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      Imperial Parliament. —?—. Monday, May 18...

      castle-under- Lyme ( 3 ) ( laughter } , and the northern division of Staffordshire . The petitions were ordered to be referred to the General Committee of Elections . It was then announced that these were all the election petitions that had been received . The House adjourned at half-past eleven o'clock .

      May 23, 1857.] The L E A P E B ,. 486 _

      May 23 , 1857 . ] THE L E A P E B ,. 486 _

      Accidents And Sudden Deaths. A Little Gi...

      ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . A little girl , ten years old , the daughter of an ostler a fc the Longton Hotel , Sydenham , set fire to her nightclothes while attempting to reach something from the mantel-shelf , and was burnt to death . The coroner at the inquest remarked on the frequency of these cases , owing to fires not being properly guarded . —Another death by fire has been inquired into by the Westminster coroner . Miss Caroline Marsh , a young lady of seventeen , who was at school at Calais , set fire to her clothes by accident , and rushed into the streets enveloped in flames . Her mother being communicated with , the young lady was brought to England , and placed in St . George ' Hospital , where it was thought the best medical advice could be obtained . Here , however , she expired . In this , as well as in the preceding case , a verdict of Accidental Death was returned . —A third death from burning has occurred within the last few days . Miss Macnaghten , the eldest daughter of Sir Edmund C . Macnaghten , was in the drawing-room of her father ' s house in Upper Brook-street , Grosvenorsquare , writing a letter . It is believed she struck a light in order to seal the note , when one of the matches fell on the ground . On this match she appears to have trodden , setting it in a flame which communicated to her muslin dress . The young lady soon found herself on fire , and , loudly shrieking , she rushed down stairs into the hall . One of the domestics , coming to her assistance , wrapped a green baize table cover round her , and medical aid was at once obtained ; but help came too late . Miss Macnaghten lingered until the evening , when she expired . The body was fearfully charred from the soles of the feet to the face , the features of which , after death , were scarcely recognizable . When the accident was first discovered , the flames rose three feet above the sufferer ' s head ... The coroner ' s jury returned a verdict in accordance with the facts . A very shocking accident has taken place at the Marsh Brook station of the London and North-Western Railway . Several persons were waiting to be taken to the Church Stretton Fair . An express from Shrewsbury was overdue ; and the porter told the people to stand back from the platform , as the train would pass straight through at great speed . He then went on to attend to the points , and , just as the train came in view , a young woman crossed over . The whistle was sounded ; but the young woman ' s mother , who was very old and deaf , attempted to follow her daughter . A labourer who was at work on the line ran forward to try and snatch her from tho rapidly advancing train ; but he became confused . In another moment , the engine was upon them , and both were struck down and killed immediately . A railway accident , which might have been attended with serious loss of life , occurred on the South Devon Railway last Saturday morning . As the luggage-train from Exeter to Plymouth approached the Teignmouth station at a moderate speed , the pointsman , from some unexplained cause , turned the train into a dead siding which is contiguous to the platform of tho station . The result was that the flagging of the platform was torn up , tho stone pillars which supported the iron roof were knocked down , and the roof fell on tho line , completely burying the engine , tender , and first carriage of the train . The driver and stoker jumped off just in time to save their lives . Tronic was impeded for four hours . A passenger train from Huddersfield to Sheffield came into collision last Saturday with a ballast train near the engine-shed opposite to Neepsend . The passenger carriages were thrown off tho line , and some of the ballast waggons were smashed . None of tho passengers were seriously injured , and the driver and fireman saved themselves by jumping off . Tho driver , however , sustained a dangerous cut on tho head and a sprained nakle . Mr . Henry Lawson , second son of Sir William Lawson , liart ., of Brough Hall , near Cattorick , Yorkshire , has been drowned at Waikora , a small settlement in New Zealand , to which colony he emigrated a low years ago , and purchased there an estate . Some of his shepherds were engaged in sheep-washing , when one of them fell into the water . Mi * . Lawson made a gallant attempt to save tho man ' s life , but in so doing lost his own , while the shepherd was carried away by the stream . The unfortunate gentleman was only in his twenty-fifth year . An old man , John Macleod , engaged in herding cattle nt tho farm of Brae , on tho Tulloch estate , near Ding ' wall , was on Friday week attacked by a furious bull , and gored to death before assistance could bo rendered . Tho poor man had fallen while attempting to run off . An accident of a very shocking nature has happened to a Blue-coat boy named Bulkoloy , at Christ ' s Hospital . Last Saturday afternoon , tho boys wore in tho play- ground of tho schqol , when two of them attempted to climb tho wall abutting on Giltspur-strcct , which fout , although attended with groat peril , had nevertheless

      f r r ' i J been often successfully accomplished . The first boy descended safely , but his companion fell upon a line of pointed iron spikes attached to the premises of a baker in Giltspur-street . An alarm was immediately raised by the poor youth ' s schoolfellows , and he was ultimately extricated , but not until after he had lain in his frightful position several minutes . Medical assistance . was immediately obtained from St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital . The boy is about sixteen years of age . He is progressing favourably . A young man employed on the City Company ' s steam-boat Waverley was on Wednesday kneeling on one of the paddle-boxes , when the vessel ( which was at London-bridge ) sustained a slight concussion with another , and the youth was thrown into the river . Assistance could not be rendered until too late , the tide rapidly carrying the poor fellow away . The dead body of a woman was found on Monday in an ' empty house in Walter's-terrace , Commercial-road . A little boy , her son , was kneeling by her side , endeavouring to induce her to rise . The woman had suffered greatly from fatigue last Saturday , when she had walked a great many miles , canvassing for her son , who was a candidate for admission into the British Orphan Asylum . A verdict of Natural Death has been returned by the coroner's jury . A shocking catastrophe has been inquired into by a coroner ' s jury . A child , seven months old , was left 1 sleeping in its cot at the house of Mr . Gronor , Auckland Villa , Notting-hill . A lighted taper was on a dressing- 1 table in the bedroom , and the window was hung with 1 chintz curtains . A cry of fire was shortly afterwards raised ; the bedroom was then found to be in flames in 1 every part , and the conflagration afterwards extended 1 to other portions of the house . A boy , about fourteen < years old , who was passing , asked where the child was , ' < and , learning that it was in the bedroom , rushed up- ( stairs , and brought down the cot , but the child died j almost immediately after it was taken to the hospital . i At the inquest , the coroner remarked in most eulogistic ] terms on the courage of the boy ( Henry Fusey ) , and " said he should strongly recommend him to the notice of < the Royal Humane Society for reward . The jury unani- ^ mously endorsed the coroner ' s remarks . A verdict of 1 Accidental Death was returned . £ An Irishman , named Mark Connor , about forty years of age , has died at Selby , in Yorkshire , in consequence * of having taken a quantity of laudanum , which had been given him by Mrs . Broomhead , a small shopkeeper , in mistake for Godfrey ' s cordial . 1 Mr . Edward Sex , a stockbroker , aged fifty , has been J killed by an overdose of hartshorn and water adminis- c tered to him while in a fit into which he fell after at- ji tending a missionary meeting in Clapton-square . tl a

      The Orient. Persia. The Treaty Of Peace ...

      THE ORIENT . PERSIA . The treaty of peace between Persia and England was ratified on the 14 th of April at Teheran , and forwarded on the 17 th to Bagdad . Detailed accounts have been received of the suicides of General Stalker and Commodore Ethersey ( not Etherege , as previously spelt ) . Two Courts of Inquiry have sat on the bodies , and received a large amount of evidence . General Stalker appears to have been anxious that the troops of his division , especially the Europeans , should be hutted before the setting in of the hot season , and to have feared that he would be held responsible for any loss of life which might occur while they were under canvas . He had received , however , and replied to , a letter from the Commanding Engineer to the Chief of the Stair , in which he ( the General ) was acquitted of all blame in the matter . Once or twice , he expressed a wish that more cavalry should bo left with , him , instead of being taken up to Mohammerali ; and , according to his aide-de-camp , he appeared oppressed by a sense of responsibility . On tho morning of his death , ho told his aide-de-camp to load his pistols for him . This was done , and they were placed on the table in the General's tent . Ho then went over to the mess tent , and breakfasted witli Sir James Outran ' i . Having written down his name in the mess book as that of a guest to dinner , he rode back to his tent . A weariness was then observable about General Stalker , and shortly after Captain Jones , who had called on him , had left , the General shot himself . lie does not appear to have been hurt at being superseded by Sir Jamos Outram , but , on the contrary , seems to have been glad to servo under him . Captain Hunter , tho deceased G eneral ' s aide-de-camp , spoke at tho inquest of his being very anxious about private matters . Tho verdict of tho court is that ho destroyed himself in a fit of temporary insanity . In tho case of Commodore Ethorsoy , tho dread of responsibility appears yet more strongly—a morbid feeling heightened by tho news of tho lamentable end of General Stalker . " From entries in his own journal , " says tho Times Bombay correspondent , " it plainly appears how unequal this unfortunate ofllccr was to tho oflico ho filled . Two months before his death wore such notes as , ' My poor head is sadly confused . I have dreadful attacks at times . ' A week before his death , ho writes— ' I feel more and more iny unfltnoss to command . I am broken down , my head gone , and tho teri i ' . i i 1 i < i ] < j < i

      rible responsibility ! I shall make a mess of it . ' ( It ia the Mohammerah expedition to which lie refers here , and of which he was to command the naval portion . ) In his relations with his superiors at Bombay he saw only a series of rebuffs or insults—in the preparations which he was superintending for Mohammerah only the commencement of disgrace -and disaster . Sleep failed him at night , or was obtained only with the treacherous assistance of opium . While in this critical condition of mind , he heard of the General ' s death . He writes of the event in his diary thus : — ' Heard of poor Stalker's melancholy death . His case is similar to my own . He felt he was unequal to the responsibility imposed upon him . I have had a wretched night . ' The fatal contagion of suicide has often been remarked . In this case , its operation can scarcely be doubted . Before the camp had recovered from the shock of General Stalker ' s death Commodore Ethersey too had shot himself through the head . " The verdict states that the Commodore destroyed himself while suffering under mental aberration , brought about by long-continued anxiety connected with the duties of his command . Captain Young , of the Semiramis . the next senior naval officer present , was promoted to the command of the squadron . INDIA . The 19 th regiment of Native Infantry has been disbanded , owing to its mutinous conduct . Matters looked very ominous at one time , and it was feared there would be resistance and consequent bloodshed ; but this has been averted by the natives making a sullen submission . They were drawn up on parade , with two European infantry regiments , cavalry , and artillery , ranged opposite to them ; and this appears to have overawed the malcontents . They laid down their arms ; but they were allowed to retain their uniforms . The native officers could not forbear from weeping with rage and vexation . Notwithstanding this example , the 3-ith ( Native ) are more mutinous than ever . A sepoy belonging to that regiment has severely wounded Lieutenant Baugh ( who was nobly defended by a Mussulman ) , and has been executed . Two European regiments with shotted guns were present at the execution , to put down any out break . Other native regiments , also , are ia a very insurrectionary humour . The hill stockades of the Bozdars have been stormed , and the tribe has been reduced to entire submission . CHINA . There is but little that is new from China . On the 19 th of March , Captain Forsyth , while cruising off St . ohn ' s Island , fell in with a fleet of piratical junks . The captain landed with a party of marines , and fired on the junks from an eminence , while the boats also attacked them with shot . At length , the pirates took to the hills , and seventeen of their boats were captured and destroyed . None of our men were killed , and only one was hurt . : ¦ *

      America. Despatches Have Been Received A...

      AMERICA . Despatches have been received at Washington from Mr . Dallas announcing that the English Government had rejected the Dallas-Clarendon treaty on account of thealterutionswhichhavebeenmadein it by th « American Senate . Lord Napier , it is said , was surprised at the intimation ; and much excitement prevailed , though , according to fome accounts , the Washington Cabinet doe 3 not regret the determination to which . Lords Palinerston and Clarendon have come . President Buchanan ' s Ministry , however , maintain that the English Government has failed to execute the Clay ton-liulwer treaty ; ami they insist upon its being carried out in yood faith . Several hundred Indians have threatened the territory of Iown . A letter from General Wheat , in the New York Herald , states that the English are aiding the Costa Ricans in Nicaragua , and that tho English ships of war at Grey town are there for the purpose of defeating the projects of Colonel Lockridge . General Ilurnsley , in a letter to Lord Napier on tho ainno subject , arraigns him and the English Government before tho American Union on the same charge . A squadron is to proceed to Formosa , to investigate tho wreck of tho Highflyer and tho murder of her crew . From Mexico wo learn that tho Archbishop and several priests have been arrested , and that the former is to bo banished . A revolutionary movement has been discovered in Chili , and several men of high position luivo been arrested by tho Government . Tho quarrel between the justices and tho Commissioners of tho new Police at Now York—a body which i » supposed to represent too strongly tlio Republican party iu politics , as tho previous body reprosonled tho opposite or Democratic faction—goes on with increased intensity . Some of tho municipal officers who arc ousted by tho new law refuse to give up tho power they hold ; and party feeling runs very high . 'J'hoso city feuds have brought out a curious f » ct . The greater number of tho members of tho city government nro Irishmen , Tho native American prefers to employ himself in trade and tho making of inonoy ; « " <* 00 aliens are left to perform tho offices of municipal rule , and to manage tho taxation of the town . Affairs in Utah continue to grow dai *« r Br >« linm

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 23, 1857, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23051857/page/5/