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No, 391, September 19,1857.] THE LEADEB,...
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Miscellitn K O It S. Tiik Court.—A New G...
the 31 st of August . 3 , 840 , 625 ? ., which , after payment of the proposed distribution , -will stand at 3 , 040 , 210 ? . As the dividend is larger than that for the previous halfyear , a ballot for its confirmation will be necessary . Accident ox Shipboard . —Frederick Darley , one of the riggers employed at Woolwich , and who was engaged on Friday week in dismasting her Majesty ' s steam-sloop Prometheus , met with a frightful accident , which seriously endangers his life . During the progress of the work , the ship ' s maintop-yard gave way , and fell among the group of riggers underneath , crushing Darley , who , on being examined by the medical officer of the yard , Tva 3 found to have sustained a very severe laceration of the scalp and concussion of the brain . Hopes , however , are entertaiued of his recovery , and , in the meanwhile , his shipmates have got up a subscription for his wife and children .
Thk Red Sea Telegraph Company have announced their inability to raise their proposed capital on the terms they had too hastily accepted . They contemplate a termination of the guarantee at the end of any two years after the net profits sha . ll have amounted to sevenand-a-half per cent . Job Makson , the well-known jockey , died on Friday week at Middlehana . He won the St . Leger three times in eight years . Australia . —At Buckland River , about 300 Europeans have attacked 1500 Chinese , and driven , them into the hush . The ringleaders are taken in custody . The miners , both European and Chinese , have returned to their labours .
Dr . Livingston , on Wednesday , recived the freedom of the city of Glasgow at a crowded and enthusiastic meeting of the Town Council , The Chelsea Vestry aui > Cremokne Gardens . — The Chelsea vestry have determined , by 18 to 7 , to oppose at the ensuing sessions , the renewal of the license of Cremorne Gardens , on tlie ground of alleged evils resulting from the lateness of the hours . Mr , Till , who asserted , that the gardens are conducted with perfect decorum , moved an amendment to the effect that a ommittee inquire into the management of the grounds . This was defeated , though , as it would seem , with great unfairness to Mr . Simpson , the proprietor . As far as our own observations extends , there appears to be nothing to object to in the mode of conducting Cremorne . Pious GrAMBLicRa . —One of the most amusing
instances of ~ .-external piety . - weL-remember to have witnessed was in a Madrid club , where every night , towards twelve o ' clock , a rouge-et-noir table opens . Occasionally it has . happened that when the game was at the hottest , the table strewn with gold and notes , eagerness to be read on the flushed countenances that craned over the green cloth , there was heard in the street without the tinkle of the bell that announces the passage of the Host . Instantly the game was suspended , the gamblers knelt upon their chairs or on the floor , and crossed themselves and mumbled prayers while the consecrated wafer passed on its way to some dying man ' s bedside . The sound of the bell and of the steps of the priests grew fainter , and & s it died away the gamblers resumed their seats , again grasped their gold , and Btretched their necks , and once more it was , " liotige gagne et la couleur . "—Blacktoood ' s Magazine .
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Lkadek Office , Saturday , September 19 . ASSASSINATION OF PRINCE DANILO . Prince Danilo , of Montenegro , has been assassinated by Borne of his kinsmen , in revenge for the death of hia nephew , assassinated by hia procurement ( say 3 the telegraphic despatch ) at Constantinople .
The Continent. The Duke Of Cnmbri<Lgg Le...
THE CONTINENT . The Duke of Cnmbri < lgG left Paris on Thursday morning for the cainp at Chalons , where important military operations are about to bo represented in bis honour . Threo aides-de-camp accompanied hia Royal Highness . Tho Prince of Wales has arrived in Goneva from his excursion to tho valley of Cliamounix , and has put up at the Hotel des Bergues , where the King of the Belgians is residing .
Sin Morton Pkto Has Announced Hia Intent...
Sin Morton Pkto has announced hia intention of retiring from tlio Chester and I-Iolyhond Railway Company . J America . —Lieutenant James M'Garty , who accompanied Dr . Kane on his last Arctic expedition , died suddenly at Boston on tho 2 nd inst . Tho Cashier of the ¦ U-oglo Bank nt Rochester , John B . Robertson , has been arrested on a charge of attempting to murder his wife by administering drugs of a alow but deadly nature . iHE Muiidur in mis Qukkn ' s Bkmoh Puison . —The trial of Dr . Salvi for tho murder of Mr . Robertson hns ueon postponed to next session of tho Central Criminal . Court . CitvsTAL , Pal , ack . — Return of admissions for six aays ending Friday , Sept . 18 , 1857 , including season twket holders , 26 , 175 .
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There is no learned man but will confess he hath ranch profited by reading controversies , his senses awakened , and his judgment sharpened . If , then , it be profitable for him £ o read , why should it not , at least , be tolerablefor nisadversaTy to write !—Hilton " .
The News Erom India, And 'The Indian New...
THE NEWS EROM INDIA , AND ' THE INDIAN NEWS . ' ( To the Editor of the Leader . ") Sir , — " ' Lord Elgin has arrived at Calcutta . ' What may this mean ? " said I , in my innocence of heart . " Mean ! " quoth a military friend ; "don ' t you ever read the Family Herald ?" " Oh , of course : a meritorious publication . I do see it now and then—a literary journal !" " Bother literature . I mean the Indian News . The Editor and his correspondents get on swimmingly ; it reminds one of the ' unanimity' scene in the Critic , In the very ] ast number , sir , lie calls one of his constituents a drunken fool , and sends his love to another . But in regard more particularly to our starting point , allow ine to present you with the following elegant extract , under date August 8 th 3 1857 : — " ' Lord Elgin was expected at Calcutta , to assist the Governor-General ( "that precious muff , " as our informant , with more truth than reverence terms him } with his countenance and counsel . '" And Lord Elgin was in Calcutta by last advices . I will not halt on the road to discuss the propriety of characterizing a Governor-General of India as ' that precious muff . ' But , Lord Elgin is in Calcutta—and ' what makes he there ?' The answer which I am from exclusive sources enabled to give is simply this , viz ., that the European population of the Bengal Presidency had arrived at the determination of putting their dilettante ruler and his weak advisers under restraint . It was
consequently hinted to Lord Elgin that his presence alone might suffice to avert so unseemly a catastrophe . Let not England be deceived . There are two"'distinct- insurrections to be quelled in India . The one is the Sepoy mutiny , the otlieris ^ the far more dangerous revoLt of John Bull against chartered tyranny . Venables , Saunders ,. Chapman , and fifty more vrhom I could mention , who are at this moment keeping hundreds of square miles in order at the head of their own tenakts , will not again consent to sink into a subordinate rank . They have earned with their good swords the rights which they ^ vill feel mightily inclined to maintain , or else my estimate of those gentlemen rests on an entirely false basis .
As for military intelligence received by the last noail , I confess to being very much in the dark . Has General Llo 3 'd crushed the Dinapore outbreak , or has he failed disgracefully ? Discordant reports from Bombay and Calcutta leave us quite at fault . George William Aylmer Lloyd was about one of tlie best officers in India . He was the right man in the right place , i . e . at Dinapore , where a cautious—a waiting game had to be played . Now Lloyd was emphatically a tactician—a scientific soldier ; a better never stepped . But I can tell you something , lie and I were together sit Berrill ' s Hotel , at Mussoorie , for some weeks in the autumn of 185 * 2 . He was then labouring under a disease something resembling epilepsy . It atfncked him generally at table , at any time of the day ; he was an abstemious man , but it took many hours ere he came round . His medical advisers entreated him to go home at this time .
If he really did what is attributed to him , he could not have been in his senses . Arrah is barely four miles west of the Soane , the eiiHtern bank of that river being twenty-four miles distant from Dinapore . Common sense would dictate that Mr . Littlcdale arid the other residents of Shahabnd should have attempted an escape by night ; tlie parties from Dinapore being on the look-out for them on the farther shore in the early morning . I fear , upon the whole , that the intelligence from India by the incoming mail cannot be deemed good . But , on the other hand , I do not deem it absolutely had . As regards General Havelock , the public will
soon be enlightened . In the meantime any oillcer in the Bombay army can give the requisite information . The J 3 ri < radier-General , so bitterly attacked by the Mqftissilitc , will probably be superseded by tlmt same Neill whom he is currently reported to have insulted in gross , however safe terms . One ol your contemporaries on { Saturday last published an accusation against the bewildered Lord Cunning ( having reference to this same Huvolock ) which , if true , ought to be as good as any sentence of exile forlifc that ever was pronounced . In the military clubs tlie same story wns yesterday affirmed , with the frightful addition that the hero Havelock was positively within three miles of the thirty-two women , children ,
& c , confined near the Soubadar ' s Tank * at Cawnpore ; that he knew it ; and , knowing , declined to advance . The intelligence from Delhi is absolutely nought . It is only too probable that the report of the siege having been raised , which you mentioned last week , may turn out to be correct . Ex-Orientai-
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Notices To Correspondents. We Have Been ...
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . We have been compelled by press of matter to omit' Indian Pamphlets , ' and a variety of other literary reviews . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted , it is frequently from reasons quifceindependenfc of the merits of the communication . No notice can be taben of anonymous correspondence . "Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the tmme and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , but . as a guarantee of his good faith . "We cannot undertake to return rejected communications .
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Viscount Canning. The Indian Intelligenc...
VISCOUNT CANNING . The Indian intelligence is somewhat confused and contradictory . What we certainly know is that Brigadier-General Hav . ei . ock ,. after a triumphant march from Allahabad to within one or two days' march of Lucknow , had been compelled , by the sickness of the column under nis command , to fall T ) ackupon Cawnpore . He had driven j STena Sahib and . his followers out of that vast cantonment ; had destroyed Bhitoor ; had followed up his .
success by defeating and dispersing the enemy on the- road to Lucknow ; and then , succumbing to the visitation of cholera , had been compelled to pause , and even to retrace his line of march , in order to place his invalids in safety , recruit the failing vitality of his troops , and wait for reinforcements . Such ia the view we derive from , the published despatches . Another interpretation is put upon his conduct in a letter addressed to our 'Open Council , ' from a writer who , wo
are bound to say , is entitled to confidence and respect ; but the issue raised is so serious , that we reserve our judgment until we receive more ample information . The retreat from Delhi is not confirmed , and is in some respects improbable . That a mutiny should have broken out at Dinapore is not surprising ; bub that it should not have been prevented by precautionary measures surpasses all we have heard of official blindness and apathy . We aro also totally in the dark concerning the
slaughter of two hundred English soldiers led into aw ambush at Arrah . The disarming of the Governor-General ' s tody-guard , the incipient revolt in Bombay , the detection of a vast conspiracy at scattered points of the Bombay Presidency , the panic inspired by the approach of the Mohurrum , aro all details of intelligence for which our readers have been prepared . Wo are by no moans disposed
to look gloomily upon tlio progress of the struggle between the English and the insurgent forces ; yet wo cannot fail to discern tlmt u supremo crisis hns arisen , and we aak , what arc our guarantees of a tri umphant issue ? Tho nation will < lo its duty . But wo have Mr . Veiinon Smith at the helm , Mr . MangiiEb in command of the Court of Directors , and Lord Canning us Governor-General of India .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 19, 1857, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19091857/page/13/
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