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The Church and State Gazette has published a correspondence between the Reverend William Brock, of Bishop's Waltham in the diocese of Win- chester, and the Bishop of Oxford. Mr. Brock having "heard" that the Bishop of Oxford had said "that the views which have been propounded by Archdeacon Wilberforce in his book entitled The Doctrine of the Holy Eucharist,' are the only views which can save the Church of Eng- land from the dangers which beset her at the present crisis," forthwith sent a letter to the Bishop demanding to know whether it was so. The Bishop, while declining to acknowledge Mr. Brock's right to make the demand, replied to the impertinent questioner, that he had never ex- pressed such an opinion ; but that he would say, he did agree with the work in question, "so far as it maintains, enforces, and illustrates that view of the reality of the sacrament of the Lord's supper which Richard Hooker maintains in the fifth book of Ecclesiastical Polity,' as the doc- trine of Holy Scripture and our Reformed Church against the Puritans." It is remarkable that Mr. Brock should have taken upon himself to ques- tion the Bishop of Oxford, who is not his diocesan, and with whom he would appear not to have been even on speaking terms for years.

News of Dr. Barth from Timbuctoo has recently reached his father at Hamburg. Dr. Barth's letters, dated in December last, were transmitted across the desert in caravans to the Mediterranean shore of Africa. One of them commences thus—

"I am still kept here in this city, with its mixed and varied population and its numerous masters, each of whom strives to assume as much au- thority as possible. Like a helpless vessel drifting on the ocean, am I thrown about in a sea of uncertainty betwixt the power and passion of con- tending parties, without possessing a moment's rest or quietness. Every day brings with it something new, now of a satisfactory character, then again the reverse. Death, captivity, safe return home, are my visions by turns, and it is yet impossible to say which of the three will be my fate."

Dr. Barth was in good health and spirits, and hoping shortly to start, under the efficient escort of 100 Tuariek horsemen' backward down the Kowara. The Tuaricks are disposed to trade with England, and would protect any English vessel going up the Kowara. Mr. Petermann, for- warding this intelligence to the Athenceunn, says-

" At present, the market of Timbuetoo is supplied by two very tedious channels, one coming from the North, from the Barbary states, importing European manufactures, such as guns and cutlery ; the other from Nufi and other Koussa states, lying near the lower course of the Kowara, not going up the river, but by a circuitous Northerly route, also through the desert. The merchandise supplied by the latter channel consists mostly of fine black woollen and sills robes, chiefly manufactured in Nufi (or Nyffi), of which alone 2000 camel-loa's, to the value of 300,000 or 400,000 dollars, are brought to Timbuctoo arnsally, and disposed of at a great profit. Sugar is extremely in request. The common medium for trading is salt ; whioh is brought from Taodenni, a place in the desert North of Timbuctoo, and with- out which article the latter city could not exist. Provisions are very cheap at Timbuctoo, particularly poultry and other animal food ; 100 pigeons, for example, may be bought for about 3s. "What astonished Dr. Barth while in Timbuctoo was the rise of the river, which did not attain its maximum before the middle of December ; so that the river may be presumed to be high during a great portion of the year, the rise in the lower course of the Sowers commencing as early as July. The Doctor found the rise of the river at Timbuctoo to exceed greatly that of the Nile. Dr. Barth had received the welcome intelligence of the force sent out to join him, consisting of Dr. Vogel and two Sappers and Miners, which had afforded him the greatest gratification. Of the Chadda expedi- tion it seems he had not as yet heard anything."

A despatch and enclosure have been received _at the Admiralty from Captain Inglefield of the Pin:cola, now out on an Arctic expedition : he dates from Four Island Point, and Hare Island, Baffin's Bay, as late as July 12. The despatch is chiefly taken up with an account of visits he paid to the coal-fields of Skaudsen and Ritenbenk Rullrud. Some of the coal from the latter .place—twelve tons—wastaken on board and used in the furnaces. The enclosure is a certificate from the engineers testifying to the good quality of the coal. They report, that "-when mixed equally with Welsh coal or patent fuel, it will meet all the demands of steam navigation." This eoal, says Captain Inglefield, may be had in almost any quantities, and is very easy of access.

The Poor-law Board has issued a circular to certain Boards of Guardians, requesting them to assist in taking measures for the collecting of agricul- tural statistics in the respective counties - that is, Norfolk, Suffolk, South- ampton, Wilts, Leicester, Berks, Worcester, Salop, West Riding of York, Brecon, and Denbigh. In Scotland, the proceedings will be conducted, as in 1863, under the auspices of the Highland Society. The return of the Registrar-General for the week ending Saturday last shows a great increase of the number of deaths from cholera, and a consequent excess of the weekly mortality in the Metropolis; but hopes are at the same time held out that the disease has reached its climax.

" The population of London exceeds 2,362,236; and in the week ending Saturday last 3113 persons died, or 2165 more than ,have on an average died in the corresponding week of former years. "But in the week ending the 8th September 1849, when cholera raged, 3183 persens died ; so, allowing for increase of population, the rate of mor- tality for the week is lower than the rate of 1849: 2050 persons—namely, e'S4 males, 1096 females, 614 children under fifteen years of age, 1128 men and women of fifteen and under sixth and 287 old people—have died of cho- lera; 276 persons have died of diarrhcoa. The deaths from cholera in the last nine weeks have been-5, 26, 133, 399, 644, 729, 847, 1287, 2050; and in the aggregate 6120 persons have lost their lives by the disease. "The sun has had great power, but clouds and fogs have intervened ; no rain has fallen; the wind has been dry and languid ; the electricity posi- tive; but the temperature of the air and of the Thames is declining. "Active measures have been adopted by the Board of Health for combat- ing the present epidemic, and for obtaining, by all the agents and instru- ments that science has now at command, such a thorough knowledge of the conditions that lend power to this enemy, as will enable us to oppose it with advantages that are not now possessed. "The decline of the temperature, the analogy of the two epidemics of 1832 and 1849, as well as the remedial measures that are now brought into operation, justify us in anticipating that the epidemic will ere long gradually subside. In the mean time, the zeal and watchfulness neither of the local authorities, of the heads of manufactories, nor of the heath of families, should be slackened for a moment.

" At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean reading of the ba- rometer in the week was 30.166 in. On Tuesday the mean daily reading reached 30.316 in. The mean temperature of the week was 59.2' which is 1.1' above the average of the same week in thirty-eight years. The highest temperature of the week occurred on Monday, and was 81.2' ; the lowest on the same day (Monday), and was 431'; a difference of temperature in one day of 38.1'. The mean dew point temperature was 50-1°, and the difference between this and the temperature of the air was 9.0'. The temperature of the water of the Thames ranged between 62' and 68°. The electric state of the atmosphere was positive, with moderate tension throughout the week. The horizontal movement ef the air during the week was moderate, with a daily average of twenty-eight miles, chiefly from the North-east. No rain fell in this or the preceding week."

Among the victims of the cholera this week is Mrs. Fitzwilliam, the ac- tress. The statement is almost incredible, yet it is asserted that she had neglected an admonitory diarrlaosa for nearly a week. She died on Mon- day evening, after a serious attack of twelve hours, from the fatal effects of winch it was too late to save her.

Cholera has become epidemic at Liverpool. Last week there were 103 deaths against 79 in the previous week, in Liverpool parish ; exclusive of Everton and Toxteth Park, where, it is believed, the disease has been also extensively fatal.

Result of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for Zymotic Diseases Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat Tubereniar.Diseases Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion

Diseases of the Kidneys, Ac.

Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, Ac

Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, 8se.

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tisane, Se.

Malformations.

Premature Birth Atrophy Age Sudden Vittlence,Privation, Cold, and Intemperance Total (including unspecified causes) Ten of Weeks 1844-53.

0,11 1920 •••• 1,753

1,066 ....

272

776

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669

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99

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91

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81

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15

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40

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237

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20

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373

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37

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924

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— 11,676 Week of 1854.

2,558 45 220 131 43 100 56 8 10 8 4 5

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6 19 44 3,419 The Earl of Aberdeen is staving at Blackheath. The Duke of Newcastle returned to London on Saturday. The Marquis of Lansdowne will shortly leave Bowood on a visiting tour. Lord John Russell and his family are stay- ing with the Earl of Minto, at Minto House, near Hawick. Lord Palmer- ston is rusticating at Broadlands. The Earl of Clarendon has been in town attending to his duties at the Foreign Office; and this week he has visited the Queen. Earl Granville is expected home next week from Carlsbad. Sir George Grey is residing at Falloden Hall, near Ahiwick. Sir Charles Wood is at Hickleton Hall, near Doncaster. Mr. Sidney Herbert will not return permanently to town till the close of next month. Mr. Gladstone and his family are at Broadstairs. Sir William Molesworth is sojourning in Scot- land. Lord Stanley of Alderley will resume his duties at the Board of Trade shortly.

Lord Brougham leaves England, for his chSteau in the South of France, early next month.

Lord Hadde departed for Alexandria, in the Faid Gehaad, on Thursday, from Southampton, for the benefit of his health. Lord Aberdeen accom- panied his son to Southampton.

Archdeacon Cose, formerly 'Vicar of Newcastle, has suatained a concussion of the brain in consequence of being thrown by his horse.

Captain the Honourable R. Gore, the British Charge d'Affaires at Monte Video, has died of apoplexy.

Mr. Henry Leaves, British Consular agent in Negropont, and his wife, have been assassinated at Castaniotiza, by robbers who broke into the house at night, and carried off some plate : Mr. Leevea resisted them.

M. Gbika, the Hospodar of Moldavia, is in no hurry to leave France to return to his owe troubled country : it is stated that he intends to pass the winter at Paris.

Dr. Karl, director of the Leopoldetadt Theatre at Vienna, has died, leaving a fortune of upwards of five million francs. He has left legacies to hie actors.

The Russian General BoSiseo has chosen Evreux for his place of residence while a prisoner in France : a Russian lady who has a chSteau there has Placed it at his service.

Colonel Graoh, a Prussian Artillery officer, who greatly aided in fortifying and defending Silistria, has died of cholera, at Rustchuls His loss will loe a severe one for Omar Pasha.

The Archduke Albrecht of Austria has been ill with cholera, but is re- oovering.

the week ending on Saturday last. The Marquis of Turgot, Freneh Ambassador at Madrid, still suffers IP much from the wound he reeeivedin the duel with Soule, as to be obliged to use crutches.

M. Alois Biernacki, one of the oldest of the Polish refugees in Paris, died last week, at the age of seventy-six. He was formerly Nuncio at the Polish Diet, and at one time Minister of Finance.

Several Swiss papers assert that an Italian exile, of doubtful identity, but believed to be of some importance, recently arrested at Basle, is Signor hiazzini.

In compliment to France, and in testimony of the firm alliance existing between the two countries, the Admiralty has resolved to name one of the line-of-battle ships about to be launched La France.

Nearly the whole of the seamen who entered for special service in the Bal- tic fleet, with the right to claim their discharge at the end of the present year, have volunteered for continuous service.

There has been a reaction in Mark Lane : on Monday corn was 4s. dearer than on the preceding Monday, yet the millers reduced the top price of flour Si. per sack.

The bakers of Buckingham who keep up the price of bread have been op- posed by a baker of Banbury, who carries a supply to the former town and sells it at a reasonable rate he will discontinue his visits when bread becomes cheaper at Buckingham.

It appears that though the price of coals has been so high this summer, the importation by sea into London has been greater than it was last year up to the 31st August, by 41,392 tons, and by rail and canal the excess has been 204,937 tons.

It turns out that the Treasury does not require a stamp to be used in letters of acknowledgment passing between branches of the same bank : the important negative was omitted by a clerical error in the reply to the bankers.

Mr. Septimus Piesse, the chemist, has taken up the cudgels for the much- maligned London smoke. The smoke, or particles of carbon, absorbs and neutralizes immense quantities of poisonous exhalations. London may be the smokiest of large cities, but it is the healthiest. Before you abolish smoke, see that you provide means to remove foul effluvia.

A letter has been received at the Admiralty, from Commander De Horsey, of her Majesty's ship Devastation, dated 1st August, reporting that he found three vessels under American colours at the uninhabited island of Ares, in lat. 15 deg. 40 mm. 40 sec. North, and long. 63 deg. 36 min. West, and one day's sail from St. Croix : they were shipping guano; of which he reports there are about 200,000 tons on the island, and but slightly inferior to the Peruvian.

A humble stone monument has been recently erected, by direction of the parochial authorities of the parish of Islington, at the spot on Highgate Hill where Whityngton stopped when he heard the sound of Bow bells an- nouncing his future dignity as Lord Mayor of London. For many years a large stone occupied the site, with an inscription on one side of it, whieh time had nearly obliterated. A plain stone about two feet high is now erected there, which has chiselled on it the following brief history—" Whityngton Stone. Sir IL Whityngton, thrice Lord Mayor of London. 1397, Richard IL 1406, Henry IV. 1420, Henry V. Sheriff, 1395."

Au aged man named Bilhai-d lately died in the union workhouse, Lei- cester. He was one of the mutineers of the Nore, and was sentenced to execution. The rope was about his neck, and he was on the point of being swung off, when he was reprieved. From that hour to the time of his de- cease he never wore a neckerchief about his neck.—Eottinghani Review.

I woman ninety-one years of age is now a busy "gatherer" in the harvest-field at Grange, in Yorkshire, as sprightly and active as the youngest.

The Dublin Evening Mail has discovered that Mr. Carden is of English parentage, born in England, and educated there, with nothing more of the Irishman about him than the possession of an Irish estate. The Nation is intensely delighted with the news—Carden's was not an Irishman's crime. [But it was emphatically an Irish crime.]

England has conquered Scotland in quoiting : Hodgson of Lancashire has beaten Bennie of Alva, in a match at Bruntsfield Links, by 61 against 34, though the distance for throwing the quoits was greater than the English- man was accustomed to.

Two grampuses, each about twenty-five feet long, have been captured in the Mersey, at Ellesmere Port.

The shoe-shops of Glasgow are kept open very late, in a considerable mea- sure to accommodate the linendrapers, who have themselves induced their employers to close at an earlier hour !

The " half-reasoning " elephant, it seems, can enjoy his bottle. An ele- phant belonging to Batty's menagerie was missed from the stable of the George Hotel, Bangor; riders were sent in all directions to find him, but in vain ; at last he was found in the wine-cellar, looking "the picture of con- tentment"—he had broken several bottles and drunk the wine.

Prince Albert, before his departure from Boulogne, left 1000 francs to be distributed among the poor of the town, and 500 francs for the British Free Schools at Boulogne.

It is said that Louis Napoleon has purchased the Brighton Hotel, which has been his residence since his arrival at Boulogne, for the sum of 16,0001. The purchase is supposed to indicate his intention of frequently visiting Boulogne.

The authorities of Bordeaux have given a grand banquet to M. Duces, the Minister of Marine, and his wife, on the occasion of their visit to the wine city.

A statue has been erected at Ajaccio to the memory of General Abbutneci, a Corsican who was killed in defending the city of Huningue during the Revolutionary war.

While the price of grain is falling in the provincial markets, there has been a slight rise in flour at Paris, in consequence of short stocks, and the want of water to work the mills.

There has been serious rioting at Brussels, the mob smashing the windows of bakers' shops, because the price of bread had not fallen in proportion to that of grain. The same disorderly scenes have occurred at the Hague.

The damage done by the inundations in Silesia is estimated as high as 25,000,000 Prussian dollars.

At Clamecy, in the department of Nievre, cholera committed such ravages that a party of soldiers were sent to assist the survivors in getting in We harvest. The soldiers not only did this, but they tended the sick, buried the dead, and made themselves useful in every way.

Up to the 26 September the exports of tallow this year from St. Peteess burg were 35,239 casks, against 42,808 to the same period of 1853: on an average of ten years, the exports of 1854 are in excess. The price of tallow is falling in the London market.

It is reported in Galignans's Messenger, that a gardener of Clermont has accidentally discovered that gas-tar destroys or drives away spiders and other

insects. He used the tar to paint his frames and hothouses, and was sur- prised to find that no vermin appeared henceforth. The same results fol- lowed when the tar was used for posts and trellises out of doors—caterpillars and other plagues departed.

During the last few years Piedmont has shown considerable activity in having railway lines constructed on her territory. It appears from a lite official return, that in that country there are at present 387 kilometres 242 English miles) of railway open to the public, 278 (174 English miles) in course of construction, 157 (98 English miles) conceded, 29 (18 English miles) approved by the Government, and 173 (83 English miles) in project.

Locusts are falling in great numbers in the neighbourhood of Constanti- nople. Last year, when the fleets were at Besika Bay, the sun was at times darkened with them, and their ravages in Anatolia have lately been con- siderable. At picnics they fly into the plates, and hum about the ears of the guests. Hence arises a classical recollection. Bujukdere is the spot assigned as the residence of the fabled Phineus, whose banquets were inter- rupted by the ravages of the Harpies. As ladies and gentlemen in the pre- sent day are troubled with the visitation of locusts in the same spot, the theory of the learned Le Clerc, who identified the two pests, receives a cur- roboration.—Times Correspondent.

Rio Janeiro must be the paradise of capitalists : the National Bank of Brazil has just declared a dividend of nearly 26 per cent per annum, while the Mortgage Bank. pays 85 per cent! No wonder another bank has just been formed to get a share of these good things.

The tickets for the first performance of Grisi and Mario at Castle Garden, New York, were sold by auction. The best seat was said for 250 dollars, and the purchaser is said to be a lady who desperately admires Mario : towards the close of the sale, the bidders were only trading speculators. But the whole business wears a very trading aspect indeed.

There appears to be a movement in Arkansas, a "repudiating" State, to return to a condition of public honesty : some newspapers are proposing plans to resume payment of the State debts.

America furnishes an instance of an anti-climax, seldom surpassed, in the following speech of a member of the Indiana House of Representatives. "Mr. Speaker—The wolf is the most savage animal that roams the Western prairie, or prowls through the vast forests of Indiana. When Night with her sable mantle envelops this mundane orb, he quits his cavern, and lurks abroad on his nocturnal depredation ; and ere bright Phcebus starts forth in effulgent majesty on his diurnal journey, in his gold-emblazoned chariot, whole litters of pigs are destroyed.'