The Express.
London, England, 1853-06-04 00:00:00

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LO2VDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 4.

IN a speech of five hours' duration, of which some
four hours acd a half were preface, Sir CUARLES WOOD
last night expounded his scheme for tho future
government of our vast Indian dependencies. If his
oration on the occasion was not equal to the dignity
of the subject it had to treat, it cannot be said that
he hesitated in giving at least an ample el%boration
to the materials ho desired to place before
the House. lie had a difficult as well as
responsible task in hand. To explain the new way
in which he sought to arrange the government of
more than a hundred millions of people was itself a
labour heavy enough, but Sir CLIARLSI WOOD volun-
tarily ioeressed the natural difficulties of his theme
by superadding to it the still greater task of seeking
"to make the worse appear the better" course
of proceeding. In the very teeth of the fact,
that only a patios of the evidence upon Indian
affairs has yet been taken, ho strove to stultify
the House of Commons into a belief that all
that need be known, is known, so far as legis-
lation on the government of India is con:
corned. He tried to prove that ample evidence had
been taken to justify immediate legislation, although
it is notoriously the fact that merely one side of the
Nos has been heard. The witnesses for the defence
have been very carefully listened to, and Sir CHARLES
WOOD now solicits an instant verdict for his clients
in Cannon-row and Leadenhall-street—with a new
lease of power in addition--before one witness for

the proem titian has been called, before one native
of India has been permitted to proffer evidence
to the Parliamentary Jury whose duty it now is
to do justice between the parties. Sir CHARLES
WOOD is satisfied that he knows all that need be
known to enable him to indicate the best mode of
governing our vast dominions in Hindostan,
"Mond, in the very house where he now utters
each confident assertions, he made, only a few days
ago, his curious coursed.= of *wean°e about the
territory of Pegu. Of course the real meaning of
all this ie that Cannon-row, of which Sir
CHARLES WOOD is the chief the same
Cannon-row that sanctioned the Affghan war
sod the Burmese war —nay all the recent
wars in India ; the Cannon-row, under the
shadow of which, with its twin-failure, Leadenhall-
sheet, British India has, year by year, become
wider, weaker, and poorer ;—under which education
lies bun neglected, public works left undone, the
Indian E.:chequer been impoverished, the resources
of Hindustan left undeveloped, and the administra-
tion of justice been permitted to remain insufficient
and esernpt ;—this same Cannon-row is quite satis-
fied that it has skill enough, knowledge enough, and
power enough at once to re-arrange a new sys-
tem of administration for a country which
has been groaning unheeded under its rule. The real
question, however, is, not whether Sir CHARLES
Wont) and the °Adele of whom he is the mouth-
piesa know all he and they wish to know about
Indian affairs, but whether they know all that they
meet to know before the Cabinet is committed to
positive legislation on the subject. It certainly does
appear to be only the merest fair-play that the
DRUM of India, having suffered foe the last twenty
years under the renewed Charter Act, should—that
long trial having been patiently borne—be now at
lust permitted time to give evidence upon their
many and bitter grievance, before new chains are
forged for them. But Sir CHARLES Wool) holds a
very different opinion. Witnesses from the India
Home and witnesess in the interest of the India
House have said all they wish to say, and—that
Is enough. The natives are nobody. A hundred
millions of our fellow-robjects are pooh- poohed in
the most off-hand official fashion, and we are told
to adopt at once end without any farther inquiry
a scheme which amply satisfies—Sir Cuatuts WOOD.

But will that which contents the PRESIDENT of the
BOARD of CONTROL satisfy the public ? At first view
we may safely predict that it will not. Sir CHARLES
WOOD wishes to legislate at once. He will have no
Continuance Bill, and no more Enquiry but a new
law, off-hand, to bottle up as far as possible the whole
question. He would reduce the number of the
I.esdsnhall•street directors, and remodel that corps
by fixing their number at eighteen,—twelve of whom
should be nominated as at present, and the remain-
ing six be appointed by the crown, from amongst
men who have seen at least ten years' service in
India. This new council ho would subject to reelec-
tion every two years. Thus far the plan coincides
with the indication we gave yesterday—agreeing

also with our description in another important par-
ticular. The civil patronage and tho patronage of
the medical and scientific branches of the military
service are to ho thrown open to public competition;
the ordinary m litary commissions to be diitributed,
it seems, upon the present plan. But the great
evil of 411—the doubles Government—is, it will
bo seen, to con..nue. Lost!enhall-strea is to

be churn a ittle of its featbera, but is to
stand snub w) :re it t t; and it its direc-
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