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16 , 000 displaced to seek a home else-where ; but some persons had estimated the number at four times that amount . The resolution -was seconded and unanimously carried . Slave Vjssseis . —Her Majesty ' s brig Teazer , off the pest coast of Africa , has captured a vessel under Spanish co-lours with tyre hundred and thirty slaves on board . The Governor of Cape Coast has seized a slave vessel wMch ran aahore to escape a cruiser . She has been destroyed . Thk Patriotic Fund . —The following information
respecting the Patriotic Fund has been published . Numbers on the books : Widows , 3704 ; children , 3900 ; orphans who have lost parents , 156 . The above are the only classes eligible for relief under the Royal Commission , which limits the application of the fund to the widows and orphans of the soldiers , seamen , and marines whose deaths are attributable to their service in the war against Russia . There are still new cases coming on in consequence of men dying from wounds or from disease undoubtedly contracted in the Crimea . The present rate of expenditure is nearly 80 , 000 ? , per annum .
Destruction op a Cabavan . —Communications from Aleppo of the 11 th of August announce the loss of almost an entire caravan of 1300 camels , and 500 irregular troops , traders , and conductors , which had taken its departure from Damascus , on the 29 th of June , for Bagdad . The caravan had strayed from the direct road , where , finding no water , it had to come to a halt , and despatched some of the conductors in search of a wandering tribe to assist it out of its difficulty , many lives having been already lost from thirst and unprecedented heai- At length a purchase of the necessary lement was concluded at the price of two hundred piastres the camel-load ; but , on a supply reaching the place of halt , not more than from fifteen to > twenty human beings were found alive to partake of it . The Arabs had attacked those dying from thirst , and pillaged all the most valuable of the goods .
Dr . Livingston met on "Wednesday the members of the Chamber of Commerce , Commercial Association , and Cotton Supply Association , at the Town Hall , Manchester , and had a very hearty and warm reception . He delivered a discourse on the commercial products of Africa , and answered several questions which were put to him . He gave an encouraging picture of the productiveness of the land , and spoke more especially of its capacity for growing cotton ; and , at the end of his address , the annexed motion was put and carried : —" That this meeting desires to express their warmest thanks to Dr . Livingston for his visit to Manchester , to record their appreciation of the importance of his discoveries , their high senie of his noble exertions for the extension
of knowledge , as well as his self-devotion in again seeking to visit those hitherto unexplored countries with a view to their civilization by the aids of Christianity and commerce ; that , feeling a deep interest in the self-denying labours of Dr . Livingston , this meeting earnestly requests her Majesty ' s Government will place at his disposal a steamboat , duly appointed and capable of ascending the navigable portion of the Zambesi , with such further accommodation in boats and otherwise as may be deemed sufficient for the exploration of its tributaries , and for obtaining and retaining friendly relations with , the natives of that interesting region ; and the public bodies now assembled pledge themselves to use their
utmost exertions for the promotion of these objects ; that this meeting desire to impress on her Majesty ' s Government their earnest desire that the aid of the Portuguese Government should be specially requested towards facilitating in every possible manner the further researches of Dr . Livingston in the interior of Africa , and more especially in the districts surrounding the river Zambesi and its tributaries ; that a sub-committee of the following gentlemen , being the chairmen of th « public bodies hero assembled , be empowered and requested to carry out the resolution of this meeting , with power to add to their number : —Mr . John Cheetham , M . P ., Mr . J . A . Turner , M . P ., and Mr . Thomas Bazley . "
Accidental Death of Admiral Hawtavnk . —A fatal accident occurred on Tuesday evening to Admiral Hawtaync . He was walking on tho south pier at Lowestoft with a little girl and a lady , her mother , and , the evening being vory diirk , lie fell over the side of the pier . The water waa shallow , but tho Admiral sustained a concussion of the bruin , and died in about half an hour . The accident was first discovered by tlie screams of tho little girl , who also fell off the pier with tho Admiral
, and whose cries attracted her mother to tho spot . Tho child was rescued . Illness ok thk Kino ov Swkimsn . —In consequence of a consultation on tho stiito of tho health of the King of Sweden , it is acknowledged that his Mnjeaty cannot in any case sustain the burden of public affairs for a yeur to come . Tho King baa therefore felt it his duty to request tho States to provide for tho Government during his illness , according to the modo prescribed by the Constitution .
Bou > Biuoands— A band of brigands nt Malaga has carried off tho son of a wealthy inhabitant , and hus demanded three thousand piastres for his ransom . Crystal Palaok . —Return of admissions , including season tickets , for ak days , ending Friday , September 11 th , 60 , 262 . *
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Herat . —Advices from Constantinople state that the Persians have evacuated Herat . Troubles , excited by religious fanaticism , have followed the departure of the Persian troops . Military Fracas . —Major Alexander Duke Hamilton has been fined forty shillings by the Witham magistrates for assaulting Colonel Maximilian James "Western . He found him shooting on his land , and straightway collared him , using at the same time very violent language . The Colonel behaved with great forbearance .
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THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS IN INDIA . Up to fclie period of our going to press the telegraph has made no sign ; we are , consequently , in possession of no later intelligence from India than what was brought by the last mail . But , in the absence of positive novelty , so great and so universal is the interest nt present attaching to every point connected with the unprecedented scenes lately enacted in British India , that , without fear of being tiresome , we may be permitted to take this intervening opportunity to hazard a few stray remarks in support of our former statements .
sioned officers and privates , it is neeessary to make large deductions for absentees during the ( hot weather ) furlough season , for detached parties , for many who slunk away to their homes on the first outbreak , and , in some cases , for those who continued faithful to their salt . " With these reservations , our reckoning of the Delhi garrison is as follows : — Meerut Brigade : the 3 rd Lt . Cav ., 300 ; 11-th
N . I ., 750 ; 20 thN . I ., 900 1 , 950 Sappers and Miners from Roorkee 400 Delhi Brigade : the 38 th Lt . I ., 850 ; 51 th N . I ., 850 ; 74 th N . I ., 850 ; Artillery , 100 2 , 650 5 , 000 * The 9 th N . I . from AUyghur , &c 600 Part of the 4 th Lancers 200 The 5 th and 60 th Regiments N . I 1 , 400 Two companies , 44 th and 67 th Regiments NT-L , fromMuttra 200 From the Hurrianah district 600
8 , 000 f Troops from Nusseerabad 1 , 900 „ „ Bundelcund , &c 1 , 500 „ „ Rohilcund , &c ... 3 , 600 Grand total 15 , 000 No allowance is made for straggling parties that may have entered the city—for many bad also left the place—and the balance would not more than meet a constant diminution of strength by casualties . The progress of the revolt haa
substantiated another very important fact , viz ., that the ' Irregular' system in Bengal is not always to be relied on more than the regular system . It is true that the Irregular regiments did not mutiny with , the same gusto as the fraternity of the line . The European officers of the former still retained some portion of that influence of which a fatally mistaken policy had long since deprived them in the latter . . The Irregulars , therefore , in general , hesitated before openly committing themselves : but the final result proved very
much the same in the one case and iri the other . " We have heretofore glanced at the question of ' Regulars' and ' Irregulars' aa one likely to become , ere long , the subject of . very serious discussion . " We can only hope that it will be discussed calmly and completely , and decided with impartiality . Hotheaded partisanship and interested special pleading must be eschewed if justice is desired . Such an opportunity as now offers in Bengal for the reparation of past militaryblunders , if once lost , may never be recalled .
One of the first topics that occurs to us is the question , as to the number of mutinous Sepova congregated within the walls of Delhi . In a former paper ( 15 th August ) we took occasion to notice the exaggerated reports then prevalent : the rebel garrison being confidently estimated , by moat of our contemporaries , at 30 , 000 strong . Our calculations , at the period to which we refer , allowed
8000 Sepoys at the most ; and we have every reason for supposing those calculations to have been very near the mark . Our correctness is indeed affirmed by tho circumstance that all later statements—published in full knowledge of the mutineers having been largely reinforced—concur in fixing the total of their muster-roll at no more than 15 , 000 regular soldiers , an estimate which at the present moment has our concurrence also .
There is no difficulty m going into a little detail , which will be all the more advantageous , aa tending to show that our own inferences nt least were drawn from sound considerations , auid did not represent more guess-work It must only bo borne in mind that , whereas tho Bengal Native Infantry regiments arc about eleven lumdrcd strong in non-cotnmia-
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WIVES-IN-LAW . It is amusing to > read the complete treatises and conclusive opinions of our contemporaries on the new law for marriage . To our mind no new law of marriage can be satisfactory , although it may usefully remedy evils in detail . There is one law of marriage —the law of love—and when you attempt
any other you make at best but a patchwork to caver flaws . In the olden time , when men had faith in God aud in the Church , the law of marriage was simple . Erring husbands and sinful wives were brought before their pastor— -a judge deriving his warrant from a Power higher than Parliament—and tho sinful wife was sentenced to some shameful
penance , or tlie en-ing husband was commanded to talco homo his w ifo and treat her with conjugal kindness . People laugh at this phrase , and at the old ecclesiastical courts ; but when men believed in religion and in tlie Church , these were the means of settling the thorny questions of conjugal strife , Religion , now-a-days , is a matter of church rates nnd padded pews , and ' our pastor ordained by God' ia tho young man who shared our fast life at Oxford , or tho
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* About this number , when Sir II . Barnurd'a for&Q arrived . f Aa originally estimated by us .
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Leader Office , Saturday , September 12 . THE CONTINENT . T : he Constiiutionnei and PcUrie state that the Emperor a few days ago paid a visit incognito to Paris , and . inspected some of the public works in progress . It is positively asserted that the directoia of the Cre'dit Mobilier Society intend to bring an action against the Times for an article published hy that journal with , reference to the society . It is related in high financial circles at Vienna , that Messrs . Ricardo , of London , and Erlanger , of Frankfort , have offered a loan to the Turkish Government . Prince Kallimachi , the Turkish Ambassador at Vienna , has revived full powers to treat with M . Erlanger , who is now there .
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SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 12 , 1857 .
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THE SIEGE OF DELHI . There was a report yesterday ( Friday ) that the siege of Delhi had been raised . It will he recollected that we recently contemplated the probability of this ; hut we do not , of course , vouch for the truth of the rumour .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 12, 1857, page 877, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2209/page/13/
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