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434 THE LEADER. _ _ [No. 424, May 8, 188...
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. JSfomhiy, May 3?v7....
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In anticipation of the second reading of Mr . Atexon ' s bill for the equalization of poor-rales , a numerous deputation from some of the largest of the metropolitan- ' parishes went to sec Mir . Sotiie-BAX Estcoi-rtv , President of tlic Poor-law Board , memorial in-hand , to ascertain the views and intentions of the Government , with reference to tlie bill . Mr . JEsTcouRT was well armed with the " difficulties . " lie tlid not hesitate to admit that there were evils under the present system , but as the bill did not meet ail his difficulties lie must oppose the second rcadincr . reference io a select committee , —
every immediate action . However , so many cases of inequality of rating have been brought before the Poor-law Board , that the subject is receiving the " serious consideration : of Government' , and further inquiry is to be made . Meantime , Mr . Ayrtox ' s bill , fitted , in the main , to . eii ' cct the reform in demand , is to be swamped in the Government " inquiry" '—a " parturient ' -mountain ' that , in all likelihood , will not bring forth even a
mouse , . ; .. The Bombay mail has brought us complete details of the capture of Lucknow and of the subsequent operations of the foxces sent hi pursuit of the flying enemy . Several marked successes have resulted from , those operations , the chief one being the storming of Jhansi by Sir Hugh Hose . The place was desperately defended by a woman , a relative of the Nana Sahib , and Sir Hugh had to sustain himself against a large force of rebels by whom lie -was attacked , with a view of forcing hini to raise the siege ; bat he was not to be deterred even for
a moment lrom the prosecution of his work , and immediately after beating off his assailants , and inflicting upon them a loss of something near 3000 men , he captured the place . In this victory , as ia so many of the late Indian fights , our own loss was almost inconeeivably ^ small , considering the circumstances . From Itajpootana we have news-of an important operation at Kotah . General Roberts found the place in the hands of a rebel force , who were holding the llajali in a state of siege because lie was friendly io the . British . Upon the approach of General Bokerts ' s force tlic Rajah with his following came out to meet it , and is described as
having actually embraced General Lawrence , the Political Agciit , in his joyful excitement . In a few days the enemy were driven out of the place , and pursued , according to the reading of a telegraphic despatch , for nearly sixty miles . They were much , cut up and five out of seven of their guns captured . To return to Oude . The capture of Lucknow and the dispersion of its Sepoy defenders clears the way to the commencement of the most difficult task that has to he accomplished in connexion with tlic mutiny . By some means Oudc has not only to be paciiied , hut has to be brought back to it ' allegiance , or rather its allegiance has now , for the first
time , to be secured ; and at the first glance we see that everything is against our chance of a speedy success . Our policy in Oudc has been such as to put us ia the worst possible position for making terms : whm we have been weak we Lave been conciliatory ; when we have found ourselves strong we liave been overbearing ; tyranny and vncillationlnive been the marked characteristics of our dealings with the most warlike country of India . And this policy has again pronounced itself in the eoniiscatory proclamation of Lord Canning . We are strong—Oude has to be won buck to its iilWiiuicc ; Lord t
Canning ' s lasstep is to alarm and intimidate all whose good-will it is most important to secure . What possible inducement can the landholders have to return to friendly relations with tlie Government which ( Icsjioil . s them of their lands , and confounds innocent and guilty under one and Hie same ban of forfeiture ; ? Lord Djciui v ' s Government disapprov cs tho policy of the proclamation "in every seme , ' and has sent out instructions to Lord Canning to that cii ' cci . But before its mischievous operation can bo arrested , a world of suspicion , and doubt , and distrust will have been the certain result of its publication , in Oudc ,
The reward of a peerage ; to Sir Colin Ca / mi ' hkt / i , will .-satisfy the public l'Vom the moment that liis appointment to tho command of tho army in India was announced , to tho present time , tliere has never been , a doubt but that he . was tho " very man ;" and his services in India have been of a kind I Lint has made him specially dear to his country , where there is liul ; one wish , that he may live' long to enjoy tho honour to which he has so well entitled , % , - I
himself . The same mail that bears 1 o the gallant soldier the news of his elevation , will carry to him the intelligence of another honour , conferred upon him by the City of London , in the shape of a sword of the value of one hundred guineas , in addition . to the freedom of the City . A similar testimonial of respect was voted at the same time to Major-General Sir James Outran , K . C . B ., the b rave aud wise coadjutor and adviser of the Commaiider-in-Cliief . Lord Casipuell ' s judgment on the : motion for a new trial in the case of the British Bank directors reasserts . the power of the law to deal with . commercial . immorality , as exhibited in . this special case ; hut will it help to lessen the widespread demoralization ? AY hat good docs the punishment- —iloubly inflicted—of I-Iumiuixiey Bkowx and his more or less culpable associates effect when scores of men , 110 better and no worse , arc left-Secure- ? What is the use of commercial morality vindicated in the ease of the British I 3 ank and openly outraged in half a dozen other cases of . greater-or less magnitude ? It is nonsense io punish HmrriuiEY Bitowx and his guilty companions while the directors of the Wei tern Bank of Scotland , of the Liverpool Borough Bank , and others , are allowed to go free of question . The fact is , that trade demoralization is general in this couutry , and the feeling of the trading class is decidedly with the culprits—a strong fellow-feeling . At present , then , the punishment of such offenders as Lord Cahpbei , l has a second time condemned can be of no public utility , and any expression of satisfaction on the part of the trading class is simply hypocritical . : The publication of the balance-sheet of the SocieteGenei'iilcdcCredit Mobilicraffords the strongest possible proof of the bad state of commercial affairs inHrancc , and generally in Europe . Started a few years back , it commenced by paying its shareholders forty per cent . ; after a year or two its dividends dropped to twenty-scven ' per cent , ; for the first six months of the present year there is to be no division whatever . The society , it is true , has a handsome balance of profit , but its directors have , looked ahead ,, and seen clearly that , every penny must be retained to meet the losses inevitably ' consequent , upon the continued state of commercial inactivity in Erancc . Of money there is abundance , but there is a want of that which sends money upon its way—confidence .
434 The Leader. _ _ [No. 424, May 8, 188...
434 THE LEADER . _ _ [ No . 424 , May 8 , 1885 .
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The- Westmixstku Aijbey Services . —Xotwitlu standing the unfavourable state of the weather the special service at Westminster Abbey on Sunday night was attended by an overflowing congregation , an announcement having been made that the sermon would be preached by the Bisliop of London . The doors were thrown open a little before the usual time , and in a few minutes the whole of that part of the building in which the services are performed was densely crowded . South Africa . —Letters have been received at the Cape from the llev . Mr . Halm , of the Berlin Missionary Society , who , with the Rev . Mr . Rath , had undertaken a missionsiry tour , « la Livingstone , northwards as far as the . Cvuene Rivev , but without the success which attended the explorations of the great traveller . They had intended to take a circuitous route from their station , New Barmen , on the west coast , to Lake JSTgami ; thence to the Libebe , nnd on to the sources of the Cuneno , following its course to the west ; and on their return to visit Ondongo . This plan they were obliged to abandon for a shorter cut in a N . N . E . direction towards Xibobe . This course they pursued for several weeks , and penetrated till within live days of the banks of the Cnneue , where their progress was stopped by the refusal of the chief of Odongo to furnish them with guides . They therefore resolved to retrace their steps , but while inspanning ( yoking thcoxun ) for that purpose they were attacked by an ovorwliuhning force . Tho missionary party , avIio , it appears , consisted of about thirty persons , made a most determined resistance , and the conflict lusted from dawn till noon , when they narrowly escaped with their lives , and ultimately succeeded in returning' to their station , New Uarmon . Tlie llev . Mr . Moilat is expected shortly in Capo Town to meet Dr . Livingstone .. — ( . ' ape Town MaiL TiikI ) j ; kk ok W 1 'Xmnoton ' h Tomii .-Mr . K . J . Trt-ffry Avrites to ( ho Times to say tliat the porphyry of which tlio Duke of Wellington ' s tomb is composed was not ( as originally stated ) polished by Messrs . Mulcott and Co . It was , he states , wrought nnd polished by steam-power in tho parish of Ltixulyau , Cornwall , on the TrellVy cstutOM , and in the field in which tho huge porphyry boulder was found . This stone wc . iyhed upwards of seventy tons , and the greater part was above ground , nnd had . boon there for jiges . Thn Continent , says JU ' . TrellVy , had been searched in vain for u similar stone . The cost of tho tomb was 11 Oil / . Lady Ficaxku * , widow ( ns we fear she must now bo called ) of the celebrated Arctic voyager , h at present at Algiers .
Imperial Parliament. Jsfomhiy, May 3?V7....
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . JSfomhiy , May 3 ? v 7 . INDIAN PAPERS . In thclloudfc of Lords , the Earl of Shaftksbuiiy said that in the list of papers regarding- tho transactions j India there was one relating to the mutiny at Cawnpore with the remark appended , " 2 \ ot received . " - lie " -wisheil to know if this observation was appended by the Board of Control , or by tlie Government , or -whether there was any objection to lay tlie paper upon the table of the Houeo . — The Earl of Eujcnuouougji stated that lie had made inquiry ami found tlie -paper -was not received
at the India House , and he thought tlie probability was that' it -never ' , was written . Ills noble friend ( Lord Sbaftesbury ) had intimated to him that he wished to have the appendix published or laid befoie the House . and he . ( Lord Ellenborough ) thought there would be the greatest objection to so-doing . It contained an account of individual suffering , and he conceived that no good could T 6 su . lt - from laying further accounts of the iinlividual suiFering at Cawnpore before the public . On the contrary , he thought-it'was desirable that they should not- ' do * so ,, . because the publication of further , details Would only tend to perpetuate feelings that were
inconsistent with good government and good feeling / He was anxious that feelings of animosity should be obliterated instead of being increased . —Tlie Earl of Shaftesbtjiiy , with some excitement of manner , declared that he was equally desirous that animosity should He . suppressed , but he was also anxious that the truth should be told , andtkat the characters of persons who had been calumniated should be cleared . If he did not get the document , he Would move an address to the Crown , anil Would persist until'he had got it . —The Earl of Eij . u >'» KOKOircai : " If it be in existence , which I don ' t think it is . " ' - ' ¦' . ' ' :. '¦ - ¦ " ' " ' .
COUKT OF CHANCERY . ! . Viscount Liitoi : u asked if any further steps -would be taken to expedite causes in the Court of Chancery . —Tlie Loiu > Chaxcku-oii could not satisfactorily answer a question put in such general terms ; nor was he aware what course of legislation or proceeding it was desired " to cany further . The Court of Chancery had not unduly delayed causes ; no complaints are now made of the proceedings ; but there had been a great pressure of -work
in the chief clerks ofhec since the business of what arc called the-Winding-up Acts had been thrown upon ' it . — -Lord Cranvs'oktii remarked that the complaints of unreasonable delay -were without foundation . — Lord Cami'hkkl said that 'improvements had recently been introduced into the Court of Chancery , but that , if tlic statements of the noble Lord ( Liitbrd ) were correct , further reforms were needed . —Lord St . Lkonarus tes ' tilii-d to the eilicient manner in which the chief clerks transact their business . .
TUB IHISir EXDOVED SCHOOLS . hi answer to the Earl of Cork , who asked what eo ; : i- ~ e the ( Jovcrnment meant to pursue ' with respect to tlic . roport of the commissioners appointed . to inquire into llie state of the endowed schools of Ireland , the Earl of Ui'iby said that the report and the evidence taken were extremely voluminous . Tlie expense of the more paper : md printing of tins document amounted to 5-200 / .. and the quantity of paper consumed in the publication amounted to thirty-four tons . His noble , friend might be fund it light raiding ( lauyhlcr ' ); but , if lie had been able to' ; . ; vt through that document , he must give him joy for his industry and perseverance . ( LmujUtw . ) The document was the report of throe of tlie five commissioner .- by whom the inquiry was conducted , and was stri'niu > ii : ly opposed by the ( wo dissentient commissioners , namely
Mr . Hughes , late Solicitor-General in Ireland , and Air . Stevens , an English barrister , lie was quite sali ^ lR'il that there were several instances of j ; toss niisin ; iii : i ; v
OIlItl . STUNITV IN INDIA . The Earl of Ei . KKNitouorcii presented u petHio -. i 1 ' r . iiu various religion ;* denominations , respecting the pnnunl i <'" of Christianity in India . Tins netitionors hope lhal I ' m ' . scope and notion will bo ^ iyi'ii to tho difViiMon ol'Chiistiiuiil . y through her Majesty ' s torrilorii's in the l-: i-t Indies ; that , the Uibhs will be admitted into the ' '"• vcruiiK'tit schools ; that tho ( JoverniiuMit will wiilxlivnv from all support , of idolatrous ceremonies ; Mini eduction will be extended ; and that grants " in aid" will In ' conferred on Christian fiehools as well us those of « itli
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Leader (1850-1860), May 8, 1858, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08051858/page/2/
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