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      , . ,, to supply relateable events ; pur own . Parliament is not sitting ; we Lave therefore nothing substantial to tell ) no explanations to drag forth , and invention has it all its own way . Perhaps the greatest , event of tha week with respect to Russia , is the appointment of Sir Hamilton Seymoub to be the British Ambassador , at the Court of Vienna . Sir . Hamilton therefore stands once more between , " the Sick Man'' tlie Czar ; and he carries" his-carpefc bag and his shrewdness to the court "whose trimming has most perplexed the Western Powers . It is the greatest sio-n of vigour that we have to report . Lord Panmube also has been made a G . C . Ba step which may have its moral effect on Russia . Item : There is a rumour that Lord Haedisge i 3 to retire , and to be succeeded , assumes the public , by a Crimean licro—the Duke o * Cambridge . Item : Lord Stanley , the eldest son of Derby , is reported to stand on the threshold of the Cabinet . ScovEii . and Napier continue their preliminary contest for Southwark . Nafijkr uses such language that at least he draws forth Scovelx , ; so tbat . whichever member the constituency returns , h , e will stand pledged to taking a very independent and-popular position . Among the public meetings of the -week , none lias been more amusing and pleasant than that at Hipon . It was held to celebrate the twenty-third anniversary of the Mechanics" Institution iu a town now eminent for the most heterogeneous associations—it is sacred to the memory of the respectable Miss Lawrence , who once returned two Members to Parliament ; it once gave a seat to Sir James Gbaham , and a title to the respectable Lord GopfKicn , whose son now assists the " lower" class "to lift itself , " a 3 the Dean of KiroN expressed it , " to natm-e . " At that meeting of a Mechanics' Institution , the Dean took the most conspicuous part , delivering a lecture on positive science and teaching the lower orders how to rise , while Mr . Lascelles announced that the land for a reformatory in the neighbourhood Lad been given by Lord Cardigan . The Millennium must be established down there at Ripon . The theme waa beautifully continued by Lord Grey , at the meeting of United Mechanics ' Institutions in Newcastle , on Tuesday last . He showed * how union had resulted in placing at the disposal of each institution libraries of a scope and character that no one of them could have commanded separately . Now the same principle might be applied to procuring illustrations for lectures , an . aid that the department of Practical Art lias begun to render , but which might be much more efficaciously procured by establishing special museums in different parts of the country . Lord Grky only touched upon this ; but ho enlarged upon the benefits which men derive through union '; and showed that commerce itself brings its greatest blessings when it is pursued , in order to benefit others as well as ourselves . For it happens that in that kind of exchange , the largest return for each is obtained . Commerce itself is thus reconciled to the laws of chivalry , to the laws of poetry , the laws of nature , and of the religion which leads the mind back to the Author of nature . It is something to have an Karl preaching theme doctrines before the representatives of all classes , in n trading aud manufacturing town J Asjtho Minister of Public Works leaves so many of our public works to man ago themselves , oao of our most energetic reformers hns been forced to take a very strange course . Mr . F . O . WU « u > feus , n _ jt were , instituted a criminal prose-4 >» tfo » of fcb . o chief engiueor under tho

      Metropolitan Commission , of- SJjewers , whom he accuses o 1 malversation of" estimates , impropriation of data , forgery of argument , and coining of scientific facts . Mr . Ward demanded a committee to inquire into his statements ^—that is , to investigatt the conduct of Mr . Bazalgette . Now , the real purpose of the motion is , to force upon the Commission an inquiry into the comparative methods of tubular drainage , and the man-hqle system of draining . In vain has Mr . Ward urged the merits of the " arterial system . " Tha Commissioner ' s mind is dull and inert , and could not be induced to enter into the theory of " the grand circle " the mathematical proprieties of tubular main drains . But Mr . Ward is not easily foiled . His genius hit 3 upon a right expedient . He tells Bazalgette , before the assembled Commissioner ? , that he is a villain ; the Commissioners open their ears , and , in the form of investigating the crimes of Bazalgette , they will be seduced into examining the comparative merits of tubular drainage . If Bazelgette is made a villain for purposes of scientific inquiry , he needs not take it greatly to heart : others , looking quite as innocent and respectable , have been proved villains , with no scientific results , save some further light thrown on the laws of human nature . Straiian , Paul , and Bates , the oldest , quietest , and most respectable bankers in London , have been convicted and sentenced to seven years transportation . " Alice Grey , " a sweet creature , who found a protector in every town , proves to be a very Ax-cina in wickedness and ugliness , under the guise of lovely artlessness . And the Prikce of Armenia , memorable in the annals of high life and its- fast ways at the West-end , proves to be a German Jew ! A Prince of Armenia has lately joined Russia—" After receiving bounty from delnded countrymen I " exclaimed all of us , when the news arrived—" after receiving every attention that Belgravia aud Tyburnia could show . " It turns out , however , that there are two Princes of Armenia—one in Asia , speculating in Russian bonds ; and the other hi the Honse of Correction , at Berlin , for speculating a little too deeply in English and German credulity . Thirty-four Jersey refugees , for uttering opinions which the Times uttered years ago , have been expelled the island ; the govenor , as he sleeps that night , must have dreamed that his coat was purple with bees on it 1 '

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      THE WAR .

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      Full accounts of the capture of Kinburn arrived at the close of the present week , and have added an element of interest to the meagre totals graphic messages which have been published since our last issue . The substance of thesii reports . will be found below ; and we may therefore here * ? confine ourselves to the other items of information , £ such as th *? y amount to , as communicated from i ' various sources . : The game at chess which commenced inane- $ I diatuly aftur . the fall of South Sebastopol , still con- ' ¦ . <¦ tinucs ; and in answer to the inquiry made by $ Prince Gortschakoffof the Kmperor , as to ¦ whet her I lie should defend or abandon the Crimea , the latter f ' I has given him permission to do either , as he thinks 1 fit , exonerating him from all responsibility . § Nevertheless , his operations , if need be , wiil be f . supported by the army of the south , under General j . Lutlers , which will remain for this purpose at J NicholniefF . General Luders hns published an 1 Order of the Day , announcing that , in virtue of instructions from the Emperor , all the battalions 1 of the first levy of the Militia of the Einpu-e have j been united to the Army of the South , uutk-r his ¦< i ( the General ' s ) command . ! A despatch from Constantinople , dated Oct . '; 28 th , says : — . * " Three Sardinian divisions , under the command of General de la Marmora , left their cantonmeut * mi the 15 th , and marched towards the interior of the Crimea . \ The Engli-h division , under Sir Colin Campbell , followed \ them . All tlie Allied Army has been ordered to prepare ' provisions for three days . The Russians are foiling back ^ i . destroying the roads behind them , but the Allies soon repair them . " £ Prince Gortschakoff , on the 17 th of October , writes : — J " Three divisions of French occupy the pass command- J lug the i : orge of the Valley of Baidar , and another is rjostcd behind them in the valley itself . According to j reliable accounts , the enemy has erected barracks and . j built earthern huts in the valley , and is now constructing a new road from the old Ckausee to Mordwinoif's estate , oil the Tcherxuiya . On the mountains of 1 ' edj-uehid * earthen huts are also being constructed , and from thence . j they are making : a road direct to Karniesch Bay . " j The allied troops which left Eupatoria on the 22 nd ult . returned , thither on the 24 th ; but it would appear that they again advanced , for , on . ; October 29 th , GortschakofF writes that , after stro : i £ demonstrations from Eupatoria in the duection of , i Simplu ropol , the allies , " seeing that their move- § ments were constantly disturbed , and that their | left flunk was threatened , " returned on that day ( the 29 th ) to Eupatoria . i Up to the 1 st of October , if we may credit" j letter from the colony of German Ivleinnonites , i near the Sea of Azof , published in the Berlin Kreiz Z ' itung , provisions kept pouring into the ; Crimea through ' some unknown military road a , communicating with the peninsula ; but this is . nore than n month ago , and the Russian situation has grown far more serious since thn , Apprc heiidion is felt at Nicholaieff , around , which , accordingly , troops are being galhcivd in . case of an attack . The spasm of panic : which agonized Odessa when last the fleets appeared before it , ha _ . subsided with the departuro of thosegiant troubiers ; but over the whole iUu . ^ iaa l _ mpiri ! extends a cloud of anxiety and jj ' oom . j Tho Emperor is continually pravin » for victory to that loc il God who is supposed to take pai iie ;; lar ea . ro of thS * Muscovites ; the Empx'oss-ini'thii . ' prays that her son may bo induced to return from tho dangerous frontiers into the heart of the land ; and a shudow rests upon the self-styicd " holy people . " The llussian telegraph speaks of nothing but discomfort . The annexed is the hi test Muxcovito account ; of affairs at Kinburn : — ( e Nicholaieff , Oct . 22 , at a quarter to one . " No change has taken place in tho enemy ' s position . Tho mntu body of tho fleet remains at anchor nc . ir the-Kinburn 8 pit , und its detachment of light vessels in il" > roadatoad of Otchakoff , and at tho mouth of ihe Hug tho total of tlioao forces amounts to niuety-thrt'u vi ' .-sl-I-j . >¦ * To-dny , in tho forenoon , a few dctacliinciilM rcasconded tho Vug aud tho Dnieper , but only a whorl way , and uoon ruturned to thoir mouringe . Tho ve . s . ieLi thuu re-aaeondat tho Hug did not even come so high n . s . <[> tho spot where they oxehunged , yestirday , someiniiiioiishots with our ar . tUlury . " Tho onuiny ' a land troops nro etutionod between tho suburb and fortress of Kinburn . " Other dL'spatches from NicuolniefT state that i

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      Falling in op a Railway Tunnel . —A considerable portion of the Stoke Tunnel , a few miles south of Grantham , on the Great Northern Railway , fell in during last week , and the passenger traffic , until Sunday night , i . ad to ba diverted on to the loop-line , or Lincolnshire branch . The up-line tlirough the tunnel remaining clear , tho goods traffic was sent by it , un'l the ronto is now completely restored . On Sunday evening , while the tunnel was yet obstructed , a coal train broke down on the loop line , which thus became also blocked up , and owing to tho telegraphic wires having been injured by an accident , no communication could be sent on to tho nearest tations . Tho traffic wit a delayed for some hours ; but tho line was at length made clear again . Slave-hunting in Indianapolis . — Some details of a slave-hunt , given in tho Indianapolis Journal , exhibit the atrocious naturo of tho institution which loads to such results . It seems that two fugitive slaves had been hunted by dogs , but hud , in a desperate fight , killed the animals with knives . They wore out wandering from Sunday night till Friday without provisions . Worn out , ragged , and footsore , buying had nothing to eat but what the orchards and forest tveoa provided , they despaired of escape , and hailed their pursuers . Thtsy were taken in charge and carried to Vernon , to the United States ' Commissioner , who remanded them to slavery on their own admission of being fugitives from labour . Next , they were brought to Indianapolis on the return of tho train , au 4 before sun _ at wore again in slavery in Kentuck y , THK CoMMKH , CIA _ TllAVBLLKRS' SCHOOL . —iThts newly-erected building at Pinner , designed at ) a school for the children of comn * cr « fAl travellers , wns opened on Saturday by , Prince Albert , in tho presence of the Lord Mayor , the Sheriffs , and others , A subscription wixa afterward- begun , and t ( i « proceedings tcrjnin . ut-U with u cold collation .

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      IQ 4 £ THJE LE ADER . [ No . 293 , Saturday ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 3, 1855, page 1046, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2113/page/2/