The Press.
London, England, 1854-01-14 00:00:00

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Tim ►ndemnity to the bakers of Lana for the second
fortnight of November amounts to 83t4,000f. ((about
MANN.) This supposes a eonsuniption of 7,1316,018
kilogrammes of bread iltiring that period.
tiALT Pow: is 110111 it:111)011"i iu barge quantities into this
couuuy from Portugal, and fetches higher prices than Irish
salt pork.
Between Jailusuy and December the value of cotton
►totkings exputed was nu less than 4::+4,010/., aguinat
for the previous year.
(lemma. BARON n►: FAOILL, who for 11101111 than IA years
has been the Dutch Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris, has
just obtained permission to retire.. Ilia Majesty on the
occasion wrote him au autograph letter, in which he ex-
pressed his regrets, and at the same time his satisfaction
at the faithful services which the bsrou had constwitly ren-
dered to the country. The King, in the same letter,
named him Minister of State.

I•ur SYNDICS OY THY 11AALItti. COUPOR \TION 011, P‘RIS
have written a letter to the I►irector-General of Public
Assistance, stating that the bakers having agreed to fur-
uish kilognuuniem of bread, brat qUially, as a gift
to the poor, in place of the eakea which they send citly
year to their cusunuers, tic►ets fur that quantity of bread
will be at his disposed from the commencement of the new
year.

SEVERAL DEATHII 111011 COLD are reported in the Conti-
treats' journals. At Urinal Bigard, in lielgitini, a labourer
was found frozen to death in the church after the early
mass performed at six o'clock. A woman travelling from
Assche to Brussels, on the imperial of a diligence, though
well wrapped up, was found dead and stiff when the vehicle
skipped.
Tut visitors who attended the Museum of Ornamental
Art at Marlborough-house during the month of I leeember
were as ((tows :-19,1130 persons on the public days, ad-
mitted free; 457 persons on the students' dale, admitted
u students on the payment of hid. each, besides the regis-
tered students of the classes and schools ;showing an in-
crease of 5,54 over the corresponding period of last hear.
WHILE MR. SHERIDAN KNOWLES is lecturing against
Popery, his sun, Mr. Hiehanl Brinaley Knowles, is said to
have become a Roman Catholic.

THE number of men engaged in London alone upon
omnibuses on the Sunday is estimated to be not fewer than
THERE has been an increase in the exportation of soap
since the duty was removed. In the month ended the sth
ult. the value of soap exported was 14,3481., against
14,1501. of the same month last year.
IVirit the Ist of January came into foree the union of the
Steuenerein (Hanover, Oldenburg, and Schaumburg-
Lippe) with the Zonverein, as also the treaty of comweice
between the latter and Austria, Parma, and Modena. Up-
wards of 70,000,000 persons are 110 W participating in the
benefits of this union.
Dn. COLLYEII, the eminent Congregational minister, died
on Monday morning at an advanced age.
winsu 18.):1 thene were deposited at the Morgue of
Paris 395 dead !sidles, being 30 less than in 141'2. That
number consisted of 2:14 men, Al women, and 94) newli •
born children. Out of the 304 adults, i were recognised,
and 117 of that number claimed by their families to give
them burial. The different kinds of death may bo
thus classified:-141 suicides, Ui accidental deaths, 37
sudden deaths, 20 deaths by submersion, the cans., it
which is not known; and Iby murder. In addition, nut
of the newly-born children, a caws of infanticide were
ascertained, and 10 persons guilty of that crime were tried
and condemned. - -

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ACCOkIPINO to the census tables on religious worship the
Roman Catholics in England and Wales possessed in 10.433
11 colleges and 4( religious houses, of which 13 were for
men and 13 for women, while the number of the priests
was 87:i. The estimated attendance on census Sunday
was—morning, 231,1443 ; afternoon, 43,967 ; and evening,
76,8190. The sittings were D 46,111. The attendance
was greater than the number of attendant*. Then! are
more than one moniing service attended by the same in-
dividuals.
whsle number of red men still surviving in North
America is estimate,' at 400,000, and of these it is calm-
lateil that Iteiesi ',till linger in the country east of the
Nlissiaiiippi—that is to say, in the organised tenitoriea of
the Union. There are said to he about 1:X1,111111 Indians
in California and New Mexico, 1.:,099 in the nab or
Mormon country, 23,900 in Oregon, 1151,0109 in the Plains
wad Rocky Mountains, 29,000 in Testis, and about 110000
in Minnesota and slung the Tt•ISO border.
Lime Wirearonn (says the Clare Jortrali) has in-
creased his income 2,090/. a year wider the following eir-
eitmetances :—A gentleman pessessed of a large feuded
property, finding Coned' decreaeing so rapidly, became
alarmed and applied to Lied Waterford to know if he
would take all big CHOW at 3; per cent. This Lord
Waterford has done, and cleared off his old ineurnbrancce,
which were at a higher rate of interest. The negotiations
were dosed on Friday. We understand that his lordship
will dear 2,0001. a year by the alteration.
TIM Uaaxn DOLS or TUSCANY has, by decree of the
19th ult., founded a new order, under the title of Order of
Military Merit, of which be is the Grand Master. The
members are distinguished into knights of the Ist, 2nd,
and 8,1 class. The decorations are granted by the Grand
Duke Wylie, Will may be gi‘en to foreigners as well as
Tuscans. The riband of the decoration is red and black.
The Minister of War is Grand Chancellor of the Order.
Two small animals from the neighbourhood of the tireat
Lake in Central Africa have been brought home in the
11,isphorus steamer from the Cape, under the care of Mr.
Carruthers. Theme animals are diminutive in size, and
approach in species to the squirrel as well as the monkey.
No description of similar quadrupeds is to be found in the
venous treatises on ustursl history.

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