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aac-St * the . people ; of India that security for property tlHuwslicmld be as complete as it i * ia England ; . "He i * Mt lU > put&n enti to-all tbemUoliievous and irritating iMMurtes th « t had been- going' on for years past into >> the tttlee oP tended estates , under which they told erery roa » 4 hr , t , if he could not prove- be had held hia property on a »«« R » n » peachable . title- for ; ninety yeara , tlioy would dispossess him . What would bethe state of things in IShglaiui' if sucfea- comimssiot * were issued ? ( JSear , Hoar . } Hewould proclaim * to the people of India that We \» oakl hold sacred the right of adoption * thai bad prevailed for centuries in that country . He would tell them that their religion should be inviolable ; and'te ^ peeted . Moreover , h& would establish a court of appeal * the judges of which should b * the judges of the
Mj ^ h ' eBt character in- India , and who -would sit sorne-¦ wh * re ,-at a certain period , for the settlement of the many d ? 6 pu *«« that arise between the Government of India and its > 8 H % Jeet 6—Home lixitive , and some European , H « ' would-not have-those- questions again * brought on-the Stktv op that' House , He would no * prohibit it by statntey hut lw-wouhi establish such a court of" appeal fcfcbt 7 j& man wmM think it worth bia while to cross the ocean ¦• ttrgpt- 'ibtft ^ nsticei here whieh he : could get cheaply a « d without corruption ^ h * the land ( if his birthv He veulft carry out the- proposition for Jhe formation , of a eomruissioB" to . inquire into the finan-ces of the country , and would tell the people of' India tbivt- there should be a searching iwqa * ry > into- tb © grievances that exist there , and that it iraa the w * l *'© f the- Queen of England that tt * o < 9 & erievan « e 8 should be redressed . " .
Mr .- "WttraesiDB-acoufled- &I »\ Bright oft having swept awnyJaaf-lfght manner subjects presenting the utmost diffi ! eu ^ ite»—particularly the question of land temwesi Mta sebetne flit * the government of our Eastern- depemleney ' -vras altogether untenable , though no doubt in inany' inataiwes- of' annexation of territory there had < iteen : ar want o ? tbte prtncipte' of legality . At the same tiinej aWgeneral sweeping censmes of the East India Oumpariyj were reprehensible ; He angured gtmd results ftfom trie scheme before the Hbuses—Mr . Peter O'BIuen Kbped ' - that' religions-freedom would be kept in view aa" 6 rte of the- jrreatesfc objects . —Mr . Vkrndn Smith tnonghtthat Mr-. Brightis suggestion whether India might wet be divided into presidencies , without any
Governor-General , waa worthy of consideration . Still , he thought temft-central authoritywould be required . The number of ' councillors proposed by the bill ( fifteen ) would be eumbrous- and inconvenient : the bill , indeed , provided a sort-06 sham responsibility . - Oft ' tlw-whole , however ^ -He cwdrally supported the . bttP , -which only differed slightly frbna Lord Rn ' merston ' s . —Colonel Svkes suggested that , if th « House decided that the-council should consist of fifteen members , the number-should be dh-itled into three committees / and also expressed his hope that a provisien tiwuM be' inserted iiv the- bill' giving the Minister for India some control- ' over- the finances of India . —Mr UtoMsxA ; saW- lie understood that a very important eonv
nvuniefttum -had been addressed by the Court of Directtww to * the 'Government upon th 5 a subject of thi 8 bitty awl he wished' tokno-w-Tthether there vro ^ ild be any objection to lay before the House a .- copy oT this document , ' together with thfe reply-of her Majesty ' s-Government to it . — . Mr . HttKBOCK dfeili&ed ' the bill altogether , and . prophesied' that the- state ¦ . of things id instigated woaM'soon tumble to pieces , and tb- ' itt the country would fit the « nd be t > bll&ed to revert'to his proposition- for go- * vemU » jr India by a Minister unhampered ' by any Council . — -Mr ; Thomas Barino although he should " hare preftrred'to wecr legislation forlhdla ImltfiMva time ; yielded to the Wish of the House ehac legislation- should 'proceed : He" preferred' fcftapreseirt bill to the previous bills-.
The bill 'was then read a- second time ; and 5 the-committee was appointed for the following day . The Ntet Pities Court ( iREtAwo ) Bilx . was reoin thrrd timcj and passed ; and ; other bills having * been advanced a stage , the House adjourned * at one- o ' clock ;
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TBK OltlE ^ X . EGYPT . Wte loam ( aays . the MUnrninff Sit * . *) , - by papers famished to > hbj that a petitl 6 n > signed "by Lord Henry Scott , - and atecty-three of the leuding-mercantile and banking firm * , travelers , arid' moat respectable residents within the jurisdiction of the British Consulate nt Cairo , has been transmitted through Mr ; Walne , the Consul , for presentation to thfl Queen . Ttte petitioners complain of cer UAn police regulations recently put in force by the Egyptian Government , which would subject thorn to Mohammedan jurisdiction , instead of the Consulate
Jurisdiction , under which exclusively , ns they contend , according to treaties between the Sublime XN > rte and tier Mhjesty , all such police timtt « ra shouUt tall . The Pacjha baB ia-sued' n genoral ordinance establishing a central . office at Alexandria lor t heso pyrpoHcs , with u director of police , ait " adjoint / ' inid a " sufficient numtrerof iasptjetbr » and Kavasses . " The directors ¦ ' will have the -obsef ^ uMrinteiHienco of the office of police of foreigners , " and w-tth the newly- creitted force ho is t » have power to inake vWlts and soarchea In hotels and famished honsea Wpt by , ftireignenj . Then follow rulo * concerning-the ftrriral'of < nVreiipa « r » ,, t ) l « ir rwWenco and establtxhmants , tHiitirOdld'db credit to n ' rwlghbtourttog prefecture . ' TPhtei
systemj the petitioners beKeve to be of " ¦ foreign sup-geetion . " They argue that , "if it may bo considered necessary by other Eowere , having Consular offices in Egypt ,, to obtain a close supervisirkn , by the police , over their xeapective subjects , such , consideration on tbeir part does not afford a valid reason why a similar supervision should be extended to Bxitish subjects in Egypt . " CHINA . At Canton , general distrust continues to prevail . The inhabitants were leavine ; the city at the latest advices . Considerable injury had- been inflicted on Hong-Kong by a waterspout . At Shanghai , on the 27 th of April ,, the import markets were inactive , and silks had declined twenty taels . Tlie "business done during the month -waa estimated at six thousand , bales .
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It waa only j'esterd « y that telegrams "were , received from India for tjjo first , time for nearly 11 fortnigjit ; and , vrlien iltey arrive ' fl , the news they contained was neithercopk > us nor exhilarating . Still , further successes on our part are recorded . Brigadier General Jones ,, on the lltU of May , relievedotfr troops who were-besieged in t"Ue geol of Shahjehanpore . The Meulvie w a * defeatetl , and the cavalry went itt pursui t . Sir Kdiward . Lugard entered . Jugdes |)» re oa the 9 th , liUling great nunnbets of the rebels , -who-, oa the 13 th , w «* e flying ; saufchi A j »» ction with Colonel Cor field wa » egfected by Sir Edward . A good deal of fighting > srithth © rebels ensued , and , the enemy were driven into the j rnigies , Ll from which , hosvert-er , " says the Foreign-office telegram , " it would be difficult to disr lodge the «» k "
Sir Hugh Rose halted on the 12 th of May at Aramker , near Cuttack , and oa the following day marched on Etyalj , thre ^ coaa from Calpee . The insurgents' were in position in his , front ,, and had been joined at Calpee by tlu ? Nabob of Benda and the Kanee . of Jliansi- They had made a bridge for escape across the Jnmna , and had destroyed the road from Jhanai , to prevent the pa 8 s « ogeof artillery . Sii-Hugh Rose is reported to have attacked them on the 1 , 41 Unit . ; bu ^ ntx details are y « t given . Some important items of news are thus given by ih& . Times Alexandrian correspondent : — ^ iaeknow was tbreutened , in General Hope Grant's absence , sonthward , by 26 ^ 000 men under , the Begum . On the 16 tb , ; Sir Colin Campbell , leaving a strong force under General Walpole , marched for Fufctebghur , ivhere he . waa on the 18 tb .
. . *• • A-ssirmisl * ia reported with the enemy undenvthe Moolviei 5000 cavaky and 5 Q 0 O inCantiy , lay botweea the ; Gommander-inrChief and Mohu 9 « ly » On toe arrival of re » % cceruonts ,. expected next day , the enemy waa , to « fee dxi \* ea . from Mobundy . Sir . Colin Campbell had ; crossed , the ( iiangea . TheJteat ^ waa intense ,, and the troopa -&t Lucknow unhealthy . The garriaoa waa reduced to 20-ftft infautcy . " Kium . Baltodoor and . ISEana Saljib had attacked GenerttL Jones ' s positioa at Shahjehanpore , but were , repulsed , with the loss : of Forster . aide-d « r-camp . " Qme * Singh had , crossed the Ganges * , and menaced theiBombay route from Allvghur . Qo . tho IJttU Colonel Lightfoot , whoi had ; been left at Jugdespore , was attacked , and firing could be heard * General Lugard intended moving ! back- on Jugdcsporo .
" A conspiracy has boea . discovered ia a wing of the Fourth . Native . Loiantry in the Pui \ jab . The conspiratoms . were hanged , and tho . wing at one © matched to Jdllundur . The . Rajah of Shunda , ia Nagpove , on the B 3 'derabad frootLor , has . broken into open rebellion . " The Calcutta import , market has slightly improved . Produce coatinncd dull . The rnoaoy market is un-Q hansed . "
THB PCNJAB . In . the -early part of May , greet apprehension was fe . lt at Meean Meer that another revolt would burst . out among the ; disarmed Sepoys at that station , as n moueot ceUbmting-the first aniuveraary of the rising . All tha Englialt and Sikh troops were accordingly put under ami a % guns , loaded -with grape , were pointed so aa to be ready to batter down the huts . of tlwi Sepoy a ; and tlus p » rt fires were kept constantly burning ., Gtoeral Windlianft , who commands at tho stations had tb © Sepoys paraded , on the morning of tlt 0 i 7 th of May , when they were searched , and a few anna were discovered un them . Some of tlie men were taken , prisoners * bat therxiilitary authorities have ratlier endeavoured to huah the matter up . » in . rdsseij .. lhoTTftnea of yesterday has the subjoined gratifying announcement : — \ " Our readors will participate in tho satisfaction with which we announce , tho receipt , of intelligence this jnomlngp by telegraph of Mr . KusscU ' a recovery from ttio aun-atroko by which he had been yrostrated ; on the inarch from Futteghur to Bartiilljr with the column ; imdfer Sir Co »« Campbell . At tte ' latost d 4 te , ho waa latFtttteghurj nnd '( mite -wcH . ' ^
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" ~ TH& THAMES . """" " ^ Tub state of tlie Thames has restlly been the sub eofc of the week . The feculence and stench grow worse and worse every day ; thu foulness simmer * and steams finder the ., heat of . the sun > is stirred up bv the constant churuiug of paddle-wheels , or lies in lazy lengths of puaiiferaus black sludge ou the hiloa . es of the river . at low water—lazy , atleast , to look at bvu very potent and active ia the venom txf tlitir influence . Notliing is done , or only the . burlesque of
sonielhing . Iiast week , a few barges . pottered ; up and clown thftRVeat oyen sewer , throwing iu q . u , intu ties of lime ; but to think of nullifying such , a vast reservoir of poison by ¦ a few sackfula of antidote is like trying to put ouc a conflagration with a iiennv squirt . The Goveauiie » vt has lianded ovur its puwer to the Metropolitan Jioard of Works , which tosre tlier wilh the City Court of Sewers , is thinking about the matter , and so tlxe evil waxes apace , and JLondon is threatened witli a pestilence .
A death from Asiatic cholera lias , already occurred traceable to . tlie cotwliiion of the river . The victim was Uichard Billingsley , aged fifty-nine , a Wi . teiiaan living iu FaTthing-alley , a narrow court leading out of U |» per Ea . st SinUhfield . He wa& ia the habit of working on . the river from Irongate-stairs ; and was a sober riuin , very regular ia his lite . On the warnyweaiber setting . iri , he complainud ot great debility , nausea , and diarrlicaa , arising , as he believed ( and no doubt correctly ) ,, from th « -poisonuus exhalations , of th « Thames . He s ^ oke . paviivulai ly of the stench on leaving off work un the evening of Thursday week . He then took to-liia belaud was rapidly in tb © worst stage of Asiatic cholera . C ^ amp in the extreniitius set . in , and death on Sunday relieved the , poos man from his agonies . At tlte inquest ( as we read in tlie daily
papers)—1 he widwv waa examined , and deposed to her huBf band complaiaing of a great naasta wheu . be came home ort Thursday evening . He could not eat anything ,, aa he said he could not- get the stench off Ms luugs ^ Mr . English ( a medical gentleman ) said there was no doubt that the attack had been brought oh by inhaling had air . Near Irongate-stairs , -where tho deceased worked , a large sewer empties itself into the viver , and the > efljuvia arising froiu it -was . most offensive . Several of the jury alluded to the present daitgerous condition of the river and tlie docks ( St . Katherine and London ) in that neighbourhood , the basins of wliich could ouly be
compared to large cesspools . The water was as black as ink , and emitted a most poisonous vapour over tlie whole district . It -was a reproach to the large dock companies that they had not done something towards remedying this state of things , which endangered the lives of the whole population 5 u the district . Mr . Eng-Iish in answer to tbe foreman , said there , was no doubt tb _ e present condition of the . water in the docks , was very detrimental to the public health . The air was charged with , a noxious vapour . This was the first case of Asiatic cholera that had occurred in the neighbourhood . The coroner observed there could be no doubt us to the
state , of the river and the docks being prejudicial to the public health , and it was to be hpned that every possible precaution would bo taken . to mitigate the evil . A juror trusted that this case would operate as a , warning , to the proper authorities whoso duty it is to protect the public health . The jury then returned a verdict , ' that tho deceased died from the effect of an attack of Asiatic cholera , brought on . by inhaling the noxious vJinour of the Thames . '" Mr . Gurney has addressed a letter to the Speaker of the . House of Commons , to say that ho can no lonyer . be responsible for the health of the House ,
the stencil having-marie rapid advances withiu two days . Even tho Star Chamber ,. which had liiiherto been comparatively free from the malaria , has , now become intolerable . Several of the clerks have beeu forced to get up and leave their rooms in tho night . Canvas , soaked in chloride of lime , has been si retched sicross the windows of the House looking out on the Thames ; but this mitigation of the evil is but slight . Meanwhile , people crowd tlie steamboats , as usual , and some strange comments are uttered by the passengers . We henrd a portly policeman , yesterday , exclaim , as he held his nose with his lingers , " Its enouiib . to breed a famine !"
The preliminary report of the Sewage Commission contains tho following ; outline of a plan for dealing with the sewago of the metropolis : — " Tho proposition now submitted ia , to construct embankir . en . ta detached from the shore , in the form of advanced terraces , continuous on tbe surfaces , but affording , at convenient distances , entrances to tho iniici basins , «> n tho principle recommended by the Coinmwsionor 8 of Metropolis Improvement , in thoir report of 18-14 . _ lii tho interior of tliOBO lengths of embankment , a . scries of separate- reservoirs would bo focuicri ,. into which tho whole of tho sewers of the , nictroitf > Jis now discharging directly into , tlio Thames , would liuve their outfall , The solid niutters would there be separated and precipita-ted , and jthe liquid treated with some deodorizing- ngont before d ' lHchargo .. 14 Intercepting sewers ; would cut oft * the whtolo of th <> high-level drainage of the-metropolis , now auch « nourco
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696 y H E IiE ADOti U . [ N ^ i ; 433 ? , June 26 , 186 %
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Leader (1850-1860), June 26, 1858, page 606, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2248/page/6/
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