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      * A stream was still kept up from the liose of the gas epmpany , but when the sun ca . mo oat clear , it was evident that no humao aid could save her ; and by , nina o ' clock , nothing remained of the White Squall except her shaking and creaking hull , which was "being quickly levelled to the water ' s edge . The heat was so intense that her coppers were crurabledtiplike brown paper , and the water evaporating from her hold made A spray which extended half-way across the river , and . upon wfpch the reflection of the clear son formed a perfect rainbow , which presented a very extraordinary sig h * . * t The Joseph Walker was set on fire by sparks which were wafted from the burning buildings in Front-street . She took fire almost simultaneously-with the Great Republic , and is

      now burned almost to the waters edge . Tiie masts and rigging were destroyed in less than an hour after the vessel caught fire . 'The stem appears to have suffered most , and the whole after part is burned down almost half-way into the hulL Many attempts were made to scuttle lier while the rigging , was in flames , but the intense heat defeated every attempt to save her . Strange to say , the Constellation , which was lying at her bows , escaped without having even a single spar scorched . The Joseph Walker is now a total wreck , and all her cargo is destroyed . She was a Liverpool packet-Buip , and was owned by Messrs . Thompson and Nephew . She was not more than two years old , was valued at About 90 , 000 dollars , and was fully insured in the Atlantic , Mercantile , Mutual , New York , and other offices in this

      city * " She was loading for Liverpool , and had taken on board about 20 , 000 bushels of grain , 400 bales of cotton , and 500 brls . rosin , valued altogether at about 42 , 000 dollars , making a total loss , for vessel and cargo , of about , 132 , 000 dollars . Her register was 1450 tons , and she was built in 1830 , by Mr . W . 'H ^ W « bb , of this city , for Messrs . Thompson and Nephew ' s Black Star line of Liverpool packets , in which she has been trading sirice she was launched . " The total loss is estimated at nearly a million of dollars—about two-thirds of which are insured .

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      INDIA AND CHINA . The news from the East brought by the last mail is of much interest . From Burmah there are still indications of the unsettled Btate of the country .. Conflictiiig xu ^ ours repi ^ eseat tJie robbers as at once sttq ^ gly stpekade ^ in maiiy places , and as disapjieiuin ^^ a sure sign that ^ the country is disturbed ; ^ hile-othecTeports assert 4 hat the . younger brother o £ theKIng' « f Ava was , about . to sweep the British ^ ronvthe vauoexed territory at the head of 100 , 000 men . This is no doubt an exaggeration .

      In the North West there baa been some fighting , The large force sent to fortify the Kohat Pass , had meft-with realitaticd Srcfsa ^ tae Affiredees . They had beenubeaten and . , starved into submission . The detaJls inayprove interesting . . ; * 4 ' * The fo «» , consisting of about 3 , 000 Bangoosh Afighans , w ^ ith four comaaniesof the 1 st Punjaub infantry , and two guns , ; uiider ; tlie commandof Captain Coke , proceeded to the jni 3 . selected far ,: the erection of ! the work ; out upon th « ir rrjwal thft place wa * vacated , the Affreedies having fled to the . jadjacent nnpuntains . Tlie Kohat men marcheoT up the JCotiat , and entrenched themselves without meeting any

      xeai » t * nce « Oa the following day the Aftreedies made a sudden , descent on the Bungoosh , and fairly put them to flight * r . Cok ^ -and his men arrived too late on the scene of action ; they , however , checked the onslaught , and pre-Yented . the . AJTreedies from getting at the fugitives ,, with their , swords . Captain C « ke was wounded in four places during . the skinnL > li by pieces of lead and stone , and was , obliged to- be led off the field by JbisJn 0 n . Tbc ; Aftreedies continued the pursuit until they were , about half way . down the hill , where they- were checked by . two companies pi the Punjaub Infantry . Upon observing lour other companies doubling up , and the guas getting into position , they slowly retired , ana gained their shelter at the crest of . the hOL Ihe Bungoosh lost eight men , and Coke had three slightly wounded . Four of the Affreediea were

      inaccessible heights , which by tho way commanded the afore , said village , were , in spite of a most detcrmmed opposition on the . part of the Afreedies , who disputed the ground step by step , carried into tho right in splendid style by Hodson ' s . division of the Guides and the Goorlchas . No description of mine can give you an idea of the admirable manner in which these galUnt fellows , Guides and Goorkhas , did their work ; depend upon it this crowning of 1 he Boree heights was one of the finest pieces of light infantry performance on record ; it was , moreorer , one which Avitabile , with 10 , 000 Sikhs , was unable to Accomplish . The skirmishers were recalled at about three © 'clock , the

      Goorkhas descending by a gorge in tlie steep front of the bill , closely followed bj the Afreedies , who kept up a galling fire to the last ; the steadiness of oar skirmishers in their descent was the admiration of all . The Guides , Goorkhas , and part of the 22 d were warmly engaged in the jear as the column retired , which it did by a more practicable reute than it had entered by , and finally reached camp at ten p . m , pretty well done tip , as you may fancy . Our day ' s work cost us the lives of 5 Guides , 4 Goorkh-ts , and 1 private of her Majesty's 22 d ; with 9 Guides , 8 Goorkhas ' , 4 h « r Majesty ' s 22 o , 1 artilleryman wounded ; not a heavy loss , considering what was effected in the face of a determined resistance on

      the part of our enemies , who are the bravest fellows and the best marksmen of all the Afreedie tribes . " There were 13 , 250 men at Peshawar with 4 S guns , and altogether 60 , 000 men in the Punjaub . The Times * correspondent at Bombay Bays , that " Itord Dalhousie ' s re-instatement of iGutram at Baroda , though confirmed by the Court of Directors , has not yet been carried into effect . The Bombay Government has recently made a most ill-advised and ineffectual attempt to injure Colonel Outram in the opinion of the Governor-General . It appears that during the height of the Baroda intrigues documents came into Colonel Outram ' s hands which he

      forwarded to the Bombay Government , with the request that they would endeavour to discover their authenticity and origin , but he did not mention that ( as subsequently appeared by a comparison of dates ) he had himself at the time of writing a clue to both ; this reserve ( for which Outram subsequently gave reasons , which the Governor-General considers satisfactory ) was construed by the Bombay Government into a charge of falsehood and duplicity ; and they communicated their views to Lord Dalhousie ' s Government by means of a despatch , appending thereto—which is quite unusual in such cases—the minutes of Lord Falkland and his members of council on the matter , in which Outram ' s character was Yery roughly attacked . The vincjictiye character of the whole proceeding elicited ( as might have

      been expected ) a most severe reprimand from th , e Governor-General , who expressed himself . perfectly satisfied with Colonel Outram ' s explanation . The general remark at Bombay regarding Outram ' s reinstatement is , " It is a very plucky thing of him to go back to Baroda ; he will certainly be poisoned there ; ' and I liave been surprised to hear this remark , not only from Colonel Outram ' s partisans , but from grave and reverend seigniors high in the civil service , who are no friends of his , and have all along been disposed to take the part of Lord Falkland in the quarrel . If' there are any real grounds for such apprehensions , the annexation of the petty State of Baroda should no longer be postponed . " Lord Elphinstone was expected at Bombay on the 22 nd , and Lord Falkland was to leave on the 38 th of December .

      The greatest activity prevailed m the Bombay army . Lord Frederick Fitzclarence has assembled a camp of instruction atPoonah ; he has instituted military schools for officers and men , offered prize medals to all three arms for firing at a mark , has ordered examinations of officers in their duty on their promotion to each grade , and altogether , by his personal activity and thorough knowledge of detail , was doing more towards raising the efficiency of the army to its utmost than any other Indian comraander-in chief has done for twenty years .

      T . he railway and the electric telegraph were attracting many native chiefs from the interior to Bombay . Tlie young Holkar lias been to Bombay incog ., and encamped on the island , with 2000 of his followers , was the Rajah of Dhar— Rao Jeswunt Powar , a Rajpoot chief , with a revenue of about 65 , 000 / ., but principally remarkable for being the head of the great family of Powar , of which ( as antiquaries suppose ) Porus , the antagonist of Alexander , was a member .

      The news from China informs us that Amoy has fallen ; that Taeping Wang was on his inarch to Pekin ; and that an invasion of Mogul Tartars was expected . The Imperialists committed horrible atrocities at Amoy .

      killed .-, Ituwas determined , to blockade the pass and stop all supplies , as a punishment for the perfidious conduct of the en ^ my ; but the evening beforepperations were to commence they . came to terms , and the Cluef Commissioner contented tourempve . the blockade on tlieir agreeing to our holding military occupation of the phsa . The declaration of peace made . on the pert of the Affreedies had to be ratified by one © £ two of the subordinate tribes , and the erection of the fort at Bazeed Khel had in consequence to be delayed . Of these tribe * , the . most hostile was the Borees , who occupy an almost inaccessible valley in the vicinity of the main

      PASS . - It . was fouud necessary to dbpatch a strong P » BS . -1 \ was jouua necessary to dispatch a strong forfie against , them , and chastise them in their own defiles .. Accordingly , on th « morning of , the 2 nd of December , * nearly all tno available troops iu camp started for th « Boree valley . A writer who accompanied the expedition says : — " The force consisted ot 450 Guides , the ^ Mountain Train Battery , about 400 of her Majesty's 22 d , 460 Goorkhas , and 180 of the 20 th Native Infantry . Th « whole were under arms at 4 a . m ., commanded by Colonel Boileatr , of her Majesty ' s 22 d . The party , after crossing the bill * between Kundao and the

      mam Afreedie range , defiled into the valley without oppositjod at half-past 10 . A snug , peaceful-looking spot lb is . with its four prosperous and comfortable villages , each defcndtng the otter , and flanked by three or four towers , immediately under the hills on the further side of the valley . Hie two villages to our left were carried and fired by the 22 d boys an < Ta party of Goorkhae , who made uncommonly abort work of it wbilatf the two on the right were himilarly disposed of by lurner ' a division of the Guides , under cover of the mountun-tram guns , whoao practice was tirdt rate . Their occupants were soon expelled , cUcly followed by Turner h men , who eventually drove their adversaries up tho bill Bide to the left and over tho crest . Meantime , these almost

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      DR . BOWRING AT MANCHESTER . An interesting- and highly influential meeting was held at Manchester , on Thursday , in the Mayor ' s parlour , to which the members of tho Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Association were invited to be present , along with the leading merchants and manufacturers , to meet Dr . Bow ring , provious to his departure for Cliina . Amongst the leading gentlemen present were : —Mr . James Hey wood , M . P . ; Mr J . Kershaw , M . P . ; Mr . George Hadfleld M . P .: Mr .

      Alex . Henry ; Mr . Thomas Bazley ; and Mr . J . A . Turner . Mr . B . Niqholls , the Mayor , introduced Dr . Bowring , who having expressed the gratification he felt at meeting so many gentlemen eminently connected with , the industry of the country , delivered an address , of which decimal coinage and our commercial relations with China were the ; more prominent topics . He believed the empire of China was destined to fulfil a great mission by tlie emigration which wa » now going on from thence through all ^ the Eastern nations . Such was the population of China that there was not a foot of it scarcely but was cultivated . Such

      v as the over population , in fact , that , notwithstanding the most violent interdicts against emigration , its surplus streams were overflowing : the countries of the East . In the island of Java he foand 25 , 000 , in the islands of the Indian archipelago he believed there were not less than 70 , 000 Chinese ; whilst in San Francisco there had been settled 25 , 000 more , and great numbers were emigrating to Australia , and the islands of Polynesia , or wherever there was a field of labour open to them . It appeared to be a lair of Providence that the superior races of mankind should supplant the inferior , and we saw in the pro cress of time the inhabitants of the West Iodia

      islands swept away—that the - Anglo-Saxon population was invading and removing ( he would not say destroying ) the red Indian tribes of America . So the Chinese race was setting aside the Malay in the same way that they ( the Malays ) had set aside the Dyaks . He ought also to have referred to the great snd growing importance of the opening in Western America , in . the great changes taking place in Australia and la India , which had opened a trade with India equal to that between Great Britain and Chins-All these subjects afforded topics-for reflection and for encouragement , and he would say that he had seen in China an exemplification of its value , to

      which he might be excused for referring . When he first reached China many ships came therefrom this country , which were an opprobJjUKJ 1 o the name of England . Such was the character of craft from this country , that whea , two years ago , the Americans introduced their magnificent cuppers , they could obtain no more than two guineas , whilst ikxe Americans obtained seven-guinea freights to load -tea for England . At that time the gentlemen present knew- what were the" apprehensions . of

      merchants as to the results of free trade , if it were allowed to touch its last stronghold of monopoly—4 he shipping interest . ( Laughter . ) It was' introduced Into shipping , however , and , as all weie aware , there Vas no interest which , had been so , benefited . ( Cheers . ) And when he left China the ships built 5 n Englaad under this system were some of the finest that ever glided over the great waters , and the freights which they were able to command were equal to the average of those given to the fittest clippers of America . ( Cheers . )

      Some alarm had been expressed , he was told , that 5 F we opened the tea trade more fully lest there should bean insufficient supply ; but he " could assure them there was no fear of that . The quantity used here was but as a drop in a bucket to what the Chinese themselves used , and to what was necessarily therefore produced . Tea was drunk in China by three hundred to four hundred millions of people as many as three or four times a day ; and there was not a cottage at which you could call where it could not be supplied . They did not use it us we did ; they did not firs up black tea to the blackness of ours , and they did not paint their

      Ijreen tea to the extent we required —( laughter )—but it was nevertheless an article of universal request . He had no fear but China would be able to supply any amount of tea we might ever require ; as to silks he would only call attention to the progress in exportation which was already taking place in thafi article . Its value was more fully recognised he believed every day , and strange to say , this country has almost a monopoly of its importation . When he was in Franco the other day this was mentioned to him , and he believed the reason was the singular trait in the French character which so soon discouraged them . He had been asked how it was there

      -was not a single French merchant at Canton ? They had sent orders to Shanghai for silk , lmt those orders had not been preceded by the arrangements which the English merchants had made to secure a supply . Ho was of opinion , however , that they would ha \ c Trench merchants there ere long , and thought we could hardly expect to retain the whole trade of that important branch of Chinese exports . He admitted that great mists and doubts and darkness overhung the future of the Chinese empire , but at the same time believed that our own relations with that country would yet assume a more important and fceneflcial character . ( Applause . ) The meeting concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman .

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      WAR AND PESTILENCE . Tun following table is made up from official returns for tlie use of the General Board of Health , nndfrora

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      g 2 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 14, 1854, page 32, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2021/page/8/