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TheManchbstkr Exhibition . —The final closing of Hie Art Treasures Exhibition , -which was originally fixed for the 15 th of October , has been postponed by the Executive Committee to Saturday , the 17 th , in consequence of the necessary shutting tip of the Exhibition on the day set apart for the national humiliation . . • ¦¦ Thb Great Northern Railway Accident . —One of the persona wounded by this catastrophe has died , making in all five deaths . —The inquest oa the dead bodies has occupied two days , and was concluded on Tuesday . The accident appears to have been caused by fcw taJ ? going too fast . It would seem to have been ™ + he rate of * ty miles hour at the time j uuui si uiuuuk
Z ~ Mna . « J s » an twvicaediniF at — — - *~ . ~ m . »^ o ) oTthe catastrophe , ? ith a £ ew to making up for lost time . The jury , after con ^ " ^ half an * " >«*» returned a verdict of Accidental Death . iM » foreman then handed in the following addendum to the verdict : — "The jury , in giving their fullest consideration to the details of this melanchol y accident , cannot separate without stating that it appears that there i 3 not sufficient caution given to the engine-drivers in working express trains , that they are entrusted with the exercise of a very large and dangerous amount of discretion , and that there should be a maximum speed which the drivers
of them should not , under any circumstances , exceed . And we further desire the coroner to communicate the Verdict to the Board of Trade , and request them to bring ; the subject under the consideration of the Government . " The Great Northern line , it will be remembered , is constructed on the narrow gauge principle , which -renders a high rate of speed more dangerous than it is on the broad gauge . A traveller by the Great Northern morning "^ express train from Manchester to London affirms that he timed the speed on Tuesday week , and found that som « parts of thejourney were performed at the rate of sixty--fourj miles in an
hour-* SSqtjabbung ' Auoekmen . —The little dispute between Aldermen Hale and Copeland which -we related in -cm paper last week , was- resumed on Saturday by the latter , who remarked that hia observations had been in--eorrectly reported . He -was stated to- have said that -thousands of barrels of tallow were bought and sold -. without delivery in Capel-court . What he had said was "¦ that that took place at the Baltic Coffee-house . He was too well acquainted -with City matters to make so absurd an error . This correction being made , Alderman Hale said : — "I thought your remarks at the time very improper , and I consider the report a very fair one . . I think it would have been very unbecoming of me had I , on coming in by accident when you were hearing a case ,
referred to earthenware . I never speculated in a cask of tallow in my life in that way . " Mr . Alderman Copeland : "If you choose to take it to yourself , you are welcome . I only made the remarks in the course of my public duty . " Mr . Alderman Hale : "You were not ¦ called upon to interfere in the case in question . '' Mr . Alderman Copeland : " I shall always interfere when I think it necessary . I am perfectly competent , after thirty years , to discbarge the duties of my office . I shall go where I can meet with more courtesy than I have met with here . " Mr . Alderman Hale : "You are quite at liberty to do so . " . The offended civic magistrate then left , and Mr . Alderman Humphrey -was sent for to assist Mr . Alderman Hale in disposing of the business . ¦
Thb New Lord Matok . —A Common Hall of the Livery of the City of London was held on Tuesday at Guidhall , to elect a Lord Mayor for the ensuing year . According to the annual routine , Sir Robert Walter Cardeo , M . P ., us the senior alderman below the chair , succeeds to the office of right , provided another candidate were not proposed snd elected ; and , on the present occasion , another candidate was proposed . Mr . Anderton , amidst considerable tumult , proposed the present Lord Mayor for re-election . He then proceeded to condemn
Alderman Oarden for having voted itt Parliament against the admittance of Jews to the House of Commons , and for giving evidence before the Sale of Beer Act Committee prejudicial to the interests of th « publicans : and the convenience of tho public . Sir K . < W . Cardea , however , was elected , and , in thanking hJa friendofOhe denied that , as had been stated , he was the poor man ' s enemy , or that ho was a teetotaller . ' , He did not wish to deprive the working man . of hia beer ; he only wished to put an end to intemperance . ... < : .
The New SaniuFFB fob London and Hiddmisex . --Mr . Alderman Lawrence and . Mr . Allen , the . jnewlyelected Sheriffs for London and Middlesex for the ensuing year , wero on Monday sworn into office at . Guildhall with the usual forma . The new Sheriffa were on "Wednesday presented , after tlio usual manner , to Mr . Baron Channell at the Court of Exchequer . The inauguration dinner took place in tho evening At tho London Tavern . Thk Schools of Art . —Tho flrat distribution of tho national meduls for drawing among . tu « atudanta . of the schools of art off tho United Kingdom , . will / tuko place at Manohostor , in the Town-hall ; on tho 9 th October . , The distribution will bo tnadu by the tord ( President of . the Council , the ¦ JRlght \ II on ., tho .. Earl ¦ Gr « nvillo , and the Y | ix * Froident 7 <> f > the Education , Committee ; th « Right Hon . W . Cowjper . : . ¦ ,, ' ., | , lr fl ,,,, i , -,,,,.,., :
lxq * miiWmB&m&mi via Tucket . —Sir Willia m ^ 9 |»« ughnesii-y has , wo understand , left England for India . Mo gwS ' bywjarf Constantinople , inhere ho will remain , few dayV in bVuoif t ^ afe& '^ ith the
Turkish Government for the construction of a telegraph from that city to Bagdad . . This line will be constructed by the Turkish Government , be under its sole control , and be connected with the East India Company ' s tel « - graph down the Persian Gulf to Kurrachee . Sir William O'Shaughnessy had a long interview with Lord Palmerston previous to his departure . — -. Daii ! y News . The Nethebton Coltjeby Explosion . —The inquest on the body of George French , the ' doggy * who was killed in the Gworn Colliery with eight other colliers by an explosion of firedamp , was brought to a close on Monday night . Mr . Astor , the underground bailiff of
the pit , gave his opinion that the explosion , had been caused by a * shut' or fall of coal . Mr . Bromgh , the Government inspector for the district , said that , if the ventilation of the pit was not improved in the way he had suggested in his report , more lives would be lost there . The jury , after retiring for nearly an hour , returned as their verdict , "That the death of George French was caused by an explosion of sulphur which had accumulated in the pit , but what fired it there was no evidence to show ; at the same time , the managers of the pit were exceedingly blamable in not having carried out Mr . Brough ' s suggestion for gateroad air . " -:. ' ¦ ¦
A Fact for the Hkcbuimko Sebgeast . —For the office of doorkeeper at the Liverpool Sailors' Home ( with 501 . a year salary ) there were no less than one hundred and fifty-eight applicants , including-a number of stalwart young fellows , who seemed well able to fight the battles of their country . ' The Sebastopoi ^ Trophies m Leb : ds . —The two Russian guns presented to the corporation of Leeds by Lord Panmure , were , on Monday , deposited on a site on Woodhouse-moor , in the presence . of about 60 , 000 persons . International Copyright . —The Gazette of Tuesday night contains a copy of a treaty establishing an international copyright with Spain . The Abchbishop op Canterbury has commenced during the present week the visitation of his diocese .
An EscAfk . — -We are happy to -be able to state on the best authority that General Parsons , G . B ., who was returned as ' missing * after the Bareiuy massacre , is safe at Nynee Tal , with his family . The general was not at Bareilly at the time of the outbreak , and has not been away from Nynee Tal for some months . —flurkaru , July 30 . Cbeiiobne Gardens . —Rather more than 3601 . will be paid over by Mr . Simpson to the Indian Fund , as the proceeds of the closing fete at Cremorne , last Monday .
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DENMARK . A l etter from Copenhagen in the Bourse Gazette of Berlin , says : — "Certain German journals have stated that the Danish Cabinet will make fresh concessions to the Duchies . Here , on the contrary , it is known that the Danish Government has not the least intention of making the slightest concession . "
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Collision at Sea , sear the Isle oi ? Man . —The Annan and Whitehaven trader , a sloop bound from Liverpool to Annan , has been run down off Peel , Isle of Man , by the steamer Queen , from Whitehaven for Liverpool , which arrived on Sunday . The mate and his wife were carried down in the sloop , but the captain and the rest of the crew were taken on board the steamer , and landed in Liverpool . —Preston Guardian . Suicide of a Ship Captain . —As the ship Arnctin , belonging to the Messrs . Brocklebank , of Liverpool , was off Point Lynas , Captain Wise , the commander , put an end to his existence by deliberately walking overboard . Efforts -were made to recover the body , but they failed . Serious Charge . —A man named John Thomson has been taken into custody in Glasgow by the Renfrewshire county police , on a charge of having administered prussic acid to a woman named Agnes Moiitgomerio , residing in the village of Eaglesharn , and which caused her death almost instantaneously . Disappointed love was the cause . ; MunDKJt and Suicidk .- —A "besom maker at Great Bolton , near Manchester , has murdered his wife , and afterwards committed suicide . The Burglary asd Murder at Brajiaix . —This tragi cal occurrence , related in another part of our this day ' s paper , hae received a deeper and still more horrible dye from tho inquiries of the police . James , the eldest son , has been taken into custody under suspicion of being the murderer of his father . Hia account of the affair is full of discrepancies ; there are no mark s oftlic promises having been burglariously entered ; and he was known to have been on bad terms with his parent . Tho small round shot extracted from the head of Henderson oh . a post mortem examination are of about the sanio size and description as those found in the plaster of tho wall , and fired from thb . prisoner ' s guri , when , as he alleges , lie discharged it at tho burglar . Tho papers used us wadding in both discharges were ala 6 not only found to correspond with each other ; | Mt with paper found in tho prisoner ' s dresBing-tablo drawer . ' Tho type is tho snnio , imd there is enough , letter-press on tho scrap to identify It ; Then the wadding of tho gun-chnrgo , which took enect cm the side of this window of tho staircase , is in tho hands of the police , aridis ' enBily identified « a part of tho same publication . ' ' ' •" BAsisostoKU MuciiANuV Institute . —Tho fourth annual confer ^ co of t , ho Hants" and Wilts Educational Spciety , in , ^ onnoxivn' with this tnatUutioil , will bo held In tho Town-hall at Baaiiigatok ' e / next Mondtiy morning-Tho Dean of Salisbury 16 to prinlidev tho Earl of Carnarvon will deliver a lbctu ^ o thel aiamo evoning on the Hiijtory' of tho County > of' Ha ' ninrfhita' ' : > '
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+. Leader Office , Saturday , October 3 . INDIA . Nujoor Jewabrbe , a man belonging to the 1 st Native Infantry , and said to be one of our spi « s , communicates a painfully , interesting narrative of tho Cawnpore massacre , in which wo read : — . l " "When the Nena ' a guns opened on the boat in which Wheeler Sahib , the General , -was . ( it has now been fully ascertained from servants and others who were with the Eng lish party that General . Wheeler was not dead before the massacre , but was put wounded on board the beat ) , he cut its cable and dropped down the river . Some little way down , tho boat got . stuck near the shore . The infantry and guns came up and
opened fire . The large gun they could not manage , not knowing how to work the elevating sorew , and did not uee it . With tho small gun they fired : grape tied up in bags , and the infantry fired with tlioir muskets- This went on all day . It did not hurt the Sahib-log much . They returned the fire with their rifles from the boat , and wounded several of tho SepoyB on the bank , who therefore drew off towards evening ; The Sepoy 9 procured a very < big boat , into which , they all , got ,, and dropped down the river upon the . Sahibs'boats . Then the Sahibs fired again with their rifles and wounded more / Sepoys in the boat , and I ^ liey draw off and left them . " On being afterwards captviTed , and brought back to Cawnpore , it wasf determined to kill the men , and 16 spare the ' memi Sahibs' ( the women ) . ?« ? Then' said one of the mem-Sahibs —( the doctor ' s wife she was ; I don ' t know his
name , but Iuv was cither superintending surgeon or medical storekeeper)—; ' will not , leave my husband : if ho must die ,, X will die * with him . ' jSoshoran and sat down .. behind . her husband , clasping him found tho waist , pirectl y sh Baid this / ' tho . oth « r me ' rh-Sahiba said ,, Wo will also dio vVith Qur ki'U 8 uan < ft : ' drfd they all went and sat down beside their husbands . Then their husbands said . , ' . G « bacttj * biit tli « y w ^ uld not ., Wherou ipn tho $ cn , a order ©! his aoidfcrs , and they going in pulled , ^ cm forcibl y Away , S eizing them by . } . 1 iq arm but thay cpjud" hot pull ' away the doctor ' s wife , who , there remnfaed . TfccnV ) uk' & W Sopoya wero going to firo ; t $ « ptfre ^ la ' plalri ) ' c ^ ltecf o > t to the Nena and requeptpd le > Ve t 6 read ' prayerat ^ fbro thby d i ^ 'f'M grttnt 6 d ' it . The padre ' s bonds were unloosed ao far as to onubla him to take a email book
out of his pocket , from whicli he read ; but all this time one of the Sahib-logs ; who was shot in the arm and the leg , kept crying out to the Sepoys , 'If you mean to kill us , why don't you Bet about it quickly and get the work done ? Why delay ? ' After the padre had read a few prayers , he shut the book , aud the Sahib-log shook hands all round . Then the Sepoys fired . One Sahib rolled one way , one another , as they sat ; but they were not dead , only wounded ; so they went in , and finished them off with swords . " "' Were any of our people dishonoured by the Nena or his people ? ' None that I know of , excepting in the case of General Wheeler ' s youngest daughter , and
about this I am not certain . This waa her circumstance : —As they were taking the mem-Sahiba out of the boat * a sowar ( cavalry man ) took her away with him to his house . She went quietly ; but at night she rose and got bold of the sowar ' s sword . H « was asleep ; his wife , his son , and his mother-in-law were sleeping in the house with him . She killed them all witli the sword , and then she went and threw herself dow n the well behind the house . In the morning , when people came and found the dead in the house , the crv was ' Who has done this ? ' Then a neighbour said that in the night he had seen some one go and throw himself into the well . They went and looked , and there was Missee Baba , dead and swollen .
The Toys publishes the following inte lligence from Lucknow , which itis to be hoped is incorrect : — " Nena Sahib arrived at Lucknow in the first days of August ; he is now governor of the town and commander-in-chief of the army of Oude ; Emin . Sahib has placed hv . nself under his orders . The English have withdrawn to the fortress , and are besieged by Nena Sahib in person . He has cut the canals which supplied the citadel with water from the river Goutmy . The English troops are reduced to the last extremities ; it i s unhappily not probabble that they can tie relieved in time , for General Havelock , according to the latest accounts , was blockaded in Cawnpore . "
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 3, 1857, page 948, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2212/page/12/
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