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    FFHA . T the publication of the Hbyal Proclamation A throughout India has been attended with immediate good results , seems to bo assured by the latest news from Calcutta and Bombay . Not only have we evidence of the popular enthusiasm with -which , the reading of the august document was received in the great cities , but we have the more important assurance that already the amnesty accorded by the new ruler of India has done its work well with many of the rebellious chiefs ' . In Oude , where alone the rebellious fire still burns with

    sustained fierceness , many of the talookdars are accepting the royal grace accorded to them , and are giving up their forts , and what is more , their arms . The Ilajah Loll Mahdoo Singh had given himself up and surrendered his fortress of Amety ; and the Nawab of Banda had separated himself from the rebels and gone into General Michel ' s camp ; Bat , not trusting alone to the mild influences of lloy ' al Proclamation , both the Commandcr-in-Cliief

    and her Majesty ' s Chief Commissioner m Oude , Mr . Montgomery , have taken stern measures of repression against the obstinately rebellious . While Lord Clyde promises consideration and protection to all who shall comport themselves peacefully , he threatens death and destruction to all who shall venture to offer armed opposition . ' and Mr . Montgomery declares that severe penalties shall be paid by all who arc discovered to have concealed arms , ammunition , or other matdriel of

    war . There is very little actual fighting reported in these late communications , but what there is shows that the rebels arc fighting because they hayo nothing for it but to die fighting . Tantia Topee , rtheir one and only great leader , still fights and runs . By tho last accounts we learn that he was in the Satpoorah hills , every outlet of which was closely guarded . We hoar nothing moro of the report brought by the previous mail , that lie had sent to inquire tho terms on which ho might suiTcndcr .

    Tho news from China is peculiarly interesting , since it conveys doubts as to tho value of our late treaty . At Hong-Kong there is a growing feeling that tho document is worth very little after all . According to tho Hong-Kong light , tho Chinese Government was only acting under the influence of temporary fears , and therefore not sincerely . It is said that tho rebels having nearly exhausted tho resources of tho Govornmont , it was not in a con dition to offer a sustaiuod opposition to tho demands mndo upon it by tho alUod Powers . Tho British niind at Hong-Kong , ho \ fcver , has a tendency to look at tho dnrkost side in Chinese matters . What tho next turn will bo in tho affairs , direct or collateral , of tho Ionian Islands , sec ma likely to

    be a subject for speculation for some time to come . The publication of Sir John Young ' s very freespoken despatches immediately after the departure of Mr . Gladstone , was a surprise , capped by the discovei-y that the documents had been surrep " titiously obtained and published without the sanction of the Government . These surprises were , however , small and tame compared with that of the verdict given by the jury which tried Mr . Wellington Guernsey for stealing the published documents . That a copy of the Ionian despatches was carried

    off from the table of Mr . Miller at the Colonialoffice , and that the only missing copy was sent by Mr . Guernsey to the Daily News * was admitted by his counsel , the eloquent and ingenious Serjeant Parry ; but what of that ? added the pleader ; where was the felonious intention ? And the juryecho answered , " Where ? " Perhaps no one of those who heard the verdict of acquittal delivered was more surprised than lucky Mr . Guernsey , certainly no one could at the moment have had a stronger sense of the " glorious uncertainty of the law" than Mr . Humplvrys Parry .

    Another of those elaborate monetary statements in which France is made to exhibit a prosperity not to be discovered by any other outward visible sign , has been , laid before the Emporor by Monsieur Mague . The Empire is not only " peace , " it is prosperity ; there is no doubt of the fact—according to the Minister of Finance . Look at the funds , which , at one time , were down to 0 ( 3 , they are up to 73 ; railway obligations , ngnin , they were as low

    long continuance of tranquillity will be out of the question . In Rome we have positive signs of the rising turbulence ; several arrests have been made , and the police are taxed to the utmost to watch for the least appearances of a popular outbreak . At home we have something of the same duty to perform , but under very different circumstances . The Irish itch of treason is well-nigh dissipated ,

    but lingers still in a few young bloods . The announcement that a number of arrests had been made of young men attached to secret societies , whose object was no less than to wrest the " Green Isle" from the hands of Queen Victoria , was received with surprise and not a little incredulity on this side of" the Irish Channel . But the fact was soon established , and the probabilities are that Government will be found not to have acted without

    grounds in the steps which it has taken . There is something like a feeling of discomfort prevalent , arising from the fact that the arrested men have been committed to prison without a public examination ; but , upon the whole , we are not at present inclined to question the proceedings of the Irish Lord Lieutenant . The prisoners , according to rumour , are to be tried forthwith by a Special Commission to be appointed for the purpose .

    The Reform qiiestion is being actively debated in various parts of the land , and the labour will not be useless , if , as it is supposed , Ministers are waiting upon the public voice to guide them in the final adjustment of their measure . Mr . Blight ' s position becomes day by day one of greater responsibility , and without some unforeseen event arises to shake the popular confidence in him , which is manifested by repeated vote 3 of public assemblies ,

    as 205 f ., and they arc worth 300 f . Every branch of the revenue lias increased during the year , and the proof of real prosperity is that , instead of setting aside -10 , 000 , 000 francs for the liquidation of the natioual debt , according to tho arrangement of 1859 , the sum of 00 , 000 , 000 francs will bo applied to that purpose in 1 S 60 . This picture of French prosperity has only ono drawback : it is not to bo trusted .

    he will hang like a threatening sword above the heads of Ministers on the introduction of their bill . At Edinburgh , oil "Wednesday night , he made it quite clear as to tho position he intended to take on the Reform question , and as to tho elements of the bill he is going to produce- His bill will repeal tho Septennial Act , will secure tho ballot , a more equal distribution of seats , a ratiug-suJTrage in the towns , and a 10 / . vote in tho counties .

    No event has occurred daring tho week to lift the veil whioh , for the present , covers the affairs of Italy ; but tho probability of a rupture between Franco and Austria is becoming day by day a matter of graver speculation . In Germany tho idea is a fixed one , and if the report of certain words , said to have bcou spoken by tho Prinoo of Prussia , may be trusted , the threats of an Austro-Prussian alliance in opposition to tho pretensions of France

    We arc not likely soon to . hear tho last of tho cry , raised in the north , that tho shipping interests of England arc going to tho dogs ; it has been onca more taken up in London , and is to bo made to echo even to tho cars of her Majesty . Tho shipowners waut tho qualified protection aifordod in " reciprocity ; " thoy cannot , they say , hold up against the unrestrained competition of foreign

    arc something moro than empty words . ihc Prmco Itcgont is said to have doclarod that in tho event of war , "if Germany cannot bo ono , sho shall , at all events , ho undivided in tho struggle . " Count Cavour , also , is roportcd to hivvo scut round a circular to the Picdmonteso representatives at foreign Courts , in which , while denying that anything has occuri-cul to warrant tho nppivhensiou of immediate war , ho says that , without speedy mnoKomtion in tho Governments of several of tlio Italian States , a

    OQimtrios without the rcimnositiou of difl'oronUal duties and all tho rest of tho Protectionist machinery ; and so they have , in very humble accents , petitioned the Queen lo issue an Order hi Council depriving the ships of other nations , not trading with tliis country on n reciprocal basis , of the froctnuling rights which they now enjoy . Tho shipping intereat is the laggard lu thy Xlold ; wlUlo

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    REVIEW OF THE WEEK- woe Singapore 1376 Hanworth .. 1381 ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCEHoMElifTmiffEifCE . India ... 1376 The Two Mottoes 1381 l 3 g 8 PoliticalForesbadowings 1372 China 1376 FINE ARTS- Germanv . 1389 The Manchester Manifesto 1373 Cochin China 1376 New . publications 1381 America "" 1390 Gatherings from X . aw and Police ISiam 13 / 6 . mus ic — Courts . 1373 Jav * 1376 % ™ % ll ~ io 1382 INDIA AND INDIAN PROCRESSCrinrinal Record 1373 West Indies .. 1376 jmz * io ,, .. Market 1391 The Crystal Palace 1374 Mexico 1377 THEATRES AND ENTERTAINMENTS- The Bribery Market ld » l An Austrian Alliance . 1374 America , 1377 The Palace of the People , Covent COMMERCIALSiSS l J = ^ == iS § i = ISPEiHi and Reading Room for the Literary Chronicle of the Week . 1379 French Finance—The Money Bank of Eugtaii d" ¦¦¦¦ A "'^¦¦¦ " { " l 393 Working Classes ^ 1375 JSSS ^^ J ^!! L = Z 33 * $£ ? « & Turf-= "" : ffi ^ £ && ^^ 1393 Miscellaneous 1377 The Foster-Brothers ... ... 1380 Thoughts , Facts , and Sugges- Money Market and Stock Ex-Postscript 1383 Tho Post-Office Directory ... 13 S 1 tions on Parliamentary Re- t rSmfoTrazette 1394 coJS ^™™™ :..... » n il ^ irffi ^ r ::::::::::::::: iS ^ SS ^ srssmssi-siissS : 3 lS 22 £ S&te ===. —

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 18, 1858, page 1371, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2273/page/3/