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      stamps its character . This fact is not generally ^ n own here , or curiosity would be gratified without remunerating the speculators . " How to Receive a Deputation . — check lately given at Vienna to the Hungarian students , vho came to present a petition praying that tne lectures should he given them in the Magyar lan-* uage , has not , it would appear , deterred others lorn taking a similar step . The Breslau Gazette states , that a deputation from Cracow , a few days ago . arrived in Vienna for an analogous object , and *> £ applying for an audience of the Count d p Thun , Minister of Public Instruction , an affirmative answer was granted . They accordingly proceeded * o the residence of the minister , but when , about to enter the ante-chamber were arrested , and carried *> ff to the police-office in carriages previously

      provided . * ' Vive i . e Sport !"—A Parisian lady was sura--tnoned the other day before the police tribunal for shooting without a licence . The lady and her husband were out sporting together—they were both similarly equipped in blouse and trousers , and each carried an excellent fowling piece . A rural policeman demanded to see their certificates . The husband showed his , but the lady was not furnished ¦ with alike document ; a summons was issued , and madame appeared before the magistrate . In her that who chose to

      defence she maintained a woman enjoy the pleasures of the field in company with her husband did not iequire a certificate any more than dshe wanted a passport when travelling with him , and that , in fact , both law and religion made but one person of the two . The magistrate did not agree -with this reasoning , and actually was ungal-Jenfc enough to fine the modern Diana 30 f ., besides ¦ confiscating her gun . This gentleman ought to be sent out of the country as endangering the peace by Stringing all the fair sex about his ears , and a . s a Sfrave offender against the laws of chivalry .

      A Spouted Pedagogue . — A correspondent of the Telegraph tells a story of a schoolmaster at Tula , in Russia , who was invited to dine at the Imperial board during the Emperor ' s visit to that town . On the schoolmaster ' s arrival he found by some oversight that no place was reserved for him ) and on this being pointed out , the officers of the household haughtily desired him to withdraw , which he refused to do , but stopped and dined ; and to crown the affair , presented a petition to the

      . Emperor , wherein he set forth the grievance and Insult under which he laboured , and begged his Majesty to take steps to reinstate his injured dignity . The Einperor does not seem to have ¦ vouchsafed him any distinct answer , although he was graciously pleased to express his regret at what liad taken'place ; but the professor has so far improved his position by his spirited conduct , that Ills fellow townsmen hold him in all the greater esteem and respect ever since the affair . Even the _ serfs in the streets will take off their hats to the

      man who dared to break the charmed spell of military exclusiveness , and to maintain that a colonel might quite as well leave the dining table of his Majesty as a grammar schoolmaster .

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      Germany. Nov. 16th, 1859, - The Great Ev...

      GERMANY . Nov . 16 th , 1859 , - The great event of last week , and sole topic of conversation up to the present time—the Schiller celebration—came off last Thursday in a most gratifying manner to both police authorities and people ; There was , in general , peace and good humour , and plenty of patriotism and self laudation . , Tho weather turned out delightful , in spito of the gloom © f the preceding night . In every town the ceremonies and festivities were counterparts of each other . In the morning tho tolling of bolls , or music played in church steeples ; thereupon processions to

      German population , and of that class the standing armies of the German princes are composed . The townsfolk are loudest , in- their cry for reform and union , but they are . the least disposed ,. and-the least capable of exercising physical force . Everybody acquainted with Germany knows that between the townsfolk and the peasantry there is a great gulfthe townsfolk are comparatively well educated and intelligent , though not exactly to the extent imagined or asserted by the admirers of the continental system of education . The peasantry of Germany have nothing in common with the townsfolk , . and cannot comprehend the wants and hopes of these i latter . ¦'

      The Schiller celebration has been a demonstration of the towns of Germany—not of the mass of the Germans . It lias passed , and will not leave a trace behind . It is , however , unanimously represented by the journals as a grand success—hot a scenic getting up and execution merely—but as a . national and political advance . T ? he celebration met with some opposition on the part of the clergy and the religious part of the community , and a skirmish of advertisements is being carried on in some journals even now upon the subject , by the Church party and the Rationalists , as they call themselves . One clergyman , giving his name and residence , advertised to the effect that , as his countrymen would , perhaps , be seeking mottoes for their transparencies in the illumination , there was one which he could recommend to them as well suited to the occasion .

      It was to be found in the Second Book of Moses , chap , xxxii . verse 4 , and runs thus :-r- " These be thy gods , O Israel , ' which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt , " Another clergyman , in Berlin , returned the tickets , which had been sent to him by the authorities , for seats at the ceremony of laying the stone of the Schiller statue , with the remark that he could not make use of them because it did not become him to take part in a ceremony in honour of a man who had prostituted his fine talents to sing the heathen deities of ancient Greece , and who could compose such a song as that " An die Frende . "

      The Prince Regent has announced his resolution to offer a prize of 1 , 000 thalers and a gold medal of the value of 100 thalers for the best dramatic work that shall appear within the space of three years . This is to honour the memory of the great poet , Schiller . . ¦ » The address of the Hessian Chambers , rejected by the Elector , contained nothing more than the prayer that their sovereign would be graciously pleased to respect the last wishes of the late Elector —the grantee of the Constitution of 1831—by restoring to them in full that Constitution , and thereby acquire the gratitude of his people and their posterity .

      The London Punch , the father , by the way , of a numerous family in this country , is once more permitted to circulate in Prussia ; it was prohibited in 1855 because of a caricature of the King , who was represented drunk with an empty bottle of Champagne in his hand . The Prussian authorities have decided that , in future , booksellers can lose their licence on account of Pross-ofFences as they arc termed , only when condemned by the legal tribunals . Hitherto the withdrawal of a bookseller ' s , licence , depended solely upon the will of the police authorities . We hear a good deal of tbe advances inade

      by the Prussians in civil liberty , but almost every day we read of police measures which have little in common with the necessary precautions of the police in England , which Prussia pretends to imitate . A student was lately ordered by tlie police to leave Berlin because he had , in a confectioner ' s shop , expressed a condeinnatpry opinion of tho act of the Finance Minister ' regarding tho appointment of Jew judges .- ~ A Pole , named Mapinski , lias boon condemned , in Berlin , to two years' imprisonment with hard labour , for propagating revolutionary doctrines in Posen .

      A commercial treaty has just been concluded between the three Hanse towns , Bremen , Humburg and LUbeck , and . tho Sultan of Zanzibar , one of tho Cobras Islands , situated on tho African coast of Zanguebar . The treaty is drawn up in English , Gorman and Arabic . A Dantssig journal states that a foreign Champagne firm has sent a quantity of Champagne to one of tho officers of tho Prussian Japan Expedition , with the condition that ho ia to drink at toast six bottles with the Japanese officials or great men , and to ascertain how they like tho beverage , and to bring a couple of bottles back , to enable the firm to judge how tho Champagne will boar bo long a voyago and different climates .

      Tho German journals oontain nothing but accounts from different towns of the celebration , the one vicing with the other In tho splondour of the description .

      statues of Schiller erected in marketplaces—singing , music , orations ; then to dinner . In the afternoon Schiller roadings , almost everywhere—tho " Lay of the Bell" boing the favourite piece . In the evening , theatre—a play of Schiller ' s j then torchlight professions , illuminations , balls—and so to bod . The peasantry took vory littlo , if any part , in tho colobration—a circumstance well deserving of consideration by all who expect to bring about a reform or union of Germany by Sohlller-like demonstrations »» open rosietanco . Germany has no metropolis -whoro tliofftto of tho country can bo decided , as in franco . The peauantry form the vast bulk of the

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      ITOIA ,, " ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦' ' AND ; ' ' ¦ INDIAN PROGRESS . ? - ' ¦

      . I ¦' Crime In The Punjab. In A Late Nu...

      CRIME IN THE PUNJAB . In a late number of the Lahore Chronicle is an interesting article upon this ( in Europe ) comparatively unknown topic . The crime of Thuggee , and the extensive organisation by which it was carried on are now matters of history ; andj thanks to the energy of British officials , it of course has been removed from the soil of Queen Victoria ' s Indian dominion . So little is known in England of the condition and habits of life of the greater part of our fellow subjects in India , that we think it unnecessary to apologise for quoting in cxtenso the following particulars , which lift the veil from a source of mischief nearly as potent as the worship of the bloodthirsty goddess of the Thugs .

      " A subject of very considerable importance is at present , Ave believe , engaging the attention of the authorities . It is nothing more nor less than a scheme for the Reclamation of the Criminal Classes in the Punjab . The matter has been mooted by the Deputy-commissioner of Sealkote , Mr . E . A . Prihsep . Our readers are doubtless aware of the existence in this province of criminal race ? , Confederated gangs and guilds . There are first ( in the Sealkote district ) the " Selaria Rajpoots , " near and about Zufferwal , of whom there are no less than seven regular gangs , each having its separate sphere

      of action , line of business , receiver , and branch agencies , having partnerships in the Bar tract and across the juinmoo frontier , which , from its vicinity , forms a ready refuge and convenient market . Lumberdars and Chowdrees of even healthy looking villages give a helping hand , if they do not actually participate in the spoil . Places of rendezvous are pointed out near the banks of nullahs , in burial grounds , and road-side " Diarahs . " There are said to be even two or three villages of which every inhabitant is a known thief , and every woman experienced in the trade .

      " Then there are the Sansees , Chooras , andPukkeewavs . The first two of these are-found in every district . The Sansees are sheltered in houses assigned to them in villages , where they take one or two acres of land to cultivate , merely as a blind . They fee the Chowkcydars and headmen per month , according to a fixed rate . When hotly pursued they make off four or five miles in any direction , and are sure to find friends readv to take them in

      and feed them . If lot off , and security is wanted , the Luinberdar is only too ready to give it , for the price of security is regulated by a well-known turiff , and thirty rupees are immediately paid down . If hunted down at lust , and the Sanscu is sent off to jail , the whole brotherhood , or the particular guild , are in honour bound to provide for his wife nnd children during the entire perioil he has to remain in confinement . . » . ...... oodtho

      " The Chooras are a , loss ugly brotherh , majority of them being driven tu theft and burglary by their proverty . " Tho Pukkeewars , however , do things on a grand scale . They are a regular guild—highway robberies or heinous burglaries , wheru a largo ham is expected , is their peculiar lino of business , ilioy steadily avoid living in one village , preferring scattered residences , with a view to secure conceal-- Y ment and escape . . , ., . to ordertl

      " To bring these lawless bands . » ougn highly desirable , is a matter of couslduriihlo uilttcfiTty . Tho polico have been tried and iouna wanting . Mr . Prinaep proposes two nioasuroB . First , that tho landholders should bo uuule responsible for tho residence , conduct , and movement of those representatives of asocial nuisance . Aim Bocondly , that all such vagrants and recorded thieves who belong to a known criminal rneo , when jot looso from Tail after tho expiration of thoir tern ; , w imprisonment , should not only bo sysU'inntioauy rcgistorod , but brought and locutoil on lixwi unoccupiod tracts of land , ' such as uiiownod vin « 8 «» and rukhs ornuzzool land . Mr . PrlHMip nronoaos o give them tho land free of rout , subject , howovei . io

      tho following conditions : — " 1 st . Each family building a residence for Knoll . " 2 nd , Cultivation of areas of fixod quantity . " 3 rd . Liability to work upon tho roads , or uo coolios' duty wlion cuUod upon by Government subject to receiving wages for tho day according vo village rates . .., n ( . „ , " 4 th . Attendance of thoir mulo ohlMron at « school to bo formed in each such village . " It is quite clear that provision of this klna would bo of more real advantage to society ut jwj-b "

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 19, 1859, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19111859/page/10/