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410 THE LEADER. ' [No. 423, Mat 1, 1858.
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The Blessiscs of Moxotony.— Some peoplem...
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IMPERIAL ¦ PARLIAMENT. ¦ Monday, Jj>ril ...
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By Many Signs It Has-Been Made Manifest ...
laxcd is the belief in " well-iiifoi-med" quarters : General ¦ Ispix . asse , ' the representative of that state of things , giving way before a necessity stronger "than , a dictator ' s . will . The policy pursued since the l-ltli of January is felt to liave done more harm to the prestige of Louis 1 Na . poleon than any net or acts of Ins Government since the Coup d'Eiatj and a milder policy is to be iuaufruratcd forthwith . So be it . ¦• • • •
Bui ; wh ile the French Government is thinking of its duties to liberty at home , it is doing its best , or worst , to perpetuate the evils of slavery abroad . The notorious M . Regis has been working- with great and successful activity in furtherance of the Imperial scheme for furnishing Martinique and Guadaloupe with " free" negro labourers . The latest advices from the " West Coast of Africa inform us that he has shipped oil' some twelve hundred negroes in two ships , and that lie was so fortunate as to carry one thousand safely to their destinations , the odd two hundred having perished either on the middle passage , or in the
process of landing them ! The whole affair is marked by the worst characteristics of the slavetrading , against which , we have waged such a long and , as it would almost appear , useless warfare . Stimulated by the demand for men , the chiefs are returning to their old trade of man-hunting ; and the lightly-rooted , but promising civilization of the last quarter of a century seems doomed to be torn violently from out the soil . Of course it is idle to forbid the Spanish ^ Portuguese , or American slavetraders to ply their calling while the Emp & rorof the IPrench sends his ships with impunity for cargoes of kidnapped negroes . ... ""
In iact , there really seems no way of settling the Tmcomi ' oitable question but to throw the trade completely open , as we have before advised , when the evil of slavery must inevitably work its only remedy . 3 ? ill all the countries demanding negro labour with negroes , and the time will not be distant when their numbers and their civilization will commanc their absolute freedom as a social necessity . Meanwhile we go on disputing to no end with almost
every Power that has anything to do with slave labour . We have been interchanging a smart correspondence with America on the subject of ships in the slave trade making use of the American flag . Our representative , Lord Natier , calls upon the " United States to increase its preventive force on the African coast , and General Gass declines to accede to the demand , giving us one or two sharp retorts for our own doings with regard to
Krooraen . The telegram which reached London yesterday afternoon gives us stirring news from Oude . We have had a great success , not counterbalanced by a small reverse which we have sustained . On the 22 nd of March Sir Hugh Rose invested Jhansi , and on the 25 th began to bombard it . On the 1 st of April , while carrying on the siege , he was attacked by 25 , 000 rcbols with 18 guns , but drove the enemy off , with " a slaughter of 1500 of them . By the 2 nd of April the chief fortifications of the place were oaptiu-ed , and on the night of the 5 th the < mrrison
fled from the fortress , the latest account leaving them in full flight , pursued by the European troops ' , and having sud ' ored a loss of about 3000 men ; on our side six . oUlcers had fallen . The reverse occurred at a place on tlic south-east frontier of Oude , not clearly indicated by the telegram : a detachment of the 37 th hud been compelled to retire with the loss of its kiggage , and on the 24 th of Mureli was cut up at Azhnghui' . However , until we have full par ticulart ) , we may hope that the ull ' air has not been despmituly bad ; and nieninvhilo we have assurance that atrong detachments luul been soul , from Lueknow , to the relief of the harassed little force
The news from China is becoming exceedingly intoresling , the diplomatic operations appearing at lust to bo really making progress . The four Commissioners had succeeded in reaching Sou-tchou-fou ,
a city nearly as large as London , and within easy coimnunication . with Pekiu . The presentation of their credentials to the Governor of the city and all the ' ceremonials had g-onc off extremely -well and important results were expected to follow the communications forwarded to the Emperor . Meanwhile , poor Yett , whose obstinacy has lost Canton , is sacrificed to appease the anger of the outer barbarians ; the Emperor has degraded him , and placed his oilicc in the hands of Hwang Tsungiiai , a person said to be of very superior enlightenment . Altogether there appears a probability of our relations with these wonderful people rapidly ripening towards a real intimacy , barring only blunders of diplomacy .
410 The Leader. ' [No. 423, Mat 1, 1858.
410 THE LEADER . ' [ No . 423 , Mat 1 , 1858 .
The Blessiscs Of Moxotony.— Some Peoplem...
The Blessiscs of Moxotony . — Some peoplemost people—in these run-about railway days , would complain of such a life , in such a ' narrow sphere '— -so they call it—as monotonous . Very likely it is so . Uut is it to be complained of on that account ? Is monotony in itself an evil ? Which is better , to know many places ill , or to know one place well ? Certainly—if a scientific habit of mind be a gain—it is only by exhausting as far as possible the . significance of an individual phenomenon ( is not that sentence a truly scientific one in its magniloquence ?)—that you can discover any glimpse of the significance of the universal . Even mo . n of
bo-undless knowledge , like Humboldt , must have had once their speciality , their pet subject , or they would have , strictly speaking , no knowledge at all . The volcanoes of Mexico , patiently and laboriously investigated in his youth , tvere to Huniboldt , possibly , the key of the whole Cosmos . I learn more , studying over and over again the same Bagshot sand and gravel heaps , than 1 should by roaming all Europe hi search of new geologic wonders . Fifteen years have I been puzzling at the same questions , and have only guessed at a few of the answers . What sawed out tli « edges of the moors into long narrow
banks of gravel ? What cut them off all flat a-top ? What makes Erica cilitu-is grow in one soil , and the bracken in . another ? Ho-w did three species of Clubmoss —one of them quite aa Alpine one — get down here , all the way from Wales perhaps , upon . " this isolated patch of gravel ? Why did that one patch of Carex arenuria settle in the only square yard for miles and miles which "bore sufficient resemblance to its native sandhill by the sea-shore , to make it comfortable ? Wfiv did Myosttrus minimus , which I had hunted for
in vain for fourteen years , appear by dozens in the fifteenth , upon a new-made bank , which had been for at least for two liundred years a farm-yard gate-way ? Why does if generally rain here from the south-west , not when the barometer falls , but when it begins to rise again ? Why—why is everything -which lies under my feet all day long ? I don ' t know ; and you can't tell me . And tilL I have found out , I cannot complain of monotony , with still undiscovered puzzles waiting to be explained , and so to create novelty at every turu . — Eraser ' s Maiiazlne .
Gueat Firic in St . Katharine's Dock . —A fire of a very serious and threatening character burst out at the St . Katharine's Dock about eight o ' clock on Tuesday evening . Oil the bank of the north quay stood a pile of warehouses lettered " E" Dock . The warehouses were six floors high , and were erected on arches . Each floor waa filled with merchandize , among which were hemp , jute , coir , cotton , ropes , ami , it is stated , also cotton and linseed . . This building was about two hundred foet long by sixty feet deep , and was faced at the eastern extremity by another pile of warehouses , equally loft
y , termed the " F" Dock . On the south side were riding at anchor a great many ships , schooners , and steamers , and so near wore they to the burning ; property , tlint at one time tlioiv destruction appeared inevitable . The lire was discovered by one of the watchmen , and engines ¦ were . soon summoned to the spot . Hy twelve o ' clock the worst of the mischief was over ; but the flumes -were Jiofc ontirely extinguished even then . The loss of properly is immense , tbo value having been calculated at 100 , 000 / . The extension of the ( lames to the surrounding warehouses was only prevented with tho utmost trouble .
Tina National PkothhtantSociiuty . —Tho members of this society held a mooting on Monday evening at St . Mmtin' . s Hall . Tho object of the gathering was to advocate tbo stricter observance of Sunday * by the entire ecssntion of - business and amusement . ; and a resolution to that effect was moved ; but nn amendment , moved and . seconded by nio . inber . s of tho- National Sunday Lcaguo , mid exprnssing the asHisnt of tho meeting to tho priiicinleH of that body , which hcoIch to obtain for tho inasHOH rational aimi . ienuint on the Sunday afternoon , was carried by an overwhelming majority . Dihciiakuko Cuimimakh . —The inauguration festival of tho Middlesex Soeiuty for tho reformation and Employment of Dischurgod Criminals wjifi celobruuMl on Thursday evening at St .. . JaineH' . s-hidl , rieoadillv , undoi tho prosidiuioy of the Marijuis of Hulisbury , the I . ord-Lioutcnnnt for tho county .
Imperial ¦ Parliament. ¦ Monday, Jj>Ril ...
IMPERIAL ¦ PARLIAMENT . ¦ Monday , Jj > ril 2 Gth . GOVKUNMEXT OF- INDIA . In the Housr . of Louns , The Earl of Ai-bkjiaiumc presented a petition fromliir . mingham praying for a better system of Governmen t in India , and objecting on many grounds to tlie ( iovei . inent India Bill—objections in which the Earl coincided His Lordship withdrew his motion for ' certain retur ns ' connected with the Indian Civil Service . The IIoihc then adjourned . BlUTISir TKOOPS IN INDIA . In the IIoi'sk of Commons , In answer to Mr . Macartxky , General T ' r . ix said that every farthing of the expense of the increased ]} rjtish forces in India would be paid by the ' Ha .-t India Company out of the revenues of India , and not odd farthing -would be charged upon the Imperial revenue . As regarded the cost of sending the / troops , the e xpense in the first instance was paid by the Admiralty , and then , through the ' War Department , it was . charged to .-the Directors .
TIIF . GOVEliSMKNT-OV IN 1 > IA . On the motion of the Ciiaxceu ^ hi or Tin : KxciiHQuKR f it -was agreed to postpone the orders of the ( lav until after the motion respectingthe Government ofJiulia . The CitANCKixon of run Exciikqukb' then rose and moved that the House should , on the enduing- l'Yr < l ; u \ resolve itself into a committee , to consider the Act of the 16 th ami 17 th Victoria , c . 05 , " to provide for the Government of India . " lie reviewed the history of . the two bills before the House . Two schools had laid , two plans for the -Government of India . " One of thorn boasted of its simplicity , and it was an argument that the- simpler the form of government of India the hotter , ami that they should establish a Secretary of State with undivided
authority , for that any assistance he might require in the undertaking could be obtained from the permanent clerks in office- He would say at once that ho was at issue with that school . He denied that India could be goyorneil like any colony of the country ; for , in legislating lor India , they were legislating for a country consisting of many kingdoms and many nations , inhabited W a population living under differentials , with . a diirJrent religion , and with a difference greater in other , iv sheets thnn exists in any country in Europe . Therefore , 'ho was unwilling to concede that any man should be appointed to the Government of - India on account of any Parliamentary knowledge he might possess . " The advoi-atc-s of the measure of the late Government also said t lt .-if / rnii .-i must be chiefly ruled in India ; but , if that pvind |> I . ' were adopted , the Governor-General would be placed ma
position of power of which the constitution of this emnvtvy has hitherto been ignorant . The more he reflected upon " the simple plan , " the more he was convinced of its danger and impracticability . " His bill had bcci i .-i i ^ - matized as complicated in its character ; but in his opinion the charge of simplicity was one that would be con .-ii . Vml more objectionable by the supporters of the measu ic . In some particular institutions which had arisen during the last half-century in Europe , and which were mum thus . novelty had been introduced ; but what wns tin ; fair <> f these new institutions— -whore were they at the present time ? On the contrary , what was the po .-itiuii . if . ur own constitution , and was not that constitution , w hicli worked so -well , a very complicated one ? ( Hem ; //<¦<• . ) He was not prepared to assert that constitutions , though in existence for centuries , might not be impracticable under certain eiivumst .-uwvs . Mo
was prepared to go further , and admit that this constitution , which might bo considered as \\ w oilspring of our Parliamentary existence , might , on certain principles , be demonstrated to be the most alisiud in existence . ( Hear , knar , and fuuy / itcr . ) Lot them only think of making a in mi a Prime Minister because he w ~ \* connected with the aristocracy , or milking a man a member of the Crown because " lie could niako .-i -nod speech . ( jMuyfitcr . ) It might be said that a council composed of such heterogeneous materials , as ho pro | . n .-i'd could not possibly work well . lit ; brliovod , notwithstanding the statements made on u previous ucra-ion , that the majority of tin : House were in favour of a council ; but it must he a real council . " AVns the lloii-o
prepared to yield tho nomiiiation of eighteen Indian Councillors to the Crown ? The , country would not approve , of such a proposition ; and acoordinglv rceoiiiso nuiHt bu had to the elective principle .. This , liowrvcr , was objected to as unconstitutional ; but lie really did not luuiw how to encounter such an objection , wluYU hurtled discussion . No doubt , tbo application of tinprinciple in the present instance was nnoimilnii-i ; but the House was dealing with one of the groat anomalies of tins time . " It mij . ht bu said that , in adopting tin ) plan lm proposed , they nii-ht exclude , great men ; but they should remember tins peculiar circumstuiK w of ( In : case wliich thev wen- , considering , und that tln-y were
CillllMl 1 111 in Iaii'IcImIa ('<»» * . i . v .. _ ..... if . .. . 1 , . i ii , i * (• albid on to legislate lor an c . Nee [ i ( ioual slate ( if iliiug * . \\ as it . not of vital importance that In tbo council proponed there Miould bo member * who could givo a « 'ciirnio iiilorinjitiou in rolei-ouoe to Scindo , or other subjects whero personal knowledge is recjuired ? The number ot those di « tinguiHh (!( l persons from whom they would mako their neleetion would amount to not lo .= m than
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Leader (1850-1860), May 1, 1858, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01051858/page/2/
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