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rpHE Oaths Bill has become the subject of a coa-JL flict between the House of Lords and the House of Commons , and the last report from India proves that we have on our hands a war to reduce the Presidency of Bengal . The news from . India foreshadows a new Indian war fe reduce the revolt . More than 30 , 000 men have either been expelled from the Anglo-Indian army , or have deserted from it . Many of them are
off to Delhi , and others , whether disbanded or voluntarily deserting , are scattered about among the civil population ; and the result is that a large portion of north-western Bengal is in a state of disorder . The list of places at which the mutiny has broken out now amounts to nearly a score—in fact , extending over a very large tract of country , and the farthest removed from reinforcements
which could be sent through Calcutta and Bombay . In the meanwhile misfortune Lad not been limited to this general defection . On the march from Umballah , with a force somewhat diminished by mutiny , General Ajjson was taken ill with cholera , and died on the road . His place was at once filled by Sir Henbt Baunaud , who marched on to Delhi . Already there had been two engagements between the British and the mutineers , the latter
being defeated , and driven into the strongest part of the town , and deprived of thirty-one guns . There really seems a probability that the city may be retaken , for although this mail announces the spread of the revolt , it has not exceeded our own anticipations ; and we do not observe that it has extended into any parts of India which were before supposed to bo oxompt . Tho Madras Presidency appears to be quite untainted j tho disorders which took place before having , it would appear , had no connexion with thin revolt . The Bombay Presidency -was in a still sounder static ; a fact which completely establishes the superior organisation and command of tho Bombay army .
From various other oircumstancos , too , it would appear that tho motives for the revolt ; had , perhaps some , but a very slight , connexion with any foreign instigators . The wish to get away from missionaries—tho belief that 1 ho cartridges had boon greasod in order to steal from them their caste—tlxo conviction that they could got homo and evado ' any further military' service , especially if sufficient- nuinbora stood by them—scorn to havo boon really tho ohiof motives of tho Asiatios . To doscribo it in a
word , it may be said that the Bengal army has broken down from the inherent faults of its organisation and the gross mismanagement of its rulers , civil as well as military . There have been some further proofs of misunderstanding , and of vacillating councils . Mr . Cglvin had issued a proclamation promising pardon , to those mutineers who should return to their duty . The Governor-General had disallowed that proclamation , aud
required it to be withdrawn ; and Mr . Cqlvin has tendered his resignation as the consequence . The policy of the notice might be questionable ; yet we have the opinion ' of a very experienced Indian for supporting us in the belief that it wpjild have done no harm ; whereas , the discredit thrown upon an officer like Mr . Colvin is a serious moral blow to the efficiency of the local Government in tho disturbed provinces .
On this side there have been what we may now almost call the usual measures to meet the crisis . The J . 4 , 000 troops which , were to go over have been raised to 25 , 000 , by the help of turning aside some that were to have gone to China ; so that our forces in China are starved to feed those in India . The post of Commander-in-Ohief was at once offered to Sir Colin Campbell , who , on being asked when he could depart , answered , " To-morrow . " When Sir Colin receives the reward of his exertions , Her Majjestv should command that he should discontinue the motto which he bears upon his coat armour , aud use that word To-morrow ,
It is a matter of course that Lord Ellenbo-BOUQir , Mr . Disraeli , and other gentlomen on the Opposition side in either House , should stand up for tho national interest , and call upon Ministers for explanations . They have takon little by thoir pains . Lord Granville , Lord Palmerston , and Mr . Vernon Smith havo done noble Lords and honourable Members the favour of repeating exaotly what tho newspapers had previously stated , aud something less than several of those noblo Lords and honourable Mombors know already .
Tho grout question for tho House of Commons , which it is not yet in a condition to press , is , who is to pay tho billP Aud if the bill is to be paid , how will the Executive , perform its duties P The bill will bo very large . Tho ( banco of India labours undor a chronic douoionoy , ranging from 1 , 000 , 000 / . to 3 , 000 , 000 / . annually . Tho last attempt of tho Govomor-Gcnoral to raisp a loan proved to bo a failure ; ho is trying to . raiso a loan now , while tho money-market in Bombay is in a state of panic . In tills oouutry , what with the state of tho Ftvris Bourse ,
and the many other doubtful contingencies of an Indian war , and an Indian loan in the London market , the prospect has not been reviving . They say in the City that the Indians can pay the taxes ; but that is the very thing that some Indians in the north-west want to escape , and already there is a difficulty in . collecting the revenue . Lord Godebich has had a decided success . Government having given no satisfaction on the
subject of civil service appointments , he reproduced his resolution in favour of competitive examination as the rule for . admission to the public offices . Sir George Lewis begged him not to press it j he persevered ; and , with reference to some oral explanation of the resolution of Lord Godebich , as not excluding other tests of fitness , Lord Palmekston yielded . The rule , therefore , is to be extended to all the public offices .
We have a specimen of the manner in which the Government evades its financial responsibility to the House of Commons in Mr . Roebuck ' s debate upon Persia . The question which he raised included the policy of the Persian war ; but that is beside the point of interest for us at the present moment . His resolution of censure derived its sting from the fact that Ministers did not consult the House of Commons when they undertook a large expenditure , now reckoned , for the Unglish share alone , at qne million sterling . The Opposition shrunk from
joining with the popular member in calling Ministers to account , and the House cheered when Lord Palmerston taunted Mr . Roebuck , with bringing forward « un-English resolutions , * the noble Premier throwing his own popularity in the face of the Member for Sheffield in a inann *** scarcely Parliamentary , and certainly inconsistent nth good taste . But Ministers got off , and the EL > v » o of Commons will some day have a much larger h « i ' . brought undor its notice , because it now refused , oy 352 to 38 , to nail tho Ministers in the manner proposed by Mr .
Roebuck , In tho matter of the Oaths Bill , the Peers havo overshot thoir mark . They have lost the opportunity for settling the question quietly , and they arc uot likely again to have presented to them so vn \ d a measure as Lord Paimbrston ' s . Tho subjool lias cauaod more than one groat political mistake .
Tho Duko of Norfolk , who supported tho moosuro on Friday last wcok , as it vvns supported by Lord Lynduuivst and tho Bishop of LoNDQN , J * w cbdt } tU 5 . his best to make his co-rolig-ionists jj ^ jUwftft ^ Commons mix it up with a now J w « gaW ? wK , < f tjuoation , and time to embarrass th < Hi $ pW < $ grby J , < Ai' & firsr w 4 $ ® wm y ^ ii ^ i ^
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Leader (1850-1860), July 18, 1857, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18071857/page/1/
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