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day the Saxon and the Celt are distinct , and the Celt hates the Saxon , who has , nevertheless , attempted to conciliate him with every sort of political concessions . Yet , after all , there is hut a very slight ) difference of race between Celt and Saxon— -nothing , less than nothing , as compared with the difference between Saxon and Hindoo j and yet these Calcutta politicians proclaim that a legal and political equality of races is the most reasonable thing in the world to ask , and the easiest to grant .. " Abolish all political privileges , remove all such , antiquated barriers from between the Englishman and the native , and there you have a free and independent people , differing only in colour and customs . " "A native
has as much right to the high offices of state as an European—rather more so , as he is in his own country . " . "He has a right to be represented in couneil . " * ' Why do you blow hot and cold with the same breath ? " say the ardent advocates of political progress among the natives . " Why do you refuse to apply to the Hindoos those principles of liberty and equality which you so universally upheld among yourselves ? " And this specious cry carries away the superficial and unreflecting among the Europeans , who like to enjoy the complacent feeling that they are superior to the prejudices of race , and are disinterestedly advancing the cause of civilisation and humanity among the awakened heathen .
It is really dreadful to think that our lives and fortunes are at the mercy of such superficial , yet horribly dangerous politicians , who seem , b y the late measures , to muster strong round the Viceroy , and to have made some impression even on Lord Stanley . Good Heavens ! is it not clear that where we are as one to ten thousand , political equality must bring on political superiority on the part of the natives ? Where are we to stop , and who is to put on the drag when the natives have once got hold of the reins ? We suppose that a majority in the Representative Assembly will hold the executive powers , and that its mandates will control the army . How can it be otherwise ? They who hold the purse will hold the sword , and a native representative is not likely to be moderate in his encroachments .
2 ? ancy Bhowanee Pershad Dutt , the honourable member for Cossitollah , moving in the Parliament of Calcutta that the rule which retains all artillery in the army , and all treasuries in the Civil Service , within tbie hands of Europeans alone , is a disgraceful slur upon the character of the native gentlemen in each of the professions ; and fancy it being carried by a large majority of Baboos that the said rules be immediately abolished . What would be the consequence of such a peculiar political crisis , which no one can declare to be improbable , if the preliminary steps be once granted ? The honourable member for Cossitollah would be perfectly correct and consistent in his views . It is and would be a disgraceful piece of inconsistency to allow a Hindoo every sort of political equality , and to deny him a commission in the artillery .
On what principle could you possibly refuse ? It he is to be trusted to make laws and manage the executive , he may surely be trusted with a ninepounder . Also , "What do you mean by disarming our loyal folio w-subjeets ? and " Why , have we , the Hindoos , not the best right to be allowed t <> protect our own country ? " Why , indeed ! Yet what would be the upshot of it all any one can see . The Anglo-Saxon would begin to perceive that although theoretically equal with the patriotic Hindoo , he was practically becoming i n ferior . Tine Saxon has a great many faults , and one of thorn is a diabolical amount of stubborn pride , especially national pride . He has nevor yet " gone under " to any othor nation or race upon the broad earth , and , nil tilings considered , ho is not likely to boain by knocking under
to the , . Bengaleo . The upshot would bo a short but savage struggle , another exhibition of that cool Teutonic ferocity which the mutiny showed to be latent in tho blood of so many Englishmen , and which is to native fury as red-hot iron to blazing straw . Tho native house . o . f representatives would vaniBh into thin air , and tho educated Boiigalco would learn too Into under the grinding despotism of a justly-enraged dominant raco , t hat evory o ne must hold his own in this wicked world , that political privileges arc a' snare nnd a delusion , with o ut physical power to uphold thorn , and that they cannot oxpeot merely by mounting on our shoulders , to reach , in fifty years ; that glorious freedom and independence which bus taken our forefathers and ourselvos flvo hundred years in England to accomplish . " - * Mofusailitc .
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Schoolbots and Smoking . —The 3 'Iayor o'f Douai , in a circular to the communal schoolmasters , expresses his determination to put down the precocious habit of smoking , which he learns , by the reports of the police , prevails to a deplorable extent among the boys of that city . He therefore desires the schoolmasters not only to mark down for punishment all children whom they may see smoking in the streets , but to search the pockets and portfolios of the scholars from time to time , and to take away all cigars , cigarettes , p ipes , and tobacco which may be" found . He authorises the most severe punishments , and will sanction any measure' which the schoolmasters may devise to check the growing 6 Vila ' The Fbe . n-ch Coasting ? Trade . — There is a great falling off in the coasting trade of France , or rather in the number and tonnage of French vessels employed therein , and probably there are collateral ways of accounting for the fact . The railways and canals arc , of course ,, the only competitors , and the 5 or 7 per cent- increase on the receipts of the former does not in any way help to solve the question . The probability is also that a large portion of that increase lias grown out of passenger traffic ; and it is not very likely that the canals have gained all that the coasters have lost . The Debuts takes up the subject , and dwells with some emphasis upon the very serious effect thtit a diminution of the coasting trade must lmvc upon the Imperial navy , as well as the merchant marine . Tho writer J raws the conclusion that the railways are gradually undermining that trade , un inference which cannot possibly toe
admitted , as the official returns show no increase m the receipts of the former at all approaching an amount the diminution in tlic hitler . ' 1 he canals are not vury likely to have absorbed nil tho amount —in fact , a very small portion of it indeed ; and , therefore , tlio cause must be souylr . elsewhere , and is most likely to be attributed to two things-the large drafts mudo upon the supply of seamen for the navy , and tho serious competition of other nations , whoso Governments do Hot weaken the efforts of merchants and shipowners by too much protection . It is scarcoly possible to visit Boulogne or Havre without being struck with tho immense disproportion betweon the flags of Trance ami other nations . At the former port English and Bdyinn ships seem tlio motor
to reign almost exclusively , and at we English and American flags greatly predominate . Tm : LAWliS JN TCJIUHSY .-Thu Journal do Conatuntinopla VKhllahQB t \\ a toxt of air imperial edict , rcgulit / ng tho costumes of tho ladles In Turkey in conformity with Mussulman tradition :- ' < All women , must take the greatest care to refrain from overy-SK contrary to good conduct , and must wach most attentively over tho honour of their family . According to tlio Mahometan law , tho first obligation ft > r women consists in tho use of the veil ; conejuently , for a Turkish woman to depart from the observance of that custom is a breach of not only a S 3 ? duty but of a precept of faith . NoverfholQss for some time past , a cortnta number of women , cont ? arv to tho faws ' of propriety awhew of very thin veils , and of drosses made of materials which have never bofore been used for such purposes , and walk about with their features andperson too much seen . They , moreover , aflcot indelicate man-
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LATEST INDIAN INTELLIGENCE , , We have rocolvod , by overland , mall , advices from Bombay to Nov . 11 . Tho news is unimportant . Dwarka was evacuated by tho Waghors on Oct . SO , and the expedition is at an end . The Bombay Gazette says— " On the evening of Sunday , the 30 th ult ., tho Washers made a sortie on tho sailors'
battery , and were repulsed -with severe loss . Earl y on the Tuesday morning they evacuated the fort , cutting their way through the pickets of the 28 th Regiment , severely wounding one officer and three men of the regiment . ' They passed close to the 28 th camp , but that corps could not do anything towards intercepting them , owing to the darkness . On Wednesday , a corps , of Europeans proceeded to the fort of Wasser , which had previously been occupied by the Waghers , but arriving there they found that fort also deserted . The enemy either carried away or buried all their treasure , as no loot of any consequence has been found . Measures were taken to prevent a repetition of the occurrences at Beyt ; but there was no necessity for resorting to them .
On Monday evening the enemy were observed burying their dead that lay scattered over the ground in considerable numbers . The navy and the transports rendered every possible assistance to the troops by the very heavy fire they kept up from the steamers , as well as from the sailors' batteries ashore , both at Beyt and Dwarka . The European troops were making preparations to return , and will probably arrive in a day or two . It is believed that the 6 th regiment will join Colonel Scobie ' s force in pursuit of the Waghers . The volunteers from the crews of the transports , particularl y of the Kamillies , were exposed for a considerable time to a very heavy fire of musketry , in which one of them was wounded .
In Central India a campaign is about to open from Neemuch against a body of rebels , said to be 5 , 000 strong , encamped in a mud fortress , upon the banks of the Chumbul . In Bundlekund , in the fastnesses of whose hills and jungle Peroze Shah and a body of rebels are still hjLding , the campaign has been already opened . The Bombay Times says : — " Prom the south and south-west three columns are marching upon ! the rebels , commanded separately by Colonel Primrose , of the 43 rd Light Infantry ; and
Colonel Oakes , of the 12 th Royal Lancers ; Colonel ISTott , of the 19 th Madras Native Infantry . Colonel Ross , with his camel corps , attacks them from the Saugor side ; and Colonel Turner , of the 97 th , advances from Banda . Captain Wright , with 200 of the Sikhs and 40 men of the 43 rd , is posted at Geree ; and the Brigadier has removed to Poorania , a position between his head-q . uarters column and Alexander ' s Horse , which guards the road from Ghysabad to Huttali . " Bill still
The agitation against the Licensing continued . From JSTepaul it is rumoured that the Nana is dead , but considerable suspicion , of course , hangs over a story Which it is so much the interest of the miscreant and his friend , our ally , Jung Bahadoor , to get believed . THE GOVERNOR GENERAL AND THE OUDEAN TALOOJCDARS . A correspondent of the Times writes that on the 22 nd of October the Governor-General made his triumphal entry into Lucknow , and received and decorated all the Princes and higher noblesse of Oude . Two days after ¦ a grand Durbar was held attended by the majority of the Talookdars of Oude After the usual formal greetings , the Governor-General rose and addressed the assembled
landholders thus : — , ' Talookdars of Ouclc , —I am glad to find myself in your country and among you , and to have this opportunity of-speaking to you in the name of the Queen , your Sovereign . A year , has not passed away since this province was tho seat of anarchy and war . Tho conduct of its peoplo had besn such that the Government was compelled to lay a heavy hand upon it . J'iut peace and order ure now restored to every corner of Oude , and I am come to speak to you not of tlio past , but of the future . You have , all of you who are hero present , received yesterday the grants of these estates which tho Government
has restored to you . You will have spcu by tho terms of thoso grants that tho ancient Talookdaroo system of Oudo is revived and perpetuated . Bo assured that so loug ' as each one of you is a loyal and faithful subject , and a just master , his rights and di gnity as a Talookdar will be upheld by me and by every representative of ' our Queen , and that no man shall disturb them , You will also have seen by thoso grants that the same rights are secured , on the same conditions , to your heirs for evor . Let this security be an encouragement to you to spend your care , and timo , and monev unon the Improvement of your
possoasions " . The Talookdara were recommended to take care of their dependents j and the Govornor-Gonoral continued , "I trust that there aro none among you who are so infatuatod as to believe that tho Government has had designs against your religion . kvon if there bo any suoh , I will not condosoondto repeat tho aseuranoos which they have already received on this head . I leave It to time , and experience , ana their own sonsos to dispel their perverse suspicions . But for their own sakos , I warn them not to be aou
into acts of opposition or distrust towards the Government , by the false tales of designing men . " The Talookdars , " says a local reporter , " looked satisfied , " and well they might . If one could imagine the Duke of Sutherland , say , suddenly assuring his tenantry that their farms were their own for ever in fee simp le , one would expect some slight marks of complacency to be manifested . That and nothing l e ss is the effect of the Viceregal speech . The Oude proclamation , the despatches to-Lord Stanley , our entire policy since the annexation , are flung to the winds together . The aristocracy are restored to their estates en masse , andfgranted a perpetual settlement ; in other words , the rate of taxation is fixed for ever , and all the increase of rental sure to follow our rule will go , as in Bengal , to enrich them , ins t e a d of the State .
THE ALLEGED LOOTING AT BEYT . On this subject , the Bombay Gazette says : — " Some of the natives here have been very industriously circulating reports , to the effect that our soldiers stripped the temples and idols at Beyt of their valuable ornaments and decorations , and carried them away . It now turns out that , although the fort defences at Beyt could not have been destroyed without injury to the temples , prompt measures were taken for the preservation of the idols and their gold and silver ornaments . The idols are safe j their decorations and jewels , and all that the people care to value in connexion with them , have either been left untouched or replaced in the temples whence they were taken . " .
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No . 507 . Dec . JO , 1859-1 THE LEADER . 1343
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 10, 1859, page 1343, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2324/page/11/
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