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* ' The most stringent measures are employed by tte Rufiso-Polisb authorities , and by the Governments -of Austria , aad Prussia , io exclude this form of murrain from their respective territories . A regulation was published in . Polaaid on the 9 th of May , 1856 , ordering tire indiscriminate slaughter of all beasts that should exhibit any symptoms of the disease , under witich , according to a reeeat return , 20 , 000 animals have already "been slaughtered " Independent of . these measures in the interior of 12 ie country , quarantine stations have been established on the
Russo-Polish frontier , -where beasts coming from the East are detained for three weeks . Similar measures for the exclusion and extirpation of the disease , should it show itself within those countries , have long been in force on the frontiers of Austria and Prussia . In Austria the infected cattle are immediately killed as soon as they show any appearance of the murrain , their companions , being kept in quarantine ; and regulations still more stringent are enforced in Prussia , for both the diseased animals and all -other beasts that have been in contact -with them are there killed and buried eight feet under ground , quicklime being thrown into thepits .
" These regulations have been most sternly enforced , and not only has the importation of cattle from Poland , where the murrain is at present believed to exist , been prohibited , but rags , hides , hoofs , hay , wood , and similar articles likely to have been in any way connected with cattle , and all persons suspected of having transactions -with cattle , ha"ve been forbidden to cross the frontier . To enfe-rce these regulations , detachments of troops have heen stationed along the frontier at all . the points of
egress from Poland below Thorn . This disease , hovever , occasionally passes into Austria and Prussia ; and such has recently been the case . It has appeared in Silesift , in the neighbourhood of Breslau . nnd Oppoln , but has not spread into any other Prussian province . ' In addition to the recent Order in Council , " ths greatest watchfulness over the importation , of cattle is maintained by the -veterinary inspectors of the Board of" Customs , both fit London and the other ports of importation . "
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STATE OF TllADE . The trade reports from the manufacturing towns for the week ending last Saturday , show a limited business , but steady prices . ¦ At Manchester , stocks being moderate with a fair supply of orders , full rates have been demanded . The Birmingham advices state that the iron market ie well maintained , and that in the other occupations of the place there is good emploj-ment . Notwithstanding the high rates of interest , the quarterly payments have been extremely well met . At Nottingham , and in the woollen districts , there has been partial dulness , while in the Irish linen markets the demand Las been satisfactory . —Times .
In the general business of the port of London during the same week , ihere has been diiuinisiied activity . The number of vessels reported inwards was 212 , being G 4 less than in the previous week . The number cleared outward was 120 , including 16 in ballast , showing a decrease of 26 . The number of ships on the berth loading for the Australian colonies is 45 , being 2 less than at the last account . Of these , 7 are fox Adelaide , 3 for Geelong , 1 for Ilobart Town , 3 for ILaunceston , G for New Zealand , 12 for Port Philip , 2 for Portland Bay , 1 for Perth , 9 for Sydney , and 1 for Swan Eiver ; 5 of them were entered , outward in January and 12 in iebruary . —Idem .
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THE ORIENT . INDIA . The existence of a mutinous feeling among some of the native regiments in India has caused much excited comment . The high-caste Sepoys at Uarrackporo 2 mve been greatly disturbed at learning , or fancying , that animal fat was used in the manufacture of some new cartridges , which would of course result in their lips coming in contact with that obnoxious substance' in biting oil" the ends . The men held a parade on their own authority , and refused to oboy the order of their Colonel to disperse , lie then called out a regiment of cavalry und two guns ; on which the malcontents offered to return to thetr barracks if that force were sent away . The
ColoneL consented , and the danger seems to have passed for the time . I 5 ut the officer baa been severely rebuked for culpable weakness in acceding to the- demand of the native troopa . licgiments in Bengal and Madras are also said to have exhibited a mutinous spirit ; and a mission of a very singular and mysterious character is now proceeding through some of the provinces . Tho chokedars , or policemen , havo been going alout from village to village , leaving behind them little plain calces of wheaten ( lour . Thcso have been found not < to bo poisoned ; and conjecture as to tho meaning is baffled . Tho object , however , is suggested to be , not political , but religious or Bupcratitious—a means of warding oil disease .
"At tho date of the latest accounts from Cttbul , " aays the Times Bombay correspondent , " Doat Mahomed had not yet arrived In tho capital . In tho Punjab , a largo force is assembling at IMira Ghnzec Khan—artillery , cavalry , and infantry—for service against a tribft called the Uozdars , across the- mountains . Brigadier Cluunberluin commands in person , and some monrl fighting in looked for . In Ouriu , an aflTray han occurred , ending in loos of life to a member of tho Bcngul Civil SorvicG . It uppearn that one Fiiv . 1 Ali , who had been lon , % imprisoned for a murderous asaault upon u Koyul Miniottr uomo vcaru buck , escnned lutelv from custody
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the explosion . Several others were drawn rap alive , but horriWy disfigured by fire , or by bruises . . The Grounded are five in number . The accident seems to have arisen from the criminal carelessness of JPlatt , who was provided with a safety lamp , 3 mt who removed the top after he had entered the level , and thus left the i « ne bare . This man has been a collier for upwards of twenty years . He is now fearfully injured in consequence of his OTvn follj ' . ¦ The other colliery explosion aTose from precisely the same cause . A night workman engaged in the Gorse Colliery , the property of Messrs . Richards and Glasbrook , Swansea , proceeded on the ni ght of Thursday week to a part of the pit -where safety lamps are required . He took one with him , but lifted the cap off . Some of his fellow workmen , it is said , remonstrated with him for his temerity ; but he did not hoed them .
An explosion followed shortly afterwards . Six persons were brought out , more or less burnt and bruised . Two persons connected with the colliery—Mr . Evans and Mr . John Mathews— -went into the pit to search for any one else -who might be remaining ; but they had not gone far when tliey were overcome by the afterdamp , and fell down in a state of exhaustion . They were speedily drawn out , and , having recovered , they resumed their search . For four hours they looked in vain ; but ultimately they found the dead bodies of three boys and a man . Another boy was found . insensible , but was afterwards restored . He was but slightly burnt , and would probably have escaped without any injury had he not nobly stayed behind to otter assistance to " another boy , one of those who were found killed . One of the deceased mea had apparently encountered his death by taking a wrong turning , in the confusion of tlie moment , when he met the advancing flames .
A . terrible boiler explosion took place at the Leehrook Works , near Weduesbury , Staffordshire , last Saturday . The works belong to Messrs . Bagnall and Soais , and the occurrence happened , unfortunately , at a period of the day when a large number of the workmen were actively engaged on the spot . One of three boilers , all close together , burst , scattered the brickwork of the building over an area of one hundred yards , and killed two women , besides feaifully mutilating others , some of whom it is feared -will not recover . The boiler separated into , two immense pieces , one of which was hurled into a caaal which runs near , and the other , after being projected a distance of eighty yards , made -a breach thwyagh a stone wall , and then fell to the earth .
The process of emptying the water out of the Lundhill Collie ry is now nearly completed . Between eleven and twelve o'clock on the night of Friday week , a dead bo < ly was discovered , floating on the surface of the water . It -was got out , but was so far advanced in decomposition , and so frightfully mangled and distorted , that recognition was utterly impossible . The remains were put into a coffin , and placed in the adjacent shed ¦ whi ch has been erected for tlie purpose of receiving the corpses as they are drawn forth . Disinfectants were copiously used ; but one of the men engaged la the operation was made ijl . " The graves at Darfield and otlier places , " says the Times , " are now nearly completed . About one hundred and sixty of the bodies ( if so many can bo recovered ) are to be interred at Darfield .
The gravo . s avo marfo sufficiently deep to hold several coilins , wliieh will be ranged one alove another , a layer of bricks being placed between the different tiers . In the centre-will be a monument bearing the names of the men and the cause of their death > " —The " chair" at the bottom of the shaft was hauled up on Monday , after immense exertions by five men , wlio were working for eight hours in tlie midst of water . The reason of the difficulty was tliat the chair had diverged from the centre of the shaft under one of the archways communicating with tho Avorldnge of tho pit . Together with the chair , two corves were drawn up , as well aa a considerable quantity of wood and other materiuls . The pit was unroofed on Weductidnj ' . There have been several Jargc escapes of ana , but no indications of lire are visible .
EXPLOSIONS . Two of the Hounslow powder mills "have blown tip . Some four or five hands , principally youths , were engaged last Saturday in the " composition mill , " ; i building about thirty feet long , containing a large quantity of saltpetre , sulphur , and other ingredients of gunpowder . Th »« o of the boys , about noon , suddenly perceived p . blue light slowly flickering round the place . They raised cries of Fire ! " and " llun for your lives !" —whe » all in the lmilding rushed forth . Three got safely out , bat two others met the " blast , " and were severely scorched by it . An explosion then took place , and a lad named Warwick was struck on the head by a falling beam , and severely injured . Two other explosions followed , by which fwo of the mills were blown to rubxs . Th < 3 engines were then brought out , and the flames subdued . An explosion occurred at tho same works about seven y « ars ago .
We have to record two fatal colliery explosions this week . One occurred at tho Bredbury Now I'it , belonging to Messrs . J . and J . Jowett , which , works have only boon opened about bix montlis . The catastrophe took place at a quarter to > seven o'clock lust Saturday morning , when tho colliers had been at work three quartern of an hour . The noiee was beard a long way off . With fatal swiftness , the fire ran along the various workings , and fearfully burnt such of the colliers aa hn < l not taken tho precaution to throw themselves on their faceH . A man , named flatt , who was in tho lovol wlie . ro the explosion originated , crawled to tho hIihI ' l ' h mouth , but a boy who attempted to follow him mis . ctl his way , leu
fell ( 1 < lintnnrr >! af Oiirfir fan . 1 mvl , f ,-nnil ,. ; .,:.. „ ,, ! ¦» .:., a distance of thirty feel , and greatly injured hi . 3 back . However , ha ultimately escaped . A father ontl his two sons woro suffocated by the vapours following
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high-spitttod animal galloped into JBloomstany-iaqoare , and jumped over the railings into the plantation . He broke one of the rails , tore open his hocks , aad fractured the boy's arm . Th . e poor animal , which -was worth . 100 ? ., was shot . Five men have been killed At Greenlaanalls new colliery , near Duddo , about tea miles west of Berwick . There wi 6 a partition wall between tlie old workings and the new . In the former , which had been quite deserted for a long time , a large quantity of water had collected , and this burst through the wall , suddenly engulfing all who were in the new pit at the tune , and causing the death of every one of the five .
A shocking accident has occurred at Manchester during tlie trial of a new invention for preventing accidents . Mr . Hugh Baines has constructed a self-acting safety apparatus , for obviating the ill effects of the breakage of ropes in tfee ascent of goods or servants from one story of a warehouse to another . A taul was made on Monday evening at the place . of business of Messrs . John Pender and Co . The cage was cent up , the rope was disconnected , and it was anticipated that
tlio apparatus would act , and prevent any evil consequences . But it did not act , * ud the cage descended with fearful velocity to the basement floor , a depth of fifty feet . Four gentlemen were in the cage , including Mr . Babies himself . All were severely injured , and were carried to the infirmary , where one of them , named Shaw , died the same night . Mr . I 3 aiues has sustained a serious laceration of the foot . Two other gentlemen , brothers , had gone up in the cage , but had stepped out on to the upper floor just as the rope was disconnected .
Mr . J . G . Dodson , M . P ., has been thrown out -of a gig in which he was riding after the declaration of the poll for East Susaex . The vehicle was being drawn by a high-spirited mare , which was frightened At the bands of music and the flags . The animal suddenly reared , Svas pulled back , arid fell , dragging the chaise with . her , ¦ which rolled over Mr . Dodson and a companion . They escaped , however , without any injury . Tho Jiead of one of the officials .-of the London and IKTorth-Western Railway Company has been completely cut off by a train passing over it . Mr . William . M'Cabe , a person of considerable engineering skill , the manager of the enghie-Bhed at the Stafford station , was standing on the line , watching the shuntiug of a train , when some
ballast waggons arrived on the spot , and stopped to put down a man who had had his hand smashed at another station . On starting again , M'Cabe did not notice that the train was in motion till it . was too late . The buffer of the engine caught him , and threw aim across the rails , when the wheels went over his neck , severing his head from his body . His son , a young man also employed by the company , saw the horrible spectacle , and , pulluig off his coat , threw it over his father's head , wiidi was carried forward a distance of five or six yards . M'Cabe was greatly respected by all the authorities on the line . He leaves a widow and six children . As many as sixteen years ago lie lost one of his legs by an -accident on the same railway . ;
ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . Mk . CirAiu . KS Svmons , landlord of the Railway Hotel , Teignmouth , while engaged in his brewhouse , fell into a vat of liquor , many degrees above boiling point , and wns scalded in a frightful manner . He is not dead , and , although seriously injured , liopcs are entertained of his ultimate recovery . Two field labourers , working at West Holton , a village neir Sunderland , have been poisoned by the root of water hemlock , -which they took out of a ditch and cat . They wero found in a state of insensibility , and died fihortly after , their bodies then becoming quito black .
An inquest wns opened on Monday afternoon on the body of Maurice Fitzgibbon , a brieklayer ' n labourer , who was killed by tho fall of Rome buildings in Little KuHsell-place , liow-strcet , on tho morning of Good Kiiday . Tho evidence couilriniid tho facts as given in our lnst week ' s Postscript . An adjournment took place , tlmt tho jury might view the jireinisoa , anil that a i > oatmortem examination mi ght ho made . Anothor of the men diud ' on Wednesday . A day or two ago , a gentleman gavo his horse in clinrgo of a boy in Southampton-row , Bloomabury , while h « nttemlel to norno Inisinnsfs . The boy imprudently mounted tlie horse , and struck it with tho rclus . The
Mr . Stephen Walker , licensed victualler , well koowii in the sporting world as the owner of the celebrated horse Winkfield , died suddenly on the evening of Thursday week from delirium tremena .
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April 18 , 1857 . ] THE tEADlB , 883
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Leader (1850-1860), April 18, 1857, page 363, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2189/page/3/
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