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. . I MtSCEELAN EOUS- ' Si i S » S T ^ n the Sioux Indiana and the United S *^ troop 3 ? the latter to the number of four hundr ^ ftnd fifty > at Sandhills , near the north fork of the j ^ iatte river . The fight lasted several hours ; but the Indians -were at length defeated . A running skirmish for some ten miles followed , during -which th <> , Indians , among whom were women , made , & stand , and fought desperately . General llarn <» " - the American commander , lost six men killed knd six wounded . —Yellow fever continues to rage at Norfolk , and has made its appearance at Canton , Mississippi Two boxes , each containing 25 , 000 dollars an trold ' coin , transmitted to the Government from some land oftlce out in the West , have been broken into , and rifle-bullets and sheet-lead substituted for the gold . The robbery was not discovered until the boxes arrived at the New York Sub-Treasury . Several aldermen and councillors of the New York corporation have been arrested on charges of official corruption . A not has occurred at Georgetown , in British America , between some workmen and American fishermen , in which one of the former had his thigh broken by a pistol-shot . — In Mexico , a general amnesty for political offences has been announced ; and the secret police is abolished . General Wall has arrived at New Orleans from Mexico with the intention of following the fortunes of Santa Anna . lie has refused to join the new Government , and turned over his command to General Dastro , who is expected to declare in favour of the plan of Ayutla . — A revolution has broken out in Monte Video , in consequence of a decree ( subsequently revoked ) abolishing the liberty of the press . General Florcs , the President , h is retired from the capital , at the head of nearly two thousand men , and , at the last dates , a sort of negotiation was going on ; but a civil war seems imminent-Uaciikl ani » the " Marseillaise . "—The French Red Republicans at New York lately wrote a " round robin' to Madlle . Rachel , beseeching her to sing the " Marseillaise . " To this reijuest , the great actress replied as follows , according to the translation of the Xew York Herald : —'' Dear Compatriots , — It is seven years wince I have sung the ' Marseillaise . ' Something , I know not what , had then given me a semblance of voice , and mv health was still unimpaired . Now I am frequenUnexhausted after a performance . I should , therefore , really be afraid of compromising interests other than my own , were I to augment my fatigues . You will believe in the deep regrets which I experience at not daring to promise you that which you desire from me , when I assure you that I did love to sing the ' Marseillaise , ' well as I do to play my finest rule from Corneille . Accept , Ucar countrymen , the assurance of my distinguished sciiUmeiits .-R . voHKU-I . bg the Editor of the IJera > d to be kind enough to insert this letter in Ins next number . " Madlle . Rachel understands that a different st-itc of things now exists in France to that which existed " seven years since , " when she " electrified" Paris by chanting the Republican hymn . An Ikisii PniBsr ' s Notios of Income-tax Liability . About two years ago , the Rev . Mr . Peyton , Roman Catholic priest " of Blarney , in Ireland , had his goods s ^ iv . ed for refusing to pay the income-tax , from which he claimed to be exempt on the ground that bis income , as a Papistical clergyman , proceeded from a source that was not legally recognised . He has made a similar refusal once more . This specimen of the logic of Blarney is peculiarly Irish . Mr . Peyton claims to be exempt from a tax on account of the illegal nature of hU income ; as if evading the law were a tiling to be rewarded ! He states that the law will not nllow Human Catholic priests to recover their dues ; and this is unquestionably a great hardship and injustice . But it is manifestly absurd to claim exemption on the ground of tlie illegal nature of the gnin , especially as some wisor mode of opposition might be found . Considerable excitement and disturbance took place on the sale of the hor *
Kiw-* ' . an dominions . Some forty years after that event , or about thirty years back from the present date , the deposed Sultan , or more probably the son of the deposed Sultan , visited Edinburgh ^ While there he was to be found in the first circles of the modern Athens . He became attached to a young lady— a Miss Nelson or Neilson—and married her . After the marriage , he took her to the Crimea . For many years , this Sultan ha 3 been dead . His Sultana went in June last the way of all the earth . Last winter , while in Edinburgh , I heard that the family of the deceased Sultan was resident about twelve miles from the river Alma . A small volume was published last winter by , I think , Messrs . Johnstone and Hunter , Prince ' s-street , Edinburgh , on the subject of the Crimea . This volume is , on the title-page , said to be By a Lady . " The author is , I understand , Miss Neilson , a sister of the Sultana of Krim Tartary . — Correspondent of the Times . „ . . The National Slsbay League . — A " League with this title , having for its object the removal of bigoted Sabbatarian restrictions , has just been set on foot . ^ Ve j trust it will meet with that success which the justice , reasonableness , and true piety of the cause demands . State ok Traue- —The high rate of money , and the peculiar circumstances by which it has been attained , have led to a certain degree of dulness and uncertainty in the chief manufacturing towns ; but confidence in the essentially healthy condition of the country appears to be unshaken . It is felt that , as long as the operations of the Bank of France continue , the Bank of England will be obliged to persevere in their measures of restriction ; and it is therefore felt necessary to be cautious in speculation . —The strike of the colliers , employed by the New British Iron Company at the collieries in the neighbourhood of lluabon , has been a most disastrous one . The turu-outs altogether have amounted to 2000 , of whom the colliers , men and boys , numbered 1500 . It has been calculated that at least 1500 / . per week has been withdrawn from circulation in the neighbourhood . , The distress thus occasioned has been very great ; for nearly all the families have been thrown upon the parish , ; and the rates have been almost doubled . Some hundreds of the men have left to seek work elsewhere . Natuaxiel Williams . —We are sure all our readers j will be delighted to know that , by a strict interpreta- ; tiou of the law under which the poor Worcestershire labourer was fined for cutting wheat on a Sunday , the conviction is found to be illegal . The statute ^ in question was passed in the highly moral and religious reign of Charles II . ; and the penalty is to be enforced against all those who shall follow their ordinary calling on the Sabbath . Now , the " ordinary calling' of Williams was to cut wheat for other people—for hire ; and , on the Sunday when he committed the " offence , " he was working for fiirnstlf , and not for hire Sir George Grey , therefore , has declared his opinion that the conviction was illegal , and the fine has of courser been refunded . . For this wholesome and honest result , England is in- . debted , in the first place , to the right-minded corre- j spondent who brought the case forward , and , in the , second place , to the Times , which inserted the letter , and kept the fact before the public notice by its powerful and authoritative voice . —The decision of Sir George Grey was alluded to on the assembling of the eounty inagistratcs at Worcester , in Petty Sessions , on Tuesday morning . The Rev . John Pearson , the presiding magistrate on the occasion of the conviction , expressed his willingness to obey the Home Secretary ' s interpretation of the law ; but a " Mr . T . G . Curlier said he would make the same conviction over again . Others supported him in this ; among them , two reverend gentlemen . Mr . Pearson having remarked that it was indeed a work of necessity for a barber to shave himsi-lf on a Sunday morning , inasmuch as it was a woik of necessity for thorn all to shave tlKMn . selve . -i every morning , he was mot bv a crv of "Not now , " great merriment . " Health «>!• London . —London is healthier than it was in September . No death from cholera has been rcgia-I terod iu the week that ended on Sotuulay , October Gth ; j but the deaths from diarrhoea were 51 . The- deaths from all causes were 051 ; namely , 2 ( 30 from zymotio diseases ; 210 from earner , consumption , and other constitutional diseases ; : > 20 from diseases of the brain , lungs , and other organ :. ; 11 * 5 from infantile di . sert . -cs and old ago ; and 21 from various kinds of violence . Of 5 sudden deaths , the causes were unascertained , and of 10 other deaths the causes wore not specified . A coachman , aged 05 , died in Marylobone Workhouse ; his death is ascribed to . leatituUoii . — From the livyistrirr-Ccnertirs Weekly Return . . Deaths in the Qi-abtek . — 1 "» , 0 12 ! or , on . s died m London during the thirteen weeks that ended on September 29 th , so that the deaths during the quarter were at tho rate of 1003 a week . This presents a favourable contrast to tho state of the public health iu the corresponding quarter of last year , when 2 1 , 870 deaths , or 1913 weekly on an average , wero registered in London . Tho decrease has boon chiefly in the discuses of the zymotic class , which were fatal in 1-1 , 033 cases , including 9708 of cholera , 20 ( it ) of diarrhoea , in tho 13 summer weeks of . 1851 ; and in 30 ( 51 cases in the 13 summer weeks of tho pmsent , year , when 100 deaths were by cholera , 1258 by ( liiirrluoa . 190 poraon ? , chiefly children , died of email-pox , 107 of moasle , * , 53-1 of scarlatina , 389 of hooping-cough , 077 of typhus and other fevers .
192 deaths were referred to dropsy , 287 to cancer , 1645 to consumption . Among the diseases of particular organs , are 300 deaths by apoplexy , 235 by paralysis , 88 by epilepsy , 54 by delirium treinens , 431 by convulsions , 475 by diseases of the heart and great bipodvessels , 491 b y bronchitis , 492 by pneumonia , 141 by teething , and 122 by disease of liver . Of the deaths by violence in London , 16 were by poison , 33 by burns and scalds , 19 by hanging , 21 by suffocation , 101 by drowning , 158 by fractures and contusions , and 17 by wounds . 2224 deaths , or one in six of the total number , took place in public institutions ; namely , 1191 in -workhouses , 744 in civil hospitals , 73 in military and naval hospitals , 78 in military and naval asylums , 14 in hospitals and asylums for foreigners , 14 in lying-in hospitals ( 7 women , 7 children ) , 94 in lunatic asylums , and 16 in 14 prisons . 3069 of the persons who died m London were males of the age of 20 and upwards ; and of that number 83 were in government and local offices , 19 1 in the army or navy , 85 in or connected subordinately with the learned professions ; 38 were engaged in literature , the fine arts , and the sciences ; 363 were in the clothing , ' entertaining , and serving class ; 167 were engaged in commerce , 343 in carrying , 75 in cultivating the land ; 33 were occupied about animals ; 523 on art and mechanic productions ; 146 worked and dealt in animal substances , 393 in vegetable substances , 214 ia minerals and metals ; 215 were returned as labourers , without defining the branch of labour , 142 as persons of rank or property not in any office or profession .- — Idem . * A Dkuxkek Exgixtc-d river . —GeoTge Dunwood , tie engineer of the steamer Duchess of Argyle , got so intoxicated a few days since , that , when the steamer left Helensburgh , he could neither back nor set on tie engines , and fiercely attacked every one who went into the engine-rooms to assist in the working of the engines . Ultimately , he was overpowered , and secured till the vessel reached her destination . On the vessel ' s return to Glasgow , when . approaching the berth to land her passengers , the engines , instead of being stopped , were set on full speed , in consequence of which the vessel ran up a . good way under one of the arches of the bridge , nearly carrvingaway the funnel and the paddle-boxes , to tie great alarm of the passengers , but much more so of the captain ( M'Pherson ) , who , on seeing the danger , fell down in a fit , and has since expired at Garelochhead . The Administrative Reform Association . —The committee of this body has issued a second address , in which , after congratulating its supporters on the progress already made ( such as the grunting by Government of open and competitive examination , the reorganisation of the War Departments , the Admiralty instructious to spare no pains to secure fitness in the dockyards , & c ) , plans for the future are set forth . The supporters of the Association are requested to use eveiy effort to secure the success of the contemplated bill for taking the gift of junior clerkships in the civil service out of the hands of the Treasury , and throwing open the appointments to competitive examination . Meetings in all the Parliamentary boroughs are recommended , and the people are exhorted to petition . The document udil = ? : —" These objects cannot be effected without a . largo expenditure . Hitherto , the subscriptions have bc-tn confined to the metropolis . London has subscribed first , because , having originated the movement , it was felt that the metropolis must set the example of subscription ; but steps will now be taken for the formation , of lix ; il committees , the enrolment of members , and collection of subscriptions throughout the country ; and the commit tee arc satisfied that sutlicicnt means will be furnished them fur a vigorous effort to teach the constituencies tho value of Administ rative Reform , and to bo ready for thenext election . But , however desirable it may be to obtain a largo amount of subscriptions , it is still more important that the ¦ V ^ ociation shall have the influence of numbers , and ( hut it shall comprise all classes . Administrative Reform is neither a party nor a class movement ; it wages no war against any order ; it attacks no existing right ; it seek : ; but the end of nn oxclusivcness that sots up party ami incapacity , and shuts out merit . Men are to bo found lit for the public service in every class ; there are ( hose amongst the humblest who , if the barriers against thorn be removed , will work their own way to independence and distinction through public usefulness . Tho Association desires their help , their energy , their . counsel , thoir influence , their numbers ; and it has therefore deti rmined that , in future , every subscriber , from a shilling upwards , shall be enrolled and receive a card of membership . " Tub i . atk Heavy Rains caused so largo a volume ot water to pour down from the Highgntc and Ilumpstead hill * that the now power which is being constructed from Clerkenwell to Farringdon-street gave way . l » o water overflowed into a street near Saffron-hill , ana washed away a temporary bridge in Castle-street . It is feared that tho new sewer will not be found large cium ^ i * to carry off tho heavy floods which will at tunes pour dorminster station of tho Oxford , M ore * . a > « ^ ° verluunpton railway , r .. n Ift ^ J , ^ J 3 tl £ a groat many wagons , and tl ro « i u , ' b ^ SS ^ uS-dr ^ iX ^ Ld ^ ohn G ««* .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 13, 1855, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13101855/page/9/
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