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—?— - rpHE ceremony of the prorogation was performed A yesterday , in the absence of the Queex , whom the dilatory proceedings of the Opposition had frustrated in her arrangements to prorogue the House in person . The last week of the session presents little for remark . The House of Lords did not concur in the proposal of Lord St . Leonards , backed by Lord Bjepesdale , to defer the consideration of the Commons' amendments in the Divorce Bill until next session ; and the discussions which took place—if discussions they can be calledturned almost upon some of the last items of intelligence about India , the military commission , or replies to Lord Overstone ' s financial questions on the decimal coinage . Consolation has been found in the painful telegraphic despatch from India ; but we confess that we cannot detect the comfort . We can find it more easily in the general history of England or of India , than in this particular communication . Delhi is still held by the mutineers , who are kept within its walls by a mere handful of Europeans ; the British force being reduced , amongst other scourges by cholera , to so low an amount , that it is reckoned not more than 2000 are effective for service . It is by cholera that Sir Henry Barnard is carried off , and he is succeeded by General Heed ; a man in whom no very strong confidence is expressed . The consolation in Oudc , where the mutiny lias evidently gained ground very seriously , is , that the capital town , Lucknow , still holds out ; ' and here again , the commanding officer , Sir Henrv Lawrence , died on tho 4 th of July , the day before Babnaud j who had called him ' a pillar of strength . ' It was hoped' that Lucknow would bo able to hold out until it should bo relieved by General Havelook . In the meanwhile that commander was on an expedition which reads like old stories of knight errantry . On his way to Lucknow lie hud tremendous work to perform . Amongst the native chiefs who owned a great grudge against the British was Nena Sahij } ; nnd notwithstanding tho known disaffection of the ninn , it appears that ho had been loft in power , with the privilege of a numerous guard . Recently , Mr . Disraeu pointed out Cawnporo as scarcely less important than Delhi . The place was held by Sir Hugh TVhjeeleh , a General of tho highest repute for gallantry and ability . It was invested by Nuna Bahxb , who reduced it by
starvation . It capitulated ; but the captor , disregarding every sense of honour or humanity , put the whole of the British in the place to the sword , with horrible barbarity , slaughtering , it is said , as many as 240 helpless women and children . Upon this man Havelock turned his arms . The adherents of Nena were defeated in three engagements ; they lost 37 guns , and Cawnpore was retaken ; but the man himself was making off with Havelock in his rear j while the British garrison at Lucknow , surrounded by a rebellious province , was anxiously awaiting tha arrival of Havelock ' s reinforcements . In the meanwhile , the tranquillity of the Punjab has been broken by a serious mutiny at Sealkote , with another massacre ; but the mutineers were put down by General Nicholson . Is there any consolation to be found in the tragic episode of Agra ? Mutineers from Nccmuch had marched across the country for three hundred miles ; they had become strengthened to the formidable number of 10 , 000 , and they invested Agra , where a garrison of 500 combatants held them in check . It seems , howevor , that the Europeans ultimately ' retired , ' with the loss of nearly 150 in killed and wounded . Thus upon the whole the Europeans in the north-west provinces of Bengal were gradually driven into the position of garrisons defending their posts against overwhelming numbers around them and awaiting reinforcements . What about the reinforcements P Nearly all the Chinese contingent had arrived at Calcutta and was slowly moving up to tho north-west . Some roinr forcements had already reached Delhi j but we have seen how the effective strength was reduced , while the garrison at Lucknow—mourning tho loss of Sir Hugh Wheeler — was anxiously awaiting HaVEIOCK . No wonder if , on the last days of tho session , some persona wore found to ask whether it was necessary to keep fifteen regiments at the Capo of Good Hope , including the German settlors who have been just embodied there as rogimonts ; and whether reinforcoments could not bo sent promptly by way of Suez P In that case they might reach the field of action ' in six weeks . ' In six weoku ! Imagino , oven with thin ' acceleration , ' tho army at Delhi , the garrison in Luoknow , in Agra , in Cawnpore , Soalkoto , Sctaporc , or Hyderabad , being told that reinforcoments would arrive in six weeksP Tho telegraph reports Lord Elgin ' s arrival at Hong-Kong , and his intention to go northwards in tho Shannon , aocornpauicd by six gunboats
powerful diplomatic auxiliaries . Meanwhile there is formidable news for all families in this country . The disturbed state of China has caused the teaplant not to be thoroughly picked , nnd to the 30 th of June there was a decrease of more than twentyseven million pounds of the plant . The French Government seems determined to give us some assistance in India . Louis Napoleon had just returned to Paris , after a brief visit to Biarritz , and a short stay in the district of the Landes , —whose stilt-wearing natives have consecrated a cast-iron column ' to Napoleon the Tiimu , the regenerator of the Landes . ' One of his first actions in Paris was to issue tho command that all captains of ships of war bo ordered to afford any assistance to English vessels in carrying troops to India , or in towing the vessels when becalmed . Before surveying his great camp at Chalons , he is thus bestowing his military charity upon his western ally . In the meanwhile his will for the time is done uv Turkey—the Porte having declared tho Moldavian elections void . Inspired by this submissive and mortified position of tho Porte , the turbulent Montenegrins arc again making themselves heard iu a brigandage which their Government sanctions . Nor are the clouds of trouble confined to the East . In Southern Europe , a now difficulty has been gradually assuming shape , with tho prospect of assistance from the North . Seizing tho Mazzinian revolutionists who landed on the Neapolitan territory , the local authorities seized also tho Cagliari and the helpless Sardinian passengers of the ship , who had in . fact been tho victims of tho revolutionists . All attempts to obtain tho release of these inoffensive persons , or of the ship—private Sardinian property—have boon unavailing ; and representations of tho Sardinian Government have boon treated with contumely , until Count Cavouii threatened to withdraw the Sardinian representative from Naples . Thou Signor Cauai'Fa grew reasonable iii his tone . Perhaps Naples in counting oh Austrian support ; but in the meanwhile Jlussia lias ulrcucly been intimating that she is dissatisfied with the position of Italian afi ' airs , or with tho Austrian < mcroachmonts in the Southern Fmiusulu . Is England , under awe of lYmico , aboul . to Joavo the patronage of Italian constitutionalism lo RussiaP ^ In Spain , tho charming Quoon CinatiVUMgtSjK ^ jf p appearing as n statcswouiiiu . A mM V ^ i ^ MjPtlL 4 ^) ^ pooled from her hand , to Justify lior © "ffi ^ P'JF ^ the Spanish nation , lo ileslroy K ^ gVVTC&fc M % £ ¦
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¦ ¦ REVIEW OF THE WEEK— «* AOE Imperial Parliament 818 The Indian Revolt 819 The Orient . 821 . Ireland ¦ . 821 America ;• 82 a Accidents and Sudden Deaths 822 State of Trade 823 Continental Notes 823 The Surrey Gardens Bankruptcy 824 Our Civilization 825 Gatherings from the Law and Police Courts 826
Naval and Military 826 i Miscellaneous S 27 Postscript 828 | PUBLIC AFFAIRS-| The News from India 829 I Our Close Peerage 829 The Session 830 Bengal and the Sepoy 830 Our Close Commissioned Army 831 The Chelsea New Bridge 831 Intercepted Letter from London ... 832 Sweet' Music for the Million ' .. 832
A Word to mo The Great Northern Audit S : i ; s LITERATUKEStirmnary S 34 City Poems ° ** An Irish Member in Kotuc 3 . J 5 "Washington ' s Part in tho American War 8 ; 5 |» Essays on Natural History s jb New Novels 837 Sacramental Worship , .--. bo 7
: > . \ U > V iVl-llLmu ^ . » . * . w « ¦ THE ARTSMont Ulnue : 838 Theatrical ami Musical Notes 838 The Gazette 838 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS — City Intelligence , Markets , Ac 838
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 29, 1857, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2207/page/1/
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