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No. 390, September 12,1857.] THE LEADER....
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WIVES-IN-LAW. It is amusing to read the ...
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Miscellaneous. Tine Comi\—The Animal Mus...
16 , 000 displaced to seek a home elsewhere ; but some persons . had estimated the number at four times that amount . The resolution was seconded and unanimously carried . Slave Vbssels . —Her Majesty ' s brig Teazer , off the west coast of Africa , has captured a vessel imder Spanish colours with two hundred and thirty slaves on board . The Governor of Cape Coast has seized a slave vessel -prhichi ran ashore to escape a cruiser . She has been destroyed Thb Patriotic Fund . —The following information
respecting the Patriotic Fund has been published . Numbers on the books : Widows , 3704 ; children , 3900 ; orphans who have lost parents , 156 . The above are the only classes eligible for relief under the Royal Commission , -which limits the application of the fund to the widows and orphans of the soldiers , seamen , and marines whose deaths are attributable to their service in th « war against Russia . There are still new cases coming on in consequence of men dying from wounds or from disease undoubtedly contracted in the Crimea . The present rate of expenditure is nearly 80 , 0007 , per annum .
Dkstbuctiox of a Cakavau . —Communications from Aleppo of the 11 th of August announce the loss of almost art entire caTavan of 1300 camels , and 500 irregular troops , traders , and conductors , which had taken its departure from Damascus on the . 29 th of June , for Bagdad . The caravan had strayed from the direct road , where , finding no water , it had to come to a halt , and despatched some of the conductors in search of a wandering tribe to assist it out of its difficulty , many lives laving been already lost from thirst'and unprecedented heat . At length a purchase of the necessary dement was concluded at the price of two hundred piastres the camel-load ; but , on a supply reaching the place of halt , not more than , from fifteen to twenty human beings were found alive to partake of it . The Arabs had attacked those dying from thirst , and pillaged all the most valuable of the goods .
Dr . Livingston met on "Wednesday the members of the Chamber of Commerce , Commercial Association , and Cotton Supply Association , at the Town Hall , Manchester , and had a very hearty and warm reception . He delivered a discourse on the commercial products of Africa , and answered several questions which were put to him . He gave an encouraging picture of the productiveness of the land , and spoke more especially of its capacity for growing cotton ; and , at the end of his address , the annexed motion was put and carried : — " That this meeting desires to express their warmest thanks to Dr . liivingston for his visit to Manchester , to record their appreciation of the importance of his discoveries , their high seme of his noble exertions for the extension
of knowledge , as well as his self-devotion in again seeking to visit those hitherto unexplored countries with a view to their civilization by the aids of Christianity and commerce ; that , feeling a deep interest in the self-denying labours of Dr . Livingston , this meeting earnestly requests her Majesty ' s Government will place at his disposal a steamboat , duly appointed and capable of ascending the navigable portion of the Zambesi , with sucli further accommodation in boats and otherwise as may be deemed sufficient for the exploration of its tributaries , and for obtaining and retaining friendly relations with the natives of that interesting region ; and the public bodies now assembled pledge themselves to use their
utmost exertions for the promotion of these objects ; that this meeting desire to impress on her Majesty ' s Government thoir earnest desire that the aid of the Portuguese Government should be specially requested towards facilitating in every possible manner the further researches of Dr . Livingston in . the interior of Africa , and more especially in the districts surrounding the river Zambesi and its tributaries ; that a sub-committee of tlie following gentlemen , heing the chairmen of the public bodies here assembled , bo empowered . and requested to carry out the resolution of this meeting , ¦ with power to add to their number : —Mr . John Cheethatn , M . P ., Mr . J . A . Turner , M . P ., and air . Thomas Bazley . "
Accidental . Death of Admiha ! , Hawtaynk . —A fatal accident occurred on Tuesday evening - to Admiral Hawtayne . Ho was walking on the south pier at Low eatoft with a little girl and a lady , her mother , and , the evening being- very dark , he fell over the side of the pier . The water was shallow , but the Admiral sustained a concussion of the brain , and died in about half an lour . The accident was first discovered by the screams of the little girl , who also fell off the pier with the Admiral , and whoso cries attracted her mother to tlie spot . The child was rescued .
Iixness op the Kino on Swkden . —111 consequence of a consultation on the state of the health of the King of Sweden , it is acknowledged that his Majesty cannot » n any case sustain the burden of public affairs for a year to come . The King has therefore felt it hia duty to request the States to provide for the Government during his illness , according to the mode prescribed by the Constitution . Bom > Brigands . —A band of brigands at Malaga lias canricd off the son of a wealthy inhabitant , and haB doniaiided three thousand piastres for his ransom .
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Leader Office , S / iturday , September 12 . THE CONTINENT . The Constitutionnel and JPatrie state that the Emperor a few days ago paid a visit incognito to Paris , and inspected some of the public works in progress . It is positively asserted that the directors of the Credit Mobilier Society intend to bring an action against the Times for an article published by that journal with reference to the society . It is related in high financial circles at Vienna , that Messrs . Hicardo , of London , and Erlanger , of Frankfort , have offered a loan to the Turkish Government . Prince Kallimachi , the Turkish Ambassador at Vienna , has received full powers to treat with M . Erlanger , who is now theie .
The Siege Of Delhi. There Was A Report Y...
THE SIEGE OF DELHI . There was a report yesterday ( Friday ) that the siege of Delhi had been Taised . It will be recollected that we recently contemplated the probability of £ his ; but we do not . of course , "vouch for the truth of the rumour .
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Herat . —Advices from Constantinople state that the Persians have evacuated Herat . Troubles , excited by religious fanaticism , have followed the departure of the Persian troops . Mihtarx Fbacas . —Major Alexander Duke Hamilton has been fined forty shillings by the Witbam magistrates for assaulting Colonel Maximilian James Western . He found him shooting on his land , and straightway collared him ; using at the same time very violent language . The Colonel behaved with great forbearance .
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« There i » nothings © ievolutionary , because there i * nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep " things fixed when all the world is by thevery law of its creation in eternal progress . —Dk . Arnold
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? ¦ THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS IN INDIA . Up to the period of our going to press the telegraph has made no sign ; we are , consequently , in possession of no later intelligence from India than what was brought by the last mail . But , in the absence of positive novelty , so great and so universal is the interest at present attaching to every point connected with the unprecedented scenes lately enacted in British India , that , without fear of being tiresome , we may be permitted to take this intervening opportunity to hazard a few stray remarks in support of our former statements . One of the first topics that occurs to us is the question , as to the number of mutinous Sepoys congregated within the walls of Delhi . In a former paper ( 15 th August ) we took occasion to notice the exaggerated reports then prevalent : the rebel garrison being confidently estimated , by most of our contemporaries , at 30 , 000 strong . Our calculations , at the period to which we refer , allowed 8000 Sepoys at the most ; and we have every reason for supposing those calculations to have been very near the mark . Our correctness is indeed affirmed by tho circumstance that all later statements—published in full knowledge of the mutineers having been largely reinforced—concur in fixing the total of their muster-roll at no more than 15 , 000 regular soldiers , an estimate which at the present moment has our concurrence also . There is no difliculty in going into a little detail , which will bo all the more advantageouB , as tending to show thnfc our own inferences at least were drawn from sound considerations , and did not represent mere guess-work . It must only bo borne in mind thnfc , whercais tho Bengal Native Infantry regiments are about eleven hundred strong in
non-commissioned officers and , privates , it is necessary to make large deductions for absentees during the ( hot weather ) furlough season , for detached parties , for many who slunk away to their homes on . the first outbreak , and , in some cases , for those who continued faithful to their salt . " With these reservations , our reckoning of the Delhi garrison is as follows : — Meerut Brigade : the 3 rd Lt . Cav ., 300 ; 11 th N . I ., 750 ; 20 thN . I ., 900 1 , 950 Sappers and Miners from Roorkee 400 Delhi Brigade : the 38 th Lt . I ., 850 ; 54 th N . I ., 850 ; 74 th N . I ., 850 ; Artillery , 100 2 , 650 5 , 000 * The 9 th N . I . from Allyghur , & c 600 Part of the 4 th Lancers 200 The 5 th and 60 th Regiments N . I . 1 , 400 Two companies , 44 th and 67 th Regiments N . I ., fromMuttra 200 From the Hurrianah district ........... / . 600 J - ¦ ^^ m-m ~ 8 , 000 f Troops from Nusseerabad 1 , 900 „ ,, Bundelcund , & c 1 , 500 „ „ Rohilcuad , & c ... 3 , 600 Grand total 15 , 000 No allowance ismade for straggling- parties that may have entered the city—for many had also left the place—and the balance would not more than meet a constant diminution of strength by casualties . The progress of the revolt has substantiated another very important fact , viz ., that the * Irregular' system in Bengal ia not always to be relied on more than the regular system . It is true that the Irregular regiments did not . mutiny with the same < jrws £ o as the fraternity of the line . . The European officers of the former still retained some portion of that influence of which a fatally mistaken policy had long since deprived them in the latter . The Irregulars , therefore , in general , hesitated before openly committing themselves : but the final result proved very much the same in the one case and in the other . We have heretofore glanced afc the question of * Regulars' and ' Irregulars' one likely to become , ere long , the subject of very serious discussion . We can only hope that ifc will be discussed calmly and completely , and decided with impartiality . Hotheaded partizauBhip and interested special pleading must be eschewed if justice is desired . Such an opportunity as now offers in Bengal for the reparation of past military blunders , if once lost , may never be recalled .
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* About this number , when Sir II . Barnard ' s forco arrived . f Aa originally eatimatod by us .
Wives-In-Law. It Is Amusing To Read The ...
WIVES-IN-LAW . It is amusing to read the complete treatises and conclusive opinions of our contemporaries on the new law for marriage . To our mind no new law of marriage can be satisfactory , although it may usefully remedy evils in detail . There is one law of marriage —the law of love—and when you attempt any other you make at beat but a patchwork to cover flaws . In the olden time , when men had faith in God and in the Church , the law of marriage was simple . Erring husbands and sinful wives were brought before their pastor—a judge deriving his warrant from a Power higher than Parliament—and the sinful wife w as sentenced to some shameful penance , or the erring husband was commanded to take home hia wife and treat her with conjugal kindness . People laugh at this phrase , and at tho old ecclesiastical courts ; but when men believed in rc 4 igion and in tlio Church , these -were tho means of settling the thorny questions of conjugal strife . Religion , now-a-daya , ia a matter of church rates and padded pewa , and ' our pastor ordained by God' is the young man who shared our fast life at Oxford , or the
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 12, 1857, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12091857/page/13/
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