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the desire of statesmen , as well as merchants , liad been directed towards the formation of such an establishmeht ; during the civil wars and the Commonwealth , it had been discussed ^ and at the early si ^^^ Council of Trade at Mercers' Hall a proposition was received and referred to a committee , for the ihtrodiiction of " banks and Lombards among us as in Holland ; the great advantages-they woiild produce being evident . "
Besides the ^ writings of Paterson and the short biograph y ^ Mr . Bannister gives us notices of some of his contemporaries—among whom we see Lord Middleton , Thomas Sheridan , Sir Robert Walpole , John Locke , Dainpler , Wafer , and Durahda ; and likewise a lengthened account of the Paterson family . The volumes are altogether extremely interesting ; and much praise is due to Mr . Bannister for the manner in which he has collected and put together his materials . :
An Account of the Mutiny in Oudh , wiiJi Observations on the Causes of the Rebellion , tyE Financial Commissioner of Oudh . L Bciidey . —This is the best work which has appeare season about India . Mr . Gubbins had peculiar o of the native population , and he used them well . In his position of commissioner of Oudh , he made a tour of that province in the cold ^ of 1856 , with a view of investigating the working
applied by the inferior officers of districts . He mixed with the villagers ;—he gained their confidence by entering their hamlets alone , or with one attendant he sat with them , and examined carefully their wrongs and sufferings , and the result was , as he had anticipated ^ a great reduction of the land revenue . By mixing thus with the people , lie became intimately acquainted with their notions , and particularly with their ideas in regard to the English supremacy . He very properly assigns the origin of the
outbreak which at the present time has east desolation oyer the whole iOf the great Indian continent , neither to Bussiati intrigue , a national revolt , nor the annexation of Oudh . He declares , with , truth that the native mind had for a long time previously been alarmed on the vital subjects of caste and religion ; the injudicious measures of government , with regard to education , and the laws they passed affecting the ancient rites of the Hindoos , increased
this alarm ; and the threatened introduction of the greased cartridge fired the mass , which w as already on the point of kindling . That this was the truth there are many stories to prove , and among them , the following . When the greased cartridges were being made up in the presidency arsenal , a low caste workman who was employed in their formation , asked a high caste Brahmin sepoy to give him water . The Brahmin indignantly refused . u 0 ! " said the low caste man , you need not be so particular ; there will very
soon be no . difference of caste when you come to put pigs' and bullocks' fat in your mouths . " This feverish feeling was carefully fostered by the most absurd stories which were spread abroad , and almost universally believed , not only by the lower classes but among the zemindars , about the court and other functionaries . It was reported that in order to destroy the caste of the population , the British government had sent down large quantities of bone-dust to the several districts , in order that it might be mixed with the sweetmeats sold in the bazaars , and the whole nation lose
caste at once ! The belief in this rumour was so general at one station , that the panic was universal , and rich and poor—villagers , zemindars , and sepoys—threw away their food , and fasted for the day . This will scarcely appear surprising , when it is remembered , that upon one occasion at the station of Simian , it was currently reported that the Governor-general had given an order to that district to have a certain quantity of human fat prepared and sent down to Calcutta , and that for this purpose , the hill mer *
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the desire of statesmen , as well as merchants , liad been directed towards the formation of such an establishmeht ; during the civil wars and the Commonwealth , it had been discussed ^ and at the early si ^^^ Council of Trade at Mercers' Hall a proposition was received and referred to a committee , for the ihtrodiiction of " banks and Lombards among us as in Holland ; the great advantages-they woiild produce being evident . "
Besides the ^ writings of Paterson and the short biograph y ^ Mr . Bannister gives us notices of some of his contemporaries—among whom we see Lord Middleton , Thomas Sheridan , Sir Robert Walpole , John Locke , Dainpler , Wafer , and Durahda ; and likewise a lengthened account of the Paterson family . The volumes are altogether extremely interesting ; and much praise is due to Mr . Bannister for the manner in which he has collected and put together his materials . :
An Account of the Mutiny in Oudh , wiiJi Observations on the Causes of the Rebellion , tyE Financial Commissioner of Oudh . L Bciidey . —This is the best work which has appeare season about India . Mr . Gubbins had peculiar o of the native population , and he used them well . In his position of commissioner of Oudh , he made a tour of that province in the cold ^ of 1856 , with a view of investigating the working
applied by the inferior officers of districts . He mixed with the villagers ;—he gained their confidence by entering their hamlets alone , or with one attendant he sat with them , and examined carefully their wrongs and sufferings , and the result was , as he had anticipated ^ a great reduction of the land revenue . By mixing thus with the people , lie became intimately acquainted with their notions , and particularly with their ideas in regard to the English supremacy . He very properly assigns the origin of the
outbreak which at the present time has east desolation oyer the whole iOf the great Indian continent , neither to Bussiati intrigue , a national revolt , nor the annexation of Oudh . He declares , with , truth that the native mind had for a long time previously been alarmed on the vital subjects of caste and religion ; the injudicious measures of government , with regard to education , and the laws they passed affecting the ancient rites of the Hindoos , increased
this alarm ; and the threatened introduction of the greased cartridge fired the mass , which w as already on the point of kindling . That this was the truth there are many stories to prove , and among them , the following . When the greased cartridges were being made up in the presidency arsenal , a low caste workman who was employed in their formation , asked a high caste Brahmin sepoy to give him water . The Brahmin indignantly refused . u 0 ! " said the low caste man , you need not be so particular ; there will very
soon be no . difference of caste when you come to put pigs' and bullocks' fat in your mouths . " This feverish feeling was carefully fostered by the most absurd stories which were spread abroad , and almost universally believed , not only by the lower classes but among the zemindars , about the court and other functionaries . It was reported that in order to destroy the caste of the population , the British government had sent down large quantities of bone-dust to the several districts , in order that it might be mixed with the sweetmeats sold in the bazaars , and the whole nation lose
caste at once ! The belief in this rumour was so general at one station , that the panic was universal , and rich and poor—villagers , zemindars , and sepoys—threw away their food , and fasted for the day . This will scarcely appear surprising , when it is remembered , that upon one occasion at the station of Simian , it was currently reported that the Governor-general had given an order to that district to have a certain quantity of human fat prepared and sent down to Calcutta , and that for this purpose , the hill mer *