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London, England, 1858-04-03 00:00:00

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A lecture recently delivered in ..earlisle, by NO:'.; :g 4:
Rev. A. Mufsell, contained the following amusing 4, . '
but instructive pass4ge :—The pellet to _which I ,
have next to direct attention is manliness in speech. S
There are many young men who seem to consider
it essential to manliness, that they should be mas-
ters of slang. The spore ing- world, like its brother,
the swell mob, has a language of its own ; but this
dog-Englisla extends far beyond the sporting world.
It comes with its hordes of barbarous words, threat-
ening the entire extinction of genuine English !
Now just listen for a moment to our fast young
man, or the ape of a fast young man, who thinks
that to be a man, he must speak in the dark phrase-
ology of slang. If. he does anything on his own
responsibility, ho does it on his own "hook." If
he sees anything remarkably good, he calls it a
"stunner," the superlative of which is a "regular
stunner." If a man is requested to pay a tavern
bill, he is asked if he will "stand Sam 1" If he
nie_es a savarre-looking deg, he calls him "an ugly
cus'.orner." If he meets an eccentric man he calls
him a " rummy old cove." A sensible man is a
~ chap that is up to snuff." A man not remark-
able for
,good sense is a " cake ''—a " flat "—a
" spoou' —a " stick"--,,his mother does not
know he is out." A. doubtful . assertion is to be
" told to the marines." An incredible statement
is 41 all gammon." Our young friend never scolds,
but " blows up"—never pays, but cc stumps up"
—never finds it difficult to pay, but is "hard up"
—never feels fatigued, but is " used -LT.', He
has no hat, but shelters his head beneath a
" tile." He wears no neckcloth, but sur-
rounds his throat with a " choker." Re
lives nowhere, but there is some place where he
" hones out." He never goes away or withdraws,-
but he " bolts"—he "slopes"—be " mizzlea ",
—he "makes himself scarce"—he "walks his
chalks"—he " makes tracks"—he " cuts his stick"
—or what is the same thing, he 'cents his lucky 1"
The highest compliment you can, 'hay him is to tell
him that he is a "regular brielUieeetlei does not
profess to be brave, but he p ides himself on being
"plucky." Money is a word which he has forgotten,
but he talks a good deal about " tin,??eand. "the
needful," " the rhino," and "the ready." When
a man speaks, he "spouts," and when he holds his
peace he "shuts up"—when he is humiliat.al, he is
"taken down a peg or two," and made to "sing
small." He calls his hands " paws," his legs
" pins." To be perplexed,, is to be "flummoxed"
—to be disappointed, is to be " dished"—to be
cheated, is to he " sold"— to be cheated eleerly, is
to be " done brown." Whatsoever is fine is
" nobby,".--whatsoever is shabby, is " seedy,"
—whatsoever is pleasant, is "jolly." He says,
"Blessed if he does this," " blowed if he does
that," "hanged" if he does the other thing ; or he
exclaims "My eye !" "my stars !" If you asked
him which wire his stars he would be " flum-
maxed." Then be swears "By George"—" by the
piper ;" on select occasions he selects' "the piper
:hat played before Moses." Now a good deal of
this slang is harmless—many of the terms are, I
think, very expressive ; yet there is much in slang
that is objectionable. For example, as Archdeacon
Hare observes iu one of his sermons, the word "go-
vernor," as applied to a father, is to be reprehended.
I have heard a young man call his father the "re-
lieving oilleer." Does it not betray on the part of
young men great ignorance of the paternal and filial
relationships, or great contempt for them ? Their
father is to such young men merely a governor—
merely the representative of authority. Innocently
enough, the expression is used by thousands of
young men who venerate and love their parents ;
but only think of it, and I am sure you will admit
that it is a cold. heartless word when thus applied,
and one that ought forthwith to be abandoned.

SKETCH OP NANA SAHIB.

!(From Cltembers' Journal.)
As we have no doubt that many of our readers would
be glad to be acquainted with the parentage and other
antecedents of the man who bears this blood-stained

name, we propose, in the present article, to give a brief

sketch of him.

Nana Sahib, Rajah of Bitlaoor—whose correct names
is Sree Munt Dhoondoo Punt—is the eldest son, by

adoption, of the late Badjee Rao, ex-Peiahwa of the

gabarat tas.
For many years previous to his death Badjee Rao had
been a dethroned pensioner of the East India Company.
When in the fulness of his power he bad, as a native
prince, assisted the East India Company in their war
against Tippoo Sahib, the Tiger of Seringapatam, and, as
a reward for his so doing, the company, after years of
strife with him—after negotiations and exactions, and
treaties, and violations of these treaties on their part—
contrived, in 1817, to get hold of his dominions. After
numerous and fierce conflicts, 13adjee Rao, at the head
of 8,000 men, and with au advantageous post, was pre-
pared to do battle for the sovereignty of the Deccan ;
when Brigadier-Gen. Sir J. Malcolm, who commanded
the British army, sent a flag of truce to him, with pro-
posals fir a surrender.
The proposals made on the part of Sir J. Malcolm
were, that Ba,!;jee Rao, the Peishwa of the Mahrattas,
should renounce his sovereignty altogether ; that he
should come within 24 hours, with his family and a
limited number of adherents and attendants, into the
British camp ; that they should there be received with
honour and respect ; that he should be located in the
holy city of Benares, or in some other sacred place in
Ilindostan ' • that he should have a liberal pension from
the East India Company for himself and family ; that his
old and attached adherents should be provided for ; and
th,t the pension to be settled upon himself and family
should not be lea than eight lees of rupees—that is,
$O,OOO/. per annum.

After long and anxious deliberation with his prime
ministers and other great officers of State, the Peishwa
accepted these proposals—went with his family and ad-
herents into the British camp—and Bithoor was after-
wards assigned as his residence. The East India Com-
pany, with their usual grasping and illiberal spirit of
covetousness, were displeased with Sir John Malcolm
for his granting these terms. But they, and the Gover-
nor-General, Lord Hardinge, could not rect de from
them, ; and they took care tolimit the stipulated allow-
ance to the smallest sum mentioned in the treaty—
namely, eight lace of rupees, or 80,0001. per annum.
We have stated that the pension was to be conferred
upon Badjee Rao and his family. Now, before we pro-
ceed further, we must mention that, by the Hind°,
Shasters, or Scriptures, there is a fearful doom awarded
against those who die childless ; that doom is the being
consigned, after death, to " a place called Put, a place
of horror, to which the manes of the childless are sup-
posed to go, there to be tormented with hunger and
thirst, for want of these oblation of food and libatioue
of water, at proscribed periods, which it is the pious and
indeed indispen-able duty of a living son to offer."
Stich :tee the principles of the Hindoo religion with
regard to the want of natural male issue. Now the same
principles in order to remedy the defect, permit the
system of adoption where natural issue fails. It was in
accordance with this that Badjee Rao, in his old age,
fading himself naturally childless as to male issue, by
his will declared Nana Sahib to be his eldest:son, heir,
end representative.
In his day Badjee Rao, as chief of the powerful Mah-
ratta nation, had been a great sovereign. He survived
his downfall—exercising civil and criminal jurisdiction,
on a limited scale, at Bithoor—thirty-five years. On the
28th of January, 1811, he died.
No sooner wa4 his death made officially known, than
Lerd Dalhousie tabled a minute to the Council Board of
Calcutta, ruling that the pension, expressly guaranteed
to the great Badjee Rao and his family, should not be
continued to the latter. Nana Sahib, Badjee Rao'a
widow, and the other members of his family, were na-
turally stricken with grief and terror. They saw teem-
selves reduced to poverty. They bad no other pecuniary
resource than some trifling sum which Badjee Rao had
left behind him.
On the 24th June, 1851, Nana Sahib forwarded a
memorial to the Lieutenant Governor of the North-west
Provinces of India on the subject. In reply, he was told
that the pension could not be continued, but a certain
tract of laed would bo his for life. The Commissioner of
Bithoor, a public officer of high rank and standing, and
who knew the circumstances and claims of the ex-
Peishwa's family, forwarded an urgent appeal on their
behalf ; but, in a letter from a secretary of tkleGsevoveern_
Gover-
nor-General, of data Sept. 24, 1851, he received a
was
atilt
matised for so doing. His recommendation
matised as " uncalled for and nnwarrantabalna
Sahib ad-
After some further efforts in India,
dressed the Court of Directors, at Lea
de 29th of
England. His appeal to them was Nnball-streat, in
dated the
Dec. 1852. pany, the appeals of
company appear to
seem to have been
native I n the
princeseyes of the I
India
dEi
aa sdtol
not
tiCseeo
added to their dignity to have
princes waiting in their
mat-
ters of much consequene
anterooms.
1853 the
t Dec., company sent back
Somewhere Rem)
hthaeveadvo
Government i India,
and the result
consideredoatesoi that
such iptr
Nana Sahib to the
was done.
that Nana Sahib, with smooth and
It would appear
aeners, unites superior abilities ; and that to
gentle 13.3
s he adds '
thee. etnfitie passions of the strongest and mod
was, that nothienagr
viedictivo nature. His spirit is high, and hie vehemence
of the most determined character. At the period of the
breaking out of the mutiny, which has rendered his
name infamous, he seems to have become a monomaniac
on the subject of what he believed to be his wrongs.
In the preceding sketch, subject, of course, to core
rection, we have endeavoured to state facts, not with a
view to advocating any cause, but simply for the
purpose of communicating to our readers information as
to some of the numerous causes which have led to the
dreadful events which have recently occurred in the
East.
)37;

RoYAL COLLEGE Ol► SIIRGEONS.—The following gel;
tlem n, having undergone the necessary examinations
for the diploma, were admitted members of the College
at the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 31st
ult.:—viz., Messrs. Tbelweil Pike, Bucklebury, Berk•
shire ; Frederic Digby, Mahlon, Essex ; George Reed,
Portsmouth • Edward Francy, Northampton ; Francis
Woodhouse Braine, Hen. East India Company's Ser-
vice ; James Dow Sainter, Maco:esfield ; Willies
D cltinson Sinytb, Royal Navy ; and John Fisher, Aiwa'
heater.

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