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Miscellaneous. The Court.—The Emperor An...
the Exchequer , and Sir , E . Lande ^ er , R . A . On the meeting of the . pommission , on tljte 21 st May , thefoilowr irig resolution yras . itmaniinoTjsly adopted , viz .: —** l 4 iat , after the consideration of various sites suggested to the coriimissioners , they are . of opinion that their choice is confined , to the site of the present National Gallery , if sufficiently enlarged , and the estate at Kensington Gore . " At the next meeting , the final decision yfas taken . The chairman ( Lord Brpughton ) , the Dean of St . Paul's , and Mr . Cockerell , voted for the site of Trafalgar-square ; Mr . Richmond voted for the site of the Kensington Gc-re estate . Professor Faraday stated " tiiat he felt the weight of the opposed considerations ( preservation of the pictures and access of' the public ) to be in his mind so equally balanced , that he could not select one site in preference to the other ; he therefore declined to vote . " The Harvest . —A considerable portion of the wheat harvest has been got in in the southern parts of England , operations being unusually early on account of the extraordinary fine weather . The grain is of the finest kind , and the total yield will probably be most abundant . In Scotland , it appears that the result is not likely to be so favourable , though the crops will not be below the average . ' . ¦ The Birmingham ELEcriON . ^ Efforts are being made by several of the electors of Birmingham to return Mr . Bright in place of the late Mr . Muntz . A meeting was held in the Town-hall on Tuesday , when the show of hands in favour of Mr . Bright , as against Mr . Baron Webster , son of , a gentleman living in the neighbourhood , was very considerable . The Metropolitan Board of Works . —The 200 th . section of the Metropolitan Local Management Act requires that each year the board shall report as to what it has effected . A document of this kind has just been issued , the period embraced in which is from the 1 st of January , 1856 , to the 30 th of January , 1857 . Works involving an outlay of 110 , 8922 . 8 s . lOd . have been undertaken by the board during the first fifteen months of its existence . The board have likewise examined and approved designs for drainage by the . local district boards of 44 £ miles of sewage , at an outlay of 100 , 0001 . loans have been sanctioned to be raised by local boards to the extent of 34 . 000 / . A careful examination of all
the main sewers of the metropolis has been made , and estimates have been prepared for putting them in an efficient state of repair . Plans for two new streets , one in Southwark , and the other from King-street , Coventgarden , to St . Martin ' s-lane , have been decided on , and bills are now before Parliament to permit their formation ; these works will cause an outlay of 322 , 781 / . The removal of Middle-row , Holborn , . and the formation of a new street from the end of Old-street , St . Luke ' s , to Uxiorastreet tne aicemion oi tuo
JNew - , nave engaged board , and plans and estimates are being prepared . Various other street improvements have also been duly considered . Inquiries have been made and are still pending with reference to throwing open all the bridges , across the Thames to afford increased facilitation of traffic , and the board have entered into negotiations with the City of London to see how for that body will co-operate -with them in the purchase of Southwarkbridge . Death of Db , Dick . —The Scotch journals record the demise of Thomas Dick , LL . D ., F . R . A . S , the wellknown author of The Christian Philosopher , other kindred works . Dr . Dick , who was in the eighty-third year of his age , expired at Broughty Ferry , near Dundee , on Wednesday week . Cape of Gooi > Hope . —The last news from the Cape contains nothing of general interest . Lambeth Election Festival . —A dinner was on Tuesday given to Mr . Roupell , at the Surrey Gardens , to congratulate him on his election to the borough of Lambeth . One of the speakers was Sir Charles Napier , ¦ who highly eulogized Mr . Roupell . Mercantile Suspension ,- —The suspension of Messrs . Forster , Rutty , Hall , and Co ., Scotch and Manchester warehousemen , has been announced in the City . Their liabilities arc supposed to , be considerable—probubly more than 50 , 000 / . ; and an impression is said to prevail that the liquidation will be very unfavourable . J Jaxlway Competition . — / The competition of the Gieat Northern and Manchester and Sheffield Railway Companies -with the London and North Westorn , for a tne tramo uetweon niancnester
» nare or anu juonuon , commenced last Saturday . The length of the new route is said to bo about eight miles more than that by the London and North Westorn , but the dlatnnco is said by railway men to be capuble of being accomplished in four hours and a half . Ou « COVNTRYMKN IN THE EAST . —TllO Bishop of London has issued a form of prayer , to be used in private or family worship , for our countrymen and countrywomen in the East , under tlio circumstances of peril by which thoy are now surrounded . This Charitable Uses and the Roman Catholic GxiARjTiica Bills . —The select committee of the Houao of Lords , to whom wore referred the Charitablo Uaoa Sill and tho Roman Catholic Chnritlos Bill ( House of Lords , ) , as well as a certain , petition praying for amendment of the latter bill , hnvo just handed in their report to the Houao . Having examined several -witnesses , Including Mr . Bagshawo , Q . G ., and Mr . Harting , a solicitor ( both paptata ) , the result of tho evidence is that all
or nearfer aji >^ e- Kpn > jsfe charltie ^ i » th fs country are / ipb & e & up jarith what has bean decided uv the Court of Chancery to bj ?* ' ¦* a superstitious us * , ' that tfcey are therefore , in ajl probability , absolutely void a , nd iJJegaL Thus , a bequest of money tip a Eonjjsh priest for saying prayers and celebrating masses for the ' soul , ' of the testator was decided by Lord Cofctenham to be bad , as ' a superstitious use' ( West v . Shuttleworth ) . Now , the evidence taken before the committee shows that a condition to pray for the soul of the founder of a Koman Catholic charity is sometimes expressly , always implicitly , annexed to every charitable foundation . The petitioners , however , point Out that it is part of the devotional practices of the Romish Church to offer up prayers for the dead , and they urge that as the exercise of . the Romish religion is now freely tolerated in this country , the doctrine of superstitious uses—rsq far , at least , as relates to praying for the souls of the dead—ought not to be held to attach to their charities so as to affect their validity , and that the bill , therefore , ought to go the length of making all their charities valid where their invalidity solely consists in their having infringed the law relating to superstitious uses . The committee , without expressing any opinion on this claim , feel that it is one entitled to grave and deliberate consideration , but as the session is now so far advanced as to approximate its close , they " recqjnme ' nd that the bill should be dropped for the present , and the inquiry resumed . early next session . This course will render necessary a short bill , to suspend for another year the jurisdiction of the Charity Commissioners in respect of Roman Catholic charities . Thh Charitable Uses Bill has notj been considered , as the postponement of the other measure renders limes
it unnecessary to do so at present . — ; Heroic Conduct . —As some lads were bathing last week in the river Nene , at Peterborough , one of them , named Brown , about twelve years old , got out of his depth and sank . Fortunately , thie Rev . J . J . Beresford , Precentor of Peterborough Cathedral , happened to be rowing up at the moment . Although in ah extremely weak and delicate state of health , he at once jumped ashore , threw off his clothes , and commenced diving . At the first dive , he got so entangled in the . weeds that he had great difficulty in extricating himself . Nothing daunted , he continued his gallant efforts and succeeded in four or five minutes in recovering the body and bringing it ashore . It was not until the riext morning that the lad , under able treatment , was restored to health . Three Men Drowned at Spithea : d . ^—A very calamitous accident occurred on Wednesday night at Spithead , which had its origin in an act of great folly . A party of Royal Marine Artillery sergeants , six in number , with the canteen-keeper at their barracks , a Mr . * DA «* . « n * . nn fVdil rlinorir "ffW O . SUll . aauaa ¦*^»**^ -j— — t
X . CttlOUU . lYCUu Uliv l * V fcjJ ^ Al /»^^ c * v * 41 A c * - ^ - - - Sergeant Wainford recklessly climbed to the top of the pole used , as a mast , his weight overbalanced the boat , and she capsized- Three of the party were drowned , v \ z ., Sergeants Wainford and Edey , and Mr . Pearson . The escape of the remainder was miraculous . One of them , Sergeant Ursmer , remained twelve hours in the water , keeping himself afloat by the dexterous use of a * o , oar , and was picked up next morning by a collier . He has been sent to Haslar Hospital The three other sergeants managed to get the boat on its keel , but oars , sails , gear , and everything else was gone , and they had to paddle with their hands some five miles , across Spithead to Langston harbour . After severe trials , they ultimately reached Fort Cumberland at one o ' clock on Thursday morning . Mr . Huohes Innes Cameron , of British Bank celebrity , has been discharged from custody by order of Mr-Commissioner Fane . Black and Green Teas . —The disputed question of whether black and green teas were the products of different plants , has been finally settled by Mr . Fortune . Though there are two species , one called by botanists Thea Bohea , after some mountains in China , and the other Thea Viridia , it yet is a mistake to aupposo that black tea alone , is made from the first , and green tea frotn the second . Both Borts are made alike from each —tho inferior teas from tho bohea which is cultivated near Canton , and tho finer kinds from the viridis . The difference in tho colour depends solely on the mode of preparation . The leaves for the green tea , being roasted almost immediately after thoy nro gathered , and dried retai oi naiuru
on : very quiciuy , n more unw * muu , wuuo tho black teas owe their colour to longer exposure to tho air , and to being more slowly dried . Tho finer descriptions of both are mado from the young loavqs when they first unfold themselves in spring ; but tho boat kinds manufactured are too lightly 11 red to bear a voyage , boing spoilt by tho slightest damp , and can never bo tasted out of tho country . The soonted teas owe their flavour to boing mixed , when perfectly dry , with tho freah-gatherod flowora of the orange , or some other odoriferous plant , and after twonty-lbiu hours tho dry tea hus absorbed tho fragrance of tho inoiwt flowora , which arc then sifted out . Tho Chinese oxorciao their ingenuity in giving to tho coarser samples of their ataplo commodity the aiiponrunoo of tho most cstoomod sorts ; but Mr . Fortune conveys the comfortable assurance that the English merchants on tho spot understand their business too woll to bo deceived , and are too honost for ( ho most part to deceive More than titia is not to bo Attained . , With adultorntions of every description at
h «*» e , jfr is wild to suppose : $ hM commodities akroad wflj be kept m their -pristine psrfcy , o * thai a . ragcaljy China .-, man will not be able to find a rascally foreigner t » . conspire with him in cheating the publte beyond fcjie seas ; — Quarterly Mwtew . Wanderings ami » Tombs , —The ancients perhaps invested their sepulchres with jnpre of solemnity aafl sublimity , but the moderns have thrown a tenderer sentiment and softer feeling around the homes of the departed . Their principle has beep , not to struggle with corruption , but to cover over arid surround its operations with the luxuriance and beauty of present life- Strangely enough , the men of the dark cold north , rather than the sons of the sunny south , have developed most fully the poetry of the tombs . We all know the green grassy , mounds and tree-shadowed churchyards of our own land ; and everywhere along the shores of the Baltic , and in the islands on the coast of Sweden , the burialplaces are little gardens encircled by fences of geranium and sweetbrier—the , graves beds of sweet fresh flowers . In a land and among a people where we least expected them , did we find a most beautiful expression of that sentiment and poesy Avb , icb . the hearts of the living offer as a tribute to the shades of the dead . It was in a cemetery at St . Petersburg , attached to the convent and church of St . Alexander Newski . The church was full of the triumphs of life and the roj-alty of death . Czars and czarinas lay there in their state , with the signs of their conquests waving above them . We passed hence into a large open space , where slept the thousands who could only claim the turf as a covering for their dust , and the vault of heaven , as the canopy of their mortality . Rows of cypress and dropping wulpws cast their shadows o ' er the place , and the wild tall grass almost confounded , t i" - ¦ _ j * j . 1 ~_ . ~__ a ~ . A 1 mftfil . nil 4-l ~ mc : £ i nroiroe lumuaii 6 c « irci
me divisions oi me guivea . »»** * w-o ^ < . > were of turf—few were of stone . Kone were unmarked ; the lowliest and most solitary had a rude cross at their head . Over some were placed sculptured emblems and allegories , which told , more truly and tenderly than le t ^ tered epitaph or inscription , the story of those who lay beneath . A bare tree , reft of its branches , its greennessblighted , its trunk scathed arid blackened by the lightning-stroke , bespoke the grief of a father mourning over the graves of a household—the lone heart uttering its plaint of utter desolation and bereavement . Near this was a softer touch of pathos . There was a tiny small * mound ; at its head stood a marble cross , beside which was the figure of a rose , with its bud hanging snapped and broken from the stem , yet seeming even then to- cling closer and closer to its support—an image of the youngsoul passing away in the beauty of its bloom and the pureness of its faith , unwithered , unblighted , unstained . We place these among the choicest thoughts we have culled in our wanderings amid the tombs . —Blackwood . An Antiquarian Loss in Edinburgh . —The ancient
and handsome block of buildings , consisting of houses of immense height , at the head of the Mound , 'Edinburgh , has been destroyed by fire . It is estimated that at least eighty persons are thrown upon society by the calamity . The houses were associated with the names of David Hume and Boswell . The Jekrold Performances . —The Frozen Deep ( which is acted to-night at the Gallery of Illustration for the last time in London ; will be performed at the Free Trade Hall , Manchester , on Friday and Saturday , the 21 st and 22 nd inst . The ladies' parts will bo sustained on these occasions by professional actresses . It was at the request of a deputation of the most influential men in Manchester , at the end of Mr . Dickons ' s reading of his Christmas Carol , that he consented to give these extra performances for the benefit of the Jerrold Memorial Fund . The New Managument at the OLYiyiric—The Olpmpic begins its new management on Monday , when Mr . Kobson will produce Mr . Wilkie Collins ' s drama , The Lighthouse . This will bo tho first time that one of Mr . Co ' llins ' s productions has been brought forward in a regular theatre , though within tho last few weolcs tho public have had a few irregular opportunities of touting his dramatic powers and his command over their emotions . Tho story of The Liyhthousa is intensely interesting , and the writing of a character to bring out the capabilities of tho actors to the full . Mr . Uobson will perform Mr . Dickons ' s part of Aaron , Gvrnbck . Wo doubt not that ho will have an overflowing houso—tho earnest of a long course of success . »»
X Ikl'i JLYUilSU J . l ^ U . UNlx Kflf VvyU'i-ix \ jfj \ i \ MJWi * *** w » - on Monday , and bo completed next May . Mr . Barry is tho architect ; Messrs . Lucas tho contractors . This Great SmuawsnimY Cask . —Another important paper has just been laid upon the table of the Houso or Peers . It consists of sixteen pages folio , and is entitled 'The Cusb of Lord Edmund Bornard Howard , an I ""' " * ; by his father , tho Duke of Norfolk , petitioning to bo hoartt against tho claim of Earl Talbot to tho Eiirliloni ot Shrewsbury . ' It follows up seriatim tho various ^ cih-uIogical points brought forward by Lord Talbot in his ' oiiso , and more eHpeoially adverted to tho fact that tho idonHt . V is far from being satisfactorily established botweoa William Talbot , tho father of tho Bishop of Durham or that name and tho William Talbot from wham tho nowo claimant neserta hie dlroct descent , Tho question lins now bogun to assume n very intricate appearance , mm there Is little doubt thnt no decision on the mattor will jo given by tho Commltto of tho Houao of Lorda during tho continuance of the prosont session .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 8, 1857, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08081857/page/10/
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