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The people of Miissoorie , and other hill towns , are looking out for the arrival of troops . The Darjeeling settlors have signed » . * "f memorial to the Indian Council on behalf of the Northern Bengal Railway . ; Other petitions are coming : forward frcm Calcutta , Dinajpore , Rungpore , and Malda . . ¦ •; - Now that the war is over , many of the hill towns will be gayer than ever , as there will be a great influx of residents and visitors . Still many officers who can get leave are going home to Europe . called
We are glad to learn that the property Stonehouse , in the Neilgherries , having fifty acres of ground attached , has been purchased for the Ootakamund Lawrence Asylum , so that the soldiers children can soon be sent up ; . but . it is desirable that the permanent school should be nearer the town of Ootakainund . : Considerable attention has been paid to the tea farm estrblished by Col . Elwall at Hurbunswala , in the Dhoon , which has proved most successful . It is urged that sales of from 3 , 000 to 2 , 000 acres should be made to a European proprietary . Excel ¦ lent roads cross the Dhoon , irrigating canals are numerous , having been laid down by Sir Proby Cautley ; the Ganges canal , whose head at Hurdwar is only twenty-five miles from Debra , conveys goods to Cawnpore at about 50 s . per ton . and there is a good local demand for tea and coffee at Landour ,
Mussoorie , and Dehra . The culture of coffee is attracting attention now in the Dhoon and Darjeelingy as tea is in the Dekkari . On the 25 th of January , tlie Bishop of Calcutta , assisted by the Armenian Bishop , ordained three natives . Tulsi Paul , we are sorry to hear , is to take charge of the interesting Christian colony , in the Deyrali Dhoon , for Paul does not understand English ; and while efforts are being made to raise the condition of the Christian settlement , and to invite English capital in the Dlropn , such an appointment is very unsatisfactory , the more par tic ularly as the settlement wants agoQil schoolmaster .
The Sirmoor battalion , having been released from the army of Oude , is on its return to the . Dhoon , but in the hills above they are looking anxiously for an European battalion . Mr . Forbes , , of Dalla , gave evidence before Mr . Ewart ' s Committee , oh Monday and Thursday , of a most important ' character . Col . Sykes cross examined the witness , And signally failed . The leaven of the , old Government system will break out accordingly . Lately the Government of Bombay has been dictating to the sham municipal commissioners of that city the salary of their surveyor , which matter the city is not treated as competent to determine . Mr . Wilcox is to be the surveyor , at . £ 720 a year .
The Calcutta citizens have memorialised the Governor-General that the Calcutta volunteers may be . kept up ; and it is to . be hoped that , n ot only in Calcutta , but in every station of India , European volunteers will be organised as a permanent measure . With the growth of English population , this branch of our force is becoming important as a , reserve . Jn Bengal alone several thousand volunteers could be kept up .
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LATEST INDIAN INTELLIGENCE . The Bombay mail arrivod this week with intelligence to the 9 th February . Tlie rebellion in Oude is announced to be at an end , sind peace and order prevail . The rebels , who hare been driven into JsTepaul , are dispirited , disorganised , nhd without supplies . The combined armies of the Begum , the Nana , and Beni Mnhdoo , amount to about 12 , 000 xnon . JungBahndoor no sooner heard ' that they i » had crossed the Raptee and entered his territories than he issued ft proclamation to the effect that all murderers and rebels in anna who crossed the Nepaul border wore to bo given up to the British Government , and that all largo armed bodies would be utterly destroyed . The Glioorka army was at
service are in progress is in Berar , where Sir Hugh Rose is organising a division for the suppression of the Rohillas . Sir Hugh is still spoken of as the I > robable successor to Lord Clyde . Tahtia Topee and Feroze Shah are still at large in Rajpootana , but their combined force is now dispersed and divided , and its fragments have almost ceased to be dangerous . Brigadiers Honner , Holmes , Park , Michel , and Becher , are following them closely
from different points . Lord Canning has returned to Calcutta and resumed his executive functions under the new title of " the Vicerory and Governor-General of India . Mr . Montgomery has been appointed to the lieutenant-governorship of the North-West Provinces , vice Sir John Lawrence , who returns to England by the first mail in March . It is expected that Mr . George Campbell will succeed Mr . Montgomery as Chief Commissioner in Oude .
Travancore has been the scene of serious caste disturbances . The population is composed mainly of two classes—the Soodras ( Nairs ) and , the Slianars . The former are the chief landowners , arid with a few honourable exceptions , are proud , oppressive , corrupt , and ignorant . Tlie Shanars have been for years increasing in intelligence , wealth ,- and general respectability . Many have put themselves under regular Christian instruction . In Southern India it is the custom for low caste females to go naked from the waist upwards , and the Soodras have thought terms of the ecent
themselves justified , under the r proclamation , in attempting to force Christian women of the Shanar caste to conform to the genera practice . The ' attempt was resisted under the advice of the missionaries , and the consequence is that many of the mission chapels have been burnt down , a @ d an attempt made to strip Shanar women in public . The resident ' s bungalow at Nagercoil , and some houses of Shanars at ; Tittoovilly have also been burnt , as also eighty houses , inhabited by Roman Catholics , at Kotar . A woman and her child are said to have perished in the flames .
Tlie Bombay Times says that the announcement of the new loan has caused a depreciation of 10 per cent , in all Government securities . It is reported in Calcutta that Government has offered a reward , of 10 , 000 Company ' s rupees for the arrest of Tantia Topee , and the same sum for that of the Rao Sahib .
once moved downward , in the direction of the rebel position , and an application forwarded to Lord Clyde for troops to CQ-oporiite with the army of Nopaul . Brigadier Ilorsford was ordered upon this duty , with his brigade . In Oudo the most offectivo measures are being adopted for the disarming of the people . The wholo of the Sikh rogiments have beon ordered back to the Punjaub . The Oudb army has boon diminished by moro than one-third . Tlio principal portion of tho diminished army will bo stationed at Lucknow , Seotapoor , Ghoruckpoor , JTyzflbad , Iioy Bavoilly , Ghazeopoor , and Tooloopoor , arc all to bo garrisoned ' by strong bodies of British troops' : A number of regiments have been ordored liome . Lord Clyde wn , Being to Slihlah to recruit 14 s health ,. AJjo only point ¦ where i > ropavations for activ
The Americans And The Republic Of Hayti....
The Americans and the Republic of Hayti . —The New York Times has the following significant remarks : —The island of St . Domingo is now in a condition which should excite friendly interest and attention on the part of the United States , if our Government could be brought to attempt anything of a pratical character in respect to its neighbours . Soulouque ' s overthrow is a fortunate event . The entire island of St . Domingo is now under the rule oft wo men—Geffrard and Santana . Of the former we know little . He is , however , understood to be a man of experience , of moderate views , and of a disposition favourable to intercourse with commercial nations . The fact that ; he has had the will and
courage to put down a tyrant like Soulouque commends him to our regard , and it is to bo hoped that this administration , may not disappoint the general expectation . Santana , the President of the Dominican Republic is known both in this city , -where he once resided , and in liurope . Hi , s partialities for the United States are known to be strong ; but they have not been met in anything like a friendly or mutual spirit , and this for the very poor reason that he has negro blood in his veins , as have his countrymen , almost without exception . The repulses M'hich ho encountered from Washington , commencing under the Pierce administration , have driven him to look for European support ; for it is
THE P RODUCTS AND R ESO U RCES O F THE CAPE OF GOOD HOFR At the weekly meeting of the Society of Arts , Mr . William Hawes read , a very able and instructive paper " On the Cape Colony- —its products and resourQes . " . Mr , Hawes commenced his sketch at the , period of the cession of the colony to England by the Dutch , in 1806 . From that date to 1813 the colony appeared to be prosperous . The first Kaffir war had just terminated , and a line of stockaded forts along the . eastern frontier protected the inhabitants . The military force of England in the colony consisted of 4 , 000 infantry and 1 , 000 cavalry , the expenditure and
connected with" which stimulated agriculture commerce . The cost of the government of the colony wasi however , out of all proportion to its revenues . The colonial government was afterwards involved in pecuniary difficulties , and great discontent prevailed from the unsatisfactory way in winch justice was dispensed . Slavery was abolished in 1833 , the first practical effect of which was to deprive the farmers altogether of black labour . Under this state of things the Dutch population hailed with delight the prospect of colonisation in South Africa ; but the third Kaffir war , suddenly breaking out , retarded the project . The colonial policy of Lord Glenelg greatly aggravated the evils of the war ; in his dispatch , recondemned the
ceived early in 1836 , he riot only con ^ duct of the colonists , but described the invasion of the Eastern province by the Kaffirs as a justifiable act . A better state of things dawned upon the colony when Lord Stanley became Colonial Minister , in 1842 , arid from this time Svas to be dated the commencement of the rapid progress of the colony , In 1852 , the colony obtained representative institutions . The first test of the progress of the colony was to be found in its revenue . From 1834 to 1844 it rose from j £ l 19 , 583 to £ 221 , 721 ; from 1845 to 1857 , from , £ 247 , 369 to . £ 406 , 702 . The resources of the colony were , however , capable of much greater development , as all who had visited it could testify . Twenty years
ago there was but one newspaper in the colony ; now there were eight newspapers published in Cape Town . There were also sixteen country papers . Justice appeared to be well administered at present . Education , was also in a satisfactory state . The climate upon the whole was peculiarly favourable for emigrants , as during ten months of tlie year no . fire was necessary except f < Sr cooking . The exports from this country to the Cape increased from ^ £ 985 , 266 in 1854 , to . £ 1 , 602 , 607 in 1858 ; this , compared with population , gave an average consumption of £ 6 per head of British manufactures for the last year . The greatest drawback upon the progress and prosperity of the colony was the deficiency of the public roads . Travelling for pleasure was hardly known in the colony . Another matter affecting the prosperity of
the colony was emigration . Everything there was checked for want of labour , and the question was raised how it could best be obtained . The first attempt on a large scale had not proved successful . The men and women composing the German legion did not make useful emigrants . From the tiiue the emigrant arrives , he should consider the colony as his n ' ome . The climate and , soil would secure to him a most ample reward for his industry . In no other colony was the return for industry employed in agriculture more certain and remunerative . At present there was great demand for skilled labour ; it was only really skilful workmen who could obtain high wages , for inferior hands had to compete with Malay labour , The certainty and regularity of communication with England was also of great
importance to emigrants . A discussion ensued , in which Messrs . P . L . bunmonds , E . W . Trent , J . G . Frith , R . A . SUuioy , M . P ,, Mr . Irons , S . Sidney , and Hyde Clarke , took part .
easy to seo that weak Governments like those of Dominica and Haytl' must find foreign' protection somewhere . The present juncture is a favourable one for the acquisition of American influence over St . Domingo , Wo would , not recommend annexation , or any subversion of tho existing Governments ; but such recognition and friendly , relations us would put our commercial intercourse on n good footing , and encourage our people tor settle in tho island for business purposes , thus developing its resources , increasing its products , and elevating its population ,
arc eminently desirable . St . Dommgo , though' not so largo as Cuba , is naturally a finer island . It contains an area of 27 , O 0 Q square miles and is perhaps tho most fertile , salubrious , arid delightful portion of tropical America , livory part of it is wntorod by a profusion of streams flowing from its mountains , and tho whole island , bosldos its vegetable productions , which aro of tjlio greatest abundance mi < l value , is filled with mines of all preoious and useful metals , including gold , silver , platina , Quicksilver , copper and iron ? and this country , with its unsurpassed capabilities for profitable commerce , lies only 1 , 000 miles from Now York .
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Tina American Rkvenuio — Tho Washington correspondent of the New York Courier find Inquirer gives a very unfavourable account of tho revenue returns , Ho says : - * - " The revenue continues to decline -very rapidly . Yesterday tho receipts at New York were 40 , 000 dols . ; . on the 17 th , 40 , 000 dols ; thq day before , 58 , 000 dols ; and on Monday about 80 , 000 dols . —that is , they aro but a trifle over 50 , 000 dols . per day , or 300 , 000 dols . a-woeJc ; and at all the ports not over 500 , 000 dols . per week , and this , with an annual .. average expenditure oi doflcit 3 f 00 () doi
75 , 000 , 000 dols . a year . Tho or > , ouo , s . or 30 , 000 , 000 dols . a-year is going on ; it must go on . Wo commenced borrowing only one year ugo , and have already taken up on promises to pay 40 , 000 , 000 dols . It is obvious that resource mast fail s it is obviously beginning to fail . The laatloan is oven now a fraction lowor on tho New York Stock Exohango than the average rate at wlilob . it was taken a month , ago . Tho majority party in Congress , howovor , rofuso to aUpw more loans to bo made , though capitalists bo never so anxious to lond . Tlioy aro equally obstinate in obstructing tho raising of additional revenue in any shnpo whatever . "
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Leader (1850-1860), March 12, 1859, page 25, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12031859/page/25/
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