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The Week.
not , we regret to say . without the loss of twenty-four of our men ( among whom two officers ) and several wounded . The opposition to the Trader and Profession Bill is as strong in Bombay as Calcutta , and meetings of the Europeans and native gentlemen had been held on tho subject . On the whole , the opposition to the bill has been so hearty throughout India , that it is possible its passing may be postponed until Mr . AA'ilson shall have the opportunity of giving his opinion on it . Rao Ram Buksh ,
tnlookdar of Doondeah Khera , has been found guilty , and sentenced to be hanged . He is one of the many who treacherously betrayed unfortunate fugitives during the rebellion . Those from Cawnpore , who sought shelter upon his estate , were barbarously murdered by this monster , ivhose name will not be forgotten for ages . AVe have not heard of his actual execution , but thiuk it is hardly likely that even Lord Canning will pardon him . Rajah Jyelall Singh was also found guilty of abetting the murder of Miss JacksonMrs . Greenancl others .
, , He was convicted on the clearest and most conclusive evidence ; hosts of witnesses deposed not only to his having been the primary mover in the massacre of our countrymen and countrywomen , but also to his having stood by and witnessed , if not actually superintended , the brutal proceedings . It is entirely owing to the persevering exertions of Col . Bruce that the miscreant has not only been brought to trial , but his trial brought to so successful au issue . He initiated the proceedings ,
and he alone was in a position , and perhaps he alone had the sagacity , to collect witnesses from all parts of the country , as in conducting thc preliminary investigations their names transpired , and the nature of the evidence they were capable of giving became apparent . The execution was to take place at Lucknow on the 1 st inst ., at sunrise , ou the spot where his victims were murdered . A small monument marks it . It will be a relief when wo hear that the hangman has not been disappointed in disposing of these two friends . The case of Jyelall has
oxcited as much interest in Oude as did that of the Nawab of Furruekabad . The Nana is still , it is said , on tho north bank of the raptee , where its course from the hills flows westward . His followers , who have no money or supplies , plunder the inhabitants of the Deoghur A alley . A correspondent of the Lucknow Herald writes from the frontier more specifically : — " The Nana is now at Deoghur , and the Begum oue march beyond it . It is reported the Ranee of Lahore is iu camp . Tbe Begum has 200 rebel sepoys , and the Nana 500 , with one howitzer . He has also a small body of cavalry , numbering 150 sabres , 40 elephants , 40 camels , and 12 palkees , in which his and Bala Rao ' s families are conveyed . He has just made arrangements for tbe issue of three-quarters of a seer of coarse rice and one chittank of dhol . I am told that : i .
brigade of Ghoorkas from Kbatmandhoo have arrived at Dhang , with a view to drive the insurgents from the hills . The rebels frequently cross the border and plunder the inhabitants of Iurwah Koosaha , where there is a company of sepoys belonging to one of the talookdars . " Jung Bahadoor has at last , it is positively affirmed , ordered the Nana , Mummoo Khan , Beni Madho , and the rest of the principal rebels , to quit the Nepaul territories , under pain of being forcibly ejected by his troops . This will be service equivalent to the value of the tract of
country which it is in the contemplation of Government to make over to Nepaul . —The overland mail has also brought us correspondence and journals from Melbourne to Sept . 16 , and Sydney to Sept . 13 . Melbourne was in the midst of an election contest . The first batch of elections had gone against ministers . The law officers , Treasurer , and Commissiouer of Crown Lands , had been defeated ; but the Solicitor General was subsequently returned . The new Parliament of New South AVales met on the 30 th of Augustand was opened on the
fol-, lowing day by a speech from the Governor General iu person , and the address in return almost unanimously passed ; but on the first day of real business , the Government nominee , as chairman of committees , was rejected , and the opposition candidate chosen . On a subsequent day a motion was made by a Mr . Parkes to repeal the duties on tea and sugar , and opposed by the Government as an undue interference with their financial arrangements . The motion was , however , carried by a
majority of one , and the Cowper Ministry resigned . Mr . Murray was then sent for to form au administration , but failed in his commission , and ifr . Cowper resumed bis duties ; and , after an explanation to the Assembly of his position , moved the rescission of Mr . Parkes' motion , and the rescission was carried by a majority of 19 . Trade was rather dull in both colonies , and the supply of gold , though good , was not so plentiful as the previous year . GENERAL HOME NEWS . —The critical statu of affairs abroadand the
, impending congress , have made it necessary for several cabinet councils 1 ° be held this week , at which almost all tbe ministers have been in attendance . Though the weather was milder last week , the severity ° f the previous cold told on the health of tho metropolis , ancl the Registrar General's return for the week exhibits au increase of 272 deaths , the total number being 1 , 182 . Thc number of births was I , S 8 S . "T— - ^ -t the Court of Bankruptcy , the adjourned examination meeting in tbe
case of Messrs . Ayers and Melliss , who had traded as general merchants at Nottingham and New York , has been further adjourned for three months ; and a petition , praying for an order directing that the "Uardean Colliery Company should be wound up , was dismissed , all parties consenting . Permission was granted to sell property at J ' -nfield , belonging to J . E . Buller , the bankrupt solicitor , of Lincoln ' s"ui-fiehls , for the purpose of paying off the claim of an equitable mort-KJgoe thereon , Tbe sittings held for the last examination of George -Hontague Evmis , solicitor , late of Farnham , in Surrey , since cf R . ouloene :
of Richard Nicholson , an agricultural merchant , at Much Hadhain , in the county of Herts ; and of Ernest Levy , jeweller , of 352 , Strand , were adjourned . A strong opposition is anticipated in the latter ease . A deputation , headed by Sir C . Eardley , recently waited upon Lord John Russell , at the Foreign Office , with a view of making a representation regarding the Mortara ease . Their wish was that the subject should be brought formally under the notice of the various governments
of Europe . The Foreign Secretary promised to communicate with his colleagues in office , at the request of the deputation ; at the same time his lordship gave them to understand , what every one knows , that redress was uot to be looked for from Roman Catholic governments in such a case as this , where every natural tie must yield to the relentless claims of a fossilized religious monstrosit }' . The Peel Institution at Accrington held a meeting on Saturday night , for
the purpose of presenting the prizes to the candidates , which were awarded in the East Lancashire Union examinations . Lord Brougham presided , and the meetingAvas addressed by his lordship , Lord Stanley , and Canon Richson . Lorcl Brougham , iu the course of his address , denied that he was a convert to the Maine Liquor law . Tbe meeting was a very successful onb . Joseph Henry Jay , an income-tax collector , residing at Pearson-street , Kiugslaud-road , was placed beforo Mr . D'Eyncourt , at AYorship-strcet \ Police-court , charged with fraud in the
collection of that assessment . The magistrate remanded thc caso , and not considering the evidence offered of a very satisfactory kind , accepted bail in two sureties of £ 200 caeli :- ^—A dreadful accident happened on Saturday afternoon at what is called the . '' Big Pit , " in the neighbourhood of Far Green , near Hanley , by which we regret to state that ten persons lost their lives , and ten others were severely injured . It appears that a company of men employed at tbe pit were ascending in a cage , and from want of attention of the man at the wheelthc cageinstead of
stopping-, , when it reached the bank , was thrown over the wheel bottom upwards , by which ten persons were thrown out and killed on the spot , another dying soon afterwards . Another cage was descending with night hands , and into this the other cage fell , greatly injuring the persons therein , so that altogether ten other persons were severel j' hurt . A youth who was iu the ascei-ding ' eage escaped almost by a miracle , In reference to the late fire at the Paraffin Light Company ' s premises , Bucklersbury , the
solicitors of those interested have attended at the Mansion House to report to the Lord Mayor tho result of the coroner ' s inquest , and to come to an understanding as to how tho business should be conducted in future , so as to ensure the safety of contiguous property , and satisfy the neighbours as to their personal immunity from danger . Some discussion took place , and suggestions were entertained to secure the desired results , which are to be further considered when the arrangements have made some progress . The jury have returned a verdict of accidental death
at thc inquest on tbe body of . the unfortunate man Thomas Hine , who was killed by the explosion at the Surrey Consumers' Gas AVorks . The A en . Charles Mackenzie , M . A ., of Caius College , Cambridge , is about to resign the archdeaconry of Natal , which he has held for the last few years , for the purpose of putting himself at the head of the new African mission . He will be consecrated a bishop as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made , either in this country or by thc three bishops of Southern Africa ( Cape Town , Graham ' s Town , ancl Natal ); and the
mission will consist , in the first placo , of the bishop , six clergymen , a physician , a surgeon , and a number of artificers capable of conducting the various works of building , husbandry , and especially of the cultivation of the cotton plant . The new Lorcl Mayor ( Carter ) on AVednesday entered formally on his office . The procession left Guildhall about noon , and proceeded to AVestminster Hall , where the ceremony of presentation and taking tbe oaths was gone through . In the evening a grand banquet was given in the Guildhall . At a meeting , consisting of clergy and laymen , held at Cambridge on Monday last , it was resolved , " That tho persons present form themselves into a ' Church Defence
Association , ' aud also that the objects of tho association should be—1 . The circulation , by means of pamphlets and newspaper articles , of information respecting thc position , rights , and claims of the Church . 2 . The furnishing replies to all attacks made upon the Church , and especially those of the Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Control . 3 . The presentation of petitions to Parliament in all eases where such a course should seem desirable . " An inquiry , instituted bthc Board of Tradehas been commenced at the Greenwich
Policey , court , before Mr . Traill , the sitting magistrate , and Captain Hani ' s , nautical assessor , into the circumstances attending the wreck of the Royal Mail Steam Company ' s ship J'aramatta , on the 30 th June last , near the Alrgiu Islands . Captain Baynton , commander of the vessel , aud several of the subordinate officers , were examined , after which the inquiry was adjourned , that the men on watch at the time of the wreck might be brought forward . At the Court of Bankruptcy , third class
certificates were granted to Messrs . Hardwick and Jones , merchants , of Graceehureb-street ; but the Commissioner , in giving judgment , expressed his dissatisfaction at the course of trading pursued by the bankrupts , pronouncing it to have been of a reckless character . A further adjournment of a month was ordered in the case of Messrs . Francis and Freer , ale and wine merchants , of Great St . Helen ' s , to enable the assignees to furnish specific objections to the accounts .- At tho Metropolitan Free Hospital , Devonshire-square , City , the aggregate
number of patients relieved during the week ending Nov . 5 , was , medical , 715 ; surgical , 389 ; total , 1 , 004 ; of which 298 were new oases . , Some curious circumstances have transpired with yognrd ( 0 jijo relig ion ;;
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The Week.
not , we regret to say . without the loss of twenty-four of our men ( among whom two officers ) and several wounded . The opposition to the Trader and Profession Bill is as strong in Bombay as Calcutta , and meetings of the Europeans and native gentlemen had been held on tho subject . On the whole , the opposition to the bill has been so hearty throughout India , that it is possible its passing may be postponed until Mr . AA'ilson shall have the opportunity of giving his opinion on it . Rao Ram Buksh ,
tnlookdar of Doondeah Khera , has been found guilty , and sentenced to be hanged . He is one of the many who treacherously betrayed unfortunate fugitives during the rebellion . Those from Cawnpore , who sought shelter upon his estate , were barbarously murdered by this monster , ivhose name will not be forgotten for ages . AVe have not heard of his actual execution , but thiuk it is hardly likely that even Lord Canning will pardon him . Rajah Jyelall Singh was also found guilty of abetting the murder of Miss JacksonMrs . Greenancl others .
, , He was convicted on the clearest and most conclusive evidence ; hosts of witnesses deposed not only to his having been the primary mover in the massacre of our countrymen and countrywomen , but also to his having stood by and witnessed , if not actually superintended , the brutal proceedings . It is entirely owing to the persevering exertions of Col . Bruce that the miscreant has not only been brought to trial , but his trial brought to so successful au issue . He initiated the proceedings ,
and he alone was in a position , and perhaps he alone had the sagacity , to collect witnesses from all parts of the country , as in conducting thc preliminary investigations their names transpired , and the nature of the evidence they were capable of giving became apparent . The execution was to take place at Lucknow on the 1 st inst ., at sunrise , ou the spot where his victims were murdered . A small monument marks it . It will be a relief when wo hear that the hangman has not been disappointed in disposing of these two friends . The case of Jyelall has
oxcited as much interest in Oude as did that of the Nawab of Furruekabad . The Nana is still , it is said , on tho north bank of the raptee , where its course from the hills flows westward . His followers , who have no money or supplies , plunder the inhabitants of the Deoghur A alley . A correspondent of the Lucknow Herald writes from the frontier more specifically : — " The Nana is now at Deoghur , and the Begum oue march beyond it . It is reported the Ranee of Lahore is iu camp . Tbe Begum has 200 rebel sepoys , and the Nana 500 , with one howitzer . He has also a small body of cavalry , numbering 150 sabres , 40 elephants , 40 camels , and 12 palkees , in which his and Bala Rao ' s families are conveyed . He has just made arrangements for tbe issue of three-quarters of a seer of coarse rice and one chittank of dhol . I am told that : i .
brigade of Ghoorkas from Kbatmandhoo have arrived at Dhang , with a view to drive the insurgents from the hills . The rebels frequently cross the border and plunder the inhabitants of Iurwah Koosaha , where there is a company of sepoys belonging to one of the talookdars . " Jung Bahadoor has at last , it is positively affirmed , ordered the Nana , Mummoo Khan , Beni Madho , and the rest of the principal rebels , to quit the Nepaul territories , under pain of being forcibly ejected by his troops . This will be service equivalent to the value of the tract of
country which it is in the contemplation of Government to make over to Nepaul . —The overland mail has also brought us correspondence and journals from Melbourne to Sept . 16 , and Sydney to Sept . 13 . Melbourne was in the midst of an election contest . The first batch of elections had gone against ministers . The law officers , Treasurer , and Commissiouer of Crown Lands , had been defeated ; but the Solicitor General was subsequently returned . The new Parliament of New South AVales met on the 30 th of Augustand was opened on the
fol-, lowing day by a speech from the Governor General iu person , and the address in return almost unanimously passed ; but on the first day of real business , the Government nominee , as chairman of committees , was rejected , and the opposition candidate chosen . On a subsequent day a motion was made by a Mr . Parkes to repeal the duties on tea and sugar , and opposed by the Government as an undue interference with their financial arrangements . The motion was , however , carried by a
majority of one , and the Cowper Ministry resigned . Mr . Murray was then sent for to form au administration , but failed in his commission , and ifr . Cowper resumed bis duties ; and , after an explanation to the Assembly of his position , moved the rescission of Mr . Parkes' motion , and the rescission was carried by a majority of 19 . Trade was rather dull in both colonies , and the supply of gold , though good , was not so plentiful as the previous year . GENERAL HOME NEWS . —The critical statu of affairs abroadand the
, impending congress , have made it necessary for several cabinet councils 1 ° be held this week , at which almost all tbe ministers have been in attendance . Though the weather was milder last week , the severity ° f the previous cold told on the health of tho metropolis , ancl the Registrar General's return for the week exhibits au increase of 272 deaths , the total number being 1 , 182 . Thc number of births was I , S 8 S . "T— - ^ -t the Court of Bankruptcy , the adjourned examination meeting in tbe
case of Messrs . Ayers and Melliss , who had traded as general merchants at Nottingham and New York , has been further adjourned for three months ; and a petition , praying for an order directing that the "Uardean Colliery Company should be wound up , was dismissed , all parties consenting . Permission was granted to sell property at J ' -nfield , belonging to J . E . Buller , the bankrupt solicitor , of Lincoln ' s"ui-fiehls , for the purpose of paying off the claim of an equitable mort-KJgoe thereon , Tbe sittings held for the last examination of George -Hontague Evmis , solicitor , late of Farnham , in Surrey , since cf R . ouloene :
of Richard Nicholson , an agricultural merchant , at Much Hadhain , in the county of Herts ; and of Ernest Levy , jeweller , of 352 , Strand , were adjourned . A strong opposition is anticipated in the latter ease . A deputation , headed by Sir C . Eardley , recently waited upon Lord John Russell , at the Foreign Office , with a view of making a representation regarding the Mortara ease . Their wish was that the subject should be brought formally under the notice of the various governments
of Europe . The Foreign Secretary promised to communicate with his colleagues in office , at the request of the deputation ; at the same time his lordship gave them to understand , what every one knows , that redress was uot to be looked for from Roman Catholic governments in such a case as this , where every natural tie must yield to the relentless claims of a fossilized religious monstrosit }' . The Peel Institution at Accrington held a meeting on Saturday night , for
the purpose of presenting the prizes to the candidates , which were awarded in the East Lancashire Union examinations . Lord Brougham presided , and the meetingAvas addressed by his lordship , Lord Stanley , and Canon Richson . Lorcl Brougham , iu the course of his address , denied that he was a convert to the Maine Liquor law . Tbe meeting was a very successful onb . Joseph Henry Jay , an income-tax collector , residing at Pearson-street , Kiugslaud-road , was placed beforo Mr . D'Eyncourt , at AYorship-strcet \ Police-court , charged with fraud in the
collection of that assessment . The magistrate remanded thc caso , and not considering the evidence offered of a very satisfactory kind , accepted bail in two sureties of £ 200 caeli :- ^—A dreadful accident happened on Saturday afternoon at what is called the . '' Big Pit , " in the neighbourhood of Far Green , near Hanley , by which we regret to state that ten persons lost their lives , and ten others were severely injured . It appears that a company of men employed at tbe pit were ascending in a cage , and from want of attention of the man at the wheelthc cageinstead of
stopping-, , when it reached the bank , was thrown over the wheel bottom upwards , by which ten persons were thrown out and killed on the spot , another dying soon afterwards . Another cage was descending with night hands , and into this the other cage fell , greatly injuring the persons therein , so that altogether ten other persons were severel j' hurt . A youth who was iu the ascei-ding ' eage escaped almost by a miracle , In reference to the late fire at the Paraffin Light Company ' s premises , Bucklersbury , the
solicitors of those interested have attended at the Mansion House to report to the Lord Mayor tho result of the coroner ' s inquest , and to come to an understanding as to how tho business should be conducted in future , so as to ensure the safety of contiguous property , and satisfy the neighbours as to their personal immunity from danger . Some discussion took place , and suggestions were entertained to secure the desired results , which are to be further considered when the arrangements have made some progress . The jury have returned a verdict of accidental death
at thc inquest on tbe body of . the unfortunate man Thomas Hine , who was killed by the explosion at the Surrey Consumers' Gas AVorks . The A en . Charles Mackenzie , M . A ., of Caius College , Cambridge , is about to resign the archdeaconry of Natal , which he has held for the last few years , for the purpose of putting himself at the head of the new African mission . He will be consecrated a bishop as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made , either in this country or by thc three bishops of Southern Africa ( Cape Town , Graham ' s Town , ancl Natal ); and the
mission will consist , in the first placo , of the bishop , six clergymen , a physician , a surgeon , and a number of artificers capable of conducting the various works of building , husbandry , and especially of the cultivation of the cotton plant . The new Lorcl Mayor ( Carter ) on AVednesday entered formally on his office . The procession left Guildhall about noon , and proceeded to AVestminster Hall , where the ceremony of presentation and taking tbe oaths was gone through . In the evening a grand banquet was given in the Guildhall . At a meeting , consisting of clergy and laymen , held at Cambridge on Monday last , it was resolved , " That tho persons present form themselves into a ' Church Defence
Association , ' aud also that the objects of tho association should be—1 . The circulation , by means of pamphlets and newspaper articles , of information respecting thc position , rights , and claims of the Church . 2 . The furnishing replies to all attacks made upon the Church , and especially those of the Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Control . 3 . The presentation of petitions to Parliament in all eases where such a course should seem desirable . " An inquiry , instituted bthc Board of Tradehas been commenced at the Greenwich
Policey , court , before Mr . Traill , the sitting magistrate , and Captain Hani ' s , nautical assessor , into the circumstances attending the wreck of the Royal Mail Steam Company ' s ship J'aramatta , on the 30 th June last , near the Alrgiu Islands . Captain Baynton , commander of the vessel , aud several of the subordinate officers , were examined , after which the inquiry was adjourned , that the men on watch at the time of the wreck might be brought forward . At the Court of Bankruptcy , third class
certificates were granted to Messrs . Hardwick and Jones , merchants , of Graceehureb-street ; but the Commissioner , in giving judgment , expressed his dissatisfaction at the course of trading pursued by the bankrupts , pronouncing it to have been of a reckless character . A further adjournment of a month was ordered in the case of Messrs . Francis and Freer , ale and wine merchants , of Great St . Helen ' s , to enable the assignees to furnish specific objections to the accounts .- At tho Metropolitan Free Hospital , Devonshire-square , City , the aggregate
number of patients relieved during the week ending Nov . 5 , was , medical , 715 ; surgical , 389 ; total , 1 , 004 ; of which 298 were new oases . , Some curious circumstances have transpired with yognrd ( 0 jijo relig ion ;;