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      favoured to prevent it by collecting a party of friends , S& ^ S ^ C ^ MUJ Jfeaw ^ g ^ sssriiS ^ SriVaf of Ss H— and her friends . Having arnved and finding the approach barred against them , some o fe , party left the ^ ar to remove the obstacles presented to them , when the lady was pounced upon by the party of her former lover , and then a struggle ensued rtie bridegroom's party endeavouring to retain her and the othet to carry her off . The conflict terminated in vict ^' for W- — -, the former lover , who , succeeded in placing the lady on a car and in effecting his escape with his prize , neither of whom was heard of up to Wednesdav Sst The intended bridegroom had his countenance much damaged . The matter has come before the magistrates— Cork Constitution .

      . __ _ ... _ _„ - _ The Potato . — The accounts from all parts of the country speak hopefully of the potato crop , and no allusion whatever is made to the appearance of the blight of

      The Tjpperaky Bank— In the office of the Master in Chancery , on Monday , Mr . Lawless , on behalf of the official manager , moved for an order directing payment bv the contributaries in the schedule of the balance due by them in respect to the call of 40 J . per share , after giving them respectively credit for all proper deductions and credits , as shown by their accounts with the Tipperary Bank . On the 9 th of June , having previously settled the list of contributaries , the Master directed that the several parties liable should pay to the official manager what appeared to be the balance due respectively by them . A call of 40 £ per share had been made , and nowaccording to the practice laid down in Mr .

      , LudlowV book on the Winding-up Act , an order was sought to compel James Sadleir to pay the official manager , on a day and a place hereafter to be named , a sum of 65 , 149 ? . Is . 3 d ., which was the amount of his liability in respect to the call of 40 ? . per share , after getting all the credits which he was entitled to . The Master said he would make the order sought for ; and , after some other applications had been disposed of , Mr . Meldon , the solicitor to the official manager , made a statement that he alone was to blame ( if blame were attributable ) in recommending a private examination of bhis

      James Sadleir , in connexion with the purchase y late brother of a large property in the Encumbered Estates Court , and the conveyance of the same to the trustees of the Tipperary Bank , from which establishment the purchase money had been obtained , James Sadleir being one of the trustees named in the conveyance . He desired the examination to be private because , had it not been so , the evidence of James Sadleir would have been conveyed by the newspapers to the directors , officials , and solicitor of the Tipperary Sank , all of whom it was determined to examine in the Master ' s Court . At the conclusion of Mr .

      Meldon ' s statement , Master Murphy said he thought the eolicitor had acted very properly in the matter . Kerry Election . —Lord Castleroase , the newly appointed Comptroller of the Royal Household , was reelected on Saturday , without opposition .

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      THE ORIENT . INDIA . The disturbances among the Sowrahs appear to be at an end for the present . A terrible outbreak of cholera has occurred at Agra , and struck down several even of the Europeans , who are usually exempt . The natives are wild with fright , and speak of a mysterious horseman , who is riding over the country , and causing the pestilence to burst forth wherever his horse's hoofs jstriko the ground . " Some officials of the Punjab . "

      . says the Times Calcutta correspondent , " have recently called attention to a frightful practice there prevalent . Bands of lepers go roaming about , extorting contributions from the people by the threat of bathing in the wells . Tho contagious character of this disease in the Punjab is , I fear , fully proved . Major Lake is building an asylum , and as soon as it is complete , stern and summary measures must be adopted for the suppression of this horror . " The occupation of Herat by tho Persians is confirmed . The Persian general is said to be a renegade Russian .

      A sanguinary affray has taken place at Hyderabad in tho Doccan . An Affghan officer of rank applied in open Durbar for certain arrears of pay ; tho Court cut down his claim ; tho Affghan declined to accede to these terms , and , after an altercation , was ordered to leave the presence . An Arab soldier insulted him as he was going out , and the Affghan , upon retorting , was shot dead . A desperate conflict then ensued , till , overpowered by numbers , tho chief ' s attendants were all alain ' or takon , not without much loss to tho Arabs .

      PERSIA . Th « Persian ambassador , who is expected at Constantinople on his way to Paris , will also proceed to London in order to put an end to the Anglo-Persian differences . Ho la charged to offer every satisfaction to England , on condition that tho English Cabinet shall recal Mr . Murray , and replace him by another ambassador .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . Lord Dalhousie ox Mesmerism . —A letter has been addressed by Lord Dalhousie to the Exeter Board of Guardians , in reply to some inquiries made by them with respect to his Lordship ' s experience of Dr . Esdaillc ' s use of mesmerism in India . The late Governor-General says that , judging from the testimony given by several eminent medical men , Dr . Eadaille ' s passes produced a remarkablo effect on tho Indians , who were thrown by

      them into complete insensibility , during which the most awful surgical operations could , be performed without tho infliction of the least pain . Of tho efficacy of Dr . Esdaille ' s plan in cases of lunacy , Lord Dalhousie is not prepared to speak ; nor is he aware whether the Doctor can influence the English constitution in the same degree as the Hindu . At the same time , his Lordship does not wish to bo " considered as a disciple of the doctrines of mesmerism generally . " He appointed Dr . Esdaille in 1848 to bo one of the Presidency surgeons in consequence

      of the success of his system . A Perilous Sleep . —One duy last week ( says the Dover Chronicle ) the coastguardinan on watch at Shakspearo ' s Cliff perceived a woman in a recumbent position a little way down the cliff , a short distance from him . He immediately ran to tho station , and the chief boatman , Alfred Clarke , and his men hastened with a rope to tho spot . Tho woman was about thirty feet down tho cliff , and apparently asleep , although in that most perilous position . With tho promptitude peculiar to sailors , Clarke had tho rope fastened nround him and descended , but with some anxiety , lest the noise made should suddenly awaken her , as ho perceived that the

      least motion on her part would have precipitated her upon tho rocks below . On taking hold of her ho had great difficulty in rousing her , and , when this was accomplished , aho struggled hard to free herself from hie grasp , as though aho desired to fall . In consequence of this struggling , Clarko found he could not manage tc got her up alone , and another man therefore descended , and all three wore then pulled up . On reaching tin summit tho woman exclaimed , " I don't thank you ai all . I wished to die , but not to throw myoolf off ; and before I went to sleep I prayed that I might roll ovoi boforo I woke ! " It appears abe had taken laudanum , but not sufficient to destroy life , although it stupifled

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      NAVAL AND MILITARY . A Field Equipment Coups—The authorities at the Horse Guards having determined on organizing a field equipment corps , to be attached to the corps of Royal Sappers and Miners , extensive additions are being made at Brompton-barracks , Chatham , for the accommodation of the horses and men , it being deemed desirable to have the men quartered as near their horses as possible . The Clarendon , steam transport , was lost on her passage home from the East , with troops on board . She sprang a leak off Cadiz , and was run ashore . All hands were saved , owing to assistance rendered by the Banshee , despatch steam-vessel , a French ship , and an Austrian

      a . a .. tt . xr » -. rv rir ith Thfi cranil staircase of the Army and Navy Club . —The grand staircase of the Army and Navy Club is about to be enriched by the erection of a memorial window , in commemoration of officers who have fallen in different engagements . The window , which will be in the Venetian-Italian style , will be composed of brilliant cut glass . On the window will be medallions exhibiting the names and dates of the battles , and the arms of the club . The architraves will be of Sienna marble , with panels of black marble , on which will be inscribed , in letters of gold , the names of the officers commemorated .

      A True Soldier ' s Wife . —Mrs . Wilding , wife of a corporal of the Royal Artillery , was one of three women who were allowed to land with the troops at Old Fort , in the Crimea . She was present with her husband at the battle of the Alma , marched by his side across the country to Balaklava , and was present at the battle of Balaklava , where she took a horse from a Russian officer . During her residence in the camp , she earned by washing an average amount of 20 s . a day , and saved a considerable sum . Her invariable companion during the war was a revolver , which she much prizes . The Lords of thb Admiralty have paid an official visit to the port of Cork , with the condition of which they expressed themselves highly satisfied . Colonel Lake has been compelled by the state of his health to retire from the service of the East India Company .

      Superheattno Stbam . —The method invented and introduced by Mr . Wetherhed , late member of the United States Congress , for superheating steam , having been submitted to various processes during the last six months in the dockyard at Woolwich , has at length assumed a practical form . Prior to the late voyage of the Dee to the western coast of England , the apparatus was at work the whole voyage , -which was extended as far as Land ' s End Point and back to Woolwich , at an increased speed of from seven to nine knots au hour .

      It is understood that the average economy realized in fuel amounts to about thirty-five per cent . The apparatus consists of a number of iron pipes being carried along the front of the tube plate , and extending into the chimney , into which the ordinary steam passes , and which gradually becomes superheated to about five hundred degrees . It is then alloyed , or mixed with the ordinary steam , in about equal proportions , bringing the temperature of the mixed steam to about three hundred and forty degrees , in which state it is applied to the purposes of the machinery .

      H . M . S . " Cressy" at Cronstadt . —On the 3 rd of July the Grand Duke Constantine paid a visit to H . M . S . Cressy at Cronstadt . He stayed four hours on board , and went over every corner in the ship . He was accompanied by Admiral Novasiliaky , now Governor of Cronstadt , late second in command at Sinope , and afterwards in command of a battery at Sebastopol , where he lost eight hundred out of a thousand men . The admiral who commanded at Petropaulowski was also in attendance . None of the officers were at all deficient in conversation , and they seemed glad to talk of the war . " They all appeared to have one aim in view" ( says a private letter from which we extract)— " to persuade us that if we had gone to war more boldly we must have succeeded ; but they overdid it . The Grand Duke wna asked if we

      could , after the explosion at Sweaborg , have taken the place . 4 Without doubt , ' he replied , ' for wo had only the charges already in . the guns , and no more powder . ' Ho was asked if wo could have taken Cronstadt . ' If you had attacked on the south side you would have done no damage to tho forta , and probably all your ships would have boon sunk ; but on the north side wo were completely at your mercy . My father waa deceived aa to tho depth of wator there , and when he saw your ships approach so near ho gave up all for lost , and only wondered why you did not send your boats in to HCt dockyard and ships on lire . ' " After the Grand Duke ' s visit the Russian officers became much more cordial , and visited tho Creasy several times . They also gave an entertainment on board tho Wyburg , an eighty-gun

      ship . Siiii'Wuisck . —Mr . W . Mears , tho master of tho Ediua , has written to his parents in Exeter an account of tho wreck of that vesaol when on ita voyage from Newcastlo to Rio Grande . Several of the hands poriahed , and thoso who survived had to endure dreadful hardships on a desolate shore , whore they wore thrown half naked in very cold weather . This occurred in tho course of lost May . Having struggled on for Home miles , they fell la with somo Portuguese , by whom they were kindly takon oaro of . Bkvikw at Woolwich . —Tho Duke of Cambridge ,

      , Horse and Foot Artillery recently returned from the Crimea . The Guards' Festival is to take place in the hall oi the Surrey Gardens on the 25 th inst . Flogging . —The troops belonging to the Chatham division of Royal Marines Light Infantry-were marched to the rear of their barracks at Chatham , on Tuesday , for the purpose of witnessing the carrying out of the sentence of a court-martial upon Private James Taylor , of the 73 rd company of Royal Marines , who had been sentenced to receive fifty lashes , and also to be placed under stoppages , for desertion , and making away with a portion of his regimental necessaries . After the prisoner , who bears a very bad character , had received bis punishmenthe was removed to Melville Hospital .

      , General Beatson has addressed a letter to Mr . Frederick Peel , in which he says : — " Having just addressed a letter to the Head of the Department of which you are Under-Secretary , it is unnecessary for me to take any further notice of your letter of the 4 th inst . than to remark , with reference to your threat , which I regard not , of sending any letter of mine to the Directors of the Hon . East Company , I am assured that they , and all honourable men , would feel the same warm indignation that I do if they were treated with the unparalleled , cruel injustice that I have been by the War Department , and would express themselves accordingly . . . . . Lord Palmerston stated in Parliament that

      General "Vivian derived his information from General Shirley . General Shirley , when applied to by me , says , ' He does not hold himself responsible to any one but his superior officer , to whom he is prepared , when called upon , to disclose the source from which he obtained his information . ' General Vivian , the ' superior officer' to whom General Shirley refers , when applied to for the name or names of my secret accuser or accusers , answers , ' He is no longer General Shirley ' s superior officer , and that General Beatson should apply to the War Minister !' I have therefore applied to Lord Panmure , to whom I am referred by General Vivian , and I now pause for his Lordship ' s reply . " _ _ _ _ collision took

      Fatal Collision at Sea . —A fatal place between two vessels off the Northumberland coast on Tuesday morning . The bark Clontaff , of 2000 tons burden , left the Thames for Sunderland to take in coals . She was manned chiefly with Maltese seamen , and had got off Sunderland bar on Sunday morning , but from some cause was not able to get in by the sea entrance to the South Docks , and , as she could not cross the bar to come into the harbour , she beat out to sea . On Tuesday morning , when off Blyth , she came into collision with a French brig , and being a large , heavy ship , she appears to have gone over her . The French vessel sank immediately , and six of her crew went down with her . The only persons saved were the master and the mate of the brig , who clung to the forechains of the Clon taff , and were hauled on board that vessel in a very exhaus ted condition .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 16, 1856, page 777, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2154/page/9/