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    John-street , Fitzroy-square—a celebrated place for revrfntionaiy gatherings—what he called " a funeral oration" on Felice Orsini , whom he highly eulogized . There was a numerous attendance . Tbe IiATB Douglas Jbrbold . —We are glad to see ? hat Mr . Blanehard Jerrold is about to commence , in the May part of the National Magazine , a series of articles on ' The Wit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold . ' They will make the publication in which they appear a colden beehive of bright and generous conceits . The Case op xhe Cagxiabi . —Dr . Travers Twiss , the Vicar-General , has published a long and elaborate opinion on this case . He conceives that the seizure and detention of the vessel is illegal . The Bishop of Jerusalem has been forbidden by the British consul to absent himself from Jerusalem for more than two hours at a time for the present , on account of certain arbitrary proceedings taken by him and others ag ainst a Christianized Jew , the only Protestant hotel-keeper in Jerusalem , and at present dragoman to our representative . The other enemies of the Israelite have been placed under the same prohibition . Mb . John Seawakd , the engineer , well known for various works which he has executed in connexion with iron bridges , docks , canals , &c , and for his improvements in steam-engines , died on Friday week at bis residence at Camden Town . A Result of the Niger Expedition . —The ship George arrived at Liverpool on Wednesday with a cargo of palm oil and ivory from Laird's Town , Africa , being the first commercial result of the Niger expedition sent out by Mr . Macgregor Laird , of London . The Passion Week Entertainments . —Although we may not indnlge in theatrical performances of the ordinary kind in Passion Week , we are not debarred from various kinds of recreation . During the present week the Pyne and Harrison Company have been singing at Dury Lane in a series of concerts given by themselves . On Tuesday evening Mr . Hullah gave the last ( for the present season ) of his orchestral concerts , to the regret of all lovers of music ; and , during the whole of the week , Miss Julia St . George has been attracting her admirers to Sadler ' s " Wells by a nraaical and dramatic entertainment , on the plan of Miss P . Horton ' s , called ' Home and Foreign Lyrics ' —a pleasant miscellany , of harmonious nationalities . On Wednesday evening , the . Sacred Harmonic Society gave its usual Passion Week performance at Exeter Hall of the Messiah , when the vocalists included Madame Castellan , Miss Dolby , Mr . Sims Reeves , and Mr . Thomas . The conductor was Mr . Costa ; and we need not say that the Hall was crowded .

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    The New India Bilx . and Lord Palmebston's Friends . —It is understood that a general meeting of the supporters of Lord Palmeraton ' s policy will bo held at Cambridge-houao , next Wednesday , for the purpose of taking into consideration the course they should adopt on tho second reading of the India Bill , introduced by the Government , and which is fixed for Monday , tho 10 th instant . —Morning Star . The Continent . —Lord Cowley vtill give a banquet and festival in honour of the Duo do MalakhofF , the new Ambassador to England , on the 8 th inst . —Tho Russian pianist , Rubinstein , ia now in Paris , creating tho greatest enlKBiAsnTin ^ tho ^ nous in their opinion of his powers , and describe his talent in glowing terms . Akothkk Suspkotkd Cask op Poisoning in Sus-JBBX . —Much excitement prevails in tho village of Alcbton In consequence of the death of an inhabitant under circumstances which have led to tho suspicion that ho has boon poisoned . Tho deceased was a labourer , PAQiod Stephen Boyo , who only survived his wife a few

    days . The inquest is adjourned , that Professor Taylor may make a post mortem examination . Mutiny and Mueder at Sea- —Considerable excitement has been caused at Sydney , Australia , by the arrival , on the 11 th of January , of the American whale ship , Junior , of new Bedford , in charge of her first officer , who reported that a mutiny had broken ont on board the vessel on Christmas-day , 'which had resulted in the murder of the captain and the third mate , and the desertion of the ship by the mutineers .

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    THE NEW INDIA Bltli . ( To the Editor of the Leader . " ) Sxb , —Of all the marvellous contrivances that Statecraft ever imagined , assuredly Mr . Disraeli's Bill for the construction of a Government for India is the most marvellous . It is difficult to read the details and to believe the proposal a serious one . The scheme might form some portion of an imaginary conversation upon ideal schemes of Government , in a chapter of a political novel ; but it is simply laughable to find it gravely put forth as the proposal of an actually existing Government .

    There is to be a Council of eighteen , nine of the members of which are to be appointed by the Crown , under the following restrictions ingeniously contrived to provide beforehand ^ an excuse , should the choice chance to fall upon men the least fitted for the office : — One of the nine , must have served 10 years in the Upper Provinces of India . One — — 10 yeaTs in Lower Bengal . One — — 10 years in Madras . One — — 10 years in Bombay . One — must have represented tlieCompany 5 years at some Native Court , and must have served the Company for 5 years besides in some other capacity . One — must be an officer in the Queen ' s army , who shall have served 5 . years in India . One — must have served 10 years in the Bengal army . One — — 10 years in the Madras army . One — — 10 years in the

    Bombay army . So far in the number of Councillors the complication seems sufficient . We have civilians and military men , diplomatists and warriors ; the one omission is that of the Navy : no naval officer , either of the Company or the Queen , may be named amongst the Nine . But look at the list which we have set down , for ease of reference , in tabular form . Could a more inept or clumsy system of qualification have been hit upon hap-hazard ? It must be the veriest chance whether the men of the most real Indian experience may have served out in each special province their several terms of ten years . A varied service must go for nothing . Be there ever so critical a juncture , tho fittest man for the occasion must never be removed from Bengal to Madras , or Madras to Bombay ; it would be fatal to his future chances of appointment amongst the Government Nine upon the Council . There would , however , be always nt hand , as an excuse for having set aside the man of most large-minded knowledge of India in favour of some one in more close alliance with tho Government of tho day , that the service of the right man was by a few months or days incomplete . But assuredly a certain number of years' residence in the country , whether in tho civil , military , or diplomatic eervice , is no proper test of capacity for its government . There are men of tlio Warren Hastings , the Clive , Wellington , Lawrence , Napier , or Havelock stamp , who gather morp knowledge and more power to use it well in five years than other men in flveand-twenty . But this time tent is to stand instead of the direct responsibility of tho advisors of the Crown to Parliament . They are to be spared tho responsibility of selecting the most advanced and nblcat men , and are to have prepared for them in tho « very ^ qoflstitiujtii . 9 . nj > fjtjj ^ council the answer for every failure , howover grievous or disgnftfefiiirtnotf the time-bound cirolo of selection loft them no bettor choice . So much for the Crown members of this marvellous mosaic of an Indian Council . Then there nro the Elective members again . We present them in tabular form : — Four are to be chosen by a so-called Indian conatituoncy , that is , by

    Proprietors of India Stock , Shareholders in Indian Railways , Residents in India for ten years . They may elect any one who has Served in India ten years ; or , Lived as a planter in India for fifteen years . How numerous and how variable this strangely mixed constituency would be it is Impossible to guess . Possibly , Indian Railway stock might rise in the market under influence of the hope of its share of the patronage . What a stir there must be in the luxurious precincts of the Oriental Club amongst those whose ten years' service or fifteen years * plantership place them in the category of candidates , entitled not only to enter upon the costly and laborious task—protracted often through years of canvassing—as of old the proprietors of India stock , but with the addition of hunting up in all corners of the country the shareholders , great and small , men

    and women , in Indian railroads , and all who one time or other had been dwellers in India for . ten years . The very idea of the thing is utterly childish and ludicrous . In what respect is this new constituency to surpass , in fitness to select the ablest men as rulers of India , the constituency of Indian proprietors as it is ? Is there to be found such marvellous wisdom amongst the proprietors of Indian Railway Stock and the ten years' retired residents that this extension of the franchise has become essential to the right choice of men for this Indian Council ? Why not apply the newly invented principle to our own Parliament , and give votes and proportion of members to every holder of stock in all our multitude of railways ? If good for Indian , surely it must be good for English government . But this is not the end of the devices for gathering into the model Council the choicest examples of national wisdom . Five other members are to be

    elected : One by London . „ Manchester . „ Liverpool . „ Glasgow . „ Belfast . These are to be chosen by the Parliamentary constituencies of the five favoured towns , as they are , or as they may be amended . And , again , the choice is not to be a free choice . The candidates must either have been employed in commerce with India five years or have lived there ten years . Those under the first head must be pretty numerous in every one of the electing towns . There could hardly be a cotton spinner , or cotton broker , or silk manufacturer , or wine merchant , or Bitter Beer , or Porter brewer not duly qualified to become a candidate for a seat at the Indian Council and 1000 J . a year . Parliamentary elections are admittedly bad enough , but in all matters of bribery , coercion , fraud , and corruption , they would be thrown into the veriest shade by these elections for the Indian Board . Howmuch it would pay to spend upon votes for the chance of the lOOO / . a year could be easily calculated ; and for the rest , for the better class of voters , the patronage would be Bribery in perpetuity . Let any one who has ever witnessed the disgraceful scenes of a hotly-contested election at Liverpool testify how far the election of Indian councilmen to receive a thousand a year and bestow appointments in India would tend to mend the morals of the town . Party spirit would be more violently brought into action than ever ; the votes of the old freemen , having in the Indian case a determinate value , would rise in price—the old floodgates of treating and bribing would be once more thrown open—the Indian adviser of the Crown , the eighteenth-part governor of 150 , 000 , 000 people , would be floated into the Council upon a sea of Beer , by a majority of purchased votes , and would take his seat as an independent member , half ruined by the cost of the contest and weighed down with tho load of promiaed

    appointments . But the truth is , this Bill was never meant to pass—it was never brought forward with the intention of its becoming law . It haa no other aim thau thutofaDissblution . The idea , doubtless , was that this elective council would bo popular , that at least the five towns would stand by it . Unhappily for the author of the device , the people of England look upon the governing of Jndiu as a stern reality , just now very momentouo . They consider , too , that India is , at the present moment , not at all in a condition for raw experiments in governing . They know the world is looking seriously on , and that nations of every tongue , and people of every land , are asking one of the other , How will England set tliis Indian matter right ?—how place this distant limb of her empire in a condition of amendment and of progress ? Assuredly not by this dovice-of-a-Gouncy ^ Ki « ierjA ^ i ^ n 3 U 8 tJ ^ goy ^ rned , as tho rest of our dominions , by tho Executive unntlB = ^ takably responsible to Parliament , or it must be left to govern itself . No Metropolitan Board of Works , constitution , witli a Thwaites of its own and endless talk , cun over rule that mighty Empire I am , Sir , yours faithfully , SiMPiaoiTA 8 .

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    Leai > er Office , Saturday , April 3 rd . AMERICA . The news by the Kangaroo , which arrived yesterday morning , is of average importance . The Kansas bill was still being delayed in the Senate . The bill providing for an increase in the army had been passed by the House of Kepresentatives ; it provides for the organization of regiments of mounted men for the defence of the frontier of Texas , and authorizes the President to employ four regiments of volunteers to quell the disturbances in Utah , to protect emigrant trains , and to keep the Indians of the north-west in order . " The House Committee on Foreign Affairs , " says the New York Herald , " are now considering the propriety « f abrogating the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty . It is highly probable they may report in favour of its immediate abrogation . " The ship Adriatic , which escaped from the French authorities at Marseilles , had arrived out at Savannah . The New York State Senate has adopted a resolution condemning the Kansas policy of Mr . Buchanan ' s administration . The Collins' steamers were to be sold at action , in New York , on the 1 st of April . A fight has occurred in tho New York House of Assembly between two members , and one of them ( Mr . Chatfield ) was taken Into custody by the serjeant-at-arms .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), April 3, 1858, page 321, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2237/page/9/