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No. 508. Dec. 17, 1859 J THE LEADER. .13...
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INDIA, INDIAN PROGRESS.
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THE WAGIIER EXPEDITION. It is said that ...
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specimen of a style of writing very common in this country , and which would go-far ' to prove that the question of Pater Bonhours might , with all deference to Lord Macaulay , be asked now with considerabl e show of reason . I wonder what impression it will leave on the minds of your naval readers to hear from the organ of the Hans town shipowners , that "it is not very probable that Belgian , Dutch , German , and Scandinavian ships will add to the number of sailors on board of her Majesty ' s ships ; but that it is by no . means unlikely that France might obtain the services of the mariners of the seafaring nations of Northern Europe to an extent that would prove very inconvenient to Groat Britain . " To . enable your readers to comprehend this , it is necessary to inform them that it is the general belief among the schoolmasters and the middle class , that the army and navy of England are composed almost entirely of Germans , and other foreigners , but chiefly of Germans . How this idea came to take root among our neighbours can only be explained by the circumstances of a German legion having served . under the British flag in Spain during the war against old Napoleon , and the employment of the fortign legion during the war in the Crimea . Every one who has resided any time in Germany will , " I think , readily bear me out that this is a ' wi lelv rooted belief ; whether it proves in
the end useful or injurious to English interests , I have no means of knowing for certain , but I think the history of Napoleon I . will lead to the conclusion that his " conquests were greatly facilitated by the fear which the reputation of the French for military courage and conduct inspired . I have often felt . inclined to put the question whether it would not be advantageous to tho interests of England if the English press -would " Lay aside their apparently haughty indifference as to the opinion of foreigners , and devote regularly some space to combat , the errors respecting England and the English , which are as rank and rampant as they were during the despotism of the first Napoleon ,
most undisguisedly declared that the overthrow of Napoleon the Third ; and the Restoration * of the Bourbons in the person of Henry the Fifth , was the sole object of the war . The statesmen to whom Count Jtechberg made this important revelation , showing by their looks that they did not exactly trust their senses , Count Rechberg added , with a decided and measured emphasis , " Oui , e ' est ce que nous voulons ! ni plus ni moms . " ' Yes , that is what we intend , neither more nor less . " From the Palatinate we have the report of a fight which lately occurred at Deutsek Schibenhard between Bavarian and French soldiers . Three French soldiers in a tavern , it appears , amused themselves
with twitting and otherwise annoying a Bavarian corporal , till he lost patience , and aided by some comrades attacked the French , and finally ejected them from the tavern . "Enraged at this , the French returned next day with about thirty or forty comrades , and proceeded to the Bavarian barracks in search of the corporal and his party . Here they were met by the lieutenant of the Bavarians , who requested them to retire , which they refused . The lieutenant thereupon ordered his men to load , and took up a position . This had the effect of inducing the French to withdraw from the barracks ; but , beginning to commit excesses in the place , it became necessary to dispatch a force from Lauterburg against them , and drive them across the borders .
The Belgian Government has notified to the Hanoverian Cabinet its intention to annul the treaty upon the Stadt dues . This treaty , which was concluded before the Dresden Convention of 1844 , was the first treaty which Hanover concluded respecting the Stadt dues , with a foreign power . Hanover strove to conclude this treaty because the Belgian Government , after having in vain demanded to be placed on an equal footing with Hamburg , refused to return the tonnage money levied at the mouth of the Scheldt by the Dutch upon Hanoverian ships . The Belgians have , however , since discovered that the return tonnage which they have conceded upon this treaty is too great a sacrifice for the concessions granted by . Hanover . Hence the notification .
during which ; as was well said by a French minister , the people under the sceptre of the conqueror , were enclosed like so many sheep in a fold , entire strangers to every'event beyond their own immediate neighbourhood ., anuneu by romantic talus of French superiority in all quarters ' of the globe , as duly reported in the " columns of the Munitcur . The system was carried so far that events of the very highest importance , su <> h as the battle of Trafalgar , and the English victories over the French in Spain were never mentioned in the public papers . Error , the child of darkness , becomes in turn ' the mother of errors still greater . If now despotism finds it profitable to propagate falsehood , why should not
freedom condescend-to derive an advantage by propaqating the truth ? At this moment , England is being represented as the bully of the ocean—the sole opponent to the abolition of" privileged piracy "—as the German journals term reprisals , while the Americans are described as the innocent traders , the promoters of civilisation , the champions of peace and merchant rights . My excuse for venturing to make those remarks , must be that the articles in the English journals against the Bremen , or nithov American proposals , are tlui sole subject of discussion , and will probably continue to form thu staple of public gossip till the meeting of the Prussian Parliament , which is announced for tho 1 : 2 th of January . The last number of the Prussian annals contains tho following revelation respecting the openingoftho late Italian
campaign . Tho policy of the Austrian Cabinet , from the moment when ' it was perceived that thcquarrcl could no * longer be avoided , took such a direction that Austria ' could in justice be no more regarded as the party aggrieved , socking merely to obtain her territorial possessions . Austria was tho aggressor , not only in form , but in reality , and intentionally . If the general relations . of Europe remained unchanged , a fresh at Click was to bo expected after the lapse of afow years ; and even during tho interval it would bo needful , according to all appearances , to maintain an armament fur beyond tho capabilities of the nation . —Here was no escape—it was absolutely necessary to adopt tho aggressive . To uphold that system within her own territories , which she conceived to be necessary for tho salvation of tho world , that is to sav , her world , Austria resolvod to make it tho victorious and ruling system ot
Europo ; tho principled which stood opposed to it were to bo overthrown and trampled under loot . This was tho mainspring of her action , i hup , the aims and plans of Austria took so wide a rangefar beyond the most enthusiastic dreams of the Southern Germans , her supporters . And the chlol object was , to entangle Germany , ami first and foremost Prussia , in the war } to transfer tho theatre of the war to the Rhino , to burst with nn overwhelming force into Franco , to dash the Bonaportists to tho ground , and plnoo Henry tho Fifth upon tho throne of his fathers . When Count lioohborg bouuiuo l ' rlnio Minister—( in Way )—ho
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' Lz Secretaire ue i / Emverelt ., "—The Spectator says : ' — - ' His acquaintance with the third Napoleon was of long standing . In 1817 M . Mocquard found hiinselt' at Arenemberg , where the Queen Hortense was residing with her brother and her sou . He won their esteem by a literary service . A biographical notice of Queen Hortense had appeared in the * Biographie des Contemporains ;' but , holding it to be' unworthy of its subject , M . Mocquard published , without his name , another account which did fuller justice to the Queen—that most original and animated musician , who little thought , perhaps , that , her Imperial son would make the stray composition of her leisure hours the national air of France . It was thus that M . JMocquard first established himself as a valued friend of the family . Nor did he surrender that position ; he claimed all the privileges of misfortune . For a long time he kept the cause alive in the Commerce newspaper , and in other ways . He did so at a later date , when tho Prince was an exile in England ; and again in Paris he stood as firm as a rock bv the side of hi 3 illustrious friend all through the perilous coup d ' etat . This was the crowning point for the faithful follower ; ho was chosen to be private secretary , a post which he has over since held , aiiJ to gain his var is equivalent to a tete-atete with his Majesty . Such is tho man Irom whom the Liverpool merchants received their answer—aud peoplo said it was only tho Secretary . ' Oiilytho Secrotury . ' The post is no sinecure ; ijidccd it needs a mind congenial to that of a Napoleon . Do-liberate in reflection , yet prompt and
positive in jiulgmont— . sharp ana clear ni expression , yet more than courteous , conciliatory and kind—versatile , yet faithful ; able to view affairs in their simplo abstraction , yet to handle them in their complicated concrete , Mpcquard is tho very man whom the poetry of romance might have imagined for what destiny has made him . Tun Poi-e ' s New Law roit L . ujied . —It must be supposed that thu Romans are getting lukewarm and indifferent in religious matters , as tho Cardinal-Vioar has considered it nocossury to publish an edict against laxity of faith and desecration o tho house of God . The inhabitants of tho Eternal City aro ordered not to make tho churchos pliiocs ot ruiidoKvous , and warnod against profaning them cither uy word or deed . Tho ladles aro told not to ap ^ -ar at church with uncovered heads and ovoning clrossods . Ills eminence . Is so shocked at tho unbecoming ; toilet of the Ho . mui ladies , that he directs their eoiigMors not toglvo them absolution if thoy persist In appearing in the house of prayer with u" ;" ^ "" ^ and shoulders . The edlut is to bo read flg tlio pulpit in all the Uoinan churches on tliroo dilloiuit fast-days .
India, Indian Progress.
INDIA , INDIAN PROGRESS .
The Wagiier Expedition. It Is Said That ...
THE WAGIIER EXPEDITION . It is said that during the recent campaign in Italy the French troops suffered only from One want . There were not sufficient surgeons or ambulances for the wounded . The emperor had calculated everything else , from the number of cannon to the quantity of vinegar required , and had omitted only to reckon the deadly result of his own preparations . That faculty of minute organization , that attention to every detail which , and not generalship , is perhaps the Emperor ' s forte , seems always wanting to English troops . The terrible lesson in the Crimea taught us much , yet still the great truth that organization is as much the secret of success as valour , has still to be learned . The Chinese beat us in the Peiho because the scaling ladders were too short . They always are too short , but experience is lost upon the British Staff . On the other side of India we have been in imminent danger of defeat from a gang of pirates , simply from neglect of the most ordinary foresight . The Waghera , the tribe it became necessary to crush , occupy two forts , one , Beyt , on the island of that name opposite Kattywar , and the other , Dwarka , on the mainland . The tribe consisting of about 2 , 500 arm-bearinpr men is rich enough ' with plunder an I offerings to entertain large bands of Mekranecs , "Wiluyutees and other mercenary ruffians of Central and Western India . The strength of their fort , too , was well known , and as they were expected to die sword in hand , it was deemed necessary to make the expc lifum sent to subdue them unusually strong . It numbered 2 , 500 men , on board six vessels . The expedition arrived opposite the island on the 3 rd instant , and on the 5 th the fort
the vessels took up a position opposite . Fire opened at 9-30 a . m . and continued throughout the day , the enemy scarcely returning a shot . Next day ;' the 6 th , the bombardment was resumed , and under cover of the fire , the land force , consisting of detachments from the ltoval Artillery , Sappers and Miners , If . M . ' s 28 th Foot , the- 6 th N . I . and the Marine Battalion , landed . The fort wall is lined below with houses , from which the enemy kept up a galling fire . The British soon chased them out of this cover , but fire was renewed from the fort itself with the moot deadly . effect . Tho breach was found impracticable , tho scaling ladders being fifteen feet too short . The attempt , according to one account , Avas renewed three times , but this is rendered questionable by other narratives . At all events , the men continued under fire till nightfall four hours , and the loss was very severe , amounting to ten per cent , of the men engaged . The force must , to all appearance , havo retired on the following morning to await the effect of further bombardment , when about midnight tho Wughers evacuated the fort . They escaped without loss , and quitted the island , apparentlv , to take refuge in Dwarlca . The Zcnobia was sent back to Bombay to carry the intelligence and obtain more ammunition , which , like the ladders , scorns to have fallen short . The causes of the loss anil possible humiliation thus encountered seem sufficiently clear . Nobody seems to have troubled himself to ascertain prcciscly how wide a breach the bom ' - .. ilincnt had created ; nobody looked after the scaling ladders , and nobody seems to have boon much concerned about ammunition . Of oourso it will bu said the resistance was greater than was expected . T ) o wo send annca frigates and whole detachments to conquer unrawsti « 7 strongholds ? If not , so . no one . of the dozons ; of officers employed might be told oft to soc that the stores wore adequate to any probablo contingency . Bringing back the residue , when chips arc employed , is cheaper than human life . Wo are greatly afraid this inattention to details will intcrfero with tho success of tho coming campaign In Central India . Sovon corps , it is snid , nro to bo put in motion at onoo , and hunt down tho onoroy . battuo fashion . Tho design Is excellent , as was provifr in tho campaign against Tan tin Topee , , 1 c was the incessant appearance of new columns Irom tho south of the NorUucldH , which kept that chief la headlong movement , and impeded all oflorts at organised resistance . But , unless some plan is devised to inoroaso tho spood of thuso columns , luiloss , to speak plainly , ofllcora and men can bo compelled to dispense with all private baggage , to rely on the commissariat alone , and on that only for inunit ons and baro food , tliow arrangements may BtUl lau . Stripped , to thu skin , tho native would still outmarch , us But when pursued by moi » with light baggage , tho proportionate speed of lib flight la « o reduced ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 17, 1859, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17121859/page/9/
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