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    No. 442, Septembeu 11,1858.] THE LEADER....

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    cutting they lay across , wuen they were run over by an engine with eight empty waggons , and mutilated in a most horrible manner . Siu Hugh Rose . — "We have reason to believe that the telegram from Bombay of the 4 th of August , in which it was stated that Sir Hugh Hose had resigned the command of . the Poonah . division of the Bombay army , should rather have been that he had resumed it , as letters have been received from him of that date mentioning that he had resumed that command . — -Edinburgh Courant . . A New Clerical Sin . —The Record of Wednesday f 1 fl 4 TYijiriA A crViW fr f \\ ar * t \ - \ rav t \ r Tt nnnaara 4-1 * a . t cntno r \ P t-lt a I mki \ lAtVW 1 Wl 11

    a a training school for I sailor youths were progressing favourably . The asso-[ ciation is in a very satisfactory condition , its number of I members amounting to 800 , while increased facilities I and advantages have been added to ' the reading-room . I It was stated that the difficulties with the London Association had been reduced to very slight dimensions , I and that as large numbers of the members of both associations cordially sympathised with each other , they I would soon adjust their disputes . Mr . J . Clint , who has long been connected with the mercantile marine , has been induced to take the post of chairman . One of the anflimn nnsi i « rinf-Ai * foofiiraa r \ F flia o / -w / - * i / i + -r i «*? 1 ? ** s * . m > Zr * 4-

    of his sons , a private in the 60 th Rifles , now serving in India ,, in which he states that he " can put his hands on a thousand pounds any day , " and in proof of it enclosed a draught for twenty pounds as a present to the old man . This is the . " fortune of war " in a substantial form .- —Western Paper . Ckime ix Fiusck . -The Momleur publishes a report from the Minister of Justice to the Emperor oh the administration of criminal justice in 185 G , the results beinoon the whole highly satisfactory . Thus it shows that notwithstanding the dearness of food which prevailed in that year , the Courts of Assizes of all the empire uniy ineu i or crimein which

    • MMW ~> . » w «* O *•»•** **»* J * J % / V ^» J * . V M | . T LS \* l *« »* -L' -UVUW VI clergy in the country have occasionally been present al archery fetes , and one of the Record ' s correspondents designates this as " Nothing but a new and very dangerous form of worldliness—a snare very cleverly baited , and proving very disastrous in its effects upon the younger clergy of the agricultural districts . " Reigatje Elkctiox . —It was expected that the appointment of Sir Henry Rawlinson as one of the members of the Indian Council would have appeared in Tuesday ' s Gazette , with notification of the vacancy in the representation of the borough , in which case the election would have taken place in a fortnight . An Act of Parliament was passed during the last session to extend the powers of the Speaker respecting the issue of election writs during the recess , but it has' been reported that some flaw exists in the statute , which renders it doubtful whether it can be made available . Should this " be the case , the election will not take place until the meeting of Parliament in February . Mr . Wilkinson and Mr . Monson , the only two candidates who are openly in the field , have attended several meetings of the electors during the last fe \ v days . Mr . lid win James has not appeared since the meeting about a fortnight ago . Mr . James has not resigned , and it is very probable that he will be put in nomination . ¦ ¦

    ¦ t * V **«* - * ' » »* ailU »» £ Ub «* 4 . AVUIiUI \ s * J , W » * jIJ . \ j OVtltliV >** ill VUllOlOl t I in the delivery of lectures on subjects of interest to seaj faring men . I Emigration * . — The Prince Alfred steamer arrived at J Pembroke-dock on the 6 th instant to embark emigrants i I for New Zealand . She lies alongside the pontoon at I the Neyland terminus of the South Wales Railway , I Milford Haven , taking in coal and embarking emigrants , I for which that famed port is so convenient . This is the I second vessel that has done so thence during the present year . Screw Colliers and the Seamek . —There is a dis-I pute pending between the owners of the screw steamers belonging to Sunderland , and the mates , engineers , and men belonging to them , concerning wages . It has been I determined by some of the companies , to reduce wages , by one company to 15 s . a week , and by another to 14 s ., and the engineers and officers in proportion . Seamen ' s pay for . some time has been 18 s . per week ; about | a year since it was 20 s . ; now 14 s . is . the sum offered . A number of the steamers have' been left without men , the proffered terms being . firmly rejected . " At this time there are thirty-five regular screw colliers trading from Sunderland / and it may lie said that they have almost monopolised the whole of the coasting trade . —Newcastle

    ^ oa cases , 6124 persons were implicated ; whereas in 1855 the number of cases was 4798 , and of accused 6840 ; and in 1854 , 5525 of the former , and 7556 of the latter . It is true that in 1856 the crimes against the person were rather more numerous ( 89 more than in 1855 ) , but the graver classes of crime , such as murder , manslaughter , and parricide presented no increase , while in poisonings there was a decline . The 4535 cases of 1856 were as follows : —297 of murder , 30 of poisoning , 13 of parricide , 190 infanticide , 76 cutting and wounding ( causing death , 116 cutting and wounding ( not causing death ) , 23 " rebellion" and violence to public functionaries , 831 criminal assaults on women and children , 45 perjury and subornation of false witnesses , 58 coining , 499 forgery , 1886 burglary and serious robberies , 206 arson , 117 fraudulent bankruptcy , and 148 other crimes . The number of what are called offences which fall within the jurisdiction of tribunals of the Correctional Police was also fewer in 18 . 36 than in 1855 . Another satisfactory point noticed in the report is that the period for which offenders are detained in prison awaiting their trial has considerably diminished ^ owing to the improvementseffected in the forms of criminal proceedings ; thus twoflfths ( 421 out of 1000 ) of the persons Subjected to prewiaw iiuiiuiiuicui nci i uciaiucu 19

    Kew Gardens . — The sacred Indian Iotu 3 of the Hindoos , or Egyptian bean , is now producing its flowers of marvellous and touching beauty , in the tropical aquarium . A model of this maguincent plant is on the table of the old museum . . Powder and Electricity . * —At the request of the Minister of War , the Academy of Sciences lately named a committee to report on the question whether the passage of the electric telegraph wires in the neighbourhood of powder magazines was dangerous ; and , if so , to suggest means of combating the peril . The report has been given in , and 13 to the effect that the electric current produced for the service of the telegraph cannot occasion accidents , but that the case is different with at- j mospheric electricity . If the lightning struck the wires of the telegraph it might set fire to inflammable matters , which , transported by the wind , might reach the powder magazines . A 9 may be supposed , cases of this sort would be exceedingly rare , but their mere possibility is deemed sufficient motive for certain precaution . * . The committee , therefore , recommend the substitution of I subterranean for aerial wires on those parts of the line I I ^^^ B ^ B V »«'« ta a * ~ A . b ^ «« I * . .. _ —» S V' a ^ % h ' I vhk metres irom

    The Fiiesch Foreig . v Trade . —The Presse says in its weekly commercial review— " Orders for exportation I continue to come in . The revival of business is noticed in almost all foreign markets as well as in France . Let ^ ters from St . Petersburg state that Russia is preparing to avail herself of the facilities resulting from the last treaty with France , and that Rtissiaii houses will buy largely in the . French market this winter . An-analogous movement is noticeable in Germany and the Danubian Principalities . Every packet from the United States j now brings remittances in specie to pay for articles of I Paris and Lyons . Advices from the departments are satisfactory . Lyons in particular is very much favoured . All the looms there have work in hand for many months to come , and complaints are made of want of hands . During the late crisis many operatives were forced to j seek new means of livelihood , and most of them have not returned to the factory . All the principal nouveaute ' s houses of Paris have been buying Amiens , Roubaix , Mulhouse , and Rouen . Cotton manufacture ! goods are , J however , less run on than any others , owing to the high j nrice of the raw material . The corn rn .-irlr ,- >« - u firmnr I |

    * v * ^^ . ; CS LLHXIJ a JOrCnight , and not one-fifth ( 195 out of 1000 ) for more than I a month . These results , the minister declares , prove that , as regards preventive imprisonment , " France has now nothing to envy other nations . " I Lord Exmouth ' s Flag-Ship . —The old sailing threedecker Queen Charlotte , 104 , which ha 3 not been out of I Portsmouth Harbour since her return from the bombard-I ment of Algiers , under the flag of Lord "Exmouth , in I 1816 , is to be jury-rigged and fitted for duty at Sheerness during the razeeing of the Waterloo , 120 , to be I converted , to a two-decked screw liner of 91 guns . The Queen Charlotte is as sound in her timbers as at the day I of her launch . Art in France . —The statues of Montaigne and Montesquieu were inaugurated on Monday last at Bordeaux . The mayor and municipal authorities of the city , the prefect of the department , the councillors of the prefecture , a number of the members of the Academy of Bordeaux , and a large concourse of people , were present at the ceremony . The mayor and the prefect delivered addresses suitable to the occasion . The Lion . —Gerard , the lion-killer , in nn nrfiMa ; n J ¦^¦ f HI

    ^ wo man uuuureu a powuer magazine ; Also to carry the course of the subterranean tube outside the aone , within which it would be dangerous to admit the workmen who would have to construct , to visit , or to repair them . And , thirdly , to fix one or two lightning conductors , on poles fifteen or twenty metres high , iu the vicinity of the subterranean tube , in order to p ° otect the whole length against the direct shock of the H . ghthing ' . In its last sitting the Academy adopted the report of the committee-. A Horsk Killed uy Wasps . —As Major-General Dalton , of tho Royal Artillery waa driving with his family in an open carriage , on the 31 st ult ., a large swarm of wasps attacked his horse , stinging it in every part of the body in a most frightful manner . They pitched in hundreds upon the home , a very vtiluubfe animal , pursuing the carringo for nearly a milo , and endangering the Hvoa of all who were in it , who , how-® y ° K fortunately escaped with only a fuw stings . The ttorso suffered so severely as to cause its death in fortyeight hours . Secret Baptism op a Jicwisii Child . —The forcible abduction by thu Roman Inquisition of a Jewish child « x years old , at Bologna , under tho pretence of ita haying been , two years ago , secrotly baptised by itri i creatou

    than it was last week , but there is m * material change in quotations . The late rains have greatly dashed the hopes which were entertained of the vintage of 1853 , which it is now feared will be fur inferior in point of quality to that of 1857 . " Income-tax . —The total amount of . income-tax collected in the City of London for the year 1857 was 403 , 21 U 15 s . 4 d . ; land-tax , 50 , 859 ^ " 17 s . 2 d . ; and assessed taxes , 48 , 577 £ 11 s . 7 d . —making together a grand total of 502 , 049 / . 4 s . Id . Tub Ferky Staircase at Niagara . —Everybody who ever trusted himself to the sharp grade of tho ferry staircase , as that rope unrolled itself on whose strands ' strength his life hung , has exercised hinuself in calculat- I ing to what degree of destruction his physical nature would be crushed if those fibres should separate . The experiment haa recently had an unexpected trial , and tho result is worthy of record for tho comfort of the adventurous . In the month of March the Ferry House took fire , and in the conflagration tho rope burned , and a car rushed tho full length of tho stoop-track , and wont into tho rivor unbroken , almost without a fracture , instead of being shivered into fragments . Tho reason aoomod this : —Tha weight of tho chain which ia attached , and which eorvoa to steady tho krnft , operated 113 a

    I . ~ — — —»— ' ~ W ^^ mr * c ^^ M ^* ^ ft H the Journal des Chasseurs , calculates that there are now J sixty lions in the subdivision of Bona , in Algeria , and that from 1856 to 1857 the number of oxen and sheep destroyed by them was about 10 , 000 . Mr . Rouson , after having concluded , with Mr . W . S , Emden , a most prosperous season at the Olympic The-J ntre , is at present in Edinburgh , but his numerous admirers here will not at present see him on the stage , as I he id travelling with his family to recruit his energies after the arduous London season . —Scotsman . Obstruction o ^ a . Railway . —On tho 31 st ult . two J pieces of timber and an iron bar wero found placed across the rails on tho Oxford , Worcester , and Wolverhampton line , near Eveslmm . They were evidently I placed there fjjr tho purpose of throwing the train off tho raila . We ( Worcestershire Chronicle ) hope the dastardly ruffians will bo caught and severely punished . We understand a largo reward is offered for thqir apprahension . ''"' ¦¦ " ' ' ' " " ' " A Stagis Apology . —The following apology was made from a etago in Sunderland ( neither tho Theatre Royal nor Lyceum ) last week : —? ' Ladiea and gentlemen , —I hope you will excuse our performance , but our violinist ia in a state of beastly intoxication ; tho pianist is doinCT his bost . but fourteen nr sivtnnu afrlnn-a nf tUn

    >« . m « mO uurae , « as a most painful sensation throughout tho Jewish world . Twonty-one Sardinian ™! £ i .. at T 8 T hftV 0 adflwaaed a joint and most pathetic fRl 1 1 V ° ndOn JowUh Bo ( ml of *>« I >«« oa , aolicit-The board IT ?> »» f « f t 5 l « heartbroken family , rnouslv rln ? , ° . Mond V la 8 t ' wh ^ n it yy M unani Sftt eoorSih ? rMp 0 ? tho ° l P - A sub-corn-- ^^^ w c ^ rT ^^ p ^^ sl roOT ^ H ° ANTn '' , MARItNK A 830 CIATIOX OF L , | fiUw ^ xstx ^ vzs sS

    z break , and tho car was taken through its fearful journey by this regulator in sat ' oty . It h a trial which in its pleasant result will give assurance of security that will calm tho mind , while tho body is relieved from tho interminable atair jounuy , —JVttto York Courier and Eufa * miner . BitiGADucR-Gic . NicttAL Ciiamhicuxain . —Tlio Times sny * rr «** IinnrTCBinTtrlffl ^ ro . spondont ro |) roaont 3 Major Norman aa having boon appointed Ailjuttuit-Cionornl of tlte furcoa boforo Dollii . We aro roquoatod to Htuto that that ollloe wna filled b y Brigadior-Gonoral Chamborlaiii , and hold by him during tho stago , and for aomo moiUha aftur , until ho was suporaodod at hid own particular request , ami that thon tho nppointmout > vaa not oonfurrod on Major Norman , though that oIlK'ur wad udvaneod a stop in conao- < quonco . A WiflAi / nir SoLUiisu . —A portor in a roapoctable tablialunoiU in Drbtol lately rooolvod a letter from 0110

    piano aro broken !"—Newcastle Chronicle . Letting ov Rams— -The annual show of long-woolled rams , the property of Mr . Kirkham , of Biacatliorpehouao , Lincolnshire , took place a few days ago , Upwarda of 120 lota woro disposed of , ono-hulf being shearlinga . The rains wero lot for tho ensuing season at 1 > ri !*? . lX , i l . f . l'j !? .. ifr '" i . } W i }? A 9 b . A " 9 g " flrti ff wft i ? ...... nnr (» U by' Mr . "Siinmon'Us ' l of AViaboach , at tho lattbr price . Mr . Frank Soworby , of Ayloaby , gave I ) ) l , for anothor ahoarliug , and aovoral made prices ranging from 1 GI . to 251 . Tho total sum roullaed waa 18701 ., of which 761 / . lOit . waa roaliaod by tho shu'arlinga , g-lvin ^ j an average price , 18 / . 0 a , Cd . Tho average prices for tho lust six yoara have boon oa follows : —1853 , III , 7 a . ; 1851 , 12 / . 8 a . ; 1855 , 15 / . « a . ; ldM , 11 / . 49 ; 1857 , 111 . 17 a . JLOd . i 1858 , 11 / . tia . 4 d . This Giucat Anulino Match von 100 / - —Tho flrat day'n flahiiiff batwoon Wntaon , of Leeds , and Bailey , of Nottingham , took plaoo as pur announcement on

    No. 442, Septembeu 11,1858.] The Leader....

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 11, 1858, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11091858/page/13/