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THE INDIAN REVOLT. ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦ ' —-—? ¦' *...
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THE EAST. CHINA. A despatch from Baron G...
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THE BOMBARDMENT OF JEDDA1I. _ The full p...
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LE E B [ committed 892 THE . AD . No * £ 41 , September 4 , 1858 .
The Indian Revolt. ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦ ' —-—? ¦' *...
THE INDIAN REVOLT . ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦ ' — - —? ¦ ' * . - . - ' ' ' The arrival of the Calcutta mail brings intelligence to the 18 th of July . Military operations are suspended , and it is hoped the lull will continue until the cold weather . Lord Clyde prohibited all unnecessary action , and . is devoting his attention particularly to keeping his troops in healthy condition . TantiaV . Topee having taken and plundered Tonk , and vainly endeavoured to gain the fort held by the Nawab , General Roberta ' s firce left the neighbourhood of Jeypore , where he had been for some days , and marched to Tohk , which he entered on the 12 th
instant . A light detachment under Colonel Holmes , 12 th Native Infantry , was sent in pursuit of the rebels . Tantia retired before this- ' -force , which had failed to come up with him up to the latest intelligence received ( July 11 ) , though only fifteen miles behind . The course of the rebels is expected to be south ward , as they do not know that Mhow contains a strong force of European and Bombay troops . It ¦ wa s supposed that they might perhaps defend Kot ' ah ; but their career can be but short , as they are surrounded by British troops , and have neither leaders nor ammunition , nor , unless joined by sonie local potentate , can they obtain any further supplies .
The news from Behar is still bad . Arrah has again been attacked , and bungalows have been burnt there ; but nO lives have been lost . After the withdrawal of the Europeans to Benares and Dinapore , " Uniur Sing returned to the Jugdespore jungle , where his followers began again to concentrate . He had collected 3000 men , detachineuts from which force had plundered and burnt sonie villages in Tirhoot , and threatened Patna . The command of the district has been given to Brigadier Douglas , who has established a chain of posts round the jungle to cut off all escape . Little importance is attached to these disturbances . IAicknow , up to the loth July , was , as usual , quiet , though surrounded by enemies . Gwalior equally peaceful on the 17 th .
The Saugor and Gwalior territories have been formed respectively into divisions by Brigadiers " Whitlock and Napier . At Bombay , the Biickree Eed Mahomedan Festival passed off in perfect quietness , and without any di s ^ play of force on the part of the authorities . The gay world of Bombay has migrated to Toona , where the Governor now resides . The Bombay Gazette recently published a proclamation , said , to have been issued by the Governor-General in Oude , containing a guarantee of their estates to the landholders . This proclamation has been officially declared by the President in Council to be a pure invention without any foundation
whatever . The rebel Rajah of Shahagunge has given himself tip to Mr . Thornton , at Moororar . We extract the following from the Bombay Telegraph : — " General Whitlock ' s column have made a large * haul' from the rebels . A company of the Madras 43 rd Native Infantry , attached to the column , found 140 cartloads of gold bricks and nuggets , and 40 lakhs of rupees ; an d more , was expected to be discovered . Besides this large amount of treasure , an immense quantity of jewels have also been found . These are supposed to have been the jewels belonging to the Peishwa ' s family , which , fifty years ago , mysteriously disappeared , from Poona , and were supposed to be in the possession of Scindia or Holkar . JU is believed they wore stolen by
Bajee Row ' s brother , the adoptive father of the present Narrein , . Row , who is now a prisoner . The treasure and jewellery found are said to bo of the value of nine crores of rupees , or nine millions sterling . " The . JDeUiij ) ¦ Casette is very credibly informed that Sir Jblin' Lawrence ; Brigadier General Chamberlain , nnd Colonel B . Edwards , have been called upon to draw up a scheme for reorganising the army . We learn from the Lahore Chronich that the Indian Government have bestowed largo territorial gifts on his Highness the Maharajah of Putteeala , the Rajah of Jheend , and the Rajah of Nabah , for their conspicuous and distinguished loyalty , and the eminent services rendered by them to the State during the late insurrection , and have also conferred , upon those princes additional titles of honour .
THE ! SIKH SOLDUSRY . The Times correspondent gives the following description of these men ; -r "Part of the " road" wft ' 3 "" ctoWd § a'W ! tirtlre ' baffgago-of « a Sikh regiment returning towards tho Punjab . What piles of ' loot !'—I am told that is a more expressive word than cither ' pillage' or . ' plunder '—each surmounted by ft pjnlly-dreescd lady , while the loan-limbed , sinewy Sikh , in his dust-coloured turban , curkeo tunic , nnd tight , trousers , strode along lightly by the side of tho cart , laughing and singing with delight at tho prospect of a return to his native deserts ! It is a sorlous thing to reflect upon that there ftro seventy and odd thousand t these fiery soldiers , who , now faithful to us , are . full of
Punic faith and more than Oriental cunning , and who were but too often the foremost and the most sanguinary among the ringleaders of the mutiny—73 ^ 000 of them drilled , equipped , arid armed , fighting for us south of the Sutlej , and talking of the time when they may have to fight against us . Their present ' Goroo' is John Lawrence , but there is no one in India more deeply sensible of the danger which way come from the race lie rules with such facile and ' mighty hand than the great administrator of the Punjab . These fellows are clinquant with gold . They have- huge earrings of the precious metal , and cables of it with fringes of mohurs round their necks . Their sword-hilts are nuggets ; the richest scarfs and shawls encircle their lithe waists .
With their flashing black eyes , fine thin noses , glossy black moustaches , beard , and upturned whiskers , light , grinning smile opening up the rows of sharp snowwhite teeth , their quick light tread , and lithe movements , they put one more in mind" of tigers than any race of men I ever beheld . Some of these regiments , such as Wilde ' s and Brasyer ' s , the Ferozepore regiment , have fought as hard , if not mare fiercely , done as much service , and lost as many from the enemy , as any of out Euglish battalions ; but ' it cannot be denied that much depends upon their officers . The men can , of course , march better , and resist the heat of an Indian sun better , than ordinary Europeans . Some men they will follow to the death—for others they will not stir an inch . "
The East. China. A Despatch From Baron G...
THE EAST . CHINA . A despatch from Baron Gros , dated Tien-sien , June 19 , published in the Paris jfoniteur , fully confirms the announcement of the Russian courier respecting , the conclusion of treaties between Chiua and the Western Powers . The Barou says the wishes of his master are satisfied ; that the whole of China is thrown open to Christianity and trade ; that " our" ( French ) diplomatic
agents may temporarily reside in Pekin ; that " missionaries are to be admitted everywhere ; that a Chinese ambassador Will go to Paris , and that tho murder of a missionary will be avenged . Indeed , the concessions are so great that one might believe the Chinese Government only wanted to be forced to bestow them . Baron Gros finishes by saying that the engagements with China have been concluded , have . been partly signed , and that France and England obtain the most ample concessions .
Intelligence from Hong-Kong , uudcr date July 6 , states that the Russian and United States Ministers have concluded treaties with China ; it was not known what concessions had been obtaiued by those Powers , but . it was believed that they had stipulated for the same privileges as those to be eujpj'ed by other nations . One article , however , of the American treaty is worth notice . It is as follows : — " Right of annual visit and sojourn , at his own pleasure as to time , of the United States Minister at Pekin ; journey either to be by the Peiho , or overland from Sbanghae , and to be provided for by Chinese Government , as well as with an official residence at the capital . His suite not to consist of more than twenty , exclusive of Chinese attendants . His official intercourse to be with the Privy Council , or one of its members deputed for that purpose . "
lvi-ying , the Imperial Commissioner who concluded tho treaty of Nanking with Sir Henry Pottinger in 1842 , aud was degraded in 1850 for his reports in favour of the . English , was associated with the present Commissioners to treat with the English and French Ambassadors . It was at first supposed that this was an indication of a favourable disposition on the , part of the Imperial Government , it was , however , soon discovered tho object wa 9 to retrieve his position and rank , by a polioy opposed to that which lost it to him , and that ho was exercising a most injurious influence upon his colleagues . A memorial which he had addressed to the Emperor at tho conclusion , of tho last war , couched in a very different sense from the communications ho was addressing to tho British authorities at tho same time , was produced and road to his colleagues . This so completely humbled him that ho returned to Peking a day or two after .
Negotiations by the allies aro said to be in progress , and it was expected that treaties would be signed about tho 22 nd ult . It is reported that all their demands have been acceded to , nnd that tho conditions of tho treaties will confer extended privileges upon foreigners , and include a guarantee for Indemnification for property destroyed at Canton . At Tion-sin thoro had been groat suffering from 6 oaroitfw . Of > ai'ain .. and-thorii-w . afl-a-i ! flnort . of an outbreak at tho capital owing to tho doarnoss of food . Grout complaints are niado at Canton of tho unpleasant aspect of uffaira thoro . Tlio now Chineso Commisalonor , Hwaiig-tsung-oan , is pursuing a course calculated to encourage rcslstanco to the allies . In consequence , a blockade of tho rivor , applicable only to Chinese boats , has boon established , and trade must be considered suspended ,. All tho native merchants have loft , and tho greater portion of tho foreign community .
Several atrocities had been against foreigners by the Chinese . Captain Jenkins , of her Majesty ' s ship Actoaon , while reconnoitring a village near Whampoa , was fired on from an ambuscade . All the party were wounded , Captain Jenkins severely ; but he is recovering . A French man-ofrwar had shelled Shamun , part of the westorn- suburbs of Canton , as a Frenchman had been killed in that neighbourhood . . An Austrian frigate , the Novara , arrived at Canton : on the 5 th July , from Manilla . Her Majesty ' s steamer Inflexible , Captain Booker , had returned from a trip to Formosa . The sulphur mines had been visited , but no trace of Europeaus being on the island discovered . With regard to the boundary line between the Russian and Chinese empires , which has been lately decided , a correspondent of the Daily Netos , writing from St . Petersburg , says : —" According to the new treaty signed by General Mouravieff and the Chinese Plenipotentiary " on . the 9 th of June , the river Amur will form the boundary from the spot where the rivor Sheika joins the Argun , down to the confluence of the Ussuri with the Amur . Below the mouth of the Ussuri both banks of the Amur down to the sea belong to Russia ; and the free navigation of the Ussuri is conceded to the Russians , and that of the Lower Amur to the Chinese . The ambition of Russia and the traditional policy of Peter the Great have thus at length been fully realised ; and it how remains for Russia to improve this peaceful conquest bv a proper system of colonisation and the development of its magnificent resources . For this purpose the Governor-General Mouravieff had set off on a tour of inspection to the Amur , to examine personally the ncwl \' -acquired territory , and to make the iii-i- « ssary arrangements in a military , commercial , and agricultural point of view . " ¦ - . ' / ' / ¦ EGYPT . ' .. .- ¦ By a despatch from Trieste of the 30 th , accounts have been received that a plot , formed by some Mussulmans for the purpose of overthrowing the Government , had been discovered at Alexandria . Four pashas and several superior officers had been arrested . Two of the principal conspirators have been cojifincd in the fortress of Aboukir .
The Bombardment Of Jedda1i. _ The Full P...
THE BOMBARDMENT OF JEDDA 1 I . _ The full particulars of this affair have arrived , un < ler date Alexandria , August 17 . The Cyclops reached Jeddah on the morning of the 23 rd July , and jwiohoral at the entrance of the port . The festivities of the Kourban Bairam were at their height ; the town wore a holiday appearance , With the shipping decked out with gay flag 3 , and it seemed as if on the spot where = o lately a great crime was perpetrated all remembrance uf it had already passed away . It was soon ascertained that Naamik PsislJn . was at Mecca ; and a letter was at once despatched to the Knimakan for transmission to the Pasha , informing him that Captain Pulleri had come to the place to demand , on the part' of England and France , the . immediate punishment of the authors of the late mnssacre . Forty hours' time was allowed for compliance with this demand . The Kaimakan sent to say that no person about him understood any European language , and the purport of the letter had , consequently , to bo explained to him-Meanwhile a strict blockade was enforced , in which the Cyclops was assisted by the Lady Canning , East India Company ' s steamer . The two vessels took up their position at a distance of about a mile and a half , whence their guns could sweep the two channels leading into tho inner harbour . ,
On tho morning of the 25 th the time had expired , and hostilities were forthwith commenced . A few rounds of shot and shell wore fired into tho town . When tiny broke they were found to have had tho eft ' ect of driving almost all tho inhabitants to seek refuge beyond »»« walls . The bombardment was resumed at intervals during tho course of tho day , and was continued in like manner on tlio 20 th . About 100 to 150 solid shot , shells , ami rockots wore thrown into tho place , and of the latter a . few wero fired from tho boats of tho Cyclops during tl ' night . It was afterwards ascertained that thoir appearance had struck intense terror into tho mimld «> f t ' people on shore Tho women , as tho fearful nitesllos came hissing through ' tho darkness in a truin of lire , shrieked aloud , and tho" men slunk away in an agony of fonr . Tho town was very little damaged , and tho lu *» of life is not known to amount to more than tun or
twelve . During tho whole of this time tho forts continue' ) perfectly feilont , and never once attempted to oIKt t ' slighteat opposition . , On" ili ' o al tern 66 n "' o 1 f'tinr 2 Ctini ^ FeorotnTrof * * 10 ^ 1 ^ arrived from Mecca , and implored Captain Pull *"' w desist , declaring that tho murderers , nixteon In nuin « ' » » wore In confinement ; that their puniabmunt uoiila "ol bo can-hid into execution until approval of tho uol > ll J . was received from Constantinople C ' uptahi 1 ulicn , continued firm in his demands . Tho next day 000 Albanian troops arrived from Suoz . and Captain Pullon allowed them to laud , ihoroby « lv »> B a short rosplto to tho town . Tho Kiihn ilwm then c « m »
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 4, 1858, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04091858/page/4/
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