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A HINDOO. VIEW OP THE MUTINY. Causes of ...
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NEW NOVEL. Howard Plunkett- or, Adrift i...
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FAKLS DINNERS. On the Search for a Dinne...
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Brazil And The Brazilians. . ^^ Brazil A...
effects are bad ; for the poorest whites and the shabbiest blacks will lake Spe , aad steal uatil they have sufficient to purchase the twentieth part of 3 ct and then run with it to the shop where the flaming whee -sign with JidvarocU Iwje ( The wheel turns to-day ) tells them that tins is the road to ' fortune When such a spirit is engendered by the state , it becomes rather difficult for the municipal authorities to put down private gambling . 1 he same system prevails in France at the present day , and is supported T > v the Government to distract the people ' s mind from more serious allairs , especially from scrutinizing too closely its - own acts , or inquiring too minutely into their own social and political condition . In Brazil , however , this legalized < rame of speculation is played simply from that-inherent love of excitement Peculiar to the natives of all southern climates ; nor would a Brazilian exist were he not in a perpetual fever of expectation , and had Ins fears and iopes regularly and constitutionally excited . When public opinion becomes more enlT-htened , and the Government awakes to a sense of its duties this pernicious practice Avill doubtless be suppressed , and the energies _ of the nation directed to less stimulating but more enduring channels of gai In the pa « es of Messrs . Kidder and Fletcher ' s volume the reader w ill find much usetufinformation on the constitution and political aspect of Brazil , on die social and religious institutions of the country , with sonic excellent accounts of the interior districts of the empire . The woodcuts that accompany the , work greatly assist the descriptions , and thus render valuable service to the general reader .
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A Hindoo. View Op The Mutiny. Causes Of ...
A HINDOO . VIEW OP THE MUTINY . Causes of the Indian Revolt . By a Hindoo of -Bengal . Edited by Malcolm Lewin . Stanford . It would have been more satisfactory had Mr . Lewin confided tous who his Hindoo is—of what caste , of what education , whether lie wrote in English , what credentials he bears . He lauds the essay as the most faithful and . valuable exposition that has yet appeared of the causes which have led to the Indian mutiny ; but the signature , 'A Hindoo of Bengal / is excessively va < nie Nevertheless , the statement will be read with interest , except by those perhaps , who will suspect its authenticity . If it be a native production , it is very peculiar , resembling as it does in style and substance the declamation of certain ex-Sudder Court judges and provisional members of Government . Mr . Lewin , in the preface , is at his old work , reviling the English declaring that India is a more moral country than England , and describin" -the rebels as trodden worms that have turned upon their oppressors . ° Mr . Lewin is an oiv . cle too violent and dreary to engage our attention Ion" ¦; we pass on to the Hindoo . This gentleman assures us that our Oriental gem of Empire is ' in a fair way of shining on another head , ' and proceeds to indicate the reasons . Firstly , at the commencement of the present year , ' a great many colonels in the Indian army were detected in a -task not less moxistrous and arduous than that of Christianizing it . ' These Individuals the Hindoo styles ' earnest but crack-brained worthies , ' and he asserts that they began preaching and distributing tracts among the native officers and soldiers . At the outset they were tolerated ; but whea their ministration grew serious , the Sepoys took alarm . They heard Hindooism and Islanrism denounced ; the thirty-three thousand gods of India were treated as illusions ; Rama and Mohammed were loudly insulted . The European officers , according to this account , ' promised to make every Sepoy that forsook his religion a Havildnr , every Ilavildar a Subahdar-Majo ' r , and so on . Great discontent was the consequence . ' The danger increased rapidly : ' only a slight spark was wanting to ignite the whole Black Army into a tremendous " blaze which not all the waters of heaven and earth could quench ; ' and , at this moment , the objectionable cartridges were served out to the army . It was rumoured , at the same time , that to societiestnat
JLord Canning had subscribed largely missionary , ne nau <; ome on a special mission to convert the people ; the rebellion burst out , and ' a hundred years of excruciating misrule is answerable for it . ' The Hindoo pvofesses to believe that the " annexation of Oude was an important cause of the movement . ' Many a simple villager among us , who never dreamt of beholding his ex-majesty of Lucknow , has wept honest tears of pity over the sufferings which a fnithful and Clnistian ally brought upon liiui . ' The writer certainly understands the law of crescendo , for tie next ol
talks of ' hundred years ot unmitigated , active tyranny , or ' apaclc greedy vultures , ' a ' grinding bureaucracy . ' and a l career of iniquity , as shamefaced as it was miraculously interrupted . ' The English , he says , before the mutiny broke out , had ' well-nigh made a desert of a most iertile and fair land . ' The Moguls , he adds , knew how to govern an empire ; ' know how to keep a shop . ' Finally , the Hindoo quotes a specimen of invective from a native print : —
" knguand ' s mission i : m india ! " Yes , it is the mission to rob , the mi sion to plunder , the mission to kill . Ay , it 13 the mission to degrade n hundred and sixty millions of the degraded children of * our Father . ' It h the mission to hurl down to a lower deep an already lowly , grovelling herd of people . It is the mission to annihilate the lust lingering hopes of a nation , to use Mr . RIacaulay's words respecting the Circuits , ' once the first amony notions , pre-eminent ia arts , pre-eminent in military glory , ' & c . It is the mission to subject to worse than Mogul tyranny a , line race of luiingn , for generations bowed 'down to the ground under the cruel despotism of Akbar ' s descendants . It is the mission to fully extinguish the lire of a . people whose lliuuu has already been quenched by agoa of fearful oppression . It in the mission to ninke us feel tyranny , who , it might Jiavc been supposed , had lost all sensibility to it , after three hundred years of misgovornment
< . " Mr . Lewin presents this as the work of a Hindoo of Bengal . As such , < wc suppose , it must be accepted . But it is a very weak , false , and wordy piece of writing , full of tlie moat glaring exaggerations , and , from lirst to last , not fortified by a particle of evidence .
New Novel. Howard Plunkett- Or, Adrift I...
NEW NOVEL . Howard Plunkett- or , Adrift in Lift . A Novel . By Kinahan Cornwallis . 2 vols . Whittaker . Mr . Kinahan Cornwallis is . i writer -who must be taken in time . We hope he is young . In fact , he must be very near the age at which schoolboys become ' midshipmen . But he has published already , Yarra-Yarra , and this Howard Plunkett , and he announces that which we had hoped never to see amiin—a book in four volumes quarto , to be called The Cosmopolite ! ° lieally , Mr . Kinahan Cornwallis is a formidable individual . Especially so , if the four quartos are to be in the style -of _ these two post octavos . " The stupid and crazy story is one of elopements , disguises , change- / lin « s , false heirs , murder , suicide , wreck , and spasm . "Kapidly has he thought—impetuously as he moulded , " says the author concerning himself . " Here at length , in all the palpability of type appears one woven thread of thought , ' one long continuous plot , ' but one only , the rest are for the hereafter ? " We hope ' the hereafter' is not in a hurry . Not heated is the brain of Cornwallis , we are assured not morbid is his soul , nor is this work 'his chefcTceuvre— no that -is also reserved for the hereafter . ' The present will content itself , perhaps , with a tide of nectared love , in which Angelina surrenders ' the clay of her lifetime to that of the grave , ' in which selfslaughter stains half the book with blood , and we have the following remarkable chapters : — CHAPTER XXIX . ! ! ! I ! ! ! ! CHAPTER LI . ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! CKAPTEK LIX . ECCE HOMO . Behold the Maa—Colville O'Brien Pluukett ! ! ! ! ! ! ! CHAPTER LXXVII . THJJ PAEKICIDE . And so on . Light reading this ! The hero , after three or four imprisonments in the House of Correction , one private whipping , several episodes of hard labour , and a terra of transportation , is discovered to be heir to a gigantic fortune , is married to a peerless beauty ( possessor of 250 , 000 / . ) , dressed in a rich white poult de soie , amidst a bevy of bridesmaids with mantles of JCugcni blue velvet , lined with white silk , and bonnets of white crepe , triaunee ; with taffeta . We hope the author will not be so mad us to publish his four quartos ' with illustrations on steel , ' or the chef d'teiicre , which he reserves 1 for ' the hereafter . '
New Editions. Tim Most Important New Edi...
NEW EDITIONS . Tim most important new edition published during the past week lias been the extraordinary Autobiography of LulfuUaJiy translated by Mr . Eostwick ,
for Messrs . Smith , Elder , and Co . A second perusal of the hook Las heightened our ' interest in it as a perfect specimen of Orientalism . Very opportune , also , is Mr . lloutledge's _ cheap edition of The Private Life of an Eastern King , edited by Mr . William Knighton . No one knows enough of Oude who has not read this volume . It is more valuable than a hundred disquisitions , for it tells us what Oude was under its native princes . A second volume of The Recreations of Christopher North , forming a tenth volume of the ' Works , ' has been published by Messrs . Blackwood , of Edinburgh . It contains the exuberant Essay on May-day , Christopher in his Aviary , the Four Courses on Dr . Kitchener , the Soliloquy on the Seasons , and other miscellaneous contributions . To the library of cheap reprints of novels have been added Moss Side , by Marion Harland , author of ' Alone , ' & c . ( lloutledge ) , and Men of ' Capiial , by Miss Gore , in Blackwood ' s ' London Library . ' Chichot tlie Jester , by Alexandre Duinas r in Hodgson ' s Parloicr library , deserves more than a woid of notice .
Fakls Dinners. On The Search For A Dinne...
FAKLS DINNERS . On the Search for a Dinner . By W . 11 . Hare . ^ Hope and Co . Though Mr . Hare announces himself as the author of this little volume , we fancy it is at least an adaptation from the French . At all events it ia made up from French materials . But that is of little consequence . The book is amusing ; in itself sis descriptive of certain phases of Parisian life with till of which even residents are not familiar , while by tourists they are generally unknown . There is the Fountain of the Innocents where , under long poles surmounted by impervious canopies are ranged Madame liobert ' s tables ami benches , at which the ragged poor sit down . Here , upon payment of lour sous , they receive a plate of soup , a piece of bread , a pinch of salt , a solid slice of beef , and a glass of wine . Six thousand workmea dine < loilv lit tl » ic iil : w > i »—5 d Kt < it . i > a Mr T-Iiivf » nv liis nriirmjil . Next , in order is
the dinner at eight sous . This hi eaten under a more substantial roof , otf a more polished table . It consists of soup , beef , a stew of cabbages , potatoes , carrots or beans , bread , and a glass of wine . Rising in the scale , we have the ' Diner a hi Seiingue , ' at which the visitor ' s soup is pumped up for him by means of a gigantic syringe ; he must pay on , delivery , or the syringe will withdraw the soup from his plate . A twenty-one sous dinner means a half-bottle of wine and two plates of viands ; but we are now getting upon hi <> -li ground : the three-franc dinner is before us—soup , stew , lish , poultry , . salad , cheese , wine , demi-tasse and petit-verre . Above that most people know what is to be had in Paris , and if they do not , Mr . Hare ( if Mr . Hare it be " is not a very practical guide . He is purely and simply a gossip , tolerable for half an hour .
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Theatrical Notes. A New Comedy Was Succe...
THEATRICAL NOTES . A new comedy was successfully produced on Monday night nt the Olympic founded on a story by the Countess x » ii Muhat , and also dramatically derived we believe , from a French original Mrs . Laveson ( Mrs . Stiklinu ) , a rich widow , luis a sou Frank ( Mr . G . Vininu ) , who is the willing captive of JMitb BdJoH
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 24, 1857, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24101857/page/19/
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