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A POLITICAL AND LITERARY REVIEW .
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/ pHE late news from India must have made a deep JL and painful impression throughout the country . The death of Geaeral Havelock on the 25 th of November , a few days after the relief of Lucknow , is a national loss . Great as have been the deeds of many of his brethren in arms , there has not been another upon-whom the interest of all observers
has so completely centred . But deeply as we lament his loss , we draw some small consolation from the knowledge that , at least , he lived to see the women , children , and helpless ones , for whom he had so gallantly laboured and dared , finally placed in safety . It is consoling , too , to know that Parliament has provided for his family , even though he knew nothins of the fact . But he did know what
the country thought of him . Another painful item in the news is the one defeat which we have incurred . On the 27 th of November , General Windham engaged the Gwalior rebels , some eight thousand strong—a complete army , in fact , composed of infantry , cavalry , and artillery—and the British troops were obliged to retreat with the loss of the whole of their tents , which were bun \ ed by the enemy . Sir Colin Campbell at once left Lucknow for Cawnpore . In a message sent by him to the Governor-General , ho
states that , on tlio 7 th of December , he fought a battle with the Gwalior Contingent and totally defeated them , capturing sixteen guns , twenty-six carriages of various kinds , and an immense quantity of ammunition , stores , &c , comprising the whole baggage of the force . The dispersion of these Gwalior rebels , who have hung vulture-like upon the rear of the forces operating upon the capital of Oudc , will relieve Sir Colin Campbell from that anxiety , and enable him to act with freedom and decision as soon as the reinforcement of his forces
to its periodical relief , &c . The pay of the European regiments while on service in India will be defrayed out of the Indian revenue . All orders and regulations will be issued to it from the Horse Guards . The native army will be composed of merely local corps , and placed upon the footing of the local troops in our colonies . An outcry has already been raised at the great amount of patronage proposed to be placed at the disposal of one man , and that man a member of the Cabinet . The alarm is wholesome . One of the strongest signs of the importance attached to the promised Reform Bill is the circular , or manifesto , signed by thirty-one Liberal members of Parliament , which was issued a few days back . The document repudiates any other desire than that of awakening public attention to what the subscribers think ought to be the leading features of the new measure of Parliamentary Reform . The most consistent Radical Reformers throughout the country are taking up their ground , denning their position , and coming to an understanding with each other . Their object is , not to get up a separate agitation , but to be ready for dealing effectually with the whole subject when it comes before Parliament . The Prussian journals are full of speculations and anticipations of good results from the marriago of the son of the Prince of Prussia with a Princess Royal of England . That the Liberal cause gains an immense accession of strength by this alliance appears to bo generally felt . In England , and particularly in London , the details of the ceremony arc the all-important concerns of those who busy themselves with royal marriages . With all these persons the feeling uppermost is one of mortification that tho Chapel Royal at St . James ' s should have been selected in preference to tho Abbey . Balked of oven tho remotest chance of ' assisting ' at the show , they take out their vexation in condemning tho parsimony—or whatever other consideration it may have bocn—which has led Her Majesty to exclude her intorcstod and sympathizing peojilo from participating in tho coming national ceremony : — - —» - <—¦ ¦— -. — . r ~~~ - **~ ,-An important misooncoption , it seems , was at tho bottom of tho roport which was lately current on tho aubjcot of tho , so-oalled , Crown-jewols of Hanovor . Tho faot turns out to bo , that some of the jewels ( not tho ' regalia , as was said ) bolonging to George II . and to Queen Charlotte wore loft to tho Crown of Hanovor ; these having upon aevtsral occasions been claimed , Hun J 4 » AJ £ sty has lately
submitted the claim to competent legal authority , and its validity has been affirmed . So the matter rests . The unexplained departure of Lord Stratford de Redcliffe from Constantinople , with its attendant circumstances of an apparent desire on the part of his Lordship to avoid notice by declining the customary salute of cannon , set curiosity to work to discover the motive of the great diplomatist's absentment . The mystery , it is not too much to say , is still a mystery . Why Lord Stratford is not at this moment at his post—at which the death of Redschid Pacha , if confirmed , would make his presence extremely desired by all who hold by his Eastern policy—has not even been guessed at with anything like a probability of a near approach to the true reason . He has for many years desired to return to this country for family reasons , and for those reasons may now be on his way hither . But , e / i route , he has stopped at Vienna and Berlin , not merely for the sake of breaking a long journey , we may be sure . His next place is Paris , where , it is perfectly well understood , he will be received by tho Chief of the State as one of the highest authorities upon Eastern affairs . Altogether appearances are totally against the supposition that his return to England signifies the termination of his diplomatic career . As many suspected , the treaty , or protocol , which the Sjpectateur asserted to have been concluded between England and Austria ' some time last year / with the object of ' isolating' France in Europe , is uowhero to be found . The Fronch press has taken to tho subject with real good will , and has left tho Spectatetir with only one leg to stand upon—that of reiterating its story , and calling for confirmation , from Mr . Disraeli ! In its attempts at reply , it aflects to bo surprised that anybody should think its revelation so very remarkable . Tho journal most likely to be best informed on tho subjcot in this country certainly expresses no sort of surprise , but simply declares it to bo a ' weak invention of tho enemy . ' Tho samo journal gives tho dircotost contradiction to tho rumours which have bocn flying .. al ) Q . ut ^ of ^ ftJi > fffly . CMigo _ b ., ot . weon kord P ^ MBKajroy __ and tho Emporor Napoleon on iho affairs of China . Tho fuot of tho Frenoh Government having sont a force to Coohin-Chinn to demand satisfaction for wrongs dono to French missionaries , and insults oftbrod to tho Fronoh flag , appears to have formed tho ground , for thoeo reports . k Lj ££ * » those ftro only alorios for the O ) tffoty * 0 $ & ^'" \ to bo forgotten on this side of Tweltffc iflfii&VVfc ?) 3 * m 0 ™
oan bo brought up to the required numbor . Somo of tho points of Lord Palmerston's now Indian Government Bill have become known . Tho ^ Keo 3 ofTlTe ^ depaFlweirfof'tho now"Go " veTSinront * will bo a member of tho Cabinet , in whom . the patronage will bo vested . He will bo assisted by a small number of commissioners ; and his department , upon the whole , will not bo very dissimilar in its organization to the * Board of 'Admiralty . A considerable inoroa . 30 will bo made to tho European army in India , wliicu will bo plaoed upon exactly tho same footing as tho imperial army , with regard
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VOL . IX . No . - 4 , 07 . 1 SATURDAY , JANUARY 9 , 1858 . PBiCB { ggS ^; g- ^ SS ™ '
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 9, 1858, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2225/page/1/
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