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WIIEEEVER we succeed in coming upon ike Indian rebels we overthrow and disperse them ; but they take no end of killing finally and past recovery . The late mails and telegrams from Calcutta exhibit that many-lived body the . Gwalior Contingent still active , after the severe chastisement that has been so recently inflicted upon it by General Roberts . Instead of holding Julra Patun , as they appeared to have decided upon when we Lately heard of them , they plundered the treasury of Lhellaj ah , supplied themselves with about forty juns , anil then moved towards Bhopal . Met , However , by the Mhow field force under General
Mitchell , they were once again beaten and dispersed in all directions , and thirty of their guns were sapttired . The news is , ' in fact , full of similar ietails ; a number of engagements have taken place , the result being always the same—enemy severely bandied and dispersed , with trifling loss on our side . Two disarmed regiments , the G 2 nd and G 9 th Bengal Native Infantry , had mutinied on the 31 st af August , and had been " almost totally" exterminated ; aud four emissaries of the Naua had been liscovcred endeavouring to tamper with the 25 th Bombay Native Infantry ; they were put to death . The news from China does not add much to our
Knowledge of the actual state of our relations with . ho Government of the Celestial Empire . We iavc captured some more forts and knocked them , pieces , in retribution for a flag of truce fired lpon at Namtow . The most important point of , hd news is , that one of the Chinese Commissioners ivho Diet the Ambassadors in the north , and who s reputed to be a man of a conciliatory spirit , has jccu appointed Viceroy of the Canton provincexn arrangement which gives hopes of an amended condition of things there .
The European news is of a very uneasy character with an outward appearance of peace everywhere , there is everywhere * the readiness for war . Turkey , perhaps , is most ; threatened with the scourge at present . In all her Sclavonic provinces the warspirit is fermenting just below the surface , and may burst out at almost any moment . Tho enormous liu ' ercnco botweon tho numbers of tho Greek and Mussuhwui populations of Turkey iu Europe is calling forth expressions of acorn and
contempt on tho part of tho rayahs ; and tho Turkish Clovorntncnt in anxiously debating [ he incnsui-oa to bo taken for holding its awn iu tho fnco of this dangerous spirit , Tho Austrian Government has just issuod a prohibition af the exportation of arms , or othor war materiel , into Sorvia , exoopt in simiU quantities , anfl with tho permission of tho Government . But while tho lino is smouldering 1 inServin , BiUgmin , and Bosnia , and perhaps flaming up in Caudin , whore the Turku huvo boon making such u , demonstration against the Greek
population as led the Governor to believe that the massacre of the Christian population was contemplated—a catastrophe by no means unlikely . In the mean time , two extra battalions are sent to keep the two parties from cutting each other ' s throats . Coming nearer home , we see Germany one vast camp , and already one state is in alarm at the appearance of this military activity . Sweden is
understood to have sent a circular note to the different European Powers on the subject of Holstein , stating that measures of security must be taken in case the Federal troops should occupy the Duchy ; an eventuality by no means unlikely . France , again , is in an attitude of all but positive hostility to Portugal , whose capital city of Lisbon is at this moment menaced by two French ships of war .
The dispute between the French and Portuguese Governments has arisen out of the capture of the CharlcsrGeorgcs , a vessel found in one of the Portuguese harbours of the'Mozambique some ten months back , under circumstances which left little doubt that she was engaged in direct slavetrading , and not in the mere transportation of "free emigrants" from the east coast of Africa . The ship was in a port closed against general commerce , and it had manacles on board . The vessel was condemned by a Portugucs maritime , tribunal as a good prize ; but the French Government declare the seizure to have been illegal , and demand not only the restoration of the ship to her owner , but a large indeinuity besides , and the refusal of the Portuguese Government to comply with those demands has resxiltcd in the threatening attitude taken by France , The case of Portugal is somewhat weakened if it is true , as the French allege , that the Governor of Mozambique has long connived at the traflic , and had even issued regulations for tho guidance of Portuguese subordinates and French shippers . No one believes that the matter will be wilfully pushed to extremes ; indeed , a friendly arbitration is already talked of ; but , in the mean time , the position is one of anxiety and danger . Both in llussia and in Austria the anticipated changes in tho Government of Prussia , consequent upon the until retirement of tho King " , and the transfer of tho regal authority to tho hands of the Prince of Prussia , avo debated in a tone of unlooked-for friendliness . Tho Austrian Gazelle , in anticipation of object ions that may be raised against tho policy of the Itegcnt as being detrimental to tho Conservative principle , says that no set of men can possibly do so much harm to it as tho Prussian Conservatives themselves have done . Already the Jltcgent has taken the reins in hand with a firm grasp . Tho home administration is undergoing revision , and tho foivigu service is also to bo amended . Franco is busy with tho vintage , and with the imperial shows in which it takes delight . After winding up the military season at . Chalons with somo magnificent reviews , tho Emperor and Emproas Uavo betaken thomsolvcs to llheinis , that city
in which—if Paris does not too peremptorily claim its rights—Napoleon III . may some day be crowned by the Pope of Rome ; he does not appear at present inclined to indulge in that luxury of power ; his dynasty , according to the Iloniteur , " having already been consecrated by the generous blood shed on the battle-field , requires not to seek new elements of vitality in ancient traditions . " Certainly the attention of the Emperor and of his Government is better turned aTthe present
moment to the condition of the trade of the country , and they have made an important step in the direction of that which promises to furnish a cure for many of the ailments under which it now labours . They have directed their consular agents in this country to collect opinions from the best sources as to the practical results of free trade in England . What those opinions must be if they represent the facts : of the case there can be no doubt . ' Whether the French Government will have
the courage to act upon the results of the inquiry is open to question ; the mind of the Emperor is probably , no doubt , even now made up ; and the solution of the present difficulties is forced on by the condition of vast numbers of the people , who can no longer make a living in the country under its present restrictive laws . Whole districts , in the Basque provinces especially , are being sapped of their labouring classes , who are seeking in America or elsewhere a free field for their labour
and the remedy suggested by a local functionary that emigration should be forbidden by the Imperial Government , docs nothing towards curing the hopeloss poverty which is at the bottom of the movement . Napoleon has about him those who see tho truth of the case : will they prevail over the combined power of prejudice aud interested intrigue P In our own country the labouring classes , groat as may be the hardships and privations which they have to endure , are , at the present time , better off than ever thoy havo been , both as to material and
intellectual gain . The National Association for the Promotion of Social Science , which met for the second time at the beginning of tho week , at . Liverpool , lias been tho means of illustrating this fact in a striking manner . One fact is as good as many in support of a statement ; and tho advance in intelligence among the working classes was put beyond doubt by the statistics of Lord Brougham on tho subject of " Popular Literature" Tho Association is doing good service- in the carrying forward of popular education , by making tho public tho arbiters nml workers in their own courso of social and
political improvement . On tho subject of tho coming Reform Bill nothing has come out as to Ministerial intentions . At only ono of tho numorous Agricultural Meetings of ( ho week havo any of tho Ministry , or any ono in authority , dropped tho light oat word concerning the mysterious production ; from Lord John Manners we get the bare faot 1 hat Ministers aro oarnostly working at tho construction oi' o , llofonn Bill ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 16, 1858, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_16101858/page/3/
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