Current:

Leader (1850-1860), 19th November 1859, Edition 1 of 2, Page 1271, Untitled Article

Page 1271
Page 11
11 of 24

On this page

  • Text (6)
  • Transcript

    • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

      Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

      Untitled Article

      to Government , and the culprits themselves * than the system new pursued , by which these men are prosecuted as Budmashes , and thrown again and again into jail . If the . causes of theft be removed , it is natural to suppose that the thefts themselves will not occur . As poverty is in reality the spur by which these unhappy men are driven to crime , so by this scheme they have land and labour given them from which they can produce a livelihood—whilst they will be housed , registered , and watched at the

      same time . . , _ "It is to be hoped , then , that this principle of substituting correctional farms in place of the old system of disposing of vagrants , will be sanctioned . In the measures contemplated we see great hope of effecting a very desirable reform by the removal of a public nuisance . Hitherto our course has been altogether wrong . Instead of removing the inducement and opportunities for committing crime , we have quietly waited until crime has been actually committed ; and then , too , if it be a theft or a burglary , deferred investigation until the required party prosecute . . _____

      Untitled Article

      INDIA AS A COLONY . Many people at home have singular ideas and forebodings in connexion with the present state of British India , and even the members of the Colonisation . . Committee have set no very high estimate on India as a field for European skill and enterprise . In one quarter the complaint is that our . territory is too wide , that we are unable to provide for the protection of our own districts ; in another that the climate is quite unbearable for Europeans ; in a third that India is too poor a country to bear for any long period the expenses of its . present defence ; and that -the ; ¦ means of ¦ communication , between towns and villages are of the most wretched kind . All

      these complaints , have , perhaps , some foundation more or less solid ; but on the other hand there are new and countervailing circumstances , which ,, by . a curious perverseness , are seldom adverted to . The climate is generally believed to be uniform throughout India , whereas every district between the Himalayan Snows and Cape Comorin may be said to have a climate of its own . India would not be intolerable to Europeans if access to the cooler regions were attended -with less difficulties than at present . A railway from Calcutta to Simla , and from Bombay to Agra , with daily trains from each end

      performing the journey , would enable us to exchange a tropical for an English climate within a couple of day 9 . With such means of transport in full vigour , the English residents in India would cease to be an encampment , and might become colonists . The cost of Indian armies and government is also largely attributed to the same evil of want of rapid means of transit . The wealth of a province is always in process of waste at our leading depots , because it is needful at those places to have at all times an accumulation of muni lions and stores equal to the consumption of months , and to the supply of a large

      circumjacent district . How far the effect of residence in India is deleterious to the European constitution we shall not pretend to say ; but we believe a great deal more blamo is thrown on the climate than it deserves . Dr . Ralph Mooro ,. who was examined by the Colonisation Committee , stated that " a man from the north , with a blue eye , ; fair hair , of sanguineous temperament , and of temperate habits , will starfd thu climate of India remarkably well ; and , in fact , many delicate men , who cannot get on in this country , luxuriato nnd live in India . " One ' s diet and manner of liying are the real sources of danger to health in this country .

      Considering that India is only one-sixth of the disuuice , reckoned in time , which it was from tho contemporaries of Clivo nnd Hastings , and . tlmt she is more conveniently situatod with respect to England than thu Saixon colonies stretching from tho Capo of Good'Hope to Now Zealand in tho ono direction , and to tho ft'cu ports of China in tho other , she will ever hold a more important commercial position than they . She is now outflanlcod , as it wcu'o , by tho English settlements in South Africa and in Australia . Nothing can bo more certain than that tho Knglish colonies in Australia and tho commerce with tliosa colonies Imvo given to England

      a firmer hold on India than slio over had botoro . When our railways shall bo completed , valetudinarians from Bengal and Madras will sock in tho bracing air of tho Himalayas tl » o ron , ovated air thoy have hitherto sought m England , nnd sometimes at Auckland and Sydney ; and . Capo Town will caaeo to bocomo a sanitarian station fVo . in Bombay . ' Our colonios avo of oourso of groat use to us ; no email part of tho cavalry of tho lato East India Company was mounted on sturdy long-tailed horses depastured iu Now South Wales , But moro important fltill—tho floot of aevon or eight hundred ships which annually sail from England with emigrants find it profitable ) to come homo through the Indian boos , and

      to call at Calcutta for a return cargo . Cost of conveyance has long been a greater bar to the development of Indian commerce than the cost of production . These emigrant vessels , we believe , help in a most powerful manner to remove this difficulty , arid the result has lately been that the sugars of Benares and Tirhoot have competed vigorously in the English market with the produce of the West India plantations , notwithstanding that Jamaica is only half as distant as the valley of the Ganges and the cultivated plains of the Deccan . India may not be quite suited for colonists from the labouring classes , but it has not the less a high value , compared with the other colonies . There is now a pretty general belief that an increase of the European population ¦ will be an advantage to the country . Wherever European capitalists have gone , they have benefitted the people and the country . — Bombay Gazette .

      Untitled Article

      The Montreal Pilot says : — " We have it on authority that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales , accompanied by the Colonial Secretary , and other distinguished personages , will visit Canada at the end of May or the beginning of June next . The formal opening of tlie Victoria Bridge will then take place . " A letter from Paris says : — " On Friday the Emperor went out shooting with Prince Metternich . His Majesty brought down 150 birds , &c . The Prince , no doubt to maintain the family reputation for diplomacy , modestly contented himself with 130 . " A worthy keelman , formerly living at Paradise , near Septs wood , was onee under examination at the assizes , -when he was asked if he knew Mr . —— ? ' Noa , " he replied , " but aw tend his faithur . " " When was that ? " " Before the flood . " " Now ,, my man , " inquired the learned counsel ( who knew nothing of the flood of 1771 , and thought to be down upon the witness ) , " where did you live then ?" " In Paradise , tibby sure ! " A roar of laughter completed the amazement and discomforture of horsehair . The seat of Joegersprus , to -which the King of Denmark has just gone from Copenhagen , is the property of the Countess Danncr , his mistress . His Majesty intends to pass there the early part of the winter .

      Prince Napoleon and the Princess Mathilde went to CompiOgne on the 16 th , the Feast of St . Eugenie . The Count de Paris and Iiis suite arrived at Ostend on Saturday , and left by an express train for Brussels . . The marriage of Lady Cecelia Gordon Lennox , sixth daughter of his Grace the Uuke of Richmond , K . G ., P . O ., and Lord Birigham , eldest son of the Earl of Liacan , has been solemnised at St . George ' s Church , Hanover-square . Lord Palmerston will entertain the Cabinet Ministers nt dinner this day . The Staatsanzeiger says that the health of the King of Prussia has improved lately , and ho is now able to make short excursions in a carriage .

      The Queen has granted to Count Alexander John Joseph Tcleki , a naturalised subject of her Majesty , and to Jane Frances , his wife , only daughter ami heir of Henry , Lord Langclnle , deceased , that tho } r may respectively take upon themselves , and henceforth -uso the name of I-larlcy only in lieu of that of Teleki , and also respectively bear the iorms of Harloy only . On Saturday •¦ morning ; tho llight Hon . \\ . 1 _ . Gladstone , Chancellor of the Exchequer , attended tho Court of Exchequer at Westminster , in his robes of otnee , and took t \ io oatlisuiocording to usual custom , before tile Barons of tho Court , on his appointment to that office .

      Mr . Sewnrd lato Governor , of the jStato of New York , is now at Turin , and has boon presented to tho King . As ho is unacquainted with French or Italian , a dragoman wns sought for amongst tho Piedmontoao conversant with English , otiquctto nut allowing of a foreigner in that capacity . Gcnornl Solnroli was entrusted vi , th the duty . The Journal do St . Petorsbourg announces tlio arrival of Suhainyl atKulouga , tho town selected for his residence , lie was attended by his sou and of

      throo murldos , and alighted at thu prlnulpul hotel the placo . Tho next day ho paid a visit to tho governor , and afterwards wont to soo the bouso intoncod for him . Ho w « s particularly struck by tho black marble buats of two Greek philosophers in ono of tho rooms , and after many questions respecting tho parsons they roprosontod , ho r-oquofltou to have thorn removed , as his wives would bo frightonod at the dark faces . Hq expressed liunseli porfootly satisfied with tho houeo and locality In which it was situated .

      Untitled Article

      * To . 504 . Nov . 19 , 1859 . ] THE LEADEB . __^___ 12 71

      Untitled Article

      RoY-Ajt / Opera , Druby Lanb . —The revival of Iflbwtow ' s comic opera of " Martha" was so admirable a success that had riot grave November filed a peremptory injunction against both singers and audiences on Monday night , we might have anticipated its frequent repetition . The great talent , dramatic as well as vocal , of Madlle . Titiens has been so thoroughly demonstrated by her charming impersonation of Verdi ' s Leonora and Donizetti ' s Lucretia Borgia that there was hardly room for doubt that she would charm in the elegant role of " Martha , "

      though there were connoisseurs of no mean discernment who apprehended that . one so versed in the delineation of passion , and in the delivery of powerfully sentimental music , would not easily descend to the slight though sparkling and graceful strains allotted to the Lady Henrietta . But the versatility of this great lyric artist has enabled her fairly to inscribe this character upon the roll of her triumphs . The " Vergin Kosa " ( The Last Rose of Summer ) , which umy not inaptly be termed the backbone of the opera , was received , as it deserved , in the second act , with enthusiasm , and in the fourth , where the situation admitted of lier giving it in English , with

      unqualified rapture . In the spinning quartette , again , apiece requiring closeness of singing and no less refinement 6 f tone , Madlle . Titiens was no less conspicuous , though , we must admit that shre received every due assistance from the other principals . Among these we must first name Giuglini , the Liondlo , whose intense feeling in " M ' appari tutt ' anior , " truly carried the audience away , and who displayed through the opera as nruch histrionic power as natural beauty of voice and mechanical excellence in its management . Signor Vialetti taade the best Plunket we have had the fortune to see or hear , bringing sufficient comicality

      to bear in aid of an excellent voice . The beer song-, which in some hands is but flat and colourless , he gave with so much unction , yet taste , as to secure a genuine' encore . ' The quartet is complete when we have noticed Ma'dame Borchardt , an accomplished and vivacious actress , and a singer of high ability , the addition of whom , to the strong combination already named , gave a degree of perfection to the ensemble of which neither the composer nor the public have before had the advantage on our stage . We were no less gratified to observe very full houses on both Friday and Saturday , than to find that the season came to . a somewhat abrupt close in

      the early part of the present week . St . 'James ' s Hah .. —Mokh . vy Popular Coxceuts . —Kon . more warmly than ourselves—for they are true uases in the desert of compulsory pleasureseeking wherein we wander—welcome the resunTption or the Monday Popular Concerts . A spring season , of nearly six months' duration , sufficed to prove to the directors that their loytil observance of an admirable programme was appreciated by a usical amateurs

      large and influential circle of m , and wo nro glad , moreover , to learn was not up remunerative ' . That this well-inoritcd success may be now followed up , we can have IHtlo doubt , seeing that the same cultivated taste has boon at work to construct the schemes of the entertainments , ana that the first concert on Monday last showed tho direction of tmdiniinished zeal towards its realisation . Lust Monday ' s programme shall hero be cited as a sr / cimen-and , wo arc bold to sny its pnim . so will be rulflllcd-of tho quality ot thoso to come . It

      ran as follows : — 1 > Am , ,. nuorttt , Jl » .. t ni » Jor ( OP . in , Doothovoii ^ MuBHru . aiuuton , Kli'H , , si ; l » vurn mid TlutM . Sour / : ( MvmlolsHolin ) "' Em wol » s and rlllli , & « . " «" yv ! Im / V . ' / ' ! r Jionatn , iu A pinjor ( Heotliovon ) . Mr . Charles . //¦/ "' tviolbi oblltfiito ) , " Non turner wuuto Iwne " ( Muaarl ) . Juiianme Lemniuns-ShoiTJiifftoii . n ,, o ¦ ¦• Mint Iu bliuien lima " ( UohbIhI ) . Muduino I , ouuuen « - S hen-ins 1011 , llurr ltoiohnrdt . imiit n . nunrt . i V minor ( Op . M ) , Heotliovon ) , for two violin * , viola Q i vio oiioollS ! M ^ Hrs . WionliiWHki , H «* h , ttchrcurs uua

      • Son // - "All , why do wo lovo ? " ( MiicfniTuu ) . Muuwno jj , iiuiwi | iH-Wlivrrlnytou . ,, ¦ «« - , _ Vn HMtvi- " Loiso nuh « u incluci LU"kr " t Hrtiuburt ) . Horr Kololuircll . U , iot : -Fiilrost Muldon " fSi > ohr ) . Miulamo Loraraons-HliorrliiH'Jon , Horr Uololuirdl . * tn , nttu In U mitJor ( Op . : J 0 , Dootliovon ) , for piano ana violin . attri CluirloH llariO aud Wlunlawakl . Of tho instrumcntalistB above montkmod we have

      Untitled Article

      PACTS AND SCRAPS .

      Untitled Article

      MUSIC AND THE DRAMA .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 19, 1859, page 1271, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2321/page/11/