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      (^ O ^ 'V VV V / V -V ? : A POLITICAL AID IITEEMY REVIEW .

      "The O2xe Idea Which Kietorjr Exhibits A...

      "The O 2 xe Idea which Kietorjr exhibits as . evermore ^ ev' ! lopirt £ f ; -itself into' greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble , ' ¦ endeavour to throw ; dowa all the barriers ejected between men by prejudice and one-sided viev 73 ; and , by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat'the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development ¦ > of our 3 pintualnature . "—ITumboldt ' s Cosmos- ..,: ? . ' , , ' . '

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      Review Of The Week— »'Aoe J Gatherings F...

      REVIEW OF THE WEEK— » 'aoe j Gatherings from the Law and Po- How to Melt Pearls ... ; 928 The Divorce Act ... 932 The Indian Revolt 914 lice Courts .... 922 Expected Murder at Dublin 928 TheOrient 917 j Miscellaneous ... 922 THEARTS-r Accidents and Su " ddoiri 3 eaths ' . ' . ' . ' . ' . " . ! . 918 j Postscript 923 LITERATURE— Theatrical and Musical Notes 932 Ireland .. ... * . ; ...,.,-.. > r ............ 918 . PUBLIC . ' -AFFAIRS— / - ' • ¦ < V ; ' j C ' / Siiinriiivry . - 929 Creniorne Gardens 932 America ....... i . ^ .. .. ' . ; . V ; . - .:..:.. ^ . ... 918 ' TheCaTcutta Memorial 924 Old-Fashioned Criticism 929 :. ' ; ' . ¦ ¦ ' - ¦ - ' Continental Notes ... 919 The non-Recruiting Sergeant ...., 924 Latter-Day Poetry ..... . 930 Darnel Maiiin .. 919 Public Moneys 7 . 925 Indian Pamphlets 930 The Gazette 935 btate of lracle 920 Progress of the Indian Rebellion ... 926 The Noble Traytour .. ... 931 - *¦ - Our Civilization .., ........ 920 London Air aiyl Water :..... .... 927 Journal of aBaslri-Bazouk ..-,.:..,,.,. fl 31 COMMERCIAL , AFPAIRS- li \ Naval and Military ....,.......-, ; ...... ; 922 : Men Milliners . ¦ ... . ; . 923 . 1 Indian TExj > erience . 032 City Intelligence , Mavkets . c 933

      Vol. Viii. No. 392.] Saturday, September...

      VOL . VIII . No . 392 . ] SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 26 , 1857 . P & ice { J ^

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      ^ WHILE 3 as the week advanced , we have been waiting for the expected Indian mail , anxious to know what fresh achievements had been added to the list of our countrymen ' s gallant exploits , what fresli disasters had b ecu added to the blacker List , we have explanations which certainly do not lead us to anticipate brilliant accounts from India

      for the next month or two . Last week was in itself a model of vicissitude , not only in the events stated , but in the aspect which they bore from day to day . We left the relief of Lucknow under the greatest doubt ; some reason existing to suppose that Havb-LOCK had been repulsed by the accumulated strength of the rebels on his road . Subsequently arrived the report that Havelocic had again set out , stronger than he was before ; this has been followed by a renewal of the old account , and we await the mail to

      learn how matters actually stand .. It docs appear , indeed , that-the official despatches represent Ha-ve-LOck as having received reinforcements and collected additional guns by the 3 rd of August , with the object of renewing his march towards Lucknow oa the 4 th . Still Lucknow was not relieved , except by some portion of Jung Bahadoor ' s contingent , which , being without artillery or cavalry , was not of the first value in conflict with such a people as that of Oudei ? ' ' ' : ' ' i ; "

      ^ There havo' been other " reports of a disastrous kind , such , for instance , as that of a mutiny and massacre at Dharwnr , before the . 9 th ' of August ; but positive advices down to the 12 th appear to have completely contt / idi ^ t 6 ( 1 ; that ruin ' onr . Every fresh story about the Dinapore revolt only proves liow much of its disasters resulted from the wanton weakness of General Lloyd , who , besides temporizing with the men , had wandered somewhere for Ins own amusement , arid seems at last only to have consented to do his duty with coy reluctance .

      Nor do the stnlcmcWs on ' this' side tend to stren gthen our confidence in the good fortune of the British army . The ty-obe , indeed , has expressly earned us thatwfe may Mt have decidedly good W f ° l 'll 1 CasL iw ° monUls froiu tho present time . VVc have tlic report of reinforcements arriving in J jidm , timely and valuable beyond their numbers . A no mutineers had seized a period of the year when there were about GOOO fWcr European soldiers than "Usual in India . Since the outbreak several regimen ts have arrived , making up the Queen ' s Army b tho requisite number of 5000 men ; but not

      yielding more than sufficient to provide for the casualties of the last four months . ' The new Indian army which is to put down treachery and re-establish British supremacy , ' began to leave our shores on the 1 st of . July , and the troops are probably now beginning to land at the rate of about 400 a day , to be continued for the next three months . And arrangements have been made at Calcutta to send the troops up the river continuously as they arrive . But it is only by degrees that these reinforcements can tell , and they will only begin to tell in India in the present week .

      And what about our reserves at home ? Here , again , the accounts , although tliey are not the reverse of cheering , are certainly not all that the public could wish . The Artillery , which is a peculiar corps—and in which , by-the-hy , the opportunities for advancement are greater than in others—is obtaining men at the rate of about seven hundred a month ; but the recruitments for the Line , whether of horse or of foot , although officially said to be ' satisfactory , ' are evidently not up to the mark . The plan of raising recruits by offering a commission to any young gentleman who could bring in one hundred men has called forth many candidates for that kind of work , but not one of the candidates

      appears yet to have reported his success . A similar plan is to be tried upon a somewhat larger scale , by offering a lieutenant-colonelcy , with the power of nominating ten ensigns , to any retired officer who shall have held rank not lower than that of major in her Majesty ' s service ; hut tins experiment appears to bo completely untried . The Irish constabulary , we gather from the . report , is to be embodied as a regiment of Irish Dragoons ; with the ominous title of the 5 th Uoyal Irish Dragoons—the style and title of a regiment disbanded years back for disaffection . Thus , the progress made lias not yet filled up the programme which was officially issued some time

      ago . The Horse Guards cannot report that it has obtained the recruits which . it was authorized by Parliament to raise . Yet the necessity for additional force is so apparent , that already there is a talk of raising additional reghncnts besides the Irish 5 th Dragoons ; and one of the most urgent measures is to raise twenty-four additional troops of ono hundred men each for tho cavalry . None of I hose preparations for increasing our forces at homo or in India an ; upon a very largo scale . Such portion of the plan as is nlready worked does not make progress . For some reason or other the bounty is not a sufficient incentive to recruitment . Meanwhile , some of tho inhabitants of Calcutta

      have sent home a petition , repeating complaints which the British residents have before made , pointing out new grievances in the present state of the country , arid touching slightly upon the Black Act —that one-sided law for amending the magisterial jurisdiction . The petitioners more especially complain of the want of foresight which permitted the mutiny to burst forth unchecked ; of the Act for putting down the press ; and of the vacillation o £ the Government ; asking for direct government by the Queen- in Council , with an open Legislative Council , and reformed law courts . The meeting which passed the petition was not public , but there is no public in Calcutta—Government forbids the residents to act in that capacity .

      The Indian Relief Fund has advanced magnificently during the week . The contribution of oae thousand pounds in aid of the sufferers from Mussulman violence in India by the Sultan—the successor of-the Caliphs—is a fact of political as well as historical importance . A more striking or satisfactory indication o £ the Sultan ' s growing appreciation of the new state of relationship in which he

      stands with regard to Western Europe could hardly have been given . In other domestic matters there is little doing . Dr . Livingston continues to describe the commercial capabilities of Africa—Edinburgh being this time his theatre ; and some 480 of Mr . Meciii ' s friends have presented him with a fine piece of plate—an act which places the great agricu ltural reformer among our recognized institutions . But the Indian war is the theme . Tho Times

      has pointed out linendrapers' assistants as a class fit for the recruiting sergeant , and has put some of the gentilities , of . the retail calico and ribbon trade into _ an indignant ' flutter . To . thjnk , of expecting young men with respectable connexions anct eaft bands to go into the army and associate with nasty ' navvies , labourers , and worse ! ' Others are devising the construction of new and special corps for genteel soldiering .

      At Belfast we find the Reverend Mr . Hanna dotcrmincd to ' diegame . ' On Sunday last he appears to have thought it ' prudent' lo renew his open-air exercises . He attempted to preach , hut was compelled by the police to ' move on ; ' preveutcd from delivering a religious disconrso , ho ! i ( , tein ]) t (> L- -f ^ p deliver a political ono ; but ( lie policea ' g ' ain mj ^ yjcC" 7 in between him and his ' ileop » il . i ; iit , ' % » fa" < rCT [ j r ^ invay his audience . By n hi nailer inUJiriijBofpi ^ ,.. ' ] a )

      Lieutenant ' s proclamation , only tlnTe-t ^ rUaJ ^^ I ho town , arc plaeod under I lie inflneimgj ' ; t ]^^* Crimo and Outrage Act ; the effect oft ^ ispMHfo ^ t-3 /¦ % FT ^ ta

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 26, 1857, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26091857/page/1/