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    JTo. 397, October 31,1857.] THE LEADEB,

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    BELGIUM. Extraordinary success has been ...

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    SATURDAY, OCTOBEE 31, 1857.

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    There is nothing so revolutionary, becau...

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    INDIAN MILITARY PROSPECTS. Delhi has at ...

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    of tons . The East India Company is giving to this undertaking their most strenuous support , « feeling the importance of such an undertaking in a military point of view , and also as affording the only feasible means of getting the cotton , sugar , and other valuable productions of India , carried from the interior to the sea-coast at a small expense . We understand that the trains of barges are to bo lmilt by Messrs . Vernon , of Liverpool ; and that the engines will be constructed by the eminent engineers , " Messrs . Rennie , of London . The Indian Mutlvy Relief Fund . . —The Honorary Secretaries of the Bombay Jielief Fund have written to the Lord Mayor to request that a portion of the English may be sent to Bombay , as well as to Calcutta , as originally intended . The request has been complied with .

    Suicidi-: of Major WAuiuatTON , M . P . —Major Warburton , the member for Harwich , and brother of Eliot " Warburton , author of ' The Crescent and the Cross , ' and other works , who perished some years ago when the Amazon steamship was lost , shot himself on the morning of Friday week . He had been subject to periodical attacks of pain in the . head , during which he suffered greatly in spirits , and to bilious attacks ; and it appears to have been during one of the latter , of an unusually violent and even dangerous nature , that he put an end to his life . The coroner ' s jury returned a . verdict of Temporary Insanity . Tjjk Ghkat Eastkhx . —The preparations for the launch of this Titanic steamship are approaching rapidly to completion , hut the day is not yet fixed .

    Thomas Crawfoud , the American sculptor , died in England , on the 8 th hist , of a tumour of the brain . He was of Irish parentage , but was born at New York in 1814 . His works exhibit great boldness , and freedom from the conventionalities of art . The Apprehended Cholera . —The St . Pancras Representative Council has determined on appointing an additional Inspector of Nuisances , under an apprehension pf advancing cholera .

    The Battle of Ealakxava . —Monday being the anniversary of the battle of Bsilaklaya , the officers who were engaged on that occasion dined together at the London Tavern . Covers were laid for iiftv , and the hair was taken by General Sir James Scarlett , K . C 15 ., supported by the Earl of Lucan . K . C . B ., Lord George Paget , C . B .,-Colonels Douglas , Hodge , C . B ., Conolly , Low , Mayow , Wardland , Shuto , and Hartopp ; Majors Jeiiyns , Brown , and Manley ; Captains George . Sandeman , Glynn , Hunt , & c . ; and Sir George Wombwell .

    Professor Rawian-son . We regret to announce the death of the Rev . George Rawlinson , Professor of Applied Sciences in the Elphinstone Institution , which took placei early on the 21 th cf September , from abscess o ( the liver . Mr . Rawlinson has not been long in India , having only arrived in Bombay about ten months ago , but , during his short sojourn among us , his excellent qualities endeared him to all those who made his acquaintance . The remains of Mr . Rawlinson wero followed to the grave by a numerous circle of his friends and admirers . —Bombay Times .

    A Tradesman Convicted or Theft . —Benjamin HinchlifTe , a clothier and commission agent at Pudsey , has been found Guilty at the Leeds Quarter Sessions of stealing nineteen ends of cloth from James Hare , of Leeds . lie appears to have obtained the cloth from Mr . Ilnre by alleging that he was acting as the agent of some cloth merchants , as indeed he had been ; but he appropriated the property to his own use . The case , however , came under the * Fraudulent Trustees Act , and , the jury having convicted 1 linuhliifr , he was sentenced to imprisonment for eight months , with hard labour . Anotiiek Body Found . —Some boys , while playing in Shclton-court , Chnndos-street , last Saturday night , found a small coffin , and , on on opening it , discovered the body of a full-grown female child , covered with white bedclothes . A constable removed the box and its contents to Charing--cros 3 hospital .

    Thk Nottingham Mukdkr . —Since the offer of 1 Q 0 L reward , five persons have been arrested on suspicion in various parts of the empire , even including Ireland ; but one has been set at liberty . Gknkral IIavelock . —At a meeting of the Hibernian Bible Society lield in Helfast on Tuesday week , the Hev . Mr . Grnhiim , of Bonn , related nn anecdote of the Indian hero who is now winning the npplauso of all Europe . Ho said : — " General Havelock , although a Baptist , was a member of hia ( Mr . Graham ' * ) missionary church at Bonn , and hia wife and daughter wore members of it for seven years . When General Hnvelock , as colonel of hia regiment , was travelling through India , lie al

    ways took with him a Bethel tent , in which ho preached tho gospel ; und , when Sunday came in India , ho usually hoisted the Bethel flag , ami invited all men to come and hear tho gospel—in fact , he even baptized some . Ho was reported for this at head-quarter .-., for noting m a non-military ana disorderly manner ; and tho Lommander-m-Ohief , General Lord Uough , emortuined the charge , but , with the true spirit of a generous military man , ho caused the stnto of Colonel JIavelock ' a regiment to be examined . Ho cmwed tho reports of tho moral state of the various regiment * to b « read for some time back and ho found that Colonel llavelock ' s stood at tho head ol the list ; there was leas drunkenness , los Hogging , l , ! 9 . s imprisonment in it than in any other When that was done , tho Coinmnmlcr-in-Chiof said ' Go

    and tell Colotiel Havelock , with my compliments , to baptize the whole army . ' " Me . T . B . Simpson " . —Some friends of Mr . Simpson have determined to invite him to a dinner , and to present him with a testimonial expressive of their liigh sense of his ability as a caterer for the amusement of the public , and their sympathy -with , him in his recent contest with the Chelsea Puritans . An Epidkmic ix Essex .- —That formidable disease , diptherite , which is now endemic in some parts of

    Prance , and which , ever and anon , breaks out there epidemically , and proves fatal to a large number of the population , appears to have lodged itself temporarily in Essex . For some time past ' a peculiar kind of putrid sore throat " has been very prevalent and very fatal in the Rochford Hundred . Lately it has excited much alarm . It is said to kill in twenty-four hours , sometimes less . In one house five persons died from , its attack . " We shall publish fuller details of the character and progress of the disease . —Lancet .

    Mb . Bjlfe s New Opera . —We have no space this ¦ week to do more than briefly record in . the present place the production at the Lyceum Theatre on Thursday night of Mr . Balfe ' s new opera , The Rose ofCastillc . The house was crowded , and the success unequivocal and well-deserved . We shall refer critically both to it and to the mode in which it is performed , on a future occasion .

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    Leader Office , Saturday , October 31 . FRANCE . —DEATH OF GENERAL CAVAIGNAC . Gkxkkax , Cavaignac died suddenly on Thursday of disease of the heart while snipe-shooting on the estate of M . Beaumont , in the Sarthe . The body was immediately brought to Paris in a special train by Madame Cavaignac . The funeral will take place to-day at Montmartre . The Monitew of yesterday contains a report addressed to the Emperor by M . Magne , relative to the budget for 1 ^ 58 . There is sin excess in the revenue of forty-eight millions of francs , ten millions of which are applied to the liquidation of the debt . The financial review of the country is of a favourable character . The reduction of the floating debt is assured , and all loans are paid . It is not true that General Lello has obtained , or demanded , permission from the Government to return to France . He lias taken up his abode in Piedmont .

    Belgium. Extraordinary Success Has Been ...

    BELGIUM . Extraordinary success has been obtained by the Liberal party hi the communal elections of October 27 th . The Liberals have been equally triumphant at Ghent and Antwerp . At Ghent , where the Catholic party has heretofore been dominant , the Liberal candidate who stands lowest on the poll has nearly nine hundred votes more than the top candidate on the rival list- At Brussels there were a good many abstentions ; but at Ghent and Antwerp almost the entire constituency voted . At Brussels , the Catholic party was beaten on every point . In fact , with the single exception of Schaerbeek , every commune in . the Brussels district voted for the Liberal candidates . —Daily News .

    New Turkish Loan. A Great Financial Oper...

    NEW TURKISH LOAN . A great financial operation is projected by the Turkish Government with the Ottoman Bunk . It is to involve n loan of 200 , 000 , 000 francs at ton per cent ., dcstinoil to liquidate the debts of the civil list , to withdraw a portion of the paper money , and to restore the exchanges to their normal state .

    Gknkkal Lloyd Has Written A Defence Of H...

    Gknkkal Lloyd has written a defence of his conduct during the Dinapore mutiny , in a- letter to his brother . Ho contends that he was as energetic as ever in his mind , Itut admits that , on the day when the crisis occurred , he whs unwell , and that his manner might conscqucn tly have lacked firmness . He was also scarcely able to > move , owing to gouty feet . As early as June , he states , ho contemplated the possibility of mutiny , and did hia utmost to provide for th « contingency . He did not disarm the Sepoys , because ho thought it impracticable , lie denies that ho gave the rebels time to deliborato whether they would give up the caps of their muskets , or not ; and insinuates that hia subordinates were slow in pursuing tho mutineers .

    DiNNKit to Loisi ) liicoctiiiA . 'M . —The magistracy and gentry of "Westmoreland and Cumberland entertained Lord Brougham at a public dinner at 1 ' enrith on Wednesday . Tun Traqkdy in this Qukkn ' s Bicncii Prison . —Antonio di Salvi was triod yestenluy at tho Central Criminal Court , on the charge of murdering Mr . Robertson in the Queen ' s . Bench I ' rlmm . Ho pleaded < nttrr / h ! s acquit , on ( ho ground that he had already been found guilty of wounding Mr . Robertson with intent to muniur him . Tho point of law having been fully arguod nml overruled , Di Salvi pleaded Not Guilty , but . was convicted of manslaughter Sentence ) was tlelVrrcd . IIawaicdkn Cinncctrr has boon destroyed by lire . It is believed that tho flames wcr < s purposely kindled .

    Notices To Correspondents. Several Commu...

    NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . Several communications unavoidably stand over . ceiv ? ThPiri t nH aC ^ ° Wled r the mass of lett * rs we rep ^ ttSM ^ n ° ^ iffiS ittt % ^&^^ sons quite independent of the merits of ^ thecommu ^ ica N ? tr'i ° ! ice c . an be taken of anonymous corresno . ndenn . fl Whateyens intended for insertion inusfebelut & nticS f ^ an l an u , ddress of the writer , not inecessarily for publication , but as a suarantee of his good faith . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications .

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    SATURDAY , OCTOBEE 31 , 1857 .

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    There Is Nothing So Revolutionary, Becau...

    There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convul 3 rve , as the strain to keepthings fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creationm eternal progress . — De . AknoIiD . ? : —

    Indian Military Prospects. Delhi Has At ...

    INDIAN MILITARY PROSPECTS . Delhi has at length succumbed , after a resistance of fury and despair on the part of the rebel garrison ; a resistance to be judged by the fact that six or seven days were consumed in . obtaining full possession of the city and palace . Under these circumstances , we cannot ' think'that a reported casualty list of six hundred men * and fifty officers should be deemed heavy in proportion to the grand result of the achievement . It does not appear that any estimate had yet been formed of-the . loss inflicted on the rebels

    during the final operations of the siege ; but , as no quarter was given , _ there can be little doubt that they were slaughtered in vast numbers by the British assaulting columns and their emulous levies of Sikhs and Grhoorkas . Yet , after all , many of the garrison must have escaped . This would necessarily be the case , for the simple reason that General Wilson ' s force was manifestly inadequate to prevent , or even to guard against , such a contingency . On this point ,

    however , we possess some specific information . It is stated that , apart from stragglers and fugitives , two large bodies of armed men left the town deliberately in opposite directions , perhaps with as opposite intentions . The whole of the mutineer cavalry took their departure on the eve of the assault , and inarched southward , in the direction of the Kootub Minar . The other of the two parties above mentionecVV insisted of infantry alone , and was said to \ e composed of such

    regiments us had not offended , so deeply as to be excluded from alL hope of mercy—all those corps , in fact , which , however criminal in revolting from their allegiance , wero at least unburdened with tho inexpiable atrocities of lust and murder . It waa not unreasonably conjectured that this band of aeceders ( which . left Delhi by the bridge of boats on tho 14 th September , r . mL took the road towards j Vleerut ) would either await in some convenient locality an opportunity of surrender ,

    or might possibly even attempt by volunteei acts of good service to make atonement foi their past misconduct , lint this id mattei of mere speculation . Still it is some satisfaction to be assured that the iufhntry mutineers who met their doom in tho cil ; y wero the representatives of that blood-Htaiueil gang-, to forgive whoso crime * would bo ( evoii their leys ferocious comrades seem to acknowledge ) an unpardonable insult to the memory of the help less vieliiiiH . * Wo assmnc . .-i \ - hiinili-o'l ' <• '"' tlw total <> l' «« s »« llio-S and not . iixmvIv tlw lirM < l » y' » Ions . But there saoma to be some doubt on this point .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 31, 1857, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_31101857/page/11/