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Indian" Notfs "De'riiaips One Of The Mos...
The first condition for health is physical climate necessarily ; the next is the artificial climate of the barrack . At present great improvements are being made in the barracks of India ; but the main thing ' is to get the soldier , his wife , and children , away from the unhealthy regions oi' the plains . ' In the hill stations the residence of women and children will be possible . The married soldier will there leave his family in safety , while the un- married soldier , on short service , or about to retire , ¦ will look forward to marriage in the hill settle- ments , and there will be an additional inducement to good conduct and to a man making himself a useful member of society . Thus in every respect the hill settlement will contribute to afford the soldier healthy associations , and in so far the labours of the surgeon will be diminished . The Friend of India , remarking on the neces- sity of Completing the military railway system , says , " We may go by rail to Reiginahal , and so reach Darjeeling by the beginning of 1861 ; but cannot hope to reach Benares , in the same way , till 1862 , with the present careless indifference to fbrwarding supplies . " , The electric telegraph to Simla is making rapid progress . It will communicate with Kussowlie and Kalka . Simla is busy enough , for Lord Clyde is there , and his office at full work . On a visit to Pinjore to see the Putteealla Rajah , he met with a fall from his horse , and at Kalka was seen all ¦ disfigured . . Leave to Simla has been given to Major A . H . Cobbe , 87 th Foot . A letter from Mussoorie denies that Captain Huttdn has gone to jeripahee for Government experiments on feeding silkworms on oak leaves , but says that silkworms will not eat oak leaves , and that Captain Hutton is forming a mulberry plantation of his own on his estate at Jeripanee . Leave to Nynee Tal has been given to Captain R . F . B . Cumberland , 70 th Foot , Lieut . G . W . Agnew , 10 th Foot , and to Lieut . Gr . L . Smith , Adjutant of Shahjehanpore police . Leave to Deyrah and the hills has been , given to Lieut . Col . W . Butler , 60 th _Fook Leave to Murree has been given to Major G . G . C . Stapletori , 98 th Foot , and Captain H . Craw- ford of the same regiment . Puchmurree has at length come into Use as a sanitarium . Leave has been given by the Lieu- tenant-Governor of the north-west provinces , for two months , to Lieutenant F . B . Foote , Commandant of the Hoshungabad District Police Battalion , in Nagpore , to visit Puchmurree and Chilkulda hills . Puchmurree , or Pachmarhi , is a hill in the Ma- hadee range , in the north part of Nagpore , near the province of Sangor and _% _erbudda . P Towards the Ld of lost ye _. _Aese mountains _were pointed out as suitable for English occupation . The Mahadee range is situated at the eastern extremity of the Sautpeora mountains , where they adjoin the Vindhya mountainn , and form a group about sixty or seventy miles in length . The chief hills are Puchmurree , supposed to be 4 , 000 feet high ; _Dowlagheree , perhaps 4 , 000 ; Dokgur , 4 , 000 feet ; Putta _§ unkur , 4 , 000 feet ; Cheura Dee , 4 , 000 feet ; Ambarmaph , 2 , 500 feet ; and Chindwara , 2 , 100 feet . Chindwara sometimes gives name to the , group , . The trim _«; It has al- waya been considered healthy , and it has always _received visitors . These hill ranges have been found a convenient resort for the mutineers , and at the last advices 2 , 500 were concealed near Puoh- murree , so that Lieutenant Foote may not find it a convenient abode . The Chilkulda hills nre a part of the range not before noted . There is now some prospect of the important ranges in Nagpore being turned to account . The Bombay Commander-in-Ohief was still at Mahableshwur at the last advices Lieutenant F W _JoS 18 th NI has leaveto that place LeavemS 5 ti £ 1 N _^ _lieS _^ _Ji iSS _SS to i _^ eave tor tne XN ewgnerries _nns _ueen given _«> Captain G . O . Geach , 13 th M . N , I . and Captain 8 . P . Wt , 22 nd M . N . I . Those periods _areV two years each . Mr . R . E . Norfor , O . H ., has a short leave . At Kirkee the Rev . G . L . Allen is acting as chaplain during tho absence of the archdeacon . fhe Rev . Jf D . Gibson is chaplam at the village of Malcolmppeth , near _Mahableshww . Daring the absence of tho Rev . Mr . Allen from Sattara _, the Rev . Mr , Gibson is to perform service there two Sundays « month : tho _distance is thirty miles . Mr . L . ( loorgo has been married to Miss AnneE . BaiUo . * , t *
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It is proposed to name the streets of the newly- constructed city of LucknOw as Liawrence-street , Havelock-street , Outram-street , Clyde-street , Neil- street , Inglis-street , and Banks-street , after the heroes who have distinguished themselves in the city . The Honourable John Peter Grant is appointed Liutenant-Governor of Bengal _, The inhabitants of Madras and . Bombay are de- manding legislative councils for the provinces , with three English members in each , one East Indian , one Hindoo , aiid one Mohammedan . We presume in Bombay there would be a _Pai _* see in the council , It is to be hoped that legislative councils and municipalities will be extended , so as to obtain local self-government . 'Tt will have been observed that the English residents have uniformly demanded the co-operation of natives in councils , municipali- ties , supreme courts , and commissions of the peace , Their object is to secure the real advancement and independence of India , not by establishing English- men as a caste , but by the acknowledgment of Englishmen in their born rights of citizenship , constituting them the political instructors of the natives , and gradually training and raising the latter to the exercise of the duties of self-government . Those of the civilians who still wish to domineer over _Engushmen and _natives , endeavour to sow ill- will , and represent that it is the wish of the Eng- lish settlers to domineer over the natives . There is no English planter or merchant but is quite ready to serve on the commission of the peace with natives , but he does object to leave unchecked power in the hands of native officials . Following , the ancient traditions , a military officer has obtained . two- , years 1 sick leave to the Australian colonies , but perhaps his object is to become a settler on retiring from the service . The Surat and Broach railway is completed _^ not opened . The Bengal Hurkaru gives the details of the last examination of native candidates for the B . A . degree of the University of Calcutta , which are trulyprepos- terous . The question on " Paradise Lost" would have puzzled Our English student . _. — ' .
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LATEST INDIAN INTELLIGENCE . The last brigade of the Central India Field Force— that which hunted down Tantia Topee—has gone into cantonments . A paltry , disturbance has broken out in a remote corner of Eastern Scinde . Troops have been sent to suppress it . Some of the Euro- pean troops late in the service of the East India Company , chiefly artillery and cavalry , stationed at Meerut , have shown mutinous symptoms in conse- quence of their transfer to the Crown . . _^ _JzZ _^^^ i _^\^^ _^ _JJZLTSt _{^ 0 _^^^ , £ _JftS _£££ ? T 2 _f $ i per _diem _. The Bombay Times says : " There is f _> ut one thing talked of in India to-day , and that is the state of our money-market . The panic in Bom- bay is at its height , while no surer evidence could be afforded of the healthful character of our trade in general than that the mercantile classes are able to escape the widest disaster . To say that discount is ruling at 24 per cent , in the bazaar is not to describe the state _, of matters correctly , for money , in any _^ _T _***^^^^ _taSiJ _^ _SySSSiirffiT _^ Government ; but as they are the loyal portion of the community , and not likely to rebel , it is , of course / the pleasantest pplicy to lay the burden of the bill for the rebellion upon them . It certainly is a grievance that the sufferers from native treachery —for almost all Europeans have , suffered in some way or other from the mutiny—should be the only ' class now called on to supply the deficit of the roy _™ w . B \ „ . . 14 . „ _rt _, , , T ., „ Th _® mtoHigence brought by the Overland Mail from Oa ) louttajs only ono day later than that received by the last mail from Bombay . A fewengaRements _^ ith the scattered rebels are reported , in which they got roughly handled by our troops . Nana Sahib is holding the field against us in the eastern corner between Nepaul and _Oude ? and _deterSnedI to So _™ o as long as he can . Ruinous of discontent in Oude deserve to be noticed . Lord Canning ' s now loan of 0 , 000 , 000 / . does not seem cvs if it would bo raised easily , _^
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_** PANIC AT BOMBAY _, rpHE late accounts from Bombay , dated May 1 <> : - » - say , " There is now nothing talked of biiit the state of the money market . '" 3 The panic at Bombay is at its height . At the same time the trading classes had not suffered from the disaster though the rate of discount in the Bazaar was _l 24 per cent . Money , indeed , in any quantity was > not to be obtained on any terms . The Mint was gorged with bullion , and the private banks had still on hand their last importations . " There are two alternatives , " says the Bombay Times , " to one of which , were the Government wise , it would at once _resoi-t—viz ., either to declare the English sovereign legal tender , and relieve the Bank of England from the plethora of gold -which afflicts it , or to declare the notes of the Indian banks such tender , and authorise their discounting the Mint certificates , by an issue of paper to the extent required . Either measure would be a legitimate and natural remedy for the present state of matters . If the crisis hist but a few days longer , the failures in the bazaar will be fearful , and we owe this state of matters almost wholly to Jinancicd misgovernmerit" I Within a few weeks a memorial has been pre- i sented to the Colonial Office , from New ' South 1 Wales , praying that the sovereigns coined there I might be made legal tender in India . There gold , I coined and uncoined , is in excess ; in India coined I gold is much wanted , and nothing prevents the surplus of the one p lace flowing into the void in the other but the barrier which is built up by the Mint regulations of a government common to both places . Not only have the Australians an abundance of gold , they have now ample means of coining it , and might drive with India a most profitable industry in supplying it with coined money . Let the Government , if it will , interfere to fix the weight and fineness of the coins , but that being done , let it stand aside , and allow the people of Australia to supply the wants of the people of I India , J On two occasions lately , April 9 th and April 16 th , we pointed out , on principle , the propriety of taking the course-which now , in Bombay , the wants of the people imperatively suggest . The continued interposition of our Government to prevent it , will be as bad as continuing the corn laws after it was known that the wheat which could be exchanged for our cloth was allowed to rot , because the faw wouid not pernut the exchange . On such material , or almost , we may say , arithmetical r ° _f' _^ T _* _^ _^ _' _^ _^ T _tST sentiments and opinions it may apparently tyrannise ad libitum , but it cannot dominate over facts . They demonstrate its errors and its misdeeds . As in this case or the ease of the corn laws , when by its regulations it mars the prosperity of two nations , it tries to thwart the course of nature . This dietates a flow of gold from _Australia to India ; and without directly forbidding this , the regulations of the Government make it impossible or _unprolitable . It always fancies that it can make society _* _" « than niui _^ has made it and the result : ls whenever its interference can be brought ; to . the teat of facts , that it gets discredited . If it do not soon cease to interfere with the ilow of the precious metals from one country to another , whether the interference be direct or indirect , it will suffer as much in public estimation from its _coinngo _regulations as it suJlbrod from corn laws . ° v . ; I , v _^ _ _..., mi n « i vA *» fc : P » _aow . _, „ ¦ _„„ _, ! The state of tho money market nt _Uombay , and the nocossity for us to refer to our pruvious _dis-CU 88 iOns on _Australian gold and the want of it in India _^ romin ( ls us tlm fa t about the _nuiiq period Anvil 2 _« _i wnwroto nn _nrfiVlo on " Whrit _dotcrmncs AP _" _*^ _^ _™' _* . _""" 0011 . 1 / 1 1 _« _L _vnhip t ] _? T u ? . _^ f _S ol < 1 ' _\ in _wh J _flh rt W ? BaH _^ 1 or Son of gold , like the value of other comingd tics ,, 11011 or COI " » _wuld be settled by the ( _quantity ot ino labour and skill employed in producing thorn , vj 0 _rcfen-ed the value , therefore , to tho gonora mw _jJgL _t £ ZT * _^ V cSffo «» of _Mp"W 5 _ffi _feJS _K _SSn _nShod and in the Essay on _MoK _^ _tWS _^ _•—' _u _^^^ S or _sthor is o id fii any _particular . J _^ n o _njfo'g _^ _^ _tr Is _^ _oi in . u ' _^ p vhlch ic _XJi _^ o advon _?^ _J _& _ft _y _^^ hands 1 b I
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Leader (1850-1860), June 11, 1859, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/sldr_11061859/page/18/
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