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      The deaths in the districts that have suffered most are separately returned ; and the deaths from cholera and from diarrhoea in the weeks of September are also distinguished . The returns have been made from their register books by the registrars , under instructions from the Registrar-General . The deaths by cholera in the three months were 15 , 587 , by diarrhoea 11 , 135 ; or " 26 , 722 by the two forms of disease . The epidemic has exhibited less intensity than it did in 1849 ; and although diarrhoea ha ' s been apparently as prevalent , or at least as fatal , the deaths by cholera have been less by 28 , 2 S 4 than the deaths by the same disease in the three summer months of that year . The mortality from cholera and diarrhoea is less by one-half than it was in 1849 . The

      districts in what was called the London Cholera Field have suffered most severely ; and there it is known that though some sanitary improvements have been projected , they have ^ only in a few instances been carried out . Liverpool has been attacked by the epidemic , but the deaths by cholera in tliat town and its suburbs ( the districts of Liverpool and West Derby ) have hitherto been 953 ; whereas the deaths by cholera in the corresponding period of 1849 -were 4545 . Liverpool has a health officer ; and certain , sanitary measures have been carried into effect . The authorities of the town deserve

      credit for their successful efforts in the improvement of the health of Liverpool . Deaths by the epidemic , cholera , have , during the three months , occurred in every county except Herefordshire , Rutlandshire , and Westmoreland ; but many districts have escaped hitherto , and a few , such as Merthyr Tydvil , have suffered , or are still suffering , severely . The diarrhoea , which is so fatal in Birmingham , Manchester ^ and other districts , where few deaths are referred to cholera , requires investigation ; it is undoubtedly , 5 n the majority of instances , a modifies ^ tion of choleraic disease . "

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      LABOUR MOVEMENT IN OCTOBER . ( From the People ' s Monthly Register : ' ) O > r the 15 th of October a meeting' of factory workers was called at the Golden Lion Inn , in Todnxorden . The object was the delegation from various localities to ascertain how the Ten Hours' Factory Bill was observed . Several meetings have taken place at the Bell Inn , Old Bailey , to render assistance to the operative housepainters of Dublin , to carry out their proposed Self-Employment Establishment . Several of the trade societies have contributed to the fond , either by loan or gift .

      On October 10 , about one hundred of the self-acting ¦ winders , engaged in a cotton spinning establishment at Manchester , turned out , on account of the master having deducted 2 s . from one of the workmen for spoilage , such being , in the opinion of the workmen , an infraction of their agreement between themselves and their employers . The carpenters and joiners of London held an adjourned meeting of delegates at the Boar ' s Head , Long Acre , to receive statements from the delegates as to how the proposition for the amalgamation of their branches or lodges was received . Xodges of five hundred members gave in their adhesion—others had then to consider of the proposition .

      The committee of the metropolitan trades have reported their proceedings relative to their doings in opposing the Friendly Societies Bill . Our space does not permit us to register the document .

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      THE PATRIOTIC FUND . Meetings continue to be held in all parts of Great Britain and Ireland in behalf of the Patriotic Fund , auu the collection of money goes on vigorously and heartily . The nation has not been moved to sin unselfish exhibition of noble feelings tor many years . Throughout the country the speeches arc of the same character : heart and soul in the war believed to be just on all sides , and overflowing with sympathy for the army . One speech has attracted some attention , both for the things said , and on account of the position of the speaker and the character of the meeting . It was at the county gathering , under Mr , Herbert , Lord Lieutenant of Kerry , attended by Catholic and Protestant , thmt Dr . Moriarty , the coadjutor of the Raman Catholic Bishop , spoke as follows ;—

      . ' . ' y ^ . threatened with the lpaa of our peace and civilisation , as well as the destruction of our liberty , by tho iron despotism of the ruler of the Russias . Our Holdicra have gone forth to meet the peril ; they have gone forth prepared to die to secure for us the blessings of peace , education , and civilisation . Wo must give honour to tho brave . Wo must give honour to those inon bearing ; lordly names who , laying aside their jewelled coronets and tho splendours of thior princely

      hornets , have gone to lend our battalions . We must give honour to thoHQ young gentlemen—many of them tho children of our own town and county—who , giving up tho ploaBuros < ind enjoyments of youth , have gone forth to meet death by pestilence in tho plains of Varna , under tho leaden huil which showers from tho heights of Alma , or in a still more momentous battle-field , attacking that formidable fortress in which the Russian despot haa doomed liininolf eoouro . Wo muafc give honour , too , < ml more than honour , to tho poor private—tho man

      without whom the battle could not be won—the man who has left behind him what is dearest to man—left both the wife of his heart's affection and the little children that tottered round his knee—we must give him something more than honour—we must give him reward . I am sure that , while there beats a noble feeling in the breast of an Irishman , the woman or child who bears the name of a soldier who has fallen before Sebastopol will not be forgotten by us . " ( Loud and continued cheers . ) The other speakers were Sir William Godfrey , Mr . James O'Connell ( brother of the late " Liberator" ) , the Rev . Dr . Rowan ( Protestant clergyman ) , &c- A subscription list having been opened , in less than twenty minutes a sum exceeding 30 O ? . was realised .

      At Edinburgh 600 / . was obtained unsolicited ; and in England subscriptions come in on a similar scale . The City meeting , including as it does the moneyed world of the metropolis , surpasses the rest . They assembled in the Mansion House , on Thursday , Lord Mayor Sidney in the chair ; Lord John Russell , Mr . Thomas Baring , Mr . Hubbard , Governor of the Bank of England , Mr . Bevan , Mr . Dillon , and other great city men , did the oratory . It was a very businesslike meeting ; no words were wasted , and l 6 , O 0 O £

      were subscribed . A public meeting , presided over by the ATchbishop of Canterbury , ratified , on Wednesday , the resolves of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts , to send additional chaplains to the East . As the army is composed of Church , of Eng ; - land men , Catholics and Presbyterians , the Government cannot send out officially additional chaplains , but they will allow 100 / . a year to every chaplain sent by the Society .

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      NATIONAL DEFENCE . It Is intended to construct forthwith a permanent camp at Aldershot , near to the site of the Chobham Camp of last year , and also to erect some important artillery defences to Portsmouth and the adjacent coast . The camp at . Aldershot will comprise barracks , magazines , and other buildings necessary for the accommodation of IOjOOO men . This will include two regiments of cavalry , detachments of horse and foot artillery , and infantry . The works are to be proceeded with with all despatch , and it is reported that 10 , OOOZ . will be spent upon this camp by March next .

      This week the Board of Ordnance have advertised for tenders for the erection of a battery , with magazine , shell and fuzee room , and master-gunner ' s store , near Southsea Castle , one of the defences of the entrance of Portsmouth harbour . This , we believe , - will be an earthen battery , mounting five or six heavy guns . A similar battery is to be erected on the opposite side of the harbour ' s mouth at Fort Monckton . At Freshwater G-ate , outside the Needles , in the Isle of Wight , a powerful battery is to be erected : this will mount 15 or 16 guns of the heaviest calibre , whilst the Sussex coast is further to be strengthened by the construction of a strong battory at Shoreham , near Brighton- The new and very heavy battery at Sconce Point , inside the Needles , in the Isle of Wight , is now on the point of completion .

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      WHO GAVE THE " TIMID COUNSELS . " In" a letter to Madame St . A maud , consoling : her for the death of her husband , the Emperor Napoleon described the Marshal as having undertaken the expedition to the Crimea , " malgre de timides avis "in spite of timid counsels . This raised great speculation a 9 to the parties guilty of giving timid counsels . The Times speculated that it could nob have be&n Lord Raglan , General Canrobort , Admiral Bruat , or Admiral Lyons ; and hinted pretty plainly that the said advice \ jias given in the French war councils .

      The controversy grew hot . The Globe explained that tho Emperor could have meant no reflexion on anybody , but used tho phrase only to indicate the superior liravery of tho dead marshal as some consolation to his widow . The Moniteur confirmed this view , an < l declared in so many words that the Emperor only alluded to natural differences of opinion ; and intended simply to raise tho character of the Marshal by tho contrast . Tho Times' correspondent of Tuesday throws some further light upon tho subject :

      " Tho Moniteur contains tho paragraph explaining ; tho expression timUlea atiis . Whether this paragraph has been occasioned by explanations between the allied Governments or not , it is at all events manifest that in using the expressions referred to no slur was intended to bo cast on tho English army or fleet . That tho words ¦ woro ill chosen , to say the least , is admitted , and tho impression they produced , when tho Emperor ' h letter to Madame St . Arnaud was mado public , was far from ngreoablo ; indeed , moro than one resignation wan anticipated In conHcquoneo . Thoy wcro , howovor , noon forgotten in tho moro absorbing intelligence which tho public ia still daily expecting . I do not think , howovur , that tho explanation now given ia entirely Hatinfactory , n « it w « w not neccuHary to ca . it « slur on othoru in order that Marshal St . Arnaud ' s military reputation uhouUl bo

      exalted . Moreover , it does not necessarily follow that because a difference of views is found among members of a council of war it arises from fear . The council is called to aid with its advice the General-in-Chief , though he is not obliged to follow it ; but when opinions are asked before a decision is come to , it would be unjust to attribute to an unworthy motive the expressions of such opinions . Be this as it may , it is certain that after the landing in the Crimea was decided , stories were current of serious dissensions among the superior officers . ' The two Princes , ' we were told , were opposed to that most important operation , and Prince Napoleon was in particular spoken of , not onl y as disapproving , but as generally hostile , and in a very marked manner , to the plans of the Commander-in-Chief of the Erench army . It was known that Prince Napoleon lost no occasion of

      criticising in public , and in a . severe manner , those plans , and particularly the landing in the Crimea ; and this criticism became so annoying , that the Marshal was said to have demanded the recal of the Prince . The Prince was not the only person who censured the conduct of Marshal St . Arnaud ; and it was stated positively at the time , that the greater part of the generals anticipated that the result of the undertaking would be unfortunate . Whether justly or not , it was also believed that the two admirals were equally opposed to the attack on Sebastopol , and suggested some other and less difficult point on the coast ; and , further , that it was owing principally , if not entirely , to the great exertions of Admirals Lyons and Bruat , who supported the plans of Marshal St . Arnaud and Lord Raglan , that the attack took place . All this was said and repeated over and over , and without serious contradiction . It is

      true that the majority in the council wbo were , thus op- ^ posed to the Commander-in-Chief had no reason to believe that the landing would be unopposed by Prince Mensehikoff ; and it may be a curious speculation as to what the result would have been if a corps of the Russian army had met the allies on the beach . It is , indeed , surmised that the obnoxious expression in the letter to the widow of Marshal St . Arnaud was only intended for Prince Napoleon—an indirect reprimand , in fact , for his systematic opposition to his superior officer , and the concluding words of the apologetic paragraph show there was no intention of applying them to the English . It is even now said that Prince Napoleon , notwithstanding the success of the operations up to the present , and though his own conduct on the field was gallant , continues discontented ; that he is tired of campaigning ; , and that , in all probability , he would have long since returned to France , but for the resistance of his father . "

      The following announcement in the Moniteur is understood as a sort of satisfaction for the expression in the letter to Madame St . Arnaud z" The Emperor , wishing to recompense the gallant conduct of Prince Napoleon at the battle of the Alma , has authorised his Imperial Highness to wear the military medal . " The military medal was instituted by the Emperor as a recompense to privates and sub-officers , but it lias been given to a few general officers as a special mark of approbation . It as not generally given to the intermediate ranks .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . According to the Northern Whig , tho ribbon of the Order of St . Patrick , which the death of the Marquis . of Ormonde has left at the disposal of the Crown , has been offered to the Marquis of Londonderry and declined . The reasons which induced his hardship to refuse the " distinguished honour" aro not mentioned . A correspondent of the Carnarvon Herald , speculates on the effect which the Anglo-French Alliance will have not upon the destiny of Europe ; no , he only thinks of the English language . " Every lover of literature and every entymologist" is called upon to " consider" the question ; not in alarm , by any moans , for tho correspondent looks forward to tho enriching of the language by the incorporation of French terms .

      Some idea may be formed of tho magnitude of the amount of stores of winter clothing sent out to tho army , when wo state that upwards of 70 , 000 pairs of worsted aocks , 90 , 000 woollen jcrseya , 60 , 000 pairs of flannel drawers , and 80 , 000 pairs of gloves , have been sent to tho army under Lord Raglan , and still further supplies of tho same articles will bo sent . Arrangements havo also been made to send out 25 , 000 great coats , which will bo an addition to tho great coats already possessed by each man ; and the army clothiors , with a zeal for tho welfare of tho public service , which does them great credit , have , at tho request of tho Government , completed 80 , 000 additional suits of winter clothing 1 , which will all Icavo this country before tho middle of the month .

      Ou Monday a presentation of colours from tho ladies of Somerset wns inado by L « dy Paulott , on tho Hoo , to tho First Somerset Regiment of Militia , now quartered in tho Citadol , Plymouth , and commanded by Viscount Hinton , her ludy « hip ' n » on . A now election will havo to bo inudo at Bedford in the room of Mr . Henry Si wart ; , ono of its members , who died Hucldonly la « t , week . Ho wns tho son of Sophia , granddaughter of tho famoiiN William Ponn . Serjeant O'Hriun has boon elected Member for Limerick , in the room of the lato JSIr . Potter . Ho waa unoppoHcd .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 4, 1854, page 1040, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2063/page/8/