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    GENERAL HOME SEWS . The Coukt . — There is no incident of the slightest importance to relate of the lioyal family this -week , except that the Queen and her children are all in good health , and enjoj'iug complete privacy at Osborne ; the only visitors have been the Prince and Princess of Leiningen . According to present arrangements , everything is to be held in readiness at Windsor Castle for the return of the Queen 011 the 21 st instant , though her Majesty will not probably arrive till the day after . The Prince of Wales was to leave Oxford yesterday for tlio Christmas vacation . Prince Alfred has been with the Euryalus to Corfu , where he has been feted and made much of . The New Solicitok-General . —Mr . William Atherton , Q . C ., M . P ., has received the appointment of Solicitor-General , rendered vacant by the appointment of Sir Henry Keating to the judicial bench . He is the son of the late Eev . William Atherton , a distinguished Wesleyan minister , and some time President of the Conference , his mother being a daughter of the late ltev . Walter Morison , a clergyman of the Established Church of Scotland . He was born in Glasgow in 1806 , and was married in 1843 to Agnes Mury , the second daughter of Mr . Hall , the Chief Magistrate of Bow-street . In 1839 he was called to the bar by the Inner Temple , having during the previous seven years practised as a special pleader . Ho has represented the city of Durlmm aince 1852 , and is what maybe considered a very advanced Liberal , being in favour of the ballot , a large reform of the laws , the removal of all religious disabilities , and the extension of the suffrage .

    Gamis Sx-AuaiiTMitiNG : Sport . — The Duko of Cambridge , says a fashionable ) paragraph , and soveral other noblemen and gentlemen , have been shooting during the past week in the preserves of Lord Huntingfield , at Heving-ham , Walpole , and Cookloy , Suffolk . About 2 , 400 head of game wero Hilled during the two days , during which the Duko remained in the neighbourhood , but tlio party shot altogether 3 , 700 head . The Duko left the county on Thursday * His ttoyal Highness then , it appears , visited the Karl and Countess of Derby , tit Knowsley . Tho Karl , accompttiiiod by the Djlko , Prince Edward of Saxo Weimar , tho Earl of Wilton , and tho other gentlemen of the party , enjoyed tho sport of shooting on Wednesday , when about 1 , 300 head of game foil to their guns . On the next day tlioro was another battue .

    Revision oj ? the 33 ook ojt Common PnAYmre . — Certain of tho olorgy of tho Established Church an ? signing a declaration which states that any attempt at the present time to altor tho Book of Common Prayer would bo attended with groat danger to tho peaco and unity of tho Church . It is a movement , aa wo need not explain , against Liturgical Reform . Tlio docjaration is made in answer to what Lord Kbury said in the Houso of Lords , when , in speaking of tho matter , ho declared that it would bo foolish and fruitless to force alterations which would be distasteful to the clergy . The circular announcing . this step is signed by Dean Trench , Dr . Jelf ,

    Principal of King ' s College , Dr . Irons , and the Rectors of St . James ' s and St . Marylebone . What is hoped to be done is , to show so large an amount of protest as to set the matter at rest . Public Health . —There was a slight falling-off in the mortality of the > metropolis last-week . The deaths from small-pox were 40 ; 82 from scarlatina , and 181 from bronchitis . The total number of deaths was 1 , 289 * which is . a little below the average . The births of [ last week amounted . to 1 , 838 . In the City the mortality returns haA-e fallen from an average of 70 per week to 58 . . v

    St . George ' s-ik-the-East . —On Sunday there were four services , as usual , at the parish church , at one of which the Kev . Bryan King , the rector , officiated . That conducted by Mr . Hugh Allen passed off quietly , but the other three , in which the regular parochial clergy were engaged , were interrupted by hissing and coughing , the interruptions proceeding entirely from boys and girls , who evidently looked upon the matteras a good joke . Some few grownup persons made a point of" saying " the responses in a loud tone , in order to destroy the effect of the choristers' chanting , but their efforts were weak and by no means successful . The morning service was performed by the Rev . C . F . Lowxler , who also

    preached , the Rev . Bryan King reading the lessons . The rector ' s afternoon service was interrupted in the usual style , but the police gave some gentle hints to the principal offenders , which tended to moderate their hostility . At half-past six o ' clock the doors were thrown open for the evening service , and in a few minutes the building was rilled , nine-tenths of the congregation being composed of boys and girls , who attended with about the same amount of reverential feeling as they would Ii 3 ve displayed on a visit to the Victoria " Theatre , The Rev . A . II . Mackonochie was the officiating minister , and he was permitted to go on with the service without interruption until the close of * li 2 second collect , when he assailed with

    on giving out the hymn was a general fit of coughing . At the close of the sermon the rev . gentleman did not turn his face to the altar ; and it may therefore be fairly assumed that the clergy are " willing to make concessions as far as they can do so without violation of principle . Mr . Mackonochie has within the last few days refused the vicarage of St . Saviour ' s , Leeds , which was offered to him , rather than desert the rector in the present excited state of the parish . At the close of the evening service a large body of people followed , the choristers through the streets to the Missionhouse in Wellclose-square , but beyond hissing and hooting , they were guilty of no violence . On Thursday evening a vestry meeting was specially convened , for the purpose of considering the conduct of the rector in sending a " threatening letter" to the retention of

    churchwardens on the subject of their the keys of the parish church , which the rector claimed in connection with his right as the ecclesiastical ruler of the parish . Mr . Churchwarden Thompson , who presided , deprecated any further movement ; and , without saying so in so many words , gave the vestry to understand that , between the rector and the parishioners a compromise might be made , if the olive-branch of peace were held out by the parishioners . Some discussion ensued ; and , at tho earnest request of the churchwarden , tho proceedings were adjourned , the c hurchwarden having pledged his word that liq would not yield an inch unless the wishes of the parishioners were complied with . It seems pretty clear that the rector and Mr . Thompson , eaqh of whom has always expressed a desire for peace , have had a consultation , which , it may be hoped , will lead to the best

    results . Sympathy with the Pona . —One ol tlio llrst meetings of the kind was held at Halifax on Monday , with Father Kavanagu in tho chair . Resolutions of sympathy with the Pope -were moved , but it soon appeared that there were other than Roman Catholic elements in the meeting . The resolutions wore declared to " be carried . There is a talk of a meeting of a similar kind in London , composed oi Roman Catholics exclusively . Tho Roman Catholic Primate of Ireland , Dr . Dixon , has been making a spooch on tine subject at Drogheda , which is remarkable for its attaok on tlio Emperor of tho French . ' The star of Napoleon , " said the speaker , " is no longer in tho ascendant , and there will be no more Solferinoes or Magentas—the noxt will be a Waterloo ! "

    _ ....., The Scandal at Norwich . — It is to be hoped that the bribory and corruption at Norwich Is not ontlroly shuffled aside . If there had been a Royal Commission , as at Walcefleld and Gloucester , charges would not jhavo boon preferred by both sides and then withdrawn , just as in a phantasmagoric exhibition . Tlio Liberal citizens who havb taken up the alleged municipal bribery have threatened to submit tho mutter for tho consideration of Go vornmont , with a view to the filing of an ox-offlai . o Information against certain parties by tho Attorney-General , or an indictment may possibly bo preferred at the next

    assizes . An action has been brought against the Norfolk Chronicle , an organ of the Conservative party , for alleged libellous articles in August , in . reference to the bribery committed on behalf of theliberal party of Norwich at the general election , in April . ¦ , A Memorial of Disgrace . —A somewhat ancient piece of ordnance has just been accidentally discovered in the river Medw . ay , near Chatham Dock- ^ yard , a short distance from Upnor Castle . The cannon was found embedded in the mud at Gillingham-reach , by a dredger named Robinson , when it was with some difficulty , raised to the surface , and removed to the Giin Wharf , for the purpose of being examined , in order tojjdiscover any marks upon it indicating its age . The gun is of iron , and its weight 2 lewt . 2 qrs . 6 lb . When discovered , it had

    three shots in it , believed to be twelve-pounders . The discovery of such a large cannon in the situation where it was found has given rise to much speculation , an opinion being expressed , which is somewhat favoured by its appearance and shape , that the gun formerly belonged to one of the men-ofwar burnt in the Medway at Chatham in the reign of Charles II ., when the Dutch fleet , under De Ruyter , sailed up the river as far as Upnor Castle , opposite the dockyard , and burnt the Royal Oak , the Royal London , the Charles V ., the Great James , and several other English vessels of war then lying in the Medway . The gun has been carefully cleaned and scraped in order to ascertain the date on it , but the- only marks which have yet been discovered are the Admiralty broad arrow , and some figures showing its original weight .

    England and Fraxce . —The able correspondent of the Daily News , who styles himself ¦¦ A . Westminster Elector , " writes to that journal : — " A friend of mine , intimately acquainted with France and the French , has just returned hither'from Paris . He declares the statement-so pertinaciously reiterated , that , all ' . French ' soldiers , priests , and civilians are panting for war with England , ' to be false . Among his French acquaintances , my informant numbers two distinguished generals and a recent Marshal of France . These eminent men , he tells me , never speak of England , save in the kindest terms , mingled with regrets that so much exasperating language should have been bandied by ill-conditioned i > ersons between the two countries . I myself travelled

    about France in the course of the past summer , I conversed with all sorts and degrees of men . On no occasion did I come across the Anglophobia which our agricultural and clerical orators take upon themselves to deprecate in language more strong than polite . I fraternised with soldiers also , high and low . Even in the barracks I failed to discover the anti-English mania which Mr . W . Williams , M . P . and Sir A . Hood , M . P ., cum' multis aliis , fervidly picture to amazed audiences as a plague now raging in la belle France . Let us have a national guard by all means—one in which the all be

    upper , middle , and working classes sh duly represented , both in officers and rank and file ; but let us organise it with cool heads , and discuss its details with civil tongues . The word ' panic' is misplaced in an English dictionary . A great people should not understand its meaning . Nor should the true Briton ever deign to bluster . On a fit occasion he ought , like his bull-dog , to bite , but never bark . Again , why exaggerate . our weaknesses ? ^" " 7 proclaim to tho world that England is both old and toothless ? Old she may be , but toothless—no ! All people on earth know her strength—except certain of her own " sons apparently .

    Prohooation of Parmament . —On Thursday , Parliament was again further prorogued . At two o ' clock tho Lord Chancellor and tho other peers named in the royal commission took thoir seats in front of tho throne in the House of Lords , and her Majesty ' s faithful Commons" woro summoned . I no officials of tho IIouso of Commons having made their appoaranco at tlio bar , tho royal commission was aguiu road , and the Lord Clumccllor then , in tho terms of tho royal commission , doclarcd tho Parliament proroguod until tho 2-lth of January , I 860 , then to moot " for . tho consideration of various * divors important affairs . "

    Tim Chuistmas Holidays . —On Thursday , at noon , a mooting of tho bankers , morohants , manufacturers , shopkeepers , and other inhabitants of Bradford and its vicinity , was hold at tho Exchange in that town , on tho subject of keeping tho day after Cliridtmas-day as a central holiday , a ho Mayor , Mr . Isaac Wright , by whom tho meeting had been convened , was in tho chair , and a resolution tothato effect was unanimously adopted . Tho Lord Mayor , us the chief civic authority , following tho oxamplo of two of his predecessors under similar cirqura-. fnncAA . a faw davs since made a recommendation to

    tlio merchants and traders of tho City that Monday , tho 20 th inst ., should bo kept as a public hoiuay . Tho principal houses In tho Manchester trado , as also the leading west-ond sUk-inoroers , have already , with groat consideration for their young people , an-

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    the conclusion of the evidence for the prosecution the counsel for the prisoner said there was no evidence of a false pretence having been rnade , although strong suspicion attached to the prisoner . An acquittal was then taken . At Marlborough-street Police-court , Mr . Bingham " ¦ ave judgment in , a case of interest to workmen belonging to benefit societies . An operative-mason , while " " locked-out , " -had occasion to lay claim to the sick fund of a benefit society of which he was a member . The society repudiated his claim , on the two-fold ground that lie received money from the lock-out fund , an ;' , that lie was a member of a funeral society , contrary , as it was stated , to one of their rules . The act of the society was confirmed b } ' the decision of the magistrate .

    About si fortnig ht : i < xo we ^ reported an ] accident which occurred at York to Miss Watson , a rising vocalist , well known throughout the country . Whilst moving about her room , the unfortunate lady ' s crinoline expanded dress caught fire , and she was severely burnt . She expired on Saturday

    morning . On Tuesday morning , between two and three o ' clock , a fire broke out in the great warehouses belonging to the firm of Messrs . Rock , Brothers , and Co ., wholesale stationers in Walbrook . The building was sufficiently large to enable 140 hands to work in it , and at the time of the outbreak many thousand reams of paper and other articles were stored in the various floors . The premises were exceedingly old , they having been , according to the entablature over the entrance , erected in 1668 , two years after the great fire of London ; Before the firemen had time to get their engines into full working order , the fire had seized upon the stock of paper . The stock and buildingS . arc destroyed , but we believe are . insured to the full value .

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    No . 508 . Dec . 17 , 1859 ] THE LEiDEE . ^____ ' 1363

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 17, 1859, page 1363, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2325/page/7/