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8W> THE LEADER. /[No. 393, October 3, 18...
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THE REBELLION IN" INDIA. The Bombay and ...
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8 W > THE LEADER . /[ No . 393 , October 3 , 1857 .
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NOTICES TO COE . HESPONI > ENTS . X . K . —It was Miss Carew whose dress and decorations were so costly ; Miss Clarke was the unfortunate milliner who supplied them - The lapsus calami proves at least that the writer intended no personal reflections . Several communications unavoidably stand over . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted , it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . No notice can . b « taken of anonymous correspondence . Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because thereis nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as tiie strain to keep ' things fixed-when , all the world is by the very law . of its creation in eternal progress . —De JLbnoioj .
The Rebellion In" India. The Bombay And ...
THE REBELLION IN" INDIA . The Bombay and Calcutta despatches bring up the story of the Indian rebellion to the last day of August in the former presidency , and the twenty-second of the same month in the latter . The events described form seven extensive groups—around Delhi , between Agra and Cawnpore , around Patna , at Calcutta , in HJajpootana , Bombay , and Madras . ^ Following the order observed in our outline last week , we may rapidly sketch the results announced by the latest intelligence . At Calcutta the DVEohurrum had commenced . This
festival is one of lamentations for the death of the first Mohammedan martyrs , and lasts ten days . " We must wait a fortnight , therefore , before knowing what were its effects upon the native population . Lord Canning had taken some precautions , but there was a general complaint that he had not placed the whole of Bengal under martial law , instead of jconfining the operation of his decree to a single district . Sir Colin Campbell is
known to have concurred on this point with the majority of the European residents of all classes . During the IVLohurrura . a Mohammedan excites himself to the highest pitch ; death on one of those tea days is to him a viaticum to paradise . The ex-King of Otjde is imprisoned in that city with liis prime minister and several Moslems of the highest rank ; and , prowling about the place of their confinement , numerous rebel emissaries have been detected
The danger was so obvious that even Lord Caktsting might have been expected to acknowledge it . The city , however , was protected by a regiment and a half of Europeans , a battery manned by sailors , a considerable number of drilled Europeans , and a light field-battery . iForb William was considered secure . Nevertheless , the Christians viewed , with intense anxiety , the demeanour of the immense oative populationfreBh mutinies
Two had occurred in Bengal —that of the Bhaugulporo Hangers and that of the 5 th Irregular Cavalry , neither of tho corps doing much damage . Why were not the Bangers disarmed when the 90 th 1 ' oot was at Bhaugulporo ? These rebels , with others from Bahar , succeeded for a timo in intercepting the communications with the interior . However , at the last dates , letters wore regularly received from aa far north as Oawnporo . Major Emu hud assisted in reopening tho great highways by his brilliant exploits ait Arrah and elsewhere , while tho battalions do-Bpatched . i ^ p Runeegungc kept tho insurrection from spreading in thut direction
towards the sea . The stations from Cawnpore as far as Allahabad were being rapidly entrenched , Benares especially , where the niew fort of Rajghat is of great strength , and would effectually protect its inmates against any number of the mutineers . Following the line we find Haveiock forced back upon Cawnpore , and the
most dreary uncertainty exists as to the fate of Lucknow . In some minds , despair has so completely succeeded to hope , that the most they pray for is that the Commandant "would have the courage to blow himself up with the garrison , the women , and the children . It is , at least , premature to take this tone . Sir James Outram was about to
proceed up the G-ogra with a force of steamers , and miglit himself rescue the thousand Christians at Lucknow . Meanwhile Havelock , invariably victorious in the field , remained at Cawnpore to await reinforcements for his shattered column , which , with its commander , has gained imperishable glory . Peel and the Bluejackets of the Shannon were going up to Allahabad with a number
of frigate guns . From the borders of the vast territory of Oude , in which every man is or has been a soldier , and which seethes with insurrection , India is in a state of anarchy around Agra , through Rohileund , up to Bolundshuhur , nearly as far as Delhi . But we find no positive confirmation , of the report that the rebels had occupied Allyghur . Certainly , the position of affairs at Delhi was improving .
On this subject all opinions concur . Favourable accounts had come down of the eonduct of Brigadier Wilson ; Nicholson had arrived with a . part of his troops ; the country beyond , around Hansi and Hissar , w r as in the possession of Van Cortlandt ; and the Punjab , under the admirable administration of Laweekce , continued generally tranquil . The Commissioner had even been enabled to collect the revenue . But the treasury of the N " orth-Western Provinces was all hut
exhausted ; the Ghorka convoy , indeed , had brought a chest to the camp ; but anxieties were experienced as to the result of any deficiency interrupting the regular pay of the Sikh soldiers . In Rajpootana a spark of rebellion had been kindled by part of a Bombay regiment stationed at Nusseerabad . The causes of the outbreak are , as yet , somewhat mysterious ; the Indian journals seem disposed to explain away the whole affair ; but the only safe course for the Indian Government to
pursue is to prepare ior a Sepoy revolt throughout the three presidencies . How to do this ? By bringing down to the coast as many as possible of the women and children scattered at the interior stations ; by placing the arsenals under European guards ; by winnowing the service of generals who ought long ago to have been superannuated , and by not leaving any Li-o ^ d Hewitt iu
command of powerful forces . General Lloyd , it is said , w r aa obliged to barricade himself in his Louse , to escape being torn to pieces by tho women of the 10 th Regiment . There haa "been , at length , an unmistakable sign that Madras is not free from tho insurrectionary taint . "We can only hope that Lord Ca . n : ninq and his Council will understand how to deal with an incipient mutiny—tho third in succession .
Wherever a Mahratta or Rajpoot chieftain rules , wo may expect danger . ' Tho whole of Central India is again throatonod by the military contingents ; Sindmiah audlloLKARuro suspected ; and it ia possible that a gigantic gathering may take- pluce , tending towards tho kingdom of Oude . That appears the now point of concentration for the rovolt , which no longer gravitates towards Delhi .
Nevertheless , it is to Delhi that all India looks for an announcement of victory on one side or the other . There is no calculating what nii ° ht be the moral effect of a repulse sustained by the" Europeans in an attempt to occupy the city ; on the other hand , a signal blow struck there would dishearten tho usands of the Sepoys , and probably prevent thousands of others from following their example . It must be with the deepest interest that the next intelligence will be anticipated by the public at home . But it must be recollected that only during this
first week of October will the reinforcements from England have begun to arrive . India is like a ship on fire ; the flame breaks out in . one direction and another ; the men are at their posts ; the blaze drives them from point to point ; they must hold on awhile ; one must do the work of three ; but in the first week of October , should the good ship still survive , the rallying cry will be heard—a sail in sight ! "J Few Englishmen in India , however , can have so forgotten their country as not to know—as well as though they heard the hum of London—that all hearts
are beating in sympathy with their sufferings , and with pride for the fortitude tliey have displayed .
Travelling Emperors. Once Upon A Time Th...
TRAVELLING EMPERORS . Once upon a time the King sat upon . Ins throne in his own palace in his own country , and people who admired his wisdom came to see him . Now-a-days the wise Xings travel by express train , smoke cigars together , and talk about the affairs of Europe . To see a King or an Emperor was , in old stories , something rich and rare ; the very cobblers of Stuttgard , as we learn from , one of the newspaper writers , do not look up from their work to see half a dozen crowned heads pass by .
What a shower of gossip has followed this Stuttgard interview ! G-ortschakofi ' , it is said , planned the interview : not that he hates "France less , but that he hates Austria more . The Czab , who appears to have something of the qualities of all his predecessors—stupid as Paul ,, mild as Alexandeb , and sometimes proud as Nicholas—showed no anxiety to meet ihejyarvenu from Paris ; but lie yielded , and then , it is said , gave Napoleon the invitation to meet him at Stuttgard . lie yielded to Gortschakojtf in . this state affair , but he would not yield in a personal point—he did not include Euq & nie in the invitation .
What did they talk about at Stuttgard ? The affairs of Italy , say very wise men—a sore point with Austria . Prance and Austria do not agree at Rome . Russia affects to admire Sardinia ; and the two , without any chance of clashing interest , may talk about Italy until their cigars are out . Goetsciia . xofp is of the old Russian anti-Q-erman party , and lie hates Count Buol as any mere novus homo in diplomacy—and a personal coxcomb
to boot—is likely to hate a keen and practised di plomatist . But tho Empress of Russiaherself a German Princess—is the head ot tho German party in Russia ; and shethough ' indisposed' at Darmstadt—hurries up to Stuttgard ' entirely unexpected . ' l ' " mediately following her arrival , we have it announced that -tho Emperor Fjuncis-Josepix and tho Czah aro to meet at Weimar ; thus bringing back . her lnwbauu to tho aide of Austria—and of morality . IU \¦ v— i
__ MVJ I'l *\ J KJJLV * W \ f ± . J . *^ K ** . aV * . At . * . <** JA " » " -- t Thore wore two currents working at stuttgard . Russian , policy civil to Napoi-wX ^ tho Russian royal personages not bo very civil . When Alexander and Napo ^ bon met , tho ' brothers' only shook hands ; when Aikxa . ni ) 1 ! h and Francis-Joseph moot ; , tll ° y ' Idas and embrace . ' Our Qujbmn gives hor check to tho salute of tho French "lUuiperori
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 3, 1857, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03101857/page/14/
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