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April 18,1857.] THE LEADER, $83 - :— : '...
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STATE OF TRADE. The trade reports from t...
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EXPLOSIONS. Two of the Hounslow powder- ...
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THE ORIENT. INDIA.. The existence of a m...
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Ma-P Anticipated Murrain. ; A A^^Sss:^
" Une most stringent measures are employed by the Ruseo-Polish authorities , and by the -Governments of Austria and Prussia , to exclude this form of murrain frotn their respective tetritories . A regulation was published la Poland on the 9 th of May , 1856 , ordering th « indiscriminate slaughter « f all beasts that should exhibit any symptoms of the disease , under which , according to a recent return , 20 , 000 animals have already been slaughtered . ' ¦ **¦ ¦ " Independent of these measures in the interior of the country , quarantine stations have been established on the - : — : '—¦ ¦¦_ ¦ ¦ —~^~~— ..-,. ¦¦ - . .. — ¦
Kusso-Polish frontier , where beasts coming from the East are detained for three -weeks . Similar measures for the exclusion , and extirpation of the disease , should it show itself within those countries , have long been in force on the frontiers of Austria and Prussia . In Austria the infected cattle are immediately killed as soon as they show any appearance of the murrain , their companions being kept in quarantine ; and regulations still more stringent are enforced in Prussia , for both , the diseased animals and all other beasts that have been in contact with them arc there killed and buried eight feet under ground , quicklime being thrown into the pits .
" These regulations have been most sternly enforced , and not only has the importation of cattle from Poland , ¦ where the murrain is at present believed to exist , been prohibited , but rags , hides , hoofs , hay , -wood , and similar articles likely to have been in any way connected with cattle , and all persons suspected of having transactions with cattle , have been forbidden to cross the frontier . To enforce these regulations , detachments of troops have been stationed along the frontier at all the points of
egress from Poland below Thorn . This disease , however , occasionally passes into Austria and Prussia ; and such has recently been the case . It has appeared in Silesia , in the neighbourhood of Breslau and Gppeln , but has not spread into any other Prussian i ) rovince . In addition to the recent Order in Council , " the greatest Avatchfulness over the importation of cattle is maintained by the veterinary inspectors of the Board of Customs , both at London and the other ports of importation . "
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State Of Trade. The Trade Reports From T...
STATE OF TRADE . The trade reports from the manufacturing towns for the week ending last Saturday , show a limited business , but steady prices . At Manchester , stocks being moderate with a fair supply of orders , full rates have been demanded . The Birmingham , advices state that the iron market is well maintained , and that in the other occupations ; of the place there is good employment . Notwithstanding the high rates of interest , the quarterly payments have been extremely well met . At Nottingham , and in the woollen districts , there has been partial dulness , while in the Irish linen markets the demand has been satisfactory . —Times . .
In the general business of the port of London during the same -week , there has been diminished activity . The number of vessels reported inwards was 212 , being 64 less than in tt » e previous week . The number cleared outward was 120 , Including 16 in ballast , showing a decrease of . 25 . The numbw of ships on the berth loading for the Australian colonies is 4 = 5 , being 2 less than at the last account . Of these , 7 are for Adelaide , 3 for Geelong , 1 for Hobart Town , 3 for Launcostou , 6 for New Zealand , 12 for Port Philip , 2 for Portland Bay , 1 for Perth , 9 for Sydney , and 1 for Swan River ; 5 of them were entered outward in January and 12 in February . —Idem .
Explosions. Two Of The Hounslow Powder- ...
EXPLOSIONS . Two of the Hounslow powder- mills have blown up . Some four or five hands , principally youths , -were engaged last Saturday in the " composition mill , " a building about thirty feet long , containing a large quantity of saltpetre , sulphur , and othor ingredients of gunpowder . Three of the boys , about noon , suddenly perceived a blue light slowly flickering round the " place . They raiaod cries of " Fire I" and " Kim for your lives !" —when all in the building rushed forth . Three got safely out , but two others met the " blast , " and were severely scorched by it . An explosion then took placo , and a lad named Warwick was struck on the head by a falling beam , and severely injured . 'Two other explosions followed , by which two of the mills were blown to ruins . The engines were then brought out , and the flames subdued . An explosion occurred at the same works about seven years ago .
We havo to record two fatal colliery explosions this week . One occurred at the Bredbury is ew l'it , belonging to Messrs . J . and J . Jowctt , which works havo only beon opened about six months . Tho catastrophe took placo at a . quarter to seven o ' clock lust Saturday morning-, whon tho colliors had buun . at work thrao quarters of an hour . Tho noiso was heard a long way off . With fatal swiftness , tho lire ran ulong ; the various workings , and fearfully burnt such of tho colliers as had not taken tho precaution to throw themselves on their faces . A man , named Platt , who was in the level whore the explosion originated , crawled to the Hhnt ' t' . s mouth , but a b « y who flttompted to follow him ims . iod lii . s war , loll a distance of thirty feet , and greatly injured his back . However , ho ultimately escaped . * A father and ius two sons were suHbcalcd by the vapours
followingthe explosion . Several others were drawmap alive , but horribly disfigured by fire , or by bruises . The -wounded are five in number . The accident seems-to have arisen from the criminal carelessness of Platt , who "was provided with a safety lamp , but who removed the top after he had entered the level , and thus left the flame bare . This man has been a collier for upwards of twenty years . He is now fearfully injured in consequence of his own folly . The other colliery explosion arose from precisely the same cause . A night workman engaged in the Gorse Colliery , the property of Messrs . Richards and Glasbrook , Swansea , proceeded on the night of Thursday ¦ week to a part of the pit where safety lamps are required . Pie took one with him , but lifted the cap off . Some of his fellow workmen , it is said , remonstrated with him for his temerity ; but he did not heed them .
An explosion followed shortly afterwards . Six persons were brought out , more or less burnt and bruised . Two persons connected with the colliery—Mr . Evans and Mr . John Jiathews— -went into the pit to search for any one else who might be remaining ; but they had not gone far vhen they were overcome by the afterdamp , and fell down in a state of exhaustion . They were speedily drawn out , and , having recovered , they resumed their search . For four hours they looked in Vain ; but ultimately they found the dead bodies of three boys and a man . Another boy was found insensible , but was afterwards restored . He was but slightly , burnt , and would probably have escaped without any injury had he not nobly stayed behind to offer assistance to another boy , one of those who were found killed . One of the deceased men had apparently encountered his death by taking a wrong turning , in the confusion of the moment j when he 'met'the advancing flames . ¦' ¦ .
A terrible boiler explosion took place at the Leebrook Works , near Wednesbury , Staffordshire , last Saturday . The works belong to Messrs . Bagnall and Sons , and the occurrence happened , ' unfortunately , ' -at a period of the day when a .-large ' number of the workmen were actively engaged on the spot . One of three boilers , all close together , burst , scattered the brickwork of the building over an area of one hundred yards , ami killed two women , besides fearfully mutilating others , some of w . hona it is feared will not recover . The boiler separated into two immense pieces , one of which was hurled into a' . . canal which runs near , and the other , after being projected a distance of eighty yards , made a breach through a stone wall , and then fell to the earth .
The process of emptying the water out of the Lundhill Colliery is now nearly completed . Between eleven and twelve o ' clock on the night of Friday week , a dead body was discovered , floating on-the surface of the water . It was got out ,, but' Was so far advanced in decomposition , and so fri ghtfully mangled and distorted , that recognition was utterly impossible . The remains were put into a coffin , and placed in the adjacent shed which has Leen erected for the purpose of receiving the corpses as they are drawn forth . Disinfectants were copiously used ; but one of the men engaged in the operation was made ill . . ¦ " The graves at Darfield and other places , " says the Times , " are now nearly completed . About one hundred and sixty of the bodies ( if so many can be recovered ) are to be interred at Darfield .
The graves are made sufficiently deep to hold several coilins , which will be ranged one above another , a layer of bricks being placed between the different tiers . In the centre will bn a monument bearing the names of the men and the cause of their death . "—Tho " chair" at the bottom of the shaft was hauled up on Monday , after immense exertions by five men , who were working for eight hours in the midst of water . The reason of the difficulty was that tho chair had diverged from the centre of the shaft under one of the archways communicating with the workings of tho pit . Together with the chair , two corves were drawn up , as well as a considerable quantity of wood and other materials . The pit was unroofed on Wednesday . There have been several large escapes of gas , but no indications of fire are visible .
Accidents And Sudden Deaths. Mu. Ciianxe...
ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . Mu . CiiAnxES Syjkons , landlord of the Railway Hotel , Tcignmouth , while engaged in his brewhouse , ' fell into a vat of liquor , many degrees above boiling point , and was scalded in a frightful manner . He is not dead , and , although seriously injured , hopes are entertained of his ultimate recovery . Two field labourors , working at West 35 olton , a village near Sundcrland , have been poisoned by the root of water hemlock , which they took out of a ditch and eat . They were found in a state of insensibility , and died shortly after , their bodies then becoming quito Llack .
An inquest was opened on Monday afternoon on the body of Maurice Fitssgibbon , a bricklayer ' s labourer , who wan killed by tho fall of some buildings in Little IIusBoll-placo , Bow-street , on the morning of Good Friday . Tho evidence continued tho facts as given in our last week ' s Postscript . An adjournment took place , that tho jury might view tho premises , and that a postmortem examination might lie made . Another of the men died on Wednesday . A day or two ago , a gentleman gave his horso iu charge- of n . hoy in Southnmpton-row , IJlooinsbury , while ho attended to hoiiio business . Tho boy imprudently mounted tlio horwe , and utrtick it with the reins . Tho
Ingh-spinted animal galloped into Bloorasbury-equare , and jumped over the railings into the plantation . He broke one of the rail s * tore open his hocks , and fractured the boy ' s arm . The poor animal , which wasirorth 1 C 01 , was shot . Five men have been killed at Greenlawalls new colliery , near Duddo , about ten miles west of Berwick . There was a partition wall between the old ¦ workings and the new . In the former , which had been quite deserted for a long time , a large quantity of water had collected , and this burst through the Tvall , suddenly engulfing all who were in the new pit at the time , and causing the death of every one of the five .
A shocking accident has occurred at Manchester during the trial of a new invention for preventing accidents . Mr . Hugh Baines has constructed a . self-acting safety apparatus , for obviating the ill effects of the breakage of ropes in the ascent of goods or servants from one story of a warehouse to another . A trial was made on Monday evening at the place of business of Messrs . John Pender and Co . The cage was -sent up , the rope was disconnected , and it was anticipated that
the apparatus would act , and prevent any evil consequences . But it did not act , and the cage descended with fearful velocity to the basement floor , a depth of fifty feet . Four gentlemen were in tlie cage , including Mr . Baines himself . All were severely injured , and were carried to the infirmary , where one of them , named Shaw , died the same night . Mr . Baines has sustained a serious laceration of the foot . Two other gentlemen , brothers , had gone up in the cage , but had stepped out on to the upper floor just as the rope was disconnected .
Mr . J . G . Dodson , M . P ., has been thrown out of a gig in which lie was riding after the declaration of the poll for East Sussex . The vehicle was being- drawn by a high-spirited mare , which was frightened at the bands of music and the flags . The animal suddenly reared , was pulled back , . and fell , dragging the chaise with her , which rolled over Mr . Dodson and a companion . They escaped , however , without any injury . The head of one of the officials of the London and North-Western Railway * Company has been completely cut off by a train passing over it . Mi . William M'Cabe , a person of considerable engineering skill , the manager of the engine-shed at the Stafford station , -was standing on the line , watching the shunting of a train , when some
ballast waggons arrived on the spot , and stopped to put down a man ' -who had had his hand smashed at another station . On starting again , M'Cabe did not notice that the train was in motion till it was too late . The buffer of the engine caught him , and threw him across the rails , when the wheels went over his neck , severing his head from his body . His son , a young man also employed by the company , saw the horrible spectacle , and , pulling off his coat , threw it over his father ' s head , which was carried forward a distance of five or six yards . M'Cabe was greatly respected by all the authorities on the line . He leaves a widow and six children . As many as sixteen 5 'ears ago he lost one of his legs by an accident on the same railway .
Mr . Stephen Walker , licensed victualler , well known in tho sporting world as the owner of the celebrated horse Winkficld , died suddenly on the evening of Thursday week from , delirium tremens .
The Orient. India.. The Existence Of A M...
THE ORIENT . INDIA .. The existence of a mutinous feeling among some of the native regiments in India has caused much excited comment . The high-caste Sepoys at Barrackporo have been greatly disturbed at learning 1 , or fancying , that animal fut was used in the manufacture of some now cartridges , which would of course result in thoir lips coming in contact with that obnoxious substance in biting off the ends . The men held a parade on their own authority , and refused to obey tho order of their Colonel to disperse , lie then calLed out a regiment of cavalry and two guns ; on which the malcontents offered to return to their barracks if that force wore scut away . The Colonel consented , and tho danger seems to have passed for the time . But the officer has been severely rebuked for culpable weakness in acceding to the demand of the native troops . Regiments in Bengal and Mudras are also said to have exhibited a mutinous spirit ; and a mission of a very singular arwl mysterious character is now proceeding through some of the provinces . The chokedars , or policemen , have beon going about from village to village , leaving behind them little plain cakes of wheatcn flour . These havo been found not to be poisoned ; and conjecture as to the meaning is battled . The object , however , is suggested to bo , not political , but religious or superstitious—a means of warding oil disease .
" At tho date of tho latost accounts from Cubul , " says tho Times Bombay correspondont , " Doat Mahomed had not yet arrived in tho capital . In the Punjab , a large force in aftsmnbling at Dohra Ghazeo Khan—artillery , cavalry , and infantry—for nervicc against a tribe called tho lJozdara , acros . s tho mountaina . Brigadier Chamberlain commands in person , and some smart , lighting is looked for , Iu Oude , an aflrjiy has occurred , ending in loss of lift ) to a member of the Bengal Civil Service . It appcara Hint one l >' u / . l Alt , who hud buuu long imprisoned for a murderous aeaault upon a Hoyal Miniatcr somo years back , escaped lulnly from custody
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Leader (1850-1860), April 18, 1857, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18041857/page/3/
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