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Rangoon has fallen , and Martaban has been captured ; with these two brilliant successes we have begun a Burmese war . The capture of Martaban was the work of two hours ; Rangoon presented more difficulties to be overcome , and , in fact , three days were spent in reducing it ; but the actual assault occupied only a few hours . In a thick jungle , under a burning sun , in the face of an active enemy , the British soldiers stormed the main fortress of the place , and the Burmese fled from the gates as our troops entered the breach . General Godwin and Admiral Austen have so far
acted with vigour and success ; a success due to British soldiers and British seamen . But the Burmese showed that they are men of mettle ; and General Godwin won his victory chiefly by superior strategetic skill . The Burmese were beaten by a flank movement , which rendered their preparations for resistance from the centre of their position useless . General Godwin takes due notice of two novelties in the warfare of the Burmese , they attacked in flank , and threw out skirmishers to the front ; beside this , he bears testimony to their steadv and well-directed fire . These are ominous
of the future difficulties of the war . Almost simultaneously with the publication of the Indian despatches in the Gazette , appeared those from the Cape . Sir Harry Smith landed at Portsmouth on Sunday , and was fSted by the Portsmouth burghers on Monday . He considers the war as virtually at an end j but that is not so
apparent from the despatches . Certainly the British troops have been successful in the capture ° f cattle , and in driving the enemy from place to place . Several daring feats have been performed , and a general hunt conducted against the Kafirs . But this , though less vigorously , had been done before , and so tenacious are the " fickle Kafirs , "
so incorri gible the " ungrateful Hottentots , " that w « expect " to hear more of" both before either are Pacified , Sir Harry has , meanwhile , in his last despatch , defended himself with success from the charges of Earl Grey ; attributing the duration of ; w » r to the daring recklessness of the Kafirs , . . faithlessness ° f the Hottentots , the fewness of •»« troops , and , above all , to the inert coolness of 10 towghers . But he does not say that there 8 l > ould have been any war " at all , " had the burghers » een permitted to have their own way with the ^ nlus . ^ lu fftct ^ as wo llav 0 oisowhoro shown , it [ Town Edition . !
resolves itself into a question of local self-government . While actual war , with blood and wounds in plenty , disturbs the tranquillity of life in the South and the East , electioneering furnishes us , at home , with contests of a civil kind . The Free traders capture Windsor , and the Derbyites . are worthily honoured by winning the suffrages of Harwich . The spring crop of the latter gentlemen , modified as free traders in the towns , still continues to
flourish . There is activity everywhere ; in some places of the suicidal kind , Southwark has imitated Manchester in starting a Radical to oppose a Radical ; yet it is too much to ask a constituency which preferred the comprehensive politics of a Molesworth , to elect an Apsley Pellatt , who refused to attend a meeting at Birmingham because William Newton was also invited ! Finsbury has also followed in the Manchester wake ; but indifferent as may be the Parliamentary conduct of Mr . Wakley and Mr . Duncombe , they are far superior to Mr . Wyld , who has been tried and found
wanting , and Alderman Challis , who has not been tried at all . Liverpool promises a fierce contest ; Edinburgh goes a hunting for a candidate ; while Bristol , in a fit of barbaric enthusiasm , unyokes the horses from the carriage of thTliberal candidates ; " independent" electors taking the place of intelligent brutes . County Down proposes to signalize its independence of Londonderry;—to elect Lord Castlereagh for Belfast , and Sharman Crawford for Down ; while nearer home , West Surrey , in the person of Colonel Challoncr , finda a Radical and Free trader willing to contest one of the seats . Ministers were rather severely handled by Sir
James Graham on Thursday . There was no ostentation of opposition , but it was all the keener for being covert . The Maynooth debate is again adjourned to Tuesday ! These shuffling tactics are getting intolerable ; and Sir James broadly hints that the reputation of Parliamentary government itself is degraded by Ministers . Rather a smart cut at the Caucasian leader !
Ireland is now bound to England by a , submarine telegraph from Holyhcadto Kingston . Ihe first message which passed through the wires was " The Irish Submarine Telegraph is completed . This is a more pprfect bond than the Treaty of Union . . On Friday week the Booksellers ' Association honoured the pledge of its committee and dissolved itself . It was obvious that , notwithstanding the disclaimers of Mr . Seelcy and the dissentients , tho
feeling in favour of the dissolution was very general . Thus free trade conquers another department of commerce , and unrestricted " supply and demand" rules over an additional territory . The more the merrier . Competition , like monopoly , will work its own cure . Opposition is the key-note of our news from France . Snubbed at'Berlin in the person of M .
Heeckeren , by the veto of the Czar , pelted at home by a rain of resignations , the President eats dirt , and pockets the empire , seeking solace in menus plaisirs at St . Cloud . Here and there Justice proves inflexible , and stems the swollen current of lawless oppression . The financial crisis looms darkly ; the Legislative Body , mindful of the fate of Assemblies , declines to be the
scapegoat of licentious extravagance , and to cover dilapidation with imposts . It has , we are told , " strangled the Budget with amendments !" Switzerland has threatened another war of the Sonderbund : but for the moment the danger has passed , and we only hear of a dynastic restoration of Neufchatel to its " rightful owner , " the King of Prussia , under signature of the Five Great Powers sitting in Downing Street . Lords Derby and Malmesbury , the pacific non-interventionists , are determined to let England feel , and Europe
acknowledge , the full force of a Tory Government , by rushing headlong into the toils and trammels of a new Holy Alliance . This is one side of Malmesbury ' s foreign policy : the other is to appraise England ' s honour at 2501 . ! May England bear Malmesbury in grateful remembrance ! How is it that American citizens , with the scanty aid of
a frigate and a steamer or two , can make even despotism respectful and courteous , whilst we , with our imperial taxation and our royal navy , are buffeted , and sabred , and dragged to the felon ' s gaol in the very ports where the British Ensign is flying ? We forbear to press the inevitable answer , but let Conservative Ministers look
to it betimes . Early in the week , news reached Town by the Scotch papers that gold diggings had been revealed in the Lomonds by the letter of an emigrant shepherd boy j and a rusk was made to the spot indicated , accordingly . Alas , it turned out that the supposed gold was sulp hurous limestone of a pretty yellow colour ; and so ended the bright visions of the diggers ! In the real gold fields , however , " the root of all evil" still yields a plentiful crop . Young gentlemen " not badly off " live in houses where there is neither " table , chair ,
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•« The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness -is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views j and by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our apiritual nature . "—Sumbotdt ' a Cosmos ,
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roue OF THE WEEK— PAGB Sir Charles Napier and the Scinae Inspection of Chelsea Pensioners . ... 538 PORTFOLIONEWS w _ Prize Money ... 633 Taxation reduced to Unity and Sim- Comte ' s Positive Philosophy 543 Parliament ••• ° ^ ° Military Interference in Elections ... 533 plicity 538 Passages from a Boy ' s Epic . 545 Worin BurmaH ogo The Betting Office Nuisance 634 On the Cultivation of Flax 539 _„ . . „« The Cape War ..... 627 Life « of among the Gold 534 ~ ? , ., t , t ««» B 46 ¦ S ^ SSSSSS-SSE " O JI . -V- * . O ^ OPENCOUNCL- S ^ X ^^^ = Z ^ tion ............. • 528 Miaepliflneous 534 - ^ Thought or Two on the Book The Musical Union - 548 Progress of Association ... 529 Health of London "' durinff "" the "' Question 540 Egmont and the German Actors 646 Letters from Paris 530 Health y of London durmg the ^ Outrages on British Subjects abroad 540 Taking by Storm 547 ¦ S ^ Sn Mrrs ;;; " :::::: ^ **** > ^^ s ^^^ z ms LlTERATURE _ MrH"Vs ; ious - ; -pi . ; ure - " of' ^ More Probabilities of the Franklin PUBLIC AFFAIRS— Inauguration of the Great Exhi-Ships i 532 PUBUC AhhAlKS . The Eclipse of Faith 641 bitionofl 851 - 547 Emigration 532 Malmesbury and Mather 636 Political Elements 542 . , Mro / , . i a era IRQMr P . O . Ward , the . Daily Press , <• Colonial Self-Govenunent 637 Ourtis ' s Lotos Eating 542 COM M ER CIAu * f f * j" * 54754 a aid the " Leader" ....... .. 532 The Path of the Two Wrecks 537 Books on our Table 543 Markete , Advertisements , &c ... 547-543
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VOL . HI . No . 115 . 1 SATURDAY , JUNE 5 , 1852 , [ Price Sixpence .
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Leader (1850-1860), June 5, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1938/page/1/
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