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REVIEWOFTMEWEEK- pack The Orient 1031 State of Trade 1034 Naval and Military 103-1 The Indian Revolt 1035 Public Meetings 1037 Accidents and Sudden Deaths 103 S Ireland 103 S America , 1038 Continental Notes ; 1039 The Late Earl Fitzhardinge 1040
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THEUE is a decided break in the clouds , "both East and West . Delhi is in the liands of the British , the mutineers having been driven from their stronghold ; and if the money crisis had reached suck a stage that the New York banters were compelled to suspend specie payments , American commerce has discovered that it is not 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 , \ inqucstionably , 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 part ni'rship ; for in proclamations announcing to all the believers that the Christians had been in many places destroyed , and were about ; to bo annihilated by the ' pious and sagacious troops / Nbka . Sahib ' says Dial 'both the Hindoo and Mahomcdun religions had been confirmed . ' If any evidence were needed to oxposo tlic utter baseness of the man , it vouhl bo ibis cynical hypocrisy . There is necessarily more in common between the Christian and Mahomodan faiths , than between the Mahometan 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 . Outbam and Havelock had effected a junction . The exact date and circumstances arc not known ; it was probably on the 19 th ; and although Outkam had encountered hindrance on his path to Cawnpore , and Havelock docs not appear to have recrossed the Ganges without conflict , it is probable that their united force was strong enough to gain the walls of Lucknow ; where the garrison still held out bravely . New cases of mutiny arc reported in the Bombay army ; the disaffection had . broken out at several places , and particularly at Kurachcc , Ahmedabad , 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 th <; Bombay enlistment amongst ; all castes indiscriminately over the Bengal enlistment in the upper castca cliiefly . 13 at the mutiny of private soldiers , whether in Bombay or Bengal , is not half so untoward an occurrence as the mutiny of the Supreme Government . Tor to such the conduct of the Governor-General with his immediate assistants amounts . We have before alluded to tliis subject . Sir Colin Campbkll ' 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 . the Ndrth-Wost Provinces , and 1 o have issued instructions , calculated to trammel the military , commanders in tluur movements . One of the porsons selected for a post of high authority was Mr . , T . P . Gjiant , * l member of Council most particularly committed to tlu : conciliatory line of policy . If there is any truth in { hese reports , the proceedings certainly amount to something like , mutiny of the Goveinor-Goneral in Council against
the authority and necessary proceedings of the military commanders . We return to the other side of the globe and tlie conflict of creditors and debtors , banks and depositors , ai ; New York and other parts of the CTnion . The New York 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 fronat 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 of 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 3 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 Pran . cc 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 we 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 . Iu Continental politics we have more than one new intrigue , moTC than one fresh family arrangement . The unlooked-for rccal of Hedsciiid Pacha to power in Constantinople—Avith the project of an immense loan on his back—has produced something * like a flutter in the minds of the politicians of Paris , who see in this decided act of the Sultan nothing but a new exaltation of . English influence at the expense of France . M . TiiouvjBNBt has , once more , asked for leave of absence , wilh ^ TibVes . it is said , of . seeking to be removed fro >« f ajj ^ j ^ f y / o £ struggle onwhicli Lord Strati-oiuj ^ Klft ^ pS ¦< , t ^ : wins too many victories . Hut the , ]> H > flW ° fc ?; ijSP fliA ' / the opening of tlio Conferences , \ vhiclprc' ^ pfc ^ g ^ - 'i ^ to commence -silting nt about the Mdl « i Q |' U ^ 'J ^ ' £ « t-. ^ - ' ^ M
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 31, 1857, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_31101857/page/1/
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