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THE CAUSES OF THE INDIAN MUTINY. (To the...
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COURT FAVOUR. (7'o tho Editor of the Lea...
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TALBOT DIVORCE. (To the Editor of the Le...
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'Accidentally Shut Out.' Small Reformers...
ing at one another like roasted apples , and you never hear more , seven evenings out of eight , than the tinkle of the Speaker ' s bell . "When that summons is sounded you rush- to the lobliy , and if too late , request the reporters to mention that you were accidentally shut out . Sometimes , it is true , the but it is
members are sitting in Committees ; disgraceful that Committees should sit after the House has met . The point we insist on is , that when the name of a popular member is recorded on a hundred division lists , it would be folly to suppose that he has fought a hundred battles . Upon half those occasions he did not enter t he House until the bell
rang , and he was generally liable to be shut out . Cases may be supposed , of course , in which no man could be expected to do more than vote . When Mr . Spooker brings on his Maynooth motion the whole duty of Parliament is to quash it , and the members do all that can be required from men of mortal virtue when they accumulate ' noes' in the lobby . But in . a general sense ' accidentally shut out' is a phrase that indicates how grossly the constituencies are imposed upon by their representatives .
6&8 ^_ The L, E Ape It. [No. 382^ Juir 1...
6 & 8 ^_ THE L , E APE It . [ No . 382 ^ Juir 18 , 1857 .
News For Auditors. Intheeeport Of The Po...
NEWS FOR AUDITORS . iNtheEeport of the Poor-law Commissioners published some years ago , it is laid down that an auditor is ' bound to ascertain the reasonableness of every item' in the accounts submitted to him . But Mr . Thomas Flower Eixis , Attorney-Gl-eneral of the Duchy of Lancaster , at a salary of 1001 . a year ( not in ' eluding fees ) , holds a different opinion . Mr . CoNiNGHAM , last Friday week , put to Thomas Fioweb Ellis this question :-
—" Do you believe that the position and duties of the auditor of the Duchy of Lancaster are such that if the Chancellor , or the Chancellor and Council of th < 3 Duchy , called upon him to sign , as auditor , a bill which , to his knowledge , was a misapplication of the property , or contained any fraudulent act upon the property , he ought , without exercising any judgment in the matter , to sign such bill , or other document , because the Chancellor and Council had
sometime made a minute that the auditor was to sign them , on the mere production to him of the minute ?" " Yes , " replied the Attorney-G-eneral . So the Crown has a law officer of this sort ! But Mr . Ejllis must be allowed to enlarge :- — " I have no doubt that , in his pure character of auditor , although he was aware that the Chancellor had either committed a fraud in passing the resolution , or had been imposed in
upon by traucl , it the Uhancolior persisted the minute , it would be the auditor ' s duty to sign it . " If this be the general principle , we should not ; be surprised to hear that millions of money are annually embezzled in our public departments . But what is an auditor r We know what he ig ^ aupposed to be , as an officer of a , commercial company . He has to check
the accounts , and a meeting of shareholders would hoot him were he to cover with hia signature the record of a misappropriation . Suppose Lbopoii 1 > [ Rkdpatji at the head of a Duchy . It is discovered that he has grown rich by defalcation . Is the auditor blameless whose signature has sanctioned the accounts ? Beally , we prefer Mr . Berxoi . a . ooi ' s scruples to Mr . Em-is ' s law .
This scandal becomes worse as the revelation widens . "When the Committee has presented its Report , the public will expect to hear further discussion , in order that the Crown property may not' continue under this conscious and deliberate maladministration ,
But what of General Fox and his Responsibilities ? and what of Lord "Waterpark and his prerogative ? Has no one the spirit to ask a question ?
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There Is No Learned Man But Will Confess...
There is no learned man but will confess he hath much profited t > y reading controversies , his senses awakened , and his judgment sharpened . If , then , 1 be profitable for him to read , why should it not , at least , be tolerablefor his adversary to write?—Milto if .
The Causes Of The Indian Mutiny. (To The...
THE CAUSES OF THE INDIAN MUTINY . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ') Sir , —Observation during a twenty years' service in Bengal , leaves me not a shadow- of doubt that the real provocation to discontent in India lies in that gigantic absenteeism that extracts from its pauper population a sum of ( in every shape , public and private ) probably not less than five millions per annum , for which not a shadow of equivalent goes back in any shape , and which has spread and is spreading through our new as well as our old
provinces , unmitigated pauperism in gradations as manifest as the progress of our ' annexations' from Indus to the Burhampootra . In fact , the proposition is too obvious for contradiction , that the most arbitrary indigenous rule must be happier for the governed than that quiet , systematic , and unrelenting application of the screw , in which has hitherto consisted our whole Indian statesmanship , and which allows to Indian industry but a beggarly subsistence from its own toil , lest another turn of the screw should extinguish life and revenue together .
. The Sepoy , it is true , is , individually , well paid ; but it must be remembered that we have not yet succeeded in Christianizing him into the" adoption of our more civilized maxim of ' every man for himself , and God for us all ; ' on the contrary , despite the holy labours of bishops , chaplains , arid missionaries , the poor -deluded heathen still systematically halfstarves himself to devote , perhaps , Jive out of the seven rupees per month on which , if a Christian , he
would luxuriate , to the maintenance of a pauper village of relations , whose claims his absurd religion teaches him to acknowledge in the most distant degrees . The outbreak of the army , therefore , is but the complaint of pauperized provinces , who , with the common ruse of conscious helplessness , profess disapprobation of the insurrection , until encouraged by a glimmering of ultimate success , to join heart and hand in chasing the hated and arrogantferingee from their soil .
Honestly to hold India for its benefit as well as our own , we must employ agents who acknowledge no religion but the religion of universal justice , content to participate in , instead of monopolizing the fruits of industry , and in deference to justice expelling those mercenary impostors who , under the guise of apostles of Christianity , habitually and ignorantly misrepresent , victimize , and revile the patient and pauper millions , from whom they extort for Christ ' s sake I a luxurious subsistence .
" You have only" ( says Commissioner Tucker , of the Bengal Civil Service ) " to compare our new provinces with our old . From the recently-acquired Punjab , where the people have had little of law and government education , and are comparatively truthful and honest , the population becomes worse and worse as you descend lower and lower to our old possessions of Calcutta and Madras , being , I believe , peculiarly bad where the native mind has been most shaken by missionary efforts . "
Such are the fruits of our religion in India , while there is probably not a civilian of any standing or information in Bengal but will admit that , as a rule , with few if any exceptions , the ryut , or agricultural classes ( and Manchester , bo it remembered , has reduced nearly the whole population to the condition of petty cultivators and labourers ) , arc in a state of perennial thraldom to the usurer , without whose aid their lands must be uncultivated and themselves die of starvation , in default of those advances which , under both Hindoo and Mahometan supremacy , wore obtained , when required , from tho public treasury . G . It . East India United Service Club , July , 1867 .
Court Favour. (7'O Tho Editor Of The Lea...
COURT FAVOUR . ( 7 ' o tho Editor of the Leader . - ) Sir , —After considering tho following illustration of a pernicious system , let your renders decide whethor or not favouritism still lurks among us . In 1854 , a lieutenant ( of flvo years' service ) was slightly wounded at the Almn . In consequence thereof ho returned home , and , before many weeks bad elapsed , married the daughter of an ' honourable' gentleman enjoying a lucrative berth at Court .
By this auspicious union the professional fortunes of our hero were ensured . At once the young captain —such was his present rank—became Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General at the Horse Guards ; there he remained-r-his regiment fighting on in the Crimea while the war lasted- ^ -till th e beginning of the present spring , when the poor old battered corps , hardly recovered from the buffets of the campaign in which it had borne a glorious part , was placed under orders for China . According to a salutary rule , of which the Iron Duke was author , Captain oughtin this conjunction , to have done one of
, two things : sau . kd or sold—fallen again into the ranks , or cut the service . He did neither . He retired on half-pay , and ( his first appointment at Whitehall having been abolished ) was immediately despatched to Aldershot , in the capacity of Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General . But , strange to say , even this holiday post is considered unsuitable to the gallant officer , whose military career we are dissecting . Within the last few weeks he has succeeded Lieutenant-Colonel Addison as « Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General to the Torces , ' another change , of course , for the better . officer
Thus , in less than three years , a young , without prominent abilities , with only the education of a mere regimental subaltern , has been dallying with three x ; ell-paid staff appointments , in or near ' town ; ' and yet captains and majors who struggled through the whole of the war , who are scarred with wounds , who have lost ntuch of their precious health in doing the work of their country , are turned adrift with—half-pay ! Out upon it ! When the drone fattens and the bee hungers , there must be something rotten in the State of Denmark . I am , sir , your obedient servant , July . 15 th . - ANTI-CHICANE .
Talbot Divorce. (To The Editor Of The Le...
TALBOT DIVORCE . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) Sir , —Your readers will not have forgotten the very extraordinary evidence given at the bar of the House of Lords in the Talbot Divorce case by the Reverend Abram Sargent , Vicar of Derrygarth and Prebendary of Cashel . On the 13 th of last month the Reverend Mr . Sargent gave himself up to the resident magistrate at Clonmel , confessing that he had been guilty of forgery . He was sent to gaol , but has been since handed over to the care of his friends on the ground of his being insane . Thus it appears that this witness , whose testimony the Lord Chancellor considered ' extremely important , ' and of whom Lord St . Leonards said that "he was a witness whose truth nobody could doubt , and upon whose evidence it was impossible to throw any imputation , " is , in fact , either a felon or a madman . I trust that a sense of justice to my sister-in-law , Mrs . Talbot , will induce you to admit this letter , the statements in which I am fully prepared to substantiate , into your columns . I am , air , your obedient servant , Thomas Tertius Paget . Huinberstone , near Leicester , 15 th July , 1857 .
Mb. Ruskin On Government Patkonage Of Ar...
Mb . Ruskin on Government Patkonage of Art . — Mr . Ruskin has delivered a lecture at the Manchester Athencoum on the connexion between art und political econoni }' . The lecturer read a very eloquent address , in which be contended that what was wanted to foster art was a truly paternal Government , the type of which he took from a farm not governed by a master and with hired servants , but where the master was tho father nnd the servants were sons . Such a porson might sometimes make laws that would bo irksome , but just then was the time when it was most necessary to obey them ; and so it was with a wise nation . Thia kind of national law wo had hitherto mudo judicial only , l ) ut he thought as wo advanced in sociul knowledge we should endeavour to make the Government paternal aa well as judicial , nnd have authorities who would protect us in our follies and visit us in our distresses . The lecturer went on to show how the art talent of the country would bo best collected under such a Government , and how best trninccj . In addition to Government schools to encourage tho youth , in all large towns he would have schools where all tho idle farm lads could go who had been put to unsuitublo occupations . What was wanted was that all tho talent wo possessed should be developed , nnd that it should be so fostered as not to sour or distort tho mind of tho atudont when under training . Having shown how ho could bo best trained , tho lecturer proceeded to show how our art labour might bo best employed , so as to produce tho greatest and most lasting results to tho nation . Ho criticised sovorcly tho tnatos which Iotl to tho production of tho cheap rather than tho good , os shown in tho ol ; onp illustrated papers , and tho ephemeral rather than tho lasting , as shown in tho wator-colour drawings or tho last twenty years , neither tho colours nor tho pnpor being capable of durability . —Times . Tim Citors continue to progress favourably , aldotl by h o aplondid woathor ; nnd there 900 ms to bo ovory propoet , of a bountiful harvest .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 18, 1857, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18071857/page/16/
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