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1270 THE LEADER . [ No . 504 . 3 ftov . 19 , jgsfl
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stamps its character . This fact is » ot generally known here , or curiosity would be gratified without semuneratirtg the speculators , " How to Receive a . Deputation . —The check lately given at "Vienna to the Hungarian students , who came to present a petition praying that tne lectures should be given them in the Magyar language , has not , it would appear , deterred others lorn taking a similar step . The Breslau Gazette States , that a deputation from Cracow , a few days mgo , arrived in Vienna for an analogous object , and * n applying for an audience of the Count dp Thun , Minister of Public Instruction , an affirmative sns-wer was granted . They accordingly proceeded to the residence of the minister , but whe ^ about to enter the ante-chamber were arrested , and carried « ff to the police-office in carriages previously
provided . " Vive ' us Sport !"—A Parisian lady was summoned the other day before the police tribunal for jshooting without a licence . The lady and her huSlaund were out sporting together—they were both similarly equipped in blouse and trousers , and each carried an excellent fowling piece . A rural policeman demanded to see their certificates . The husiand showed his , but the lady was not furnished -with a like document ; a summons was issued , and madame appeared before the magistrate . In hex who chose to
defence she maintained that a woman enjoy the pleasures of the field in company with hex fciisband did not require a certificate any more than jshe wanted a passport when travelling with him , ana that , in fact , both law and religion made but one person of the two . The magistrate did not agree with this reasoning , and actually was ungallent enough to fine the modern Diana 30 f ., besides confiscating her gun . This gentleman ought to be cent out of the country as endangering the peace by bringing all the fair sex about his ears , and as a « rave offender against the laws of chivalry .
A Spirited Pedagogue . —A correspondent , of the Telegraph tells a story of a schoolmaster at Tula , in Russia , who was invited to dine at the Imperial board during the Emperor ' s visit to that town . On the schoolmaster ' s arrival he found by some oversight that no place was reserved for him , . and on this being pointed out , the officers of the Jhoiisehold haughtily desired him to withdraw-, which he refused to do , but stopped and dined ; and to crown the affair , presented a petition to the
2 Smj > eror , wherein he set forth the grievance and insult under which he laboured , and begged his Majesty to take steps to reinstate his injured dignity . The Emperor does not seem to have -vouchsafed hjna any distinct answer , although he was graciously pleased to express his regret at what bad taken place ; but the professor has so far improved his position by his spirited conduct , that Ids fellow townsmen hold him in all the greater esteem and respect ever since the affair . Even the serfs in the streets will take off their hats to the
man who dared to break the charmed spell of military exclusiveness , and to maintain that a colonel might quite as well leave the dining table of his Majesty as a grammar schoolmaster .
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GERMANY . Nov . 16 th , 1859 . The groat event of last week , and sole topic of conversation up to the present time—the Schiller celofcration—came off last Thursday in a most gratifying manner to both police authorities and people . There was , in general ,. peace and good humour , and plenty of patriotism and self laudation . The weather turned out delightful , in spito of the gloom © f the preceding night . In every town the ceremonies and festivities Were counterparts of each © ther . In the morning the tolling of bolls , or music played in church steeplos ; thereupon processions to
statues of Schiller erected in marketplaces—singing , music , orations ; then to dinner . In the afternoon Schiller readings , almost everywhere—the " Lay of Hue Boll" being the favourite piece . In the ovening , theatre—a play of Schiller ' s ; then torchlight processions , illuminations , balls—and so to bed . Tho peasantry took very little , if any park , in the celebration—a circumstance well deserving of consider ' wtlon by all who expeot to bring about a reform or malon of Germany by Schlller-lilco demonstrations « w open resistance . Germany has no metropolis -where tho fate of the country can bo doolded , as in franco . The peasantry- form the vast bulk of tho
German ' population , and of that class the standing armies of the German princes are composed . The townsfolk are loudest in their cry for reform and union , but they are the least disposed , and the least capable of exercising physical force . Everybody acquainted , with Germany knows that between the townsfolk and the peasantry there is a great gulfthe townsfolk are comparatively well educated and intelligent , though not exactly to the extent imagined or asserted by the admirers of the continental system of education . The peasantry of Germany have nothing in common with the townsfolk , and cannot comprehend the Wants and hopes of those latter .
The Schiller celebration has been a demonstration of the towns of Germany—not of the mass of the Germans . It has passed , and will not leave a trace behind . It is , ho-wever , unanimously represented by the -journals as a grand success—not a scenic getting up and execution merely—but as a national and political advance . The celebration met with some opposition on the part of the clergy and the religious part of the community , and a skirmish of advertisements is being carried on in some journals even now upon the subject , by the Church party and the Rationalists , as they call themselves , One clergyman , giving his name and residence , advertised to the effect that , as his countrymen would , perhaps , be seeking mottoes for their transparencies
in the illumination , there was one which he could recommend to them as well suited to the occasion . It was to be found in the Second Book of Moses , chap , xxxii . verse 4 , and runs thus : — "These be thy gods , O IsraeV . which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt . " Another clergyman , in Berlin , returned the tickets , which had been sent to him by the authorities , for seats at the ceremony of laying the stone of the Schiller statue , with the remark that he could not make use of them because it did not become' him to take part in a ceremony iii honour of a man who had prostituted his fine talents to sing the heathen deities of ancient Greece , and who could compose such a song as that " An die Frende . "
* The Prince Eegent has announced his resolution to offer a prize of 1 , 000 thalers and a gold medal of the value of 100 thalers for the best dramatic work that shall appear within the space of three years . This is to honour the memory of tlie great poet , Schiller . The address of the Hessian Chambers , rejected by the Elector , contained nothing more than the prayer that their sovereign would be graciously pleased to respect the last wishes of the late Elector —the grantee of the Constitution of 1831—by restoring to them in full that Constitution , and thereby acquire the gratitude of his people and their posterity .
The London P . unch , the father , by the way , of a numerous family in this country , is once more permitted to circulate in Prussia ; it was prohibited in 1855 because of a caricature of the King , who was represented drunk with an empty bottle of Champagne in his hand . The Prussian authorities have decided that , in future , booksellers can lose their licence on account of press-offences as they are termed , only when condemned by tho legal tribunals . Hitherto the withdrawal of . a bookseller ' s licence , depended solely upon the will of the . police authorities . We hear a good deal of the advances made
by the Prussians in civil liberty , but almost every day we read of polico measures which have little in common with the necessary precautions of the polico in England , which Prussia pretends to imitate . A student was lately ordered by the polico to leave Berlin because ho had , in a confectioner ' s shop , expressed a condemnatory ' opinion of tho act of tho Ifinanco Minister regarding the appointment of Jew judges . — -A Polo , named Mapinskl , lms boon condemned , in Berlin , to two years' imprisonment with hapu ^ labour , for propagating revolutionary doctrines in Posen . A commercial treaty has just beon concluded between the throe Hanao towns , Bremen , Hamburg and Lubeck , and the Sultan of Zanzibar , one of the Cobras Islands , situated on tho African coast of Zanguebar . The treaty is drawn up in English , German and Arabic . A Dantssig journal statos that a foreign Champagne firm has sent a quantity of Champagne to one of tho officers of the Prussian Japan Expedition , with tho condition that lie is to drink at feast six bottles with the Japanese officials or great men , and to ascertain how they liko tho beverage , and to bring a couple of bottles buck , to enable the firm to judge how tho Ohampngno will boar so long a voyage and different climates , Tho Gorman journals contain nothing but accounts from different towns of tho celebration , the one vieing with tho other in the splendour of the description .
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CRIME IN THE PUNJAB ,. In a late number of the Lahore Chronicle is an interesting article upon this ( in Europe ) comparatively unknown topic . The crime of Thuggee , and the extensive organisation by which it was carried on are now matters of history ; and , thanks to th e energy of British officials , it of course has been removed from the soil of Queen "Victoria ' s Indian dominion . So little is known in England of the condition and habits of life of the greater part of our fellow subjects , in India , that we think it unnecessary to apologise for quoting in extenso the following particulars , which lift the veil from a source of mischief nearly as potent as the worship of the bloodthirsty goddess of the Thugs . " A subject of very considerable importance is at present , we believe , engaging the attention of the authorities . It is nothing more nor less than a scheme for the Reclamation of the Criminal Classes in the Punjab . The matter has been mooted by the Deputy -commissioner of Sealkote , Mr . E . A . Prinsep . Our readers are doubtless aware of the existence in this province of criminal races , confederated-gangs and guilds . There are first ( in the Sealkote district ) the " Selaria Rajpoots , " near and about Zufferwal , of -whom there are no less , than seven regular gangs , each having its separate sphere
of action , line of business , receiver , and branch agencies , fcaving partnerships in the Bar tract and across the Jummoo frontier , which , from its vicinity , forms already refuge and convenient market . 'Iiumberdars and Chowdrees of even healthy looking villages give a helping hand , if they do not actually participate in , the spoil . Places of . rendezvous are pointed out near the banks of nullahs , in burial grounds , and road-side " Diarahs . " There are said to be even two or three villages of .-which every inhabitant is a known thief , and every woman experienced in the trade .
" Then there are the Sansees , Chooras , and Pukkeewars . The first two of these are found in every district . Tlie Sansees are sheltered in houses assigned to them in villages , where they take one or two acres of lapd to cultivate , merely as a blind . They fee the Chowkeydars and headmen per month , according to a fixed rate . When hotly pursued they make off four or five , miles in any direction , ami are sure to find friends ready to take them in and feed them . If let off , and security is -wanted , the Lumberdar is only too ready to give it , for the price of security is regulated by a well-known tariff , and thirty rupees are immediately paid down . If hunted down at last , and the Sansec is sent off to jail , the whole brotherhood , or tho particular guild , are in honour bound to provide for his wife und children during tho entire period he has to remain
in confinement . 44 Cliooras arc a less ugly brotherhood , tho majority of them being driven to thefc and burglary by their provert }' . " The Tukkcewars , however , . do tilings on a grand scuta . They are n regular guild—highway robberies or heinous burglaries , where a largo haul is expected , is their peculiar line of business J-l'ey steadily avoid living in one village , preferring scattered residences , with a view to secure conceal "
niont and escape . . i ~ ,,,, i » , " To bring theso lawless bands to order , tliougn highly desirable , is a matter of consiilLTablo dimculty . Tho polico have been tried , ami n >\ nvx waning . Mr . Prinsep . proposes two measures . First , that tho landholders should bo'inudo responsible for tho residence , conduct , and movement of thoso representatives of asocial nuisance ' , ivna secondly , that all suoU vagrants and recorded thieves who belong to a known criminal moo , . ' l 011 / ° f loose from jail after tho expiration of then- to" » ° imprisonment , should not only bo systematic"uy registered , but brought and located q . i ¦ fixQj « inoccupied tracts of land , such as unowned villages and rulchs or nusszool land . Mr . Prinsop proposes to give thorn tho land freo of rent , subject , howovci , \ o 1
tho followingconditions : — « 1 st . Each farnily building a rosidonoo for itsoli . " 2 nd . Cultivation of areas of fixed quantity ¦ « 3 rd . Liability to work upon tho roads , or uq coolies' duty when called upon by Governinonj subjoct to receiving wages for tho day uoooratug w villwgoratos , , ,,, ni , „ » 4 th . Attendance of their male children at « school to bo formed in each such village "It is quite clear that provision of tl > lB , W [)| J would bo of more roal advantage to sooloty ni j »» bv
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 19, 1859, page 1270, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2321/page/10/
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