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The Orient. China. Tun Latest Intelligen...
fought on the side of the latter . All foreigners , excepting the Portuguese , are living quietly at Ningpo , although , the pirate Apak has anchored his fleet off the place , and threatened to take it if attacked by the French steamer . Sir John Bowrimg has had a severe attack of fever ; but he is now recovered . The summer at Hong-Kong lias been unusually -unhealthy . MOROCCO . Some agitation has recently been remarked amongst the warlike Moorish tribes which occupy the territory between Fez and Morocco , and some acts of insubordination are expected . The Emperor-of . Morocco is at the former town , and his son iti the second . The Emperor of Morocco , who has been for some time unwell , has regulated his succession , and appointed his son , who is Governor of the province of Tafilat , to be his heir . The young man is said to have very warlike ideas , and to differ essentially from his father ' s policy . TUNIS . It is stated that the Bey , in order to secure himself in iiis dominions , has asked the assistance of France . rusnsiA . The Shah has . notified to the Foreign Ministers in Persia that he appoints for his successor his son Emir ' Nizam , now seven and a half 3 'ears old . The Persian troops quitted Herat the 4 th of Zilliedje ( 26 th July ) . A report was circulated . at the same time that Gholam-Haydar Khan , a son of Dost Mahommed , was preparing- to march on Herat and take possession of it . This will probably induce the Persians to return .
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Accidents Atfd Sudden Deaths. Four Colli...
ACCIDENTS AtfD SUDDEN DEATHS . Four colliers working in a coalpit in the Bradford-road , Manchester , have been buried alive by the fall of the brickwork lining of the pit . An inquest on the bodies of three men killed bv a boiler explosion at Bradford-road , Manchester , on Fridav week , has terminated in a verdict of Accidental Death . One of the boilers at the Triudon Grange Colliery , Manchester , exploded about nine o ' clock on . Sunday morning . The report was heard a mile off . The
chimney was split , the stonewalls blown to atoms , the boilers shifted out of their places , and a large number of houses damaged . The boiler had split in two : the upper part was blown over the top of six or eight houses , and fell into a pond ; the other part was lifted over the engines , houses , and railway , on to the dustheap , a distance of about one hundred and fifty yards . Two men were discovered among the ruins , dead ; and a child playing in the streets was struck by one of the bricks , and so severely injured that it is not expected to live .
An engine ' ran away last Saturday morning on the Granton section of the Edinburgh , Perth , . and Dundee Railway , and nearly led to deplorable results . A goods train had acquired too great an impetus on a rather steep gradient to be stopped by the breaks ; so it dashed on into a tunnel , and thundered into a coal train , scattering several tons of coal on the line . The engine of the coal train was jerked from the rails , and tlfe driver jumped off in alarm . The goods train then , continued its course , and smashed several carriages at a station a little way in advance ; hut the guards , wi 10 had seen the engine approaching from a distance , had already warned the passengers to get out , so that no one was hurt . The damage to property , however , is to a very serious amount .
The boiler of a thrashing-machine at the farm of Mr . Joseph Drake , near Purbrook , Sussex , burst on Monday afternoon , killed the driver , and seriously injured another man . A young man working at Messrs . Lee and Pattinson's Chemical Works , Felling , Scotland , was knocked , a few < lay 9 ago , into a pan of boiling soda , by a piece of wood falling on him . He was at once drawn out , but died before he could be carried home .
Five men belonging to Lythnm , Lancashire , have been drowned by the upsetting of a boat in which they ¦ were sailing along the coast . The cause of the accident is supposed to bo this : —While awaiting the ebbing tide , tlie men caat out their anchor on the wrong side , and by the action of the tido the boat was driven rather violently against the projecting fluke of the anchor . . In rthia way a holo was driven in the bottom of tlio boat , and she instantly filled and sank . An inquest has been opened , but adjourned .
An accident attondod with fatal consequences to four persona , and considerable injuries to several others , occurred on the main lino of the Great Northern Railway on Thursday , about noon , to tho express train from Manchester to London . Tho account in the daily papora Btates : —" The train , which contested of engino and break van , second-class carringe , composite carriage , lirst-cla-sB carriage , and break , pnasedTuxford station at about tho right time , and had proceeded nearly two milca farther , when , in running over tha viaduct which crosios the Newark and Tuxford road , something gnvo way—it Is supposed , an axle ; tho engine became detached from tho carriages and bounded forward , wlillc tho vehicles separated into two divisions , the first of which , comprising a aecortd-class nnd composite carriage , heeled tmsr th © embankment on tho south aide of the
viaduct . The hinder portion of the tr . un , after striking against the buttress of the bridge on the'north side and breaking off tbe stone cap and upper brickwork , fell down on to the turnpike road below . The first two vehicles made a complete somersault and alighted with the right side up in a cottager's garden . One or two of the passengers were much injured , but the majority escaped , and . the carriages were very little damaged . The other three vehicles , including the break van , were smashed to pieces , all the upper timbers being entirely stripped off the platforms , while the break van had fallen upsido down , and the wood work was crushed almost flat on the ground . " Three ladies and a gentleman were killed : the latter was the Hon . W . M . Windsor Clive , brother to the Hon . Robert Cfive , M . P ., who was also in the train . Fourteen persons have been seriously , some dangerously , wounded ; and several received minor bruises ami nuts .
Two deaths of women from lire are recorded in the daily papers . Miss Harriet Ive , of Deptford , was standing with her back to the fire , when the wind from the door wafted her dress against the bars of the grate . It became ignited , and she was soon enveloped in fire . Her screams brought assistance , when the flames were extinguished , and she was conveyed to Guy's Hospital ; but she died shortly after admission . —On Tuesday morning , a woman named Mary Ashworth , living at Nook , in Crompton , fell asleep -while smoking her pipe . While asleep , her pipe set her clothes on fire , and she was so severely burnt about tlie breast that she expired at midnight .
Ireland. The Beltast Riots.—-The Disarma...
IRELAND . The Beltast Riots . — -The disarmament of the theological balligerents at Belfast is proceeding , and so id the inquiry into the . late outrages . Several muskets , pistols , & c , have been secreted by their owners in places beyond the limits of the district mentioned in the Proclamation . For in this document the usual Governmental tendency to blunder li as exhibited itself . The old boundaries of the town were referred to , and not those established in 1853 . Hence , certain parts of Belfast are exempt from , the action of the Government announcement ; and here the weapons are stored for any future occasion . In the meanwhile , soldiery and constabulary are poured into the town in vast numbers . On Sunday , no positive disturbance took place , but a great many shots were fired during the day , apparently at random . The Rev . Mr . Hanna persisted in attempting to preach in the open air ; but tho Mayor stopped liim , and sent him home . The Iuish Sympathizers with Sepoy . Ferocity . — The Nation amuses itself with gloating over the massacres committed by Nena Sahib and the other Indian murderers , and by rubbing its hands with glee a . t our reverses . It even implies that the British have exhibited cowardice in their encounters with the Sepoys ; although , if this were so ( and it is glaringly false ) , it would reflect as much on the writer's own country men as on ' the Saxon , ' considering the large number of Irish there are in the British army . On the other hand , however , the Roman Catholics and Liberals of the town of Carrick-on-Suir have held a meeting to express their indignation at the posting in their towu of a seditious
placard , and to inaugurate a subscription for offering a reward of 100 / . towards lhe discovery of the authors of the document . On Sunday morning , a placard , written in a bold hand , was posted on the chapel gates , Carrickon-Suir , setting before the Militia of Ireland the glorious example of the Sepoys . ' " We call upon you , " says the placard , " to know whether you will become food for powder in India , or rathor whether you will not imitutc the example of the Sepoys , nnd burst asunder the chains of slavery in which you have been ao long bound ? Now is the time to avenge all your wrongs on tho head of the accursed Saxon . Follow , then , tho glorious example oi the Sepoys , and unfurl the green flag on your national hills . "
Riots at Limerick . —Limerick seems desixous of emulating Belfast in the way of rioting , but on military instead ^ f ' religious' grounds . Some men belonging to the recently embodied County of Limerick regiment of Militia behaved in a vory insulting and ruffianly manner bast Saturday night , to every respectable poison they mot in the streets . Tho police interfered , but the militiamen , after retiring to their barracks in a drunken state , vowed to have rovongo on the constabulary for the presumption of meddling with thorn . Above a hundred of them then sallied forth , and attacked one of tho police stations . The constables ( who wore only sevou in number ) at length , in self-preservation , loaded , and charged the rioters with iUod bayonets . Four of tho policemen wore knoaked down ; but , on the urrivol of reinforcements from another station , tho militiamen were dispersed . Tho matter has been referred by the Limerick magistrates to tho proper military authorities . This Cathm 1 ) ihi £ a « ic , — -The cuttle , diacuso has made its appearance in the couii ty of Kerry .
America. This Monetary Crisis In The Uni...
AMERICA . This monetary crisis in the United States baa nearly coaeod . Some fre » u failures , however , are reported but they appear mostly to have grown out of the
previous collapses , and they have caused but little excitement . Among- them are the houses of Tattle Cutting , and Co ., and Messrs . Bates , GrilBn , and Liver I more , of New York , both in the grain and flour trade Messrs . Coffin and Haydock , auctioneers , and L . \ y ' Kirby and Co ., dry goods , jobbers , also of New York ' the latter with liabilities reported ' at half a million and clear assets of 700 , 000 dollars ; and Messrs . S-aroni and Goodlieim , extensive clothiers of Boston , with liabilities estimated at nearly half a niilliou of dollars . The cotton market is very sluggish ; but there is less pressure for money .
Baltimore has been the scene of a sanguinary riot between rival bodies of . firemen . AIL the belligerents were armed , and the encounter was thought , to have been preconcerted . Several persons were shot some it is believed , fatally . A savage affair is also reported ' from Napo , Ecuador . Professor Moore , of the exploring expedition in South America , brought a charge sixains ! Professor Frances of having deceived him in point of his scientific acquirements , and consequently imposed on his confidence , insulted the Government of Ecuador , and proved a disgrace to his adopted state . Frances thereupon challenged Moore , and they fought with doublebarrelled fowling-pieces heavily loaded -with buckshot , at a distance of live rods . Their friends interfered , but in vain , and Professer Frances was shot dead . Professor . Moore was slightly grazed on tha head .
A convention has been arranged at Havamiah with New Granada , providing for the liquidation o . f claims of American citizens . " The President . has put forth in advance , " says a writer from-New York , . " his manifesto as to Kansas . Several well-intentioned persons in Connecticut wrote him a letter , telling him in a polite way that he was very naughty for allowing Governor Walker to use the troops to put down the Lawrence paper rebellion , and arraigning other acts of his administration . The President thought . it necessary to meet this arraignment , and replied in a letter which has attracted a great deal of-attention-iii political circles . He says that lie foundthe present territorial laws in force when he entered on the d \ ities of his ortice—created by a "body recognized bv
his predecessor and by Congress , and enforced by the preceding Administration . There were no other laws then existing in the territory , and no opposition to these laws , except from persons declared to be in rebellion . He then argues that no other course was open to him but to recognize those laws as the starting point for all changes in the government of the territory ; that , adopting them as a basis , on them he would build up , or lend the Federal aid to build up , a just system , imparti / il to both parties , which should permit the public will to have free expression , and that expression to become law . The constitution that may be framed shall be submitted for ratification by tho voters inscribed under the territorial law , and , when ratified , will bo the only fundamental law recognized by tha Central Government . "
A singular abduction case is mentioned in the Californian papers , which state : — " The abducted party ( a Chinese woman ) had been brought to this country by a woman as a slave for any purpose , and she borrowed 400 dollars of the defendant to purchase her freedom , giving him a written mortgage of herself to secure the payment of the money . The papers were duly i > roiluced , and the interpreter stated that they wore good and lawful in China . The defendant had only endeavoured
to enforce his lien . " Tho American Consul at Mazatlan , who was imprisoned a . short time ago in consiiqueucc of a dispute about a vessel , has been released , owing to the prompt action of the other consuls . Tliore are several atn turnouts to the effect that American citizens were murck'mt by the authorities of Sonora at tho time of the riots of tli <; Filibusters under Crubb ; and it is thought that these matters may bring about hostilities with the- United States .
'J'ho American Government has accepted tlie pivllercd mediation of England and France in thu quarrel with Spain . The conference Avill bo hold in London . John Thompson , tho Wall-street financier , wis a rrested on tho 10 th inst . in two Buits . The plaintiffs were U . H . Bussing and Co ., of Cincinnati , and tho Wi- suoiibin Bank . Mr . Thompson gave the required buil , and w relenscd from custody . The Independence Messenger of the 5 th insl . publishes a report that Colonel Sunnier had overtaken t lm Cl » ey eml ( j Indians , who wore retreating towardn ArluiiiMis , aim that a battle ensued between them , which lv . suiietl M the indiscriminate Hlanghler of four hundred or UV « hundred men , women , and children . The report ww discredited at St . Louis .
Ex-Governor liamaej' 1 mm been noiniiiuhul by H'o Republicau Convention at St . Piiul for Governor ol Minnesota . From Mexico wo hear that the Tcliuanteper question has been mjttlod at Mexico by iheunnuliiu'iilol' lj « ' < -h tli " Unray and tho Sloo grautn . Tho municipal oloction at Loavenworth , Kaii . siw , lii' -j resulted in the clootiou of the Free State ' tiuliut' by -0 U majority . „
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 26, 1857, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26091857/page/6/
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