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      India. Tjik Overland Mail Has Arrived, B...

      finally disbanded , and despatched to their homes in small parties of twenty at a time This order was read on parade . When the men returned to barracks a dreadful rumour grew that the intention was thus to divide them , in order that each detachment might be cut to pieces on its way down to Lahore . The men became desperate . The 62 nd , 69 th , and the 2 nd battalion of Artillery rose on the 2 nd September , endeavoured to seize the guns and other arms , killed Captain Mules , Adjutant of the 3 rd Europeans , and assailed the

      barracks and hospital . They -were speedily put down by the energy of the troops , and dispersed with the loss of three hundred killed . The remainder fled into the Baree Doab . Three hundred took the road to the north , and were caught on the banks of the Chenab , where they -were all massacred . One Lundred made for the Sutlej , due south , and reached Khanghur , where they were all killed ; three hundred more , flying in a south-easterly direction , struck the Sutlej at Kurrumpore , and were completely destroyed . Thus not a soul of these disarmed mutineers escaped . .

      The Indian mail has brought over a very important document . It is an address of the Reform League of Calcutta , in favour of the conduct of Lord Ellenborough , and heartily commending his despatch against the confiscating policy of Lord Canning .

      ,-| 9n The Leader. [No. 44,8, Octob Un 2...

      ,- | 9 n THE LEADER . [ No . 44 , 8 , Octob un 23 , 1858 .

      The Hew Raj. Mr. Russell Says In The Tim...

      THE HEW RAJ . Mr . Russell says in the Times : —The proclamation which transfers the Government to her Majesty will be a difficult task enough . Even in the very wording of her Majesty ' s new titles there will be difficulties , and the question arises how -will the Queen be justified in assuming the title of Queen of the East Indies , or of India , or of Hindostan , or even of British India , while there are a number of independent States and Princes whose titles are in direct opposition to such assumption , and whose independence and titles are guaranteed to them by treaty . However , this is a small matter if the Princes and Kings look on it as-we do ; but I entertain grave apprehensions that the proclamation of the change of Government , little , if at all understood , may give

      encouragement to those who persist in attributing to us the determination of overthrowing , their religion and then : liberty . Companee Bahadoor had no particular religion ; he was a very mild kind of Christian , respected treaties which contained provisions for the revenues of idols and the preservation of temples , and did not particularly encourage the itinerant expounders of his own faith , who , to th « great astonishment of the Asiatics , present themselves in the most various forms as the ministers of many different churches , yet all claiming to be of one religion . But Queen Victoria is a Protestant monarch by act of Parliament . She is Fidei Defensor by the Constitution , and she cannot be a Hindoo Ranee or Mahomedan Sultana and a Christian Queen at the same time , nor measure her faith by degrees of latitude .

      America. The Niagara Arrived On Sunday W...

      AMERICA . The Niagara arrived on Sunday with New York mails of the 5 th . The New York Crystal Palace , with all its contents , had been destroyed by fire . The fair of the American Institute was being held there at the time ; a large amount of property was destroyed . The fire was believed to have been incendiary , and created intense excitement among the visitors , of whom upwards of 2000 were present . Very little of its valuable contents were saved . Two only of the many fire-engines on exhibition were got out uninjured . No lives were lost . The loss is estimated at over a million of dollars , and the insurance is only 60 , 000 dollars , effected to cover the losses of foreign exhibitors . The property had recently become the possession of the Corporation of the City . Among the works of art destroyed was Kiss ' s famous statue of the Amazon and Marochetti ' s

      mammoth statute of Washington . The deaths from yellow fever at Ne . w Orleans on the 3 rd were C 8 . The epidomic had nearly died out at Savannah . A coasting-vessel arrived at New London , Connecticut , from North Carolina , with a . fugitive on board . The captain , discovering the negro , wont ashore and apprised the federal officials , who went to the vessel , but the man had taken alarm , jumped overboard ,-and swam ashore . A reward of 50 dollars was offered for his arrest , but the man escaped , and was supposed to bo on his way to Canada . The British brig Espomnsa was found on the 28 th ult . off Bay port , Florida , with the captain , mate , and all the crew dead , with the exception of two men and a sick boy .

      General Paez had consented to leave New York for Venezuela * Wo learn by Advices from Laguayra that General Monagas and J- Gutleroz left that port on tho 81 st of August , in compliance with the decrees of exile pronounced against them by . General Castro and the convention entered into by the Venezuelan Government with tho Ministers of England and Franco . Matters wore all quiet at Utah . Brigham Young was still in tho city , liut confined himself iu-doors . Trouble was anticipated with the Indians . The Interior Department has apportioned to Florida a Arm amount of land in aid of tho construction of tho

      Florida , Atlantic , and Gulf Central Railroad , connecting Jackson and Alligator , sixty miles in length . General Herran has , at the instance of Mr . Cass , returned to Washington from New York , on business concerning the question-between the . United States and New Granada . At Chatham , Canada West , a body of negroes surrounded a train of cars on the Great Western Railway , and forcibly took therefrom a negro servant belonging to a planter from St . Louis . Ten or twelve of _ the rioters are bound over to be tried at the next assizes . The boy was taken off against his most urgent entreaties , and is kept here by negroes . The Norwegian ship Cattarina arrived at Quebec on the 3 rd instant with twenty-two additional persons saved from the ill-fated steamship Austria .

      Mexico. On The 25 Th Of September Yellow...

      MEXICO . On the 25 th of September yellow fever was raging at Matamoras and Brownsville . General Vidaurri was near San Luis Potosi on the 13 th . Miramon had declined fighting . The Liberalists were forming an army at Vera Cruz . Vomito prevailed at Vera Cruz . Up to the 5 th ult . General Robles had not made a landing , but remained on board the British steamer Clyde , at anchor off the port . The Washington correspondent of the New York

      Herald says : —" Doctor Billings has arrived at New Orleans , bringing despatches from the United States Minister at Mexico , Mr . Forsyth , to the Government . His principal object is to purchase Minie * rifles for the Liberal army , for whicb- ' purpose he is well supplied with funds . He says the Americans are much thought of by the Liberal party , and occupy high stations of trust . He is of the opinion that Sonera will soon be ceded to the United States for a consideration . On the 5 th of September a force was preparing to march on Jalapa , Escheagaray ' s head-quarters .

      West Indies. • : ' ¦ . ' Cdba. ¦ A Powde...

      WEST INDIES . : ' ¦ . ' CDBA . ¦ A powder magazine has exploded at Havannali -with the most disastrous results . Twenty ^ eight persons were known to have been killed , one hundred wounded , and a large number were under the ruins when -the despatch left Havannah- No less than ninety sugar houses were destroyed by the violence of the shock .

      Miscellaneous. The Court.—The Fair Weath...

      MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . —The fair weather which notoriously accompanies Queen Victoria -wherever she goes held out at Balmoral until the beginning of this week . On Monday the weather became suddenly wintry , with sleet and snow falling . Her Majesty left the Highlands the next day , and arrived at Windsor Castle on Wednesday night . She was accompanied by the Prince Consort , with Prince Alfred , Prince Arthur , Princess Alice , Princess Helena , and Princess Louisa . The little Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice arrived at Windsor from Osborne on Tuesday . The Prince and Princess of Leiningen have arrived on a visit to the Duchess of Kent . The Court will remain at the Castle until the latter end of November , when her Majesty will visit Osborne for three weeks , after which the Queen will return to Windsor for the Christmas holidays , and reside at the Castle until February .

      Tub Social Science Gathering . — -The meetings at Liverpool were brought to a successful termination on Saturday morning . A . grand banquet took place on Friday night , when speeches , chiefly of a complimentary character , were delivered . On Saturday morning Lord John Russell read the paper on Jurisprudence , which the Lord Chancellor of Ireland would have read himself , as the President of that Section , had he obtained the Queen ' s permission to leave Ireland in time . Altogether , tho Congress has been ono of a very remarkable character , and its promoter ^ consider that it has been much more successful than they could have anticipated .

      M . Alphonse IVAim . —The French satirist , says a correspondent , will not liavo been forgotten by all of your readers , in spito of his long absence from the literary world . An exile- at Nice , he has devoted much labour and time to the cultivation of flowers , fruit , and choice vegetables . His fame as a market gardener almost equals his literary- reputation , and in Paris the produce of his farm fetches high prices . But it is one thing to grow magnificent fruit and flowers , and another question to dispose of the produce at remunerating prices . M . Karr has not made a fortune by his farm , and he has consequently again ; turned his attention to literature ; ho has coinmonoed tho publication of a fresh series of tho work wliioli made his ropututiou in tho days of Louis PhUllppe and M . Guizot—namely , Lea Gutipes . ' . ..

      Evangelical Movicmjent .- ^ -Ah effort boing miule by Dr . dimming anil his religious circle to promoto two great celebrations—tho Jlrst , a national thanksgiving for tho suppression of tho revolt In India , and the second a ProtQBtant commemoration of tho accession of Quoon Elizabeth to tho English thvono . On tho 17 th instant it will bo exactly thieo hundred years since tug last

      event took place , and it is proposed that on that day there should be services in the churches alluding to the accession , or on the Sunday afterwards . Musical Novelty . —In Newcastle , Lady Don has been performing in the " Daughter of the Regiment , " giving the Rataplan song with great effect . In the playbills , however , the celebrated air i s called the Rattle-pan song ! Low Rents and Bad Fauming . —Sir Henry Dryden , a Northamptonshire baronet , has excited a great hubbub among the georgical portion of his neighbours by a cutting sarcasm delivered at a recent meeting of a local agricultural association . The county papers are full of letters in refutation of the alleged libel . The hon . baronet , immediately on the conclusion of the award of prizes , is reported to have expressed his

      surprise " that there were no cups for twitch , docks , thistles , and nettles , the staple commodities of South Northamptonshire . He ( Sir Henry ) had been through England , Ireland , and Scotland , and he must say that South Northamptonshire was the worst farmed and the lowest rented of any part of her Majesty ' s dominions . That was the fact , and any one that had travelled through the same places that he had done would come to the same conclusion . It was not only the worst farmed district , but was . also the lowest rented , and if they would find better land he should very much like to go and see it . " The disorder produced by these remarks was brought to a conclusion by a farmer making a bet of 10 / . with Sir Henry that if a prize was offered , open to all England , it would be taken by a South Northamptonshire farmer .

      A Bald Statement ^— Mr . Roberts , civil engineer of Sydney , who has been for several months engaged in surveying the squatting district of the Barwan , lately fell in with a party of the " hairless savages , " whose existence has recently been made known . They comprised a family of six , a man and his wife and four children , all totally destitute of hair . Their complexion is of a copper colour , less dark than that of the North American Indians , and partaking more of the Mexican tint . It is supposed that this family is . the produce of an intermixture of the Malays and the north-western black tribes of Australia , driven from the interior by continuous and incessant drought , or that they are the remnant of some extinct race .

      Oriental Antiquities . — - The gunboat Wanderer is expected at Woolwich , bringing from SiJon a beautiful marble sarcophagus , representing an ancient goddess , for the British Museum . City Sewers .- —At a meeting of the Commissioners this week , a letter was read from a resident in Philpotlane , complaining of the poisonous gases which are discharged from the neighbouring sewer during the period of its ventilation . He had , in consequence , suffered severely from dysentery , while his eldest daughter had been carried off by typhus fever . The Court , on the suggestion of the writer of the letter , resolved to try the effect of charcoal and a mixture of burnt cluy and potash in absorbing all the gases the sewers throw out .

      Public Health , — According to the Registrar-General's return there was a rise of 150 in the number of deaths for last week , and the total number , compared with the average , is decidedly high . Scarlatina still makes progress , and pulmonary complaints are more frequent . The total deaths for the week were 1149 , and births , 1767 . Dr . Letheby also states that tho mortality in the City is rising from tho lower temperature , having been for the last three weeks 42 , 50 , and 58 , which w near the average at this season . The Bible in tiik East . —Tho Earl of Shaftesbury has addressed a meeting of the Bible Society at Leeda on the obligations which aro imposed upon tho religious bodies of this country to tako advantage of " tho opoiiings" in India and China to circulate tho Biblo in those countries . Tho noble Lord was careful to guard luinseK against tho appearance of advocating anything like proselytism by force . .

      _ .. ,,,. „ , Church-Ratb Mbeting at SiniEWsnuitv . —Certaia queries rocontly addressed by the Homo Secretary to tho clergy respecting church rates has led to tho belief that thp Government contemplates tho introduction of u uiu on this subject . The clergy of Shropshire ., who , witu one or two exceptions , rotuin extreme notions ot tno rights of tho Church , met on Monday , and pronounced not only in favour of no surrondor , but also of no compromise . In tho latter resolve , they entirely concur witn since written

      tho opponents of the rate , who have long " No compromise" on their flag . Tho " dishonesty wliicii would bo involved in tho abolition was strongly uchouncod . Mr . Morris , a laymnn , said that tho Disfiouteru do not know what thoir religion is for six month * together ; and that thoy had bottor all return to tno Church . Ono clergyman proeont , tho Rov . Dr . Woiiniflold , in an able speech , expressed his entire opposition to tho Church view of tho case , am ) , to tho groat surprise of his brethren , vindicated tho course taken by u > °

      opponents of church rntoa . ,. ,, Inelkgant but Foboiulh . — Gon . Horatio Huoiioii , of Philadelphia ( U . S . ) , »«* ropllod to a circular iroin his alma mater at Now Ilavon , asking money io » » society or club instituted to tmiu young men to proii oditutod or oxtomporunoous spunking- or dlaoussion , inclining to contribute Ho snya : —" Gab ifl tlw inw opiUemlo of Republics . Wlmt tUsU-acfcod Greece ? uuu <

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 23, 1858, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23101858/page/8/