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      that Mr . Hargreaves should conocmutilcate with the * Eye-witness ' who stated a case in tire Times of February 5 th . Allucfing to Mr . Harjreavea s reference to the desire expressed by an old lady of property to leave a portion of it to any needy sufferer from Sepoy cruelty , and to the fact of no one having applied , Lord Shaftesbury says that " most of the cases which have arrived in England are those of persons whose circumstances in life place them above poverty . " Mr . Hargreaves next requests to be informed " how many cases of the kind referred to Xiord Shaftesbury has unquestionable proof of ?" His Lordship , in his reply , is . of opinion that hrs correspondent "had better write to some one in India . " In . the final letter , Mr . Hargreaves says he is at a loss to conceive how any one in India can inform him of that which must be known to his Lordship alone . He concludes : — " Mr . Mangles , it is quite clear , doe 3 not believe m the existence of a single case of mutilation . I have . also before me a letter from the secretary of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Compan } -, which states that the board of directors , * having made inquiry on the subject , have not been able to discover that any case of mutilation has existed among the passengers who have returned to this country by the Company ' s steamers since the outbreak in India . ' Holding , as your L ordship does , a prominent position before the public , it seems to me that you are bound either to produce satisfactory proofs of the statements you have made on this subject , or to make a speedy recantation . I venture to think that no single individual is more responsible in the matter than yourself . These stories , so loosely told and so feebly supported , have stimulated to a frightful degree the vindictive passions of our countrymen ; they have been the talk of the barrack-room and the bait of the recruiting sergeant ; and the result has been an indiscriminate slaughter in India , which has sacrificed the innocent and the guilty alike . " A HINDOO PROCLAMATION . A proclamation issued by Khan Bahadoor Khan , the rebel Nawab of Bareilly , to the Hindoo chieftains , has been published . It accuses the English of a systematic design to convert the Hindoos and Mahometans forcibly to the Christian religion , adding : — " Their designs for destroying your religion , O Rajahs , ¦ are manifest from tlieir having had recourse to compulsive measures to force the prisoners to mess together . Many prisoners refused to mess together , and were consequently starved to death ; and many ate bread toge tlier , and of course forfeited their religion . When the English saw that even such measures were ineffectual to convert the Hindoos , they caused bones to be ground ¦ with flour and sugar and mixed particles of dried flesh a « d bone-dust with rice , and caused the same to be sold in theshops . In a word , they devised every plan they could for destroying your religion . " The dissemination of religious books by English missionaries , and the grievance of the greased cartridges , are alluded to ; and the Hindoos and Mahometans- are exhorted to lay aside their differences , arid , to join in « rooting out' the English : — " Among the Hindoos , the slaughter of kino is looked Upon as a horrible sin . The Mussulman chieftains have alt agreed that , should the Hindoos join them in killing the : Englishmen in India , they ( the Mussulmans ) will ceaise to slaughter cows . The Mussulmans have made solemn promises by the sacred Koran to abstain from eating flesh of cows . Should the Hindoos join them , { lie' Mussulmans will look upon the fl . « ah of cows with tlib same horror which they feel at seeing- pork . If the Hindoos do not attend to this solemn appeal , and do not kill the English—nay , if they shelter them even—they will be considered guilty of slaughtering cows and eating beef . *« ShouM the English , with a view to neutralize our proposal , make a similar agreement , and urge the Hindoos to rise against the Mussulmans , lot the wise Hindoos consider that if the English do bo the Hindoon will bo sadly deceived ' . The Englishmen never keep their promises . They arer deceitful impostors The natives of this country have always been tools in the hands of these deceitful Englishmen . None of you should permit this golden opportunity to slip away . Lot us take advantage of itf Our epistolary Intercourse , though not so charmingr as personal interview , is still calculated to revive remombrance of each other . Wo trust you will concur with uo , and favour us with a reply to this appeah which is maxlo with the full consent of both Hindoos and Mussulmans of this place . " i ' " . ii-ii . ii . , 11 , . i ... ¦ . ;„ ..-. ww .-.,, '„ ., ,. _ . ,

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      STATE OF TRADE . A 8 M © HTMr improved feeling manifested ilsolf in somo of the great manufacturing towns during the week ending lost Saturday s but , for the moat part , thoro was n * material alteration in the sfcnte or proapeota of tratd . Qt ' ' Bw the general business of the port of London during th » week ending last Baturduy there h « 8 boon diminished acrtlvity . The number of ships reported tuwnrd was 127 , Those cleared outward amounted to 92 , including 14 111

      ballast j and those on the berth loading for the Australian colonies amount to 43 . Mr . H . P . M ? apl « s , commission merchant , insurance broker , and agent to the Dieppe and Jersey steamers , has announced that he has been compelled to suspend his payments . The depreciation in the value of steamships , he states , has so materially affected his means as to cause his present difficulties . The Board of Trade returns for the past month were issued on Thursday morning , and show a further large reduction in the declared value of our exportations—a reduction of 2 , 024 , 624 ^ . There is no general sign , how-, erer , of a diminution in the consumption of imported commodities .

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      PUBLIC MEETINGS . THE BRITISH ORPHAN ASYLUM . The anniversar y of this charity was celebrated by a dinner at the Lo ' ndon Tavern last Saturday . The Duke of Cambridge was in the chair , and , in accordance with bis usual custom , drew the attention of his auditory to the necessity of maintaining our warlike establishments itt a constant state of efficiency . " While he entertained a sanguine expectation that peace and tranquillity ¦ would , at a comparatively early period , be restored , he hoped they would never again allow themselves to imagine that the military and naval services of this country could ever become useless . { CJteers . ) Of this the people of Eng land might be assured , that never for a certainty could they calculate on the existence of a . state of profound peace even for one hour . It was impossible . He might even say , it was contrary to human nature , however lamentable it might be that such should be the fact . But so long as England continued to be a great empire—nnd she is undoubtedly the greatest empire the world contained { cheers )— so long must she have means at lier disposal to hold her own in the estimation of the world . { Cheers . ') That could only bo by her retaining in all their efficiency and strength the noble and glorious army and navy which he was proud to think she now possessed . It was his special avocation to look after the interests of one portion of that service , and ho assured them it was matter of the greatest gratification and of the greatest advantage to him that at the present moment public attention should bo particularlyattracted to the condition and circumstances of the British army . " That condition , the Duke continued , has been and is being improved ; everything is advancing , both' in civil and military muttera ; and the abate of things which eatisiied previous generations would not . satisfy modern men . His Royal Highness concluded with paying a high compliment to Major Powyn , whose name he coupled with the toast of " The Army and Navy . " Major Powys briefly returned thanks , and , before the company separated , upwards of 1000 / . was collected for the cliarity . THIS EAST INMA IJtOlTSK . Tho Quarterly General Court of the East India Company wua hold on Wednesday , Mr . R . D . Manglea in tho olmir . A voto of thanks to Sir J . C . Melvillwns carried unanimously . In nntjwor to some inquiries by Mr . Helps , with respect to tho prize money for tho oap-^ uto - of ^ elhlj ^ lie-chaiiunan-saiU-tluit ^ vJjttt ^ lui . llJ ^ . Cijn ^ agreed upon was this—that all which could bo justly considered prizo , viz ., all the property that had belonged to tho mutineora and rebels , should bo distributed among tho captors ; but that the property which hod previously belonged to tho Government , and which hnd only boon recovered , should not bo bo distributed . 13 o-Bidos that , tuo Court of Directory with tho sanction of the Government , had granted another six months butta , in compensation for that which ooald not bo Justly rogardod as prlsno | buoU as tho property of tho Government

      and also of those loyal subjects who had behaved faith fully and well . A medal would be struck for the armv " Mr . Jones asked whether the whxjle of the inhabitant * of Delhi would be considered as rebels , to which Mr . Ma gles replied , " Certainly not . " . Mr . Lewin asked whether the chairman had any posf tive knowledge of the mutilations which -were said to have been committed by the Sepoys on women' and children . His own impressions of India led him to believe that no such mutilations and atrocities had occurred . —The chairman : — " I do not know of any such case . If the question had been asked me a week ago I should have said that every case which several gentlemen had been engaged in tracing out had failed to be substantiated . But since then a case has been brought before me bearing a greater semblance of truth than any I had previously heard of . That case is now under investigation , and probably within a few days I shall be able to say for a certainty whether it is true or not . Lord Shaftesbury has told me that there are ten cases of mutilation in England ; but I do not know of theui . I know only of the case which 1 have stated to be now under investigation . " —Sir F . Cuirie said that " an officer , who was at the siege of Delhi had been asked whether there was any truth in the statements that Europeans had been found in Delhi chained to guns and crucified , and he said that , to the best of his belief , nothing of the kind had occurred . He said , moreover , that the principal atrocities which hcheardofin Delhi were those the information respecting which hadbeeu received from England . ' [ Touching this question—some further facts concerning which will be found in our Indian intelligence—we may here mention that Sir Charles Locock , who took the chair on "Wednesday at the anniversary festival of the Royal Medical Benevolent College , said that some persons were " ¦ weak enough" to deny the truth of the alleged torturings of English women and children b 3 ' the mutineers , but that he " knew them to be true . " } Mr . Jones was counted out in bringing forward a motion affirming that it is our duty to give up the Kingdom of Oudc to its royal family .

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      ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . A fearful accident has occurred at the saw-mills of Mr . Williams , Coronation-road , Bristol . A woman naraed Eliza Handcock , the wife of a labourer residing m JBedminster , was in the habit of collecting sawdust at the different mills for the supply of public-houses . A few days- ago , she went to Mr . Williams ' s for this purpose , and was occupied for some time in filling her sacks . She then went to another part of the premises , where a steam saw-mill was at work , and within a few minutes afterwards her sister , who was with her , was heard to scream . The engineer instantly stopped the engine and hastened to the spot , when it was found that Mrs . Handcock ' s clothes had become entangled in the shaft , and that the poor creature had been violently tossed round the machinery and killed . An inquest was sabsequently held on the mutilated body , and a verdict of Accidental Death was returned . A sinking of the earth took place on Monday morning at the Victoria Iron Company ' s mining works at Runswick . Damage was done to the amount of 15 , OO 0 L , bat no personal injury 'was sustained . A carpenter , at work on Monday afternoon on the roof of the new Cerent Garden Theatre , stepped on the skylight frames , when some of the slating gave way , and he fell through to a depth of nearly a hundred feet . He was frightfully injured , and died almost immediately .

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      204 T H ! E Ii E A D E R . Pjo ^ jlg ^ MAKOH ^ , 1858 .

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      IRELAND . Mil . Smith O'Brien has addressed a long letter to the Nation newspaper , the upstart of which is to show that a Derby Government is preferable to a Palmerston Ministry . The Whi gs ¦ are twitted with various backslidings , and the principle of Repeal is still maintained . Tiik College Riots . —There has been a hitch in the inquiry into the riots in front of Trinity College on the 12 th inst . The police would not consent to a public investigation ; the collegians repudiated si private one ; so the inquiry is at an end . Fatal Conflict . —Two policemen of the Articlavo constabulary station , near Coleraine , whilst in pursuit of an illicit still in the parish of Magilligmi , wore resisted by a man named Edward M'Cullion and hij son . A conflict ensued , when the ekler M'Callion was stubbed to the heart by one of tho policemen , and fell dead ; his son also received a bayonet thrust . M'Callion had been more than once fined for making illicit whisky . Mukdkk . —Patrick Leydcn and John Ley den have been tried at tho Galway Assizes for the murder of the wife of the former . The man had been in some measure forced to marry tho woman , on whom ho hart committed a criminal assault , and he appears to have killed her out of revenge for wbut he considered a compulsory marriage . John Leydcn , whoso connexion with the crime is not clear , was Acquitted ; but Patrick wua found Guilty .

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      THE ORIENT . CHINA . Thus last nows from I long-Kong , of tho d « to of l < oi > - ruary 15 th , days that Yoh , a prisoner on hoard the infloxiblo , was nt that city , on his way to ( Jnleuttii , >¦ m blockade of Canton was raised on tho lOih ult . M'O Russians and Americans huvo joined tho Knglish ana French in their demand on tho Chinoso Government . The letters of tho four plenipotentiaries wont up w Shanghai , whoro the minwtora themselves were about to proceed ; and by tho middlo of March it would bo known what lino China tukos . Trudo hua reopened at Uintoii , and tho site of tho now factories haa boon "i" ^ ' ^ " , ' Tho Chinoso authorities reoeive tho ilutiiw . f '"? , , Sopoy regiment lias arrived , and is quartered within ui » walls of Canton . No othor reinforcements 1 " » »« up to tho 15 th ult . hqvpt . . - Colonel Hall , of tho Gth Bengal Cavalry , hiw arrvreu in Egypt to purchase homos for sorvico in the unw > armio ^ M ^ u ^ a iiJ ^ ti ^ . ^ : ll , " [! ° Si inencomont of tho present Tn ^ fftlf 7 ^ ftWl"nn ™ Wl " "Jollloor hns been appointed by tho Viceroy to as » i « t n >» in tho execution of bib mission .

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      AME 1 UCA .. Thicius is but lfltle news from Amorica this week . * ' Howia of lloprosontalivos at Washington liiw " l " roaolutlon directing inquiry Into tho elrci » " lrtti * ^ f i tilio ncotod with tho seizure of tho American barque Aanui

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 27, 1858, page 294, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2236/page/6/