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1006 > THE LE AD E It. [No. 493. Sept. 3...
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Peshavtuil, Past, Present, And Future. W...
old native army in 1857 , the wildest enthusiast in the cause of Pandyisni would never surely for a moment advocate the holding our frontier with a native army . We require a strong European force , for so long as the Indus remainsimbridged , or untunnelled , it would "be most imprudent to leave a small European garrison to hold Peshawur—where it would be quite isolated from its supports . Even the present fine European force is still deficient in one most essential arm , European cavalry , tor without cavalry artillery is inefficient , and we have no European cavalry in Peshawur . The present . European ¦ ¦ force , consisting of oiie troop and two batteries of artillery ( eighteen guns ) , and two corps of European infantry ( a third being now stationed at Nowshaira ) , requires only the addition of a corps of European cavalry to rtfnder it complete in every respect and equal to every emergency . ^
....... .. _ If , then , it be admitted that a large European force must , for the present , at least , be maintained at Peshawur , it surely becomes an object ot the greatest importance to keep them as healthy and effective as possible . To effect this most desirable end three things are chiefly requisite , namely , a larger amount of barrack accommodation , to prevent crowding , which is one great cause of sickness ; a greater attention to sanitary arrangements , which would beneficially affect the health of the whole force ; and the establishment of a sanatarium at an easy-distance , from Peshawur , and beyond the influence of the autumnal fever , where the _ sick men of the force might be sent for change of air , as the Peshawur fever , though very weakening and prostrating in its effects , yields readily to a timely change of climate .
The barrack accommodation at Peshawur has been much improved of late years , and fine pucka barracks have been substituted for the mud hovels of yore . But ever since the outbreak the works have been at a dead standstill , while more than a dozen ¦ barracks which only require roofing are , with-Ja : mistaken and false economy , left unfinished . And as "both the European -corps are now at their full strength the men are much crowded , and increased sickness is the result . Lakhs of rupees have been spent on these unfinished buildings , and now , when a lakh more perhaps would finish the whole ofthem , the work is stopped ; and the Europeans sicken and die for want of them .
Some improvements have lately been made in the sanitary arrangements , but much still remains to be done . The unchecked irrigation which is allowed in the cantonment itself is one great cause of sickness , and it is strange that when the sanitary committee , come years ago , recommended that no crops should be irrigated within one mile of the cantonment , they omitted to notice the daily irrigation carried on under their noses . So long as the . canal which passes through the cantonment exists in its present state , there will be no preventing this , as , each gardener can now flood his master ' s garden from the stream as often as he pleases ,. the supply of water being unlimited . Sixty public" wells , the average cost of ¦ which would certainly not exceed Rs . 2 , 500 each , or Us . 150 , 000 for the whole , would be ample for the cantonment , and would give about five wells to every native , and ten to every European corps .
As regards a sanitarium for the European troops , a site was some five years ago proposed by Majo » Coke , then Deputy Commissioner of Konat , and highly approved of by General , then Brigadier , Cotton , commanding , and several engineers and medical officers . Jt is situated in the Khuttuk Hills , at a place called ChLrat , and is in every respect admirably adapted to the purpose . The hill chosen is near the Moor Katnn pass , and is from 4 , 000 to 5 , 000 feet above the level of the sea ; it is well beyond the influence of the autumnal fever ; while it js also free from the heavy rains which prevail in hill stations & % greater altitudes . The proposed sito is only twontyroight miles from Peshawur , and could , therefore , bo-easjiy reached in one night by the invalids requiring change of air , and when they had sufficiently benoflttcd by thoir stay they could in one night return to thoir duty . Tho and tho sanitarium
whole of tho road to it , proposed itself , lies in our territory * the nearest tribe of Afreedies being eight or ten miles distant . But those men are ill a great measure dependent for their livelihood on their trade in firewood , charcoal , and lime with tho cantonment and city of Foshawur , and a stoppago of this trade is tho severest punishment which can befall them . This sanitarium once established , the great objection to Peshawur as a cantonment for European troops would bo at onee removed , and tho contemplated abandonment of tho cantonment , which has already cost Government florae fifty lakhs of rupees , or half a million of money , noedbo contemplated no longer . At eomo futuro date , when the Indus shall have boon epanned and a railway constructed to Poehawur , tins brigade viight bo located south of tho Indus , but not till thon . In tho present state of affairs it would never do to code Poehawur to tho Dost , who might
betray us to the Russians , while the people of the valley , who only like us for the money spent among them , and prefer our rule only slightly to the Sikh tyranny which preceded it , would gladlyjoin anynew comer against us Affghans , or the Russians , or both ; our only safety is in holding the passes . —Friend of India .
1006 > The Le Ad E It. [No. 493. Sept. 3...
1006 > THE LE AD E It . [ No . 493 . Sept . 3 , 1859 .
Latest Indian Intelligence By The Arriva...
LATEST INDIAN INTELLIGENCE By the arrival of the overland mail , we have received letters and papers from Calcutta to the 18 th July . The heavy gales and bad weather lately experienced in the Indian seas have been productive of many and serious losses . The weather on shore has been fearfully hot , and great sickness prevails . The community have been put to much inconvenience and suffered much anxiety by the very numerous accidents and breaks down which have occurred to the Peninsula and Oriental ships of late .
Of the remnant of the rebels there is nothing worth reporting . The King of Oude has been released from his captivity in Tort William ; the announcement made to him officially ( says the Englishman ) appears to have been composed after the manner of Louis Napoleon ' s jerky proclamations . The discharge of the local European troops and their shipment to Europe forms the burden of the news . Certainly not fewer than 10 , 000 men will avail themselves of this unexpected opportunity of returning to England at the Government expense . in this matter
Lord Canning , it is said , acted entirely on his own judgment , and contrary to the advice of the Commander-iu-Chief and the Chief of the Staff . The story of the Berhampore mutiny has yet to be told , if , at least , there be any story to tell . The details previously received are now discovered to have been " a weak invention . " Nothing canhe ascertained as to " Colonel" Marshall , alias " the Editor ;" and , of . course , the history of his firmness in maintaining discipline , and of his desire to flog his " major , " fall at once to the ground . It was a pretty tale , and we are sorry to learn that it was not true .
The Madras Athericeum of 24 th July says : — " During the past fortnight- several important matters have been disposed of by the Madras Government . Foremost among these must be noted the rules that have been drawn up by the Inam Commissioner , Mr . G . N . Taylor , for regulating the mode in which the inquiry is to be conducted . The investigation is to be carried on by some of the recently appointed deputy collectors , who are to be carefully selected for the purpose . They will go from village to village , and carry on the inquiry in the presence of the Inamdars and of the village authorities . They will not , however , commence operations in any village until it has been
reported to them that all the information which can , be collected from the Inamdars and other parties respecting the number of the Inams , the nature of the tenure on which they are held , the present holders and so forth , has been collected . An invitation will then be sent to the Inamdars , calling on them to be in attendance on an appointed day with their title deeds and so on . All these preliminary steps having been taken , the deputy collector will then proceed to the village , inquire into the authenticity of the sunnud or grant , and clear up any discrepancies between the district records with which ho will have been furnished by the collector , and the statements prepared before his arrival . "
There have been two grain riots in the South , one at Quilon ; and the other at Cochin , sepoys of tho 45 th M . N . I , being concerned on both occasions . The riot at Cochin appears to have been a trifling affair , so far as plundering was concerned , but it created great exoitement among the native population for several days . Tho English Mussulman , the Hon . Mr . Stanley , son of Lord Stanley of Aldorley , has reached Ponang , wo learn from the Singapore Daily Times of the 27 th ult . He arrived there as n , deck pas ^ senger . He has assumed the namo of Shailc Morad ; he wears the Arab dress , with fez cap , and is stated to be about fwonty-oight years of age . He is living in Chuliah-strcot , with an Arab named Shaik Salim Bangadie , and carefully avoids all intercourse with the Europeans . He had visited the Rajah of Perak , and on the 20 th June he proceeded to Qucdah , and
will remain there with tho Rajah for a week , Mr . Shaik Morad had not determined whether he would como on to Singapore or return to Mecca . Tho Calcutta Chamber of Commerce have drawn up a petition to the House of Commons , to bo signed by the inhabitants of Calcutta , on tho state of the finances , and the position of Europeans generally in India . The petition asks for the closing of all Indian loans , a guarantee for the Indian debt , tho appointment of a commission to inquire into financial reform and retrenchment , into the dovelopomont of tho resources of tho country , into tho extension of a freehold tenure , the improvement of the fiscal system , tho now tariff * and taxation , into tho present legislative council and tho admission of
outsiders as in Ceylon ,-and the question of centralisation . The Bombay mail arrived on Wednesday , but brought little intelligence of importance . The statue of the late Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy was formally opened for public view in the Town Hall on the 1 st in St ., by the committee of the statue fund [ in the presence oi SirCursetjee Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy ' Bart ., and his brothers , Messrs . Rustomjee and Sorabjee Jamsetjee . The Hon . Messrs . Malet arid Frere , and almost all the members of the committee , European and natives , were present . A correspondent writing from Cawnpore to the Englishman says that hundreds of the men will change their minds and withdraw their names from the discharge list , if allowed to do so . From the Punjaub journals we also learn that there is every probability of a number of men changing their minds and remaining in the service .
Lady Arnould , wife of the Puisue Justice of her Majesty ' s Supreme Court of Judicature , died on Saturday , the 23 rd July . We cannot refrain ( says the Bombay Times ) from noticing prominently the untiring services of the gallant young soldier to whom we mainly owe the restoration of quiet in these districts . If report speak truly , Lieutenant Roome ought long since to have been decorated with the Victoria Gross . We believe it is the fact that at the siege of Jhansi this young soldier followed , single-handed , four sapoys
into a dark house in one of the streets of the city , slaying two of them with his own hand , and was indebted for his deliverance from the others only to the opportune arrival of the sergeant-major of the regiment . Lieutenant Roome served with the Osmanlee cavalry of the Turkish contingent during the Crimean war . Amongst the services which have shed so much lustre upon the 10 th Regiment of Native Infantry in the last eighteen months , the name of Lieutenant Roome is perhaps conspicuous for the foremost , and Government will not , we arc persuaded , lose sight of them .
A Destructive Gale.—The Gale In The Cay ...
A destructive Gale . —The gale in the Cay ol Bengal during the third week in June was one ot the most disastrous on record . The Calcutta papers are filled with accounts of the loss and damage to shipping . The steamers Fire Queen and Baltic had to put into ports on the coast , the General Godwin , Tubal Cam , Bushire Merchant , and Sardinian , ship Luciana Manara , W . Thomas Lewis , and Moses Wheeler , were much injured . The Blenheim , laden with rice , from Akyab to London , foundered on the 1 . 7 th June , sixty miles west of the island of Rainree ; fourteen men were lost . The Lady Rawlinsori , with teak from Rangoon to Calcutta , capsized ninety miles south-west of the Rangoon light-ship ; twenty-two men who put off in a boat have not since been heard of , but the others were saved . The gale lasted from the 12 th to the 17 th June .
St . Cecilia in Calcutta . — performance ot Mendelssohn ' s oratorio of " St . Paul" by the Sacred Harmonic Society in the Calcutta town-hall on Friday evening , the 8 th July , seems to have been a success . The amateurs have improved since their first appearance . The hall was crowded . The applause given , and the arrangements for the supply of refreshments , however , do not seem to have been in keeping with the performance ot sacred music .
Fkancb in the East . —In the Krcuz Zcitumj ( says a letter from Berlin ) , there is a very interesting article . on a letter addressed by Leibnitz , nearly 200 years ago , to Louis Quatorzc of France . I no Grand Sovereign had applied to the great i > hilosophor for advice on tho subject of his war with Ho - land . Not loss statesman than scholar , that Arlstotio of Germany at once recommended the French King to conquer the Dutchmen in Egypt . *• Tho possession of that country , " ho said , " was suro to invest tlio French monarch with tho dominion of tho . bast . Tho crown olf India , ho added , was " nothing but < w Tho latter
appendage to that of tho Pharaohs . once secured , the whole South of Asia , as well as tuo Mediterranean , could no longer escape tho grasp oi tho fortunate Louis . " In quoting those words , and enlarging upon . thorn , the Kreuz Zoitwuj cannot Mil think that the natural conditions of power m tuoso regions remain tho same up to tho present time . Lot England bo substituted for Holland , and Louis Napoleon for Louis Quatorzo , and tho problem » second timo stands ready for solution , lhat tins question is of real importance to Great XJi'jt " " « tho general opinion of aU woU-iuformcd politicians lore
. Dr . S . TV . Williams , of China , estimates the population of tho Japanese city of Yedo at two ana a half millions , and Pckln at tho same . r . »»» \*»' don . Poldn , and Yodo aro tho most populous cit cs In tho world . To a Japanese Yedo sooms tho contro of everything that is desirable . It Is to himiinoro than Paris is to a Fronchman . Tho population oi tho wholo of Japan Is reckoned at from eighteen to twenty millions .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 3, 1859, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03091859/page/10/
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