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else she is at -war with One or more maritime Powers of the Continent , and in that case she can only acquire an ascendancy over them t > y ruining their navies . Then , of course ^ she can do them infinite mischief by ravaging their coasts , but not . by a military invasion j she could only carry on a war of annoyance by a mitftiplicity of partial expeditions ; all her army could be called upon to dp would be to occupy some fortified position under the guns of her ships . * But this is only a possible , and not a probable case . England ^ in engaging in a continental war , would probably ensure the services of some allies , whose armies would then derive immense advantages from lier fleets . The conclusion at which the author of the article arrives is , that naval forces will henceforth become indispensable elements in future continental wars .
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THE FATE OF M . ADOLPHE SCHLAGINTWEIT . A very full meeting of the Royal Geograp hical Society was held on Monday evening at Burlingtonliouse , Sir Roderick I . Murchison ; President , in the chair . ' : Amomr the papers read was a despatch from Captain' Henry Strachey respecting the measures taken by the Indian Government to : ascertain the fiiteof M . Adolphe Schlagintweit , communicated by the Right Hon . Lord Stanley , M . P ., P . R . G . S . intweit crossed the
Adolphe Schlag Para-Lassa Pass from Ijidia to Thibet oh the 31 st May , . 1857 * The last documentary evidence consists of his letter to Ilarkisliu from Chang-Chehmo of Ladak , dated the 14 th June , with a postscript , stating that it was hot sent till the 24 th , and one or two notes , for sundry payments , of the latter date . . These documents . were brought from Ladak by the Chuprassies , who joined Harkishu at Khardong pf Garzha on the 20 th of July * from whose statements it appears that before they left the Mbonshee , Mohamed Hasan had deserted , taking the ponies , some money , and other ' articles belonging to JVL SchlagintweitI but was overtaken , and the property
re-Covered . Harkisliu gathered from Captain Montgomery , j-E . G-S ., of the Trigonometrical Survey , and his native doctor , that they were in Ladak during the summer when lie left . Prom the locality of his hist despatch , Chang-Chehmo , ip . is inferred that he crossed the Turkish water-parting to the east of the Kara Korum Pass—perhaps to Sugat , on 'the head of tlie Kara Kash , and thence followed the route taken by his brothers the previous year , towards Kiliam and Khoten . It seems thii ' t he had laid in a stock of merchandise to facilitate his journey by trading . Prom another source , the Bhpliyas of Jyrar , the information' serves to show that lie had reached the margin of an inhabited
country at the foot of the mountains ; left his camp to reconnoitre , and , in his absence , the guide ab-. scdnded with most of the baggage and cattle towards Yarkend .. ' . Being thus left helpless , M . Schlagintweit sent to the Yanadar of . Le for assistance in men , cattle , provisions , &c , whether for the purpose of penetrating into Turkistan , or returning to Ladak , remains undetermined . The next accounts are derived from merchant travellers fro nv Ladak , from whom it appears that he had passed the winter of 1857 r 58 on the border of Khoten , and that on his arrival the provinces of Kuskghar and Yarkerid were in a disturbed : state from one of the periodical invasions of the Turks . It is unlikely that he
would remain more than one winter here , or that if still in the locality he would not have opened communication with Ladak and India ; probably , therefore , ho took the opportunity of the temporary subversion qf Chinese authority to enter Khoten or Yarkend , as to go far or yemain there . He could hardly u yoid , the notice of the insurgent Turks , who , tliough contrary to their natural impulse * might , in tho actual conjuncture , welcome him as an enemy to tluj Chinese , and the love of travel and enterprise wight prompt M . Schlagintweit to offer himself in tliat capacity . In either caqe , when the Chinese got tljo upper hand , they would first regain possession of their southern frontier towards Ladak
and he would probably retire with the invading Turks through Kashgur into Khokand , with which our relations linye been very slight , although wholly amicable , and on the strength of them he might meet a friendly reception there ; on the other hand , the Khoknndls are on , bad terms with nil their neighbours , including the Russians , who are steadily encroaching on their north-west frontier , and this would add to his difficulties in leaving their country again . The ways out of Khokand are E . to AH and S . JS . to KasUghur :, both completely stopped by the Chinese , i S . to Budakehan and Cabul , but physically ana politically moat difficult ; S . W . to Samarkand and Bukhara , and W : to Kblvn , both probably hostile to Khokand , and certainly so to the British . A European , « "d especially an English traveller , would find safety tlioro only from Russian protection .
Lastly ; to the Russian outposts on the N . W . and North Port Aralsk , near the Araland Ak-majed on the Sir ( Jaxartes ) , where most probably he has proceeded , as he would then be in a civilised world . It would be futile to discuss the chances of his ultimate escape , ^ hang ing as they dp on the caprices of the vilest barbarians of Central Asia : A discussion having ensued ; the meeting was adjourned to the 14 th inst .
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MISCELLANEOUS , Tayt Cottbt . —Her iVIajesty and her family continue in good health at Buckingham Palace . The second levee this season was held on "Wednesday j it was not so numerously , attended as the last , On Thursr day , the Queen held a Privy Council at Buckingham Palace , at which she received the seals of office from the out-going minsters ; and their successors kissed hands upon their appointment . The Queen honoured the performances at the Royal English Opera and the Olympic Theatre with her presence this week . Her Majesty has signified her intention of holding a Chapter of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle at Buckingham Palace on Monday next , for the purpose of investing the Marquis . of Ailsa with the insignia of the order .
Lords Palmerston and John RtJssEi , i-. ^ - ^ Tv " e find the following in a morning journal of yesterday - —We have the best authority for stating that an important movement has taken place amongst the leaders' of the Liberal party . Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell have agreed to lay aside their little differences , and go warmly in against the Government Reform Bill . The questions now to be determined are , whether a meeting on the new measure is to be called , and which of the noble lords is to convene it . If it be held at Lord John ' s , it is understood that Lord Palmerston will attend . " of
Signor Parini ' s PAMPHi , ET . ^ -The letter Parini to Lord John Russell on the Italian question' has just been published , and . tends to show how fruitless will be every effort to pacify Italy , and , through her , Europe , so long « s 'Austria remains . in Lombardy and Venice . Parini hopes that the old sound common sense of England , and her sympathy with all oppressed nations , will induce her to join Prance in the effort , tpseoure against every , eventuality the cause of Italian progression ^
Common Council . —At a special Court pn Thursday a motion to oppose the Sale of Grain Bill was agreed to . A long discussion on the proposed lunatic asylum then took place , and a \ motion to rescind the resolution of the Court of January 22 , 1858 , as far as regarded the cost of erecting the asylum by a county rate , and that it be paid out of the city ' s cash , was carried , with an addition to the effect that such expenditure should be entirely under the control of the Common Council .
Direct . Commissions in the Arsit . —It is a curious circumstance , and one well worthy of notice , that the two last direct commissions obtained in the army by examination' have been conferred on the eldest sons of the senior physician , Dr . Golding , and senipr surgeon , Mi " . Dancoek , of the Charingcrsss Hospital ; the former commission was competed for in September of last year , and the latter in February of the present one . New Chvroh atp Twickenham , ?—At a meeting held at the residence of Rear-TAdmiral Sir H . L . Baker , Bart ., at Richmond , a committee was formed for the -purpose of taking immediate steps to secure the erection of a church on thp site set apart by the Conservative Land Society , on the St . Margaret ' s Estate , at the corner of the St . Margarot ' , s drive and Ailsa-road , at the entrance Pf the Richmond-road .
The following gentlemen werq appointed a committee : ~~ Sir II . L . Baker , Lord H . Cholmondelcy , Rear-Admiral Bothuno , Major Ditmas , Capt . C . Egerton , R . N ., Rev . T . D . Hales , Cap $ , Heaslop , R . N ., Rev . T . G , Hough , Mr . IT , A . McGeachy , Capt , tho Hon . P . Maude , Ii . N ,, Mr . Henry Pownall , General Ppwney , Mr . J . M . Strachan , Rear-Admiral Trottor , and Mr . Morgan Yeatman , the latter pf whpm , with Capt . Maude , tP opt as honprary secretaries , The following gentlemen have consented to aet as trustees , viss .: —Lord JI . Oholmondeley , Rev . Edward Hoare , Mr . II . Pownall , Mr . 0 . J , Bevan , and the Won . Capt , Maude . The necessity for the erectiPn pf this edifice is becoming mpre and more urgent , especially since the occupation pf Lord Kilmpney ' s mansion , sold by the society to tho Royal Naval Pemale Sohopl , the residents in which alpno form tho nucleus pf a congregation .
The MuTKoroMrAN PowqB .-t-484 , 202 Z , was the tptal expense of tho motoppolitan pplico fprco last yoav . One chief magistrate ( the Lerd Maypr pro tem . ) receives 1 , 500 / . a-year ; 28 magistrates , 1 , 200 ? . oach $ and 23 olorks , salaries frpm 751 . to &QQI . an yep ? n , 27 QZ . was derlvodfromfljjoslast ytiar . The editor pf the Police Gazette receives a stipend pf 100 Z . a-yoar . Tlio pplico fprco includes 18 suporintondonts , 143 inspectors , 028 sergeants , ' and 5 , 355 cemmpn constables , nuakUig a tptal forco of 0 , 130 raon .
' I' The Lasi- Pioi . —A Paris letter says : —All the French newspapers state that the ; Princess Mathilde paid a visit to . the Prefect of Police a day or twp since to inspect some old records . I have reason to think that the object of her visit was very different from the one alleged . About ten days ago a person clad in the Imperial livery , presented liimself at one of the railway stations , and asked for three boxes which the Princess expected by a train that had just come in , and which would be directed "To be left till called for . '' He was told that two boxes only had arrived , and took the two away . The next day the missing box arrived . The railway clerks at once sent it off to the Princess Mathilde ' s residence
The hall-porter , on being told pf the other t-wp boxes said he knew nothing about them . The Princess being informed of the message from the railway , the box was opened in her presence , and was found to contain a quantity of bombs , rather smaller than those used by Orsini , but of precisely the same character . I am not sure whether it was on that evening or the next that the Emperor went to the Opera Comique . It was observed that most extraordinary precautions were taken on this occasion . Two squadrons of cavalry , a force quite unprecedented , as a guard of honour for an ordinary visit to a theatre , were stationed on the Boulevards , and
all the approaches to the theatre were kept clear to an exterit altogether unusual . The reason for these precautions is now evident . There can scarcely be a doiibt that the Princess Mathilde went to the police-rofiice for reasons connected with tlie' alarming discovery above aliuded to . With regard to the above story , the Paris correspondent of the Globe observes : — -I perceive in , t \\ & Express a magnificent canard about three boxes of Orsini ' s bombs " smaller dimension , " delivered as railway jjarccls , and addressed to Princess Mathilde . That duck is very lame in all its bearings . If there had been any truth in it , the Express would have been seized .
Advantages of a Mabriage SETTLEMi ^ T .--It appears that the attempt of the liquidalors of the London and Eastern Banking Corporation to obtain , possession of the 1 G , OOOZ . settled by the notorious Mr . Stephens uj > on his wife , and of which liis confederate , Colonel "Waugh , was one of the trustees , together with his father-in-law , Mr . John Carnac Morris ^ has wholly failed . The settlement , was effected only a short time previous to the discovery that Waugh . and Stephens had obtained for their own use the whole of the funds of the bank , and had . reduced to ruin all who had embarked in it ; but Stephens ' s transactions were carried on partly in the shape of loans to himself , and partly by the
ordinary working of a drawing account ; and the Vice-Chancellor has decided that the property which constituted the settlement cannot , as regards its mode of acquirement , be sufliciently traced to admit of its being recovered for the victims of that establishment . In addition to the l ( 5 , 0 tKU , 4 , 0 D 0 Z . was , settled by Mr . Carnac Morris , and the result therefore is , that Mr . Stephens , at the conclusion of the present chapter of bis career , virtually finds himself with an inalienable provision of 20 . 000 Z . Looking afc- the fact that he commenced his operations in the financial v . 'orld fresh from the duties of an army assistant-surgeon , and that the creation and destruction of the bank was
the work of only three years , his suqeess must have realised his best hopes . Colonel Waugh is fully believed to have exercised corresponding care for the protection of Mrs . WaugU and his family , and as the creditors of the bank are not inclined to ad < l to their losses the expen . se of hunting him down and bringing him to justice , and the Government have apparently determined to let all such cases for the future enjoy immunity , a spectacle is thus presented to the -world of triumphant audacity which for completeness has rarely been paralleled . ' That under tho present state of tho law tho example will find numerous itnitators must bo fully expected . Among tho cases of insolvency during tho crisis of 1857 , there were many which showed that the marriage sottloment system constituted the chiof inducement nnd reliance pf tho adventurers by whom our conimorue was and of tho to t
being ruined ^ one groat objections » o practice of winding up " under inspection * consisted' in tho way in which for obvious reasons aoeountants , splicitors , and creditors hnvo P ' ^ over those contrivances . That they will bo stm more widely oarrlod out during future jiorioas oi speculation can scarcely bo doubtod , after tho encouraging instances now furnished . A xotovm oi tho Bankruptcy Court may , perhaps , surp ly som « oheoK : but there can bo no real romedy untH ui « morality of tho trading classos shall hftvo ad vuncou to a point tP cx ^ ablo thorn tP recognise tluvt tiio w * dulgent creditors who ponnivo ftt such transactions aro almost as guilty as tho plausilMo clmrlativnB « a wWom they allow thomsolvos to bo the dupos . — /«««»¦ East Injjia House . —Jlpr Mojosty haa boon » ' « £ " ' on tho rocomtnondatlon of Lord fitnnloy , to « -l » P ; the appointment of Sir Robert N . 0 . Hamilton , UMi ,, as Provisional Member of the Council .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 5, 1859, page 298, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2284/page/10/
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