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    ¦ mrmort of the ballot , objecting to the camp at Aldershot S at present constituted , and denouncing the . new Holies of Parliatneat and the projected buildings for STGovernmental departments , Sir Charles passed on to Se ImUan question , and observed that the natives have a right to endeavour to get back India to themselves , but are not justified in resorting to such acts of atrocious cruelty as they have committed . A gallant relative of his was the only person who had foreseen the danger and warned the Government . « The question remained —Had we done all that we could do to suppress this mutiny ? The news of it first reached this country in Sue latter end of May , and he ( Sir Charles Napier ) then urged the Government not to lose one single moment in sending an adequate force out to India . He was told , much to his surprise , that vessels under sail would accomplish the voyage to India just as soon as steamships . He did not believe that , but there were people » n the House of Commons who did , and he did not know what , in the name of God , some of them were made of . { A Umgh ^ When he insisted that they who made tha assertion were wrong , he was pooh-poolied ; but tnt truth was that he could furnish such people with arguments , but not with brains . ( A laugh . ) The time whei the first troops sailed from this country for India was u the beginning of July . There was thus a oss of time o aim iijWl ™ —

    live or six weens ; uc v « . uv .., - - » could have been sent off immediately after the news of the rebellion reached this country , it was possible that the massacre at Cawnpore might have been prevented . ( Hear , hear . ') He would , however , say one thing for the Government . Since the time when they began to send troops out , they had used the most extraordinary exertions . ( 7 / aw , hear . ) He did not believe there was another nation in the world who could have sent troops to such a distance with anything like the same celerity as we had done to India . He meant , after the Govern-. ¦ ¦ . : „ . 1 j . 1 , ^ :.. nnnaaa OTwl liafl flVIPP . liP ^ TQIl tO atuov ^ « a »» v » *™ ~— - ~ - ~

    ment naa . recover" men . .. o do the work . " ' Mr . Locke subsequently addressed the meeting in favour of reform , and in condemnation of Lord Canning s interference with the military in the punishment of the Indian mutineers . On the motion of Mr . John Vickers , seconded by Mr . Marcus Sharpe , a resolution was carried expressive of the opinion of tbe meeting that Sir Charles Napier and Mr . Locke had faithfully fulfilled the pledges given by them on their election ; that the time had arrived tor the adoption of the ballot , the extension of the franchise , and the abolition of church-rates , and for placing the . _ i _ . „« , ' * ne Tallin nn si more satisfactory * - " ¦ *«» v *« ~ --

    —"WllOlc ^ tlVUl Illl * v * iv . footing . THE INDIAN CRISIS . The Earl of Shaftesbury presided yesterday week at a meeting in aid of the Indian sufferers held at the New Town Hall , Wimborne . He dilated at considerable length on the unparalleled atrocities committed by the mutineers ; denied that they had received any provocation to rise against us , asserting , on the contrary , that they had been pampered and underworked ; pointed to the fact that the native population has not jomed in the outbreak ; maintained that we are bound to execute stern justice on the rebels , though at the same time suggesting that Lord Canning ,- in Ins recent proclamation , may have only desired to check any undue tendency towards ' wild justice ; ' and urged the necessity of instituting certain Indian reforms , and of licnce-/• _ n . » . i . n .. . 1 „„•! . > .. ;„ ,.. « nr 5 oli'os . 1 Christian race m tne

    _ Kast as well as at home , while iorbeunng from any coercion of the faiths of the natives . Speaking of the causes of the mutiny , the Earl said :- "Nothing so noble has animated the breasts of the Sepoys as the love of their own false religion . It does not appear that in one single instance they have put it forward as the « lua for this rebellion . But , when the opportunity came , they murdered their officers and plundered the treasury . ' Money is the root of all evil . ' These noble fellows * whom we are naked to believo rebelled lor their religion—these precious fellows , having begun by nuir-P ., , *¦• i . : .... m . ^^ tlil ir i- » rnr » nii < lf > M t . O lOOL tneir oincersiiu \ t v

    uenng , -vu m «» " .. ; . ~~~—~ ~ ,, .. - tho treasury . That was the beginning and end of all their operations . Don't let us believe that anything so generous as adherence to their vile faith led them to these enormous crimes . It was the love of blood and the love of money . " Mil ! HKN . IAMIN HALL AT ABKUGAVKNNV . !

    The First Commissioner of YTorkn presided a few days n"o at the annual meeting and dinner of the Abergavenny Agricultural Association , ami , in addressing tho compnnv , gave them somo good advice on the subject , of agriculture and the advisability of allowing sheep to cat turnips , their tendency to do which wad ( or a long time disputed by the Welsh fanners till they wi-rc convinced of their error by the present , baronet ' s father . 31 o also related an amusing anecdote showing that Welsh-1

    men may bo persuaded , but not ibreed : — " happened to make a road through a part of my estate at Abcrcarnc , and I found tlicrc n remarkably line becch-tr ^ c ; but its siivory bavk had proved too Htrong a temptation to the knivcH of tho idlers , who had inscribed their names and their rude love-songs upon the tree . It was perfectly covered with all kinds of hieroglyphics , which oft ' ended my eye . As to putting up a notice that mnntrans or spring guiia wore laid to prevent Welshmen

    from cutting the tree , I knew that would be useless ; so I mt up this notice , written both in Welsh and Eng-}; S - ' We but fools will inscribe their names upon this " tree ? ( A laugh . ) Thus appealing to their good sense and thev not wishing to be included an the cate-JSy of fools , mv tree now remains unmolested by every gentle swain ,. and no rustic ViUkins has since attempted to address his Dinah by writing upon it . TOR . DISRAELI AND MR . DU PRlS IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE . The Amersham and Chesham Agricultural Association eat its annual dinner on Tuesday in the Town Hall of the former place , when the two county members addressed the company . Mr Disraeli adverted to theimportance of Agricultural Associations , which , he said , had at one time been derided ; complimented the county on the progress it is making in the scientific cultivation of the earth ; and defended the practice of _ giving deior ni **

    serving labourers fifty shillings cy y ^>» « . «« servitude , on the ground that the money is bestowed simply as a testimony , and not as a payment , in the same way that the Indian hero Havelockhas been rewarded with the good service pension of 100 / . a yearan honour which all officers covet , as a proof of high distinction . Mr . Du Pre' briefly alluded to the Indian revolt , and expressed his belief that « England is unanimous as to the punishment of the mutineers , though _ _ ¦ 1 _ 1 ?^__ -1 . ^ ,,+- T . rAT

    there had been some quiuDiing , >« ...... - — -- been an attempt to distinguish between justice and vengeance ; hut , in Eng land , all men mean the same thing > , o one wishes the perpetrators of these horrible enormities to escape the just-punishment due to their crimes—notody would be unwilling , where there are extenuating circumstances , that mercy should be shown -, but while a terrible example is required , he expressed the hope that no Uritish soldier will be so forgetful of the uniform he wears and the country to which lie belongs as to treat Vith insult or injury any woman or child .

    5 IR . LISDSAY AT TYNEMOUTII . Mr Lindsay , M . P ., addressed his Tynemouth constituents on Monday night . He referred to- the comrnercial disasters - in America , and spoke more especially of the shipping interest , which he thought will be prosperous before long , as at present there is little shipbuild inS going on either in this country ox in America , while at the same time the trade of the world is increasing He then alluded to the Great Eastern steamship : — " If that ship answered , it became a question how they would stand with their small vessels . It was a matter of great interest to all , but particularly to those directly or indirectly interested in shipping , whether the ship notxil

    was likely to answer commerc . ally or . u * u stron- opinions on the subject commercially ; hut first 1 let him say she would be a great triumph of mechanical i art He believed no finer or stronger ship was ever put together . With regard to speed , he doubted whether ; she would attain to what had been stated , though he fullv believed that she would attain a greater speed than any ship ever yet launched in the waters . Our nation ball reason to be proud of such a great triumph of mechanical skill . ( Hear , hear . ) But , commercially , it was to them a most important question , because if such a ship as that answered commercially , then all their property in shipping must in a short time go . to the wall . [( Hear , hear . ) His experience , however ,-and he believed it would coincide with theirs—was that they had found they had , in fact , been building their ships . too lame . (//<>« ,-, hear . ) The Americans , w ho are a tins iacu

    | far-sighted peop le , had discovered xu * y »» . v I that a 3000 tons ship is too large for the ordinary purposes of commerce , audit has been found that a ship of from 800 to 1200 tons for the East India trade w the most profitable description of ship , while from 1500 to 1800 tons is about the limit . " So , also , with the transport or troops : it is better to send them out in batches of lour or six hundred in separate vessels , than to despatch ten . thousand at a time in one large vessel , the risk in case of accident being so much the less in the former case Coming to the consideration of tlio Indian revolt Mr . TJmlsnv said he tliought there was no doubt that Mahometan

    we had governed India better than tho lirinccs , who were as much interlopers as we ; but it was doubtful whether we had governed better than the onuinal Hindoo princes , because traces still exist of works of irrigation , roads , & c , constructed by those monarch * , which have been suffered to fall into decay . We had , ,, _ .. . i . i „ . 1 ~ . n fni > Trillin " I llOUirll \ ¦ " ¦ ¦ -

    , not clone an we nugut nuu """^ - " we had been drawing large amounts of revenue from the m'ople , avc had been neglecting public works ; w * had not been opening canals or adding to tho ^« " > tiei J of communication as we ought to have done . We iiau done much , but we had also loft inucli undone which we onjrlit to have done . ( Applause . ) When he looked at the enormous rovonuu derived from India , he aslcod how much was spent in public works ; and , taking Clasgow I . Ti « i . ^ . i ,.. iwt r * . ii » ii * imf aiio ni ' t . lioao laru'c

    cities*—| , I namely , Manchester—had spent more in a year in institutions for the benefit and elevation of tho people than the Court of Directors of the Uast India House had done for the whole of India in the same period . {/ lour , hear . ) A sort of fatality teemed to follow tins course cf aggrandizement—grasping vast extents of territory without taking the means to govern well tho territory wo hud already . It would have been much wiser if we

    had limited our territory governed . We were told we had been driven by necessity to increase our territory ; but he doubted fhat very much . We had taken possession of more territory in India than we could govern well : if we had had less of territory , we should have governed it better . " With respect to the East India Company , Mr . Lindsay spoke highly of several of its members , and . said that , when he wrote a letter to the board , he got a prompt , business-like answer , which , he added , is more than can be said of the Government departments . Still , he objected to the system ^ and thought some plaa should be carried out by which the Government of India should be in India itself , and that at home there should be a Secretary of State for India , so that the administration of that great empire should be under the control of the House of Commons . Martial law should have been proclaimed in the disaffected districts at . the commencement of the __ i _ l -. u :. u . ~~ .-. - \ A then nrnhnhiv have teen DUt dOWtt nuuiu jfiv —j —

    _ , revoii , wiii-uu n"vu .. ~« . - . * . sooner . Our only course now is to show no mercy to the Sepoys , but to spare the women and children ^ In answer to questions by an elector , Mr . Lindsay said lie believed it was the intention of Mr . Lowe to introduce next session a bill to abolish passing tolls , tie doubted whether . Lord Palmerston is the best man to frame a Reform Bill , and feared that Indian matters would interfere with the promised measure . _ 1 .. , c t > n-M tup T 3-. r » TTr ! ATIOI * QUESTION .

    A few davs ago , Viscount Sandon , M . P ., presided _ the annual distribution of prizes given by the Association for the Advancement of Education in the Mining and Manufacturing Districts of North Staffordshire , which took place at Stoke-upon-Trent . There was a gathering of the juvenile population of the neighbourhood on the occasion and a considerable number of the clergy and gentry , lord Sandon , in addressing the meeting , alluded to the obstacle to the education of the working classes which is presented by the early age at , . i . t ' x t .: i , t ««»» r , Q immKiA . nsirp . nts are taken away

    from school , to assist in the generalincome of the family . | This seemed natural at first sight ; but , if parents con-I sidered a little , they would find that tbe labour of their . - children would be fax more profitable if they allowed them to remain a little longer under tuition , for the educated workman always commands a higher _ price than the uneducated . ¦ " Think of what a child gams by going through such training . In the first place , he is taucht to respect others ; and when a cliild has learnt to do that ha is sure to respect himself ; therefore , that is one of the most valuable lessons which he could receive in life . What does does respect for others meaaC It m » .,,, c ^ i ; tDi ,,. « . whwh to some miffht appear a slight

    thin " but it is really only another name for unselfishness" ( Cheers . ) A boy under good training at school learns respect for his comrades , and submission to those placed in authority over him , which is a very excellent thin » - when not carried too far . It is a serviceable lesson for all ranks of society , and no one can hope to get on in life unless he submits to the discipline which ms rMitful superiors exercise over him . ( Hear , hear . ) Then , as far as intellectual acquirements are concerned , this training is very valuable . To the children of mechanics , artisans , and labourers , reading , writing , and arithmetic are of the greatest service ; but though , to a certain extent , instruction in other things is highly desirable , he should be sorry to see an attempt made to introduce a knowledge of the abstruse branches ol science , or of modern languages , into the schools of the-~ .. > of , ^ ^ ^ e Hi » iconic-. All he wanted to see was that

    , such instruments are , so to speak , placed in the children s hands that , by being good readers , good writers , and good arithmeticians , they might be able , if they pleased , to pursue anv . particular branch of knowledge after they had left school . " ( Hear , hear . ) His Lordship also glanced at the common assertion that tho educated among the working classes aro too apt to look down upon their work , as if it were beneath their notice , lhis he attributed to the fact of education as yet being only partial . When all men are educated , no one will look upon himself as being above his fellows . Lord Sandon \ ... t .. t i .-- K .... f :. w . oil fr » r >/\ n 4 iilnr t . llft VflstnC 33 Ol conciucieu \ ¦ " v —

    uy c . uunuug » " * > - ""™— - our empire , and tho necessity imposed on us of being the foremost among the people of tlio world , in order that wo may support worthily tlio immense responsibilities which rest on our actions . S 1 U OKOKOE GREY AT MORPETH . HM . « Q ., ^ ,. ^ f ,, ,.,. « v su > ito for the Home Deuartmeiit paid

    a vbit to his constituents } at Morpeth on Wednesday week , and took part in the proceedings at a public meeting held at liedlington , an outlying part ol the borough , to promote tho rebuilding of a school , with tlio aid of a grant of money from tho Government , fair George addressed the meeting on the subject of education , and said that , hi a free country like tins , voluntary efforts , aided by the Government , are the Lest means .. r !« -. V ,.. iin .. tho noonlo . and that compulsion would not

    , bo endured . uml ) llUOI :,,,, AM AT 1 . K . CS ASP LIVK 1 U-OOL . T . ml l » roii « h « ni maided on Tuumlay evening at the Lyulltruiyiiui Vi ^ .. | ianics' Institution and Literary = r-r » tSE . s ^» etr

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 7, 1857, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07111857/page/5/