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1126 THE LEADER. [No. 498. Oct. 8, 1859.
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LATEST TNDIAN INTELLIGENCE. Tnn followin...
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The arrangements for holding thanksgivin...
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Engineering in Prussia.—The permanent br...
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Civil Salaries. " Mksdambs," Says A Cook...
Then who make fortunes by supplying ^ them ; _ j 6 l secretary or a governor who wants a quiet life , Tvill be only too happy to find it possible to avoid the yell a pecuniary schedule B will undoubtedly arouse from every corner of the empire . But it reduction is a necessity , if that . military toy of the Governor-General , the native army , is so costly that it is impossible to pay the civil administrators , an absolute protest is simply a useless expenditure ol ink . The work can be done cheaper , and cheapness -l > eing for the hour more valuable than efficiency , it will be done cheaper . It is nonsense to assert that men cannot be obtained for less than four times the pay of surgeons or chaplains , or three times the P of first-rate bankers' or merchants' clerks . 1 ± the civil service resigned in a body to-morrow , their uncovenanted subordinates could still do the work , "badlv enough , perhaps , but still sufficiently well to sudder uld
. fceep society together .. The ameen wo be called judge , the deputy , collector , the first assistant , accountant , and the routine would go forward somehow . If then cheapness , the mere saving of rupees , be the primarv necessity , to plead that it is inexpedient or impossible , is a fatal error in tactique . It is compensation , and not the status quo , the service should endeavour to secure . Some of its members are well aware of the necessity , We have received already two addresses , which the writers , with little consideration for our space , request us to publish . We would make room for them , but with all respect for their writers we must say they are little calculated to benefit those who propos ' e them . One suggests " that your petitioners be allowed to retire at fixed periods after completing half the present term of service , and that a fixed sum be allowed by Government on such retirement , with the value of whatever sum
they had paid up to the fund , so that the two together would amount for twelve find a half years ' service—viz ., hal f the present term ,, to about £ 500 ( five hundred ) , and so on progressivelj- according to the length of service . " The other proposes to " fora sliding scale of pension for those who may choose to retire . After the five years' order men have left , I would give such as complete , from and after that date , their allotted time of service of twentyfive years , an increase of their pension of . £ 500 ; so much as the difference between the accumulation of their enforced payment and . £ 500 as should make up a full pension of £ 1 , 000 per annum . This would counterbalance the --want of savings on reduced salaries , which would of course be impossible . "
Either plan is reasonable , though drawn up a little on the principle Carlyle ascribes totheHohen-2 OlIerns , " Fair play for all ; fair play for roe first . " A third plan is coming , we believe , from Oude , but all these isolated efforts are worthless . What is required is a plan accepted by the service , or by some large section of it , and offering reasonable terms both to the State and to the service . No such attempt will , we fear , be made in Calcutta . Whether from the immense expense of life in the
metropolis , or from the habit of living in coteries , or from the traditional spirit of the " Bengal Civilian , " there exists upon this question a sort of Austrian tone . The service there will have all or none , considers innovation revolt , and will give way only to compulsion . There are wider views in the country at large , and a committee sitting- —say , at Allahabad or Benares—might prepare a plan which would be -very generally accepted . It may be well to wait now for Sir Charles Wood ' s budget , which is
expected within the month , and which may comprise the enunciation of some intelligible principle . No "budget , however , will diminish the necessity of action . Sir Charles Wood may have a scheme for preventing the defects of the future ? but neither he nor any other financier can make the Government truly solvent without a most painful and persistent economy . If lie tells the truth , which he has some temptations to do , the revelations will startle Parliament into action , probably rash , * but most certainly decisive . —Friend of India .
1126 The Leader. [No. 498. Oct. 8, 1859.
1126 THE LEADER . [ No . 498 . Oct . 8 , 1859 .
Latest Tndian Intelligence. Tnn Followin...
LATEST TNDIAN INTELLIGENCE . Tnn following most important announcement appeared in the Times of yesterday : — A private telegram received in Liverpool on Thursday from India states that the disbanded European troops had accepted the bounty , and consented to go to China . Telegraphic despatches have been received in advance of the overland mail from which wo learn ihat the Government has increased the licence tax to an income-tax of 7 d . in tho pound on all incomes j abovo 251 . a-year ; officials and landlords are exempted . Tho Council however refused to pass tho ' ¦ bill , without a dear statement of receipts and expenditure , and denounced tho clause exempting ' officials . Tho Nana and Begum are in Nepaul ,. where Brigadier Romaino is watching their proceedings . 3 Fcrozo Shah Is . vaguely stated to be in Central India .
Disturbances , we are told , seem imminent on the coast of Katty war . A report states that the people of Jeypore will not comply with the disarming order . Captain Richards , of the Central Indian Field Force , has compelled Chuttar Sail , a leading rebel , to surrender . The ship Admiral Boxer has been wrecked fourteen miles from the port of Kurrachee ; all lives were happily saved .
The Arrangements For Holding Thanksgivin...
The arrangements for holding thanksgiving services on the 28 th July all over Iudia seem to have failed in Kurrachee . The Form of Prayer did not reach that place , and no Protestant service was held . The Roman Catholics and Parsees met in their churches , and the public offices were closed . AVe see from the Java papers , vaccination is making great progress in Bali , where the ravages of the small-pox have been so great that it is rare to meet with any person above eight years of age who has not suffered from it . From 16 th March to 11 th June last 5 , 502 persons in the kingdom of Boleing had been vaccinated , the Rajah and his family setting the example .
The authorities of Bombay are about to reclaim f o urteen acres of rocky shore on the east side of Colaba , by building out 1 , 200 feet into the sea a strong wall and filling the enclosed space . The site is to" be used for the storing of Government timber . The wharf wall is to be provided with cranes of great power . The Government of Bombay has provisionally settled the rates for the supply of water from the Vehar works . When taken in large quantities by publie companies the charge will be one rupee per 2 , 000 gallons . For private houses the cost will be one rupee , for 1 , 000 gallons . The proprietors of houses will , of course , pay the expense of laying it on to the premises .
Engineering In Prussia.—The Permanent Br...
Engineering in Prussia . —The permanent bridge overthe Rhine atCologne has just been inaugurated by the Prince Regent of Prussia . It will be counted among the greatest achievements of the mechanical skill of our age . It is a tubular bridge ; for both railway and common traffic , consisting of two tubes , one with two rails for the trains , the other , for carriages and foot passengers , together 51 feet ( Prussian measure ) broad , and 1 , 352 feet long . The tubes rest on three pillars only , each 313 feet distant from the other . This unusual width of opening was deemed necessary on account of the danger which any
stoppage of the floating ice in the Rhine always creates for the adjacent towns . Five thousand tons of hammered iron have been employed in the construction of the tubes . The bridge reaches the left bank , on which Cologne is built , exactly in face of the gigantic cathedral , and the the ground between it and the cathedral has been cleared of houses , and is to be formed into a square . Thus the greatest work of the middle ages ' , which our time , however has still to complete , and one of the greatest of the present age , will stand face to face , challenging comprisona .
The Last Discovert in Mbdicine , — The Academic de Medecine has been compelled to reject as of no value the curare , the new remedy for tetanus , which M . Vella had reported as tried so efficaciously at Turin . Manee has declared its entire failure on a patient at La Charite , although the most favourable chances had been allowed on its trial . The patient died , in spite of the incision made in the arm and the introduction of the curare to the extent of twenty-seven centigrammes ! Already , however , the remedy has answered the purpose for which such matters experience no failure—that of causing dissension amongst the doctors .
Fanaticism in the Nineteenth Century ,: —The death of the Cure d'Ara at Lyons has caused the whole devout population of the rest of the Empire to hurry in crowds to his tomb . The miracles already wrought at tile grave of this holy man exceed , if one may believe the tale , both in quantity and quality , those once enacted at the grave of the Diacro I ' aris . The blind arc made to see , tho lame to walk , and every human ill is sot at nought by a prayer at the stone which covers tho remains of the Cure d'Ars . The Empress , who publicly declared
the birth of the Prince Imperial to this holy man ' s intercession , is said to have been in close correspondence witli him during the whole of the war . The omnibus service from Lyons to the village where ho lived and which was started to drive straight to his door , has been doubled sinco his death , and drives nowhere but to the cemetery where his corpse reposes . A nine days' vigil Is established for tho different confreres throughout France , in order to facilitate the transmission of miracles for tho convenience of those who oannot make the journey to Lyons ,
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usual of gossip or note of progress . B-ut though in this respect afflicted , like ourselves , our contemporary has ample resources to fall back upon , in the shape of iiterary articles , and of plates and woodcuts , fitted neatly with illustrative letter-press . The leading engravings of the October number are " Charity , " engraved by Baker , after Westmacott ; a high class one , " St . Agnes , " by S . Smith , after the Domerichino in the Royal Collection , and " Europa , " by Radclyffe , after Claude . Mr . G . W . Tliornbury furnishes a pleasant sketch in his best manner , entitled " Barry in the Adelphi . " He shows us the painter , not only on the scaffold in the hall of the Society of Arts , but at every period and every condition of his life . He tracks him from his
We have little new matter on our table bearing on the fine arts . The painters and the patrons are afield . The commission-buyers and the auctioneers are firing , yachting , or travelling away the profits of last season , which wouq ^ l-up magnificently for the trade with the grand North wick sale . But if we are short of art intelligence , we are little more so than our contemporary , the " Art Journal , " whose pages are this month far more barren than
father ' s trading vessel in- the Cove of Cork , via Dublin , Rome , the Adelphi , and the Academy lecture-room , to the grave ; and thus concludes : — " Through all the contrasts , troubles , and changes of Barry ' s life , from the time he lectured in state as we have seen him , to six years after , when he was carried a heap of dirty clothes from the poor tavern , where he had' fainted , " to the beggar ' s house in Castle-street , where the boys were pelting mud at the windows , we still see the demon of bad temper dogging his steps . " The temper—its dangers : " that is our moral of Barry ' s life . How far it verged on
insanity , who may say ? So at last , quiet and cured of controversy , we leave his pale hard-worn face , as it lies in state in those great black picture rooms in John-street , waiting for the long black train of coaches to bear it to the . great ideal historical tomb in St . Paul's Cathedral , to be near his old rival , Reynolds—an honour denied to Hogarth—a greater man , and Gainsborough—an equal . His funeral cost 2001 ., and was paid for by the first Sir Robert Peel , who , gained in reputation by his death . He had starved for years on 60 ? ., and had almost wanted bread . " art
The gist of an excellent , long , and loving - criticism upon Mr . Church , the American ' s , great picture , " The Heart of the Andes , " lately exhibiting here , is given in the following words : — " At a time when so many of our own painters are sinking into anarchy , it should bo a pointed rebuke to us , to find the symmetries , the grace , the rythra , tho rhymes , as it were , that complete the composition ot refined poetic art , taught us anew in a land where nature is most untrammelled and freedom broadest . Such are some of the reflections and felicitations which arise in the mind on first seeing Mr . Church's extraordinary picture , The Heart of the Andes —• a work which begets a mingled , twofold admiration —delight and astonishment at the novel magnificence of the landscape itself , and at the power by which it has been represented . "
Our contemporary , better advised than ourselves , perhaps , insists that " the Exhibition or Art and Art Industry , whether in 1861 or 18 G 2 , will no doubt take place . " We rather fancy this no doubt indicates tho communique . Tho phrase " art and art industry , is followed by an announcement that " art in its higher branches is to receive duo honour , and an invitation »< to all artists to prepare for tho competition , oven if it . be at tho cost of the annual exhibitions that will take place between tho years 180 . J ima
and 1862 . " How does our enthusiastic friend - gine a great number of exhibiting artists are to live between 1859 and 1862 , while preparing lor the droamed-of Art-exhibition . But wo readily admit that an exhibition of fine arts on a large scale in 1802 will not be suoh a nuisance to the community as one of industry in the same year $ and so tno latter scheme be given up by its projectors wo see no objection to their amusing themselves with me former . Let us hope that they will have space' enough to hang every ono at some less height than tlio torty oubits to which the Academicians treat some oi their brethren who deserve better things . Messrs . Graves , in Fall Mall havo received from the Northwick Collection a fine portrait by w"ns " linmufrii . In oxcallent nrfisorvation . of Mrs . Urace
Dalrymple Elliott , a scandalous celebrity of the Georgian era , whose unaffeoted memoir ot « w sufferings while mistress of Philippe JSgalitehw recently been republished .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 8, 1859, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08101859/page/10/
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