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T M B I A [ f-r 10 ft * . 33 .. DEB . No * 410 , January 30 , 1858 .
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? Leader Office , Saturday , January 30 . A NEW ILOAN . It is pretty generally understood in Monetary Circles that a new loan will . shortly be effected . The amount , it is believed , ¦ will not be considerable . It is expected that Exchequer Bonds will be created , not Consols . A considerable amount of the existing bonds expire in May next ; and there is no doubt tnat anew issue would be very readily taken up .
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INDIA . OFFICIAL TEXEGRAM . The following telegram from Mr . Acting Consul-General Green was received at the Foreign-Office , throug h Malta , Jan . 29 ^ 4 . 25 p . m : — - " Alexandria , Jan- 26 , 1858 . " The Bombay arrived at Suez yesterday , with Bombay dates to the 2 nd inst . Sir Colin Campbell was still at Cawnpore at the date of the latest advices , but was shortly expected to move -westward with a powerful force . Sir James Outram , at Alumbagh , attacked and defeated the enemy on December 22 , capturing four guns , with trifling loss . General Roberts has been appointed to command a field force in Bajpootana , which is assembling at Deesa , and which is to march on Nusseerabad . No fresh disturbances have occurred in any part of the Deccan and Central India . The Punjab is tranquil . " LYONS , Admiral . " The Gazette of yesterday evening contains some important despatches received at the East India House . The first is a General Order by the Governor-General of India in Council , dated Fort William , December 24 th , expressing his thanks to the officers and men . engaged in the final relief of Luckmrw , and in the operations against the Gwalior Contingent . Sir Colin Campbell , Brigadier-General Hope Grant , Captain Peel , R . N ., of the Naval Brigade , Lieutenant Vaughan and-other officers and men of H . M . ship Shannon , and Major-General Mansfield , Chief of the Staff " , are specially and highly eulogized . General Windham is neither praised nor blamed . The second document is from Sir Colin Campbell to the Governor-General ( December 2 nd ) , and has reference to the removal of the women and children , sick and ¦ wounded , from Lucknow , and the relief of General Windham after his discomfiture . Sir Colin withholds all opinion with reference to the disaster to Windham ' s force . The third paper is General Windham ' s own account of the affair with the Gwalior men . It is addressed to the Commander-in-Chief , and is dated November 30 th . He states : — " Finding that the Contingent were determined to advance , I resolved to meet their first division on the Pandoo Nuddee . My force consisted of about 1200 bayonets and eight guns and one hundred mounted Sowars . " This was on the 26 th of November , and the action , it will be remembered , terminated in our favour . On the morning | of the 27 th , the Gwalior Contingent made the attack which resulted so disastrously for us . The General writes : — " In spite of the heavy bombardment of the enemy , my troops resisted the attack for five hours , and still held the ground , until , on my proceeding personally to make sure of the safety of the fort , 1 found , from tho number of men bayoneted by the 88 th Regiment , that the mutineers had fully penetrated the town ; and , having been told that they were then attacking the fort , 1 directed Mnjor-General Dupuis , R . A . ( who , as ray Second-in-command , I had left with the main body ) , to fall back tho whole force into the fort , with all our stores and guns , shortly before dark . Owing to tho fight of the camp followers at the commencement of the action , notwithstanding the long time we held the ground , I regret to state , that in , making this retrogade movement , I was unable to carry off all my camp equipage and some of the baggage . Had not an error occurred in the conveyance of an order issued by me , I am of opinion that I could have held my ground at all events until dark . " Tho General states that for several days he received no directions from Sir Colin at Lucknow , though ho hod sent several lot torn , and was therefore compelled to act for himself . With reference to this , Sir Colin says , in his despatch to the Governor-General , that none of General Windham ' s letters , announcing thj ) approach of the Gwalior force , came to hand , Tho first notice the Commandcr-In-Chief had of their prosenco was the sound of cannonnd-*^ lng 7 ^ "l * H ~ p ~ reVIous ^^^ declared that there was but little chance of the Gwalior Contingent approaching Oawnpore . " No . 4 is Major-General Dupuis ' s report to General Windham ( dated November 30 th ) , of tho notions of the four previous days . No . fi ia Sir ' Colin Campbell ' s despatch to Lord Canning ( dated December 10 th ) , relating the subsequent successful proceedings against the Gwalior rebels . From this it appears that tho Commander-In-Ohlef requested General Windham to remain in coinmand of the entrenchment , and ho thanks him for hlfi services on the 6 th of Docomber .
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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter- and when omitted , it is frequently from reasons quiteindependent of the merits of the eommunica-Several communications unavoidably stand over . No notice can be taken of anonymous correspondence . Whateveris intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily forpublication . but as a guarantee of his good faith . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law-of itscreafcionmeternal progress . —De . Aenoip . —
• ^ The East India Company. " Speaking O...
• ^ THE EAST INDIA COMPANY . " Speaking of the East India Company , I am bound to say that any investigation into the conduct of that body will , I believe , tend to their credit . I do think they have ever been excited by a sincere desire to promote the welfare and interest of those who are placed under them . Contrasting the administration of the Company with that of any other colonial establishment that ever existed , I am convinced that their conduct will redound greatly to their honour . " This was the opinion of Sir Eobert Peei , — an opinion which he expressed repeatedly , in power and in opposition , during the long course of his career as a statesman . It was his habit to ask the rash advocates of change if they had considered the extent of territory over which the British authority was acknowledged , the enormous masses of population subjected to our dominion , the revolutions of empires that had made us the masters of India , the immense distance from home at which our sovereign administration was exercised , the difference of languages , manners , religions , between the governors and the governed . We think , if Peel were still among us , he would exclaim against the danger of attempting to destroy the East India Cbmpany while it is actually engaged in struggling for the integrity of the empire . This is , on our part , no new opinion . We have held it from the first ; amidst the indiscriminate outcry raised upon the receipt of disastrous intelligence from Delhi , we warned the public not to be persuaded by Crown apologists , who at once showed their willingness to barricade the Board of Control with the ruins of the House in iLeadenhall-street . For a time the Whig tactics appeared triumphant ; but the opiuion of the country has been considerably modified , and it is now very generally felt that , although a new form of government , consolidated and simplified , might be advantageously established , the present is not a safe opportunity for undertaking the experiment . We have the best reason for believing that many leading statesmen not in the Cabinet are pausing in opinion , and are not prepared at onee to follow a Minister whose Indian policy has been foreshadowed by his introduction of Lord Ci , ANBiOA . n . Di ! i into the Cabinet . Lord , CkANBJjOAitDjj : may not be appointed Indian Secretary , nor may he be bo black an vMr»—K » OGH-anu-tbe ^ Z' w « e « . onco-paintedJiim- ;^ . but we oannot forget the violence and recklessness of his recent speech at the London Tavern against the East India Company . , We represent , we are sure , no inconsiderable ' proportion of the public of all classes , when '¦ we Bay that tho proposal of inunodiato legislation for India is premature , to say tho leant . ¦ „ Among politicians of weight and judgment ib is seriously questioned whether tine period of
a crisis is one in which the machinery of our imperial Indian Government should be taken to pieces and reconstructed experimentall y after a new model . Is this the moment to tell the natives that the Company has misruled them , and must be abolished ? Is thia the time , with local credit on the decline , and a loan about to be thrown upon the market to derange the system under which our Indian revenue is collected ? Is it Aviso , with a work of reeonquest before us , to be creating a new military framework , and placing unlimited patronage in the hands of those Avho have appointed Lord Geobge Paget to be Inspector-General of Cavalry ? Tears ago , a distinguished statesman declared that , if the patronage of India were to be transferred wholesale and without check from Leadenhall-street to Downing-street , lie would not give seven years' purchase for our Asiatic possessions . Crown advocates retort upon us the example of Ceylon . And how lon g is it since Ceylon was disturbed by an insurrection ? And who have been the governors ot that dependency ? If there be any virtue , sense , or independence in the House of Commons , it will not come down pledged to support , at all hazards , the Ministerial programme . Under the East India Company lias flourished a splendid race of soldiers and statesmen , drawn from the middle classes and promoted for merit . Have their claims been acknowledged at home ? AVhen has a company ' s officer been appointed to the chief command in India ? Never ; except in the case of Sir Patrick Grakt , who fell into the place accidentally , and was removed as soon as his successor could land in Bengal . The middle class Indian service has not been justly treated by the Crown ; and we have a right to fear that its highest honours would in future be bestowed upon Lucans and Pagets . It seems as if the alternative between the East India Company and the Cabinet were that between a man like Sir Jame & MEiiViiiLE and a man like Mr . Veknox Smith . The Company's petition is too elaborate to be popularly studied ; but we present tlm main points in order that the reader may reflect upon them with candour and impartiality . The East India Company , at its own expense , and by the aid of its own servants , laid the foundation of a British-Indian Empire coevally with the policy which , on the part of tho Crown , lost irretrievabl y the British-American Empire . They submitted to various modifications , and the latest of these took place in 1853 . The double Government , as now established , has not been four years in operation , and is , therefore , comparatively untried . Nothing has been shown to prove any connexion between the recent disasters and the form of the Indian Home Government , or tho conduct of tho Company or its agents , while , if errors of admiuistra . tion have been exposed , ) Lhe Crown , as tho deciding power in all cases , is chieily responsible . It must bo remembered , while this poiut is under notice , that the Court of Directors cannot develop any measure without tiio consent of tho Board of Control , wln'lo the Board of Control may net independently ox the Court of Directors . So that tho principal responsibility always , and tho solo ro-8 ja « i 3 uaitaU ^^ M im 9 torfl the Crown . . . History boars out tho petitioners ni tucu appeal to the generally beneficent results or thejr Indian rule . To this subject wo ncec * not return , but will pass on to a BUggoBtiott of very sorioua import . What , would bo liw effect in India of intelligence that the Company had been destroyed , ft » d . tlint a groan Horse-Guards army w ' n-a coining out to su-
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 30, 1858, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_30011858/page/10/
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