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    The Capb OF Good Hope . — -The last advices from the Cape are very meagre . There has been an interviewbetween the Governor and the chief of the Kafirs , and matters Lave been , arranged . — St . Yincent , Cape de Verd , has suffered terribly from cholera . Out of a population of 1200 , 800 persons have died , principally males . The bodies of the dead were burnt in the public square in the " absence of means to inter them . The Imperador screw steamship , -which took out troops from England , was coaled by women . The West Indies .- —There is little news of importance from any of the West India Islands . At Jamaica , the sugar crops were in a prosperous state , but it was expected that the pimento plant would , fall very short of the ordinary average . In many places it had totally failed . The Demerara Royal Gazette says that the immigration prospects in that colony are much brighter

    this season than they were last . Already seven ships are chartered to bring immigrants from Calcutta ana Madras . Immigration from Madeira is stopped for the present and for some time to come ; and the Cape Verd people , having passed the crisis which threatened to decimate them by starvation , are now disinclined to emigrate , at least in that direction . —An illustration of the truth of M . Louis Blanc's statements with respect to the French political prisoners at Cayenne is also contained hi the Demerara Royal Gazette , -which states that the Imperial colony is suffering excessively from sickness . A great number of the prisoners escaped , and almost perished from hunger and every species of suffering in the forests . Five were caught and brought back . The Governor has obtained leave of absence to return to France for the benefit of his health . When will the

    prisoners be allowed to return for the benefit of theirs ? —Trade , for the most part , is dull in the various islands . As regards sanitary matters , there does not seem to be more than the usual amount of sickness . 'France and Russia : the Approximation . — -We read in the Observer the following significant piece of intelligence , dated St . Petersburg , November 1 : — "Count Walewski , the French Foreign Minister , a Pole , is to have the Polish estates of his family restored to him again for his services to the Czar in the late war . "

    Iron Ores in Ixdia . —The following notice has been issued from the East India House : — " Lieut .-Colonel Goodwyn , chief engineer in the Lower Provinces of Bengal , having addressed a paper to the local government pointing out the abundance of iron in India , and suggesting the means to be employed for working the ore , it has been deemed expedient to give publicity to his communication , together with a memorandum prepared at the East India House , showing the measures which hav « been adopted from time to time , with the view of directing the attention of British capitalists to the iron-producing districts of India . Further reports on the subject may be shortly expected ; and any new matter therein contained -will be published in like manner for general information . " This is followed by the documents in question , which are of great length , and establish the existence of iron in various parts of our Indian Empire .

    Reappearance of Mr . Spurgeon . —Mr . Spurgeon resumed the occupancy of his pulpit in Park-street Chapel , Southwarfc , last Sunday morning . A great many persons were admitted by tickets before the doors were open to the public , and the chapel was densely crowded . After prayers , and the singing of one of "Watts ' s hymns , the preacher alluded to the catastrophe at the Surrey Gardens , exclaiming , " Thanks to thy name t Thanks to thy name ! Thy servant feared ho should not have addressed this congregation again . But thott haat brought him from the fiery furnace , and not even a smell of fire has passed upon him . " The accident , he afterwards said , " might not have arisen so much from the malice of men a 3 from some simply ¦ wicked intention to disturb the congregation . I cannot entertain for a moment the thought that there was any intention to murder those fellow-creature 3 whose lives

    were sacrificed on that melancholy occasion . God forgive the instigators of that horrid scene . They have my forgiveness from the depths of my soul . It shall not , however , stop us ; I shall preach there again yet—( suppressed sounds of approval )—and God shall give us souls . Satan ' s empire shall tremble yet more and more . God ia with us . "Who shall be against us ? " The sermon which Mr . Spurgeon afterwards delivered , is described _ as singularly free from the preacher's usual peculiarities . A great crowd awaited Mr . Spurgeon's departure from the clinpel , and many eager admirers ran after his carriage to grasp the hand which ho extended from the window of his brougham . It is stated that the child who was carried away wounded by his father after the accident is not dead , but is recovering . Another of the sufferers , however ( a man ) , baa died in the course of this week .

    to hear a sermon for the benefit of the City Dispensary . The edifice now presents a very splendid appearance . Mr . Baron Plait has resigned his seat as a Baron of the Court of Exchequer . He has been succeeded by Mr . Watson , Q . C ., who on Thursday went through certain preliminary ceremonies , and on Friday "took the oaths and his seat . " Me . Ernest Jones ' s Political Soirees . — The second of this gentleman ' s political soirees was held at St . Martin's Hall , on Tuesday night . The speaker again insisted on the misappropriation of the land , and asserted that the British constitution is a relic of Notman feudalism , that it represents only two elements , land and money , and that it is " one of the vilest shams and greatest legislative curses ever inflicted on a people . "

    In the course of his address , Mr . Jones said the soirees were not given for the sake of profit to himself , for that any money remaining after the payment of expenses was applied to " the propagation of political truth . " Commercial Intercourse with Central Afbica . —At the monthly meeting of the Council of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce , held on Monday , Mr . C Holland presiding , a letter from the Board of Trade was read , enclosing a copy of a despatch from Mr : Campbell , her Majesty ' s Consul at Lagos , who advises the extension of our commerce with Africa , and asks for any observation the Chamber might wish to make . It was rer solved , with a view to afford every information to , and to elicit the opinion of , the commercial public on a question which , in the opinion of this Council , is of great importance , that the document should be published in the local

    papers . Sir Benjamin Hall and the Board of Works . — A deputation from the Metropolitan Board of Works waited upon Sir Benjamin Hall , M . P ., on Wednesday , at his official residence , Whitehall , for the purpose of submitting to him the various plans which had been prepared by the engineer to the Board for the drainage of the metropolis ; and also to lay before him certain plans in connexion with the improvements of the metropolis . The deputation consisted of Mr . John Thwaites , chairman ; Mr . Bazelgette , Mr- Wolwych , and the superintendent architect . Mr . Thwaites read a resolution of the Board of Works , -which expressed an opinion that it would be unfair to compel the ratepa 3 ers of

    London to defray all the expenses in connexion-with a great drainage scheme from which , in consequence of the place chosen for the outfall , the county of Kent would be more especially benefited . The Board , however , -were willing to undertake the work if her Majesty ' s Government would provide a portion of the money required from the public funds . A good deal of discussion ensued ; Sir Benjamin objecting , with some warmth , that the plans proposed had been twice rejected by the Board , complaining that there had been considerable dilatoriness , and stating that it was his duty to oppose any scheme -which -was against the terms of the

    act of Parliament . lhe plans for the proposed new streets in Southwark and near Covent-garden were then submitted ; and these Sir Benjamin said he should consider first , and that ho should not be prepared with an answer relative to the drainage question for several days . The deputation then withdrew . —A deputation waited on Sir Benjamin on Thursday , and presented a memorial from the inhabitants of Erith praying that the plan for metropolitan d-ainage presented by the Board of Works may not be adopted . The right hon . baronet said he would give the subject his earliest attention . The outfall , it appears , is within the boundary prescribed by act of Parliament .

    Law Amendment Society . —The first general meeting of the fourteenth session of this society was held last Monday evening , at the Society ' s Rooms , in Waterloo-place , Pall-mall ; Mr . Collier , Q . C , M . P ., occupied the chair . A large number of new members were balloted for and elected , and a long document was read , pointing out the chief subjects connected with the reform of the law , which would demand discussion during the session . Oddities and Truths , ny Mr . Husky Drummond , M . P . —This eccentric gentleman presided on Friday week at the annual dinner of the Dorking Agricultural Society . In addressing the fcaaters , he alluded to agricultural

    himself & Wesleyan Methodist , said he bad felt pleasure in contributing personally towards the fund raised by the churchwardens of Cheltenham , in order to " add to the stinted income of Mr * Close . " The churchwardens had added , in the shape of Easter dues and other offerings , 4001 . a year to Mr . Close ' s stipend . He rejoiced at Mr . Close ' s removal to a scene of less arduous duty , where he would be under the Evangelical Bishop Villiers . Mr . Palk , M . P ., on the State of the Nation . — The annual dinner of the Agricultural Association of Woodbury , Devonshire , wa 3 held on "Wednesday week . The health of Mr . Palk , M . P . for South Devon , having been drunk , that gentleman , in acknowledging the honour , reviewed the present state of politics in the style peculiar to meetings of the kind he was then addressing . He said that he was a Conservative in his opinions , yet that he was not the slave of prejudice , nor of systems whose day has gone by , but would

    support that progress which the country demands , as long as it is consistent with the existing constitution . However , he thought it would be very wrong to send forth our " best blood "—that of our yeomen and aristocracy—in order to " force our institutions on nations which are unable and unworthy to appreciate them ; but , " he added , to the great satisfaction of his auditory , " let every nation wash its own dirty linen at home . " This phrase appears to be a favourite with BIr . Palk . He introduced it thrice , and made it one of the * points' " of his speech , applying it to the Tiities , which lad been recently " sneering" at the agriculturists . " There is an old adage , and a very true one , " said Mr . Palk , with a . disregard of congruity quite heroic , " that , before you give advice to others , you should be careful to wash your own dirty linen at home . " At this , tie diners loudly cried " Bravo !"

    Extensive Fire . — -A very destructive fire occurred last Saturday morning at Huddersfield . A little after five o ' clock , the extensive woollen cloth factories at Folly-hall , the property of Mr . J . Kaye , builder , and known by the name of .. . " Kay e ' s Mills , " were found to be on fire . In ten minutes , the flames "were issuing from every window of the floor in which the conflagration commenced ; by six o ' clock , the whole of the slates were off the roof ; and at a quarter to seven every floor of the edifice had fallen in . A building separated by a partition wall alone escaped destruction . The premises , though belonging to Mr . Kaye , were in the occupation of several manufacturers . At least three hundred workpeople are thrown out of employment by the disaster . The damage is estimated at from 12 , 000 / . to 15 , 000 / . Both owner and occupiers were partly insured .

    Highland Depopulation .- — -With respect to Professor Blackie's complaints of Highland depopulation , owing to the creation of deer forests , "A Deer Stalker " writes to the Times :- — "I think , if the Professor would take the trouble of inquiring a little further into this subject , he would find that a deer forest gives employment to a greater number of persons , as foresters , watchers , and gillies ( some of them , too , having much higher wages than shepherds ) , than the same extent of ground would do under sheep , while it produces a rent

    three or four times greater , adding , therefore , so much more to the wealth of the Highlands . Deer are , indeed , now the most valuable produce of a Highland estate , as those who hire deer forests know to their cost . Experto crede . In that part of the Highlands with wliich I am best acquainted , the -wages of shepherds have greatly risen of late years , and gillies are hardly to be got . This is undoubtedly the result of depopulation , which , however , is there attributed , not to ' deer forests , ' but to the attractions of Australia . "

    The Turkish Mission Aid Sociktv . —A . public meeting of this society has been held at Exeter Hall in aid of the funds being raised for the propagation of Protestantism in Turkey ; Mr . Kinuaird , M . P ., in the chair . The special object of the gathering was to take leav « of Dr . Hainlin , who had made great oxertions for the mission . Ia the course of his address , that gentleman spoke of the rapid spread of Christianity in Turkey , and of the facility with which the Bible and Christian tracts may bo distributed among the peoplo , which was not the case only a few years ago . But , ho observed , " If Englishmen were to attempt to preach Protestantism among the Turks , it would arouse their constitutional jealousy and fanaticism . However , if they could evangelize the Armenians , they were so intimately ussociated

    statistics , which ho did not think would be of any use , but he thought the fanners hud better let the Government havo the information required , " for those fellowa would have the returns , whether they would give them or not , and , if they refused to give them quietly , fellows would be sent about the country to obtain the information , and the worst of it would bo that they would have to pay them , and therefore he thought it was a ' bad spec' " { Laughter . ") Ho then distributed tho awards , observing that agriculturists were as much skilled labourers as any other class , since a Manchester man

    with the Turks that their principles would be disseminated among the latter . If , therefore , tho great problem was how to Christianize Turkey , he believed the way to solvo it would be to spread the . timth among the Armenians . Direct missions to Turkey -would fail , but if they brought the three millions of Armenians in Turkey to embrace tho principles of Christianity , it would influence the whole empire , and each Protestant Armenian , in fact , would become a . missionary to the Turk . " Throe elements of Protestantism , said tho speaker , have been introduced into Turkey—a free press , free schools , and free churches . —Colonel limvlinson guvo some particulars of tho rapid progress of tho JSestoriuu Christians of Kurdistan ; and , after various resolutions had been carried , the meeting broke up . Sr . Mary Aldbrmaky . — The Lord Mayor , the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex , and tho Undcrshcrins , attended at St . Mary , Aldermary Church upon its ro-opening , after extensive repairs and restorations ,

    would bungle at driving a plough or shearing a sheep , while a ' clodhopper , * as ho was called , would do both perfectly well . Ho congratulated tho meeting on the conclusion of the war , and upon their attaining , "if not peace , at least the possession of a parchment with several illustrious names appended to it ; but whether it was intended to act up to- all tho conditions therein oxpressed , ho could not say . " Ho thought thut England ought to interfere , and tell despotic sovereigns that they should not trout their subjects in a way according to their fancy . Alluding to the Emperor of tho French , ho said thai " individual had been making war against tho EngliaL

    m . » Nrw r > EAlir OP Carlisle . —A public meeting of the Inhabitants of Cheltenham haa boon held for the purpose of inaugurating some testimonial to the Kov . F . t-loao , the late incumbent of tho parish , who has recently been appointed to tho deanery of Carlisle . Several Evangelical clergymen and some Disscntera were on tho platform . Speeches expressive of affection for Mr . Close were delivered , and resolutions in accordance with tho object of tho meeting wero carried . One of these resolutions was seconded by a gontloman who , in avowing

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    November 8 , 1856 . ] THE LEADER , 1065

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 8, 1856, page 1065, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2166/page/9/