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      leave the steamer until , all the women had gone . Just before she went down into the boat , her husband took her by the hand and bade her good by . He told her that he would try and meet her again , but that perhaps he should not be able . She never saw him again . Another woman tells a similarly painful story . " Of the twenty-eight children who were . saved , the greater part were babies . The stewardess of the steamer was a stout n « gro woman . She had collected the money thrown away by the passengers , it was supposed , and buckled it around the body . The weight of this money was the cause of her death when she was hoisted into the Marine , where she died from having too much gold about her loins . One of the ladies placed her canarybird in her bosom on leaving the steamer , and preserved its life . " Some of the incidents described as occurring before or about the time of the vessel sinking are truly thrilling . One man , floating in solitude , and terrified athis loneliness , after shouting himself hoarse to find a companion , saw at length a man -with two life-preservers fastened about his body drifting towards him . His heart leaped with joy at the welcome sight , for the feeling of desolation which liad overcome him was terrible to endure . He called to the other to join him , if possible , and made every exertion to meet him half way . There was no reply , but the other drifted neater and nearer . A wave threw them together ; they touched . The living man shrieked in the face of a corpse . The other had been drowned by the dash of the billows , or had perished from exhaustion . " More failures have occa . rred at New York : the chief is that of Messrs . Cyrus W . Field and Co ., paper dealers , who have suspended until the return to America of the head partner . At the last advices from the United States , that gentleman was believed to be on his passage home from England . The Huguenot Bank has resumed payment . Several commercial suspensions are reported from Philadelphia , Taunton ( Massachusetts ) , Boston , and other places , owing , it is thought , to the great drain of money from them to "New York , to meet the recent crisis there . The loss of the money- on board the Central America has increased the embarrassment felt in the great commercial towns . Satisfactory arrangements have been made with the Mexican Government in connexion with the question of the Tehuantepec transit route . The erection of the sternpost of the Russian frigate General-Admiral , now being built at New York , was inaugurated by a dinner given at the hotel of the Russian Minister . ¦ A large meeting of Irishmen has taken place at New York , to express their opposition to British recruiting in the United Stutes for the war in India , and sympathy with the Sepoy mutiny . The New York Herald points out an instance of immorality in the shape of the following advertisement published in the state of New York : — " This certifies that Mr . George W . Lewis and Mi

      i infliction of the number of lashes requisite to extract from him an admission of his guilt . " In Kansas , Governor "Walker has issued a proclamation in regard to the October election . In this document the Governor expressly and explicitly repudiates the doctrine set forth by Judge Cato , that none but those who have paid the territorial' tax are entitled to vote , and for this position he has the direct authoritv of the President , the Secretary of State , and the -whole cabinet at Washington . He calls upon every bonafide inhabitant of the territory , who is a citizen of the United States , and has been for six months a resident of the territory , to go to the polls and vote , and pledges the employment of the federal troops to prevent the intervention of invaders from Missouri or elsewhere . Maine appears to have chosen an entirely Republican Senate ( 31 ) , and a House containing 113 * Republicans to 88 of all sorts , including 6 unheard from . _ The Republican States Convention , which has been sitting at Syracuse , has adopted a series of resolutions chiefly condemnatory of slavery . Military desertions have become so prevalent at Quebec ( says the Quebec Gazette ) that the Commander-in-Chief has prevailed on the authorities to offer rewards for the arrest of all delinquents , and to warn all persons against employing then . —A person at Mai Bay ( Gaspe ) has advertised the recovery of the mail which was on board the wrecked steamer Clyde from some fishermen , who discovered it some miles from the wreck , but , finding no money in it , determined to destroy the contents . Among the letters are bills to the amount of 40 , 8057 . '

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      Ireland. The Roman Cathotjcs And The Ind...

      IRELAND . The Roman Cathotjcs and the Indian Fund . —A letter has been addressed by Dr . Cullen , tlie Roman Catliolic Archbishop of Dublin , to his Vicar-General , the Very Rev . Monsignore Yore , dated September 25 th , and expressing sympathy with the movement in Ireland in aid of the Indian fund , but at the same time advising inquiry into the way in which the fund is to be administered , as , according to the Archbishop , the granting of relief to the widows of soldiers dying in the Crimean war was turned into a means of " proselytizing . The Roman Catholics , he says , were not properly relieved ; the fund was always administered by a Protestant c parson ; ' and he ' generally selected a Protestant church or vestry as the place for doling out' relief to Roman Catholic widows , who were thus compelled to violate their consciences . The Archbishop concludes : — "lam most anxious that everything should be done to relieve the sufferers in India : let us , however , have some security that the funds collected will not be applied to the foundation of Protestant asylums for the perversion of poor Catholic orphans . The management of the Patriotic Fund shows how necessary it is for us to be cautious . The continual complaints of Catholic bishops and missionaries in India about the attempts made by the East India Company to proselytize should increase our alarm . Head Dr . Fenelly ' s late pamphlet , and you will see to what an extent that company has attempted to promote Protestantism by perverting the orphans of Irish Catholic soldiers . It appears to me that the proper time for coming to a fair understanding about these matters is before any fund is collected . " Lord . St . Leonards , one of the administrators of the Patriotic Fund , has written to the limes , to deny the truth of these statements ; and the Duke of Norfolk has written to Lord St . Leonards to confirm the statements of Dr . Culler Thk Bajm . ina 8 i . oic Fair has taken place during the present week . The sale of beasts has been very brisk , and at good prices . Thk Quekn ' b University . —The degiee examination of students in this University was held last Saturday afternoon in St . Patrick's Hall , Dublin Castle , before the Lord Lieutenant , the Chancellor , and the other members of the Senate . The Chancellor addressed the students , and congratulated them on their progress , and on tho success of three students of the Queen ' s College of Belfast in obtaining appointments in the civil service of the East India Company . Some reference was of course made to the present condition of India ., and tho Chancellor remarked : — " A great enterprise will remain to be undertaken when the buttling shall cease . The reconstruction of an empire is perhaps now before those youthful servants of the Eastern realms ; and , whatever task in this mighty work may be thoix allotted portion , I believe I may -with confidence anticipate that they will perform it with advantage to tho Stnto and with credit to themselves and to the college from which they have proceeded . " Tho Lord Lieutenant , in a speech afterwards dcli-vered , said : — " It has been very painful to find in these modern times of enlightenment and progress—1 must add , too , in tliese days of national emergency and sterner preHsuro—a poliuhod city like Belfast disfigured l > y unseemly exhibitions of religious discord , and , if such a flagrant contradiction in terms maybe allowed , of roligiouB hatred . We have heard ; indeed , Belfuet occasionally termed the Northern Athens , and I liopo tho future career of some whom I now bco before me , " will do much to justify , to secure , and to perpetuate that title .

      But , if we weretnly to give attention to some of « , * statements we have been lately perusing , me outbur * of strife and contention among those who ounht toXJ as brothers would make ua think that we were raE reading not so much the annals of Athens as of Thebes " ( Applause . " ) "cues . The Proclaime » District at Belfast . —The limih . of the proclaimed district have been enlarged so asT embrace several additional townlands on the Down aid * of Belfast . Mk . Hanna has addressed a letter to the Times tn show that the late disturbances were entirely caused hr the aggressions of the Roman Catholics—a small tnimi rity in Belfast . The Irish Government and thk Orange Society —The Lord-Chancellor has addressed a letter to the Marquis of Londonderry , Lord-Lieutenant of the countv of Down , in which , alluding to the recent disturbances at Belfast , he -writes : — " The Orange Society i 3 mainly instrumental in keeping up this excitement . Asiti 3 manifest that tlie existence of this society and the conduct of many of those who belong to it tend to keep up through large districts of the North a spirit of bitter and vicious hostility among large classes of her Majesty ' s subjects , and to provoke violent animosity and aggression , it is impossible rightly to regard an association such as this as one which ought to receive countenance from any m-uuthority who are responsible , for the preservation of the public peace . It does appear to me that the interests of the public , at least in the North of Ireland , now require that no such encouragement should be given to this society by the appointment of any gentleman to the commission who is or intends to become a member of it , intending the rule to be of general application . " These views , it is addad , have the full concurrence of the Lord-Lieutenant .

      Continental Notes. France. Fkesh Inundat...

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRANCE . Fkesh inundations have occurred in the Ardeche . Great destruction of property has ensued ; the bed of the . river is filled with large trees torn up by the roots ; the traffic on the railway between Narbonne and Be ' zier 3 is again interrupted ; and the works constructed to prevent a repetition of the recent disasters have been destroyed . The Emperor and Empress arrived at the Chalons camp on the evening of Fridav week . The plain -was illuminated with thousands of " torches . Numerous changes are about to be made among the troops which compose the garri-on of Paris . The 3 rd and 5 th Regiments of Cuirassiers forming part of the division of cavalry of reserve at Versailles , under the command of General d'Allon ville , are to exchange cmarters with the 1 st and 4 th Cuirassiers , at present stationed at Lille and Valenciennes . The Count do Rayneval , late French Ambassador at Rome , now appointed to the Court of St . Petersburg ,, has arrived in Paris from Stuttgard . Frince Napoleon arrived at Marseilles on Friday week , on board the steam-cutter Requin , from his excursion to Toulon and the islands of Ilyeres . He left immediately for Paris , vrhere he arrived the following ; day . M . Perret , the editor or the well known medical journal the A / aniteur des I / opitaux , has been sentenced tu three months' imprisonment for speaking disrespectfully of the Emperor . Some grand manoeuvres took place last Saturday' at the Chalons camp . The Emperor himself commanded , and the Empress was present , on horseback , accompanied by the Countess of Montebello and the Countess de Labe'doyere . Louis Napoleon was escorted by Marshals Magnan , Count Baraguay d'Hilliers , the Duke of Malaklioff , Marshal Bosquet , and General Lord Rokeby . Marshals Count de Castellano and Count Randon , Governor-General of Algeria , arrived on the following morning , for the purpose of spending a few daj-s in the camp . A retired grocer of Lyons , now a wealthy landed proprietor , who has been for some time suspected of forging bank-notes , has been arrested . The police succeeded in laying their hands on a complete apparatus for forging notes in imitation of those of the Hank of France for GOOf . each . The forged notes seized amount to the sum of 500 , 000 f . The appeal of Captain Do ineau , condemned to death by tho Imperial Court of Oran for having p lanned the assassination of Abdullah Aga , travelling in a stagecoach between Tlemuen and Oran , was argued before tho Court of Cassation in Paris on Friday week by M . Morin , for Captain Dolntmu , and by Al . Royer , the Imperial Attorney-General , for tho Crown . The Court delivered judgment on the following day , and rejected the appeal . That of the Arabs who committed the murder , and were found guilty with extenuating circumstances , waa likewise rejected . Captuin Doincaus family have addressed a petition to the limperor . Two speculators on tho Bourse have disappeared , leaving deficits of 3 , 000 , 000 f ., and l , 80 O , OOOf . AU 8 TMA . Dr . Zugfichwcrt , who wob a barrister and notary At Vienna , and a member of tho Administrative Councils of tho Credit Bank and Wentem Railroad C ' om [»«« y , >»

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 10, 1857, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10101857/page/8/