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Leader (1850-1860), 24th November 1860, Edition 1 of 2, Page 965, Untitled Article

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    • THE MADRAS IRRIGATION AND CANAL COMPANY.
    • SERIALS.
    • HINDUSTANI AT CAMBRIDGE.
    • THE BATTLK OF THE BANKS OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE FOR GOLD
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      Untitled Article

      Messrs . Edward Moxon and Go . beg to announce that they will publish , early in December , d second series of " Hood ' s Own , " in one volume , 8 vo ., illustrated with numerous cuts , in-iee 10 s . 6 d . j elegantly bound in cloth , Ifc is but fair to argue from the popularity of the Iir . * fc , that this second series of " Hood's Own " will be universally welcomed , containing , as it will do , the later writings of the author , when his style was more matured whilst his genius remained as bright , if not brighter , than ever . This volume will be uniform with the " First Series . " The" Worn Wadding Ring , " and other poems , by Mr . W . C . Bennett , will , we learn , be published immediately by Messrs . Chapman and Hall . The volume will contain , in addition to the lyrics and ballad , 100 sonnets , a form of poetry on which the writer has not before tried his hand . fcjoOiETV of Aets , Mattfactubes , and CoaiirmioE . —The 107 th session of this Society commenced on Wednesday last , when the ope iin < r address was delivered by Sir Thomas Phillips . ' F . G-. S . The guarantee fund amounts , it appears , to the enormous sum of £ 365 , 000 . The medals , which wore awarded by the council for papers read at the weekly evening meetings , during the last session , and for articles submitted to the Society ' s committees , Were distributed as follows : To Mr . R . Thomson , for several novel and ingenious instruments and tools , for use in dental surgery—the Society ' s silver medal . To Mr . Leonard Wray , for his compound of materials as a substitute for gutta perchathe Society ' s silver medal . To Mr . J . O . Morton , for his paper read before the Society , " on the Forces used in Agriculture "—the Society's medal . To Mr . Leonard Wray , for his paper read before the Society , " On the Means of Increasing the Production of Sheep ' s Wool , ami Angora Goat ' s Hair "—che Society ' s silver medal . To Mr . George R , Burnell , for his two papers read before the Society , "On Building Stones—the Causes of their Decay , and the If cans of Preventing it , " and "On Building Woods—the Causes of their Decay , and the Means of Preventing it "—the Society ' s silver medal . To Mr . Daugli'sh , for his paper read before the Society , " On a "Ncvr System of Bread Manufacture "—the Society ' s silver" medal . To Dr . J . Forbes Watson , F . R . S ., for his paper read before the Society , " On the Chief Fibi ^ eyielding Plants of India "—the Society ' s silver medal . For the meetings previous to Christmas , the following arrangements have been made : —November 28 . — " On the Acclimatization of Animals ; "by Mr . P . T . Buekland , M . A ., Student of Christ Church , Oxford , Assistant-Surgeon , Second Life Guards . December 5 , " On Electro-block Printing , especially as applied to Enlarging or Reducing from any Printing Surface or'Origihal Drawing ; " by Mr . H . G . Collins . December 12 . — " Italian Commerce and Industries ; " by Professor Leone Levi . December 19 . — " On the Straw Plait Trade ; " by Mr . A . J . Tansley . The chair is taken at eight o ' clock . The subject of the Exhibition of 1862 will be found at length , under that head , in another article .

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      $ ov . ' 24 , L 8 < 50 ] The Saturday Analyst and Leader . 9 do

      The Madras Irrigation And Canal Company.

      THE MADRAS IRRIGATION AND CANAL COMPANY .

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      rflHE third report of the directors is now before us . The Tdoin-JL buddra project , which was the one selected for the initiative of the Company , is reported in a highly satisfactory state of progress . The . ' Company enjoys the concurrence and support'of the Local Government . i Early in the present year , the Company , with the sanction and approval j of the Secretary of State and the Government of Madras , entered upon j the construction of a portion of the ICurnool works . In the course of six weeks , a temporary stone dam , 1190 yards in length , and containing 17 , 900 tons of stone , -was constructed across the Toombuddra river , and proved entirely successful . The company ' s scheme comprises four divisions : 1 , the Maury Tank Project ; 2 , the Upper Bellary Project ; 3 , the Lower Bellary Project ; 1 , the Kurnool Project . Each of these is complete in itself , but altogether 'they form one grand connected plan , no less than 700 milps in length . The estimated cost , as calculated by Colonel H . C . Cotton , the Company ' s chief engineer , was £ 1 , 350 , 000 , the guaranteed capital of the company haying been £ 1 , 000 , 000 : and this estimate was verified by Captain Rundall , the consulting engineer appointed by the Madras Government . The Secretary of State for India ( Sir C . § Wood ) having , questioned the expediency of " extending the works to be Undertaken by the Company , with a guaranteed capital beyond the sum of £ 1 , 000 , 000 , " the Company have been in communication with him on this subject , and are taking steps for the adoption of means satisfactory to all parties for carrying out the entire scheme in its integrity . This arrangement , it j appears , has the advantage of the strong . recommendations of the J Local Governmejt . The expenditure of the Company , both at home ' nnd in India , up to the end of last September , amounted to £ 72 , 127 , and the receipts on aocoiint of capital to £ 536 , 366 , leaving a balance in hand of £ 4 . -64 . ; 239 , The reports of the chief engineer show that the works are being prosecuted in the most expeditious and satisfactory manner . In June last the Local Government intimated to the company that ib was " much gratified to learn that the dam across the Tooni * buddra has been established . The rapidity with which ' this has been done , " says the despatch , " reflects great credit on the engineers concerned . " And in a subsequent communication the Government state they " have read the report with interest , and Hotice with gratification the vigorous commencement made on the works by the engineers of the Irrigation Company . " Vast ond comprehensive as the scheme of the Company is , its magnitude is . surpassed by its utility . As the great Stephenson said of boring a tunnel under the straits of Dover , ib is only a question of money . And considering the immense advantages , and consequent certain profits of such an enterprise , there can be no doubt entertained of the successful carrying out of the plan . The London offices of the company are at 27 , Cannon-street , E . O . We obsorve that a mooting is to bo held at the London Tavern , Bishopsgate-stroet , on the 29 th instant , at one o ' clock .

      Serials.

      SERIALS .

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      All Hound the Wfrrld , an Illustrated liccord-Hf Toij «< yes , IVarels , and Atlrrnturcs in all Farts of the &lobe . Edited by W . F . Ainsworth , Jb ' . R . G . S ., F . S . A ., &c . London : R . March , 122 , Fleet-street , EJ . C . - < -The . second part of thia' new , publication fulfils the expectations raised by the first , which wa 3 noticed in a former number of this paper . In this part the interesting and welt illustrated account of Sicily is concluded . The remainder , or prin c ipal portion of the work is . occupied with an account of China , also profusely and graphically illnstrated . - The Eclectic . Nov . 1860 . London : Judd and Glass . —The present number contains articles on Michael Angelo , and Rusltin ' s Modern Painters , two subjects , of sufficient importance to invest a paper devoted to them with a peculiar interest . " Towards the end of his work " ( "Modern Painters" ) , s , ays Ihe writer of the latter article , " tho author ( Mr , Ruskin ) relapses into that exaggeration which generally characterizes what he says about Turner . That great artist left behind him nearly 200 , 000 / ., contributed by the 'blind and fatherless' age in which ho lived j so that wo wonder , " continues the JScfectic , " what he would have extracted from a more believing generation . " Wo cannot but echo the wonder expressed . Let it bo remembored that neither Turner , nor any artist whatever , merely as on artist , haa ever produced anything for permanently benefiting his speoies and prompting the well-being of the race , as those have dono who have discovered and enounoed new truths . Yet those who have promulgated tho most useful and beneficent tru . ths . over announced to man have received no I'oward but that of persecution and hunting to death * It is downright , mookery to rove in this , way over tho imaginary distresses of a man , who makes 200 , 000 / . through the production of what , compared with tho groat truths on which human progress and human wall-being depend , are mere toys and baubles ; and to rant about his " isolation , hopelessness , misery , and despair ! " Tho misery of a man with 200 , 000 *? . ! If lie had boon , as some of out * most useful labourers in tho holy nnd sabred cause of humanity have heon , without ) nocpssary food to Icoop soul and body together t friendless find hopeless ; not thinking of splf , but struggling on manfully under tho world s negleot , labouring for tho good of those who had nob one kind word of encouragement for them , then ho would hare been to bp pitied . JButtho distresses and misery of a , man with 200 , 000 / . ! and 200 , 000 / . gained by producing i ^ thotip luxuries for pampering thoso alroady pampered to aatioty with enjoyments of a more sonsuous and palpable nature . Tlioro aro papers in ( ho present number on . " Roman Xjondon , " and ' Victor lSininunuel j" tho othor artiolps avo of the special kind which characterizes ( his Roviow , being chiefly on theological subjects , or topics connected therewitli .

      Hindustani At Cambridge.

      HINDUSTANI AT CAMBRIDGE .

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      nniUS contest for tho toaohorBhtp of Hindustani at Cambridge may bo JL' taken as a parallel to Dean Swift ' s entire on a suit ) at ; law . If , aocording to the X > ean , two men quarrel for the possession of a oow , tho law doeB not inquire at once whoso oow she is , but institutes all sorts of irre&vttnjt inquiries , euoh . as whether her horns nro long or short , whore Bu ©> wat <' pdj » tiu' © d , what ia her size and colour , &a . And so it is just now about the Hindustani teaohevahin . Tho quatffloatione fov the duties of

      that office , such as the fact of being a well educated native of the country of which Hindustani is the spoken language , and at tho same time a sound . English scholar , is the very last thing that seems to bo thought of . Mr . Syed Abdoollah , the Hindustani Professor of University College , London , who , we believe , is a native of Oude , where the language is spoken in " its purity , is one of the candidates ; and if the usual qualifications deemed essential for such an appointment were valid in this caso , would undoubtedly obtain the teachership . J 5 ufc tho very thino- which ' renders him the best possible person for the o { line , is the very thing which , to the distorted views of some minds , disqualifies him . At Oude , the seat of the pure Hindustani language , Mahometariism is the religion of the country . And Hindustani from Mahometan lips , it seems , is supposed , by some weak-minded but busy and noisy persons at Cambridge ( though not at University College , London ) , to be impure , however pure tho accent and the idiom may be . On the other hand , the unintelligible jargon of barbarisms and mis-pronunciation which emanates from the lips of those not happening to be born in a Mahomedan country , seems to be considered unexceptionable . We hope that common sense will prevail in the selection of the competent teachei' .

      The Battlk Of The Banks Of England And France For Gold

      THE BATTLK OF THE BANKS OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE FOR GOLD

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      TO TilR EDlTOJi OF " THE XEADEIt . Sin , — -For the last twelve years I have been endeavouring , in various publication ' s , to open tho eyes of the publio to tho impolicy of the Aofc of 1844 , nnd to tho inconsistency oi' advooating frpo trade in commodities , whilst imposing restrictions , by law , on the medium for exchanging n » d circulating thoso oommoclitios . Tho oontosb , howovor , now going on between , tho Banks of England and Franco for gold { the busis of our monetary system , and in whioh all our debts , bills , iind bank notes are payable , must surely make the inonloulablo evils of tho law patent to all . Tho Bank of France is not . buying our # old afc a losu , us ib generally supposed , but with ft oonsid orablo proilt , owing to tho restriction imposed on tho Bank of JRJng « land by tho Aot of l 64 A . That aot nrovents tho Bank from issuing more notes than their equivalent value in gold deposited , with tho oxooption of tho ilked and novor-varying amount of dtfl'ii . OOQjOOO against soourit / cs . The bank of Franco has no other restriction on its iasuo of notes than that whioh tho liability to convertibility imposes , and may safely issue , as oxporienoe proves , two notes against the value of ono deposited in gold . Hpnoo against a deposit qf £ 100 of gold tho bunk of Frftnoe ^ jan , issue iC 200 in notos , and when their rate ol diaoount ia 4 J nor cent ., lia at present , they may realise a . profit of about < l per oont ., allowing £ por oont . for cost of transit , &o . Whilst tho bank of Jffinglund boing allowed only to issue SilOO of notea for # 100 of gpld > guina nothing . m , „„ Nor is thjq tiho extent of tho misohiof , for the higher theBwnk qSFranoe oan maintain it » rute oif disoount the tov&w will be theiv profit , and tho grantor their powor of drawing oiiv gold from us j oe when thoir rate is

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 24, 1860, page 965, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2375/page/13/