Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-05-28
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The Times publishes dispatch of the secret committee
of the court Of of the East India COMPANY to the
governor general in connc It dated the 10th Of April
and refers to proclamation conscatng the soil of the
province of Dude to the British government.
The secret committee do not approve of this
They think it will throw difficulties almost insurmounabe
the way of the reestablshment of peace. The commit
revolt in Dude It had they say rather the Character of
legitimate than that of rebellion. Therefore the COM
ed with ndugent consideration than made the objects
penalty exceeding in extent and in severity almost
icted upon subdued nation The following paragraphs
are taken verbatim from the dispatch
l. Other conquerors when they have succeeded in
coming resistance have excepted few as still de-
serving of punishment, but have with generous policy
extended their cemency to the great body of the people
2. You have acted upon different principle. You have
reserved few deserving of special favor and you have
struck with what they will feel the of punish
ment, the of the inhabitants of the country
g. We cannot but think that the precedence from which
you have departed will appear have been conceived
spirit of WISDOM superior to that which appears in the
precedent you have made.
L. We desire that you will mitigate practice the n
gent severity of the decree Of conscaon you have issued
s. We desire British authority in India rest upon
the willing obedience ola contened people, there cannot
be contentment where there is general confscation.
g. Government cannot long be maintained by any force
in any country where people is rendered hostile by
of wrong
The Times the ministerial party of design of
making political capital out of the Dude proclamation
the breaking of the mutiny. The population out
arms against and the government Of England procamS
to these people, who will read the despatch as S
c. Campbell Lord Canning that they not rebels
but local warriors that their just that the confs
cation which has been just proclaimed so far from being
humane potic is not even just Valid and that if they
but ordinary they will fight out their quarrel to the
last.
vate the to provoke the foe to depe
ate and fnacal resistance to expose friends in Dude
to shame and confusion the objects of political
contempt and to protract the war.
Nobody doubt that in the end shall have to for
felt the estates of those landowners who do not make then
1hooicc ahono
tates subject to the rights of the conqueror The Oude
proclamation however rather manifesto. addressed to
policy. and moved by various influences, than formal
State paper at least proclamation OF this sort mas
been made and withdrawn, or qualified according TO S
effect. o,o
The Daily News regrets that the controversy on DUDE
should degenerate into party squabbe and refers 70 a
discussion which has already taken place as practical o
monstration of the perious tnat must
from making the personality OF the Indian
pendent the results of the faction fights OF the Engn
Parliament ...
The Star thinks Lord Canning will have no alternative
but to resign as soon as he receives Lord
dispatch.
BANK OF FAYETTEvnLE.-The Annual Meeting OF
the Stockholders of the Bank of Fayetteville took pae
at the Bank on Monday last The following gentlemen
were elected the Board of Directors viz Jno u or'
Jas. Kyle, j. w. Pearce, E. j. Lilly, IL. L. MyroVei
Sampson Boon, Danl McDairmid, S. T. HaWley anu
John W. Powell.
At subsequent meeting of the Board Jno. D. starr
Esq, was reelected President. The other officers af7
all the same as last year-North Carolinadn.
DISAPPOINTED FUG1T1vE.-A negro fellow; a.
Goldsborough, N. c., on the Wilmington & WeGOn
Railroad says the Norfolk Portsmouth Herald aAluS
fancy to ride down the road and not having the ne
full to pay for an inside passage crep upon perch un
the truck and rode all the way to Boykins depot w
the Seaboard road, in Virginia He was discover u
young at that depot though it was at first sJ
difficult to determine whether it bundle OF morn
ty or something else that occupied his position SO 'OD
pletely was he disguised with rags and dust
young carpenter having been told that the eoUr
court his Young lady with foreplane under ms a[
What is the best line to lead man with! -0fD'
line. =, Mascu
And the best line to lead woman with is M"S'N
line ~, vorl, and
The amount Of specie in the er es9Es m Mem