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56 T HE LEADER. [No. 304, Saturday
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THE ORIENT. INDIA. The Santal rebellion ...
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Ottr Civilisation. Mobe "Pabdon" Cases.—...
Breaking into a Nunnery . —Three young men , of respectable appearance and connexions , were charged at Heeds with , breaking into a Roman Catholic nunnery , at night , and taking away some books and other articles . The accused admitted the fact , but said they had only done it for . a " lark" when they were drunk . Crime in "West Yorkshire , —Offences of a grave character appear to be very rife' in the West Riding of Yorkshire . On Saturday night , about half-past eleven o ' clock , as Mr . Richard Poppleton butcher , Huddersfield , was returning from Huddersfield market to his home , at Kilner-bank , Mold-green , be was seized , within eight or ten yards of his own
door , by some men and robbed of above * 90 . m casli , notes , and bills . One of the men held him by the throat and nearly strangled him , while the others rifled his pockets . He was at last thrown upon the ground and the back of his head was laid open . Four men have been apprehended . The Huddersfield Chronicle records three other very daring attempts at robbery . On Friday night week , about sLx o ' clock , as Mr . Joseph Hirst , of the Greave , Melthanx , near Huddersfield , was returning from his works to his residence at the Greave , he fell over a rope which
was stretched across the road about a foot from the ground . Immediately he was attacked by four ruffians , who endeavoured to obtain possession of a cash-box which it was his custom to carry on a Friday night . Mr . Hurst managed to regain his feet , and fortunately succeeded in escaping from his assailants without the loss of his property . Two other daring stoppages occurred on the highway in tlie district of Meltham . In one case , the person attacked was thrown , into a pond of water , and had a narrow escape of being drowned .
Embezzlement . — "William Burns , foreman to Messrs . Walker , Parker , and * Co ., lead merchants and shot manufacturers , Lambeth , and James Winter and Isaac Jones , servants employed by the same firm , have been examined at the Larabeth police-office , charged with embezzling property from their employers from year to year , until at length the amount reached the enormous sum of , £ 5 , 000 . The theft was long- sujj ? pet s < i by the firm ; but they could not untii recently fix upon the culprits . Burry ^ o ^ elast man suspected , as he had been- born on , the premises , treated with
gSgcA ' Smdness , advanced from post to post , and regarded with the utmost confidence . The prisoners were all remanded . Mr . George Sandford Keyrner , traveller to a wine-raerchant ' s house in the City , has been committed for trial on a charge of embezzlement : He had been a defaulter ; but his employers agreed to raise his salary , and to trea £ his defalcations as a debt . They therefore took his bills for the amount ; and from time to tinae these were renewed , but were never paid . Recently he absconded . The defence suggested was that he was a partner . Bail was ta & en for'his appearance on the trial .
Woman Beating , —This crime , which has slackened lately , has again exhibited itself . Two cases have come before the magistrates this week . One exhibited more than usual ferocity . John Bodeu , a tinman in Spitalfields , went home drunk , and without provocation , made a frightful attack on the mother of the woman , with whom he cohabits . He knocked her down , knelt on her chest , and tried to tear her month open . Her jaw was horribly lacerated , and she was bruised all over . " It was God in His mercy , " said the
poor woman to the magistrate , " who sent a friend to save me , or I must have been murdered . I am very ill and Bore . " The woman ' r ) daughter was examined , and said she and lier mother had beeu frequentlyassaulted . Her own front teeth were ajl knocked , out . " It ' B the drink , " pleaded Boden , when asked what he had to say . " When . I get it , I don't know what I do > . " He was sentenced to hard labour for six month s , and , on coming out , to find bail for good conduct .
Our , Poor L < vw Administration . —A poor man , a few days ago , committed a robbery from a clothjer ' s shop , while in a state of utter destitution . Ho had been refused admission into the Westminster workhouse , on tne plea that the place waa full . On being brought before the magistrate on remand , ho waa discharged j and Mr . Amold said that the workhouse authorities are bound to find accommodation , i f they do aiot possess it . At Guildhall , on Thursday , Mr . Alderman Finnis called the attention of Mr . Phillips , the relieving officer of the West London Union , to the feabit of sending back the ohildren of criminals to their lathers , directly the latter leave prison , though they are ¦ thus left to the hazard of starvation . Mr . Phillips mid it waa done to prevent the parents abandoning their children .
Tub Bcrnopb'iiclp Murder . —The inquest on the i I i ° Mr * Ro 1 io »' Stirling , the Burgeon , h « n concluded a-fter eevoi- ^ l very protracted aittingB , in a verdict of wilful murder against Richard Ray no and John Cam . J The Tkaobdy oy a « Comio Vocalist . "— jr . W . Wnarpo , the onco celebrated comio vocalist , died at the Dover Urnon en Thuradny week . He had heen wandexmg about tU 0 town night and day for the lo » t three wooks , in av deetituto condition , dissipation
having produced in him a most emaoipated appear ance . —South Eastern Gazette .
56 T He Leader. [No. 304, Saturday
56 T HE LEADER . [ No . 304 , Saturday
The Orient. India. The Santal Rebellion ...
THE ORIENT . INDIA . The Santal rebellion is nearly extinguished . Several skirmishes have taken place ; four thrtes have the insurgents been defeated by General Lloyd , with great Ios 3 ; Seedoo , the original leader , has been seized , and lies under sentence of death ; Kanoo , the second in command , is also captured ; and six . of the rebels have been hanged . It is thought that the tribe will be punished by having to make military roads through their fastnesses . The Legislative Council of Calcutta has passed a bill prohibiting the export of saltpetre , except in vessels bound to London or Liverpool , and ordaining that saltpetre shipped to any other place may be confiscated . This act has excited great indignation among -the American merchants , who are principally affected . '
" Another measure of some importance , " says the Times Calcutta correspondent , " has beeu brought before the Legislature during the fortnight . By the modern interpretation of certain shastras , Hindoo widows are debarred from re-marriage . The betrothal , moreover , is held in this respecfc equivalent to marriage . Girls are usually betrothed before they are eight years old , and , of course , there are thousands of widows in the country who never entered their husband ' s house . Moreover , these unhappy girls are not only doomed to celibacy , but to slavery . They may wear no ornaments and eat no pleasant food , pass much of their time in fasting , and on all
occasions take the lowest place in the household . These rules are obeyed to the letter , and the consequence is the almost universal demoralisation of the class . A statement of the whole truth to civilised readers is impossible ; but I may point to the fearful prevalence of incest as one of the many evjlg of ~ tnis enforced celibacy . Nor can the widow emancipate herself and shake nff Hindc ^ in and celibacy together . The iJritish recognise the native law of inheritance , and the child ^ of a re-married widow -js therefore illegitimate by law .. " To remove this state of things , Mr . Grant has introduced a measure which declares the marriage of a widow legal .
The Salt-Water Creek , called the Muilah , which runs parallel to the Hooghley at a point within twenty-five miles of Calcutta , has long been regarded by merchants as affording a second outlet for the commerce of that city . The Government has now consented to buoy off the Mutlah ; and Messrs . Borradaile and Co . are about to load three ships there . —Of the capture of Herat , some few additional " particulars have been transmitted to Europe . The mildness which at first characterised the conquest of that city soon give place to the utmost ferocity . Mahomed Sadik Khan , the deposed chief , was put to death , together with his whole family , excepting one woman
who -was spared for the sake of her wealth , but cruelly tortured to induce her to give up her riches . Alarmed at the seizure of Herat by their common enemy , Persia , Dost Mahomed and his brothers have agreed to sink their differences , and to join in opposing the danger which threatens all alike . —The northwest frontier is tolerably quiet ; but there is a rumour of an expedition from Peshawur against Saadut Khan a Momund chief , who is said to be preparing for a vigorous resistance . The cause of quarrel is not known . Some difficulty seems" to be arising in Oudeypoor , the principal state of the Rajpoot confederacy . The . Ttana of that district exhibited a very friendly feelingtowards ua in the course of the Sikh war
and indeed afforded material assistance ; but it is now said that we are adopting against him measures of so coercive a character that the result must be the total loss of his independence . On tho other hand , however , it is . asserted that our measures of coercion are in truth directed against tho nobles of the Rana , with whom that monarch had a quarrel , and called upon our Government as mediators , Tho nobleB , it is added , refused to abide by our mediation ; and hence tho present proceedings . —Nothing further haB taken plaqe in Oude since tho fall of Anioer Ali ; and it ia now said that the kingdom is not to bo annexed , but that , as in the ease of Mysore , tho whole administration is to bo placed under tho control of tho lteaident , who ig to bo king in every respect but in name .
Trade has not improved . Money at Bombay is getting' scarcer daily ; Govornmont securities have fallen , and tho banks have raised their rates of interest one por cent . A singular oncumstanoc attended the thanksgiving at Bombay ordered by tho Governor-General for our suocosbos in tho Crimea . On tho 2 nd of December , tho day fixed upon , tho Parsecs of their own accord mot in tho Town-hall to listen to a lecture on tho freedom and blessings of tho English govornmont , contrasted with tho tyranny and opprosHion of Russia , drawn up and dolivorod by one of their countrymen Doeaabhoy Fwunjoo . Tho lecture I > oing concluded , tho uorvico of tho day was wouud up by a prayer in favour of Eugli « h rule , —a prayer wot only remarkable
for its own excellence and appropriateness , but doublv so as one of the first ever delivered by a layman in public , and in the ordinary conversational language of the hearers , the Parsee worship being conducted and their sacred books being written , wholly in an unknown tongue , unintelligible to the worshippers and veiy imperfectly understood by the great bodv of the priesthood themselves .
PERSIA . The cause of Mr . Murray's rupture with the Schah is said to be this : —A Persian , named Mirza Hashim received an appointment from Mr . Murray in connexion with the embassy ; but the Persian government objected , and said the man would be seized if he left Teheran for Shiraz , the place to which he was appointed . The Government afterwards seized the man's wife , saying she should be violently divorced
from her husband if he did not abandon his appointment . Mr . Murray interfered ; demanded the liberation of the woman ; and gave the Government four days for decision . Since then , the Persians are said to have sent very offensive letters to Mr . Murray , imputing that he had a personal motive for desiring the liberation of the woman . For this insult , Mr . Murray has demanded an apology , and has hauled down his flag .
CHINA . The pirates in the Chinese seas have received a very severe chastisement at the hands of the English Captains Fellowes and Yansittart , and the American commander , Captain M'Cluney . Ample details of these actions have been transmitted by Admiral Stirling ; and the chief facts are thus summarised hi the leading columns of the Times ; — " Towards the conclusion of the month , of May , Captain Fellowes , in the "Rattler , had made a successful attack upon some pirates at Samchow , destroying many of their junks . Another Bimilar operation
followed in June . At the ^ end of July , this active officer received tidings of the proximity of a piratical flotilla of a far more formidable character , and returned to Hongkong to take his measures . He had an interview with Captain M'Cluney , of the United States ' frigate Powhattan , who placed at his disposal a volunteer force , consisting of two paddlebox-boaxe and a cutter , with sixty-six seamen and twenty-eight marines , under the command of Lieutenant Pegram . With this assistance , Captain Fellowes hurried off to the creeks in which the pirates Lad concealed themselves . After some futile endeavours to effect their
escape , the piratical junks , thirty-four in number , and heavily armed , made a stand , ajod attempted to crush the allied boats with the fire of their broadsides . The boats , however , rapidly pulled up to them amid showers of shot ; and the junks were carried . Nine of these were war-junks , mounting one hundred and thirty guns in all . The fleet had been manned , according to the estimate of Captain Fellowes , \> y a force of one thousand men . He calculates , further , that not less than five hundred of these were
killed , wounded , or drowned , —bo well-directed had been the shell and grape from the boats' gun * and the musketry of the marines . The pirates had succeeded in obtaining armamonts of no insignificant character ; for Captain Fellowes speaks of a 68-pounder , of a large 18-pounder , weighing fifty hundred weight , 82 , 24 , 12 , and 6 pounders . One junk had twentyone guns mounted . The officers and seamen of the United States' contingent fought throughout with distinguished gallantry , and contributed in no inconsiderable degree to tho success of the day .
" The scone of Captain Vansittart ' s operations was in the-bay of Leotung . He started on -the 7 th of August last from " Woosung , hjs sloop being in tow of the Confucius Btcamer , which had been manned from tho United States' frigate Macedonian . The Pavushan , a small steamer , which was manned by persons interested in the success of tho operations , was subsequently added to tho force with which Captain Vansittart proceeded in search of the pirate * . By the 20 th of August , ho hud succeeded in destroying twenty junks of the fleet , all heavily m-motl . ' That they would not hesitate to attnok merchantmen / writes Captain Vansittart , ' ia evident from the
vigoroxis manner thoy opened nnd maintained , their firo upon ub . Their guns , six or seven to fourteen and upwards in each , vary from 24-poiuidors downwards ; perhaps au occasional 32-pounder may bo xnot with ; but a nice Bort of medium , eighteen , is tfio most common in use . ' Finally , in tho middle of September , iu tho neighbourhood of Shoipoo , Captain Vaneittart camo upon tho remainder of tho piratical flout , nnd uuccoedod in destroying it . The ivrduouH nature of the enterprise may bo understood by tlio simple statement that , though thoy wore engaged at , & va hundred yardu' distance , it required au hour ol ' hard fighting to silonco tho firo of tho pirates . "
JEdYlT . Tho Vieoroy of Egypt haw boon compollod to curtail tho salaries of Govornmont officiate , owing to tho scanty rise of tho tho Nilo this year having caused eovoral Inndn to l > o out of culture , and therefore to be exempt from paying taxes . Said Pachit intends to erect a palace on
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 19, 1856, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19011856/page/8/
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