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tfo. 474, ApMI,23, 1859-] THE LEADER. 53...
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dered the Orrs to the Lucknow rebels, ha...
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Thk Faid Gaiioud.-—T ins yacht, fitted o...
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Notes On Indian Ritocjhess. It Is A Sign...
and visitors from Calcutta . It is hoped no more ? rro < rnlarities "Will occur . CaptaS G ; A . Ferris , of H . M . 29 th , ^ having recovered his health at Darjeeling had J > eerr Bent to reToin his reg iment , in command of a detachment Mr H . A Cockerell has been appointed register of deeds and marriages in . Sylhet . ^ . ¦ . The Muneepore Regiment is restored to local service having , when detached , been of great use dSL- the revolt . It is hoped that these local regi-Sr will be recruited strictly from-the hill tribes , Sd no Poorbeahs allowed admission to the ranks . Brevet-Major W- G ., A . Middleton , of the 93 rd Highlanders , is definitively appointed commandant of the Nvnee Tal Convalescent Depot .
Leave has : been given for the hills north of Deyrah to Lieutenant F . L . S . Dyce , 71 st B . N . I . ; for Simla and the hills to Lieutenant . J , It . Miller , 90 th Foot , and Vet Surgeon J . B . Hall , R . A ., and for Almorah to Ensign J . E . D . Campbell , _• At Dxio-shaie Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel J . W . Cox H M ° 13 th Light Infantry , has been appointed Commandant of the Convalescent Depot . Lieutenant E . S . Wood , H . M . 93 rd Foot , has been allowed leave for the purpose of resuming his studies in the Thomasoii Civil Engineering College at Roorkee . _ _ ¦ ''
. . .. „ The news from Kashmeer is that Maharajah Runbeer Sing has revised the tariff , abolished the _ akbar ee , or excise , and the julkhar , or tax on fishing . The former yielded 5 , 000 / . a year , arid the latter 4 , 000 * . The distillation of wine and spirits has been forbidden , and drunkenness is to be severely punished . . The news from the Neilgherries is that Major h .. B . Cureton , H . M . 12 th Lancers , is appointed Commandant of the Convalescent Depot at Jackatalla .
Leave has been givpn for the Neilgherriesto Captain C . J . A . Deane , 42 nd M . N . I ., Captain C . W . . F . Whish , M . N . I ., Captain R . Hodgson , H . M . 8 th Hussars , Brevet Captain T . M . McHutchhi , 19 th M . N . I ., Lieut . W . II . L . Fuller , 4 th M . N , L , arid 2 nd-Lieut ., II . S . Woods , 1 st Madras Fusiliers . It is a great benefit to these gentlemen , who are suffering from health , that the climate of the Neilgherries is available to them , while these permissions of many months' or a year ' s leave give several residents to Ootakamund , and other towns in the hills . had had
Lieut . J . I ) . Brockman , H . M . 86 th Foot , a short leave for Poona . The supermtendentship of the Sjulkoah' Salt Golahs near Calcutta , has become-vacant by the retirement of Mr . Alexander . This post used to be a sinecure for a member of the civil service , being provided with a salary of 2 , 400 / . and a convenient residence rent-free . The Government , with commendable economy , has reduced the salary to S-iOZ . without a residence , ami made it available as fin uncovenanted appointment . It is urged by the Englishmen , that the like measure of reduction can be applied in a reduction by one-half of the salaries
of all . wit and opium agencies , and their immediate transfer to the uneoreminted service . The public at home are not aware that among the duties imposed upon a highly educated civil service are these salt and opium agoncics , which are properly mercantile appointments , and should be held by men Of business , while officers , having a political education , should bo made available for the general government of ± ho country , for which aid is much wanted . It is needless to say that . these posts have been , in reality , sinecure prizes of the civil service . . The Friend of India , as a document on the present state of finance in India , gives the following list of financial salaries : — ?• Financial Secretary £ 5 , 000 fcSub-TreaBurcr , Calcutta .. .. U . OOO Do . Uombny ft , ooo Do . Madras .. .. 2 , 100 . Assistant Sub-Treasurer , Bongnl . 610 Accountant-General , Government of India V-W Do . Itombay .. ' 4 , 000 Do . ' - Madras .. .. U . 000 Accountant , Honffnl .. .. . ! $ , < MK > Do . Norfli-WoBtProvJncoo .. fJ . Do . Vunjub 1 , 800 First Anslfltant , Accountant-Conoral of India 1 , 800 Do . Do . Madras ,. M OO Do . Do . Bombay .. 1 , 000 Second Assistant Do . Guvernmentof India .. 1 , 200 Do . Do . Madras .. coo Do . I > o . Uombay .. WOO Third AsMlbtunt , Do . aovornmontof-India .. 0 ( 10 CMvll Auditor , Tndla and Bengnl .. 3 , 000 Do . Honibny .. .. 2 . -100 Do . Hadraa .. . .. .. tf , M 0 Do , Norlh-VVost Provinces 1 , 800 Do . Punjab 1 ,-HO ABiildtant Civil Aiulltor , Uongnl .. 810 Tho observation is jthat this dopartmont is bettor paid than tho English Cabinot , ana that some of thoao Hivlurlos must bo appropriated to Ministers of Finance , and othpi' 8 bo considerably reduced . Korinmoro ie a new station 44 miles fi'om Kishna-Kur , on tho banks of tho rivor Jollingheo , It has been formod Into a subdivision , nnd Jms an
Anglo-Vernacular School , with about sixty pupils ; and there are several indigo factories in the neighbourhood , belonging to Messrs , J . and R . Watson and Co ., which , being under abie management , are producing good effects . It is worth observing that , though this town is near enough to Calcutta to be known to the Government , it is only lately that it has an English school , which , it will be observed , has even now very few pupils , and that it used to be a great scene of dacoity . Hundreds of ponseys , bhurs , babars , pal wars , & c , plying between Calcutta and the eastern districts , were plundered in this ot
neighbourhood , and there being no English j ustice the peace there in those days , the nefarious business was carried on with impunity , as the parties robbed mostly preferred putting up with their loss to gi ving information of it to the police , inasmuch as it would have ended in their being dragged to Kishnagur , or Berhampore , arid there detained , harassed , and , perhaps , fleeced by the amlah . Since a resident magistrate has been stationed there crime has much diminished . The trade of Aden is largely growing since it has been constituted a free port . ; The yearly imports and exports in 1844-5 , before the opening , were 149 , 097 / ., and for the year ending 31 st May , lSSSj ¦
1 , 145 , 552 ? . . .. . This sum was thus made up : — Imports—Goods £ 477 , 807 . ,, Treasure 2 ^ 1 " 9 Total Imports £ 703 , 047 Exports—Goods .... £ 2 S 3 , 037 „ ¦ Treasure ...... 159 , 807 . .. . Total Exports £ 443 , 501 Tliis is exclusive of the inland trade with the Arab town in Yemen for provisions consumed in the town , and by the shipping , and for articles manufactured there , and exclusive of various exports by land and the profit made on them , as likewise of various articles sold in the town to passengers by steamers . A steamer comes in about every second
day . Of course the chief article of import is coals for the steamers , being about 150 , 000 / . The treasure in is for the supply of the troops , and that out is supplied by passengers , and exported to pay for goods . There is a considerable trade in Mocha coffee , being to the extent- of about 3 , 000 tons to England , the United States , France , and Bombay , the trade of Mocha itself having dwindled , the town being in ruins , and the population having removed to Aden . The African trade with Berbera and the opposite ports is becoming considerable . The imports are ivory , gums , ostrich feathers , and cattle . The Arabian exports , besides coffee , include madder and glue . A valuable report on the trade of Aden has been compiled by Captain R . L . Playfair , first ¦ assistant political resident of that settlement .
The Madras Government has acceded to the request of Mr . Montclar , and appointed a scientific commission to examine the facts and theory h e to Submit , relative to the acclimatising of exotic cotton seed . The members are Mr . 12 . Maltby , Member of the Board of Revenue , Major Worster , Acting Government Astronomer , Dr . Mayer , Professor of Chemistry , and Dr . Montgomery , Professor ofBotany . Dr . Forbes Watson , the Reporter on Indian Products at the India House , with that zeal which distinguishes him ,. has called the attention of the press and tho public hero to the desirability of growing gram in this country as an experiment , and offers to supply seed .
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tfo . 474 , ApMI , 23 , 1859- ] THE LEADER . 537
Dered The Orrs To The Lucknow Rebels, Ha...
dered the Orrs to the Lucknow rebels , has been sentenced to transportation for life . Colonel Davidson narrowly escaped being killed in the Durbar at Hyderabad a few days ago , a , frantic Arab haying fired at him . The miscreant was caught and instantly killed . . Tahtia Topee has not succeeded in escaping from Central . India . He is at Perone with the Gwalior rebel Maun Sing . The cause of his separation from the Rao and Feroze Shah was a serious misunderstanding as to money matters .
The Oude rebels are still in the Nepaul jungles , and Jung Bahadoor is said to be negotiating with them .. Should they attempt to re-enter India , Brigadier Kelly is ready to oppose them . The Begum is stated to be in the Nepaulese capital . Jung Bahadoor , it appears , has never moved his army from Katmandoo , and the rebels have never been molested by him . General Napier has arrived at Seronj , and received vakeels or . messengers from the Rao and Feroze Shah , asking oa what terras they -will be allowed to surrender . Adil Mahomed has given in , and is now a prisoner . He is a Bhbpal sirdar ; he was Elian of Amba Panee , and brother of the man whom Sir Hugh Rose caused to be hanged last year at Rathghur .
A plot was recently discovered in Lahore ; the movers were Chey Sing , colonel of an old Sikh regiment , and Boodh-Sing , a religious devotee . Seditious papers were found in their houses , and a sort of mystical prophecy , believed to have been very widely circulated . It is written , or pretends to be written , by a Sikh of jubbulpoor , arid predicts-that in 1863 the followers Of Christ will be destroyed , the [ Sikhs Will keep English women in their houses , and the Khalsa will gain supreme power . It is well to know that a prophecy of that kind is in circular tiori . Cheyt-Sing and Bood-Sing have been sentenced to five years in the Andamans , and the plot , such as it was , seems to have been amongst the people rather than the soldiery . for his 1 ? and
Lord Harris is ¦ preparing deparuir ., arrangements are being made- " to . welcome his successor . The Madras papers contain accounts of a . most daring robbery , on the night of the 13 th inst ., at Cuutpady , the Veliore station , distant about four miles from the cantonment , by a gang of about 150 persons . They atta eked the house of Mr . Patosi , and carried off , it is said , about 50 , 000 rupees . The treasure lost only arrived on the night of the 11 th or morning of the 12 th instant ; and this leads to the suspicion ; that some persons at Madras must have given notice of its intended despatch . Mr . Peacock has been appointed Chief Justice at Calcutta , and Sir Robert Hamilton goes inLo the Council in the place of . Mr . Montgomerj ^ , who is now Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab .
A telegraphic message from Calcutta , dated Thursday , March 24 , announces that the Rangoon mail steamer Cape of Good Hope , has been totally wrecked in the Hooghly , by collision with the Nemesis . The mail was saved , but no further particulars were xxceived . BniTISU ENTEItriUSE IN INDIA . Tho Indian correspondent of the Daily News writes : — " It has been acknowledged that one of the Crown ' s first duties to India is to foster and encourage European enterprise , to hold out inducements to capitalists , and promote by every available means a spirit of emulation and qnergy amongst the inhabitants of tho country . Instead , however , of ^ endeavouring to carry out the intentions of the home government , tho executive here are doing their best
to render them nugatory . Rich and experienced contractors are throwing up tlieir engagements afc immense sacrifices rather than submit to shameless imposition . All over the country Anglo-Saxon enterprise is being snubbed and discouraged , and I have consequently no hesitation in saying that , if tho present policy ^ be maintained , the empire will retrograde as rapidly as it has advanced . Without an English civil element India will ever bo useless to England , except as a drill ground and military nursery . "
LATEST INDIAN INTELLIGENCE . This overland mail has brought correspondence and journals from Bombay to the 26 th March * The customs duties on imports have been suddenly and very largely increased by an Act of the Legislative Council . > Tlio measure created much excitement among the mercantile comiraunity . It took tho public completely by surprise , and the rapidity with whioli it was passed by tho Legislalfttive Council is one of its most disagreeable features . In tho expoi'ts it was discovered that the duty on grain , pulse , and indigo had been doubled . It further appoarod that , not content with this
suddon imposition of charges upon goods dispatched to Bombay on the faith of tho tariff to which tho Government was , as it wore , pledged , the Commissioner of Customs hail orders to levy tho duty not only on all goods lying on ehipbonrd in the harbour , bun in tho wharves of the Custom-houae . A meeting was convened , and protests ' against the QnaeGmont sqnt in to Government . Lord Canning , in his reply , intimated his intontion of maintaining the not in its integrity . A momorjla ] , therefore , has been seat homo to Lord Stanley . Calcutta and Madras have adopted Yneas . uros similar to those resorted to in Bombay , and the question is one , which concerns homo manui ' ueturora as well .
Tho Nawab of JMrruckabiul has boon sentenced to doath , nnd another groat criminal , Loneo Sing , of Motowlio , in Oudo , convicted of having sun'on-
Thk Faid Gaiioud.-—T Ins Yacht, Fitted O...
Thk Faid Gaiioud .- —T ins yacht , fitted out m England for tho Papha of Egypt , l ) as a vory largo cabin , taking in tho wholo bromUh of tho ship . Great expense has boon incurred in fitting and furnishing this cabin . Shortly after tho arrival of the yacht at Alexandria , tho I ' aohn , > vonfc on hoard , waddled ( it is said ho wolghs twenty-six stone ) into the cabin , and imniodiatoly ordered all tho furniture * to bo sent away , so that ho might luivo room tobreatho . Howovor , ho oxprossod himself groatly pleased with the stato of tho vessel , and presented Captain Kollook with a valuable snuff-box , richly sot in diamonds and orioiital pearls . Ho also pre-r sontort tho chief ofllce-r with a gold snuff-box with tho Modjidio on tho top sot with diamonds , ami gave-BOO eQVGi'oJuus us a prosont to tho oxow .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 23, 1859, page 25, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23041859/page/25/
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