The Press. — London, England, 1857-11-07 00:00:00

THE PRESS, NOVEMBER 7,1857. There is one rule that is equally applicable to all countries, let the system of policy be what it may, and that rule will take upon myself to extract from the fifth on the list of the great English poets: — Honour and shame from no condition rise, Act well your part, there all the honour lies. It was mainly on tkat admirable and universally recognised principle that, to my delight, I saw the ceremony of this day conducted. I can well imagine that a peasant or a yeoman, " acting well his part," might find in the accla mations of his countrymen and the applause of those under whom he had served " where all the honour lies." I can imagine that even a prince may he a working patriot —that he may devote his high intellect, his energy of mind and body to the zealous and persevering discharge of important and interesting public duties. I can imagine, as I have said, that even a prince may be so little dazzled by the luminous atmosphere in which he moves as to be able to see and to distinguish a meritorious comrade in the obscurest ranks of the private force ; and I can imagine that even a prince, not bound by the dignity of chief command, may, at a moment of State exigency, sound with his breath the bugle for recruits. These are things that, republean as I am, I can imagine possible. Whether the imagining in your Letter knowledge of men and things can be made a tact among British princes it is not for me to determine. lam not one of the jury for the trial of that fact. I am, 93 I have said, a stranger. You are the panel, and if you find that there happens to be among British princes one of whom all these imagin ings of mine in reference to individual merit become a plain fact, why your finding as jurors of such a verdict would be conclusive upon the judgment of those who hear it. Referring to the crimes of the mutineers, Mr. Dallas said : Mutiny and murder are heavy crimes ; they are dark and gloomy crimes ; but they are crimes known to us all, and they are crimes committed in almost every community and under almost every Government. Penalties are speci• deafly provided for these crimes in the respective criminal codes of various countries. Let such crimes be punished wherever they occur according to the law. That is the first and clearest principle of action. But there are other crimes—crimes, at least, of another character—which be come so monstrous as to assume the attitude of enmity to the human race ; not merely crimes committed with refer ence to the power of India, not merely crimes inimical to England, not merely crimes inimical to Europe and its civilisation, but crimes that constitute their perpetrators what pirates are, what cannibals in the Fejee Islands are, enemies of the human race, and meriting, not from one nation, not from one people, but from the whole of the human race, summary and peremptory extirpation. The LORD MAYOR next gave the toast of " Her Majesty's Ministers," to which Lord GRANVILLE re plied in an exculpatory speech on behalf of Lord Canning. Lord Granville, carefully abstaining from offering any opinion of his own upon the recent events in India, denied that Lord Canning had " forgotten what was due to justice," or that he had " interfered with the military authorities," in whose hands the punishment of the mutineers must mainly rest, upon the ground that Lord Canning had frequently written to him (Lord Granville) express ing a certain "soreness of heart" that retribution had been delayed upon "devils in human form." Lord Granville, in conclusion, and amidst much impatience and interruption, denied that Mr. Grant had been sent up to control the military authorities in the north-western districts, held up to admiration Lord Canning's " great moral courage " in suppress ing the liberty of the British press in India, and, finally, asserted that Lord Canning had " broken the neck " of one of the most formidable mutinies which have ever occurred in our dominions. Several other toasts followed, and the proceedings terminated at a late hour. THE LORD MAYOR ELECT, Sir Robert Carden, was on Monday received by the Lord Chancellor, who, with the usual formalities, signified her Majesty's entire approbation at the choice of the citizens of London in selecting Sir Robert for the office of Chief Magistrate. AIR. C. DroczNs presided at the annual dinner of the Warehousemen and Clerks' Schools, held on Thursday, at the London Tavern. Mr. Dickens made a humorously descriptive speech upon the schools he did not like, and warmly advocated the interests of that which he then represented. The subscriptions announced amounted to 2,242/. THE SNOW'S•FIELDS RAGGED•SCHOOT.S were opened on Wednesday, in the presence of the Earl of Shaftesbury, who delivered an appropriate address on the occasion. These schools, situated near Weston. street, Southwark, have been built at a cost of 7001., exclusive of 2 7 51., the purchase money of the freehold site. They are intended to receive 400 of the destitute children with whom the neighbour hood abounds. The buildings comrrise a school room (a lofty airy apartment of forty feet in length by twenty feet in width), a committee-room, and a library and reading-room. Lord Shaftesbury, in the course of his address, adduced as an instance of the good effect of these schools upon the mind and habits of the lower classes, the excellent tone of the letters of the private soldiers now in India: — Ho referred to that because the private soldiers were drawn from the poorer classes, and it was among these classes especially that the effect of such institutions as these were put forth. He could instance the conduct of the gallant troops before Delhi, who, though their feelings must have been worked up to the highest pitch of excite ment by the massacres of their countrymen and country women which had taken place, never retaliated except in a manner becoming English soldiers. He had seen a letter from a young friend of his who was with his regi- ment before Delhi, and he stated that, during the assault, every time the order came to load and fire, the cry also came along the line, " Spare the women and children !" - —•— THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS and Sir B. Hall held a conference on Thursday on the subject of the drainage. Nothing was definitely decided on, but Sir B. Hall gave the Board of Wnrks a clear intimation that Sea Reach was the best outfall for the main drainage, and that Government would not contribute towards the additional 1,500,0001. re quired for the construction of the drains to that point. A further conference between the engineers and the referees Sir Benjamin hoped would bring about a conclusion satisfactory to all parties. THE DEATHS OF THE METROPOLIS have risen from 088 to 1,047 in one week. Typhus and scarlatina are the principal causes of disease. Three cases of cholera are also reported. The births for last week amounted to 1,785 children—a high average. 1083 The noble duke also condemned the theory of "compulsory conversion": — He said that Government power must neither be used to control nor disturb the religion of the natives. Com plete toleration must be given. When he said toleration, he meant not only must compulsion of every kind be avoided, but that which was as bad, namely, seduction — which he could only call a broad species of fraud—must be equally avoided. THE delivery of prizes at the East Lancashire Union of Mechanics' Institutes took place on Wed nesday. Sir J. P. Shuttlewortb, the Bishop of Manchester, and Sir J. Pakington were present and addressed the assembly on this occasion. IN consequence of the extraordinary mildness of the season, on the 20th of October two large dishes of raspberries and one of red currant,s were gathered in the gardens c.f the Duke of Richmond, at Gordon • Castle, in Banffshire. THE CONSZRVATIVE LAND SOCIETY IN SOUTH LANCASHIRE have just completed their thirty second land purchase, and are now in posses sion of a valuable building estate near Manchester. It is beautifully situated in the picturesque suburb of Prestwich, and will be offered for allotment at an early date. THE AMERICAN STEAMER Vanderbilt, coming up to Cowes on Thursday, grounded on the Brambles, a well-known shoal between Cowes and Calshot Castle. She was aground for ten hours, lost an anchor, and carried away her chain cable. SECOND EDITION• SATURDAY AFTERNOON. LATEST INTELLIGENCE PARTS, Friday, 7 p.m. His Excellency Count de Persigny will leave Paris to.morrow or Sunday for London. M. de Hatzfeldt is expected in Paris from Berlin. His Excellency has 1 en invited to Compeigne. the King of Pru , Nas con(le.ion is not improving. 6 p.m. The Ministerial crisis in Belgium, according to official communications, becomes daily more compli. cated. The extreme Liberal party are unable to form a Ministry because they insist on engaging the King to accept a programme of their own, amongst which are the following propositions :- 1. Dissolution of Parliament immediately. 2. Entire change of Government officials. 3. Permission to bring in several new bills. The King looked upon these propositions as too dictatorial, and refused to accept a Cabinet under such circumstances. At the same time the Conser vative party met and agreed to protest against the dissolution of Parliament. When this despatch left yesterday there was no immediate probability of arranging difficulties. The complications have been brought about in a great measure by the Jesuitical Church party, who, however, have now retired from the scene of action. The Belgian journals tell us M. de Brouckere, after having conferred with his friends, had declined to form a Ministry. M. Rogier, Belgian Minister at Paris, had been received by the King. The Liberal journals of Liege, Ghent, and other large towns, demand a dissolution of Parlia ment ; the organs of the clerical party oppose it. HOLSTEIN. BERLIN, Nev. 8. England, France, and Russia have offered their good offices on the question of Holstein. MARRIAGE OF THE KING OF PORTUGAL. BERLIN, Nov. R. The royal authority has been given for the be trothal of the Princess Lof Hohenzollern with the King of Portugal. THE PRESS AND THE GAGGING ACT. WE extract the accompanying from the Bombay Gazette, Oct. 3, 1857 : No. 3204 of 1857. JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT. Bombay Castle, September 23, 1857.7" Sir,—ln the Times newspaper of last Thursday, the editor stated that a detachment of the 2nd Bombay Light Cavalry had mutinied at Deese, and had been destroyed by her Majesty's 83rd Regiment at that station ; and in last Monday's paper there is an article extracted from the English paper, the Press, the publication of which is calcu lated to have a very pernicious effect at the present time. 1 am, therefore, desired by the Right Honourable the Governor in Council to request that you will be good enough to warn the editors of English and native news— papers within your jurisdiction against republishing the articles in question.-1 have, &c., (Signed) H. L. ANDERSON, Secretary to Government ' To the Magistrate of Foonah. I Vrabintiat. LORD BROUGHAM has visited Leeds during the present week, and on Tuesday evening delivered an address upon popular education at the Leeds Mechanics' Institution. In the course of his address Lord Brougham referred to the Indian rebellion It is a common thing to compare it, and I have heard it so compared, to the sudden explosion of some great volcano, laying under ruins by its devastation the fertile plains beneath ; but it differs most materially from that, because volcanic explosions are always preceded by some warning. The giant who is fabled to groan beneath Etna moves and heavts the mountain—gives a warning—before the torrent of liquid fire is poured forth to lay waste the plains below. To find anything like the recent, the sudden, the instan taneous outbreak of what has taken place in India, we must go to the East itself far a comparison. There is nothing like it but the typhoon, which suddenly seizes upon the ocean, rippled by no wave, and instantly raises that ocean, without further warning, mountains high. So the whirlwind of rebellion which broke out in the East burst forth without the whisper of the breath of a breeze to warn anyone of what was about to ley in devastation the whole of that superb dominion ; and yet, sudden as it was, unprepared as all persons were, without the possibility of the least preparation, our countrymen, both civic and mili tary, were (to their eternal, immortal, and imperishable glory be it said) ready instantly to rise to do their duty and to sacrifice themselves. (Long-continued cheers.) In the present position of affairs, Lord Brougham did not appear to regard the " neck " of the rebellion as " broken " : Don't let it be supposed that because Delhi is taken that all is over and that all is settled. Part of the north-west provinces still remains in the hands of the rebels. Oude is not reconquered. Lucknow—l feel unspeakable anxiety even in mentioning the name of Lucknow. Heaven forbid that there should be round for that anxiety , but Lucknow we don't yet know to be relieved. Then there are those hordes from Delhi, scatteredover the country, carrying on a kind of guerilla war against us, which we know from experience in the Peninsula was far more fatal to the French than our own unconquered legions. All this is still to do. The noble and learned lord, having paid a high and well-deserved tribute to the courage and constancy of our troops in India, concluded his address amidst the cheers of the assembly. Mr. M. MILNES followed the noble lord with an essay upon the effect of the study of literature and the fine arts, which he considered " calculated to refine, the sentiments and elevate the character of the community." Dr. Hook, the Earl of Ripon, Mr. Pease, Mr. Booth, and several other gentlemen having addressed the meeting in favour of extending the facilities of instruction to the middle and working classes of society, the proceedings terminated. HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE performed the ceremony, on Thursday, of laying the ccruer stone of the new national schools now erecting at East Retford, and in the evening attended a meeting of the Foreign Gospel Society, at which his grace delivered an address reviewing the course of the operations of the society in different parts of the world. In the course of his address the duke re ferred to the missionary efforts in India. He thought " great timidity and vacillation" had been shown on the subject of the propagation of Chris tianity in India : He was prepared to admit, nay, to assert, that while on the one hand missionary officers were tolerated as a kind of service which he for one, either in his place in Parliament or in any other assembly, would equally and at any time be prepared most strongly t ) repudiate, yet, on the other hand, the privilege of missionaries of the Church to reside in Ilindostan was not given. Perhaps they would say great blame was attacSed to the Govern• ment for so doing, but he was not prepared to say to what extent the conduct of the Government was improper.