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LATEST INDIAN INTELLIGENCE. The Overland...
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AUSTRALIA. The Great Britain brings news...
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JAPAN". Lettrus from Japan to the 31st o...
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Gerard, the lion killer, has written to ...
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SIR W. ARMSTRONG AND HIS INVENTIONS. On ...
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Nmv BiSHOrmo.—Sir Edward Lytton Jms cons...
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From The Northern Settlements And Sanita...
From Aden we learn that the Government Enfflish school , which is managed by Mr . Gilder , has proved successful , and that the annual examination took place under the auspices of Sir Charles Trevelyan , who was then passing on Ins way to India . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦• - » ' i i * The Portugese natives of Bombay having memorialised the Government on their ^ ancient rights , under the treaty of cession to the English Government , and their long loyalty during two centuries , and their present neglected civil condition , the Governor has promised to include one or two gentlemen of that community m the commission of the . . "
peace , , , __ ,, _ , The plan for erecting an obelisk and travellers tank at the Marsha Pass , as a monument to GeneralJolm Nicholson , having failed for want ot funds , it is now proposed to apply the subscriptions to a monument in , St . Paul ' s . Lord Harris has lef t Madras m rather better favour . An address has been presented to him , and he has been commemorated as the author of several public improvements in that Presidency . The Ben gal Government has urged on the Goof the Pub
vernment of India to invest the officers - lic Works Department with powers to enable them to execute roads in ordinary fair weather , without a reference to the Government , whereby , in ordinary times , a whole year is lost , and if the officer be changed the work is lost , sight of altogether . Whether this rational arrangement will be made is altogether uncertain . The " suggestion is prompted by the great success of Lieut . YVylde , in opening a road from Cuttack to Ungool at small expense , and which was of much value during the mutiny .
Mr . W . Ainslie , railway commissioner , has been appointed to take the land required by the Calcutta and South Eastern Railway Company , and thereby to forward the works . At the Society of Arts , last week , Mr . Leopard Wray read a paper on woods , in which he pointed out the resources of India in this respect . Many fine specemcnswere then shown , and likewise at the conversazione on Saturday last .
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Latest Indian Intelligence. The Overland...
LATEST INDIAN INTELLIGENCE . The Overland Mail has arrived bringing intelligence from Bombay to the 11 th of April . The most important news is that of the capture of Tantia Topee on the 7 th of April . This occurrence was preceded by a complete defeat of ' the rebels under the Rao and Feroze Shah in the Seronge jungles on the 5 th of April , ' and the surrender on the the 2 nd of the same month of the rebels under the Gwalior chief , Maun Singh . This chief , according to the telegram received by Lord Elphinstone , guided a party to Tantia ' s hiding place . The Bombay correspondent of the Times denies tho truth of this statement , and says , that when Tantia fled from Gwalior , after his defeat by Sir Hugh Hose , he was accompanied by a buxce or paymaster of the Maharajah . This buxee had a creditor , who thought , that the best way to secure payment would be to accompany his debtor . He
among the jungles for a little while longer , their power for harm is at any rate null . " Previous to this final catastrophe in Central India , Adil Mahomed of Bhopal had surrendered , finding no doubt the cause he had espoused des-Skirmisliing is still going on upon , the borders of Nepaul . On the 25 th March Brigadier Kelly came unawares on the rebel army at a village called Simmer . The enemy was drawn up under cover , well protected by guns , but were beaten with heavy loss . t ) n the 26 th , the rebels having again rallied , were again most severely handled by Kelly , lost 500 killed , numbers of elephants ( one bearing the Begum ' s howdah > , and camels and horses . Thus , it there were any fears of a new invasion of Oude by the fugitive rebels , that fear has ceased . continued to excite
The commercial crisis considerable attention . Retrenchment was the order of the day . Bombay , we are assured , is to reduce its civil and military expenditure by 15 per cent . Orders have been received to stop all recruiting , arid in future the regiments are to be but 700 , instead 1 , 000 strong . This reduction has already been carried out in the Punjaub ; it is now extended to Madras . Salaries also are to be reduced . An entertainment was given by the Europeans at Bombay to her Majesty ' s 64 th and 78 th regiments . Lord Harris had left Madras for Calcutta , and Sir C . Trevelyan had arrived . He had signallisedhis entrance into office by appointing a native officer as aide-de-camp , and expressing in a speech his great sympathy for the Anglo-Indians . „ Sir It . Hamilton , who has refused the offer of a seat in the council at Calcutta , was at Bombay , and on the eve of taking his departure for England .
Lord Clyde > when last heard of , was at Delhi , on his way to Simla ., At Calcutta , as already announced in The Leat > kr , Mr . Beadon is to be promoted to Foreign Secretary ; he will be succeeded in his old appointment by Mr . Grey . . .
accordingly : accompanied them in their peregrinations , and many a weary march he made in following his debtor as a hound follows the track of blood . The buxee was killed . at Rajghur , and then the creditor called upon Tantia Topee for his money . Tantia put him off with promises , and at last the man , indignant , left for his own country . After many wanderings Tantia returned to tho vicinity of Goonah in a forlorn condition , having but thirty followers , no money , and little chance of retrieving his fortunes . The creditor of the buxco again joined Tantia Topee , but , discovering that this chief ' s utter destitution loft him no chance of paying any portion of tho debt , ho wrote to Sir Robert Hamilton , offering to betray Tantia Topee on consideration of getting the price set on that chiefs head , and thus Tantia foil at last into our hands .
Tho same authority adds that orders have been issued for his trial by drumhead court-martial , and ifho is found guilty , no doubt he will bo hanged . Tho Bombay Gazette , for some reason or other , supposes that lie will " not bo severely dealt with . " " Moanwhilo" justly observes our . contemporary , " all agree in thinking that nothing can bo more fortunate than tho seizure of a man who , in spite of his low station , was able at all times to raise up enemies against us—whoso onduranco was so remarkable that he twice marched across tlio whole of Central India , from the Jumna to Guzerat , and from tho Nei'budda to tho dosorts of Bikanqor , without a thought of surrender . Tantia in our hands insures tho pacification of Central India , which the Rao and JTorozo Shah will not bo ablo to disturb . A few weeks more may elapse before wo capture these two chiefs , but , oven if they succeed in skulking
Australia. The Great Britain Brings News...
AUSTRALIA . The Great Britain brings news from Melbourne , to the 2 nd of March . There is no political intelligence of importance . ' ,,. ¦ There had been much excitement and activity throughout the * gold fields for some time previous to the departure of the mail . The miners were being amply rewarded by large discoveries of gold , and the employment for labour was decidedly on the increase . A fire occurred in North Melbourne on the 25 th ult ., and fifteen houses were consumed . Another destructive conflagration occurred at Ballarat .
Japan". Lettrus From Japan To The 31st O...
JAPAN" . Lettrus from Japan to the 31 st of December mention that the Japanese Commissioners appointed to proceed to Washington to exchange the ratification of the American treaty are Niigaai Genba no Kami , Governor of Accounts and Minister of the Navy , and Tway Say Higo no Kami , Imperial Inspector . The Russian Consulate was to be removed to Kanagowa . The Russian steam frigate Askeld was undergoing repairs at Nagasaki . Cholera has been raging in the northern part of Japan to a frightful extent . At Yeddo alone the deaths are reported at 150 , 000 in one month . Allissima and Odownra had also suffered greatly . The outbreak of this dreadful scourge so soon after tho time the foreign embassies were settled at Yeddo had led tho people to attribute to them its introduction into their country , and superstition points' to the coincidence as a punishment for opening Japan to foreigners . By the latest accounts the disease was less virulent . The Danish brig Vilhelminc , from Shanghai , arrived on the 18 th of December , and left again on the 2 lst , not having been permitted to trade , in consequence of there being no treaty between Denmark and Japan . A steamer , the Nagasaki , built in Holland for the Prince of Fizen , arrived on tho 15 th of November . The Russian Consul-General and his secretary , with their wives , were dwelling at Hakodadi and at Jonya , on the side of the bay opposite to Desiraa , at Nagasaki . The merchant ) commanders who took tho two steamers Yeddo and Nagasaki from Holland to Japan were residing with their wives . At this place also some of tho officers and crow of the Askeld were lodged ; the remainder lived in a temple in the town . ¦
Gerard, The Lion Killer, Has Written To ...
Gerard , the lion killer , has written to his friends q t Paris to relate an extraordinary circumstance : — In the dead b ody of an old lion ; which ho killed a few days ago in Algeria , ho found npt fewer than seven balls with which the animal had been struck on previous occasions 1
Sir W. Armstrong And His Inventions. On ...
SIR W . ARMSTRONG AND HIS INVENTIONS . On Tuesday a public banquet was given to Sir William G . Armstrong , C . B ., the Government Inspector of Rifled Ordnance , in the Assembly-rooms , Newcastle-upon-Tyne . The banquet was in commemoration of Sir William ' s having been knighted by her Majesty for his inventions in . connexion with rifled ordnance . Sir G . Grey , M . P ., presided , and in proposing the health of the guest of the evening , passed a high eulogium upon his personal worth and his snifiniific abilities .
Sir W . Armstrong , in returning thanks , expressed his belief that the power which science gave , whether applied to peace or war , was always on the side of civilisation , and that the spread of civilisation must tend , necessarily , to diminish war and to render it less barbarous . With respect to the " Armstrong gun , " he said it was absurd to suppose that there was any secret about its general construction , which was already known to hundreds of persons , and which had been already approximately described in many publications ; but there were many details Avhich would require to be mastered before foreign nations could make it . He said , my original gun was partly : of steel ; but I now use nothing but wrought iron . It is a built-up gun—that is to say , it is composed of separate pieces—each piece being of such moderate size as to admit of being forged without risk of flaw or failure . By this mode of
construction great strength , and , consequently , great lightness , are secured . It has been stated that two of my guns burst at Shoeburyness , but this , like many other statements on this subject , is wholly without foundation . A 32-pounder has already been made upon this principle , besides smaller guns , and I expect you will soon hear of 70-pbunders and 100-pounders as welL The projectiles arc m all cases made of cast iron , thinly coated with lead , and being of somewhat larger diameter than the bore of the gun ; the lead is crushed into the rifle grooves , by means of which the necessary rotation is given , while all shake and windage are prevented . The projectile for field service admits ot being used as solid shot , shelly or common case . It is composed of separate pieces , so compactly bound together , that it has been-fired through a mnss of oak timber nine feet in thickness without sustaining fracture . "When used as a shell , it divides into
fortynine regular pieces , and about 100 irregular pieces . It combines the principle of the shrapnel and percussion shell—i . ., it may be mnde to explode either as it approaches the object or as . it strikes' it . Amongst friends it is so safe that it may be thrown off the top of a lioiise without exploding ; oufc amongst enemies it is so sensitive and mischievous that it bursts with a touch . Sir William said his experiments had commenced in 1854 , and were carried on for nearly three years . When the results of his invention were ascertained , all his previous dis ^ bursements were refunded by the Government ; and he took the opportunity of stating that the Duke of Newcastle , Lord Panmure , and General Peel , suc-r cessive Ministers of War , had alike afforded him countenance and support , as had also all the permanent authorities at the War-office . Referring to the arrangement which the Government had made with him , he said he had declined the offer of a pecuniary naci
compensation for his outlay and invention , ana proposed to them that he should receive a salary ot 2 . 000 Z . per annum , commencing from a period ot three years back , during which nearly Ins whole time had been given to the subject , and continuing for BQvon years t * P come , he undertaking to give them the benefit of all his ' information and experience , ana to relinquish in their favour all future inventions relating to the gun . Appreciating fully , as lie did , tho gracious recognition of his services by her Majesty , he only valued tho arrangement ho had entered into as a means of enabling him to ride his hobby with more offect , as well for the public advantago as his own satisfaction . In conclusion , Sir William denied , to tho best of his knowledgo and belief , that any person who had boon connected wittt his works had gone into tho sorvieo of any foreign Government .
Nmv Bishormo.—Sir Edward Lytton Jms Cons...
Nmv BiSHOrmo . —Sir Edward Lytton Jms consented to the erection of another ; new ^ W ™ " Australia , the seat of which will bo- at Brwbanc , Moreton Bay , Now South Wales , now foeli ded ia tho diocese of Newcastle , a see which is equal moxtent to four times tho area of the ^ lUsh Woa . Tho Society for tho Propagation of tho Gospel in Foreign Parts hi * granted 1 , 000 / , towards tho , endowment fund : and Dr . Tyrrell , tho present Bishop of New ; So , has generously promised to contribute half to amount required for the endowment of the new see . Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton has nominated , w the first Bishop of Brisbane , tho Rev . Edward Wyndnam Tuffiioll . M . A of Wndham College * Oxford , ana prebendary of Salisbury Cathedral .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 14, 1859, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14051859/page/21/
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