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writers and 100 ? . lias been awarded to the supenn-^ nde ntof the Government press . The system of Sting is to be extended to the financia department and the offices of the Treasury generally . The Government has ordered the purchase of a numbering machine . The sooner this work is transferred to the hills the better . ¦ . ' ' ' ' . A very useful measure has been taken by the rovernment of India , which has sanctioned the erection of butts at Dappa for the target practice of the Calcutta "Volunteer Guards . We are glad that , notwithstanding a strong attpmvt to replace Mr . Rissory Charid Mittra , the late native magistrate of Calcutta , the Government has adhered to the report of Mr . Pelly Hinde and his brother commissioners , and refused to restore the delinquent ' ' ¦
. . . . .. ~ _ , An attempt is being made to restore in Bengal the system of judicial oaths , the fertile source of perjury , and , what is worse , false judgments . The administration of oaths in courts of justice is a blot on our jurisprudence ; but , in a country like India , cunning in fencing with oaths beyond the ancient Pharisees , and abounding in forms of special , personal , and caste oaths , the result is to delude some of the English functionaries to admit statements , as statements on oath , the credibility of which requires severe examination . It is justly observed that the most effective measure is to punish with rigour all cases of false and . corrupt evidence , and thereby discourage the iniquitous practices which now prevail .
The proceedings of the French in Cochin China are justly attracting atte ntion in I ndia , for the danger is there seen of any French settlement in that country , and that there is the full intention to establish dominions in those regions , there can be no doubt . It is observed that the great seaports of India .. are almost defenceless , and that although in India the French have only Pondicherry as a stronghold , yet it is of small resource , but if the French held one of the great river deltas of Cochin China , they could there maintain an army and a fleet , and could menace our Indian possessions ; The danger is greater than this , and the attempts tb build up a than
French empire in the East more insidious a mere attempt on Cochin China , and having been sedulously followed up , and to a considerable extent successful , the full extent of the evil may now be apprehended . The French stations in the East now include Bourbon , Nossi Bay , in Madagascar , and the Comoro islands on the west , Pondicherry and Mahe in India , New Caledonia , Tahiti and the Society Islands . Through our folly the French have been allowed to play a part with , us in China and Japan . Well may our fellow-citizens in India feel alarmed , and nothing but an increase of the English population , and securing the strongholds in the hills , will find confidence to . clear and keep the natives in check .
The assumption by the Queen of the direct Government of India , has been announced by the Viceroy of India to the Ameer of Cabul and the chiefs of Kokhan and Khiva . The Government have , it is . understood , given directions for placing the name of the Queen on the dies of the Presidency mints instead of the name of the Company . The inscription ] of the Moguls of Delhi has been removed from the coins of the Nizam , but the name of the Queen should be placed on all native coins .
The Victoria Museum and Garden at Bombay , in commemoration of the Imperial era , are likely to be a success . 20 , 000 / . is required , of which 5000 / . was subscribed at the first meeting . It is reported that Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy , Bart ., intends to give 2500 / . The missionary intelligence informs us that the Coorg Mission is to be reocenpied , the Basle Missionary Society having agreed to take charge of it . Dr . Trumpp , of the Scinde Mission , has returned . One of his German schemes is to perfect the Scindian alphabets by adding severailetters to theDovanagari and Arabic alphabets ns used in Scinde , and , to complete the conftision , he is having type cast . The simple way is to introduce the Roman character . Five Gorman missionaries have been provided for the Malabar coast .
It is assorted that the first Bhattia Christian whose conversion was so lately announced at Bombay , haB already returned to his undent faith , and is now on a pilgrimage to a holy . Hindoo place to purify himself . The first masonic lodge , the Hope and Perseverance , has been opened in tho Punjab , The Madras Government has resolved to encourage native uncovenanted officers , who pass an optional examination in the English language , English arithmetic , book , -keeping , history , geography , Mid political economy . They-do not at present tfnakq these a part of the compulsory course . The < J 4 £ mUes additional on the Government Indian Peninsular Railway were opened on the 15 th December , making tho total extent now open for traffic
177 miles . The value of Poonah as a great military establishment is now much increased . It receives its recruits , and supplies detachments for sea by its communication with Bombay , and inland it already communicates by Kheirgaum to Patus and Decksal . The extension to Sholapore will be opened some months hence . Klrkee command has been suppressed , and Poonah is to be strengthened by the construction of a fort at the Sungum , wherein are to be placed the arsenal , commissariat , and other public departments , and which is to serve as a place of refuge for the dependents on the Government . The Company are still advertising at home for tenders for the Nagpore branch , one of the cotton lines , a distance of 262 miles : it is divided into five
contracts . The electric telegraph is being developed in Bombay , lanes are open in progress so as to give a succession of alternative routes by Surat to Kurrachee ; by Goa and Cochin to Cape Comorin , to join the Southern Madras and Ceylon line ; by Poouah , the Nizam ' s territory , and Nagpore to Calcutta . There are thus three routes to Calcutta , one by way of Agra , one by Nagpore , and one by Madras . Numbers of young men are now proceeding to India to join the several railway and other works , or seeking engineering employment . They are obtained on moderate terms . „
Commodore Wellesley , the Indian naval Commahder-in-Chief , has proceeded to the Malabar coast to examine the district about Sedashevaghur and Toodir , which lie south of Goa , with a view to ascertain whether ports can be created to which Vessels may run during the south-west monsoon . Some changes have been made ini the engineering department of Bombay . Major North , who held the anomalous office of civil architect ofBombay * is shifted to the post of superintending engineer of the southern circle ; and instead of an architect being appointed to Bombay , another major , Major Kendall , has been sent to that city to be its civil architect . ! . Captain Scott , a military officer , by some other freak , holds the appointment of executive engineer for Gogo and the Guzerat posts , engineer of the Bombay dockyard ; and engineer of the Bombay
garrison . ¦•' . ... A military officer is made architect , and another of these functionaries is supposed to act as military engineer , as ah hydraulic engineer , and as naval engineer of a dockyard . It is no wonder that the Indian Government have a tenderness of pushing on public works . As a worthy pendant to this , Captain Fellon is appointed to be executive engineer of the Scinde Canal department , continuing for the present on special i duty in the political department . This kind of joke is not peculiar to Bombay , for at Calcutta they have just appointed Captain A . Impey , first-class executive engineer , to be : civil architect of Calcutta , and to be the arbiter of taste in the City of Palaces .
The sooner the distinguished officers of the military engineers are employed in their proper duties , and architects and engineers are employed , in their proper duties , the better will it be for the army and civilians of India . Forts and jungle continue to be cleared away in Oude . Roveah and Toolseepore are doomed . The general rise of prices , which we have pointed out as one of the phenomena of Indian progress , is now matter of observation in Ceylon . Yesterday , a paper was read at the United Service Institution , by Mr . Hyde Clarke , on the occupation of the hill regions as the seat of the English military force in India .
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INDIA . TBLEQRAJPmo despatches have been received in anticipation of the Indian mails , by which we learn that Ferozo Shah was defeated with much slaughter , by General Napier , on the 17 th December , at Ranodo , and pursued for eight miles ; his force was again dispersed on the 23 rd by troops from Poonah . Nana Sahib was reported at Churdah , in Oudo , with 1500 men . Two rajahs with him have solicited Government ¦ for protection when they may be able to escape .. Their messenger also appeals on behalf of tho Nana himself for clomenoy to his family . Papers and letters by the overland mail reached London on Thursday . The Hurharu says ;—•
? ' War there is none loft , and nothing put a dangerous , fierce , and scattered hunt remains , The rebel leaders who succeeded in bursting through our cordons and in crossing the Ganges wore Ferozo Shah , Luokur Shah , Poorjco Mossal Ally Khan , Golab Shah ( who passes himself as a European ) , and Fazol Huqq , tho Moulavio . This is Government news . " Tho Nana was stated to bo with the fugitive chiefs and to have crossed the Ganges on the Oth of tho present month , in broad noonday , at eomo spot between Futtohghur and Cawnporo . But tho telegraph wiro was cut by the rebel a , and all exactitude of information prevented .
" The insurrection as an organisation is over . Th © duties of a rural constabulary have fallen upon generals , brigadiers , and majors . Lord Clyde himself has become but a chief of police in a disturbed country ; while the more pugnacious chiefs fly hither and thither , and the Nana squats in a jungle negotiating terms of safety for his family and reading the English newspapers . "
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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . The Phoebe has arrived , with news to December 22 nd . At the Cape , Pretorius was preparing for the subjugation of the Bechuana tribes and the expulsion 6 f the missionaries from the Transvaal Republic . The small-pox had almost totally disappeared . An outbreak of Kaffir convicts took place at Tubback , but it was immediately suppressed . One of the convicts was killed . The Hamburg barque Aragos was wrecked in Table Bay on the night of the 30 th ult ., through neglect in not keeping the lead going . Panda , the King of the Zulus , was in a dying state from gout , and it -was feared that at his death there would be a war of succession . .
Captain Bedingfield , R . N ., had returned to Cape Town from the Livingstone expedition in the Zambesi by the Lagea , and returns to England in the Sanspareil , which , with the Nankin and Pique , had sailed on their way home from China . Some trifling misunderstanding between him and the leader of the expedition was said to be the occasion of his return .
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CHINA . The telegrams received this week announce that nothingauthentic had been heard of Lord Elgin ' s trip up the Yang-tse-kiang . The - Chinese report that the ambassador ' s ship exchanged fire with the rebels in passing Mooboo . ¦ •'' . ¦ The Laplace , with . Baron Gros on board , got ashore on one of the Chusan Islands , and was towed to Shanghae by her Majesty ' s ship Inflexible . His Excellencythen proceeded to Hong-Kong by the Aden . Mr . Reed , United States Commissioner , returns to America . . Canton was quiet .. Affairs at Ningo were bad . An alarming ure occurred in a central part of HongrKong on the 5 th December . Since Sir J . Bowring left on a visit to Manilla on the 29 th of November , the non-official legislative councillors have protested against the admission of another official member . The Governor of Macao was said to be about to proceed to Siam to enter into a treaty wiih Portugal . " The state pf affairs at Ningpo is alarming . From Foo-chow-foo and Araov reports are favourable ^ A rather alarming fire broke out in the centre of Hong-Kong on the 5 th of December , and only by the most extraordinary exertions were the premises of the Oriental Bank Corporation kept from destruction . One fine building , the residence , and godowns of . Messrs . Schseffer and Co ., merchants , and the offices of Mr . Tarrant , solicitor , were totally destroyed , together with four other houses .
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EGYPT . A lettek from Alexandria of the 18 th inst . says that the Euryalus , with Prince Alfred on board , is expected about the middle of February . The Viceroy intends giving him a magnificent reception . A visit this winter from the Grand-Duke Constantino of Russia is likewise spoken of . The adoption of the reformed system pf currency has been deferred to the 15 th of February , so as to allow full time for a complete and careful revision of the Government tariff * valuations of foreign coins . For this purpose a special council has been formed at Cairo ; they are about to apply to the principal European Governments for official statements of the precise assay fineness and weight of their respective coinages .
Mr . Brunei has left Cairo on a trip to tbo upper country , and Lord Duff / erin has also sailed for the latitudes of Southern Egypt and Nubia . Mr . Brunei on his return tp Cairo will probably visit Suez ; the Viceroy is desirous of huving his opinion , as tp the project of transferring the port pf Sues to the Bay of Ataka , some ten miles south of the present landing-placo . The depth of water on this part pf the cpast would admit of the largest steamers being discharged close in shore , instead pf lying , as at present , five miles from the landing-placo ; a breakwater would bo necessary to protect the shipping . Mr . Robert Stophonson paid a cursory visit to the spot , prior to his departure by last mail for Marseilles , and his opinion seems favourable ; but he thinks that tho expense of constructing the jetty would attain the sum of 500 . 0001 . sterling .
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Wo 462 , January 29 , 1859 . ] T H E 1 . E A D E ! R . 153
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Mr . C . Ohiohelev Pjlpwdkn . —This gentleman has retired from tho public service , having been at tho Board of Control for upwards of forty years , where ho ultimately succeeded to tlio assistant-secretaryship , , which ho hold until it was abolished . On tho changes which took place under tho now Indian Act , ho was transferred to tho secretaryship of tho Marino and Transport Department at the India Office .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 29, 1859, page 153, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2279/page/25/
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