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of the : whole comtry * they Ttfill announce inemsefres , in a language whtfh * he natrfeB #£ U not be slotf to understand , the impreine and undisputed' masters of the old Mogul kingdom and its dependencies . ^ The opposition to our power , on the part o ± the people , has generally ceased . This we do Hot hesitate to affirm in presence of the J&ct that the Bengal army has disappeared . We are virtual rulers of Bengal , without the army ; the people , unrepressed by physical force * have Hot risen against us . Mr . Dis&aeuv to- fee fiure , asserts ^ and he has a little brass trumpet to Bray an obsequious echo— -that the revolt is national ; but where has there been even a
partial rising of the inhabitants ? Some one Has been roughly-handled in a north * western bazaar , and that may have been mistaken for a declaration of war from thirtyfive millions of people ; but we shall wait for signs more distinct before confounding with a huge mutinous rabble of released felons and delirious soldiers , a vast , peaceful , and industrious population . Our empire has been effectually consolidated since the second siege Of Bhurtpore , when it was a general opinion that had the enterprize failed , rebellion might have- extensively broken out amongst the natives of all classes . "Whereas , noWj although the rebel standard floats for more than a
month on the walls of the most famous city of India , two great Presidencies remain tranquil , and in a third , only the military ranks , and the convicts they have let out of prison , are engaged in the seditious war . Not that India has been generously fostered , or has had its rights judiciously respected , but that it is happier under our sway than it was nttder the Brahminical or Mohammedan sovereignties . The reason for superseding the Jjeadenhall-street Company is , not thai / it has been worse than the Moguls ' , but that India claims a better government than either the Moguls or the Company have bestotved upon her .
Light has been let m upon the native mind . The people understand their numerical superiority . " We have , then , to rest upon a double basis—comparatively small forces , organized as perfectly as may be , with the necessary apparatus of fortifications , military roads , and rapid communications- with England ; and , above all , the inculcation , by practical methods ^ of a belief that ; under
British authority , the lives , the religions , the property , the sacred social habits of the people of India are safe under our protection .. We cannot hope to bind down the nation by holding itk ierrorem over it a spoiled Sepoy army ; when our spoiled Sepoys rebelled with their petted Jemadars , where should we have been had the population been exasperated ? Should we have retained our chief
military positions , open roads , and a confidential understanding with the industrious Classes ? "We have as yet escaped the horrors and perils of a national Indian revolt ; but there must be a new government for India , or , when we rest after beating the Delhi rebels we may find that we have built a fortress upon shifting sands .
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THE CONCESSION IN THE PRINCIPALITIES . I * is not our business to complain when the [ French Government , adopting a liberal and equitable policy , extorts a concession from England . But we may be permitted to regret that England should haye been placed in such a position as to be liable to a cheek from "EYance . To all intents and purposes , she has met with such a check in the valley of the Danube . LoiriS Napoleon came to
Osborne ( with his retinue of detectives ) to negotiate an improved understanding with our Premier " , who went thither as a champion of Lord de Ebdoiifpe , and returned , if not a convert to M . de Thottvenei ,, at least with softened resolves and modified opinions . He is exactly the man to keep his countenance while M . Wa : lewsjci condemned the Yooo-RiDES interference with electors ; the
question , being probably reserved for debate in a new Congress , is nominally in abeyance ; practically , it may be said to have moved , in favour of France , which promotes the union of Moldavia and Wallachia . The Imperial game has' been adroitly played ; there has been a- baffling of Austria - * - the rival of France aaadi Italy— -and this Italian motive lies , beneath the marked cordiality with which Victor Emmanuel has been treated ,
of late , by the French Emperor . Austria affects , naturally , friendship for the Porte—Austria , which * has secretly proposed , since the Peace of Paris , a new Russo-Austrian occupation . But Russia occupies high ground , lias preserved a neutral tone , and when the point is raised formally "before Europe , will come into court with a voice of strong authority . With her nets lic
Prussia /—a Protestant kingdom , a Catho empire , a Greek empire , leagued with semi-Liberal Piedmont to establish a certain policy on the Danube , France talcing the lead , and having most influence over England . There has been a wnispo * that , to remove obstacles , Sir Hjditoy Bujdweb wouW supersede Lord db BiflDOWETB as British Ambassador at Constantinople j but th © project has assumed no distinct form . It is improbable
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THE DUCHY OP LA . NCA . STER—POINTS AND PROTESTS . Nothing will ever be gained by the Liberal partv while it continues to toy with serious public questions . We are glad to know , therefore , that the gross administrative abuses connected with the Duchy of Lancaster are not to be allowed to sleep . The question , has not been set at rest . Parliament has not seen the evidence . The report is * one-aided , false , and unjust to a public servant ,, in whose case every other public servant ( below a particular grade ) is
interested . Witbou « apology , eoneeq ^ sntly # e tfeturri tb it ; A writer - in the . Jftmte * ' Otf " ciilai < said last w « e& , " I * is impossible to read the evidence without a ? full conviction that the property of the Duchy ; has been shamefully mismanaged , and that it can only be rectified By pursuing that rigid course of examination which Mr . RfiittfoiiACOr had the courage to intrddtice . ' * ' Bkrfe is a commerwill not be
cial opinion which , we presume , underrated by so- ' been a commercial adept as Lord G-EAimiiB . Moreover , the fact that Sir FiTztlox EEiit-y ' s legal opinion has been contemptuously ignored in favour of that delivered "by two obscure gentlettien ( them * selves on their defence ) , has considerabty influenced many members of the Conservative party . The matter is not to be dropped . the blame of this Admi
With whom rests - nistrative scandal ? With Lord Abehdee !* for appointing Lord Gbanvii . i , e to be Chan > - cellor of the Duchy when he was a Duchy tenant in large arrears to the estate and about to renew his lease ; with Lord Q-baitvxlle for accenting that improper position ; with Mr . Mokseli , for breaking his promise to allow the Auditor an opportunity of ful * filling his duty , and with those officials who baffled him . when he had an hour to spare for examining the accounts . Wow , that Lord
Abeedeen and Lord (^ anviixe infringed the laws of administrative morality we declare upon the ground that , whereas a rule in the civil service forbids every class of officials from applying themselves to trade or commerce , Lord GrBAisiniiiJ ! , a Minister of the Crown , became a trader in mines rented from the Crown itself , and entered into other transactions unbefitting his public situation . " Was this , or was it not , against the rules of tho service , rigidly enforced against clerks and secretaries ? .
Mr . BEBtoiiACoi was told that the salary of the Auditor having been reduced to one half of the former amount , it was in future to be a working office . There was no longer to be a sinecure full-pay Auditor . Mr . Mon-seij , premised him time for the fulfilment of the duty . That promise was violated . Hip letters patent empowered him to appoint a deputy ; that privilege was arbitrarily taken away . " The two offices of Clerk in the Ordnance , and Auditor of the Duchy of
Lancaster , were not compatible , * ' says the Keport . Then why did Lord Belpeb make the arrangement ? Why did Mr . Monsei / l consent to it ? Why blame the Auditor for not performing one set of duties * incompatible ' with another set . "Why , when he found it impossible to act in person , reject his legal deputy ? Why , when he was at leisure , withhold from him every facility ? There was something to hide , or so much would not have been hidden .
But a ludicrous inconsistency in the Report is , that while it condemns the appointment of Mr . Bebtoxackdi to two offices , it has nothing to say against the appointment of Mr . Hawker , who also holds two offices . But then the nephew of the Receiver-CSjeneral ' s wife does not , perhaps , hold his kinsman responsible like that * d—d fellow ' who came down from Poll Mall . The old , old way , we may infer , has come into fashion again , and the happy family—Baiitcss , Wa «
tebpabk , . Fox , Danvjbbs , Goocn , and HAWKBK- ^ -are amicably weaving the accounts , all delighted ( especially Hawker . ) to be rid of Mr . BaaitTOLACCi . But Mr . Beb-TOfcAOCi was appointed when Lord Bei » peb admitted that reforms were called for ; he wap told to carry them out ; he mistook his office , and fancied the instructions were serious ; he was expelled because he was too scrupulous and unflinching . Observe , however , that we do not reserve all our sympathies
for Mmv We confessthat itftiffitet hare Been s'oaiewliat stJartl& % ti& the DtMs&y peofkr to find amolig ' theto si man -with ? nations of public duty : " Efc this hottsey sirywer look after otir ' - selves *! and , provided we > keep the windows clean , why shouM we iook after the property ?" Things were much more pleasant , of course , whsn the autocratic Chancellor , too delicatto renew his own leases , appointed a pro-Chancelloir to carry out that little formality , confident of kind treatment at the hands of
hisf own deputy , Lord Belpbb ' s relative . How these families Work together ! We might almost ! believe that General IFox had a reason for appointing his wife ' s nephew to supervise the balances in his ( Gfeneral Fox ' s ) hands , but then he' didn't know his wife ' s nephew , and the whole affair" was a felicitous coincidence . Very curious . Not the only
curious point , however , in the arrangements of that precious department . Why , Mr . LookbTabt , when he was Auditor , signed particulars preparatory to grants in fee , in which he stated the grants to be ' fik and proper , ' and passed' his opinion on the Value of allotments . But then that was when the Auditor received a full salary , asked no questions , and wrote his name in gentlemanly confidence at the foot of Duchy particulars .
We repeat , the Report is one thing , the Evidence is another ; they are at variance . But the evidence is kept back until Parliament riseB , and it is hoped that the public will forget all about Mr . Bertolaooi and his Audit .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 15, 1857, page 783, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2205/page/15/
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