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o ^ eaaer . A POLITICAL AND LITEEAEY REYIEW .
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A MASS of ' further intelligence' by ' the heavy mail . * Sir Henry Havelock ' s despatch is the most heart-stirring and interesting , of the documents . At what a cost of toil , suffering , and peril was the relief of Lucknow accomplished ! What a series of appalling difficulties had to be faced and surmounted ! Sir Henry ' s clear and . unimpassioned way of telling the wonderful story makes it the more impressive . On the 23 rd of September he came upon the enemy , strongly posted at Alum-. bagli ; tke head of his little column first came under fire of tlieir guns , having to march along the Trunk Hoad between morasses ; but Hs force had no sooner deployed before their foe than victory was assured . General Outran :, after leaving the command in tlie hands of his noble j anior , and retaining only his civil rank , fouglit in the front of the battle ' with his accustomed gallantry , ' as Sir Henry gratefully and admiringly reports . Our noble troops were exposed to an incessant cannonade during twenty ¦ four hoars ! A body of 1500 cavalry swept to their rear and attacked the baggage-guard , but ¦ were beaten off with the loss of twenty-five by the "unaided bravery of the 90 th [ Regiment . The whole force had been marching for three days ' under a perfect deluge of rain , irregularly fed , and badly "housed in villages ; ' bat nothing could daunt them , and with music and flying colours they fought tlieir way , literally , step by step , into the beleaguered Residency . " To form a notion of the obstacles overcome , " says Sir Henry , " a reference must be made to the events tliat are known to have occurred tit ljuenos Ayres and Saragossa ; our advance was through streets of ilat-roofed and loophole d houses , each forming a separate fortress . I . am filled with surprise at the success of the operations , which demanded the efforts of 10 , 000 good troops . " A baronetcy , with a pension of 1000 A a year—even though augmented by a colonelcy with its 1000 / . — arc tokens barely adequate to represent the country ' s thankfulness for the services so gloriously performed , so modestly described by General Havelock . The Ijeadcnhall-strcct Company met on Wednesday for the special purpose of rewarding the services of some of the men who have given health , blood , and life to save the Indian possessions of the East India Stock proprietors . The said proprietors liavo not done their duty very graciously . It was proposed to give Sir Auciidaxe Wilson an annuity of
1000 / , j to Lady Neiix , widow of the late Brigadier-General NeilLj 500 / . a year / and the same sum to Mrs . Nichoi&on , the mother of the late Brigadier Nicholson * The annuity to Sir Abchdale Wilson was carried at once , without dispute ; "but when some one spoke about the inadequacy of the sum proposed in tire other two cases , he was told to rememter that the proprietors were voting away ' their own money ! ' Scarcely so ; for it is no \ v tolerably certain that , but for the heroism of the men who have died in their service , they would have no money to haggle over , at least none drawn from the East Indies . There are only one or two points of political interest in the foreign news . One is the satisfactory termination of the Belgian elections , in -which the efforts of . the Liberals , forewarned and forearmed by the consequences of the supineness of the Liberal party in the Sardinian elections , have secured a handsome majority , from the working of which the best results are anticipated ; another point is the resolution of the French Government to allow Count Migeon to recanvass the electors of Colmar without further opposition . Functionary France , smarting under the drubbing which it has so lately received at the hands of this man , who cannot be ' made . to understand what is expected of him by the usages of Imperial society , cries " Hold , enough !" Tlic principal topic of Prussian politics is the state of the King's health . ' The date named for the resumption of his sovereign authority is the 23 rd of January ; but there appears to be no chance of his being in a iit condition to return to the conduct of affairs . Under these circumstances , it is proposed by the party whose interests are imperilled by the absence of the King from the supreme authority , tliat there shall be a sort , of joint Hegency—that is , the Government to be carried by the Prince of Prussia and the King . The fear of the Liberals is , the Prince may be induced to consent to the proposed arrangement out of deference to his brother . One or two meetings of importance have been held during the week . The more important one was upon the subject of Indian Reform , under the presidency of Lord Bury , at St . Martin ' s Hall , on Thursday evening . The principal spcakor was Mr . Roebuck , and the principal resolution was condemnatory of the system of the double Government of India , as tested by the results of its administration . The remedy proposed by Mr . Roebuck , which was received with applause by the meeting ,
was the substitution of a responsible Secretary-of-State for India , with a Governor for each of the three Presidencies , as at present . Also perfect liberty in rnatters of religion ; but , he said , "I would require you to make the religion of the Government of India the Christian religion . " The speakers at the adjourned meeting of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts , held on Wednesday at Willis ' s Rooms ., were of the same opinion as Mr . Koebuck as to the necessity for a Christian . Government for India , but differed from him , in not demanding any guarantee for religious liberty . Bishops and Missionaries are ? the instruments proposed by the Bishop of Oxford and his coadjutors for the regeneration of India ; sound political institutions and the benefits of growing liberty and intelligence are Mr . Roebuck ' s means of bringing about the same end . The public are astounded at the commercial disclosures on every side , says the Times j our own readers have been better prepared than those of the leading journal , whose commercial editor says : — " Even those most conversant for years past with all the great operations of business had no idea of the degree of corruption that at each turn was defeating the efforts of the honest trader . The question is , have they yet any adequate conception . of the extent to which the system has been carried ? " No j each day brings some fresh announcement of break-down , and each day throws some new light upon previous cases . The commonest thing in the world at the present day is to ¦ ¦• p . men like Mr . Stephens or Colonel Wait gh , wii <> have been managers or directors of banks , flying , or under accusation before courts of law . Some more cases have been explained this week , in wine ! " we see a capital , say of 9000 / . or 10 , 000 / ., with trading to " the extent of half a million or so , the trade consisting in great part of pure risk , which , ends in loss much more for other people than for the man who trades . " A house in Glasgow is shown to have had seventyfive real or fictitious correspondents , all insolvent like itself , upon , whom it hud drawn to the amount of 380 , 000 / . ; the . whole family centring in the Western Bank . " Amongst the special cases before the public this week , we have that of the Unadulterated Food Company , whose shareholders have been exerting themselves to procure a winding-up , in contrast with the promoters of the conipany ^ - ^ K ^ iM ? & 4 he case of Bknnoch , TwkntymA ^^ rirt ^ fe ^^ iK ^ p ^ trade inverted upon an apex of ^ P ^ B ^ Jamy Hpo ^ the question at the Stock l £ : ^( iJJPh ^ 8 jgraaffl | B , ^ -
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VOX ,. YIII . No . 404 ] SATURDAY , DECEMBER 19 , 1857 . PitiCK ^^ g ^;;;| S ^ '
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Kt . vitvyor iMtwttn- pioe . America .... * ... 1203 The Orient 1203 Stateof Trade 1203 2 he Indian Revolt ... 120 ; Special Correspondence from India 1201 Accidents and Sudden Deaths ......... 1204 Ireland ..,.. 1204 Continental Notes ........ 120 & 2 faval and Military 1205 Our Civilization ... 1206 Gatherings from the Law and Police Courts 1207
Miscellaneous 1207 Postscript 1209 OPEN COUNCILOur Monetary System ......... 1 1209 PUBLIC AFFA 1 RSTho Currency Debates ............... 1209 The Campaign in Oude . ' ; . 1211 Public Opinion andParliamentary Reform . 1211 "Widowers and Second Wives ...... 1212 Christmas and its Trials . ; 1212 The Elections in Belgium ..... 1213
Cot 1 stifcutio 11 . 1 l Opposition in France ........... ; . 1213 Politics of the Indian Rebellion ... 1214 Strong Government inWIritecrossstreet ............. 1215 How to Kill a Governess . 1215 A Case in Court ,............ ' 1215 UTERATURESammnry 1216 The Campaign of 1815 ... 1216 History at a Glance ..... 1217 Essays on the Trench Revolution 1217
Religion in Common lute ............ 1218 The Three Clerks . 1218 Novelettes ... 1218 Books for the Young ... 1219 THE ARTSDeparturo of the Unglish Opera Company ... 1219 Miss Arabella Goddard ... .. 1219 The Gazette 1220 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSCity Intelligeuce , 3 Iarkets , &c ..... 1220
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* 'Tne one Idea which History exhibit * as everraore developing-itself into greater distinctnesa i 3 the Idea of Humanity—Uc i .. )) Io endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between , men by prejudice and one-sidedvi . ew 3 ; 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 ofourspintualnature . "—JT « j » ooW «'« Cosmos . D
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 19, 1857, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2222/page/1/
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