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    THE DUCHY <Q3? XiAJNCA.STEKr-K)INTS AND ...

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    THE CONCESSION IN THE PRINCIPALITIES. It...

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    of the ^ ole cotmtr ^' th ^ ;^_ mmcranoe themselves , in a language which * he natives tfcill not fee slow to understand , the sufj *^ Und undisputed masters of the old Mogul kingdom audits dependencies . . ( The opposition to . our power , on the part o ± * bepeople , has generally ceased , fhiswe do not hesitate to affirm in presence of the get that the Bengal army has disappeared . We are -virtual rulers of Bengal , without the army ; iihe people , undepressed by physical force , ha *® ¦ no t risen against us . Mr . Disbaem , to be Bure ., asserts—and he has a little brass trumpet . tofcray an obsequious echo- —that the revolt is national ; but where ilaas there been even a partial rising of the inhabitants . ? . Some

    one tas been roughly-ihandled : in a northwestern bazaar , and that may have been misiaken for a declaration of war from thirtyfive millions of people ; but we shall wait for signs more distinct before confounding with a huge mutinous rabble of released felons and delirious soldiers , a vast , peaceful , and industrious population . Our empire has been effectually consolidated since the second siege of Bhurtpore , when it was a general opinion that had the enterprise failed , rebellion might have extensively broken out amongst the natives of all classes . Whereas , now , although the rebel standard floats for more than a

    month on the walls of the most famous city of India , two great Presidencies remain tranquil , and in a third , only the military ranks , and the convieta they " have let out of prison , are engaged in the seditious war . 2 $ ob that India has been generously fostered , or has bad its rights judiciously respected , but that it is happier under our sway than it was tinder i ; he Brahminieal or Mohammedan sovereignties . The reason for superseding the Leadenhall-street Company is , not that it has been , worse than the Moguls ' , but that India claims a better government than either the j Moguls or the Company have bestowed upon i her . ¦

    Light has been let in upon the native mind . The people understand -their numerical superiority . We have , then , to rest upon a double basis—comparatively small forces , organized as perfectly as may be , with the necessary apparatus of fortifications , military roads , and rapid communications with England ; and , above all , the inculcation , by practical methods , of a belief that , under

    British authority , the lives , the religions , the property , the sacred social habits of the people of India are safe under our protection . We cannot hope to bind down the nation by holding in tert'orem over it a spoiled Sepoy army ; when oui ? spoiled Sepoys rebelled with their petted JTemadars , where should we have been had the population been exasperated "? Should we have retained our chief

    military positions , open roads , and a confidential understanding with the industrious classes ? We have as yet escaped the horrors and perils of a national Indian revolt ; but there must be a new government for India ^ j or , when we rest after beating ; fcl * e Delta rebels we may find that we have built a ibrtress upon shifting sands .

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    The Duchy <Q3? Xiajnca.Stekr-K)Ints And ...

    THE DUCHY < Q 3 ? XiAJNCA . STEKr-K ) INTS AND JPiKQOJSTS . Nothing will over be gained by the Liberal part y while it . continues to toy with serious public questions . We are glad to koaow :, therefore , that the gross administrative abuses connected with the Duchy of Lancaster are not to be allowed to sleep . The question has not been uet at rest . Parliawieurt has not seen the evidence . The report m one-sided , false , and xwrjust' to a puibKo servant , in whose case every other public servant ( below a particular grade ) is

    interested . Wifcboo * apology , ^ oaseqaentlv ^ we return to it . A writer m . the JBimk & rsr Wrcular said laifcw « ek , It is impossible to read the ^ evidence * witfh <* B * a M conviction that the property <* f the Duchy has been shamefully mismanaged , and that it can onOy be rectified by pursuing that rigid course of ^ samiaation which Mir . Bebtoeaoci bad the courage to introduce . * ' Here is a

    commercial opinion whkfo , we presume , will not foe ; underrated by so keen a commercial adept as Lord GHeanviklb . ¦ Moreover , the fact that Sir Fitkboy EJEiiiT ' s le ^ al opinion has been contemptuoustp ^ gnored in favour of that delivered by two obscure gentlemen ( them- selves on their defence ) , has considerably in- j fluenced many members of the Conservative ! partv- The matter is not to be dropped . XT _ _ ' . _ am urn A ¦ " 1 . of this Admi

    ^ * With , whom rests the blame - nistrative scandal ? With Lord Abeb : deen for appointing Lord GbanviIiIiB to be Chancellor of the Buchy when he was a Duchy tenant in large 'arrears to the estate and about to renew his lease ; with Lord ObaitvitiiE for accepting that improper position ; with Mr . MdNSEi-r . for breaking his promise to allow the Auditor an opportunity of fulfilling his dutyand wi th those officials who

    , baffled him when he had an hour to spare for examining the accounts . Now , that Lord Abebdeeit and Lord Q-banvh . xe infringed the laws of administrative morality we d eclare upon the ground that , whereas a rule in the civil service forbids every class of officials from applying themselves to trade or commerce , Lord < jbawviIiI . e , a Minister of the Crown , became a trader in mines rented from , the Crown itself , and entered into other

    transactions unbefitting his public situation . Was this , or was it not , against the rules of the service , rigidly enforced against clerkB and secretaries ? Mr .. Bjebtolacot was told that the salary of the Auditor having been reduced to one half of the former amount , it was in future to be a- working office . There was no longer to be : a sinecure full-pay Auditor . Mr . Monsem , promised him time for the fulfilment of the duty . That promise was violated . His letters patent empowered him to appoint a deputy ; that privilege was arbitrarily taken

    away . " The two offices of Clerk in the Ordnance , and Auditor of the Duchy of Lancaster , were not compatible , " says the Beport . Then why did Lord Belpbi * make the arrangement ? Why did Mr . Monselii consent to it ? Why blame the Auditor for not performing one set of duties ' incompatible ' with another set . Why , when be found it impossible to act in person , reject his legal deputy ? Why , when lie was at leisure , withhold from him every facility ? There was something to' hide , or so much , would not have been hidden .

    But a ludicrous inconsistency in ( the Report is , ithat while it condemns the appointment of Mr . Bebtox < aoci to two offices , it has nothing to say against the appointment , of Mr . Hawkeb , who also holds two offices . But then the nephew ( of the Receiver- J General ' s wife does not , perhaps , hold hisi kinsman , responsible like that * d—d fellow' who came down from Pall Mali . The old , old way , we may infer , haa come into fashion again , and the happy family—Bainies , Wabkbbpabk , Fojsl , SDanv-ebs , Gtoooh ^ and JIawkjsb— -are amicably weaving the accounts , all delighted (( especially Hawker ) to be rid of Mr . BamaajoiiAooi . But Mr . Bum *

    TOiiAOCi was appointed wihen Lord Bblpeb admitted that reforms were called for ; the was told to oarry them out ; he mistook his office , and fancied the instructions "mere serious 5 he was esopelled because he was itoo J scrupulous and runflAnchiaag , Observe , how- ' ever , . that we do not reserve aU o , ur sympathies ' ,

    for him . We confess that it must have been somewfetefc « tartliiig < to the Dtieny people to find among the ^ * man with notions of public duty . " Ifca this 'house , sir , we look after ourselves 5 and , provided we keep the windows clean , why should we look after the property ?" , Things were much more pleasant , of course , when the autoorartac Chancellor , too delicattp renew his owa leases , appointed a pxo-Ohancellbr to > carry out that little formality , confident-of > kind treatment at the hands of

    'his own deputy , Lord BeitPEb ' s relative . How these families work "together ! We might almost ibelieve that Gteneral Fox had a reason for appointing his wife ' s nephew to supervise the balances an his ( G-eneral Fox ' s ) hands ; but then he didn't know his wife ' s nephew , and the Whole affair was a felicitous coincidence . Very curious . Not the only curious point , however , in the arrangements

    of that precious department . Why , Mr . Lookhabt , when he was Auditor , signed particulars preparatory to grants in fee , in which he stated the grants to be . ' fit and proper , ' and passed his opinion on the value of allotments . But then . iJhat was when the Auditor received a full salary , asked no questions , and wrote his name in gentlemanly confidence at -the foot < of Duchy particulars .

    We repeat , the 3-fceport is one thing , the Evidenee is another ; they are at variance . But the evidence is kept back until Parliament rises , and it is hoped that the public will forget all about Mr . Bebtoi . acoi and his Audit .

    The Concession In The Principalities. It...

    THE CONCESSION IN THE PRINCIPALITIES . It is not our business to complain when the French Grovernment , adopting a liberal and equitable policy , extorts a concession from [ England . But we may be permitted to regret that England should have been placed in such a position as to be liable to a check from France . To all intents and purposes , she has met with such a check in the valley of the Danube . Louis NapoIiEon came to Osborne ( with his retinue of detectives ) to negotiate an improved understanding with our Premier , who went thither as a champion of Lord de IJebci / Tffe , and returned , if not a convert to M . de Thotjv : ene : l , at least with softened resolves and modified opinions . He is exactly the man to keep his countenance while M . Walewski condemned the VoGOeides interference with electors ; the question , being probably reserved for debate in a new Congress , is nominally in abeyance j practically , it may be said to have moved in favour of France , which prcmiotea the union .

    of Moldavia . and Wallachia . The Imperial fame has been aditoitly played ; tihere has een a baffling of Austria — the a ? ival of France fand Italy—and this Italian motive lies , beneath { the marked cordiality with which TjcoTOiR EmmaniUEIj has i ^ een treated , -of late , by rthe French Emperor . Austria affects , axaturally , friendship for the Porte— -Austria , whicSh has secretly proposed , siace the Peace of Paris , a new 5 & UB 8 O-Austrian occupation . But Kaasia

    occupies high . ground , has preserved a neutral tone , and when . the point is raised formally before Europe * will come into court with a voice of is . tr . ong authority . With her acts Prussia —< a Brotestant k ^ g doon , a Oatholic © tnipire , a Gtveek ^ anpice , leagued with serai-Liberal Piedmont to establish a certain po-Jicy . on the Danube , France taking tbo lead , and having mpst infliaenoe over Eaglana . There 1 ms been a whieper fchofc , to remove obstacles , Sir Hrawnx B * j * w * i * would evmevsode Lord » iB Hb © O ( I 4 TOT 3 b as 3 Bratis | i Arabaa-« ftflOT at Oa > mB * antinoj > lo % ! bat the project has assumed mo distinct ibrm . Ifc ib improbablo

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 15, 1857, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15081857/page/15/