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LORD STANLEY ON INDIAN POLICY.
The custom of entertaining Ministers at City banquets is useful to them. It enables them to speak their minds if they are disposed to do so; a feat they decline attempting at present. Lord Stanley affords an exception; but then his speech is on a safe and foreign topic. Together with several members of the Indian council, he was entertained at dinner by the Fishmonger's Company, the Prime Warden, Mr. T. Boddington occupying the chair, and giving the cue to the speakers by his remarks. Thus he proposed "the health of Lord Stanley and the members of the Council for India," and Lord Stanley replied. "After compliments" Lord Stanley plunged in maims res. Be said that the Government did not regard the transfer of the Government of India from the Company to the Crown as a "penal proceeding," but as a natural change, the necessary result of the lapse of time and the progress of events. He hoped it would lead to the benefit of India, and the larger introduction of European energy, enterprise and thought into that country. Then he expressed his fears- The custom of entertaining Ministers at City banquets is useful to them. It enables them to speak their minds if they are disposed to do so; a feat they decline attempting at present. Lord Stanley affords an exception; but then his speech is on a safe and foreign topic. Together with several members of the Indian council, he was entertained at dinner by the Fishmonger's Company, the Prime Warden, Mr. T. Boddington occupying the chair, and giving the cue to the speakers by his remarks. Thus he proposed "the health of Lord Stanley and the members of the Council for India," and Lord Stanley replied. "After compliments" Lord Stanley plunged in maims res. Be said that the Government did not regard the transfer of the Government of India from the Company to the Crown as a "penal proceeding," but as a natural change, the necessary result of the lapse of time and the progress of events. He hoped it would lead to the benefit of India, and the larger introduction of European energy, enterprise and thought into that country. Then he expressed his fears- " But I cannot conceal from myself, and I cannot conceal from you that if that change of government has increased the opportunities possessed by the Government of this country, it has also augmented in a similar degree the responsibility which lies upon us. We have to guard against a double danger. We have to protect India from the fluctuations of Parliamentary politics, and we have to protect England from the more indirect and remote but perhaps not less real risk which may arise from the connexion of its executive with an executive which is necessarily despotic. I believe, and I rejoice to believe, that the insurrection of the last fifteen months is gra- dually dying out, and so also the exasperation of feeling which prevailed in this country against the natives of India, and which, under all the circum- stances, we can hardly regard with astonishment, though we may look at it with regret. I believe I may say, that that exasperation is dying out with the cause to which it owed its origin, and that at no distant time we shall be, if it is not so already, in a better and more habitual frame of mind ; but we ought to remember that it is not from ill-will or ill-feeling on our part, but from uninformed or misdirected efforts for doing good, that the influence of our government in India is exposed to danger. We regard, and undoubtedly we ought to regard, the natives of India as persons towards whom it is our duty to have a good will, and for whom it is our duty to la- bour. But that is not enough. It is not enough that we should regard them as objects on which our benevolence may be exercised—as persons eats whom it is in our power to make important changes for good. We must look at them also as being men with whom, and not against whom, we have to work—men with feelings of their own—men, though politically subject to us, with a sense of their own rights, and with a respect for their own inde- pendence—men who are apt to be all the more tenacious of their intellectual independence and national customs because of the political subjection in which they are held. (Cheers.) Undoubtedly the position of a conquering and goveni- ing race confers many advantages as regards the influence which may be exer- cised over a conquered people; but that position has also its disadvantages, for the position of a conquering race is one which almost inevitably tends to produce a certain sense of superiority, a certain arrogance, if that be not pc, harsh a word to use, a certain disregard towards feelings, in which, not being placed in similar circumstances, it is utterly impossible for us to share, and I do not hesitate to say that unless we modify and keep within proper bounds that feeling of national superiority—unless we remember carefunh and even jealously respect, the very prejudices of those whom we have te., rule ; above all things, if we attempt to introduce the force and influence al Government into that which ought to be a matter of private conviction be- tween man and his own conscience,—if we do this, or even if we are pected upon plausible_ grounds of attempting or desiring to do it, we tr: have our efforts at improvement thrown back in our face as insults, and ps!! end in doing more harm than good. (Cheers.) I am sure that in this MI; there is no need for such words of warning and caution as I have uttered_ but out of this room there may be some quarters where they will not be alto' gether superfluous." Be expressed confidence in his Council— • Minister. advice as good and honest as was ever afforded to an English a Council competent !,3 give mr. Mangles, on his side, bore testimony to the knowledge, ability, and aseiduity displayed by Lord Stanley. The other noticeable incident in the proceedings was the speech of Count Montebello. The Prime Warden explained that he is the son of Marshal Lannes, and the brother of the Duke of Montebello, now French Minister at St. Petersburg, and that the brothers have taken wives from smog the daughters of England. Count Montebello, speaking in Frail', highly eulogized the Anglo-French alliance. If the two coun- ties differ sometimes, we must console ourselves with the reflection that the same thinS. happens between the best friends. The essential point is that they should not quarrel. He instanced the China treaty as a specimen of the prodigies the two peoples united can effect.
The annual ceremony of choosing a Lord Mayor was performed in the zeildhall on Wednesday. There, after the corporation had been to church, a Common Hall was held to go through the forms, and the livery were exhorted to do their duty fearlessly. They did this by taking the two names at the head of the list of candidates, therein pro- ceeding upon routine. The names were those of Alderman Wire, and Alderman Carter, and the Court of Aldermen, following the steps of the Livery, selected the gentleman whose name was at the head of the list. Thus Alderman Wire became Lord Mayor elect.
In the evening Lord Mayor Carden entertained a large company to meet the Mayor of Melbourne. The new Sheriffs, Alderman Hale and Mr. Deputy Condor, were sworn into office on Tuesday ; Alderman Lawrence and Alderman Allen sur- rendering their gowns and chains to the keeping of the new officers. The new Sheriffs went in procession on Thursday to Westminster, there to be presented to the Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, and to assist at the formal and antique ceremonies of counting nails and chopping bits of wood.
The City Commissioners of Sewers, acting on a report from their Me- dical Officer of Health, have directed their Improvement Committee to ascertain "whether any plan or plans should be tried to ventilate the sewers, and prevent the escape of noxious gases into the atmosphere ; and to report thereon to this Commission, with the estimated coat of the same." One of the plans submitted is that recommended by Dr. Sten- house. Death arises from the escape of noxious gases pouring from the sewers. The remedy proposed is the extension of a discovery made by Dr. Stenhouse who ascertained by experiment the great power of char- coal in preventing animal decomposition, and purifying a vitiated atmo- spher by absorbing rapidly putrid gases. Dr. Letheby says that Dr. Stenhouse's principle of ventilation by means of charcoal has been tried successfully, both at the justice-room at Guildhall, and the justice-room at the Manstonhouse, and that he has himself applied a box containing thirty-six cubic inches of charcoal to the mouth of a cesspool, and found that it operated successfully and without loss of power for three months continuously, the gas escaping from the cesspool being as effectually deodorized as at first. All, then, that the Commissioners have to do, ac- cording to Dr. Letheby, is to place a small pan of charcoal in the air- passages between the sewers and the atmosphere, and the purification of the air will be complete.
There are now four bishops having sees in. New Zealand. Dr. Selwyn is Bishop of New Zealand and Metropolitan. The Reverend J. C. Harper is bishop of Christchurch, the Venerable Archdeacon Abraham is Bishop of Wellington, and the Reverend Edmund Hobhouse is Bishop of Nelson. The two last named prelates were consecrated on Wednesday at Lambeth Church, the Archbishop, and the Bishops of Oxford, London, and Lichfield taking part in the ceremony.
Another case of fortune-telling has come to lizht before the Worship Street Magistrate. Jeanette Meyers, a servant at Hackney, importuned by Anne Williams, took her into the kitchen of her master's house to hear told a fortune worth telling. The woman won the girl's confidence in an adroit manner. She asked her where she came from, and Meyers said, "from Poole," and she said, "la, how singular ! why, I was married there." This made them acquainted directly. Meyers, holding a bottle of' dragon's blood," was told she was born to be lucky, and then a drop of the said blood was spilt upon the fire. Now came the grand part of Williams's scheme. She said, thus spoke the ingenuous Meyers, "the next thing to be done was to get together a sovereign's worth of clothes, as near as possi- ble, aud wrap them up into a bundle, either in paper or an old rag,—the heavier the bundlowas the better,—and that she must take it in the church- yard, throw some grave mould over it, and bless it ; and that I must watch her into the churchyard, where she sat for hours reading and studying every night, and that I should then see her come back with the bundle. I ac- cordiegIt went upstairs, picked out two of my dresses, a shawl, and two pairs of boots, which I thought must be worth more than a pound, and after wrap- ping them up in a table cloth I handed them to her to take to the church- yard; but on running upstairs and looking out of the window, I saw her turning away from West Hackney, Church, instead of going to it, which surprised me, but she looked up and saw me I think, and then she turned towards the church. I watched after her, but she did not go into the churchyard, or I must have seen her ; but somehow she disappeared all of a sudden, and I then became frightened that I should not get my things back. I therefore ran out of the house as fast as I could, and asked some people I met if they had seen a woman go by with a bundle, and one man advised me to go to the Kingsland Police Station, and tell the police immediately. I accordingly went to the station and told the gentleman them, and after I had got home some time the police came, and told me they had got the wo- man in custody, and that I must go there." Mr. Hanimill remanded the woman, as there are other cases against her. _A shocking instance of paternal cruelty came under the notice of the Lord gayer. A young girl tried to drown herself by leaping from London Bridge. She struck the buttress arid dislocated her hip. Brought into court, sup- ported by her sister, and asked why she tried to kill herself, she said the conduct of her father had led to it. Inquiries were made, and it appeared that this father, one Joluistone, a tradesman in Gracechurch Street, had re- fused to maintain his children, and had recommended the girls to resort to the streets. The Lord Mayor, shocked by the barbarity, dismissed the poor girl' She is to be made chargeable to the parish, and the law enforced against the father.
_ A case occurred last week, and came under the notice of the Coroner on Saturday, which has attracted much attention. Mrs. Moodie, the wife of a publican, went to church on the 2Ist, and after she returned went out for a walk. Twelve o'clock arrived, and her alarmed husband went out to seek here. He heard that a woman, found insensible in the streets, had been n
to the stationhouse ; he went there and found that the woman was
his wife, and that she was confined on a charge of being drunk and inca- pable of taking care of herself. He asked to see her and was refused. The next morning Mrs. Moodie was taken to the Royal Free Hospital, and there she died. She was not drunk, but had been seized with a fit of apoplexy when found. It appears that a policeman found her about ten o'clock. She was then going home, and she had strength enough left to give him her address. The house was close by, but he took her to the stationhou.se and locked her up, with the fatal result we have stated.
Mr. Gerard B. Smith, proprietor of the Pimlico Wheel Works, has com- mitted suicide by placing himself across the rails near Wandsworth, when a train was at hand. The verdict of a Jury was "Temporary Insanity."
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