The Press. — London, England, 1856-03-22 00:00:00

MARcn 22, 1856. mounted Cossacks, a brigade of twenty-four guns, an d one hundred military workmen. The principles o f g overnment will be the same as in those military colonies formed on the Asiatic frontier. TURKEY AND THE PRINCIPALITIES. The establishment of a bank in Constantinople occu pies the whole attention of the Turkish Govern ment at present. The late Hatti Hamayoulma has been protested against by the Greeks and Armenians. The project of issuing 100 millions of paper money has been abandoned by the Divan. A petition has been sent in to the Porte by the inhabitants of Moldavia, entreating that in the recti fication of the frontier the line of the Dniester may be taken as forming the real natural boundary of tha cou ntry. " Good faith, equity, and the security of Europe, are interested," say the petitioners, "in giving us a frontier easily defensible, and which, by a fixed and natural limit, will remove all chance of future dispute." me aol of col °cc mf agt mo int sit be eou En giv of futi 1 has whi opr no, Sta Ma alo ma jog Car plie par nel and the coa Es! spli Nu trat the a C by C the dut C kilo Bar S way fun Th( whi 30,( son tior rzb ree, hes tior Un 1 in I Go a ri raci whi lint I by Lot En, par of pa 3 apt Gs] 1 Het Cra aNa to n DENMARK. The Minister Scheele has informed the Rigstag fiat the Government of the,United States of America has proposed to prolong, by two months, the treaty which expires on the 14th of April, in order to give opportunity for the completion of the negotiations now pending. Denmark accedes to the proposal. SPAIN. The formation of a third political party in the State at present occupies the whole attention of Madrid. The people, happy at nicknames, have already christened it "El partido de los tres nianolos " from the Christian name, Manuel, belong ing to the three leaders, De la Concha, Cortina, and Cantero. "Manolo " is also the common term ap plied to the Spanish " snob." The formation of this party is regarded favorably by Espartero and O'Don nell, who dread the attacks of the democratic party, and hope for the assistance and shelter of this "tercer partido " to save them from destruction : but the real object of this party is believed to be the coalition of the Moderados and Reactionists to upset Espartero. When this is achieved the coalition will split, and a desperate struggle between Concha and Narvaez is anticipated. The discussion on the bases of the bill on adminis trative organisation has been brought to a close in the Cortex. The Government has declared that it will not make a Cabinet question of the plan of finance presented by M. Santa Cruz. General tranquillity prevails. NAPLES. The King has authorised, until the 6th of April, the exportation of the following produce at the rate of duty indicated for each : Corn-2 ducats per cantaro, about 11 francs per 100 kilo. Maize-1.20 ducat, about 6.50 francs per 1(W) kilo. Barley and Oats-1 ducat, about 5.50 francs per kilo. EGYPT. Said Pacha has determined upon forming a rail way to Mareotis, where his Highness has chosen to firm an intrenched camp. The whole of Arabia is in a very disturbed state. The Turkish governor had only 2,500 regular troops, while the tribes in revolt mustered upwards of 30 ,000 men. The Arabs had seized and garrisoned some of the Sultan's coast towns. The promulga tion of the Anti-Slavery Act has given rise to this rebellion. AMERICA. Intelligence from New York to the sth inst. was received on Tuesday by the Asia. Nothing up to that date had been discovered or heard of the Pacific. The American papers continue to treat the ques tion, of the diff erences b etween E ng l an d an d t h e Lnited States as not unlikely to lead to hostilities. The Democratic papers in particular are virulent in their abuse of England and of Lord Palmerston's Government. The Secretary of War has submitted to the Senate a report on the fortifications around New York, and recommending the construction of fresh defences, while the Secretary of the Admiralty proposed the immediate increase of the navy. Iu the Senate, on the :3rd inst., after some remarks by General Cass, relative to the assertion made by Lord Clarendon that the understanding between England and France was perfect in relation to all parts of th e wor ld , t h e bill authorising the construction of ten steam sloops of war was taken up and finally Pa3sed. The Senate on the 4th also passed a bill appropriating 80,000 dollars for new fortifications at Galveston. The Washington correspondence in the New York Herald, in a l etter d ated March 2, says that /° Mr. Crampton has written a note to the editor of the National Intelligencer, stating that he was not in strriete.d by Lord Clarendon to submit a proposition to . a rbitrate the Ce n t ra l A mer i can quest i on, b ut on l y to inform Mr. Marcy that such a proposition bad %en made to Mr. Buchanan," THE PRESS. The New York Herald, speaking of the chances of war, says, the assertion of the English press that, as John Bull has got a fleet and nothing for it to do, he would be glad to go to war with us, is absurd. Eng land is against a war with the United States—that is, the great conservative middle class is against it—the head and tail, the Government and the mob, favour a war : It must be as easy in London as it is in New York to see that England can make nothing out of this American quarrel, and that the only persons who will gain credit by embittering it are Lords Palmerston and Clarendon, who will pass for men of great spirit, and not at all such blun• derers as the war and the peace negotiations might have led men to suppose; but have we lived to the year of grace 1830, and reached our present pinnacle of enlightenment and civilisation, to see the peace of the two Anglo-Saxon countries interrupted for the mere glorification and emolu ment of two demagogues like these ? Has England learnt nothing from her own history—nothing from ours—that she should be ready to plunge headlong into war once more in order that a political mountebank—for as such will Lord Palmerston be classed in history—should retain his office, and have his quip and his jest at the Tories? In all Great Britain—from Caithness to Land's End—is there no sense anywhere ? With respect to Central America a project is under discussion to form an alliance with Nicaragua. INDIA. ANNEXATION OF °UDE. THE annexation of Oude is accomplished. Gene ral Outram, who left Calcutta early in January, arrived at Cawnpore on the 28th, when 12,000 men were collected. The next day the brigades crossed the river and marched upon Lucknow. No resistance was made. The King had ordered the forts to be dismantled, the garrison to be disarmed, and had shut himself up in his palace. On the 4th February, General Outram, accom panied by Captain Hayes and Captain Weston, ob tained an interview with the King, to urge his Majesty to sign a deed of abdication. This the King positively refused, saying that he would appeal to England, and go in person to London. Upon this General Outram issued a proclamation deposing the King and annexing the country. The proclamation first sets forth that, by a treaty concluded in 1801 between the Company and the Sovereign of Oude, the latter engaged, in consideration of protection by the former against enemies, whether foreign or domestic, to es tablish " such a system of administration, to be car ried into effect by his own officers, as should be con ducive to the prosperity of his subjects and calculated to secure the lives and properties of the inhabitants." This pledge of protection on the part of the Company the proclamation declares to have been religiously kept down to the present day, while every successive Government of Oude has "deliberately and systema tically violated" its share of the compact. By rea son of this violation of the compact, continues the proclamation— The British Government might long since have justly de clared the treaty void, and have withdrawn its protection from the rulers of Oude. But it has hitherto been reluc tant to have recourse to measures which would be fatal to the power and authority of a royal race who, whatever their faults towards their own subjects, have ever been faithful and true to their friendship with the English nation. Nevertheless, the British Government has not failed to labour during all that time, earnestly and perseveringly, for the deliverance of the people of Oude from the grievous oppression and misrule which they have suffered. Many years have passed since the Governor-General, Lord William Bentinck, perceiving that every previous en deavour to ameliorate the condition of the people of Oude had been thwarted or evaded, made formal declaration to the Court of Lucknow that it would become necessary that he should proceed to assume the direct management of the Onde territories. The words and the menace which were employed by Lord William Bentinck were eight years ago repeated in person by Lord Hardinge to the King. The Sovereign of Oude was on that day solemnly bid remember that, what ever might now happen, " it would be manifest to all the world " that he " had received a friendly and a timely warning." _ But these friendly intentions, it is asserted, have been wholly defeatad by the " obstinacy, or incapa• city, or apathy of the viziers and kings of Oude," the incompetency, corruptions, and tyranny of whose government are set down as follows : That the King, like most of his predecessors, takes no real share in the direction of public affairs. The powers of government throughout his dominions are, for the most part, abandoned to worthless favorites of the Court, ar to violent and corrupt men, unfit for their duties and unworthy of trust. The collectors of the revenue hold sway over their dis tricts with uncontrolled authority ; extorting the utmost payment from the people, without reference to past or pre sent engagements. The King's troops, •rith rare exceptions, undisciplined and disorganised, and defraunded of their pay by those to whom it is intrusted, are permitted to plunder the villages for their own support ; so that they have become a lasting scourge to the country they are employed to protect. Gangs of freebooters invest the districts. Law and jus tice are unknown, armed violence and bloodshed are daily events, and life and property are nowhere secure for an hour. . - 271 Hence the time is announced as having at length arrived when the British Government could no longer tolerate such evils and abuses : Fifty years of sad experience have proved that the treaty of 1801 has wholly failed to secure the happiness and prosperity of Oude, and have conclusively shown, that no effectual security can be had for the release of the people of that country from the grievous oppression they have long endured, unless the exclusive administration of the territories of Oude shall be permanently transferred to the British Government. A new engagement is therefore offered to the King, whereby the exclusive government of the country shall be vested in the hands of the East India Com pany, ample provision being allowed out of the re venue for the support of the King. This arrange ment having been refused by the King, he is declared to have ceased to reign : Inasmuch, then, as his Majesty Wajid Ali Shah, in com mon with all his predecessors, has refused, or evaded, or neglected, to fulfil the obligations of the treaty of Itiol, whereby he was bonnd to establish within his dominions such a system of administration as should be conducive to the prosperity and happiness of his subjects ; and inas much as the treaty he thereby ►Mated has been declared to be null and void ; and inasmuch as his Majesty has re fused to enter into other agreements which were offered to him in lieu of such treaty; and inasmuch as the terms of that treaty, if it had been maintained in force, forbade the employment of British officers in Oude, without which no efficient system of administration could be established there; it is manifest to all that the British Government had but one alternative before it. Either a must altogether desert the people of Oude, and deliver them up helpless to oppression and tyranny, which , acting under the restrictions of treaty, it has already too long appeared to countenance; or it must put forth its own great power on behalf of a people for whose happiness it more than fifty years ago engaged to interpose, and must at once assume to itself the exclusive and permanent ad ministration of the territories of Oude. The British Government has had no hesitation in choosing the latter alternative. Wherefore proclamation is hereby made that the go vernment of the territories of Oude is henceforth vested exclusively and for ever in the Honourable East India Company. The arrangements consequent on the change of government are put forth as follows : All amils, nazims, chuckedars, and other servants of the Durbar, all officers civil and military, the soldiers of the State, and all the inhabitants of Oude, are required to render henceforth implicit and exclusive obedience to the officers of the British Government. If any offictr of the I)urbar, jageerdar, zemindar, or other person, shall refuse to render such obedience, if he shall withhold the payment of revenue, or shall otherwise dispute or defy the authority of the British Government, he shall be declared a rebel, his person shall be seized, and his jageers or lands shall be confiscated to the State. To those who shall immediately and quietly submit themselves to the authority of the British Government, whether amils, public officers, jageerdars, zemindars, or other inhabitants of Oude, full assurance is hereby given of protection, consideration, and favour. The revenue of the districts shall be determined on a fair and settled basis. The gradual improvement of the Oude territories shall be steadily pursued. Justice shall be measured out with an equal hand. Protection shall be given to life and property ; and every man shall enjoy henceforth his just rights, without fear of molestation. General Outram then ordered the Minister to bring to the residency all the chief officers of State. At noon, the Minister Ally Nucky Khan ; the Revenue Minister, Rajah Bal Kissen ; the Custom-house Darogah, Shurf-ood-Dowlah ; the City Kotwal ; and all other officers of the different branches of administration, waited upon General Outram, who ordered the Revenue Minister to give in the whole accounts of amount of revenue and the details of Purgunnahs. The Kotwal was directed to furnish the list of Thannahs to Captain Weston. The Resident then placed guards over the office of the Revenue Min;ster and Custom-house, directing that all should be allowed to go on as usual, but that no money nor papers were to be removed. The King then sent a circular to all zemindars and amils, in forming them that the Company had taken charge of the kingdom, and directing them to collect and pay all rent to the officer sent by the Resident. The King, by the latest accounts, kept his palace gates closed, and declared that he would never sign the razeenamah. An allowance has been appointed to him of 150,0001. a year. According to tho Bombay Times, the future admi nistration will be conducted under General Outram, as chief commissioner, with four commissioners, Mr. Wingfield and Mr. Christian, of the civil service, and Colonel Goldney and Major Banks, of the Bengal army. Mr. Cooper, deputy secretary to Government, is to be secretary to the chief commissioner, and Captain Hayes military secretary. The following are spoken of as deputy commissioners :—Messrs. Dennison, Forbes, Simpson, Boileau, Martin, Benson, Pollock, J. B. Thornhill, C. W. Cunliffe, G. Law rence, Gonne, and Block. The above, with Mr. M. R. Gubbins as financial, and Mr. Ommaney asjudi eial commissioner, complete the list up to the present e . " (