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THE LEADER.
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The Leader.
THE LEADER .
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Review Of The Week- Taoe Miscellaneous 1...
REVIEW OF THE WEEK- taoe Miscellaneous 1312 Thoughts , Facts , and fcugpes- FINE ARTSHome Inteli-igehce . . Postscript ... 1320 tions on Parliamentary *« - ., „_ T x « tSS « . fralte ? v y " 131 © Political ForeshadowingB 130 S . PnpprrvTvTnTTTrFyrr form ational Gallery 1 ^ 3 Criminal Record . 13 U & Fokeign Istbxi . igE 3 . cb . omnwAi CORRESPONDENCE- INDIA AND INDIAN PROCRESSGatherings from Law and Police Continental Notes 1310 ORIGINAL CORRESPOiMUtwct English Language hi India . Courts 1309 Mexico ... 1312 France lo ^ 4 —Roman Type 1326 The State of Sarawak 1309 South American States 1312 Germany l-i-5 Korthern Bengal Railway 1327 . Deaths from Grief isou America ,. 1312 . iTFRAture— Korth of India Tramroad Coin-Ceiitral Railway Station 1309 Lord Jiury at Toronto 1312 LiTEKAiUKt _ l 327 B " -fc " ' SS PUBIIC AFFAIRS- USS ^ S ^ . ^ . ^ . IHI CO ™| k » l SSJRSs ' aJ ^ ZEE : Si . ' S I 0 BMSS ^ SffSSi-xsissi 1321 fiSLSS ^ : :::::::::: % & gg ^ =:::::::::::: Improved Oocau Steamers 1325 Railways 1321 The Magazines .... 1317 S ??*^ ^^ foifiil ^^ nd ' Foreieu &? £ ; • - JgJ A ? ional J ^ es " * ^'"^ 13- THEATRES AND ENTERTAINMENTS- ^^ aJA ^ ks ^ lJ . 1330 cich ? nchink"v :: ; :::: ^ "v : v ^ r : 7 i 3 ? ?& i ^ w & i » r "" :: " ::::::: ™ £ Dn « y Lane , covent Garden , i v ^ ^ enffice ies Si Trade with Janan 1327 Jiioprranhies of German Princes . 1323 llaymarket , & c 1318 Railway Intelligence l & ii
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W ITH the help of a little patience and the exercise of a little imagination \ ve make out of the fog of ill-spelled telegraphic communications which- have come to hand in anticipation of the next Bombay mail , that the fortnight ' s Indian news , of which we are supposed to have a resume , in , upon the whole , of a satisfactory character . In the first place , the Royal Proclamation is reported to have been published throughout India on flic 1 st of November , and , according to the'reporter ,-has * ' given satisfaction to all parties . " Upon tins point we shall be better able to judge after the arrival of the next two or three mails . In the
rncan-iime , the campaign in Oude has been commenced , but we are left in the dark as to ¦ what has been done , except as regards one or two minor successes achieved by our troops at places not to be found on any map of India yet published . The more positive points of the news are : that , for the fourth time , General Michel has swooped down upon the remains of that nine-lived Central India force of rebels lud by Tantia Topee .
flying southward , after his defeat on the I 3 el \ vji , 'Tantia Topee stopped to rest his wearied men . near Currcc ; here General Michel fell . upon him , and , besides slaying a large number of his followers , took all the guns in the field , and sent him once more flying for his life . lie has succeeded in making his way into the Sindwarra country , north of Nagporo ; and there is a report that , tired of the game he has no long been , playing , he had scut an emissary to inquire on what terms he may surrender .
In one way or another , the affairs ol the Ionian Islands promise to give no little trouble to the Government . As a foundation for pnrty operations they have been seized upon , and every one of them churged and primed to blow up and scatter the ¦ combinations of Sir John Young and of her Majesty ' s Lord High Commissioner Extraordinary together . But without any Palmmtouiau manipulation , the subject ol' Mr . Gladstone ' s mission is made dilllcult enough by the loniaus themselves . Sir Edward Buhvci ; Lytton
has writton to Sir John Young to aimouuoo ¦ Wie coming of Mr . Gladstone , and tho objcois of his mission ; and Su * John Young has oomniuuicutcd tho Colonial Secretary ' s dospatcli to the Senate of the Ionian Islands . " " Tho publication of tho despatch to tho Lord High Co . V » iss ' ollor » " W S iuc Government organ , " 1 ms product t ^ 0 happiest results , and disposed tho loniaus tC receive with favour aud respect any prudent sugg : 'isiions 1 < 0 »' improvingHhq administration of their aifturs uiulci < jwltwh prpteotion . " But . it is difficult to acoc ^ ' iftia nssumnco in tho faco of the protest entered by 110 I m-liamontaiy representatives of Corfu against * Mo statoment of Six- John Youngs they do not
desire to draw the relations between their island and Great Britain any closer than they are . However , Mr . Gladstone , who reached Corfu oil the 24 th of November , is now on the field of his labours , and , whatever may be the complications he iinds there , we may look for at least an intelligible account of them from him . Meanwhile , we have the mystery of the purloined despatches partly cleared up . In spite of the suspicions of some , of the ill-wishes of many , the publication of these despatches appears
to have been entirely without the cognizance of the Government . According to a charge officially made at Bow-street , a Mr . William Hudson Guernsey , taking advantage of the temporary absence of Mi \ Miller , sub-librarian of the Colonial Office , from the library of that establishment , where lie had been admitted on private business with Mr . Miller , surreptitiously carried off the documents from the library-table , and for some reason or purpose not at present clearly explained , published them in the iJailij Kcks . lie is committed for
trial-In connexion with colonial affairs , we have reports of a complimentary dinner given by the leading citizens of Toronto to Lord Bury on . the 13 th of November . Lord Bury has . settled the story which was current at the time of his departure from England , which auinneel that he had gone to Canada on an official , or at least semi-official , mission : he said , " I am here in no political capacity whatever . " But Lord Bury has long taken a public interest in the affairs of Canada , and on the question of a fcdcralisation of the States of British North America , he said , ' " As I happon to be on
of winning hearts and heads ! With what admiring surprise did ¦ Christendom note his mode of recognising the anniversary of that glorious political event ihc coi > j ) d ' etat / Montalembert pardoned —pardoned " the occasion of the anniversary of the 2 nd of December I" Great and touching clemency ! How can Count-Montalembert have the heart to decline it ? How could he' bring himself
to write such words as these in answer to the Monitcur ' s announcement of the Emperor ' s grace ? " Condemned on the 14 thof November , I lodged , within the time specified by the law , an appeal against the sentence of which I am the object . No power in France has the right to remit a penalty which is not definitive . I am one of those who still believe in right , and will accept no favour . " Whose face has Count Montalembert now struck ? Not that of France . " Gentlemen , let us be prepared , for it may happen that next spring we shall again have to smell gunpowder , " said the King of Sardinia , lately to some of the high military officers about him , on the occasion of a review . An attempt was made by the French press to deny or explain away tho very striking words in which Victor Emmanuel
James has no apparent power to transfer the land of which , in the first instance , lie made himself master by force of arms , and over which his right of rule was confirmed by the sovereign of Borneo under conditions that -put any act of sale or transfer out of the question . At all events , Lord Derby and his coadjutors are not prepared to entertain the offer made by Sir James Brooked friends . At the head of the continental news of this week , as last week , is the name of Montalembert . What a wonderful art the Emperor Napoleon - has
very good terms with many of the Ministry , I shall not scruple on my return homo . to communicate to them anything I may observe as to what is the feeling ol ' Canada on that subject . " Thcmoreimmediutoobject of Lord Bury ' s visit to Canada , as he explained , is to enlist the interest of that country hi 1 he formation of a weekly line of steamers between Galway and Quebec j and not only is he empowered to make arrangements to that end , but he is further empowered lo conclude with Canada and the other provinces the terms upon which a railway into tho interior , from Quebec to Halifax , may he carried out .
chose to let a large eat out of the bag . There cannot be a reasonable doubt as to tho perturbed state of Italy "t present . At Milan , wo have the Italian population almost in arms against their hated Austrian rulers . A few days back we had accounts of " political arrests" at Ancona ; and yesterday one of the London papers announced that it had received news from Italy of such a serious character as to induce llio editor to withhold it
until it had rcocived confirmation . But whether our morning contemporary ' s Italian news bo confirmed or not , the fact will before long manifest that , as a writer in tho Continental Review says , " Italy is all on firo . " Austria is working with strained energy to arm herself with lmvul protection on tho seaboard of her Italian dependencies ;
Tho friends of Sir James Brooke havo made another attempt to induce her Majesty ' s Government to become the possessors of that celebrated little district in the island of Borneo called Sarawak . They waited on Lord Derby on Tuesday , and Mr . Crawford , one of I he members for the City of London , acted iw principal spokesman , and etulcd to Lord
Derby very many reasons why the possession of this advantageous position in the Indian Ai'chipolago . will bq nioro and more desirable as a coaling and telegraphic station on the road to China . But there '•» , as there has boon from tho flrst , a grand difficulty in t , % < 1 Wlly ° ^ ^ 10 < nin sk 1 ' ° f tomtory whioh Sit James L " ^ wishes to i \ ccompli » b . ; it is that Sii
and every day hor relations with Franco aro becoming less amicable . Tho readiness of Piedmont looks like a result of tho oonferoucos at Plombidros ; aud tho King ' s reference to tho possibilities ot tho coining » spring , " suggests his Majesty ' s eagerness for tho completion of tho bargain which , at is said , is to give him a greatly extended territory and to mako Louis Napoleon lijufs of Koine .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 4, 1858, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04121858/page/3/
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