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¦» In This, The First Week Of The Recess...
prepared to put up either with their chairman , or the decisions of Sir "William Page Wood in favour of the preference shareholders and their arrears—a decision which would allow one class of shareholders to take the whole amount « £ tbtar dividorfe « ± j while depriving tlie other class < s £ their Snrideifc for some years to come / although both classes setae equally responsible for mahxtammng in power tfhe untrustworthy servaats that JBjbjrpatu cWxa » 8 e ? l . The decision will come to an appeal ; bat as ror the chairman , he defies the shareholders in language spiced by some of the commonest forms of colloquial animation . The aberrations . of railway . authorities ^ and the tendency to -erttpfawa . in . railrasty ifoodies , jani gkt form a good subject for the next session of the British Association for ike Advancement of Seiejtee ^ i >}^ , body having this year shown , an increasing capacity ffor . peaefcr & tiag the profaundest subjects , and giving forth the resultant principles to the public . Amongst other hws , it has bj this time ascertained the laws of festivity , under the graceful hospitality < af Xord Cakusie ; the countenance of that most mellifluous statesman being amongst the pleasant phenomena -which the Society has been invited to observe .
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. Pbospbcxs op Ikelasto . —With an eneTgy and a spirit w = orthy of these stirring and eventful times , the various material resources of the country are already in a » eiw an « L hopeful co wrae of -extensive and -important deveiopta « ait . The mines and quarries alone Already give employment to many thousands of . persons , and the surplus labour is being rapidly absorbed by the new works which are gradually starting into existence , even to the reimotast comers of the island ; in the iar-. off = and all but depopulated wilds of . Kerry , and in . the solitudes of Connemara and Donegal , the busy hum of industry is heard in the hills , and the sound of the anvil resounds through < tbeir vales . This ua-¦ avonted gleam iof . prosperity would aecnj alceady to fcave . new-strung the energies of a naturally
warmhearted , clever , and impulsive people ; and it is ¦ earnestly ° to be desired that an accelerated intercourse "betweea the two countries will «< mtimue to foster and incite this onward ccareer , to obliviateall » ajr . ow-ininded , . national , and party prejudices , and to engender a liberal spirit , and a universal desire for Intellectual enlightenment , tffll the Celt , 4 a « very essential sense of -the word , As aasdojis and-emulous to go land in hand with Saxon advancement—thai in heart And verity we may be one people , as we are the subjects of one sovereign , and are all the children of one Common Parent , even of Him who hath ' garnished the isles , and aent forth ' His ; word for the . good of His people , ' on the due appreciation and following of which alike depend personal happiness and national prosperity . —Holdsioorth ' s * Mines and Soils of Ireland ?
BiUKNXKG AN » 35 DRYING . —lathe pejpords of the Medical ODSLcers of Health for London ^ we x « ad that in th « Victoria Park Cemetery , last year , every Sunday , one hundred and thirty bodies were interred ; which fact one of the medical journals expressed by saying that there -were sixteen thousand pounds of mortal matter added on that day alon « to the already decomposing mass . At tho time when w o were reading about such things , ' A Member of tho Royal College of Surgeons' issued a pamphlet upon an old subject of ours , Burning the Dead , or Urn Sepulture . His argument is this : —The soul of a man is indestructible , and at death parts from tho body . tVf iiiatt ' er only the elements are , humanly
speaking , ihdiefetructible . Tie "body of man is made up of oxygen , hydrogen , nitrogen , and earbon , with small quantities of ftbosrihorus , sulphur , calcium , iron , and som « ¦ o * herttieWiSB . By tlie law to whWb . toll matter is subject , Mian ' s body , when done with , decomposes into these elements , that they may bo used for other purposes In nattirow Can it matter to him whether the process be eWeeted rapidly or slowly ? U ^> 6 * the doaiyt ha to tho possibility of resurrection -when ou * bodice have teen burnt instead of rotted , tho surgeon lays the balm of texts : That which thou sowest , fhou sowest not tlio body that s / hail be ; " and " wo shall bo changed . "
But he adds : those who claim to "have 'hereafter tho whole identical , body back again , must remember , tliat in lifo it wastes and is renewed , bo that if every particle that ever belonged to tho frame of an old man were returned to him , ho wotfld get mutter 'ttatfogh to mfcko twelve or twonty bodies . It ia just possible that somebody may bo comforted with a theory which tho surgeon quotes in a note , that tho soul carries away with it ou of tho world o « o atom of matter which Is the accfl of tht future body , and that theso acminttl atoms not boftig hero , need not bo included in our calculations about things material . —JDickens ' a Jlottsehold Words .
A Railway : Suioidk . —A man hns committed suicido on tbe Groat ETorthorn Railway by getting on tho lino , and allowing a train to pass over him .
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" 3 THE IS 30 QDA . N REVOLT . The full ded » ils from the various seats of insurrection , whiefe * rrived in the course of last Saturday , con firm tfifae brief intirn atianas of the telegraph . Tlmt the gssanson At Cnwragme -wace ^ omjdBea . teyield ;' that tfiere 1 ms been fiSgjhifful slaughter off men , women , and Children ; ami that Sir Hugh 3 WH & eeler lias asset Iiis Aeath—are , vnfoutaniately , factsHagyoRd dispute ; "taut there is afiBl -swae . amount of « 6 recurity ' as to the details . The Bombay Times says : — " After Sir Hugh " Wheeler was killed , the force at Cawnpore accepted the offer of safety made by Nanaj Sahib -and the mutineers . The treacherous miscreants , ho \ v . eyer , svhese baada were already stained with the blood jaf the luckless fugitives i & Qsa Fjittehg ; kur . opened fire on itilie . boats an ^ vitreh tthe party 'were allowed to enter , and . destroyed them « H . Other accounts state that the wives and children of the officers and soldiers , consisting of two "hundred and forty persons , were taken into Cawnpore and sold by public auction , when , after being treated with the highest Indignities , they were barbarously slaughtered by the inhabitants . There is , notwithstanding , a faint hope that some few have escaped the general massacre , as it is said that Nana Sahib has more than a hundred European prisoners in his hands , whom he intends to hold as hostages . These are probably the -remains of General Wheeler's force at Cawnpore . "
Another -account states that some of the persons assailed in the boats succeeded In landing , but that a body of cavalry placed for the purpose charged and cut them to pieces . Three officers who escaped from the first massacre were caught at some distance from Cawapore , and driven back at the points of bayonets . Two of these were afterwards blown from guns . One of our . countrymen , however—an Ensign Brown—is stated to have got clear off . It now appears that Mr . Outram , son of General Outrarn , arid Captain Jervis , were not killed in the massacre at Cawnpore . The latter , indeed , has been for several months in England on sick leave ; and the former was but slightly wounded . Lieutenant Deedes , of the 60 tia Hoyal Rifles , supposed to nave been killed at Agra , was . alive and well in the camp before Delhi on the 8 th . of July .
On the 9 th of July , tlie mutineers in Delhi assailed our -right rear inrftwee , but were driven back into the city with a loss of one thoueaaid dead , not to speak of the -wounded . Several other attempts to turn our position have met with equal failure . The annexed is a literal translation of the proclamation issued at Delhi by tbe insurgents : — "To ah . Hindoos and Musscjumans , Citizens , and Servants of IIindostan , Ime Officers of the Army now at Delhi and Meekut send Greeting . " It is well known that in these days all the English have entertained theiae evil designs—first , to destroy the religion of the whole Hindostani army , and then to make the people Jby compulsion Christians . Therefore we , solely oa account of our religion , have combined with the people , and have not spared alive one infidel , and have re-established the Delhi dynasty on these terms , and thus act in obedience to order and receive double
pay . Hundreds of guna and a largo amount of treasure have fallen into owr hands ; therefore it is fitting that whoever of the soldiers and people dislike turning Christians should unite with one heart , and , acting courageously , not leave the seed of these infidels remaining . ¥ ov any quantity of supplies delivered to the army the owners are to take the receipt of tlie officers ; and they will receive double payment from the Imperial Government . "Whoever shall in these times exhibit cowardice , or credulously believe the promises of those impostors , tlie English , ehall vory shortly be put to shame for such a deed ; and , rubbing the hands of sorrow , shall receive for tlieir fidelity the ieward the ruler of Luckmm got . It is further necessary that all Hindoos and Mussulmans unite in this struggle , and , following the instructions of some respectable people
, keep themselves secure , so that good order may bo maintained , the poorer classes kept contented , and they themeel esbo-GxahedtoraTik and dignity ; also , that all , so far as it in possible , copy this proclamation , and despatch it every whero , that all truo Hindoos and MubbuImans may bo alive and watchful , and fix it in some conspicuous place ' ( bxit pWtdently to avoid detection ) , and strike a blow with a sword before giving circulation to it . The firBt pay of thosoldiora of Delhi will bo 30 rupees per month for a trooper , and 10 rupees for a footman . Nearly ono hundred thousand men aio ready , an < l thero aro thirteen flags of « hc English regiments , and above fourteen standurds from different parts now raised uloft for our religion , for Cod , and the eonquoror , and it is the intention of Cawnpore to root out the seed of tho devil . This is what tho army here wish . "
A singular incident occurred before the walls of Delhi on tho 26-th of June . It is thus related by the Daily News Bombay correspondent : — " A largo number of Boldiors were observed to leave Delhi in some confusion , and fly under a vigorous diachargo of grape from tho walls . A body then sallied in pursuit of tho fugitives , who turned out to bo part of the
» th Nafi ^ io & Dtry W hich mutinied Alleygurh and ^*** b- j 8 » t knowing where to turn , the unfortiuSj * Mfefte 8 « U . it resolved to surrender , and gave the m selves op to « b on the 4 th of July ; claiming the iSn SoTt T JZ- StTanSe P ' oelamatbfissued on ? nnoe by 2 * r . < i » n , the Lieut .-Governor of Agra . Th £ | SSfijSS ** theSe , " be P- ^ oned , in ord WfcSS ^ DOfc bG eXP ° tO the accusati 0 * <* 2 fee « Sur « nor-Gerieral has since issued a prock Wftion AnmuBcing ' that the right of pardon rets with hmij and Him alone . 8 A wsnai of the necessary materials for wirfW seems likely to embarrass the proceedines of ti , « rebels : — b UUJ
" We learn from one of Colonel Neill ' letters "sav ? the Daily News , " that the mutineers in his district had expended their . percussion -caps , . and were converting ill ¦ their detonators into snateblocks . A Cossid from Luck ao-w iB-sead to liave . declared that the mutineers there wexean-ncant of shot , and were reduced to the necessity of firing stones from the guns . At Delhi , too , percussio n caps appear to have been wanting , and the small-aims men , for want of ball , were using slugs made of fhe sleefcric telegraph wire . It is also reported that latterly having no fusees for their shells , they had been obliged to have recourse to some very inadequate substitute "
The channel of the Delhi canal was diverted into the drain at Njijuffghur on the 28 th of June- The effect of this is to straiten the mutineers in ilieir supply of water . The bridge of boats on the Jumna , opposite Delhi , was broken down during the night of the 30 th of June . This places an obstacle in the way of the insurgents obtaining food . " A most interesting narrative ., officially communicated to Government by Lieutenant Forrest , " says the Daily News Bombay correspondent , " gives an accurate detail at last with respect to the blowing up of the magazine at Delhi on tlie outbreak of trie mutiny . Lieuten ant
Forrest shares with Lieu-tenant Wuloughby the honour of this brave action . Oa the morning of the rebellion these two officers and Sir C . Metealfe were in the arsenal when they heard of fhe treachery of the nativ-e Sepoys , and they took instant ateasuues to check their advance upon ihe araenaL Sir G . Metcalfe , -who had goae out to see ihe extent . of . the movement , did not return . Lieutenant ' Forrest closed and blocked up the gates , placing two six-pounder guns dou *> ly loaded with grape under Stibconductor Crow and Sergeant Stewart , eo as to command the entrance . Two more . sis-pounders were placed in a similar position in front of the inside of the mag-azine gate , protected by a row of
ohevaux de Jrise . For further defence , two sixpoundeirs -were trained to command either the gate or the small bastlt »« in its vicinity , other guns being so arranged as to increase the strength of the position g-enerally . These preparations had Siardly been concluded when a body of iautuieer 3 appeared , a . wJ ^ ajjgfj ooi the defenders to open the gates . On their refusal , scaling ladders furnished by the King of Delhi were brought up , and the rebels got on the walls and poured oa to the arsenal . The guae now opened and took effect with immense precision on the ranks of the enemj . Four rounds were fired from each of tho guns , Conductors Buckley and Scully distinguishing themselves in serving the pieces rapidly , the mutineers being by this time some hundreds in number , increasing in force and
keeping up a quick discharge of musketry . A train had been laid by Lieutenant Willougliby to the magazine ; and the decisive moment soon approached , Lieutenant Forrest being wounded in the hand and ono of the conductOTS shot through the arm . Tho signal was given to fire the train , which was done coolly by Comductor Scully . The effect was terrific ; the magazine Mew up with a tremendous crash , the - wall being Wovvn out flat to tho ground . The explosion killed upw ards of a thousand of the mutineers , and enabled Lieutenants Willougliby , Forrest , and more tbnn half the European defenders of tho place , to fly together , blackened ami singed , to the Lahore gate , from whence L ieutenant Forrest escaped in safety to Meerut . Lieutenant " \ Villoughby Avaa less fortunate , and is now said to have been killed on his way to Umbulla . "
An attempt was made- at Ahmc-dabaJ , on the 8 th of July , to seduce tlio Guzcrat Horse . A man proceeded through the streets , bearing a flag , ami shouting " Deon , decnl" (* . c . friith ) . A rabble followed him ; five or six sold tors joined ; and they all started in the direction of Baroda , followed by Lieutenant l * ym and Captain Taylor , with some mounted police . They were soon brotight to a stand ; tho ring leader was shot , and the others were taken back prisoners . Of the nflfiiir at Agra we rend in tho livmhay Times : —
" The close neighbourhood of tho Ncomuch and >*» sscembad mutineers , wlio encamped about twenty i » i ' from tho city , compelled tho European residents to abandon the cantonments , and take refuge in tho fort . Tho garrison consisted of the SJrd Bengal ICuropi-iuis ami a battery of artillery , bosidon a corps of voluiiUior . s / il » f " five hundred strong , rnised from among tho Christian population . Tho rebel » having upproachud tho fity aviUi tho evident object of plundering tlio canton mentf , <" troops in tho fort marched out to attack them on the < n'i
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 5, 1857, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05091857/page/2/
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