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      The flood of important news which poured in upon us last weeklhss been succeeded by an ebb—by an almost total cessation of telegraphic despatches from the confederated armies ; so that we are left in the dark as to what will be the next step , either of the Allies orsdf the enemy . As usual during these lulls , there has been no want of guessing ; the most noticeable of the rumours being that the Russians are retiring upon Perekop . The story comes through Vienna , and goes so far as to say that " the Russian Embassy received intelligence that the Russian troops were retreating from Baktchi-Serai and iSimpheropol to Perekop , " and that " Prince Gortschakoff , the Russian Ambassador at Vienna , was greatly

      affected at the news . " This intelligence , however , if received by the Embassy at all , was received on Monday ; and nothing " more has _ transpired on the subject . On the other hand , it is said that the Russians have no intention of abandoning the southern half of Sebastopol , but that they are moving up reinforcements and constructing new forts . Other rumours again state that the north fort has been abandoned by the Russians ; that the whole of the forts have been evacuated , and that Pelissier ' s plans are of such a nature that 20 , 000 Russians will be

      made prisoners by the Allies . It is probable , however , that , up to the present moment , the situation remains pretty much the same as that which immediately supervened upon the reduction of the town . That some hot work has yet to come seems likely ; and theFrench are providing against all contingencies by sending off large reinforcements . Preparations are being made at Marseilles for the embarkation of 10 , 000 horses ; the gendarmes of the Guard have left Maslek ; and Admiral Bruat has caused Taman and Fanagoria , in front of Yeni-Kaleb , to be occupied by 1200 Allied seamen .

      That the Allies did not find in the abandoned town " nothing but blood-stained ruins , " is manifest from the annexed despatch from Marshal Pelissier , dated " Sebastopol , Sept . 17 th : "" In their work of destruction , the enemy respected the docks ( which are magnificent constructions ) , the establishments in the vicinity , the barracks of Fort Nicholas , and the Quarantine Fort . " The Anglo-French Commission appointed to draw up a return of the materiel left by the Russians at Sebastopol has commenced its labours . The result may be summarily stated as follows : —

      "We have found in the town about 4000 cannon , 60 , 000 cannon balls , a few hollow projectiles , a large quanti ty of grape , a great amount of gunpowder ( despite the explosions ) , 500 anchors ( half of which are excellent ) , 25 , 000 kilogrammes of copper , two steam engines of 30-hoise power , and a considerable number of masts sawn la two for defensive purposes ( blindages ) . " A communication , dated the following day , states that the French Generals and superior officers wounded are doing as well as can be expected . Gortschakoff , writing on the evening of September 11 th , says : —

      " We have blown up a great part of the fortifications of the southern part of Sebastopol . The enemy begins to appear in ( not very numerous ) groups amidst the ruins of the town . We have transported to the north part of the place all the wounded who remained in the southern part after its evacuation . These wounded were probably the five hundred who , according to a previous account , were left behind . The French General , it would seem , had given permission for their removal . Some idea of the tragical nature of the Russian losses during the bombardment may be gathered from a despatoh sent by General Gortschakoff on the 8 th , and published in the Journal de St . Petersbourg : —

      " The enemy receives nearly every day new reinforcements . The bombardment continues with unexampled violence . Our loss has been more than 2500 men in the last twenty-four hours . " It is indeed evident that the Russians have suffered frightfully , notwithstanding the confident denial of Count Neuselrode and others . The Cologne Gazette publishes a letter from St . Petersburg , which gives a very gloomy account of the condition of the enemy in the Crimea . The writer says : — " The stores of the Government of Kherson ore

      completely exhausted since commercial vessels have ceased to bring , by the Soa of Azof , \ : orn from the fertile countries of the Don . It is now necessary to bring from Porokop the forage for the animals employed in transports , and oven tho water which they require ; for there is no forage in the Crimea , and the springs aro dried up . Tho Salghir haa become quite a little rivulet . Tho crop of potatoes has also failed , and the price has risen more than threefold . Vegetation 1 b everywhere withered , and the price of corn is constantly on the riao at Siinpheropol . " The testimony of a writer from Karaiosch may ho added to tho foregoing : — ] ! < l t

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      move the illustrious travellers which we have It was shown at the inquest that the most culpable mentioned—different even from the necessities laxity prevailed : the switchman , who ought to that call out the Czab—are the reasons that have have turned the switches , was at tea ; the stationagain sent Santa Atwa on his travels . Mexico masteryinrho ought to have given instructions to will not have him and ' probably she ,..-msright . Cbossiet ., was at tea ;' and the usage appears to Tet Mexico , not long since , . lieid Santa -Anna to have sanctioned a pervading neglect of rules and believe that he was the very man whom she de- regulationa . The administration that has such sired . He had retired from tSie Republic before , bloody results is the true culprit , and the Company getting away , undefc , some difficulty , with his pro- js held by the public to be really answerable , perty and his wife ; He was followed by the im- The Worcester magistrates have been enforcing portunities of the Mexicans , who seduced him Christianity . "We know that the simple words from his retired ease , persuaded him to resume willjook like a joke ; for when we talk of county possession of power , and manifestly encouraged magistrate * and Christianity , it almost fallows him to render that povrer dictatorial . Of course that there must be something absurd in the story , there are always "three courses" to be pursued , And so there is . Nathaniel Wiixiams is a even in the most subversive of countries ; and in poor man living near Worcester ; he has a small Mexico there were three . A President of strong plot of ground , which he cultivates in his leisure will and virtue mig ht induce the Republicans to hours ^ like the negroes in the West Indies . On assemble the Congress ; might put down any faction the 26 th of August , the day being Sunday , he or fanaticism which should lead that Congress saw that if he did not cut his grain the weather from its purpose ; and might assist the whole or the birds would do it for him ; and he cut nation in declaring its will ; A despot of N " a- it . This is a breach of the Sunday Trading poleonie power might have prepared a great Law , and for it he is brought before the intrigue —*• might have accomplished a coup Worcester magistrates , who find thus his crime d ' etat—and , by a sufficiently clever treatment must be ^ qu oted at 5 s . fine and 12 s . 6 d . of the army , might lave rendered his power costa . Thus 17 s . 6 d . worth of offensiveness had " he absolute , dictatorial , and imperial . Santa Anna committed before God and man in saving so much wonted either the honesty or the strength of corn . if s indeed , he had been cleaning boots foi > eitfter course , and be attempted a compro- for a magistrate all day , or driving horses for mise . He corrupted tlie army ; he crowded the ( jjtto in the intervals between church , or drawing civil service with his own nominees ; but somehow corkg out of bottles for four hours after dinner , he he did not manage to appropriate the civil wouid have been performing " a work of necesserviee nor the army . He still left room for sity ; " but if he cuts corn on the seventh day , to the malcontents . His own employes were per- ^ extent of two and a half perches , it is estihaps unfaithful , as soon as they got out of him mated that he must pay damages to an offended what he could give ; and not having strength creatOr to the extent of 17 s . 6 d . ! That is the enough to appropriate a majority to himself , he Worcester view of Christianity ; and certainly it had yet sufficient strength to irritate a majority j s of a kind which makes us blush , if we have into existence against him . The curse of Mexico sneered at the Santals . is its division into parties so little competent for — real business , so self-seeking that they can only The : late Railway Accident at Reading . —The unite against any one , and cannot combine for inquest on the todies of the sufferers by this calamity s „ ... ' ,. ,,-, Q nai was concluded on Monday , when the jury returned a any purpose of positive good . Xhey can expel verdictj finding Joseph Crossley guilty of manslaughter Sakta Anna ; they constitute a really effective m regard to the deaths of the persons named in the in-Grbvernment . He never yet has succeeded in quest , and that said Joseph Crossley did kill and slay rendering Us power firm and paramount ; he is Jg-tt J ^ J" ^^^^ * £ ST most successful in escaping again with property as attend to the signals and points connected with the well as life . railway station . — The evidence fully corroborated the t- . ¦ n « ill cIVT , n « moa T ^ f ™* Tii « rvinntrv- accounts originally given of the singular carelessness of In Bengal , Sindu comes before bis country Crogsley t ? A 11 £ e danger Bignals , " said a witness , one men with hig her testimonials than Santa Anna , of the porters , " were up ; but Crossley did not stop , or for he has a divine mission . It seems that the pay any regard to them . Even had a switchman been hill tribe in Bengal * ose eruption we have al- S ^^ t . iJSSff ^ t £ ^ i ^ Si S ^^ ready noticed , has been partly moved to this re- coming on so f ^ t . " There were no regular switchmen voTutionary attempt at redressing its wrongs by previous to the accident , but the porters acted as such . the enlightenment of Christianity . The gospel of It was the duty of Crossley , when he saw the danger n ~ i , , . i . , * . 1 . 1 . i signals , which he must have passed , to stop and com-St . John has been circulated amongst the people . s ^ f £ 2 t ™ yvith th 6 8 tation-master ; blithe did not do so . It has suggested new ideas , or rather it has fur- He unwise violated the rules in not announcing his denished them with an authoritative form for roviv- parture to the station-master , who would thereupon have ing some of their o ! d ideas , adapted to the new " ¦ gf- ^ » £ ^ £ ' 5 a 2 £ j £ ** dispensation , and they profess that Sindu is at once preaa ° d hia opinion to the jury , that , by the present a missionary and an incarnation of divine power arrangement , the safety of the public is sufficiently prodestined to be «*«*> - ¦ He h to make war on tg-jjb- * £ * £ ZS £ fc £ tS *? Z £ g . " the Sahibs , " or Lords , that is , the rulers of India ; An appointnient cf this nature has been made since the and is to establish a monarchy of the Santals in aecident . Mr . Thew was at tea at the time of Crossley ' s their own territory . Wo have had examples of departure , and ho has been blamed for sending him a similar outbreak * in ^ trtes not so distant „ 2 g $£ ZS £ - £ + ? £££ & £ &E China , and SiNDU is not very different from an : hia departure , while the latter seems to have taken the Indian . TnOM or ' 'Cojf ^ j ^^ TC . The , Santals np- message for an order to start immediately . A correpear tohtfve insurred *( try predominance within epondent of tho Times says the dangerwpost is six ,. - ¦• ¦ * , -. * . ¦¦ \ iii ifjL * 'J » . i i . . *¦•> 1 . 4 > t ~ i a hundred yards rcm the Reading station , and that there a district comprisirtg ^ ftisa'id , about a hundred * JJJJbut two or throo porters to attend to the whole of square miles ; they . ^ ly-ft attacted' villages , and this line . —Since our last publication , another of tho killed thousands of people , besides destroying fao- injured passengers has died , making in all five deaths . tones . They are strong bPOUgh to occasion s 6 me T ^ oSo ^ cost in putting thdm down . . jjight jjev . W . Yaughan , D . D ., was elevated to the At home , the great companies are at the bhlr of titular see of Plymouth on Monday morning , at thepublioopinion . AMUM . t « tal « t ST J S o £££ 22 MSS 253 US 3 3 * S *) BAWABr , PAUJC , and Co . j but they traverse to Rov Dr # uilathorne , Roman Catholic Bishop of Birnext session of the Central Criminal Court . ' mingham , and the Right Rev . Dr . Brown , Roman' Cad&SiaoT , the engine-driver who dashed into al CMholic Blshop ^ f Newport . The ceremony was very ; V * V ""~ , ' * , ? , » ,. «^ a « hi A */ i * il £ , M * wT elaborate , and tha church waavtbrongea , both with' ttfcfn riear Redding , alaying several people , and Romnn CatUolifl 9 and Pxote 9 taptB . in the evening , a contflaHtittg Suicide , bns beeti proribunced by a'j fiormon was preached by the Rpv . H . E . Manning , late coronor ' a jury to bear the blame of thrtt crime . ! an archdeacon of tho English Church .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 22, 1855, page 902, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2107/page/2/