor , if Sir R . Carr Glyn , Baron Rothschild , on Ovoronu , Guruoy , and Co ., woro to bring out a domestic drum » forRobnon at tho Olvmoie . or a soreaming »«« o » or

    Mr . Wright at tho Adelphi ? You would bo as mucU startled , I fanoy , » a thougli Lord Maouulay wero to coinposo a now galop , or tho Arohbishop of Canterbury touK it into his liead to write a comic song for tho Lainooiu hall which boars his n « mo . " Aut > mAUA .-T . ho Norfolk arrived off SWnwj MJS Thursday ovoning from Melbourne , landed mails « « passengers , and proceeded on her way tO « Londou . ou « bvlnga ou fteight 7000 ouncoa of gold .

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    202 TH ^ E IJEiDE l [ No . 4 K 4-, February 12 , 1859 . ,

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 12, 1859, page 202, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2281/page/10/