The Express.
London, England, 1853-06-13 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

AttntrED.—February 22.—Indiana, ship, 600 tons, J.
!Barham, from London, Nov. 15th. Passengers—Cabin :
&v. F. Cookron, lady, and family, Mr. and Mrs. Farmer
and family, Mr. and Mrs. Irwin and family, Miss Atkin-
son, Mi.s Brewer, Miss Young, Mr. Nesbitt, Mr. Taylor,
sen , Mr. Taylor, jun., Mr. Warre, Mr. Nicoll, and twenty.
Ms in the steerage. Captain ?dacha's, agent. February
22.—Selma, barque, 337 tons, H. D. Dale, from Adelaide,
ltith out. Passengers—Cabin: Thirty.four ; and seventy-
sin in the sti trip. John Scott, agent.
CLEARED Gut.—February 22.—Phenlx, steamer, 240
tons, it. F. Pockley, for Adelaide. Passengers—Cabin : M.
Emmett, M. Chambers, Mr. Sew, Messrs. Joshua
Harker, Tinline, &ration, Godfrey, Sutherland, Graves,
Captaiu Thomas, 8. R. Hall, T. Guy, T. Strode, J. Bailey,
Mr. and Mrs. Reardon, Messrs. Thorpe, D. F. C. Scott, J.
and W. Brown, and 51 In the steerage, February 22.
Giraffe, schooner, 260 tons, 1). Gaurlay, for Launceston,
yid% part of original cargo from Newcutle. Passengers—
Mrs. Gourley sod family and servant. February 22.
William Melville, barque, 219 tons, J. W. Raymond, for
Hobart Town. No paesengers.
SAILED.—Feb. 22: Blacklist'', for London; Tanered, for
Akyab; Maria Charlotte, fur Akyab; rhmaix, steamer,
fur Adelaide; Maid of Erin, tor Hobart Town.

AIIIIVID —February 13—Lord Montgomery and DApbue.
from Melbourne.

CLIAREU OUT —February 14—The barque Selma Dale,
337 tons, fur Melbourne. Pasaengers—eabin : Mr.. Robin-
ion and two children, Mrs. March, Mrs. Copley and two
children, Mrs. Reardon, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, Mr. and
Mrs. Priest, Miian. II iyner, Williameon, landale, Maffei-
itch, Dilaimanr, Pittell, Ratcliffe, sad Shtpherd, and ninety.
four is the steerage.

LA V NCES TON .

Animism—February 12 —Alice, schooner, Irvine, frown
Melbourne. February 14—Virtu-, schooner, Winsborrow,
from Melbourne. Rattler, schooner, Foyle, from Mel-
bourne. Zillah, schooner, Wine, from Melbourne. Eliza,
schooner, from Sylney. February 16—Gazelle, brig, Mac-
doned, from Me!Warne.
SAiLzu.—February 13—Alert, schooner, Harrison, for
blelbourne. February 15—Arid, schooner, Ferdson, for
Melbourne. February 15—William, brig, WlLlnlay, for
Sydney. February 15— Peri, brig, 148 tons, Tregertha,
fur Geelong. Cargo: 196 pitets timber, 3 cans rope, 2
tasks blacking, 2 eases preserves, 50,000 laths, 14,000
palings, 1,000 spikes, 3,900 ft. timber, 39 deals, 60 bags
oats, 20 bundles shingles. February 16—Sarah Ana,
barque, for London.

INDIA'S PROSPERITY ENGLAND'S INTEREST.

(Tram the Bristei Packet Tiril•.)

Two hundred and fifty-three years ago, some
traders in London united together to raise • capital of
30,0001., wherewith to trade to the East Indies. They ob-
tained • charter, under which the management of their
*Heirs was entrusted to a committee of 24 of their members,
chosen by thriaselves. In 1824, authority was given to
the 'emptily by the King to punish its servants abroad,
either by civil or martial law. And in 1661, • new charter
was granted, by which the company was allowed to make
pew or war with or against any people or princes, not
Christian., and to seise all unlicensed pertains and wad
them to England. The profits were great ; other parties
attempted to get into the trade by bribing the various
governments of the day ; and at one time when the old com-
pany offered to loan to the government 700,0001. at four per
cent. their rivals offered 2,000,00001. at eight per cent., •
bait too tempting to be refused. TM evils of rivalship were,
however men klt to be too great to be hazarded ; a needy
governena hand these great mercantile companies conve-
nient spasms, squeeze into dry exchequers, and in 1708
the rival emigusies united, and by a loan of 1,200,0001. to
the government, without interest, purchased further privi-
leges, whisk lave been the basis of their sulasequent char-
ters. In 1184 a new feature was introduced into the system,
that of the Board of Clairol, by which, in effect, the poli-
tical power (the miler the name of the directon) is
vested is the gonident of this board, who is a
member of the ablaut, and the patronage and
routine dudes semis with the directors. la 1813,
the trade to Imiln was thrown epee, and in 1838, the trade
to Chios wee not (My made free. lint the ounagem one pre-
Masi hem sommaidel operations am/ thee we lad that
the functions for whisk it was segpsibed ceased
altogether, and b eambiaaties of diennitsseas it had
gradually elbow el a mme smameasme diestipticit
until in a waft, of monerlhmegegwb gentle-
men are abiebite semedges of 100 Whim of
The charter is now .beat expiring, and it wPitlit for the
British parliament tedetermine whether this deals
meat shall continue ; this convenient sleek for,
by which responsibility is evaded, and the graft. Wei**
can be committed with the certainty dee shake bignfry
from one set of officials to another, OM IMP iwett met in
the pursuit of abases is rare to be basil ia the Searek.
The population of India is 100 millines, to whisk must
be added 63 'millions under native peimes, ie surgeeden to
us, who are bound by treaty not to ado& any Eniregenns etc
Americana into their states ; so that we have 188 maims
of people looking to se for all we sea supply them, slid
offering es in payment all that 1,308,113 stem miles,
comprising some of the most fertile lands upset the habi-
table globe, can produce. With such myriads, thriving
and prosperous, oild not every factory and work-
shop in England be pressed with orders taxing every
energy to supply them? Would not the consequent shun-
dance of employment and remunerative wages have a two-
fold effect upon the shopkeeper, diminishing his expenses in
the shape of rates, and leading to • liberal expenditure at
his counter ? And thus the good government of that great
country is • matter which affects every one who pays
British taus, and is connected with British industry and
commerce.
That the principle of Indian government is wrong Can
hardly be disputed when we consider that its great oldest is
not so much the welfare of the governed, as the collection of
, that its principal officers are tax-eollectsrs, and
that the whole machinery of government is put in motion to
obtain the greatest possible amount of cash to remit to a
distant part of the globe. Our highest test of the excellence
of a government is the smallness of the amount which it
makes to suffice for the security of person and pror,
and the furtherance of those great objects desirable for the
welfare of the whole body, but which private enterprise
has neither the power nor the capital to undertake. What
then must be the condition of the 100 millions of our Indian
felllwsubjects, who are the mere instruments for raising
the dividends on East India Stock ? In saying this we
make no charge against the directors or company. They
an simply in • false position, with pecuniary embarrass-
ments increasing at the rate of about a million per annum,
engaged in a continual struggle to make both ends meet.
It is impossible not to see looming in the not far distant
future, that a day of reckoning most come for this financial
bubble to burst. Who then will be the loser in this great
bankruptcy ? The people of England; every reader of
these pages, the Mechanic in his workshop, the Ploughman
in the field, the Huckster that retails the smallest devisable
amount of produce, the Child at School, and the Infant in
arms; all will pay • portion of this debt. As we sometimes
see members of respectable families get involved in some
hispelenly ruinous concern, the ultimate loss upon which
being sure to be divided among their relatives, it becomes
the interest of all in a friendly and kindly spirit to stop the
drain, So here we would urge • marching and friendly in-
quiry to ascertain what the welfare of India and the interest
of Great Britain demand.

ENTERTAINMENT AT Sorriumrrox TO MR.
411IDERBILT.—Orest preparations were making in South-
ampton on Saturday for the entertainment of Commodore
Vanderbilt this day. Hitherto his business operations have
been limited entirely to America, and base not extended to
Europe. The Lord Mayor and Sheriffs of London, and
the must distinguished Americana in England,have received
invitations from Mr. Lankester, the Mayor of Southampton,
to mast Mr. Vanderbilt. To-morrow the commodore has
projected a splendid marine ezeunion in his monster yacht,
and the Mayor of Siuthampton and • number of his chief
fellow-townsmen,
_with their ladies have been invited on
board to meet Mr. Ingersoll, the 'American Ambassador,
Mr. Van Buren, Mr. Peabody, mod other distinguished
Americans. Mr. Clarke, a eon-in-law ',Mr: Vanderbilt, and
who has alsompasiod him to Southampton, is a lineal de-
SClllhalla of re ef the pilgrim &time, who left that town
is the ship Xitiewer, to the maim* aatary.