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Mt S G E E L A N E O U S . Ambrioa —Thereis a great scarcity of news from t * rtSrtte oI ^ AilJtio , The most interesting- cat < J . meS ? a to the effect that *•««• h « s _ **?» Vace between the Sioux Indians and the United > Mte 9 troops , the latter to the number of four hundr ^ fift y > at Sandhills , near the north fork of the jJ iatte river . The fight lasted several hours ; but the Indians were at length defeated . A running [ Skirmish for some ten miles followed , during ¦ which th «> , Indians , among whom were women , made , z , stand , and fought desperately . General
lla rn ^' , the American commander , lost six men killed knd six wounded . —Yellow fever continues to rage at Norfolk , and has made its appearance at Canton , Mississippi . Two boxes , each containing 25 , 000 dollars in gold coin , transmitted to the Government from some land oftice out in the West , have been broken into , and rifle-bullets and sheet-lead substituted for the gold . The robbery was not discovered until the boxes arrived at the New York Sub-Treasury . Several aldermen and councillors of the New York corporation have been arrested on charges of official corruption . A riot has occurred at Georgetown , in British America , between some -workmen and American fishermen , in which one of
the former had his thigh broken by a pistol-shot . — In Mexico , a general amnesty for political offences has been announced ; and the secret police is abolished . General Wall has arrived at New Orleans from Mexico with the intention of following the fortunes of Santa Anna . lie has refused to join the new Government , and turned over his command to General Dastro , who is expected to declare in favour of the plan of Ayutla . — A revolution has broken out in Monte Video , in consequence of a decree ( subsequently revoked ) abolishing the liberty of the press . General Florcs , the President , li is retired from the capital , at the head of nearly two thousand men , and , at the last dates , a sort of negotiation was going on ; but a civil war seems imminent . lUciiEL ani > the " Makseiulaise /'—The French
Kod Republicans at New York lately wrote a " round robin"' to Madlle . Rachel , beseeching her to sing the 41 Marseillaise . " To this reijuest , the great actress replied as follows , according to the translation of the Xew York Herald : —• ' Dear Compatriots , — It is seven years wince I have sung the ' Marseillaise . ' - Something , I know not what , had then given me a semblance of voice , and my health was still unimpaired . Now I am frequently cxhausted after a performance . I should , therefore , really be afraid of compromising interests other than my own , were I to augment my fatigues . You will believe in the deep regrets which I experience at not daring to promise you that -which you desire from me , when I assure vou that I did love to sing the ' Marseillaise , ' as
well as I do to play my finest rule from Corneille . Accept , dear countrymen , the assurance of my distinguished . sentiments . —Raohkl . — I bug the Editor of the Herald to be kind enough to insert this letter in his next number . " Madlle . Rachd understands that a different state of things now exists in France to that which existed " eevcu years since , " when she " electrified" Paris by chanting the Republican hymn . Ax Ikisu PniKST ' a Notion of Income-tax LiA » ir . rrv . —About two years ago , the Rev . Mr . Peyton , Human Catholic priest " of Blarney , in Ireland , hnd his goods s *> iv . ed for refusing to pay the income-tax , from-which he claimed to be exempt on the ground that his income ,
as a Papistical clergyman , proceeded from a source that was not legally recognised . He has made a similar refusal once more . This specimen of the logic of Blarney is peculiarly Irish . Mr . Peyton claims to be exempt from a tax on account of the illegal nature of bin income ; as if evading the law were a tiling to be rewarded ! He states that the law will not allow Human Catholic priests to recover their dues ; nnd this is unquestionably a great hardship and injustice . But it is manifestly absurd to claim exemption on the ground of the illegal nature of the gain , especially us some wiser mode of opposition might be found . Considerable excitement and disturbance took place on the sale of the horse which was distrained .
Tin ? Fatal Kxpi . osion at Livnurooi .. —An inquest was held on Saturday on tho body of a boy killed by the explosion in Greenland-street , Liverpool , during the thunder-storm of Thursday week . The proprietor of the 11 reworks manufactory said that the explosion must have baen caused by an ngent entirely distinct from tho fireworks , tho whole of which bo had since found among the ruins uncxplodcd . It is presumed that the explosion was caused by tho lightning , acting on an escape of gas . A verdict was returned to the effect that the boy had died from the effect of injuries caused by nn accidental explosion .
A Man Kii . lhd by tub Fai . uno of a Wai . i .. — Michael Kearney , ft labourer , waa walking along Wapping , Liverpool , when nn okl wall fell over and buried him beneath its ruins . Two hours elapsed before he could bo extricated , nnd , when ho was at length got out , howan found to be dead . Tn « Si / i . tana Anmk Kattk Giikiiv Kmm ( jriusitv ( who died in June last ) whs a young lady belonging to Edinburgh , who beoamo tho wifo of tho ' Sultan of the Crimea in tho following manner : —About t * ov « nty years ngo Catherine of Russia Invaded tho Crimea , deposed the Sultan , nnd annexed tho Crimea itself to tho Kua-
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. an dominions . Some forty years after that event , or about thirty years back from the present date , the deposed Sultan , or more probably the son of the deposed Sultan , visited Edinburgh . While there he was to be found in the first circles of the modern Athens . He became attached to a young lady— a Miss Nelson or Neilson—and married her . After the marriage , he took her to the Crimea . For many years , this Sultan ha 3 been dead . His Sultana went in June last the way of all the earth . Last winter , while in Edinburgh , I heard that the family of the deceased Sultan was resident about twelve miles from the river Alma . A small volume was published last winter by , I think , Messrs . Johnstone and Hunter , Prince ' s-street , Edinburgh , on the subject of the Crimea . This volume is , on the title-page , said to be By a Lady . " The author is , I understand , Miss Neilson , a sister of the Sultana of Krim Tartary . — Correspondent of the Times .
The National Sunday League . —A " League" with this title , having for its object the removal of bigoted Sabbatarian restrictions , has just been set on foot . We trust it will meet with that success which the justice , reasonableness , and true piety of the cause demands . State ok Tuaue . —The high rate of money , and the peculiar circumstances by which it has been attained , have led to a certain degree of dulness and uncertainty in the chief manufacturing towns ; but confidence in the essentially healthy condition of the country appears to be unshaken . It is felt that , as long as the operations of the Bank of France continue , the Bank of England
will be obliged to persevere in their measures of restriction ; and it is therefore felt necessary to be cautious in speculation . —The strike of the colliers , employed by the New British Iron Company at the collieries in the neighbourhood of liuabon , has been a most disastrous one . The turu-outs altogether have amounted to 2000 , of whom the colliers , men and boys , numbered 1500 . It has been calculated that at least 1500 / . per Week has been withdrawn from circulation in the neighbourhood . The distress thus occasioned has been very great ; for nearly all the families have been thrown upon the parish , and the rates have been almost doubled . Some hundreds of the men have left to seek work elsewhere .
Natuanikl Williams . —We are sure all our readers will be delighted to know that , by a strict interpretation of the law under which the poor Worcestershire labourer was fined for cutting wheat on a Sunday , the conviction is found to be illegal . The statute in question was passed in the highly moral and religious reign of Charles II . ; and the penalty is to be enforced against all those who shall follow their ordinary calling on the Sabbath . Now , the " ordinary calling"' of Williams was to cut wheat for other people—for hire ; and , on the Sunday when he committed the " offence , " he was working for hitnstlf \ and not for hire . Sir George Grey , therefore , has declared his opinion that the conviction was illegal , and the fine lias of courser been refunded . For this wholesome and honest result , England is indebted , in the first place , to the right-minded
correspondent who brought the case forward , and , in the second place , to the Times , which inserted the letter , and kept the fact before the public notice by its powerful and authoritative voice . —The decision of Sir George Grey was alluded to on the assembling of the county magistrates at Worcester , in Petty Sessions , on Tuesday morning . The Rev . John Pearson , the presiding magistrate on the occasion of the conviction , expressed his willingness to obey the Home Secretary ' s interpretation of the law ; but a " Mr . T . G . Curlier said he would make the same conviction over again . Others supported him in this ; among them , two reverend gentlemen . Mr . Pcnreou having remarked that it was indeed a work of necessity for a barber to shave himself on a Sunday morning , inasmuch as it was a woik of necessity for them nil to shave themselves every . morning , he was mot bv a crv of " Not now , "' and great merriment .
Health «> i- ' Lt » xi > ox . — London i . i healthier than it was n September . No death from cludera has been registered iu the week that ended on Satuiday , October Gth ; but the deaths from diarrhoea were 51 . The deaths from all causes were 9 ~> ; namely , 260 from zymotic diseases ; 210 from cancer , consumption , and other constitutional discuses ; o"J 0 from diseases of the brain , lungs , and other organs ; lliJ from infantile di . svn . --cs and old age ; and 21 from various kinds of violence . < > f "> sudden deaths , the causes were unascertained , and of 10 other deaths the causes woro not specified . A coachman , aged 05 , died in Marylobone Workhouse ; his death is ascribed to destitution . — From the J { e i . < tmr- (> c » erttrs Weekly Jttturn .
Diiatus in tiik Qcaktku . — J " , 0 12 1 oivons died in London during the thirteen weeks that ended on September 29 th , so- that the deaths during the quarter were nt tho rate of 1003 a week . This presents a favourable contrast to tho state of the public health iu the corresponding i | iiarU > r of last year , when 2-1 , 870 deaths , or 1913 weekly on an average , worn registered in London . Tho decrease haa boon chiefly in the diseases of the zymotic class , which were fatal in 1-1 , 633 cases , including 0708 of cholera , 2001 ) of diarrhoea , in tho 13 summer weeks of . 1851 ; anil in 30 ( 51 cases in the 13 summer weeks of the present year , when 100 deaths were by cholera , 1258 by dinrrlupa . 100 person ? , chiefly children , died of small-pox , 107 of measles , ' 53-1 of scarlatina , 38 i > of hooping-cough , ( J 77 of typhus nnd other fevers .
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192 deaths were referred to dropsy , 287 to cancer , 1645 to consumption . Among the diseases of particular organs , are 300 deaths by apoplexy , 235 by paralysis , 88 by epilepsy , 54 by delirium tremens , 431 by convulsions , 475 b y diseases of the heart and great bipodvessels , 491 by bronchitis , 492 by pneumonia , 141 by teething , and 122 by disease of liver . Of the deaths by violence in London , 16 were by poison , 33 by burns and scalds , 19 by hanging , 21 by suffocation , 101 by drown-^ MZa y fractures a ° d contusions , and 17 by wounds . 2224 deaths , or one in six of the total number , took place in public institutions ; namely , 1191 in workhouses 744 in civil
, hospitals , 73 in military and naval hospitals , 78 in military and naval asvlums , 24 in hospitals and asylums for foreigners , 14 in lying-in hospitals ( 7 women , 7 children ) , 94 in lunatic asylums , and 16 in 14 prisons . 3069 of the persons who died ra London were males of the age of 20 and upwards ; and of that number 83 were in government and local offices , 19 1 in the army or navy , 85 in or connected subordinatel y with the learned j > rofessions ; 38 were engaged in literature , the fine arts , and the sciences ; 363 were In the clothing , entertaining , and serving class ; 167 -were engaged in commerce , 343 in carrying , 75 in cultivating the l&nd ; 33 were occupied about animals ; 523 on art and mechanic productions ; 146 worked and dealt in
animal substances , 393 in vegetable substances , 214 in minerals and metals ; 215 were returned as labourers , without defining the branch of labour , 142 as persons of rank or property not in any office or profession .- — Idem . * A Dkuxkek ENGrs-K-Driver . —GeoTge Dun-wood , the engineer of the steamer Duchess of Argyle , got so intoxicated a few days since , that , when the steamer left Helensburgb , he could neither back nor set on tie engines , and fiercely attacked every one who went into the engine-rooms to assist in the working of the engines . Ultimately , he was overpowered , and secured till the vessel reached her destination . On the vessel ' s return
to Glasgow , when , approaebing the berth to land her passengers , the engines , instead of being stopped , were set on full speed , in consequence of which the vessel ran up a . good wav under one of the arches of the bridge , nearly carrying ' away the funnel and the paddle-boxes , to tie great alarm of the passengers , but much more so of the captain ( M'Pherson ) , who , on seeing the danger , fell down in a fit , and has since expired at Garelocbhead . The Amirs'isTP . ATivii Kefokm Association . —The committee of this body has issued a second address , in which , after congratulating its supporters on the progress already made ( such as the granting by Government of open and competitive examination , the reorganisation of the War Departments , the Admiralty
instructions to spare no pains to secure , iitness in the dockyards , &c ) , plans for the future are set forth . The supporters of the Association are requested to use eveiy effort to secure the success of the contemplated bill for taking the gift of junior clerkships in the civil service out of the hands of the Treasury , and throwing open the appointments to competitive examination . Meetings in all the Parliamentary boroughs are recommended , and the people are exhorted to petition . The document adilri : —" These objects cannot be effected without a lar ^ e expenditure . Hitherto , the subscriptions have bc-tn confined to the metropolis . London has subscribed first , because , having originated the movement , it was felt that the metropolis must set the example of
subscription ; but steps will now be taken for the formation , of W ; il committees , the enrolment of members , and collection of subscriptions throughout the country ; and the commit tee are satisfied that sufficient meaiiri will be furnished them fur a vigorous effort to teach the constituencies tho valueof Administrative Uefornvind to be ready for thenext i-li-rtiun . But , Iiuwovit desirable it may be to obtain a largo amount of subscription ? , it is still more important that the A ^ ociation shall have the influence of numbers , and that it shall comprise all classes . Administrative Kcforni is neither a party nor a class movement ; it wages no
war against any order ; it attacks no existing right ; it seeks but the end of nn exelusiveness that sots up party uml incapacity , and shuts out merit . Men are to bo found lit for the public service in every class ; there are ( hose amongst the humblest who , if the barriers against them bo removed , will work their own way to independence and distinction through public usefulness . Tho Association desiivs their help , their energy , their counsel , their mtlnenee , their numbers ; and it has therefore tlett rmincd that , in future , every . subscriber , from a shilling upwards , shall bo enrolled and receive a card of membership . "
tin : i . atk 11 i ; ay y Rain .- ? caused so largo a vohuno of water to pour down from the Highgntc and Ilumpstead hillri that the new power which is being constructed from Clerkenwell to L ' arringdon-street gave way . Tho water overflowed into a street near tjaffron-hill , and washed awav a temporary bridge in Castle-street . It is feared , that the new Hewer will not be found large enough to c . irry off tho heavy floods which will « t times pour Haiuvay Ai-cwknts . —A passenger tram , « t " * " }" dorminster station of tho Oxford , Worcester , and Wo . 1-verhampton railway , run Into a good .- trni ., » mnah ii £ a great many ir < . « £ » n « . ' - ' thrown * tho guanI of g « Booda train on to the bank at tho hi « le of tlj i' «>>• " « w-a * greatly injured , and has since dicd . ^ -J ohn Gra ins ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 13, 1855, page 981, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2110/page/9/
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