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      ¦ rffedC&ifafiMtf&MMk / , &&-@ ^ k ^ y gjp / %$ * f A POLITICAL AND LITERARY REVIEW .

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      THE fortune of war in India lias not continued to favour the British flag wliere it had . hitherto been most propitious , and yet we cannot say that the general character of the intelligence is more adverse than any we have yet received—perhaps rather the reverse ; while the "political situation , if

      vre may venture to express any opinion about it , appears cerCainly to have improved rather than otherwise . There are , no doubt , several lamentable incidents . General Havelock had been compelled to retreat upon Cawnpore . Neither the Bombay army nor the Presidency stands free from some implication in the rebellion , -which has certainly changed its character and become less exclusively

      military . Some of the revolts are of an exceedingly painful character , and discreditable even to the British officers engaged ; while the gradual spirit of uneasiness in Lower Bengal is decidedly alarming . The Governor-General ' s body-guard had been quietly disarmed ; and after having repelled the offer of some of the residents in Calcutta as volunteers , the Governor-General had been compelled to promise that he would keep a close watch upon the Mussulmans in the capital , and upon the

      deposit and sale of arms throughout the city . The state of the capital appeared to require that a larger proportion of European troops should b e detained there , however much they might be wanted up the Ganges . The events at Dinaporc are deplorable . Pour regiments had mutinied ; General Lloyd parleyed with them—asked them to give up their percussion-caps — allowed them somo hours to determine ; let them even march off in a body—and not till then pursued and dispersed them . Subsequently he sent a party to attack them at Arrah , but the expedition was repulsed with considerable

      loss , and there was a massacre of the British . General Llyod had been removed , and was replaced by Sir James Outuam , in charge of the Cnwnpore and Dinapore divisions . Lucknow had not yet been relieved , except by the arrival of the contingent sent by . Tung Bahadoor , the Ncpaulcsc chief . General Havelock had not been able to reach it . After pursuing Nena Sahib to Bithoor , finding the place evacuated and destroying the fort , lie crossed the Ganges and defeated the Oude rebels every time they encountered him . At last ho was compelled to fall back upon Cawnpore , in order to secure the guus which he had taken , and to deposit in

      question how far some of them would be able to stand their ground until reinforcements should come up , or whether they might not be obliged to give in , with such treacherous mercy as the garrison , of Cawnpore experienced . Secondly , the season was doing its deadly work ; and again it is a question what power of endurance our limited number of men in India possess . Luckily the seasons do not seem to liave been quite so bad as -usual , and the expenditure of life has aiot been so great hitherto as we might have anticipated . Still it is a painful calculation , what would be the proportion between tlie loss by men through the effects of the climate , and the renewal of tlieir strength by the

      successive arrivals of the reinforcements . The third point of view from ¦ which we perceive fresh dangers is suggested by the letter from the pen of Colonel Sykes , the active and influential Director of the East India Company and Member for Aberdeen , to the editor of a journal published in that Scotch , city . Colonel S yk . "es will not have it that the Bast India Company is chargeable with any want of foresight or energy in permitting the outbreak to gain such a head . He gives precedents to show , that a touch of the religious chord , by rough and imprudent hands has formerly brought about sudden and unexpected revolts ; and he insists that ,

      safety the sick who encumbered his ranks . At Agra and Delhi the British had maintained their positions ; and had successfully , though with some loss , chastised the mutineers that came against them . A report that Agra had fallen is evidently a blunder , probably , it seems , suggested by the occurrence at Arrah . The Native garrison at Delhi had been reinforced by the Neemuch mutineers ,

      but no increase of numbers appears to make the Natives equal to the work of encountering the British ; and the description of the manner in which they are routed , of their manifest fear , and of their deficiency in ammunition , justifies the expectation that the British wiLI hold their ground until they are relieved . So much for Bengal , upper and lower .

      The state of the Bombay Presidency is far from being so satisfactory as we had supposed , although we did have signs of something unpleasant under the surface . The first considerable outbreak occurred at IColapore , where a Native regiment mutinied . It was soon dispersed with great loss , but not before there were signs of disaffection at Belgaum , Dharwar , Sawunt , "Warree , Poonah , and Hutnagherry , and some other points ; but the European posts had been strengthened . The agitators appear to have been small in numbers , and in some

      cases isolated individuals . We do not , therefore , attach very great importance to this movement in Bombay , except in one point of view . The panic which occurred amongst the resident inhabitants in the capital of the Presidency is manifestly unreasonable , and it seems to have subsided with the arrival of strong reinforcements froin Mauritius—an opportune succour which Governor Higginson is

      eineven after this experience , we way , and indeed we must , employ Native troops as Auxiliary to our own army in the maintenance of our Indian empire . He holds that we have "to a great extent overcome the revolt originating in the imprudent pressure on the religious chord , but be admits . that we now have to deal with other enemies . "The public should know , " he says , " that the original phases of the military revolt have passed away , and that we have now to contend with a Mahometan conspiracy , ramifying throughout India , and that the Sepoys

      phatically commended for sending with much promptitude on the first demand . These , however , were not enough . The Pottingcr had returned with a small sail ing vessel , to fetch reinforcements from Mauritius ; and three screw steamers of 1000 tons each had been sent from Bombay , the Himalaya from Calcutta , to bring all the troox > s that Sir Gkokge Guby / could spare from the Cape' of Good Hope .

      are merely tools in the hands of our ancient and implacable enemies . " If , therefore , wo may consider that we already forcsco tlie termination of the Hindoo revolt—that it is a question only of time and expenditure—Colonel Syjces admits that we have a new enemy to encounter in I" 4 ia—t- . 9 Mussulmans ; an influential , military , reckless hosl , limited to no Presidency , and having representatives in all parts , all classes , all institutions—the proin mi puns , uu ciusscs , an lnsiiuiuon . s—uig ura ^

      Another reported arrival at Calcutta has excited something like amazement here—it is tlie arrival of Lord Elgin with that force which ought to havo been conveying him to Pckiu , From three points of view the position of the British in Indiais unpleasant . It is quite evident that the numbers of the separate small armies into which our forces arc split up were not sufficient for the labours they had to perform , and it was s \ serious

      tectcd provinces , the annexed , the Moftfss ^ -iihe / - ?" cities , with a large prcpondernnce oMn < f& * $ \ M ] t' { < T ^ t ~ - j-J& ^ Ht' if n't . '/ ' C ' clement among them , and many men in tj ^ jxy ^ SJrS'h British armies of all Presidencies . J ^ 3 | tMc ' jtJ || t&t' H the Mussulmans arc eminent in rivijbyl j wii 'kfffi ^ ftj&s other . Besides the two great jKirtiesrj * thj ^ fa | uifc ' . «'' ¦ M /^• ' - ¦ ¦¦ ' ¦ M < . ' -J-rv -f ¦ ... il >\ v < ^

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      • The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore dev . lnpiru * itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity— -th « noble endeavour to throw down all the bamsrs erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and , bysetting aside the distractions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our apintualnature . "—Kumboldt ' s Cosmos .

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      REVIEW OF THE WEEK- > 'aoe Gatherings from the Law and Po- The Public Moneys Report 902 An Uncle Tom J \ qyel 908 ™ Tndian TWrit 890 lice Courts 898 Q'he Local Government of India ... 003 A Lecture on Bodily Exercise 909 AlSiIbatiSilLtatof CasuaitVosfiGrine State of Trade 809 Iho Romance of Credit 903 Indian Maps -. 909 th « mS « st of Casualties during Naval and Military . 899 london Air and Water 904 _„_ .. __ - T ^ Luer ^ neraiHaveiock ""'' 894 Miscellaneous 899 Evangelical ConBress at Berlin 905 THEARTSimXKrfSSt 895 Postscript 900 The Puffing Flague 905 Theatrical and Musical Notes 910 & ?^ -:: r .:: rr .::::::::::::::::: ffi open council- ' - JSKatoSuS ^ - ' " 88 - — The Belfast Riots ..,. 895 The News from India , and ' The Attua at Galloway .. JOb Gazette 910 America 89 . > Indian News' . 901 i itfr atiirf-ContaaeutalNotes 890 mcuani \ ews . wi LITERATURE COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS-^^ oddenta-and Sudden Deaths 893 PUBLIC AFFAIRS- Summary 907 C ° . ^ " „ . F iV , . , ' A - ' " OarOivHization 897 Viscount Canning 901 Q'he Walpole Letters 907 | City Intelligence . Marlcets . &c 910

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      VOL . VIII . No . 391 . ] SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 19 , 1857 . PBJOE { g £ Sig . ™ ° : ; 3 Sgff ' --

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 19, 1857, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2210/page/1/