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The Chinese And Persian Wars. The Contem...
called the ' peace-at-any-pnce party . I don ' t know whether he intends to include me in that number , but I thought I had cleared myself from that imputation , because , although I have declared that I thought 10 , 000 , 000 / . were enough to pay for our defences , yet , if 100 , 000 , 000 / . were necessary to defend these shores from an enemy , I would vote it as cheerfully as anybody . But this is not a question of peace at any price ; it Is a question whether we shall go 12 , 000 or 14 , 000 miles off , and rush heedlessly and needlessly into war with , a people who are , very little able to defend themselves , and who never came to attack you ! It is not a war by which , under any circumstances , you can gain , honour .. Why , during the last Chinese war—the
opium war—the most disgraceful war in our historyit has been estimated by Mr . Montgomery Martin that we lost about 69 men , and that we killed between 20 , 000 and 25 , 000 Chinese . There is no honour to be gained in a war like that . . . . . We are not no ^ w engaged in a war with Russia . That was a fair stand-up fight , where you had enemies that proved your courage ; but now we are at war with a feeble nation , a most remarkable people , a people who , though they have carried civilization to a great height , have not attained the art of war . You all know that this nation is at your feet . Will the people of this country , then , with America , France , Germany , and Austria looking at us , show a less serse of justice , a less sense of
responsibility and fear of bloodshed , than a majority of the House of Commons ?" ' Mr . Cobden denied that there is so universal a feeling in favour of Lord Palmerston as had been asserted by the Times . The turmoil was being got up by cliques , coteries , and clubs . "If you hear people making remarks in support of this Palmerston fever , just ask tliem what they want . Are they satisfied with things ; as they are ? do they want no * change for the better ? If so , Lord Palmerston is precisely their man . ( Cheers and luughterJ ) But , if a man wants less taxation , extension of the suffrage , abolition of church-rates , vote by ballot , or any reform in Church ox State , then I think Lord Palmerston is not the man for him . " ( Cheers ^)
Mr . Biggs then moved the following resolution : — ' * That , in . the opinion of this meeting , the invasion of Persia and the hostilities at Canton were wholly unwarranted , on grounds either of justice or policy ; and this meeting further protests against the practice of involving this country in war without the knowledge or consent of Parliament , and earnestly rejoices that by the recent vote of the House of Commons the nation has been saved from the responsibility of those acts of violence and bloodshed committed by British officers on the inhabitants of Canton . " DrEpps seconded the resolution . After a few words from , the chairman ( Mr . Roebuck ) , defending his recent vote , the resolution was put , and agreed to .
Mr . Hart then moved , and Mr . Murray seconded , the following resolution : — " That the ministers , by sanctioning and adopting the acts of the subordinate officers at Canton , had made themselves responsible for an outrage committed , in criminal violation of English law , and that violation of law whether committed by a premier or a peasant should he dealt with judicially , and the offender punished . " To which resolution the following amendment was proposed by Mr . Bronterre O'JBricn , and seconded by Mr . Lockhart : — " That , if the upper and middle classes are sincerely desirous of Parliamentary
reform , and to put an end to such barbarous acts of violation and conquest as have'been practised in the present * war against China , they have a sure and easy remedy in their own hands , and that is , to give the non-electors at the approaching general election the benefit of their second vote in every city , county , and borough that returns moro than one member , by electing the candidate whom the non-electors and working classes generally shall elect by show of hands according to the ancient constitutional usage which prevailed before tbe landlord and moneyed classes usurped the prerogative of the Crown and tlvo rights of tho people . "
The amendment , on a show of hands , was declared to bo carried "by a largo majority . This terminated tho proceedings .
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Tho deputation appointed by tho meeting held in tho City on Friday week waited upon Lord Palmerstora at Cambridge House on Monday morning for tho purpose of formally -presenting to him tho resolution adopted on that occasion . Tho gentlemen forming tho deputation wore headed by tho Lord Mayor .
The Persian Treaty. This Follow Ing (Say...
THE PERSIAN TREATY . This follow ing ( says tho Morning Post ) ia a rdsiimd of tho Persian Treaty : — By Articles 6 ami 7 , Persia renounces all right * over Herat ami Afghanistan , and any interference whatever in tho uttWra of cither . Hut while Article G provides that , in tlio event of difference with those countries Poraia ahull appoul to tho good oillces of England tho latter recoyninos , by Article 7 , the right of tho Per ' siun Govcrcmont to have recourao to arms in . tho case of a violation of tho Persian territory by tho inhabitants cither of Herat or Affghaniutan ; ou condition always of
withdrawing its troops immediately on having obtained the reparation required . The Consular Agents and subjects of Great Britain are to be treated in Persia on the same footing as those of the most favoured nation . . A separate Note defines the mode to be adopted in the reception of the British Mission at Teheran . The Persian Government engages to appoint a Commissioner at Teheran to examine the claims made upon that Government by English Subjects , or by Subjects of the Shah , or by those of other Powers who shall not have renounced the protection of Great Britain . By Article 12 , the latter engages not to take under its protection any Persian Subjects , except such as should be in the employment of the English Mission . The two Contracting Parties renew their treaty of 1851 , for the suppression of the Slave Tiade in the Persian Gulf .
The Oeient. India. "Vve Have But Little ...
THE OEIENT . INDIA . "VVe have but little additional news this week from the far East . On the 28 th of January , Dost Mahomed broke up his camp at Jamrood , and , bidding farewell to the English Commissioner , left forCabul . A lamentable circumstance happened a few days before his departure . Four officers ^ belonging to tbe 51 st Native Infantry , after visiting the Ameer ' s camp , rode into the mouth of the Khyber , contrary to orders . They were about to
return , seeing some suspicious-looking persons ahead , when shots were fired , one of which passed through Lieutenant Hand . All four , however , rode on , and shortly afterwards the wounded man fell , in crossing a deep nullah , and received two severe , sword-cuts from unseen assailants . Brigadier Chamberlain , hearing the firing , rode out with some troopers and Mahomed Azeem , the Dost ' s son . Lieutenant Hand was brought in alive , but died that night . The others were placed under arrest . Several of the assailants have been captured-and the passes were closed .
Three officera—Major Lumsden ^ Lieutenant Lumsden , and Dr . Cox—have left Peshawur for Candahar , to . ascertain the position of affairs there / with reference to Persia and her designs on Herat . Sir Henry Lawrence is appointed Chief Commissioner in Ou . de , his place in Rajpootana being supplied by Colonel St . George Lawrence , his brother . Colonel Holland , for many years Quartermaster-General of the Bombay Army , has quitted India .
PERSIA . The intelligence from Persia does not confirm the rumoured march of English troops in the interior . In the Camp at Bushire , the soldiers suffered severely from sickness . The news in the Journal de Constantinople , of the invasion of Bokhara by the Russians , is unfounded ; but the statement of a mission having been despatched from Bokhara to Constantinople is corroborated .
CHINA . The English continue on the defensive . Tho European inhabitants of Hong-Kong have been very much irritated against Sir John Bowring , aud they threatened to put the poisoners to death if the Governor did not authorize their punishment . The Spaniards at Canton were expecting a regiment from the Philippine Islands to avenge the assassination of their Consul . The baker at Hong-Kong who took the lead in a conspiracy to poison the Europeans has been arrested , tried before a Council of War , and convicted of an attempt to poison the English Charge d'Affaires and his family . The man was condemned to death , and was shot , together with three of his accomplices .
Continental 1st O T E S. Vuance. Bauon C...
CONTINENTAL 1 ST O T E S . VUANCE . Bauon Charles Duns has just published bis report of the commission of the Academy of Sciences attached to the Imperial Institute of France , wliich commission had beeii appointed to investigate tho plan of M . Ferdinand do Lesseps , for uniting the Mediterranean with the Bed Sea by means of a ship canal across the Isthmus of Suez . Entire approval is given by Baron Charles Dupin to tho project , which he thinks contains a great superiority , for tho transport of merchandise , over tho proposed Euphrates Railway .
It appears tho Russian Government has sent ordors to Bordeaux for the construction of a screw steam frigato of 500-horso power , to carry GO guns , a screw steam corvette of 400-horso power for 30 guns , and a pnddlcwhcel steam yacht of 400-horso power , for tho special service of tho Czar . These vessels , which wore ordered three months ago , aro far advanced towards completion . The corvette will bo launched in May , the frigate in September , and the yacht in December . Other orders of a similar kind aro stated to havo been also received . — Times Paris Correspondent .
Tho French Government is said to have determined on remitting the debt duo to it by the Greek Government . Tho Emperor at the aamo time expresses a hope tliat tho money thus unexpectedly coming into tho hands of tho Greek monarch and his advisers will bo expended ou useful public -works .
Some particulars with respect to a change in tW u ~ respecting the tax on personal property are contained Z the Momteur of last Saturday , which says - — " r ^ Council of State held its third sitting at the Tail * yesterday . The Emperor presided . It was detefil that the law imposing a tax on the shares and bondsrS joint-stock companies shall be as follows- — 'The t imposed by the law of the 5 th of June , 1850 for th ^ stamp and transfer of ttose securities shall be raised fZ five to fifteen centime ! for each one hundred francs of capital , regulated every three years by the average DriV * . This tax shall be annual and obligatory , and notbinc shall be changed in th « present mode of collecting it- of it is regulated by the law of 1850 . A public adminJ . trative regulation shall determine the manner according to which this law shall be applied to foreign securities negotiated in Trance . " b bei - umie 3
General Vaudrey , tbe Governor of the Palace of the Tuileries , died on Thursday week . Several French officers have tendered their services to the Shah , through Ferakh Khan , as military instructors of his army . But the offer has been declined for the present , with many thanks . Prince Danilo , of Montenegro , had an audience of the Emperor last Saturday . * M . de Bourboulon , French Charge d'Affaires to the Court of China , left by the last Indian mail , - which sailed from Marseilles on the 12 th inst . He carries with , him instructions to Admirals Guerin and Rigault de Genouilly , who command the French fleets in the Chinese seas , to combine in future their operations with those of the British forces , conformably to the arrangement concluded in Paris between Lord Cowley and the French Government . — -Times Paris Correspondent .
Count Walewski had a conference last Saturday witi M . de Hatzfeldt , the Prussian Minister , to whom he communicated verbally a note in very firm language which M . de Hatzfeldt transmitted by telegraph to Ms court . The same day , a French courier was sent to Berlin with despatches for the Marquis de Bloustier , ta « French Minister . —Idam .
11 The Emperor , " says the Daily News Paris correspondent , " wishing to follow up by example the precepts contained in . bis last speech , with regard to the cultivation of waste lands , has given orders to the Prefect of the Hautes Pyrenees to purchase for his account a large quantity of virgin soil in the Landes with the view of clearing it arid making a model farm . A number of women belonging to the department of the Gironde have arrived at Bayonne to be employed in bringing into cultivation the Dunes of d'Anglet . " We are requested to state that the if .- Goudchaax , who is associated with M . Millaud in La Presse , is not the M . Goudchaux , sometime Minister of Finance of the Republic , but a director of the TheUtre du Vaudeville . The sentence upon M . Arthur Berryer has made a great sensation in Paris . Everybody feels that he might have revealed much more about higher personages . SPAIN . The Government has given a severe reprimand to the Governor of Corunna for having restored to the clergy some ot their property which had been sold , and had sent a circular to all the governors of provinces , directing them to tliro-w no obstacles in the way of the desa , ' mortisacion . GREECE . Mr . Wyse has been named president , and M . Grelia ( wlio serves as attache o £ the French embassy ) secretary , of the commission relative to the finances of Greece . The French and English troops which occupied the Pirocus took their departure on the 28 th of February .
TURKEY . We learn from , a Belgrade letter , published in the Augsburg Gazette , 'that " the only daughter of Omar Pacha , who was married in 1853 to Tefik Pacha , a nephew of the Serdar , and , after his death in the Crimea , to Omar Bey , another nephew , poisoned herself a few days ago . She had been educated according to European Imbita , and , it is said , was driven to the act l > y the bad treatment she experienced from her husbaud . "
CIRCASaiA . Of the Polish expedition to Circassia , the starting of which was notified in our paper of the 7 th inst ., we read in the Daily News that " the Kangaroo has succeeded in eluding tho ltussian cruisers , which may probably havo been on tho alert to intercept her in the Black Sea , and has disembarked the men , arms , and stores of tho expedition upon tho coaat of Circassia . '' A great expedition is now in preparation in Russia to effect , if posaible , tho complete subjugation of Circasaia .
AUSTRIA . Austria is again making endeavours to renew tho Custom * ' League , or to conclude some ot her treaty of commerce , with Parina ; but tho Government of that state will not comply , knowing that tbe peoplo w ould regard such an agreement ns tantamount to converting tho duchy into an Austrian province . The attempt , therefore , is not considered safe . Somo slight reaction ngainst tho ultra-Papal feeling " which prevailed among tho Austrian governing circles at tho time tho Concordat was passed is visible in recent bowb from tho empiro . The Lombatdo-Venetian bishop " ,
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Leader (1850-1860), March 21, 1857, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21031857/page/8/
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