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THE PRESS, DECEMBER 12, 1857. 1216 TWENTY-FIFTH THOUSAND. DR. LIVINGSTONE'S TRAVELS. A Fresh Delivery of this Work will be ready NEXT WEEK, when Copies may be obtained of every Bookseller in TOWN or COUNTRY. JOHN MURR A Y, Albemarle Street. Now ready, with Portrait, Bvo., 10a., THE SIXTH THOUSAND OF THE OF THE GEORGE STEPHENSON, RAILWAY ENGINEER. BY SAMUEL SMILES. JOHN MU RRA Y, Albemarle Street. Now ready, with Three Maps and Twenty-four Illustrations, crown Byo., 215., THE FOURTH THOUSAND OF LORD DUFFERIN'S LIFE LETTERS FROM HIGH LATITUDES. JOHN MURR A Y, Albemarle Street. I n a Few Days, post Byo., THE RISE OF BY LORD MAHON. Being the History of British India from its Origin till the Act of 1783. EXTRACTED FROM LORD MAHON'S "HISTORY OF ENGLAND." JOHN MURRAY, Albemarle Street. This day is published, THE EIGHTEEN CHRISTIAN CENTURIES. BY THE REV. JAMES WHITE. Post Piro., price is. Oil. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD and SONS, EDINBURGH and LONDON. On the I,sth will be published, SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE. The SAD FORTUNES of the Rev. AMOS BARTON. MR GILFIL'S LOVE STORY. JANET'S REPENTANCE. BY GEORGE ELIOT. (ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN " BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.") In Two Volumes post Bvo., price 21s. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD and SONS, EDINBURGH and LONDON. Second Edition, price 3s. 6d., DACOITEE IN EXCELSIS; Or, THE SPOLIATION OF OUDE. FAITHFULLY RECOUNTED, WITH NOTES AND DOCUMENTARY ILLUSTRATIONS. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. " It is really instructive, and would be amusing, were it not so terrible, to read, by the light of the present flame, the despatch of the Court of Directors on the assumption of the Government of Oude. How meekly they put on greatness) The acquisition of a kingdom costs them exactly 11. e tinges of print •little more, allowing for the difference of type, than the extent of this notice It was but last December that the annexation was announced in the following remarkable words :—' An expanse of territory, embracing an area of nearly 25,000 square miles, and containing 5,00u,0uu inhabitants, has passed from its native prince to the Queen of England, without the expenditure of a drop of blood, and almost without a murmur. The peaceable manner in which this great change has been accomplished, and the tran quillity which hail since prevailed it. all farts of the country, are circumstances which could not fail to excite in us the liveliest emotions of thankfulness and pleasure Again, from the considerations of humanity suggested by such a result, we regard it as an additional ind conclusive evident* of the fact, that an attachment to the old Government of Oude existed among the people of this country.' A few short months have passed since these egregious lines were penned, and of all that great province so peaceably acquired, not one foot remsina to us. except the ground on which General Havelock may be en camped, and the fort of Lucknow, in defence of which our ablest Indian auminietrator has met Lis death, and a sore-straitened handful of Europeans are desperately selling their liver."— A amen m. dented power. It will be read with interest and Serious thoughtfulness by every one anxious to ascertain the causes of the fearful rebellion which now rages against the rule of the East Indian Government."—Morning "' The Spoliation of Oude' is the title of a hook published by Mr. Taylor, of Chancerylane, and in the book we have a con secutive history of Oude, with a full account of the way by which the annexation was effected. It is written by so.ne able pen, and is so well printed that we should take it to be an historical defence presented to the British public by the autho rity of the Ou.ie party in England. We can only say that, for the honour of our own nation, we feel shame that ever such a volume could have beau written with any show of ti uth."— Morning Star. " The author of 'Dacoitee in Exceisie has given a compen- dious history of the whole of the Oude question ; and, although the language employed is sometimes strong, and toe denuncia tions fierce, few who read it will think them too strong or fierce for the atrocities to which they are applied."—Sunday Times. We have here • plain statement of facts. They affect our honour, and must command a calm inquiry, as the reader who follows the story of the spoliation of (Jude from the above be. ginninge to the imprisonment of the king, will see. Let us add, in parting from the book before us, we thank the author thereof, for a graphic, graceful, and manly assertion of wrongs done in the name of England, by a rapacious set of traders, to whom we have wrongfully unmated our fame and our empire in the Emit." —Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper. . . . "The work of which the above is the title is an octavovolume of two hundred and fourteen pages, in which is set forth the case of the King 01 (Jude. This has been drawn up with great clearness and ability; embodied in it is a statement of the rules of international law as applicable to the ease, in the shape of en opinion by the eminent civilian Dr. Travers Twigs; and the whole exhibits the iniquity of the annexation in the clearest possible light. Crimes of this kind, whether perpetrated by nations or by individuals, seldom pass long unpunished ; and in the present state of India we are reaping the bitter fruits of • policy which common sense as well as common justice had condemned."—The Press. "This work is well timed, as setting forth in the plainest pos. Bible form the whole story of the manner in which °tide and its sovereigns have been first lubricated. and then finally 'mel lowed at one meal by that all-devouring boa-constrictor, the Honourable East India Company."—Morning Chronicle. This is throughout a heavy and welhaustained charge against the East India Company, as to their modes of acquiring territory. and the system or governing the native tribes of the vast empire over which they Lave so long ruled with unprece- London : J. R. TAYLOR, 6.1, Chancery Lane; SIMPKIN, NIARSHALL,and CO., 4, Stationers Ball Court ; and all Booksellers. " It'is clear that the natives feel and resent the usurpation of all Indian authority, the deposition of their princes, the absorp tion of kingdom atter kingdom by the white invaders. The annexation ot Oude has, probably. exploded the materials of dis- content long gathering—it was the spark which set fire to the train long prepared, Whether Persian or Russian instigation were applied is not made out—but it was hardly wanted. Could all this be unknown to our Government? Could the Indian authorities see nothing of it? The blindness of false security was never more completely exemplified. If empires are governed' with' very little wisdom,' as Chancellor Oxenstiern declared, we should like to know 'with how much less' they may be lost."—Kent Herald. "' Dacoitee in Excelsis' is a work which has appeared at a most seasonable juncture. Our conduct with regard to Oude must be reconsidered. In the book now under notice, and which we earnestly recommend to the impartial consideration of the reader. the case against the East India Company is put in the strongest light."—Weekly Record. Irlllrltrllp______ Ti OUR INDIAN EMPIRE. MESSRS. RIVINGTON HAVE THE FOLLOWING BOOKS IN THE COURSE OF PUBLICATION : The HISTORY of ENGLAND, from the EARLIEST TIMES to the PEACE of PARIS, 1358, By CEILRLES Doicz YoxoE. In pontBvo. 12s. SERMONS Preached at Cathedral Churches of Chichesier, Gloucester. and Bangor. and in Chapels Royal. By Cunisrneen BETHELL, D.D., Lord Bishop of Bangor. In dso. 19s Gd. [Now ready. ILL OCCASIONAL SERMONS, Preached in West minster Abbey. Vol. VI. 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