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• The one Idea ¦ which . History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected betvi-een mea by prejudice and one-aided views ; and , byaettmg aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat th . e whole Human race , as one brotherhood , having one great o"bject—the free development of ourspintualnature . "—Humbolit ' s Cosmos .
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK— paoe Gatherings from the Law and Po- The Public Moneys Report 902 An Uncle Tom Novel .. . 908 Th « Tndin . ii Revnlt Sflo liceCourts 898 The Local Government of I ndia ... 003 A Lecture on Bodily Exercise 909 KtoSSifiSSofCMurftVesd ^ inB- ^ State of Trade 899 The Romance of Credit 903 Indian Haps ........... 909 irhf , Miifcinip-i ssu Naval and Military 899 London Air and Water 904 __ BriKadier-GeneraiHa ' veioek " Miscellaneous .....:....... 899 Evangelical Congress at Berlin 305 THEARTSThlorilnt " 895 Postscript ... 900 The Puffing Plague 905 Theatrical and Musical Notes 910 Tr « land ' '" fit ? 1 ! nopu rrtiiMpn Night Policemen 906 fl ^ i Riots ::::=:::::::::::::::: I | ° 5 K N ^ S 0 ^ rIndia , aad . Tne AttU » tG - ^ - ** . Gazette .... wo ^ t aTOtrfNote ^ ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: S 6 mdiuiNews- 901 literature- commercial affairs-Accidents and Sudden Deaths 896 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- Summary 907 COMMERCIAL-AFFAIRS Our Civilization 897 Viscount Canning 901 The Walpole Letters 907 City Intelligence , Markets , & c 910
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? ¦ ¦ rTVH V ) fortune of war ui India lias not continued to -I favour the British flag where it had hitherto been , most propitious , and yet we cannot say that the general character of the intelligence is more adverse than , any we have yet received—perhaps rather the reverse ; while the political situation , if \ re may venture to express any opinion about it , appears certainly to have improved rather than otherwise . There are , no doubt , several lamentable incidents . General Havelock had been compelled to retreat npon Cawnpore . Neither the Bombay
army nor the Presidency stands free from some implication in the rebellion , which has certainly changed its character and become less exclusively military . Some of the revolts are of an exceedingly painful character , and discreditable even to the British officers engaged ; wliile the gradual spirit of uneasiness in Lower Bengal is decidedly alarming . The Governor-General ' s body-guard had been quietly disarmed ; and after having repelled the offer of some of the residents in Calcutta as
volunteers , tlie Governor-General had been compelled to promise that he would keep a close watch upon the Mussulmans in the capital , and upon the deposit and sale of arms throughout the city . The state of . the capital appeared to require that a larger proportion of European troops should be detained there , however much they might be wanted up the Ganges . The events at Dinapore are deplorable . Four regiments had mutinied ; General Lloyd parleyed with them—asked them to give up their
percussion-caps — allowed them some hours to determine ; let them even march off in a body—and not till then pursued and dispersed them . Subsequently he sent a party to attack them at Arrah , but the expedition was repulsed with considerable loss , and there was a massacre of the British . General Liyod had been removed , and was replaced by Sir James Outkam , in chargo of the Guviipore and Dinapore divisions . Lucknow had not yet been
relieved , except by the arrival of the contingent sent by Jung Bahadoor , the Nepaulcsc chief , beneral Ha \ elock had not been able to reach it . After pursuing NenaSmiiu to Eithoor , finding the place evacuated and destroying the fort , he crossed U » e Ganges and defeated the Oude rebels every time they encountered him . At last he was compelled to fall bfickupou Cawnpore , in order to secure Uie guns which he had taken , and to deposit in
safety the sick who encumbered his ranks . At Agra and Delhi the British had maintained their positions ; and had successfully , though with some loss , chastised the mutineers that came against them . A report that Agra had fallen is evidently a blunder , probably , it seems , suggested by the occurrence at Arrah . The Native garrison at Delhi had been reinforced by the Neemuch mutineers ,
but no increase of numbers appears to make the Natives equal to the work of encountering the British ; and the description of the manner in which they are routed , of their manifest fear , and of their deficiency in ammunition , justifies the expectation that the British will hold their ground until they are relieved . So much for Bengal , upper and lower .
The state of the Bombay Presidency is far from being so satisfactory as we had supposed , although we did have signs of something unpleasant under the surface . The first considerable outbreak occurred at Kolapore , where a Native regiment mutinied . It was soon , dispersed with great loss , but not before there were signs of disaffection at Belgautn , Dharwar , Sawunt , Waxr . ee , Poona . li , and Batnagherry , and some other points ; but the European posts had been strengthened . The agitators appear to have been small in numbers , and in some cases isolated individuals . We do not , therefore ,
attach very great importance to this movement in Bombay , except in one point of view . The panic which occurred amongst the resident inhabitants in the capital of the Presidency is manifestly unreasonable , and it seems to have subsided with the arrival of strong reinforcements from Mauritius—an opportune succour which Governor Higginson is emphatically commended for sending with much promptitude on the first demand . These , however , were not enough . The Pottinger had returned with a small sailing vessel , to fetch reinforcements from Mauritius : and three screw steamers of 1000 tons
each had been sent from Bombay , the Himalaya from Calcutta , to bring all the troops that Sir George Ghbt could spare from the Cape of Good Hope . Another reported arrival at Calcutta has excited something like amazement here—it is the arrival of Lord Elgin with that force which ought to have been conveying him to Pckin . 3 from three points of view the position of the British in Indiais unpleasant . It is quite evident , that the numbers of the separate small armies into which out forces are split up were not sufficient for the labours they had to perform , and it , was a serious
question liow far some of them would be able to stand their ground until reinforcements should come up , or whether they might not be obliged to give in , with such treacherous mercy as the garrison , of Cawnpore experienced .. Secondly , the season "was doing its deadly work ; and again it is a question . what power of endurance our limited number of
men in India possess . Luckily the seasons do not seem to have been quite so bad as usual , and ¦ the expenditure of life has not been so great liithcrfco as we might have anticipated . Still it is a painful calculation , what would be the proportion between the loss by men through the effects of the climate , and the reuewal of their strength by the successive arrivals of the reinforcements .
The third point of view from which we perceive fresh dangers is suggested by the letter from the pen of Colonel Sykes , the active and influential Director of the East India Company and Member for Aberdeen , to the editor of a journal published in that Scotch city . Colonel Sykes will not have it that the East India Company is chargeable with , any want of foresight or energy in permitting the outbreak to gain such a head , lie gives precedents to show that a touch of the religious chord by rough and imprudent hands has formerly brought about sudden and unexpected revolts ; and he insists tliat ,
even after this experience , we May , and indeed we must , employ Native troops as auxiliary to our own army in the maintenance of our Indian empire . He holds that we have to a great extent overcome the revolt originating in the imprudent pressure on the religious chord , but he admits that we now have to deal with other enemies . " The public should lenow , " he says , " that the original phases of the military revolt have passed away , and that we liave now to contend with a Mahometan conspiracy , ramifying throughout India , and that the Sepoys arc merely tools in the hands of our ancient and
implacable enemies . ' If , therefore , we may consider that we already foresee the termination of the Hindoo revolt—that it is a question only of time and expenditure—Colonel SYiUis auirills that we liavo a new enemy to encounter in India—the Mussulmans ; an influential , military , reckless host ,
limited to no Presidency , and having representatives in all parts , all classes , all institutions—tlio nr-o ^~ : — tcctcd provinces , the annexed , the Mofus ^ ilfHl ^; - ; '" - ' "\ > y oitics , with a large preponderance of tliJKnimaiw •^ - ' X'ty ) ^ element among them , and many men in tfcut jHSRyyl ^* ' ^ / TifX - wt \ III Lj ^^^^^ tf ^ t ^^^ V ^^ ' m I lV m "^^ -British armies of all Presidencies . It isr $ nflil ! iAajK £ T S—~ i U the Mussulmans arc eminent in rivalry ^ t ^^ HN , ^ r * J ' > ii * T other . Besides the two groat parties in to >^^^|^^ j ^ M £ <' i > : r \ ~ £ y &
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 19, 1857, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19091857/page/1/
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