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ADMINISTRATIVP ttl^Oitur ADMIN IS IKAlIVh Rl^'ORM btohmv mkkting in panokas.
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in which case , it is- thought we shall find it necessary to take possession of the whole of Burmah . It is rumoured that the war party have determined on commencing hostilities by burning down our cantonments in succession ; and a conflagration at the station of Prome—Ahe third within a few daysseems to give colour to the report . The other news from the far Orient is of less importance- The predatory tribes on the north-west frontier bayond Peshawur , are still troublesome ; but an expedition of two or three thousand horse and foot , under the command of Brigadier Chamberlain , and accompanied by Major Edwardes , has started for the Meeranzaie valley . The progress of the public works loan is slow . Sixteen more miles of
the Bombay Railway , making a total of fifty , have been completed : the contractor is a Parsee , Jamsetjee Dorabjee . In Cashmir , Gholab Singh and his nephew are quarrelling anil fighting ; and the latter has had by far the worst of it , only one fort now remaining in his hands , with a strong probability of that being shortly taken . But as these hostilities are an infraction of the treaty of Mooltan , made in 1846 , the Governor-General is keeping a watchful eye upon Ghoiab ' s movements . Jung Bahadoor is reported to have taken the field at the head of the forces of Nepaul for an expedition against Thibet . The air of the Nielgherries is said to have improved the health of . Lord Dalhousie . The general state of trade in India was dull , and money was still tight .
The rebellion in China seems to be still gaining ground , notwithstanding its reverse at Shanghai . One or two positions , though only of secondary importance , have fallen into the hands of the insurgents , who have made an inroad into the green-tea districts , the capital of which , Kwei-chow-foo , has been seized by them . The Whcunpoa rebels , since their defeat , have congregated at Kow-kong ; while some , spreading themselves along the coast , have liad the audacity to attack foreign flags . An English expedition was consequently sent against them ; the result of which was that twenty junks were taken or destroyed . The west coast trade is stopped ,
the trading junks being afraid of the pirate boats ; and bands of desperadoes in the interior render land transit from Canton , very dangerous . A famine is apprehended at Canton , owing to a scarcity of rice . Another tea-laden vessel , the Countess of Seafield , has been wrecked on the Pratas Shoal , but the crew were rescued . A portion of the English fleet will , it is understood , proceed against the Russian settlements in the north . The trade of China , like that of India , was somewhat depressed ; but at Hong Kong the withdrawal of the insurgents from the neighbourhood of the city gave rise to hopes of an improvement .
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AMERICA . Bt the last mail , from the United States , we learn that Colonel Kinney , has been arrested at Philadelphia and held to bail in 4500 dollars , on a charge of violating the neutrality laws . The New Orleans Cuba Junta has been dissolved , and the vessels belonging to it have been sold to defray expenses ; but the " Filibustering" spirit seems to be as rampant as ever . A vessel with three hundred men on board was prepared , according to popular report , to sail for Nicaragua from Philadelphia ; Colonel Walker and about one hundred and fifty of his followers were expected to depart for the same destination ; the expeditionary fleet at New York was said to be ready
for sea ; and a buccaneering descent upon Peru was talked of . The Know-nothings are gaining strength every day , and have had several successes in municipal and county elections in all parts of the Union . The items of intelligence from California show that the mines continue to yield largel }' , and that new discoveries of gold fields are being constantly made . Nevertheless , business continues in a very unhealthy state . Two more heavy failures have occurred in San Francisco—one for 80 , 000 , the other for 100 , 000 , dollars . Trade in New York was also still very dull . A bill nullifying the Fugitive Slave Law reached a third reading in the Massachusetts Senate on the 10 th of May .
From Central and South America we have the usual lamentable news of insurrections , civil wars , universal distrust , jealousy , and personal ambition , producing a perpetual oscillation between anarchy and despotism . On the 6 th ult ., another revolution broke out in Nicaragua ; the accession to power of General Nanoao being the cause . Rumour attributes to the friondu of General Echinique , lately overthrown by Don Domingo Elian and General Castilla , an intention of organising an expedition to restore their fallen chieftain to tho Presidency of tho Peruvian Republic ; but , at tho latest advices , Peru was quiet . Tho liberty of the press had been extended by a Government decree ; and tho election of tho President was about to take place . Mexico is still in a etato of insurrection . Santa Anna had proceeded south at tho head of a body of troops to offer battle to the rebels ; and report spoke of a largo number of Boldiorn in Sonora having pronounced against tho Government .
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TWO CASKS OF PARRICIDE . A i-uiu ioan iii Mnniiifc'hain was last Sunday inconaidcrute cnou-h to ohantiso his son , a youth about eighteen Years ' of nge ; when the latter , wild with rage , atruck twice at hi « father with some sharp instrument which he had in his hand , and inflicted two severe wounds in tho upper part of the thigh . Blood poured forth in a heavy Htreuin , and death speedily entmed . Iho youth , on seeing his father dead on tho floor , wont up to hia sister gave her a kiss , and fled . For ooino time poat he had ' been indulging hi card-playing and other oyil courses : and it was in consequence of his disobedience
Administrativp Ttl^Oitur Admin Is Ikalivh Rl^'Orm Btohmv Mkkting In Panokas.
ADMINISTRATIV 13 REFORM . HTOBMV MKKTING IN I'ANOICAH . A tumultuous and abortive mooting of tho parishioners of Marylebono wan hold on Wednesday evening at the St . Pancras Vestry Hall : Mr . Furror , Churchwarden , in tho chair . After Mr . Cooper had proposed a resolution in favour of Administrative Reform , and Mr . Jacob Uell had spoken in seconding tho . resolution ,
Mr . M'Dickey claimed a hearing , as he had an amendment to propose . He went on , amidst great clamour , to declaim against the authors of the Administrative Reform movement , namely , the moneyed classes of the City , whom he regarded as the oppressors of the people , and whose motives were sinister and selfish . His amendment was , that the meeting should reject the Administrative Reform movement , as a delusion and' a sham ; and that the only satisfactory reform must be founded upon universal suffrage . Mr . Cotton , an elderly man , who commended Mr . M'Dickey as the " friend of the human race , " seconded
the amendment . He commented on the speeches of Mr . Morley and Mr . Travers at the City of London meeting ; and protested against all unnatural and artificial government , contending especially that the people were entitled to the land . Although he had not time to go into the currency question , he particularly requested that the reporters would record his opinion , that while the landed aristocracy took a hundred millions out of the pockets of the working classes , the commercial aristocracy took no less than two hundred millions from them . His remarks occasioned some merriment , but were applauded by a portion of the meeting .
Mr . John Williams ( late M . P . for Macclesfield ) , while he admitted that he had a very high opinion of the inaugurators of this movement in . the City , thought it would be better to direct attention to Universal Suffrage , and other elements of Parliamentary Reform . — Mr . Bryan , a house-painter , warned his fellow-workmen to beware of the middle classes , who had deceived them before . —Mr . Ernest Jones accused the City of London Committee of downright political felony and fraud , in not allowing him to second a resolution at the Guildhall meeting , and not appointing him one-of the committee
of the association , although they had promised both . — After a great deal of brawling , the amendment was put to the vote by a show of hands , and the chairman said the votes appeared very equally balanced . " The chairman was then deposed , and Mr . Ernest Jones took his placethat is to say , mentally and officially , for Mr . Farrer would not resign the chair . The meeting was ordered to vote bv dividing on each side of the room , when both parties claimed the victory . Mr . Farrer declared the original resolution carried , whilst Mr . Ernest Jones and his friends maintained that their amendment had been
adopted . Mr . Jones then called out , " I dissolve the meeting ;" but nobody went away , and the brawl became fiercer than ever , very rough language being hurled at the chairman , who remained in his place , determined to proceed with the business . Mr . Goodwin moved the second resolution , to the effect that a petition for adminstrative reform be adopted , and that Sir Benjamin Hall , with Lord Ebrington , be requested to support it . But the disorder and noise which prevailed rendered it impossible to make the business intelligible ; and when the resolution was put to the vote ( the Chartists voting against it , although their leader had pronounced the meeting at an end ) , it was lost . The Chairman then gave up the struggle , and adjourned the meeting at ten o ' clock . This is not the first time that the Chartists have obstructed the progress of reforms by riotous and . bullying conduct at public meetings . Even those who wish them best must admit that their conduct is suicidal .
MKETING AT KKNNINGTON . On Tuesday evening , the inhabitants of Lambeth met at the Horns Tavern , Kennington , when resolutions in favour of the now movement were unanimously passed , as well as a resolution eulogising the manly independence of Mr . Layard . Several other meetings have been held in various parts of the country . Bath Election : Administrative Reform . —The Liberals of Bath have determined to do their best to make the vacancy occasioned by the retirement of Mr .
1 'hinn a means of sending to Parliament an Administrative Reformer . They have therefore promised their support to Mr . Tito , deputy chairman of tho Administrative Reform Association , who on Friday week addressed a meeting of electors . Mr . Tito declared himself in favour of tho prosecution of tho war , against the grant to Maynooth , against church rates , and for the ballot . Tho Conservative candidate , Mr . Whutelcy , Q . C ., has also expressed his opinion that tho right men are not in the right place .- * , and that groat alterations are required in our public o / licos .
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June 2 , 1855 . J THE LEAPEB . 509
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THE HUMANITY OP A COSMOPOLITE . In the course of last July , the Peruvian ship Grimeneza was totally lost , with nearly six hundred and forty Chinese emigrants , on a shoal between New Caledonia and Bampton Shoal , lat . 10 , 56 S ., long . 161 , 30 E . The commander , Captain Penny , with the surgeon , the ¦ chief officer , and four men , took to one of the boats , and , after sailing nearly two thousand miles , succeeded in landing in New Ireland , twenty-five days after the wreck , and suffering intensely from the effects of hunger , thirst , and disease , having been six days and nights without food or water . The chief officer was murdered by the natives two or three days after they landed on the island ; but they remained there till the 5 th of
September , when news reached them that an English ship had put into Gower ' s Harbour for wood and water . Captain Penny writes as follows on the treatment he met with from the master of this vessel , which , proved to be the Sydney whaling bark Australian , Captain Lewin Wilds : — " On arriving at Gower ' s Harbour I found the carpenter and cooper of the Australian . I made myself known to them , and inquired as to where the vessel was lying . They told me , but at the same time gave me to understand that I must not expect any assistance from the captain , no matter whether I was a shipmaster or not . However , I was determined to try . I could not believe it possible that he would refuse me and my companions a passage to some civilised
place : so I made the best of my way to the vessel , and , after going some considerable distance , she hove in sight . I got as near to her as I possibly could , and hailed her ; but though seen from the vessel , no attention was paid to me -whatever . Finally , after waiting about an hour standing up to my middle in water , a boat put off from the vessel and pulled in the direction of where I was standing . I then hailed the boat two or three times before she stopped , when , after making my unfortunate position and circumstances known , the officer of the boat informed me that he had received positive instructions to take no person on board the ship unless known to him ; ' , ' he said , ' as you are a shipmaster , I will take you on board , and I don ' t care whether the captain
likes it or not ; he can only put you on shore again . The boat , accordingly , pulled in for me . I was unable to get into the boat , so the crew lifted me in . I told Captain Wilds , the master , all the particulars of my disaster , and begged him to take us on board , and place us in the first vessel that he fell in with . He replied that he was not bound to take us on board , and asked , ' Where do you suppose that I am going to get food from to feed you with ? Do you think that I am bound to take everybody on board of my vessel because they say they are shipwrecked ? The laws of nations can ' t make me do it ; and as for the laws of humanity , as you call them , I don ' t care about them . I am a Cosmopolite , and 1 ask no man ' s friendship . As to the
Queen , if I wanted a meal , I am sure she would not give me-one ; so I belong to no country at all , and owe allegiance to none . ' He got an old pair of trousers and threw them to where I was standing , and then asked the steward if he had an old shirt to give me . The steward got one and gave it to me . After a great deal of difficulty , he finally consented to take the rest of my shipmates on board , and I sent the natives back with a note for them to come with all despatch , as the vessel would sail the next day at twelve at noon , and that , if they were not there in time , the captain would not wait for them . They received my note about one o ' clock in the morning , and immediately started , and arrived at the vessel about ten . The doctor told me that tho men
begged frequently to be left to die on the road , they were so reduced by sickness ; and they would have been left if the doctor had not succeeded in inducing some of the natives to carry them over . A boat chanced to be on shore whon they arrived , and brought them on board ; and a more pitiable sight than they presented I never beheld . They were so exhausted that they had to be supported on cithcir side to keep them from falling . I was standing at tho gangway as they were passed on board , when Captain Wilds came up to me , and asked me what he-was to do with them . He said , 'Why ,
they are nearly dead now , and it will take two or three months to feed them up to make men of them ; and I don t know yet if I ahull take you or not . I have a , good mind to land you again ; I don ' t sec why I should take you off more than anybody else , so don ' t make too sure about your getting off yet . ' I refrain from using the language Captain Wilds expressed himself in , and at the same time from making any comments upon his conduct . " In tho course of a month after , Captain Penny and his men were put on board tho bark Maria , and subsequently on board the liio Grande , bound for Melbourne .
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Leader (1850-1860), June 2, 1855, page 509, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2093/page/5/
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