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STo. 397, October 31, 1857.] THE LBAD1R....
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Leader Office, Saturday, October 31. FRA...
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BELGIUM. Extraordinary success has been ...
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NEW TURKISH LOAN. A great financial oper...
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Gkneuat, Lloyd has written a defence of ...
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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. Several commu...
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1857.
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Misceljjaneijus. Tjie Court.—The Quocn, ...
> f tons . The East India Company is giving to- this undertaking their most strenuous support , feeling the importance of such an undertaking in a military point of view , and also as affording the only feasible means of jetting the cotton , sugar , and . other valuable productions jf India , carried from the interior to the sea-coast at a small expense . We understand that the trains of barges me to be built by Messrs . Ternon , of Liverpool ; and ; hat the engines will be constructed by the eminent engii « ers , Messrs . Rennie , of London . ^ The Indian Mutin y Relief Fdjtd . —The Honorary Secretaries of the Bombay Relief Fund have written to he Lord Mayor to reques t that a portion of the English nay be sent to Bombay , as well as to Calcutta , as mginally intended . The request has been complied with .
Suicidb of Major Warbvrton , M . P . —Major War-) nrton , the member for Harwich , and brother of Eliot > Yarburton , author of i The Crescent and the Cross , ' iiid other works , who perished some vears ago -when the Amazon steamship was lost , shot himself on the mornng of Friday week . He had been subject to periodical L-ttacks of pain in the head , during which he suffered greatly in spirits , and to bilious attacks ; and it appears o have been during one of the latter , of an unusually riolent and even dangerous nature , that he put an end o his life . The coroner ' s jury returned a verdict of Cemporary Insanity . This Great Eastern . —The preparations for the aunch of this Titanic steamship are approaching rapidly ; o completion , but the day is not yet fixed .
^ Thomas Crawford , the American sculptor , died in England , on the 8 th inst ., of a tumour of the brain . He vas of Irish parentage , but was born at New- York in l 814 . His works exhibit great boldness , and freedom rom the conventionalities of art . The Apprehended Cholera The St . Pamcras Re-> resentative Council has determined on appointing an idditional Inspector of Nuisances , under an apprehension > f advancing cholera . .
The Battle op Bat , akxava . —Monday being the anniversary of the battle of Balaklava , the officers who ffere engaged on that occasion dined together at the London Tavern . Covers were laid for fifty , and the ? hair was taken by General Sir James Scarlett , K . C . B ., supported by the Earl of Lucan , K . C . B ., Lord George Paget , C . B ., Colonels Douglas , Hodge , C . B ., Conolly , Low , Mayow , Wardland , Shute , and Hartopp ; Majors Fenyns , Brown , and Mauley ; Captains George , Sandenan , Glynn , Hunt , & c . ; and Sir George " Wombwell .
Professor Rawlinson . We regret to announce the leath of the Rev . George Rawlinson , Professor of Applied Sciences in the Elphinstone Institution , which took Dlace early on the 24 th cf September , from abscess of : he liver . Mr . Rawlinson has not Leen long in India , naving only arrived in Bombay about ten months ago , Dut , during his short sojourn among us , his excellent jualities endeared him to all those who made his acquaintance . The remains of Mr . Rawlinson wero fol-Lowed to the grave by a numerous circle of Ins friends md admirers . —Bombay Times .
A Tradesman Convictkd of Theft . — Benjamin Hinchliffe , a clothier and commission agent at . Pudsey , Las been found Guilty at the Leeds Quarter Sessions of stealing nineteen ends of cloth from James Hare , of leeds . He appears to have obtained the cloth from Mr . Hare by alleging that ho was acting ns the agent of some cloth merchants , as indeed he had been ; but he appropriated the property to his own use . The case , liowever , came under the Fraudulent Trustees . Act , and , the jury having convicted Ilinchlifle , he was sentenced to imprisonment for eight months , with hard labour . Another Body Found . —Some boys , whale playing in Shelton-court , Chandos-street , lust * Saturday night , found a small coflin , and , on on opening it , dUcovcrod the body of a full-grown female child , covered with white bedclothes . A constable removed the box and ita contents to Chiiring-crosa hospital .
liiu Nottingham Mtmr > i : n . —Since the offer of 100 / . reward , iivo persons havo been arrested on suspicion in various parts of the empire , even including Ireland ; but One has been set at liberty . ^ Genekal , Havelock . —At a meeting of ftho Hibernian Bible Society held in Welfnst on Tuesday week , the Rev . Mr . Grahiim , of llonn , related an anecdote of the Indian hero who is now winning the applause of all Europe Ho said : — " General llavelock , although a Baptist , was a member ofh is ( Mr . Graham ' s ) missionary church at Bonn , and his wife and daughter wero members of it for seven years . When General Huvelock , as colonel of hia regiment , was travelling through India .
no alwaya took -with him a Bethel tout , i » i which ho preached the goapul ; and , when Sunday cuinu in Iiuliu , ho uHimlly hoisted the Bethel flag , and invited all men to come and hear the gospel—in fact , ho cv « n baptized some . Ho waa Toportod for this at head-quartern , for acting in a non-military and disorderly mannor : and tho Comnuuulor-in-Chier , General Lord Gougli , entertained the charge , but , with the true spirit of a generous military man , ho caused the Btate of Colonel Havelock ' s regiment to bo examined . Ho caused the reports of the moral state of thu various icginumu to bo road for aoiuo tune ba ^ k , and l . o found that Colonel llavclock ' H stood nt tlio l 1 C ! . d of the list ; there wan leas drunkenness , Icsh "" pi » tf , l « w » m > prison umnt in It thnu in any other Whon thut-wasuone , tho Commandcr-in-Chief said , ' G « i
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and tell Colonel Havelock , -with my compliments , to baptize the whole army . ' " Mr . T . B . Simpson . —Some friends of Mr . Simpson , have determined to invite lim to a dinner , and . to present him with a testimonial expressive of their high sense of his ability as a caterer for the amusement of the public , and their sympathy with him in his recent contest with the Chelsea Puritans . An Emdrmic in Essex . —That formidable disease , diptherite , which , is now endemic in some parts of
France , and which , ever and anon , breaks ont there epidemically , and proves fatal to a large number of the population , appears to have lodged itself temporarily in Essex . For some time past ' a peculiar kind of putrid sore throat' has been very prevalent and very fatal in the Rochford Hundred . Lately it has excited much alarm . It is said to kill in twenty-four hours , sometimes less . In one house five persons died from its attack . We shall publish fuller details of the character and progress of the disease . —Lancet .
Mr . Balfe ' s New Opera . —We have no space this week to do more than briefly record in the present place the production at the I / yceum Theatre on Thursday night of Mr . Balfe ' s new opera , The Rose of Castille . The house was crowded , and the success unequivocal and well-deserved . We shall refer critically both to it and to the mode in which it is performed on a future occasion .
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Leader Office, Saturday, October 31. Fra...
Leader Office , Saturday , October 31 . FRANCE—DEATH OP GENERAL CAYAIGNAC . General Cavaignac died , suddenly on Thursday of disease of the heart while snipe-shooting on the estate of M . Beaumont , in the Sarthe . The body was immediately brought to Paris in a special train by Madame Cavaignac . The funeral will take place to-da } ' at Montmartre . The Moniteur of yesterday contains a report addressed , to the Emperor by M . Magne , relative to the budget for 1858 . There is an excess in the revenue of forty-eight millions of francs , ten millions of which are applied to the liquidation of the debt . The financial review of the country is of a favourable character . The reduction of the floating debt is assured , and all loans are paid .
It is not true that General Leflo has obtained , or demanded , permission from the Government to return to France . He has taken up his abode in Piedmont .
Belgium. Extraordinary Success Has Been ...
BELGIUM . Extraordinary success has been obtained by the Liberal party in the communal elections of October 27 th . The Liberals have been equally triumphant at Ghent and Antwerp . At Ghent , where the Catholic party has heretofore been dominant , the Liberal candidate who stands lowest on the poll has nearly nine hundred votes more than the top candidate on the rival list . At Brussels there were a good many abstentions ; but at Ghent and Antwerp almost the entire constituency voted . At Brussels , the Catholic party was beaten on every point . In fact , with the single exception of Schaerbcek , every commune in tho Brussels district voted for the Liberal candidates . —Daily News .
New Turkish Loan. A Great Financial Oper...
NEW TURKISH LOAN . A great financial operation is projected by the Turkish Government with the Ottoman Bank . It is to involve a loan of 200 , 000 , 000 francs at ten per cent ., destined to liquidate the debts of tho civil list , to withdraw a portion of the paper money , and to restore the exchanges to their normal state .
Gkneuat, Lloyd Has Written A Defence Of ...
Gkneuat , Lloyd has written a defence of his conduct during tho Dinnpore mutiny , in a letter to his brother . He contends that ho was as energetic as ever in his mind , but admits that , on the day when the crisis occurred , he was unwell , and that his manner might consequently havo lacked linnness . He was also scarcely ablo to move , owing to gouty feet . As early us June , he states , he contemplated the possibility of mutiny , and did his utmost to provido for tho contingency . . Ho did not disarm the Sepoys , because he thought it impracticable . He denies that lie gave the rebels time to deliberate whether they would givo up the oaps of their muskets , or not ; and insinuates that hia subordinates were Blow in purauing tha mutineers .
Dinnku to Loud Ukovumam . —The magistracy and gentry of Westmoreland and Cumberland entertained Lord Uroughain at a public dinner at Penrith on Wednesday . Tub TuAaicmr in thu Queen ' s IJiuncii 1 ' kison . —Antonio di Sulvi was tried yesterday at the Central Criminal Court on tli *> charget » f murdering Mr . Robertson in the Queen ' s Bench Prison , lie pleaded tutlnj'ois acquit , on tho ground that , he had already neon found guilty of wounding Mr . Robertson with intent to murder him . Tho point of law having been fully argued and overruled , Di Sulvi pleaded Not Guilty , but was convicted of inaiiulnuglitcr Sentence was deferred . Ha \ vaui > kn Ciiuugii hns been destroyed l > y firo . It ia believed that tho ilames were purposely kindled .
Notices To Correspondents. Several Commu...
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . Several communications unavoidably stand over sons q uiteiudependen-t of the merits o ? thfcommunica N ° ^ can !? e tat e » of anonymous correspondence Whatever is intended for insertion must be auXnticated f & fche hr T £ address of the writer ; not nlcessarUy for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications
Saturday, October 31, 1857.
SATURDAY , OCTOBER 31 , 1857 .
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? - ¦ '¦ . ¦ INDIAN MILITARY PROSPECTS . Delhi has at length , succumbed , after a resistance of fury and despair on the part of the rebel garrison ; a resistance to be judged by the fact that six or seven days were consumed in obtaining full possession of the city and palace . " Under these circumstances we cannot thin . lt that a reported casualty list of six hundred men * and fifty officers should be deemed heavy , in proportion to the grand , result of "the achievement . It does not appear that any estimate had yet been formed of the loss inflicted on the rebels
during the final operations of the siege ; but , as no quarter was given , there can be little doubt that they Avere slaughtered in vast numbers by the British assaulting columns and their emuloiis levies of Sikhs and Grhoorkas . Yet , after all , many of the garrison must have escaped . This would necessarily lie the case , for the simple reason that General Wilson ' s force was manifestly inadequate to prevent , or even to guard against , sucTi a contingency . On this point ,
however , we possess some specific information . It is stated that , apart from stragglers and fugitives , two large bodies of armed men left the town deliberately in opposite directions , perhaps with as opposite intentions . The whole of the mutineer cavalry took their departure on the eve of the assault , and marched southward , in the direction of the Kootub Minar . The other of the two parties above mentioned consisted of infantry alone , and was said to l ) e composed of such
regiments as had not offended so deeply as to be excluded from all hope of mercy—all those corps , in fact , which , however criminal in revolting from their allegiance , were at least unburdened with , the inexpiable atrocities of lust and murder . It was not unreasonably conjectured that this band of seceders ( which left Delhi by the bridge of boats on the 14 th September , and took tho road towards Meerut ) would either await in some convenient locality au opportunity of surrender ,
or might possibly even attempt ; by volunteer acts of good service to make atonement for their past misconduct . But this is matter of mere speculation . Still it ia some satisfaction to bo assured that the infantry mutineers who met their doom in the city Avoro tlio representatives of that blood-atnincd gang , to forgive whoso Crimea would bo ( even their loss ferocious comrades scorn to ncknowleilgo ) an unpardonable insult to the memory of tho helpless victims .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 31, 1857, page 1043, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_31101857/page/11/
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