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764 THE LEAD EH. [No. 437, August 7, 185...
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
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Monday, Awptst 2nd. Moxt>at was the last...
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THE INDIAN REVOLT.
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764 The Lead Eh. [No. 437, August 7, 185...
764 THE LEAD EH . [ No . 437 , August 7 , 1858
Imperial Parliament.
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT .
Monday, Awptst 2nd. Moxt>At Was The Last...
Monday , Awptst 2 nd . Moxt > at was the last day of the present session of Parliament—a session memorable on many accounts . There was tut a small attendance of members in the House of Commons ; but , while they -waited to be summoned to the Upper House to hear the Prorogation Speech , a few notices of motion were given , and questions put .
INDIA EDUCATION . Mr . Wabrek gave notice of liis intention , early next session , to move a series of resolutions , expressive of the opinion of the House as to the principles upon which the QueenVGovernment in India should be hereafter conducted with reference to the promotion of education , and the adoption of measures with a view to the extension Of Christianity . TUG NATIONAL GALT . ERT . In Answer to , Air . Duncombe , the Chancellor of the Exchequkr said that the National Gallery -would shorfclv be open regularly every Saturday afternoon .
HURDLES IX THE IW . RKS . Replying to Lord Palmebstox , Lord John Manners said that the hurdles had been entirely removed from Hyde-park , but , with regard to the Greeii-park , the grass had been injured by some noxious insects , and it -would he necessary to keep the hurdles there some time longer .
OUR RELATIONS "WITH NATl . ES . In answer to some remarks and questions by Mr . Duncombe , the Chancellor of the Ex . cheq . ubr said le could not infer from the observations of the hon . member whether be considered that the renewal of diplomatic relations with Naples would he indicative of sympathy with , despotism abroad , or otherwise . All he ( the Chancellor of the Exchequer ) could say , -vrns that her Majesty ' s Government thought , as all mast think , that the suspension of diplomatic relations was most inconvenient and injurious , and that it could only be justified on strong grounds . With respect to Naples , perhaps a great deal that had occurred of late might aot have occurred if her Majesty had been directly represented at that Court . But it was unnecessary to speculate on those circumstances . " When diplomatic relations would be renewed , it was impossible for him to say .
HARBOUKS OF KEFUGE . . Mr . Waupole brought up a message from the Queen , stating that her Majesty had ordered a commission to issue in accordance with the recommendation of the Committee on Harbours of Kefuge . CHINA . Mr . White said it would be satisfactory to the House if the Chancellor of the Exchequer could give them any information respecting the state of our proceedings in China . —The Chanceixor of the Exchequer said that the accounts received by the Government justified him in believing that increased activity would bring the proceedings to a satisfactory conclusion . The Usher of the Black Rod here summoned the hon . members to the House of Lords , to hear the prorogation of Parliament by commission . The following was
THE QUEEN'S SPEECH . M My Lords and Gentlemen , a We are commanded by her Majesty to express her satisfaction at being enabled to release you from the duties of a session which ,. though interrupted , has , by your unremitting assiduity , been productive of many important measures . " Her Majesty is happy to believe that her relations with foreign Powers are such as to enable her Majesty to look with confidence to the preservation of general peace . " Her Majesty trusts that the labou rs of the plenipotentiaries now sitting in conference at Paris may lead to a satisfactory solution of the various questions which have been referred to them . 44
The efforts , the gallantry , and devotedness displayed in India by her Majesty ' s forces , and those of the East India Company , have been above oil praise ; and her Majesty hopes that those efforts have already been so far _ crowned with success , that the formidable revolt -which has raged throughout a large portion of her Indian possessions may now , under the Messing of Almighty God , ba speedily suppressed , and peace \> e restored to those important provinces . 14
In thU hope , her Majesty lias given her willing assent to the act which you have -passed , for transferring to her direct authority tho government of her Indian dominions ; and her Majesty hopes to be enabled so to discharge the high functions which , she has assumed , as , by a just and impartial administration of the law to secure its advantage s alike to her subjects of o very race and creed : and , by promoting their welfare , to establish and strengthen her empire in India . " Gentlemen of the House of Common * .
" Her Majesty commands us to thank you for tho judicious liberality with which yon have made , ^ revision for the exigencies of the public service . " The present state of th" revenue authorises her Majesty to entertain n confident hope thot tho supplies wuloh yrj tt navo grftntod will be found fully adequate to mo demands upon them .
" My Lords and Gentlemen , " The sanitary condition of the metropolis must always be a subject of deep interest to her Majesty , and her Majesty has readily sanctioned the act which you have passed for th « purification of that noble river , the present state of which is little creditable to a great country , and seriously prejudicial to the health and comfort of the inhabitants of the metropolis . " Her Majesty has also willingly assented to an act whereby greater facilities are given for the acquisition by towns and districts of Buch powers as may be requisite for promoting works oflocal improvement , and thus extending more widely the advantages of municipal selfgovernment .
" Her Majesty trusts that the net which you have passed for the future government of the Scotch Universities will be found highly advantageous to thoso venerable institutions , and will greatly promote and extend a system of sound , moral , and religious education in Scotland . " The Transfer of Land Bill , which extends the power hitherto exercised by the Encumbered Estates Commissioners , and facilitates the acquisition of an indefeasible title by purchasers of land in Ireland , cannot fail to be highly beneficial to the landed proprietors , and to advance the prosperity of that part of her Majesty ' s dominions . »
" . The "act to which her Majesty has assented for the establishment of the colony of British Columbia was urgently required in consequence of the recent discoveries of gold in that district ; but her Majesty hopes that this new colony on the Pacific may be but one ' step in the career of steady progress by which her Majesty ' s dominions in North America may ultimately be peopled in an unbroken chain , from the Atlantic to the Pacific , by a loyal and industrious population of subjects of the British Crown . " Her Majesty thankfully acknowledges the diligence and perseverance which have enabled you , in a comparatively short time , to pass these and other measures of inferior but not Insignificant importance .
" Many of you , in returning to your respective counties , have extensive influence to exercise and duties t « perform , of hardly less value to the community than those from the labours of which you are about to be released ; and her Majesty entertains a confident assurance that , under the guidance of Providence , that influence will be so employed , and those duties so performed , as to redound to your own honour , and to promote the general welfare and the happiness of a loyal and contented people . " Parliament was then formally prorogued until the 19 th October , and the proceedings terminated at halfpast three o ' clock .
The Indian Revolt.
THE INDIAN REVOLT .
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- » The Indian news of the present week—using the word " news" not in the ,, sense of detailed accounts of events already knoven , but in that of absolutely fresh intelligence—is literally nothing . There have been no telegrams whatever up to the moment we are writing . The capture of Gwalior seems to have led to a pause on both sides , and it appears to be Sir Colin ' s intention to spare his troops any further action on a large scale until the hot weather and the rains have passed . With the approach of winter , we are to have a vigorous campaign ; for it is quite certain that , though we hold the towns , the enemy possess the greater part of the open country . In the lull that has now set in , people nre beginning to criticise the Commander-In-Chief in the spirit in which wrote
we in our leading columns last week . "A Disabled Officer , " just returned from India , writes a long- treatise in the Times of Thursday and Friday , to show that Sir Colin has been dilatory , over-cautious , and self-opinionated , and to show that our position in India is by no moans the comfortable one suggested by sanguine journalists At home . The Times replies by pointing to tho victories of Sir Colin , by displaying to the best advantage our capture of the great towns , by calling attention to some inconsistencies on the part of the . " Disabled Officer , " and by hinting that he lias " disabled himself . " Still , it is unquestionable that the officer has done some damage to the reputation of the Highland warrior who commands our armies in India . Thus he summarises tho bill of indictment : —
' Here is the result of Sir Colin ' s campaign , with all the power of England at his back : — November : Cawnpore to Luckno w , relief of garrison , abandonment of Lncknow , and back to Cawnpore . December : ETct ' uing . January : To Futtehghur ; would hayc ' ueaten the Nawab , but Colonel Seaton had done it beforehand . February t ^ JBack to Cuwnporo , and nothing . March 1 st to 15 th ; Capture of Lucknow , and escape of enemy , i & th to 81 st : Nothing . April : Nearly nothing . Several small successes , and increasing boldness of tho enemy . May : Capture of Bnrollly , and escape of tho enemy . Repeated combats of Snahjehanpore . Lucltnow surrounded hy tho rebolB . Doab disturbed and plundered . Benares districts invaded : In IJelmr , guerrilla war maintained by the enemy . Great loss of Europeans
from the sun , and the country more disturbed Him » , i ~~ the Commander-in-Chief took the field . " len The general position in Oude and elscwW ^ sketched as follows by the " Disabled Officer" /_ lS " By my last accounts , General Grant was humfci occupying a position on or near the Ca-wnpore «*/ merely keeping open communications . TUe north * enemy enjoying complete impunity had , it see ms driv in our posta almost or quite to the gates of Lu ' cknT are hanging , mutilating , and bullying all who have 1 *} any communication with us , and in constantly increas ™ numbers threaten attacks on Lucknow itself In r f so far as I can hear ( and I can very well beiieve irt in Oude we hold nothing beyond the town of Lucknow " the rest of the country is more defiant than ever and xrt are pressed to hold our own . The garrison of Lucknow is very strong , from 8000 to 10 , 000 men exclusive of Ge neral Grant's strong column ; but there are verymanv sick *
and the orders are said to be stringent against fieluW except on the defensive . Even im the Doab our posts are taken and burnt , now here , now there , by a flyinc enemy whom we cannot hope to overtake . Calpee and Banda , close to the Commander-5 n . -Chicf ever since he took the field , have been taken ; fcut , instead of in November from Cawnpore , it has been in May from Bombay and Madras . There is now , I see , news that the Outle rebels are again invading Goruckpore—a part of the country where there is little to resist them . In fact whichever way we turn , we find that , for the first time since last July , [ July , 1857 ?] it 3 s the enemy who are everywhere the aggressors . They stand nowhere , but appear everywhere . They , are very strong in cavalry , and their cavalry has acqruired a spirit which it never
had before . Everywhere it vigorously pushes us . Our troops , which in the cold weather would lave done anything , ara now physically unfit to follow the enemy , and dying and sickening at a rate which it is fearful to contemplate . And yet it is impossible that they should rest . The enemy will not consent to an armistice till Sir Colin can make new combinations . . . "A little dash might have rapidly extinguished the fire . The opposite system involves the cost of a great war on a more than European scale of expense , which
cannot by any possible means be supported by an Asiatic revenue . It is in- this light that the people of England must view it . They may , if they like , support Sir Colin Campbell . Let them send him fifty thousand more men at once , and keep up the suppty . Authorise him to raise a couple « f hundred thousand in India . He may ( for we will not take a gloomy view of the case ) possibly then , in course of time , achieve the suppression of the rebellion . But the bill will be fearful , and England must pay it . " Some details of recent events we give below : —
PROCLAMATION TO THE OUDE INSURGENTS . Lord Canning has issued the following ultimate proclamation to the Oude insurgents : — " The Right Honourable the Governor-General hereby notifies , for the information of all those concerned in the present rebellion , his ultimate views and intentions regarding principals , seconds , and followers engaged in the same during the past twelve months . " To all parties immediately concerned in the murder of Christian British subjects , no hope of pardon , on arrest , can be held out ; they rnust pay the forfeit the : laws of this and every civilised country have decreed to a mere brutal and gratuitous slaughter of the unprepared , the defenceless , and the innocent ; they are out of tho pale of humanity , and the magnitude of thoir offenco while they live will ever call aloud for retribution . With these , the British Government can make no terms . " To all those who have offered asylum to refugees or others , being the murderers of Christian Britisli subjects , and knowing them to have been such , or who have been leading movers against the authority of the British Government , and have persistently acted throughout this rebellion against the constituted paramount power of the land , the Right Honourable the Governor-General can offer only terms of life ; their punishment will be proportioned to the offences they have committed against the State . All those who shall surrender on or before the 30 th day of December noxt , will have their lives guaranteed to them , after which , date , should thoy continue in arms or in opposition lo the Government , their several cases shall bo summarily dealt with by thn authority in whose hands they may chance to fatt , whether civil or military . " To all others , seconds to principals , Zemindars , Sepoys disbanded , fugitives throughout the country , any persons whatsoever in arms against the Government , not acting on his own free will and authority , but aiding and abetting some principal , tlio Right Honourable the Govornor-General offers at onoe a general amnesty . J- them return to their liomea and pursue their ordinary avocations , using their best endeavours to maintain pc « c ° and quiet . Their estates shall be guaranteed , and mi net of oblivion thrown over the past . Should they , however , still continue to bear nrms against tho British l ) , » they muBt boar tho conaequonceH of their own act * . " ' time for clemency will have pnsscd away . " MI 8 CKML . ANKOU 3 I'ACTS . "We derive , some itoms of news from the Inui « newspapers : — " Sir Colin Campbell has issued a complimentary order
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 7, 1858, page 764, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_07081858/page/4/
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