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. At the meeting of the Herts Agricultural Society at St . Albans , Sir Edward Lytton was the champion . He noticed the complaint ; of Government that it'was-. 'difficult' for the War-office to avail itself of ¦ the offers of volunteers . " ' Difficult ! " lie exclaimed , " why of course it is j there is ao & iug worth having that is not difficult , and it will not he to the credit of the "War-office-if it cannot devise some practical means by whicfc to discipline and organize so much « Pdour aa we sec around us . For himself , he offered to ieave home and habits
and to take the sword , if need were . The accomplished Opposition member exactly meets the feeling which we have expressed—as exactly as if he were an American summing up the volunteers that could be rallied against the enemies of the country . Election matters have given rise to some little incidents . In the City of London , Sir Hobebt Ca . ui > en , the Lord Mayor elect , has fougllt a battle for the right of free election . Somebody claiming to have great influence with a body of the
Liverymen , called 'long-shore men , has , it appears , been annually used to extort money from the aldermen whose turn for election to the mayoralty had arrived , for the purpose of buying off an offensive and expensive oppositioa to his election . Sir Robert Gasdek having resisted imposition , and Mr . Rosn having carried into effect a threat of posting a scurrilous and libellous placard , Sir Robert had eoafroated his opponent on two stages . He has been elected mayor , and lie has taken out a summons
against the representative of the long-shore men . An act of courtesy on the part of the Duke of Bedford has been tie occasion of a political attack lapon him and upon the connexions of his house . After the election of his nephew , Mr . Arthttj Htjssell , to the seat for Tavistock , his Grace wrote to Mr . MiAit , the unsuccessful candidate , thanking him for some expression which he had used as tft the neutral position his Grace had held during the contest . A Mr . Richard Sleman , ' chairman of Mr , MiAXL s committee ., ' however , sent his Grace a document purporting to be a brief history of the proceedings of the election , in which it -was intended
to ne shown that Mir . Arthur Rtjssei / l had been strongly objected to "b y a portion of the electors , and that the majority by which he was returned was composed of tenants , employes , or pensioners of his Cixace . Tlte Duke replied that he was not aware tttat any agents of his had taken part in the election , but , that if he had known their intention , he « Ould not have prevented it , as they were free , like his tenants , to act according to their own feelings . Although Mr . Slebean figures as a popular tribune , and his opponent in the correspondence is a Duke , ¦\ ye cacnot but think that the nobleman has the "better , in argument , in spirit , and in a true appreciation of the British constitution .
HiOrd Bekby is at feud with Preston "b y his agent ; the Earl ' s people have been quarrelling with l £ e town ' s people through ike corporation . A tenant of the Earl had been fined for allowing the public thoroughfare to he obstructed . Public thoroughfare ! It is a private road constructed by the Earl , as lie tells the Baily News , all for the beaeftt of Preston . Such is the gratitude of corpocationB 5 liord I ^ rby ' s agent threw a chain across the highway , the corporation go to law , but Lord Derby , with a real magnanimity althouRh exercised
in a smalL matter , declares that lie shalTinquire into the caso ; and , perhaps , he may settle it out of his own generosity , without a sqmibble between the town that oiioo reformed him , and his earldom . Another point of law has been mooted by some of the journals , rather intcatcstdug to divers persons , especially the ordinary shareholders . Is Scotch and English law the same with regard to guilty oo ^ nivance at frand in which connivcra do not participate P Lord HAW 3 > -ysn > E and the jury at the Stirling Circuit Court have decided that two
clerks who knew ot the defalcations committed by Mr . Salbton , the- respectable manager of the 3 MkirkBrniich of the € ommoreialBank of Scotland , were guilty as accomplices , although they had not really assisted , and had taken none of tho proceeds ; but only knew of the fraud , and did not report it . This looks like common senso ; but English law is not always ruled b y common senso . If it had been , some persons who suspected the cond uct of Rkd-3 > A * jnr , or of Davidson and Gordon , might hovo been placed in an , awkward ^ position . However , the
position of Bates was not unlike that of the two clerks ; only , as a , ^ partner , he must have in some degree shared tlie proceeds . On the Continent ,, apart from the continued intrigues to overthrow Narvaez at Madrid , the one class qf events lies in tlic meeting of the ; . Emperors at Stwttgand , which Lad . not the results anticipated from it , tljKuigh-: what those results wera no one kiuwrs . Sonic of thena are quite apparent . The Emperor of Kxjssia i & a coarse man , with a coarse , careworn countenance , and not , of very keen mirtd . He came prepared to play the affable and to do the cordial ; and as the Kins of "Wxjrtemibeiig had
prepaxed for him a tremendous platform of imperial ceremony , the son of the Romanoffs had as favourable an opportunity as he could desire . He was affabi * and grand by turns , and did not produce a favourable impression . His Empress appears to have heen guilty of a serious rudeness . She stopped away , it is said , because she would not ' meet the Empress Eugenie , and both , therefore , stopped away . But the Czarina speedily cast off all these etiquettes , and rushed to Stuttg ' ard to keep watch her hus
upon band . . Meanwhile the Emperor of the French , who has , at least , the art of making himself at ease wherever he may be placed , did produce aa impression of greater dignity than the more established Emperor . After the meeting , Alexander went to Weimar to meet Francis Joseph of Austria , who , it is said , is to eat humble-pie . But the one certain fact is , that nobody knowi anything about the business really transacted at these meetings , while the wiseacres who would seem to know spread abroad endless lies .
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938 THE LB , AD | B > . [ No ,. 393 , October S , 1857
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STATE OP TRADE . The -trade reports from the manufacturing towns for the past -week are without any ^ featme of interest . The Manchester market has beenTinac . tive , at a slight reduction , equal to that in cotton , bnt the tone is not unfavourable . At Birmingham , the prices of iron are very firm , without any prospect , however , of an advance being attempted . At Nottingham , the demand for both hosiery and lace has been dull , and in the -woollen
districts there has also been a tendency to flatness , although , owing to stocks being moderate , quotations are steadily maintained . The money panic in America has temporarily affected the orders from that country for out various articles of manufacture .- —The general business of the port of London daring the past week has shown diminished activity . The total of ships reported inward was 198 , being a decrease of 96 from the previous week . The number cleared outward was 124 , including 19 in ballast , being also a decrease of four . —Times .
The Board of Trade returns for August , issued last Saturday morning , continue to exhibit a steady growth in the commerce of the country . As compared with the corresponding month of last year , there is an increase of 885 , & 13 / . in the declared value of our exportations . This has been generally diffused , and there is scarcely an item of . any importance on the unfavourable side . A slight diminution in the shipments of cotton goods is accounted for by the cessation of consignments to Calcutta , the total to India daring the month being scarcely more than a third of the quantity seat in August , 185 C . Still the aggregate despatched to that market during the present year shows an augmentation . In the present case it is to be remarked that , while there has been a falling off to India and China , a most satisfactory increase is observable to the United States and BraziL The total of our
exports for the first eight months of the year has been 84 , G < 56 , 718 ? ., showing on increase of 9 , 976 , 784 ? ., or nearly 12 per cjjnt . With regard to imported commodities , the consumption of articles of food and luxur y haa presented 110 material variation . Tho use of cocoa and sugar socrns to be diminishing , owing to their present prices ; but , although the latter is now showing a falling off , the quantity taken during the year has been rather in excess of 185 C . As compared with 1855 , however , the reduction in the consumption both of cocoa and sugar has boon very great . Tea and tobacco still figure for an increase . Spirits and wine show a decrease but tho latter is only on the month , not on tho year . The miscellaneous imports appear to have been on an average scale . —Idem .
Tlte ooalwhippers attached to the Coalwliippera' -oflice of the port of London , and those employed by agoats , havo struck for an advance of wages to 9 d . a ton . Tlio men assert that tho office had suddenly lowered tho rate of -whipping from 7 d . to Gd ., and that that ia an amount of remuneration they cannot subsist upon . It is stated that there are 1600 men on strike . About twenty ganra went to -work at 9 d . a ton on Saturday morning , tiie ships having made tho advance . TVIeasrs . Taylor and Bright , an old established firm in the corn trade at Hull , havo failed , owing to tho recent stoppage of tho bank of Harrison and Watson . It ia alleged that Mr . Bright is indobted on hia own account 90 ,-OOOZ . to that establishment .
At tho preliminary quarterl y mooting of tho South Staflbrdahiro ironmasters held at Wolvc * bampton on ¦ Wed nesday , it was resolved that no alteration of tho priees of last quarter sliould bo declared .
The Indian Revolt. Anornsr Targe Mass Of...
THE INDIAN REVOLT . ANOrnSR targe mass of Indian intelligence , received drtring t » e present week , continues the sad history of rebelBoa , but adds very little to our power of determining its probable limits and duration . If the present advices do not show quite so dark a shade as same which have preceded them , they indicate no jwwpeci of the contest drawing to a termi - nation . In the summary furnished by the Bombal Gazette , we Bead : — - "We have still to repeat the oft-repeated announcement— Drihi is not yet taken ! We have Ion « - given im hope of its immediate capture . The assault seems now postponed sine die . The position of our troops before Uw plaoe is gradually becoming more unmistakably one of defence , rather than that which is usually ln > l & by a besieging army . They are always victorious when fighting occurs . Heavy loss ia inflicted on the enemy at little absolute cost ; but the end of all is , that though reinforcements are frequently arriving in camp , our force does not become strong enough to take an offensive attitude , and the enemy , seeing probably , at length , the advantage of using their vastly superior numbers ia harassing their besiegers , have , of late , kept up an almost uainterraitted series of sorties andskirmishes . TEiey began on the 1 st of Angust , and kept it up till the afternoon of the following day . Then there was a suspension of hostilities for three days , owing , apparently , to
the heavy ram . On the 6 th , the mutineers again came out in force , and from that day to the 13 th , whidi is the date of our latest intelligence , the fight seema to have been scarcely interrupted . Happily , little Ios 9- % vas experienced on our side , either in men or officers , the troops being wisely restrained under shelter as much as possible . The first affair , however , cost us the life of Captain E . Travers , of Cook ' s Punjah Hifles . On the morningf of the 12 th , a battery , established by tne enemy outside the -Cashmere Gate , was carried Iry a body of our troops under Brigadier Showers , and the guns captured . Ia this affair , several officers were wounded , one of them , Lieutenant Sheriff , 2 nd Tusiliers , dangerously . Another battery , which the mutineers were erecting to rake our position , was
demolished by our artillery about the same date . A powder manufactory in the city was blown tip by accident or treachery , and it is said that about , five hundred people were killed , by the exjplosion . The reports as to the state of affairs among the garrison are contradictory , but the Tacts related are not very important . There is , however , an impression prevalent that the mutineers are likely to seek safety in flight and dispersion , when they find our force getting into a condition to give the assault . How their numbers stand is not very clearly apparent . They receive large reinforcements from time to time , from nearly all parts of tho country ; but it is said that many considerable bodies have left the city , and that o thers have been refused admittance .
" The anxiety and interest of the Indian public , however , have been transferred , ia a great measure , from Delhi to Lucknow . We are waiting in painful suspenso to hear again of the devoted little band of Britons there beleaguered by thousands of fierce and crnel foes . May God and their own good arms and indomitable souls be their deliverance , for they havo no other preseut help ! The small force under Havelock , not more than 900 men , after moving rapidly and victoriously along : the road from Cawnpore almost to Lucknow , found itself so beset by masses of the enemy , that , encumbered aa it was with its sick and wounded , its stores , & c , advance was impossible , and it fell back towards the Ganges .
Again It advanced , but only again to retire . Victorious , however , to the last , it repulsed the enemy from its rear before -crossing the river , and took two of their guns . Havelock has joined Neill at Cawnpore , thence , when sufficiently strengthened by the slow coining reinforcemeats from b « lorw , he will again advance for the relief of Lucknow—in time , let us trust and pray , to rescue our country men and countrywomen there from their fearful peril . Wo may hope that the place will hold out , enormous as are tho odds against it . We
remember how strongly it was fortified , how completely it was stored for such an emergency as the present , by the master hand of Sir H . Lawrence . "When last hoard of , tho garrison had good confidence in Itself and its position , for some time to come ; and there is the chanco , by no nieana a slight o » ie , that the Ghoorkaa despatched from Nepaul by Jung Bahadoor , and who were longainco reported as approaching , may arrive iu time for succour and aid . But what are wo English in India com * to when we are looking to the eemi-bnrlmrous , and supposed hostile , mountaineers of tho nortli , na the sav iours
of our country folk and our national honour i "Wo have still again to report tUo spread otftlic military revolt . In our last despatch wo gave the first news of tho mutiny at Dinaporo . Thoae accounts were but partially truo . Tho rising and flight of tho three regiments—the 7 th , 8 th , and 40 th—was correctly f " ported ; but , when it was added that General Lloyd , m » x European force , was pressing hard after theira , tno statement was ludicrously incorrect . " Tlioro ia little of novelty or importanco from tuo North-West gonorally . The Punjab continues quiet ) iw
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 3, 1857, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03101857/page/2/
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