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      finally disbanded , and despatched to their homes in small parties of twenty at a time This order was read on parade . When the men returned to barracks a dreadful rumour grew that the -intention was thus to divide them , in order that each detachment might be cut to pieces on its way down to Lahore . The men became desperate . The 62 nd , 69 th , and the 2 nd battalion of Artillery rose on the 2 nd September , endeavoured to seize the guns and other arms , killed Captain Mules , Adjutant of the 3 rd Europeans , and assailed the

      barracks and hospital . They were speedily put down by the energy of the troops , and dispersed with the loss of three hundred killed . The remainder fled into the Baree Doab . Three hundred took the road to the north , and ¦ were caught on the banks of the Chenab , where they -were all massacred . One hundred made for the Sutlej , due south , and reached Khanghur , where they were all killed ; three hundred more , flying in a south-easterly direction , struck the Sutlej at Kurrumpore , and were completely destroyed . Thus not a soul of these disarmed mutineers escaped .

      The Indian mail has brought over a very important document . It is an address of the Reform League of Calcutta , in favour of the conduct of Lord Ellenborough , and heartily commending his despatch against the confiscating policy of Lord Canning .

      THE NKTV BAJ . Mr . Russell says in the Times : —The proclamation which transfers the Government to her Majesty will be a difficult task enough . Even in the very wording of her Majesty ' s new titles there will be difficulties , and the question arises how will the Queen be justified in assuming the title of Queen of the East Indies , or of India , or of Hindostan , or even of British India , while there are a number of independent States and Princes whose titles are in direct opposition to such assumption , and whose independence and titles are guaranteed to them by treaty . However , this is a small matter if the Princes and Kiags look on it as "we do ; but I entertain grave apprehensions that the proclamation of the change of Government , little , if at all understood , may give

      encouragement to those who persist in attributing to uis the determination of overthrowing their religion and their liberty . Companee Bahadoor had no particular religion ; he was a very mild kind of Christian , respected treaties which contained provisions for the revenues of idols and the preservation of temples , and did not particularly encourage the itinerant expounders of his own faith , who , to the great astonishment of the Asiatics , present themselves in . the most various forms as the ministers of many different churches , yet all claiming to be of one religion . But Queen Victoria is a Protestant monarch by act of Parliament . She is Fidei Def&nsor by the Constitution , and she cannot be a Hindoo Ranee or Mahomedan Sultana and a Christian Queen at the same time , nor measure her faith by degrees of latitude .

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      AMEEICA . The Niagara arrived on Sunday with New York mails of the 5 th , The New York Crystal Palace , wi t h all its contents , had been destroyed by fire . The fair of the American Institute was being held there at the time ; a large amount of property was destroyed . The fire was believed to have been incendiary , and created intense excitement among the visitors , of whom upwards of 2000 were present . Very little of its valuable contents were saved . Two only of the many fire-engines on exhibition were got out uninjured . No lives were lost . The loss is estimated at over a million of dollars , and the insurance is only 50 , 000 dollars , effected t o cover the losses of foreign exhibitors . The property had recently become the possession of tho Corporation of the City . Among tho works of art destroyed was Kiss ' s famous statuo of tho Amazon and Marochetti ' s mammoth statute of Washington , The deaths from yellow fever at New Orleans on tho 3 rd were 68 . The epidemic hud nearly died out at Savannah . A coasting-vessel arrived at New London , Connecticut , from North Carolina , with a fugitive on board . The captain , discovering the nogro , went ashore and apprised the federal officials , who went to the vessel , but the man had taken alarm , jumped overboard , and swam ashore . A reward of 50 dollars was offered for his arrest , but tho man osqapod , and was supposed to be on his way to Canada . The British brig Esporanza was found on the 28 th ult . off Bayport , Florida , with the captain , mato , and all the crew doud , with the exception of two mon and a siok boy .

      Florida , Atlantic , and Gulf Central Railroad , connecting Jackson and Alligator , sixty miles in length . General Herran has , at the instance of Mr . Cass , returned to Washington from New York , , on business concerning the question between the United States and New Granada . At Chatham , Canada West , a body of negroes surrounded a train of cars on the Great Western Railway and forcibly took therefrom a negro servant belonging to a planter from St . Louis . Ten or twelve of the rioters are bound over to be tried at the next assizes . The boy was taken off against his most urgent entreaties , and is kept here by negroe 3 . The Norwegian ship Cattarina arrived at Quebec on the 3 rd instant with twenty-two additional persons saved from the ill-fated steamship Austria .

      General Paez had consented to leave Now York for Venezuela , Wo learn by advices from Laguayra that General Monagas and J . Gutierez loft that port on tho 81 st of August , in compliance with tho decrees of oxila pronounced against thorn by Gendral Castrd anil'tho convention ohtbrod Into by tho Venezuelan Government with the Ministers of England and Franco . Matters wore all quiet at Utah . Brlgham Young was still In tho city , but confined himself lu-doors . Trouble was anticipated with tho Indians . Tho Interior Depurtmont has apportioned to Florida a argo amount of land in aid of tho construction of tho

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      MEXICO . On the 25 th of September yellow fever was raging at Matamoras and Brownsville . General Vidaurri was near San Luis Potosi on the 13 th . Miramon had declined fighting . The Liberalists were forming an army at "Vera Cruz . Vomito prevailed at Vera Cruz . Up to the 5 th ult . General Robles had not made a landing , but remained on board the British steamer Clyde , at anchor off the port . The Washington correspondent of the New YorJc

      Herald says : — "Doctor Billings has arrived at New Orleans , bringing despatches from the United States Minister at Mexico , Mr . Forsyth , to the Government . His principal object is to purchase Minie rifles for the Liberal army , for which ' piirpose he is well supplied with funds . He says the Americans are much thought of by the Liberal party , and occupy high stations of trust . He is of the opinion that Sonora will soon be ceded to the United States for a consideration . On the 5 th of September a force was preparing to march on Jalapa , Escheagaray ' s head-quarters .

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      WEST INDIES . CUBA . A powder magazine has . exploded at Havannah with the most disastrous results . Twenty-eight persons were known to have been killed , one hundred -wounded , and a large number were under the ruins when the despatch left Havannah . No less than ninety sugar houses were destroyed , by the violence of the shock .

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      event took place , and it is proposed that on that day there should be services in the churches alluding to the accession , or on the Sunday afterwards . Musicai / Novelty . —In New-castle , Lady Don has been performing in the " Daughter of the Regiment , " giving the Rataplan song with' great effect . In the playbills , however , the celebrated air is called the Rattle-pan song . ' Low Rents and Bad Faumiuo . —Sir Henry Dryden , a Northamptonshire baronet , has excited a great hubbub among the georgical portion of his neighbours by a cutting sarcasm delivered at a recent meeting of a local agricultural association . The county papers are full of letters in refutation of the alleged libel . The hon . baronet , immediately on the conclusion of the award of prizes , is reported to have expressed his

      surprise " that there were no cups for twitch , docks , thistles , and nettles , the staple commodities of South Northamptonshire . He ( Sir Henry ) had been through England , Ireland , and Scotland , and he must say that South Northamptonshire was the worst farmed aiul the lowest rented of any part of her Majesty ' s dominions . That was the fact , and any one that had travelled through the same places that he lad done would come to the same conclusion . It was not only the worst farmed district , but was also the lowest rented , and if they would find better land he should very much like to go and see it . " The disorder produced by these remarks was brought to a conclusion by a farmer making a bet of 10 / . . with Sir Henry that if a prize was offered , open to all England , it would be taken by a South Northamptonshire farmer .

      A Bau > Statement . —Mr . Roberts , civil engineer of Sydney , who has been for several months engaged in surveying the squatting district of the Barwan , lately fell in with a party of the " hairless savages , " whose existence has recently been made known . They comprised a family of six , a man and his wife and four children , all totally destitute of hair . Their complexion is of a copper colour , less dark than that of the North American Indians , and partaking more of the Mexican tint . It is supposed that this family is the produce of an intermixture of the Malays and the north-western black tribes of Australia , driven from the interior by continuous and incessant drofight , or that they are the remnant of some extinct race .

      MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . —The fair weather which notoriously accompanies Queen Victoria wherever she goes held out at Balmoral until the beginning of this week . On Monday the weather became suddenly wintry , with sleet and snow falling . Her Majesty left the Highlands the next day , and arrived , at Windsor Castle on Wednesday night . She was accompanied by the Prince Consort , with Prince Alfred , Prince Arthur , Princess Alice , Princess Helena , and Princess Louisa . The little Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice arrived at Windsor from Osborne on Tuesday . The Prince and Princess of Leiningen have arrived on a visit to the Duchess of Kent . The Court will remain at the Castle until the latter end of Noveniber , when her Majesty will visit Osborne for three weeks , after which the Queen will return to Windsor for the Christmas holidays , and reside at the Castle until February .

      Tins Social Science Gaxiikking . — The meetings at Liverpool were brought to a successful termination on Saturday morning . A grand banquet took place on Friday night , when speeches , chiefly of a complimentary character , were delivorod . On Saturday morning Lord John Russell read the paper on Jurisprudence , which tho Lord Chancellor of Ireland would have road himself , as tho President of that Section , had he obtained the Queen ' s permission to leave Ireland in time . Altogether , tho Congress has boon ono of a very remarkable character , and its promoters consider that it has been much more successful than they could have anticipated .

      M , Ai-piionse Kami . —Tho French satirist ) says a correspondent , will not have boon forgotton by all of your readers , in spite of his long absence from tho literary world . An oxilo at Nice , ho has devoted much labour and tiino to tho cultivation of flowors , fruit , and cholco vegetables . His famo as a market gardener almost equals his litorary reputation , and in Paris tho produce of his farm fetches high prices . But it is ono thing to grow magnificent fruit and flowers , and another question to disposo of tho produce at remunerating prices . M . Karr has not infldo a fortune by his farm ,

      and ho has consequently again , turnocl his attention to literature ; bo has commenced the publication of a fresh series of tho work which mndo his roputution in tho daya of Louis Phlllippo and M . Guizot—nainoly , Lett Gufyeg . ' ' Evanoelioal KIovkmbnt . —An effort is being made by Dr . Gumming and his religious circle to promote two groat col eb rat Ions—tho first , a national thanksgiving for tho suppression of tho revolt in India , and tlio second a Protestant commemoration of tho accession of Queon Elizabeth to tho English throne . On tlio 17 th Instant it will bo oxaotly three hundred yoiira since tho last

      Ohiental Axtiquitucs . — Th& gunboat Wanderer is expected at Woolwich , bringing from Sidon a beautiful marble sarcophagus , representing an ancient . goddess , for the British Museum . City Sewkus . —At a . meeting of the Commissioners this week , a letter was read from a resident in Philpotlane , complaining of the poisonous gases which are discharged from the neighbouring sewer during the period of its ventilation . He had , in consequence , suffered severely from dysentery , while his eldest daughter had been carried off by typhus foyer . The Court , on the suggestion of the writer of the letter , resolved to try the effect of charcoal and a mixture of burnt clay and pot ; ish in absorbing all the gases the sewers throw out .

      Public ' HiiAi / rn . — According to the Registrar-General ' s return there was a rise of 150 in the number of deaths for last week , and tho total number , compared with the average , is decidedly high . Scarlatina still makes progress , and pulmonary complaints are nioro frequent . The total deaths for the week were 11-10 , mid births , 17 G 7 . Dr . Lethoby also states that the mortality in the City i . s rising from tho lowor temperature , having been for tho last three weeks 42 , 60 , and 58 , which ' u near the average at this season . The Biiyuu i-V tiik East . —The Earl of Sbaftesbiiry has addressed a meeting of tho Bible Society at Leeds on tho obligations which are imposed upon tho religion ) bodies of this country to tako advantage of " tho openings" in India and China to circulato tho Bible iiHho .-o countries . Tho noble Lord was careful to guard hinisi'li against tho appearance , of advocating anything liko

      proselytism by force . CnuncH-IiATii Meeting at Sumcw . snuuv . — Certain queries recently addressed by tlio Homo Secretary to tlio clorgy respecting church rates lias led to tho belief ijijit tho Government contemplates tlio introduction of « bin on this subject . Tho clergy of Shropshire , who , witli ono or two exceptions , retain oxtromo notions « 1 tlio rights of tho Church , mot on Monday , nnd pronouncoa not only in favour of no surrender , but also of no oompromiso . In tho latter resolve , they entirely concur witu since wi i

      tha opponents of tho rate , who luivo long H U' "No compromise"on their flag . Tho " dishonesty' whl . ; ii would bo involved in tho abolition was strongly denounced . Mr . Morris , a layman , said that tho Disai'nl ^ do not know what thoir religion is for six month * togothor ; and that thoy had bettor all return to tiw Church . Ono clergyman present , tho Kuv . l > r . M" »[ 11 " field , lu an ablo spooch , oxprowsod Ills entfro opn » " " ' to tho Church viow of tho oaso , anil , to tlio great miinriso of his brethren , vindicated tho courso taken by «» o

      opponents of church rates . , ,, LnkukOant hut FdnoiuK . K .--Gen . Horatio Iliii > i >< - ''i , of l' | illudul | ihlii ( U . S . ) , Imri replied to a circular ' mm his ( dma malar at Now Haven , asking money I "'' society or club instituted to Ir / ilu young mon to jn' >'" 'j ; ' dltatod or extomponmoouH ttponkluy or discussion . '"•' dining to contribute . Ho anya : —" Gab is tho iiu' » epldonilc of Konublice . What illslraotod Greece ? ui . u .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 23, 1858, page 1120, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2265/page/8/