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      the 31 st of August 3 , 840 , 625 / ., -which , after payment of the proposed distribution , will stand at 3 , 040 , 210 ? . As the dividend is largeT than that for the previous halfyear , a ballot for its confirmation will be necessary . Accident on Shipboard . —Frederick Darley , one of the riggers employed at Woolwich , and who was engaged on Friday week in dismasting her Majesty ' s steam-sloop Prometheus , met with a frightful accident , which seriously endangers his life . During the progress of the work , the ship ' s maintop-yard gave way , and fell among the group of riggers underneath , crushing Darley , who , on being examined by the medical officer of the yard , was found to have sustained a very severe laceration of the scalp and concussion of the brain . Hopes , however , are entertaiued of his recovery , and , in the meanwhile , bis shipmates have got up a subscription for his wife and children .

      The Red Sea Tklegkaph Company have announced their inability to raise their proposed capital on the terms they had too hastily accepted . They contemplate a termination of the guarantee at the end of any two years after the net profits shall have amounted to sevenand-a-half per cent . Job Marson , the well-known jockey , died on Friday week at Middleham . He won the St . Leger three times in eight years . Australia . —At Buckland River , about 300 Europeans have attacked 1500 Chinese , and" driven them into the hush . The ringleaders are taken in custody . The miners , both European and Chinese , have returned to their labours .

      Dk . Livingston , on Wednesday , recived the freedom of 'the city of Glasgow at a crowded and enthusiastic meeting of the Town Council . The Chelsea Vestky and Cbemokne Gardens . — The Chelsea vestry have determined , by 18 to 7 , to oppose at the ensuing sessions , the renewal of the license of Cretnorne Gardens , on the ground of alleged evils resulting from the lateness of the hours . Mr . Till , who asserted that the gardens are conducted with perfect decorum , moved an amendment to the effect that a ommittee inquire into the management of the grounds . This was defeated , though , as It would seem , with great unfairness to Mr . Simpson , the proprietor . As far as our own observations extends , there appears to be nothing to object to in the mode of conducting Crembrne . Pioos Gamblers . —One of the most amusing

      instances of external piety we remember to baVe -witnessed was in a Madrid club , where every night , towards twelve o ' clock , a rouge-et-noir table opens . Occasionally it has happened that when the game was at the hottest , the table strewn with gold and notes , eagerness to be read on the flushed countenances that craned over the gTeen cloth , there was heard in the street without the tinkle of the bell that announces the passage of the Host . Instantly the game was suspended , the gamblers knelt upon their chairs or on the floor , and crossed themselves and mumbled prayers while the consecrated wafer passed on its way to some dying man ' s bedside . The sound of the bell and of the steps of the priests grew fainter , and as it died away the gamblers resumed their seats , again grasped their gold , and stretched their necks , and once more it was , " Rouge gagne et la coulenr . "—Elacfouood ' s Magazine .

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      Slit Mojitos Pkto has announced his intention of retiring from the Chester and Holyhead ltaihvay Company . Amkiuoa . —Lieutenant James M'Garty , who accompanied Dr . Kane on his last Arctic expedition , died suddenly at Boston on the 2 nd inst . Tho Cashior of the iiagle Bank at Rochester , John B . Uobertaon , has been arrcBt « d on a charge of attempting to murder his wife by administering drugs of a slow but deadly nature . lino Munnicn im tub Queen ' s Bknoh Piuhon . — Tho mnl of Dr . Snlvi for tlio murder of Mr . Robortfion has oeen postponed to next session of the Central Criminal \ sO \ itt , Chttstak 1 \ at , aok . — Return of admissions for six aay 9 ending Friday , Sept . 18 , 1857 , including season ticket holders , 2 G , 175 .

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      There is no learned man but will confess he hath much profited by 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 adversary to write?— Milton .

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      THE NEWS FROM INDIA , ATSfD ' THE INDIAN NEWS . ' ( To the Editor of the Leader . * ) Sir , — " ' Lord Elgin has arrived at Calcutta . ' What may this mean ? " said I , in my innocence of heart . " Mean ! " quoth a military friend ; " don't you ever read the Family Herald ?" "Oh , of course : a meritorious publication . I do see it now and then—a literary journal !" " Bother literature . I mean the Indian News . The Editor and his correspondents get on swimmingly ; it reminds one of the ' unanimity' scene in the Critic In the very last number , sir , he calls one of his constituents a drunken fool , and sends his love to another . But in regard more particularly to our starting point , allow me to present you with the following elegant extract , under date August 8 fch , 1857 : —

      " ' Lord Elgin was expected at Calcutta , to assist the Governor-General ( " that precious muff , " as our informant , with more truth than reverence terms him ) with his countenance and counsel . ' " And Lord Elgin was in Calcutta by last advices . I will not halt on the road to discuss the propriety of characterizing a Governor-General of India as ' that precious rnuff . ' But , Lord Elgin is in Calcutta—and ' what makes he there ?' The answer which I am from exclusive sources enabled to give is simply -this , viz ., that the European population of the Bengal Presidency had arrived at the determination of putting their dilettante ruler and his weak advisers under restraint . It was

      &c , confined near the Soubaiccr ' s Tank * at Cawnpore ; that he knew it ; and , knowing , declined to advance . The intelligence from Delhi is absolutely nought . It is only too probable that the report of the siege having been raised , which you mentioned last week , may turn out to le correct . Ex-Obeentai ..

      consequently hinted to Lord Elgin that his presence alone might suffice to avert so unseemly a catastrophe . Let , not England be deceived . There are two distinct insurrections to be . quelled in India . The one is the Sepoy mutiny , the other Is the far more dangerous revolt of John Bull against chartered tyranny . Venables , Saunders , Chapman , and fifty more whom . I could mention , who are at this moment keeping hundreds of square miles in order at the head of their own tenants , will not again consent to sink into a subordinate rank . They have earned with their good swords the rights which they will feel mightily inclined to maintain , or else my estimate of those gentlemen rests on an entirely false basis .

      As for military intelligence received hy the last mail , I confess to being very much in the dark . Has General Lloyd crushed the Dinapore outbreak , or has he failed disgracefully ? Discordant reports from Bombay and Calcutta leave us quite at fault . George William Aylmer Lloyd was about one of the best officers in India . He was the right man in the right place , i . e . at Dinapore , where a cautiou . 3—a waiting game had to be played . Now Lloyd was emphatically a tactician—a , scientific soldier ; a better never stepped . But I ca . u tell you something . He and I were together at Berrill ' s Hotel , at Mussoorie , for some weeks in the autumn of 1852 . He was then labouring under a disease something resembling epilepsy . It attacked him generally at table , at any time of the day ; he was an abstemious man , but it took many hours ere he came round . His medical advisers entreated him to go home at this time .

      If he really did what is attributed to him , he could not have been in his senses . Arrali is barely four miles west of the Sonne , the eastern bank of that river being twenty-four miles distant from Dinapore . Common sense would dictate that Mr . Littlcdalc and the other residents of Shalmbad should have attempted an escape by night ; the paTties from Dinapore being on the look-out for them on the farther shore in the early morning . I fear , upon the whole , that the intelligence from India by the incoming mail cunnot lie deemed good . Hut , on the other hand , I do not deem it absolutely bad . As regards General Haveloek , the public will

      soon be enlightened . In the meantime any officer in the Bombay army can give the requisite information . Tho Brigadier-General , so Intterly attacked by the Mofussilite , will probably be superseded by that same Neill whom lie is currently reported to have insulted in gross , however safe terms . One of your contemporaries on Saturday lust published an accusation against the bewildered Lord Canning ( having reference to this same llnvelock ) which , if true , ought to be as good ns any sentence of exile for life that ever was pronounced . In the military clubs tho same story wns yesterday affirmed , with the frightful addition that the hero Haveloek was positively within three miles of the thirty-two vomen . children ,

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      It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their ins erfcion is offcesi delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted , it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . No notice can be taken of anonymous correspondence . Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of tlie writer ; not necessarily forpublication . but as aKuaranteeof hisgoodfaith . We cannot undertake to return rejeoted communications .

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      VISCOUNT CANNING . The Indian intelligence is somewhat coafused . and contradictory . ^ That we certainly know is that Brigadier-General Havelock , after a triumphant mareh from Allahabad to within one or two days' march of Lucknow , had been compelled , by the sickness of the column under his command , to fall back upon Cawnpore . He had driven jSIena Sahib and his followers out of that vast cantonment ; had destroyed 13 hitoor ; had followed up his

      success by defeating and dispersing the enemy on the road to Lucknow ; and then , succumbing to the visitation of cholera , had been compelled to pause , and even to retrace his line of march , in order to place his invalids in safety , recruit the failing vitality of his troo 2 > s , and wait for reinforcements . Such is the view we derive from the published despatches . Another Interpretation is put upon Ins conduct in a letter addressed to our Open Council , ' from a writer who , we

      are bound to say , is entitled to confidence and respect ; Imt the issue raised is so serious , that we reserve our judgment until we receive more ample information . The retreat from Delhi is not confirmed , and is in some respects improbable . That a mutiny should have broken out at Dinapore is not surprising ; but that it should not have been prevented by precautionary measures surpasses all we have heard of official blindness and apathy . We are also totally in the dark concerning the

      slaughter of two hundred English soldiers led into an ambush at Arrah . The disarming of the Governor-General ' s body-guard , the incipient revolt in Bombay , the detection of a vaBt conspiracy at scattered points of the Bombay Presidency , the panic inspired by the approach of the Mohurrum , are all details of intelligence for which our readers have been prepared . We are by no means disposed

      to look gloomily upon the progress of the struggle between tho English and the insurgent forces ; yet we cannot fail to discern that a supreme crisis has arisen , and we ask , what are our guarantees of a triumphant issue ? Tho nation will do its duty . But we have Mr . Veknon Smith at the helm , Mr . Mangmcs in command of the Court of Directors , nnd Lord Canning as Governor-General of India .

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      ' Lkader Office , Saturday , September 19 . ASSASSINATION OF PRINCE DANILO . Prince Danilo , of Montenegro , ha 3 been assassinated hy some of his kinsmen , in revenge for the death of his nephew , assassinated by his procurement ( says the telegraphic despatch ) at Constantinople .

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      THE CONTINENT . The Duke of Cambridge left Paris on Thursday morning for tho camp at Chalons , where important military operations are about to bo represented in his honour . Three aides-de-camp accompanied his Royal Highness . The Prince of Wales has arrived ia Geneva from his excursion to tho valley of Cliamouni * , and has put up at the Hotel des Bergues , where the King of tho Belgians is residing .

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      NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . We have been compelled by press of matter to omit' Indian Pamphlets , ' and a variety of other literary reviews .

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      SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 19 , 1857 .

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      There is nothingso revolutionary , because therei » nothing so unriaturai and convulsive , as the strain to keep ' things fixed -when all the world is by the very law ofifc 3 creationm eternal progress . —Db . Abkoii ) .

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      IN THIS DEPAEIMBKT , A 3 AM . OPINIONS , HOWEVER EXTKBMK , ABE ALLOWED AN BXPBBSSION , THE KDITO 1 C NECESSABILY HOLDS HIMSELF KB 3 POH 3 IBLB FOB NONE . ]

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      No- 391 , September 19 , 1857 . ] THE LEADER . : 901

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 19, 1857, page 901, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2210/page/13/