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      the public under these circumstances , the committee will not recognize any further transactions in the Great Northern Railway Company ' s stocks or shares , nor of the Btocia or shares of those other companies connected therewith , and order that the name of the Great Northern . Railway Company , and of such other companies , be struck out of the official list of the Stock Exchange so long as such transfers shall remain unrecognized . "—A meeting of the board of the Great Northern

      Railway was held on Tuesday , when , after discussion , it was resolved , " That the company have not refused to register the transfer of stock accompanied by coupons or certificates , officially signed by the registering clerk of the company and by the secretary ; nor have they any intention to decline to register transfers of stock for which certificates of due registration in the names of the Beller have been issued by the company , unless there is ground to believe the holder of such stoclc has been party to any fraud in the manner of obtaining It . "

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      OBITUARY . Dr . Paris . - - —The medical world , lovers of classical scholarship , and humanity at large , will grieve to learn the death of Dr . Paris , President of the College of Physicians , which occurred on Wednesday morning , at half-past eight o ' clock , at his residence in Doverstreet . He was born at Cambridge on the 7 th of August , 1785 ; commenced studying his profession at fourteen years of age ; was elected physician to the Westminster Hospital when he was only twenty-two ; practised for a few years at Penzance in . Cornwall , and

      finally settled in London , where , in 1844 , he was elected President of the College of Physicians . When at Penzance , he gave to * the miners his invention of the . tamping bar , an instrument by which they are enabled to pursue their work in the midst of inflammable gases , without fear of striking fire from the rock . Dr . Paris was also famous * as a classical scholar ; and he was the author of a " Life of Sir Humphrey Davy , " a work on " Medical Jurisprudence , " ( written in conjunction with Mr . Fonblanque ) , " Pharmacologia , " "T'hilosophy in Sport , '' and some other books .

      Admiral Sin H . Hakt , K . C . H ., Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital , died on Monday morning at bis apartment in the Queen's House at Greenwich . The Marquis of Queeksbeury expired at Edinburgh on Friday week . He was in his seventy-eighth year . A vacancy for Dumfriesshire is caused by Lord Drumlanrig ' s succession to the title .

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      NAVAL . AND MILITARY . Court-Martial . —The result of a late court-martial at Gosport on Lieutenant Deane , of the 22 rid Foot , was promulgated last Saturday . Lieutenant H . A . Murray Deane-was brought to trial a few months ago on three charges , which wero to the effect that he had wilfully failed to fulfil the terms of a written guarantee given by him voluntarily to the officers of her Majesty ' s 22 nd liegiment while in India to pay them , six months after the landing of the regiment in England , all sums of money due from Paymaster Barlow ; that lie had abused the trust imposed in him as treasurer of the private funds belongiug to the officers ; and that , while acting paymaster , he had torn or destroyed a leaf or leaves from the officers' ledger containing the accounts of

      Pavmaster Barlow , with a view to conceal the amount drawn and received by that officer . The court , though they acquitted Lieutenant Deane of any fraudulent intent , and admitted that he had appropriated all the lost funds to some , though not the right , regimental uses , nevertheless sentenced him to be cashiered . Ilia lloyal Highness the Commander-in-Chief thereupon advised her Blnjosty not to confirm the sentence , because , bowever reprehensible Lieutenant Deane may have been for giving a guarantee which he could not perform , there was no moral turpitude in his conduct . The Queen was

      pleased not to confirm the sentence , and Lieutenant Deane wns therefore acquitted . There is not even any formal reprimand superatkled . It is stated that a court of inquiry , consisting of Mnjpr-General ISreton , Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth and commanding th » South-West district ; Lieutenant-Colonel Evelegh , commanding the 20 th ltegiincnt ^ and laoutcnant-Colouel Ingram , commanding the D 7 th Regiment , is ordered to report on the conduct of the other officers of the 22 nd Regiment respecting the proceedings in reference to this case .

      Tub City Militia . —A Court of Lieutenancy for the City of London waa held on Friday vcek , under the presidency of the Lord Mayor , when the clerk and treasurer road a letter from Lord Panmure , Secretary for War , desiring that tho militia regiment should be made up to its full complement of 1000 mien , nnd suggesting that the present is a very suitable time for obtaining recruits . A second letter from tho same quarter was read , ordering that tho regiment should be embodied for training some tinao before tho end of May . A resolution was then agreed to , appointing Friday , " tho 17 th of next April , for calling out the men . A report was road from the Committee on Head-quarters , stating that they had entered Into a contract for building now head-quarters , which would bo completed by the end of next yenr . It vran Unanimously approved , and referred back to be carried into execution . Tho Court then adjourned .

      «« rim ^ f ^ r , ^ bruobwx s . —The result of the first ex-IZ wv - m ' Martin ' s missile ( says a daily contem-S v 7 u , extfaor < iinar y- It took place against a wooa « rn bulk-head erected for the purpose , the practice ranging a distance of six hundred yards . It so entirely succeeded , that the first and second shots set the erection on fire m several places , and so totally ignited it in the next three or four succeeding discharges , that it became a mass of flame , and continued burning until the following day . The effect of its destructive qualities was then tested against a similar erection of granite , and its havoc was as effective against that as against the wood ; for in every portion of the stone where the molten liquid adhered the granite crumbled away like so much dry dust . Mr . Martin asserted , many months previously to the fall of Sebastopol , that he would ' compel the surrender of that or any other fortress in a week . But his representations were unheeded .

      ' Collision in the Clyde . —A serious collision took place last Saturday night on the Clyde , at a point about six miles below Glasgow , between the bark Felicity , grain-laden , from the Mediterranean , and the steamer Vanguard . The former was struck on the port bow , and a rent was made up to the foremast . She immediately filled , and settled down in a slanting direction across the channel , which at that point is very narrow , so that great obstruction was caused , to the traffic of the river . The crew escaped without difficulty . The Vanguard , after backing out from the wreck , ran aground . It has been ascertained that she has received but trifling damage . Shortly afterwards , an American ship also ran aground , in consequence of the obstruction caused by the sunken barque .

      Flogging at Woolwich . —A gunner belonging to the field batteries of the Royal Artillery at Woolwich , recently discharged from the sick list , has undergone corporal punishment , adjudged him by court-martial , for having stolen a sovereign from a comrade in one of the wards of the hospital . The man was brought into the riding-school at half-past eight , where he -was pinioned to the triangle and received the first portion of his sentence—namely , fifty lashes . He is to be subjected to eighty-four days' confinement with hard labour in Coldbath-fields prison , and finally to be dismissed the service . . ' "

      Final Arctic Search . —There is now little or no doubt as to the intention of the Government to despatch final expeditions in search of further traces of Sir John Franklin . They will probably consist of three parties , one overland , another via Behring's Straits , and a third via Davis ' s Straits . The Behring ' s Straits expedition will probably be commanded either by Captain Collinson ( should he volunteer his services ) , or Captain Rochfort Maguire , an officer of great energy and mucli active experience . The Baffin ' s Bay expedition will , it is supposed , be offered to Captain M'CIintock ; but we have as yet heard no one mentioned to command the overland partj' . —United Service Gazette .

      Court-Martial at Aldershott . —The proceedings of a general court-martial appointed to try Ensign Charles Jaquet , 23 rd Fusiliers , on charges preferred against him by his late commanding officer , Lieutenant-Colonel Bunbury , have just been brought to a close at Aldershott . The prosecution extended over three days , and the defence , iu which the prisoner was assisted by Serjeant Ballantine ( specially retained ) , occupied two days . The facts proved against the prisoner were , that having incurred two debts , one with a tradeswoman at Farnham , amounting to 21 . 9 s ., while an officer of the militia stationed at Aldershott , and another of 17 . for pipes and cigars with a Jew pedlar of the name of

      Salmon , he neglected to pay the first , and gave a cheque on Messrs . Cox and Co ., which was dishonoured , for the second ; that having been called upon by Colonel l ) unbuvy to discharge these claims , he stated in writing , under date August 26 , 18 oG , that both debts were paid ; that at that date neither of the parties to whom prisoner was indebted had received the moneys due to them ; and that he afterwards absented luniself without leave . Ensign Jaquet , in his defence , denied the several imputations , and stated that ho really believed the debts were paid , aiul that , being out of health , he considered lie had cause for staying away . The decision of tho court will not bo made * known until after it lias been approved at the Horse Guards .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . The Bisnor . ov London held hid first ordination lust Sunday , when several gentlemen , were admitted into holy orders . IliaLordship delivered a sermon or charge to the assembled clergy , at the end of which ho said : — " They ( the clergy ) must remember that they could not admit anything false into their system -without corrupting the very source of truth , nor ouglit they to allow their inmils ' to dwell upon disputed points of controversy when they should be occupied with those great truths which centre round the person and the oiliccr of Christ . If they spoke to their people of tilings of human invention , instead of teaching that which was in the Word of God , they might depend upon it that , to reverse the words of tho text , they would lose both themselves and those who heard them , by lowering tho standard of ppli'ltnnl holiness . Eight of the candidate * who were to be ordained that dav were going as missionaries to

      distant lands , and their responsibilities would be greater than those of the clergy in England . Tor those yonnff men he implored the prayers of the congregation . " His Lordship concluded with some practical suggestions in reference to the working together of clergy and laity in the education of the poor and in works of charity . Tke Knightsbridge Ecclesiastical . Dispute . ' The Judge of the Court of Arches delivered his judgment last Saturday in tke cases of Westerton v . Liddell , and Beal v . Liddell . He affirmed the decision of the Consistorial Court requiring the removal of the credence tables , the stone altars , &c , from the churches of St . Paul and St . Barnabas . Mr . Liddell ' s counsel , however , gave notice of an intentioa to appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council , with whom the matter will finally rest . , . ¦ :

      An Edinb itrgh Antiquarian Dispute . —The dissenting majority of the Edinburgh Town Council have passed a series of resolutions disavowing the obligation and intention to restore the old church of Trinity College , one of the most ancient and remarkable Gothic fabrics in Scotland , but which in 1848 fell a sacrifice to railway innovation . Their design is to build another church , but without attempting to reproduce the older one . This has excited great dissatisfaction , and a meeting was held to protest against the course proposed . A deputation was appointed to wait on the Town Council , which , after a warm debate , resolved on persisting in its design . The question , it is said , will be immediately taken to the law courts by a large number of influential citizens , to determine the question of obligation ; and , if necessary , the interposition of Parliament -will be called for to prevent the council acting upou their present resolution .

      The Late Mb .- Kenyon .- —Many a literary home has been made brighter this Christmas time by the noble sympathy of John Kenyon , the poet , Whose death we recently announced . The poet was rich as he was genial . Scarcely a man or woman distinguished in the world of letters with -which he was familiar has passed unreniembered in his will , and some poets and children of poets are endowed with a princely munificence . Among those who have shared most liberally in this harvest of goodwill we are happy to hear that Mr . and Mrs . Browning receive 10 , 000 / ., Mr . Procter ( Barry Cornwall ) , 6000 / ., and Dr . Southey a very handsome sum , we think 8000 / . We liear that there are about eighty legatees , many of them the old literary friends of the deceased poet . — Athenaum .

      Naturalization . —The Chevalier tie Chatclahi has written , a letter to the Times , complaining that although he was naturalized in England in 1848 , and lias since voted at : vestry and parliamentary , elections , ' he recently received from the ' Government officials a circular , stating that " no act of naturalization granted by the British Government to an alien places him beyond the lawful power and control of his native country , unless be have received from the Government of such coimtry a certificate of denationalization , or been released from his original obligations as a subject or citizen in some other legal way . " The Chevalier , adds-: —" Now if , in 1848 , the period-of my naturalization , the Secretary of State had desired me to obtain my denationalization from tho French Government , it would have been easy forme to do so ; but since the coup iVetat , not regarding the Empire as founded on a legitimate basis , I cannot of

      course solicit any favour of the said Government . I pledged allegiance to Queen Victoria , as to a constitutional monarch who has kept her oaths . I decline pledging- any such allegiance towards Louis Napoleon , for tho contrary reason . I therefore beg to inquire of you and your readers , after perusing the Secretary of State's letter , am 3 an English or a French subject ? I bolieve myself to be an English subject , and that the circular in question is merely an attempt on the part of the second Empire to take steps against Frenchmen naturalized iiince the 2 nd of December . But I repeat that my -naturalization , dates from 1848—viz ., before the existence of the second Empire . " Another French correspondent of this Times , living ; in England , saya that a naturalized foreigner docs not become an English subject , hut is merely invested with all an Englishman ' s riyhtrf , excepting two .

      WAsTiii'UL Disposal ok Govisiinmkxt Scores . —At the weekly meeting of tho Council of the Liverpool Financial Kt-forin Association on Thursday weelf , a specimen of official thrift and ingenuity was laid before tho council . as authentic . There-is a ship ( it was stated ) now in Liverpool wliick curried a cargo of rum to Balakluvn , with order * to return in ballast . The war having ceased , and the rum not being required for thu troops , it was sold sit Constantinople at the rate of 5 d . per gallon , or thereabouts , and the vessel returned to England in ballast , as originally intended . The quantity tliua disposed of is . said to have been eight hundred puncheons , or about 85 , 000 gallons , the worth of which , in England , at the present moment , would probably bo about 5 s . per gallon .

      A Liukual Landlokd . —A few years ago , when the agricultural interest \ y « s much depressed , Mr . Goorgo Lunc Fox , of Bnwnliain , in tho West Hiding of Yorkshire , reduced tho rents of his tenantry ton per cent . On tho return of a more prosperous period , his tenantry ( namely in 1855 ) expressed their willingness to have their rents augmented to tho o \;\ wm >" t ' .. Mr - ox < howoycr , declined * o accept fchp pr-ullVwu advance , and

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      Peoember 27 , 1856 . ] THff LEADER . 1233

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 27, 1856, page 1233, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2173/page/9/