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, ,724 THE LEADER. [No. 332, Saturday,
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IRELAND. Mb. Smith O'Bkuih.—A deputation...
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AMERICA. Kansas still occupies the atten...
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STATE OF TRADE. The accounts of the trad...
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The Orient. India. Tina Disturbances In ...
religion is gradually vanishing by absorption into the general Hindoo faith , and that the Sikhs themselvesbut recently so warlike as to form a danger to us—are now no longer desirous of independence . " The Government , " says the Times Calcutta correspondent , " has just introduced a new bill for the municipal administration of Calcutta- The elective principle has now had a trial of many years ; but the Europeans will not vote , and the natives have always elected the same persons—two men notoriously useless . The other two members of the Conservancy Commission are officials , and the system , therefore , united all the evils of popular election with all the evils of official management . It is now proposed to create a kind of corporation , consisting of twelve members , nominated by Government , who will appoint a working sub-committee . "
The lieutenant-Governor of Bengal has submitted to the Government of India , by whom it has been highly approved , a scheme of irrigation on an extensive scale for the districts of Shahabad and Behar , as well as for portions of those of Mirzapore , Benares , and Ghazeepore . A . great deal of excitement has prevailed among the Parsees of Bombay owing to four of their youths expressing a desire to embrace Christianity . The lads applied for this purpose to the missionaries of the Free Church of Scotland ; but , before the necessary ceremonies could be performed , three out of the four renounced their intention . The fourth held firm . Some assertions , to the effect that the three were " persuaded and bribed" to give up their design , were indignantly denied ; but it would seem that it was necessary to employ the police to protect the would-be Christians , and that no arguments were omitted to induce them to abide by the faith of
their fathers . Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy having , at the age of seventythree , retired into private life , a public meeting has been held in his honour , and a statue has been voted to him in gratitude for his magnificent charities and public services . The money-market at Bombay is easier . CHINA . The cause of the insurgents progresses . The town of Ning-kwo-Foo has been taken : this place lies about a hundred miles westward of Hoochow , the centre of the silk district . Much alarm has been caused at Soochow by the approach of the rebels to Pun-new-Chiu . The Imperialists have been defeated at Kiang-si , and have lost , according to report , three thousand men , including seven mandarins . Trade at Shanghai has been disturbed by these operations .
The ratifications of Sir John Bowring s treaty with the King of Siam ( which came into force on the 7 th of April ) were exchanged two days previously with great ceremony . Trade , for the most part , has been in a healthy condition .
EGYPT . The mother of the ex-King of Oude has arrived in Egypt , with the heir-apparent to the throne of Oude and a suite of ninety-eight persons . She was recently at Cairo , where she intended to remain for a few days , and then proceed to England . This year ' s crops have proved abundant , and the Nile is rapidly rising . A three days' fete has been given by Said Pacha in commemoration of the second anniversary of his accession to the Viceroyalty of Egypt . Dioramas , dissolving views , Olympic races , and other entertainments were provided for the amusement of the public ; and among these was a representation of the Battle of Kalafat , in which the Egyptian troops greatly distinguished themselves ! " On each day , " says the Times Alexandrian
correspondent , " all comers were fed from the Pacha b kitchens , and on each night , besides the illuminations , there were fireworks . A very pretty theatre , to hold three hundred persons , was built inside the palace , in which there were opera and ballet performances , fortytwo performers having been brought out from Milan expressly ; and the Turkish ladies were enabled to look on from behind lattice-work at the back of the theatre , while the gallery was for the use of the European lady visitors . Military bands of music wore stationed all over the grounds ; there were three hundred European musicians employed at the different theatres , and refreshments were freely distributed to all present . " Itedschid Pacha was present , and was one of the most honoured guests . He has since departed for Constantinople . The total expenditure for the fetes ia calculated at about
100 , 000 / . The Greek Consul , on tho part of his Government , lias presented to tho Pacha a Greek decoration , as an acknowledgment of the leniency shown by his Highness towards the Greek residents of Egypt at the time of the misunderstanding between Greece and Turkey last year , when all Greeks were ordered to bo oxpollod from tho Ottoman dominions .
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, , 724 THE LEADER . [ No . 332 , Saturday ,
Ireland. Mb. Smith O'Bkuih.—A Deputation...
IRELAND . Mb . Smith O'Bkuih . —A deputation has waited on Mr . Smith O'Brien , to try and induco him to reverse hia determination not ngain to enter Parliament , but without success . The ex-agitator refused , saying he did not wish to leave tho uocioty of his family , and that he believed there were greater opportunities for his doing good in Ireland than In the House of Commons . " Under theae circumstances , " he added , "I h » ve no desire to recommence a career which , would bo
fraught with unhappiness to myself and to many whom I lore . At the same time , I propose to keep a vigilant watch over the legislation which may be brought forward for Ireland ; and if , at any time hereafter , I may have reason to believe that my experience in public affairs can be rendered useful to my country , I shall not hesitate to offer such suggestions as the occasion may require . " Imperialism versus Nationality . — The Nation , while admitting there is much that is undeniably true in the views put forward by a writer in its columns of last week , ridicules as a grotesque delusion the idea of expecting submission from Ireland . " We are bad subjects , " boasts the organ of Young Ireland , and , more truthfully , adds , " we are worse rebels , and we are likely to remain as we are , worse still . "—Times . The Miutia Mutiny . —John Bannon , Thomas Carr , Cornelius Ryan , William Cummins , and Edward Laffan , militiamen , having been convicted of shooting at the troops during the late disturbances , have been sentenced to transportation for fifteen years . Stephen Bums , also a militiaman , has been condemned to death for the murder of Patrick Curley , one of the regulars . The men found guilty of attacking the military near Templemore , at the races , were sentenced to ten months' imprisonment . Judge Moore intimated that he had altered his opinion as to the validity of the three counts in the indictment , charging the Tipperary Militia rioters with firing generally at her Majesty ' s troops without naming the latter specifically ; and he would not reserve the case folk the Court of Criminal Appeal , should his views after full consideration remain the same as at present .
America. Kansas Still Occupies The Atten...
AMERICA . Kansas still occupies the attention of the Legislature . On Wednesday , July 9 , the Senate was occupied with a discussion on that state , in which there was a great deal of personality , almost amounting to a fight . The debate lasted from mid-day until nine in the evening- The House was occupied the same day with charges of fraud against clerks in the Treasury Department . The Senate has been discussing the Brooks and Sumner affair , and on Monday , the 14 th ult ., they voted to expel Brooks by 121 " Yeas" to 95 . " Nays . " Two-tkirda being necessary to an expulsion , Brooks was declared not expelled . He then rose , announced that he had resigned , and left the House . The Chamber Of Commerce , ana llie citizicns generally , have united in raising funds for the relief of the sufferers by the inundations in the South of France . The news from California is exciting . The Vigilance Committee have still possession of San Francisco with 6000 muskets and 30 cannon . Their place of meeting is fortified with sandbags . The Governor has called out the militia , but the San Francisco men refuse to act against the Committee . The Governor , with his forces , is encamped near San Francisco . A long proclamation has been issued by the Vigilance Committee , in which the Government is accused of tyranny and misrule ; of suppressing free speech , free writing , and free voting ; of putting notorious criminals in power ; and of ruling by terrorism . " As Republicans , we looked to the ballotbox as our safeguard and sure remedy . But so effectually and so long was its voice smothered , the votes deposited in it by freemen so entirely outnumbered by ballots thrust in through fraud at midnight , or nullified by the false counts of judges and inspectors of elections at noonday , that many doubted whether the majority of the people were not utterly corrupt . Organized bands of bad men , of all political parties , or who assumed any particular creed from mercenary and corrupt motives , have parcelled out offices among themselves , or sold them to the highest bidders ; have provided themselves with convenient tools to obey their nod , as clerks , inspectors , and judges of election ; have employed bullies and professional fighters to destroy tally lists by force , and prevent peaceable citizens from ascertaining in a lawful manner the true number of votes polled at our elections ; and have used cunningly-contrived ballotboxes , with false side 3 and bottoms , bo prepared that by means of a spring the spurious tickets concealed there previous to the election could be mingled with genuine votes Tho jury box has been tampered with , and our jury trials have been made to shield the hundreds of murderers whose red hands have cemented this tyranny , and silenced with tho bowie-knife and the pistol , not only the free voice of an indignant press , but the shuddering rebuke of tho outraged citizen / ' The members of tho Committee add that they " havo culmly and dispassionately weighed tho evidence before them , and decreed the death of Homo and the banishment of others . " Walker has deposed Rivns in Nicaragua , nnd had himsolf elected President in lun place . In Costa Rica , General Mora , tho Cominander-in-Chief of tho army , and tho Secretary of State , havo died of tho cholera . Yellow fever continues to prevail in Cuba . Tho Free-State Legislature in Kansas was dispersed by tho United States dragoons on tho 4 th of July- tho anniversary of American Independence . From Mexico we hoar that tho decree against tho clergy holding property was published in tho capital on tho 28 th of June . Tho Jesuits are to leave tho country . Tho ports are open for emigrants , and liberty of conscience had boon guaranteed by Congress . Several persons—among the number tho Portuguese
Consul—have been arrested at New York , charged with being concerned in the slave trade . The New York Journal of Commerce calls attention to the disgraceful fact that the slave trade is secretl y carried on to a great extent at New York , and that many of the merchants of that city are deeply engaged in the traffic . Merchant vessels are employed as slavers , and slip off in the dead of the night without being observed by the authorities . The fact , says the journal in question , is well known ; but convictions are very seldom obtained .
A most appalling accident has happened on the North Pennsylvanian Railway . It appears from the account given by a writer from New York that " 1100 children , of various ages , started from Philadelphia , with their teachers and friends , for a pic-nic on grounds about twelve miles from the city . There was but one track , and the train , being unusually heavy , was detained beyond its time . The regular down passenger train , instead of waiting at the turn-out , pushed on at full speed , and in rounding a curve the two trains came in collision . The two locomotives were locked together in one undistinguishable mass . Three of the cars on the excursion train were ground to splinters , and the unhappy children crushed beneath the ruins . The next
two cars were thrust forward over the ruins ; and into this mass of . broken iron , splintered wood , and mangled limbs and bodies , fire from the locomotive fell , igniting the whole . Then ensued a scene too horrible for description . The dead were charred and burnt so as to he beyond the recognition of their friends . The agonies of the dying were made more excruciating by suffocating smoke and heat , while the wounded and mangled , pinned by the firm masses which covered them , met a slow death by fire . The total number of the victims by this wholesale slaughter is not yet ascertained , but it is supposed to exceed one hundred . No excuse is offered , as , indeed , none could be made . The guilty conductor , whose recklessness caused this destruction , put an end to his own life by arsenic . "
The True Californian gives a shocking account of the sufferings from , disease of a party of emigrants who attempted to go to California by the overland route , through Nicaragua . They were perpetually drenched with rain , and many of them succumbed to the sickness with which they were attacked .
State Of Trade. The Accounts Of The Trad...
STATE OF TRADE . The accounts of the trade of the manufacturing towns during the week ending last Saturday , present nothing of interest . At Manchester there has been an absence of activity , but the extent of business is sufficient to maintain prices . The Birmingham report describes no revival of the iron trade . In the general occupations of the place there is fair employment , owing apparently to the healthy demand fjpm the colonies . In the woollen districts the week opened with dulness , but there was a subsequent improvement , and the markets close with a favourable appearance . At Nottingham there have been good orders at full prices . In the Irish linen markets there has been rather less animation . —Times .
The shipping returns of the Board of Trade for the month of June have just been issued , and continue to show a large increase in tho employment of British tonnage , and a constantly decreasing power of competition on the part of foreign shipowners , except those of the United States . —Idem . Summonses have been granted at the Thames Policeoflico against some of the shipwrights belonging to Messrs . Young and Magnay ' s yard now on strike , on account of violence offered by them to the new hands . One of these men has been committed for trial on a charge of ill-using a shipwright who hud been brought up from Southampton . The attack was . seconded by a large mob which collected about the yard .
A lamentable state of disorder now prevails in the neighbourhood of the Messrs . Young ' s yard . Upw ards of a hundred policemen have been on duty in the locality since Saturday at noon , when forty Jersey shipwrights and others , recently taken on by tho firm as substitutes for the hands on strike , were insulted and beaten . Tho Jersey men , it is stated , were offered 2001 . l > y the Slupwright ' a Union directly they reached London , to indues them to violate their agreement with Young , > S «« , « ni 1 Magnay , and return to Jersey . Tho money was reat
fused ; threats were then hold out ; nnd violence was last resorted to by tho union men . Mr . Sidney Young , son of Mr . George Frederick Yountf , received inanv severe contusions while protecting tho new hands from the violence of the union men . A policeman win knocked down by a Htono thrown at liis head while conveying a prisoner from 1 / nnehouHO to 1 ' oplnr h \» t . Saturday nfternooH . Tho Jersey men were lodged on bimnl whip in Messrs . Young-, Son , and Mngnay ' s yard <»" Saturday and Sunday nif $ ht . Thi . s precaution wn «» uidered necessary to keep them out . of the . reach ol H »!
men . Some serious assaults have been committed hy ' " ' colliers on ntriko at tho Oakn pit , near liani . ^ h y . ll "' men , however , have pledged thoinHclvcs at a 1 »» ' " meeting to do their utmost to prevent any <> uj )> wii , nnd they say that they will regard uh an enexwy ol theinsolvcs any one of their body who renoi-tw to viol ' '"*' -
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 2, 1856, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_02081856/page/4/
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