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" We have a Governor and a Commander-in"Chief who might have been supposed ; if they understood anything , to understand a mutiny , seeing that they have heard of little else for the last two years . Yet they contrive to involve us in a second mutiny before we are well out of the first , and again to shake confidence to its centre while yet rocking from its former convulsion . Perhaps it may at last occur to us that a cabinet minister of the second
< &lss is not exactly the man to intrust with such vast interests , and that we had better be a . little less ^ exacting in the matter of rank , and a little more particular in respect of qualifications . If peers could have kept India quiet and solvent she would » ot have been mutinous and bankrupt . As they cannot do this , we had better lose no time in Slaving recourse to a rougher , but more eflicient .-machinery . " On the 6 th August it remarked : — is that this is
•* ' The aggravating part of the thing •* he result " of a mere official blunder . Had there i > een but the most slender exercise of judgment at the centre of administration , it might readily have lieen divined that even the chance of losing the jserviees of some thousands of trained troops would l » e cheaply conjured away by an expenditure of JE 30 , 000 or £ 40 , 000 . One would suppose that the ^ complications actually existing in Europe , and the general circumstances of the empire , would not lie altogether foreign to the reflections of Bengalese statesmen . "
In spite of all this , and much more , of Mr . Wilson s appointment and Sir Charles Wood ' s gloomy prejSictions , of the departure of the Europeans , and of the income tax bill , Lord " Canning will not be . recalled . He has sat hi many Cabinets , has many personal friends . The Liberals are too deeply pledged to eat their words , and nothing short of actual bankruptcy or another insurrection will rouse "the English people to action on an Indian dilemma . Jtt Is possible only that he may resign . Authority * o resign whenever the interests of the party xequire the step , has , it is said , been for months at lioine , and those interests would seem almost
to require it now . The ministry is by no , means isecure . The disciplined regiment , commanded by Mr . Disraeli , has already reduced the majority to eleven , and that majority is made up of most conflicting elements . The China affair alone may . dissolve it into its component atoms . There are at 3 east five Cabinet . ministers who , according to party etiquette , ought not to have been left out , and for whom Lord Palmerston must provide while he has the power . Mr . Smith is Lord Ly veden , Mr . Laboxichere is Baron Taunton , Sir B . Hall is Baron Llanover . Lord Clarendon , however , the most marked of all the omissions , is above titles , and Lord Clarendon , therefore , it is said , is to be Viceroy .
The rumour is at least a possible one , if the ministry retain office , and we know not that Lord Clarendon "will not serve as well as another peer . There is mo chance of the man we really need , a man of imperial audacity , who will destroy " institutions " ¦» vithout scruple , laugh at English orders , tread down -the services under his feet , and create a new administration out of his own brain , until the second mutiny . Meanwhile , Lord Clarendon may postpone action , examine , and inquire , and minute , and reply , . and order as well as any peer who can be readily named . He is a little too old for such a climate , but to a Premier sixteen years older he must seem in the prime of life , and to statesmen of seventy , what signify the interests of the future ?—Friend of India .
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THE NEWSPAPER PRESS OF THE NORTH * WEST PROVINCES . ' Thirty-five years ago there was not a printing ^ office in Upper India , and nothing like newspaper printing was attempted till some years afterwards . We learn from a magazine now extinct that a small Insignificant quarto sheet , called the Omnibus , led the van . It was published from the Cawnjpore proas , ¦ which was the first printing office on this side of Calcutta . The publication was unable to contend with its older and bettor conducted brethren of Calcutta , wad . soon fell to the ground . At this very time there existed among a literary band of military officers stationed at Meerut a manuscript paper bearing the ftxtle . of the Meerut Observer , and this was carried
do very persevoringly for four , years , edited by ^ Contain H . Tuckott , of the 11 th Light Dragoons , Assisted by Captain N . Campbell , of the Horse Artillery , who wrote nearly all the articles on military atfiairs . When a branch of the Cawnporo jjress was established at that station , the Observer put on a printed dress . This was too spirited a journal to last long ; it opposed too keenly the measures of Lord Iftpntjbnok , the then Governor-General , and the strong Wn » of . military Authority wad wielded to gag its wwee , Subsequently the Observer was edited by ^ Ww tpwxnt Hutqhine , Mr , Whiffbn , and others . It ^ fterw&rda fell into the hands of Mr . XL Cope , who ^ twapurohased the press . Who next publication that was issued from the
same press was the Meerut Universal Magazine , saove familiarly termed the "Mum , " a monthly magazine of some pretensions , and carried on with great talent . Mr . Xang afterwards endeavoured to resuscitate this magazine , but after two attempts abandoned the undertaking . - . On its demise the Observer Press passed into the hands of the Messrs . Saunders , who transferred it to Delhi , and in 1833 the Delhi Gazette first saw the dawn of existence . This journal was for sevefal years in a fluctuating condition , edited alternately by Colonel Pew , Mr . Hollings , Colonel R . Wilson ( then of the palace guards ) , and others , when the Afghanistan campaign gave it an impetus as rapid as it was profitable , and by the commencement of the year 1846 the paper had attained a circulation of 1 , 892 , a number never before attained "by any
Indian publication . Hence may be dated the commencement of a new era in the newspaper press of Upper India . Vituperative attacks on members of Government or commanding officers now gave place to that which should ever be the first object of a newspaper , the desire for obtaining news from foreign States . To what an eminence has that press risen , during the short period of thirty-two years , from the carrying out of this desire ^ we are well aware . . Its intelligence is quoted as authority to be depended upon by the whole London and Continental press . From this press many years afterwards issued a magazine called Saunders Magazine , " which continued for about two years . In May , 1857 , the Delhi Gazette press was entirely destroyed by the mutineers , the editor , Mr . Heatley , being killed in the general massacre .
Contemporaneously with the Delhi Gazette was the Agra Ukhbar , a newspaper started at Agra , one of the projectors of which was the celebrated Col . Pew , and its editor the no less celebrated Henry Tandy . The talent and wit of the latter gentleman soon gave the paper a place amon g the leading journals , which it held till 1842 , when Mr . Tandy died . Messrs . A . and P . Saunders succeeded Mm in the editorial chair , but both soon followed him to the grave . Neither of them possessed a tithe of the talent of Mr . Tandy . The press was then sold to Mr . Grisenthwaite . Blunders , actions for libel , and other tokens of a sinkine journal , at last wrecked
the Ukhbar , and the entire establishment fell into the possession of the Agra Bank ; to which the proprietors were under pecuniary obligations . Captain Maegregor , the secretary , who would not allow the press to remain unprofitable , brought out the Agra Chronicle , which . he kept alive till the press was purchased by the Delhi Gazette . The Agra Messenger , since started by the proprietors of the Gazette , was but an indifferent substitute for the well conducted Ukhbar . During the mutiny , when the Delhi press was destroyed , the Messenger was enabled to keep together the subscribers of the Gazette , and formed the nucleus on which that paper again revived .
The Mo / ussilite was established by-Mr . Lang at Meerut , in 1846 . It commenced its existence at a very critical time—Affghanistan , Persia , Scindc , and the Punjaub , were all in a ferment . The avidity for Mofussil news was at its highest pitchthe circulation of the Delhi had run . up to nearly 1 , 900 , and this eagerness for intelligence from the seat of strife , in combination with the ability and vivacity of its proprietor and editor , enabled the Moff at once to gain a footing . In 1855 the press anajournal were removed to Agra , which was then the seat of government . This paper has been subr jected to many changes of editors since Mr , Lang ' s departure for Europe . During the mutiny a portion of Its press material was saved , and the journal was enabled to continue its publication during the whole of those troublous times .
Jbedie ' s Miscellany was published at this press in 1855 ; it was a well got up and popular magazine , but' short-lived . About the same time a religious newspaper , under the title of North- West Messenger , was published at the same press . The mutiny abruptly closed its career . The Hills used to boast of threo presses ; one was established by Mr . Maekinnon at Mussoorie , who published a paper called The Hills . At Simla , Dr . McGregor had a press , from which issued a weekly paper called the Mountain Monitor , That gentleman also tried a medical and literary periodical . All these wore short-lived . Tito Simla press was , in 1850 , eold to the Lawrence Asylum at Bonawur , and is now employed to teach the fads of the institution the rudiments of printing . From this press now issues a small monthly called the Soldier ' s Friend . Another press was started at Simla , under the direction of Mr . Chardo , in 1851 , at which the Simla Advertiser was published . The press is now the property of Mr . Wallance , who also publishes an Advertiser .
At Benares , about 1847 or 1848 , a press was established by Colonel Pew and others , and a , paper issued under the name of the Recorder $ this continued till the latter part of 1840 .
If we travel further north we come to Lahore where the Chronicle now- flourishes . This journal was started by Mr . Cope , formerly of the Delhi in 1850 , immediately after , the annexation of the coun try . The paper has gone on steadily , and is well conducted . Just before the outbreak , a small weekly publication , called the Punjabee , issued from Lahore it was ably conducted by Mr . Kerr , and was discontinued in the beginning of the present year , in consequence of Mr . Kerr taking'the management of the Chronicle . The New Punjabee has since been started by the same proprietors . At Allahabad there are no less than three newspapers . The New Times . came into existence in January of the present year . The Advertiser commenced its career in May , and the Commercial Gazette in the following month . .
At Cawnpore , about the year 1854 or 1855 , Mr Brandon brought out a newspaper called the Central Sta 7-, which was afterwards transferred to Lucknow , and continued till the mutineers destroyed it , and the press where it was published . Since the mutiny in February last another press and the Lucknow Herald have been established , and in a few days the Oude Gazette will also see the light . The mutiny gave birth to several ephemeral publications ; the principal was the Iioorkee Garrison Gazette , which disseminated information during the most troublous times . It was discontinued when quiet was restored . — Commercial Gazette .
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LATEST INDIAN INTELLIGENCE . The overland mail has arrived with advices from Calcutta to Sept . 22 , and froirf Madras to Sept . 27 . The news of the fortnight is not important . The Governor-General had issued an order finally disposing of the remnants of the late Bengal army . The native artillery and regular cavalry had ceased to exist . Fourteen regiments had been re-armed . The 2 nd Grenadiers and 25 th Bengal Native Infantry were disbanded with from two to six months' pay . Troops were being collected in Calcutta for despatch to China .
The citizens of Calcutta had held a large public meeting to petition Parliament on the subject of taxation , the opening of the Legislative Council to the iion-officiarclass , the abolition of the Executive Council , and the appointment of a commission of inquiry into the causes of the present discontent . The Overland Friend of India says : —* ' After speeches by merchants , barristers , and tradesmen , which were well received , it was resolved to petition both Parliament and the Legislative Council , the latter against Mr . Harrington ' s bill , and the former on subjects of a more wide and important character . As will be seen from the part of the petition to
Parliament which we subjoin , the professional and trading classes of Calcutta , embracing every European and several natives , ask Parliament to take measures 'to have the general taxation of India placed on broad and sound principles , ' to have 4 an authoritative inquiry made into the general administration of the government and the cause of the prevailing discontent and financial embarrassment , ' to open the Legislative Council to the non-official class , to abolish the Executive Council , and to place ' the office state
of Governor-General and governors in a proper at once of freedom and responsibility in the exercise of their executive functions . ' Wo fear wo must for the present at least rest satisfied with Mr . Wilson as an answer to this prayer . And he , when he conies , will find , with a Governor-General in the interior , with a financial secretary whoso incapacity is only second to that of his chief , and with the usual passive resistance which the Indian stato machine evor oilers to energy or candour , that lie ia able to do iituo mnun tUiin rfinnrt . " The resolutions of tho Madras ¦ -
AAAVWlf ^ mm ^ rvmrm rw ^ jn » ^* ™ »« . —— T ~ meeting were to the same effect-., , The Governor-General had , postponed his departure from Calcutta to the 10 th or nth of October , and contemplates a vice-rogul progress m rignc royal state . * His lordship , it is said , will , be escorted by two infantry regiments , the onei European , tno other native , in addition to lus body-guard , inw force of 2 , 600 men will further bo accompanied by some 20 , 000 camp followers , An e mbarrassed oovornment , like on embarrassed individual , h » s always money enough for ostentatious display ami reckless extravagance . . ,, _ i rvun r . in ,. tAnnnt . nnvfii . nni' rtf Keiiera ! had returnou
from the Mofussil . Tho Bishop of Calcutta lift " loft Calcutta on a visitation tour to the u ppw Provinces . His lordship was to procood ns iar ¦» Peshawur , and pass the next hot seasoni a : HJgwn . Mr . Prendergast , the Accountant - Gonoral < w Madras Presidency , has been ^ missed by Government for having , used , to his own v ? S % » ° * lodge attainedln virtue of Ms position « vs fiW « ° minister , in the . conversion of Tanjoro Bonds . Tho discharged European eoWlers continue to . w embarked for this country at tho rate of ono tuou sand per week . Serious oowploints <*»» m * u ?^ hta hands of tholr violent and unamnly conduct , but w »
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Ig 22 5 THE tiEAPJER ; pfo . 502 . Nov . 5 , 1859
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 5, 1859, page 1222, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2319/page/10/
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