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11ST D I A, ¦ ¦ ¦ ANDINDIAN PROGRESS.
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CHINA . The news from Hong Kong is to the 12 th September , and refers principally to the receptions of Mr . Ward , the American Plenipotentiary . His Excellency consented to exchange the" ratifications of the treaty at Pehtang , a village on the Gulf of Peclieli , rather than accede to the alternative offered by the Chinese of performing " kotow . " The Russian Embassy appears to be established at Pekin , but it is not stated on what terms . The new Governor of Hong Kong , Sir Hercules Robinson , and the Attorney General , Mr . Adams , reached their destination on the 7 th September , and immediately entered on their respective duties .
The Friend of China remarks : —" The cogent reasons urged why Mr . Bruce and M . Boiirboullon should have been less pugnacious when they found the Pehio barred to them , led us to hope different things for the Americans ; that , although Admiral Hope was checked at Taku , he did not retire before , in the expenditure of all his ammunition , he gave the Emperor ' s forces a . lesson which" they would desire no repetition of—and therefore that , having lad his victory , his Imperial Majesty could afford , and deem it the best policy to be magnanimous , and ratify the American treaty without requiring the homage paid by Westerns to the Deity only . But we have been disappointed , and can but opine , as we
did when news of-the rebuff first reached us , that Mtt Bruce and M . Bourboullon were more than j ustified in their determination to have the highway to Pekin open to them , or not attempt to go there ttt all . Far netter is it for his Imperial Majesty Hien-fung to liave an opportunity of throwing all the blame of the battle at Tnku on one of his Princes , than that he should be directly involved in personal insult to the representatives of France and England . The misfortune of Admiral Hope ' s defeat is only an incident which we have the power to remedy ; and it is to be hoped that , without delay , such a demonstration will be made at the Peiho that Hien-fung must come to reason , and throw off the absurd pretentions to which he lays claim . "
Mr . Ward ' s "Visit to Pekin . —Oh the 16 th August , while the Powhattan was anchored off Peitaug , there arrived an Imperial edict , ordering that the American minister , and suite of twenty , should be escorted with all honour to Pekin , and that they should leave Pei-tang upon any day after the 19 th . This edict was in answer to a communication of the American minister , informing the authorities that he was present , and ready to exchange his treaty at ( mjrtime and place which they might appoint . On the morning of the 20 th Mr . Ward and suite landed at Pei-tang , whore they were received by the escort , and conducted to Pekin with every show of respect . 'Pliey first travelled forty-five miles across the
country in covered carts , striking tho Peiho at a village called Pei-taang , some ten miles above Tiensing , ( and thence proceeded in junks to Toong-chau , distant twelve miles from X ' ekin , of which it is the jporfc . There they again took carts to tho capital . Tlio entire troop occupied eight days and a half , five Of which were passed upon the river . The legation remained in Pekin fifteen days , during ¦ which time they were confined to their quarters -- * not , however , as prisoners , , for tUoy were at liberty at any moment to walk out j but $ h « commissioners refused the use of horses and guides , leaving it optional with Mr . Ward to grant
permission to walk otft or not , as he saw fit . They would doubtless , however , have closed the gates entirely had not that gentleman taken a firm stand at $ h © very first interview , informing Kwei » L . tang that flhould hi / s movements be at all restricted lie should cjkwe all intercourse and demand his return escort , m aeerau that the Emperor was very anxious to see jfyfo Word ., but that he' also insisted upon his performing the kortovr , which , being against the prinf 4 sl « B' 0 f hla Excellency was positively refused . The l>tft of this was , that upon the . fourteenth day of Meje / Btay it was finally concluded to receive tho J ? re , ( M 4 ent ' s letter At Pekin / and to send his Excel-W ^ y back , to Fektane to « xoh « nge tho treaty «—
do , as he had been taken fighting under the flag" another nation . Anxious , however , to serve the poor fellow , lie intimated to them that it would be a great personal favour if they would turn him over , and as such it was done . He is how on board of the Powhattan . Of the sapper nothing more is known than that he was wounded in the arm , was doing well , and is still a prisoner . The Chinese seemed generally anxious to know- what the English would do next year . — North China Herald .
and the next day they returned accordingly . Arrived at Pei-tang on the 16 th , the treaties were exchanged , and an English prisoner named j . Powell given up . This man was an ordinary seaman on board of the Highflyer , and who , with a sapper of the name of Thomas M'Queen , had been captured on the 25 th June ; fearing for his life he had proclaimed himself to be an American ; The Chinese jnformed Mr . Ward of this , and intimated their readiness to give him up as an American if he would demand him . This , however , the latter could not
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Huxgauian Undergraduates . ^— On the 25 th October 400 of the students at the Pesth University were about to come to Vienna to petition the Einperor to order their professors to lecture in the Hungarian language , but they eventually resolved to send a deputation of six to his Majesty . Great confusion prevailed in the Pesth University on the 25 th . The Dean addressed the students in Latin , ard advised them not to make any demonstration which could give offence to the authorities , but the young men declared that they had not understood
the speech , and requested the Dean to give a translation of it in " the language of the country . " The University " don " gave a German translation of his discourse , but as soon as he . had ceased speaking a loud cry of " Hungarian is the language of the country ! " was raised . One of the professors then addressed the young men in Hungarian , and fortunately succeeded in persuading them . to forego their intention of proceeding in corpore to Vienna . Some of the students are likely to be expelled for hissing and whistling while the German professors were
lecturing . . Fire at the Luxembourg .- —The Palace of the Luxembourg , the old Chamber of Peers , and now the Senate House , has been in great part destroyed by fire this week . The circular hall in which the Senate holds its sittings principally suffered , and , in consequence of the number of passages by which this hall is surrounded , it was a long while before the engines could be so organised as to play upon the flames with effect . At five o ' clock the dome fell in , and then the whole Senate House was nothing but a heap of ruins . Two firemen and two servants of the Senate were dragged out from the rubbish much injured , but it is hoped that their lives will be saved . The damage is estimated at from 400 , 000 to 500 , 000 francs . It is feared that the paintings of Abel de Pujol and Vauchelet must be entirely destroyed .
Garibaldi and his Habits . — A letter from the liomagna describes a visit to this great General : — " Garibaldi was at dinner when I went to see him about two o ' clock . I was admitted into his diningroom without difficulty . He was sitting at the table , surrounded by six officers of the staff , and , was partaking of a modest dinner . The great leader never drinks wine , and never eats more than two sorts of meat at his dinner . At eight o'clock jn the evening
ho goes to bed , and regularly gets up at two o ' clock in tho morning . He then reads for two hours some military book , and at four o ' clock he dispatches his private correspondence . At eight o ' clock ho has his breakfast , after which he goes into his office to transact military business . Garibaldi is never soon in publicexcept on duty . Even when he wants to got the fresh air of the soa he rides out of the town , taking the shortest and quickest way which leads to the marina . Loaded with stars and medals
by more than ono monarch , he never wears any decoration or distinction whatever \ and when lie is obliged to wear his uniform he does it with such nonoftalanoe that you would scarcely believe that he is the hero of so many exploits of almost fabulous daring . " On Thursday last the Town Council of ttiminl sent to Garibaldi the diploma of Patrizla , or , in other words , made him and his descendants members of the nobility of the town . The Patriziato JRiminese is an institution of the middle ages , which was in later times confirmed when Rimini passed by
sale from the Malntesta family to the Venetians . It is merely a title , but to have it is considered almost a princely honour , for within the memory of man it has only been granted to monarohs and popes . Garibaldi has not accepted it , as ho told the deputation of the town council , on account of his personal merit , but as an homage to tho noble cause he serves .
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THE LATEST 11 UMOUE . For the fourth time in two years : rumours of the recall of the Governor-General are rife . Candidates for the office are named in London , and Anglo-Indians beguiled by the new hope once more postpone despair . We believe these fresh rumours arc as groundless as those which have preceded them though not for the same reason . The position o the Governor-General has been seriously changed His character was from the first well understood by
politicians , and on the outburst of the mutinies mos men in England expected his immediate recall . Even Lord Granville spoke of it as a certainty , " lj he had , as alleged , subscribed to Missions . Lord Palmerston , however , was made of sterner stuff . It has been through life an axiom with him that fidelity to followers pays ; he owed heavy obligations to George Canning ; and he refused blankly to " the tendrils from ¦ his own vine . " In the great party contest of 1858 , Lord Canning by a fortunate accident became the cheval de bataille of the Whigs .
They tested their strength in an effort to remove the ministry which had censured him , and though they failed they left the impression that the subject was a dangerous one . Meanwhile , the mind of England was manured with lies . The Anglo-Indians , who hated Lord Canning , hated the Company still more , and the advocates Of monopoly found it essential to run them down . You can always run down colonists in safety in England , and the Anglo-Indians were no worse treated than the West India planters , the Australian " shepherd lords , " the " white rebels of the Cape , or the Canadians of the Northern proto be evil fools who
vince They were declared wanted to depopulate Hindostan . Cruelty being the charge against them * as it invariably is against colonists , it was inevitable that their enemy should be praised for his " calm mercy . " The Five Acts were coolly suppressed , and their author declared the one man in India " whose cheek was unblanched by fear . " The statement was correct , for he was the one man in India who did not comprehend the situation ; and as the British public , in spite of philosophers , still considers courage the . first of virtues , want of imagination was mistaken for Kpman fortitude . Thenceforward , to criticise Lord
Canning was to be a " malignant . " There was no one at home to explain the facts ; the British soldiery reconquered the country , and a convicHon that the Governor-General had saved India settled down into the English mind . . Months however passed on , and the popular faith began to be disturbed . Nothing wad done in India to restore permanent tranquillity . All men murmured at the excessive delay . No mail reached England without intelligence of some administrative blunder . The people , always accurate in their instincts , distrusted the new native army . The capitalists , always alive to their own interests , dissection of
trusted the boundless extravagance . A the European army , said soldiers , had been harassed into disaffection , and then dismissed . The Secretary of State admitted a deficit of twelve millions , and half feared it might be annual , and the 1 ress , aware at last that all incompetence is mid tor in money , awoko from its long dream . More than all , the restrictions on furlough wero removed . Ihe Anglo-Indians swarmed homo in hundreds , each man the oracle of his little circle , ami each thq personal inveterate foe of the GovornorrGoneral . Jh •* ' »•<* demanded . Lord Canning ' s removal , and followed . "I > its attack . On August 4 th tho journal decl / vrej :-knowthat while
" Hotf is It , wo wish to , everything changes , while Governors-General , Indian Secretaries , CaUets and Parliaments , come « nd go , this mJgic circle round tho Gov ernor-General never seems to change t There is no Government more uniform , more deaf to warning , more blind to ncSous facts , more certain to repeat the snn . o errors again and again , than the heads ol departments in India . Stupidities of this sort may l . appen . anywhere , but in India they are repeated again and again No account is given of them . There is nobody to demand tho removal of the wroi . gheaded and mischievous official . Tho public opinion of tho I diau army is open-mouthed , but powerloss . At t is moment throughout all India the eye of approhonaion is turned , not to Oude , or Nepaul , or JUhoro , ™ . in Central Indift . or the Brahmins , or to any thing
native ; but to tho British Administration ofUMouua , which , having brought on the sepoy mutiny and the European mutiny * "' « ow firmly believed to bo fully capable of bringing on worse Ul » , If they are not coming already . On t he 5 th August It believed : —
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circumstances . Brown had provided arms sufficient for 1 , 500 men , and on search being made at his house a number of letters and other documents were found among which was one from Frederick Douglass , and another from a lady , containing the dollars " for the cause . " The result of the engagement at the Ferry appears to have been six citizens and fifteen insurgents killed , three insurgents wounded and five prisoners . The news of the outbreak caused great
excitement and alarm at Washington , and precautions were taken in case of an outbreak occurring in that city . In the meantime , apprehensions of further skirmishes were current in the neighbourhood of Harper ' s Ferry , and the citizens were arming . Colonel Lee went with a company of marines to Harper ' s Ferry , but found all quiet . On withdrawing , the consternation of the people increased , and they were endeavouring to organise companies for general defence when the last accounts left .
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No . 502 . Nov . 5 , 1859 j THE LEADER 1221
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 5, 1859, page 1221, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2319/page/9/
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