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tantia Topie ' s family of twelve persons has been captured and sent into Gwalior . In the Shahabad district one day forty rebels , another day ten , another one hundred or more , are Wounded , taken , or killed . In Behar there is constant skirmishing with rebels without much variation in the results ; the enemy are -always defeated . „ The Governor of Bombay , Lord Elphinstone , and all the high dignitaries are at Poona , whereran opera , the first in India , has been played with the utmost success . Lord Harris , the Governor of Madras , is very ill- He has had a paralytic stroke , and his physicians recommend his immediate departure . It is understood that Sir John Lawrence will be requested to accept the vacant appointment , but it is doubtful whether he will be induced to consent . His health has also suffered . The Naval Brigade of the Shannon arrived in Calcutta on the 14 th of August , and were received by the President in Council , and all the officers of Government ; 20 , 000 natives and Europeans turned out to see the reception . The brigade is reduced to 370 men , the majority of whom are lads of twenty .
OUR SIKH ALLIES . The special correspondent of the Times writes :-r- " The affair at Dera Ismail Khan , which has been exaggerated by some , as-it has been undervalued by others , has given rise to much uneasiness . The principal significance and danger of the conspiracy were to be found in the fact that they are Sikhs—even though they are Malwawho have been conspiring against us . A Sikh rebellion now would be all but fatal to our empire . It is but nine years since they were our most deadly foes , as they have just been our best allies . Our danger arises from their inactivity . The army trained by Runjeet Singh's lieutenants could not rest till they had crossed the Sutlej
last utter distrust takes its place . What becomes of your message ? Who knows ? It escapes on the way -it is diluted into nothing—it flies into the ground , or the air , or down the posts , or is lost in a battery , or becomes a joke for a dull clerk at a repeating station . About a month ago I sent a message from TJmballah to Calmtta . As I received no reply I wrote to the gentleman respecting its subject matter , and he , in his answer a fortnight after , said— "I have received no telegraph message from 3 * ou . It is , no doubt , on the road , and will turn up gome time or another . "
and invited defeat , simply because they had nothing else to dp . The army raised by Sir John Lawrence to save India may be equally restless , and there is reason , indeed , to believe that Prometheus is afraid of his own creation—not afraid in a cowardly sense , but alive to the dangers which may arise from an undesirable exercise of his giant strength . They are well mixed up with our own regiments , and they are without artillery * but still they muster 75 , 000 horse and foot . Now they are gorged with plunder , and so far are contented . But every step must be watched , and it must not be forgotten that Sikhs were often the foremost and bloodiest , as being the most daring and resolute , in . the late mutinies" * . ¦
. . . « UUk > l «* VWt , - - - - THE NASA SAHIB . The position of this adventurer is thus described by the correspondent of a morning contemporary : — "The Nana Sahib is separated from his harem and the female relatives of the Peishwa whom he protected , and has retired to the jungles in despair . He has apparently abandoned all active share in the councils of the enemy , and now only seeks his own safety . If he have a conscience , a memory , or remorse , as no doubt he has coward fears , the Furies are already avenging Cawnpore , and his life must be one long torture . The Mussulmans view him with horror , for he has murdered women and
children , and Prince Ferozeshah has not hesitated in his public proclamation to assign those massacres as -chief among the causes why Heaven has inflicted defeat after defeat upon the armies of the Faithful . The Nana has still a considerable following , estimated at 2000 men , of whom the greater part are cavalry , stationed all round his hiding-place , and at present there is little chance of our securing him . He is accompanied in his dreary seclusion by that Minister of all evil , Azimoola Khan , once the pet of some London drawing-rooms and of BOine English ladies , and by many others of his immediate dependents . "
THE TELKGKAFH IN INDIA . Mr . Russell writes to the Times ;— "The Indian electric telegraph system is in a most imperfect and unsatisfactory state . For the purposes of Government and for the transmission of despatches it is , perhaps , adequate enough , but even ' for those purposes it sometimes failed . Posta hastily erected fell or wore blown down , nnd interruptions occurred , which were , however , rapidly remedied by the activity of the European officers of the department . It must , however , be fairly stated that as far as the public are concerned , the electric telegraph in India is conducted with such utter indifference to good faith that it is practically a swindle , nnd nothing else or less . They take your money , receive your messageand
, there is an end of the transaction . The gentlemen connected with the department , having no public opinion nor official censure to dread , are supremely indifferent to the abuses which exist in it , and their indifference permeates , the ignorant half-castes , who , in default of those whom higher wagca would secure , are employed as clerks , and who succeed in mangling beyond recognition ouch messages na they aro pleased to transmit . There is some extraordinary want of Insulation in the official wiroa of the establishment . As , I sa | d ryou go to the oiHco , deliver your message , pay the money , which it is a fraud to take if the meaeage la not sent , and then you depart , nt first with confidence , which fust diminishes with each message , till at
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CHINA . Advices from Hong ^ Kong are to the 12 th of August : —The Viceroy of the province of Canton , had received news of the conclusion of a treaty of peace , and had immediately announced it to the Cantonese . The immediate effect was a cessation of the rocket and gun firing at night , so that the garrison at Canton was able once more to sleep in peace . It was hoped that these first fruits of the treaty would be permanent , and that the kidnapping and similar dastardly modes of warfare practised by the braves would cease . The Russian envoy remained at Tien-tsin . A large number of Russian ships and steamers were in the vicinity of , or on their way to , the Pei-ho . The allied fleet had dispersed from the Pei-ho .
Lord Elgin and Sir Michael Seymour have proceeded from Shanghai to Japan . The presence of the latter is much required at Canton , where the state of things does not improve . Sir Michael Seymour , after visiting Japan , was expected to arrive at Canton about the middle of September . Lord Elgin was to return from Japan to Shanghai to meet the Commissioners that are to be sent down from Pekin . The British Consulate has again retired from Canton , and only one or two foreigners are at present up there .
In consequence of the great inconvenience felt at Hong-Kong by foreigners , -as well as Chinese , from the edicts of the mandarins ordering the people and servants away , an address was presented to Sir John Bowring , requesting him to take the matter into consideration , and with the assistance of the senior naval officer to adopt some measure that would counteract the-orders of the mandarins . A proclamation was issued by Sir John announcing the conclusion of peace ; and stating that-if the edicts in question were not immediately withdrawn , and the people allowed to return to their business , the persons to whom the hostile acts should he traced
would be liable' to signal punishment as enemies of Great Britain , and rebels against the authority of the Emperor . Some copies of this proclamation were posted up in the suburbs of Namtow ; but an attempt to distribute others from the gunboat Starling was met by an attack upon the crew by hundreds of Chinese sailors , notwithstanding the boat carried a flag of truce . One English sailor was shot . General Straubenzee and a large force from Canton , with several gunboats from Hong-Kong , had proceeded to Namtow to inflict punishment on the authorities of that place for firing upon one of our boats with a flag of truce .
Mr . Chisholm" Anstey . —The China Mail of August 10 mentions the suspension , from the office of Attorney-General , of Mr . Chisholm Ans , tey , " who , " it says , " has acted towards the Governor and other officials in a manner which necessitated the step . Mr . Anstey ' s character nnd failings are so well known in England that his suspension will not cause any surprise , however the necessity of it may be regretted there , as it certainly is here , by all who have observed his honesty of purpose and his skill in dealing with Chinese witnesses . . Mr . Day , the senior counsel in the colony after Dr . Bridges , who still acts as Colonial Secretary , will take his place in tho interim as Attorney-General . "
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PERSIA . Somic explanatory communications on the ministerial crisis at Teheran , which has resulted in the abolition of the Vizierate , have been received . They still leave tho matter somewhat mysterious . The Shah , it is said , has discovered the real cause of the late war with England , and' therefore has dismissed the Vizier . This seems to mean that he has discovered the Vizier to have been bribed by Russia to advise those steps which brought on the war . There is now to bo a regular Persian ministry , without a Vizier , consisting of five , among whom are a French officer , who holds tho grade of general of division in the Persian army , and Ferruck Khan , well known by his recent missious ' to Europe , the former as Minister of War and tho latter as Minister of Foreign Affairs . Ferruck Khan , who is at Constantinople , proparos , now his groat enemy , tho Siulr Azain , has fallen , to return to Teheran , having succeeded in arranging the frontier difficulties with Turkey in a satisfactory manner . In an interview which tho British Minister at Teheran had with the . Shah , after tho catastrophe of tho Sadr , tho Shah explained how all tho dissensions and tho wa , r
with England had been the work of the disgraced man and how all such things will be in future avoided no \« that he has taken the government into his own hands .
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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . The Athens arrived at Plymouth on Monday , bringing intelligence to the 24 th of August . The Governor waa en route for the free state to adjudicate between the Boers and Moshesh , but had not crossed the frontier boundary . Union with the Cape colony has become a very favourite idea with the people of the free state of the Basutos . The preparations for the elections were going on briskly in the colony . Candidates are numerous , but differ but little in . the political measures they advocate . The general election commenced in September . The missionary party , consisting of Mr . Moffatt and wife , Mr . Moffatt , jun ., and wife , and the wife of Dr . Livingstone , were to leave shortly for the interior . The missionaries for the Makololos and Matabelos will not accompany them , but leave a month afterwards . Colonel von Haken , of the British Legion , a Waterloo hero , who fought under Blucher , died recently in Caffraria . - It is expected that the second battalion of the 60 th Rifles and the 26 th Regiment will leave the Cape shortly for India . The steamship Megsera and an East India Company ' s war steamer were embarking horses in Simon ' s Bay . '
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BRAZIL . The Tarnar has brought news from Rio to the 8 th September . There is no political news . The Bank of Brazil , apprehensive of a run on the gold in the bank coffers , raised the rate of discount on the 25 th August to 11 per cent ; At Bahia the weather had been unusually stormy and tempestuous , which prevented supplies and shipments , and in a great measure put a stop to business . On the 7 th September a partial eclipse of the sun took place ; about one-third covered at its height . A heavy south gale set in with a tremendous sea , which lasted four days . Blany accidents occurred in the bay and on shore . The port is healthy , and prospects of crop good . The weather at Pernambuco had also been very stormy , and operations for the coming crop of sugar were entirely suspended from bad weather . Some temporary interruption in the traffic of the railway had been caused by the washing away of a portion of the embankment .
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WEST INDIES . The Parana has arrived at Southampton with the West India mail . The West India " Islands are healthy , and full average crops have been gathered . The weather throughout the whole of these colonies has been dry . There is no news of any interest .
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AMERICA . We have dates from New York to the 22 nd ult . There is little political news . Two more steamers for the expedition to Paraguay were ready , and expected to sail immediately . General William Walker and Colonel Natzmer sailed from New York , on the 20 th ult ., for Aspinwall , it is said on a filibustering expedition to Nicaragua . An attempt of some coloured residents to burn the city of Belize had been frustrated and the incendiaries apprehended . The frigate Niagara had sailed with the captured negroes taken from the Echo , for Africa ; The young English girl taken from the Mormons has been sent to the States , where she will be placed under British authorities .
A duel was fought at New Orleans on the 18 th ultimo between Mr . Wood , of the True Delta , and Mr . Brabazon . The weapons used were rifles , of which three rounds wore fired , neither party being hurt . A now screw-propeller called the Grand Admiral has been built at a New York ship-yard for the Russian , navy . She is pronounced to be one of the finest specimens of naval architecture ever launched in the port of New York . Yellow fever continued to prevail with great virulence at New Orleans . The deaths during thirty hours on the 20 th numbered 107 . The Mayor of Charleston , South Carolina , hadappolntcd a day of humiliation and prayer .
There is a report afloat here that the United States Minister at Granada has demanded the sum of six millions of dollars as indemnity for tho destruction of property of American citizens in Nicaragua , and tho murder of innocent Americans , during tho lato filibuster war . Letters from Groytown announce that tho transit has not commenced across tho Isthmus , though tho New-York papers say It certainl y , will bo rooponed during Cjfi toiler - ¦ The following Is from JIalifnx , dated September 28 rd ' — "Wo loam by telegraph from Newfoundland that satisfactory signals havo been received at Xrlnlty Bay during tho post threo days . "
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fro . 446 , October 9 , 1858 . ] THE L E A 1 ) E , if . __ 1057
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 9, 1858, page 1057, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2263/page/9/
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