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986 THE L E A D E It. _____ [No. 395, Oc...
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Foreign Ruffian's. — Under this heading,...
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THE INDIAN HEVOLT. A somewhat brighter a...
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^ 7t1e0e Intelligence From India Is Deci...
money -will pay a large price for the accommodation . The chief cause , of course , lias been the difficulty in the United States ; but that which most especially forbids the hope of any very favourable or any sudden reaction is the state of the Continent . The panic has now extended- itself to Yienna ., where it has been raging in these latter days . Here the position
is exactly the reverse of our cran . There is comparatively restricted trade , the protective system of Government keeping-down commerce to tUe-nainiraum ; and the State is not only a beggar , hut bankrupt . " With such a stare of things allaround , Erancc cannot sustain , her ' artificially pufl'ed-up show of prosperity . The Bank of -France has been obliged to raise its rate ot * discount to Oi , and the
shock to commercial confidence is much greater m Paris than in London . Though here we arc in some agitation , and ' another bankruptcy I * is a daily exclamation—it is indeed sometimes heard more than once a day . The Qxieen of Spain has taken new advisersthat is , new Ministers . INauvaez lms given place to General Armero , and Spain has neither lost nor gained by the arrangement . Only in alL these changes of men , the Queen ' s tendency is to go further and further from constitutionalism , and to
lose sight of the fact that , if , as the Times says , Spain is an absolute kingdom , Don Carlos , undeniably , OTight to be king . While Royal Prussia is gradually fading out of life —the reprieve just announced being only temporary •—Royal Sweden is obliged , in invalided abdication , to look on while liis eldest born , as Prince Re gent , reverses his policy ; introducing a despotic spirit into Stockholm , and equally threatening to antagonize Russia and liberalism .
The second elections in the " Danubian Principalities appear to "be little more acceptable than the first . At the' beginning- of the week there was a report c nrrcnt that the British and Austrian Ambassadors had jointly protested against certain malpractices and irregularities ; but it was denied . It turns oil ! , liowcvcr , that tlic report was well founded . The Austrian Commissioner in the Principalities lias forwarded to IE . de Piioxescii a document setting forth a great number of illegal proceedings in connexion with the new elections ; that document , has
been submitted to the Porte , and will be laid bctorc the Paris commission . The probability thai , the solution of the whole question will be such as was described some weeks back , namely , that the institutions oft he two countries will be alike , but separately administered , is strengthened by the circular despatcli sent by Aali Pacha to the Ottoman Legations at the Courts that were parties to the trenly ofParis ; and ikis , notwithstanding a rumour that the Emperor Napoleon is putting forward one of his own house , Prince Joachim : Muk . vt , as a candidate fov the Moldo-Wallachian throne .
' Another railway accident , 1 ' Such is the dally cry . 1 'liat is , another case in which a number of helpless railway travellers have had life , and limb , and health sacrificed by the brutal neglect of ordinary and reasonable precaution on the part ol rail wiry servants . On Wednesday , the fi . ' . K ) morning train from Cheltenham to Milfovd ITuvcn reached , about noon , a hi null station called Pyh :, next , to 1 ' ort Talbol . It whs ten . minutes behind its time . Word was brought that lhclin . fi ahead was blocked up by a brolceu-down truck belonging to an ' Irish goods train ,
A messenger was sent , forward , with orders to return and report , when the line was cleared . Wow conies this scandalous neglect of caution . "WiUunTi , wailing for the ; return of the messenger , at an order given by sonic one in authority—by whom , it . isnol ut present cle . ; ir—the train Was driven lrn . de for noiue distance , then crossed from its own ( the down lino ) on to the up line of rails . . 11 , went , forward , passed the spot where it had been delayed about \\ inilo , and then an up-train , known to bn overduo t was seen approaching at its usual speed . It wau too luto to avoid a collision ; the two engines
met like lams ; and—the consequences arc not difficult to imagine . Now , supposing the case to be as we have stated it , we say it should be made memorable by the punishment awarded to the authors of tlic catastrophe . But , moreover , strong measures must immediately be taken to ex . tort from railway eompanies preventive security to passengers . At the end of last week we had a train on live on the Great Western line , and , a few days later , another train , going from Carlisle 1 o Lancaster , -was- on fire . In both these cases the danger was of the most appalling kind , and the sud ' erings of the passengers such , that , possibly some ot" tlicm . will never recover from their etfects ; in both eases the terrified passengers could do nothing to make known their sit nation to cither the
engine-driver or tlie guard ; the men going on unconscious of the state of the train in their charge . Fortunately , in one case , the danger was observed by a policeman , and in \\\ z other by some labourers on the line , who gave the alarm , and so prevented tlie occurrence of a frightful calamity . But as things now arc , the passengers of any train , that leaves a station are exposed to the danger of being helplessly burned to death , with no hope , ami barely the possibility , of assistance from the olUeials whose duty it is to sec that they are carried in safety to their destination . As the railway authorities will not do anything' to remedy this monstrous evil , the Legislature must compel them . What is tloue on American and Continental
l'ailways for the public safety and convenience can be done on ours . Perfect mcansot' communication between , passengers and guard , and bet . ween guards and engine-drivers , must at once be established ; , arguments against the imperative demand for this arrangement are all futile : it must be done . ' Another murder ' . '—the third daily cry . There seems just at present to be a rage of homicide in men ' s minds . Tlic red stains of no less than eleven
atrocities of this kind are fouling the columns of our newspapers . With quick tempers it is now not . merely a word ami a blow , it , is a word and a mortal stab , or razor-gash . A man and his wife have atip-y wrangle—he throws himself upon kcr and cuts her throat . Two brothers get into a dispute about family matters—worsted in . argument or abuse , one plunges a butcher ' s knife into the other ' s heart . A parly of live liomau Catholic docklabourers have a theological discussion—two of tlie live are ; stabbed , one mortally , thy other within an ace of death . A sou is dissalislieil with his fa I her ' s
mode ol conducting I he business of a farm , —he places a gun at the cheek of hi . s sleeping parent and shoots him dead . On the mind of one man , a farm-servant , the idea of murder has taken such hold that lie cannot- resist t he impulse to start up and stab to death two of his fellow-servants , a man and his wife , who have looked in upon him to inquire after his health , in the Leigh Wood case , a woman is murdered apparently for a few pounds which wen ; in her pockets , ami for the contents of two or three boxes ol' wearing apparel , of no great value . The Waterloo-bridge atrocity brings this catalogue of horrors to a climax , compared with which ' we may .-ilmobt say willi Shaksimcakw , ' All murders past ' do stand excused . " The ' rains ol blood' of the old annalists mid of old ' Magazines ol Wonders' are no longer apocryphal .
986 The L E A D E It. _____ [No. 395, Oc...
986 THE L E A D E It . _____ [ No . 395 , Octoeeii 17 , 1857 .
Foreign Ruffian's. — Under This Heading,...
Foreign Ruffian's . — Under this heading , the ////«¦« gives iiublicity to tlie following statement : — " -Rather more than three weeks ago , one of my younger son ) , about , ten 3 * ears of ago , was passing through London , on his way to school , under the care of an elder brother , a sixth form boy : it Harrow . The day was ex . tromc . l y wet , and the little boy was carrying an umbrella to shelter himself from the heavy ruin that was falling . As Ik : was passing up RegcnL-rttivut , near tho . Circus , about two i ' . im ., bu accidentally pushed ugnin . sl , or iu Home wny incommoded with his umbrella , one of the numerous foreigners who swagger about that , vicinity , with red caps on their heads , and . sticks in their hands .
Tho ruffian immediately turned round mid followed the child , and struck him from behind a violent blow on the head with the knot ov handle of his . stick . Jlis brother , who - \ vns just , in front , turned round on hearing tho child cry , and , having learnt what hail occurred , followed the assailant , and , fortunately meeting n policeman almost immediately , gave the man in charge . The policeman gave every attention to tho complaint , but Haiti that , as on examining the . child's head he did not , find any blood , ho luid no authority to take the wtsiiiliint into custody . As a considerable ) crowd had collected , and tho ! > nynw » re only passing through London , ami could not , stop without very great inconvenience , t , he older brother thought , it hotter to lot the matter drop there ; and L do not know that he could have well done otherwise . "
The Indian Hevolt. A Somewhat Brighter A...
THE INDIAN HEVOLT . A somewhat brighter aspect is presented by tlie ne-Trs received from India during the present week Lueknovr is reported safe ; the rebels have been do- ' feated in several encounters -with our troops ; Evre and . Nicholson have augmented the "brilliant catalogue of successful encounters with the cnei ' nv " Outram is in tlie field ; the additional attempts at insurrection have been promptly suppressedthere have been no more wholesale m assacres ; Central India continued undisturbed ; and all wore looking forward hopefully to the assault of Delhi .. Tlie newspaper despatches from Alexandria and ]\[ ur _ seilles , and the Government despatches from Ca' -liari and-Malta , stute : — ¦ °
"The intelligence from Delhi extends to the JiOth of August . The siege train was expected on tlit 1 st or 3 rd of September , after which the place would probably be immediately assaulted . On the 2 Gth -of August a body of the rebels , which left tlie eit } - with the object of intercepting the siege train , -was attacked bv General Nicholson at Nujufghur , and utterly defeated , with loss of all their guns ( thirteen ) and their camp baggage . On the 30 th of August , some of t ' . ie enemy ' s breastworks "were taken between the Sftrnmv-huusc and .
the town . The mutineers inside the walls onlv number 17 , 000 , of whom one-fourth are cavalry . * ' On the 1 st of September , General Gut ram was at Allahabad . with strong reinforcements , and was expected to reach Caimporc on the 9 th . Large bodies of troops were marching from Calcutta towards Allahabad , which city , together with Benares , is threatened l > y the Oiide mutineers . The garrison of Lucknow , it was thought , would be relieved en the loth of September , up to which date it -was confidently expected that they could hold out without diflicultv .
" At . Agra all was well . . A detachment from the fort , under Major Montgomery , attacked a body of insurgents near Allyghur on the " 21 th of August with complete , success and trifling loss on our side . The uf ) ih . llengal Native Infantry were disarmed at Ghazeepori ; on the 10 th of August . Seventeen prisoners were executed for treason at Sattara on the Sth of September . " The 51 st Native Infantry mutinied at Peshawur on the 28 th of August . T » y the following day , the ir . iitiny vas completely crushed . Mutinies of part of ( lie 10 th Light Infantry at Feruzepore and of a portion of the ;~ j ; j th at llazur . i , have iu like manner been promptly suppressed . At the former place , Veterinary ' Surgeon Nelson has been murdered .
" The garrison at Arrah , after being relieved by MYijor Kyre , had safely reached DiiKtjiorc . Ky : c bad subsequently attacked Koor Singh aLii ^ di-spon . -. The rebel force had been broken . The insurgents were trying to make their way to Delhi . A small portion ' of the Sth Irregular P . eng . d Cavalry had mutinied at Bhau ^ ulpore . Tho 2 . Srd Fusiliers had arrived at Calcutta . Lord Elgin left for I long-Kong on the Jird of September . "Central India , the T ' unjal ) , and Hyderabad rountry .
continue undisturbed . The remainder of the . ) yudpore-Legion have mutinied , and marched towards Nus-verahacl , from which station troops have been sent in intercept them . At Ncemuch , part of a squadron of tlu ' - iul Bombay Light Cavalry mutinied on the 12 th of August ; but the troopers were disarmed . The H ! lth i ; -: ; inient lias arrived from the Cape , and been s ^ nt to IV .-si ; •""' hodfuh was hourly expected . Tlie Madras ami rnr ,, i ' . ) : iy l ' rt'sideneies were " p erfectly tranquil . The . \ hiliurnim had passed oil" quietly in all parts of India . her
"The waters of the Ganges and the . lunuu iuvhig than ever . The excessive rains render the mairh of the troops very dilllcult . " Kxchange at Bombay ( September 17 th ) clo .-. d at t > M . Ijjd . Government securit ie . s had improved , l > ui ii ^ aiii recoiled to SI ) for 1 ' s and 1 ) 11 for . V . s , owing to ln - . v - |"" t : ^ lions from Calcutta . JVices of imports continued « advance . "Sir II . Lccke has arrived at Siuy / , by tlw >' ( > ' ^ . > and . states that allnirs in India are a shade lull r . ¦¦
Tlie Trieste enm-sponiliMifc of the '/ ' ///<• • ¦ . ila tiijS from tli . it plaee on the lUlh instant , says that tlie steamer Australia , whir . h had just m-rived IM ' 1 ! ' "' "'" Alexandria , brought dales from Calcutla Iu die I'HU of September ; inmi Madras to tlic I .-I li ; and Iroiu Oylonlo the 20 th . I le gi ves the follow-in ; . ; : ^ uunary of news : — , , " The safety of the garrison nf Liicknmv \ v . i-I iWI upon um perfectly secured . Intelligence , datyd Liiil-j ^' ) September ' 2 nd , had been ti-.-in .-iiiiilli'il by ( iiinial "' A socoml successful liortie hud hc- 'ii mntlf , t \ vn ;; i'ii- ''• 'I' " Lured , and ( i large ( inantily of provi .-iioii .-i bniu . Jn > " °
""Lhe fort . . . | . ) "The Kt . camem C ! lcopa ( rii and renclo |'" . u ., Koyal Welsh KiiMJliers and 2 OK men of the l . ' o . val Aiii ; lery , had coaled at , <} nlh- , and gone on ( . » * ' jtl « utt ;» . ^ is . stated that , some 2 . > 00 tmop . i were known to h- 'is ' ' ' " rived at tho Mauritius . , " It is iiflirmi'il that the ( . roop-i nt l'diopfuil '" belled . The lic .-Miin , who continues friendly , Iims •• i '" • > . sent , away the Kuropoims in safety . . , " At , Calcutta , the prices iu tins export-mark'' ! . Iuki dined . Tim import-market , continued dull . Mon <\> J ' cxcesblvely scarce . The liank of Uoiigal refill-H to »> ' «
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 17, 1857, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17101857/page/2/
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