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    A Royal Proclamation Is Issued For The M...

    evening 1 , might have helped to accomplish such a result . After ¦ ¦ no ticing :- ¦ w ith admiration Hav ; e-XOCk ' s marches of ' sixteen , ¦ ei ghteen , and even twenty miles a day— 'twelve miles being" the ' ordinary rate of ma veiling 1 troops ia India *—lie obsejiSBcl ; " It has been said that Havhtobk . wns no gsnreralt as he had never had the ¦ handlingraf large "bodies off men ; but to my mhicl it is tftet snialiness of ltes force which makes the grcatnasBS of his exploifei .

    He had shown , too * that . Ree orniM haudTe »' lfcrge bodies of men ., for he had disposed of 50 , 000 under Naxa . Sahib . " This ' was admirably . well said , " worthy of the ' loud cheers' that followed it . So were his remarks on the recruitment : . , especially of young mettr iu : tlie rural districts-. lie showed that they . wbuld ' . 'Be better ' oiEiii the array than they had any -chance of being out of . it , and that when their-term of service ' Sras expired they would rciurn to their homes imieh more valuable to themselves

    and to society . Sir Robert Peel has seized the occasion of a dinner , given at the Town Hall , Tarn worth , to the ex-mayor , for a-long-speech , '" on things in . general , ' but upon things as they are in India iu particular . The most noticeable points of his address were those in which he had a hard fling or two at the Government , for not adopting the Egyptian route for the conveyance of reinforcements , and at Lord C . vxnikg , 'for ' . his-style of government . But : his facts are old , and his arguments not new , though delivered with tlie dasliiii " debonnair wanner with

    which , he is mow expected to deal with men and things political . •' . " . : ¦ ' ' .-: "; . Before quitting . the subject of India , we notice the very interesting speech of a- Hindoo gentleman delivered at a meeting of the Native British India -issociation , in Calcutta . ; the object , of -which was to remox-e afalse impression entertained in this country as to the state of feeling of the Hindoos towards the European missionaries . There is much

    eloquence in Ids words , and on the face of his statement an appearance of entire truthfulness .- He spoke in terms of"the highest admiration of the missionaries , and stated that he only represented what , was the common feeling throughout' India : the missionaries were held in the greatest esteem for all they had done and suffered in the cause of Christianity , but their religion was not desired by the Hindoo , whose own faith suffices for all bis

    spiritual wants . If there is one thing of which , more than all else , we may reasonably he proud in England , it is the almost absolute purity with which justice is administered . There may be erics , sometimes loud , of ' one law for the rich , another for the poor ; ' but that only affects the laws themselves : their administration , ae a rule , stands above suspicion of bias , or of any consideration that can interfere with an evenhanded balance of the scale of justice . "When a

    case exceptional to this rule occurs , we arc accustomed to expect that a severe example shall be made of tlie offender . Such a case has been adjudged within the last few days . A justice of the peace for the county of Durhamy named Belxaxky , a , man possessed of considerable property , convicted two men for shooting a rabbit on some part of his land . This proceeding , was scandalous enough—the prosecutor acting as judge ; but what followed was worse : he

    had inflicted a severe penalty , but consented to compromise the matter , and liberated the men on their paying 1 / . each—the which money he put into his own pocket instead of handing over to the county fund . No attempt was made to justify this shameful act of corruption , or even in mitigation of punishment ; and Mr . Justice Colkkidge , after com . anctiting with fitting severity on the enormity of the offence , sentenced Uellasky to pay a One of 200 / ., and ' to be imprisoned in the Queen ' s Prison .

    Another case of a very different complexion which has lately occurred , is , we arc glad to believe , also exceptional : we allude to the case , which will be fouW iit ' another page , of John Blair Wills ,

    and J . v . 5 JBS >]? e > "ion * TVtlls , two brothers who have , one after tha * otner ; married and descried a young girl of ¦ wealsintellect ,, the one committing bigamy , the other jBrjury , by signing a-false declaration at the tinuxaff his marriage . One of the tu * s > scoun > drels- \* us held to barfc and , far the-pesen ^ has linisluadihis scoundrelly G 33 . urse . by leaving his mather to pagrSOA , tile amount * o £ hex'Tsecognizancesv as his bail .

    Thercr is little or lmporttanoc stirring- m the shape of foreign politics this . "week .. . In the tour of M . Feedixaxd his ¦ ' LiissErs , to beat up recruits for his Isthmus of Shie / Canal scheme , lie Imd a magnificent entertainment at . Yicniia ; and at the dinner , his- patron , Baron Bkucic , the , Austrian finance Minister , ¦ ¦ created a sensation by bursting into a . strong expression . of sympathy with [ England in her contest' with India . This speech , in the quiet of Continental politics ,, is notable , and has ¦

    attracted much - ¦ at tention . ' Another . noticeable point in the week ' s news is the way in which La iV-ewv . liais denounced the cold-blooded indignation expressed by sonic of its contemporaries at what they call . the atrocities , of the-English troops in India during t he present st niggle . In discovering the cool blood of these aceusants , La . Pscsse furnishes tlie only answer-needed—they know thcy lic \ A better case inicrht be made out against us for the : extraordinary want of energy we arc

    ex-lubiting with regard to the treatment of our countrymen by the ferocious King of Naples . The two English engineers , to whose case we have several times drawn attention , still remain in Neapolitandungeons , cut olT froni communication with their friends or with the representatives of their country . We hear of mild interference on the part of Lord CiiAKHXDox , followed by the usual result , — contemptuous disregard On the part of the Neapolitan authorities .

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    Natal And Militaltt, The Loss Of Thk Drx...

    NATAL AND MILITAltT , The Loss of thk DrxuAn . — " We briefly noted in our Postc ' ript last week the loss 6 f the Dunbar , merchant ressel , when close to -Botany Bay . Only one man survived , out of one hundred and forty-one . This man , wlioso name is Johnson , has j ^ ivon an account of liis escape , which is thus related in the Sydney papers : — " He states that the mizenmast went first , and then the mainmast ; that he -was on the poop when the vessel struck , and -was thrown down . lie then caught hold of a stanchion ; when that gave way , he made for the . cabin , but the rushing . in of the water prevented his passing through , as he intended . He then

    went below , and got out of the skylight to leeward , and up the side of the chain plates of . the fore rigging . These being broken , lie was thrown over , holding by the chain plates which held sonic of the fore planks together . Johnson remembers that several seamen were near him ; one ( the old boatswain ) said to him 'We shall have a watery grave . Johnson having found himself on a shelf of the rock , was enabled to obtain boitic ¦ shelter behind a projection , and there he slept . When the morning . broke , he saw the wreck and tlie bodies of his late companions , lie endeavoured to make signals , but was undiscovered . ITe uttered cries , but the boiling ocean prevented them being heard . A careful search , . however , was

    beinglniule . livery spot was occup ied by spectators 'where there was a chance of seeing uny object below . At last , a . cry was heard—" There is a man upon the rocks . ' A rope waB lowered -without delny . After some failures , it wan brought within his reach . There was danger from the projection of the rocks , but having twined the rope with u seaman'n skill round him , ho gave the signal , and was drawn up , some two hundred feet , and received by the crowd with cries of gratulation and joy . He had passed about tliirty hours upon the rocks . Johnson 3 a a native of Drogheda , in Ireland , and is about thrcc-andtwenty years of age . After his rescue , an incident occurred such « k always excites the enthusiasm of English poople . It was reported tliat there were other persona

    upon tho rocks , but it was impossible to approach tiiem "by sen . An adventurous Icelander , Antoinc Wollier , an apprentice to a jeweller in Sydney , offered to descend . Ho was lowered by a rope from that dreadful height , ami continued more than half an hour in hia search . Nothing was discovered , and Wollier was drawn up in safety , amidrtt tho shoutM of tho crowd . Tho Mayor of'Hydney , at the suggestion of Captahu Lorintf , of her Majesty ' s ! ship Iris , opened a subscription on tho » pat , and pro-Bentcd him with £ 10 as an acknowledgment of his intrepidity . In anB-wer to tho congratulations of tho Maj'or , ho said , ' ho did not go down for money , but for tho feelings of hia heart . ' A- considerable Bum has been added liy tho merchants to this subscription . "

    Bxtbbuiknth at Woolwich . —A series of intern f mg experiments-has been carried out in tlie ,, Z i attaaW to the Royal Military . Repository , " ^ < £ Common , in the presence of Major General SirW William ** , Commandant , Captain Freeth , Domitv A sistant Quartorrrmster . General , and other o fficers « f n Royal Artillery , ft , r the purpose of testing C l Grant's newly invented pontoon cooking nm .-inS which conaists of ten cylinders , so nrranm-d th-it «! immense quantity of water can l , boiled , and ' foS cooked ? fbron <* thousand men in tlie field in a v . orv short tame ; and which- can alLo ^ be taken in-pieces ' ia stnntly converted into a pontoon raft capable of bririn ^ an immense weight . The experiments were- of the mo ^ t satisfactory kind , and an old sailor who consented to L bound to tho raft , and launched on the river said ! - had never had a better sail in his life . '

    SHIVMS & DjSASTlCHS ON THK KaSTEUX COAST — Last week was again rattier av-disastrot ' is one to the shipping on the eastern coast . -Tlie-brig Andriitte Serin Baltyursen , of Droback , from SundswiUl for London with timber and deals , grounded on the Cross Sand nni soon lost her rudder , boats , sails , & c , from tho lieary sea which was running . On the tide flowing , however , she was forced off- the sand and brought iato-Lowes-toft in a very disabled state . The schooner Belmont , Ham master , of and from Sunderland , for ' Middlesborong hwith coals , sprang a leak orr ' Cromer , and soon . tftenv-nrcls foundered . The crew were picked up l > y the ¦ schooner Ebeticzer , of Maldon , and were landed at Cireat Yarmouth . The brig Mercury , Captain Stock , of and from Sunderland for London , with coals , struck upon the Uarber Saiul , and the crew were obliged to abandon ier . They were safelv landed at Great Yarmouth .

    Accident to this Emeu . —The Australian vessel Emeu has met with an accident oti her homeward-voyage from Melbourne . During the night of the 2 nd ofUctolie ? . she struck cm a coral reef , close to the spot on the Nubian coast noted on the maps under the name oi" JDubi-rdubb . about eighty miles north of . -Luakin , and almost directly opposite to Djedda . In this-perilous position slu- lay for fifty-lour hours ; but at length she was got , off- and ' . x ; as run upon the beach , which fortunately consisted of soft sand . Nine days now elapsed before she . ' ¦ a ^ stin floated off . This , however , was at length- ^ effected , a

    portion , of her coal being sacrificed and the fore \ iart of the sliip lightened by every possible means . The loaks were well stuffed ,, and with her pumps constantly at . work she reached Suez in-safetjr after a passage of t lircc days . The Marseilles portion of her mail LasT .-however ..-not come forward ; ¦ Tlio-Admiralty agent ,-regardihu : it . as ' ..-liopeless that the . steamer could , jiroceed on her voyage , transferred the boxes to a native boat , in Avliich with the purser and two of the passengors he inacle for Djedda . The vessel has been so severely injured that it will bo necessary to . lay her up in dock and . thoroxijrhly repair her . .

    WltKCIC OF TltF . ANXA MaUIA , 1-ROM THK UlCUmond lviVJEK . —Mr .. K . IT . ITargravos , J . P ., writing Irom Hungarees Noragli , August 2 " 2 , relates . a grim anecdote of the wreck of the Anna Maria :- — - '' T visited the lioach at six A . M . this morning , and , oh ! horror of . horrors , I saw a dead man , minus the right foot , and the ilp ? h eaten offtho thighs and legs , in ft very advanced st ; ito ol decomposition 5 lie was abnut five feet eight inches , mid stoutly built . He was naked , except an old Hlifpl u-rd ' . s plaid waistcoat , . and a small belt round his body . I observed a slight inequality in the latter , and , previously to calling mj' men , cut that pnrt , and found ; i

    pulpy substance ( highly olVensive ) , and , as a matter of religious duty , with great care separated it , and found the contents to be notes and cheques , amount !) ' . >/ . 1 Is . . ui . All can be read . The cheques art ; drawn by ( 'harU'S Moore , clerk of petty sessions , at Casino , and , witli two exceptions , in favour of Constable James R . Haynos . 1 suppose this body to be that of the constable or CiijUnin Capps . I was obliged to inter tlie body on the spot , ; ind did so , according to the rites of the church of England . It was impossible to remove the body , and idcutiiuiation is out of tlie question . "

    Tiik Atlantic Caiu . k . — The Lcipsio , one uf the steamers in the employ of tho Atlantic Ti'lognijili I ' 0111-pany , arrived at Plymouth last Saturday , with . Llar / re portion of the cubic lost on tho coast of Ireland iiiihi * . recent unsuccessful attempt to lay it down . The Lcipsif has discharged tho cabin at Key ham . It has not boon injured by the sea . Tup , Inoian Okpickuh , & e . —Sir John Lawrence is to bo made an Ordinary Member of tho Civil Division of

    ( he First Class , Knlghtw ( ir / uul Cross of the Order of the Bath . General ll ' avolock and Culoiu'l Arelxial ' Wilson avc to be Ordinary Members of the Milirmy Division of the Second OhiBs , or Knights ( . lonuuaiuU'r . -s . Tlie following ofliccrs aro to bo Extra Members ofilu Military Division of the Third CIh . s , or Conipanii'iM : — Colonel Henry Charles Van Oortlandt , and Lionti-iuint Colonol Nevillo Bowles Cliamberlain . Colonels N «< il 1 ( ni < l Nicholson would huvo been recommended for tho < liyuity

    of Kuighta Commanders , had they survived . Court-Mautiai ,. —Lieutenant Albert Wni'l 1 " 1 $ ] tiyi '< of tho Woolwich division of Royal Marine J-igH Iufuntry , having been convicted of inaubordinntioa nnd uiiodicer-liko conduct , h « a been . sentonocd to ho severely reprimanded , nnd haa been roloaacd from arrest .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 21, 1857, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21111857/page/2/