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office , put the question frankly as a matter of Irish ' feeling . ' This is the whole truth . It is a measure of administrative reform , and the pinchbeck Court conies badly out of the aquafortis of Mr . Roebuck ' s common-sense . But . statesmen < tftTb « rt » li sides—if we may so speak df ourjJbliticians— -fin & it cheap and easy to spend 50 , 000 i . Or so in pacifying
Irish members , and especially it & e half-dozen J ? etumed for the Irish . ' snetirnposBtea constifoueseies . When English local niembers liave a pull aft the Consolidated Fund , it is generally for a park , where artisans may hreathe fresh air , and feel green turf beneath their feet ; if the Dublin folk love better to see the bould adj-e-congs' go prancing up Corkhill , why . there is no disputing about tastes .
With regard to foreign politics , perhaps the appointment of Marshal Pelissiek , Duke of Maiakhoff , vice the Count de Persigny , as ambassador to London is the most noticeable event . In England , the mere change of men will not be likely to produce any difference of feeling with regard to the alliance of tUe two countries , though the announcemSttt of the Marshal ' s appointment told immediately upon the delicate sensibilities of the French funds , which did not recover their equanimity until the Moaiteur had assured all whom it might concern that the appointment had been made by the
Emperor expressly to show to England how high a value he sets upon the alliance . Whatever may have been his immediate motive , there is no disposition here to question the judiciousness of his choice . The Dake of Malakiioit made the acquaintance of England under circumstances that are believed to have left no unfavourable impression On his mind ; if he comes , then , favourably disposed towards us by the past , the opportunities which he ¦ will now enjoy of unlimited intimacy with the English people can hardly fail to better the good feelings .
By the late telegrams we learn that Sir Colin Campbell was pushing forward to assault Lucknow , and that the bombardment was likely to commence on the 27 th of February last . His forces , though not perhaps sufficient for the entire investment of the place , were large enough to do away with anxiety as to the result . He had fifteen regiments of European infantry , and three of native , three regiments of European cavalry , and three regiments , with detachments of two other regiments , of native cavalry . His artillery consisted of
eighty heavy guns and mortars , and " sixty-three field pieces . But in addition to this force , he had a right to expect that by the commencement of the bombardment he would be joined by the combined ttoops under Jung Bahadooh and General IPranks , numbering some twelve thousand men of all arms . From China the news is , in one sense , of a less positive character . There is ndt the least doubt that \ ve have possession of Canton ; and the
CotniniSsioncr Yfin , when last heard of , was hold prisoner on bortrd her Majesty ' s ship Inflexible ; bttt these mWifceiea stand dead still 1 —at all events * fora while . T ? he only indication of progress is the alliance of tho Russians and Americans in the demands of English , and French upon tho Chinese Government . Tho representatives of the four Powers had started northward , and it was expected tliat by the middle of tho present month something would be known of the will and intentions of the
Brother of tlxo Sun . Moanwhilo , tho only advantage gained by the oapture of Canton is that the outer barbnriana—with tho small drawback of not bo ing able with porfeot dignity and oomfort to ' naalcbi-Uomselvbs oT ' ^ ilieir wants "' nnderstooa- ^—are gotting on within tho once sacred city as ' well as can bo expected ; ' and as the blockade is raised , ttfade is able to resume eomo dogreo of life . / Eho result—or rather no result—of tho Grovor ' n .-
rttent investigation into the oiroumslancos of the late ( dftttttrtounqc ah Dublin has confirmed tho remark Tittt'toHwle lust wook , that all opinion on tho onae pt-. » i .
should be Seferred Acting upon the wish expressed by a large murribfer © f the people of Dublin , the Irish Government appointed a commissioner to inquire , andMs court was open for two days * inviting all T * h © toad ^ evidence to igfve -t o come faTWtttfl . But one person answered the invitation , andliis evidence is reported by the comttvissiouer to have beeHiftuite unimportant . So the inquiry » a total failure . The reason * migr have beeniihst the police-wicked for a secret inquiry , at vhich the men would have spoken more freely ; while the College demanded publicity . There is no doubt the Irish Government intended a
real investigation . We shall now have to get at the facts of this case by the ordinary channel of the law courts ; and possibly we shall never hear the ' whole truth and nothing but the truth' of the matter . There is mueh ill-blood on either side . But it is the duty of those in authority on either side to see that this ill-blood does not again produce such consequences . If young
gentlemen will not conduct themselves as gentlemen should , neither they nor their friends have any cause of quarrel with those who roughly resent their ungentlemanly conduct ; if policemen are set upon by a mob , -who pelt them with oranges , or more offensive missiles , they will naturally defend themselves with whatever weapons they may have at hand—if their staves , with peril to the heads of their assailants ; if their cutlasses , with probability
of graver consequences . An ' accident' happened on the North-Western Railway , on Monday , that illustrates a condition of railway mismanagement to which , probably , nothing will ever put a stop short of the burning of Sydney Smith ' s ' bishop . ' A little on the London side of the " Watford station the road was under repair j the chairs placed , but not spiked down upon the sleepers ; the rails 'just dropped into their places ' in the joint chairs , and so on . Over this bit of way an express train from Birmingham to London was driven at a speed of forty or fifty miles an
hour—with what result might have been foreseen by any but a railway official , whose particular business it is to know something about such matters . The express train came upon the unsecured rails , and then , after progressing for a second or two with a motion like a boat over rough water , came to a standstill—preceded by the inevitable crash . No lives were lost , and so , perhaps , the ' accident * does not count in the railway black-book , if there is such a volume ; but we would suggest that the North-Western managers should not entirely look over the little affair . It seems that the only thing that prevented a real catastrophe , was a quantity of
sand-ballast which had been laid down at the particular spot , and into which the scattered engine and carriages ploughed their way axle-deep , instead of pitching down a steep embankment : now , if the managers of this line have an insurmountable objection to interfering with iho running of their express trains over imperfect bits of road , let them at least lay down a liberal quantity of sand-ballast . In the murder case tried at Shrewsbury on Saturday last we get a view of English peasant life which , if it is not edifying ^ is cxtromely interesting—and withal somewhat saddening . It is not that another
man has stained his hands in the blood of a woman—that is painful onougli to contemplate as a fact—but it is that , in spite of all helps to popular intellectual development , tho rankest weeds of ignorance and superstition still flourish in England , The poor wretch who is condemned to bo hanged was thirty-five years of ago ; ho had boon living as the husband of a woman who was between sixty and seventy years of ago , and by whom nol ; only he , but numbers of those nmong whom ho was
living , believed lie was bewitched—held by fcho power of an ' evil cyo , ' against which ho was powor-JM « 8 . ^ kaJwl ! . q lG ^^ wrotched pair is dreamily strange Tho attempts of tho man to bo free of her ; her powor of drawing him back to her by tho assumed oxoi'oisc of ningio whenever ho trioa to eBOape 5 his last resource in murder . What is to bo said of our civilization , when , at tho end of eighteen Christian couturics , wo find wo havo got on no further than this , not only in Oxfordshire ] but in many another county of ' mdrrio England P '
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1 TAVAI / AND MILITARY . 0 D »* S * SMtBttOK of Troops to India . —The Euronen ana Australian Company's steamer Columbian sailed from -Sue * on the 1 st inst ., and carried forward th party df men oF the 92 nd Highlanders which »«< brought lo Alexandria by the Ripon . This detachment " was to -h * Ve gone on to Bombay by the Peninsular and ' Oriental Company's steamer Pottinger ; but it appear that , on the arrival of the men at Suez , they objected in < the first place to the quality of the provisions , and subsequently to the accommodation on board the boat . The Pottinger is a deep-waisted vessel , and her decks , upon which at least a portion of the men was to sleep were encumbered with live stock of every description . ' The officers appear to have sided with their men ; and the complaints of the latter growing louder and louder Commander Stevens , of the Royal Navy , the Admiralt y agent on board the Columbian , and senior officer to the mail agent of the Pottinger , was called upon for his opinion . This gentleman having formally stated that he considered the accommodation to be both insufficient and unsuitable , Colonel Mackenzie ordered the men to be forthwith shipped on board the Columbian . —IHmes Alexandrian Correspondent .
Imprisonment in the Army . —The following General Order , addressed to the army at home and abroad , has been issued from the Horse Guards : — "His Royal Highness the General Comtnanding-in-Chief directs that when prisoners , sentenced by court-martial , are temporarily placed in garrison or barrack cells to wait admission into a military prison , they are nor , while thus confined , to be deprived of their beds , or to be subjected to any punishment beyond imprisonment . —By command , G . A . Wkthekall , Adjutant-General . ' Mercantile : Marine . —The Liverpool Daily Pos suggests that Government ought to encourage the mer
cantile marine , and " raise it to the same analogous position towards the Roj'al navy that the militia holds to tharmy . " The writer conceives that the merchant service should be recognized as an incorporated body , and thae a certain rank should be accorded to the officers , who | should be allowed to wear a uniform off duty if they pleased , while , when on duty , the -wearing of it should be imperative . " The case of fire on board the Sarah Sands afforded a remarkable display of chivalric courage and discipline on the part of Captain Castle and the officers and crew ; and yet Government have not deigned to notice such gallant and meritorious conduct "
The Militia . —There are now , according to a new return , 37 regiments of militia in the United Kingdom whose quotas are complete , and 127 whose quotas are incomplete . The number of men required to complete the quotas is 15 , 851 , and there are 10 , 323 men whose service expires within six months ; 9629 men are required in . England , 1941 in Scotland , and 42 S 1 in Ireland . An Heroic Consul . —Mr . Jacob Roach , on hehalf of all the crew of the ship Antoinette , writes to the Times : — " Through your columns I wish to make known the loss of the North American ship Antoinette , of New York . We left Callao on the 22 nd of October , bound for London , with a cargo of guano , and had n fine
passage up to Cape Horn ; but in two clays afterwards we were wrecked on the coast of the Falkland Islands , nnd , strange to say , I did not know of any . settlement belonging to us there , and neither did any one on board . The captain said there was a settlement formerly at Berkeley Sand , and we proceeded there nfter our ship had gone to tho bottom . We got there on the second day after wo left the ship , or rather to a settlement at Port William , where we found nn Amorienn consul [ Captain Smyly ] , to whom the captain told our loss , and that there was a boat and five men adrift , whom we
had lost sight of . The poor old gentleman got a vessel the same afternoon , and at daylight the next morning proceeded to look for them , although it blew a gnlo ot wind . His last words to wa were , ' Don ' t four : if they arc alive , I will find them -, ' and find them ho did on one of the Bmiill islands , with boat stove nnd without water » and tho crew informed mo that ho never left , the decic orwlept until ho did find thorn , when ho showed them every kindness in hia power . Ho was absent but lour dnys . I am Informed by the Inhabitant of tho colony that he has always been in tho habit of acting in t' »
way for muny years . " , Tiik Taiimamicntary Commission ions for Inqnirnik into tho Stflto ot tho Hospital nnd Bnrrnck Accommodation in England and Wales—consisting of Mr . bl ( noy Herbert , M . I' ., Dr . Muthorlniul , D ' - Burroll , & c . -anivea at Chatham on Thursday , for tho purpose » r ' > " " « "" inspection of tho barracks mid military hospitals nt trnu garrison . , , Tim Nnw Cnuuou in •\ Vooi . wkjii Dockvaiw nas boon roofed in , and will bo roiuly for ( Hvlno Borvic . < mdoui . thtf-doTnmowcBmi ; nt-of ^ Tnrio ; - ~ - ^ -Bmnn-sn « coaa . aUQJ ! i } . bo enclosed , em-rounding tho edMeo , which ia to do « out in « n ornamental stylo of ' oottngo garden , «»
protected by iron gatos nnd mils . . _ r Tun Mhrohant Sniranra Aot . —A iloputation «» shipowners , & o had an interview yesterday wiin » Honloy nnd the Earl of Donoughmoro , at tho onice 0 : w Board of Trade , for tho purposa of Inducing ( - \" f inont to limit tho liability of shipowners In tlio enso « tho loss of paissongore . Mr . Honloy hold out no » op
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Leader (1850-1860), March 27, 1858, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27031858/page/2/
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