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    panied by Sir Benjamin Hey wood , Bart ., Mr . Cheetlam , M . P ., Mr . William Brown , M . P ., and Mr . Crook , M . P ., and * Ws deceived on entering -with loud cheers . He then delivered a long address , in which be touched on the ¦ yariotta hopeful features in connexion -with mechanics ' libraries , and offered advice on several points -with respect to their management . . AtrsrBAUA .. —The Auckland papers report the passage of a bill in the Legislature forbidding the landing of any person from "Western Australia without proof of his right , and any convict entering the colony subjects himself to three years' imprisonment and labour in Irons . A public meeting has been leld in Sydney , at -which it

    ¦ was determined to form another gas company for supplying the city and suburbs with gas . The company is to be started on a capital of 100 , 0007 . Before the meeting broke up , 2005 shares were taken . " The grand immigration , scheme of the late Ministry , " says the Melbourne correspondent of the Morning Star , " las been somewhat modified by the present administration . The amount voted for the purpose this year is reduced by about onehalf , or to 130 , 000 / ., of -which 50 , 000 / . is to be appropriated to assisted , and 80 , 000 / . to ordinary immigration , more especially of females . During four years and

    seven months , the quantity of gold brought into Melbourne by escort from the Ovens gold-field has reached 1 , 041 , 845 ounces , and at least one-third more has come in from there by private hand . The progress of our inland towns cannot better be exemplified than by stating that at Ballarat—a town of but a few years ' growth , originating with the gold discoveries , a gas company is forming with a capital of 300 , 000 ? . ; and it is thought worthy of an intended line of rail from Geelong . A branch of the Union Bank of Australia is also to be opened there on the 1 st of July . "

    Transport ov Troops to India . —A proposal has been made to the East India-house by tine European and American Steam Company , under the management of Mr . Croskey , calculated to facilitate the periodical transport by the overland rout * of such reinforcements to India as will be necessary throughout the next six or nine months to keep the army up to the amount to which it has now been raised . The company possess eight powerful screw steamers of an average capacity of 2377 tons , and it is suggested that four of these should be employed to establish a fortnightly communication from Southampton to Alexandria , and the remaining four to perform the service from Suez to Bombay . Each vessel could take about 1100 men , and a supply at the rate of 220 O per month could thus be continuously kept up , the troops reaching Bombay -within forty-five days frono their

    leaving this country . Owing to the shorter duration of the voyage , it is represented that , for every thousand men despatched , 12 , 000 / . would be saved by the adoption of this route as compared with that by the Cape , while an advantage will be afforded in enabling the Government to send home invalids , both civil and military , with the greatest comfort and expedition . The chief recommendation of the offer seems to consist in the uniformity of tlhe size of the vessels , so that the number of troops landed at Alexandria would in each instance find precisely the same accommodation at Suez . Four of the -fleet have lately been taken up by the India Company , and are now on their way to Calcutta via the Cape . The ships of the company are the Golden Fleece , Lady Jocelyn , Queen of the South , Hydaspes , Indiana , Argo , Calcutta , and Jason . —Times .

    The Hakvest . —The larger part of the harvest is now houBcd , and is for the most part in excellent condition . The various corn markets hove therefoie been barely able to support existing prices . Lord Melviule on the Indian Crisis . —A dinner was given on Friday week at Dalkeith , county of Edinburgh , to Mr . Dundas , of Arniston , on the occasion of the birth of a son and heir . The Right Hon . Sir George Clerk presided , and among others present wer . e Viscount Melville , Commanding the Forces in North Britain ; Sir a . G . Montgomery , M . P ., Sir W . C . Craig , Mr . Pitt Dondas , Registrar-General of Scotland ; Mr . Inglis , Dean of Faculty ; Mr . Forbes Mackenzie , Mr . W .

    Dundas , &c . In answer to the toast of hia health , Lord Molville made some remarks with respect to the Indian rebellion . He said : — "I am afraid that , before the services of our army are brought to a . close in India , wo must prepare ourselves for still worse calamities than wo have already suffered and , I fear , for losses of a severe character . It is not only that wo have to provide an army for putting down the rebellion , but wo hnvo to occupy the country as well as have a force engaged in movable columns for the suppression of the rebellion in different districts . This will require a large force , and I am afraid such force as wo have yet sent out ia not adequate to the servico that haa to bo performed . As almost every available soldier that England can now produce ia on hia way to that country , or is engaged in our other possessions , 1 feel that if England means to retain all her foreign possessions , she must maintain a much larger army than she has yot done . You cannot maintain these distant colonies without nn adequate force not only to occupy them , but to defond them if oocessary . Ships and soldiers you at this moment require with the most urgent necessity , and I mny take tW » opportunity of stating to you that her Mnjcsty ' H Government has again thought it accessary to cull for m « n to recruit the servico , and a memorandum haa just "beon Issued b y which his Royal Highness tho

    Commander-in-Chief offers a commission to any gentleman anxious to enter the army who can raise one hundred men . " A letter of apology from the Marquis of Dalhousie was read , expressing his regret at being unable to attend on the score of illness . In a further speech , Lord Melville regretted that the system of discipline pursued in the Bombay army , with which he had been connected , had not existed in connexion with the army of Bengal . Had it done so , he believed the present insurrection would not have occurred . He added : — " We cannot retain our dominion in India without a native

    army . Europeans cannot do the duty which the native troops are called on to perform ; the climate will not admit of it . But how we can reorganize that army so as to trust the natives , after what has occurred , is more than at this moment I can possibly venture to suggest . Mean-while , a . very large European force will necessarily have to be maintained , and many duties hitherto performed by natives must be performed by them— -though , I am afraid , at a great sacrifice of life ; but that is unavoidable if we mean to > maintain our supremacy in India . " .

    Books , &c , for Victoria and Ascension . —On the 1 st of October next , and thenceforward , the privileges of the Colonial Book Post will be extended to book packets transmitted between the United Kingdom and the colony of Victoria by packet , by way of Southampton , and between the United Kingdom and the Island of Ascension by packet or by private ship . The Royai , British Bank . —The compromise which was come to between the creditors and shareholders of the British Bank , by which it was arranged that the latter should be discharged from all further liabilities on paying such a sum as would be sufficient for a dividend

    of 6 s . 6 d . in the pound , does not make much progress . The number of the substantial shareholders has greatly diminished since the compromise was made , some having become bankrupt , others having disappeared for the present , and the affairs of others again being in the act of winding up , under the arrangement clause of the Bankruptcy Act . The substantial shareholders , consequently , find -themselves-called upon to pay a larger dividend , to make up the deficiency ; and to this they object . An agent is at present in Paris , on the part of Messrs . Linklater and Co ., endeavouring to procure unanimity among those of the shareholders who are at present residing in that city .

    FajlXj of Houses . —Two bouses fell down on Sundaynigh t in Artillery-lane , Spitalfields ., not many yarda from Biahopsgato Without . The lane consisted of old houses , chiefly inhabited by Jews dealing in secondhand clothes and curiosities . A little after twelve o ' clock at night , the wife of Mr . Godfrey Phillips , a furniture-broker , was going to bed , - when she heard a crack , followed by a crash , as of bricks falling on the floor . She called her husband up from below , and he perceived a rent in the wall , through which crumbling mortar was dropping . He told his -wife to run into the passage , and then roused his three young children and two women who were living in th « house . All these were got out in safety , and were sent to the house of a

    164 ; Miall , 120 : majority , 44 . The largeness of the m aZn % ^ no douDt ow ing to the honourable conduct ° f I £ Sl- Bedford » who ( as Mr . Miall himself stated ) told his tenants to vote with entire freedom , and in accordance with their consciences . Captain Skkite . —Some particulars with respect to this noble officer , whose tragic death , together with his wife and children , was noticed in our last week ' s pa-ner are contained in the Scotsman , which states : — " Cantaln Skene was the son of the late Dr . Claries Skene an

    eminent physician in Aberdeen . He -was also neplW of the late Andrew Skene , Esq ., advocate , well remembered at the Scotch bar as an energetic , eloquent pleader and who was appointed Solicitor-General for Scotland by the Melbourne Ministry in 1834 . The two infant daughters of this hapless but heroic pair fell victims at the same time . " It will be recollected that Captain Skene shot his wife and then himself , after they liad both made a grand but ineffectual struggle against the mutineers at Jhansi .

    Strange Sdicides or Two Brothers . —HenTy Adams , a youth , of fifteen , living at Sheffield , had a quarrel with his father ( a cabinet-maker ) on " Wednesday week , and was struck by him , and told to leave the shop . He then went out 1 o carry a parcel for some friends to the railway station , and , on coming home , refused to take tea with the others , but told his sister in private that he should never be seen again alive . He then went away . On the following day , his brother "William , a young man of twenty-one , also quarrelled

    with his father and left home . He went with 21 . to pay a poor's-rate , the receipt for which he forwarded through the post , with an intimation that he too -would not be seen alive again . Last Monday morning , the body of the younger brother , Henry , was found in the canal at the outskirts of the town ; and on the following day the body of "William was discovered in the same canal , about half a mile further off . With respect to the « lder brother , it is suggested that a severe illness from which he had been suffering for several months might have had some influence on him in connexion with hia

    voluntary death . Mb . Macaulay ' s and Lord Robert Grosvenor ' s elevation to the peerage were in the Gazette of las night . Lord Rokert Grosvenor "becomes Baron Ebury , of Ebury Manor , in the county of Middlesex ; and Mr . Macaulay is henceforth entitled Baron Macaulay , of Rothley , in the county of Leicester . Mb . Spubgeon . —A public meeting was held ia New Park-street Chapel , on Monday evening , for the purpose of promoting the building of a large tabernacle for Mr . Spurgeon . Mr . Spmrgeon made a statement to the meeting of the success which 3 iad attended the efforts of the promoters of the scheme , and the position in which matters at present stood . He said he had received promises of assistance from Sir Morton Peto . As regarded funds , they had in the bank a sum of 40001 . towards the erection of the building .

    The Bengal Tragedies . —A public prayer meeting has been held at Wordsley in reference to the Indian disasters . The chairman ( the Rev . C . Girdlestone , rector of Kingswinford ) denounced the present cry for indiscriminate vengeance , and asserted that we had ourselves occasioned the mutiny of the Sepoys by our criminal conduct in India . Mr . Distin ' s Farewkix Concert , under the patronage of the Qneen , will take place at the Crystal Palace this day week , when some of tlie first performers of the day will appear—Miss Clara Novello being one . There can be no doubt as to the attendance being large and enthusiastic .

    neighbour . Mr . Phillips then roused the occupants of the noxt house , a Mr . Moss and his family , and warned them to escape ; after which , sounding an alarm as he proceeded , he ran to the Chap . el-strcet police-station , and related what had occurred . Immediately afterwards , a terrible crash was lieard . A body of police proceeded to the spot , when it was found that the two houses had fallen , and that Mr . Moss and his family were in the ruins . They were speedily rescued , and were only bruised and shaken . The remaining houses were then shored up , and Nos . 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , and 7 , in the same court , have been condemned . The whole of the goods of both sufferers is destroyed , and 911 . in gold belonging to " Mr . Moss wero buried , in the ruins .

    Inauguration of Russian Trophies . —The citizens of Bath made general holidaj- on Wednesday on the occasion ^ ofLjhe two Russian guns presented to tlie city by Lord Pannnire being deposited in the Royal Victoria Park . Crtstai , Palace Fi , owkr Show . —The second exhibition for the season , of flowers , plants , and fruit * , took place on Wednesday , Thursday , and yesterday . Tho weather unfortunately traa not favourable on any of tho days . Montk Rosa has been ascended by a party consisting or . five English gentlemen and one French gentleman . They reached the summit in eight hours and ten minutes . Mr . R . W . Elliot Forster , who communicates an account of the ascent to tho Times , says that tho view from the summit " was glorious , comprising all the high Alps of Switzerland to tho nortli , and tho plains of Lombardy to the south . "

    Circassia . — " According to accounts from Tiflis , " says a letter from Constantinople in tho Austrian Gazette , " the Circassians are still masters of the eleven blockhouses in the Daghestan , with tlie exception of Fort Sciurra . General Orbelian sent the = troops of tlie district of Gazimuck against tho blockhoniso Ciokalessi , which was surrounded for a fortnight , th o Russians hoping to starve out tho garrison . Tho Chief Naib-Hadji-Ankasse , however , surprised tho besiegers during the night , put them to flight , took from them six pieces of artillery , and threw fresh troops into tho fort . The Russian

    General Aghalar was seriously -wounded in tho cpmbat , nnd made prisoner with 200 men . Another Russian division was sent from Giar against tho fort of Ari , in order to take it . Tho Tehetzencis attacked tho Russians in the rear , and defeated them -with the loss of 400 priaonera . These events have produced a great impression at Tiflis . A body of 20 , 000 iinen were immediately Bent to support tho army of operation of tho Daghestan , and tho Governor-General intends to direct in person tho expedition against Schainyl . " The Nord gives n different account of those operations , and iffirms that Schamyl cannot hold out much longer .

    Thk Suhmarink Caulk connecting Eurojic and Africa has been laid between Bonn and Capo Tcnlada . Tiirc Waste Ground of New F ^ rrinodom-stuhkt . —At a meeting of the hoard of governors and ilirutstors of tho united parishes of St . Andrew , Holborn , nud St . George-thc-Mnrtyr , held at tho board room , Graya-innlanc , on Wednesday evening , Mr . Hugget in the chair , Mr . Watson moved a resolution : — " That a committee ha appointed to wnit upon tho Board of Works for this district and for tho district of Clerkeuwcll , to urge upon them tho necessity of their pressing tho corporation of the City of London to tiifco active m « a » urcs to on courage the covering ; of tho waate ground in Suflron-liill , St . Sepulchre , nnd vicinity , < ia speedily as possible . " Ho said that 1 G 00 housoa had already been destroyed for tho Hnko of making ii new street , nnd , at nu average of ton persona to a house , thia gave u population of

    Hakvicst Home in SoMicnsicTSiinti :. —A harvest homo festival took place on Thursday week at East Brent , Somersetshire , inaugurated by Archdeacon Donison . passed off with great success , and appenred to give considerable pleasure to all who shared in it . Tlio sumo kind of celebration haa taken plnco in other localities . Tub Tavistook Ki , icction . — -Mr . Russell has been returned for Tavistock . Tho numbers were—Russell ,

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    876 THE LEADER . [ No j ^ Septem : beb , 12 , 1857 .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 12, 1857, page 876, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2209/page/12/