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INDIA AND CHINA. The overland mail bring...
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RESISTANCE TO THE UNIVERSITY COMMISSION....
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North America. The Cambria, After A Rapi...
According to letters of the 25 th of March theyellow fever was making deplorable ravages in Rio de Janeiro . Many members of the Legislature had fallen victims . Cholera has also appeared in the steam-boats on the Mississippi river . Casualties have been unusually numerous of late . Besides the explosion of the steamer Anthony "Wayne , on Lake Erie , and the consequent loss of forty lives , and the falling of walls in New York , and the
crushing of nine men to death—we have had a fire at Gosport , Virginia , in which thirty houses were burnt ; another at Savannah , which destroyed nearly fifty ; a dreadful storm at Cincinnati , in which several lives were lost ; and the falling of a floor at St . Louis , causing the death of two ladies and the grievous wounding of several other persons . The conflagration at Syracuse destroyed property to the extent of 150 , 000 dollars .
Another crevasse has occurred on the Mississippi at St . James ' s , causing much damage . Great loss has also been occasioned on the banks of the Hudson and other rivers in New York , New Hampshire , & c , by the sudden rise of these rivers . A convention , composed of 500 women , recently met at Salem to consider the social , intellectual , and political condition of the sex . An address was read complaining of the legal liabilities to which women are subjected , the want of protection for their labour , their inability to obtain fair wages , and the inequality of their position as component parts of the state . The resolutions passed were twenty-two in number : —
They declare that all laws which prevent women from pursuing their own substantial happiness are contrary to nature , equity , and justice , and that to make them subject to laws , with the enactment of which they have nothing to do , is also unjust ; that all rights are human rights , and of course irrespective of sex ; that the submission of the sex to laws made for them without their consent is a proof of their degradation ; that the good of the race demands the extension of the elective
franchise to women ; that the control of their property and of their children , by the men , reduces them to the condition of slaves ; that all distinctions between men and women , based on the difference of sex are wrong and should be abolished , " That the practice of holding women amenable to a different standard of propriety and morality than that to which men are held amenable , is unjust and unnatural , and highly detrimental to domestic and social virtue and happiness . "
Some of the speakers expressed their high satisfaction at an article on "Woman , in a late number of the Westminster Review . Before separating they resolved to meet annually , until they obtain their rights . The news regarding the cotton market and the new cotton crop are such as to cause serious alarm . It now seems beyond all dispute that last year ' s crop will not much exceed 2 , 000 , 000 bales , which is about 700 , 000 bales less than that of the previous year . As for this year ' s crop it threatens to be bad also , and , consequently , the fever of speculation is likely to rage on both sides of the Atlantic . O wing to the high price of cotton in the United States , a number of mills at Lowell , Baltimore , and other places have been shut altogether .
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India And China. The Overland Mail Bring...
INDIA AND CHINA . The overland mail brings news from Bombay to the 17 th of April , and from Hong-Kong to the 30 th of March . The Kohnt expedition has been altogether unsuccessful , and Sir Charles Napier has returned to head-quarters without intimating his renewal of the expedition . The Ivohat passes remain closed . Dr . ! T iiiv , of the Bengal army , lately posted to
the i'iist i ' unjab Cavalry , proceeding to join Ins regiment by the Eastern pass , supposed to be open , wns set upon by the hill-men on the 20 th of March , within a few miles of Kohat . His groom and grasscutter were killed on the spot , and he was so severely wounded that he died immediately after reaching Kohat . The enmity of the Afrccdees is stated to be owing to the fact that the Board of Administration had enormously increased the price of salt .
A detachment of the Bengal Army has met with a reverse in Dude . A wing of the Tenth Native Infantry was endeavouring to aid the King of Oudc in coercing a refractious Zemindar , who had taken refuge in a fort . The combined forces were repulsed with the loss of a gun , twenty-one men killed , and twenty-five wounded , besides seventy men of the King of Oudc ' s troops ; while the enemy lost only night men , and was able to retire from the fort during the following night .
The Nizam ' s dominions are in their usual state of disorder ; the rest of India tranquil . Sir Charles Napier has been much indisposed , but is still active in his endeavours to correct the lax state of discipline in the army . In reply to very numerous applications , he refuses to allow tlio oUiccrs leave of absence in the hot weather , except lor illness ; and , in confirming the sentence on an oilicer who had entered into a correspondence concerning an ordcv , inste ; ul of obeying it , Sir Charles characteristically remarks , " Those who imagine , this army is a debating society , will iind themselves very much mistaken . " An ovcr-ttinount of the Soinde pmo-monoy has been
distributed , and is ordered to be refunded . Sir Charles Napier , it is said , will have to return £ 2000 . The Agra Messenger of April the 6 th mentions a very serious outbreak at the gaol of that station . The Sikh prisoners , during their dinner-time , attacked the guard of the minor gate , got possession of their arms , and then rushed forth to escape by a wicket-gate . They were driven from this by the main guard , who fired upon them , killing and wounding some forty or more of the insurgents .
All hopes of Indian railways are , it seems , an end for some time , as the sum of £ 1 , 000 , 000 ( the limit of the guarantee ) is insufficient for the construction of a paying line . The Bombay Times says , that ** The directors at home had assented to an arrangement utterly impracticable ; the contract binds them to the construction of a double line of sixty-six miles , costing a million of money , and leading nowhere , and which would require an extension of four hundred miles at least , and an outlay of four millions sterling , before it could hope to pay . The discovery seems only to have been made as the engineer staff were about to arrive ; so that £ 40 , 000 have been spent on preliminary operations in vain . " On the 20 th of March the foreign Consuls at Shanghae received official intelligence that , on the 14 th of the first Moon ( the 24 th of February ) his Majesty Tao-Kwang , the Lustre of Reason , departed upon the great journey , mounting upwards on the Dragon , to be a guest on high . " In unofficial English , the Emperor of China is dead , in the 69 th year of his age . His death is said to be occasioned by the severity of the rites with which he celebrated the decease of his mother-in-law , who died on the 23 rd of last January . Tao-Kwang is succeeded by his son , Sze-king , or ( as he is elsewhere called ) Yih-Chi , a youth of nineteen . Some hold that this is likely to raise Keying—hitherto the guardian of the heirapparent—to power—and so to bring about the legislation and settlement of the opium-trade .
The Chinese authorities are actively cooperating in the suppression of piracy . Three piratical vessels were captured by the British war-steamer Reynard on the 23 rd of March . The interior of China is said to be suffering severely from famine . The British and foreign residents of Shanghae have opened a subscription for the relief of the town and neighbourhood .
The Coldstream Guards. A Festival Was Gi...
THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS . A festival was given in the banqueting room of St . James's Palace , on "Wednesday , by the officers of the Coldstream Guards , to celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of the enrolment of that regiment by General Monk . The invitations were limited to officers formerly belonging to the regiment and those still attached to the corps , forming an aggregate number of about one hundred and fifty gentlemen . The guests assembled in the long gallery , from whence , on dinner being announced , they proceeded to the state banqueting room , an apartment of great magnificence , erected b y George IV ., and frequently used by the late King " William IV ., but only once since the death of that monarch on the occasion of the marriage of her present Most Gracious Majesty . Two long tables were arranged on either side of the room , with a cross table , together affording seats for one hundred and forty guests , and exhibiting a magnificent display of the choicest plate . Behind the chair , supported on either side by the colours of the regiment , was a fine portrait of General George Monk , i ) ukc of Albcmarle , the first colonel of the regiment of Coldstream Guards . Over the fireplace was a magnificent gold cup , presented to the officers of the regiment , and upon either side waved the tattered colours worn at Waterloo . Colonel Chaplin , the commanding officer of the regiment , presided , and was supported right and left by the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Wellington ; to the right also sat the Marquis of Huntley , the Earl of Stradbroke , and the Right Honourable Fox Maule , M . P . ; to the left the Marquis of Westmcath , Lord Frederick Fitzclarence , and Sir James Macdonald , K . C . B . Prince Albert had been requested to join the dinner party , but as he and the Royal Family were leaving town for the Isle of Wight on Wednesday he was prevented accepting the invitation . After the customary loyal toasts had been given and drunk with enthusiasm , the Chairman gave a brief history of the Guards . The regiment was first raised by General Monk , in August 1650 , and received its name from the village of Coldstream , which was the head-quarters of that celebrated character , when he commenced his march to London in 1 ( 550 . The Duke of Cambridge having proposed the health of the Duke of Wellington , the toast was drunk with all the honours . The Duke of Wellington repliod thus : — ' ' My Lords and Gentlemen , —I am greatly indebted to his Royal Highness Cor the honour ho lias dono me in proposing to you to drink my health , and to you for the manner ' in which you have accepted the proposition of his Royal Highness . ( Cheers . ) Gentlemen , 1 may well be gratified and flattered at tlio honour you have done me in . inviting me to attend your festival on this occasion .
Gentlemen , long before I had the honour of holding a commission in the corps of Guards , I had every reason to respect that corps on account of their display of every military quality as soldiers in every situation in which , they could be placed . I have had the good fortune to see them in the presence of the enemy—in situations of difficulty under every possible circumstance—and on every such occasion they have conducted themselves with distinction , and displayed every quality which could be expected from the best class of soldiers . { Cheers . ) Among these the least distinguished have not been the Coldstream Guards . { Loud cheers . ) I see many around me whose conduct I have had occasion to applaud
under every variety of circumstances—in the field , in cantonments , and in quarters . { Cheers . ) Gentlemen , I know also it is impossible to see troops equal to the efficiency of the Guards . Look at your every day occurrences in foreign countries . What , gentlemen , shall it be said that in England the people are less courageous than in other countries ? Is not an English mob as brave as that of any other country , whether French or German ?—{ Hear , hear . ) Well , just look at the handful of men who in this metropolis and in the great towns of England have maintained peace and order under very difficult circumstances , and compare them with the enormous armies quartered in foreign countries—{ Cheers ) . Gentlemen , you have all seen what has passed , both here and elsewhere , and I need not enter upon it in this place .
You are aware of the difficult position and trying circumstances which have occurred ; but you must aiso observed that , while with ourselves anarchy has never had a chance of success , other countries , after months of rapine and misfortune , have only been extricated from their difficulties after severe and fatal contests—{ Hear ) . Gentlemen , I want to know how it happens , and I believe it is attributable in a great measure to the principle of bravery and good discipline which animates the corps of Guards , and which has its example and effect among all classes of the people—{ Cheers ) . Among this corps , I say again , the Coldstreams have never been the least distinguished ; and , reiterating my thanks for the compliment you have paid me , I wish every one of you prosperity and happiness . The noble duke resumed his seat amid loud cheers from all parts of the room .
A number of other toasts were given , and speeches made , but none of them very remarkable in any respect . An entertainment in celebration of the event was also given at the Portman-street Barracks , to the non-commisioned officers and privates of the regiment , The men , numbering 1400 , assembled in St . James ' s Park at one o ' clock , under the command of Colonel Bentinck , and , after a brief parade , marched from thence to the barracks at Portman-street , where a substantial repast was prepared for them .
Resistance To The University Commission....
RESISTANCE TO THE UNIVERSITY COMMISSION . The announcement of the intention of Ministers to advise that a Royal Commission should be appointed to enquire into the state and revenues of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge , has been received at both of these seats of learning with great indignation , mingled with a reasonable degree of alarm . As the first step in the Ministerial proceeding , Lord John Russell addressed a letter to the Duke ol
Wellington , Chancellor of Oxford University , m which he indicates the nature of the proposed commission . Its object will be , to receive evidence and report opinions , but without power to determine any question , or to prescribe any course . The increase of general knowledge , the growth of modern literature , and the progress of science during the last three centuries have rendered great changes in the course of study at our Universities highly expedient . It is admitted that many changes have already been " made , and that these improvements reflect the highest credit on the University authorities . The object of the
commission will therefore be , not to interfere with these changes , but to facilitate their progress , and to bring the aid of the Crown , and even Parliament , if necessary , to assist in their completion . This can be done in two ways—by ascertaining and recording the new regulations which have been promulgated , and the mode in which these regulations are expected to take effect—and by obtaining a knowledge of such obstacles as prevent the full development of that large improved course of study which the Universities have sought to establish . What these obstacles are , Lord John thus explains : —
" In many cases the advantages and emoluments of the separate colleges are limited by the wills of the founders either to the natives of some particular county or district , or to the scholars educated in a particular school , or , in some instances , to the descendants of the founder and his family . Such restrictions cannot fail to be injurious , and to be injuiious in proportion as the field of clioicc is narrowed by the particular condition annexed to the advantages of the college . In other instances the directions of the founder ' s will cannot be complied with under the existing law , and in such instances it might fairly be considered whether the interests of learning and tin ? wants of the country may not be better considered by an expansion of the governing statutes . " In following out these inquiries many interesting
questions will arise . , 44 instance , has the school which has the privilege of commanding fellowships or other advantages in any particular college fallen oil' or increased in numbers ami consequence since the bequest was made ; Has the family of the founder left few or many descendants to
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Leader (1850-1860), May 25, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25051850/page/4/
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