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      amt ^^ ni ^ immy ^ t comju ^ ced . It artaeaaed ^ k ^ Oie-nptan vas of weak intellect ,, and fl 5 ^ S ^ &fi ^« MtSB Sherwas of ? a , very quarrelspme disp ^ twB ^ and-onefday quarrelled with another woman * ¦ tOK > knocked her- down and struck her under the ear . W&tshixe . had * one of her fits immediately afterwards , ai » d ^ died fth& following , day .., A medical man , who was examined ! at th # inquest ,, said , the brain presented the appearance of extxavasatad blood * which might have been produced by a blow under ; the ear ; but , as it might alspfhaye resulted from . a . fall or from a fit of apoplexy , tKe ^ wy , with tfc © : entire concurrence of the coroner ,, returned the followingverdict : —" That the deceased ^ death was . occasioned by apoplexy , but that sufficient care was npt taken by the authorities of the Bedminster Union workhouse to separate the deceased from the other inmates of the establishment , -knowing , as they did , the very peculiar liability of the deceased to fits upon being thwarted . They are also of opinion that sufficient care was not taken to inform the medical officer of the peculiar circumstances under which the deceased on this occasion came by her death . " Exmjosion in a Coal-pit . —Two men and a boy have been killed by an explosion at the quarry of Mr . Philip "Williams , Bilston . The explosion is said to have been caused by a lighted candle dropping into the pit , which ignited the gas , or firedamp . A hundred men were in the pit at the time , and , besides the deaths , six ox seven were burnt . India . —The Santal insurrection is nearly quelled ; but the'insurgents are still scattered about the country , and occasionally give a little trouble . The leader of the rebellion , however * has been captured , and seven thousand of bis followers have surrendered . It is said that the rest are endeavouring to emigrate with their families deeper into the mountains ; but it is thought not improbable that they will be deported wholesale to British Burmah . The north-west frontiers are tolerably quiet . The Oude dissentients have become suddenly reconciled since the Military Secretary to the Governor-General has appeared on a special mission—a fact which has excited apprehensions of annexation . From Burmah we have reports of the cordial reception given to the English embassy by the native monarch ; and there appears to be every prospect of peace in that direction . The Bombay markets report a dullness of trade ; but a favourable change has taken place in the prospects of the harvests ,, owing to the termination of the excessive drought . A famine is not now apprehended ; yet a scarcity seems inevitable . The Kidderminster Rah-Tva : ? Accident . — - Prom Jtbe , evidence taken at tha inquest on the body of John Hart , the guard killed on the Oxford , Worcester , and Wolverbampton line , it appears that the goods train waa behind time ; that at the Churchill station , where the passenger train might have been delayed , the gatesman and signalman was a boy of fourteen years of age , who has been in the company ' s service two years ; that this youth , on the station-master ' s responsibility showed a green and red light ; and that , when the passenger train , came near to Kidderminster , a-white signal , signifying " AH right" was exhibited , which of course induced the train to go on faster , and thus rendered the collision still more violent . It was also stated by Mr . Dean , the station-master at Churchill , that he had not room to shunt the goods train into the siding at his Btation , and that he could not Bhunt on the other line of rails ,., because . the Worcester express was due four minutes afterwards . The jury returned a verdict to the effect u that the accident arose from the very defective arrangements of the company , more especially with regard to the want of sufficient sidings , the irregularity in the despatch of the goods trains , and the youth and inexperience of the servants employed to carry out the rules of the company . " Rahavay Accidents . —A mail-train on the North-Western Railway near Stockport came into collision with , a-luggage-train , and one of the passengers was dangerously . injured , and others much shaken . The luggage-train was stopping in order to bo shunted out of tho way of the mail , but there ore contradictory statements as to whether tho proper danger signal was up at the time , or not . —An old woman has been run down on , the same line near Manchester by a waggon which was being shunted at the time . Her right arm was so much' injured that amputation has been found necessary . —A gentleman was getting out of a carriage on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway near Burnley , when ho slipped , and the train -went over his right leg . Amputation in this case also was resorted to , and the patient is considered in a precarious state . —A man named , James Rose has been Borlously injured on the Southwestern Hup at GuUdford , owing to getting out of the train while in motion . He ivas taken to Guy ' s Hospital ; but he lies in- a precarious state . At the same hospital on the same day , a fireman of tho North Kent Railway was brought in , who had slipped in getting on tho engine A » vitr was moving off . Amputation , as in the previous oaeea , was found necessary . dfrnc JTahhwbjuu Dimwit to Mb . Duffy has been abandoned at the request of Mr . Duffy himself , on account of tho serious illness of Mr . Lucas , who lies at Rome in a V « ry precarious state . HaAX / nao ? London . — The deaths of 870 persons ¦ Win * restored in London during the week that ended on Saturday , October 18 ; 449 of the number died under

      20 years of age ; 13 > 1 young ; men , ) womjsadied . ofth « age ; of & 0-40 ; 124 persons had ,, lived to the , age oj i 40-60 : and 121 more to- the age of 60-80 ; while only 22- had passed 80 years * and'approached the natural limit ef human life ( 100 y ^ ars . ) 223 . of t he deaths , were by zymotic diseases ,. including 16-byrsmall-poxy . 6 ( t by- scarlatina ,. 44 by diarrheaa * 4 , by- cholera , 45 bj i typhus and other fevers . Consumption , was the cause oi i 108 . deaths , apoplexy of 23 , paralysis of 16 ; bronchitu ; and pneumonia of 92 . Eighteen violent , deaths wert registered' The average deaths in the corresponding week , of the previous ten years waB 995 , or corrected , foi increase of population , 1095 . The deaths in the las ! week were 870 , or 225 below the corrected average deaths in London . At the annual rate of 17 deaths in 1000 living , the weekly deaths in London would amouni now to 836 ; and the excess of 34 maybe referred to causes which were in operation , destroying during the week nearly Jive lives daily . The 836 deaths may be held for the present to be natural deaths , as they are the result of natural causes ; the 34 deaths maybe considered unnatural deaths , as they are the results of extraneous causes that admit of removal . The steps that have been taken to supply the people of London with purer water than they received during the last cholera epidemic are already producing beneficial results ; and the next most effectual measure of sanitary improvement will be the purification of the London atmosphere by the complete removal from the houses and streets daily of the residue of the organic matter which is brought into them daily . —Last week , the births of 793 boys and 771 girls , in all 1564 children , were registered in London , In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1845-54 . the average number was 1313 . —From the Registrar-General ' s Weekly Return . Treatment or Strahan , Paul , and Bates in Newgate . — -At a general meeting of the magistracy of Middlesex , held at Clerkenwell . on Thursday , some extraordinary disclosures were made respecting the treatment of the prisoners Strahan , Paul , and Bates , while in Newgate . The "Visiting Justices , having learnt that the regulations had been broken , ordered a searching investigation ; and the evidence taken during this inquiry was read before the Middlesex magistrates . Mr . Frederick William Hill , the Governor , who is , of course , the responsible person , made a statement which was in fact a confession of all the charges , and may be taken as a summary of them . Us said :- —• ' Having heard the evidence read , 1 admit the . general correctness of it . I Said to Sims on leaving , ' Go on quietly 4 ! that is all I remember saying with respect to the three prisoners . Up to the time of my leaving visitors came at all times , as many as liked together , and stopped as long as they pleased , by my permission . There was no written order of the Visiting Justices to permit the prisoners to see visitors out of the appropriated places . No Visiting Justice gave directions that the rules should be relaxed . Ordinarily visitors are not admitted into the cells ; the visitors to Strahan , Paul , and Bates were . A gentleman from the Court of Bankruptcy came soon after they were admitted , and said it was necessary he should see them together , and I allowed him to aee them . together . After that they asked me to allow them to communicate and associate in each other ' s rooms , and I permitted them . I knew that their cell doors were not locked ; but I never recollect f iving orders that they should be left unlocked . I saw trahan , Paul , and Bates exercising together . Although I don't recollect ordering the cell doors to be left unlocked , I certainly knew they were not locked . Silence was not maintained , by these three prisoners , and they were not invariably attended by an officer . Rule 22 has not , I freely admit , been observed . Letters addressed to them came by post in the ordinary way , and were not opened . I admit the statement of the chaplain , that on leaving the prison I requested him to receive letters addressed to him under cover for the prisoners . Visitors were admitted oa a Sunday . Although it is directly contrary to Rule 22 , it was with my authority . I gave no authority or permission for the chaplain taking Mr . Strahan into my house . Sir John D . Paul had two glasses of wine a day by the written order of the surgeon . I gave permission to the warder to go out and fetch wine for the other prisoners , Strahan and Bates , but I believe thero was no written order for ^ thoso two having wine . " Notwithstanding these indulgences , Mr . Strahan said on tho 2 nd of August that his treatment was getting more harsh every day ; that tho magistrates were a sot of radicals , and no gentlemen ; but that Captain Hill had been very kind , and should bo rewarded . Strahan had his money , watch , and other articles in his possession , although , by the rules , they should have been taken from him . One of the warders was told . by tho Governor to take no notice of Strahan and Paul being together ; and it appeared that Mrs . Strahan and other female relations were in the habit of visttffag Strahan , And that his wifo once breakfasted and spent tho day -with him . Mr . George Jepson , the chaplain , was mixed up with these proceedings . He said that , when tho Governor was going away on leave of absence , that official expressed a hope that " these gentlemen , " Strahan , Paul , and Bates , would continue to have the Biune indulgences . " One day , " said the chaplain , " I wont to Mr . Strahan ' s coll ) ho was ill . His wifo wan coming that day to see him , and I suggested he should sec her in the Governor ' s house . Strahan

      , abjected-to-itat first , butt I urgedrit : ohjMou , IItold 'Sims ofit . There was no officer left with'Mr . Strahan 'and his wife all day in the house . Irteld Sims E thought it would be a great indulgence .- Ltolfl . him , L would ' take ttie . responaibility on . wyselft Nowordeir ^ Ketmained with them . I , am quite : surer they , were ; left entirely alojie-, If stayed' a * short time . with , theta * I ; confess it was . wrong ? o £ > me *"— -The Middlesex magistrates agreed to airesolution ordering ! thai the Governor be suspended . Lo » 3 DON IFniv 3 bbsit . t . —We . understand that the Senate of- the London University has- received ! a communication from Sir George Grey , intimating that in the opinion of the Government the Senate ought to concede the points upon which , they have , so long opposed the Graduates , and that that body ought now to be admitted to the- University with the privileges of . Convocation , and-the right to . nominate members to the-Senate . Oatsh . o » Abjuration ^ —The - Gity of London has adopted a petition to Parliament , praying that the Oath of Abjuration may be repealed , since , a& the Stuart family is now extinct , there is no longer any necessity for it . An Insane Incendiary . — Several- incendiary fires have recently occurred in the neighbourhood of Barnsley , West Laithes , &c . A man is in custody wh . o has confessed to being the guilty person . He is evidently insane , as he entreated the magistrate to set him at liberty because he had several other stacks- to fire , mentioning he names of their proprietors . Ministers' Money in Ireland . —The majority of the Irish corporations have refused to become the collectors of the ministers' money-tax as provided by the bill of Sir John Young ; and , with a view of- bringing matters to a crisis , a deputation from the repudiating bodies has waited upon the Irish Chief Secretary for the purpose of calling 1 , on the Government , through him , to bring in a bill early next session for the total abolition' of the impost . Mr . Horsman said' he would'transmit the facts , to the Government , but could not express any opinion as to what course they would take in the matter . Matoooth . —The Roman Catholic prelates are nowsitting in full conclave at Maynooth . The proceedings are ,: as usual , kept a profound secret ; but it is said that the business- has reference to the affairs of the Irish College at Paris . A T » A « EDY IN THE FOREIGN LEGION AT GOSPORT .. — One of the standing orders of the foreign regiment now quartered at Gosport is to the effect that none of the mea shallleave barracks-till five o ' clock in the afternoon ; but several of the men have recently attempted to break the rule , and- on Tuesday such symptoms of insubordination were -manifested that the ~ guard were ordered to fix bayonets . One of the malcontents , a Frenchman , who seemed to act as leader , continued to advance , threatening a private of the guard with his stick , when he ran against the fixed bayonet , and . fell mortally wounded , dying almost directly . Joseph Goltswaltz , the soldier who was the accidental cause of this tragedy , was placed under arrest ; but the jury at the coroner ' s inquest returned a verdict of Justifiable Homicide , adding their opinion that the prisoner had only acted up to his duty as a soldier under the circumstances .

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      Leader Office , Saturday , October 20 . WAR MOVEMENTS . Berlin , Thursday Evening . The Emperor Alexander will go to Kieff before he visits " Warsaw . All the reserve and the militia are being- concentrated at Kieff under the command of General Paniutin , and the Emperor is going thither topass them in review .

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      Copenhagen , Thursday . Denmark has appointed a commissioner to attend the November conferences . Bluhme is appointed manager of tho conference on the Sound Dues on the part of Denmark . It is confirmed that Denmark will propose their capitalisation as a step to their extinction . Octisitn

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      Athens , . Tumultuous manifestations from tho Russian party have taken place in this capital . Cries of " The King for ever 1 " " The Queen for over ! " " Long live the Czar I" were raised by the crowd . Demonstrations , hostile to General Kalorgi , were made in front of the hotel of tho Russian Embassy . There was no repression on tho part of the authorities .

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      An analysis of tho Concordat recently concluded between Austria and tho Pope has been published in the Caxetta di Venezia . The document g ives K rouL power to tho clergy , especially in the matter of education , which is to be wholly in their hands . Cloricul affairs will bo settled by clerical judges ; tho bishops will have tho full right to punish their clergy ; and in tho prisons the clergy aro to bo separated from tho laity . Disputes with laymen , with respect to tho right of patronage , aro to bo decided by temporal courts . Tho "tacetuin Itegiwn is ubolished .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 20, 1855, page 1006, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2111/page/10/