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NO. 460, January 15,1659 1 T H E X E A D...
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INDIA. We take the following from the Ca...
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how peculiarly Oude is fitted for its cu...
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CHINA. The Overland Friend of China of N...
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JAPAN
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LfCKNOW.—" This city in the space of six...
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Government Should Induce Some Of Their, ...
telegraph through Scinde has arrived . The line is to be completed between Hyderabad and Mooltan . ¦ The Bombay Government , in advertising for tenders for the mail service between Bombay and Kurrachee , has we are sorry to see , oiflfered a contract for five years . Thus the Government will be bound for a long term for a line which is rapidly improving . The directors of the Great Steamship Company are proceeding with the plans for the Leviathan , with a view to fit her expressly for the conveyance to India of firstclass passenger ^ , settlers , and soldiers on a large scale . A new company is projected in the City to run steamers of 6000 tons round the Cape .
The Bombay missions afford some news . The German Evangelical Mission on the Malabar coast have lost three missionaries by fever . The Church Mission in Western India has received a reinforcement of two missionaries , one English and one German , for the mischievous practice of sending out Germans to India still prevails . The Free Church have given up the Sattara Mission . The baptism of the first Bhattia has taken place in Bombay . Female education in Bombay city is proceedings The Parsee school has been extended , and the Hindoo gentry are founding schools with a permanent fund . Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy , Bart ., has allotted 5000 Z . for a new hospital at Nowsaree , a town near Surat .
The nuisance of the Pinjrapole , or native asylum for aged and diseased beasts , in Bombay , which is inhumanly conducted , is about to Teceive a check , as the municipal commissioners have announced their intention of taxing the beasts . The English police are likewise making war on the stray pigs in the streets of Bombay , for killing which they receive one shilling a head . From Central India news has been received through a Jewish merchant ; . The people of"Chaikar and Istaliff , being unable to bear any longer the oppressions of Sirdar Ismael Khan , Governor of Kphistan , determined to leave their provinces and emigrate towards Turkistan . About two thousand families had already left their homes , and were on their way , when the Governor , unwilling to lose his prey and diminish his taxable
population , moved after them with a strong force , overtook them , and brought them back . The people then collected to the number of twelve thousand , and determined to make head against his tyranny , and proving too Strong for the Governor , he made application to Dost Mahomed Khan , who despatched a force to his assistance , but with directions to conciliate the people . This is a specimen of the movements taking place in those countries , and of the well-spread wanderings of the Jews , who , like the other expatriated people , the Armenians and the Parsees , are to be found even in these remote regions in the pursuit of , commerce . The protection they now find under English government is producing a great effect upon them , and inducing them to look to the English dominions for a shelter and a home , securing their wealth , and adding to our influence and resources * The Dundee people are making a movement for a Central Flax Association for promoting flax cultivation in India , on the plan of the Cotton Supply Association .
No. 460, January 15,1659 1 T H E X E A D...
NO . 460 , January 15 , 1659 1 T H E X E A D E E . 89
India. We Take The Following From The Ca...
INDIA . We take the following from the Calcutta Englishman of the 8 th of December : — The . principal event which wo have to record is the surrender of the Nawab of Dan da , who was one of the leading rebel chiefs , and had hitherto successfully escaped nil pursuit . Tantia Topeo is still at large , and baffles all efforts of the forces which hayo endeavoured to cut off his retreat , though several times it appeared that he could not avoid fulling into our hands . Tho sentence of transportation passed upon the ex-King of Delhi has at last been carried into effect . Ho arrived a few days ago at Diamond Harbour , where her Majesty ' s ship Mogcora was in readiness to receive the prisoner on board , to convey him to his final destination , accompanied by two of his wives and several other mombers of his family , who follow him in his oxilo . The party wore in as good spirits as if thoy wore going on a pleasure excursion . The Capo of Good Hope was to bo honoured with tho custody of the aged assassin .
How Peculiarly Oude Is Fitted For Its Cu...
how peculiarly Oude is fitted for its cultivation . The best proof of this is that no inconsiderable quantity has been exported from it , even during the mismanagement of the native Government , which affected cotton in the same way a 3 , or even more than , the other natural products of Oude . The immense importance of a supply of cotton from India ( the only , one of our colonies that seems capable of producing it in sufficient quantities ) is fully appreciated by our manufacturers , whose very existence as such depends on an independent and regular supply of that article . Its successful growth , we must consider , depends upon both the soil and the irrigation . Both the rich black soil and the more meagre red , which isin the opinion of many , quite as fitted for the
, growth of cotton , exist in Oude , particularly in many of the jungles . These , however , mi g ht and shouldj as I have already pointed out , be made available for purposes of cultivation . Indeed , one firm , Messrs . Burns and Co ., I understand , have actually undertaken the contract to clear the Jugdespore jungle , the fifth in my list . There is sufficient water in the streams and rivers in Oude , which have the further advantage of not beinglike the Ganges and other rivers , fifty to a hundred feet below the level of the soil ; the natives being thus enabled , with even their rude implements , to attend to its cultivation with greater facility than in most other parts of India . But I see no reason why , when European science is brought to bear upon native enterprise , this advantage could not be
turned to still further account . European supervision is not so much required for its production as for sugar or indigo . Unlike those , cotton is the raw produce of the tree , and with the increased facilities for transport which must arise , the native would easily be induced to pay sufficient attention to its cultivation to render it equal to any other kind of cotton . The only serious obstacle to the production in sufficient quantities to supply all the demands of our markets is the defective and costly means of transport , nowhere so apparent as in Oude , which not only prevents the native from successfully competing with the American in delivering cheap cotton at a seaport , but also materially damages the quality of the article . The natives of India consume about 2 , 000 , 000 , 000 , whilst the amount exported to all
other countries does riot exceed 150 , 000 , 000 pounds . These figures prove that in India cotton is not grown for exportation , hut for home consumption , and that the native agriculturist , possessed of no capital , and loaded with debt , as he is everywhere in India , and oppressed arbitrarily as he has been ; particularly in Oude , cannot and will not take the risk of seeking a market elsewhere than on the spot . In some parts of Oude cotton was produced at even iess than an anna ( lid . ) per pound . With steamers on the Gogra , good roads throughout the country , and a railroad through the heart of it , no doubt whate \ er can be entertained that Oude niaybemade one of the most important cotton ^ producing provinces in India ; nor is the fact to be questioned that India is capable of furnishing any quantity that may be required .
COTTON CULTIVATION IN OUDE . Mn . L . IS . Kuutz Rubs , whoso Personal Narrative of ( ho Siege qf Luohnoxo is bo woll known , has just reprinted , at Longman ' s , his article on tho " Past and ITuturo of Oudo , " from tho Calcutta liwiaio of Juno , 1850 . That article has frequently boon referred to on account of its comploto description of the physical capabilities of the- country , and of tho value of its commercial and statistical statemoutst , Wo extract from 'a postscript , written for this edition , the following " Supplementary Observations on tho Cotton Question : " — , I fool It particularly dosoryos tho attention of those who take « interest in the growth of cotton , to remark
China. The Overland Friend Of China Of N...
CHINA . The Overland Friend of China of November 30 says : — After concluding the arrangement of new regulationsfor trade , the Earl of Elgin and suite left Shanghai on a voyage up the Yang-tsc-kiang . We know nothing of the expedition as yet . Baron Gros had not signed the regulations for trade to be attached to the French treaty when the last mail was despatched . It is not improbable that his Excellency prefers keeping something in connexion with these matters for final settlement in the south . Tho United States Commissioner , Mr . Reed , is now in Macao , and has furnished a section of the local press with a copy of tho now tariff .
There aro reports of serious disturbances within a hundred miles of Canton , the only confirmation of them being the difficulty of obtaining certain articles of consumption at the same rates as before . Sir Jolin Bowring left for Manilla in her Majesty ' s shin Magioionno on tho 29 th November .
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Yedo ; and before the electric telegraph had been long in their hands , they applied it to their wants , and in more than one prince ' s palace we were told that it might be seen at work . At Yedo , we found two sailing ships , and a steamer and a schooner under the Japanese colours . The two vessels had been built by themselves without the aid of a European , beyond the ancient lines bf some queer craft , which might have ploughed the salt seas in the time of Van Tromp .
In a commercial point of view , the field is very promising . We know that the Portuguese annually exported from Nangasaki , in the time of free intercourse , the enormous amount of 300 tons of gold annually ! We know , at the present hour , that agold kobang , equal in real value to a British sovereign , may be bought at Nangasaki for an ounce of silver ! or little more than the Mexican dollar . We know that a quantity of silk or crape , which could not be purchased at Shanghae for 20 dollars , may be had at Nangasaki for very much less .
Silk , copper , gold , tea , and paper , apart from articles of manufacture , such as porcelain , bronzes , lacquer-ware , & c , in which Japan excels , will be at first , we should opine , their principal exports . Rice they have in profusiou . Wood , coal , and iron are abundant , the two former obtainable at almost nominal prices . Without being learned in the mysteries of the silk trade , we cannot help thinking that its abundance in Japan must next year affect our European markets . The Japanese tea is of a fine , sound , full flavour , well adapted to the tastes of the poorer classes in Great Britain . Copper
must be very plentiful ; the brass guns alone mounted at Nangasaki and Yedo would pay the random of a nation ; the piles of their bridges are protected with sheets of it—the bottoms of their native vessels , the gunwales and stems of their boats , their stirrups , their temples , hilts of their swords—in short , almost everything you see has brass or copper about it in profusion . Gold , for some reason or other , you never see , but the cheapness of the Japan kobang , and its purity , rather corroborates the suspicion of the abundance of gold . —North China Herald .
JAPAN . Wic could never sufficiently admire tho beauty of t"o site of Yodo , tho excellence of its police , tho oloanlinoss of its vast population , and tho order and appearance of wealth in its streets ; but commendation was duo to much olso— -everything was in equally good hooping : thoro was nono of that ri ^ id appoaranco of mildewed gorgoousnoss about tho official abodes , or temples , which strikes a traveller so much in China . Tho vory boaoh at Yodo was woll kopt ; milos of vortical embankment ocourrod along tho faco of tho whole bay , yot no
embankment had a stono out of place Batteries , and of thorn aa woll as guns thoro wore no lack , wore far noator , and wo aro bound in truth to say , in far bottor preservation than those of Malta , or Portsmouth , a row years Mnoo . If you mot a nobleman i \ ith his rotinuo , thoro was order , cleanliness ) and gentility stamped upon tho whole affair— -ono might staro at it , but there was nothing ridiculous or contemptible Thoir clooks aro boautifully Ingonious , and adapted to tho Japanese mode of keeping time , whioh is vory complicated . Baromotora and thermometers aro made at
Lfcknow.—" This City In The Space Of Six...
LfCKNOW . — " This city in the space of six ; months , " writes the correspondent of the Times , "has been reconstructed by destruction . I never beheld such a great and such a beneficial ' . change to charm theej'e and every sense which can be affected by external objects . The history of our labours cannot be comprised in a sentence . The improvements of Paris , due to the vigorous administration and military exigencies of the Emperor , are not comparable to the vast alteration made at Lucknow by the simple process of blasting and levelling whole quarters of decrepit miserable houses , opening out grand streets , and uncovering the stately palaces which were blocked up formerly by obscure neighbourhoods . The only new construction , however , is in its character
significant and complete . The city is held by a band of embrasured parapet , and armed forts , the magnificent project of Sir Robert Napier , are now realised , or in the course of being so . " English Noblemen in America . —The St . Louis 7 iej > ublican of the 24 th ult . announces the arrival there of Lord Cavendish and his friends . The Canadian Government , about a year since , appointed Professor Hind and Messrs . Dickenson , Fleming , and Hind , commissioners to explore the Red River Valley . They were j oined by Lord Cavendish ' s party , who since then have occupied the time in hunting and exploring the country from the mouth to the-sources of the Red River . The
party left Selkirk oh the 29 th of November , with a train of seventy dogs for Crow Wing , which point thej ' reached in fifteen days ' travel . It was supposed some time since that they had been attacked and killed by the Indians in Western Minnesota . They have various trophies of tho chase , such as buffalo and other furs , the hide and horns of a magnificent buffalo bull that nearly killed Lord Cavendish , Indian curiosities , and a dog of tho Esquimaux breed , used for drawing slodgos . Thoy described tho life thoy havo boon living as indood romantic ; hunting and fishing , chasing Sioux Indiums and chased by thorn in return , and enduring hardships not altogether unpleasant from tho very foot of the novelties attending thorn .
England and Italy . — " An Italian , " writing to tho Times , says : — "It is now a statistical fact that Italy equals tho British Islands in population . What her inhabitants , skilfully guided , aro able to do may bo rood in many a book of many an ago . All this strength , if Franco and Russia only know how to got hold of tho living principle that pervades it , could bo easily turned against England in the Mediterranean , and against hor allies thoro , and ovorywhore , by land and by soa . Tho opinion of thinking Italians is , that it would bo wise for
England not to oppose any scheme that any other Power may put forth to encourage tho hopos and wiu tho confldonoo of such a gifted and high-spirited nation ; and that it would bo still wiser for England and vory porploxing , to tho rival Powers did she herself load tho way , and oxort tho most vigorous pressure upon tho rosisttng Governments . Down tho stroam of reform and freedom England can sail far more swiftly than any absolute Power . Tito Italian question Is pro-omlnontly an English question . "
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 15, 1859, page 25, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15011859/page/25/
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