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A despatch in the Times, dated " Vicjiua...
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A band of Montenegrins has made an irrup...
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The trial of the Angers rebels has comme...
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A despatch from General Simpson, dated S...
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of Gorton , who had beem employed mowing slopes on the side of the Manchester and Sheffield Railway , went to sleep in a state of intoxication on the line . A train in passing went over bis leg , and cnt off the foot ; and death ensued in consequence . He appeared for some time quite unconscious of the accident . —Mr . Henry Stewart Sperling , a gentleman who was staying at a friend ' s house at Exeter , -was run over on the South Devon Railway , and Hlled , his head being cut off and crushed in pieces . It appeared that he was depressed in his spirits , and that lie deliberately lay down on the line , and allowed the train to pass over him . A verdict
of Temporary Insanity has been returned at the inquest . —Charles and Alfred Miller , twins , aged fourteen , have been killed on the Great Western Railway at Eating . — -. A . train of fifteen empty , carriages was being withdrawn from the Brighton platform at the London Bridge station , when , in consequence of the points being set in a wrong direction , the engine burst through the boundary wall and fell into the street below , dragging after it the guard ' s break and one first-class carriage , and completely blocking up the thoroughfare of Collegestreet , Bermondsey . The driver and stoker leaped off just as the eng ine vras going over , and , the street below being emptv , no personal damage was received .
CoiJJSKMf ox the Mersey . —A ferry-boat on the Mersey came into collision on Sunday night with another vessel , which carried away a portion of her timbers , and caused the loss of two lives . Asotheb Boeler Explosion . —A terrific boiler explosion at 2 ? ewcastle-on-Tyne has resulted in the deaths of . five men and two boys , besides injuries to several others . A writer from the spot says : —" The body of the boiler at the time it burst spread out like a sheet . It flew through the roof of the mill , and carried all away before it . Striking two chimneys , it overthrew them and the furnaces , scattering the hot bricks and molten metal about , and burying several persons in the ruins ;
and , having broken the pipes which attached it to the other boiler , hot water was dashed about , which scalded several persons . The body of the boiler was hurled on to an embankment , aud killed a blacksmith of the name of Abraham DLxon , as he was running out of a shed , having heard the noise of the explosion . Another portion fell through the roof of the chemical works , and took off three fingers of a boy , and the end was dashed over a hill-top into a lumber-yard , but , though several persons w ? re standing about , no one was injured . " After great exertions , several persons were dug- out of the ruins , and of those who still lived , two are thought to be in a precarious state .
Strahan , Pact , and Bates . —A sitting for the final examination of Messrs . Strahan , Paul , and Bates was held on Tuesday at the Court of Bankruptcy , when a further adjournment of two months was agreed to . The balance-sheet will not be ready for a month , and some time must be allowed for its investigation . Meanwhile , it is thought some further progress will have been made with the criminal charges against the bankrupts . A number of additional proofs and claims have been admitted under the joint and separate estates , and a question has been raised with reference to those arising from a connexion between the respective firms of Strahan , Paul ,
and Co . and Halfonl and Co . The total debts and liabilities will , it is estimated , reach from 700 , 000 f . to 800 , 0007 ., and the assets about 100 , 000 / . The amount of property already realised is 44 , 000 / . With regard to an allowance to the bankrupts , it was intimated that the assignees are willing to continue it for one month longer to Mr . Strahan and Mr . Bates , with leave to apply for its renewal ; but Sir John Dean Paul , having drawn a certain amount from the bank shortly before tht > suspension , is considered not to bo entitled to any similar assistance . Since their liberation on bail , the bankrupts , it was mentioned , have sedulously applied themselves to the preparation of tlieir accounts .
Mrs , Brough . —This unhappy woman , who was tried at Guildford for the murder of her six children at Esher , and who was acquitted on the ground of insanity , and respecting whoso state of mind there was much discrepancy of opinion , lias , since her confinement in the criminal department of Bethlehem Hospital , been under the constant surveillance and cure of Dr . Hood , the intelligent resident physician to that institution . Dr . Hood has frequently stated to persons visiting Bethlehem that he entertains no doubt of Mrs . Brough ' fl
brain being diseased and her mind deranged . Since her confinement in the Bethlehem Hospital , her insanity has clearly shown itacltf to all the officials and nurses . The justice of her acquittal is thus conclusively established . This must be satisfactory to all who were engaged in that painfully anxious and reHpopttible investigation , but particularly eo to Dr . Forbes Winslow , and the other medical witnesses 'who , in consequence of their evidence in favour of Mrs . Itrough's insanity and moral irresponsibility , wore exposed at the time to much animadversion . —Lancet .
The IJalmnahloe Horned Cattle Fair , which baa now closed , was ono of the largest that has been hcch in the town for several years . The quality of the animals was admirable . Labourers' Cottaoks in Irki < ani > . —Colonel II . A . Herbert , speaking at the annivomiry meeting and dinner of the North Kerry Farming Society , congratulated his hearers on the improvement in the rate of w / igCH , and on
the more comfortable condition of the labourers in point of dress , but regretted that their dwellings are still as wretched as in former times . Reformatories . — The ^ first stone of the St . Pancras Preventive and Reformatory Institution , to be situated in the New-road , near Gower-street , and intended to accommodate one hundred inmates , was laid on Wednesday by Lord Robert Grosvenor , assisted by the Kev . Canon Dale , vicar of St . Pancras . A very large police force was present , the authorities at Scotland-yard having had some reason to anticipate that Lord Robert from the
Grosvenor would meet with a riotous reception opponents of his defunct Sunday Trading Bill . But we are happy to say that no such interruption , which would have had the character of pure vindictiveness , occurred , his lordship having been cordially received . — Several of the friends and supporters of the Metropolitan Industrial Reformatory met on Wednesday evening at Grove House , Brixton Hill , the seat of the institution , to bid farewell to nine of the inmates who are about to go out into the world to earn their livings . The proceedings were highly satisfactory . Hillthe
The " Ticket-of-Leave" System . —Mr . , Recorder of Birmingham , delivered a charge at the opening of the Quarter Sessions at that town , in which he defended the " ticket-of-leave" system . He admitted that its operation had by some been exaggerated for good , but he also contended that it had been exaggerated for evil . According to his calculation , from eighty to ninety per cent , of convicts discharged with tickets-ofleaveare permanently reformed . He threw great doubt on the assertion that gaol chaplains can with ease extort a hvpocritical confession of repentance from convicts , and asserted , from his knowledge of prison clergymen , that , as a bodv , they are little disposed to rely on
fallacious tests . " The so-called " ticket-of-leave men , " who are supposed to be such dangerous members of society , he held to be not ticket-of-leave men at all , but convicts , who , having finished the term of their sentences , are placed less under the control of the law . He concluded by making some suggestions : — " Let an account be opened with each prisoner , placing to his credit the value of his labour—the real value , if productive labour can be found ; an assumed value , or rather a value upon an assumed scale , if bis labour be not of a productive kind . Let him clearly understand that each dav ' s labour will tell upon his liberation . If large in " quantity , and good in quality , it will materbillv advance " him on his way . On the other
hand , if deficient in either of these attributes , his progress will be retarded . Hut a distant future , however bright—and no brighter prospect can open to the eyes of a prisoner than that of liberty—will not suffice without some hope of benefit nearer at hand . Let the prisoner then be allowed to expend a part of his earnings in the improvement of his diet . Hy acting on these principles we shall have provided for training him in habits of industry . But although industry will , when he leaves his prison , furnish him with the means of honest maintenance , yet , unless he has learned the art of self-governthe
ment , he will not be effectually protected against temptations to fall back into evil courses by which lie will bo assailed . Let him , then , be informed that every subtraction from the fund created by his labour for the indulgence of his palate will , like indolence , retard the hour of freedom . Thus he will bo taught economy . " Fall of SKnASToroi ,. —An Address of Congratulation to the Queen on the fall of South Sebastopol has been passed by the City Court of Common Council , aft « r a slight opposition , the dissentients alluding to tho bad management of the war and to the fact of the town having been mainly taken by the French .
HiaiinuitY Barn . —A license for music and dancing has been refused for this old-established place of amusement , on account of that kind of entertainment having gone on there for tho last year without a license , nn < l of disreputable characters having assembled . Tub Ijjuian Sanscrit Coixicok . —The collogc in a Gothic croHS—a reminiscence of Oxford , and beautiful as it is in many respects , we should prefer something tlso , to project ngain . st a background of palms and tamarinds . It i » built of tho soft rose-coloured sandstone of Cheniir , and the delicate beauty of its buttresses and pinnacles , wrought in this material , make us regret that the architect liud not availed himwelf of tho rich stores of Snracenic art , which the mosques and tombs of the Mogul emperors afford him . Gothic architecture does not , and never can bo made to harmonise with the forms of a
tropical landscape . The plan of this college in unique , and lias of late been the subject of much criticism . It was established by the Kant India Company nJxty-threo years ngo , for the purpose of instructing tho children of Brahmins in the Sanscrit Philosophy and Literature , nnd since tho construction of tho new building , the Kngltoh college has been incorporated with it . The Principal , Dr . Uallantyno , who in probably the profoundest Snrmcrit Hcholur living , ban taken advantage of thin junction to set on foot an experiment , which , if uucccHnful , will produce an entire revolution in tho philosophy of tho Brahmins . The native scholars in the English collo ^ o are mado acquainted with the inductive philosophy of B . acon , whilo tho Htudcnts of Sanucrit take an a textb ' ooli tho Nyaya HyMtcm , oh it is called , of Guntama , the celebrated Hindoo philosopher . There aro many pointh o ( approach in those two ByHtomH , and Dr . Ballantyne
has been led to combine them in such a way as finally to place tho student , who commences with the refined speculations of Guatama , upon the broad and firm basis of the Baconian system . The latter is thus prepared to receive the truths of the physical sciences , a knowledge of which must gradually , but inevitably , overthrow the gorgeous enormities of his religious faith . — A Visit to India , China , and Japan .
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Lkadeu Office , Saturday , October 13 . . MARCH OF THE ALLIED ARMIES ON TEREKOr . Hamburg , Friday . The following despatch has been received here today .- — St . Petersburg , Oct . 9 . Prince GortsehakofF , under date of the 9 th inst . writes as follows : — 44 The enemy has made a movement in advance from Eupatoria , threatening Perekop , but , meeting with the advanced posts of the left flank of our army , they retired . " The enemy put in disorder sixteen battalions from Kokouloussa to Janyssata . "
A Despatch In The Times, Dated " Vicjiua...
A despatch in the Times , dated " Vicjiua , Thursday evening , " says : — " Up to nine o ' clock on the evening of the 9 th instant , the fleets had undertaken nothing against Odessa . "
A Band Of Montenegrins Has Made An Irrup...
A band of Montenegrins has made an irruption into the Herzegowiua , and in doing so has violated the Austrian territory near Krivoucia .
The Trial Of The Angers Rebels Has Comme...
The trial of the Angers rebels has commence if . It seems they came into Angers on the night ut ' August 27 th , to the number of six hundred , armed with deadly weapons and with instruments of housi - breaking ; and had it not been ( or the energy of General Augell do Kleinfel < l , who , at the head uf a very small garrison , surprised and defeated the insurgents , the town would have been in their power . The trials are not yet finished .
A Despatch From General Simpson, Dated S...
A despatch from General Simpson , dated Sept . 2 t contains the following : — " I have received a letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Ready , 71 st Regiment , commanding Her Majesty ' s troops ut Yeni-Kaleh , reporting the proceedings of a tritling affair , in which a detachment of tho 10 th Hussars , in company with the Chasseurs d'Afrique , were engaged on the 21 st inst . with the Cossacks . " Colonel D'Osniont , commanding the French troops at Kcrtch , received information thut the Cossacks were collecting and driving away all the arabas from the neighbourhood , and , as he determined to endeavour to prevent this , he invited the assistance of the Knglish
cavalry to co-operate with the Chasseurs d'Afriquo . For this service , Lieutenant-Colonel Ready ordered two troops , commanded by Captains the Hon . F . FitzClareneo and Clarke , of the 10 th Hussars . 44 Cossacks were supposed to have- assembled their araba . s at two villages , named Koss-Serai Miu ' *»>•! Seit Ali , equidistant from Kcrtch about fifteen miles , and from one another six and a half . Captain Fit / . Clarence ' a troop was ordered to the first village and C : iptuin Clarke ' s to the latter . At each of the . se vill ^ r * they were to join a troop of the ChasseurH d'Afrique a \ 1 >>> tsSerui
ha < J preceded them . On arriving at Ko .- Mm , Captain Fit / Clarence , found both troojm of the Fnmli Dragoons , and immediately cent off « n order to Captain Clarke to join him that night ; the letter whs unfortunately not delivered until the following morning . In complying with this order , Captain Clurke , whone troop consisted only of thirty-four men , fell in with a body » i about fifty Cossacks , which he unmuiliutely charged and pursued ; but , aa they were soon reinforced by upward .- * of three hundred , he , wu » forced to retire upon the village , with a Ions of bin sergeunt-innjor , furrier , and thirteen men taken prisoners .
44 Captain FitssCIarencu ' H troop , witli the Chasseur * , the whole under the command of the oillcor commanding tho French troopn , having scon a largo body of the enemy , skirmished with them at some , distance , nnd moved in the direction of the villngo of Sorai Miu , where , after having joined Captain Clarke ' s troop , ill " whole force , eonnnenred their march upon Kcrtch . 41 about the distance of hulf u inilo from llio village they were attacked by a largo body of Co . smh K * , who wore , however , beaten back by repeated charges . From information that has hUico been received ,
tho CoHHfickH were supported , within n quarter hour ' s njurch , by eight wquadron » of IIuhhum and eight gUUH . "
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 13, 1855, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13101855/page/10/
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