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214 PASSING EVENTS.
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It would not be easy , for instance , to find any one who was not already aware that the capture of Lucknow took place on the 19 th of March , and that
the rebels to the number of 50 , 000 or more were driven out and dispersedand the army is now in active pursuit of them . The details of the military _^
operations connected with this transaction lie of course out of our province , but we find small reason to regret the inevitable omission . The only features in
military triumph on which the mind can rest with real satisfaction are the noble qualities so often developed in the actors , —and these are not always exclusively on the side of the victory . The names of the gallant men to whom
their country is indebted for these services will doubtless be long and gratefully preserved ; but of battles and sieges few people care to remember more than the results .
The Bill for " transferring the government of India from the East India Company to her Majesty the Queen" ( viz . to Downing Street ) has been brought forward , but found to be so indescribably complicated and unwieldy in
its details , and so entirely unsatisfactory even to its authors , that there appears no probability of its ever becoming law . At an entertainment given to Lord Derby at the Mansion Househe could himself say nothing better in favour of
the ministerial measure than , that it could not be expected to be any better . He invited suggestions from all quarters , and seemed to imply that he would
like to see any one else's notion of an India Bill if they objected to his ; aud , possibly in consequence of these observations , Lord John Kussell unexpectedly came forward a few nights afterwards with a proposal "to take Resolutions in
a Committee of the whole House , and thus practically obtain a consultation between her Majesty's Executive and the Representative Chamber . " This chivalrous readiness to aid his old opponents has of course set people looking
out for ulterior motives . Among domestic transactions the public attention has been most strongly engaged by the trial of Dr . Simon Bernardon the charge of being an accessory
before the fact to the late attempt on the life , of the Emperor of the French . After a trial of six days' duration a verdict of Not Guilty was returned , and received in the crowded court with a shout of irrepressible exultation ,
echoed by loud and rapturous cheers from the multitude assembled without . The general impression has been that the Government had pressed the prosecution with unusual severity—that it had done so virtually at the instigation
of a despotic Court , itself established by violence but a few years since—that the crime in question has already been expiated in the blood of the chief offenders—and that an English jury passing sentence of condemnation in this case
would be rendering itself an instrument of vengeance to the present Government of France , and moreover would _apj ) ear to other nations to have been influenced by the menacing tone lately adopted towards this country in French
official papers . There can be little doubt that the jury was in some degree affected by these considerations , and that they partly account for the verdict itself as well as its reception ; but there appears to have been a break in the
chain of evidence that would justify the verdict in a merely legal point of view ; and an expression stated to have been used by the prisoner , that he intended to go to France when the Emperor came over to England again , seems
to imply that it was rather the overthrow of the government than the death of Louis Napoleon that had been contemplated by him . curious contrast to the usual character of the intelliconcerninthe
In gence g state of imperial _^ France , we have from Russia accounts of a movement in
favour of human liberty , that cannot but be received with cordial satisfaction .
214 Passing Events.
214 PASSING EVENTS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1858, page 214, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051858/page/70/
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