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      No. 450, November 6, 1858.] The Leader. ...

      No . 450 , November 6 , 1858 . ] THE LEADER . 1201

      The Number Of Soldiers' Children In The ...

      The number of soldiers' children in the Madras Presidency is 4477 , of whom 928 orphans . It i 3 a pity the Lawrence Asj'lum on the Neilgherries is delayed The number of passengers on the Indian Railway is now above two millions , mostly natives , so flint they derive the chief benefit from this system . The East India Railway shareholders have given handsome vote for erecting a church at Raneegunge for the large numbers of English now employed there We have a few railway churches in England , and we may expect some additions to churches and school ia India from the rise of railway stations , termini nnd repairing shops , when India has her Wolverton Swindon , and Crewe . The cattle traffic on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway is at present very small , as the interval on the Bhore Ghaut interferes with this traffic . In due time the dead meat traffic , with proper precautions will become an important one , as the demand for the population and shipping of Bombay is large . The Koladyne steamer and the Huringotta steamer are sent up the Gogra to Fyz-. ibad , which will do something towards the opening up of that river for steam traffic . The East Indian Coal Com- pany have sent up a large supply of coal . > In Benares and the lower cities high prices of grain prevail , through the delay in the arrival of the convoy of boats with supplies from the upper pro- vinoes . Kurrachee has been at length made a port of rcgristrv , and a registrar appointed . The " Madras traders are trying to obtain ready money dealings , by allowing a large discount for cash . It is considered that they will fail , as the Cul- euttn . shopkeepers did , who offered fifteen per cent . ; and the reason assigned is , that people will not carry a bag of rupees with them , and that cash payments are hopeless until a gold currency is introduced . The evils of the present Indian currerfcy are begin- ning- ' to show themselves in various ways . The Social Congress at Liverpool was so busy that little time was given to the decimal system , and the Congress separated without coming to any resolution on Indian currency . It is now be- ginning to be felt that the '' currency of India should be assimilated to that of England , and the two made to work together , that the rupee should have the same value as the florin , and be made current throughout the empire , the sovereign to be received as a gold mphur of ten rupees , and the rupee to be divided decimally , instead of the complicated co- Jumns of annas and pices . This would be a great step towards a corresponding reform in England . The . Savings Bank and the Uncovenanted Service Bank at Agra have worked well , notwithstanding the troubles . The Savings Bank has a capital ot 3000 / ., a reserve fund of 1500 / ., and a divisable balanoe of 822 / . The dividend declared was 24 per cent ., with a bonus of 12 per cent . The funds of the Savings Bank are employed in loans . The bank has been established seventeen years , going on steadily during that time . The Uncovenanted Service Bank has a capital of 1050 / ., a reserve fund of 1750 / ., and a surplus for division of 874 / ., affording a dividend of 12 per cent , This bank has been partly engaged in exchange operations . The Ceylon financial statement has not passed without comment jn India . It is observed that by the npplication of English finance instead of Indian , the revenue lias in four years increased 50 per cent ., the taxation being 7 s . 6 d . a head , while in Bengal it is only 4 s . The Friend of India refers these dif- feronecs to two facts : first , to the introduction of colonists , whoso capital an 3 energy develop now sources of wealth for the community , raise the value of land , and bring wages abovo the rice-and-snlt point at which they stick in Bengal ; and , secondly , to . the fact that the Council , being in practice representative , has some financial courage . The proceed- ings , it says , offer an amusing answer to Mr . Man- gles's chatter about the selfishness of Anglo-Indians . i The Council js always taxing itself , and raises the bulk of the revenue from the coffee by the profits of which the settlers are maintained , nor do they find i that those settlors , who , as Mr . Mangles and the Saturday Jtwicv ) believe , want to enslave the children , of the soil , are in the least degree averse to legislating for the benefit of the people . While India , with 5 per cent , of her revenue spent on now public ¦ works , has a deficit of two millions and a stationary revenue , Coylon , with 12 per cent , so expended , has a surplus . O '

      Gj1eat Indian Peninsula ( Bailway. J Tni...

      GJ 1 EAT INDIAN PENINSULA ( BAILWAY . J Tnio , loading facjj ; hi tho report of tho Groat Indlnn i Ponlnsula Railway is tho Btato of progress . There are ( nowojien for traffic 130 J miloB , under contract 782 $ miles , J and unlot , only Q 72 ' $ mlloa . Thin looks something like f « provision of railway communication , but yet these t

      . a . s , , - \ ) ] j < j f I « r <¦ a j ' c b c a h O j v c < s b ; re w qi e n :- e n e '•» ) r n f ~ ^ 3 e n y '» f ~ s 5 I * 1 i $ Iine 3 will only effect a connexion -with Calcutta and y Madras , leaving trunk lines to great cities still to be 1 . constructed . The Jubbulpore lines of the Great Indian y Peninsula and East India Railways will form one of the , t grandest undertakings in the world . The contracts are principally let to Englishmen ; but a . Parsee enterprise has claimed a share in a contract of e twenty-five miles . The North-East line from Bhosawul *• to Nagpore has not been let , as the tenders offered were e above the reserved price of the engineer . We may res mark that Mr . Berkeley , the e ' ngineer , has furnished a i reply to the observations of Colonel Kennedy , who has , put forward a statement endeavouring to represent that the Bombay and Baroda Railway has been executed on i a superior system , and that all other railways in India i are carried on at extravagant rate 3 . Mr . Berkeley i shows that the works of the two railways are of a dif-, ferent character , and do not admit of comparison , and s that the zealous colonel has understated his own expenditure , and left out the first year ' s maintenance . The Khandallah and Pdonah section has been opened this half-year , and the Poonah and Bheema river section will , it is expected , be ready by December . The sec- tions now open communicate betweea Bombay and Poonah in a total length of 130 £ miles , but there are still six miles of turnpike road supplying the connexion over the Bhore Ghaut , but which latter cannot be completed until February , 1861 . As yet there is not time to obtain the proceeds of the ., further opening , but the traffic has advanced during the t half-year . The gross receipts have increased from j 34 , 418 / . in the half-year , to 42 , 166 / ., and . there can be no doubt the yearly-income will soon reach 100 , 000 / ., which at the present rates will yield 60 , 000 / . a year for dividends . The number of passengers must soon reach a million yearly , as 436 , 739 were carried in the last halfyear , of which 412 , 060 were third class , —another proof £ of the native desire to travel . The goods traffic has in- j creased from 31 ,-000 tons to 43 , 000 ; & large increase . a The receipts from passengers for the half-year have t been 18 , 8887 . ; from parcels and luggage , 1146 / . ; from j carriages , horses and dogs , 9651 / . ' , from goods , 20 , 974 / . ; t and from live stock , 190 / . ; besides which the company s has carried for itself 21 , 121 tons of railway materials , o making for the year 40 , 955 tons . This is another proof p of the benefit of the railway system as a means of ad- f , vancing construction . Eighty thousand bullock-carts could not . have conveyed this quantity , because the jj great bulk of the supplies could not have been carried t j by such defective conveyance . It may be of interest to Cl remark that to carry the total bulk conveyed in the year fr would require above two hundred thousand , or about a m quarter of a million , of the ordinary country carta . U (

      E . N :- China. The Treaty Of Peace Is B...

      . CHINA . The Treaty of Peace is bearing its fruits even in Canton , where Hwang has now apprised the Allied Commanders that he is at peace with them , and ha 3 issued the following proclamation to the people under his rule : — Hwang , Imperial Commissioner , President of the Board of War , § c . $ c , issues the following proclamation , in order to suppress evil-doing and to pacify people ' s minds : Having had the honour to receive an Imperial edict informing me that peace has been concluded at Tien-tsin , in order that the Fayune Enrolment Committee might act in compliance with it , I at once communicated it to them , and at the same , time commanded the Civil and Military Officers to return to their respective duties in the city . The Enrolment Committee , in official reply , states , that the Imperial edict shall be respectfully obeyed , and that they have kept back the braves and ¦ prohibited them from entering the city , in order that further troubles may be avoided . Haying heard that there are , both within and without the walls , many villains arid thieves , who , pretending they are braves , take advantage of the state of affairs to create disturbances , in order to plunder and rob , and from whose hands the citizens have already suffered much : if such rascality be not speedily suppressed , how can the minds of the people be set at ease , or tranquillity restored ? And unless the villains be apprehended , how can the district be purged ? In addition to my orders to the Nanhai and Pwanyu Magistrates , and the Commandant at Kwangchow , to do all in their power to seize and punish them , I publish as ia my duty , the present proclamation , for the information of the inhabitants of the city and its suburbs . I command that you pursue your usual callings , and behave discreetly now that you know that peace has been declared at Tien-tsin , and that henceforward natives and foreigners will be as friends . Tranquillity will bo restored , and trade , unhindered , will flow in its accustomed channels . If disturbances are raised , with one accord and of united strength you will seize the offenders , the iujurers of my people , aud deliver them over for judgment . A Special Proclamation . Hienfung , 8 th year , 7 th moon , and 9 th day ( 17 th August , 1858 ) . —China Mail , August 26 . In Hong-Kong itself nothing lias been stirring . The appointment of a new Aot ' ing Colonial Secretary , in the person of Mr . Forth , has caused only regret that the Government did not do more to , retain tho services of Dr . Bridges . Tho suspension of Mr . Anstey has passed over quite quietly } and , ponding the reference homo , that gentleman has gone to Manilla . Tho majority of the Chinese servants have returned , but the merchants como in more slowly , though most of their shops nro now open . There has boen hotter weather this month than during any other part of the summer , the thermometer standing about 90 dog . iu tho shade , but tho heat has begun to be tempered by occasional winds from tho north-oast . \

      T: At Us Hi Of G., A En Foi S» Pi, An Pn...

      T : at us hi of g ., a foi s » pi , an pn ajr xh na , me t > 0 ) j ni Kl ; 10 xh j _ t v Yo »«« pi INDIA . TE ; t . KGKAPHrc despatches have been this week received at the Foreign-office and the India House which bring us news to the 10 th of October . Tantia Topee , we learn , having for a few days after his former defeat occupied Sironje , fled on the approach of the detachments under General Michel and Brigadier Smith , and was marching in the direction of Chundree . A combined movement was proposed for hemming the enemy in at Chundree by the Mhow Field Force—the force " under Brigadier Smith and the troops at Goond , Satigor , and Oojein . Major-General Michel has been placed in command of the troops serving in Rajpootana and Central India . Several gallant affairs have taken place in various parts of Oude , all ending in the total rout and great destruction of the enemy , with trifling loas on our side . The campaign had not yet commenced , tut Lord Clyde has left Allahabad for Cawnpore , en route for Lucknow ; meanwhile the rebels are stated to bo still in great numbers , and ravaging the country and , sorely oppressing the inhabitants wherever our troops are not posted . With the exception of a slight Bheol disturbance in Khandeish , the Bombay Presidency waa quiet . Her Majesty ' s 4 Gth Regiment and the loft wing of lior Majesty ' s 91 st have arrived in Bombay A'Oin Suez . JL'ho former has gone to Scindo . Liisot . Beadon has boon appointed adjutant of the Lst Sikh Regiment . { From a Corespondent . ) Bombay , September . ifoun journal is much road in the tbroo Prosidonolos , tnd has no inconsiderable weight with those whoso > pinion is worth conciliating . Do not , however , full nto the mistake , which many of your contemporaries k > , of advocating the class interests of Europeans as igainsfc the nntlvos . I see nrticlos in English journals > u this subject which are evidently the production of ntorestod parties ; verb . sap . The doctrines of ' domjnanay > f race is the one which is in vogue among unofficial Englishmen in India—this moans , not that India is to be f ovornod by England for the benefit of the natives , but hat India Is tp bo governed by tho English in India ¦

      T: At Us Hi Of G., A En Foi S» Pi, An Pn...

      for their own benefit , and that every Englishman , down to the drunken sailor who haunts the Calcutta slums , is to carry about his person the majesty of the British Crown . The Government and the civil and military services who attempt to hold the balance between the two , and to govern . all classes alike for the benefit of theempire ,, are decried by this party , and as it has agents in England , and can always make itself heard , while the natives have no agents to stand up for them , no wonder that misrepresentation occurs , and that John Bull is misled as to the real truth- With respect to politics , we are all at a stand-still . We have no official announcement of the change in the Government , consequently all goe 3 on just as if John Company was still in the ascendant . I suppose the Governor-General is busily employed on the proclamation which is to announce the change . By the way , why is he with the Commanderin-Chief instead of at Calcutta ? No one appears to know what Lord Clyde is doing ; certainly activity and energy of action are not conspicuous qualities in the Commander-in-Chi ef . { (

      , , < I This Indian Relief Fund.—Tho Fin...

      , , < i This Indian Relief Fund . —Tho financial statemont has been published . A sum approaching half a million is put down on tho side of receipts . Tho total expenditure has been something Hico 170 , 000 / . There remains a balanoo in hand of 2 G 6 , 400 / , No doubt this handsome balance will all be needed in bestowing roliof upon those who have suffered . BmoKMAKiNG . —Tho Ceylon Observer contains an nccount of somo brickmaking worka recently visited by Sir Henry Ward . Tho works , which turn out about 20 , 000 bricks a day , aro only six miles from < -oh > m ^ Tho clay for brickmaking is prepared by olop i iiUb . Tho wild and ta . no work together , and both attempt to shirk thoir work by omlenvoiirliiff to put tholr foot m oullUprints , instead ofia tho toft , tenacious , untrodden mud .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 6, 1858, page 25, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06111858/page/25/