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    the earl died before twelve , the rents belong to the parties taking the estate , but , if after twelve , then they belong to , and form part of , his personal estate , sothat the difference of one minute might involve a questioa as to the title of about 20 , 000 ? . —a nice question for lawyers . — Guardian . Pressure on the Irish Banks . —A partial run on the banks in Tipperaiy , Belfast , and Armagh , took place last Saturday , and also on Monday and Tuesday ; but all demands were promptly met . Mn . Charles Cotjeswortii , a leading 1 shipowner of tlie port of Liverpool , and a partner in several mercantile associations , died suddenly of apoplexy in Ms private offices in that town on Thursday . He was in the sixty-sixth year of his age . Aisolxtiox of Sunday Cab-drivixg . —A meeting of cab-drivers took place on Thursday evening at Farringdon Hall , Holborn-hill , for the purpose of taking steps to secure for them the privilege of Sunday rest . Mr . Joseph Powell , a cab-driver , occupied the chair , and observed that he was glad to . see that there is a large number of six-day cabs . He did not wish to compel cabmen to go to church , though it would do them good to go there ; but he wished them to enjoy their Sunday rest . After several speeches , resolutions were passed pledging the meeting to assist in forming a ' Cabmen ' s Branch of the National Sunday Rest Association . ' Election of Loro Macaulay as High Steward of Cambuihge . —At a meeting of the Town Council on Thursday , the Right Hon . Baron Macaulay was elected High Steward of the borough , in the room of the late Lord Fitzwilliarn . The noble Lord had previously notified his willingness to accept the office . Liability of Railway Companies . — At the last sitting of the County Court of Hull an action of some importance to railway companies and comdealers was tried . Mr . Lowe , a merchant and broker at Hull , sought to recover the sum of 20 / . from the North-Eastern Railway Company , being the amount of damage alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff by reason of the detention of some wheat in tmnsitu from Hull to Newark . The defendants had paid into court the sum of ' 81 . 17 s . The wheat in question was sold by Mr . Kelsey to Mr . Pauling , of Newark , and was forwarded hither on the Gth of December , but it did not arrive there until the 15 th . In the meantime , some of it-was disposed of to two Newark millers , and on its arrival they complained that it -was wet and musty , and decreased in value about lls . per quarter , and thej-- refused to receive it . The railway company also refused to have anything to do with it unless they had a consignment to Mr . Kelsey , which was ultimately given ; but Mr . Kelsey likewise declined to take it . Mr . Robinson , for the defence , admitted that his clients had been guilty of neglect in not delivering the wheat sooner , but he said the invoice had gone to a wrong station , and hence the delay . A verdict was given for the plaintiff for 111 . Is . 8 d ., including 31 . 17 s . alreadv paid into court .

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    Competitive Examinations . —Mr . Hnyter has presented the council of the Society of Arts with two nominations for clerkships in the Treasury , and Lord Grnnville has given them four for the Privy Council Oltiec . Thcao nominations will bo given to young men who have passed iin examination , and taken the Society of Arts certificate on ttiroo subjects . Anotiucu Fatal Kailway Accident . —A dreadful accident occurred at the l ' rcston-strcet goods station of the Wlutulmvon and Purness Junction Railway on Th umlny ni ght . William Knowles , who wn . s employed as guard upon the lino , was superintending the . shunting of aonio railway cnrriages at a point whora the carriages run so cloao to ench other that tho engine on ono in employed to draw tho carriages on tho other , wiinply by P'aciiig a piece of wood in n peculiar ' manner between them . Thin , although Jilways considered a very dnngorous practice , haa lioon perflovoved in , and tho conncquenco wna that Knowles got botwoon tho carriages , and

    could not escape . He was jammed with such violence that he was completely flattened , and -when the carriages were removed he dropped from between them quite dead . He was a married man , and leaves a wife and two children . An inquest has been held on the body , when the jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death , but strongly condemned the practice adopted in shunting the carriages on the line . Confession op Murder . —Emma Middleton , a young woman about twenty-nine years of age , and lately an inmate of an asylum for fallen females , in Mount-terrace , Whitechapel , was yesterday charged at the Thames police-office , on her own confession , with the wilful murder of a newly-born child at Brighton . She was remanded for a week .

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    LORD CANNING AND THE INDIAN" ARMY-( To the Editor of the Leader . ") Calcutta , August 24 , 1857 . Sir , —The Leader ' s excellent article (/ in a July mini ber ) on the Indian Mutinies is nearer the truth than any others . Facts will have since proved this to all Europe . I observe . Mr . Vernon Smith in his place in Parliament speaks of Lord Canning thus : — "In him there is no lul-etoavmness , no backwardness , no shiltyshallyinrj" Few , however , who now go home from this , even of those who have every prejudice in favour of Lord Canning , will be found to "back the Cabinet Minister ' s statement . It is quite true that Lord Canning ordered troops from everywhere he could after the Meerut and Delhi crashes were known , and he had most providentially the electric telegraph -uncut to Bombay , the Persian peace ratified almost miraculously to the day , and the China troops which lie could intercept . What merchant in the town would not , under the same circumstances , have done the same ? But was there no hifcewarmness in ordering back her Majesty ' s 84 tli when , every one knew , and the facts had shown the temper of the troops to be what it has proved ? Was there no backwardness when the 2 nd Native Infantry ( called by the natives the ndk or nose of the rebellion , as they were the iirst to commence the fires ) , who were burning bungalows in January , have to this hour been unpunished , and were not even disarmed till June , and then treated precisely in the same way as the best of the regimen ts , the -lord Native Infantry ? Now which of those was a delinquent regiment can be best judged by remembering how the 3-ith , 2 nd , and 43 rd were respectively placed in relation to the Europenns and kuus , on the disbanding of the 19 th , and subsequently on disbanding the 34 th . Was there no shiily-ahaUtjint / in disbanding the 34 th ? It was known to have led away the 10 th in February , and to have tried to do so with other regiments . It was disbanded about the 5 th of May . It was known to have been ( see the Governor-General ' s own order for its disbaiulinent ) worse than the 19 lh . It received but the same punishment . Was is not shiUy-shallyinr / to semi those two mutinous regiments at liberty to go up and over the country , when the temper of many of the others , whose path they would cross , was known to be doubtful , to say the least ? It is true Unit one ttepoy and a jemadar of the 3-lth were hung ; but they would have been so for their crime in the most ordinary times . And what was done to the guard who disobeyed tho order of their adjutant , lying wounded before them , to aid him ? lie and the sergeant-major , both attacked before their eyes , wore the superior olh ' cers of the jemadar , and it was the obvious duty of the guard to aid them . If there had not been shilfif-. * h < d / yiny , would the } ' not all have been hung ? They were disbanded , with the rc-st , and have since been probably iinplicuted in the massacres of Allahabad , Cnwnporc , Futtehghur , or elsewhere , in the destruction of European life . Lord Canning was asked in May last to raise volunteer corps , lie declined—after a month of shil / ystliallyhuj ho acquiesced—and , indeed , as to the artillery , has only sanctioned it in August . A legion of say 200 cavalry , 500 infantry , ami a nix-f ^ un horse field battery , might have been serviceable , a full month ago ; and thus a full month ago TOO European regular troops would have been available to Have-Lock ; and that aid would nrobublyhuve saved him the

    necessity of falling back , and would have rescued Lucknow—even with the Dinapore contretemps . A compulsory militia and martial law might also have been ordered in June . No means of that nature should have been left untried to give Havelock such a force as to enable him at once to relieve Lucknow , instead of having to return twice re infecta , for want of 1000 Europeans . If Luekuo-w is lost , the loss of prestige by that single fact alone will always render our future administration in Oude more difficult , more dangerous , and more expensive ; and if it falls , and this seems imminent , we shall have to add the memory of the repetition there , bat on a larger scale as to Vomen and children , of the horrors of the Futtehgur , Cawnpore , Jansi murders and outrages . Had Havelock had 3000 men instead of 100 O to march to Lucknoiv , it would have been saved with e ' clat , and the evil effect of two failures , now spread over the country , would have been saved also . But his Lordship ' s defenders will ask , Where was he to have got 3000 men for Havelock ? I have shown how 700 could have been spared at once , had the volunteers and militia been promptly looked to . I will now proceed to state how another 700 men at least could have been with Havelock . The two companies of the 37 th and the two companies of the 5 th Fusiliers , and Eyre ' s battery , were on their way , not to Putna , and were stopped there by the attack of the rebels and mutineers on Arrah ; 400 more also of the 5 th were detained at Patna . Now none of these need have been detained or kept from Havelock had Lord Canning not shown backwardness , lulcewarmness , and shilly-shallying . The Dinapore native regiments were the 7 th , 8 th , and 40 th . There was a European battery , 500 of Rat tray's Sikhs , and the IOth Foot—i , e . 700 of them—all June and July , there . Now Lord Canning might have first ordered the disarming of the city in June ; then the disarming of the native troops at or about the same time . This was the more necessary , as it was well known that one entire regiment , the 40 th , were tenants of a powerful and doubtful Zemindar within thirty miles of the cantonment . He is Koer Sing , now , as you will see , in . open rebellion . Had tins been done , the bad men of the townspeople would have been isolated and harmless ; the native regiments would have been isolated and harmless ; and the tenants of Koer Sing could have been isolated and dealt with by 100 Sikhs and two guns , if even

    they had then risen , which is most doubtful . How differently things have been done the newspapers sent home by this mail will fully detail to you . It may be said that Lord Canning gave General . Lloyd a discretion to disarm . What little right he had to allow that General a discretion has been shown by the ill-starred results . It will be said that Lord Canning could not have anticipated those results . Lord Canning is paid 25 , 000 / . per annum for the very responsibility ; and by a stroke of his pen he has power to appoint and power to remove . It was his duty to employ only those fit to execute his views . If he does otherwise , the responsibility is his . Further , we have had , not only on the Dinapore affair , but in those of Agra , Allahabad , Cawnpore , Futtebghur , Lucknow , and elsewhere , armed kebels , in addition to armed mutineers . This might have been anticipated , and was so by every one of ordinary intelligence . The means of preTention could have been as easily foreseen and adopted , viz ., a severe penalty for non-surrender of' arms before Junesuck as transportation or death . This should have been especially done in the Bebar and Benares Durums . A washy Arms Registration Bill is produced at the end of August , and is not yet Jaw . Here are some instances , showing that although Mr . Vernon Smith sayd , in Lord Canning there wa 3 no backwardness , no tuJtewarmiiess , no shilly-shallying , all these there were , and the fruit hereof a hundredfold is being found in the destruction of life , property , and public ; conlidonce in every direction . 1 may add that the manner in which the 5 th Irregulars have been allowed to depart , within the last week , with their arms and horses , across tho Grand Trunk Road , at a time when an irregular cavalry regiment is an immense gain to the rebels and loss to us , and stops ouv communications ; tho retention in times like these as military secretary , of Ijonl Dunk ell on , who hardly knows a Itajpuot from liiijpootana , instead of selecting a tried and good man for such a post ; his absurd detention of Ah Nucky Khun , tkic Undo Prime Minister , in tho fort , instead of transporting him to Singapore or Hong-Kong ; his neglect to take any steps for the general arrest of Faltoers ami emissaries , notoriously spread all over thes country , since , last year ; and many other weaknesses , huve quite convinced all India , especialty among the mercantile classes , that we have not the . riyltt man in Mm rii / ld jdncc . Hut all feel that Sir . Mm Lawrence , as Governor-General , would bu so ; for he has proved that he can disarm and ireeure a country , and aid others , while lie holds his own ; and he act s in time , bffom , for jrrcvention , instead of too fate , afur , lor patching . 1 am , . sir , your obedient servant , X .

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    Leader Office , Saturday , October 24 . FRANCE . The Migeon case is over . The Tribunal of Correctional Police of Col mar has condemned that gentleman for illegally wearing tbe Legion of Honour to one month ' s imprisonment , but has declared itself ii . competent to decide on the charge of fraud in electoral matters . —General Loflu has received , by order of the Emperor , a passport to return to France . This General , formerly ambassador of tho Republic to St . Petersburg , and Questor of tbe National Assembly , was one of tho most bitter politicnl opponents of the present Emperor ; and on no account , probably , would he have consented to take the customary step exacted of all exiles desirous of returning to France . The Emperor , however , on being informed that the General was anxious to educate his three children ip . Brussels , in order that they might be well acquainted with their mother tongue , at once gave orders that a free passport should be sent without any condition . Tho General has availed himself of the permission . — Globti .

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    There is no learned man but will confess he hath much profited by reading controversies , his senses awakened , and his judgment sharpened . If , then , it be profitable for mm to read , wny should it not , at least , be tolerable forms adversary co write?—M'liTOJf .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 24, 1857, page 1019, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2215/page/11/