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escaped injury ; " but , having arrived at London , he S , with some warmth and energy-, from whom he was to obtain compensation for the inconvenience he had suffered The first guard of the train escaped unhurt ; but the rear guard and the engine-driver were much shaken . The last-named was examined on Tuesday at the Town-hall , Reigate , and was remanded on bail . It appeared during the proceedings that it is customary to have a wire communicating from the driver to the guard , but that on this occasion , it was out of order , and would not work . . John Titzpatrick , a labouring man , was working in an old sewer in the Whitechapel-road , on Tuesday morning , when he was suddenly overcome by the foul air , at a -depth of eighteen feet from the surface of the road . Another labourer , named Franks , went to his assistance , . and was also struck down . Three more , named Bmgham , Goodge , and Hives , followed , and immediately became insensible , so that the five men lay huddled together in a heap- It was then found useless to send down any more ; but hooks were procured , and the unfortunate labourers were drawn up . Fitzpatnck , Franks , and Bingham , were quite dead ; the others were living , but insensible , and in a critical state . Two of the dead men have left families . A steam threshing machine at Prittlewell , Essex , has burst , killing three men , and injuring a fourth so severely that his life is despaired of . A singular accident has happened on the Wilts and Somerset Railway . The driver of an engine on that line got on the steps of a carriage next the tender , and asked the wife of an inspector of the Exeter police , who was the only person inside , if she wanted any . company . She said " No , " and he then wanted her to give him a kiss , but she refused . He next asked to be allowed to . shake hands ; but she would not , and threatened to expose him , at which he seemed much frightened . He left , but returned three several times , still requesting that he might shake hands , and still meeting with a refusal . Shortly after he disappeared for the last time , he s eems to have fallen on to the line , for he was picked up on the bank , with his back broken . When the 2 . 24 mail train from Aberdeen to London , ¦ on Monday afternoon , was a few miles south of Montrpse and near the Guttirie station , one of the axles of the second engine broke , by which the carriages were thrown off the line . The first engine continued to drag the train along , and thus saved the greater part from being thrown over the embankment , but , the coupling chain ¦ of the seventh carriage from the end having broken , all the carriages beyond it fell over , and two of them were smashed . One of these , a third-class carriage , was full of passengers , and yet , although it was shivered to atoms , no lives were lost . The same good fate attended the other carriage ; but the guard and inspector and some of the passengers were bruised and cut . The usual current of deaths by drowning , common to ihis time of year , is begiuuing to set in . A few days ago , a gentleman named Bateman , who was staying with his family , at Teignmoutb , went to bathe with a friend . He was a good swimmer , and swam a considerable distance from the shore , but was seized with cramp and immediately cried out for assistance . Three men courageously swam to him , but they were too late to save his life . —At Bude Haven , on Monday , a young gentleman named Bray , from Launceston , went out tp bathe with a friend . Ho also was seized with cramp , and was carried away by the under current . Mr . George Cox , the publisher , has been killed at the Colnoy Hatch station of the Great Northern Railway . He was alighting from the train , when it was suddenly moved with a jerk , and Mr . Cox was thrown on the line under the wheels . One of the witnesses , Mr . George Tyler , of Finchley Common , who was a passenger by the same train , said at the inquest that ho saw Mr . Cox lying between two carriages . " The engine man and guard were laughing . " Coroner : " Do you mean laughing over the dead body ? " " Witness ; ? ' Yes , sir , while . they were putting the body on the stretcher . I remarked to ono of the men , ' You ought all to bo taken into custody , for there will bo no safety until you are . You must bo all either drunk or mad to laugh while your comrades are with the dead body , putting it on the stretcher . ' One pf the men said , ' You make mo laugh by saying I am drunk ; ' and another came out and said , ¦* Do you . call mo drunk , sir ? ' Sometimes the train stops too Boon , and sometimes too late . Wo have to go about looking for the man to taku our tickets . I huvo lota of tickets at homo now that I could not givo up . There was ample time for Mr . Cox , to have got out oi tho train , und all the passengers , during the tiniu it was at a tttamlatill , if it had boon at tho proper pluce , instead of having overshot the platform . " The jury returned a verdict ol ' Accidental Death , accompunied by an expression of dissatUfuction at tho arrangements for passengers lit the Colnoy Hatch station . Mr . William Rawson , well known and respected as the treasurer of the Anti-Corn-Law League , has died from injuries recoivod in an accident which took placo on Monday ,
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRANCE . A most extraordinary trial , implicating several important African military officers , has taken place before the Court of Assizes at Oran . During last September , I a diligence from Tlemcen to Oran , Algeria , was attacked by some Arabs , who shot two of the travellers—the Aga lien Abdullah , chief of a tribe and a man of great weight , and his secretary . The former was killed at once ; the hitter lingered till next day . The assassins got clear ' ; and Generals Beaufort and Montauban summoned to their presence Captain Doineau , chief of . the Arab bureau of Tlemcen , who , notwithstanding his usual sagacity in these matters , appeared to be at fault . While the investigations were proceeding , the widow of Ben Abdallah loudly accused the Agu Bel Hadj . This man was reported to " be ill in bed ; but it was discovered that his malady was feigned . He then fled to Morocco , but was induced to return ; and eighteen persons were arrested , charged with the murder . Captain Doineau was one of these ; the rest were Arabs . The latter deposed that Doineau had bound them by an oath to murder Ben Abdallah , and to observe profound secrecy . Among tho prisoners is the Cadi Ben Ayad , the judge of his tribe , and a man of great distinction , exercising almost religious functions . " Attired in a costly blue mantle worn over a burnous of the finest cashmere , " says the Timed Paris correspondent , " he appears before the Court and deposes , with great energy and indignation , that on his hesitating to administer an oath binding the taker to the commission of a crime , Doineau brutally struck him , aud that he yielded to the asceudancy of his violent character , for that nobody could resist him . Bel Hadj , the Agn , ofliccr of tho Legion of Honour , and vyho has been for nine years in the French service , gives tes- tiinony bo conflicting as to bo worthless . In the instruc- tions on tho case his deposition implicated Doineuu ; brought before the tribunal lie implores instant deuth , ' and decluros that he knows not what he said on his pie- vioua examination . The next day ho avows his own crime , saying ( hut ho had not himself taken part in the murder , but hud sent three of his horsemen , and his ovidonco id inodt unfavourable to Doineau . But later in that day ' s examination a dramatic incident occurs . The Kodja Si Mohamed , secretary to Captain Duiueau for a long tinio post , deposqs against his muster , declaring that ho had accompanied tho murderers , and had com- maiuled the onslaught in a loud voice--that afterwards ho had diroctod his accomplices to disperse , and had himself returned to Tlemcen , attended by tho Kodja , to whom ho said , ' Wo will presently got ou horseback , and protend to scok tho traces of the assailants . ' Hereupon , Captain Doineau interrupted tho witness , and onorgetlcally protested against his evidence . ' Let Uel Hadj bo again examined / ho cried . ' It id impossible that that man , whom I have novor injured , and whoso good sor- vices to Franco Uavo won him tho rauk of Aga and tho decoration of officer of the Legion of Honour , should not return to tlio truth . Bel Hadj is again called up , ami is asked if Doineau ordered or proposed to him to kill Bea Abdullah . Thus interrogated , ho turns to tlio
Kodja , and , pressing his hands on his breast , and in a voice of remarkable sweetness , he says to him , ^ JNTow that we are ia the face of death , should we accuse the Captain . ? ' This implied retractation of . the damning evidence he had given produces an indescribable effect in the court . The supposed motives of Doineau for plotting the death of Ben Abdallah are jealousy of his influence , and certain disagreements that had arisen . between them , particularly with respect to a large number of camels that had been seized from some Morocco traders , who had infringed the Custom-house laws . On these , however , as on many other points , the evidence is conflicting . The possession by Doineau of a considerable sum of money , his obtaining which he refuses satisfactorily to account for , is a point that evidently tells against him in the eyes of the Court , and leads to a suspicion that it was to conceal peculations that he desired to get rid of the Aga . On the other hand , his superiors give the strongest testimony in his favour . " In the course of the trial General Beaufort admitted that he
had given orders to Captain Doineau to shoot Arabs without form of trial ; and this was done by the captain . Some questions have been put to General Montauban by Doineau , the effect of which has been to implicate him in certain misappropriations of money . It is said that he and General Beaufort will be superseded in their command as soon as the trial is over . Towards the close of General Montaubau ' s examination , Captain Doineau asked : — " Did you not get Major Chauzy to bring me a pair of pistols in prison ? " '" Never , " replied Montauban . " Major Chauzy , " retorted Doineau , " will speak to that fact . " The Aga Bel Hadj exhibits , or affects , the profoundest submission to the two Generals , exhorting them to pass their swords through his body .
The Northern Railway robber ? , Carpentier , Grellet , Guerin , and Parot , have appealed against the decision of the Chambre des Mises en Accusation , which had sent them for trial before the Court of Assize . This appeal will cause some delay , and in all probability their trial will not come on before the second week in September . A poor woman , named Batty , the wife of a small fanner of the Girpnde , has brought an action before the Civil Tribunal of the Seine against a M . Charles Seguin , the purchaser of an estate called Draveil , formerly the property of the late Earl of Devon . Madame Batty claimed this estate , on the ground that she is the legitimate danghter of the Earl , and his only surviving child . The story alleged in support of this assertion was very romantic . According to it , the Earl fled from his nativeand lived in
country about the close of last century , France , first under the name of Thomas , aiid then of citizen Courtney . Ultimately , he declared himself to be the Earl of Devon . During the Reign of Terror , he was arrested , and imprisoned in a convent ; but finally he was liberated , and married a young- Ifrenchwoman , in whom lie had inspired a romantic interest , and by whom he had two children—one a son , now dead ; the other the present Madame Batty . After the peace of Amiens , the husband left France , and in course of time the wife received a letter from him in America , announcing the transmission of eight hundred francs ; but these were never received , and the wife always thought that the sum hud been misappropriated . She brought her children up humbly , and died some years back . Thirty years after the disappearance of Courtney , Mndainc Batty
re' 1 ' ' j ceived an anonymous letter in English , informing her that her father was dead , and had left her a large fortune . Inquiries were made , and it was at lust ascertained that tho Eurl of Devon hud returned to England in 1815 , but had ultimately fixed his residence at Paris and at Druveil , live leagues from the capital , on the road to Coibeil , whuro ho had purcliasod the cstute in question . Ho ulwnys lived in a very retired manner , and scarcely saw any ono . On his death , ho left the greater portion of his property to the children of one Woods , his agent , who sold tho estate at Draveil to a gentleman , from whom it passed to M . Segum , tho defendant in this action , by which it was sought to recover tho estate . The ono point to bo established was tlio identity of Thomas Courtney with the Earl of Devon ; but this was not dono to tho satisfaction of the court , und the plaintiff
' ^ I ' ' ' < I < < * ¦< was therefore nonsuited , and condemned in costs . Tho judgment of tho Court of Turbts acquitting tho TntJreC Public of a charge of publishing false news has been reversed by tho Imperial Court of Pau , which finds the manager guilty of ' publishing false news with good faith / and sentences him to a fine of fifty fruncs and the costs . M . Baudelaire , tho jioot , lwis been tried on a chargo of having ofloiidod religion and decency by tho publication of a collection of poems , culled ' Los l'lcurs du Mai . ' The court held that tho incriminated paHsagos were not irreligious , but that the poems numbered in tho collection 20 , HO , 09 , 80 , 81 and 87 were offensive . % o public decency ; and it sentenced M . Baudelaire to a fiuo of 000 frunc . i . Tho publishers were fined 100 frailcs . Tho suppression of tho passages Id also ordered . — Datty ISexos Faria Correspondent wir" ¦
* v t o . ,...,. D 4 I WIVV I * VVf wV ^^ V ¦ V rw ' A ff By tho Emperor ' s spooiul command , tho Minister oi Marino has issued uh order to all captains of ships or war to givo ovory aid to English vowed * convoying troops to India , uud to tako tboin in tow whew bo-^'" it ' appears , " says the ^ hw Paris corroapondent " that tbo Emporor has pressed his dl « 8 ntlsfactio » to
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STATIC OF TUADE . Tun reports from tho manufacturing towns for the week ending lust Saturday are , upon tho whole , satisfactory .
. At Manchester there has been , some activity , and prices , are strong , owing to the firmness of the cotton-market and a diminution of production . There is still a slight speculative demand for India , and there have been Some purchases on Russian account under the new tariff . Mr . Thomas Stewart , a manufacturer at Stockport , has failed for 20 , 000 / ., and promises a compromise of fifty per cent . The Birmingham iron trade lias been steady , and , in connexion with several large contracts , a slight advance has occasionally been offered . From Nottingham no alteration is reported either as regards hosiery or lace . In the woollen districts there has been a fair average business , and some extensive shipments to America . The Irish linen markets have been firm . — Ti ? nes . The general business of the port of London has again been very active during the same week . The number of ships reported inward was 380 , being 63 more than in the previous week . These included 9 with cargoes of sugar , and the very large number of 105 with cargoes of grain . The number of vessels cleared outwards was 149 , including 21 in ballast , showing a decrease of 2 . The total on the berth loading for the Australian colonies is 60 , being three more than at the last account . Of those now loading , 5 are for Adelaide , 3 for Geelong , 4 for Hobart Town , 5 for Launceston , 5 for New Zealand , 20 for Port Philip , 3 for Portland Bay , 14 for Sydney , and 1 for Swan River . —Idem . The stoppage of Messrs . Buchanan , Brown , and Co ., of Liverpool , with liabilities reported at 300 , 000 / ., was announced at the close of last week . It is supposed to have been caused by that of Mr . Davies , the sharedealer , who has left deficiencies to an alarming amount . The suspension of payment by the firm of Messrs . Bruford and Dyer , African merchants , of Bristol , has been announced . The liabilities are stated at 100 , 000 / ., and arrangements have been made for their liquidation by aii immediate payment of an instalment of 6 s . 8 d . in the pound , and two guaranteed instalments of 6 s . 8 d . each . The immediate cause of the stoppage of Messrs . Bruford and Dyer is said to have been the failure of Messrs . Jones and Moore , soapmakers , of Bristol , who are negotiating a composition with their creditors .
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No- , Awhw . 29 , 1857 . ] THE LEADEE . 835
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 29, 1857, page 823, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2207/page/7/
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