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the earl died before twelve , the re nts belong to the parties taking the estate , but , if after twelve , then they belong to , mid . form part of , his personal estate , so that the difference of one minute might involve a question as to the title of about 20 , 000 £ —a nice question for lawyers . —Guardian . ¦ -. Pjkessuke on the Irish Banks . —A partial run on the banks in Tipperary , Belfast , and Armagli , took place last Saturday , and also on Monday and Tuesday but all demands were promptly met . Mr . Chaulks Coteswoutii , a leading shipowner of the port of Liverpool , and a partner in several mercantile associations , died suddenl y of apoplexy in his private offices in that town on Thursday . He was in the sixty-sixth year of his age .
Abolition of Suxday Cab-driving . —A meeting of cab-drivers took place on Thursday evening at Farringclon Hall , Holborn-hill , for the purpose of taking steps to secure for them the privilege of Sunday rest . . Mr . Joseph Powell , a cab-driver , occupied the chair , And observed that lie was glad to see that there is a large number of six-day cabs . He did not wish to compel cabmen to go to church , though it would do them good to go there ; but lie wished them to enjoy their Sundayrest . After several speeches , resolutions were passed pledging the meeting to assist in forming a ' Cabmen's Branch of the National Sunday Rest Association . '
Elicction of Lord Macaulay as High Steward of Cambridge . —At a meeting- of the Town Council on Thursday , the Right Hon . Baron Macaulay was elected High Steward of the borough , in the room of the late Lord Fitzwilliam . The noble Lord had previously notified his willingness to accept the office . Liability- of Railway Companies . —At the last sitting of the County Court of Hull an action of some importance to railway companies and comdealers was tried . Mr . Lowe , a merchant and broker at Hull , sought to recover the sum of 201 . from the North-Eastern Railway Company , being the amount of damage alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff by reason of the detention of some wheat in trans it u from Hull to Newark . The defendants had paid into court the sum
of 3 / . 17 s . The wheat in question was sold bv Mr . Kelseyto Mr . Pauling , of Newark , and was forwarded hither on the Gth of December , but it did not arrive there until the loth . In the meantime , some of it was disposed of to two Newark millers , and on its arrival they complained that it was wet and musty , and decreased in value about lls . per quarter , and they refused to receive it . The railway company also refused to have anything to do with it unless they had a consignment to Mr . Klelsey , which was ultimately given ; but Mr . Eelsey likewise declined to take it . Mr . Robinson , for the defence , admitted that his clients had been guilty of neglect in not delivering the wheat sooner , but he said the invoice had gone to a wrong station , and lience the delay . A verdict was given for the plaintiff for 111 . Is . 8 d ., including 31 . 17 s . already paid into court
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Leaker Offick , Saturday , October 24 . FRANCE . The Migeon case is over . The Tribunal of Correctional Police of Cohnar has condemned that gentleman for illegally wearing tho Legion of Honour to one month ' imprisonment , but has declared itself incompetent to decide on the charge of fraud in electoral matters . —General Xeflo has received , by order of the Emperor , a passport to return to France . This General , formerly ambassador of the Republic to St . Petersburg , and Questor of the National Assembly , was one of tlio most bitter political opponents of the " present Emperor ; and on no account , probably , would he have consented to take the customary step exacted of nil exiles desirous of returning to France . The Emperor , however , on being informed that the General was anxious to educate his three ch ildren in Brussels , in order thut they might bo well acquainted with their mother tongue , « t once gave orders that a free passport should bo sent without auy condition . Tho General has availed himself of tho permission . — Clobi ' ..
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Compktitivk Examinations . —Mr . Ilayter has prosented the council of the Society of Arts with two nominations for clerkships in the Treasury , and Lord Granville has . given them four for the Privy Council Oilicc . These nominations will be given to young men who hnvo passed an examination , and taken the Society of Arts certificate on three subjects . Amothku Fatal Railway Accident . — A dreadful accident occurred at the Prcston-strcot goods station of tlio Wlntehuvcu
and Furness Junction Railway on Ihuralny night . William Knowlen , who > vnj employed aB gunrd upon the lino , was superintending the shunting of Borne railway carriages at a point where the carriages run so eluHo to each other that tho engine on ono i . s employed to draw tho carriages on tlio other , nhnply by placing a pieco of wood in a peculiar manner between thorn . Thin , although iilwnys considered n very dnngorouB practice , has boon perHe . veied in , and tho coiihcquoncd was that Knowlus got between tho ciirringcs , a « d
could not escape . He was jammed with such violence that he was completely flattened , and when the carriages were removed he dropped from between them quite dead . He was a married man , and leaves a wife and two children . An inquest has been held on the body , when the jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death , but strongly condemned the practice adopted in shunting the carriages on the line . Confkssios of Murder . —Emma Middleton , a young woman about twenty-nine years of age , and lately an inmate of an asylum for fallen females , in Mount-terrace , Whitechapel , was yesterday charged at the Thames police-office , on her own confession , with the wilful murder of a newly-born child at Brighton . She was remanded for a -week .
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T [ IN THIS UEPAKTMBJMT , AS ALL OPJNIOMS , HOWEVER EXTKEME , AI ! E ALLOWED AN UXl'KKSSION , THE EDITOR NECESSA . KILY HOLDS HIMSELF KliSPONSlBUt FOK KOKK . l
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There is no learned man but will confess he hath much pronted . bj- reading controversies , his senses awakened , and his judgment sharpened . If , then , it be profitable for him to read , why should it not , at least , be tolerabLefor his advers ary to write ? —Hilton
Lord Canning And The Indian Army-(To The...
LORD CANNING AND THE INDIAN ARMY-( To the Editor of Me Leader . " ) Calcutta , August 24 , 1857 . Sir , —The Leader ' s excellent article ( in a July num ber ) on the Indian Mutinies is nearer the truth than any others . Facts will have since proved this to all Europe . I observe Mr . Vernon Snritli in his place in Parliament speaks of Lord Canning thus : — " In him there is no Iii \ -etoarmness , no backioardness , no shillyshallying . " Few , however , who now go home from this , even of those who have every prejudice in favour of Lord Canning , will be found to back the
Cabinet Minister ' s statement . It is q _ uite true that Lord Canning ordered troops from everywhere he could after the Meerut and Delhi crashes "were known , and he had most providentially the electric telegraph uncut to Bombay , the Persian peace ratified almost miraculously to the day , and the China troops which lie could intercept . What merchant in the town would not , under the same circumstances , have done the same ? But was there no lukeioarmness in ordering back her Majesty ' s 84 th when every one knew , and the facts had shown the temper of th e troops to be what it has proved ? Was there no backwardness when the 2 nd Native Infantry ( called by
the natives the nak or nose of the rebellion , as they were the first to commence the fires ) , who were burning bungalows in January , have to this hour been unpunished , and were not even disarmed till June , and then treated precisely in the same way as the best of the regiments , the 43 rd Native Infantry ? Now which of these was a delinquent regiment can be best judged by remembering how the 34 th , 2 nd . and 43 rd were respectively placed in relation to the Europeans and guns , on the disbanding of the 19 th , and subsequently on disbanding the 34 th . Was there no shiily-shalh / inr / in disbanding the 34 th ? It was known to have led away the 19 th in February , and to have
tried to do so with other regiments . It was disbanded about the 5 th of May . It Avas known to have been ( see the Governor-General ' s own order for its disbandment ) worse than the 19 th . It received but the same punishment . Was is not shilly-shallying to send these two mutinous regiments at liberty to go up and over the country , when the temper of many of tlio others , whose path they would cross , was known to be doubtful , to Bay the least ? It is true that one Sepoy and a jemadar of the 34 th were hung ; but they would have been ao for their crime iu the
most ordinary times . And what was done to the guard who disobeyed the cmler of their adjutant , lying - wounded before them , to aid him ? He and tho sergeant-major , both attacked before their eyes , were the superior officers of the jemudar , and it was the obvious duty of the guurd to aid tlunu . If there had not been shilly-sluifhjiny , would they not all have been hung ? Th ey were disbanded , witli the rest , and have since been probably implicated in the massacres of Allahabad , Cawnpore , Futtehghur , or elsewhere , in tho destruction of European life .
Lord Canning was asked in May lust to raise volunteer corps . He declined—after a month of xkiltydhultying he acquiesced—and , indeed , us to the artillery , has only nanctioned it in August . A legion of say 200 cavalry , HOC ) infantry , and a six-gun horse field battery , might liavo \) lvu serviceable a full month ago ; and thus a full month ago 700 European regular troops would have own available to Havclook ; and tlmt aid would probably luivo saved him tho
necessity of falling back , and would have rescued Lucknow—even with the Dinapore contretemps . A compulsory militi a and martial law migh t also have been ordered in June . No means of that nature should have been left untried to give Havelock such a force as to enable him at once to relieve Lucknovr , instead of having- to return twice re infectd , for want of 1000 Europeans . If Lucknow is lost , the loss of prestige by that single fact alone will always render our future administration in . Oude more difficult , more dangerous , and more expensive ; and if it falls and
this seems imminent , we shall have to add the memory of the repetition tbere , but on a larger scale as to women and children , of the horrors of the Futtehgur , Cawnpore , Jansi murders and outrages . Had Havelock had 3000 men instead of 1000 to march to Lucknow , it would have been saved with eclat , and the evil effect of two failures , now spread over the country , would have been saved also . But his Lordship ' s defenders will ask , Where was he to have got 3000 meii ^ for Havelock ? I have shown how 700 could have been spared at once , had the volunteers and militia been nrom-nthi looked to .
I will now proceed to state how another 700 men at least could have been with Havelock . The two companies of the 37 th and the two companies of the 5 th Fusiliers , and Eyre ' s battery , were on their way , not to Patna , and were stopped there by the attack of the rebels and mutineers on Arrah ; 400 more also of the 5 th were detained at Patna . Now none of these need have been detained or kept from Havelock had Lord Canning not shown backwardness , lukewarmness ^ and shilly-shallying . The Dinapore native regiments were the 7 th , 8 th , and 40 th . There was a European battery , 500 of Rattray ' s Sikhs , and the 10 th Foot—i . e . 700 of them—all June and Julv , there . Now Lord Canning might have first
ordered the disarming of the city in June ; then the disarming of the native troops at or about the same time . This was the more necessary , as it was well known that one entire regiment , the 40 th , were tenants of a powerful and doubtful Zemindar -within thirty miles of the cantonment . He is Koer Sing , now , as you will see , in open rebellion . Had this been done , the bad men of the townspeople would have been isolated and harmless ; the native regiments would lutve been isolated and harmless ; and the tenants of Koe'r Sing could have been isolated and dealt with by 100 Sikhs and two guns , if ' even
they had then risen , which is most doubtful . How differently things have been done the newspapers sent home by this mail will fully detail to you . It may be said that Lord Canning gave General Lloyd a discretion to disarm . What little right he had to allow that General a discretion has been shown by the ill-starred results . It will be said that Lord Canning could not have anticipated those results . Lord Cunning is paid 25 , 000 / . per annum for the veryresponsibility ; and by a stroke of his pen he has power to appoint and power to remove . It was his duty to employ only those fit to execute his views . If he does otherwise , the responsibility is his .
Further , we have had , not only on the Dinapore affair , but in those of Agra , Allahabad , Cawnpore , Futtehghur , Lucknow , and elsewhere , armed rebels , in addition to armed mutineers . This might have been anticipated , and was so by every one of ordinary intelligence . The means of prevention could have been as easily foreseen and adopted , viz ., a severe penalty for non-surrender of amis before Junesuck as transportation or death . This should have been especially done in the Behar and Benares Durums . A washy Arms Registration Bill is produced at the end of August , and is not yet Jaw . Here are some instances , showing that although Mr . Vernon ( Smith says , in Lord Canning there was no backwardness ) no luketocirmness , no shilly-shallyiny , all these there were , and the fruit hereof a hundredfold is being found in the destruction , of life , property ,, and public confidence in every direction .
1 may add that the manner in which the 5 th Irregulars have been allowed to depart , within tho last week , with their arms and horses , across the Grand Trunk lioiv < l , at a time when an irregular cavalry regiment is i ^ n immense gain to the rebels and loss to us , and stops our tjoiiununicatious ; the retention in times like these us military secretary , of Lord Duiilccllcn , who hardly knows a l & ij . }' * from linjpootansi , instead of selecting a tried arid good man for such a post ; liis absurd detention of AH Nucky Khan , the Oudo Prime Minister , iu tho
fort , instead of transporting him to Singapore oi Hong-Kong ; his netjlect to take any steps for the general arrest of Fakcers and emissaries , notoriously spread all over the cotintiy , since last year ; and many other weaknesses , have quite convinced all India , especially among the mercantile classes , that we have not the riy / it . nxiu in the right j / face . Hut all feel that Sir . Mm Lawrence , as ( ioviM-iior-Genoral , would be so ; for ho lias proved that he can disarm and eecure- a country , : md aid others , while ho holds his own ; and ho . ncl * /'// . tint , ; bojhrc , for jpre . vcnliori , instead of too into , ( i /' tir , lor patching . I am , . sir , your obedient servant , X .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 24, 1857, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24101857/page/11/
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