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THE news brought ' 'b y the extra mail from Calcutta , while it increases our anxiety for the fate of the defenders of Imcknow , is cheering as to the general state of affairs in India . The whole of the country was rapidly settling into quiet , with the exceptions of Rohilcund and Oude , which will be the centres of the great operations preparing for the final overthrow of the mutineers . By the Bombay mail we learn that Sir Colin Campbell reached
Cawnpore on the 3 rd or 4 th of November , from whence he was to march to the relief of Lucknow , with a force of five thousand infantry and eight hundred cavalry ; whether this number includes two thousand men under Colonel Gbeathed , who reached Cawnpore on the 26 th of October , is not quite clear . The number of men in Lucknow , under Generals OutbaM and Havelock , is supposed to be about fourteen hundred . A . t all events , it may be reckoned that between six and seven thousand men are being rapidly brought to bear upon the enemy , and if the brave garrison can only wait
till their friends can come within bayonet reach of the seventy thousand miscreants surrounding the place , we shall have no further cause for anxiety . The movements of the second column , under Brigadier Siiowehs , wliich left Delhi in pursuit of the flying rebels , and about which the late intelligence left us in doubt , have been entirely successful . After several engagements with the enemy , he had taken possession of Jhujjur , captured five lakhs of treasure , and taken prisoner the Nawab , Avho surrendered . The one dark spot in the picture is the want of positive intelligence as to the actual state of things inLucknow ; one account states that two
convoys of provisions had been successfully got into the place ; another , that its defenders were running short of food , and had commenced to slay the gunbullocks . The communication from Cawnpore is reported to be still open to within three miles of Lucknow . The most important meeting of the -week has been that hold on Wednesday evening at the
London Tavern , on the subject of Indian llcform . The necessity for an enlightened single Government was the leading argument advanced by the speakers , and the India Company received some rough handling . One of the most interesting speakers was Mr . Meade , late editor of the Friend qfIndia ; he looked upon the Company as wholly incompetent to
govern India , or to develop its resources . His concluding words—¦ " The people , of England have in the hollow of their hands the destiny of 200 , 000 , 000 people , in the name of God do them justice" —were received with loud cheers . The brave and true-hearted Bishop of London ha # made a practical endeavovir to minister to the spiritual wants of the desolate poor . His first essay is memorable , from its complete success .
' The common people heard him gladly / The large church of St . Matthew , Bethnal-green , was filled to overflowing with a crowd of labourers , whose demeanour was such as to satisfy any who may have been in doubt , that it only needs a frank invitation and an honest welcome from the disciples of Jesus Christ , to make the pastoral labour entirely successful , which it never can be while it is administered coldly and ce remoniously .
The monetary crisis in Hamburg is the most important topic of the week ' s foreign news . Between forty and fifty firms have stopped payment within a few days . The greatest efforts are being made to afford assistance to those requiring it , and the Municipality has determined to grant 15 , 000 , 000 of marks to the Discount Bank for tlie purpose . Monetary difficulties of not so blameless a kind
had led to the arrest in Home of that elegant and generous dilettante the Marquis Campana , head of an official Deposit Bank and pawnbroking cstabishment , called a Monte diPieta . His accounts exhibit the modest deficiency of a million and a half sterling , the loss of which would plunge thousands into misery if it wore not made good by his virtu , or by the State .
Two items of political news axe interesting , one of them particularly . Lord Palmerston has made a statement in the House of Commons which confirms the dark reports that have so long been current concerning the treatment inflicted upon the English engineers iu Naples , which he described as only fitting a barbarous nation . But in the present state of the case , he says , nothing could be done by
this country but to see that the men are tried without unnecessary delay { after Jive months * imprisonmeat ) , and that they are provided with the best legal assistance . So that an opportunity is yet wanting to bring the Neapolitan barbarian to account . The second item is , that the Pope ' s Nuncio is to stand as sponsor for the interesting little fuihermore stranger in the palace at Madrid .
India has figured in Parliament , in reference to special cases . The Queen has conferred baronetcies on Sir Henhy Havelock and Sir Abchdalu
"Wilson , and the House of Commons was invited by the Crown to give a pension of a thousand a year for life to Sir Henry ; the East India Company , it is understood , making the like allowance to Sir Arc hj ) ale . Probably it will give more , especially as Members on both sides of the House have protested against the smaUness of the allowance ta Sir HENBr—given " for so short a time , " said Mr . White , the member for Plymouth . The feeling is , that Sir Henrt , not being highly connected , has not been highly treated by the Government . At the last moment , however , Lord Palmerstoit consented to grant a pension for two lives . ¦ ¦ - •;'
Ihe chief of the other questions is the old dispute about the despatch of troops by the Overlaud route . The Opposition has spoiled its case , by telling a silly story—how Mr . Vernon Smith applied to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company to suggest some arrangement for sending troops at a time when the troops were already going with the knowledge of Government ; and the tale turns out to have been a mere fabrication . The
excuses of Government—that there was no sufficient transport on the other side , that the route is unhealthy iu the summer , that troops must have gone in light marching order , and so forth—are insufficient . Perhaps there arc other reasons , unstated ; but certain it is that the defence of the Government is as weak as the attack of the Opposition . The principal business before the two Houses in reference to banking matters has been reduced to the single object of passing the Indemnity Bill—for Ministers have observed the agreement with Mr . Disraeli , last Friday , that they should separate ' the question of the Indemnity Bill from the ulterior question of the Select Committee on the Bank Act
and the -whole subject of the crisis . The debates upon the point during the week have been slight and not very interesting—both Houses reserving their strength for a grand display last night , the Lords on the third reading of the Bill , the Commons on Mr . Disraeli ' s amendment in favour of * immediate legislation' respecting I he Bank Charter Act . There was an understanding on all sides that the Indemnity Bill should pass almost as a . matter of course , so that there Jms been no real contest in
regard to that essential measure . .... ^ When collateral subjects have been brought u ^ -X ^ / " x both Houses luivo . shown a decided . dispflfitf ^ j & J ^ JJ ftfo ) ^ set them aside , as in the case of Mr . tf ^ LD ^^^^^ ' M ^ 2 motion , advocating limited liability for jgW ^ WnT ^ fflH * 5 banks 113 safer than the delusive rule ^ f ^ JjrijI ^ hwWr jT ~^ £ 2 liability . Powerful reasons were shown IV % ^| i ^^^!! £ *; ' ** x / rtelra s ^ j t * f ^¦ K' iffHy ^
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 12, 1857, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12121857/page/1/
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