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      Ireland. Thk Late Roman Catholic Synod.—...

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      m-P-fe-tafs ^ ssss ^^ « -- ¦• ' - "" SrS ^ TSe ^ cconn ., from a par * of the M ^ s rr ^ x ^ r ^ r ^ r , Ssssaa ^ SSaSS sssiiss IliliHH S ^ S ^ f ^ L S . A call of 40 * . per share had been made ,

      ^ xttxtt x ^ z Sj-vtc MS £ s I £ HR < 3 « 1 I s . 3 d ., which was the amount of his Utility in respect to the call of 40 ? . per share , after getting all the credits which he was entitled to . The Master said he would make the order sought for ; and , after some other applications had been disposed of , Mr . MdaonTthe solicitor to the official manager , made a stetementthat he alone was to blame ( if blame were attributable ) in recommending a private examination of James Sadleir , in connexion with the purchase by his late brother of a large property in the Encumbered Estates Court , and the conveyance of the same to the trustees of the Tipperary Bank , from which establishment the purchase money had been obtained , James Sadleir being one of the trustees named in the examination to

      conveyance . He desired the oe pnvav * because , had it not been so , the evidence of James Sadleir would have been conveyed by the newspapers to the directors , officials , and solicitor of the Tipperary Bank , all of whom it was determined to examine in the Master ' s Court . At the conclusion of Mr . Meldon ' s statement , Master Murphy said he thought the solicitor had acted very properly in the matter . Kerry Election . —L ord Caatlerosse , the newly appointed Comptroller of the Royal Household , was reelected on Saturday , without opposition .

      A Ttftttst 16a 1856.]

      A TTftTTST 16 a 1856 . ]

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      The Orient. India. Thb Disturbances Amon...

      THE ORIENT . INDIA . Thb disturbances among the Sowrahs appear to be at *«• . «_ a . a 4-nw ** mK 1 ik sMi + Ki ^ Alr of fVlmlfira ino © oeui i v *»*« - «— — — —

      an © no . tor pr <« *» . ^*»*^*^ has occurred at Agra , and struck down several even of the Europeans , who are usually exempt . The natives are wild with fright , and speak of a mysterious horseman , who is riding over the country , and causing the pestilence to burst forth wherever his horse ' s hoofs « triko the ground . " Some officials of the Punjab , " jjaya the T imes Calcutta correspondent , " have recently called attention to a frightful practise there prevalent . Bands of lepers go roaming about , extorting contributions from the people by the threat of bathing in the wells . Tho contagious character of this disease in the Punjab is , I fear , fully proved . Major Lake is building an asylum , and as soon as it is complete , stern and summary measures must be adopted for the suppression of this horror . " The occupation of Herat by the Persians is confirmed . The Persian general is said to be a renegade Russian . A sanguinary affray has taken place at Hyderabad in the Doccan . An Affghan officer of rank applied in open rkurKar Am . Mrtiin arnuini nf nnv - til A Court Cut ( loWIl ## rf wnm mm * % j — --

      «^ * IW «* «**• v ^* + ma m m m w Mr J * . his claim ; tho Affghan declined to accede to these terms , and , after an altercation , was ordered to leave the pre-¦ e * noe . An Arab soldier insulted him as he was going out , and the Affghan , upon retorting , was shot dead . A desperate conf lict then ensued , till , overpowered by numbers , tho chief ' s attendants were nil sluin ' or taken , not without much loss to the Arabs . ruttsiA . The Persian ambassador , who is expected at Constantinople on his way to Paris , will also proceed to London in order to put an end to the Anglo-Persian differences . Ho la charged to offer every satisfaction to England , on condition that tho English Cabinet shall recal Mr . Murray , and replace him by another ambassador .

      " Naval And Military. Mmmmm Mmmi «S5ster...

      " NAVAL AND MILITARY . mmmMM mmmi « S 5 StersW £ 5 = ft Shl «« y akd Navy Club . — The grand staircase of the . ^ f ^ Sub iTabout to be enriched by the

      Erection of a memorial window , in commemoration or Xerfwho have fallen in different engagements . The SB ^^^^ iS ^ -s ^ aS ^ B ^ - ^ sx ^^^^ - ^ nt ^ K r ^ KrwtB . _ Mrs . WUding wife of a corporal of the Royal Artillery was one of threewomn who were allowed to land with the troops at Old Fort , £ thrSmea She was present with her husband at Se battle of the Alma , marched by his *** « £ " « £ country to Balaklava , and was present at the ^ battle of Balaklava , where she took a horse from a R ^ ian officer . During her residence in the camp , she earned by washing a / average amount of 20 s . a day , and ¦ «* - •«» £ mvanauie l *

      siderable sum . Her w . l , ~*~~ o war was a revolver , which she much prizes . _ The Lords of the Admiralty have paid an official visit to the port of Cork , with the condition of which they expressed themselves highly satisfied . ColoWel Lake has been compelled by * e sfcate of his health to retire from the service of the East India C Scp ER ^ EATiKa Steam . —The method invented and introduced by Mr . Wetherhed , late member of the United States Congress , for superheating steam , having been submitted to various processes during the last six months in the dockyard at Woolwich , has at length assumed a practical form . Prior to the late voyage of the Dee to the western coast of England , the apparatus was at work the whole voyage , which was extended as far as Land ' s End Point and back to Woolwich , at an increased speed of from seven to nine knots au hour . ¦» . . _ . _ j _\ . j ^ u „^ * Vi o nvpracp . Gconomv realized , in unueratuuu ii

      on Wednesday , reviewed at Woolwich the whole of the Horse and Foot Artillery recently returned from the Or T ^ Guards' Festival is to take place in the hall of the Surrey Gardens on the 25 th inst . /™ ., rt ,-m ItoGGraG .-The troops belonging ^ to the Chatham division of Royal Marines Light ^^^ "W ^ ardied to the rear of their barracks at Chatham , on Tuesday-, for the purpose of witnessing the carrying out of . the sentence of a court-martial upon Private JamesTaylor , of the 73 rd company of Royal Marines , who had been sentenced to receive fifty lashes , ^ and also to be placed under stoppages , for desertion , and making ^ J ™* portion of his regimental necessaries . After the P « 9 O ? er . who bears a very bad character , had received bis punishment , he was removed to Melville Hospital . General Beatson has addressed a letter ^ to Mr .

      Frederick Peel , in which he says : — » saving just mdressed a letter to the Head of the Department of which you aie Under-Secretary , it is unnecessary for _ me to fake any further notice of your letter of the 4 thinst . than to remark , with reference to your threat which I regard not , of sending any letter of mine to the Doctors of the Hon . East Company , I am assured that they , and all honourable men , would feel the same warm indignation that I do if they were treated with the unparalleled , cruel injustice that I have been by the War Department , and would express themselves accordingly . Lord Palmerston stated in Parliament that General " Vivian derived his information from General Shirley . General Shirley , when applied to by me , says , ' He does not hold himself responsible to any one but his superior officer , to whom he is prepared , v ^ hen called upon , to disclose the source from which he obtained his information . ' General Vivian , the ' superior officer to ^ i oi . i . i »» , nf »™ Ti / hon annlied to tor tne enerai t ^ unxj ^ j i .. — — —

      wnom v * '"" nr name or names of my secret accuser or accusers answers , < He is no longer General Shirley ' s superior officer and that Gen eral Beatson should apply to the War Minister ! I have therefore applied to Lord Panmure , to whom I am referred by General Vivian , and I now pause for his ^ TAfcoK oK at S . A .-A fatal collision took place between two vessels off the Northumberland ^ oast on Tuesday morning . The bark Clontaff , of 2000 tons burden , left the Thames for Sunderlandto take in coals . She was manned chiefly with Maltese seamen , and bad got off Sunderland bar on Sunday morning , but from some cause was not able to get in by the sea entrance to the S outh Docks , and , as she could » rt ; ^ oss the bar to come into the harbour , she beat out to sea , OnTuffl day morning , when off Blyth , she came into collision with a French brig , and being a large , heavy ship , she „"" ?„ i * r « o-n ™ over her . The French vessel sank of went down with

      ,, unniedlatel ^ and six her crew her The only persons saved were the master and the , mate of the brig , who clung to the forechains of the Clon tafl and were hauled on board that vessel in a very exhaus ted condition .

      It is m « , ~~ - o- - fuel amounts to about thirty-five per cent . The apparatus consists of a number of iron pipes being carried along the front of the tube plate , and extending into the chimney , into which the ordinary steam passes and which gradually becomes superheated to about hye hundred degrees . It is then alloyed , or mixed with the ordinary steam , in about equal proportions , bringing the temperature of the mixed steam to about three hundred and forty degrees , in which state it is applied to the purposes of the machinery . oaf HM . S . " Cressy" at Ckokstadt . —On the 3 rd ot July the Grand Duke Constantine paid a visit to H . M . b . Cressy at Cronstadt . He stayed four hours on board , and went over every corner in the ship- He was accompanied by Admiral ITovasilisky , now Governor of Cronstadt , late second in command at Sinope , and afterwards in command of a battery at Sebastopol whore he lost j U

      eight hundred out of a thousand men . . ne aum .. u » « n commanded at Petropaulowski was also in attendance . None of the officers were at all deficient in conversation , and they seemed glad to talk of the war . " They all appeared to have one aim in view" ( says a private letter from which we extract)— " to persuade us that if we had gone to war more boldly we must have succeeded ; but they overdid it . The Grand Duke was asked if we could , after the explosion at Sweaborg , have taken the place . 4 Without doubt , ' he replied , ' for wo had only the charges already in the guns , and no more powder . Ho was asked if wo could have taken Cronstadt . 11 you had attacked on the south side you would have done no damage to tho forta , and probably all your ships would have been sunk ; but on the north aide we were completely at your mercy . My father was deceived as to tho depth of wator there , and when he aaw your ships approach so near ho gave up all for lost , and only wondered why you did not send your boats in to Hot dockyard and ships on tire . ' " After the Grand Duke h visit mucii coruiui

      the Russian officers became more , u ™ visited tho Creasy soverul times . They also gave an entertainment on board tho Wyburg , an eighty-gun ship . Sini > wuiscic . —Mr . W . Mears , tho master of tho Ediua , has written to his parents in Exeter nn account of the wreck of that vessel when on its voyage from Newcastlo to Rio Grande . Sovorul of tho hands perished , and those who survived had to onduro dreadful h ™ " ships on a desolate Bhoro , where they wore thrown halt naked in very cold weuthor . This occurred in tho course of last May . Having struggled on for hoiiic imlea they fell in with somo Portuguese , by whom they were kindly tukon care of . _ ., Kkvikw at Woolwich . —The Duke of Cambridge ,

      Miscellaneous. Lord Dalhousie Ox Mesmeri...

      MISCELLANEOUS . Lord Dalhousie ox Mesmerism . —A letter has been addressed by Lord Dalhousie to the Exeter Board of Guardians , in reply to some inquiries made by them with respect to his Lordship ' s experience of Dr . Ji-sdaillc ' s use of mesmerism in India . The late Governor-General says that , judging from the testimony given by several eminent medical men , Dr . Esdaille ' s passes produced a remarkable effect on tho Indians , who were thrown by them into complete insensibility , during which the most . ™ p ., i Q . ^ . ri ^ ni nnpratioiis could be performed witnout

      r . ie i , flict \ on of \ he least pain . Of tho efficacy of Dr Esdaille ' s plan in cases of lunacy , Lord Dalhousie is not prepared to speak ; nor is he aware whether the Doctor can influence the English constitution in the same de-Kree as the Hindu . At the same time , his Lordship does not wish to be « considered as a disciple of ^ the doctru . es of mesmerism generally . " He appointed Dr . EsdaiUe , in 184 = 8 to bo one of the Presidency surgeons in consequence of the success of his system . A Perilous Sleep . —One day last week ( says the Dover C hronicle ) the coaatguardinan on watch at Shaksnearo ' s Cliff perceived a woman in a recumbent position a little way down the cliff , a short distance from him . He immediately ran to tho station , and the chief boatman , Alfred Clarke , and his men hastened with a ropo to tho spot . Tho woman was about thirty feet down tho cliff , and apparently asleep , although in that most perilous position . With tho promptitude peculiar to sailors , Clarke had tho rope fastened nround him ana . !„ .. „ . !„ . ! i ... * ,.,: m . an . no > nvi » tv . lost the noise maao

      should suddenly awaken her , as ho perceived that tne least motion on her part would have precipitated her upon tho rook * below . On taking hold of her ho had great difficulty in rousing her , and , when this was accomplished , « he Btrugglod hard to free herself from his grasp , aa though aho desired to fall . In consequence of this struggling , Clarke found ho could not manage to got her up alone , and another man therefore descended , and all three wore then pulled up . On reaching tho summit tho woman exclaimed , " I don't thank you at all I wished to die , but not to throw myoolf off ; and before I went to Bleep I prayed that I might roll over before I woke ! " It appears she had taken laudanum , but not sufficient to destroy life , although it BtupHlea

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 16, 1856, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_16081856/page/9/