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COMPENSATION TO INDIAN SUFFEltEIlS.
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POACHING AFEItAYrf.
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furnish the working-class with a grievance in the shape of a sham measure , which , when its results are known , will widen the breach of distrust that yawns between our ranks ; and when the lime of excitement comes—and come it surely will—the masses will move by their' -own impulse as a separate order , and not , as we should wish to see , as a portion of a social whole .
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rinHE late Assizes have been remarkable for the trials of even more J- poachers than usual . Their victims have long since been put to rest under the village yew-tree- ; the grass is already green above their breasts ; the spring flowers are already growing- above them and cringing before , the winds of this bleak April . Their murderers , chained ' and sullen , are brooding over their crime 3 in the comity gaols , und waiting : for the convict ship or the juggling scaffold , high above the prison-gate . Even during the time the very judges have been sitting fresh lnimlers have been ¦ committed , fresh blood has been spilt on the bright English turf ; the very country paper before us even tells us how a Beechwood keeper has just had his carotid artery , jugular Vein and nerves , and part of his Windpipe carried away by the shot from a poacher ' s . gun .... Another- tells us how a poacher was shot at ltedliurst , and the loose pellets were found with the scorched wadding ( part of an obscene song ) dropped into the lower cavity of the chest;—almost daily , indeed , throughout the season ( from the orange to the green ) some life is sacrificed for the
sake of a bare or a partridge . . Far be it fro in us to lament , the acquisitiveness that leads men to buy land or to accumulate property * It is that " earth-hunger , " as E . viEiiso > r calls it . that makes nations rich , and that invites our own race to such restless endeavours and to such noble enterprises . It is the instinct that drives us to sea and to commerce . It is the impulse that makes us accumulate , and that makes ivs not only heap up , but preserve what we have heaped up . It is only when greedy , timid , and sel f ish , that capital and property becomes detestable . If property has claims ,-it has duties too , and it is when it neglects these that it becomes a hateful burden on the lan : l . Unfortunately it has too often a tendency to become thus grasping , exacting , and selfish . The game laws , when too severely pressed , form one of the worst specimens of this tyrannous selfishness ; . ¦
Let us argue by selecting an imaginary instance , that may embody all the worst features of the abuses we point to , and serve as the type of a too numerous class . We will tu !; e that illustrious family , the Ulazeaways , of Bhizeaway Castle , llamshill . Beautiful place Blazeaway Castle—park a perfect Eden—a great aviary vibrating with song , —artificial water , with < i fleet 6 t swans' —trees old as the Norman race , half of them with names and legends of their own ; fifty horsemen might find shelter und it their branches . "Park entered through a Sir < J ma stop nun VVkkn gateway , and crowned with the Bi . / lxkawax arms . As for the woods , they are ' so full of pheasant * , that their bronchitis gurgle is heard everywhere- the rabbits'run races all day arnpn " the furze ;< , be hares big us dogs , canter about the bushes , and tlie partridges run about the stubbles , numerous as sparrows in a farm-yurd . irit of
The worst sort of groedincss into which the- sp property can develop itself unfortunately animates the ] 3 i , azka . wayh , Tuey ringfence this and they quiekset-hodyo that ; and we really bulitjve , if it were possible , they would wall in the very bluo air Unclf , and liave the great bosoming while clouds that float over the cuhllu marked at the corners with the l $ r , A . ZKA . WAV name and crewt , just us if they were JJla ^ kaway sheets or tublo-clothrt blown loose , We bulievo they would tithe-and lull the very oxygon of the JUmshill air , it they could only get it bottled safely off and clapped down , under lock and key , in the va . st Blawcawa y collar . Sir JUuxiioi . OMKW JJi . a » kaway is not a very good landlord , but ho is an excellent game prusorver , and when the Honourable Mr . PiUiY and the ltight Jlloijourablo Mr . J ) , \ m , v , two risingyouii " diplomatists , coino down nhonsmnt-shootiug , they a ways , over tho Blakisaway port , tell him as immli . His poor people h cottngps nro more lever traps and uguu dcn . s , but his pheasants are tho laltest brought to lianistown nnirkot .
, A small army of fiib keepers nur . su and pot tluwo iniuirooriiblo pheasant * . Duscons of rabhitrt nro daily boilod and clmppod up toy the young birds . Hundreds of I'tftfi * und tons ol Hour help to hwuII thuiii out , much to thu envy und admiration of thy leuii vil nycrs , who no moru duro touch those corpulent birds than n Punuh dare cut a Hteuk oil 11 Brahmin cow . Tlio « o birds are wwrod , und they know it , for they torniont thu fanners anil cat uvurytlilng they grow
/ 11 * u vy ¦ Dima' and Dam , v onjoy tlio autumn Ijiittiioa moro thon wo should Thoy reilir » h walking into woods Mulled Jnll <» l thi'no blmitoa birds , tmno us fowls with thoir daily JWllny , and knocking them ovur lilie ninu-niiiH . Thu funio nud glory wo do nut >< c « r , but wo HiinuoHti thoy do , iw they aro trained to hoo vory hiruito political niA stonoH . It i » n Krnml moment lor thorn whim Lint Uoti \ wv ; niii < ea up thoir score , mid eull « out "The Homnirublo Mr . Diu . v , M * — being about ono a minute .
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A PETITION was presented the other evening to the House of Commons , by Lord Stanley , to ¦ which we wish to direct attention in anticipation of any discussion on the subject . About the end of last session Government awarded the sum of one million sterling- as compensation , to sufferers by the Indian mutiny , and thut " siini will how very-shortly be distributed in India , of course out of Indian resources . The demands for compensation amount to about two millions and a-half sterling , including the claims of the Indian Life Insurance Companies for nn aggregate of about £ 100 , 000 sterling-, being the extent of their interest in lives massacred d / ir ' ni / j the insurrection . "W e think it a case of exceeding hardship that these institutions have been refused any share in the million sterling awarded as compensation . We believe it to be impossible for any one to read the petition , and other statements put forward by the insurance ollices in support of the claim , / without arriving at a eonviction that their ease lias either , been ' wholly misunderstood , ¦ or , ' more , likely , never seriously considered at all ; and that a great injustice will be done . to them , and a grave political ¦ b lunder committed , if they are not permitted to rank with the other claimants for compensation . Now this is no light matter :. These petitioners represent from four thousand to five thousand independent Englishmen' settled in India , who-. have purchased life insurances or anmiities , of the contingent value of nine millions sterling . How does the Indian minister treat the claims of those men , many of whom fought most gallantly for the maintenance of British supremacy during the ' rebellion , and all of whom it should now be the especial policy of the State to conciliate and encourage ? They have been barely allowed a hearing at the India House . In the face of a pledge to have the ease seriously considered by his Council , the Secretary of State for India has shelved their claims , wit hout , it is believed , any reference to the members of his Council at all ; without , in fact , having ever given the matter any patient or conscientious attention . It is on this account that an appeal : has been , made to tlie House of Commons . The petitioners are strong in the justice of their cause , and they feel aggrieved at the scant consideration bestowed on a large Indian interest by the functionary whose especial province and duty it is to give Indian interests his attention . We do not wish to open up the whole case of the petitioners , but there are one or two facts in their favour which lie on the very surface , and to which we invite attention . In the i ' irs-t place , we defy any one to show why , the Indian Service Funds being indemnified for their losses by the insurrection , compensation can be fairly refused to the Life Insurance Offices . Not only so , but ' we conceive it to be in the , highest degree politically ' inc . vpedient that Government should draw a clear Hue of demarcation between their own employes and the indepemloi . it Iiulimi public at large . This they are now doing in the most unblushing wanner . Sir Chaiujss Wood practically tolls the Indian civil servant ,-with his . € 300 a month and £ 1 , 000 a year annuity in expectation , that the fund to which lie subscribes will bo indemnified ; but to the provident hard-working railway engineer , or indigo planter , contributories to im Insurance Ofnco , lie haughtily declines to give anything . It appears also that numbers of policy-holders in these Indian Life Insurance offices being civilians , were , when tlio storm of rebellion burst over India , invited by the Government authorities to defend treasure or other property belonging to the Stato , and not a few of them fell with arms in their hands while engaged in that dofe ' noo . We cannot believe it possible that compensation is utterly denied to the Insurance OlHcos in respect of such cases as theso . It would be simple robbery to make the shareholders and policy-holders of the Lifo Insurance Offices pay for loss so occasioned ; and the hardship is , vastly increased to thu lifo oflieps , when it is borne in wind that in many cases thorc was no legal liability on thorn to pay these claims , tho lives assured being civilians , and having undertaken military risk , ' contrary to the conditions of their polioies . Again ; perhaps thu darkest incident in tho whole of that terrible history is tho mnssucro of Cawnpor . o ; Out of about 1 , 100 Europeans only two escaped , Wlioju families perished , numbers of the victims being insured in the Calcutta olljeca . Those institutions nobly gave \» p their books to tho Adniimsrtrntor-Gonernl of Bengal , and invited him to ronlwj sums
insured , for the benefit of any surviving legal heirs who might appear . In ninny eases there are no heirs , and considerable sums arc ,, it' is ¦ believed , in tlie hands of the Administrator-. . General , which , unless refunded to ' -t . h ' r offices , will pass to the State . These sums , we presume , will of- course lx- repaid to the Life-insurance Offices , other-wise . Govemindit ¦ will b :. in the position of deriving profit and advantage , from ilu- murderous crimes of its own servants . We have said enough , we trust , to prove that 'the ' - ' claim of tlie Life Insurance Societies to he permitted , to share in the million sterling compensation are worthy the ' fair . consideration of the House of Commons , and to that tribunal we would confidently leave them .
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April 21 , 1860 . 1 The Leader mid Saturday Analyst . 373
Compensation To Indian Suffelteils.
COMPENSATION TO INDIAN SUFFEltEllS .
Poaching Afeitayrf.
POACHING AFEltAYrf .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 21, 1860, page 373, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2344/page/9/
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