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      W HEREVER we succeed in coming upon the Indian rebels we overthrow and disperse them ; but they take no end of killing finally and past recovery . The late mails and telegrams' from Calcutta exhibit that many-lived body the Gwalior Contingent still active , after the severe , chastisement that has been so recently inflicted upon it by General Roberts , Instead of holding Julra Patun , as they appeared to have decided upon when we lately heard of them , they plundered the treasury of the Rajah * supplied themselves with about forty smns , and then moved towards Bhopal . iSIet ,

      however , by the Mhow field force under General Mitchell ,- they were-once again beaten and dispersed in all * " directions , and thirty of their guns were captured . The news is , in fact , fuH of similar details ; a number of engagements have taken place , the result being always the same—enemy severely handled and dispersed , with trilling loss on our side . Two disarmed regiments , the G 2 nd and G 9 th Bengal Native Infantry , had mutinied on the 31 st of August , and had been " almost totally" exterminated ; and four emissaries of the Naua had been discovered endeavouring to tamper with the 25 th Bombay Native Infantry ; they were put to death .

      The news from China docs not add much to our knowledge of the actual state of our relations with the Government of the Celestial Empire . We have captured some more forts and knocked them to pieces , in retribution for a flag of truce fired upon at Namtow . The most important point of the news is , that one of the Chinese Commissioners who mot the Ambassadors in the north , and who is reputed to be a man of a conciliatory spirit , lias been appointed Viceroy of the Canton provincean arrangement which gives hopes of an amended condition of things there .

      Tho European news is of a very uneasy character with nn outward appearance of peace everywhere , there is everywhere tho readiness for war . Turkey , perhaps , is most threatened with tho scourge at present . In ail her Sclavonic provinces the warspirit is fermenting just below the surface , and may bur&t out at almost any moment . Tho enormous difference botweon tlio numbers of the Groek and Mussulman populations of Turkey in Europo is calling forth expressions of scorn and

      conpopulation as led the Governor to believe that the massacre of the Christian population was contemplated—a catastrophe by no means unlikely . In the mean time , two extra battalions are sent to keep the two parties from cutting each other ' s throats . Coming nearer home , we see Germany one vast camp , and already one state is in alarm at the appearance of this military activity . Sweden is

      understood to have sent a circular note to the different European Powers on the subject of Holstein , stating that measures of security must be taken in case the Federal troops should occupy the Duchy ; an eventuality by no means unlikely . France , again , is in an attitude of all but positive hostility to Portugal , whose , capital city of Lisbon is at this moment menaced by two French ships of war .

      The dispute between the French and Portuguese Governments has arisen out - © £ the capture of the Charles-Georges , a vessel found in one of the Portuguese harbours of the Mozambique some ten months back , under circumstances which left little doubt that she was engaged in direct slavetrading , and not in the mere transportation of " free emigrants" from the east coast of Africa . The ship was in a port closed against general commerce , and it had manacles on board . The vessel was condemned

      by a Portugues maritime tribunal as a good prize j but the French Government declare the seizure to have been illegal , and demand not only the restoration of the ship to her owner , but a large indemnity besides , and the refusal of the Portuguese Government to comply with these demands has resulted iu the threatening attitude taken by France . The case of Portugal is somewhat weakened if it is true ,

      as the French allege , that the Governor of Mozambique has long connived at the traffic , and had even issued regulations for the guidance of Portuguese subordinates and French shippers . No one believes that the matter will be wilfully pushed to extremes ; indeed , a friendly arbitration is already talked of ; but , in tho mean time , the position is one of anxiety and danger .

      and the remedy suggested by a local functionary that emigration should be forbidden by the Imperial Government , docs nothing towards curing the hopeless poverty which is at the bottom of the movement . Napoleon has about him those who sec the truth of tho case : will they prevail over the combined power of prejudice and interested intrigue ? In our own country the labouring classes , great as may be the hardships aud privations which they have to endure , are , at the present time , better off than ever they have been , both as to matorial and

      in which—if Paris does not too peremptorily claim its rights—Napoleon III . may some day be crowned by the Pope of Rome ; he does not appear at present inclined to indulge in that luxury of power ; lus dynasty , according to the Moniteur , " having already been consecrated by the generous blood shed on the battle-field , requires not to seek new elements of vitality in ancient traditions . " Certainly the attention of the Emperor and of his Government is better turned at the preseni

      moment to the condition of the trade of the country , and they have made an important step in the direction of that which promises to furnish a cure for many of the ailments under which it now labours . They have directed their consular agents in this country to collect opinions from the best sources as to the practical results of free- trade in England . "What those-opinions must be if they represent the facts of . the case there can be no doubt . Whether the French Government will have

      the courage to act upon the results of the inquiry is open to question ; the mind of the Emperor is probably , no doubt , eveii now made up ; and the solution of the present difficulties is forced on by the condition of vast numbers of the people , who can no longer make a living in the country under its present restrictive laws . "Whole districts , in the Basque provinces especially , are being sapped of their labouring classes , who are seeking iu America or elsewhere a free field for their labour :

      intellectual gain . The National Association for the Promotion of Social Science , which met for tho second time at the beginning of the week , at Liverpool , has been tho means of illustrating this fact in a striking manner . One fact is as good as many in support of ft statement ; and tho advance iu intelligence among the working classes was put beyond doubt by the statistics of Lord Brougham on the subject of " Popular Literature . " The Association is doing good service in the carrying forward of popular education , by making tho public tho arbiters and workers in their own course of social and

      Both in Russia and m Austria tho anticipated changes in the Government of Prussia , consequent upon tho final retirement of the King , and the transfer of tho rogal authority to tho hands of the Prince of Prussia , arc debated in a tone of unlooked-for friendliness . Tho Austrian Gazetto , in anticipation of objections that may be raised against the policy of the Regent as being detrimental to

      the Conservative principle , says that no set of men can possibly do so much harm to it as the Prussian Conservatives themselves have done . Already tho Regent hns t « la n tho reins in hand with a firm grasp . Tho homo administration is undergoing revision , and tho foreign servieo is also to bo amended .

      political improvement . On the subject of tho coming Reform Bill nothing has como out as to Ministerial intentions , At only one of tho numorous Agricultural Meetings of tho week " Have any of the , Ministry , or any ono iu authority , droppod tho lightest word concerning the mystorious production ; from Lord John Mannors wo got the bare fuot Hint Ministers arc oamostly working at tho construction of a Roform Bill ,

      • Francois busy with tho vintage , nnd with The imporial shows in , which it takes delight , After winding up tho military season al , Chalons with soino magnificent reviews , tho Emporor and Empress Have bgtakon thcmsolvos to lthcims , that city

      tempt on the part of tho rayahs ; and tho Turkish Govornmont is anxiously debating tho measures to bo taken for holding its own in tho face of this dangerous spirit . Tho Austrian Government has just ; issued a prohibition of the exportation of arms , or other war matdriel , into Sorviu , excopt in small quantities * and with tho permission of tho GoMprnmoul ; . ' ' But whilo ' tho flro is smouldering in Sorvia , Bulgaria , and Bosnia , and perhaps flaming up in Candia , whoro the Turks have boou making such tv demonstration against tho Greek

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      • — — " ; ,. QO . obismmai CORRESPONDENCE- I Notes on Indian Progress 1103 ¦ - .,. __ ,, ¦ rlcT West Coast of Africa 1038 ORIGINAL COKKfc&rumuc . Mw Restrictions on the Civil Service .. 1104 REVIEW OF THE WEEK- rAOt Mexico .... 1089 France „ ^ The Police Regiments 1104 National Association for tho Promo- Pem ,. 1089 Germany . ••¦•• -- . *}' % tion of Social Science 1034 Central America ' . ,, 1080 Schlesw ^ -Holstem H 02 MERCANTILE AND COMMERCIALCriminal Record l og pUB |_| C AFfAIRS ^ . Journal of an English Oihcer m % ^^^ ^ ££ ! Z = ™ S 8 S WiM ^^ = s SSSt ^ a 5 ^ s ^ ., io . ^ mgiBrj'& Zealand r : " : "' . - 1083 The London Postman ' s Double Theatres and Public . Entertain- Bank of England 1108 India ...::: 10 S 8 Knock at the Door of Justice . 1099 ments 1094 Ordinary Shares and Stocks 1109 CliiMa "" . " : " :::::: " .:: " . ' .. " . 10 S 8 Portraitures of the Royal lamily INDIAN PROGRESS- London Gazette ......... ; ...... Ill © fl ""^ - ^ " ^^;"" : ;; : ;;;;; :.:::::: ^ P ^^ fF ^ eshadowings :::::::::::: 28 transport and irrigation mmat * no » i Books b ^ v * tmswe * mo

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 16, 1858, page 1083, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2264/page/3/