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No. 426, 3VIA.Y 22, 1858^] l. _ ._;£jgLJ...
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THE EPSOM UACESThe race for the Derby at...
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STATE OF TltADE. The ' slight improvemen...
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THE PEOPLE'S LM4OV1DKNT ASSURANCE SOCIKT...
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The India It Revolt. • . :'• " ?- ' • . ...
revolted provinces , a course of policy distinguished , by a vise and discriminating generosity . You are exhorted to temper justice with , mercy , and , except in cases of extreme criminality , to grant an amnesty to the vanquished . Iu the sentiments expressed by the Secret Committee-we entirely concur . Whilst there are some crimes which ¦ humanity calls upon you to punish with the utmost severity , there are others of a less aggravated character , which it would be equally unjust and impolitic not to pardon and to forget . . . - - . " In dealing with the people of Oude you will doubtless be moved by special considerations of justice and of policv . Throughout the recent contest we have ever regarded sadi of the inhabitants of that country as , not
being Sepoys or pensioners of our own army , have been in arms against us , as an exceptionable class . They cannot be considered as traitors or even rebels , for they had not pledged their fidelity to us , and they hadscarcely become our subjects . Many , by the introduction of a new system of government , had jiecessarily been deprived of the maintenance they had latterly enjoyed ; and others feared that the speedy loss of their means of subsistence must follow from the same course . It was natural tliat such peisons should avail themselves of the
opportunity presented by the distracted state of the country to strike a blow for the restoration of the native rule , under which the permitted disorganization of the ? country liad so long been to them a source of unlawful profit . Neither the diBbanded soldiers of the late native government , nor the great talookdars and their retainers ? , were under any obligation of fidelity to our government for benefits conferred upon them . You would be justified , therefore , in dealing with them as you -would with a foreign enemy , and in * ceasing to consider tliem objects of punishment after they have once laid down their
Arms . . . " Of these arms they must for ever be deprived . You will doubtless in prosecution of this object address yourself , in the first instance , to the case of the great talookdars , who so successfully defied the late Government , and many of whom , with large bodies of armed men , appear to have aided the efforts of the mutinous soldiery of the Bengal army . The destruction of the forlitied strongholds of these powerful landholders , the-forfeiture of their remaining guns , the disarming and disbanding of their followers , will be among your lirst works . But whilst you are depriving this influential and once
dangerous class of people of their power of openly resistingyour authority , you -will , we have no doubt , exert yourselves by every possible means to reconcile them to Uritish rule , and encourage them , by liberal arrangements made in accordance with ancient usages , to become industrious agriculturists ; and to employ in the cultivation of the soil the men who , as armed retainers , have so long wasted the substance of their -masters , and desolated . the land . We believe that these landholders may be tauyht that their holdings will be more profitable to them , under a strong Government , capable of maintaining the peace . of'the country , and severely punishing
agrarian outrages , than under one which perpetually invites , by its weakness , the ruinous arbitration of the sword . " Having thu 3 endeavoured , on the re-establishment of the authority of the British Government in Oude , to reassure the groat landholders , you will proceed to consider , in the same spirit of toleration and forbearance , the condition of the great body of the people . You will bear in mind thnt it is necessary , in a transition state from one Government to another , to deal tenderly with existing usages and sometimes even with existing abuses . All precipitate reforms are dangerous . It is often wiser even to tolerate evil for a time than , to alarm and to irritate the minds of the people by the sudden introduction of changes which time cixn alone teach them to
appreciate , or even , perhaps , to understand . You will fcc especially careful , in the readjustment of the fiscal system of tho province , to avoid tlio imposition of unaccustomed taxo . « , whether of general or of a loual character , pressing heavily upon thoindustrial resource . - * , and affecting the daily comforts of the people . We do not estimate the successful administration of a nevlyncqnLrcd province according to H'o financial results of the firat tfuw years . At such a timo we should endeavour to conciliate tho people by -wtae concessions , and to do nothing to encourage tho belief thnt tho British Government Ls more covetous of revenue that the native ruler whom it has supplanted . " AI . J-EOED CltUKI / riKS OV T 11 K KNOI . ISU SOM ) U ! HS .
A . U anonymous corrospoiickmt . of tliu ' /'< W . i , who appears to have boon at Delhi , writes , under dato March 26 th ( but without any nunio of place being mentioned ) to deny the assertions nnule iu tlie House ot Commons by General Thompson , on the 16 th of Icbruary , to tliu ufloot that our troops bcluivcil wah brutal forocily at tho Inking of IX-llii that they ravished and mul treat e . l women , that they slaughtered children in cold blood , and tlv . it oili ^ rs themselves acted tho part of common lum ^ mei ) . Thu vrrilor asserts that ' tho extmordiuurv lumper ami moderation of our troops after tho assault woio the lioinu of univorsul won . lor ; " hut he ndniils thnt iiicjio wore immoroua cases of excessive drunkenness * w a day or two . Ho saw two dead bodies of
women , but they had evidently been killed before our entry into the city ; and he also found two women in a house who had been wounded by stray bullets . They were carefully attended to . The correspondent gives the editor leave to publish Iris name if thought necessary ; "but would rather remain , unltnown .
THE MASSACRE AT . Til ANSI . We recently quoted an account of the massacre at Jhansi , in which it was stated-that the women and children . ' were subjected to frightful tortures and indignities before being killed . No names were given , and we nvarned the reader to receive the statement with : ; ca . ati . on . The Bombay correspondent of the . Times now writes : —" It is satisfactory to find that here , as elsewhere , it is thought that the foul and indiscriminate-murder was not , so far ' as can be ascertained , aggravated by torture and outrage . " Captain . lYAV .. Finkney , Superintendent of Jhansi , has written to the same effect .. The Bombay TeU ~ graph arid Cowier states , on the authority of a mutineer ,-that Cai > tain Skene did not shoot his wife and himself .
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The Epsom Uacesthe Race For The Derby At...
THE EPSOM UACESThe race for the Derby at Westminster was set aside on "Wednesday , with a unanimity quite refreshing in the political world , for the race for the Derby at Epsom . It mattered not that the fate of a Ministry was trembling in the balance , or that a dark And-. ominous passage . iu our national history was beinir discussed with- all the fervour of patriotism and all the venom of party . The English love of horseflesh is great , and it prevailed , as it always will prevail . u SessaJ -Let . the world pass ! " Such was the universal feeling on Wednesday . India will " keep
till to-morrow : " the Government mav - have till to-morrow ; " the Government may have a day ' s rest ; her Majesty ' s Opposition shall oppose on other fields ( those of Surrey ) , and on pastures , new—those of -iipsoin . Therefore did it come to pass that the road to the downs was as bright and gay as ever ; that tlie veils of the gentlemen and the parasols of the ladies , that , tlie velveteen of the costermonger ami the rags of the beggar , that the horses of the aristocracy and the comfortable classes , and t ! te donkeys of the moboeracy and the > 7 ! comfortable classes , sunned themselves in" the " bright spring weather as they have
done so many times before , and swallowed saharas of dust and streams of champagne , stout , or porter , according to tlie wealth of each resi > ective drinker . Thus also did it come to pass that there was no lack of "fun ; " that the ladies coquetted as of yore ; that the gentlemen won and lost ; that the jokes rattled liku castanets'to the measure of the universal hilarity ; that the fast men wore at their fastest , and the sliarpers-at their sharpest ; and that all the motley forms of the great equine festival—gipsies , " niggers , " stilt - dancers , acrobats , organ-grinders , and German brass band performers—burst into vigorous blossom and potential life .
Hut , before recording the events of the Derby Day , let U 3 briefly set forth the chief features of ' the previous day , Tuesday . The weather was both windy and rainy ; but the wind . prevailed , and the course was "thus put into excellent condition for tlie great even-t . The running comprised — The Ciiayes Stakks , of five sovs . each , with fifty added ; won b \ - Mr . W . S . S . Craufurd ' s Zuyiler Zee . The M .-vxou Plate ( handicap ) , of fifty sovs . ; von'by Sir L . Newman ' s Peter i'lat . The Woodcoie Stakks , of ten sovs , each , with one hundred added ; won by I \ Ir , T . Parr ' s Merrynirm . The Hods Stakios , a free handicap , of twenty sovs . oaeli , with two hundred- added ; won by Colonel Martyn ' s Kerens . The lioitroN Btauks , of live sovs . each , with thirty added ; won by Ivord Wilton ' s liliisus . The IIkathcotjo L'i . atk , of fifty sovs . ; won by Mr . Oopporthwaitu ' s Lady Kin gston .
On Wednesday , ris usual , tho great event of the races—the Ditiiiiv itself—came oil " . The professional reporter who edifies all the d ; iily papers with his learned quill thus describes
" THE HACK . "l ) itto and ¦ lMiyrjieimi were thu first to make their appearance on the course , and they walked up it as tlie other competitors approached tho grand stand i ' n > in the pfidilork . Tim preliminary c . uUcrs were quickly over , and . tlu ) hoc . ies pmrivded to the post iu a body , and had no riuoner « jnilU'd the piuldoek than the spectators were stiirik'd with a shout of ' Tlmy ' ru oli' ! ' so sudden and unexpected \ v ; is tin : . start .. Tiio lot , < n > t uwuv in a clu . stor ,
itiul n hum tit siitisliieliou was occasioned by the tad , with whir . h Mr . llibburd hud dropped his Hag , nud relieved the . ^ jH .-eUitoivj from all . hu . sjicu . so . Kulipsit wns this lir . it to .-show in advance , hut , immediately the lioPisoa had ' yjut on their legs , ' I'liyrsii-iuu rushed to tins front , lu : li | isu keeping close I ' cmijwiiy with liim for a Nliui ' t distance , when hi ! dropped buck , anil Fit / .-Uoland wont on . second , wiLli D ' ul . n , Kclipao , lleadsmun , Jordan , I harry Stanley , Jiud ihu Cyinba colt in a clu .-vtur next ., iin « l , a . s nearly as we could make out iu tho order named , Ka , bl Lunglou and l'uli ^ ier showing in thu middle o
the ruck , Carniel toiling on several lengths in . the rean At the top of the lull Eclipse ran into the second place Jordan , Ancient Uriton , and Toxophilite lying well up behind him , and King of Sardinia joining- Carmel at the extreme end of ' the tail . ' At the mile-post , ITitzlloland repassed Hclip .-se , who went on third ; Ditto and Bends man shoving well ' up in their wake , with Toxophilite just behind , them . On descending the hill at Tattenhfim-corner Fitz-Rolanft headed Physician , -who soon ' afterwards gave way , Toxophilite taking second place , with Eclipse , Ditto , Happy Laud , Beadsman , The Hadji , Kelpie , East Langton , Longrange , and Ethiopian , next in pursuit . Just before reaching the roail , Ditto
disappeared from , the front , and Beadsman took his place . They ran thus to tho distance , -where Fitz-Koland was beaten , Eclipse hainy left-with a slight lead , Toxophilite lying second , Beadsman third , anil The Hadji ne :-: t . About half-way up , Eclipse declined , and Beadsman took close order with Toxophilite , quitted him . opposite the-Grand Stand , and won easily by a length , Lord Derby's colt beating The Hadji by two lengths for second place . Four lengths off , Eclipse was fourth , East Langdon was a bad fifth , and Fitz-lioland sixth . The next lot comprised Ethiopian , Dumfries , Ditto , and L on ^ ' range .-. The last four beaten off were Jordan , Happy Land , Deceiver , and Brother to Bird-on-the-VVing . Lord Glasgow ' s colt v .-as absolutely last . "
The other races for the day were the Bextjnck . Pla . tk ,. of . fifty sovs . ( handicap ) , won by Mr . Payne ' s ( Jrianda ; the -Epsom Cor , of one hundred sovs ., added to a sweepstakes of ten sovs . each , won by Mr . Starkey ' s Fisherman ; and tlie DukdasStakes , of five sovs . each , with thirty added , won by Mr . J . Merry's Head Knowledge . On Thursday , the races were—The Epsom Four Year Oi-b Stakes , of fifty sovs . each , with one hundred added , won by Mr . Barber ' s Commotion ; a Sweepstakes ,.-of- one hundred sors . each , von by
Sir J . Hawley ' s nlly by the Hero ; the . Two lEA . it Old Stakes " of ten sovs . each , with fifty added , won by Baron Rothschild's North Lincoln ; Hek . Majesty ' s Pla . ti ; ,. of one hundred guineas , for mares , won by Mr . J . Merry ' s Uzella ; the CJ-ran-d Stand ' -Pi ^ ati . 3 , of one hundred sovs . ( handica |)) , woa by Mr . Mellisli ' s Tame i ) eer ; the Selling Stakes , of five sovs . each , with thirty added , won by Mr . ¦ Lmn ley ' s Bads worth ; and the Cobkam Plate , of fifty sovs . ( handicap ) , won by Sir L . Newman ' s Pi ? tor Flat .
Yesterday Tras . the Oaks Day , in connexion with which race there was a dead heat between Gildermire and Governess . On the final heat , Governess came in . first , Jind Gildeniiire . second . Polly Peachum was scratched at half-past twelve . The Railway 1 ' latk was won by the Lass of l * ichmond Hill ; the Glasgow Plati ; by . Fractious ; the Deruv anjd O . vics Stakes by Perjury ; the Paddock Plate by Contention ; and the ' Suititisv . Eo . vl Stakes , by Easfc Lmi- 'ton .
State Of Tltade. The ' Slight Improvemen...
STATE OF TltADE . The ' slight improvement in the state of the iron , trade of South Stafforil . shire , noticeable in £ lie previous week , was further increased , iu the week ending last Saturday by tho receipt of considerable orders for the East India Company . In other branches of trade iu the same district there aro also signs of reawakening activity , and the . prospects for the summer arc considered , hopeful . Animation is also noticeable , though to no great extent , at J ) radiord , Leicester , Manchester , Halifax , lluddeivliekl , Leeds , Wulverhampton , and Belfast ; hat dulnc . ; 3 still continues the presiding influence at Nottingham , Slieflii'ld , ami Dublin .
Shortly after the Northumberland and Durham District Iiank closed at Nevcastlc-ou-Tyuc , sevunil of the leading shareholder .- ; iu that concern opened u new bank with a view to retain the legitimate business oi the former establishment . Tho undertaking , however , has just buen reliniiuidhoil , the managers fcoling that , with so many of them liable aa shareholders iu the defunct bank , they '" could not calculate , " as they state in their cireuliir , " ujioii inspiring that amount of confidence requisite to justify the continuance of their operations . "
The People's Lm4ov1dknt Assurance Socikt...
THE PEOPLE'S LM 4 OV 1 DKNT ASSURANCE SOCIKTr . The annual preneral , meeting of tho . shareholders and members of the socict 3 ' met on Monday ; George Alex .-andcr Hamilton , Esq ., M . I' ., in the chair . Tho following report of the directors was subinjUcd : — "RKl'ORT . " Your iliroi'l . i ) v . s havi ; inuch iili'asuro iu aiiliini ttiiiK '" tho prosont KiMM'nil mciiliiiK of tho proprh'tors thoir report for thi > year isr > 7 . Dni'ing Ihi ) past year i ' l'ii now policies worn issued by llm Society , producing ( in animal ruvoimuol £ lfi ,. 'Uii 11 11 . \» ul during tin , sainii period H \ 'i now guarantoo nolic . ios , piMiluoLuK an annual rovonuo of ¦ t' . 'iS 0 a Maliing thu new rovonuonoqiiired ilurina ; t , ho VO'll * . . .. . .. > . # .- . ¦ ... . . " " il-lt ) , <> 0 jji ^ 2 J " I'lio ni'oiniuuiH p : i . yahl « on policies iu fom » on llio . 'Hst December last , us inscribed on this Society » roKlstor , : iinoiiutoil to r > S , (( S 7 / . 7 s . 1 til . . , " Tlie i ) r < nniums pavahlo on tho now busmons trnnmiotoU since tho ooiBincnccnieut of tho prosout year niaountoa to
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Leader (1850-1860), May 22, 1858, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22051858/page/7/
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