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      Miscellaneous, The Court.—The Queen, Pri...

      Farmer Inn , Bagshot . He had been shot through the head an it is supposed that the act was committed by him self , and that he had been robbed of his money after death . ' The coroner ' s jury brought in a verdict of « Found Dead . ' Health of London . —In the week that t ended on Saturday , June i 3 , the total number of deaths registered in Lon don was 934 , of which 519 were deaths of males , 415 those of females . In the ten years 1847-5 G , the average number of deaths in the weeks corresponding ¦ with last week was 951 ; but , as the deaths returned last week occurred in an increased population , the ] average , to admit of a comparison , should be raised in proportion to the increase , in which case it will become 1046 . Hence it will be seen that the present rate of mortality is so far reduced that the deaths were less by 112 than would have occurred under the average rate of mortality , as calculated on former experience at this period of the year . —Last week , the births of 824 boys and 778 girls , in all 1602 children , were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 2847 _ 56 , the average number was 1396 . —From the Registrar-GenerdPs Weekly Return . City Nuisances . —In his last report on the health of the City , Dr . Letheby calls attention to several courts and passages which are in a bad sanitary condition , and pouits oat other nuisances which need removal . Mr . Bertolacci ' s Case . —The petition of Mr . Francis K . Bertolaeci ( Duchy of Lancaster ) has been referred to a select committee of five members of the House of Commons , appointed by the General Committee of Elections . Their names are Mr . T . H . S . Estcourt , Lord Goderich , Mr . Bramston , Lord H . " Vane , and Mr . J . Hans Hamilton . ujuicmio

      The west andies . —me proposisiuu . . Davies , Son , Campbell , and Co ., of London , solicitors to the holders of the bonds of the Demerara Railway , to take over the line , to extend it , and put it in complete working order , and also to pay off the 45 , 000 ? . due to the colony , on condition that the colony guaranteed the payment of interest not exceeding six per cent , for the sum of 150 , 000 ? ., has undergone considerable discussion in the Combined Court of Demerara . Several resolutions were ultimately agreed to , in effect sanctioning the proposed arrangement , under certain conditions . The court had voted the sum of 35 , 000 dollars for payment of bounty on Portuguese immigrants from Madeira and the Western Islands , to be free of indentures on their arrival and at liberty to choose their own employers . The Merchantman , from Calcutta , arrived at Demerara on the 13 th of May , after a voyage of ninety days , with two hundred and sixty coolies . The mortality on board had been , fearful , one hundred and thirteen having died during the passage ; and , of sixty who were conveyed to the hospital on their arrival , five died while being landed , and several others subsequently expired in the hospital . — The Legislative Assembly at Grenada has adjourned prematurely on account of a difference between the members and the Executive Council with reference to a contemplated repeal by the Assembly of the unpopular charcoal tax . The new Governor of St . Lucia , Mr .. Henry Hegart Breen , F . S . A ., assumed the administration of the Government on the 21 st ult . A / smart shock of earthquake was felt the next day . Trade in the islands is dull , but the sugar-canes have yielded w _ -- - - , m .- - Falmek 1 tor

      , M . K . , M .. ' . jsencs , nas ueen very m , *" consequence of a copious and long-continued bleeding at the nose which can : e on during the Cup Day at Ascot . It was found very difficult to stop the hemorrhage , and great exhaustion was the result . He is now recovering . The Silk Chop . —The general result of the European and Asiatic silk crop can now be approximately estimated , and according to advices from M . Aries Dufour , of Lyons , it is likely to prove better than was at one time anticipated . From a resume which he furnishes , the folio-wing statemonta are gathered respecting each of the producing countries . The news from Turkey and Greece is as favourable as possible . At Naples , the first crop , although reduced to one-half , is much bettor than laat year . In Sicily and Culabria , the prospects were encouraging , but the latest advices announce that at their fourth stage tho worms have become severely affected . In Spain there ia only half a normal crop , but it ia still much bettor than tho lost , both as regards quantity and quality . In Tuscany and the Roman States , " appearances aro very promising . From Lornbardy it is stated that in tho districts of Briunzin , Brescia , Bergamo , and tho lower Tyrol the seed has not succeeded , and the produce will be very poor ; but that in the Frioul and the liigb . Tyrol all is going on most satisfactorily . In Piedmont there aro general complaints , but the results aro much bettor than those of last season . In Franco , also , which next to China and Lombardy is tho riohest silk-producing country ia the world , it is now believed tho yield , notwithstanding all drawbacks , will bo superior to that of I 860 . M . Dufour adds that , assisted by tho generally favourable temperature , tho crop , but for tho disease in tho seed , would have boon marvellous . This porsevoring malady , ho considers , has its origin in , th 6 bad food which tho worms have received during six or sovon years of motat and warm winters followed by harsh springs ; and , as tho season has now returned to a natural character , the hope is entertained of gradual JinprpvomoBt .-r- Times . Nkw Zbaland . —thoro is now no doubt whatever of

      , the fact that New Zealand produces gold . Mines have been discovered in the Aorere Valley , near Nelson , and . several persons are now at work there . The yield of the week ending the 20 th of March was more than two hundred ounces . The Evangelical Alliance . —A large attendance of clergy and laity , members of the Evangelical Alliance , took place on Friday week , by the permission of the Archbishop of . Canterbury in the guard-room of the Archiepiscopal Palace at Lambeth , to receive from the deputation , consisting of the Rev . J . Carr Glyn , the IRev . Dr . Steane , and the Rev . Hermann Schmettau , ! recently sent to Berlin , a report of their proceedings in preparation for the Christian assembly in that city next September . Among those present on the occasion , besides the Archbishop , were Lord Calthorpe , the Bishop of London , the Bishop of Manchester , the Bishop of Ripon , the Bishop of St . David ' s , the Bishop of Rupert ' s Land , Bishop Carr , late of Bombay , his Excellency the Prussian Minister , Count Bernstorff , Sir Culling Eardley , the Rev . C . T . A . Steinhopf , minister of the German Lutheran Congregation , Savoy , Strand ; Professor Martin , Aberdeen ; the Dean of Canterbury , the Rev . William Niven , the Rev . Henry Venn , the Rev . J . S . Jenkinson , the Rev . J . Jordon , Mr . F . Crossley , M . P ., Mr . J . I . Briscoe , M . P ., Mr . C . Cowan , M . P ., the Hon . W . Ashley , and others , including Dissenters . The chief speech was that of the Rev . Dr . Steane , who gave an account of the proceedings of the recent deputation in Germany , and of the plans organised for the next September meeting in that country . He said that the King received the deputation with the utmost kindness , and I spoke of the Evanegelical Alliance as ' the sublimest and most Christian conception which had entered into the human mind . ' The speaker then went on : — " His Majesty expressed great satisfaction at the Archbishop of Canterbury and many of the ' Bishops of the Christian Church having evinced an interest in the approaching Berlin Conference , and he said it would highly gratify him to see his Grace at the September meeting . The conference will open on the 9 th of September , and the first meeting will be entirely of a devotional character , in order that their proceedings may be inaugurated by prayer . The proceedings will be conducted in the three principal languages of Europe—German , French , and English . The proceedings will continue through" the week , and on to Friday in the week following—ten days -altogether . There will be two sederunts each day , from ! ten to two , and from half-past four to eight . The meetings will all be open , and will be concluded with devotional exercises . A part of the arrangement is one of a very novel but at the same time very gratifying kind ; it is in reference to the praises which they will offer up , inasmuch as they will be using so many different tongues . There are some most time-honoured and beloved melodies and psalms in Germany , in France , and in England , and it is thought that it would be possible to exhibit on the same page—say , for example , the Old Hundredth Psalm in English , French , and German , in the same metre and the same tune , so that the English ¦ would sing one version , the French . another , and the Germans another , all to the same tune , without discord , but in perfect harmony , and in concord with one faith and one love . With regard to the subject of religious liberty , the general feeling is that the principle should be discussed , but that any practical application of it should be reserved for a committee . " Alluding to the present state of religious liberty in Prussia , Dr . Steane said that the Lutherans exhibit a most bitter hostility to the Reformers . This feeling prevails throughout the ¦ whole of Germany , and is especially strong in Bavaria . The Rev . Dr . Steinkopf ( a German ) said that the animosity between the Lutherans and the Reformers alluded to by Dr . Steane did not exist to the extent stated by that gentleman . Another German , the Rev . Hermann Schmettau , said that religion was just beginning to 4 revive ' in his native country ; but Wurtemberg had always kept free from ' all infidelity and rationalism . After some more addresses , the meeting separated . — There is something hopeful for Christian charity and union in this meeting , whore we find Episcopalians and Dissenters meeting in harmony in tho palace of the Primate of England . Phjbaohino in Exeter Hall . —The fourth of tlie Sunday services in Exeter Hall took place last Sunday 1 evening . The attendance was very largo ; but the worshippers included very few from that humble claaa the ) members of which are specially appealed to . The congregation represented little else than the middle clase ; andT say tho daily papera , » it would seem that tho novelty of a Churoh of England service in such a building had allured almost tho whole of tho crowd from tlieir own parish churches . Efforts were made with great ) earnestness , but with slight success , by an agent oi the committee undor whose auspices the services have been undertaken , to persuade such of the most miserably clad people who happened to be passing along tho Strand to enter tho hall when tho doors wore opened . " Anis ^ wo conceive , is a mistake : it looks too like coercion , bupnoBo tho Archbishop of Cantorbury , and tho various reverend gentlemen forming the committee , wore to l > o noHiiittoioualy solicited , while pawing by an infidol lecture-room , to ontor and listen to the rationalistic arguments of some popular speaker : they would bo grout y nnnoyod , and somewhat uorrllled . Why , then , should 1 ' tho miaorably olud' bo dragooned into ploty , with

      whatever gentleness the thing may be dome ? Besides , Each touting is too much like the " Walk In , gentlemen— -jast joing to begin ! " which we hear outside the cheap w « sw-ork show-room or the * penny gafty ' The Cornish Fisheries . —The fishermen of Potthteven , near Helston , have brought in daily some hundreds of fine mackerel , and so far they have had a tolerably good season . At S & - Ives during the past few iays the Mackerel fishery has been somewhat un ^ uccess- . Eul . Some fine herrings , however , have been taken , which were retailed at Id . each . A National Disgrace . —Mr , Walter Savage Landor arrites as follows to the Times : — " I have been reading n Howitt ' s Haunts and Homes of British Poets a statement that some of Shakspeare ' s family are living in > bscurity and destitution . God forbid it should conanue so ! .... I know not whether I have said , it mywhere , but I have often thought it , that all the joetry that has existed , from the song of the angels at he Creation down to the present hour , is not worth ms md Milton ' s ; nor has there been any philosophy so applicable , so generous , or so sound . He and De & e have ifforded the most delight to their native land . Some Little was done for the descendant of Defoe ; shall nothing be done for the descendant of Shakspeaate ? Pardon , sir , my importunity . You have once made my roice heard ; raise yours above it now , in a cause more aoble still . During the short term of my life , I will subscribe 51 . yearly to avert a national disgrace . If , as Mr . Howitt says , every man who ha 3 been delighted by Shakspeare will give only one penny , once for all , ifc will be done . " - * -v ' - * r » . * w « vnw \ mt-iTWn mimlflnMl OIX oni ie ¦

      ___ UECREASK OF jrAUxUiiSi . **¦ »>"") r —•*—— Tuesday , shows that , in every week of the quarter ended Lady-day last , the number of paupers relieved in England and Wales was less than in the corresponding weeks of the quarter ended at Lady-day , 1856 . The difference varies from 1 * 6 to 3-8 per cent , in-doors , and from , 0 * 2 to 5 ' 2 per cent , out of doors . The Hobbies . —We have received the following letter from Mr . Newby : — " 30 , Welbeck-street , Cavendishsquare , June 16 , 1857 . —Sir , —1 am . sure I need naake no apology in requesting the insertion of the following statement of facts , in reply to a letter which has been printed in the papers from Miss Julia Kavanagh , which absence from town has prevented me from sooner noticing . Nearly twelve months since Miss Juha Kavanagh ' s father brought the manuscript of ' The Hobbies' to me , with a view to its publication , telling me that a considerable portion of it had been written by his daughter , who had carefully revised the whole as its editor . The manuscript fully bore out this statement , inasmuch as I found a large part of it , as well as innumerable emendations , in Miss Kavan . agh ' 3 hadwriting . I was also shown several letters of Miss Kayaoagbs , in which she wrote in high terms of the merits of the work , and of her having made such alterations as she thought would make it more acceptable to the pubMc . These circumstances , and the fact of her having herself previously offered the work to one of the leading publishing firms in London for publication , on the understanding that it was to be announced as edited by her , induced me to believe her father ' s statement , and in this belief I undertook the publication upon Mr . Kavanagh's express written authority to publish it , fc as edited by his daughter , Miss Julia Kavanagh , author of " Nathalie , " " Daisy Burns , " & c , the sai d work having undergone the editorial revision of the said Julia Kavanagh . ' I was unaware when I accepted the manuscript that unhappy family differences had arisen , between Miss Kavanagh and her father ; nor had I reason to suppose that any objections existed to the use of her name as editing her parent ' s work until I was called upon by her solicitor to withdraw it . Immediately , however , on . being requested to do so , a new title-page was printed , and sent to every library to which copies- of tho work had been sold ; and , in further compliance with Miss Kavanagh ' s request , her solicitor was promised that immediately after my return to town , the fact should be announced to tho public in a form that would be most agreeable to her wishes . ' I was therefore much surprised —and I think I have reason to complain of Mws Kavanagh ' s publishing her letter of the 9 th inst ., threatening mo with the ponulties of tho law , when she could not fail to bo awaro that everything , and even , more than any legal proceedings could have effected , toad already boon done by me to comply with her wishes , and that if any ground of complaint existed , it ought rather to bo settled between her father and herself than between herself and mo . —I am , air , your obedient servant , T . Cautley Newdy . " UBUUimuu iu k —

      MB . UOXWKLL B JJAI . I . UOJH » " < «^ * »« ---Gardens , North Woolwich , on Monday night , at halfpast eleven , and descended safoly the following morning about throo milos beyond Tavistock , Devonshire , having traversed two hundred and flfty miles in ( We hours . For some time , tho balloon kept hugging tho coast ; but everything passed off in the most doairaUlo manner . Mb . Knowles is , it ia said , about to resign tho office of Attornoy-Gonoral to the county Palatine of Lancaster , in consequence of ui » intention to rotUro from tho Northern Circuit . . . . <•— . «« ., „« Saobbd HAimoNic Sooiioty .-A special P ^ formanco of Mr . Costa ' s Eti was given ut Ewter HaH ott f ™ « ttw » day evening , to which all tho performers from , tuo country engaged at tho XlnnUol Fostlvul wore Invited .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 20, 1857, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20061857/page/11/