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Co Uld We Publish An Itineraire De Gotha...
move the illustrious travellers which we have mentioned—different even from the necessities that call out the Czab—are the reasons that have again sent Santa Atwa on his travels . Mexico will not have him and ' probably she is ! sright . Tet Mexico , not long since , . !«& Santa -Anna to "believe that he was the very man whom she desired . He had retired from tlie Republic before , getting away , undefc , some difficulty , with his property and his wife ; He was followed by the importunities of the Mexicans , who seduced him from his retired ease , persuaded him to resume possession of power , and manifestly encouraged him to render that power dictatorial . Of course there are always " three courses " to be pursued , even in the most subversive of countries ; and in Mexico there were three . A President of strong will and virtue might induce the Republicans to assemble the Congress ; might put down any fiiction or fanaticism which should lead that Congress from its purpose ; and might assist the whole nation in declaring its will ; A despot of Napoleonic power might have prepared a great intrigue —*• might have accomplished a coup d ' etat— and , by a sufficiently clever treatment of the army , might lave rendered his power absolute , dictatorial , and imperial . Santa Anna wonted either the honesty or the strength fop-eMler course , and be attempted a compromise . He corrupted tlie army ; he crowded the civil service with his own nominees ; but somehow he did not manage to appropriate the civil service nor the army . He still left room for the malcontents . His own employes were perhaps' unfaithful , as soon as they got out of him what he could give ; and not having strength enough to appropriate a majority to himself , he had yet sufficient strength to irritate a majority into existence against him . The curse of Mexico is its division into parties so little competent for real business , so self-seeking that they can only unite against any one , and cannot combine for any purpose of positive good . They can expel Santa Anna ; they constitute a really effective Grcrvernment . He never yet has succeeded in rendering ids power firm and paramount ; he is most successful in escaping again with property as well as life . In ' Bengal , Sini > u comes before his countrymen with higher testimonials than Santa Anna , for he has a divine mission . It seems that the hill tribe in Bengal , -whose eruption we have already noticed , has been partly moved to this revolutionary attempt at redressing its wrongs by th 6 enlightenment of Christianity . The gospel of St . John has been circulated amongst the people . It has suggested new ideas , or rather it has furnished them with an authoritative form for reviving some of their old ideas , adapted to the new dispensation , and they profess that Sindu is at once a missionary and an incarnation of divine power destined to be victorious . " He is to make war on " the Sahibs , " Lords , tnat is , the rulers of Ind ? a ; and is to establish a monarchy of the Santals in their own territory . Wo have had examples of similar outbreaks iri ' countries not so distant as China , and SiN » u is not very different from an : Indian . Thom or 'Oopifcxitsipr . The Santals nppear to htfve insurredti $ ltf { tey predominance within 1 a district compris » rijg ; Hji ^ j | teaid , abou t a hundred square miles ; they ' TPyfi attacked' villages , and killed thousands of people , besides destroying factories . They are strong bpough to occasion e 6 me cost in putting them dow ; n . . , At home , the great companies are at the btor of public opinion . A true bill has been found against S * feAWAN , Paujc , and 'Co . j but they traverse to | next session of the Central Crfmi ha 1 Court . ' CaossUBY , the engine-driver who dashed into ai tfaln near Reading , slaying several people , and c 6 mmitting Suicide , has betfri proribunced by a » i coroner ' s jury to bear the blame of thrtt white . !
It was shown at the inquest that the most culpable laxity prevailed : the switchman , who ought to have turned the switches , was at tea ; the stationmaster ^ THth o ought to have given instructions to Cbossiey ,: was at tea ;' and the usage appears to have sanctioned a pervading neglect of rules and regulations . The administration that has such bloody results is the true culprit , and the Company is held by the public to be really answerable . The Worcester magistrates have been enforcing Christianity . "We know that the simple words willjook like a joke ; for when we talk of county magistrates / and Christianity , it almost fallows that there must be something absurd in the story . And so there is . Nathaniel Wiio-iams is a poor man living near Worcester ; he has a small plot of ground , which he cultivates in his leisure bourse like the negroes in the West Indies . On the 26 th of August , the day being Sunday , he saw that if he did not cut his grain the weather or the birds would do it for him ; and he cut it . This is a breach of the Sunday Trading Law , and for it he is brought before the Worcester magistrates , who find thus his crime must be ^ qu oted at 5 s . fine and 12 s . 6 d . costs . Thus 17 s .-6 d . worth of offensiveness had * committed before God and man in saving so much of corn . If , indeed , he had been cleaning boots for a magistrate all day , or driving horses for ditto in the intervals between church , or drawing cork 3 out of bottles for four hours after dinner , he would have been performing " a work of necessity ; " but if he cuts corn on the seventh day , to the extent of two and a half perches , it is estimated that he must pay damages to an offended Creator to the extent of 17 s . 6 d . I That is the Worcester view of Christianity ; and certainly it is of a kind which makes us blush , if we have sneered at the Santals . ; > ' * i J i J *¦ i ! ' ; ' ' : i
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The : late Railway Accident at Reading . —The inquest on the todies of the sufferers by this calamity was concluded on Monday , when the jury returned a verdict , finding Joseph Crossley guilty of manslaughter in regard to the deaths of the persons named in the inquest , and that said Joseph Crossley did kill and slay himself . To this verdict , the jury added a suggestion that a switchman should be regularly appointed to attend to the signals and points connected -with the railway station . —The evidence fully corroborated the accounts originally given of the singular carelessness of Crossley . " AH the danger signals , " said a witness , one of the porters , " were up ; but Crossley did not stop , or pay any regard to them . Even had a switchman been at his post to arrange the points , it would have been impossible to direct the engine on to another line , it was coming on so fast . " There were no regular switchmen previous to the accident , but the porters acted as such . It was the duty of Crossley , when he saw the danger signals , which he must have passed , to stop and communicate with the station-master ; but he did not do so . He likewise violated the rules in not announcing his departure to the station-master , who would thereupon have telegraphed the fact to the next station ; and in omitting ' to light the lamps . Mr . Thow , the station-maSter , expressed his opinion to the jury , that , by the present arrangement , the safety of the public is sufficiently protected ; but he could not say that a switchman , with no other duties to perform , would not add to the security . An appointment ef thiB nature has been made since the accident . Mr . Thew was at tea at the time of Crossley ' s departure , and ho has been blamed for sending him a telegraphic message to get out the engine ; but he appears to have relied on Crossley reporting himself before his departure , while the latter seems to have taken the message for an order to start immediately . A correspondent of the Times says the danger-post is six hundred yards from the Reading station , and that there were but two or three porters to attend to the whole of this line . —Since our last publication , another of the injured passengers has died , making in all five deaths . Tho other cases aro going on favourably . CowaeoaATioN or a Roman Catholic Bishop . —The Right Rev . W . Yaughan , D . D ., was elevated to the titular see of Plymouth on Monday morning , at the 1 Church of the Holy Apostles , Clifton . Cardinal Wiseman officiated as the conneorator , assisted by tho Right Rov . Dr . Ullathorne , Roman Catholic Bishop of Birmingham , and the Right Rev . Dr . Brown , Roman ' Catholic Bishop of Newport . The ceremony was vory elaborate , and tho church waa * thronged , both with 1 Roman Catholics , and Pxoteatanta . In tho evening , a sermon was preached by the Rov . IT . E . Manning , late < an archdeacon of tho English Church .
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, THE WAR . The flood of important news which poured in upon us last weefclhas been succeeded by an ebb—by an almost total cessation of telegraphic despatches from the confederated armies ; so that we are left in the dark a » to what will be the next step , either of the Allies orsdf the enemy . As usual during these lulls , there has been no want of guessing ; the most noticeable of the rumours being that the Russians are retiring upon Perekop . The story comes through Vienna , and goes so far as to say that " the Hussian Embassy received intelligence that the Russian troops were retreating from Baktchi-Serai and Simpheropol to Perekop , " and that " Prince Gortschakoff , the Russian Ambassador at Vienna , was greatly affected at the news . " This intelligence , however , if received by the Embassy at all , was received on Monday ; and nothing " more has transpired on the subject . On the other hand , it is said that the Russians have no intention of abandoning the southern half of Sebastopol , but that they are moving up reinforcements and constructing new forts . Other rumours again state that the north fort has been abandoned by the Russians ; that the whole of the forts have been evacuated , and that Pelissier ' s plans are of such a nature that 20 , 000 Russians will be made prisoners by the Allies . It is probable , hqwever , that , up to the present moment , the situation remains pretty much the same as that which immediately supervened upon the reduction of the town . That some hot work has yet to come seems likely ; and theFrench are providing against all contingencies by sending off large reinforcements . Preparations are being made at Marseilles for the embarkation of 10 , 000 horses ; the gendarmes of the Guard have left Maslek ; and Admiral Bruat has caused Taman and Fanagoria , in front of Yeni-Kaleb , to be occupied by 1200 Allied seamen . That the Allies did not find in the abandoned town " nothing- but blood-stained ruins , " is manifest from the annexed despatch from Marshal Pelissier , dated " Sebastopol , Sept . 17 th : "" In their work of destruction , the enemy respected the docks ( which are magnificent constructions ) , the establishments in the vicinity , the barracks of Fort Nicholas , and the Quarantine Fort . " The Anglo-French Commission appointed to draw up a return of the materiel left by the Russians at Sebastopol has commenced its labours . The result may be summarily stated as follows : — "We have found in the town about 4000 cannon , 60 , 000 cannon balls , a few hollow projectiles , a large quantity of grape , a great amount of gunpowder ( despite the explosions ) , 500 anchors ( half of which are excellent ) , 25 , 000 kilogrammes of copper , two steam engines of 30-harse power , and a considerable number of masts sawn la two for defensive purposes ( blindages ) . " A communication , dated the following day , states that the French Generals and superior officers wounded are doing as well as can be expected . Gortschakoff , writing on the evening of September 11 th , says : — " We have blown up a great part of the fortifications of the southern part of Sebastopol . The enemy begins to appear in ( not very numerous ) groups amidst the ruins of the town . We have transported to the north part of the place all the wounded who remained in the southern part after its evacuation . These wounded were probably the five hundred who , according to a previous account , were left behind . The French General , it would seem , had given permission for their removal . Some idea of the tragical nature of the Russian losses during the bombardment may be gathered from a despatoh sent by General Gortschakoff on the 8 th , and published in the Journal de St . JPetcrsbourg : — " The enemy receives nearly every day new reinforcements . The bombardment continues with unexampled violence . Our loss has been more than 2500 men in tho last twenty-four hours . " It is indeed evident that the Russians have suffered frightfully , notwithstanding the confident denial of Count Neuselrode and others . The Cologne Gazette publishes a letter from St . Petersburg , which gives a very gloomy account of the condition of the enemy in the Crimea . The writer says : — " The stores of the Government of Kherson aro completely exhausted since commercial vessels have ceased to bring , by the Sea of Azof , \ : orn from the fertile countries of tho Don . It is now necessary to bring from Porokop the forage for the animals employed in transports , and even tho water which they require ; for there is no forage in tho Crimea , and the springs are dried up . Tho Salghir haa become quite a little rivulet . Tho crop of potatoes has also failed , and the price has riaon more than threefold . Vegetation ia everywhere withered , and the price of com is constantly on the riao at Siinpheropol . " The testimony of a writer from Karaiosch may be added to tho foregoing : —
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 22, 1855, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22091855/page/2/
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