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WITH the help of a little patience and the exercise of a little imagination we make out of the fog of ill-spelled telegraphic communications which have come to hand in anticipation of the next Bombay mail , that the fortnight ' Indian news , of which we are supposed to have a res-ut / ie , is , u ] 3 on the whole , of a satisfactory character . In the first place * the Royal Proclamation is reported to have l > een published throughout India on the 1 st of November , and , according to the reporter , has ' •' given satisfaction to all parties . " Upon this point we shall be better able to judge after the arrival of the next two or three mails . In the
incan-iime , the campaign in Gude has been commenced , but we are left in the dark as to what has been done , except as regards one or two minor successes achieved by our troops at places not to be found on any map of India yet published . The more positive points of the news are : that , for the fourth time , General Michel has swooped down upon the remains of that nine-lived Central India force of rebels led by Tantia Topee .
Flying southward , after his defeat on the Betwa , Tantia Topee , stopped to rest his wearied men near Currcc ; here General Michel fell upon him , and , besides slaying a large number of his followers , took all the guns in the field , and sent him once iuovc flying for his life . He has succeeded in milking Us way into the Sindwarra country , north of Nngporc ; and there is a report that , tired of the game he has so long been playing , he lmtl sent an emissary to inquire on what terms he may surrender .
In ono way or another , the affairs of the Ionian Isknds promise to give no little trouble to the Government . As a foundation for party operations they have been seized upon , and every one of them charged and primed to blow up and scatter the combinations of Sir John Young and of her Majesty ' s Lord High Commissioner Extraordinary togcthor . But without nny rahncrslo * wan manipulation , the subject of Mr , Gludstoiio'a mission is made dillioult enough by the loniaua themselves . Sir Edward Bulwcr Lytton lias written to Sir John Young to announce tho
coming of Mr , Gladstone , and the objects of his mission ; and Sir John Young has communicated the Colonial Scorolary ' s despatch to the Senate of tl » o Ionian Islands . " Tho publication of tho despatch to tho Lord High Commissioner , " says the GoYommont organ , "lias produced tho happiest results , and disposod the lonians to' receive with favour and respooi nny prudent suggestions lor Mipraving the administration of their affairs under British protection . " But it is tiifliouU to aocopt Jus assurance in tho face of tho protest outorod by t iQ Parliamentary representatives of Corfu against w «> statomont of Six John Young : they do not
desire to draw the relations between their island and Great Britain any closer than they are . However , Mr . Gladstone , who reached Corfu 031 the 24-th of November , is now on the field of his labovirs , and , whatever may be the complications he finds there , we may look for at least an intelligible account of them from him . Meanwhile , we have the mystery of the purloined despatches ]) artly cleared up . In spite of the suspicions of some , of the ill-wishes of many , the publication of these despatches appears
to have been entirely without the cognizance of the Government . According to a charge officially made at Bow-street , a Mr . William Hudson Guernsey , talcing advantage of the temj ) orary absence of Mr . Miller , sub-librarian of the Colonial Oilice , from the library of that establishment , where . he had been admitted on private business with Mr . Miller , surreptitiously carried off the documents . from the library-table , and for some reason or purpose not at present clearly explained , published them in the Daily News . He is committed for trial .
In connexion with colonial affairs , tvc have reports of a complimentary dinner given by the leading citizens of Toronto to Lord Bury on the 13 th of November , Lord Bury has settled the story which was current at the time of lu ' s departure from England , which affirmed that ho had gone to Canada on an official , or at least semi-official , mission : he said , " I am here in no political capacity- whatever . " But Lord Bury has long taken a public interest in the affairs of Canada , and on the question of a fcderalisalion of the States of British North America , he said , " As I happen to be on
What a wonderful art the Emperor Napoleon ha ! of winning hearts . and heads ! With what admiring surprise did Christendom note his mode of recog " nising the anniversary of that glorious political event the coup d ' etat ! Moutalembert pardoned ! —rpardoned " on the occasion of the anniversary of the 2 nd of December " Great and touching clemency ! How can Count Moutalembert have the heart to decline it , ? How could he bring himself to write such words as these in answer to the
Moniteur ' s announcement of the Emperor ' s grace ? " Condemned on the 14 thof November , I lodged , within the time specified by the haw , an appeal against the sentence of which I am the object . No power in Prance has the right to remit a penalty which is not definitive . I am one of those who still believe in right , and will accept no favour . " "Whose face has Count Montaleinbcrt now struck ? Not that of Prance .
James has no apparent power to transfer the land c which , in tlie first instance , he made himself maste by force of arms , and over which his right of rul was , confirmed by the sovereign of Borneo ttnde conditions that put any act of sale or transfer ou of the question . At all events , Lord Derby and hi coadjutors are not prepared to entertain the offe made by Sir James Brooke ' s friends . At the head pf the continental news of thii week , as last week , is the name of Montalembert
" Gentlemen , let us be prepared , for it may happen that next spring we shall again have to smell gunpowder , " said the King of Sardinia , lately to some of the high military officers about him , ou the occasion of a review . An attempt was made by the French press to deny or explain away the very striking words in which Victor Emmanuel chose to let a large cat out of the bag . There
very good terms with ninny of the Ministry , Ishallnot scruple on any return home to communicate to them anything I may observe as to what is tho feeling of Canada ou that subject . " Themoreimmcdiatoobjcot of Lord Bury ' s visit to Canada , as ho explained , is to enlist ihc interest of that country ia tho formation of a wcokly line of steamers between Gnlway and Quebec - , and not only is he empowered to make arrangements to ( hat cud , but he is further empowered to conclude with Canada tuul the other provinces tho terms upon whioh a railway into the interior , from Quebec to Halifax , may bo carried oui .
ennnot be a reasonable doubt as to the perturbed state of Italy at present . At Milan , wo have the Italian population almost in arms against their lintcd Austrian rulers . A few clays back wo h . a , d accounts of " political arrests" at Ancoua ; and yestorday one of the London papers announced that it had received news from Italy of such a serious character as to induoe the editor to withhold it until it had received confirmation . But whother
Tho friends of Sir Jamos Brooke liovo made another attempt to induce her Majcuty ' s Government to become tho possessors of that celebrated little district in I ho island of Borneo called Sarawak . They waited on Lord Derby on Tuesday , and Mr . Crawford , onoof the mcnibons far ( he City of London , nctod as principal spokesman , and slated to Lord Derby very many reasons why tho possession of this advantageous position in the Indian Archipelago will bo nioro and more tlosirablo as a ooaliug and telegraphic station on the road to China , But thore is , as there has boon from tho first , a grand difficulty in tho way of tho transfer of territory whioh Sir James Brooko wishes to uccompLbh : il i * that Sir
our morning contemporary ' s Italian news bo confirmod or not , tho fact will bofore long manifest that , as a writer in tho Continental Review says , " Italy is all ou fire . " Austria is working with strained oncrgy to arm herself with naval protection on tho seaboard of her Italian dependencies ; and ovory day her- relations with Franco arc becoming loss amicable . Tho rendinoss of Piedmont looks like a result of tho conforonces at Plombi ^ os ; and tho King ' s reference to tho possibilities of tho coming " spring , " suggosts his Majesty ' s eagerness for tho completion of tho bargain whioh , it is said , is to give him a greatly extended territory and to mjiko Louis Napoleon , ftinff of Koine ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 4, 1858, page 1307, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2271/page/3/
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