The Press.
London, England, 1858-01-16 00:00:00

ANIEftICA.
The arrest of Walker, and his transference to New
York by the American authoiities, are detailed in full
elsewhere.
The Kansas question has recetvellea new compli-
cation by the adoption of the slavery clause by a
large majority. It appears that the tree•atate men
did not vote. In Lawrence, for instance, not a single
vote was cast. The territorial militia has been placed
in charge of General Lane, and the peolle were
beginning to arm.
The Mormon war presents no new features. Col.
Johnstone, by last dates, 7th November, was only
150 miles from the Great Salt Lake city.

ditttion Intelligtnte.

&arm NORTllkmrroNsmisE.—Earl Spencer, on re-
tiring from the representation of this county, has
issued a farewell address to the electors. Lord
Spencer remarks :
I shall ever feel proud that the Liberal electors of the
division thought me worthy of their suffrages, and now
that I am removed from the position in which they placed
me I cannot but express gratification that an abler man
(Lord Henley) than myself is desirous of obtaining the
same honour, and has wisely placed himself at once before
them.
REIGATE.—Sir Henry Rawlinson addressed the
electors of Reigate on Wednesday. Sir Henry,
having briefly gone through the various public ques-
tions, came to the great one of the day, the revolt in
India. Sir Henry Rawlinson said the question was
such a vast and important one that he oould not
undertake on that occasion to examine it in detail.
He could not go into the question of the origin of
the present mutiny, or of the means which bad been
taken to suppress it. He could not discuss the pre.
sent state or future prospects of the country, but he
expressed as his firm conviction that the revolt was
not military, but national:—
It was a far more serious question than any oar rulers
ever disposed of. lie had been fiiiiy impressed with
that opinion from the commencement, and had done
everything he could to induce others to adopt that opinion.
It was evident to him that the outbreak never was whet
is called a military mutiny ; it deserved more the name of
a national movement. It must be remembered that a
military mutiny was a mutiny for military purposes ; bet
the sepoys had been acting for others, and had been used
as instruments for carrying out the designs of those par-
ties, the object being no doubt to drive us from the
country. That was the real state of things. It was no
mutiny of a few soldiers, but a far graver question—that
Of the security of our Indian empire.
With respect to the future government of India,
Sir Henry Rawlinson said he was by no means an
advocate for the present system of double go-
vernment:—
He knew all its evils, and wished to do everything in
his power to simplify it. It was only those who had been
mixed up with the system who could thoroughly appre-
ciate the great evils which arose from that system, by
which even in an emergency, on the receipt of a de-
spatch, it took two months to get an answer to send out
to India. Stich a a stem was destructiveto everything like
vigour in administration, but that was the system which
Parliament inaugurated in the first instance, and whish
had been kept up ever since by the acquiescence and
approval of Parliament. Their eyes were at last opened,
and he hoped they would in their wisdom—the wisdom of
Parliament being, as the meeting was aware, omnipotent—
he loped they would devise some means of making the
government of India more efficient without placing that
power in the hands of the Crown, which would be looked
upon as so dangerous to the rights of Englishmen.
The great question of introducing Christianity into
that country was a point of extreme difficulty, be-
cause feeling was on one side, and what had been
hitherto supposed to be the interest of England on
the other. Anything that could be done without the
direct influence of Government should be done, and
he had no doubt would be done, and every one who
had a voice in the direction of affairs in England
would promote it; but he strongly condemned the
inauguration of any great measure for that object
being supported by the State.

PROSTITUTION IN THE METROPOLIS has given rise
to several meetings of late in the parish of St.
James's. After much discussion, the appoiutment
of a deputation from the leading metropolitan
parishes to wait upon her Majesty's Government, and
request that immediate steps might be taken for
putting down these practices, has been resolved
upon ; and also, " that such deputation be instructed
to urge upon the Government the following measures,
whereby it is believed that the evil complained of
may be effectually controlled :-1. The enforcement
upon a systematic plan, and by means of a depart-
ment of police specially appointed and instructed for
that purpose, of the provisions of the 2nd and 3rd
Vict., c. 47, in reference to this matter; 2. For
passing an act for licensing and placing under proper
regulations as to supervision and closing of all houses
of entertainment, or for the supply of refreshments,
J intended to be open to the public after a certain
hour,"