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The Week
Catarina , had arrived at Quebec with twenty-two additional persons saved from the Austria . The Crystal Palace at rJew York , with all its eontents ^ was entirely destroyed by fire on the 5 th inst . The trial of Dr . Webster , dentist , charged with committing a criminal assault on a patient under the influence of chloroform , took place on Sept . 29 . Verdict of not guilty onthe capital charge , but guilty of an attempt , ——Steam-ships are about to run from Valparaiso to Monte Video and Buenos
Ay res , and from Valdivia to Ancud . The population of Chili has increased by . 119 , 19 9 souls in the four years since 1854 . Peru has suffered in her material interests from the late election agitation . A war against Ecuador is talked of , The Bolivian army has been reduced to one-half its usual strength . Senor Carrion has been elected Vieed ^ resident of Ecuador .- A letter received from the Society Islands reports the dethronement of the king . Tamatore ( a son of Queen Pohiare ) has been installed in the vacant throne . The dethroned monarch had gtihe to Tahiti .
A proposition had been made to the United States' Consul for the annexation of the island to the United States . — -Telegraphic news has this week been received from India , which must be considered favourable . The disarmed sejDoys of the 62 nd and 69 th native infantry and the native artillerymen at Mooltan had mutinied and attempted to seize the guns , but were driven back . When the cold season sets in , the troops collected uMer Lord Clyde will have f no difficulty in crushing any force that can be brought into the
field in Oude . It is alleged that the Begum of Lucknow is seeking to make conditions for her own safety by promising the surrender of Nana Sahib . The Gwalior fugitives , under the command of Tantia Topee , succeeded , during the last week of August , in taking possession of the town of Julra Patau . After this success , they moved upon Bhopal , but were encountered by the Mhow field force , under General Michel , on the 13 th of September , and dispersed in all directions , with the loss of thirty guns on their side , and very trifling casualties on
ours .- Chinese news is to the 24 th August . Lord Elgin had not returned from Japan . Admiral Sir Michael Seymour arrived at Hong Kong on the 20 th August , in H . M . S . Calcutta . Lord Elgin had proceeded to Jeddo with the steam yacht which he would present to the emperor , Sir Michael has been ill with fever . The emperor has recalled Hwang from the governorship of Canton , replacing him , it is said , by an officer more disposed to live at peace with the foreigner . The signs of a better disposition on the part of the people are also
becoming apparent . At Canton confidence is gradually reviving , and shops are opened . At Sydney the Electoral Bill may be said to have passed through a committee of the whole House . The outlines of the new representative system are now determined , at least so far as the Legislative Assembly is concerned . The number of members has been fixed at 78 , an addition of ten to the number originally proposed in the bill . The new members have all been given to country constituencies , uand Sidney is to enjoy only eight members . Three nuggets , of the
aggregate value of £ 14 , 0 . 00 , were being exhibited in Melbourne , previous to being shipped . These were taken out in the Ballarat district , and were about to be shipped to London . One specimen of pure gold , weighing over 2100 ounces , The telegraph between Sydney and Albury was to be Completed by the early part of the present month , when the three colonies of New South Wales , Victoria , and South Australia will be brought into immediate communication with each other . A railway collision , by which one guard was killed on the spot , and
another so seriously injured that his life is despaired of , took place at the Sixmile Bottom station of the Newmarket branch , of the Eastern Counties line , on Saturday night . John Linsley was engaged to accompany the removal of a boiler , weighing upwards of twenty-live tons , from the makers' in Southwark to Baling . The ponderous mass , drawn by twenty horses , arrived at Ealing , when Linsley suddenly fell to the ground , and the wheels of the carriage passed over
him . He remains without the slightest hope of recovery . Another dreadful colliery accident occurred on Wednesday at the Primrose Colliery , Pontardawe , nine miles from Swansea . Two hundred men , were in the pit when an explosion of firedamp occurred . The men went to work at six o ' clock in the morning , and about half-past eight one of the men came running up from the pit , stating that " the whole place was full of sulphur , and that all the men were killed ^ ' Within
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Week
Catarina , had arrived at Quebec with twenty-two additional persons saved from the Austria . The Crystal Palace at rJew York , with all its eontents ^ was entirely destroyed by fire on the 5 th inst . The trial of Dr . Webster , dentist , charged with committing a criminal assault on a patient under the influence of chloroform , took place on Sept . 29 . Verdict of not guilty onthe capital charge , but guilty of an attempt , ——Steam-ships are about to run from Valparaiso to Monte Video and Buenos
Ay res , and from Valdivia to Ancud . The population of Chili has increased by . 119 , 19 9 souls in the four years since 1854 . Peru has suffered in her material interests from the late election agitation . A war against Ecuador is talked of , The Bolivian army has been reduced to one-half its usual strength . Senor Carrion has been elected Vieed ^ resident of Ecuador .- A letter received from the Society Islands reports the dethronement of the king . Tamatore ( a son of Queen Pohiare ) has been installed in the vacant throne . The dethroned monarch had gtihe to Tahiti .
A proposition had been made to the United States' Consul for the annexation of the island to the United States . — -Telegraphic news has this week been received from India , which must be considered favourable . The disarmed sejDoys of the 62 nd and 69 th native infantry and the native artillerymen at Mooltan had mutinied and attempted to seize the guns , but were driven back . When the cold season sets in , the troops collected uMer Lord Clyde will have f no difficulty in crushing any force that can be brought into the
field in Oude . It is alleged that the Begum of Lucknow is seeking to make conditions for her own safety by promising the surrender of Nana Sahib . The Gwalior fugitives , under the command of Tantia Topee , succeeded , during the last week of August , in taking possession of the town of Julra Patau . After this success , they moved upon Bhopal , but were encountered by the Mhow field force , under General Michel , on the 13 th of September , and dispersed in all directions , with the loss of thirty guns on their side , and very trifling casualties on
ours .- Chinese news is to the 24 th August . Lord Elgin had not returned from Japan . Admiral Sir Michael Seymour arrived at Hong Kong on the 20 th August , in H . M . S . Calcutta . Lord Elgin had proceeded to Jeddo with the steam yacht which he would present to the emperor , Sir Michael has been ill with fever . The emperor has recalled Hwang from the governorship of Canton , replacing him , it is said , by an officer more disposed to live at peace with the foreigner . The signs of a better disposition on the part of the people are also
becoming apparent . At Canton confidence is gradually reviving , and shops are opened . At Sydney the Electoral Bill may be said to have passed through a committee of the whole House . The outlines of the new representative system are now determined , at least so far as the Legislative Assembly is concerned . The number of members has been fixed at 78 , an addition of ten to the number originally proposed in the bill . The new members have all been given to country constituencies , uand Sidney is to enjoy only eight members . Three nuggets , of the
aggregate value of £ 14 , 0 . 00 , were being exhibited in Melbourne , previous to being shipped . These were taken out in the Ballarat district , and were about to be shipped to London . One specimen of pure gold , weighing over 2100 ounces , The telegraph between Sydney and Albury was to be Completed by the early part of the present month , when the three colonies of New South Wales , Victoria , and South Australia will be brought into immediate communication with each other . A railway collision , by which one guard was killed on the spot , and
another so seriously injured that his life is despaired of , took place at the Sixmile Bottom station of the Newmarket branch , of the Eastern Counties line , on Saturday night . John Linsley was engaged to accompany the removal of a boiler , weighing upwards of twenty-live tons , from the makers' in Southwark to Baling . The ponderous mass , drawn by twenty horses , arrived at Ealing , when Linsley suddenly fell to the ground , and the wheels of the carriage passed over
him . He remains without the slightest hope of recovery . Another dreadful colliery accident occurred on Wednesday at the Primrose Colliery , Pontardawe , nine miles from Swansea . Two hundred men , were in the pit when an explosion of firedamp occurred . The men went to work at six o ' clock in the morning , and about half-past eight one of the men came running up from the pit , stating that " the whole place was full of sulphur , and that all the men were killed ^ ' Within