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Pettit , a . senator from Indiana , having been charged some time since by Colonel Benton with being " a liar and a dirty dog , " regaled the Senate -with a written reply , in which he called Old Bullion , a " falsifier of the truth , " " imbecile dotard , " " thief , " " beast , " and many similar epithets . la the House they do things better . Mike Walsh and Seward of Georgia had a fair round . Seward called Mike a " vagabond , " and Mike retorted that Seward was a " liar ; " Seward gouged Mike's nose and punched his" cheek in reply , and Mike hit back again in his turn . At this stage members thought the fight had gone far enough , and order was restored .
. Advices from San . Francisco to the 15 th of , July state that steamers had left with nearly 2 , 000 , 000 dollars on freight / Fireshad occurred at San Francisco causing damage to the amount of 200 , 000 dollars ; Sacramento , 400 , 000 dollars ? Columbia , ; 500 , 000 dollars ; Minesqta , 52 , 000 dollars . A large quantity of wheat had been also destroyed by -fire . AtlSrey Orleans , on the 4 th , a fire broke out * and destroyed ! , 000 , 000 dollars worth of property . Much of the property was insured in the London and Liverpool and -RoyalInsurance offices . - Captain Hollins left Grtytown ; Lieutenant Jolly proclaimed / martial law , ancT had demanded a cannon taken from Grey town and . alleged to be her Majesty ' s proper-ty . The Espiegle had reinforced' the Bermuda . V ' ¦ ¦ ¦ . : ¦ : ' /¦ - ¦ ¦¦ ' : ¦ ¦ ¦ - ' ' : ¦ ¦ ¦ . " .: ' .. ¦ .. •' ' ¦ . ¦ ¦'¦ .- ¦ . . ¦ ¦ ¦ ' '
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BAILWAT ACCIDENTS . Asf iiiouest was lield , on M « ndkyv atjlslington , toinquire hoTT John Allen , aii engine-driver oii th " e North London iJaUt way , catnei by his death . On the 14 th instant , it will be remembered , a fearful collision t © pk place . on theline near to Highbury . ' A gpods train of forty-thiee trucks had started from -Ilaydon-squarej drawn by two engines . The night was dampiacd tie :, rails ^ . slippeiyjandtJiereVwasaleak id the tank of one engine , that ; by dripping on the driving wheels heightenedthe retard | iig effect ot the dew . Tlie train stopped near . HighMry , and it . was foufid , ; that , both , engines were . dreadfully m want of'water , , They / unhooked , aefcprdingly , and set off one after the other to jti ' jri J > In jn atei \" . ; . ' . T ' H * heWy tracks ; left to themselves on ah incline , ran lackward ; and a passenger train , coming tip dashed into-them , in which collision John Allen Svas killed . Bat how did the
accidentarise ;? Several witnessed were examined— -I 3 ewi . lt ' and . Braithvraite ,. the ; drivers V Mr . Chubb , ; the manager ; Mr ; Martin , a civil engineer ; W . Buggey , a breaksinan and ; othersi ; . From , the evidience > ifc would seeih that jtheerigjnes were riot- equal to thetveiglit they were r ^ nired to pfppel , and . that their water had . nearly ruin out * ; Mr . ftiartin sajd ' tlie steanvpower was adequate ;; hehaddriven an engine drawing a greater weight . The breaks ought to have been put tightly obi The Coroner , Mt . VVakley , seemedto think that the cause of the accident : was inscrutable ; and ; the-jriry agreed ' in finding ,. a verdict oi . accidental death ; but it seems plain from the evidence that the causes of the accident were , want of sufficient steam-ppver , a leaky « ngine , the want of a sufficient interval between the trains , ana the neglect to put on the breaks .
On the Dpver and Biigliton railways there was a sad catastrophe On Monday . An excursion train left . Dover in the morning for the Crystal Palace . AH went well until it camotoGroydon , when it was seen thaj ; t here was anengine taking water oij the same line of rails . A collision was unavoidable , although the ballast engine bolted off as " hard as it could . The consequence of the collision was that live carriages were smashed ; the engine , was turned , over ; and one carriage rolled into a great pit , doing deadly work upon its inmates ; There were soven ; two men died almost immediately ; a third was severely injured '; two women had each a leg broken , one woman both legs ; . and a fourth was ereatly .
injnred . One of the men killed was a clergyman of tho church of England- —the 'Rev . W- Willes . He had only been rtiarried sij ^ we eks . The engine belonging to the : balldsfc trucks , and which it is alleged has , caused the mischief , belongs , as well as "the ballast trucks themselves , 1 o the London and Brighton and South Coastline , and tho engine and excursion train are tho property of the London and South-eastern Company ,. Tho engineer belonging to tho latter attributes tho sad accident to the conduct of tho engineer of the other line in taking out his engine tit such a time to hike in water , whilo tho latter attributes tho blame to the extraordinary epeccT and non-observance of ' signals of tho former .
An . inquiry into the Croydon accident was begun in the Sputliwark 'JL own-hall , befWe Air . Coroner Payne , on Tlnirsduy . Tho chlpf question upon which tho evidence touched had regard to the uao of tlia signals : but tlio inquiry was not completed , and stands adjourned til ] Monday .
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CERTIFICATES FOR AltT . T « b first examinations by tho Department of Scienco and Art of Candidates for Masterships in Local Schools of Art , liavo just been concluded at MarlborougU House . Tho candidates were examined in geometry , perspective , meoUanical drawing , rind elementary colouring , having to perform , exorcises in a limited timo ; they woro also required to produce various works in these subjects , executed during tho paat year . Tho following obtained certificates j— -H . J . Andcrnon , l \ Arthur , W . J . Bnkcr , S . BorkinHhavv , A . N . Ikook , J . W . OUevalier , A . Colo , J . D . Croomo , S . Klton , J . F . Finnic , J . K . Vowli , G . Gill , W . T . Griffltlw , H . B . Hngrcen , J . Hcnly , T . 'ffolmes , J . Komp , W . A . ICinnebrook , J . 0 . Lnncliowick , » : ? ' fy no W " Mucklcy , C O . Pyno , H . Rafter , J . V . Kiohardaon , G . Itylos , J . F . Smceth , J . P . Sturtcviint , J . 0 .. Swallow , O . Swlnfltend , J , C . Thompson , 1 * . Tuckor , M W « Ur cr J . White , M . Wicsell , rind G . {> . Yeats .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . The telegraphic despatches of yesterday report some facts and some rumours . There seems no doubt now but that the Austrians entered Wallachia on the 20 th . The whole corps of occupation will have passed the frontier by the 23 rd . " Two brigades debouched from . Hermamistadt and another brigade from Kronstadt . " Bucharest , Krajova , and Lesser Wallachia will be occupied . , " The advanced guard will reach Bucharest on the 5 th of September . > -,., ¦ - " Three brigades of the . army of . Count Coronini are preparing for a similar movement into Moldavia . " From Constantinople the latest dates are to the 14 th ; and the following reports have been telegraphed : —Sixty thousand men have embarked for Sebastopal . On the ^ J ) th inst ., at seven o'clock in the evening , a great fire broke eut at Varna One hundred and eighty houses were totally destroyed , with
a great quantity of provisions belonging to the French army . The fire which broke out on the 10 th inst . is supposed to have been the work of incendiaries , and several Greeks have been arrested on suspicion . Many houses were destroyed , as . well as some military stores and magazines . The cholera was on the decline ; but the first battalion of Rifles , the 20 th regiment , and the 63 rd . regiment , all of which are in the Bosphorus , have lost men from tlie pest . 1 he Bay of Varna , was filled with vessels of all sorts , to the fliiniber of 500 ; and a large fleet of transports had been assembled at Baltschik . Numerous flat-bottomed boats , for the landing of troops and heavy guns , had arrived at both places . All the English and French transports had left for the Black Sea , with ¦ p ' ontgons and other materials of war . Teli thousand 'jL ' urkish troops have embaiked for the same destination , which is at presfent oinkhowiii '¦< . - . ' : ''¦¦ •¦¦;¦' . ' ¦ . '¦ ; . ' : ; . - - . '¦¦ ¦ :. ¦/¦ ¦ : '¦ ¦¦'
: A . band of Caucasian morlntaineers , comnaatided by a son of Schamyl , have made a razzia into the proyince of Tiflis . They ... liaye sacked several places , put sorne people to death-, and carried off a ' general's wife arid a . Princess Orbelian , her sister . ¦• -Thenews caused . a panic at . Tiflis . . , ' . ¦ The Constantinople cprrespondtnt of the £ loyd snysf ip reference to the army of Kars , that KourschM Pacha ( General' GtiyorV ) , in a . communication of the 25 th , tilt- to the Seraskier of K&rs , epmplains bitterly of the ; Polish and Hunr garia n officers of tliis army , and gives "the" following extract in reference thereto : — - ^; . ¦' ¦ " ¦ " - ' ... " Had I been free in my ^ opBratvpns ( say ^ ^ rneral Guydn ) -i—had not these ignoraii |! ^ nd ; stupid ^ mi ^ siiit . pfiicers poritinually mtrigued—i . sj | 6 uld ^ bave adyance ^ w ^ eks back into the BussiJ * htfterri {{^ -Vi « * nd thtff Russians wckiM- ^ iot have had
time , totcolljait tlit ;^ fo ^ Cjeis . ) I am a ; anan ^ pf ; few- \ Yords ; but this « fcernal ' : ihacifC-ity of our * co&mand : eriiiir-cWief ,. who Seems toadopt the couhsels-of ^ aH-fcliaseAvho wou ld "< l ; ii 5 suadevh . iiri from undertakiiig any energetic ¦ measures , ' 'forces me to speak operily to yau ' r Excellency-. So lonft as Zarif Pacha is at the-. headaf . this fine army , and so long as these Polish and Hungarian office . rs remain here , there is not the shadoV of a hope of attatking janfj , ¦ conquering an . ' enemy whose forces are daily 'incvejaihig , iri strength . " - ' !• This communication of General Guyon , it 'appears , lias had the desired eiffect . The correspondent says that Zarif Pacha ; was to be recalled , and those officers dismissed who interfered with the operations of the Turkish army . At the date of Jiis letter ( the 7 th ) , Count Maffie ivjis en route for Kars , wliero his mission is the settlement of these dismissals , and the reformat ion of the Turkish general staff .
Tlie Russians report a victory ver the army of Kara , with great loss to tlie latter in life , prisoners , arms , and baggage . It needs confirmation . ;
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iThe oholernis ragingat / Aclrianople . The French forces intended for that . city have been ordered to return to Gallipoli . '' - Forty' thousand Russian troops are eaid to bo encamped roundi fcjebastopol . , \ Vo have telegraphic advices from Stockholm , with nowa from Bomaj-sund of tho 21 st . Several British steam Hfle-of-battlo ships and st « am frigates , and several French war ships of tho eame cluss , have sailed in a south-easterly direction , as if going ^ o Hango or Sweaborg . Tho cholera is bad at Aland . Wo are told that the whole fortress is blown up and abandoned , but this needs confirmation . The British Minister , Mr . Magenis , had an interview with tho King of Sweden on tho 21 » t . ,
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From ; Spain the news this week is not important . There are French reports of dissensions nmorig tho chiefs , but they do not appear on tho surface , At a recent dinner given by the press of Madrid to tho Ministers , Goniuul Sn , n Miguel nm < le the . following speech s-r- * , .. " Gentlemen , —As an old journalist myself , and as tho patriarch of journalism , unfortunately , by my advancodngo , I driok to i \ h-eo prees . I drink , genj , ) emop , to an institututipn lyhich neither irons , nor lawa , nor transportation , nor exilo can destroj— - ( bravo . lravo !)~[/ l voice ; 'Longlivo General San HfigueW ']~* hc < inuHQ thought io an orrwnntion from the divinity , and there is no power in tho world , there are no Iuwa wluoh can extinguish its powerful voico . Tho
press lias no other corrective than tho press iteolf . ( iJrfluo / 7 > ' «< 5 . ' ) Tho press has no other corrective than itself , tho good senHo of the public , and public education . It is only by this tlmfc the preen is elevated nnd orcut . This ia what wo aoa in JSngland , the classic country of liberty . A free press is e . prcus that thinks , a proas that mlministorfi , ft press that does the work of diplomacy ; it ie , in a , word , a groitt ^ ocml lover which aots upon tho interests of tho etnto . Gontlfinon , I fluttor myself that tho epoch wo have all wifthed to flco for tho press , lind now nrrivod . ( ' You , yea . ' ) I liope tho prOBa will bo found woithy of its Inch minion , that journalists will so cxercine their calling , that tlioy mny bo Supplicated to continue in tho porfommnco of their exulted t <» ak . I have been n jounialiMt in timoa of danger nnd revolt , and tohnvo bcon «» journaliat i « fur mo tho bnchtoat
recollection of my life ; it is the title on which I most pride myself . I drink then to a free press , to a noble press , which does not descend to vulgar things , which condescends not to insults and personalities , to the press which respects the secrets of families . { Thunders of applause . " ) I drink , finally , to the men of this noble priesthood who have invited us to this banquet , which will be famous , because it will inaugurate a new era , in which the free and independent press of Europe will show to the entire world that there are in Spain journalists who know how to write , to think , and to interest themselves in " the public cause . ( Jmuxense applause . ) Several journalists approached to embrace the venerable general .
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The German Governments seem to be politely quarrelling . Austria addressed a cireular to the German Governments , calling upon them to prepare for mobilising a portion of'their contingents ; Prussia , irritated at not having been consulted , sent off a circular eight days later , in an opposite sense . The Kreutz iieitiing corroborates fully these assertions by publishing tlie following as the lour principal points of the Prussian circular . — " 1 . Prussia cannot conceal her surprise at the proceeding of Austria , and . has no intention whatever of laying before the Diet any such proposition for mobilising federal troops . " 2 . Slie does not consider that there exists anything in the treaty of April tliat comprises such Obligation . " 3 . Sne has not . augmented her own cavalry and artillery in consecineiice of obligations , but oecatise it suited her own ¦
views .- . ¦ . . ... ¦¦;' . . - . ¦; :. . - . .. - . . . . ... . " 4 . Prussia ' s enyoy ' at the Diet frill lay before the Diet such documents as relate to the ; ' ^ ti : er , ' : siilid' *'; deTTipn \ l a resolution in conformity with the view : The Eastern ; question Is . now : befpre the' JDieti ¦ -It appears that ^^ ^ Austn ^ i and Prussia laid alLdo ^ ameri't ' s , in ^ cludirig theic last notes , sent on the . 10 th and 14 th to' SL T' etersburg ^ before the : Diet at its riieeting of the ITtfi . Prussia acebThpanied her communica . tioh 'by observing , that thfef note whiclv she had addressed to the Russian Cabinet on the 14 th , in support of that of Austria , was : in her Own na ' nie exclusively , and dictated'by a desire for peace alone , and not'the result <> f any obiigations ^ Thes ? - adts werejeferfed to the coramittee of the t > iet charged tylth suqli matters ^ . ' under riui announceinent tliafc the German Powers regarded the evacuatSoi ) of the Principalities as a momentous step gained towards thercestablislimerit of peace .
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THE COURT . The doings of Her Majesty during the week have i ) een sufficiently regal . On Mbnday a ( lriyc to Carisbropk with the Maharajah Duleep Singll , \ ni ? d the Duke of Newcastle ; on Tuesday' tlie laughable experiments with the Arrowserew sloop ; oii Wednesday Priiice Albert's birthday . „ , . Dinner was prbv-ided at' 3 o'clodk on the lawn near the house under niarciucesforupwards . of 450 persons , and shortly after that ; hour the wholeof the labourers employed . ; on the Osborne estate , the seamen and
marines ! of the Royal yachts , the ; detachment- of infantry , and the Trifnity-hbuse and Coast Guard men doing- duty at East Cowes , sat down . Her Majesty and Prince . Albert , accompanied by the Royal children and Maharajah Diil ^ ep Singh , -walked throngli tho different ; hiarqiiees arid gave orders for dinner to commence . At half-past 4 dancing and rustic games were begun , and were carried on with great spirit till near dark in the presence of the Qiiecn and Royal Party , including the Duchess of Kent .
To-day Mr . Albert Smith will , at the invitation of her Majesty , exhibit the « aecent of Mont Blanc" to the same humble guests of royalty as partook of Wednesday ' s fete .
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MISCELLANEOUS . Lord IIaddo , the son of tho Enr | of Aberdeen , has been elected member for Aberdeonshire , in the room of his uncle , Admiral Gordon . Lord Duncan hns offered himself for tho seat in Forfurshiro , vacnnt by the death of Colonel Maule , Mr . Wfttson and Mr . Seymour have been elected for IIulJ . A statue to tho Dako of Wellington is to bo act up at Brecoii , It is Stated that within a few hours of the return for the boroughs of Bnmstaple , Muldon , « ind Hull , Mr . Kilwin Jamea , Q . O ., was retained in support of petitions against tlio returns , upon tho ground of corrupt practices having procured such returns , and to defend tho scats of the sitting members for tho borough of Cambridge , against a petition threntened by tho conservative pnrty ir » that town . Lord John Kuasoll is living in . rotiromont at tlio Lakes ,
Tlio Globe , of Saturday , announced that Mr . hnwlar had only been continued temporarily in his post as private score * tary to Mr . Ghidstonq , and that lio is ho no longer . ¦ , ^ jue on VictorU cannot , it epoms , go to Liverpool , to ppen St . George ' s Hall , politics Icing too twsottlcd , iuid rriuce Albert liuving decided to go to St . Oihor , to witness tho gYcul manoam'res that will tnko place there next month . It in stated tliat the sito clioKon upon which to carry out this magniiicont undertaking is tlio hvwn in front of the Itoynl Dublin Society-house , Morrion-aqunro . Tlio buildng is to conu ' iBt of two oxtonaivo wingn , running in parallel lines ot the extjiome vorg « of the Iwwn on either side , « nd terminating at the Dublin Society-hoime , ono cf wiiich will bo act nrmrt for a National Gullury , nnd tho othor ns « i Nutional Museum . With thiu object , Mr . ^ i dnoy Herlwr , M . l \ , lias granted ii new leaHO to ( the Dublin Society for 0 U 9 yoiirw , and Jho Dublin Society -will gnint a Himilar lonsp to Hjo trusteoo nnd directors of the National Galloiy ,
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800 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 26, 1854, page 800, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2053/page/8/
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