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Q ^ ffi tytrWs tfp ^ r rfFtyflwMrt / ^ w ^ C f / ^ l ^ w ' 1 rl ^^ / * gfD- ^) ° C ^ tA &asr . POLITICAI ATM ) LITERARY KEYIEW .
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"The one Idea which . History exhibits as evermore devclnpins ? itself into greater distinctness is tlae Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw dowa all the barnsra erected betw-een men . by prejudice and one-sided views ; 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 spin ' tualnatu-re . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK— '"aob The Indian Revolt 914 The Orient 917 Accidents and Suddon Deaths 913 Ireland 918 America . " . 918 . ContinentalNotes ..... 919 Darnel Mania 919 State of Trade 920 Our Civilization 920 Naval and Military 922
Gatherings from the Lawand Police Courts ..... 922 Miscellaneous 922 Postscript 923 PUBLIC AFFAIRSTheCalcutta Memorial .... 924 The non-Recruiting Sergeant 924 Public Moneys 925 Progress of the Indian Rebellion ... 926 London Air and Water 927 Men Milliners 923
How to Melt Pearls 928 Expected Murder at Dublin ......... S 2 S LITERATURESnnnnary 929 Old-Fashioned Criticism 929 Latter-Day Poetry 930 Indian Pamphlets 930 The Noble Traytour 931 j Journal of si Baslri-Bazouk 931 ! Indian Experience .... i ) 32
Tue mvorce ace van THEARTSTheatrical and Musical Notes 932 Crexnorne Gardens 932 The Gazette .. 933 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSCity Intelligence , Markets , &c 933
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VOL . Till . No . 392 . ] SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 26 , 1857 . Price { ggSSig ^ ginSggS ? -
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—^ Y \ l i ± ILE , as the week advanced , we have been i V waiting for the expected Indian mail , anxious to know what fresh achievements had been added to the list of our countrymen ' s gallant exploits , what fresh disasters had b een added to the blacker list , we have explanations which certainly do not lead us to anticipate brilliant ; accounts from India for the next month or two . Last week was in itself a model of vicissitude , not only in the events stated , but in the aspect which they bore from day to day . We left Ihc relief of Lacknow under the greatest doubt ; some reason existing to suppose that Havelock had been repulsed by the accumulated strength of the rebels on his road . Subsequently arrived the report that Havelock had again set out , stronger than he was before ; this has been followed by a renewal of the old account , and we await the mail to learn how matters actually stand . It does appear , indeed , that the official despatches represent Havelock as having received reinforcements and collected additional guns by the 3 rd of August , with the object of renewing his march towards Lucknow on the 4 th . Still Lucknow was not relieved , except by some portion of Jung Bahadoor ' s contingent , which , being without artillery or cavalry , was not of the first value in conflict with such a people as tliat of Oude . There have been other reports of a disastrous kind , such , for instance , as that of a mutiny and massacre at Dharwar , before the 9 th of August ; but positive advices down to the 12 th appear to have completely contradicted that rumour . Every fresh story about the Dinaporc revolt only proves how much of its disasters resulted from the wanton weakness of General Lloyd , who , besides temporizing with the men , had wandered somewhere for hw own amusement , and seems at last only to have consented to do his duty with coy reluctance . Nor do the statements on this side tend to streng then our confidence in the good fortune of the British army . Tho Globe , indeed , 1 ms expressly warned us thai ; we may not have decidedly good news for at least two months from the present time . We have the report of reinforcements m-riving in India , timely and valuable beyond their numbers . Hie mutineers had seized a period of the year when there Wcrc about 5000 lower European soldiers than usual in India . Since the outbreak several regiments have arrived , making up the Queen ' s Army D tue rcquisito number of 50 O 0 men ; but not
yielding more than sufficient to provide for the casualties of the last four months . c The new Indian army which is to put down treachery and re-establish British supremacy , ' began to leave our shores on the 1 st of July , and the troops are probably now beginning to land at the rate of about 400 a day , to he continued for the next three months . And arrangements have been made at Calcutta to send the troops up the river continuously as they arrive . But it is only by degrees that these reinforcements can tell , and they will only begin to tell in India in the present week . And what about our reserves at home ? Here , again , the accounts , although they are not the reverse of cheering , are certainly not all that the public could wish . The Artillery , which is a peculiar corps—and in which , by-the-by , the opportunities for advancement arc greater than in others—is obtaining men at the rate of about seven hundred a month ; but the recruitments for the Line , whether of horse or of foot , although officially said to be ' satisfactory , ' arc evidently not up to the mark . The plan of raising recruits by offering a commission to any youug gentleman wiio could bring in one hundred men lias called forth many candidates for that kind of work , but not one of the candidates appears yet to have reported his success . A similar plan is to be tried upon a somewhat larger scale , by offering a lieutenant-colonelcy ., with the power of nominating ten ensigns , to any retired officer who shall have held rank not lower than that of major in her Majesty ' s service ; but this experiment appears to be completely untried . The Irish constabulary , we gather from the report , is to be embodied as a regiment of Irish Dragoons , with the ominous title of the 5 th lloyal Irish Dragoons—the style and title of a regiment disbanded years hack for disaffection . Thus , the progress made has not yet filled up the programme which was officially issued some time ago . The Horse Guards cannot report thai ; it lias obtained the recruits which it was authorized by Parliament to raise . Yet the necessity for additional force is so apparent , that already there is a talk of raising additional regiments besides tho Irish Gth Dragoons ; and one of the most urgent measures is to raise twenty-four additional troops of one hundred men each for tho cavalry . None of these preparations for increasing our foroos at home or in India arc upon a very largo scalo , Such portion of the plan as is " already worked docs not make progress . For some reason or other the bounty is not a sufficient incentive to recruitment . Meanwhile , some of the inhabitants of Calcutta
have sent home a petition , repeating complaints which the British . residen . ts have before made , pointing out new grievances in tlie present state of the country , and touching slightly upon the Black Act —that one-sided law for amending the magisterial jurisdiction . The petitioners more especially complain of the want of foresight which permitted the mutiny to burst forth unchecked ; of the Act for putting down the press ; and of the vacillation , of the Government ; asking for direct government by the Quf-ek" in Council , with an open Legislative Council , and reformed law courts . TJie meeting which passed the petition was not public , but there is no public in Calcutta—Government forbids the residents to act in that capacity . The Indian Relief Tund has advanced magnificently during the week . The contribution of one thousand pounds in aid of the sufferers from Mussulman violence in India by the Sultan—the successor of the Caliphs—is a fact of political as well as historical importance . A more striking or satisfactory indication of the Sultan ' s growing appreciation of the new state of relationship in which lie stands with regard to "Western Europe could hardly have been given . In other domestic matters there is little doing . Dr . Livingston conthiu . es to describe the commercial capabilities of Africa—Edinburgh being this time his theatre ; and some 480 of Mr . Meciii ' s friends have presented him with a fine piece of plate—an act which places the great agricultural reformer among our recognized institutions . But the Indian war is the theme . The Times has pointed out linendrapers' assistants as a class fit for the recruiting sergeant , and has put some of the gentilities of the retail calico and ribbon trade into an indignant flutter . To think of expecting young men with respectable conujxions and soft hands to go into the army and associate with nasty ' navvies , labourers , and worse ! ' Others arc devising the construction of new and special corps for genteel soldiering . At Belfast we find the Reverend Mr . Hanna determined to die game' On Sunday last he appears to have thought it , c prudent' to renew his open-air exercises . He attempted to preach , but \ yjrt 5 " co ? -V . pellcd by the police to * move on ; ' predated from delivering a religious discourse , he ' attempted to deliver a political one ; but the police again pujshedf '" ] in between him and his ' der-. p intent , ' ^ lroycT . ' . away his audience . By a blunder m ^ th& . ^ a ^ arC ' ., '; Lieutenant ' s proclamation , only thrcc-ifriniroiojip } ijOfLi > the town nre placed under the inuuetmc fJ ^ t ^ t ^ S Crime and Outrage Act ; the effect of < tiu *'} $ it * * ;/ w : f § p t-3 ' ¦ ¦^/ ¦ . rfe ^ ilS t r , , Biii L I , in mil » ' * ~ '~^ m
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 26, 1857, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2211/page/1/
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