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. T H E Ii B A D ER. [No. 409, January 2...
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Rflhe Emperor Napoleon Has Seized The Op...
he reasonably remarks that the Government of that country are the only persons competent to complain of the violation of the neutrality laws , and that it is quite certain they will never exercise their right , seeing 1 hat the act of Commodore Paulding has relieved their cotintry from a ' dreaded invasion . ' Admitting fiat his officer had acted in excess o f instructions , lie declares his conviction that that
officer acted from ' pure and patriotic motives , and in the sincere conviction that he was promoting the interests and vindicating the honour of his country . So he has taken , his side , and will have a hard fight to wage against the filibustering athletse of the Congress , who are at once furious at the interference of the Government with their hero , and vaingloriously triumphing in the defiant position he at present maintains .
Coming to home affairs , attention is first attracted to the rapidly approaching Royal Wedding . Already some of the festivities which had been arranged to lead by steps up to the crowning festival have passed off . Two , oat of the four , theatrical performances at which Her Majesty and her noble guests are to assist in state , have taken place . This is all very well ; but when these performances are concluded , it may be time to come at something like an understanding as to the means by which certain theatrical
speculators have been enabled to make an exhibition of Her Majesty and her illustrious guests and visitors , for their sole benefit and advantage , in the shape of some thousands of pounds . Meanwhile , all the arrangements of the ceremonial are complete ; the ill-humour of the public , at being balked of their anticipated show , is wearing out ^ , and the grumble has subsided into talk of the advantages of the alliance , and expression of hopes as to their realization .
Signs of tie approach of another great event , the opening of Parliament , are given by the authorities in Xieadenhall-street . A Special General Court of the Company was held on Wednesday , at which a strongly worded petition to Parliament against themeasure proposed by Government for abolishing the so-called Double Government was read and discussed . The meeting was adjourned without coming to any decision on the subject , but the petition , of course , will stand .
The Calcutta mail , which arrived yesterdey morning , brings little news from India , and none of any importance . Several small onslaughts have been made upon the rebels at different points , always ¦ wi th loss to them of men and guns , at a trifling cost of life to our forces . Nothing is Said of Ou . de .
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. T H E Ii B A D ER . [ No . 409 , January 23 , 1858 .
Thb Westmenster Abjjey Services.—The Thi...
Thb Westmenster Abjjey Services . —The third of the Westminster Abbey services , designed for the benefit of the working classes , was held on Sunday , and was Attended by an . overflowing congregation . In consequence of the largo number of persons who on previous occasions were unable to obtain admission into the
Abbey , the Rev . William Cureton , tho rector of the contiguous church , threw open the doors of that edifice , and held a special service for the accommodation of those -who were excluded from the Abbey . The consequence ¦ wae that the nave of tho Abbey and every portion of St . Margaret's Church wore densely crowded * Tho Ven . John Sinclair , M . A ., Archdeacon of Middlesex , preached tho sormon in tho Abbey . After tho benediction had been pronounced , tho congregation lingered to listen to the Dead Maroh in Saul , which was played in jnemory of General Havelock . The sermon , to-morrow will bo preached by tho Bishop of Oxford . Thid kx-Lord Mayqh . —A committee has boon formed for taking steps to present somo testimonial to Mr . Alderman llnnls , in acknowledgment of his ablo discharge , of tue duties of the Mayoralty ; of the support given by himself and tho Lady Mayoress to tho chlffJtToTofTffi ^^ tho former in bringing to light tho commercial frauds in tho City , und In devising and establishing tho India Relief t fund . China . — - < Lord Elgin ' s ultimatum has boon dellVorod to Yah , who show a no disposition to yield . Tho Island of Sonan , opposite Canton , waa occupied without resistance on tho 15 th of December by tho French and English troops , Tho Chinese woro allowed ton days to accept another ultimatum . The French Admiral haa proclaimed tho blockade of Canton rlvor .
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THE I ! OjLO _ REV 0 LT . Very little fresh intelligence has been received this week from India . Some telegrams , however , were published yesterday , containing - a few points of interest . The latest dates from Calcutta are to the 25 th of December ; from Madras , to the 29 th ; and from Galle to the 9 th inst . A telegram addressed to the Foreign Office from Alexandria , January 17 th , " A small force from Delhi , under Colonel Seaton , encountered a body of rebels at Guingeree , on the 15 th December , took the guns , and killed one hundred and fifty men ; we lost few men , and three officers . Again , on the 11 th December , the same column attacked a strong force of the enemy entrenched at Putalem , near Futtehghur ; killed about six hundred of them , including many chiefs ; took eleven guns with their camp , and parted ( pursued ?) the routed enemy seven miles . Our loss was trifling , and included only one officer killed . Communication by post between Bombay and Calcutta has been re-established , letters and papers having been received . The Southampton and Prince Albert , with troopsreached Bombay 12 th . "
, , A communication from the same city , addressed to the Times , contains the following facts received from Corfu in advance of the Indian mail : — " The Furukabad rebels have been defeated in two engagements , in the latter of which , on the 18 th of December , the dispersion of the enemy was complete . Their guns were captured ; our loss is trifling . No further intelligence from Oude . The 11 th Cavalry mutinied on the let of December . They were overtaken near Purneah . Eleven were killed , but the remainder escaped . The 17 th Native Infantry are under orders for China . "
OFFICIAL DESPATCH . A supplement to the London Gazette , issued last Saturday evening , contains a despatch from Lieutenant Hughes , giving an account of the defeat of the insurgents at Bulleh , in the Kurnaul district . The Lieutenant says : ¦—" Nothing could exceed the gallantry with which the Sowars tore down the barricade and attacked its defenders ; and I have since had the satisfaction of hearing , from the villagers themselves , that twenty of the insurgents were killed , and twenty-two wounded , in our charge through the suburbs . After a short cannonade , the and of
the town was carried by Infantry , a party the 1 st Punjab Cavalry . The pukka-built houses I could not easily fire , but the suburbs , containing large quantities of stacked forage , were completely destroyed . Large stores of grain , ghee , & c , which were found in the town itself , were confiscated to Government ,, and made over to the Tehseeldar of Gurroundah . Four of the Lumburdars , and some other influential men of the place , who are prisoners in my camp , have begged to be allowed to redeem the confiscated property , and I have agreed to their doing so , on payment of 1000 rupees over and above the balance of revenue due . I fully expect this money to be paid in the course of to-day .
" The destruction of this place—the most important town in the neighbourhood—has had a very salutary effect ; so much so , that two adjacent villages ( against which Mr . Le Bas had requested me to proceed ) this morning brought in their revenue , as also did the Lum burdar of Dhurrunighur , in the Paneeput District . " The loss of the insurgents cannot be estimated at less than one hundred and thirty or one hundred and forty , and of these , I should say , some seventy or eighty were out up by the troop under Lieutenunt Millett . " THE LATH GENERAL , NKLLL . The only account of the death of General Neill yet published has just appeared . It is contained in the letter of a brother officer , who states thatu He ( Neill ) crossed the river at Cawnporo on the 19 th of October , in command of the 1 st Brigade . The enemy , who were in position near the river , were at once driven back . On the 21 st and 22 nd , they again fell in with the enemy , when hia brigade was again led by h , i « n to victory . On the 25 th , they advanced on Lucknowthe 1 st Brigade loading through a oonstunt raking blazo of firo from nine A . M . to seven p . m ., when , just at the lust , a fatul shot from a loopholo struck his head . His body was placed on a gun-carriage , and taken within the entrenched camp , and waa next day buried by hja own regiment , one and all of them allowing how dooply they felt the loss they had sustuined . " THE ) GWALlOIt CONTINGENT . Some particulars with respect to the operations of , and against , the Gwalior Contingent uro thus set forth by the Bombay Gazette : — 11 From the statement of a hurkaru who has come from Cawnpyre , and who loft that Btutiou o » the 1 st of Docemb'br , \ i appears tli ' at tlioro was an uniiitoiTupCotrfignT between the English and mutinous force from the 20 th to the 80 th of November ; that the inHurgonts placed their guns on Nuuhcy Nowab ' a Huvoylco and the church ; that tho Lucknow forco in the meantime arrived at the
bridgo of boats on Monday , November 00 th , and , after fighting with the enemy for tho whole clny , succeeded in crossing over tho bridge , and uncampuU in tho mydun ; that tho whole English forco iu tlio entrenchments , ineluding that in tho niydan , la owtluiatud to bo 0000 strong , and tho onomy ' u doublo thut nuinbor ; that ,
besides the twelve infantry and three cavalry regiments of the mutineers , they have a large number of bmlmashes from the villages of the Cawnpore and Orei districts and the Gwalior territory with them , that reinfor cements were daily expected from towards Allahabad , and a detachment of the insurgents was sent towards Futtehpore to oppose the reinforcements on their way ; and that the oflioer commanding at Cawnpore fell in the field of battle on Monday , the 30 th of November . " Intelligence has been received , through the Gwalior newswriter at Calpee , that a most decisive action took place on the 6 th or 7 th instant , which ended in the entire discomfiture of the Contingent and other insurgents , in the capture of all their artillery , baggage , & c , and in driving them back towards Calpee , in the fort of which place the Balla Sahib ( brother of the Nana ) , was himself wounded , has taken refuge . The villagers arc said to have refused shelter to any of the fugitives . " This was the action fought by Sir Colin Campbell after the discomfiture of General Windham .
An officer of the 88 th , writing from the Camp at Cawnpore on the 27 th of November , states that General Windham ' s motive in attacking the Gwalior rebels on the previous day was because he knew they had taken up a position which they meant further to strengthen , and from which he resolved , if possible , to eject them . In a postscript to his letter , dated November 30 th , the officer speaks of fighting night and day for three days . He adds : — " About 20 , 000 of the enemy , with thirty guns , attacked our small force of 2000 , and endeavoured to cut us off , but they failed . We went out against them the day before yesterday , but they were in such numbers -we
could make no ground ; we therefore were ordered to take up our position in the fort , and hold out as long as possible . While we were fighting with the main body , a large force had taken position at the entrance to the town , for the purpose of intercepting our progress to the fort . We were a good way in front of the other regiments coming towards the town . When we arrived at the corner of a street , we were told the enemy was in force in the houses ; we nevertheless charged round the corner , where we were received by a very heavy fire of musketry , which when we returned , the Sepoys bolted and we after them . We literally butchered about two hundred of them . "
Special Letters From India. {From A Mili...
SPECIAL LETTERS FROM INDIA . { From a Military Correspondent . ' ) Nagpore , December ^ 1857 . Let us resume our subject ; let us try to estimate what have been the great sources of aid and security , which have enabled the government of India for this time to ride through this terrible storm , and which promise to carry it into port with triumph and with honour . The natural advantage of position and authority enjoyed by every established government , the special reputation of our arts and arms , the Conservative instincts of the Princes , the landholders , and the wealthy men of the country—these formed what may be called the statics of our security . Let us endeavour also to sum up the dynamics .
The first place , due to the indispensable and visible sign and symbol and active instrument of our power , must be given to our brave captains and soldiers , to those scanty ; and gallant bands who under Neill and Havelock , Nicholson and Vincent Eyre , fighting as they did against overwhelming numbers of disciplined sepoys , provided with guns , and trained and armed as themselves , have done more to prove the invincible and irresistible superiority of the British soldier ' s during' and energy than have all our previous most brilliant Indian campaigns . How sick have I become of thut hackneyed phrase , " India was won by tho sword , aud must be kept by the sword ; " untrue , if it means that all our possessions and power in India wore gained or are retained by mere forco of arms : untrue , if it means that wo ever
can govern India by garrisons , or maintain our empire and influence by any conceivable military strength alone , regardless of the rights and feelings aud social customs of tho people ; and yet how I wiah that I could porsuade our rulers of tho truth of this phrase in a certain senso , that I could instil that truth into their minds , and make it the basis of their reformed institutions ! That India must bo kept by tho sword , that we must trust to tho sword , that in tho British sword lies our real strength ; that is to say that our only real indubitable reserve and foundation of material p / ij / mcal strength does indeed consist in our forco of lCuroponn troops , and doeu in no degree couuiut in a aluml of beerdrinking and billiurd-jplaying ensigns nnd lieutenants ,
or in any nuinbor of meddling Ignoramuses protending to work in any department , oven though they buloiig to tUoJuffhoy ranks of tJ ^ A ^ jgJo ^ fcJaxon race . ^ ' The triio "TtrongTIli' arid inJog 7 iry " oT oii ' r dlriliir'ermust depend on our retaining , mid enorgi / . ing , and consolidating our general influence and command over tho good opinion and good-will of tho people of India . . ! » n our Hpruadlng and continuing by wise and jimt government u llrm belief in tho bououoiul ofl ' uct of our » upromacy—a conviction that India cannot do without us . All that haa boon accomplished in this direction is duo to thoHO comparatively few earnest and well-quallued Englishmen who imvo beun and aro placed in positions whoro useful action i » possible , and whoro real i \ spoiifli-
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 23, 1858, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23011858/page/2/
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