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— INDIA , AND ¦ . - ¦ ¦ ¦ INDIAN PROGRESS .
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No . 499 . Oct . 15 , 1859 . 1 THE LEA DBS . 1151
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Chotek I have laid the first-mentioned , document before His Highness the Prince Regent , who has digged to declare that the full and . well-founded confidence which he reposes in his princely cousm and friend doeV not permit him to assume that any encroachment is meditated upon the rights of otter German Sovereigns either individually or collectively , and that the words spoken by the Duke expressed simply a necessity which lias been acknowledged to exist by' MRxmt German" Governments , viz : a i-efprm of the gderal Compact . Nothing was further from the ^ juke ? thoughts than the encouragement of illegal ^ easures ™ the pursuit of that object . As regards the Ration which is now in a very explicit manner striving tor ffi reform , Ihe RoyafGovernment had an opportunity lately of enunciating its Aiews , in reply to an address from the city of Stettin , which reply has no doubt come undlr his Excellency ' s attention as well as yours through the public papers . I annex , however , an authentic copy incase it should be required . The Prussian
Government , conscious of the uprightness of its intentions con * ceives no need of any further explanation on account of the fact that its name has been put prominently forward , independent of its will , in this agitation . And while upon this point , I cannot forbear alluding to the dispatch which Count Rechberg has addressed to the Imperial Minister at Dresden . At the conclusion of this dispatch it is stated , that at a period not long past the noble sentiments of the Emperor of Austria and the love of peace which animated the two great powers of Germany , saved the country from the perils of eiyil war . The feet referred to has become matter of history . 1 entered into
must , however , remark that the arrangement at that time left questions of great moment unsolved ; questions which it would be neither politic nor just to regard as deriving their origin from error or party intrigues . I recall to mind that Austria herself m indubitable and positive declarations expressed her readiness to no-operate in the solution of these questions . And although the solution must be again deferred to a future day , it will never be made use of by Prussia to promote selfish objects or partial views , but to lier duty to herself and Germany . Your- Excellency is authorised to read this dispatch in full to Count Rechberg , and should he require give him a copy .
"Herrn Arnim , Vienna . " Schleinitz . " Great preparations are in progress for the celebration of the hundredth birthday of the German poet Schiller , 10 th of next month . Committees have been formed in almost every town and village of the country ? and there is every prospect of the celebrations becoming a grand national festival , as well as a sort of demonstration of the desire for unity . It is ; intended to usher in the dawn of the 10 th November with the thunder of cannon and the ringing of bells . The day itself will be passed in feasting and in singing the lays of the poet , and close with fireworks arid torchlight processions . I mentioned in my last that a petition presented by the burgomaster and town council of Cassel had been rejected by the Elector , because the sentiments contained therein were not in accordance with the vie-ws of the
Court . This has naturally caused some ferment in Hessia , and , indeed , Germany generally . The people of Hessia have always had , more than any others , the sympathy of the great mass . No one will venture to deny that they truly deserve it , for no people have shown such a determination and prudent consistency in the maintenance of their rights ns the Hessians . They have endured more for freedom ' s sake than any other people of the Continent , and they appear disposed to endure more . An agitation has now commenced in the country , of which we shall hear more shortly . Since the above was written , the authentic answer of the Duko of Saxe-Cobourg lias come under my eye , but X am unable to get the translation done in time for post . It differs considerably from the summary published by the journal of FranM' ort last week .
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. v THE PERSIAN" WAR AND THE INT ) IAN MUTINY . In an article on the Blue Book recently issued by the Mouse of Commons , giving the evidence on the King of Delhi ' s trial , the Indian Field notices the strong ground which is supplied for believing that Russia and Persia were not inactive in instigating the mutiny in the North West Provinces . A resildar named Everet told Sir T . Metcalfe before the outbreak that the King of Delhi had sent an emissary to Russia . Sir T . Metcalfe states , " The subject of thfi . advance of the Persians upon Herat was much
discussed among natives , and frequently in connection with the idea of Russian aggression upon India Every native newspaper had at this time its correspondent in Kabul , and there was a constant communication kept up with the north ; every newspaper having its weekly quota of information from thence . About five or six weeks before the outbreak it was currently reported in the lines of the sepoys , and much discussed among them , that 100 , 000 Russians were coming from the north , and that . the Company ' s Government would be destroyed—in fact , the idea of a Russian invasion was universally prevalent . "
For some time previous to the revolt , the XTrau papers noticed . the fact that the King of Delhi was holding a correspondence with the Shah of Persia , and that a large force was preparing for an advance on India . In January , 1857 , & Delhi native newspaper stated-: •—' " . It . may be said that the Russians are virtually the cause of this Persian war , and that using the Persians as a cloak , they intend to consummate their own designs regarding the conquest of Hindoostan . It is to be believed that the Russians will very soon take the field in great force . "
It appears from the evidence of Sir Theophilus Metcalfe that just before the mutiny numerous copies of the famous Persian proclamation , found by Sir James Outram in the Shahzada ' s tent at Mohumra , were posted up at the Jumma Musjid at Delhi ; and others of a similar character were found all over Hindoostan , down as far as Raneegunge , in May , 1857 . The people , in fact , generally believed that a Western invasion was certain . Dost Mahomed was to spend his Eed at Peshawar , and the King of Persia was to visit the Great Mogul at Delhi at the same time . _ the of
The letters produced on the trial of King Delhi have thrown a good deal of light on some features of the Indian rebellion . There is one letter from the King of Persia to the Great Mogul , calling upon him to raise the Mahomedans of India in a Jihad against the English , and a letter from the Delhi potentate asking for Persian aid in this great work . Prom all these facts it is natural , to conclude that Persian influence was the means of stirring up the mutinous elements already existing in India into the general conflagrations that have wasted some of the fairest portions of our empire . But it may be saidthis is all very well . Persia might intrigue for over without success had the elements of rebellion not been here already . Just so . They were here , and are hore , and always will bo here , so long as we have a population of uneducated fanatics spread over
Thero are reasons to beliovo that the mutiny would have taken place if the Enfleld rifle and the greased- cartridges had never boon given to the sepoys . The greased cartridge was just introduced at the timo when misleading men wore trying to drive the soldiery into revolt , and precipitated the event which eooney or later must havo followed ^ What wo assume is , that the greased cartridge was an instrument in the handa of designing men , who could have found some other had not that presented itself . Look at the other expedient of " bone-dust . Would such an expedient have suggested it self to « nv but men whoso minds were debased by superb
stition and ignorance ? Yet the « one-dust" wtxa as irenorally regarded as calculated to injure their caste as the greased cartridge . The latter was intended to alienate the sepoy , while the former was meant to have a similar effect upon the masses of the people . The . chunpatty movement was one of the signals Avhereby the conspiratora could teat the progress of their schemes among the peoples wfcil « the fraternity of caste in tlw army was sutttcienfrto insure a unanimity there . The denouement bow ** - what disconcerted the plans of . the , rebels , » ut . "we have fearful evidence of the extent to whloh . tb . e . cwv splracy had spread .
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FOKEIGKN INCIDENTS . The End op a famous Cims . — The Cercle Lepelletier—the-literary and artistic club par excellence , which dates' from the great Revolution , and owned amongst its first members some of the most brilliant of the Girondists has been dissolved . For the last few years ifc has been so often subjected to the annoying visitations of the police that the number of its foreign members had gradually diminished to less than a dozen . It was at this Cercle that the famous Lucien de la Hodde was arrested with seven other " suspects , " on the occasion of the reaction in 1848 . On the breaking out of every popular movement—on the discovery of every conspiracy which has taken place for years past , the Cercle
Lepelletier has always been the first to be visited by the police , or a detachment of soldiers with an officer at their head . - At the last ceremony of this kind the officer in command was so indignant at the part he was called upon to play , that when the disagreeable duty of searching and reporting was over he laid down his card upon the table , and declared himself ready to give satisfaction to any gentleman of the assembly who might consider himself in any way personally insulted by the manner in which his duty of obedience to superior orders had compelled him to act . Of course , not one single individual present could consider himself aggrieved after this amende honorable , and . the officer was voted a member of the Cercle by unanimous and instantaneous consent . The well-known
admission of mouchards into the club by that mysterious power unknown in any other country than France , and which is yielded to without resistance from the peculiar character of the people , and called honestly by its generic name of Jorce majeure , has been the real motive of its dissolution , while the termination , of the lease of the apartment in which it has been held for the last 25 years furnishes a very plausible excuse . The Attstrians in Italy . — The cruelty of
Austrian rule in Venetia is only exceeded by its madness . Any conciliatory measure would fail to bow the people to their hard lot , it is true , but Austria runs into such excesses as to render a peaceful arrangement of her question with Italy matter of perfect impossibility ^ At Mantua , the Marchioness Visconti-Gonzaga , by marriage Countess Arrivabene , went with some young maidens all of the best families , to a funeral celebrated in honour of the Italians who fell in the late Lombard war . The
young ladies , who had , without the Countess , proceeded from the church to the burial-ground , were shut up in that cemetery under a scorching sun , and were left there for six or seven hours exposed to the noontide glare , with no protection but their thin black veils , till one of them fell down overpowered by a sun-stroke . The Countess , who had gone home from the church , was arrested in her own house , and conveyed to a prison destined to women of bad character . The Countess descends from that Gonzaga family which once reigned in Mantua , and married into the house of Arrivabene , several members of whom have become illustrious abroad as the most worthy of Italian exiled patriots . She has three sons , one of them a professor in the London University , two others in the ranks of the Italian army . One of the most universally esteemed matrons of Mantua is sent into an infamous prison ,
guilty « f the great crime of attending a mourning mass for the happy repose of the souls of those national combatants among whom she had friends and relations . Latest Amkuican Religious NovELTy . —Dr . Bollowes , a leading Unitarian minister of New York , in delivering an address before , the graduates at Harvard , in the chapel of the university , chose for his subject lately what ho termed the " suspense of fluth , " or , in other words , the existing , religious apathy so prevalent amongst all classes and creeds , but above all amongst the members pf his own denomination . He declared the right of private judgment , the worship of intellect , to have been pushed to their extreme limits ; that the result was , the mass of meu were sick of their liberty , and longed for something to rest on , for some
" authority" that would deliver them from the tyranny of their own doubts » that he believed the time , was come for exalting the church organisation , exalting the eaorament , binding marriage and baptism more closely to the altar , and substituting for the lifeless forms of worship and intellectual indifference of the mass of professing unltarian Christians , a stirring ritual and a living creed . The discourse created immense excitement all over the country . Every one recognised the truth of the picture which the reverend . gentleman drew of the actual condition of the religious world , but the nature of tlio remedy ho proposed excited general astonishment and alarm . Great numbers saw in his proposed " broad ohurch" an avowed , desertion to Romanism , or Swedenborgianism , and the press and the . mlone teemed with , remonstrances , reproow , ridicule , and encouragement accordingly .
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At Valenciennes a lad in a wine shop saw a strange- animal perched quietly on the seat behind the counter , and ran crying to his father , " Here ' s a great cat with big eyes and whiskers in the shop . " The father came in and immediately saw that it was a young tiger . The animal not being accustomed to out of doors life , hid itself behind some casks on the arrival of extra company ; and when the proprietor of the menagerie from which it had escapod arrived with a cage and rug , he was severely bitten in the hand in recapturing the big cat . The farmers who come to Milan in their baroccii , dash through the city in such a furious maiuier that you must have all your eyes about you to sa \ o your life ; and this is rendered still more dansorous as
the carriage road and footpath are level , so that it often happens when you turn the corner of a street ( unless you take great care ) yon are knocked down by coming into collision with either the horso ' s head or the shafts of a cart or brougham , or the polo of an omnibus , and if you attempt to expostulate vith the drivers you receive the grossest abuse . It was stated in the Nord of last week that " Sohamyl and his son were presented to the Emperor at . Tohougoniev on the 27 th ult . The emir was much moved by the great . klndncss of the Emperojr . After assisting at a military review , ho returned , on the 28 th to Kharkov , to be present at a ball given in his honour . "
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 15, 1859, page 1151, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2316/page/11/
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