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The Manchester Exhibition . —The final closing of tie Art Treasures Exhibition , which was originally fixed for tie 15 th of October , has been postponed by the Executive Committee to Saturday , the 17 th , in oonuequence of the necessary shutting up of the Exhibition on the day set apart far the national humiliation . The Great Northern Eauavay Accident . —One of the persons wounded by this catastrophe has died , making in , all five deaths . —The inquest on the dead bodies has occupied two days , and was concluded on Tuesday . The accident appears to have been caused by the train going too fast . It would seem to have been proceeding at the rate of sixty miles an hour at the time
of the catastrophe , with a view to making up for lost -time . The jury , after consulting half an hour , returned a verdict of Accidental Death . The foreman then : landed in the following addendum to the verdict : — " The jury , in giving their fullest consideration to the details of this melancholy accident , cannot separate without stating that it appears that there is not sufficient caution given to the engine-drivers in working express trains , that they are entrusted with the exercise of a very large and dangerous amount of discretion , and that there should be a maximum speed which the drivers
of them should not , under any circumstances , exceed . And we further desire the coroner to communicate the verdict to the Board of Trade , and request them to bring the subject under the consideration of the Government . " The Great Northern line , it -will be remembered , is constructed on the narrow gauge principle , which renders a high rat © of speed more dangerous than it is on the broad gauge . A traveller by the Great Northern morning express train from Manchester to London affirmstlathe timed the speed on Tuesday week , and found that some parts of the journey were performed at the rate of sixtyfouri miles in an hour .
« Sqijabbung ' Aideemen-. —The little dispute between Aldermen Hale and Copeland which we Telated in our paper last -week , was resumed on Saturday "by the latter , who remarked that his observations had been incorrectly reported . He was stated to have said that thousands of barrels of tallow were bought and sold without delivery in Capel-court . "What he had said was that that took place at the Baltic Coffee-house . He was too well acquainted with City matters to make so absurd an error . This correction being made , Alderman Hale said : — "I thought your remarks at the time very improper , and I consider the report a -very fair one . I
think it would have been very unbecoming of me had 1 , on coming in by accident when you were hearing a case , referred to earthenware . I never speculated in a cask of tallow in my life in that way . " Mr . Alderman Copeland : "If you choose to take it to yourself , you are welcome . I only made the remarks in the course of my public duty . " Mr . Alderman Hale : " You were not called upon to interfere in the case in question . " Mr Alderman Copeland : " I shall always interfere when I think it necessary . I am perfectly competent , after thirty years , to discbarge the duties of my office . I shall go where I can meet with more courtesy than I have met with hero . " Mr . Alderman Hale : " You . are
quite at liberty to do so . " The offended civic magistrate then 'left , and Mr . Alderman Humphrey waa sent for Co assist Mr . Alderman Hale in disposing of the business . The New Lord Mayor . —A Common Hall of the Livery of the City of London was held on Tuesday at Guildhall , to elect a Lord Mayor for the ensuing year . According to the annual routine , Sir Robert Walter Carden , M . P ., as the senior alderman below th , o chair , succeeds to the office of right , provided another candidate were not proposed snd elected ; and , on the present occasion , another candidate was proposed . Mr . Anderton ,
amidst considerable tumult , proposed the present Lord ¦ Mayor for re-election . He then proceeded to condemn Alderman Carden for having" voted in Parliament against the admittance of Jews to the House of Commons , and for giving evidonce before the Sale of Beer A-ct Committee prejudicial to the interests of the publicans and the convenience of the public . Sir R . W . Carden , however , was elected , and , in thanking hia friends , ho denied that , as had been stated , he waa the poor man ' s enemy , _ or that ho was a teetotaller . He did not wiah to deprive the working man of hia beer ; ho only wished to put an end to intemperance .
The New Sheriffs von , London and Middlesex . —Mr . Alderman Lawrence and Mr . Allen ,, the newlyelected Sheriffs for London and Middleae ^ for tine ensuing year , wero on , Monday sworn into bmco at Guildhall with the usual forms . The new Shferiffs wore on Wednesday preaented , after the usnal mariner , to Mr . Baron Channoll at the Court of Exchequer . The ina-uguration dinner took place in the evening . at the London Tavern . Thk Schools of Anx . —Tho fira . t distribution of tho national module for drawing among the students of tho
schools of art of tho United Kingdom , will' take place nt Manchester , in , the Town-ball , on the 9 th , Octo-bor . The distribution will , do xndAo by [ the LorcJ Pxfpidhjnt of the Council , £ he Bight Hon . tlie Enrl ' . Qninytylp , and tho Yice- ^ Prwident of ^ ho Education Commix ^ , Vjne Right Hon . W . Cowpor . ¦ ' i ( ijir , ' . ' , ! \ , ' iNDiAtf , , Tjpj KGU ^ w * yiA TottKKy . —Sir William O'Shnugnneasy lias ; " wo understand , left England for India , > H & goW * by way of Constantinople , where he will remain a ffow day ( rir » order Co . arrant * With the
Tariish Government for the construction of a telegraph frond that city to Bagdad . This line will be constructed by the Turkish Government , be under its sole control , and . be connected with the East India Company ' s telegraph down the Persian Gulf to Kurrachee . Sir William O'Shaughnessy had along interview with Lord Palmerston previous to his departure . —Daily News . The Nethekton Coxxjery Explosion . —The inquest on the body of George French , the ' doggy' who was killed in the Gworn Colliery with eight other colliers by an explosion of firedamp , waa brought to a close on Monday night . Mr . Astor , the underground bailiff of
the pit , gave his opinion that the explosion had been caused by a ' shut' or fall of coaL Mr . Brough , the Government inspector for the district , said that , if the ventilation of the pit was not improved in the way he had suggested in his report , more lives would be lost there . The jury , after retiring for nearly an hour , returned as their verdict , " That the death of George French was caused by an explosion of sulphur which had accumulated in the pit , but what iired it there w ^ s no evidence to show ; at the same time , the managers of the pit -were exceedingly blamable in not having carried out Mr . Brough ' s suggestion for gateroad air . "
A Fact for the Recruiting Sergeant . —For the offi . ee of doorkeeper at the Liverpool Sailors' Home ( with 50 £ a year salary ) there were no less than one hundred and fifty-eight applicants , including a number of stalwart young fellows , who seemed well able to fight the battles of their country . The Sebastopol Tjbophies in Lkk » s . —The two Russian guns presented to the corporation of Leeds by Lord Panmure , were , on Monday , deposited on a site on Woodhouse-moor , in the presence of about 60 , 000 persons . International Copyright . —The Gazette of Tuesday night contains a copy of a treaty establishing an international copyright with Spain . The Archbishop of Canterbury has commenced during the present week the visitation of his diocese .
An Escate . —We are happy to be able to state on the best authority that General Parsons , C . B ., who was returned as ' missing' after the Bareilly massacre , is safe at Hynee Tal , with his family . The general was not at Bareilly at the time of the outbreak , and has not been away from Nynee Tal for some months . —Hurkaru , July 30 . Crem . or . ne Gardens . —Bather more than 300 / . will be paid over by Mr . Simpson to the Indian Fund , as the proceeds of the closing fete at Cremorne , last Monday . r ¦ ¦ - -- ¦—— - -
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Leadbu Office , Saturday , October 3 . I NDIA . Nujoor Jewarree , a man belonging to the 1 st Native Infantry , and said to be one of our spies , communicates a painfully interesting narrative of the Cawnpore massacre , in which we read : — " When the Uena ' s guns opened on the boat in which Wheeler Sahib , the General , was ( it has . now lieen fully ascertained from servants and others who were with the English party that General Wheeler waa mot dead before tho massacre , but was put wounded on board the beat ) , he cut its cable and dropped down tho river . Some little way down , tho boat got stuck
mear the shore . The infantry and guns came up and opened fire . Tho large gun they could not manage , not knowing how to work the elevating screw , and did Tot use it . With the amall gun they fired grape tied up in bags , and the infantry fired with their muskets . This went on all day . It did not hurt tho Sahib-log much . They returned the fire with their rifles from the boat , nnd wounded several of thq Sepoya on the bank , who therefore drew off towards evening . The Sepoye procured a very big boat , into which tliey all got , and dropped down the river upon the Sahibs' boats . Then the Sahibs fired again with their rifles and wounded more Sopoys in the boat , and they drew off and left them . " On feeing afterwards captured , and brought back to Cawnpore , it was determined to kill the men ^ and to spare tho mem-Suhibs' ( tho women ) . " * Then' said one of tho
mem-Sahibs—( the doctor ' s wifo she waa ; I don ' t know hia name , but ho was either superintending surgeon or medical storekeeper)— ' I > vill not leave my husband : if he must die , I will dio with him . ' So she ran and sat down behind her husband , clasping him round the waiiit . Directly she said this , the other mem-Sahibs- said , 'We will iuto die with 0 ur husbands ;' nnd they all went and sat' dowii beside their husbands . Then their husbands said , * Go back ;* but they vroultt not . Whereupon 'tho Ncna ordered hia soldiers , arid thoy going in p ' ulled therrj' forcibly away , seizing them by tho arm ; but thoy could - not pull away the dodtor'a wife , who there remained . " Then ; just na the Sepoya were g *! ng to firfe , thft padre- ( chaplain ) ' called ou t to the Nena and requested leave to Mad prayer * before they died . Tho NoiiA ' granted it . The pafare ' a boncla were unloosed ao far ' as to enablo him to take a small book
am . This was her circumstance —As they were taking the mem-Sahibs out of the boat a sowar ( cavalry man ) took her away with him to his house . She went quietly ; but at night she rose and got hold of the sowar ' s sword . He was asleep his wife , his son , and his mother-in-law were sleeping in the house with bim . She killed them all > vith the sword , and then she went and threw herself down the well behind the house . In the morning , when people came and found the dead in the house , the crv was 'Who has done this ? ' Then a neighbour said that in the night he had seen some one go and throw himself into tie well . They went and looked , and there was Missee Baba , dead and swollen . "
' about this I not certain out of lis pocket , from , wtaicK'fae maftj W all this timo one of the Sahib-logs , who WsbdtSthe « rn and the leg , kept crying out to the Sepoys , ' If you mean to kill us , why don ' t you set about it quickly and get the work done ? Why delay ? ' After the padre had reada ? et prayers he shut the book , and the Sahib-log shook bands all round . Then the Sepoys fired . One Sahib rolled one way , one another , as they sat ; but they were TJ : s ^ sZ : ^ ao they went inand finiaked " ' Were any- of our people dishonoured by the Nena or his people ? ' None that I know of , excepting in ^ J ™ ° i G . f Ileral m 1 eler > . JW * g » t daughter , "
The Pays publishes the following intelligence from Lucknow , which it is to be hoped is incorrect : — "Kena Sahib arrived at Lucknow in the first days of August ; he is now governor of the town and commander-in-chief of the army of Oude ; Emin Sahib has placed hi nself under his orders . The English have withdrawn to the fortress , and are besieged by Nena Sahib in person . He has cut the canals which supplied the citadel with water from the river Goutmy . The English troops are reduced to the last extremities ; . it is unhappily not probabble that they can be relieved in time , for General Havelock , according to tae latest accounts , was blockaded in Cawnpore . "
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DENMARK . A letter from * Copenhagen in tlie Bourte Gazette oi Berlin , says : —" Certain German journals have stated that the Danish Cabinet will make fresh concessions to the DUchies . Here , on . the contrary , it is known that the Danish Government has not the least intention of making the slightest concession . "
Collision At Sea, Near The Isle Of Man.—...
Collision at Sea , near the Isle of Man . — -The Annan and Whitehaven trader , a sloop bound from Liverpool to Annan , ha 3 been run down off Peel , Isle of Man , by the steamer Queen , from Whitehaven for Liverpool , which arrived on Sunday . The mate and his wife were carried down in the sloop , but the captain and the rest of the crew wero taken on board the steamer , and landed in Liverpool . —Preston Guardian . S inciDE of A Ship Captain . —As the ship Aracan , belonging to the Messrs . Brocklebank , of Liverpool , wa 3 off Point Lynas , Captain Wise , the commander , put an end to his existence by deliberately walking overboard . Efforts were made to recover the body , but they failed .
Seiuous Charge . —A man named John Thomson has been taken into custody in Glasgow by the Kenfrewshire county police , on a charge of having administered prussic acid to a woman named Agnes Montgomerie , residing in the village of Eaglesham , and which caused her death almost instantaneously . Disappointed love was the cause . Murder and Suicide . —A besom maker at Great Bolton , near Manchester , haa murdered his wife , and afterwards committed suicide .
Thk Burglary and Murder at Bkamall . —This tragical occurrence , related in another part of our thi 9 day ' s paper , has received a deeper and still more horrible dye from the inquiries of the police . James , the eldest eon , has been taken into custody under suspicion of being the murderer of his father . His Account of the affair is full of discrepancies ; there are no mjirka of tlio premises having been burglariously entered ; and he waa known to have been on bad torms with his ' parent . The sm all round shot extracted from the head of Henderson
on a post mortem examination are of about the same and description as those found in tho plaster of tho wnll , and fired from the prisoner's gun , When , as he ' alleges , ho discharged it at the burglar . The papers used as wadding ' in both discharges wore alao not only found to correspond with each other , but with paper found >» ^ prisoner ' s dressing-table drawer . The type is tho snme , and there is'enoiigh'l « ta < t d p rfcl £ r ' bn the ecrnp to identify it . Then the wadding of the gnn-chnrge , which took effect on tho aide of tlieiwlridow of the stairc / iae , Is in the handa of tlte-p ' olico , a « d is easily identified as part of th « same ' publication .. . i v ' -
. " ¦*¦**¦ " ** I'HVIIVIMIilVill _ , BaSINGSTOKK MkOHAMICs' ' IJTOTITUTM . TI »« foUT »{ . annual conference of tlie Halite' and Wilts Educational Society , in connexion -with this institution ' , will bo hcW in tho Towri-hall at Baolngsfolcc ; riext MondAy mbnimg . The Dean of 8 albl ) ury is to preside . The Karl of Car- narvort will deliver « Wtttret Ilio' shrtmtf evening on tho History of tho County of Hhtrtpshiro . ' - ' - '
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 3, 1857, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03101857/page/12/
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