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INDIA AS A COLONY. Many people at home h...
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FACTS AND SCRAPS.
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MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. T-i#> ; '
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Royal Opera, Dbuey Lajie. —The revival o...
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. I ¦' Crime In The Punjab. In A Late Nu...
to Government , and the culprits themselves , than the system new pursued , by which these men are prosecuted as Budmashes , and thrown again and again into jail . If the causes of theft be removed , it is natural to suppose that the thefts themselves will not occur . As poverty is in reality the spur by ¦ which these unhappy men are driven to crime , so by this scheme they have land and labour given them from which they can produce a livelihood—whilst they will be housed , registered , and watched at the
same time . ... „ "It is to be hoped , then , that this principle of substituting correctional farms in place of the old system of disposing of vagrants , will be sanctioned . In the measures contemplated we see great hope of effecting a very desirable reform by the removal of a public nuisance . Hitherto our course lias been altogether wrong . Instead of removing the inducement and opportunities for committing crime , we have quietly waited until crime has been actually committed ; and then , too , if it be a theft or a burglary , deferred investigation until the required party prosecute .
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India As A Colony. Many People At Home H...
INDIA AS A COLONY . Many people at home have singular ideas and forebodings in connexion with the present state of British India , and even the members of the Colonisation Committee' have set no very high estimate on India as a field for European skill and enterprise . In one quarter , the complaint is that our territory is too wide , that we are unable to provide for the protection of our own districts ; in another that the climate is quite unbearable for Europeans ; in a third that India is too poor a country to bear for any long period the expenses of its present defence ; and that the means of communication between towns and villages are of the most wretched kind . All these complaints , have , perhaps , some foundation
to call at Calcutta for a return cargo . Cost of conveyance has long been a greater bar to the development of Indian commerce than the cost of production . These emigrant vessels , we believe , help in a most powerful manner to remove this difficulty , and the result has lately been that the sugars of Benares and Tirhoot have competed vigorously in the English market with the produce of the West India plantations , notwithstanding that Jamaica is only half as distant as the valley of the Ganges and the cultivated plains of the Deccan . India may not be quite suited for colonists from the labouring classes , but it has not the less a high value , compared with the other colonies . There is now a pretty general belief that an increase of the European population will be an advantage to the country . Wherever European capitalists have gone , they have benefitted the people and the country . — Bombay Gazette .
more or less solid ; but on the other hand there are new and countervailing circumstances , whicli , by a curious pervcrseness , are , seldom adverted to . The climate is generally believed to be uniform throughout India , whereas every district between the Himalayan Snows and Cape Comorin may be said to have a climate of its own . India would not be intolerable to Europeans if access to the cooler regions were attended with less difficulties than at present . A railway from Calcutta to Simla , and from Bombay to Agra , with daily trains from each end performing the journey , would enable us to exchange a of
tropical for an English climate within < i couple days . With such means of transport in full vigour , the English residents in India would cease to be an encampment , and might become colonists . The cost of Indian armies and government is also largely attributed to the same evil of want of rapid means of transit . The wealth of a province is always in process of waste at our leading depots , because it is needful at those places to have at all times am accumulation of munitions and stores equal to the consumption of months , and to .-the supply of a large circumjacent district . of residence in India is delete
How far tho effect - rious to the European constitution we shall not pretend to say ; but we believo a great deal more blame is thrown on tho climato tha . ii it deserves . Dr . Ralph Moore , who was examined by tho Colonisation Committee , stated that " a man froin the north , with a blue oye , | fair hair , of sanguineous temperament , and of temperate habits , wilj .. gtand the climate of India remarkably well ; and ' , in fact , many delicate mon , who cannot get on in this country , luxuriato and Ijvo in India . " One ' s diet and manner of living nro the real sources of danger to health in this country .
Considering- that India is only one-sixth of the distance , reckoned in time , which it was from tho contemporaries ofCliveand Hastings , and that sho is more conveniently situated with rospoct . to England than thu Saxon colonies stretching from tho Capo of Good Hope to Now Zealand in . the ono direction , anil to tho free ports of China in tho other , sho will ever hold a nioro important commercial position than they . She is now outllunked , as it wore , by tho English settlements in South
Africa and in Australia . Nothing can bo more cortain than that tho English colonies in Australia and the commerce with those colonies liavo given to Knglund a Armor hold on India than slio ever had before . When our railways shall bo completed , valotiiclinariuns from Bengal and Madras will seek in tho bracing air of the Himalayas the renovated air thoy have hithor ( . o sought in England , and sometimes at Auoklund and Sydney ; ana Capo Town will eoaso to becomo a sanitarian station l'roin Bombay .
Our colonies nro ol course of groat uso to us ; no small part of tho cavalry of the late JSnst India Coinnnny was mounted on sturdy lone-tailed horses depastured in Now South Wales , liut more important still—the licet of seven or oight hundred ships which annually sail from England with emigrants Und it profitable to como homo through tho Indian soas , and
Facts And Scraps.
FACTS AND SCRAPS .
The Montreal Pilot Says:—"We Have It On ...
The Montreal Pilot says : —" We have it on authority that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales , accompanied by the Colonial Secretary , and other distinguished personages , will visit Canada at the end of May or the beginning of June next . The formal opening of the Victoria Bridge will then take place . " . A letter from Paris says ,:-. — " On Friday the Emperor went out shooting with Prince Metternich . His Majesty brought down 150 birds , & c . The Prince , no doubt to maintain the family reputation for diplomacy , modestly contented himself with 130 . "
A -worthy ; keelman , formerly living . at Paradise , near Scots wood , was once under examination at the assizes , when he was asked if he knew Mr . ? •'' , " . he replied , " but aw kend his faithur . " " When was that ? " " Before the flood . " " Now , my man , " inquired the learned counsel ( who knew nothing of the flood of 1771 , and thought to be down upon the witness ) , " where did you live then ?" "In Paradise , tibby sure ! " A roar of laughter completed the amazement and discoraforture of horsehair . The seat of Jcegersprus , to which the King ' of Denmark has just gone from Copenhagen' is the property of the Countess Danner , his mistress . His Majesty intends to pass there the early part of the winter .
Prince Napoleon and the Princess Mathilde went to Compiegne on the 16 th , the Feast of St . Eugenie . The Count de Paris and his suite arrived at Ostend on Saturday , aud left by an express train for Brussels . The marriage of Lady Cecelia Gordon Lennox , sixth daughter of his Grace the Duke of Richmond , K . G ., P . C ., and Lord Binghnm , eldest son of the Earl of iLucan , has been solemnised at St . George's Church , Hanover-square . Lord Palmerston will entertain the Cabinet Ministers at dinner this day . The Staatsanzeiger says that the health of the King of Prussia has improved lately , and he is now able'to make short excursions in a carriage .
The Queen has granted to Count Alexander John Joseph Teleki , a naturalised subject of her Majesty , and to Jane Frances , his wife , only daughter and heir of Henry , Lord Langdnlc , deceased , that they may respectively take upon themselves , and henceforth uso the name of Hurley only in lieu of that of Teleki , and also respectively bear the arms of Jlarley only . On Saturday morning the Right Hon . u . L . Gladstone Chancellor of the Exchequer , attended the Court of Exchequer « t Westminster , in his robes of ofHee , and took tho oaths according to usual custom , before tho Barons of the Court , on Jlis appointment to that oflico .
Mr . Soward late Governor of tho state of New York , is now at Turin , and lias been presented to the King-., As ho is unacquainted Avith French or Italian , a dragoman whs sought for amongat the Piodmonteso conversant with English , etiquotto not allowing of a foreigner in that capacity . General Solaroli vas entrusted with the duty , The Journal dc St . Potarsboitrg announces tho arrival of Sohamyl atKalouga , tho town selected for his residence . Ho was attended by hia son anil
threo niurldes , and alighlod at tho principal hotel oi tho plftcof The next day ho paid a visit to tho governor , and afterwards went to see the houso intonced for him . Ho was particularly struck by tho blaolc murblo busts of two Greek philpsophors in one of tho rooms , and after many questions respecting tlio persons they represented , ho requested to havo thorn removed , aa hie wjkos would bo frightenod at tho dark laces , lie oxprossod himself perfectly satisfied with the house and locality In which it was situated .
Music And The Drama. T-I#> ; '
MUSIC AND THE DRAMA . T-i # > ; '
Royal Opera, Dbuey Lajie. —The Revival O...
Royal Opera , Dbuey Lajie . —The revival of Flowtow ' s comic opera of " Martha" was so admirable a success that had not grave November filed , a peremptory injunction against both singers and audiences on Monday night , we might have anticipated its frequent repetition . The great talent , dramatic as well as vocal , of Madlle . Titiens has been so thoroughly demonstrated by her charming impersonation of Verdi ' s Leonora and Donizetti ' s Lucretia Borgia that there was hardly room for doubt that she would charm in the elegant role of " Martha , " j e P d j ] . 1 t
though there were connoisseurs of no mean discernment who apprehended that one so versedinthe delineation of passion , and in the delivery of powerfully sentimental music , would not easily descend to the slight though sparkling and graceful strains allotted to the Lady Henrietta . But the versatility of this great lyric artist has enabled her fairly to inscribe this character upon the roll of her triumphs . The Vergin Rosa " ( The Last Rose of Summer ) , ¦ which may not inaptly be termed the backbone of the opera , was-received , as it deserved , in the second act , Avith enthusiasm , and in the fourth , where the situation admitted of her giving it in English , with t
unqualified rapture . In the spinning quartette , again , a piece requiring closeness of sing ing and no less refinement of tone , Madlle . Titiens was no less conspicuous , though we rnust admit that she received every due assistance from the other princirpals . Among these we must first name G-iuglini , the Lionello , whose intense feeling in " Mi ' appari tutt' amor , " truly carried the audience away , and ¦\ v \\ o displayed through the opera as much histrionic power as natural beauty of voice and mechanical excellence in its management . Signor Tialetti ma'de the best Plunket - we have had the fortune to' see or hear , bringing sufficient comicality
to bear in aid of an excellent voice . The beer song , Avhich in some hands is but flat and colourless , lie . gave with so much unction , yet taste , as to secure a genuine ^ encore . The quartet is complete when we have noticed Madame Borchardt , an accomplished and vivacious actress , and a singer of high ability , the addition of whom to the strong combination already named , gave a degree of perfection to the ensemble of which neither the composer nor the public have before had the advantage on our stage . We were no less gratified to observe very full houses on both Friday and Saturday , than to find that the season came to a somewhat abrupt close in
the early part of the present week-St . James ' s Hall . — Monoay Popular Concepts . —Xonc more warmly than ourselves—for they are true oases in the desert of compulsory pleasuresocking wherein wo wander—welcome tho resumption of the Monday Popular Concerts . A spring season , of nearly six months' duration , sufficed to prove to the directors that their loyal observance of an admirable programme was appreciated by a large and influential circle of musical amxiteurs ,
aiul wo are glad , moreover , to leiirn was not unremuiwrntivc . That this well-merited success may bo now followed up we can havo little doubt , seeing that the same cultivated tasto has been at work to construct the schemes of tho entertainments , ami that tho first concert on Monday last showed tho direction of undiminishod zeal towards its realisation . Last Monday ' s programme shall . here be cited aa a specimen-ami , we are bold to say , its promise will be fulflllecl-rof the quality of thoao to coiuo . It
ran as follows : — Vaut I . ¦ duarUt , l » lint niiUor < O 1 > . 18 , Wiothovon ) . MvBBrrt . ftulnton , k Klt'H , fiioliroiu'H Mid 1 ' MttJ . Sawi ( MfiuU'lBuoUn ) "K » wi-Ibb hikI rMlli , " & v . Uurr lU-lcliurdt . ' I'tinutfUrti-. Sonata , In A nu . Jor lU .-utlioven ) . Mr . C l »< v ! cs /// , l \ violin ubllyiiUD . "Non turner iinmto bone" v Moziu-l ) . JIiuIuiiu hiuiniuutf-. SlifiTlngtoM , I ) ,,,,: " . Mini lablnnen lunu " ( KohnIiiI . ' . Mmliimo Loiuiiions-^ lioiTluH'tou , Uori' Uuielmrdt . l ' Anr II . linnrM K minor ( On , Mi , Uoi'tliovon ) . Tor two violin * , viola * Mid vloloiioollo ! ^ luBBriJ . WiouiiiWHkl ,. JIwh , Huhnmrb uu < l riiitti
. -. . 8 ,,,,, / , » Ali , why do we lovo ? " ( Hucfurrun ) . UiuUma ' j / cuimunii-tfliurrtiitflon . * . « . « " . «/«/ " ' LcIijo UcUun inolno Urflnr " ^ Sohubovt ) , Horr Jtalulmrdt . . Jiwt - " Knli'OHt Mnldon " ( Suohr ) . Mnduino I ^ oiamonBWliurrinBlon , Horr Itolohurdt . Xomta , in U miijor (<> i ? - / » 0 . » ooViovwafi > r plunonud violin . JMf « sr » . C'liurloH Httftti und Wianluwnkl . Of the instrumentalists ubovc nion tlonod wo hare
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 19, 1859, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19111859/page/11/
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