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      Crystal Palace. Handel Commemoration.—Th...

      master , proposes to commemorate the centenary his death by some practical proof how highly we prize the legacies he has bequeathed to us , and by some effort in favour of the helpless ones whom many of his worthy illustrators leave amongst us when they , too , pass away . The generous need no more incentive to loose their purse strings than the mere reminder how many of such cases there are : and we believe , as well as hope , that the munificent donor of land to the value of 5 * 000 / . will find himself fitly seconded . Mr . Owen Jones has offered to act as honorary architect , and a list of noble and gentle patrons will be published shortly . Let us add another hope—that so : ae more charitable spirit than characterised the early proceedings of the Dramatic College authorities will be found among the counsels of the Handel Institution . The following distinguished persons honoured the Royal Italian Opera , Drury Lane , last week , with their presence : —Prince . Edward of Saxe Weimar , the Duchess of Manchester , the Duchess of Montrose , the Duke of Roxburgh , the Earl and Countess of Cardigan , the Countess of Mountcharles , the Marchioness of Downshire , Count Batthyany , his Excellency the Baron Brunow , the Baroness Brunow and party ; the Earl of IiOnsdale , his Grace the Duke of [ Bedford and party , the Marchioness of Conyngham , Lady Rivers , Lord Salisbury , Lady Packington , Lord Cranstbun , Marquis of Stafford , Sir Courtnay Honeywood , Sir Ralph arid Lady Howard , Lady Pakenhatn , Miss Burdett Coutts and party , —D'Horsay , Esq . ; Sir J . Dundas , J " . Grenfell , Esq . ; C . Goding , Esq . ; Captain Harris , Hon . Otway Toler , Major Gordon , Major Blake , Major Lynn , Captain Cavendish , Captain Cave , Mr . and Mrs . Wheeler . ;— Hume , Esq ., & c .

      Ofform Far From Wish To Exclude Natives2...

      of 702 THE LEAD EB . [ India

      Eiew Garden's.—We Have Been Requested To...

      EIew Garden's . —We have been requested to state that the National Botanic Gardens , containing the great .. ' palm-house , the old and new museums , the tropical aquarium , & c ., and the royal palace pleasure grounds ^ flower gardens , and new arboretum , having been greatly improved and adorned , are now open for the season j every week-day from one o ' clock till dusk . On Sundays , from two o ' clock till ^ six . Free admission to the whole . :

      . -~ India, And Indian Progress. ^

      . - ~ INDIA , AND INDIAN PROGRESS . ^

      W Sir C. Trevelyast.— Hill Stations. —Fr...

      w SIR C . TREVELYAST . — HILL STATIONS . —FREEHOLD TE ] STURE . FT 1 HE Madras papers report that various measures JL of Sir Chas . ^ frevelyan ' s are increasing his popularity among Europeans and natives . He continues his exertions to relieve the civil servants and officials from the burden of papers , reports , and correspondence . He has likewise issued new rules with regard % o petitions—another impediment of the Indian official . All complaints against any servant of Government must first be made to the

      form , so far from having a wish to exclude natives from office , wish to see them in the highest offices , sitting in the Legislative Council , and in the Supreme Courts , associated more extensively in the magistracy , and summoned on provincial juries , and . taking part in municipalities ; but for the protection of natives and Eng lish , they wish no native to be entrusted singly with functions , which he may pervert to corrupt and oppressive purposes . Another alteration of this kind , at Bombay , which tends to raise the native is , that no separation of nation or sect now takes place on juries . Formerly the English sat in the jury-box by themselves , Portuguese , Parse . es , Hindoos , and Mahomedans being kept distant from each other . On a late occasion a Parsee was foreman .

      To return to Sir Charles Trevelyan and Madras , we may mention another compliment to the natives . Formerly , while English gentlemen drove straight up to Government House , native gentlemen were required to alight before reaching the portico , but Sir Charles has allowed them the same privilege , with which they are much gratified . The sepoys have been pleased by Sir Charles discontinuing the guards atthe Collector ' s Office , the Lunatic Asylum , and the Post-office , where he has substituted police . Thus the military element is also reduced , and the display of arms lessened . Sir Charles is ensrasred in meeting the difficulties

      of caste and custom . In South Arcot the right and left hand castes have been engaged in impeding each other , preventing go oroos . and processions fi * oni passing down particular streets , and left hand men from riding in their own carriages along a public street , © r e building houses with an upper story . The governor lias instructed the authorities that the public streets and roadsin all towns are not the property of any caste , but of the whole community , and that , any man may use them and deal with , his own property as lie pleases , provided he does not give any real annoyance to others , or outrage public decencv or public law .

      In the case of the Tinnevelly authorities -a salutary lesson has been read , for the moonsiff lias been dismissed , because it was by his orders the shops were closed during the riots . The head of police is likewise dismissed , because he used no influence or authority to disperse the mob , or to persuade them of the risk of resistance . In fact , these men are punished for passively allowing the Christians to be molested . The Governor has given his support to the new

      Madras police plan , under which the police ^ functions are to be separated from thosjj of magistrate and collector . All local forces , and zillah and district police , are abolished , and the whole police of the Presidency—22 , 000 in number—formed into one body under a commissioner of police , who is to have the general management . The chief ^ danger is introducing the military element too far into the police , and giving it a character too military . It is to be regretted that , in addition to swords , the police are to be provided with carbines .

      Under the commissioner are district superintendents , and in every talook an inspector . Under him is the village inspector to whom tlie village watchman is alone responsible . The watchmen are in much better order than in the other Presidencies , but will be put on an improvod footing . There is besides a body of regular police , The village watchman will begin at 5 s , a jnonth , the police constable at 10 s ., advancing to 12 s . and to 14 s . ; the Serjeants will advance from 20 a . to 28 s ., and the inspectors from 41 . to 20 / . A superannuation fund is provided . The pay of the sericants is insufficient to provide Europeans , but doubtloss this defect will m time be remedied .

      Measures arq being taken to put the Madras revenue officers on a footing with those of Bengal , by requiring the observance of Sunday as a holiday .

      local authority ; no petitions will be attended to on matters which form the subject of judicial proceedings , and no petition will meet with any answer which applies for a situation in the gift of the heads of departments . Thus the petition nuisance will receive a heavy blow , while the power of the local authorities will be much strengthened * The amalgamation of the Supreme and Sudder Courts may be looked upon as determined on , and although a new code of civil procedure has been passed , and a penal code will be prepared which places Eui'opeans on a footing with natives , there cannot be much doubt that the old system is doomed , that English rights will be established , and Enirlish law introduced . A commission on

      the amalgamation is aaid to be appointed , which consists of Mr . Smyth , the Advocate-General , Mr . J . B . USTorfcom , of the Madras bar , a leading reformer , and Mr . Strange , M . O . S . j a judge of the Sudder Court . The amalgamation will constitute the Supreme Court the high court of appeal for the whole presidency ; and to relieve it from part of the local civil business , the small cause court of Madras is to bo put on the footing of a county court . In order to give lqcal sittings , Sir Charles Trovelyan proposes to establish provincial courts , consisting of one civil servant , one barrister , and one Eurasian , or other native—an unobjectionable method or employing natives , and ojrood stop for raising them in the political scale . The loaders of Indian ro-

      27th Foot, And Paymaster Sewell Dth R»™ ...

      27 th Foot , and Paymaster Sewell dth r »™ ~~~ $ ZtL ™ £ zkz- «^ JWS 55 S Nynee Tal is rising much into favour Am ™ the leaves of absence are Captain C . P HallS ? ZZS & St , ¦ £$ &&?"•* " *' ¦ ** !& Leave to Mussoorie has been rrlven th r-mfo ,-I' - ^^ l 5 ° ° ?* ' tO Ca l ^ Sark ^ td Barnett 54 th foot , to Ensign R . Kane , 71 st Foot Ti ? ^ V -fe n £ mt ¦?• ¦ ' AdJutant of the Allahabad military police . froni ' simla F' Fan < er has cuan ge < l to Kussowlee Brevet Col L'Estrange , 70 th Foot , has leave to continue at Landour .

      Ensign Tulloch , 23 rd Foot , has leave to the hills north of Deyrali . The exchanges between the chaplains at Meean Me ' er and Rawul Pindee , are cancelled . _ Sir A . H . Lawrence , Bart ., assistant commissioner , has been removed from Lahore to Kan ^ ra district . . ° Lieut . S . Clayton and Ensign II . B . Sayce , 99 th Foot , have leave to Hazaraeeba <> -h .

      Mr . Y . C . Ross has been appointed deputy collector and deputy magistrate of iioolundshuhur . Leave to the Neilgherries has been given to Major-Gen . R . Bucld , commanding S . Madras division , Mnjor II . S . King , 3 rd Foot , and to Cant . A . S . Findlay , 30 th M . N . T ., to Lieur .-Col . Smyly , 99 th Foot , and to Lieut . A . W . Atkinson , 99 th Foot . The governor of Ceylon ' , and most of the leading personages were reported to be at Xewera Ellia sanatorium until May . Allen ' s Indian Mail lias an article in

      remembrance of the claims of Major Munro , of the Bengal army , as one of the pioneers of tlie principal of a freeho ld tenure , by the publication of letters under the signature of "Verax " in the Asiatic Journal for 1841 , and tlie following years . This fact does not , however , lessen the merit of the exertions'of the Friend of India ,, and oilier advocates of this great economical and social improvement . ' Allen ' s Indian Mail has ; been brought round to advocate the suppression of that hot-bed of sedition- —the native army . Tlie Bengal autlio rities have now more ofHcers of native regiments borne on the lists than before the mutiny .

      The same paper explains that , the complimentary address from the British India Association to Lord Canning is not from English residents , but from blacks , who approve of his policy . The Friend of India puts fbrwarda well-founded protest against the repeated return of IScrar and tlie Hyderabad assigned territory to the Nizam , as a reward for his ambiguous loyalty . The editor shows how the' country has improved in the short period since its cession in 1853 : —

      The first your the revenue wiim ¦ f - ! T , ' ?' 1 " !; iSS : J ::: ; ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::. SSE In the time of the Ni / . am tlm five millions of people were subjected to all kinds ol" oppression , nor did he derive the pecuniary benefit . ; There has been no emigration front the district , and the population \ h supposed to lmve increased . In the Raichoro district alone- forty-one new Sol

      schools have been started , making- the number . Village roads have been laid out over tho whole country , but the issue of debentures with a provincial guarantee can alone provide tho requisite funds for public improvements . I he Homunv Railway is approaching the Uemr country , vrliicli will exercise great influence . t . In the northern hills arc admirable positions ioi English colonies and sanitaria , but nothing » iw yet been done to make them available . . . cotton countries in

      From tho hill settlements the chief nowB iis of numerous concessions of leave of absence . For Darjeoling , Ensign A . Jonos , 87 th . Foot , has leave . Mr . E . M . Roily , deputy-collector of Caohan , has loft his district for a while , from ill health . Simla is now tho seat of the military department , and tho officers are working more comfortably there after their late toils and inconvenience . Leave for Simla lias boon given to Lieutenant F . A . Stobbing , 8 th Foot , Lieutenant J . S . White ,

      Berar is ono of tho fmopt India ; and while tho Cotton Supply Awjociation are doing all in thoir power to promote the railway ami tho development of tho country , som ^ o ! the omoials in India are seeking to consign it to the oppression of anarchy under tho Nizam . : In Allahabad , tho magistrate , Mr . I icwohol , nw gone out against tho robolw with tvronty-oigi t Europeans , and achieved groat succchij . * l \™ ° fray ho captured twenty-four rebel * < vl lGl " nampore . . _ ,. nn . i Mr . A , W . Wilson Stopl , bom in India , nnu oduoatodln tho Martinioro , at Calcutta Iuib ro " . ^! much applause in India for having come oil "oa « wrangler at Cambridge . ' , , „ fni . It Is noticed that more trouble l »» s been taiccn

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 4, 1859, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04061859/page/18/