| Show british civilization the 61 shocking and revolting fact that america has no sympathy with british civilization when opposed to the barbarism of russia is surprising while such evidences of the civilizing course of british officials in india as these are before the public eyes we quote from the press paper the modes of torture commonly used by the british authorities in india are numerous A frequent one is to take off a mans turban and clothes and tie him to a stake deprived of food and water and exposed to the rays of a burning sun A second mode is to put a man in the stocks for days and weeks together exposed to the sun and not in such stoc stocks ks as are used in england the ordinary indian stocks consist of square holes with sharp edges cut in a fallen tree through which the feet are thrust when a peg is driven in vertically to prevent them being pulled out again and which fits close to the ankle bone then as there is no seat for the indian stocks and nothing for the back to rest against the unfortunate prisoner of them finds his feet raised up and his body thrown into a position which if long continued is exquisitely painful athard A third mode is to bind kind the fingers of each hand and the toes of each foot close together with twine and then drive pegs in between them which is a process of exceeding torture A fourth plan is to stretch a man out en on his back and fastening his hands and feet with tent pegs to the grounds to leave him with face upturned to the sun I 1 vertical rays which literally sear the unprotected eyeballs A fifth mode is to tie a man up by the feet or as is is more general to fasten to a bedstead or stretcher and then stand iton it on end against a wall so as to leave the sufferer till lie he confesses or pays with his hia head bead downwards A sixth plan and one which will infallibly make a man do or confess anything is one which anion anlon among 9 the poli poil police ce is an especial favorite this plan flan is to tie lie a mans arms behind him above the elbow joint 0 tightly lightly so as to bring them as close together as is possible and then throw tile the end of the cord over a bough of a tree and haul the victim up till his toes barely touch the ground his shins are then beaten with the butts of the police hor semens riding whips or with sticks of any kind which causes him to raise his f feet heet beet every moment and throws the weight of the body with jerks upon the cord the result of this is i a degree of torture and prostration which in the space of half an hour would overcome the firmness of the strongest man murders I 1 urd have been confessed to under this process groces s w which it was clearly shown afterwards that the prisoner could by no possibility have been connected with wilh there are many other modes of torture used too numerous to mention some of them such as decency would preclude us from describing but we cannot omit to notice one method mor which is perhaps the most cruel and almost the most common it is the thrusting a mans head into a horses borses leather nose nosebag haly baLT in which pounded capsicums capsicums or in other worda words coarse cayenne pepper have been placed along with burning charcoal and the smoke from which entering the eyes eyer and nostrils and mout mouth hand and penetrating to the throat and lungs is productive at once of semi suffocation and of the rno most t excruciating anguish possible g we think it would take all the tle czars azars past present and ana t come to outdo ouid 1 this until england succeeds in civilizing russia by fire and sword the latter cannot hope to progress to this thit point of exquisite and refined the citizen N NY Y THE tue GRAND of the three brothers of alexander 31 the grand duke constantine takes the most prominent part it in public affairs amm aff jirs lie he was educated for the tile navy served as a cadet on or board ship even eiren performed a voyage round the world in company with his hia governor admiral lutke and seemed to identify himself with the maritime power of the empire what his febrile energy of character have done with a better instrument under his command as lord high nigh admiral it is hard to say but the experience of the last campaign has proved that he had no confidence tn in his boasted baltic and black sea fleets his dis restless lyo iyo inquisitive mind must have been deeply impressed e on n his ins visit to england in june 1848 1648 with the wonders of our naval arsenals and dock doek yards which he pe perked perused rued so EO to speak in in their minutest details and with wit i the most profound attention ile jie is is the emperor s junior by some years having been born horn in in depte september niber 1827 nearly two years subsequent 0 to o his hia fathers accession to the throne a circumstance which according to petersburg g gossip go gave rise use in their young days to a dis dispute pue between the brothels brother s lne as asserting seiling that he be was the eldest son of the emperor si since nce nee at A anders elanders ex birth pias plas had only been grand duke the puerility of the distinction insisted on seems to prove that it was but a boyish caviling and yet the rumors of a disputed succession that were so rife two ago had probably no bette better r foundation than this anecdote in person persons constantine Constan tine fine is spare and compared with his brothers diminutive his features are regular but stamped with an expression 0 OL premature care quite painful to see his man manners nersi and speech are as a bluff as any sailors need be and jo judge from the lines of his countenance I 1 would not venture to say that his temper was wa 1 of the sweetest it is difficult to pronounce pronounce a an n opinion on the talents of a prince surround surrounds ed by a band of followers devoted to his praise and rejoicing in it the countenance lie he gives to them as the oid 1101 old ad russian party but as yec yee yet constantine Constan tine line Nicola evitch though much lauded by his friends has given no public proof of bf grea great abilities it has been insinuated that he rules the empire over which his hs brother nominally reigns such statements however like those which ammi affirm irm the existence of pom pou powerful erful opposing n g P par a r ties in russia must be received with great areat cau can tion lion As ion lon bonx as the czar in the absoluteness of ochil hl I 1 authority can by a word consign h his hib is norest nearest re dative like ilke any other subject to a dungeon dur igeon I 1 or 0 send him into exile or appoint a distan distant and sterile command and of such family bisci pline plin ethere there are precedents abundant in the bistor history y of russian sovereigns so long will it be impose imps sible for any russian liegeman to exercise ough ouge I 1 but a delegated authority or to foster fosler a parti party p rt that would woula have more than a semblance of I 1 u ence or indeed of existe existence nce harrison s nine nind lne ine years residence in russia MORTALITY AND AD PUBLIC HEALTH OF or eng enc naud LAUD A blue book ol 01 pages contains till the report of the select committee on public healt bi b and nuisance removal amendment bill fro fros rn the evidence of dr farr who is at the head 0 the statistical department odthe of the general re registe pst I 1 office vve ive e gather that among the working me mei er r of london birmingham and manchester th ot 01 mortality is probably double what it is is in tb thi A healthy districts whereby they are surround surrounded ei ar the mortality of males in manchester havin IQ Q been from 1838 1638 to 1844 1644 37 in 1000 and th be ie maan mean lifetime life time 24 2 years whereas dr far fa w v holds that the natural rate of mortality shou in n not exceed 17 in 1000 the average mortality in england is is 23 n i e 1000 the town population of great britain th 01 says dr farr is nomi noy nov above 10 an the mortality is greater in proportion j t to the who w holi NN population than it was in 1821 or 1831 it i ini n found that recruits for the army from the thie town ft fe t are much less vigorous that those taken fro fron lt tc the rural districts lh h the average mortality in the metropolis is 2 of in 1000 logu it has been shown that the tb mortality mor tj 0 rc o in london is 24 to 25 in 1000 in berlin it is esth th pa tin same in turin it is 26 ill in 1000 in ii paris 28 11 i F fc 1000 in genoa 31 21 in 1000 iti afi lyons 33 i 11 eri ori e ri 1000 in hamburg amburg 11 36 in 1000 in moscow mo F cow te tei tey in 1001 1000 in st petersburg 41 in 1000 in stock P pa a holm bolm 39 in 1000 and in vienna 40 49 in lil ill I 1 on an 00 1 j tel tei cl 1 As a spec imn of the state of society in the pl pil pit austrian capital it mayhe maybe may he stated that more thai half the deaths there occur in in the hospitals arf ari a asylums and that more than half the childrel chil chii drel drei thi thi are illegitimate having died in the found I 1 1 in ii a hospitals in in a single vear year ear j ph ht 4 the mortality odthe of the different countries is ft es R follows in england 23 in in 1000 in ili ill ij the same in in holland 21 24 in 1000 in france 23 jo 5 in 1000 in sweden 24 in 1000 in pr arn sla sia ai 2 wb WE in 1000 in sardinia 30 in 1000 in al austria 3 k in 1 1000 and in russia 36 in 1000 ex as a S 1 G REAT ralli RAILI RAILROAD tOAD load rout ROUTE E A person can no api epi by travel by railroad from halifax nova scot 1 fro fra to st lou louis on the ail ali alisi si sippi ppl appl the di stancl h hief hier from new york to st louis louls uis is 1116 1 ilg miles |
