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ojP vf A POLITICAL AOT > LITERARY REVIEW .
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j . rpHE Oaths Bill has become the subject of a con-\ A flict between the House of Lords and the [ . House of Commons , and the last report from India f proves that we have on our hauds a war to reduce I the Presidency of Bengal . The news from India foreshadows a new Indian I . war to reduce the revolt . More than 30 , 000 men I have either been expelled from the Anglo-Indian army , or have deserted from it . Many of them are off to Delhi , and others 3 whether disbanded or voluntarily deserting , are scattered about among the civil population ; and the result is that a large ( portion of north-western Bengal is in a state of [ disorder . The list of places at " which the mutiny i has broken out now amounts to nearly a score—in S fact , extending over a very large tract of country , j and the farthest removed from reinforcements [ which could be sent through Calcutta and Bombay . ! In . the meanwhile misfortune had not been ' limited to this general defection . On the march ! from Umballah , with a force somewhat diminished by mutiny . General Amson was taken ill with cholera , and died on the road . His place was at once ! filled by Sir Henry Barnabd , who marched on to Delhi . Already there had been two engagements between the British and the mutineers , the latter being defeated , and driven into the strongest part of the town , and deprived of thirty-oive guns . There really seems a probability that the city may be retaken , for although this mail announces the spread of the revolt , it has not exceeded our own anticipations ; and we do not observe that it lias extended into any parts of India which were before i supposed to be exempt . The Madras Presidency appears to be quite untaintedj the disorders which took place before having , it would appear , had no connexion with this revolt , The Bombay Presidency was in a still sounder state ; a fact which completely establishes the superior organisation and command of the Bombay array . From various other oircurastanoos , too , it would appear that the motives for the revolt had , perhaps some , but a very slight , connexion with any foreign instigators . The wish to got away from missionaries- ^ -the belief that the cartridges had been greased in order to steal from them thoir oasto—the conviction that they could get homo and evado any further military service , especially if sufficient numbers stood by them—scorn to have been really the chief motives of the Asiatics . To dosoribo it in a
word , it may be said that the Bengal army has broken down from the inherent faults of its organisati on and the gross mismanagement of i ts rulers , civil as well as military . There have been some further proofs of misunderstanding , and of vacillating councils . Mr . Colvin had issued a proclamation promising pardon to those mutineers who should return to their duty . The Governor-General had disallowed that proclamation , and required it to be withdrawn ; and Mr . Colvin has tendered his resignation as the consequence . The policy of the notice might be questionable ; yet we have the opinion ' of a very experienced Indian for supporting us in the belief that it would have done no harm ; whereas , the discredit thrown upon an officer like Mr . Colvin is a serious moral blow to the efficiency of the local Government in the disturbed provinces . On this side there have been what we may now almost call the usual measures to meet the crisis . The 14-, 00 O troops which were to go over have been raised to 25 , 000 , by the help of turning aside some that were to have gone to China ; so that oar forces in China are starved to feed those in India . The post of Commander-in-Chief was at once offered to Sir Colin Campbeia , who , on being asked when he could depart , answered , " To-morrow . " "When Sir Colin receives the reward of his exertions . Heb Majesty should command that he should discontinue the motto which he bears upon his coat armour , and use that word TQ-morrow . It is a matter of course that Lord ErjiENBObouqh , Mr . Disraeli , and other gentlemen on the Opposition side in cither House , should stand up for the national iuterest , and call upon Ministers for explanations . They have taken little by their pains . Lord Geanville , Lord Palmerston , and Mr . Vubnon Smith have done noble Lords and honourable Members the favour of repeating oxaotly what the newspapers had previously stated , and something less than several of those noble Lords and honourable Members knew already . The great question for the House of Commons , which it is not yet in a condition to press , is , who is to pay the bill P And if the bill is to he paid , how will the Executive porform its duties P The bill will bo very largo . The finance of India labours under a chronic douoionoy , ranging from 1 , 000 , 000 / . to 8 , O 0 O , OOOA annually . The last attompt of the Govornor-Gonorol to raise a loan provod to bo a failure ; ho is trying to raise a loan now , while tho mouey-mavkot in Bombay is in a state of panic . In this ooiuitry , what with tho state of tho Paris Bourse , ., ..:... - , _ ,,, ; - | - . i ,
and the many other doubtful contingencies of an Indian war , and an Indian loan in the London market , the prospect has not been reviving . They say in the City that the Indians can pay the taxes ; but that is the very thing that some Indians in the north-west want to escape , and already there is a difficulty in collecting the revenue . Lord Godebich has had a decided success . Government having given no satisfaction on the subject of civil service appointments , he reproduced his resolution in favour of competitive examination as the rule for admission to the public offices . Sir Geoege Lewis begged him not to press it ; he persevered ; and , with reference to some oral explanation of the resolution of Lord Godeeich , as not excluding other tests of fitness , Lord Paimekstoit yielded . The rule , therefore , is to be extended to all the public offices . We have a specimen of the manner in which the Government evades its financial responsibility to the House of Commons in Mr . Roebuck ' s debate upon Persia . The question which he raised included the policy of the Persian war ; but that is beside the point of interest for us at the present moment . His resolution of censure derived its sting from the fact that Ministers did not consult the House of Commons when they undertook a large expenditure , now reckoned , for the English share alone , at one million sterling . The Opposition shrunk from joining with the popular member in calling Ministers to account , and the House cheered when Lord Paxmebsxon taunted Mr . Roebuck with bringing forward ' un-English resolutions , ' the noble Premier throwing his own popularity in the faoe of the Member for Sheffield in a manner scarcely Parliamentary , and certainly inconsistent with good taste . But Ministers got off , and the House of Commons will some day have a much larger bill brought under its notice , because it now refused , by 352 to 38 , to nail the Ministers in the manner proposed by Mr . Roebuck . In the matter of tho Oaths Bill , tho Peers have overshot thoir mark . They have lost the opportunity for sottling tho question quietly , and they are not likely again to have presented to them so mild a measure as Lord Palmekston ' s . Tho subjoct has caused more than one groat politioal mistake Tho Duke of Norfolk , who supported tho measure on Friday last week , as it was supported > y ^ £ t § jRt ,. LxNDHUjasT and tho Bishop of Lonj ^ oN ' , ^^ dpi to . , his best to make his co-re % ioiusts in ^ ojafo ^ of .. ; . ' / . Commons mix it up with a now RaJW ' W *^ j ' - r question , and thus to embarrass tho ^ JppppP ^ i ' ^ " . — w 7 # - Si t . I <• ' . . . —_—¦»—tiniMici !? 'Wf ?* VMH ? j ££ U 2 ^^ ¦_ . i ' l-i . 1 .... 1 .. 1 ,., T-i . ^ u _ i | iiiiMiM > Triiiniiii m , | 'wyrvi < rftf ? rv * / f ^^
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; A muruer vy z * x / uuat / iu . « wi REVIEW OF THE WEEK- " ° » Imperial Parliament 674 Election Committees 678 Mr . Gladstone on Classical Education 678 The Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum 679 The Prince of Prussia in the City 679 Accidents and Sudden Deaths 679 The Indian Revolt .... 680 America .. ' : 681 Ireland 681 1 Continental Notes 681 ' A Murder byalmnatic 681
- ~ wmw ~ .--.--.-- Our Civilization ........ 682 Gatherings from the Law and Police Courts 683 Naval and Military 683 Miscellaneous 683 Postscript . ¦ 684 PUBLIC AFFAIRSThe Bengal Mutiny 685 The Liberals and the Lords 685 The Isthmian Derby and his Daemon 686
The Edinburgh Trial—Doubts and Reflections — 686 The Plot at Naples 687 'Accidentally Shut out' 687 News for Auditors , 688 OPEN COUNCILThe Causes of the Indian Mutiny ... 688 Court Favour 688 Talbot Divorce 688 LITERATURESutnmary , 689
Ueorge Stepnenson mw The Position of Women 690 The Choice of a Profession 691 New Novels 691 THE ARTSThe Jerrold Performances 692 The Gazette 692 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSCity Intelligence , Market 8 , &c 693
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Leader (1850-1860), July 18, 1857, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2201/page/1/
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