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? FTTHE ceremony of the prorogation was performed _ L yesterday , in the absence of the Queen , whom the dilatory proceedings of the Opposition had frustrated in her arrangements to prorogue the House in person . The last week of the session presents little for remark . The House of Lords did not concur in the proposal of Lord StJ Leonards ,
backed by Lord Redesdale , to defer the consideration of the Commons' amendments in the Divorce Bill until- next session ; and the discussions which took place—if discussions they can be calledturned almost upon some of the last items of intelligence about India , the military commission , or replies to Lord Overstone ' s financial questions on the decimal coinage .
Consolation has been found in the painful telegraphic despatch from India ; but we confess that we cannot detect the comfort . We can find it more easily in the general history of England or of India , than in this particular communication . Delhi is still held by the mutineers , who arc kept within its walls by a mere handful of Europeans j the British force being reduced , amongst other scourges by cholora , to so low an amount , that it is rcokoned not more than 2000 are effective for service . It is
by cholera that Sir Henry Barnard is carried off , and he is succeeded by General Reed ; a man in whom no very strong confidence is expressed . The consolation in Oude , where the mutiny has evidently gained ground very seriously , is , that the capital town , Lucknow , ' still holds out ; ' and here again , the commanding officer , Sir Henry Lawrence , died on the 4 th of July , the day before Barnard ; who had called him ' a pillar of strength . ' It was ' hoped' that Lucknow would bo able to hold out until it should bo relieved by General HavefcQOK . In the meanwhile that commandor was on
an expedition which reads like old stories of knight errantry . On his way to Lucknow he had tremendous work to perform . Amongst the nativo chiefs who owned a groat grudge against tho British was Nhka Sahib ; and notwithstanding tho known disaffection of the man , it appears that ho had been loft in power , with tho privilege of a numorous guard . Rocoutly , Mr . Disraeli pointed out Cawnpore as scarcely less important than Delhi . The place wna held by Sir Hugh Wheeler , a General of tho liighest roputo for . gallantry and ability . It * as invested by Nena Sahib , who reduced it by
starvation . It capitulated ; but the captor , disregarding every sense of honour or humanity , put the whole of the British , in the place to the sword , with horrible barbarity , slaughtering , it is said , as many as 240 helpless women and children . Upon this man Havelock turned his arms . The adherents of Nena were defeated in three engagements ; they lost 37 guns , and Cawnpore was retaken ; but the man himself was making off with Havelock in his rear ; while the British garrison at Lucknow , surrounded by a
rebellious province , was anxiously awaiting the arrival ' of Havelock ' s reinforcements . In the meanwhile , the tranquillity of the Punjab has been broken by a serious mutiny at Sealkote , with another massacre ; but the mutineers were put clown by General Nicholson . Is there any consolation to be found in the tragic episode of Agra P Mutineers from Neemuch had marched across the country for three hundred miles ; they had become
strengthened to the formidable number of 10 , 000 , and they invested Agra , where a garrison of 500 combatants held them in check . It seems , however , that the Europeans ultimately ' retired , ' with the loss of nearly 150 in killed and wounded , Thus upon the whole the Europeans in the north-west provinces of Bengal were gradually driven into the position of garrisons defending their posts against overwhelming numbers around them and awaiting reinforcements .
What about the reinforcements P Nearly all the Chinese contingent had arrived at Calcutta and was slowly moving up to the north-west . Some reinforcements had already reached Delhi ; but we have seen how the effective strength was reduced , while the garrison at Luoknow—mourning tho loss of Sir Hugh Wheeler — was anxiously awaiting Havelook . No wonder if , on the last days of the session , some persons were found to ask whether it was
necessary to keep fifteen regiments at tho Capo of Good Hope , including the German settlers who have been just ombodied there as regiments ; and whether reinforcements could not bo sent promptly by way of Suez P In that case they might roach the field of action * in six weeks . ' In six weeks ! Imagine , evon with this acceleration , ' tho army at Delhi , tho garrison in Luoknow , in Agra , in Cawnpore , Soalkoto , Sctupore , or Hyderabad , being told that reinforcements would nrrivo in six weoks P
The telegraph reports Lord Elgin ' s arrival at Hong-Kong , and his intention to go northwards in tho Shannon , acoompauied by six gunboats
powerful diplomatic auxiliaries . Meanwhile there is formidable news for all families in this country . The disturbed § tate of China has caused the teaplant not to be thoroughly picked , and to the 30 th of June there was a decrease of more than twentyseven million pounds of the plant . The French G overnment seems determined to give us some assistance in India . Lotns Napoleon had just returned to Paris , after a brief visit to Biarritz , and a short stay in the district of the
Landes , —whose stilt-wearing natives have consecrated a cast-iron column ' to Napoleon the Third , the regenerator of the Landes . ' One of his first actions in Paris was to issue the command that all captains of ships of war be ordered to afford any assistance to English vessels in carrying troops to India , or in towing the vessels when becalmed . Before surveying his great camp at Chalons , lie is thus bestowing his military charity upon his western ally .
In the meanwhile his will for the time is done in Turkey—the Porte having declared the Moldavian elections void . Inspired by this submissive and mortified position of the Porte , the turbulent Montenegrins are again making themselves heard in a brigandage which their Government sanctions . Nor are the clouds of trouble confined to the East . In Southern Europe , a new difficulty has been gradually assuming shape ,, with the prospect of assistance from the North . Seizing the
Mazzinian revolutionists who landed on the Neapolitan territory , the local authorities seized also the Cagliari and the helpless Sardiniau passengers of the slup , who had in fact been tho victims of tho revolutionists . All attempts to obtain tho releaso of these inoffensive persons , or of tho ship—private Sardinian property—have been unavailing ; and representations of the Sardinian Government have been treated with contumely , until Count Cavour threatened to withdraw tho Sardinian representative from
Naples . Then Signor Cahmwa grow reasonable in his tone . Perhaps Naples is counting on Austrian support 5 but in tho inoumvhilo ltussiu lms already been intimating that sho in dissatisfied with the position of Italian affairs , or with the Auajt * f $ | pSL ^ s croaohments in the Southorn Pcuiusv ^/^ IWj S ^^ ( jj ^ fr ) ' gland , under awe of France , about ^ ^ JP ^ jj ^ yfflf - ^ patronage of Italian constitutionalism ^ S ^ J ^^^^^ C ( iSSs £ In Spain , tho charming Queen ° "i @^ TOl ^^^^ M ^ appearing as a statoswoinan . A " Hffilipa ^^^^| P peeled from her hand , to justify lior 'Sj ^ SSK ^ pi 2 the Spanish nation , lo destroy NAUTilfc ^^ OTpJ ^^^/ ^
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 29, 1857, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29081857/page/1/
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