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      complete and terrible . ' So—to the astonishment of everybody in . Trance and abroad ^ of all who wish not well to the present regime—Count Migeos has been proceeded against by the Procureur Imperial on divers charges of malpractices at the election— of having &isk 5 wrted civcnSsrs and addresses illegally ; of liaving ased offensive language and gestures to a seigaeant of gendaw » es , and to Monsieur . the'Mayor . of B . ermont ; and of having worn the , decoration of the Legion of Honour without beinsr entitled to do so . Various

      allegations , also , are made against him affecting his public honour and his private morality ; amongst other culpabilities , lie has , say his accusers , gambled at the Bourse and lost a large sum of money by his speculations—and , worse than that , he has separated from his wife ! Probably these two latter offences will weigh heaviest in . the scale against liiin—they must be so shocking to moral French society . Altogether , the Erench Government has rarelv exhibited itself under a more

      interesting aspect than this , as indignant champion of the rights of universal suffrage and of the purity of elections . Since the occurrence of a certain memorable event in the modern history of ! Prance , the empire of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon III . lias been , many things more or less surprising . ' A while ago , we were told , ** L'Empire e ' est la paix ; " after another whtle , "tee were advised that , ¦ " L'Empire e ' est le progres ; " but again it has changed—it is no longer either peace or progress ; at present— ' O day and naght , 'but this is wondrous strange !'—L'Empire ii est la " Vertu !

      If we see little else than difficulties in India , ¦ some of those which lave been harassing us at home , in connexion with , that subject , are passing away . The speech of the Duke of Cambridge , on the occasion of his laying the foundation-stone of a Crimean monument at Sheffield , on Wednesday , was cheering upon a point on which he is the highest authority . "Now , the only subject , " he said , " which of late has given me anxiety , was the recruiting of the army . I must , however , tell youfor there is nothing like being frank and open with you—that the ordinary" recruiting for the army is

      progressing in a manner which is perfectly incredible . The ordinary means of recruiting have in two days alone produced SOO men . That is a great fact ; it is a result which was never obtained during the Russian war ; a , result which was never equalled in the military liistory of tie country . " The reception of the Duke of Cambridge by the Sheffield audience expressed what will be the grand feeling of the country ; lie is extremely popular , and so straightforward a statement , on a subject about which the public has felt much anxiety , will be accepted with confidence .

      Oldham has recovered from the state of inanition wider which it made the mistake of unseating Mr . W . ff . Fox at the last election : it has re-elected Mm without opposition . It has done well . W . J . 3 ? ox possesses abilities of a kind -that will bo in ¦ demand in the ensuing session of Parliament , and which will not he found to be too plentiful amongst that august assembly .

      The Manchester Ait Treasures Exhibition closed on Saturday last , the day which had been , fixed by the executive , who resisted soine strong attcinpts made to induce them to keep the Exhibition open for a lew days beyond the specified time . There was no ceremonial , but the enthusiasm of a vast crowd of visitors served to make the closing scene sufficiently imprcssivo to bring the affair to u dignified termination . One million three hundred and

      thirty-five thousand visitors have , ia one wuy or other , paid for admission since tho opening of the Exhibition ; but it may ho supposed thai few of them liavc received any considerable direct benefit-in the way of Art-education . The number o £ ..., tho objects "brought together , caeli and alV . W ' orihy to bo studied , made study impossible .

      The collection was a veritable embarras lie ric / ies-se . s . But the experiment has , nevertheless , been highly honourable to those who have conducted it ; tlieir intentions , 'their capacity , and their zeal , deserve to be held in the highest esteem ; their j > lan was , singly , tooiarge . AS Birmingham , a far more satisfactory result has feeen anJrved at by the National Association , for the Advaaoeaicnt of Social Science , which ^ brought the btwraaess of its fksfc conference to an wad on ' last

      Thursday week , though , on J ' nday , there was a meeting in the theatre of the Midland Institute to receive tho report of the committee on the constitution and future action of the Association ; and the reports of its ' papers' still gradually ooze out . The amount of work done has been really very great , and of a quality highly creditable to the workers . Mir . Akroyd ' s suggestion that the working classes should be invited to take part in future

      conferences was well received , and Lord Brougham undertook to say that it should be considered by the Council . Doubtless the effects of the Association's labours would be widely extended by adopting the course suggested ; it would ,, in fact , only be moving more directly towards the end in view —the advancement of knowledge upon subjects of socisu science among all classes of the-community , for the benefit of all .

      A verdict of manslaughter , has been returned against Mr . "White , the station-master at Stormy , on the South Wales Hailway , by whose direction a down passenger train was shifted from its own line on to the up-line , causing it to come into collision with another train . The evidence taken before the coroner shows a truly frightful state of railway mismanagement . What can possibly be said in . defence of a state of things in which we find the telegraphic machinery of two stations left in the hands of persons wholly incompetent to manage it ? Two instruments are used , one with a single , the other with a double needle : the man who works the

      doubleneedle instrument cannot read messages sent upon the single-needle one ; --and vice versa ! It won ' t do for chairmen of railways to talk at half-yearly meetings about the hasty judgments of the public , or about the anxious watchfulness of the managers of their lines ; -the public will'not believe ; them . If there had been proper supervision on the South Wales Kaihvny there would have been people , both at Port Talbot and at Stormy , ablc-to understand the indications of either a single or a double-needle telegraphic apparatus , and , in all human , probability , the accident' which occurred would have been averted .

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      THE INDIAN REVOLT . Wk have had no further official news from Indh dwmg the present week , and even tho stock Sofficers ' , civilians ' , and ladies ' letters from the various seats of rebellion has dwindled to n very sS amount . People are now looking - forward X eagerness to the next telegraphic announcement " which may be expected in a few days ; but in thX ¦ m eanwhile the smallest scraps of conjectural statP nient are received with avidity . One of those i « T contained in a letter dated Allahabad , -September " General Outram ' s forces marched in two columns The lirst , of six hundred and eighty-three men , loft this yesterday ( oth ) at one o ' clock . The second , also of si x hundred and eighty men , marched with the ( Jeneral at ten o ' clock last night . The advance column it ia intended should reach Cawnpore on the 10 th inst and the General on : the 11 th of September , and , if General Havelock . has by that time managed the crossiu . r the -whole force will at once move on to Lucknow , and the place has every chance of being relieved b y the loth or lGth , and even allowing for ' delay in ¦ the * crossing by the 20 th . The rivers have all fallen -wonderfully , ' the Jumna having gone down thirty feet in a wtek ' this will help the crossing greatly , and enable us to act on the enemy ' s flanks advantageously on the march to Lucknow , which could not be done at the time of the previous advance , owing to the whole ' country being under water . We have information that the Luckriow garrison have provisions to hist them until the 20 th inst . General Outrara has taken some heavy guns drawn by elephants . " In another letter it is mentioned that Mr . Colvin is prepared to aid n column advancing on Delhi with camels and other carriage as they approach'Agra .. At Meerut they have also collected carriage - tosome extent . The 5 th and 90 th axe armed with Enfield rifles . A writer from Allahabad says , on the 20 th of August : — " We have sent on four hundred men this week to Cawnpore by train ( forty miles ) , and the sick and wounded men of General llavelock ' s force are now on their way here , and will come in the last forty miles by railway . " Havelock , it would thus seem , has "been reinforced by 17 G 3 men . Another batch of Anglo-Indians arrived'on Thursday at Southampton in the Peninsular and Oriental Company ' s steamship Jtipon . As in the two previous cases , the passengers did not need any assistance from the Kelief Fund .

      A KOBLE 3 IAHOMETAN . "An English . . Lady , " recently arrived from hvlia tints communicates to the Times a narrative of a good Mahometan , who saved and protected her and another la <] y during the rising at Aurungabad : —¦ " On the 12 th of Jane , the day preceding the more open mutiny of the 1 st Cavalry , Hyderabad Contingent , we heard that some part of that corps had armed itself on the previous night with the intention of advancing on the cantonment , but that from the absence of unanimity among the men the plan had been , for the time , abandoned . We heard also that they had spoken of murdering their officers . Those and other

      reports made us feel very uneasy ; but in tho course ot the morning a sowar of the 3 rd Cavalry , Jlydrrabad Contingent , * named Booran Bucksh , whom we had known for some little time , and whose chaniclcr we had always respected for its truthfulness and ^ implicit } ' , came to my husband and told him he need feel no apprehension for hi . s family , for Le had made every provision for their safety and for that of a lady who was staying with us , to whose husband ho wns greatly attached , lie said , ' They shall travel to Ahniediiujignr an my family , ' and , looking up to heaven , he swore 'by Allah that he woidd never reach that place alive alone . He added , l I will leave my children behind , and if any evil happen to yours you mav destroy tliutn . '

      " On the evening of that day , we thought it prudent lo go as usual to the baud to avoid tins nppenrniicn of suspicion , mid as it became dusk we ; observed soinu horsemen watching us from a distance , and on going home we heard that noine of the sown ™ of the Jat Cavalry had been in the lines of the 2 nd Infantry , to inquire which of the houses in the cantonment wore occupied by English oflicuvs ( the corps had only recently arrived at Aurungabud ) , and ttl . so to ascertain the . state of fettling of tho " 2 nd , and their intended line of conduct should they receive orders to march toward * IHillu .

      TJiohu and other fads which had conic to our luiuwk'dgo increased our anxiety , but faithful Uooran Itm-kMi bad said , ' Fear nothing , I will watch day and night ; « lliC P ijuiutly , and the moment danger approaches I will be with yon . ' We . implicitly relied on him , ami niy lui . tband , having issued some necCHHitry orders for llm ni . ^ to a native oiliccr of tho 2 nd , retired to rest . -At . eleven o'clock that night . Mooran returned to us , and siiid we must prepare to leave , an the Cavalry wen- u ^ 'ii ' 'inning . My hudlmiiil , hastily commending uh to bin care , left us to make pro . parntioiiH to man tho bridge- between ( lie . cuvalry and infantry linen , and liooraii , placing ns in a * This -wan tho regiment that mutinied « "d «' lloWI 1 Brigadier Mackenzie at Bolarum two yearn nyo .

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      ¦ \ ¦ . ^ - ^^ ^^ 1010 ..- THE LEADER . [ No . 396 , October 24 1857

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      Ciioi ^ EitA Stratford . —A special meeting of the Association of Medical Officers of Health wns held last Saturday , to receive a report from a committee of their own body on the subject of an outbreak of cholera near Stratford . Mr . Simon , President , was in the chair . The committee had visited the spot where the disease is believed to have broken out , and found that thore bad been fifteen case 3 , of which seven had proved fatal- The earliest case occurred on tho 27 th of September ; the lirst deatli on the night of the 2 nd of October . The place in which all the cases occurred wus Abbey-row , West Hani . There are sixteen houses in tho row ,

      tolerably well-built , consisting of four or live rooms oacli , and tenanted by persons by no means dirty or very poor , and generally one family in each house . The occupants , for thfi moat part , Avork at tho fiour-inUls , or silk-printing factory , adjoining . Five of the houses have separate cesspools , and the remaining eleven drain into one large one behind tho centre house ; opposite to tkjs , at a dlntmice of seventy feet from the cesspool , is a pump : from this source tho inhabitants draw all their water for drinking and washing . The soil is entirely gro-vel , and there ia no doubt that infiltration anight occur from the cesspool to the "wvll . 'The water id undergoing chemical examination by Dr . Thomson .

      Abbeyrow is surrounded by mar . sh land , much impregnated with sewage , nnd is only a few feet above tho- Thames . In front of it is a tidal : U roam called CJhuuncl Lea ] tiver , which convoys much of tho aowngo of the town of Stratford into tho ltiver Lea . 15 y the desire of t . be medical officer of health , I Jr . Elliott , tho hnndlo was removed from tho pump on tho 1 . 2 th iriHt . Sine * that date ,, there has been only one cane , which proved fatal in six hours and a half . Ono other fatal ca . so had previously occurred in tho person of n woman who wan Hii [) pll (!( l wltli water from a ayoII in her own hoti . se , liable al * o to contamination by infiltration . It appears that diarrhoea iu usually prevalent in , the neighbourhood .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 24, 1857, page 1010, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2215/page/2/