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    966 rHE REAPER, [No. 394 > Octoueb 10, 1...

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    ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS. The wife of...

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    A HUSSIAN SHIPWRECK. A shipwreck, attend...

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    Public Meetings. Sir John Pa1ungton On T...

    from eight to nine o'clock in the morning five days in tbe week . Tie present Bishop of London , who at the beginning of the year examined these lads , expressed not only his satisfaction but his astonishment at their proficiency under such circumstances . " ( Applause . } The Dean concluded by expressing Iris belief that education is in land

    spreading Eng by tho voluntary efforts of parents and children , who perceive that advancement in life depends on the acquirement of elementary knowledge ; and this he thought is the only species of coercion which , will be endured in a free , country like this . ^ A discussion ensued on the question whether the halftime system be generally practicable , especially in the rural districts . The Earl of Carnarvon , one of ths speakers , believed it was not . " In the first place , the half-time system started with the supposition of a > uperfluity of labour . Now , in Hampshire—to speak of their own connty—there is reall y no superfluous labour whatever . ( Hear , hear . ) He hailed this fact with satisfaction , inasmuch as he hoped it might be taken as an index of the sound prosperity of the county . ( Applause . ) Then , in the next place , it must be remembered that in

    the great to-wn 3 the employed cluster round the employer ' s factory at thedistance of a few hundred yards , so that there is not much difficulty in getting them together , while in the country they have exactlv the reverse . Many agricultural labourers live at great distances from tlieir work . Then again , the manufacturer Is generally a man of larger means that the agriculturist , and can therefore better afford to make the experiment The plan seemed to bring into collision two verv important principles—first , the principle of a love of knowledge ; and , secondly , the principle of marketable labour . An < I , much as one would wish it to be the reverse , when they put these two principles together , their strength was so disproportionate , that , like the old fable , the earthen pot , -when dashed against the iron potwould be

    , the first that went to the wall . At the same time , he did not deny that there is a difficulty in the case ; that there is a considerable grievance , if he might so call it , on the part of labourers' children , to be remedied . It ¦ was shown that between 5000 aud 6000 children , who ¦ were mere infants , were employed in agricultural operations , and some hundreds of thousands below fifteen . Also , it was shown that not above one-half of those who could attend school did so , and of that a half or a majority of that half left school before eleven , and almost all had left it before twelve years of age . He believed the real remedy , as far as remedy could be found for this evil , lay in a succession of small successes , such as night schools , book-hawking societies , attention of the clergy , & a "

    Other members addressed the conference , after wliieli a Inrge party dined together at the Angel Hotel . In the evening , the Earl of Carnarvon delivered a lecture at the Institution on the ' Later History of the County of Hants . ' MB . EWGRAM , M . P ., ON THE ENDIAX REVOLT . Mr . Herbert Ingram , M . P ., presided on Friday week at the Riclunanswortli Agricultural Association . Of course he touched on tlie Indian revolt , and , in doing so , observed : — " It occurs to me that we have been pampering the Indian army as contradistinguished from the Indian people ; and wliat has been the result ? We do not find the people of India , but the men whom we have

    been paying and treating with every indulgence , rise and massacre our men , women , and children . Why wa 3 it we kept up that army ? I will tell you . It was for the sake of aggression , to add one province to another , that so we might become the sole possessors of India . That was , I think , the very worst policy we could have pursued , and the next worst policy was to put arms in the hands of our enemies , which tney are now turning upon ourselves . It would have been better if we had had . had the policeman rather than the soldier in India . Wo should never have allowed the native

    tioops to have been numerically stronger than the European : but instead of tffafc we had three native regiments to one European . The man was not in his souses who established , that system . Again , with what kind of men did wo officer thoso troops ? With young men of inexperience and » uppishness '—men not having that kindliness of human nature which would lead them to make allowance for the difference of country , colour , and of creed , and who consequently kept away from tho nativo officers , and so made themselves disagreeable . " ( Hear , AearJ ) Earlier in the day , Mr . Ingram delivered the prizes for ploughing , farm produce , & c , andgavo the labourers some sensible advice on domestic and social matters . A TIUAD OF COTJNTItY MEETINGS . Mr . Baxter addressed his constituents at Arbronth on Tuesday . Referring to India , ho asked tlioso questions : — " Did Xiord Metcalfe , referring to tho condition of the Bengal army , say , ' I fear we shall woke up aomo line morning and find that her Majesty has lost Ind 3 a ?" Were native newspnpers containing notices of widespread disaffection laid before tlio Council of 1856 ? Did tho lato lamented General Anson ncvor ceuso to represent to the Directors tho danger to be apprehended from tho Sepoys ? Did Lord Melville , when he returned homo in 1850 CI quote hia own words in tho IIouho of Lorda ) , express tho greatest disapprobation of tlio condition of

    the Bengal troops and was he really told not to publish his sentiments lest foreign nations should be acquainted with the state of affaire ? Is Sir Charles Napier correct instating that , in 1849 , ' a mutinous spirit pervaded some thirty Sepoy battalions in march for , or actually employed in , the Punjab ? " On this text Mr . Baxter

    founded a discourse condemning our rule in India . The Royul East Berks Agricultural Association held its annual ploughing match and exhibition at Maidenhead on Thursday . In the evening there was a dinner , at which the Belgian Minister , Colonel Hood , Captain Vernon , antl Mr . Roundell Palmer , M . P ., discoursed on the Indian disasters—the first named with much enthusiasm and admiration of ^ English courage and devotion . A * Conservative demonstration' took place at Castle

    Hedingham , Essex , on Tuesday evening , when the Hinckford Agricultural and Conservative Club dined together after distributing prizes to Agricultural labourers and farm servants . The chief speaker was Colonel Beresford , who , alluding to the Indian revolt , blamed the reduction of the army after the Crimean war ; upbraided what he called the mawkish sentimentality of those who would advocate mercy instead of justice' in dealing with the mutineers ; and said he thought Lord Palmerston deserved the support of the country in the present crisis .

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    Accidents And Sudden Deaths. The Wife Of...

    ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . The wife of Dr . Trotter , an eminent physician at Durham , has been accidentally killed by a mistake in administering some medicine . She was suffering from tic douloureux ; and Mr . Robson , a surgeon , recommended a liniment , in the compound of which was tincture of aconite . This was applied ; but , as it did no good , Dr . Trotter went to Mr . Robson ' s surgery for some tincture of henbane , to be taken internally . Mr . Robson now asserts positively that Dr . Trotter asked for tincture of aconite ; but the physician denies this with equal emphasis However this may be , tincture of aconite was

    supplied , and was given by the doctor to his -wife . It made her very sick , but she' afterwards fell asleep , and at night said she was somewhat better . Her husband then administered another dose , and the sickness returned to so alaTming an extent that Mrs . Trotter expressed some fear that a mistake had been made . On this , Dr . Trotter hurried back to Mr . Rob 3 on ' s , woke him out of his bed , and asked what he had sold him when he went to him in the morning . The fact was then discovered ; and Dr . Trotter , on returning home , found his wife in a dying state . She expired shortly afterwards . The inquest has terminated in an open verdict .

    A woman who had been living under the ' protection ' of Mr . Waldock ; , a horse-dealer residing at Edgeware , h » : l a quarrel with him a few days ago , and , rushing out of doors , threw herself into a pond close by . Mr . Waldock pursued and plunged in after her , when the woman seized hold of him , and both sank and were drowned . Mr . Waldock -was a man of considerable property ; and it is said that he had a large sum of money about him at the time , which probably caused him to sink tbe quicker . He had a wife from whom he had been separated many years , and who belongs to a tribe of gipsies .

    A girl named Amelia McCarthy , while employed with her mother at slop shirt-making , has suddenly expired . The family had been in great distress , and had an abhorrence of the workhouse . Mr . Collior , the surgeon of Worship-street , Btated that the girl died from want , exhaustion , and disease . An inquest has been held at Guy ' s Hospital on the body of Catherine Marner , aged five years , the daughter of a labourer , living at East-street , Doptford , who was left a few minutes in the room by herself , when she began playing with the fire , which caught her clothes , and quickly enveloped her in flames . Her screams attracted the attention of other lodgers , who ran in , and , having extinguished the fire , conveyed her to Guy ' s Hospital , where she died shortly after her admission . The jury returned a verdict of ' Accidental death . '

    An accident occurred on the London and North-Western Railway on Monday morning . No lives wore lost , nor has any one been seriously injured . When tho mail train , which left Lime-street , 3-, ivorpool , at twentythree minutes past ten on Sunday night , had reached within a few miles of Rugby , at two o ' clock on the following morning , the passengers experienced a very severe shock . The carriage next to the guard's break - van had ita windows broken , and waa otherwise so much injured that it was taken off and left at Rugby . The guard was very much bruised abont tho head and face ;

    but he waa well enough to come on by the train , though not in charge of it . Only ono gentleman , who received a severe contusion on tho forehead , remained at Rugby ; tho other passengers wore bruised anil much » haken , but all went forward . No bones were broken . The enginedriver and etokor wore injured . On investigation it was found that no lesa than tluce coupling irona wor < j brok « n , those which attached tho engine to the breakvans . Tho engine , being- thus released , went forward with groat speed , and it waa fifteen minutes before it returned . Tho cause of tho accident ia unknown . Tlio engine of tho Great Northern express mail train

    en , Whiting was y lately married An inquest has been held on the only body found , the ' other three poor fellows having been blown to atoms A verdict of Accidental Death was returned , and tiie iurV recommended that a smaller quantity of gunpowder should be kept on the premises . A similar accident oc curred on the same premises three months ago An ex plosion of gunpowder took place on the same dav at WhealLovel Mine , Cornwall , by which two men named Wearn and Dinnia were dreadfully injured . The former is likely to recover , but Dinnis died the same ni < --ht .

    childr and onl got detached on Monday morning near Rugby , vhilp going down an incline at great speed . The driver then reversed the engine , and a collision e nsued , which 2 suited in three of the passengers being seriously hurt A dreadful explosion took place a few days La £ ' tho East Cornwall gunpowder mills , at Herodsfoot , bvwhS four men , named Edgecombc , Whiting , Rogers and pof + werefilled The shock was felt at L ^ ea "" 'JuSS adjoining the mills were unroofed , and con = i ( le 3 i ^^ - ^ A ^ " ::. Koger . ha . left a widow and Z

    A Hussian Shipwreck. A Shipwreck, Attend...

    A HUSSIAN SHIPWRECK . A shipwreck , attended with fearful loss of life is reported from ltussia . The official , account , printed in the Journal of St . Pelerslury , says : — - u It has pleased Providence I should participate in one of the greatest disasters ' that can happen at sea , aud to make me a witness of the instantaneous and inexplicable loss of one of the vessels in my fleet . A few minutes have sufficed for a beautiful ship of the line , thoroughly seaworthy , to be engulfed by the waves during a tempestuous night , Not a cry of distress reached us from the scene of the disaster , although we were but four

    cables length distant to windward . HSfoone survives to explain to U 3 the cause of this unparalleled catastrophe . " On -the 28 th August ( September 9 ) , four ships of the line , the Impcratrice Alexandra , the Vladimir , the Lefort , of 84 guns , and the Pamiat Asova , of 7 i guns , which were in the port of Itevel , received orders to arm and return to Cronstadt . Ten da } -s afterwards , the Pamiat Azova quitted the roads , towed by a steamfrigate . The three other vessels were ready to set sail two days later j they had water and provisions for a month , and their stowage -was the same as at the end of their cruise in the preceding year ; the Lefort was thoroughly repaired at Cronstadt in 1852 . I had

    received instructions to profit by the favourable weather to set sail , without -waiting for the st « am-tugs . On the 9 th of September ( 21 st ) , I got under sail with beautiful weather and a . favourable breeze from S . S . TT ., the barometer marking 29 . 79 English . A little later , the wind freshened , and abreast of the island of Roth'skar we were obliged to take in two reefs in the topsails . At half-past eight , p . m ., after passing the island of Hochland , the fleet was making more than eleven knots . The wind increasing , I ordered a third , and then a fourth

    reef to be taken in . The barometer being at 29 . 15 , and the weather foggy , we sailed as close as possible to the wind , endeavouring to keep our course by short tack 3 until morning ; each time I gave the signal for the manoeuvre . ' At half-past eleven , the wind shifted to the west , at midnight to the iN . W ., and at four o ' clock to the north , with squalls and snow . At . dayl > r (> nlr , ir » were near the i . sland of Grand-Titters . The ileet was on the starboard tack , the Impe ' ratrice Alexandra a little to windward , and the Vladimir in the wake of the Lefort , with four reefs in her topsails .

    " At a distance of five miles from . Tutors , we tacked . During our manoeuvre , the Lefort appeared to us as if about to tack ; suddenly a violent squall laid her on her side . Though her sails were let go , she leaned over so much to larboard that we expected her masts would go , but she continued gradually to lean over till she foundered in the short time that thc > Vladimir took to tack about . The keel of the Lefor * appeared once , and was . then swallowed up in the waves . " Exclusive of the commander and twelve officers , the vessel had on board 743 seamen , 53 women , aud 17 children ; all perished . at

    " Tins disaster took place on September 10 ( 22 ) , twenty-three minutes past seven a . m ., at five miles and a half to tho N . N . E . of the island of Grand-Tuter * , at a depth of thirty fathoms . After this uiiiiariillcled catastrophe , the wind continuing to increase , w" braueo up the fore-topsails and top-gallant sails , and ultorwards the main-topsails , and decided to anchor at a depth ot thirty-one fathoms , letting out all the cnblu of two anchors . Fifty-three houra afterward * , tho wind calmed , and tho steamers arriving in tho meantime , towed us to Cronatadt . "Signed by tho Rear-Admiral , n "Noki > man 1 .

    America. Tiim Chief Ncwa From America Th...

    AMERICA . Tiim chief ncwa from America this week consists o detailed accounts of a fearful uhipwreck in tho -A tlantic Tho Central America , a passenger steamer from Mavannah to New York , went down on tho night of bn uiruay , September 12 th , in a gale of unusual severity j and wn her perished between four and ilvo hundred per .-i < m 3 , mi about two millions of dollars in specie . The vessel '" Ilavannah on tho 8 th ult ., with live hundred aint niue ^

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 10, 1857, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10101857/page/6/