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Nov . 10 , 1855 , ] THE LEADER . 1077
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NAVAL AND MILITARY NEWS . ' ' Fifty Lashes . "—A court-martial on board the flag-ship Victory , in Portsmouth harbour , on James Vienor , ordinary seaman belonging to the Hastings , for deserting and enlisting in the 80 th Regiment of Foot , with intent to defraud the Queen , has terminated in a sentence of fifty lashes and hard labour for twelve months . The Amkhioan Ship Cleopatra . —The ship Bal-Isirat , Jones , of London , from Melbourne , which recently arrived in the London Docks , reports the
foundering ot the American ship Cleopntra , of Boston , from Calloa . On September 26 , about noon , when in lat . 23-30 S ., long . 3120 W ., shortened anil about seven iniles from a strange sail . On approaching her , could not see any oi » e about the decks ; the yards were knocking about , nncl no one was at the helm . At l-30 p . m . the Ballarat lowered a boat , sind Captain Jones boarded her , and found her abandoned and in a sinking state , the water washing over her sturboard rail . Found her to be the Cleopatra , of Boston ( United States ) , laden with guano .
Mysticrious Dkatii at Ai .. nERBHOTT . —A soldier at Aldet'tiliott has been found dead , under circumstances suggestive of violence ; and a comrade was discovered iu the middle of the night in a state of insensibility from blows . Both men were bulievcd to have been concerned in a drunken quarrel ; but tho circumsluuces are as yet obscured in doubt . Escaiti , ok Piusonkks ok Wah . —Two more war prisoners have escaped from tho prison at Lewes .
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M I S C K LLANEOUS . India and China . —Thointiilligoneofrom India received by the lnht Overland Mail contain !? little el . ie than reports of murderous outragc-p , insurrections , and petty WHif / trc . Mr . II . V . Conolly , tho British Collector of Mnlub ir find Provisional Member of Council at Madras , was murdered on tho 11 th of September by a party of five Mo | tlahs , while seated in tho verimduh of hi * house near Calicut . Two of his servants , who , at the summone of hia wife , cuine to hits assistance , wero seriously hurt ; but they 'ailed in boating ofl' the anHdBBina , who inflicted no leas ( linn twenty-soven wounds on Mr . Conolly . The motive is supposed to be revengo , Mr , Conolly having lately auwoeded in driving from i . lio country a dangorouB ruflhui belonging to tho Mopluh tribe , and having
zealously carried out the act for disarming that part of the population . Colonel Mackenzie has been attacked by a party o Mahometans , in one of whose noisy religions processions he had interfered . He was left for dead , but there is great hope of his recovery . The same party made a furious onslaught on an English clergyman and some ladies . The ringleaders are now , however , in cus tody . Three hundred insurrectionary Kohillas have beam defeated with great loss to themselves . In the territory of Guicowar , a disturbance arising out of a quarrel between the hostile Mussulman sects of Shias and Sonees has been pacified by Major Wallace , whose guns and infantry Struck terror into the rival factions . On the Peshawar frontier , an expedition against the mountaineers has been brought to a successful conclusion , several fortified villages having been destroyed by simultaneous attacks , in which a native ally assisted . Intelligence from Bokhara confirms the report of the murder of the Ivhivan Khan . " The Russians , " says the Times Bombay Correspondent , cc are stated to have made no further advances toward Kokan , but their presence in ToorMstan , and the advance of the Persians , appear to disquiet the King of Bokhara , who labours unceasingly to ingratiate himself with both the invading parties . " The Santals , though greatly controlled , are not completely crushed , as reported by the last mail ; and the religious quarrel in Oude appears to be far from settled , being indeed stimulated by a furious pamphlet exhorting the Mahometans to fight for the propagation of the faith . The dissensions between , tho Rana or Sacerdotal Chief of Oodeyporo -md his rebel-^ ns barons have induced the British Government to ;« V » rf r-A n ' ^ . half of the Rana . Hostilities are consilntertere on ... j g b collected by Sir Henry dered possible , and a .... . British India is Lawrence . Steam commuti . w _ figs s -, owlv _ From receiving attention ; but railways proj ; . - ^ " t . Canton China we have no intelligence of general inteiv .. * ., Qf continues quiet , and we hear nothing of the progreo * . _ the rebellion . The " Wreck at Ramsgate Hakbouk . —An inquest has been held on the bodies of the two men who were washed from the Colchester oyster-sniaclc during the late gale at Ramsgate , and were drowned . The jury appended to their verdict of drowning a request that more efficient means should be placed at the disposal of the harbour-master and the boatmen , to he used in saving life , the difficulty being very observable in tliis case . The evidence of tho master of the smack was to the cil ' ect tliat the crew of the lifeboat did not seem to know how to manage her . The Female Impostor . —A communication from Wolverhainpton in the daily papers f > ives the following puticulars of Anastasia Haggard , aLas Alice Grey , who , it now turns out , on the authority of the Inspector of Police at Limerick , is a native of Ireland , not of Scotland : — "At length it is accurately known who the extraordinary young woman , who has recently attractad so much attention throughout the country by her clever but most heartless imposture ? , really is . Although , however , her parentage is established , her -whole history is ty no means yet fully revealed . Her career lias been truly a checkered one . From being in reality the child of humble parents in Limerick , and living with them at liome , sho soon becomes , on pretence , tho daughter of a doctor of divinity in England , and as such lives upwards of twelve months in this country at tho tables of the well-to-do in life . Then she is the assumed guiluloss dupe of designing swindlers , even of boys , and of members also of her own sex—all emboldened to rob her , she would have it believed , because of her native innocence and truthfulness . Soon , however , she is metamorphosed into the imprisoned for false accusa'ion , find at other time 3 for felony . Then she ia a servant of all work in the metropolis , " and a runaway ; next , tho sanctimonious inmate of tho Liverpool workhouse , tit trading additional attention by her tnles of high ancestral descent ; afterwards , a matron in service in tho land of her birth , but discharged thence for flagrant systematic lying ; then 'Again the impostor and false prolocutor , and now tho imprisoned for perjury . " Sho has boen committed for trial ; and when leaving tho court , she said to a gentloinau who sat near where sho passed , " If you were , that mugistrato , I would pull your whiskora" tthohuH written In prison a poetical attack upon tho Rev . Mr . Morris . During ono period of her cireor , slw i * paid to have described herself us a daughter of tho Htiv . Dr . Hook . The following table shows the number of pen-tons charged with felony on the information of Ihia ¦ wwiuan , and how they wero disposed of : — Towna . Apprehended . Dliclini-fjiid . Convicted . Birmingham .. 1 • I . — Hath . , .. .. 1 .. 1 ¦—IJri . itol .. .. .. 1 .. 1 — ~ Chester .. 3 .. 1 ¦ 2 Cork 2 'i — Dublin 2 .- - ~ Galway .. .. .. 1 ] ' " _ Glasgow nnd Grcenock 8 * " „ Liverpool .. .. ! i • ' I London • . 0 • " Macrooin ¦ 1 " " „ WjUnrford .. 2 * ' ' * Wolverhampton • * • ^_ " ^_ ' 20 .. 20 .. I )
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and myself . At least three of these reports have been printed by the Commissioners of Sewers . I bava personally checked all the calculations ; the formula or rules used in making these calculations are those accepted by every engineer of hydraulic reputation ; of their accuracy I have no manner of doubt . I am therefore prepared to be personally answerable for the soundness of the principles and the accuracy of the details of the London sewage intercepting plan which Sir " W . Cubitt and myself have approved as consulting engineers ; and I beg leave here to express iu the most decided manner my full confidence in Mr . Bazalgette ' s professional skill and personal integrity , as well as my opinion that he has furnished the commissioners with all the information which he was bound to furnish . With respect to Mr . Ward , I had an opportunity a few months ago ( at the house of a friend of that gentleman ) of expressing to him my opinion of the character of his objections to Mr . Bazalgette ' s plans and calculations . I told him then that I could characterise his objections as nothing better than puerile . I adhere to that word . I am , sir , your obedient servant , Robert Stephenson . 24 , Great George-street , Westminster , Nov . 2 . FROM MR . "WARD . To the Editor of the Times . Sir , —I have read in the Times of this morning a letter by Mr . Robert Stephenson on the main intercepting drainage of London , and on the course which I have felt it my duty , as a Commissioner of Sewers , to pursue on that important question . Mr . Stephenson defends Mr . Bazalgette ' s plans and proceedings , which I impugn , and declares that he ( Mr . Stephenson ) has * ' personally checked all the engineer ' s calculations . " I had been led to form a different opinion by the following passage in one of Mr . Stephenson ' s reportsthat on the north-side drainage : — " With reference to the dimensions of the proposed sewers , I have not been able to go into the details of the calculations ; but , having examined the tabular statements attached to the engineers' report , and having received explanations from them respecting the directions of the flow in the various sewers , I have every confidence in the correctness of their conclusions . '' I had been further induced to believe that Mr . Stephenson had bestowed but a cursory attention on Mr . Bazalgette ' s scheme by information which reached me that one of Mr . Stephenson ' s reports ( that on the high level interception ) was asked for one day , and sent in the rrext ; the day of its hasty production being also that of Mr . Stephenson ' s return from a long absence abroad . I hud moreover observed , in another of Mr . Stephenson ' s reports ( that against Mr . John Roe ' s plan ) errors so gross and palpable , that I could not , in common fairness , suppose them Mr . Stephenson ' s own , butfelt constrained to regard them as the work of subordinate hands , adopted by Mr . Stephenson with a too implicit confidence . Thus , for example , I found Mr . Stephenson maintaining , in support of a certain formula , which I and my friends impugn , that a certain sewer floods , because according to the formula it is too small , and that , to cure its flooding , it should , according to the formula , be increased to a certain size , which Mr . Stephenson names , but which size , on reference to our books , I find that it already exceeds . Again , in the same report , I found an ill-proportioned tunnel brought into factitious conformity with the formula said to have been used in designing it , by a false quotation of the area drained , and of the rate of declivity as stuted and drawn in the engineer ' s own sections and tables , the area being-reduced from 11 square miles to 7 , while the declivity is increased from 1 in 1 , 359 to 1 in COO—a blunder too gross , or an expedient too reprehensible , to be lightly assumed as the conscious act of a gentleman occupying the highest rank in his profession . As , however , Mr . Stophonson now voluntarily accepts the position which I hesitated to assign him ; as he endorses calculation which I believe to bo deceptive , and sanctions proceedings which I consider questionable , H becomes my duty , as a Commissioner , to include Mr . Stephenson in my inculpations of Mr . Buzalgette . That duty I now fulfil with reluctance , without hesitation . The main question at issue , bo fur from being " intricate " and " puerile , " us Mr , Stephenson terms it , is in its broad features extremely simple , and in ita pobearings very important . In two words—it is n question of size and cost . How big must the intercepting tunnels bo 1 How much must the ratepayers spend on them 1 Mr . Stephenson , calculating by u formula , fixes 272 square feet as the collective sectional area of the northside tunnels , and 1 , 627 , 000 / . as their collective cost . I and my friends , on the contrary , relying on John Roe b observations of tho run of the Fleet in nil weathers for more than twenty years , nnd adopting (
subject to modifications ) J ohn Roe ' s proposed lines and sizes , fix 108 square feet for the north-side tunnel capacity , and so reduce tho cost to 753 , 000 ? . Our object is to save , for north-side ratepayers , three quarters of a million sterling of capital ( besides heavy annual pumping costs ); and the economy we aim at for the south side is relatively larger still . Whether we are right or wrong is a matter for technical decision , but we submit that our broad proposition is neither ' intricate " " puerile . " It is clearly for the ratepayers' interest that the question we raise should be discussed ; nor can such a debate be properly suppressed by the weight of an eminent name . This tunnel controversy is , in point of fact , only the tubular controversy renewed on a greater scale . We have carried , against the vehement opposition of the very engineers whom we now find against us , the substitution of small pipes for great culverts in the drainage of streets and houses . We have already saved for the public by that system , so strenuously decried up to a year ago , several hundreds of thousands sterling . We can point to scores of provincial towns drained on the new principle at a third of the cost of the old mode . We have already between 200 and 300 miles of pipe working successfully in the metropolis . And at Groydon , where the pipes were said to have caused an epidemic , the zymotic mortality has declined since their introduction ( partly , no doubt , because of their introduction ) , upwards of 40 per cent . John Roe , the inventor of the tabular system ( and , I may add , of nearly all the great modern innovations in town drainage , such as flushing , combined works , egg-shaped sewers , adjusted junctions , &c . ) now proposes an equivalent reduction in the size and cost of the main tunnels . To " meet this formidable opponent , to discredit his plans in our eyes , and to conceal his own errors , Mr . Bazalgette has resorted to means of which I , as a commissioner , have felt bound to express my strong disapproval . I have laid the case broadly before my colleagues , and move the appointment of a mathematical committee , comprising two or three of such men as Professors Hall , De Morgan , Willis , Moseley , Wheatstone , Babbage , &c , to decide on its technical points . Before that tribunal I now challenge Mr . Stephenson to meet me . I am ready , with John Roe ' s experience , to oppose Mr . Stephenson ' s assertions ; and , as vast sums of money hang on the issue , I have no fear that the public will regard the debate as '' puerile , " or submit to have it stifled by the peremptory dictum even of an eminent engineer . I have the honour to be , Sir , Sec , F . CX Ward . 12 Cork-street , Burlington-gardens , Nov . 3 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 10, 1855, page 1077, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2114/page/9/
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