Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-07 00:00:00

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(Copy.)
Arm and. "rdnan, e Med cal Department, Dec. 29,1854.
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SPIRI r 0 S THE WEEKLY PRESS.

The Saturday _Review thinks the electric telegraph is
setting into disgrace. It is said that it writes history in
epigrams. But its history is often withaut truth, and its
epigrams without point. It is almost a necessity that it
should eaaggerate. In a meagre outline, good news seems
better, and bad news worse, than it actually is. It gene-
rally happens that, when we come to fill in the details, we
find things r ot so bad 113 they were represented to us by the
electric wires. The " full p trticulars" commonly show that
there is balm in Gilead. The telegraph cannot particul riza
—caanot even qualify. It must go straight to the mark,
and deliver itself of the greatest possible amount of
fact in the feeest possible words. But the philo-
eoshy of telegraph writing is not well understood.
The choice of words is, doubtless, a great thing ; but the
distribution of sentences is even greater. So lot gas the
facts are stated correctly, it may seem t) be a small
matter whether they are arrangei in one order or in
another; bat the arrangement has unquestionably a vast
effect a' regards the ieupression which the wards produce
upon the public mind. Write ado zen sentences on a
piece of paper; thee alter the order of their arrangement,
and the change, through the same facts as before be
indicated, may make a difference of one or two per cent
in the value of consols next mornieg. If we jsad an
ambition to drive a good business on the Stock Exchange,
we c mid wish for nothing better than to have in our
leands the arrangement of the pregnant sentences sent by
'the electric telegraph.
The freer'save:—" It now seems just like a. d ay to look
back on the time when Mr. Macaulay, and Praed, and
`Charles Boiler, and many more were about town, after the
etartiag of Knight's Quizreerly Magazine. Prael is now
no more; ho was mortrof a poet than a politician, and ht
was not Well suited for the struggle of lite. Like Charles
Buller, he was of a weakly constitution, and his brains
were rot supported by backb-rte. 'Of all that brilliant
company Mn. Macaulay has alone culminated. Bath
Praed and Charles Buller were prematurely cat off; and
many others with considerahla talents have permed the
humdrum' course of xisteece—they married, got rich
and gained happiness without renown. Mr. Maceulay, in
Lord Bacon's langusgt, never iteve 'hostages to'fortune '
and even with all the advantages of his spendid talents,
his dazzling -style, and his varied knowlecte, the new
• literary peer 'has been singularly fortunate, so much so
-as to deserve his old name of 'lucky Tom.' He WAS lucky'
in having asfsther before him who had acce''s to all the high
Whig circles Old Zachary was nat a had.progenitor for
an ambitious yontg orator Many of hi interesting 80,6)1
anecdotes evhich flow se 'freely from Mr Alcauley's lips
testify to the fact of his early initiation into poitieal
circles Wilberforce, in his diary, speaks of young
Meneilay a id hie falter, and youeg Tom's old competitor,
the prevent distinguished Greek scholar, Professor
Maiden. Earl Greyi(,hett Viscount Ho wick) was one of
the first vile) praised in high circles the elequenee of the
young member of the Cambridge Union. _Knight's
itiragctr'ne introduced the &terming essayist to the
Edinla.,rgla Review. The dissertation on Milton' carried
his mines far and wide; and Lord Lansdowne gave heel a
borough at the exact time most suitable to the display of
lais.p ewers."
The great-world of London (says the Leader) is decieedly
out of town. You me©t no one Your half-pay friend,
• the cousin of an IH-h ear), has retired into Norton-street,
where he mesas to live in strict seclusion until pheasant
"shooting is over, when he will reappear, not so 'hearty in
- appearance as a man ought to be after so many weeks of
open-air exercise. -Somerset House is enjoying
its thirty days at the sea-side. The Foreign-office is on
'the Rhine. The City houses send their deputations
of clerks to Ram- gate and Brighton. Every one
-who can and will ettieys amazingly. except
Lord Palmerston, who is doing duty like a white slave.
In fact, every cfne is away, and nobody is in Lon-
don—" every one" meaning about ten thousand people,
and ‘• no one" conside ably more than two millions.
And what is the great world doing out of town ? Killing
birds for the most part-that is to say the gentlemen
7 he ladies wear round hats,-canter on marine pared: s, and
improvise little sea-side seasons, where they use up the
. blushes caught by the morning breeze. They dip in the
foam, their footsteps are sweet on the hills, their favourite
Herrs and harpists follow them to the Town Hall. The
Polygraphic Hall goes to Brighton ; the Gallery of Illus-
tration is set down at Hastings; little fragments of
London fly off in every direction, not even the Opera
• excepted. So that, the town being out ot town takes the
town with it, and the metropolis is left like the last man,
without sun or stars--Victoria at Balmoral, the Guards
among the red deer of the Inverness-shire glens, parlia-
ment on the moors, the Albany among the pheasant
preserves, and Belgravia at the watering-places.
The Economist denies that the g, vsrnment of India has
in any way violated Hindoo prejudices in interfering at all
with their law of adoption. The illusion prevalent on this
head among the advocates of Mr. Disraeli's theory of the
mutiny is totally without, foundation. In the leading case
of the Rajah of eat tera, the truth is, as all know, who have
really looked into the government correspondence on the
. question, that the adopted heir was allowed to inherit all
that t..e Rajah had to g ve away—namely, his personal pro-
perty. It was expressly understoo I that the Eng-ish g ;yarn-
xnent should be consulted as to any pslitical succe-sor to
be appointed ; and so far was this from being alien to the
custom of the Mahratta States, that in case of a similar
adoption by any of their subordinate chiefs, the sanction
of the superior government was always required. Another
case of the same class is now of more interest.• Just before
the death of the late Peiehweh Badjee Rio, long after that
prince had taken refugs—a miserable trembling fugitive—
in the -camp of Sir John Malcolm, and long after his
-consequent retirement on terms dictated and a life-pension
granted by the English government—he nominated as his
. adopted heir the present Rajah of Bhitpoor, the infamous
liens Sahib. This man wished to inherit not only the
private and personal property, but the life-pension of the
Peiswah. lie mieht as well have laid claim to his abdi-
cated dominions, for which that life-pension was an
. equivalent. The Government of India very properly
. refused his request. And this is now considered by the
• treacherous Hindoo as a violation of Hindoo law, which
entitles him to join the sandard of rebellion, and murder
-scores of Et ells 4. ladies. We believe that all the alleged
.cases of the same kind are equally without founda-
tion. Adopted heirs have always been permitted to
-take .what the adopter had to give, and that neither
Eindoo nor any other law could give more, is obvious
enough. The British Government in India has never in
fact violated. Hindoo customs, except when, as in the case
of suttee, and the mar iage of (nominal) widows, there
wan.% general feeling even among the Hindoos themselves
that social morality and order required the step. If the
Indian government has made any mistake at all in these
matters, it has been probably in showing too nervous a
regard to Hindoo epiaion on all points that touch sacer-
dotal custom and haste. The line that the government
has, in the main, pursued, and that we trust it may con-
tinue to pursue, is one of scrupulous but courageous
neutrality on all matters of a religious nature when they
do not practically interfere with the physical order at d
prosperity of Indian society.
The A:us/rated A attstbelieves the errors hitherto com-
mitted in the government of India have not had their
origin in cruelty or despotism, but in humanity and
generosity, and sprang from a too imptieit reliance upon
the peel faith and gratitude of Asiatic soldiers. Such
errors, we may be sure, will not be repeated. The
rebellion will, at least, have taught us that. Whatever
be our future policy towards the people of India, as dis-
tingeished from thu sol tiery —and there can be no -doubt
that it will be humane, enlightened, and benefieent—we
shall never again pamper an .indizu army. We sh tli never
again trust the parmenenes of our dominion to the support
of Mahommedans or Ilimbos, but shall rely upon the
right arms of oar ,countrymen to defend what we have
won, sad work to proper issues the resources of our empire.
The Builder rays—" With the sad events in India it is
not oar province to deal; but, beerier; upon them, we have
advice and a warning to give, which, if attended to, will
save life, lessen sotto w, strengthen our arms, and shorten
the struggle. We ask far the immediate organisation of a
sanitary COMMitSiall to proceed to India with our army.
• We could point to a score of warnings in our pages,
attention to which, in the fi tt instauce, would have
saved wealth and lives ; recollect, if no other, the
dangers of the camp atelldershott; ihe evils which threat-
ened the Golden-square district, in a sanitary point of
view ; and the indefensible arratgements at Netley
hospital, all pointed out by us in time to have prevented
the evils before they occurred; and let the government
lisreu to our warning now, and act with wisdom ant
promptness. A.ptrliamentaey !sport, recen lv published,
as to the deaths in the Bailie and Black See, fleets, sh ens
that the devils in beth flaet in the years 1851 and 187.5,
numbered 2,029, of which 1,574 were the result cf disease,
22.1 of suicide. drowning, and other accidental causes;
and on'y 227 of wounds in action. These figures show
that in our navy, as in the army, pestilence and disease are
far more fatal than the sword or artillery, and the other
peri,s of war. The deaths by various diseases, amounted
to upwards tf 7 to I of th no which wee .caused by
battle."

The United 'service Gazette points out that the penny-
wise-aud,p9und-fonlish system is very charmingly exempli-
fied by the War Department in their arra:lgen/outs for the
embarkation of troop for India Really, ono would
•upposJ that they belisved Dover and Shorucliffe to be
inland towns, for on no other hypothesis can we understand
why troops should be moved thence to be embarked at
Portsmouth, when the transports can as easily lay of the
Dover pier. The other day four regiments were moved from
tlw CVDP and emitomante, and sent to Portsmouth at a