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    office , put the question frankly as a matter of Irish ' feeling / This is the whole truth . It is a measure of administrative reform , and the pinchbeck Court comes badly out of the aquafortis of Mr . Roebuck ' s common-sense . J&ut , statesmen < # fc 1 b « l » h sides—if we may so speak tff ourjioliticians—nnflafc cheap and easy to spend 50 , 0004 . , or so in pacifyaajg : Irish members , and especially dihe half-dozen Jteturned for the Irish jnetrQpa&fewi constikuenwaes . When English local members tiave a pull a * the Consolidated Fund , it is generally for a park , where artisans may breathe fresh air , and feel green turf beneath their feet ; if the Dublin folk love better to see ' the bould adj-e-congs' go prancing up Corkhill , why , there is no disputing abau-t tastes . With regard to foreign politics , perhaps the appointment of Marshal Pelissiek , Duke of ^ Malakhoff , vice the Count i > e Persigny , as ambassador to . London is the most noticeable event . In England , the mere change of men will not be likely to produce any difference of feeling with regard to the alliance of the two countries , though , the announcement of the Marshal ' s appointment told immediately upon the delicate sensibilities of the French funds , which did not recover their equanimity until the Moniteur had assured all whom it might concern thait the appointment had been made by the Emperor expressly to show to England how high a value he sets upon the alliance . Whatever may have been his immediate motive , there is no disposition here to question the judiciousness of his choice . The Duke of Malakhoft made the acquaintance of England under circumstances that are believed to have left no unfavourable impression on his mind ; if he comes , then , favourably disposed towards us by the past , the opportunities which he ¦ will now enjoy of unlimited intimacy with the English people can hardly fail to better the good feelings .

    By the late telegrams we learn that Sir Colin Ca : mfbeix was pushing forward to assault Lucknow , and that the bombardment -was likely to commence on the 27 th of February last . His forces , though not perhaps sufficient for the entire investment of the place , were large enough to do away with anxiety as to the result . He had fifteen regiments of European infantry , and three of native , three regiments of European cavalry , and three regiments , with detachments of two other regiments , of native cavalry . His artillery consisted of eighty heavy guns and mortars , and sixty-three field pieces . But in addition to this force , he had a right to expect that by the commencement of the bombardment he would be joined by the combined troops under Jung Bahadoou and General Franks , numbering some twelve thousand men of all arms . ¦ Prom China the news is , in one sense , of a less positive character . There is not the least doubt that we have possession of Canton ; and the 'Commissioner Yeh , when last heard of , was held prisoner on board her Majesty ' s ship Inflexible ; but tfhese matters stand 'dead still— -at all events , for'ft -while . The foaly indication of progress is the alliance of the Russians And Americans in tho demands of English and French upon the Chinese Government . Tho representatives of the four

    Borers had started northward , and it was expected that by tho middle of tho present month something would be known of the will and intentions of tho Brother of tho Sun . Meanwhile , the only advantage gained by tho oapturc of Canton is that the outer barbarians—with tho small drawback of not being ablo with perfect dignity and comfort to makQ ^ tUemaclyjos _ pr _ Uw getting on within tho once saored city as ' well aa can bo cxpeotod ; ' and as tho blockade is raised , trade is ablo to resume some degree of life .

    • " ' Tlie result—or rather no result—of the Govern'; ..- intent . investigation into tho ciroumatanccs of the late *(' , . d ^ t ( i'bi ) . ^ oo . at Duulin has confirmed tho remark ; '• ' W' ^ foadoii . laSfc week , tiiat all opinion on tho o « sc V ' - . « .. ' ' ¦ *• ' '• ¦ L rv-v ¦ . < :

    should 'be ( feferced , -Acting upon the wish expressed by a large iaum'ber of the people of Dublin , the Irish Goveranncnt appointed a commissioner to inquire , audlhis court was open for two days * inviting ail wAw > tbad evidence to ggwe . to come foawttrfl .. But one person answered the invitation , andius ejrifiSenee is reported by the comimssionear to have beeaa « guite uuimjaortanfc . So the iaogjuiry s a total fail one . Ihc reasons aaay have beeaa ttfhat tkte police wifjbed for a secret inquiry , at which the men would have spoken more freely ; while the College demanded publicity . There is no doubt the Irish Government intended a real investigation . We shall now have to get at the facts of this case by the ordinary channel of the law courts ; and possibly we shall never hear the ' whole truth and nothing but the truth' of the matter . There is much ill-blood , on either side . Bat it is the duty of those in authority on either side to see that this ill-blood does not again produce such consequences . If young gentlemen will not conduct themselves as gentlemen should , neither they nor their friends have any cause of quarrel with those who roughly resent their ungentlemanly conduct ; if policemen are set upon by a mob , who pelt them with oranges , or more offensive missiles , they will naturally defend themselves with whatever weapons they may have at hand—if their staves , with peril to the heads of their assailants ; if their cutlasses , with probability of graver consequences . An ' accident' happened ou the North-Western Railway , on Monday , that illustrates a condition of railway mismanagement to which , probably , nothing will ever put a stop shoi't of the burning of Sydney Smith's ' bishop . ' A little on the London side of the Watford station the road was under repair ; the chairs placed , but not spiked down upon the sleepers ; the rails 'just dropped into their places in the joint chairs , and so on . Over this hit of way an express train from Birmingham to London was driven at a speed of forty or fifty miles an hour—with what result might have been foreseen by any but a railway official , whose particular business it is to know sometliing about such matters . The express train came upon the unsecured rails , and then , after progressing for a second or two with a motion like a ooat over rough water , came to a standstill—preceded by the inevitable crash . No lives were lost , and so , perhaps , the ' accident * does not count in the railway black-book , if there is such a volume ; but we would suggest that the North-Western managers should not entirely look over the little affair . It seems that the only thing that prevented a real catastrophe , was a quantity of sand-ballast which had been laid down at the particular spot , and into which , the scattered engine and oarriages ploughed their way axle-deep , instead of pitching down a steep embankment : now , if the managers of this line have an insurmountable objection to interfering witli the running of their express trains over imperfect bits of road , lot them at least lay down a liberal quantity of sand-ballast . In the murder case tried at Shrewsbury on Saturday last we get a view of English peasant life which , if it is not edifying , is extremely interesting —and withal somewhat saddening . It is not that another man has stained , his hands in tho blood of a woman—that is painful enough to contcmplato as a fact—but it is that , in spite of all helps to popular intellectual development , the rankest woods of ignorance and superstition still flourish in England . The poor wretch who is condemned to bo hanged was thirty-five years of age ; ho had been living as tho husband of a woman who was betweon sixty and soventy yonrs of ago , and by whom not only ho , but numbers of those among whom lie was living , believed lie was bowitehod—held by tho power of an evil eye , ' against which lie was powerless . The whole atmosphere of the homo of tho wretohed ~ pair- 'ia-di'eamily-sliranger- '' -y . hO ' -afctein p t 8-of tho man to bo free of hor ; her power of drawing him baok to hor by tho assumed exercise of inngio whenover he triod to esoapo j his last resource in murder . What is to be Baid of our civiiizmlion , when , at tho cud of eighteen Christian oouturica , wo find wo havo got on no further than this , not only in Oxfordshire but in many another county of ' mcrrio England ?'

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    TBTA . VAI . AND MILIT-ABY . 1 "nRasfeMMBSON of Troops to India . —The Euronen ¦ anfl Australian Company ' s steamer Columbian sailed from Suez an dbe 1 st inst ., and carried forward th . party < rf men of tlie 92 nd Highlanders which »! . brought * o Alexandria by the Ripon . This detachment : > was to have gone on to Bombay by the Peninsular and Oriental Company ' s steamer Pottinger ; but it appears thai , < an itiae < awival of the men at Suez , they objected in Ahe ( first place to the quality of the provisions , and snb--waquently to the accommodation on board the boat . The Pottinger is a deep-waisted vessel , and her decks , upon which at least a portion of the men -was to sleep , were encumbered with live stock of every description . The officers appear to have sided with their men ; and the . complaints of the latter growing louder and louder Commander Stevens ., of the Roy . al Navy , the Admiralty agent on board the Columbian , and senior officer to the mail agent of the Pottinger , -was called upon for his opinion . This gentleman having formall y stated that I he considered the accommodation to he both insufficient and unsuitable , Colonel Mackenzie ordered the men to be forthwith shipped on board the Columbian . Times Alexandrian Correspondent . Imprisonment in the Army . —The following General Order , addressed to the army at home and abroad , has been issued from the Horse Guards : — "His Royal Highness the G-eneral Commanding-in-Chief directs that when prisoners , sentenced by court-martial , are temporarily placed in garrison or barrack cells to wait admission into a military prison , they are not , while thus confined , to be deprived of their beds , or to be subjected to any punishment beyond imprisonment . —By command , G . A * Wetiierall , Adjutant-General . " Mercantile Marine . —The Liverpool Dalit / Pos suggests that Government ought to encourage the mer cantile marine , and " raise it to the same analogous position towards the Royal navy that the militia holds to tharmy . " The -writer conceives that the merchant service should be recognized as an incorporated body , and thae a certain rank should be accorded to the officers , whet should be allowed to wear a uniform off duty if they pleased , while , when on duty , the wearing of it should be imperative . " The case of fire on board the Sarah Sands afforded a remarkable display of chivalric courage and discipline on the part of Captain Castle and the officers and crew ; and yet Government have not deigned to notice such gallant and meritorious conduct . " The Militia . —There are now , according to a new return , 37 regiments of militia in the United Kingdom whose quotas are complete , and 127 whose quotas are incomplete . The number of men required to complete the quotas is 15 , 851 , and there are 10 , 323 men whose service expires within six months 9629 men are required in England , 1941 in Scotland , and 4281 in Ireland . An Heroic Consul . —Mr . Jacob Eoaeh , on behalf of all the crew of the ship Antoinette , writes to the Times : " Through your columns I wish to makeHtnown the loss of the North American ship Antoinette , of New York . We left Callao on the 22 nd of October , bound for London , with a cargo of guano , and had a fine passage up to Cape Horn ; but in two days afterwards we were wrecked on the coast of the Falkland Islands , and , strange to say , I did not know of any settlement belonging to us there , and neither did any one on board . The captain said there was a settlement formerl y at Berkeley Sand , and we proceeded there after our ship had gone to tho bottom . Wo got there on tho second day after wo loft the ship , or rather to a settlement at Port William , where wo found an American consul [ Captain Smyly ] , to whom tho captain told our loss , and that there was a boat and five men adrift , whom we had lost Bight of . The poor old gentleman got a voesol the same afternoon , and at duylight the next morning proceeded to look for them , although it blew a gale of wind . His last words to us were , ' Don't four : if they nro alive , I will find them ; ' nnd find them he did on one of the small islands , with boat stove and without water ; and tho crow informed mo that ho never left the deck or slept until he did find them , when lie showed them every kindness in his power . Ho was absent but four do-ya , I am informod by the inhabitants of the colony that ho has always beon in tho habit of ucting in tliw way for muny yearn . " Tiik Pauliamicntauy Commissionkks for Inquiring into tho Stnte of tho Ilonpital nnd Barrack Accommodation in England and Wnlos—connoting of Mr . Sidney Herbert , M . P ., Dr . Sutherland , Dr . Burrell , &o . —arrived at Chatham on Thursday , for tho purpose of limiting « "J inspection of tho barracks and military hospitals "t tnnt garrison . . This Nkw Church in Woolwich Dooic vAitn mos boon rooted in , and will bo ready for divine sorvicn about bo enclosed , surrounding tho edifice , ivluoli irto 1 ) 0 in u out iu an or . nainontul stylo of ' cottage garden , i >» protected by iron gatos nnd rail * . » Tiik Mkroiiant Siiipitno Act . —A ^ 0 P " }'" M " shlpownorB , &c , had an interview yesterday wit" « J Ilauloy nnd tho ISarl of Donoughmoro , at tho offloo oi w " Hoard of Trade , for tho purpose of Inducing Oovoruinont to limit tho liability of uhlpownorB in tlio oaao «» tho loss of passengers . Mr . Honley hold out no nope *

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    9 Q f > THE LEADEIl . [ No . 418 , March 27 , 1858 .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), March 27, 1858, page 290, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2236/page/2/