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      ^ / ^^ V ^ 'V' vV ^ P ^^ \ f ? A POLITICAL AND LITERAKY REYIEW .

      — ¦ ; . . _ ¦ ¦ T '•The One Idea Which. ...

      — ¦ ; . . _ ¦ ¦ t ' The one Idea which . History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble e favour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-aided views ; and , by setting aside fclie distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one i ? reat object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .

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      Nx. A:- V Fck~ «E I Oar Civilization 104...

      nX . A :- V fcK ~ « E i Oar Civilization 1041 ; Honest Lawyers . lOM L 1 TERATUREThe Orient .. ; 1034 . Gatherings from theJLaw and To-- Jinouinbered Estates lteporfc 1017 i Summary ... 1049 State of Trade | .... f . 1034 hec Courts 1042 Yellow l ' uvoi- at St . Thomas 1017 > Studies of Wine 104 & Naval and Military ........ 1031 The Floods io-i : 3 Civi . s ltomanus Sum ' . 1043 ! Horace Walpolein 1857 10 « 0 ?? £ , ? lio » ail . ?« volt 1035 aiiscellaneous 104-j , An ' Honourable'Acquittal .. 104 S , . Pubhc Meetings ......... ............. 1037 ) Postscript 1043 | Professor Acland .... ? . 1018 — Axcidentsand Sudden Deaths ... 103 S ; PUBLIC A > FAIR < . i A Firework Word to Boys ..... 1048 Ireland .. 103 S ; PUBLIC AFFAIRS— ¦¦ * ' TheGazette 1052 America ......... 1038 : Indian Military Prospects .... ... 1043 ' OPEN COUNCIL— ' Continental Notes 1039 The NewAsjiect in India 1044 I ! COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSTneiLatefcarl Fitzliardinge ... MHO j Labour and Cotton Supply ... ¦ .. ¦¦ . 1045 ' . The Bengal Hindoo 10-18 i City . Intelligence , Markets . & c 1052

      Vol. Viii. No. 397.] Saturday, October 3...

      VOL . VIII . No . 397 . ] SATURDAY , OCTOBER 31 , 1857 . PMOB { S ^^™ :: Jg 5 K 2 ? ™"

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      - —? ¦ . rpHEBE is a decided break in the clouds , both i . East and West . DelM is in tlie bands of the British , the mutineers having been , driven from their stronghold ; and if the money crisis had reached such a stage that the New York bankers were compelled to suspend specie payments , American commerce has discovered that it is xiot quite ruined , so that the panic had most positively subsided . The Indian news is peculiarly interesting . The conflict at Delhi had been more severe than we might have expected . Exhausted as their resources were , certainly as their defeat had been prepared by the accumulation of British forces , and by the regular siege approaches , the mutineers maintained their resistance from the 14 th of September—the date of the first assault—until the 20 th ; inflicted a severe loss upon the British , which is but partially stated at six hundred men killed and wounded :

      and fought to the last with a desperation natural only to fatalists . Some of them appear to have sought forgiveness in submission , which was accorded to the townspeople , but not to the mutineers . Before the storming , General Wilson had issued a general order , authorizing his men to give no quarter , except to women and children . He kept his force admirably in hand throughout the whole of the engagement which has been actually

      reported to us , and carried on a gradual assault in the vast labyrinthine town with an army really too small for such an operation . The result we sec . The Sepoys might , at any time , have sought safety in escape ; numbers must have known that they waited only for death ; but , unquestionably , many of them believed that falling in rebellion against the Cross they would obtain instant admission to some seventh heaven .

      It seems to be a question with some natives how far the divine authorities of Mussulman and Hindoo faith may have entered into partnership ; 'or in proclamations announcing to all the believers 1 li ;» t the Christians had been in many places destroyed , and . \ vcvo about to be annihilated by the ' pious and sagacious troops , ' Nena Sahib ' says thai , * bolh the Hindoo and Mahoinedan religions had boon confirmed . ' If any evidence wore needed to expose Die utter baseness of the man , it would be Mils cynical hypocrisy . There i « necessarily more in common between the Christian and Mivhomedun faiths , than between the Mahomcdan and

      Hindoo ; for after all the people of Islam form but a sect of Christianity ; and , on the other hand , there is far less intolerance of alien faiths in any true Christian Churchman than in the image-breaking Church of Mahomet . It is evident that Nena Sahib and other Mussulmans intended to palm off one more gigantic deception upon the Hindoos ; and while the fact proves the unscrupulous wickedness of the Mussulmans , it also proves the exceedingly low standard of intelligence amongst the Hindoos .

      Lucknow is still unrelieved , but not so the anxiety of its . garrison and its friends . Outram and Havelock had effected a junction . 'The exact date and circumstances arc not known ; it was probably on the 19 th ; and although Outram had encountered hindrance on his path to Cawnporc , and Havjelock does not appear to have recrossed the Ganges without conflict , it is probable that thenunited force was strong enough to gain the walls of

      Lucknow ; where the garrison still held out bravely . New cases of mutiny are reported in the Bombay army ; the disaffection had broken out at several places , and particularly at Kurachce , Alnnedabad , and Shikarpore ; but there are several circumstances which deprive these disagreeable incidents of their worst character . In the most flagrant case , for example , the number of the mutineers was limited , and they had no confederates in the rest of the

      regiment ; a circumstance which confirms the superior policy of the Bombay enlistment amongst all castes indiscriminately over the Bengal enlistment in the upper castes chiefly . But the mutiny of private soldiers , whether in Bombay or Bengal , is not half so untoward au occurrence as the mutiny of the Supreme Government . 1 ' or to such the conduct of the Governor-General with his immediate assistants amounts . We have before alluded to this subject . Sir Colin Campbell ' s policy of energetic military measures is understood not to have found favour in Calcutta

      and meanwhile the Governor in Council , besides issuing manifestoes against too severe a treatment of the Natives , is reported to have made appointments in Ihc North-West , Provinces , and to have issued instructions , calculated to trammel the military commanders in their movements . One of the persons selected for a post , of high authority was Mr . , J . P . Grant , a member of Council most particularly committed 1 o the conciliatory line oi policy , inhere is any truth in these reports , the proceedings certainly amount lo something like mutiny of the Governor-General in Council against

      the authority and necessary proceedings of the military commanders . We return to the other side of the globe and . the conflict of creditors and debtors , banks and depositors , at New * York and other parts of the Union . The New Tork banks had . suspended specie payments , and the currency was reduced to the notes which the several establishments agreed to take . of each other . The adoption of this rule generally had tended to subdue the excessive anxiety ; for the fourfold reason that it proved , the worst to have been arrived at , that persons found

      themselves still alive after the panic , that some portion of specie had still been preserved from reckless distribution amongst the most impatient speculators , and that the arrangement to circulate and accept notes removed the greatest barrier to a renewal of advances and loans . Accordingly , there were hopes that trade would begin once more to circulate ; that goods which had lately been movable would once more begin to go up and down the country , and to be landed or exported ; and that by helps of accommodation , even the most embarrassed would be able to rub on . There is one source o £

      alarm in this state of things . A paper currency not redeemable invariably has a tendency to be depreciated ; as it is depreciated the natural resource is to use more of it , which further depreciates ; and thus the process goes on , until we have seen a handful of shillings represented by immense bundles of assignats both in France and in America . We

      arc far from saying that such is likely to be the case in the "United States ; but the temptation , to ' create wealth' by printing and signing a few notes is greater than wo can expect all bankers and all merchants to resist . And during a general suspension , the indiscretion of the few is covered by the licence of the many .

      In Continental politics we have more than one new intrigue , more than one fresh family arrangement . The unlooked-for rccal of Redsciiid Pacha . to power in Constantinople—with the project of an immense loan on his back—has produced something like a flutter in the minds of the politicians of Paris , who sec in this decided act of the Suman nothing but a new exaltation of English influence

      at the expense of France . M . TiiouvisSJElr-Jias , once more , asked for leave of absence , , yfitli a viaw . ., . ¦ it is said , of seeking to bo rcmovej ^ r <^^ fii $ <|^ ¦ ¦ % . ^ struggle on which Lord SxHViTOH ^^ 0 MCi % » j | J ^ . wins too many victories . Hut- <]»' . ^ cpWiM ^ oti : V 'Jthe opening of the Conferences , \ vhie ^ ar , ^}^| e |^^ ., _ , to commence sitting at about , the ^ d $ D ^ lTO % : i ^ * wm ^

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 31, 1857, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_31101857/page/1/