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    _ lggg ___ TJEB LEADER, __; [No. 397, Oc...

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    IRELAND. An Orange Masikksto. — The Cent...

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    ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS. TnE second ...

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    AMERICA. This financial news from the Un...

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    Public Meetings. The Indian Relief Fund....

    morning in the Mayor s parlour , Town Hall , Manchester . Colonel Hamilton , secretary to the committee , read the report , -wherein , it was stated : — "The total number of paying visitots reached 1 , 053 , 538 . Tlie season-ticket holders of both classes availed themselves of their privileges to enjoy 282 , 377 visits , making the total number of visitors 1 , 835 , 915 . Up to the public close of the Exhibition , on the 17 th inst ., the cash receipts from all sources standing to the credit of the committee may be stated at 98 , 500 ? . The total expenditure up to " same period , and th « further liabilities which are definitely known to the committee , such as cost of police to the end of November , insurance of all kinds , rents , & c , amount to 99 , 500 ? . The still further outla } - to be

    incurred , includes all the expenses of returning the contributions to their respective owners . " To meet the excess of expenditure over the cash receipts , there is the building and its fittings . The committee are of opinion that the guarantee fund will remain untouched . The following resolutions -were earned unanimously : — " That this meeting , as well on behalf of the immediate promoters and supporters of tla Exhibition of Art Treasures of the United Kingdom , as the city of Manchester , where that exhibition was held , and the vast thousands of all ranks and countries who have enjoyed its beauties and benefited by its lessons , records its sense of profound gratitude for the existence of that social harmony in this country-which alone rendered such a gathering possible . It acknowledges-for the country at large the munificent liberality and disinterestedness of the

    contributors , whether in the highest or the humblest ranks of life , helieving that one and all were-.. moved in their decisions by a sincere sympathy for a great and refining -work , and by an honest desire to improve and gratify their fellow-creatures . " " That full powers be given to the executive committee to dispose of the Exhibition and its fittings in any way they may think proper . " " That a sum not exceeding 1000 Z . be placed at the disposal of the executive committee , to be used by them , at their discretion , should they deem It desirable to recognize the services of the officers of the committee . " " That the -warmest thanks of this meeting be rendered to the Executive Committee of the Art Treasures Exhibition , for their unwearied exertions , in furtherance of the Exhibition , and the admirable manner in -which they have carried out the designs of its projmoters . "

    THE WTGAX MECHANICS * INSTITUTION . Lord Stanley delivered a speech on the subject of education on Tuesday evening on the occasion of the fourth anniversary soiree of the Wigan Mechanics ' Institution , held in the Public Hall , Wigan . Adverting towards the end of his remarks to the opportunities for advancement offered to North of England men , he said : — " I was told lately by one of the heads of a great firm not far from Manchester that they were at that time emploving three persons in their business , each of whom

    had been an ordinary mechanic on weekly wages—each of whom had risen from the ranks , and each of whom was at that time in receipt of a salary of 150 < K . a year , which is just the pay of an Under-Secretary of State . { Applause . ' ) That fact I verified . I suppose it is not an isolated instance , and I mention it because we hear a little too much about the impossibility of men in an old country like this rising above their actual position . "Why , I aay that in that respect we are not au old country , but a new country . " ( Hear , hear . )

    THE INDIAN QUESTION . The Earl of Harrowby at the annual dinner of the Sandon and Marston Agricultural Society ; Mr . Monckton Milnes and Mr . Wood , the members for Pontefract , at a public dinner in the Town Hall ; the Solicitor-General at the anniversary meeting of the Heading 1 'liilanthropic Institution ; Messrs . Miles and Knatchbull , the members for East Somerset , at the meeting of the Farrington Gurney Agricultural Association ; and General Sir Frederick Smith , M . I' ., at Chatham , have delivered speeches more or less bearing on the Indian question .

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    Ireland. An Orange Masikksto. — The Cent...

    IRELAND . An Orange Masikksto . — The Central Committee of the ' Grand Orange Lodge have published an address in reply to the Lord Chancellor's recent letter . They indignantly deny that their proceedings have assumed an illegal or improper character , and add : — " In the episode of Orange history to . which the Chancellor has directed our attention " ( without , it appears , having attended to it himself ) , tlie character of our society is exhibited . "We are asked by some , ' What good end has it achieved ? ' We ure asked by . the more sordid , * What benefit has ifc conferred on its members' ?

    ' Has the society been able to accomplish or prevent anv great political measure ? ' ' lias it enabled its members to attain any -hijjh political or social distinction ¦? ' We are not careful to answer such inquirers . Sullieieiit for us to say , the Orange confederacy has protected rights of property and person ; it has contributed to the maintenance of domestic ' peace , and public well-being . Wherever it has been powerful , tlie country has been at peace , and persons of all religious persuasions have been safe under its protection . Wherever lawlessness , outrage , aud murder have had their saturnalia , Orangeism has been feeble and unknown . This is our answer to

    those who prefer a taunting accusation against us . Before Orangeism came into existence , counties in Ulster were in a state of more sanguinary disorder than has disgraced the most lawless southern , county since . " The Committee afterwards have the kindness to say that , though they have been so seurvily treated by the Government , they will yive the Queen all the support possible in connexion with India : — " We know full well the duty of loyalty to our revered monarch , and we feel too deeply because of the deplorable disasters in India to permit precipitancy or indiscretion in any portion of the executive to recal us from the duty of sustaining , by every possible way , the rights of the throne and the deliverance of the oppressed . We utterly repudiate and abhor all sentiments which would inculcate indifference or disloyalty , or whicli would narrow or pervert the streams of national benevolence on behalf of our

    imichalmcted fellow-subjects , men , women , and children , iu that distant portion of the empire . We would hold it utterly unworthy of our high calling and of our Scriptural principles to seek to avail ourselves at sucli a time of any other mode of protection , or relief than such as is to be found in the dignified assertion of the rights of the Queen ' s subjects , and in the verdict which we fearlessly demand in our behalf from all independent and intelligent men . " A Skchk-v Diplomatic Mission . — The ll ' utaflird Mail states that the lion , member for the borough of Youghal ( Mr . I . liutt ) is at present : it Vienna , ' entrusted by Lord l ' almeiston with a secret diplomatic lission . '

    Tub Tiri'KUAUY Hank . —The creditors of tills bank hold a meeting on Thursday week at the ofiicc of Master Murphy , Court of Cliancery , to select an oilicial -assignee , or assignees . Mr . Patrick StopheiiKOii , of Fjiirbrook , county of "VVatcrford , proposed that the Earl of llessborough , and Mr . Juhu G . Armstrong , of tlie Bank of Ireland , should bo appointed joint ouiuiul assignees , to act in conjunction with Mi * . George M'Do-well , tho official manager representing the shareholders , in carrying out tho provisions of the act of last session for facilitating the winding up . The ltev . Dr . llowluy , parish priest of Tipperary , seconded tho resolution , whicli was carried unanimously .

    • Emiuua'I'ion Statistics . —Commenting upon tlie oilicial returns lately issued toy tho ltugitttrur-Gencnil of Ireland , the Den-g Standard ( a leading Presbyterian organ ) thus sums up the result : —" Last year , tho munbcre who left Irchind , as noted iu tho Government returns , were G 5 , 7 < iG , and thia year there hua been a net incrcnuo of 624 . 0 cmuTRiUB . Since the latdayof May , 1861 , to tho 1 st of September , 18 . , tho collective emigration from Ireland hits amounted to 1 ) 10 , DOG persona , —Viz ., 4 < 5 O , C 4 O males , and 450 , 320 females , or within a fraction of a total million of tho Irish population !"

    MuiiD-itn in TiwKitAttY . —Mr . Ellin , « , Scotchman , was shot dcud at Tomplvmoro on the night of Thursday week . Tho act wus committed on the highway , and in tho eight of aoveial other persons , llcwaa agent to a

    gentleman , and had himself purchased some property in the neighbourhood . J A . ttkmit to Assassinate by a Maniac —A farmer named John Doyle , a tenant of The M'Gillicuddy , a gen tlenian of property residing at Whitefield , about fifteen miles from Tralee , recently requested that gentleman to keep in safe custody for him the sum of 40 / . On Wednesday week , he went to The M'Gillicuddy ' s house a nd said he wauted to draw out 47 . ; but he was told to ' e it all , as it was not convenient to retain it . As they entered the ofticc , the gentleman perceived that Doyle was fumbling in his pocket , and afterwards , saw him draw out a pistol . The M'Gillicuddy seized the weapon , and in doing so the contents were discharged , but without doing any injury . Doyle was then handed over to the police , and was found to be insane .

    Tnii Kecent Tka FKAriis . —No tidings have yet been received of the whereabouts of John James Moore , the Custom House swindler . An . inquisition has been held at tho sub-sheriff ' s office , in pursuance of a writ of extent issued by the Court of Exchequer , at the instance of the Crown , to discover what property Moore- possessed at the date of the writ for his apprehension . The jury ultimately found " that there were two hundred and fifty-six packages of tea in the Custom House , removed from Moore ' s store , of tlie value of 1000 £ ; that there

    was at present in tho hands of the manager of the Bank of Ireland a certain security or charge on lands in Ireland , on which the directors of the Uank of Ireland have a lien , and which the jurors valued at 7 O 0 / ., less 140 / ., leaving 5 G 0 f . of a balance ; that , at the time of taking tlie inquisition , there were certain wines and spirits in a cellar of Moore ' s store , which wines and spirits have been claimed by Samuel ' GeUton as having-been bonded by him , and in . his name , and ' that these wines and spirits are of the value of 2000 / . "

    Iiik latis 5 th Koyau Ikisji Duagoons . —Colonel Dunne , the late member for Portarliugton , is said to have . made an . ' offer to the Horse Guards to raise in a short time , so as to be ready for immediate active service , ' a regiment of Irish Dragoons , to bear the revived title of the 5 th Dragoons . That regiment was disem-Louiei ' l shortly after the Irish rebellion of 1798 , on a charge of sedition , and it has never again been called together . It was raised in 1 G 88 , and served under Marl"borou & h , as Avell as in subsequent wars . Many of the men whom Colonel Dunne would enlist are about to proceed to America ; and he thinks that . an effort should be made to preserve their services for this countrv .

    • Tine Case ok Si'oixks . —The grand jury at Dublin have . found ¦ '* No ' lJill' in the ease of James Spollen , charged with robbing the late Mr . Little . He will be released from custodv at the close of the commission .

    Accidents And Sudden Deaths. Tne Second ...

    ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . TnE second inquest in connexion with the accident on the South Walea Railway , after spreading over Home days , tvo * ultimately adjourned to Tuesday , November 10 th . George Cooke wns on the rigging of the barge Mercy , lying off Southwark , last Saturday , when he fell head foremost into the liold of the vessel , and fractured his Hkull and ribs . A ftimilar accident occurred to William LawBon , who was . at-work on a scaffold in Fcnchurchatreot , whon ho fell a depth of thirty feet , and fractured his skull .

    A dreadful occurrence took place on Monday in the neighbourhood of llatcliif Highway . A cattle van was conveying from the London Docks a Bengal tiger recently imported into this country . Tlio latch or lock of the door suddenly gave way , and the animal finding i tself at liberty , leaped , into tuo road , and ran in a crouohing position up the thoroughfare , evidently in Home degreo alarmed at ita unexpected freedom And the novelty of the scene , Encountering ft boy , cloven ycara old , at a Btrcct corner , the tigor sprang on him , and frightfully lacerated the buck of his neck and head

    The keepers , by . this time , came up , one of whom repeatedly struck the beast on the head with a crowbar , and at length stuuued . it ; but one of the blows glanced off , and fell on the head of the poor wounded boy . lie was removed to the London Hospital in a highly dangerous state , but it is thought he will recover . Another boy was also injured , but less seriously .. A frightful catastrophe happened on the Central Railroad , United States , on the evening of the 15 th inst ., about six miles west of Syracuse . Heavy rains had weakened an embankment at ^ Nine-mile Creek , so that when . the train came along it gave way , and the cars were thrown one upon another into the stream . To add to the horror of the scene , the mail car caught fire , and all the mail bags except one were destroyed . It is stated that , of sixty passengers -who were in the cars , two or three were killed outright , aud some dozen others were shockingly mutilated .

    America. This Financial News From The Un...

    AMERICA . This financial news from the United States wears a le . < . s gloomy character , though the New York banks suspended specie payment on the 13 tli , being unable to meet tiie heavy demand for gold . They have required of the Governor of the State to summon ., the Legislature , for the purpose of passing laws for tlie relief of the present condition of things ; and they recommend that no dividend should be declared until the resumption of cash payments , which they pledge themselves . shall take place as soon as possible , every effort being nmidc to effect that result . A great many fresh commercial failures are reported from all parts uf the Union ; workmen in large numbers are thrown out of employ ; and there is much distress . The Boston banks have also suspended cask payments , and there has been a serious run on some of the savings banks , but it was promptly met . The Federal Government hits suspended redeeming stocks ; but the Pennsylvania Lower House has defeated the bill of the Semite for legalizing the suspension of payments l > y the banks . The New Orleans bank , at the lust dales , was considered . strong , and the stock was not influenced by thu revulsion : indeed , iu some cases , a slight advance had taken place . The paper of the Illinois Central , Krie , and Michigan Central llailway . s has been tun-¦ tftsted .

    Tim ( letci'iniuatioit to suspend payments in specie , t > which many of the bunks have come , lias had ii invoiivahle effect in checking the jianir ami the failure of liirgis houses . One or two important houses which had stopped have resumed business under an extension from their creditors . The rate of exchange on England lias advanced from 1 . 00 to 108 , and in all the . principal spiK-iilalive stocks there him been an aveni ^ n recovery ol ten per cent . The Judges of tho Now York Supreme Court- huvi '

    adopted ami promulgated n code of opinion * in regard to the enforcement uf tho penalties of the l « w atfiinirft suspended IxuiIch . They ngrce that it is for tho blinks to wind up or not , in tho exercise of it sound discretion ^ that they arc not to be ; enjoined unless they »» " <¦ ' " lsl" ~ vent , or unlo . Hn an injunction limy bo necessary t" Invent fraud or injustice ; that a Huspcn . sion of «|> i : r . iu payments in not proof of insolvency ; »»« l "'" ' "_"'"" junction should ihhui ! without giving ' M > tl 1 I " ' '* " hearing .

    Sonio details are published with respect to the elections , la KanuiiM , the rcHtilt is supported to l > o >» <'« v " " ' of tho Free . State party ; but tho Democrats have curried tho day iu Georgia and Pennsylvania .

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 31, 1857, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_31101857/page/6/