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Naval And Military News. Sir Charles Nap...
leaving at least 90 , 000 , men upon the plateau to sustain our jporition there : We could not leare ^ wvground and enormous material there to go out and attack theny they woulAnot only haye got our guns , but they would have obtained possession of points of a position which we never epuld-iave regained from them . They would have established themselves upon the high ground in the way they previously established themselves upon the low ground , and the consequence would have been that we should have been besieged , instead of besieging them , in our own harbour . We have now got possession of the south side of the harbour , which is , in will be able with
fact , all the town , and our troops a smaller force to maintain the road to Mackenzie's Farm . They will cross the Tchernaya , and we shall be able to fight our enemy upon open groTind ; whereas before we could only fight them through the town . ( Cheers . ") I may say that till now we were tied by the leg . The Russian army , it must be remembered , has frequently been very superior in number to ours . Mind you , the Russians have not been acting in regard to their army as -we nave been doing to ours , or as any other State in Europe has been doing ; for , while wggjhave been improving our civil institutions mainly , egad , they have been paying no attention to anything but their army . "
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MISCELLANEOUS . TJhb Case of the Host , and Rev . Mk . Liodell . — It was stated at the Consistory Court on Friday week that the judgment in the cases of " Westerton against Liddell" and " Beale against Liddell , " before the court last term , argued by Dr . Robert Phillimore on the one side and Dr . Bayford on the other , would not be delivered until November . Mb . Roebuck at Sheffield . —The annual Cutlers '
Feast was held at Sheffield towards the close of last weeky when the two members for the town , Mr . Roebuck and Mr . Hadfield , were present . The former , in reply to the health of both having been drunk , made a speech , urging on the assembly the necessity that exists for the middle classes taking into their own hands the government of the country , and for the constituencies sending to Parliament honest and conscientious men , and not hampering them by continual demands for place . In this last respect , he pointed to Sheffield as a model for
nutation . - Mb . Alderman Kelly died rather suddenly at Margate _ on Friday ' week , in the eighty-fourth year of his age . He had represented the ward of Farringdon Within , as alderman for five-and-twenty years . . The Harvest . —The accounts received from various parts of " t he country incline us to believe that , upon the whole , the crops will not be found deficient in a liberal yield , though undoubtedly the result will not be nearly equal to what was expected in the early part of the summer ., The . fine weather thqt has prevailed for the last fortnight has had a favourable effect , and the greater
part of' the harvest is now gathered in ; but the rains about the end of July , and commencement of August , have left their influence on the crops in the shape of mildew , red rust , and empty ears . The crops of barley and oats , however , appear to be particularly good . A report froth Doncaster says , speaking of wheat , . " We see no reason to alter our last Week ' s estimate—namely , a general yield of from twerity-seven to thirty bushels per acre , the district all round . "—From Ireland , the reports are extremely cheering . The farmers ) however , are obliged to pay enormously fcr labour , owing to the scarcity of hands . Half-a-crown a day , with board , is stated as the minimum standard .
Influencing- the Corn-Market . —A singular instance of the ingenuity of rascality was lately given in the Times City Article : —" Tho barometer in , the Exchanger room at Liverpool has just received the addition of a protective brass bar and strong padlock ; and the event is one of some importance to the commercial community . It appears that several of the Greek merchants and others in that town have recently had the credit of using , every conceivable means to brjng about certain fluctuations in the corn-market . The corndealers & t this season keep a constant eye on the barbmeter , ' and have often of late Ueen startled by apparent oscillations of the , large ono at the south end of the room , and , tho . freque , nt . downward tendency ; of the mercury . These movements were , especially observable on market days . Suspicion was at' length excited , and a watch set on the Instrument . The result was the
discovery of one of the supposed speculators in the act'of opening the door and pushing the ! indicator upward , thus giving the , mercury itbe appearance of having , fallen , so as to create apprehensions of bad weather and higher prices . It is not stated if any public steps are to be taken ' against thie person ; but meanwhile the managers of the Exchange have , adopted the only means to render a rep « tition of the practice impossible . '' -i . ; . , SUBttfABINE TELEGRAPH , yp MAJ / TA AND PoNSTAIfTIuropLB ,- —SignorBonelli , Director-General of the Electric-Telegraph in Sardinia , has proposed' to the Govortvment at Malta to extend the ' submarine telegraph , from QitgUanLjiv the Island of Sardinia ; to Alexandria and th ^ pardanelleia . i ? ifi Malta , or to , Malta only ., Signor B ^ onell ^ haB , projected a ljno which ,, starting from Cagllarl , j and touching " at Malta , might , be carried on to
Candia , where it would , branch off on one- side to Alexandria in Egypt , and , on . the other to the Dardanelles . The expense is estimated at 60 , 000 / ., or , if to Malta only , l 0 , 000 J . The English Government has approved of the latter proposal , but thinks that Malta should bear a part of the expense . " Anotheb as » another tet" Ascends . —^ The day after our countrymen , Messrs . Anderson , Templer , and Williams , ascended Mont Blanc , another ascent , was made by Mr . G . W . Heard , an American gentleman , and Mr . Chapman , an Englishman , the former being but eighteen and the latter seventeen years of age . The Rev . R . M . M'Brair , M . A ., a well-known member of the ' Wesleyan Missionary Society , who has spent several years in Western Africa , but who has recently been officiating as a minister , at Cambridge , has seceded from the Methodist community , on account of certain grounds on which he disagreed ^
State of Trade . —The trade of the manufacturing towns , which was slightly checked by the increase in the Bank rate of discbunt and the sustained advance in the corn-market , has since then received an impetus from the favourable news from SebastopoL The tone of business , upon the whole , has been favourable . Messrs . James Walker and Co ., of Leeds , have suspended for 20 , 000 / ., but are to be allowed to resume under inspection . Mr . Matthew Wood , a gentleman connected with
the mail department of the General Post Office , has committed suicide , by swallowing cyonide of potassium , which he was in the habit of using for photographic purposes . He had applied to be elected to the head of his department ; but , on finding that he was not competent in all respects , he grew very desponding , and was often heard to say , " It must be either success or prussic acid . " At the expiration of the probationary . term of six months , he discovered that he was not confirmed in his appointment ; and , going home broken-hearted , was ound the next morning dead in his bedroom .
KOSSUTH AND THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT . The Daily Times ( American paper ) publishes a letter . addressed by Kossuth to the President of the United States , in which , after alluding to the probability of an approaching insurrection in Hungary , he asks certain questions with respect to the terms on which American ships are to stand with regard to the new Hungarian Government . In answer to these , the Union , a paper supposed to speak the views of the President , remarks : "M . Kossuth and his disciples cannot understand , or will not acknowledge the justice of , that policy of the United States which discriminates between existing Governments and merely insurrectionary movementsbetween acquired and expected independence ^ -between official and unofficial persons—between a Secretary of State and a newspaper correspondent . " The Western Fisheries . —The catches during the preceding week have been some of the largest of this
season . . Mr . John Simon , officer of health of the city of London , has been appointed medical officer of- the General Board of Health , in pursuance of the aet of last session , continuing that Board , and authorising the appointment by it of a medical officer . Proposed Arcade near St . Paul ' s . —Mr . Horace Jones , architect , proposes to erect an arcade on the open ground at the intersection of New Cannon-street arid St . Paul ' s Churchyard ; the ground in the rear to be covered with a handsome pile of warehouses , of red brick and stone , in the Palladian style employed by Sir Christopher Wren .
Great Fire in Lambeth . — -A very destructive fire broke out on Tuesday morning on the premises of Messrs . Baker and Sons , builders , adjoining the pleasure-grounds of Lambeth Palace , and covering aeveraj acres . Eight contiguous houses also caught fire , and narrowly escaped destruction ; and the flames spread to some of the trees in the Archbishop ' s grounds . The steam floating eiigine at Southwork Bridge -was brought up ; but even at noon the fire was not , altogether extinguished . The whole of theiiron planing mills are burned down , tho saw mills are destroyed , the joiners' shops are levelled with the ground , the masons ' shops are consumed , and a valuable stock of marble is completely splintered . Several stacks of Spanish and Honduras mahogany , as well as Dantzic wainscoting , are reduced to ashes , The cause of the fire is unknown . Wo are happy to add that the chief sufferers ' are insured . Several thieVes were taken into custody for pocket-picking among the mob , and examined next day at the polices-office . >
Collision wwii an Iceberg , rry Tho bark , Mary Morris , bound from , Greonock to New York , struck , on the 1 st of July , against an iceberg one hundred feet above the top of the mainmast , and' presenting- a front of three-quarters of a'mile . , i The ship was greatly damaged by the collision ; but ; site was eftved by tho skill and courage of the captain and , crew ,,. Turn Contemplated Koajd Tiiapuan" St . James ' s Park has met with strong opposition from tho Times '; and it ia to bo'hoped that public opinion will defeat the proposed change . , i , >¦ ¦ , ;¦ > ; ¦¦ , : ) m . i -, ^\ j < . . .. < .. ¦' : . ' . p . . Health | OP i LoNDON .-frTCho rejturoijp'of the London , registrars . show that , lOlfr persons , of whom 561 wore males and , 464 . females , died in the w ^ ok that ended last ' Saturday ,. The mortality has continued at nearly the
same rate darings tboi laet ^ jth ^ eWeeteiWpiaa ; fe high for a season which in the ^ etrppelia 4 b always more unhealthy than the early months ofisummer . ,, The coldness of the weatlier has effected apparently * a : ? diniinuiiion © f cases of diarrhoea ' , and of those which are returned as cholera , or choleraic diarrhoea . In the previous three weeks , diarrhoea was fatal successively ; in 154 ; , 127 , l & k cases ; last week , the number declined to 107 '; and cholera Has decreased in the last two weeks from i ^ cases to 6 . Last week , the births of 803 boys add 774 girls , in all 1577 children , were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1845-64 * the
average number was 1422 . —From the Registrar-GerfcraPa Weekly Return . ^^ . Braintree ChtoOh-rate Case . —A testimonial , consisting of a beautiful group of emblematical figures , illustrative of civil and religious' liberty , executed in silver by Foley , the sculptor , and weighing nearly 500 ounces , is to be presented at the Corn Exchange , Braintree , on Tuesday , the 25 th inst ., to Mr . Samuel Coiirtauld , for the services rendered by him in the sixteen years ? contest which ended in its being declared , that church-rates cannot be enforced against . ; the vote of a majority of the vestry . A cold ^ collation will be provided , and Sir William Clay , Bart * , will preside . Tke subscription list is still open . .
The Case of Strahan , Paul , tAtro Co . —This ease was concluded , as far as the examinations at the policeoffice are concerned , on Wednesday , when the three prisoners were committed for trial . Their" baifc / was extended . The only additional evidence of importance was that of Mr . Beattie , hitherto absent abroad , who negotiated the sale of Dr . Griffith ' s , securities , for which he obtained 12 , 281 / . 5 s . Mr . Duffy has refused a present of a library as a testimonial . Earl Gifford , son of the Marquis of Tweedale , has issued an address to the , elec $ ors of Totness , soliciting their suffrages on Liberal , principles ;' " ' % ^ pf \ .
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^¦^^ H ^^^ HV ^ MB T ¦ * Leader OfficI , Saturday , September 15 . RUMOURED EVACUATION' OF THE CRIMEA . Le JVord says : — " The evacuation of the Crimea by the Russian army Is talked p ' f at I ' aris ; | We frankly admit that we have no official intelligence on this head : we shall wait for facts . No doubt we shall soon know in a positive manner whether the movement' executed by Prince Gortschakoff is the commencement of a retreat , or whether the Commanderin-Chief of the Russian forces has merely taken up a defensive position more impregnable than that which he has just left . " ! ' THE FRENCH LOSSES . The Moniteur of Priday morning announces that Marshal Pelissier , in ' a telegraphic despatch dated the 11 th of September , informs the Minister of War that about 4500 wounded , of which number 240 are officers , have gone to the ambulance . ** As regards the 1 number of dead ( killed on the field of battle ) it has not yet been possible to get an exact return , bub it is the opinion of the Commander-in-Chief that it does not exceed the ordinary . proportion , that is to say , about one-third of the number of the wounded . ' ' The number of French Generals , now said to bo killed during the assault on Sebastopol , amounts to five , besides ten superior officers . It was also affirmed in Paris yesterday that Generals Macr Mahon and Trochu have died of their wounds , and that General Bosquet waa killed . The names of Generals X > u Lac and St . Paul are also mentioned amongst the casualties . No less than 1200 guns , of large calibre , have been found by the Allies in Sebastopol .
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THE QUEEN'S MESSAGE TO GENERAL SIMPSON , Loud Fan-mure has addressed a telegraphic despatch , to General Simpson , of which the following are the most noticeable , passages : — " The Queen has received with <| eep emotion the welcome intelligence of the fall of SebastopoL " Penetrated with profound gratitude to the Almighty , who had vouchsafed thia triumph to the Allied Army , her . Majesty has ; commanded me to express to ( yourself , and , through you , to the Army the prido with which she regards this fresh instance of their heroism . t n
" Tho 'Queen congratulates her troops on the trU umphant issue of this protracted : eiege , nnd thanks them for , the cheerfulness an . 4 fortitude Avith which they have encountered its toils , and tho j valour Which has led to its termination . " , '' ' The message concluded witli congratulations addressed to General Belismer . ; , < :
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 15, 1855, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15091855/page/8/
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