The Miner and Workman's Advocate. — 1864-08-20 (London, England)

VICTIMS TO JUGGERNAUTII IN INDIA.  The following is extracted from the Friend of 7mb:cc:l. "We saw yesterday within a mile or two of 'the 'office :where this journal is. published, &sight which was calculated to make a strong man sicken with shame and horror. It was the festival of the 4 Ruth Jattra ' when the caz. of • Juggernauth is draggediorth by hundreds of people, and the-roads are filled withtens of thousands more who have eoinci from all parts to be present at this ceremony. The general incidents of the festival we may describe some other day—at ?resent 'We wish to state a fact for the infor/nation of the authorities, and to ask a question for the information of the ralblic. Many. hours the crowd had been surging up and -down, or around the indecentlyP.inted figures which were afterwards hauled 'With great straining' an& pulling, ,on to the car, almost as if the gods were too weak to help themselves. Ropes of great length were attached to the, 'ponderous machine, and. the dense throng made a rush for the, honour of . .pullina at them. The Brahmins urged, the mob• to exert themselves, and with wild excitenunt and a terrible din they made a great effort,, and sueseeded in moving it -from the rut where it has: lain for year. The ground Sloped a little, and the crowd 'fell hick exhausted. Again the Brahmins Siteuted, anii Men beat gongs -on the car—again the mob pulled, and the huge- fabric was dragged forward a few yards, it stopped' suddenly, aria, the crowd seemed seized with a tt of madness, so) eagerly were they. rushing forwanito Peer under the. wheels of the car. A great cry was set ; we pushed forward with the rest to loOk beneatlithe oar. Behind, it there lay upon the ground apoor old woman, With thin wrinkled limbs and grey hair, her face almost *rushed into. the earth, and her foot out nearly off: 'She writhed feebly hiller dying agony, and the Brahmins-coolly lciok-ed down upon her with heavy, leaden faces, While the crowd. still-peered beneath the car and cried out that' there 'were more. Upon a closer inspection we saw beneath the ftont wheeia one man,l. strong, black-whiskered man4:ging With the *keel still upon him. He was turned over slightly on his side, and his bowels were crushed out, and the graund around him was soak, with his blood, which had gushed. from his mouth and nose. A little beyond was a second man, likewise crushed to death-,-the•very image of humanity was wiped from the wretch as if witty& sponge. The crowd stood for a long time looking on At this nuk.trable tragedy, and then they dragged the car baok, so as to•reinor., the two dead men. They and the dying-woman 'were left tic;,.ther. With the same frantic uproar the car was dragged on. aszin ; but whether its wheels were dyed With fresh blood or nos cannot say, for we did, not stay to see. These three victims did see---and: that is our fact. Our ,cinestion is -this—Does :be GOyernment permit this self-destruction? Is it supposed that 'the police Should prevent it ? That is the case, it is generally believed, --and we have only further to ask, why the police were not present •on. this occasion in sufficient numbers- to Prevent murder, or suicide—whichever it may have been? The crowd cried, 'Apse, apse,'—they did it of their own accord; and7it may be sc. Is it impossible to prevent an orgie which ic a tremendous scandal to our rule from being turned into a carnival cf blood? If we are not strong enough to prevent this great wickedness in the..siglit of heaven, in heaven's name let us at least disown it?aefore the world, and not suffer it to remain a -reproach to a, 'Government wlich calls ittelf Christian."  Otn DEATH rhos resulted from the explosion et the IsAnrth London Railway, reported in another column. The :poor rfireman died.on,Tuesda.y night. The driver is happily -ikely to recover.  AL YOUNG, WO/UN named 'Hartley was, on W•ednesday karma guilty at the Central Criminal Court of the murder. of her child, and was sentenced to be hung. She had been confined in the workhouK, and the charge was, that, after leaving that place, she suffocated her infant a.nd placed it in the chimney of a public-house in the Grars'inn-road.  THE PRINCE OF WALES'S 'Vrsrr TO