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skirt the shores of that bay , and then follow the coast of the Indian Ocean , and thus continue , through the Valley of the Indus , into the very heart of India . This would be a real ' Overland Route —one which must be carried put at no very distant period—and which would be of incalculable advantage to our great Indian Empire , as well as to England and to the world , and I would at once put my project into execution if I could obtain a concession for the line , guaranteed by England , in concert with the other great powers interested . I am convinced such a work of public utility would yield an immense return on money invested , and on such conditions 1 am ready to undertake the completi on of a through railway communication direct from London to Calcuttaand to find all the capital for the same .
, Science is ever progressing , ingenuity is constantly at work , and in modern engineering there is no obstacle , however great , that cannot be overcome by time and monej' , and the -very fact of having such a work to accomplish would lead to new inventions , more extraordinary than any of the neue Erfindungen we have yet seen , " but which would suggest themselves as naturally on emergency as the Britannia Tube , the Crystal Palace , or the Submerged Cable . Trusting that your Lordship will see the high importance of this suggestion , and the interest that the British Government would have in its accomplishment , and at
the same time , as an engineer , assuring your Lordship that extraordinary as is my project it is eminently practicable , and in the hope that you will therefore bring your powerful aid- to bear , so as to enable me to achieve so gigantic , but so useful an undertaking , both by explaining my views to the Cabinet of which your Lordship is so distinguished a member , and in persuading foreign Governments to join in adopting my plan , arid likewise in inserting clauses in any treaty that may be made hereafter with Persia , so as to facilitate my great object , —I have the honour to be , my Lord , your Lordship ' s most obedient servant , Wsi . H . VlLLIERS SiNKEY , January 10 th , 1857 . Civil Engineer .
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THE ORIENT . CHINA . Thb American and Russian Commissioner has arrived at Hong-Kong . The fleet was about to move into Canton River at the last dates . The French fleet will co-operate with the English . Operations against Canton are about to be commenced , and Yeh has issued an address to his ' braves . ' The rebellion appears to be spreading , and to have gained the province in which Shanghai is situated . The persecutions of the Chinese against the Christians are increasing . CABUL .
The Cabul advices of the Lahore Chronicle are down to the 25 th of October . Their correspondent writes that " on the 15 th of October a letter was received from Golam Hyder Khan , at Kandahar , who informed Dost Mahomed that he had received intelligence from Herat , to the effect that Mahomed Akreem Khan , of Oochuckzye , had seized a number of his tribe and sent them pr isoners to Herat . The tribe had consequently collected and attacked Mahomed Akreem Khan , at Subazwar , killing many of his men . On hearing of this , Sooltan Ahmed Jan , Governor of Herat , sent five hundred horsemen and two guns to the assistance of Akreem Khan . " There has been considerable fighting between the Turkomans and the Persians .
KGYFT . The steam-transports Sultan and Nemesis have arrived at Suez , carrying different detachments to the East , under the command of Colonel Mackirdy . Out of the 1100 men forming the detachments , only four were on the sick list , and these , it is affirmed in the despatch from Alexandria which brings the news , are not laid up with any serious indisposition . The arrangements for the transit from Southampton to Suez have been most satisfactorily carried out . The East India Company have also made arrangements , it is stated , for the passage of » thousand men a month across the Isthmus for Bombay and Calcutta .
PERSIA . The Shuli of Persia ( says a telegraphic despatch from Marseilles ) has invited tho various ambassadors to be present at the coronation of his son , in whose favour 1 ) 0 intends to resign . Tho English Minister , it is said , has refused to attend , making a reservation in favour of the rights of another heir to the throne , now a refugee ut Bagdad .
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VUISLIC MKUTXNGS . -raHtr-THAOIUCHAX . AN « -Xl » l !;» COJlflH \ lUCJlAL , _ Xl , lAyW ! U ^ BB 8 w Mu , Tiiackicicav presided lout Saturday at tho annual ( entlval of tliu Commercial Travellers' Schools , held at tho London Tavern . Tho eminent , novelist made an ftdmirublo speech , full of humour and good fueling . After alluding to tho commercial distresses and tho commercial dishonesty of tho present period , Mr . Thackeray said ho wished that gentlemen of tho literary profession hud au institution for the education of tholr children as good us that tho foundation of which they wore then celebrating .
As it is , he remarked , the young ones of the literary Paterfamilias are generally victimized by some schoolmaster of the Mr . Squeers order ; He mentioned the case of a literary friend earning 1000 / . a year , who the other day received a bill amounting to 751 . for the half-year's schooling and boarding of two little boys , of the ages of six or seven . " ¦ Now , think of this p . oor man earning . his moderate 1000 / . a year , out of which he has his life assurance , his income-tax , and his house-rent to pay , with three or four poor relations to support—for , doubtless , we are all blessed with these appendages ( o laugh )
—and wiih the heavy bills of his wife and daughters for millinery and mantua-making , to meet , especially at their present enormous rates and sizes—( renewed laughter ) —think of this over-burdened man having to pay 751 . for one half-year's schooling of his little boys . ( Hear , hear . ) Let the gentlemen of the press , then , try to devise some scheme which shall benefit them , as you have undoubtedly benefited by what you have accomplished for yourselves . " As a proof of the business habits of commercial travellers , Mr . Thackeray related an amusing anecdote connected with his last visit to America : — " The Africa was
steaming out of Liverpool one fine blowy October day , and was hardly over the bar , when , animated by those peculiar sensations not uncommon to landsmen at the commencement of a sea voyage ; I was holding on amidships . ( . 4 laugh . ) Up comes a quick-eyed , shrewd-looking little man who holds on by the next rope to me , and says , ' Mr . Thackeray , I am the representative of the house of Appleton and Co ., of Broadway , New York—a most liberal and enterprising publishing firm , who will be most happy to do business with you . ' I don ' t know that we then did any business in the line thus delicately hinted at , because at that particular juncture we were both of us called , by a heavy lurch of the ship , to a casting-up of accounts of a far less agreeable character . " ( Laughter . ) He had parted that day from a very famous
traveller , belonging to a celebrated publishing firm in Printing House-square—Mr . William Howard Russell . "He is now on his way to Marseilles . In another month he will be in India ( cheers ) , and he will tee the shattered gates around which the brave young engineers died at their duty , and through which Wilson and his gallant comrades passed over heaps of enemies , until they reached the Imperial Palace of Delhi , in which , amid shouts of victory , the health of Queen Victoria was drunk . That , gentlemen , was a melancholy dinner of his yesterdayhis Christmas dinner , the last meal he was to take here at home . The little children sat round the table on that sad evening , and the poor wife must have gazed at them with a wistful eye . But now the parting is over , and this day he has taken his first step on his long journey .
But for his children , he might have beeii among us now , gentlemen , as he was last year . He separates from them in order to do his duty—in order to toil that they may be comfortable—in order to earn the means of one day coming back to them , and seeing them growing up around him educated and happy . " ( Hear , hear . ) Mr . Thackeray concluded by drinking prosperity to the schools established by the commercial travellers . Various complimentary toasts followed , and a liberal subscription in aid of the charity was made by the company present . The treasurer stated that the building erected by the society at Pinner , which contains one hundred boys and forty-seven girls , has now been paid for and freed from mortgage , but that , while the annual expenditure of the institution amounts to 5000 / ., the gross income is only 4327 / .
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STATE OF TRADE . We have still to report a very stagnant condition of trade in the chief manufacturing towns , though in some there are a few symptoms of reviving activity . Tho Birmingham gun-makers are moderately active upon Government contracts , and two or three of the largest brass-foundry establishments of the town are doing a fair amount of business . The Nottingham trades , too , arc a little more active , and some signs of returning confidence have been noted at Bradford and Halifax . Still , during the whole of tho week ending last Saturday , the prevailing fueling was one of gloom , based on tho small amount of business doing , aud tho numbers of artisans out of employ .
Tho South Staffordshire colliers , who have been out on strike for some time past , have accepted tho reduced wages offered by tho employers , and resumed work . Thin result wus effected by an interview between some of the largo colliery owners and a deputation of the man . The operative chaimnukers near Cradley have turned out on account of a reduction of wages , and have committed dome excesses . A spociul meeting of tho shareholders of tho Northumberland and Durham District Bunk was held last $ f tt , ME dj * y _ at ^ N ^^ wbou it was unanimously agreed ' that tlio coiJipaiTy ^ bo royistered ^ as' n company other ( hau a limited company , under tho Joint-Stock Bunking Companies Act , 1857 . '
" In the general business of tho port of London during tho week ending lust Saturday , " says the 1 'imes , " there has beca lltilo change . Tho number of ships reported inward woo 19 G , including 09 with cargoes of corn , rice , flour , &c ., 10 with sugar , mid 4 with fruit ; tho number of ships cleared outward was 04 , including
17 in ballast , and those on the berth loading for the Australian colonies amount to 56 . " The failures this week include—Messrs . Oliver and Sons , largely engaged in the lace trade , Nottingham ; Messrs . William and George Crossley , cotton-spinners , Elland , near Halifax ; Messrs . Crossley and Leeming , machine-makers , of Southowram Bank-bottom ; Mr . John Mills , Haley-hill , Halifax , a machine-maker in a small way of business ; Mr . Greenslade , corn-factor , of Bristol ( an old established house ); three suspensions in the woollen trade at Wakefield ; Messrs . Lurton , Hootoon , and Co ., an old house of good repute in the Manchester trade , with liabilities for about 32 , 000 /; and Messrs . Hinton , Brothers , and Co ., Italiam merchants , of old Broad-street .
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IRELAND . Sepoyism in the County of Down . —Under this beading , the Northern Whig reports a case of criminal assault on a girl at the Dundonald railway station . The circumstances are of a peculiarly atrocious character , the assault having been committed by three men , who repeated the offence , and kept the girl fastened in a room for several hours . They intoxicated themselves with whisky , and appear at length , to have wrought themselves into a state of maniacal frenzy . They have been apprehended , and committed for trial .
Military Emeute . —A series of very disgraceful fights have occurred between the Shropshire Militia and the 2 nd battalion of the Coldstream Guards , on the one hand , and the 30 th and 55 th Regiments of the Line , on . the other , all forming part of the garrison of Dublin . The disturbances spread , at intervals , over three days - but they are now suppressed . The Moore Tea Frauds . — It is whispered that a patient investigation made by the Customs authorities into the late tea frauds has ended in the discovery of the fact that tea has been sold by several houses in Dublin ,. besides that of the fugitive Moore , without the duty having been paid .
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AMERICA . The American papers appear just now to be chiefly engaged with the approaching war with the Mormons . The expedition is suffering severely from cold , and the cattle are dying very fast . The Mormons are said—but on doubtful authority—to have captured all the provisions , mules , and horses belonging to Colonel Johnston's army , so that the troops were absolutely obliged to march forthwith on Salt Lake City , or they would have perished by starvation in the mountains . The Mormons have fortified the passes , and plundered " and murdered emigrants . They are reported to have determined on making a desperate stand , and on hoisting the English flag , if necessary , which they conceive will animate all those of English birth ( of whom there are many ) to fight to the very last . They state that they are in constant secret communication with the English Government , and that England would send an army to the rescue , if she could find any possible avenue ! This preposterous story will of course deceive no one . Dr . Hurt , the only United States officer remaining in Utah after the flight of the other officials , has got off , and reached Colonel Johnston ' s camp on the Sweet Water . He was aided in his escape by a band of Utah Indians .
Walker , the Filibuster , and one hundred and fifty men , landed at Punta Arenas , in Nicaragua , on the 25 th of November , without the least attempt having been made to prevent them , although the steamer Fashion , in which they had arrived from Mobile , passed under the stem of the United States sloop-of-war Saratoga . Only ten men exhibited themselves on the Fashion ' s deck when passing the sloop-of-war , and the nature of her freight was not suspected . It is stated that Lieutenant Cilley , of the -Saratoga , who was on shore with two men , was ordered oft' by Walker , who , upon his telling
him that he was an American citizen and bad as good a right there as himself , replied that he had one hundred and fifty men to two ,. and that if he did not leave immediately he would arrest him . The Filibustering chief is said to be short of provisions , and it is anticipated that he and his band will bo starved out in six weeks . After the men were landed , the Fashion proceeded to Aspinwull , where Commodore Paulding , of the United Stutea frigate Wubash , attempted to Hoize her ; but , finding her papers correct , ho did not feel justified in taking any further steps .
Mr . Jarvis Sliido , of tho firm of Laurence Stone and Co ., Boston , has attempted to commit suicide . His mind was much distressed by the difficulties in which law firm hud been involved . A steamboat has boon burnt on lied Kivcr . Fifteen to twenty pontons noriahed . Several of tho dams in California have burst , " and nTHoirinfiTfn ^ e ~ lnv 8 "" b ccn- ~ donci- ~ -Soino--coiivloti » - ' « t-. Sonr ~ , — Francisco were unloading n wood bargo , whon it drifted uwuy . Tho guard , thinking thoy wore endeavouring to escape , fired a charge of grape ut them , killing three . Business in tho various parts of the United States continues to recover from the depression caused by the late panic . A horrible narrative has been published in the American papers with respect to tho application of Lynch law
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No . 106 , January 2 , 1858 . ] THE LEADER . 5
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 2, 1858, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2224/page/5/
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