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3ST6.462, January 29,1859.] T H E LEAiDt...
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INDIA. TELKORAnno despatches have been r...
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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. The Phoebe has arrive...
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CHINA; The telegrams received this week ...
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EGYPT. A letter from Alexandria of the 1...
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Mr. 0. Chioueleit Plovtden.-—Thia gentle...
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Notes On Indian Progress. The Friend Of ...
writers and 100 ? . has been awarded to the superintendent of the Government press . The system of rTrinti ng is to be extended to the financial department and the offices of the Treasury generally . The Government has ordered the purchase of a numbering machine . The sooner this work is transferred to the hills the better . " , . . ¦ A very useful measure has been taken by the Government of India , which has sanctioned the erection of butts at Dappa for the target practice of tbe Calcutta Volunteer Guards . We are glad that , notwithstanding a strong attempt to replace Mr . Kissory Chand Mittra , the late native magistrate of Calcutta , the Government lias adhered to the report of Mr . Felly Hihde and his brother com rnissioners , and refused to restore the delinquent . .
. , ...,, _ An attempt is being made to restore in Bengal the system of judicial oaths , the fertile source of perjury , and , what is worse , false judgments . The administration of baths in courts of justice is a blot on our jurisprudence ; but , in a country like India , cunning in fencing with oaths beyond the ancient Pharisees , and abounding informs of special , personal , and caste oaths , the result is to delude some of the English functionaries io admit statements , as statements on oath , the credibility of which requires severe examination . It is justly observed that the most effective measure is to punish with rigour all cases of false and corrupt evidence , and thereby discourage the iniqu itous practices which now prevail .
The proceedings of the French in Cochin China are justly attracting attention in India , for the danger is there seen of any French settlement in that country , and that there is the full intention to establish dominions in those regions , there can be no doubt . It is observed that the great seaports of India are almost defenceless , and that although in India the French have only Pondieherry as a stronghold , yet it is of small resource , but if the French held one of the great river deltas of Cochin China , they could there maintain ail army and a fleet , and could menace our Indian possessions , The danger is greater than this , and the attempts to build up a French empire in the East more insidious than a
mere attempt on Cochin China , and having been sedulously followed up , and to a considerable extent successful , the full extent of the e vil may now be apprehended . The French stations in the East now include Bourbon , Nossi Bay , in Madagascar , and the Comoro islands oh the west , Pondicherry and Mahe in India , New Caledonia , Tahiti and the Society Islands . Through our folly the French have been allowed to play a part with us in China and Japan . Well may our fellow-citizens in India feel alarmed , and nothing but an increase of the English population , and securing the strongholds in the hills , will find confidence to clear and keep the natives in cheek .
The assumption by the Queen of the direct Government of India , has been announced by the Viceroy of India to the Ameer of Cabul and the chiefs of Kokhan and Khiva . The Government have , it is understood , given directions for placing the name of the Queen on the dies of the Presidency mints instead of the name of the Company . The inscription ! of the Moguls of Delhi has been removed from the coins of tho Nizam , but the name of the Queen should bo placed on all native coins .
177 miles . The value of Pbonah as a gfeat military establishment is now much increased . I * T . iY , its recruits , and supplies detachments for sea by its communication with Bombay , and inland it already communicates by Kheirgaum to Patus and Decksah The extension to Sholapore will be opened some months hence . Kirkee command has been suppressedj and Poonah is to be strengthened by the construction of a fort at the Sungum , wherein are to be placed the arsenal , commissariat , and other public departments , and which is to serve as a place of refuge for the dependents on the Government . The Company are still advertising at home for tenders for the Nagpore branch , one of the cotton lines , a distance of 262 miles : it is divided into five
contracts . The electric telegraph is being developed in Bombay . Lines are open in progress so as to give a succession of alternative routes by Surat to Kurrachee ; by Goa and Cochin to Cape Comorin , to join the Southern Madras and Ceylon line ; by Pooiiah , the Nizam ' s territory , and Nagpore to Calcutta . There are thus three routes to Calcutta , one by way of Agra , one by Nagpore , and one by Madras . Numbers of young men are now proceeding to India to join the several railway and other works , or seeking engineering employment . They are obtained on moderate terms .
Commodore Wellesley , the Indian naval Commander-in-Chief , has proceeded to the Malabar coast to examine the district about Sedasheyaghur and Toodir , which lie south of Goa , with a view to ascertain whether ports can be created to which vessels may run during the south-west monsoon . Some changes have been made in the engineering department of Bombay . Major North , who held the anomalous office of civil architect of Bombay , is shifted to the post of superintending engineer of the southern circle ; and instead of an architect being appointed to Bombay , another major . Major Kendall , has been sent to that city to be its civil architect ! Captain Scott , a military officer , by some other freak , holds the appointment of executive engineer for Gogo and the Giizerat posts , engineer of the Bombay dockyard , and engineer of the Bombay
gar-. A military officer is made architect , and another of these functionaries is supposed to act as military engineer , as an hydraulic engineer , and as naval engineer of a dockyard . It is no wonder that the Indian Government have a tenderness of pushing on public works . As a worthy pendant to this ; Captain Fellon is appointed to be executive engineer , of the Scinde Canal department , continuing for the present on special duty in the political department . This kind of joke is not peculiar to Bombay , for at Calcutta they have just appointed Captain . A . Impey , first-class executive engineer , to be civil architect of Calcutta , and to be the arbiter of taste in the City of Palaces ,
The sooner the distinguished officers of the military engineers are employed in their proper duties , and architects and engineers are employed in their proper duties , the better will it be for the army and civilians of India . Forts and jungle continue to be cleared away in Oude . Eoveah and Tpolseepore are doomed . The general rise of prices , which we have pointed out as one of the phenomena of Indian progress , is now matter of observation in Ceylon . Yesterday , a paper was read at the United Service Institution , by Mr . Hyde Clarke , on the occupation of the lull regions as the seat of the English military force in India .
The Victoria Museum and Garden at Bombay , in commemoration of the Imperial era , are likely to be a success . 20 , 000 * . is required , of which 5000 / . was subscribed at the first meeting . It is reported that Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeeblioy , Bart ., intends to give 2500 ? . The missionary intelligence informs us that the Coorg Mission is to bo reoccupied , the Basle Missionary Society having agreed to take charge of it . Dr . Trumpp , of the Scinde Mission , has returned . Ono of his Gorman schemes is to perfect tho Scindian alphabets by adding several letters % o the Dovanagnri and Arabic alphabets aa used in Scinde , and , to complete the confusion , ho is having typo cast . The simple way is to introduce tho Boman character . Five Gorman missionaries have been provided for tho Malabar coast .
It is asserted that tho first Bhattia Christian whoso conversion was so lately announced at Bombay , has already returned to his ancient faith , and is now on a pilgrimage to a holy Hindoo place to purify himself . Tho first masonic lodgo , tho Hope arid Perseverance , has been opened m tho Punjab . Tho Madras Government has resolved to oncourogo native uncovenantcd officers , who pass an optional examination in tho English , language , English arithmetic , bookkeeping , history , geography , and / political economy / They do not at present make these a part of the compulsory course . The W % mjles additional on tho Govornmont Indian p eninsular Railway were opened on the 15 th December , making tho total extent now open for traffic
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India. Telkoranno Despatches Have Been R...
INDIA . TELKORAnno despatches have been received in' anticipation of tho Indian mails , by which we learn that Ferose Shah was defeated with much slaughter , by General Napier , on tho 17 th December , at Ranodo , and pursued for eight miles ; his force was again dispersed on the 23 rd by troops from Poonah . Nana Sahib was reported at Churdah , in Oude , with 1500 men . Two rajahs with him have solicited Government' for protection whon they may bo able to escape . Their messenger also appeals on behalf of tho Nana himself for clemency to his family .
Papers and letters by the overland mail reached London on Thursday . Tho Hurkaru says : —• " War thoro is none left , and nothing but a dangerous , fierce , and seattorod hunt remains . The rebel leaders who suocceded in bursting through our cordons and in crossing tho Ganges wore Forozo Shah , Luckur Shah , Pcorjoo Mossal Ally Khan , Golab Shah ( who passes himself as a European ) , and Fnzol Huqq , tho Moulavio , This is Govornmont news . " Tho Nana was stated to bo with tho fugitive ohiofa and to have crossed tho Gangos on tho Oth of the present month , In broad noonday , at somp spot between Futtohgliur and Cawnporo . But tho telegraph wire was cut by tho robots , and all exactitude of information prevented .
" The insurrection as an organisation is over . Th ® duties of . a rural constabulary have fallen upon generals , brigadiers ^ and majors . Lord Clyde himself has become but a chief of police in a disturbed country ; while the more pugnacious chiefs fly hither and thither , and the Naria squats in a jungle negotiating terms of safety for his family and reading the English newspapers .. "
Cape Of Good Hope. The Phoebe Has Arrive...
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . The Phoebe has arrived , with news to December 22 nd . At the Cape , Pretorius was preparing for the subjugation of the Bechuana tribes and the expulsion oF the missionaries from the Transvaal Republic . The small-pox had almost totally : disappeared . An outbreak of Kaffir convicts took place at Tubback , but it was immedia tely suppressed . One of th < convicts was killed . The Hamburg barque Aragos was wrecked in Tabl < Bay on the night of the 30 th ult ., through neglect ii not keeping the lead going . Panda , the King of the Zulus , was in a dying state from gout , and it was feared that at his death then would be a war of succession .
Captain Bedingfield , R . N ., had returned to Cap ? Town from the Livingstone expedition in the Zambes : by the Lagea , and returns to England in the Sanspareil , which , with the Nankin and Pique , had sailed on their way home from China . Some trifling misunderstanding between him and the leader of the expedition was said to be the occasion of his return .
China; The Telegrams Received This Week ...
CHINA ; The telegrams received this week announce that nothing authentic had been heard of Lord Elgin ' s trip up lh < Yang-tse-kiang . The Chinese report that the ambassador ' s ship exchanged fire with the rebels in passing Moohoo . The Laplace , with Baron Gros on board , got ashore on one of the Chusan Islands , and was towed tc Shangbae by her Majesty ' s ship Inflexible . His Excellency then proceeded to Hong-Kong by the Aden . Mr . Reed , United States Commissioner , returns to America . Ca nton was quiet . Affairs at Ningo Were bad . . An alarming ure occurred in a central part of Hong-Kong on the 5 th December . ¦
Since Sir J . Bowririg left on a visit to Manilla on the 29 th of November , the non-official legislative councillors have protested against the admission of another official member . ., . The Governor of Macao was . said to be about to proceed to Siam to enter into a treaty with Portugal . The state of affairs at Ningpo is alarming . From Fpo-chow-foo and Amoy reports are favourable . A rather alarming fire broke out in the centre of Hong-Kong on the 5 th of December , and only by the most extraordinary exertions were the premises of the Oriental B ank Corporation kept from destruction . One fine building , the residence and godowns of Messrs . Schoeffer and Co ., merchants , and tbe offices of Mr . Tarrant , solicitor , were totally destroyed , together with four other houses .
Egypt. A Letter From Alexandria Of The 1...
EGYPT . A letter from Alexandria of the 18 th . inst . says that the Euryalus , with Prince Alfred on board , is expected about the middle of February . The Viceroy intends giving him a magnificent reception . A visit this winter from the Grand-Duke Constantino of Russia is likewise spoken of . The adoption of the reformed system of currency has been deferred to the 15 th of February , so as to allow full time for a complete and careful revision of the Government tariff valuations of foreign coins . For this purppse a special council has been formed at Cairo ; they are about to apply to the principal European Governments for official statements , of the precise assay fineness and weight of their respective coinages .
Mr . Brunei has left Cairo on - a trip to . the upper country , and Lord Dufferin has also sailed for the latitudes of Southern Egypt and Nubia . Mr , Brunei on his return to Cairo will prpbably visit Suez ; tho Viceroy is desirous of having his opinion as to the project pf transferring the port of Sues ; to the Bay of Ataka , some ten miles south of the present landing-place . Tho depth of water on this part of the coast would admit of the largest steamers being discharged close fa shore , instead of lying , as at present , five miles from the land * ing-place ; a breakwater would be necessary to protect the shipping . Mr . Robert Stephenson paid a cursory visit to the spot , prior to his departure by last mail for Marseilles , and his opinion seems favourable ; but ho thinks that tho expense of constructing the jetty would attain tho sum of 500 , 000 / . sterling .
Mr. 0. Chioueleit Plovtden.-—Thia Gentle...
Mr . 0 . Chioueleit Plovtden .- —Thia gentleman has retired from tho public service , having been at tho Board of Control for upwards pf forty years , where ho ultimately succeeded to tho aasiatant-aoorotaryflhip , which bo hold until it was abolished . On tho changes which took placo under tho new Indian Act , ho was transferred to tho secretaryship of the Marino and Transport Department at the India Office .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 29, 1859, page 25, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29011859/page/25/
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