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THE INDIAN MUTINY. The recent intelligen...
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THOUGHTS, FACTS, AND SUGGESTIONS on PARL...
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BIOGRAPHIES OF GERMAN PRINCES. No. IV.' ...
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masristracy should be no longer allowed to act upon the cotmtry and City benches ; the whole system of bail should be rooted np ; and every prisoner awaiting trial should be kept in safe custody , but provided with a home , and every other liberty ^ comfort suitable to his social position , and in harmony with the theory of the law . Until this is done , let us hear no more of the mouldy com mon-place that a man is considered innocent until proved guilty by a jury of his countrymen .
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The Indian Mutiny. The Recent Intelligen...
THE INDIAN MUTINY . The recent intelligence from India is not altogether of the most consolatory character . We arc still fighting , beating , and pursuing an enemy almost ubiquitous , arid " seemingly without limit as to numbers . Let us again put the question that we have put more than once in this journal—Are the best means being taken by the military authorities in India to tread out the remaining but numerous sparks of this tremendous mutiny ? In short , is Lord Clyde doing what is most needful with the enormous means now at his command to crush the bands of brigauds that arc devastating the
North-west Provinces , and b y their example keeping alive the smouldering feeling of discontent and fallacious hope which is known to pervade several other districts and races under our sway ? We fear that either Lord Clyde is not the man for the disastrous emergency , or that the infirmities and tardiness of age unfit him for dealing with a foe like the mutinous Sepoys ; or that , possibly , lie may be too much absorbed in studying what will be most agreeable to the authorities at lipme . In any one of these cases it would be a positive misfortune to the country and . an irreparable source of
mischief to India . Why does not Lord Clyde , instead of arraying the military force in India against the rebels in scientific order and in army-like masses , direct the various sections of the military to attack when and where they can come up with their enemy . If this guerilla system were pursued , a few months , would suffice'to see all India trailquilliscd . If formal war is to be carried on , then another year will elapse before rebellion is effectually crushed , and millions upon millions more will have to be expended . We do not make these remarks from even tiro remotest wish to detract
from the known merits and abilities of Lord Clyde or the- -Governor-General who , singularly enough , finds it necessary to be where the Commander-in-Chief of the forces is ; we know what we have said will find a wide echo in Indian circles .
Thoughts, Facts, And Suggestions On Parl...
THOUGHTS , FACTS , AND SUGGESTIONS on PARLIAMENTARY REFORM . Xo . IV . Household suffrage would enfranchise the industry of the country . But it is equally desirable that intellect should bo endued with the rights of citizenship . That Uio hands b y which the national bread is earned , and the national flag defended , should be enlisted iu the political service of the state , is the wish of every just and grateful man . That the hard heads , who , in tho various walks of science , literature , morals , law , invention , and art , contribute to the glory and happiness of the nation , should be at the same time specially invested with civil privileges , is the thought of every reflecting and far-sighted man amongst us . Industry and intellect —r-tlicse are the two great elements ot the increased vitality wo hope to sco imparted to tho constitution . Not the industry alone without the intellect , or the intellect to the exclusion of the industry , but both together , in right of the specific mid positive good that is in it , and for the sake of the augmented strength and stability which each is capable of imparting to existing- institui ions . There are , no doubt , some narrow-minded persons who believe in nothing but bricks and mortar , and who look with jealousy on the proposol to cnfrauohise a physician , an artist , a scholar , or a soldior , unloss ho happens to pay a few shillings poorrates in bis own name , and to rent a house of his own . When Sir Colin Campbell came back from < the Crimea , if ho had not taken to housekeeping-, these churlish follows would not have suffered him to vote at the election of a monibor of Parliament ; ? "ot no sooner was our Indian Empire in jeopardy uan they were glad enough to got the gallant old general to go forth , to rcsouo it from ruin . When
Sir Hamilton Seymour returned from St . Petersburg , where he had rendered such memorable service to his country , and sacrificed his own high position by his patriotic conduct there , he was in no hurry to form a domestic : establishment in London ; was there any sense or reason therefore that he should be disqualified for performing the most ordinary act as a British v freeman ? When Captain Denman , worn , out with his exertions to put down the slave trade on the coast of Africa , sought rest and health for a season among his relalivps in England , was it decent or fit that he should
be made to feel that of them all he alone was disfranchised , because , more conspicuously than any of them , he had been engaged in the service of his country , and had not stayed at home to pay rates and taxes ? Dr . Livingstone , the intrepid missionary and explorer of the previously unknown regions of the Zambesi , spent last year amongst us : was it right that he should be debarred from legally giving his opinion at the general election that took place before his eyes ? These may be called exceptional cases ; but they are types of classes of menwhoin the nation dishonours itself when it disfranchises .
Again , there are classes of educated and meritorious individuals who have preferred spending their lives in comparative poverty rather than forego tlie praiseworthy pursuits to which they are devoted . The mathematician , the painter , the man of letters , the inventor of new forms of mechanism , the schoolmaster , and the minister of religion , are oftentimes to be found in humble dwellings which they cannot call their own . Are there in the whole community any set of men whom it would be more scandalous and senseless to treat with political slight ? And yet there are persons calling themselves Liberals , nay . Radicals , who , were Dr . Johnson , Oliver Goldsmith , or Samuel Coleridge now alive , would bid them stand aside while thousands whom such , men
were fitted to teach marched confidently to the poll . The true friends of reform are they who wish , to infuse into English institutions all those elements of worth and greatness that England traditionally loves . They seek to graft no exotic boughs upon our native stem . They feel and know that little reliance in rough weather can be placed on that which is not only indigenous , bat is universally acknowledged to be so . Curious plants may be brought alive from far , and by dint of forcing and tending- made to look for a while as though they were capable of being acclimatised ; but their roots strike not deep into the soil ; there is no shelter
beneath their branches ; the truth of natural growth is not in them ; and prized and lauded as they may be by a dilettanti few , their eventual destiny is decay and disappearance . Now , if there be two things which are habitually and instinctively associated in the English mind with national health and vigour , it is the princi p le of taxation and representation going , hand in hand , and the principle that the public ought to be served b y the best intellects in the community . No rational man recommends household suffrage on the . false pretence that all householders are equally intelligent , discerning , or wise in political affairs ; nobody who is not a base
and lying flatterer of the people will venture to say that there are not among the ratepayers of every county and town a great many stupid and ignorant individuals . The true and honest ground of their claim , is that as all of them contribute out of their industry to support the State , all should bo recognised as having a standing within its pale . But after this great admission is made , there will still remain the opposite ( not conflicting ) claim on the scoro of learning , thought , and skill which no civilised country can or will ignore . Every
graduate of a university , every member of the bar , every licentiate of tho medical profession , every retired soldier or sailor who has served his country for a given time , every minister of religion , every professor of scicnoo or teacher of youth , overy engineer and inventor , every skilled artisan who has served his time or who has for so many years practised his trado as a printer , a machinist , a cabinetmaker , & c , ought to be entitled to register for the district where he statodly resides , whether he bo a householder or not .
Biographies Of German Princes. No. Iv.' ...
BIOGRAPHIES OF GERMAN PRINCES . No . IV . ' FRANCIS JOSEPH , EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA . When tho present Emperor ascended the throne , in tho midst . of the turmoil of insurrections spreading over tho entire surface of the empire , ho wns but eighteen years of ago . Ilia uncle , Ferdinand
the Idiot—nicknamed by the Yiennese "Ferdinanc with the Fly-flap , " from its having been bis \ vonl to devote most of his royal attention to the kingh occupation of killingflies- ^ had hitherto been suf fered . to figure as head of the state . But now when the gory work of striking down revolution , and offering up hecatombs of victims to the Moloch of Reaction , had to be performed , it was deemed necessary , by the military party then forming the council of the Court , to set up a sovereign better fitted for the horrible work about to be undertaken . The supreme power of the Government , it must be that time centred in few
remembered , was at a generals of that portion of the army , which had remained faithful to the cause of the dynasty There were Radetzky , Windischgratz , Haynau , Jellachich , Clain-Gallas , and some other leaders of the Wallensteiri stamp , who held the fortunes of the House of Hapsburg in their hands . These men of the sword set themselves up as a sort of military oligarchy . They dubbed themselves ostentatiously enough " Die Hohe Generalitat , " a denomination through which their ambitious aspirations were made sufficiently apparent ^ Perhaps , had they been able to agree among themselves * as to their respective shares of the plunder ,
they would have had but few scruples in tearing uj > the Austrian Empire into semi-independent satrapies-This , at least , was the aim and object of that Pan-Sclavist arch-conspirator the Banus Jellachich of Crotia . But , fortunately for the Imperial House , the rivalry among the members of the Hfoke Gerieralitiil was too strong , and their fear of the power of the revolution too great , for them to pursue any other policy than that of endeavouring to re-establish the throne on a . firmer . basis . Thus Francis Joseph was , as it were , elected by them as Emperor , after Ferdinand had been dethroned , and his legitimate successor , Francis Charles , the father of the present ruler , prevailed upon to resign hisclairiis to the purple .
The young Emperor had no sooner commenced governing under the auspices of his unprincipled mother , Archduchess Sophia , than the reign of terror , initiated iu November , 1 S 48 , by the murder of Robert Blum , was extended over all the provinces of the empire . Henceforth , the crackling ^ sound of court-martial fusillades never ceased . For yearsthe hangman ' s office was a laborious one , plying , as he did , his accursed trade on the best and bravest of the country . The morose temperament of Francis Joseph , found a congenial occupation in superintending these wholesale executions ; it seemed as if Charles IX ., the butcher of St . Bartholomew ' s night , was again in the flesh . The people gazed in
horror at the unceasing red libations that the youthful Nero poured daily out to satisfy the cravings of his unrelenting hate . Wherever men yet dared to tell to each other their griefs and fears , they vented their curses on the " tigress "—lor this was the name under which that Catherine , the-Archduchess Sophia , was generally known . The sobriquet bestowed upon the Emperor himself was of a similar character . The epithet is , however , most difficult to render into English , the significance of it lying in the p lay of words , most graphic in German , but lost m the translation . He was called der Blut-Junge — literally meaning" young in blood , " an appellation in which his extreme youth is contrasted with , tho amount of blood already on those boyish hands . Indeed , his ambition seemed day by day to more fully merit this horrible surname . The hideous
dramaticeffect ho contrived at the execution of the academic legionaries at Vienna , where the victims were compelled to ( fi g their own graves before baring theLi breasts for the bullet that was to consign theru tothe earth they had just disturbed—the scenes of flogging to death that occurred in Hungary and Lombardy—the hanging , at Arad , of the most distinguished generals and statesmen of Hungary / among them a near relation of the Queen ofthis
country—tho indiscriminate murders committed by the imperial Pandours and Szorcdzancs against whole villages that were accused of disaffootion , whefo every species of atrocity was enacted , men , women , and children destroyed by steel and by ilre ,. some oven dragged to death at tho tails of horses , — - all this , done under tho sauotion and approval ot ! iis Imperial , Royal , and Apostolio Majesty , would lead the render to supposo he has before lam , rather tho history of Gbiifflu ' s-Khnn or lamorlane than tho story of a policy pursued , by a civilised Government somo brief hnff-dozen years since . Nor has Francis Joseph , sinoo order has been re-established , " dono anything to obhtcrulo the
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 4, 1858, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04121858/page/19/
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