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complete and terrible . ' So—to the astonishment of everybody in France and - abroad , of all wko wish not well to the present regime—Count Migeon has been proceeded against by the Procureur Imperial on divers charges of malpractices at the election—of having « Kstributed circulars and addresses illegally ; of having used offensive language and gestures to a sergeant of gendarmes , and to Monsieur the Mayor of Bennout ; and of having worn tlie decoration of the Iiegiou of
Honour without being entitled to do so . Yarious allegations , also , arc made against him affecting his public honour and his private morality ; amongst other culpabilities , he has , say his accusers , gambled at the Bourse and lost a large sum of money by his speculations—and , worse than that , he has separated from liis wife ! Probably these two latter offences will weigh heaviest in the scale against him— they must be so shocking to moral ^ French society . Altogether , the French Government has rarelv exhibited itself under a more
interesting aspect than this , as indignant champion of the rights oC universal suffrage and of the purity of elections . Since the occurrence of a certain memorable event in the modern history of France , the empire of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon III . has been many things more or less surprising . A . while ago , we were told , " L'Einpire e'est la paht ; " after another while , we were advised that , "L ' jErnpire e'est le progres ; " but again it has changed—it is no longer either peace or progress ; at present— O day and night , but tins is wondrous strange !' - —L'Empire e ' est la "Vertut
If we see little else than difficulties in India , some of those which have been harassing us at home , in connexion " with that subject , arc passing away . The speech of the Duke of Cambridge , on the occasion of his laying the foundation-stone of a Crimean monument at Sheffield , on Wednesday , was cheering upon a point on which he is the highest authority . " Now , the only subject , " he said , " which of late has given me anxiety , was the recruiting of the army . I must , however , tell youfor there is nothing like being frank and open with you—that the ordinary recruiting for the army is
progressing in . a manner which is perfectly incredible . The ordinary means of recruiting have in two days alone produced 800 men . That is a great fact ; it is a result -which was never obtained during the Hussian war ; a result which was never equalled in the military history of the country . " The reception of the Duke of Cambridge by the Sheffield audience expressed what will be the grand feeling of the country ; he as extremely popular , and so straightforward a statement , on a subject about which the public has felt much anxiety , will be accepted with confidence .
Uldham lias recovered irom me siace 01 mansion under which it made the mistake of unseating Mr . W . J . Fox at the last election-, it has re-elected him without opposition . It has done well . W . J . Fox possesses abilities of a kind that will be in demand in the ensuing session of Parliament , aud which will not be found to be too plontiful amongst that august assembly . The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition closed on . Saturday last , the day which had been fixed by the executive , who resisted some strong attempts made to induce them to keep the Exhibition open for a few cUiys beyond the specified time . There Avas no ceremonial , but the enthusiasm of avast crowd of visitors served to make the , closing scene su 0 icienUy impressive to bring the afl ' air to a dignified termination . One million thrco hundred and thirty-fivo thousand visitors have , in' one way or other , paid for admission since the opening of the Exhibition ; but it may bo supposed that few of them lmve received any considerable direct benefit in the way of Art-education . The number of the objects brought together , each and tfH .-worthy to bo studied , made study impossible .
The collection was a veritable emhancis de riefwsses . But the experiment has , nevertheless , been highly honourable to those who have conducted it ; their intentions , their capacity , and thciv zeal , deserve to be held in the highest esteem ; their plan was , simply , too large . At Birmingham , a far more satisfactory result has been arrived at by the National Association for the Advancement of Social Science , which brought the business of its first conference to an end 011 last
Thursday week , though , on Friday ., there -was a meeting in the theatre of the Midland Institute to receive the report of the committee on the constitution and future action of the Association ; and the reports of its ' papers' still gradually ooze out . The amount of work done has been really very great , and of a quality highly creditable to the workers . Mr . Akroyd's suggestion , that the working Classes SlLonkl bo invited to take tun * - , in . future
conferences was well received , and Lord Brougham undertook to say that it should be considered by the Council . Doubtless the effects of the Association ' s labours would be widely extended by adopting the course suggested ; it would , in fact , only be .-moving more directly towards the end in view —the advancement of knowledge upon subj cets of social science among all classes of the community , for "the benefit of all . ¦
A . verdict of ¦ manslaughter has been returned against Mr . White , the station-master at Stormy , on the South Wales Railway , by whose , direction a down passenger train was shifted from its oirn line on to the up-line , causing it to come into collision with another train . The evidence taken before the coroner shows a truly frightful state of railway mismanagement . "What can possibly be said in defence of a state of things in which , we find the telegraphic machinery of two stations left in the hands of persons wholly incompetent to manage it ? Two instruments are used , one with a single , the other with a double needle : the man who works the
doublerieecllc instrument cannot read messages sent upon the single-needle one ; and vice versa ! It won ' t do for chairmen of railways to talk at . half-yearly meetings about the hasty judgments of the public , or about the anxious watchfulness of the managers of their lines ; the public AvilL not believe them . If there had been proper supervision on the South Wales Kailway there would have been people , both at Port Talbot and at Stormy , able to understand the indications of either a single or a double-need lc tele-§ rapine apparatus , and , in all human probability , lc ' accident which occurred Avould have been averted .
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Cholera at Stratford . —A special meeting of the Association of Medical Officers of Health was held last Saturday , to receive a report from a committee of their own body on the subject of an outbreak of cholera near Stratford . Mr . Simon , President , was in the chair . The committee had visited the spot where the diseaso is believed to have broken out , and found that there had been fifteen cases , of which seven had proved fatal . The earliest case occurred on the 27 th of September ; the first death on tho night of tho 2 nd of October . The place in which all the cases occurred was Abbey-row , West Hum , Therc are sixteen liousea in the row ,
tolerably well-built , consisting of four or iivc rooms each , and tenanted by persons by no means dirty or very poor , and generally ono family in each house . Tho occupants , for the most part , work at . the flour-mills , or silk-printing factory , adjoining . Five of the houses have separate cesspools , and tho remaining cloven drain Into ono large ono behind the centre houne ; opposito to this , at a distance of seventy fuct from the cesspool , is a pump : from this source the inhabitants draw all thoir -water for drinking and wAHhing . The soil Ja entirely gravel , and tlioro is no doubt that infiltration might occur from the cesspool to tho woll . Tlio water is undergoing chemical examination by Dr . Thomson .
Abbeyvow is surrounded by marsh land , much impregnated with aownge , and is only a few feet above tlio TluuncH . In front of it ia a tidal stream callod Channel Leu llivor , which convoys much of tho sowngc of tLie town of Stratford into tbo River Lea . Uy the dc > nirc of tho medical officer of health , Dr . Elliott , tbo handle was removed from the pump on tho lath hint , Since , that dntc , there hua been only one case , which proved fatul in six hours and >\ half . Quo otliar fatal . case had previously occurred in tho person of a wonwn who wns supplied with water from n . woll In her own house , liable also to contamination by infiltration . It appeara that diarrhoea is usually prevalent in tho neigbbo urhood .
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THE INDIAN REVOLT . Wk have had no further ' official-news from Indk during the present week , and even the stock of officers ' , civ ilitins ' , and ladies'letters from the various seats of rebellion has ¦ dwindled to a very small amount . People are now looking forward with eagerness to the next telegraphic announcements which may-be expected in a few days ; but in the meanwhile the smallest scraps of conjectural statement are received with avidity . On-j of these is contained in . a letter dated Allahabad , September <» fch : — " General Outranks forces marched in two columns The iirst , of six hundred and eighty-three men , Iuft this ' yesterday ( -yth ) at one o'clock . The second , also of six hundred and eighty men , marched with , the General at ten o ' clock last night . The advance column it . is intended should reach Cawnpore on the 10 th hist ., the General on the 11 th of Septembor , and , if General Havelock lias by that time managed the crossing , the ¦ w hole force will at once move on to Lucknow , and the place has eve ry chance of being relieved by the 15 th or 16 th , and even allowing for delay in the crossing , by the 20 th . The rivers have all fallen . \ vonderl ' ullv > ' the Jumna Having gtnm down thirty feet in a week- ¦ this -will help the crossing greatly , and enable us to act on the enemy's flanks advantageously on the inarch to Lucknow , which could not be done at the time of the previous advance , owing to the whole country being under water . We have information that the Lucknow garrison have provisions to- last them until- ' the 20 th inst . General Outran * has taken some heavy guns drawn by elephants . " In another letter it is mentioned that Mr . Colvin is prepared to aid a column advancing on ]> ellri with camels ami other carriage as they / approach Agra . At Meerut they have also collected carriage to some extent . The 5 th and 90 th are ' urmeif with EnfMd rifles . ' . A writer from Allahabad says , on the 2 Dt . li of August : — " We have sent on four hundred men this week to Cawnpore by train ( forty miles ) , and the . sick aud wounded men of General IJavelock ' s force are now on their way here , and will come in the last forty miles by railway . ' " Havelock , it would thus seem , has been reinforced by 1763 men . Another batch of Anglo-Indians arriveclton Thursday at Southampton in . the Peninsular and Oriental Company ' s steamship liipon . As in the two previous cases , the passengers did not need any assistance from the ltelief Fund . A HOBLE MAHOMETAN . " An linglish L , ady , " recently arrived from India , thus communicates to the Times a narrative of a good Mahometan , who saved and protected her and another lady during the rising at AurungaLad : — " On the 12 th of June , the day preceding the moreopen mutiny of the 1 st Cavalry , Hyderabad Contingent , we heard that some part of that corps had armed itself on the previous night with the intention of advancing on the cantonment , but that from the absence of unanimity among the men the plan had been , ibr the time , abandoned . We heard also that they had spoken of murdering their officers . Those nnd other
reports made us feel very uneasy ; but in the course of the morning a sowar of the 3 rd Cavalry , Hyderabad Contingent , * named TSooran Bucksh , whom ' wo had known for some little time , and whose character we bad always respected for its truthfulness and simplicity , came to » ny husband and told him he need f »! el no apprehension for liis family , for he bad made ( ivory provision for their safety and for that of a lady who was staying with us , to whose husband he was greatly attached . Ho said , ' They shall travel to Ahmednuggur as my family , ' and , looking up to heaven , ho swore "by Allah ' that lie would never roacli that place alive alone . Ilfi added , * I will leave jny children belaud , ami if any evil happen to yours you mav destroy them . '
" On the evening of that day , we thought it prudent to go as ii-ual to the band to avoid the . appearance of suspicion , and as it became dusk we observed some horseman watching us from a distance , ami on going homo we heard that some of the sowars of the 1 st Cavalry had boon in the lines of the ' 2 nd Infantry , to inquire which of the houses in the cantonment were occupied by English officers ( the corps bad only recently arrived at Auruiigubad ) , and also to uncertain tho state of fouling of tiiu 2 nd , and their intended liin : of conduct should they receive orders to mtirvh towards Delhi . These « nd other facts which had ennui to our knowledge
increased our rinxiety , but faithful IJoomn limMi h « Bilid , *¦ Fear nothing , 1 will watch day and night ; _ sleep quietly , and tlio moment danger approaches I will uc with you . ' Wo implicitly relied on him , and my l » us " band , laving Issued boiuo necessary orders for tlio ni ^ to a nntivc ! olllcor of tho 2 nd , retired to rout . At . eleven o'clock that night . Uooran returned to us , and wmMvo inuHt iirujmro to leave , as the Cavalry were uj ^ iuii mining . My uuHband , lirwtily commanding us to bin caro , 'oft 11 S to mnlte preparations to man tho bridge- between the cavalry and infantry lines , and liooran , placing iw i »«
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* Thin was tho rogimont that mutinied and cut down Brigadiov Mackenzie nt Bolurum two years « g « -
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 24, 1857, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24101857/page/2/
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