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    876 THE LEADER. [^0 ^ 390, September 12,...

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    panied by Sir Benjamin Hey wood , Bart ., Mr . Cheetham , M . P ., Mr . William Brown , M . P ., and Mr . Crook , M . P ., and was received on entering with loud cheers . He then delivered a long address , in which he touched on the various hopeful features in connexion with mechanics ' libraries , and offered advice on several points with respect to their management . Australia . —The Auckland papers report the passage of a hill in the Legislature forbidding the landing of any person from Western Australia -without proof of his Tight , and any convict entering the colony subjects himself to three years' imprisonment and labour in irons . A . public meeting has been held in Sydney , at -which it Vt & s determined to form another gas company for supplying the city and suburbs with gas . The company is to be started on a capital of 100 , 000 ? . Before the meeting bjoke up , 2005 shares were taken . " The grand

    immi-• gTation scheme of the late Ministry , " says the Melbourne correspondent of the Morning Star , " has been somewhat modified by the present administration . The amount voted for the purpose this year is reduced by about onehalf , or to 130 , 000 / ., of which 50 , 0007 . is to be appropriated to assisted , and 80 , 000 / . to ordinary immigration , more especially of females . During four years and seven months , the quantity of gold brought into Melbourne by escort from the Ovens gold-field bas reached 1 , 041 , 845 ounces , and at least one-third more has come in from there by private hand . The progress of our inland towns cannot better be exemplified than by stating that at Ballarat—a town of but a few years ' growth , originating with the gold discoveries , a gas company is forming with a capital of 300 , 0007 . ; and it is thought worthy of an intended line of rail from Geelong . A branch of the Union Bank of Australia is also to be opened there on the 1 st of July . "

    Transport of Troops to India . —A proposal has been made to the East India-house by the European and American Steam Company , under the management of Mr . Croskey , calculated to facilitate the periodical transport by the overland route of such reinforcements to India as will be necessary throughout the next six or nine months to keep the army up to the amount to which it has now been raiBed . The company possess eight powerful screw steamers of an average capacity of 2377 tons , and it is suggested that four of these should be employed to establish a fortnightly communication from Southampton , to Alexandria , and the remaining four to yerform the service from Suez to Bombay . Each vessel could take about 1100 men , and a supply at the rate of 2200 per month could thus be continuously kept up , the troops reaching Bombay within forty-five days from their

    leaving this country . Owing to the shorter duration of the voyage , it is represented that , for every thousand anen despatched , 12 , 000 / . would be saved by the adoption of this route as compared with that by the Cape , -while an advantage will be ( afforded in enabling the Government to send home invalids , both civil and military , with the greatest comfort and expedition . The chief recommendation of the offer seems to consist in the uniformity of the size of the vessels , so that the number of troops landed at Alexandria would in each instance find precisely the same accommodation at Suez . Four of the fleet have lately been taken up by the India Company , and are now on their way to Calcutta via the Cape . The ships of the company are the Golden Fleece , Lady Jocelyn , Queen of the South , Hydaspes , Indiana , Argo , Calcutta , and Jason . — Times .

    The Harvest . —The larger part of the harvest is now housed , and is for the most part in excellent condition . The various corn markets have therefore been barely able to support existing prices . Lord Mei ^ vh . x . b on the In » ian Crisis . —A dinner -was given on Friday week at Dalkeith , county of Edinburgh , to Mr . Dundas , of Arniston , on the occasion of the birth of a son and heir . The Right Hon . Sir George Clerk presided , and among others present were Viscount Melville , Commanding the Forces in North Britain ; Sir G . G . Montgomery , M . P ., Sir W . C . Craig , Mr . Pitt Dundas , Registrar-General of Scotland ; Mr . Inglis , Dean of Faculty ; Mr . Forbes Mackenzie , Mr . W . Dundas , & c . In answer to the toast of his health , Lord

    Melville made some remarks with respect to the Indian rebellion . He said : — "I am afraid that , before tho services of our army are brought to a close in India , wo must prepare ourselves for still worse calamities than we have already suffered and , I fear , for losses of a severe character . It is not only that we have to provide an army for putting down the rebellion , but we have to occupy the country as well as liave a force engaged in movable columns for tho suppression of the rebellion in different districts . This will require a lnwge force , and I am afraid such force as wo have yet sent out is not adequate to the service that has to bo performed . As

    almost every available soldier that England can now produce is on hia way to that country , or is engaged in our other possessions , 1 feel that if England means to retain all her foreign possessions , sho imist maintain a much larger army than aho haa yet done . You cannot maintain those distant colonies without an adequate force not only to occupy thorn , but to defend them if necessary . Ships and soldiers you nt this moment roquiro with tho moat urgent necessity , and I may take this opportunity of stating to you that her Majesty ' s Government has again thought it necessary to call for men to recruit the service , and a memorandum has just h « en issued by which his Royal Highness tho

    Commander-in-Chief offers a commission to any gentleman anxious to enter the army -who can raise one hundred men . " A letter of apology from the Marquis of Dalhousie was read , expressing bis regret at being unable to attend on the score of illness . In a further speech , Lord Melville regretted that the " system of discipline pursued in the Bombay army , with which he had teen connected , had not existed in connexion with the army of Bengal . Had it done so , he believed the present insurrection would not have occurred . He added : — "We cannot retain our dominion in India without a nativa

    army . Europeans cannot do the duty which the native troops are called on to perform ; the climate will not admit of it . But how we can reorganize that army so as to trust the natives , after what bas occurred , is more than at this moment I can possibly venture to suggest . Meanwhile , a very large European force will necessarily have to be maintained , and many duties hitherto performed by natives must be performed by them—though , I am afraid , at a great sacrifice of life ; but that is unavoidable if we mean to maintain our supremacy in India . "

    Books , & c , foe Victoria , and Ascension . —On the 1 st of October next , and thenceforward , the privileges of the Colonial Book Post will be extended to book packets transmitted between the United Kingdom and the colony of Victoria by packet , by way of Southampton , and between the United Kingdom and the Island of Ascension by packet or by private ship . The Eoyai . British Bank . —The compromise which was come to between the creditors and shareholders of the British Bank , by which it was arranged that the latter should be discharged from all further liabilities on paying such a sum as would be sufficient for a dividend

    of 6 s . 6 d . in the pound , does , not make much progress . The number of the substantial shareholders has greatly diminished since the compromise was made , some having become bankrupt , others having disappeared for the present , and the affairs of others again being in the act of winding up , under the arrangement clause of the Bankruptcy Act . The substantial shareholders , consequently , find themselves called upon to pay a larger dividend , to makeup the deficiency ; and to this they object . An agent is at present in Paris , o > a the part of Messrs . linklater and Co ., endeavouring to procure unanimity among those of the shareholders who are at present residing in that city .

    Fall of Houses . —Two houses fell down on Sunday night in Artillery-lane , Spitalfields , not many yards from Bishopsgate "Without . The lane consisted of old houses , chiefly inhabited by Jews dealing in secondhand clothes and curiosities . A little after twelve o ' clock at night , the wife of Mr . Godfrey Phillips , a furniture-broker , was going to bed , when she heard a crack , followed by a crash , as of bricks falling on the floor . She called her husband up from below , and he perceived a rent in the wall , through which crumbling mortar was dropping . He told his wife to run into the passage , and then roused his three young children and two women who were living in the house . All these were got out in safety , and -were sent to the house of a

    neighbour . Mr . Phillips then roused the occupants of the next house , a Mr . Moss and his family , and warned them to escape ; after which , sounding an alarm as he proceeded , he ran to the Chapel-street police-station , and related what had occurred . Immediately afterwards , a terrible crash was heard . A body of police proceeded to the spot , when it was found that the two houses had fallen , and that Mr . Moss and his family were in the ruins . They were speedily rescued , and were only bruised and shaken . The remaining houses were then shored up , and Nos . 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , and 7 , in tho same court , have been condemned . The whole of tie goods of both sufferers is destroyed , and 91 / . in gold belonging to Mr . Moss were buried in tho ruins .

    Circassia . — " According to accounts from Tiflis , " says a letter from Constantinople in the Avstrian Gazette , 11 the Circassians are still masters of tlio eleven blockhouses in tho Dagheatan , with the exception of Fort Sciurrn . General Orbelian sent the troops of tho district of Gazimuck against the 1 > lockhouso Ciokalessi , which was surrounded for a fortnight , the Russians hoping to starve out tho garrison . Tho Chief Naib-Hadji-Ankasse , however , surprised tho besiegers during the night , put them to f light , took from them six pieces of artillery , and threw fresh troops into the fort . The Russian

    General Aghalar was seriously wounded in tho combat , and made prisoner with 200 men . Another Russian division was sent from Giar against tlio fort of Ari , in order to take it . Tho Tchetzeneia attacked tho Russians in the roar , and defeated them with tho loas of 400 prisoners . These events have produced a great impression at Tiflis . A body of 20 , 000 men were immediately sent to support the army of operation of tho Daghcstan , and the Governor-General intends to direct in person tho expedition against Schamyl . " Tho Nord gives a different account of these operations , and afflrrnn that Schamyl cannot hold out much longer .

    Harvest Homjc in SoMKnaisTSHiRK . —A harvest homo festival took plnco on Thursday woek at East Brent Somersetshire , inaugurated by Archdewcon Denison . ' passed off with great success , and appeared to grivo considerable pleasure to all who shared in it . Tho same kind of celebration has taken place in other localities . Tiik TAviflTociK Klkction . —Mr . Russell hua been returned for Tavistock , The numbers wore . —Russell

    164 ; MmlL 120 : majority , 44 . The largeness of the Tir ? , , i oubt owing to the honourable conduct « L £ d \? £ l- ° . Bedf ° ' ^ Mr - Mia 11 MmS stated ) told his tenants to vote with entire freedom and in accordance with their consciences . ' Captain Skene . —Some Particulars with respect to this noble officer , whose tragic death , together with his wife and children , was noticed in our last week ' s naner are contained in the Scotsman , which states : — " Canfain Skene was the son of the late Dr . Charles Skene an

    eminent physician in Aberdeen . He was also nephew of the late Andrew Skene , Esqi ., advocate , well remembered at the Scotch bar as an energetic , eloquent pleader t nd Wll £ r ? PP ° Solicitor-General for Scotland by the Melbourne Ministry in 1834 . The two infant daughters of this hapless but lieroic pair fell victims at the same time . " It will be recollected that Captain Skene shot his wife and then himself , after they bad both made a grand but ineffectual struggle against the mutineers at . Thansi .

    Strange Suicides op Two Brothers—Henry Adams , a youth of fifteen , living at Sheffield , had a quarrel with his father ( a cabinet-maker ) on . Wednesday week , and was struck by hi no , and told to leave th « shop . He then went out to carry a parcel for some friends to the railway station , and , on coming home , refused to take tea with the others , but told his sister in private that he should never be seen again alive . He then went away . On the following day , his brother William , a young man of t ^« nty-one , also quarrelled

    with his father and left home . He went -with 21 . to paj a poor's-rate , the receipt for which he forwarded through the post , with an intimation tliat he too would not be seen alive again . Last Monday morning , the body of the younger brother , Henry , was found in the canal at the outskirts of the town ; and on the following day the body of William was discovered in the same canal , about half a mile further off . With respect to the elder brother , it is suggested that a severe illness from which he bad been suffering for several montbs might have had some influence on him in connexion with his

    voluntary death . Mr , Macaui ^ at ' s and Lord Robert Grosvenor ' s elevation to the peerage were in the Gazette of las night . Lord Rokert Grosvenor becomes Baron Ebury , of Ebury Manor , in the county of Middlesex ; and Mr . Macaulay is henceforth entitled Baron Macaulay , cf Rothley , in the county of Leicester . Mb . Spurgeox . —A public meeting was held in New Park-street Chapel , on Monday evening , for the purpose of promoting the building of a large tabernacle for Mr . Spurgeon . Mr . Spuigeon made a statement to the meeting of the success which had attended the efforts of the promoters of the scheme , and the position in which matters at present stood . He said he had received promises of assistance from Sir Morton Peto . As regarded funds , they had in the bank a sum of 40 OOf . towards the erection of the building .

    Tub Bengal Tragedies . —A public grayer meeting has keen held at Wordsley in reference to the Indian disasters . The chairman ( the Rev . C . Girdlestone , rector of King 3 winford ) denounced the present cry for indiscriminate vengeance , and asserted that we had ourselves occasioned the mutiny of the Sepoys by our criminal conduct in India . Mb . Distin ' s Farewklx Concert , under the patronage of the Queen , will take place at the Crystal Palace this day week , when some of the first performers of the day will appear—Miss Clara Novello being one . There can be no doubt as to the attendance being large and enthusiastic .

    Inauguration of Russian Trophies . —The citizens of Bath made general holiday on Wednesday on tin occasion of the two Russian guns presented to the city by Lord Panmure being deposited in the Royal Victoria Park . Crtstal PAtiACE Fi , owkr Show . —The second exhibition for the season , of flowers , plants , and fruit * , took place on Wednesday , Thursday , and yesterday . Tho weather unfortunately was not favourable on any of tho . days . Monte Rosa has been ascended by a party consisting or . 'five English gentlemen and one French gentleman . They reached the summit in eight hours and ten minutes . Mr . It . W . Elliot Forster , wlio communicates an account of tho ascent to the Times , says that the view from the summit " waa glorious , comprising » H tlio higli Alps of Switzerland to the north , -and tho plains of Lombardy to the south . "

    The Submarine G \ ni . v . connecting Europe and Africa has been laid between Bona and Capo Tculnda . The Waste Ground ov Nkw FAu « iKa » oN-sruicET . —At a meeting of the board of governors and directors of tho united parishes of St . Andrew , llolborn , and St . George-tho-Martyr , held at tho board room , Grays-innlano , on Wednesday ovenitipf , Mr . Hug-got in the oliair , Mr , Watson moved a resolution : —" That a committeo ho appointed to wait upon tlio Board of Works for this district and for tho district of Clcrkcnwell , to urg u upon them tho necessity of their pressing tlie corporation of tho City of London to take skctivo measures to encourage tho covering of tho wunto ground in Saffron-hill , St . Sepulchre , mid vicinity , ab speedily as possible . " Ho said that 1 G 0 O hounca liud already been destroyed for tho sake of making n now street , and , at an nyu riigo of ton persons to a house , thin gave a population of

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    876 THE LEADER . [^ 0 ^ 390 , September 12 , 1857 .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 12, 1857, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12091857/page/12/