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A POLITICAL AND LITERARY REVIEW
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T 7 IGHTEEN hundred and fifty-eight opens out JLi before us—a year of work . Three great labours are plainly laid down : the substitution of a new Government for India , a searching and thorough investigation of our Mercantile and Financial systems , and the production of a Reform Bill at least adequate to meet the more moderate demands of the time . The items are few , but the whole coming session of Parliament will be well spent if it achieves a satisfactory completion of them . ; 5 r ¦ , - r
India , obviously , will be the most difficult to deal -with , and the news brought by the last mail from Calcutta will not help to ease the difficulty . The intelligence received is of a decidedly serious character . There is not the least doubt that the Resi dency at Lucknow has been relieved , and the women , children , and sick sent in safety to Cawnporc ; but there our assurance stops . Sir Colin Campbell reached the Residency—and , thanks to the bravely sustained defence of its holdors , with comparatively small loss ; but that appears to have
been all lie was able to do . The mutineers hpld the whole of the city , with the exception of the outskirts , from which they were driven by the- Commandcr-in-Chief , and the force at hand appeared wholly insufficient to dislodge them . Possibly Sir Colin has retired to Cawnpore until reinforcements reach him in sufficient number to open the next campaign with the certainty of prosecuting it with vigour . It is hardly possible , upon the in-QOHiplete data furnished by tho late mails , to form any conclusion as to the probable course of
events . Driven from Lucknow , the rebels mny dispoxso , and fortify themselves in the almost innumerable" fortresses scattered over Oudc , or thoy may take t 6 trhdnmoro Sftipenetrablo jungle ; in the former case the labour of subduing thorn would bo immense in tho latter , almost interminable . Of tho Gwalioi rebels "wo hear next to nothing by tljo present mail . * &y one ' account , they woujd appear to have marched
upon Gwalior . Frpm Miraaporo and Benares there ¦^ - ? qpme-repoifliST-of-dangev-j ^ ttnd- 'invtho-JPresidenoy-of ¦ "Madras a . -band of Rohillns had attacked a town £ } d « noWhei b' botwoon Mmnilipatain and Hyderabad , and suoopeded in boating . the Sepoys . and residents , . and in carrying oil' tho - treasury-chest towards the Doccan . But it is towards Oontrni' India that wo look with most anxiqty . 49 iroo remarkable' orders lmvo been issued , one
by the Coimnandc-r-in-Cliie-f , regulating the treatment of Native officers , non-commissioned officers , and Sepoys of revolted regiments , who were absent on furlough at the time of the revolt of their regimentis , in the event of their returning at or after the expiration of their time ; the second regulates the amount of compensation to . be allowed by the Indian Government to various classes of sufferers by the mutinies ; the third refers to foreigners , who henceforth are not to be permitted to reside or travel in India without a special lioense from the Government .
A fourth , and by very far the most important order , signed by It . Montgomery , the judicial commissioner in the Punjab , announces that caste will no longer—at least , in the province governed by Sir John Lawiiexce—be allowed to carry with it any weight in the public service . The document declares it to be 'disgraceful' to us that native Christians have hitherto been held to be ineligible for public employment and henceforth , all functions under the Government of the Punjab will be thrown open equally to Christian , Hindoo , and Mussulirtan ,.
In ' anticipation of the heavy work to come , Lord Palmkustox has been revising his Ministry ; on tho principle of keeping no more cats than can catch mice , tho Earl of ILuuiowby , Privy Seal , has been induced to ' resign / on account of the state of his health , and to enable the Premier to fill a seat in the Cabinet with a family Whig , the Marquis of Claniucakde , who , besides good health , has the special advantage of being brother-in-law to the Governor-General , and a man ' up' in the jargon of Indian polemics .
with a state performance at Her Majesty ' s Theatre on the 1 'Jth , will gaily lead the way to the crowning ceremony on the 25 th . The final public act of the interesting drama will be a Drawing-Room at St . James ' s Palace on the 30 th , when Her Majesty will receive congratulations—the sincerity of which no one in the world will doubt . On Tuesday , February 2 nd , England will part with its eldest daughter ; affectionate interest will follow her , and never cease to watch over her in her new home . As the Victoria and Albert steams away from Gravesend , who doubts that a hailstorm of olid shoes will follow it ?
Nothing proves the decline of the Conservative party more thnnllie late elections for North Northamptonshire and for Buckinghamshire . And the evidence is shown not only in the result but in the proceedings . Who was brought forward . to replace Mr . Augustus Stafford—a gentleman ; of some social rank , of genial smartness , and of--unflinching Tory protectionism ? It was Mr . Ward Hunt , a gentleman , we believe , of not very high standing in the county , though much esteemed personally , and of politics which may in the comparison even be called Liberal . And that gentleman had rather a smart contest with a young Whig candidate
introduced on the very eve of the election day . Again , in Buckinghamshire , who was selected to lead the Tories against the son of jhe late member , Mr . Cavendish ? It was Cap tain Hamilton , a gentleman who was once member for Aylesbury , and who has been kept on ha ^ d as a pis alter for that respectable borough . Mr , *{ amilton stood forward professedly as the representative of the tenant farmers , but ho docs not a ] r * ear to have reoeived any very sturdy support from that sensible body of men ; and his good-humoured , bantering , simple-minded speeches do not indicate a person of
The preparations for the royal marriage on the 25 th instant arc being elaborated with great zeal , and tho result , as far us embellishment goes , will bo , no doubt , all that could bo reasonably expected ; but with tho public there will ( bc an enormous amount of dissatisfaction , caused ; by j-ho insurmountable want of space , both in tho Chapel Royal and in the places adjacent . ' . Already the Lord
high intollectual standing . ' 'Such ^ as " , to jja ^ been the colleague ' of Mr . ' Disraeli . But his tp ^ al , defeat has' drawn forth proofs of wcAkness ominous for tho continuance of a Tory . as , o ^ jlanay . In fact , the Liberals are alroady ealoidaWj ! *^ £ fr'tnfc y ; shall bo able to replace two if notHhreje ofi-hd ^ e ' ^ oi-s on tho next election ; and the state o ^ ttftfyiiglfriry , » . wluoU-i& . ~ a < - ~ porfoot , w doubt oporato as a stimulus to rcnewc \ l ^ tt # fcj 1 aK : _ registration throughout all counties"' aV ' mUEfea ? Buckinghamshire . ^^ f ^' mwfc ) The financial aspects at the clpso oJ ^ l ' i ^| y | g ' W , indeed remarkable . We find the roYOXJMjjgi ffflbflGngj ' u decrease in comparison with 1856 ° S » ^^ rp | 0 ^ 3 at tho same time that tho Banks of ^ ngl ^^ n ^ 7 42 Q *
Chamberlain is enduring tho trials of a regular besicgoment by applicants for , fifty times' the amount of-the-uooommodation— at ~ -his » oommand-.- ^ -Buokingham Palace , on tho night of the ' 25 th , will bo tried to the utmost of its bed-supplying powers for the illustrious orowd of guests who will partake of Hisii Majesty's hospitality . Tho suites of all these groat visitors will have to retire to EARUANCw ' s'and Fenton ' s holds , which have been retained entirely for them . A long aeries of festivities , commencing
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 2, 1858, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2224/page/1/
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