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    prepared to put up either with their chairman , or the decisions of Sir "William : Page "Wood in favour of the preference shareholders and their arrears—a decision which would allow one class of snarelvoluers to take the whole amount of thoir divideads- nefc » while depriving the pther ' class of . their- drndeash for some years to come , although , both classes are equally responsible for mamtainfiag in power due untrustworthy servants that Bjetoatu defcaauietE The decision will come to an appeal ; but as f&r the chairman , he defies the shareholders in language spiced by some of the commonest forms of colloquial animation .

    The aberrations of railway authorities , and tlie tendency to eruption in railway bodies , might form a good subject for tie next session of the British Association for the Advancement of Science ; that tiody havijig this year shown an increasing capacity ffor penetrating the profoundest subjects , and giving forth the resultant principles to the public . Amongst other laws a it has by this time ascertained the laws of festivity ., under the graceful hospitality of Lord Caiujsle ; "the countenance of that most mellifluous statesman , being amongst the pleasant phenomena , which tie Society Las been invited to observe . . *

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    I ? kospect 8 op Ireland . —With , an energy and a spirit worthy of thes « stirring- and eventful times , the various material resources of the country are already in a new and hopeful course of extensive and important development . The mines and quarries alone already give employment to inany thousands of persons , and the surplus labour is feeing rapidly absorbed by the new works which are gradually starting into existence , even to the remotest corners of the island ; in the far-off and all but depopulated -wilds of Kerry , and ia the solitudes of Connemara and Donegal , the busy hum of industry ia heard in the hills , and the sound of the anvil resounds through their rales . This

    unwonted gleam of prosperity woudd seem already to have new-strung the energies of a . naturally warmhearted , clever , and impulsive people j and it is earnestly to be desired that an accelerated intercourse between the two countries will continue to foster and incite this onward career , to obliviate all narrow-minded , national , and party prejudices ^ and to engender a liberal spirit , and a universal desire for intellectual enlightenment , till the Celt , in every essential sense of the word , 13 anxious and emulous to go hand in hand with Saxon advancement—that in heart and verity tvc may be one people , as-we are the subjects of one sovereign , and are all the children of one Common Parent , even of Him

    ¦ w ho bath ' garnished the isles / and sent forth ' His ^ word for the good- o £ His people , ' on the due appreciation and follo"wing of which , alike depend personal happiness and national prosperity . —Holds worth ' s ' Mines and Scils of Ireland . * BubnUsjg and Bub-ttng . —In the reports of the Medical Officers of Health for London , we lead that in the "Victoria Park Cemetery , last year , eveTy Sunday , one hundred and thirty bodies were interred ; which fact one of the medioal journals expressed by Baying that there were sixteen thousand pounds of mortal matter added on that day alone to the already decomposing mass . At the time when we -were rending about such things , ' A Member of the Royal College of Surgeons' issued a

    pamphlet upon an . old subject of . ours , Burning the Dead , or Urn Sepulture . His argument is this : —The soul of a man' is indestructible , and at death parts from thabody . Qf matter only tha elements are , humanly speaking , in 4 < $ trucjt , \ blo . The body of ujan ia . madq up of oxygen , hydrogen , nitrogen , and oaTbon , with small quantities of ^ phosphorus , sTflphur , " calcium , iron , and Borne other njetala . By tha law . tp , -w . liicb , all matter , is Bubjoct , nian ' s body , when dope , w ^ tty , decomposes into those elements , tliat they rriay bo used' for other pur , pokes in " nature . ' Can it matter to him Svhother the process b <) effected rapidly or slowly ? Upon , the doubt as to the , po ^ aib ^ y o £ resurrection , when out , , bc-d ^ hay , © . been lmrnt instead of rotted , the surgeon lava ' the balm

    oftox . ta : " That - which thou sowest " , thou so > vest not the body that stall be ; " arid " wo shall bo changed . " But ho adds : t ; uos , Q who claim to , liavo hereafter , the ¦ whole identical body back again , must remembqr , that in Ufa it wastes and is renewed , bo that if every particle that over belonged to the frnmo of an . old man were returned to him , lie would got matter enough to make twelve or twenty bodieq . 11 , i » just ppsaiblo that ao » uebody niny bo comforted with a theory wliich the surgeon quoteB in a note , that the soul carries awny with it ou of ! tho world one- atom of matter which is the need of tht future body , and that thoso sominal atoms , not beuig hero , need not bo included in our calculations about things material . —Dickens's Household Words . A JAwlwats Suicirac . —A man lina committed auicido on , the Groat Northern Railway by getting on the lino , and allowing a train to pass over him .

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    THE INDIAN REVOLT . The full details from the various seats of insurrection , - \ vhiclkarrived in the course of last Saturday , confirm-the brief intimations of the telegra ^ tk . That the gjHTfsorE . at Cawrrpne yrex » ooinpefleff to--jield ; that tbere Has been ftsghtfiil slaughter , ot men , womeni and children ; and that Sir Hugh Wheeler has met his death—arej unfortunately , faetsi-beyoml dispute ; . Baftlicre jSrStiD sotneamount of obscurity as to the details . The Bombay Times says : — " After Sir Hugh "Wheeler was killed , the force at Cawnpore accepted the offer of safety made by Nan * Sahib and the mutineers . The treacherous miscreants , however , -whose hands -were already stained with tbe

    blood of the luckless fugitives-froaa . Futtehgfaur , opened fire on the boats ia which the parfcy were aHorred to > enter , and destroyed them all . Other accounts state that the wives and children of the officers and soldiers , consisting of two hundred and forty persons , were taken into Cawnpore and sold hy public auction , ivhen , after being treated with tbe highest indignities , they were barbarously slaughtered by the inhabitants . There is , notwithstanding , a faint hope that some few have escaped the general massacre , as it is said that Naua Sahib has more than a hundred European prisoners in his hands , whom he intends to hold as hostages . These are probably the remains of General Wheeler ' s force at Cawnpore . "

    Another account states that some of the persons assailed in the bouts succeeded in landing , but that a body of cavalry placed for the purpose charged and cut them to pieces . Three officers who escaped from t"he first massacre were caught at some distance from Cawnpore , and driven back at the points of bayonets . Two of these were afterwards blown from guns . One of our countrymen , however- —an Ensign Brown—is stated to have got clear ofE It now appears that Mr . Otrtram , son of General Outran * , and Captain Jervis , -were not killed in the massacre at Cawnpore . The latter , indeed , has been for several . months in England on sick leave ; and the former was "but slightly - wounded . lieutenant Deedes v of the 60 th Royal Rifles , supposed to have been killed at Agra , was alive and well in the camp before Delhi on the 8 th of July .

    On the 9 th of July , the mutineers in Delhi assailed our right rear ia force , but-were driven back into the city with a loss of one thousand dead , not to speak of the wounded . Several other attempts to turn , our position have met with equal failure . The annexed is a literal translation of the proclamatioa issued at Delhi by the insurgents : — "Toiiii , Hindoos and Mussuoseans , Citizens , and Servants op Hindostan , the Officers of the Aubiy now at Delhi and Meerut send Greeting . " It Is well known that in these days all the English have entertained these evil designs—first , to destroy the religion of the whole Hindostani army , and then to make the people by compulsion Christians . Therefore we , solely on account of our religion , have combined with the people , and lave not spared alive one infidel , and have re-established tha Delhi dynasty on these terraa , and thus act in obedience to order and receive double

    pay . Hundreds of guns and a large amount of treasure have fallen into our hands ; therefore it is fitting that whoever of tho soldiers and people dislike turning Christians should unite with one heart , and , acting courageously , not leave the seed of these infidels remaining . For any quantity of supplies delivered to the army the owners are to take the receipt of the officers ; and they will receive double payment from the Imperial Government . Whoever shall in theso times exhibit cowardice , or credulously believe the promises of those impostors , the English , shall very shortly be put to shame for such a deed ; and , rubbingthohands of sorrow , shall receive for tlieir fidelity tlio reward the ruler of Lucknow got . It is further necessary that all Hindoos and ftlussuhnans . unite in this struggle , and , following the instructions , of some respectable people

    , keep themselves secure , so that good order may be maintained , tho poorer clnssos kept contented , and they tliemaelyosloo exalted to rank aud dignity , also , that all , so far aa . it is . possible , copy this proclamation , and despatch it everywhere , that all true Ijindoos and Mussulmans may bo ali-ve and watchful , " and fix it in some conspicuous place Out prudently to avoid detection ) , and strike a bUr \\ r with a sword befojo giving circulation to it . Tho first pay of tho soldiers of Delhi will , bo 30 rupees par month for a trooper , and 10 rupees for afoot man . Nearly one hundred thousand men arc ready , and thcro aro thirteen flags of the English regiments , and above fourteen standards from diflerGul ; parts now raised aloft for our religion ,, for God , and tho conqueror , and it ia the intention of Cawnpore to root out tho seed of the devil . This is what tlie nrmy here wish . "

    lwSf ^ J"ff . Which ™«™< 1 at Alleygurh and Etawab Hot knowmg where to turn , the unfortunate iraetraes atlas * resolved to surrender , and gave them-S i ? VeS J * £ ^ 4 th of Jul > ' ? claiming the pSa 2 jTtr SS ^ Jf ^ r ^ P « -oclama « on issued lonj ? ™ & 5 ?« w"E ' tIle Lieut - -Govemor of Agra . There 4 JJ * S ? t 2 hat these men must be ¦ pardoned , in order £ 2 S ?^ ° eX » ° to . *• accusation of The Gforwmor-General has since issued a proclamation annaanemg that the right of pardon rests with him , and him alone . A want of the necessary materials for warfare seems likely to embarrass the proceeding of the rebels : — o

    " We learn from one of Colonel I ^ ellPs letters " savs the Dai ? News , " that the mutineers in his district had expended their percussion , eaps , and -were converting all their detonators into matchlocks . A Cossid from Luckbow issttkt to have declared that the mutineers there were in want of shot , and were reduced to the necessity of firing stones from the guns . At Delhi , too , percussion caps appear to have been wanting , and the small-arms men , for want of ball , were using slugs made of the electric telegraph -wire . It is also reported that latterly having no fusees for their shells , they had been obliged to have recourse to some very inadequate substitute . "

    The channel of the Delhi canal was diverted into the drain at Nujuffghur on the 28 th of June . The effect of this i » to straiten the mutineers in their supply of water . The bridge of boats on the Jumna , opposite Delhi , was broken down during the night of the 3 Otlx of June . This places an obstacle in the way of the insurgents obtaining food . " Amost interesting- narrative , officially conmmrdcated to Government by Lieutenant Forrest , " says the Daily JVews Bombay correspondent , " gives an accurate detail at last with respect to the blowiDg up of the magazine at Delhi on tbe outbreak of the mutiny . Lieutenant Forrest shares with Lieutenant Willoughby the honour of this brave action . On the morning of the rebellion

    these two officers and Sir C . Metcalfe were in the arsenal when they heard of the treachery of the native Sepoys , and they took instant measures to check their advance upon the arsenal . Sir C . Metcalfe , who had gone out to see the extent of the movement , did not return . Lieutenant Forrest closed and blocked up the . gates , placing two six-pounder guns doubly loaded with grape under Subconductax Crow and Sergeant Stewart , so as to command the entrance . Two more six-pounders were placed in a similar position in front of the inside of the magazine gate , protected by a ro-iv of ckevaixc de Ji ~ ise . For farther defence , two sixpounders , were trained to command either the gate

    or the small bastion in its vicinity , other guns being so arranged as to increase the strength of the position generally . These preparations had hardly been concluded when a body of mutineers appeared , and called on the defenders to open the gates . On their refusal , scaling ladders furnished by" the King of Delhi were brought up , and the rebels got on the walls and poured on to the arsenal . The guns now opened and took eft ' ect with immense precision on the ranks of the enemy . Four rounds were . fired from each of the guns , Conductors Buckley and Scully distinguishing themselves in serving the pieces rapidly , the mutineers being by this time some hundreds in number , increasing iu force and keeping up a quick discharge of musketry . A . train

    had been laid by Lieutenant Willoughby to the magazine ; and the decisive moment soon approached , Lieutenant Forrest being wounded in the hand and one of the conductors shot through the arm . The signal -was given to fire the train , which was done coolly by Comductor Scully . Tho effect was terrific ; the magazine blew up with a tremendous crash , tho wall being blown out flat to the ground . The explosion killed upwards of a thousand of the mutineers , and enabled Lieutenants Willoughby , Forrest , and more than half the European defenders of the place , to fly together , blackened and singed , to tho Lahore gate , from wheuco Lieutenant Forrest escaped in safety to Meerut . Lieutenant AYuS loughfcy was less fortunate , and is now said to have been killed ou hia way to Umbulla . "

    ^ iix attempt was made at Aliincclnbad , on the 8 th of July , to seduce the Guzerat Horse . A man proceeded through the streets , bearing a ilag , and shouting " Deen , deen ! " ( i . e . faith ) . A rabble followed him i live or six soldiers joined ; and they all stnrteil in the direction of Baroda , followed by l / iouteimnt Pym and Captain Taylor , with some mounted police . They wore soon brought to a stand ; tho ringleader was shot , and tho others wore taken back prisoners . Of the atnur at Agra we read ia tho Bombay Times : — .

    I " The close neighbourhood of tho Nccmuch and Niissecrabad mutineers , who encamped about twenty miles from the city , compelled tho European residenta to abandon tho cantonments , and talce rcfugo ia th « I ' * " " - Tho gnrrison consisted of tho Brd Bengal Kuvwpoaiw and a battery of artillery , besides a corps of volimt now nbont five hundred strong , raised from among tho Christian j population . Tho rebulfl having approached tho citywitU jtho wulcnt object of plundering tho cantonment * , tho troops in tho fiort marched out to attack them on the i 3 th

    A singular incident occurred beforo the wnlls of Delhi on tlio 2 Gth , of June . It is thus related by tho Daily News Bombay correspondent : — " A largo number of soldiers were observed to leave Delhi in some confusion , and fly under a vigorous clischoxgo of grape from tlio walls . A body then sallied in pursuit of tho fugitives , who turned out to bo part of tho

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    8 ^ 2 THE LEADER . __ [ No . 389 , Septembeh 5 , 1857 ,

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 5, 1857, page 842, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2208/page/2/