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      e « r « al skeletons have been lately discovered below the Zr or of the soil near Knaresborough . It is conjectured 6 they were banditti ; that the spot where they were A was a cavern ; and that having been discovered , {^ entrance to their cave of refuge had ^ been stopped up . M Treloar , of Ludgate-hill , the cocoa-nut fibre manu-, r * ' - has published an interesting pamphlet , showing lacii" > which the various parts of the cocoa-nut treo the use ,. ^ rpk e purposes of utility to which this tree may Sare Very numerous . The Cingalese have a saying < % h t it has ninety-nine uses , and the hundredth cannot recovered . " From the full-grown leaves are formed bG fs carpetsj baskets , sails , tents , and liquid measures . tC cocoa-nut oil yearly imported into England is valued f 100 0002 . By means of mechanical processes secured v tent the value of cocoa-nut fibre has been much inky P ^ ' jt has been found suited for the production of Nicies of great utility and elegance of workmanship . A r at Exhibition prize medal was awarded to Mr . Treloar f r < 3 the best specimens of matting , mats , brushes , mattresses and other articles made of cocoa-nut fibre .

      Among the wonders of the day a company is announced , railed the " Pantagraphic Cutting and Engraving Comv " They have patented a machine ; and allege that ^ Tisi applicable to architectural carving , in wood and stone , rarvin / in ivory , bone , pearl , and metals , seal engraving , wood and metal cutting , engraving on wood and type , etal blocks for paper-stainers , calico and handkerchief winters , oak carving for churches , and gothic furniture , onen tracery for pianoforte-makers , engravings in brass , copper and zinc . The machine is also adapted to cat and carve ornamental stone work , which may be multiplied with unerring fidelity . It will also copy carvings in basrelief , in wood , stone , or metal .

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      BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIETIIS . On tho 15 lh of September , at Colombo , Ceylon , tho wifo of 0 . Viuiti , . Esq ., Controller of JI . M . Customs : a won . On tho 10 th of October , at Lisbon , tho wifo of W . It . Ward , ¦ l ' 'Nq ., Hooretary to 11 . M . ' h legation : a son . On | , ho 14 th , at Oxibrd-torriuio , CJapham-rond , tho wifo of tho l « 'v . ChailcM Spooner , M . A ., curate of Christ Church , JSIcwgalo-Hlrcct : a hoii . On tin , 17 th , at the Lod tfo , Corj ) UB Christi Collego , Cambridge , Hiei wile of tin , 1 { OV . Jllm << s Pulling , H . D . : a son . On the , 17 th , al . 42 , Hertford-street , Mayfair , the Lady Adei » mu Ca ( lo ( r , , . a daughter . MAKRiAGES . 1 > \ , ' i 1 Rlho 1 " October , at Uie British "Embassy , Paris , by tho uov . I . Jlalo , D . D ., chaplain , Augusta H <)|) hia , widow of tho ""> . lamoH Hill Albony , <> f 4 , , Hi . ( Jeorge ' s-phwie , Hytle-jjurk'"¦"'¦ r , Iiondon , to Tiioman Morton , Una ., barrist < ir-at-law , o " IV" ^ '" ^ -T « Hti « -o of Newfoundland . "" I he 10 ( . h , at Trinity Clmroli , Murylebone , Otho William 1 , livy Hamilton , ICnq ., of JumoM-Nl . rerl , Ht . . laincs ' H-j ) ark , to , '»|> i . iu > a Laura , fourth daughter of the late Henry Ht ; . Goorgo () k 7 ; . |( ' q .. «> f Portland-place . It .-v Mi " "' ' (/ H 1 : - M' - 'tIk ^ i ' m , near Ht ,. Alban ' s , Herts , by the ( ftianniM Southwell , vicar , Kdward HiigeHsen Knatehbiill-Iin , irT ! ' " ii "' - ' ° 1 < lei "t hou of the late Kight . Hon . Kir Kdward Mai- \ l , ' \ i IU > 1 - ' ttn < l "lo !><> wager Lady K iiatchbull , to Anna Well l '' llzal >( 1 < l > , younger daughter of tho Kov . Marcus Houth-() JJKATHS . liML ' InV 11 ' " s <( l > 'en » bor , at ( Guernsey , ClmrleM Uetliell Cod-« , r [) , „ ' , ' ¦> H ( ' < ' <> nd hou of the lal . o Sir O . H . Codringloii , Hart ., M I' i- " \ . » d brother of Hir O . William Codringloii , Hart ., Oil , 1 , ml ¦ < 'l <> uoest ( , rsliir « . Itcii vcr r . V "' ' <) "'" ll < 1 ' » " ¦«¦ Orine-H . juar . t , Major Herbert < 'mn > rai V 1 \ "' K iin <) H '' M- N - ' la ' ' ^ V " ? ' ' " ymuM . or'" ' l v-nijc " ° ^ <> l'theni Divimon Miidran Pn ; aidenoy , aged Nr . wi ,,, ' ! " , lfilll > ««¦ » ' HiiHsop , the Hlg hl , Hon . Kraiiom Karl of "I llu , it ' ; i » " •'' * " "'• Lconanl ' N-oii-Hea , Mrs . Ijonmlule , the wifo O ,, || , i / 'V " 1 l ' i « 'l'll < -l . l . '¦'" I air ? , i ' ' •' - ' •¦ ' •••• s-eoiirt , Old Jtromnton , Robert ( Junior , o , ; , | j ''^'"'¦ y-Miiie . '' ^ '' " V P ,-, ! l "'' . Hll ( ll > "" " « W . Kdward Maugin , M . A ., aged ° » the ' Vi' ! * ' ^ "' ' RlVth > '" ° ''' oocho of Killuloo , Ireland . Wllr <* (!( , „ ,.,. ' , lllM r « Hid « n < io , » , KeiiHingtou-park-villaH , Kd'' ''• mius -i k- . ' ¦» 'rofoHHor of Manufacturing Art and M « - Alu » College , London , in Jiiu uiity-third year .

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      Satttedat , October 23 . The Convocation of the clergy of the province of Canterbnry was yesterday duly prorogued by the Vicar-General of the Archbishop of Canterbury until Friday , November 5 , pursuant to the Royal writ . Upon this the Times remarks , that in conformity with berTVJajesty's mandate this will be the last prorogation prior to the actual meeting of Convocation ,

      which will take place on Friday , the 5 th of November , " for the despatch of divers urgent business ; " on which occasion application is to be made to her Majesty for her royal license that the assembling of Convocation may no longer be a matter of mere form , as it has been during the last century and a half , but that the proctors recently elected at the various archidiaconal meetings , and those officially eligible to sit , may consider such matters and transact such business as in their

      opinion are necessary to the welfare of the Church . It may be stated , that in order to enable Convocation to sit , the permission of the Crown , Premier , and Archbishopof theprovince must be obtained . It is pretty generally understood that the Earl of Derby is personally favourable to the claims of the " Revivalists , " but that the Archbishop of Canterbury is decidedly hostile to the resuscitation of those powers of which Convocation lias been for so long a time past practically deprived . At the same time a rumour prevails in well informed circles that her Majesty ' s views upon the matter are in accordance with the views of the Archbishop . In this case it will be impossible for either house of Convocation , on its meeting , io proceed with anything beyond the consideration of those formal matters to which its attention has

      hitherto been confined . After quoting the contradiction of the rumour from the Morning Herald , the Times says : — "We leave our contemporary ' s explanation of the rumour to the discrimination of our readers . If all intention of enacting what it justly describes as ' the absurdity ' has been abandoned , it has only been in consequence of the remonstrances it has called forth . "

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      Mr . Dawson has published the following letter : — Sir , —In the course of a recent tour on the continent I went to Dresden . On the morning after iny arrival I sent my passport to the police—it was sent back to the hotel vise for Prague . In two hours time a police agent fetched it again . I was out all day , and , on my return to the hotel at night , I found a person waiting for me j he introduced himself , calling mo by name , and asking if I did not come from Birmingham ? I answered , " Yes . " He then said that I should not be allowed to go to Prague , for I was a friend of M . Mazzini ' s , and a subscriber to funds " directed against the continent . " After some talk , in the course of which I told him I should require a formal refusal to allow me to visit Prague , lie left .

      The next morning , before I was up , two men entered my hodrooni , demanding to search my baggage , and saying that if I declined to allow them I must get up and go with thorn . Preferring the easier alternative , I lay in bed and watched tho hunt amidst shirts and 1 mx )!; s —one letter was deemed dangerous , and borne oil' to tho police office . In the afternoon I received a note , requesting my attendance at the police oOice . 1 went , was shown into ji room , requested politely to take a . scat , and the drawing up of a " protocol" commenced . The questions asked me appeared to he dictated by some puperH , written and printed , which lay before the

      writer of the protocol . Somo of these questions wen ; absurd enough , such sis—Are your father and mother living ? Where do they live?—Tho little English town I mentioned was quito beyond my questioner ' s geography , so 1 had to help him by writing it ; myself . 1 was asked if I . knew M . Mazzini , who introduced him to me , Ae . To some of these queries I declined to roply . When iho protoeol was finished , I signed it , and was then shown to another office to have the " sigimUiment" made ouf . I whs minutely described and mca-Hured , and an inspection of my hoot heels duly made . The officer asked me if I had any warts , moles ,

      or other particular marks on my body , and on my replying ( hat I had no such beauty spots , I signed Iho paper , and was bowed out . J next went to another place for my passport , which , al , my request , was visd for Merlin , and across it , was written , " To leave Dren-< len immediately . " I Mien returned to my hotel , and in tho afternoon of the nnxf ; day , having seen all I wished to we in Dmsdou , I left for Merlin . On reaching Merlin 1 sent my pnswport , to the police , and received it , soiiio days afterwards without , any remark , having in Mic mean time suffered no annoyance .

      . Since my return to lOngland , I have seen tho account of Mr . Pagct'H annoyances , and J find Unit my alliiii happened a few days heforo hut . — I am , &c , Oet . HO . ( Juiouaiz DAWflOfl .

      Very large policies of insurance are , we hear , being effected in the City on the life of the President of the French Republic . Whether a clause is inserted providing for an increase in the premiums on revival of the Empire is not stated ; but the proposals for these insurances , even at a liberal rate , hare been refused in more than one quarter . —Daily News .

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      Steps , it appears , have been token to obtain at least a site for a new National Gallery . " The Royal Commissioners , who were constituted a permanent body by a charter granted by Her Majesty immediately on the closing of the Great Exhibition , have recently completed some very large purchases of land , which it is understood are to be , applied to the above object , in combination with museums such as that now at Marlborough-house , or generally for the promotion of arts , manufactures , and commerce . The charter referred to gave power to appropriate the surplus derived from the Great Exhibition to such purposes , but the extent even of the land purchases must have alreadp ' exhausted that surplus , and the nation will have to supply the requisite funds for all that is to follow .

      " The site chosen for the realization of all this is at Kensington-gore . Behind Gore house and the line of houses which stretches almost uninterruptedly from the new houses of Hyde Park-terrace up to Kensington turnpike is an extensive tract of land , now principally occupied as market-gardens , except that part of it which abuts westward on the road cplled Gloucesterroad , in which Mr . Canning ' s house and grounds , called Gloucester-lodge , were situated . Most of this land belonged to the Baron de Villars and Lord Harrington , though a portion of some extent on the north side , near the Kensington-road , was the property of the parish of St . Margaret , Westminster . The whole site is very beautifully disposed , gradually sloping to the south from the high ground of Hyde

      Park down . to the Old Brompton-road . The lower part of the land is familiarly termed " Brompton-grove , " and is ornamented with some really fine timber in the gardens and grounds still remaining on the southern part of the estate . The first tract of land obtained by the Commissioners was from the trustees of the parish of St . Margaret , Westminster , from whom it is understood about twenty acres were obtained , at a cost of 60 , 000 / ., or thereabouts ; but the principal purchase ( a very recent one ) is from the Baron de Villars , who has sold forty-eight acres of land to the Commissioners for tho large sum of 150 , 000 ^ . For some smaller purchases to complete the boundary as much as 4 , 000 Z . per acre has been asked , and , we believe , given .

      " The general scheme wo understand to be this , — About 200 y ards on this side of the turnpike at Kensington a road is to be cut , 100 feet wide , from Kensington-gore to Brompton , coining out at the back of Onslow-square . This road will furnish an enormous frontage for the new galleries to the west , and the facade will return at tho south end to any depth required . Tho quantity of land secured will also allow of ornamental grounds around the building- to a considerable extent .

      " The price paid for this hind is certainly very great , and perhaps greater than has ever lx'en realized before under similar circumstances ; but still , notwithstanding the extravagant , not to . say extortionate , demands of the owners for land which , to a considerable extent , is now only growing cabbages and onions i ' or the JLon < lon market , we are glnd tho land is secured for national objects , even at a national price . "

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      It In undc . rst . oud thai , the funeral proccHBion of tho lal . o Duke will he innrnhalled on the j ' arudo- ^ round at the back of tho Horse ( j < unrdn , and thence : puss along tho Mall in St . James ' s-park , up Constitution-hill , and along Piccadilly , St . James ' s-tit reel ,, 1 'all-ninll , and the Strand , to St . Paul's . This alteration hus hern made out of deference to I . ho expressed desire of tho houuoholdcrti along the lino of route . Tho oeromony of " lying in state" will , it is understood , bo carried out upon a scale of magnificence novor before attempted in this country , or perhaps even m I ' iiiropo . Chelsea College consists chiefly oi' a central , apartment of octagonal form , opening on the one nido into the fnvHt hull , nnd on l . hc oilier into ( he ( -Impel of tho college . The whole of this rimgo will ho filled up in an appropriate milliner , the walls and overy portion oi tho building beiiifj- draped and festooned with black cloth and other appropriate funereal emblomH . The grout . JialJ , where tho "lying i" ulalo" will Lake place , in an apartment of noble dimonsions , l f )() feet long by nearly 50 broad and 40 high . Tho Marquis of Kxeter , as hor Majesty ' s Lord Cliaiiiborlain , has the direction of this portion of the ceremonial . His lordship , naturally anxiouu that , so important a feature in the national tribute to tho memory of the grout Duke should bent once worthy of the country and the man , wisely placed the matter in tho hands of one of flio ( irnl , architects and artists of the day , Pi » fosnor Coekoroll , . ' If .. A ., who in the kindent manner con-( jented to act , and at once prepared a aeries of oluborato

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      HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK . The deaths in London , which in the previous week were 984 rose in the week ending last Saturday to 1093 . In the ' corresponding weeks of the ten years 1842-51 the average number was 926 , which for comparison with , last week ' s return may be raised in proportion to increase of population , when it becomes 1019 . The present mortality therefore exceeds the corrected average by 74 . Last week the deaths of 536 children , 355 men and ¦ n-omen between 15 and 60 years of age , and 188 _ persons at 60 years and upwards , were registered . The increase seems to arise amongst the younger part of the population .

      Fatal cases of epidemics rose in the last two weeks from 216 to 254 ; those resulting from bronchitis , pneumonia , and other pulmonary complaints , rose from 144 to 195 ; while phthisis , which is not included in the la / ter class , destroyed 111 and 131 persons . * In the epidemic class the deaths of 7 children and 4 adults are referred to smallpox ; only 4 children died of measles , 22 of hooping-cough , 14 of croup , while 69 children , with 4 adults , were carried off by scarlatina . Fiftyone persons died of diarrhoea and dysentery , 3 of influenza , and 2 of purpura ; no death occurred from cholera in tho week . Typhus , common fever , &c ., were fatal in 54 cases ; remittent fever in one , rheumatic fever in 2 , erysipelas

      in o . At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean height of the barometer on Sunday ( the 10 th ) was 29-876 , and on each of the six following days it was above 30 in . ; the mean of the week was 30-108 in . Tho mean temperature of the week was 48-2 ° , which is 2 ° below the average of the same week in ten years . The mean daily temperaturo was below the average more or loss on every day of tho week . Tho wind blow generally from tho north-cast .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 23, 1852, page 1013, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1957/page/9/