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of Gorton , who had been employed mowing slopes oir the side of the Manchester and Sheffield Kattway , went to sleep in a state of intoxication on the line . A train m passuiff went over his leg , and cut off the fbot ; and death ensued in consequence . He appeared for some time quite unconscious of the accident . —Mr . Henry-Stewart Sperling * a gentleman who \ ras staying at a friend ' s house at Exeter , was run over on the South Devon Railway , and killed , his head being cut off and crushed in pieces . It appeared , that he was depressed in his spirits , and that he deliberately lay down on the line , and allowed the train to pass over him . A verdict
of Temporary Insanity has been returned at the inquest . —Charles and Alfred Miller , tvrhis , aged fourteen , have been , killed on the Great Western Railway at Ealing . —A train of fifteen empty carriages was being withdrawn from the Brighton platform at the London Bridge station , when , in consequence of the points being set in a wrong direction , the engine Imrst through the boundary wall and fell into the street below , dragging after it the guard ' s break and one first-class carriage , and completely blocking up the thoroughfare of Collegestreet , Bermondsey . The driver and stoker leaped off just as the engine was going ov ^ r , and , the street below being empty , no personal damage was received .
Collision on the Mekset . —A ferry-boat on the Mersey came into collision on Sunday night with another vessel , which carried away a portion of her timbers , and caused the loss of two lives . Another Boiler Explosion . —A terrific boiler explosion at Newcastle-on-Tyne has resulted in th " e deaths of five men and two boys , besides injuries to several others . A writer from the spot says : — " The body of the boiler at the time it burst spread out like a sheet . It flew through the roof of the mill , and carried all away before it . Striking two chimneys , it overthrew them and the furnaces , scattering the hot bricks and molten metal about , and burying several persons in the ruins ;
and , having broken the pipes which attached it to the other boiler , hot water was dashed aboitt , which scalded several persons . The body of the boiJer was hurled on to an embankment , and killed a blacksmith of the name of Abraham Dixon , as he was running out of a shed , having heard the noise of the explosion . Another' portion fell through the roof of the chemical works , and took off three fingers of a boy , and the end was dashed over a hill-top into a lumber-yard , but , though several persons wsre standing about , no one was injured . " After great exertions , several persons were dug out of the ruins , and of those who still lived , two are thought to be in a precarious state .
Strah-vv , Paul , a . \ d Bates . —A sitting for the final examination of Messrs . Strahan , Paul , and Bates was held on Tuesday at the Court of Bankruptcy , when a further adjournment of two months was agreed to . The balance-sheet will not be ready for a month , and some time must be allowed for its investigation . Meanwhile , it is thought some further progress ¦ will have been made with the criminal charges against the bankrupts . A number of additional proofs and claims have been admitted under the joint and separate estates , and a question has been raised with reference to those arising from a connexion between the respective firms of Strahan , Paul ,
and Co . and Halford and Co . The total debts and liabilities will , it is estimated , reach from 700 , 000 / . to 800 , 000 ? ., and the assets about 100 , 000 / . The amount of property already realised is 44 , 000 / . With regard to an allowance to the bankrupts , it was intimated that the assignees are willing to continue it for one month longer to Mr . Strahan and Mr . Bates , with leave to apply lor its renewal ; but Sir John Dean Paul , having drawn a certain amount from the bank shortly before the suspension , is considered not to be entitled to any . similar assistance . Since their liberation on bail , the bankrupt * , it was mentioned , have sedulously applied themselves to the preparation of their accounts .
Mrs . Brougu . — This unhappy woman , who was tried at Guildford for the murder of her six children at Esher , and who was acquitted on the ground of insanity , and respecting whose state of mind there was much discrepancy of opinion , has , since her confinement in the criminal department of Bethlehem Hospital , been under the constant surveillance and care of Dr . Hood , the intelligent resident physician to that institution . Dr . Hood lias frequently stated to persona visiting Bethlehem that he entertains no doubt of Mrs . Brought
brain being diseased and her mind deranged . Since her confinement in the Bethlehem Hospital , her insanity baa clearly shown itself to all the officials and nurses . The justice of her acquittal ia thus conclusively established . This must be satisfactory to all who were engaged in that painfully anxious and responsible investigation , but particularly bo to Dr . Forbea Winwlow , and the other medical witnesses who , in consequence of their evidence in favour of Mrs . Brough ' s insanity and moral irresponsibility , were exposed at the timo to much animadversion . —Lanctst .
Tub Ballinaslok Hounkd Catti-ic Faik , which baa now closed , wau one of tho largest that bus been seen in the town for several years . The quality of the animals was admirable . LABOUfiKIts' C ' OTTAOKB IN IltELAND . — Colonel II . A . Ilerbcrt , speaking at the anniversary meeting and dinner of the North Kerry Farming Society , congratulated his hearers on the improvement in the rato of wages , and oh
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A despatch from General Simpson , dated Sept . _ ' contains the following : — " I have received n letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Heady , 71 st Regiment , commanding Her Majesty ' s troops at Yeni-Kaleh , reporting the proceedings <> f a trilling affair , in which a detachment of the 10 th Hussars , in company with the Chasseurs d'Afriquc , were engaged on the ilst inst . with the Cossacks . " Colonel D '( ) sinont , commanding tho French troops at Kertch , received information that the Cos . sack . - > were collecting and driving away all the arabos from the neighbourhood , and , as he determined to endeavour to prevent this , he invited the assistance of the English cavalry to co-operate with the Chasseurs d'Afrique . For this service , Lieutenant-Colonel Heady ordered t \\<< troops , commanded by Captains the Hon . F . FitfcClare . no and Clarke , of tlie 10 th Hussars .
" The . Cossacks were supposed to have assembled their arabas at two villages , named Koss-Serai Min and Seit Ali , equidibtant from Kcrteh about fifteen mile * , and from one another six and a half . Captain Fit / . Clarence ' s troop woj ) ordered to the lirst village and Captain Clarkc '» to the hitter . At each of the . M- villagethey were to join a troop of the Chasseurs d'Afrique \\ h <> had preceded tliem . On arriving at Kows-Serai Min . Captain Fit / . Clareueo found both troops of the r ' rein-h
Dragoons , mid immediately sent off an order to < . aptain Clarke to join him that night ; the letter wun unfortunately not delivered until the following morning . In complying with this order , Captain Clarke , whose troop consisted only of thirty-four men , fell in with a body <> 1 ubout fifty Conmieks , which he immediately charged and pursued ; but , ns they were soon reinforced by upwards of three hundred , he was forced to retire upon the . vil lage , with a loin * of his sergeant-major , farrier , and thirteen men taken prisoners .
" Captain Fitz-Clurenco ' s troop , with the Chasseurs , the whole under thu command of the officer eoinmondin ^ the French troops , having seen a largo body of the enemy , skirmblird with them at Homo distance , and moved in the direction of the village of Sorai Min , where , after having joined Captain Clarke ' s troop , the whole force commenced their march upon Kertch . "At ubout the distance of half a milo from tJif village thoy wens attacked by a largo body of CosMiiks , who wore , however , beaten back by repeated charge * . . . . From information that Iiuh since been received , the CosnuckH were supported , within a quurter of an hour ' s march , Uy eight squadrons of Hussars and ei ^ Iit KUI 1 S . "
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the more comfortable condition of the labourers in point of dress , but regretted that their dwellings are still as wretched as in former times . Reformatories—The first stone of the St . Pancras Preventive and Reformatory Institution , to be situated in the New-road , near Gover-street , and intended to accommodate one hundred inmates , was laid on , Wednesdav by Lord Robert Grosvenor , assisted by the Kev . Canon Dale , vicar of St . Pancras . A very largo police force was present , the autlvorities at Scotland-yard that Lord Robert
having had some reason to anticipate Grosvenor would meet with a riotous reception from the opponents of his defunct Sunday Trading Bill . But wo are happy to say that no such interruption , which would have had the character of pure vmdictiveness , occurred , his lordship having been cordially received . — Several of the friends and supporters of the Metropolitan Industrial Reformatory met on Wednesday evening at Grove House , Brixton Hill , the seat of the institution , to bid farewell to nine of the inmates who are about to go out into the world to earn their livings . The proceedings were highlv satisfactory . ¦ Hillthe
The " Ticket-of-Lkave" System . —Mr . , Recorder of Birmingham , delivered a charge at the opening of the Quarter Sessions at that town , in which he defended the " ticket-of-leave" system . He admitted that its operation had by some been exaggerated for good , but he also contended that it had been exaggerated for evil . According to his calculation , from eighty to ninety per cent , of convicts discharged with tickets-ofleaveare permanently reformed . He threw great doubt on the assertion that gaol chaplains can with ease extort a hypocritical confession of repentance from convicts , and asserted , from his knowledge of prison clergymen , that , as a body , they are little disposed to rely on fallacious tests . The so-called " ticket-of-leave men , "
who are supposed to be such dangerous members of society , he held to be not ticket-of-leave men at all , but convicts , who , having finished the term of their sentences , are placed less under the control of the law . He concluded by making some suggestions : — " Let an account be opened with each prisoner , placing to his credit the value of his labour—the real value , if productive labour can be found ; an assumed value , or rather a value upon an assumed scale , if his labour be not of a productive kind . Let him clearly understand that each day ' s lab- ur will tell upon his liberation . If large in quantity , and good in quality , it will materiallv advance him on his way . On the other hand , " if deficient in either of these attributes , his progress will be retarded . But a distant future , however
bright—nnd no brighter prospect can open to the eye . s of a prisoner than that of liberty—will not suffice without some hope of benefit-nearer at band . Let the prisoner then be allowed to expend a part of his earning * in the improvement of his diet . Ity acting on these principles we shall have provided for training him in habits of industry . But although industry will , when he leaves his prison , furnish him with the means of honest maintenance , yet , unless he has learned the art of self-government , be will not be effectually protected agninst the temptations to fall back into evil courses by which he will be assailed . Let him , then , be informed that every subtraction from the fund created by his labour for the indulgence of his palate will , like indolence , retard the hour of freedom . Thus he will be taught economy . "
Fall of Sbhastopoi .. —An Address of Congratulation to the Queen on the fall of South Sebustopol has been passed by the City Court of Common Council , after a slight opposition , the dissentients alluding to the bad management of the war and to the fact of the town having been mainly taken by the French . HioiiKritr Barn . —A license for mu . * ic and dancing has been refused for this old-established place of amusement , on account of that kind of entertainment having gone on there for the last year without a license , and of disreputable characters having assembled .
Timo Indian Sanscrit Ooi . i . kgk . —The college is a Gothic cross—a reminiscence of Oxford , and beautiful as it in in many respects , wo . should prefer something else , to project against a background of palms and tamarinds . It is built of the soft rose-coloured sandstone of Chenar , and the delicate beauty of its buttresses and pinnacles , wrought in this material , make us regret that the architect had not availed biinnelf of the rich stores of Saracenic art , which the moH ^ ties and tombs of the Mogul emperors afford him . Gothic architecture docs not , and never can be , made to harmonise with the forms of a tropical landscape . The plun of this college is unique , and has of late been tho Hubjeet of much criticism . It was established by tho Eu » t India Company sixty-three
years ago , for the purpose , of instructing the children of Brahmin * in tho Sanscrit Philosophy and Literature , and since tho construction of tho new building , the English college has be « n incorporated with it . The Principal , Dr . Ballantyno , who is probably the . profoundest Sanscrit scholar living , has taken advantage , of this junction to set on foot an experiment , which , if successful , will produce an entire revolution in the philosophy of tho Brahmins . The native scholars in the English college are made acquainted with the inductive philosophy of Bacon , while the students of . Sanscrit take as a textbook thu Nynya system , a » it is called , of Guatama , the celebrated Hindoo philosopher . There aro many points of approach in these two systems , and Dr . Ballautyue
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' has been led to combine them in such a way as finally to '¦\ ce the student , who commences with the refined sntscu . 'at ' " of Guatama , upon , tho broad and firm basis of the i ^ * 0011 * 8 y 8 tem « Tno latter is thus prepared to receive tho * * ° * physical 1 sciences , a > knowledge of which mW « 5 » d' »" y . but inevitably , overthrow the gorgeous enormit ^ 8 of Ius ™» l » g «> us faith A Visit to India . China , ami Jaj . ^ "'
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962 THE DEADER . [ No ; 290 , Saturday .
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Loader Offick , Saturday , October 13 . MARCH OF THE ALLIED ARMIES ON PEREKOP . Hamburg , Friday . The following despatch has been roceivoJ here today : — St . Petersburg , Oct . 9 . Prince GortschakofF , under date of the 9 th inst . writes as follows : — " The enemy has made a movement in advance from Eupatoria , threatening Perekop , but , meeting with the advanced posts of the left flank of our army , they retired . " The enemy put in disorder sixteen battalions from Kokouloussa to Janyssata . "
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A despatch in the Times , dated " Vienna , Thursday ovening , " says : — "Up to nine o ' clock on the evening of the 9 th instant , the fleets had undertaken nothing against Odessa . " A band of Montenegrins has made an irruption into the Herzeff owina , and in doing so has violated the Austrian territory near Krivoscia .
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The trial of the Angers rebels has commence > i . It seems they came into Angers on the night ui August 27 th , to the . number of six hundred , annul with deadly weapons and with instruments of housebreaking ; and had it not been lor the energy ut ' General An gel I do Kleinfeld , who , at the head of . i very small garrison , surprised and defeated tho insurgents , the town would have been in their power . The trials are not yet finished .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 13, 1855, page 982, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2110/page/10/
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