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POSTSCBIPT. Saturday, Sept. 7.
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TO CORRESPONDENTS . Thb enlargement of out Portfolio department , to make room for the wood engraving of the Moore Raphael , and the pressure of interesting news towards the latter part of the week , have so closely packed our space that we are obliged to defer consideration of several letters for our " Open Council" which would otherwise have received immediate attention . The same reasons have obliged us to omit some news of secondary interest , and to defer for a week all the matter in type for the department of " Associative Progress , " which is less transitory in its nature than much of the news .
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The latest accounts from Balmoral come down to Wednesday , on which day Prince Albert went out shooting , accompanied by the Prince of Leiningen . In the afternoon the Queen drove out in an open carriage , and the younger members of the Royal family took walking exercise . Sir George Grey left Balmoral on Wednesday morning for Northumberland , and the Earl of Carlisle arrived at Balmoral in the evening . The papers of this morning contain an account of the loss of a large East India vessel , called the Indian , 500 tons burden , on her outward voyage from England to Bombay . The wreck , which took place on the 4 th of April , on a reef of rocks named Cargados Garayos , or Nararett Bank , was attended with a melancholy loss of life . A gentleman who was on board when the vessel struck gives the
following account of the sufferings of the survivors : — " We saw in a moment that all hopes of saving the vessel were at an end , as she heeled over to the leeward suddenly , the sea making a clear breach over her every roller . This was the work of a few minutes only . Three parts of the crew were by this time on their knees , crying and making the most frantic appeals to Heaven for aid . All order and discipline were now at an end . The carpenter and two seamen attempted to cut away the masts , but owing , I suppose , to the excitement of the onl The
moment , they cut away the weather rigging y . masts of course went by the board , but , being still attached to the vessel by the lee f igging and falling over to seaward , they served as a battering-ram , beating the vessel to pieces every successive roller . After the first burst of excitement was over a simultaneous rush was made for the boats , but we found the only one that was available was the starboard quarter boat ; the other ^ two had been staved to pieces by the wreck . The captain was not slow in taking to our only apparent chance of escape—the remaining boat—eight of the seamen speedily following &
mm . xney snovea on , uu * { juucu u > w vuvg » ¦ . **»<* , near to the vessel , asking for water and bread , which of course it was out of our power to supply them with . He then pulled away altogether , which was the last we saw of him . The ship by this time was breaking up fast ; the stern-frame burst out and was thrown up on the starboard-quarter , and in a few minutes afterwards she parted amidships , leaving thirteen persons exposed to the fury of the surf on the forepart of the starboard-side , where we remained till the morning broke . The tide turned about this time from ebb to flood , when the rollers came in with redoubled violence , and dashed the remainder of the wreck into pieces . All were immediately buffeting with the waves . Sharks innumerable surrounded us on all sides , which very much increased the terrors of our situation . Owing to mv beine hurled on the rocks by the surf two or
three times , I lost my senses , and was perfectly unconscious as to what occurred till I found myself resting on a spar with a sailor . I found the ship had gone to pieces , and that five of our comrades had perished . Water surrounded us in every direction , with nothing in view but one or two small sandbanks , and those a long distance off . By night we had constructed a rude kind of raft , on which we slept , but as the tide ebbed we grounded , and , with the exception of our heads , we were literally Bleeninz in the water , cold and wretched , but still ,
comparatively speaking , safe . We remained on the rait in this state two days and nights , the sun scorching us by day , and the wind , owing to our being wet , making us dreadfully cold at night . On Sunday , the third day , having found a small quantity of oatmeal , we determined to start for the nearest sandbank . A sixtygallon cask of beer , two six-dozen cases of wine , a piece of bad pork , and the oatmeal , were the only things saved from the wreck . We turned the raft , and after a severe day ' s work reached the bank about sunset , and once more put our feet upon dry land . We had only eaten once , and then but sparingly . Thus we lived fourteen days and nights , subsisting on sharks' flesh and the wine and beer we saved . Not a drop of water was to be had . On the 20 th of April we saw a vessel to the leeward of us , attention of
and endeavoured to attract her by means a boathook and a shirt attached ; but she did not or would not see us . The next day , about one hour before sunset , another vessel hove in sight , and about the same spot the ¦ hip of the previous evening was seen . We again hoisted our signal , and walked about the bank , to show there were living creatures on it . We thought she did not see w , and after taking our allowance of oatmeal and shark s flesh we lay down for the night ' s rest . In a short time , however , we were alarmed by the barking of our dog , and on getting on our legs discovered , to our delight , a boat close in upon the sands . She belonged to the vessel we had seen in the evening . The mate and one of the passengers went on board that night , and the rest of the survivors were taken off the next morning , when we were conveyed safely to the Mauritius . " Mr . John Ellis , a greengrocer and stable-keeper in the Commercial-road East , has just received from
Wellington , New Zealand , the melancholy tidings of the ' murder of his son John , aged twenty-five , on board the ship General Palmer , in Port Nicholson , in the early part of the month of April last . The crime is only equalled in atrocity by the appalling murders in this country by Good , Greenacre , and the Mannings , whose crimes have found imitators in the infant colony of New Zealand . It appears that Ellis , who had served an apprenticeship to Messrs . Somes , the shipowners of Itatcliffe , and had been out of his time about ten months , was appointed to take charge of the General Palmer , after the crew had quitted her , and she was laid up in Port Nicholson , in consequence of her leaky condition . Great confidence was reposed in Ellis , who was a young man of much promise . He had charge of all the stores on boardand was in the practice of coming on shore
, every morning , to transact business with Mr . Kenneth Bethune , a merchant and agent of the ship , residing in Wellington . He became acquainted with four men , named William Good , alias William Frederick Henderson , a deserter from the Sixty-fifth Regiment , M'Coslen , John Jones , and Thompson , and they were in the practice of visiting him on board ship . Knowing that he had above £ 20 wages and other property in his possession , they resolved on his murder , and the unfortunate young man fell a victim to their treachery and cupidity and to his own misplaced confidence in their integrity . After he had been missing for a week , the body was discovered in a beef barrel , steeped in brine . The four persons above named have been committed for trial .
The mother and wife of William Chadwick , who was lately sentenced to death for the murder of his uncle , Samuel Tunnicliffe , by administering poison to him , have been committed to prison on the charge of having been equally guilty with Chadwick . For several days past the houses in the City and Hackney roads , and the vicinity of Kingsland , have been plundered in a most mysterious manner . Among others the residence of Mr . George Long , 14 , Blenheim-terrace , Mortimer-road , De Beauvoir Town , Kingsland , was entered and robbed of £ 220 in Bank of England notes , eighty-two sovereigns , and upwards of £ 150 worth of silver nlate . Yesterdav morning , about seven o ' clock ,
Mr . Catarn , stationer , City-road , hearing a noise in the drawing-room , proceeded to ascertain the cause , and as he was going down stairs two men rushed out and succeeded in making their escape , leaving a quantity of property packed up ready for removal . They had effected an entry by passing from the roof ( which they reached through an adjoining empty house ) down the chimney flue , and their is no doubt that the other robberies were perpetrated in a similar manner . The porters and draymen at work in the goods-yard at the Midland Railway Station , Nottingham , were suddenly astonished by observing flames issuing from a vast number of bales of cotton-wool , stacked under an
overhanging roof on the outside of one of the sheds . Mr . Pettifor , the station-master , and other officials were instantly apprized of the circumstance , and a messenger was despatched to the police station for assistance . In the meantime great effort was made to stay the raging of the flames , but without any great success ; the only thing to be done effectually was to remove the contents of the shed to a distance , and limit the destruction to the locality in which the fire first broke out . By dint of hard labour some fifty or sixty sacks of beans , wheat , and flour , belonging to Seeley and Co ., factors , of Lincoln , were conveyed from the shed to a considerable distance ; man y tons of timber that lay around were also carried oft , and anmo turentv nr thirf-. v t . rilftkfl laden With COal . all
within reach of danger , were likewise removed out of harm ' s way . In this manner contagion was avoided , a . considerable range of sheds were preserved , and their contents , chiefly manufactured articles of very great value , remained free of even the slightest damage . It was otherwise , however , with the shed near which the flames were first seen to issue , and with the bales of cotton , the spontaneous combustion of which it is supposed originated the calamity . Every effort proved unsuccessful , for the building itself was completely destroyed in little more than an hour , and not a single pound of cotton was preserved from damage , either by fire or water .
A letter has been received from an official in the Homeoffice by the sheriff of Gloucester , intimating that the sentence of death passed on the woman Hannah Curtis , who was found guilty at the last Gloucestershire Assizes of murdering her husband , Thomas Harris , by administering arsenic to him , has been commuted to transportation for life . It will be remembered that the alleged object of the prisoner was to get rid of her husband in order to marry a man named Curtis , who led her to the altar within a month after Harris ' s death . It is now said that she was never married to Harris , and therefore could have married Curtis during Harris ' s life . The announcement has created some surprise , as , if she be innocent , she should be entirely acquitted and set at liberty .
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The President of the Republic made his entry into Caen at a quarter to seven o ' clock on Wednesday evening . He waB received by the prefect and the authorities at the Demilune , the junction of the three roads leading to Lisieux , Pont l'Eveque , and Trouville , and which lorms a crescent . At that spot a magnificent triumphal arch was erected , with banners and suitable inscriptions . Ihe President was received with cries of " Vive le President ! " " Vive Napoleon ! " 4 . Letters from Madrid of the 1 st instant announce the capture and death of the Centralist Chief Baliardo , who for the last three months had kept the troops of the Province of Barcelona in movement . He was found concealed in his mother ' s house , about two miles front Barcelona . It was only after a desperate resistance , and after killing two of his assailants , that he was taken . He was at once put to death .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there i nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain ti keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law o its creation in its eternal progress . —Dr . Arnold .
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SCHOOL OF REBELLION . Thb colonies are teaching their parent how tc carry on political action . It is thej r who are obtaining from our do-nothing Government compliance with their demands . It is in colonial affairs that our own politicians , under coyer of the heavy artillery from the distant provinces , are making something like progress . The reason is ,
that the politicians so engaged have a clear insight into the object of their movement , have sufficient zeal for that object to merge their individuality in organization , and , as the consequence of zeal and insight arrayed against blindness and imbecility , they are prepared to go great lengths towards carrying their point . The success of vigorous action in colonial affairs is a wholesome rebuke to the recreant state of politics in other
matters . Proofs in corroboration of our statement crowd upon us this week . We have Mr . Adderley ' s letter to the Morning Chronicle , showing what the Colonial Society has done even through a comparatively small number of men in Parliament . We have the report of Dr . Lang's movement to agitate for the independence of the Australian colonies . We have from the West Indies public expression of an increasing opinion against the institutions
of those colonies . The position of the West Indies is peculiar . They were deprived of their slavery by the will of the British Government , and compensation for the slaves was given ; but it was confessedly inadequate , and , as a make-weight , the colonies were promised a continuance of protective duties on sugar . Their case , said Mr . Deacon Hume , the shining authority of Free Trade in the anti-corn-law agitation , had placed them without the category of free trade . Nevertheless , to win popularity in England , the Government reduced the
differential sugar duties , and finally placed them in course to disappear altogether . The West Indies remonstrated , and have demanded freedom of obtaining African labour under guarantees which might easily have been devised against the possibility of renewing slavery . This demand was refused , partly in reference to misconstructions which might have been put upon it , and still more in deference to certain crotchets in favour of continuing the hopeless attempt to put down slavery by an armed blockade on the coast of Africa . These things and some petty squabbles about salaries and civil lists , have turned the attention of the Colonies to their
political institutions , and they are inspired with great hopes of succeeding in that direction by the remembrance that Canada obtained all she wanted when she rebelled . Dr . Lang came over from Eastern Australia to negotiate a plan of taking out emigrants , who are much wanted . The colonists had also been much offended ; in the first place by
Lord Grey ' s insidious attempt to renew convict transportation without the sanction of the colonists ; in the second place , by that preposterous official trifling which has offered to them the project of a Constitution , but changed it in every possible way before H became a Parliamentary Act , and has passed in such a state as to be not odious to the Australian Colonies , only because it is believed to be impracticable . It is a Constitution
octroye * from Dowmng-street for Dowmng-street purposes , and it is open to objection from every section of the great Australian Continent . Dr . Lang has been accounted a troublesome , impracticable , hot-headed , unscrupulous , sectarian fanatic ; and we will not undertake his unqualified defence on the score of any one epithet ; but he is one of the ablest men in Australia , one of the most
daring ; with many personal foibles , one of the most earnest ; and , although strongly opposed by a large body , also strongly supported by a large body . He has set on foot this movement to procure a se-
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 7, 1850, page 561, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1852/page/9/
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