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The Latest Bumouit. Fob The Fourth Time ...
"We have a Governor and a Gommander-in-Cbief who might have been supposed , if they understood anything , to understand a mutiny , seeing that they'have heard of little else for the last two years . Xet they contrive to involve us in a second mutiny before we are well out of the first , and again to shake confidence to its centre while yet rocking from its former convulsion . Perhaps it may at last occur to us that a cabinet minister of the second
class is not exactly the man to intrust with such ¦ va st interests , and that we had better be a little less exacting in the matter of rank , and a little more particular in respect of qualifications . If peers could have kept India quiet and solvent she would not have been mutinous and bankrupt . As they cannot do this , we had . better lose no time in having recourse to a rougher , but more efficient machinery . " On the 6 th August it remarked : — . . . ¦
* ' The aggravating part of the thing is that this is iihe result of a mere bfncial blunder . Had there been but the most slender exercise of judgment at the centre of administration , it might readily have heen divined that even the chance of losing the services of some thousands of trained troops would be cheaply co njured away by an expenditure of , £ 30 , 000 or £ 40 , 000 . One would suppose that the complications actually existing in Europe , and the general circumstances of the empire , would not be altogether foreign to the reflections of Bengalese statesmen . " ¦ __ .
In spite of all this , and much more , of Mr . Wilson ' s appointment arid Sir Charles Wood ' s gloomy predictions , of the departure of the Europeans , and of the income tax bill , Lord Canning will not be recalled . He has sat in many Cabinets , has many personal friends . The Liberals are too deeply pledged to eat their words , and nothing short of actual bankruptcy or another insurrection will rouse the English people to action on an Indian dilemma . It is possible only that he may resign . Authority io resign whenever the interests of the party arequire . the step ,, has , it is said , been for months at home , and those interests would seem almost
to require it now . The ministry is by no means secure . The disciplined regiment , commanded by Mr . Disraeli , has already reduced the majority to eleven , and that majority is made Up of most conflicting elements . The China affair alone may dissolve , it into its component atoms . There are at least five Cabinet ministers who , according to party Tetiquette , ought not to have been left out , and for -whom Lord Palmerstori must provide while he has the power . Mr . Smith is Lord Lyveden ^ Mr . Labouchere is Baron Taunton , Sir B . Hall is Baron Llan-© ver . Lord Clarendon , however , the most marked of all the omissions , is above titles , and Lord Clarendon , therefore , it is said , is to be Viceroy . '
The rumour is at least a possible one , if the ministry retain office * and we know not that Lord Clarendon will not serve as well as another peer * There is jao chance of the man we really need , a man of imperial audacity , who . will destroy " institutions " without scruple , laugh at English orders , tread down the ( services under his feet , and create a new administration out of his own brain , until the second mutiny . Meanwhile , Lord Clarendon may postpone action , examine , and inquire , and minute , and reply , and order . as well as any peer who can be readily . named . He is a little top old for such a climate , but to a Premier sixteen years older he must seem in the prime of life , and to statesmen . of seventy , what signify the interests of the future ?—Friend of India
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same press was the Meerut Universal Mqgazineymare familiarly termed the " Mum , " a monthly magazine of some pretensions , and carried on with great talent ; Mr . Lang afterwards endeavoured to resuscitate this magazine , but after two attempts abandoned the undertaking . On its demise the Observer Press passed into the hands of the Messrs . Saunders , who- transferred it to Delhi , and in 1833 the Delhi Gazette first saw the dawn of existence . This journal was for several years in a fluctuating condition , edited alternately by Colonel Pew , Mr . Hollings , Colonel R . Wilson ( then of the palace guards ) , and others , when the Afghanistan campaign gave it an impetus as rapid as it was profitable , and by the commencement of the year 1846 the paper had attained a circulation of 1 , 892 , a number never before attained by any
Indian publication . Hence may be dated the commencement of a new era in the newspaper press of Upper India . Vituperative attacks on members of Government or commanding officers now gave place to that which should ever be the first object of a newspaper , the desire for obtaining news from foreign States . To what an eminence has that press risen during the short period of thirty-two years , from the carrying out of this desire , we are well aware . Its intelligence is quoted as authority to be depended upon by the whole London and Continental press . Prom this press many years afterwards issued a magazine called "Saunders Magazine / ' which continued for about two years . In May , 1857 , the Dellti Gazette press was entirely destroyed by the mutineers , the editor , Mr . Heatley , being killed in the general massacre .
If we travel further north we come to Lahore where the Chronicle now flourishes . This journal was started by Mr . Cope ? , formerly of the Delhi in 1850 , immediately after the annexation of the country . The paper has gone on steadily , and is well conducted . Just before the outbreak , a small weekly publication , called the Punjabee , issued from Lahore it was ably conducted By Mr . Kerr , and was discontinued in the beginning of the present year , in consequence of Mr . Kerr taking the management of the Chronicle . Tlie New Punjabee has since been started by the same proprietors . At Allahabad there are no less than three newspapers . The New Times came into existence irv January of the present year . The Advertiser commenced its career in May , and the Commercial Gazette in the following month .
At Cawnpore , about the year 1854 or 1855 , Mr Brandon brought out a newspaper called the Central Star , which was afterwards transferred to Lucknow , and continued till the mutineers destroyed it , and the press where it was published . Since the mutiny in February last another press and the Lucknoio Herald have been established , and in a few days the Oude Gazette will also see the light . The mutiny gave birth to several ephemeral publications ; the principal was the Boorkee Garrison Gazette , which disseminated information during themost troublous times . It was discontinued when quiet was restored . —Commercial Gazette .
Contemporaneously with the Delhi Gazette was the Agra Ukkbar , a newspaper started at Agra , one of the projectors of which was the celebrated ; Col . Pew , and its editor the no less celebrated Henry Tandy . The talent and wit of the latter gentleman soon gave the paper a place among the leading journals , which it held till 1842 , when Mr . Tandy died . Messrs . A . and P . Saunders succeeded him in the editorial chair , but both soon followed him to the grave . Neither of them possessed a tithe of the talent of Mr . Tandy . The press was then sold to Mr . Grisenthwaite . Blunders , actions for libel , and other tokens of a sinMnsr journal , at last wrecked
the Ukhbar , and the entire establishment fell into the possession of the Agra Bank ; to which the proprietors were under pecuniary obligations . Captain Macgregor , the secretary , who would not allow the press to remain unprofitable , brought out the Agra Chronicle , which he kept alive till the press was purchased by the Delhi Gazette .- The Agra Messenger , since started by the proprietors of the Gazette , was but an indifferent substitute for the well conducted Uhhbar . During the mutiny , when the Delhi press was destroyed , the Messenger was enabled to keep together the subscribers of the Gazette , and formed the nucleus on which that paper again revived .
The Mbfitssilite was established by Mr . Lang at Meerut , in 1846 . It commenced its existence at a very critical time—Afghanistan , Persia , Scinde , and the Punjaub , were all in a ferment . The avidity for Mofussil news was at its highest pitchthe circulation of the JDclhi had run up to nearly 1 , 900 , and this eagerness for intelligence from the seat of strife , in combination with the ability and vivacity of its propriotpr and editor , enabled the Moff at once to gain a footing . In 1855 the press and journal were removed to Agra , which was then the seat of government , This paper has been subjected to many changes of editors since Mr , Lang ' s departure for Europe . , During the mutiny a ' portion of its press material was saved , and the journal was enabled to continue its publication during the whole of those troublous times .
Z > edie ' s Miscellany was published at this press-in 1855 ' , it was a well got up and popular magazine , but short-lived . About . the same time a religious newspaper , under the title of North-West Messenger , was published at the some press . The mutiny abruptly dosed its career . The Hills used to boast of throe presses ; one was established by Mr . Mnolcinnon at Mussoorie , who published a paper called The Hills . At Simla Dr . McGregor had a press , from which issued a weekly paper , called the Mountain Monitor . That gentleman also tried a medical and . literary periodical . All
THE NEWSPAPER PRESS OF THE NORTH-WEST PROVINCES . TjHiKyir-JfivE years ago there was not a printing office in Upper India , * and nothing like newspaper printing was attempted' till some years afterwards . We loarn from a magazine now extinct that a small ^ significant quarto sheet , called the Omnibvs , led -the van . It was » published from the Cawnpore press , wbicli was the first printing office oh this side of Calcutta , The publication was unable to contend with Its older and better conducted brethren of Calcutta , and soon fell to the ground . At this very time there existed among a literary band of military officers tttaftioned at Meerut a manuscript paper bearing tho , title cf the Meerut Observer , and this was carried
on very perseveringly for four years , edited by Captain H . Tuckett , of the llth Light Dragoons , assisted by Captain N . Campbell , of the Horse Artil-Jiery , who wrote nearly all the articles on military afiabrB . When a branch of the Cawnpore n / oss was ( established at that station , the Observer put on a yrintod dress . This was too spirited a journal to last long : it opposed too keenly the measures of Lord iBcsfyipofc the then Governor-General , and tho strong « mof military authority -was wielded to gag its ' * BiCe > , Subsequently the Observer was edited by ^ Vfttytyepuin t . Hutchins , Mr , Whifffen , and others . Xt « W * rwra ( s ; jfeU into the hands of Mr . H . Cope , who « mywrelhased the press . Tlie next ; publication that was issued from the i
those were short-lived . The Simla press was , in 1850 , sold to the Lawrence Asylum at Sonawur , and is now employed to teach the lads of the institution tho rudiments of printing . From this press now issues a small monthly called the Soldier ' s Friend . Another press was started at Simla , under the direction of Mr . Charde . ia 1851 , at which the Simla Advertiser was published . The press is now the property of Mr . Wallanco , who also publishes an Advertiser . At Benares , about 1847 or 1848 , a press was established by Colonel Fow and others , and a paper issued under the name of the Recorder ) this continued till the latter part of 184 P .
Latest Indian Intelligence. The Overland...
LATEST INDIAN INTELLIGENCE . The overland mail has arrived with advices from Calcutta to Sept . 22 , and from Madras to Sept . 27 . The news of the fortnight is not important . The Governor-General had issued an-order finally disposing of the : remnants o £ the late Bengal army . The native artillery and regular cavalry had ceased to exist . Fourteen regiments had been re-armed . The 2 nd Grenadiers ancl 25 th Bengal Native Infantry were disbanded with , from two to six months' pay . . Troops were being collected in Calcutta for despatch tn China .
The citizens of Calcutta had held a large public meeting to petition Parliament bri the subject of taxation , the opening of the Legislative Council to the non-official class , the abolition of the Executive Council , and the . appointment of a commission of inquiry into the causes of the present discontent . The Overland Friend of India says : — " After speeches by merchants , barristers , and tradesmen , which "were well received , it was resolved to petition both Parliament and the Legislative Council , the latter against Mr . Harrington ' s bill , and the former on subjects of a more wide and important character . As will be seen from the part of the petition to Parliament which we subjoin , the professional and trading classes of Calcutta , embracing every European and several natives , ask Parliament to take measures ' to have the general taxation of India placed on uthorita
broad and sound principles , ' to have ' an a - tive inquiry inside into the general administration of the government and the cause of the prevailing discontent and financial embarrassment , ' to open the Legislative Council to the non-official class , to abolish the Executive Council , and to place ' the office of Governor-General and govornors in a proper state at once of freedom and responsibility in the exercise of their executive functions . ' Wo fear we , must for the present at least rest satisfied with Mr . Wilson as an answer to this prayer . And he , when he comes , will find , with a Governor-General in the interior , with a financial secretary whose incapacity is only second to that of his chief , and with the usual passivo resistance which the Indian state machine ever oilers to enargy or candour , that ho is nblo to do littio more than report . " The resolutions of the Madras meeting were to the same effect . his dopar
The Governor-General had postponed - turo from Caloutta to the , 10 th or llth oi October , and contemplates a vice-regal progress in ngnc royal state . His lordship , it is said , wUl ho escorted by two infantry regiments , the one kwopoan , tne other native , la' addition to his body-guard . IMS force of 2 , 600 men will further bo accompanied oy some 20 , 000 camp followers . An ombnrrussocl uovernmont , like an embarrassed individual , lias always money enough for ostentatious display anu reckless extravagance . nt « mai \ The Lioutcnant-Governor of Bongal had returned from . the Moiussil . The Bishop oi Calcutta , liaa left Calcutta on a visitation tour to tho VNf Province * . His lordship was to proceed « s mr as Peshawur , an < l pass the next hot seasonal »»""»» . Mr . Prondergasfc , the Accountant - Gonorai oi Madras Presidonoy , has been dismissed by Govern rnont . fnr lmvincr unnd . tn his own advantage ,
KnOWleago attained in virtue of his position as finance minister in the conversion of Tanjoro Bonds . The discharged European soldiors contlnuo to . do embarked for this country at tho rate of ono tttou Band per week , Serious complaints aro made on »«* hands of their violent and unmanly conduct , imC w »»
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 5, 1859, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05111859/page/10/
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