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"Parliament Is Making Holiday. Considcra...
The state of France M'c notice more fully m another column ; iipon . one point , however , a few -words maybe said here . Another . incident in the Figaro duel story has been evolved . Following uj > their system of terrorism , forty-two officers of the garrison , of St . Germain have waited on the Director and Chief Editor of the Indus triel , a local paper , for the purpose of demandingtlic insertion , of a letter containing thcitversion of the original duel , and of its -after consequences . There is tlius . no attempt ma ^ e to hide the simple fact that the army considers itself at this moment the dictator in France .. Thirtv-one
sub-licu-tenants challenged M . de Pkne . for writing a jest ; forty-two officers , dressed in full regimental * , demand of anothel * writer that he shall do their bidding in spite . f himself—" and' on -pain . ' of being murdered by one or other of the party , a la Hyenje . Events are progressing . We wait with . curiosity for the mext demonstration of the military will . The speech of Count Cavoub , in the Chamber of Deputies , on the 19 th and 20 th of the present month , placed in remarkable distinctness the ability of this great statesman to contend successfully
against the numerous adverse influences which are brought to bear , upon'his policy . In liis hands vast developments of the resources of his country haTe already been made , and a long vista of new enterprises are opening out , promising wealth and other social and political advantages . Of the minor states of Europe there is not one that stands higher in the popular esteem of this country , and tliis result is in great measure owing to the administration of Count Cavottb . In coming to the money market of England , then , for a loan to carry out
the great enterprises in which his ' Government has embavlced for tlie ultimate benefit of the country , Sardinia will meet with ready sympathy and assistance . The strongest opponents , in fact , of her progress arc , within her popular assembly , the re voluticmary party , the Tories , and the ultraclerical party . But , with Count Gavotjr to guide affairs , and the earnestness of the King in support , of constitutional progress , none of these parties will be able to divert Sardinia from the course of honour and greatness upon which slie is now aclvaucinc
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Public Meetings. Sir Arthur Hjvix.Am Elt...
PUBLIC MEETINGS . SIR ARTHUR HJVIX . AM ELTON ON JIR . CAUDWELl ' s MOTION . A ruur . ic meeting of the electors of Bath was held on Wednesday evening , at the Guildhall , in that city , to hear from Sir Arthur Hallam Elton , Bart ., an address upon the political questions of the day , more especially in reference to the recent motion of Mr . Cardwell . The chair iras taken by Mr . Alderman Hunt , President of the Bath Liberal Association , -who highly commended the course taken by Sir A . II . Elton in thus boldly coming before his constituents to explain and defend his Parliamentary conduct . Sir Arthur Hallam Elton , addressed the meeting at considerable length , and , amidst repeated cheers , explained the motives for his several votes since ho had been member for Bath . In reference to Mr . Canhvell ' s motion , he stated his intention of voting : against it had it been pressed to a division , He considered , ho said , that Lord Canning liad boon influenced by other patties in is 8 iiing his Proclamation , which was of a dangerous and -vindictive character , whilst the despatch of Lord Elleaborough , though not in all particulars defensible was lioncst , pacific in its tomlcncy , and creditable to the Government , lnfact , the present Government had shown itself to bo pervndod by a spirit of -wisdom and toleration , and he would not bo one to lend himself to a pnltry party movement to oust tliem in order that a Whkr ia
nnly clique might again take possession of the Treasury benches . Ho differed from Lord Derby ' s Government upon many important questions , but ho contended thnt they wore entitled to a fair trial , mid , until they had proved themselves incompetent , or unworthy to govern , or obstructive to the good of the country , tlroy ought not to be subjected to factious opposition , ilo canvassed the character -and antcccdanta of tho gentlemen who wished to supplant the present Government find came to tho conclusion that , although there -were belonging to tho lato Administration gentlemen who ought not to be > omitted from any Liberal ministry-, yet that Lord Vnlmorston ' s Government were chargeable with succumbing to despotism abroad , nnd were unfaithful to tho cause of reform at home . At tho close of tSir A , JI . Elton ' s nddress , a vote of confldenco in him aa representative , And of thanks for
his explanation , was given , and the proceedings terminated ' jyith tfee usual vote of thanks to the chairman . B . ASQT ; E * TO LIEUTESAJfT-COIXWEr , ALISON . A banquet « Wis given in the Corporation Hall , Glasgow , on Wectaesday evening , in honour of Lieutenant-Colonel Alison , a native . of the city , and son of the historian of Europe , who has recently returned from India in consequence of severe -wounds received before , I » ncknow . The banquet was given alike to welcome the
gallant officer and to horkmr in his person Sir Ooliu Campbell ( also si native of Glasgow ) and the heroic army at present serving in ihe Ivfcst . Upwards « f tme hundred of th « tnost disUtigutshied citizens sat down to dinner . The Lord Provost of the city filled the chair . In his address to the company , Lieutenant-Colonel Alison made some interesting observations on the operations of Sir Colin Campbell . He said : — - " Gentlemen , -when Sir Colin first set foot on Indian soil , nothing could be more disastrous than the news which ' a . waited
him : Oude in arms , Rohilcund revolted , the I > oab in the hands of the enemy , all < Jentr . il India in confusion , one great magazine ' captured at Delhi , our gun carriage manufactory lost at Futtehg-hui , all communication -with the Punjab cut off—a small British force struggling to hold a position of observation , not of siege , before Delhi —Lucknow and Agra , rocks rising out of the surrounding surge of rebellion , which threatened every moment to engulf them— -Haveloek , with matchless skill and courage , maintaining himself in the neighbourhood of Cawnpore against overpowering numbers and the ravages of a deadly epidemic—Allahabad ' our only sure point of footing in the Doab—in Calcutta itself anxiety and dread , a small European garrison overawing
the loose native population , and watching three disarmed Sepoy regiments in . the vicinity . la other words , gentlemen , the mutinous army of Bengal , 100 , 000 strong , and the revolted population of Oude and the North-Western Provinces to contend against , and what to meet them ? In Bengal , and subject to the direct orders of the Commander-in-Chiefj & force numbering notTOOO English bayonets , tvith about' 2000 native troops who could be relied upon . And this , gentlemen , not one body united on a single field , but scattered over that vast extent of country which lies between Calcutta and
Cawnpore—having to hold the river line of communication to Allahabad , eight hundred miles in length—to keep open the land route to the same point , five hundred miles of road—to maintain a-threatening ' head under Havelock one hundred and thirty miles further in advance at Cawnpore—and to hold down with an iron hand the great cities of Benares , Patim , and Calcutta in the rear . Gentlemen , the odds at first seemed too unequal , and one almost listened to hear the crash of a falling empire . ( Cheers . ' ) The fall in the Ganges had rendered the river route to Allahabad both tedious and
uncertain , and it became necessary to organize another and surer method of forwarding the reinforcements to the front . This was done by establishing along the Great Trunk Road a mode of transport by which two hundred men a day were regularly forwarded in covered carta drawn by bullocks , which were relieved at regular stages ; and to such perfection did this system attain that when the troops arrived at ' 'their Halting places they found their meals regularly prepared for them , as you would do at a railway station in this country , while the road was kept clear of the rebels by small movable columns of infantry and artillery , who marched along It at irregular intervals . I believe military organization never was carried further than in this
instance , were two hundred men a day -were regularly forwarded , along five hundred miles of road , through a country intersected on all sides with rebel bands , without a single detachment being ever cut off . In such ceaseless cares and anxieties was the time spent at Calcutta by Sir Colin Campbell passed , and upon tho system then established were all our futnre successes based . { Cheers . ' ) At length , by tho middle of September , Havelock ' s force , which at one time had been reduced by sickness and tho sword to eight hundred effective bayonets , had been raised by the arrival of all tho reinforcements under Outram to nearly 3000 men , with about twenty guns , and ho set fortli upon that heartstirring march to Lucknow , the events of which are still fresh in tho memories of you all . "
Tim Colonel dwelt at great length on tho various episodes of tho war , and thus related what he beheld of the light at the Sceundcrbngh , Lucknow , on tho 16 th of November : — " liayonct to bayonet , aind breast to breast , the struggle want on in tho heart of the building . And when , three hours after we had first forced an entrance , I had occasion to return to the point , tho musketry was still rattling in the interior , which yet re-echoed -with tho cries of lighting men . I myself counted in one corner tlie dead lying piled six deep upon one nnothcr ; nnd the next morning more than t-wo thousand bodies
were carried out . of a space not one hundred yards square It was n very charnel-house . But , gentlemen , that was not all thcOttnl had to do that day . Towards evening the enemy ' s fire , especially from tho Shah Nnijiief , had bocoinii so fJevcTQ that ovon Pool's stout gunners could not keep it down . It became impossible to remain under it t \ n w « were . Then Sir Colin npiin throw tho 9 , 'Jrrt into tho scale , and with them turned tho beam of victory when it -wan trembling in tlvo balnuoo . I'laoing himself at their head , ho led them on to th « charge , and well did they acquit thomsclves of their mission . "
The Indian R-Eyxjl Tt""* The Relief Of '...
THE INDIAN R-EYXJL tT ""* The relief of ' . Azhnglmr by Sir Edward Lu < r , i the loth of April has been confirmed fcy the tfl grams received during the present week r r \ ~ General forced the enemy ' s bridge on the day inV cateil , and , on the lrth ult ., the pursuing wf under Brigadier Douglas , drove the rebels out of tli city , and pursued them for fit teen miles town u Ciorruekpotte . A standard and three guns wtr captured . The rebels sustained a heavy iOss . r' * our side suffered very slightly , only ten men Win * killed and thirty-seven wounded . &
It was believed , at the last dates , that the eneniv could not cross the Gogra ; but this week ' s intelli gence from the East is not without some serious points . Tiie rebel -Rajah of Mynpooree lias arrived nt Ourgas with some force , and ' it . seems in thehighest degree probable that the insurgents will make a stand at Calpee . Koor Singh is said to be trying to yet into the Behar districts ; but a reward of 2 . 5 , 000 rupees lias been offered for his apprehension . The Oude Begum is reported to be in a forfe near Khyrabad , with about three thousand adherents .
Sir Colin Campbell ' s head-quarters and staff left Cawnpore on the 19 th of April , and marched by Puttehghur towards Rohilcund . On the V 4 th Brigadier Walpole attacked the fort of . Raxour , hi Oude , and lost one hundr ed men killed , including four officers . The enemy evacuated the fort an the ' night . Brigadier Jones has attacked and dispersed a My of rebels , two thousand strong-, near Kukul . Four guns were captured out of six ; and the rebels hail a heavy loss in men . Many of them liave dispersed to their homes ; bat others , -with the remaining two guns , have gone to Nujee Bnda . l . The Princess lloyal , with the 57 th Itegimcnt , en route to Bombay , arrived at Alexandria on the . 'loth irist . ; and the Prince Arthur transport has gonct & Suez to receive the men .
THE MUTINY AT KITRRACHEE . "An Old Soldier , " writing to the Times , professes to give an accurate account of certain circumstances attending the rising at Kurrachee , last September , which lie thinks have been misrepresented . He say s : — ¦ . . . " . ; ¦ ' .. ¦ . ' . - Y ' ' ' " The true facts of the case are well known to be that Brigadier Lowth , when informed at eleven o ' clock at night by Major McGregor that he had reason to feai
that the 21 st Native Infantry -would mutinyat twelve o ' clock , seeing that there was not a minute to be lost , gave all the necessary orders for disarming the regiment at once , as he was in duty bound to do as commanding the station , informing the Major-General of what lie , htu ] clone . All these orders were accordingly carried out successfully by Brigadier Lowth and the officers under him ; and nobody , probably , w < mld be more astonished than General Scott himself to read that lie had given any order in the aflair whatever . "
OI'IICIAI , DESPATCHES ON THE TAKING OF I . fCKXOV . A supplement to the Gnzeile contains \ o \\> z despatches from Sir Colin Campbell ( as communicated through Lord Canning ) and Sir James Outram , with reference to the taking of Lucknow . Analyzing these documents , the Morniuy Star says : ~ " As the Governor-General lias described it , tho taking of Lucknow consisted of ' a series of operations conducted from tho 2 nd till the l < Jth of M . irch . ' On the
< hiy first named , the force under Sir Colin Camnlwll consisted of 827 European officers , 117 native officers , And 18 , 797 rank and file , with -Iol 7 horsos . That is to any , it may be put down as an effective force of 20 , 000 . Of this number , after Lucknow fell , it wus found that 127 officers and men had been killed , 505 had be ^ u wounded , and 14 had been missing—total loss , CM . A return is given of the pieces of ordnance captured nt Lucknow , 113 in nil , which far the most part aupeiu . 'to be of Knglish and foreign manufacture .
" Wo may also refer to -vvluit is genoriilly considered to be a very interesting document , the roll of oil ' uvra who are deemed deserving of honourable notice on account of their akill and bravery , a roll Hint describe iu what that skill and bravery consisted . In tins pivsi-nl case — that of Lucknow—this roll is very large ; , extending to about a dozen pages of tho Gazvtti ; but we do not find mention of any deed done by any luni-i-owimssumeiJ officer . The privates , corporals , and Fcigcanls who fought nnc . 1 suffered arc entirely pnss . id ovor , : unl nrt m > more regarded us worthy of sjicc-i » n ><> iiour or promuli '" than if they were individuals to whom praise and nu-r ' U . Iuid ho meaning . In th 0 lung list hetWro u * , iv ° _ llv > not observe tho mimes of lnunv who hnvu
distinguished themselves feir what ; inuy lie onllcii npccinl nets ofpurflonal courage ; but the fuM- who arc . so ino . iUioni'd wo may here name Lieutenant Wynui > , of the liny 11 ' lCnginecrs , mndu hiin . sulf coiKspicuou . s in ruinoviiih' ll breastwork from nn iron brid ^ c « , undt > r a lioavy fif"i nll ( ' Lien tenant Ilutlur , of the Iwt , Hi-ngnl Fusil iors , ' ?•« ' !»" acroH 3 tlie Goouitcc , und bysUii < Ung on tliopnraput notified to our troops that tho line of untreiHihinciit was nhaudoncd b y the enemy ; uud in doinjc so ho i > s posed himself most fearlessly . ' Two oflkcr . i of the 7 th IIussarB , Lioutonant-Colonol llngurt and Lieutenant ^ HI '" ) are commended for ' daahing into tho midst of a numbor
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Leader (1850-1860), May 29, 1858, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29051858/page/2/
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