The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-28 00:00:00

Iwo we, witho pieces of ordnance, out of which
*sow iffbabagegfes, each with eight mouetstd field-pieces,
logabest 10 pints of heavy wall ordnance, together with
sleet 1,400 bents, mostly f r the artillery. This was the
Aides Imes at the sad of last July, and the insurgents
bevy probably by their sonde oa the 3rd ell., recruited their
!toe av ti 25,000 men. Munnition is there ha ample
lesce • the person about the anent work without
obso
ppooopoied the toner. pow' r building was moth en-
According to the principles laid down by military
poraosee, there must he never lees thee 76,000 men en-
amel in the sap of Comore, if they hops be meets. In
WW1..., where Kleist& was the gennor, Meermann it
aimr the c dotsousdant,Thally dinette of fortifications ; Haw
▪ losstolanyi,Count Peal Esterhasy,ltakouski sad dank
ben the division. As we haft disairthed the nes&
flat nth, fortress sad its genhem, then nalein fir tics sad
abet is of se trifling lameness,. to decry* the thmeseen
din eaasendants. George Maple is ofisSffin &pad-
gee, hews and visionary, a man of fine owl 'ape-
* reat self-denial. M • soldier he is liked by
*We under him, but he is sot feared ; he wants the iron
will sad the prompt resolution that chareeterises
hit o htim he is ideal, and has too moth of the poet in
kla to do anything practical. Hest imilitaiy Wiest
jigs set sanest medicerity ; his rennin's an
estorhial, sad want that depth which matured knowledge
ease nukes As a theorist he thatched oat, it is true,
same comprehensive plans, whin unanimities aways ear-
ned about with them the fent of ideally preconceived opi-
nion. aad, being inspreethsahle, hid to be modified or re-
leen. Colonel Francis Amerman is a quiet, over-nice
Mister upon everything, who does aot talk snub, but who
is remarkable for his anomiags imbeny is everything he us.
dertakes. He is stool and eoilseted is fin; aseastiene, how-
l/VW, rather hotheaded ; bat he passsesmtoe mach judgment
est to unman the fortress if ha ones hes the conviction
that, by so doing, he may MUNI lanai pens to his country.
The engineer, Col. Ilene Thelly, formerly a practical en-
gineer and anleittet, has now sequired such knowledge of
fortifisatiAs as he did not have bean • the eatworks ut Ce-
ment furnish ample prof of tide. Tlialy is a devoted asx
hermit of Katmai's and of the einem called into li e be him;
es such Le is of coon:, a pentad sassy of Oorgey's. In
the war coZoils he is silent, sot at his ease, never
speaks out hes opinions, but is akilhal at intriguing
end manmurring ; then seems little lowead he sap
posing that he will set esastaatly vole eel est
toe ke the keeping of the father. Coked Minh
Hosetolangi, • courageous, but WIWI' • Maumee soldier, Is
y of • good (lisp, tithe, yieldhsg, sacrificing himself
rilaeferviee,ei subordinate talents, bat easily and capitally
employed if managed well. In his politics he thinks m
eletetesann don. Col. Count Paul Hannay, a pessimist, '
gallant soldier, lays great stress on external appearances, has
so superior military acquirements, but in other respects is
fatellesteal, sad brought up for the drawing-room; it is to
he semen that he will vote for the surrender
of the 'unrest to the Auidnans. The remsining
*Seer in the garrison—namely, Lautenant-Colenel Count
Otto Zietiv—is a me re cipher. The goveroment commis-
sioner, Ladialaiss Ujhaar, strongly compromised by the
events
of the renhoin, apemen es • tenorisieg ultra-
Magyar Vested with eolisaited power in Cocoon, he gets
quite in the spirit of the Haeganan government, as it was
under Kossuth, and he wilt span no mesas, he seared by
no reseens, to Wan the garrison to embark on a most des-
perate neastana. All rational. wellneant propene will
find so Meow is hi eight (it is an Austrian German
who writes), and Ujlsszy may be regarded as the
most Grimm opponent sad the most obstinate defender.
Although la the Hungarian army there was a that
spirit of milmedisasion such as we have been accustomed to
admire in the Austrian army, where the will of the chief is
a sacred niamand for all beneath kiln in rank, still we
simuld greatly en were we to suppose that every Holten
may opentl express 'his opinion sad have his own way.
Ee.t here it is the ether rs who control the men, and the
latter yield to the termer especially when their feelings of
nationality are asreneon end kept alive by recalling
to them the gnat sad mighty past of Hue-
NMI, or by fistrieending downy speeches. As
we all know perfectly well, three hats of the oaken in the
army of the emergent' were the same before is In Austrian
service, who either went directly over, or who oes quitting
their respective regiment*, bad gives the ustiranee that they
yenta n tight against the Man of Hapsburg. If we
look to the peculiar eirceentieses under which the Hugs-
ran mar began, when eo many officers received their com-
missions from the royal menipnentiary Archduke Stephen,
We moat make an additional allowance, when regarding the
probable conduct of those officers, for the feet, that
they see no positive necessity as yet for sunendering, resew
OW no rescue. As we ourselves happen to know the domi-
nant feeling is the insurgent army, we feel quits certain
that it will only require a inourable clause io the capitals.
tion, that an amnesty is &needed to all without exceptioss—
bet h officers and men, naturally without any promise of re-
instatement, and the gates of Comoro would not be closed
41 hours longer. Men of personal courage have seldom the
disire, to long as they feel themselves strong enough for
maintaining a defects:, to yield themselves up upon the un-
certain terms of names or no rescue, when they probably
hove noshing but the rope sad the gallows to expect as the
end of i all, while even if the worst comes to the worst in
thole promo Meer, they may at least die the death of a
soldier.

CULTIVATION OF COTTON IN BRITISH
INDIA.

Tram use Deity Molt.]
The importance of rendering this country leas de-
pendant owe America for cotton is too °below to sued any
elucidation. The uneertainties attaching to the realisation
of a sing', crop in a single country, and the possibility of the
suppties of cotton from the United States being stopped alto-
gether by the accident of • wu, point is the necessity of such
timely meuures being taken as will obviate the disasters
which such events must otherwise occasion. In ercportion
al our supplies of cottun are derived from many sources, in-
stead of almost exclusirtly from one, so will the hazards of a
oottoa famine from a failure of a crop be diminished ; but
to obviate • cessation of the supply from the outbreak
of war, it appears to be indis,mmeable that the main
soarer of supply should be our own colonies. India :how-
ever, is the rely country under British rule pmeseed at once
stef a boilable chaste and the requisite ;population, to enable
each quantities ef cotton to be raised as will effectually re-
114re our dependence on America in this gnat article of
im-
port. "it becomes, therefore, &latest • policy of neceaity,
to dire,t our views and labours chiefly to British India for a
supply of the article which, to the United Kingdom, is the
lust in; ortant next to that of food; which, in act, mon
thin any other article, has enabled a great portion of the
people to pay for food."
It is needless to dwell open mash considerations, and the
great outs, int which now proposes itself for asluiitn is, how
can an abandent supply of goal and cheap cotton grown
to India be stewed t In resolving this inquiry it is ne-
cessary that rithareoce should be had to the c imparative
powers of India and America, in the production of good
cotton at a sheep rite, sines it appears quite plain that, it
India is incapable of producing good cotton as cheaply as
America, our dependence on America must still continue;
sal it is likewise plain that if we remain depenteet on
Amorists for mitten, the whole fabric of our cotton RMS•
future'reete on sufferance merely. Neither India net at,
other country will undertake this growth of cotton foe the
Beelish market upon the chance of occasionally obtaining
remunerative urine when there happens to Do • short crop
is the I:s.ited States, nor will any one, on the strength of
such intermittent inducements, be solicitous to raise that
kind of cotton most suitable for English use, or to obtain
the mschinesty emissary for its effectual purification.
It is only in those localities where • regular
demand ousts at remunerative prices that such ex-
pedients of improvement can be brought to a use-
ful me.utity, and aa a general rule, that country
wh.ch gives the cheapest cotton will also give tits cleanest
cad bast. We an, therefore, at the outset reduced to the
interresateey, earn India produce es good and as cheap cotton
as the United States? sine' upon this condition the whole
question dour disenthralment from dependence on America
exchaiittly rests.
In lockt.ta to the eisesaistances which regulate the out of
ettten delivered in this country, we shall find that Ame-
n a anti India each possess peculiar facilities for cheap
pr Auction ; bet in the c.c. of America, the most impor-
tant of these facilities is the gift of art; and these facili-
ties, if extended to India, will at ones create • balance of
cheques in favour of that country. In both countries the
climate and the soil may be taken as squally eligible ; but
is Alarm labour is dear, whereas in India it is cheaper
than in any other country in the world. The freights, in-
deed, from India me somewhat more expensive than the
freights from the United States, but this diflcreace of ex-
Press home but a small proportion of the total cast of cotton
&limed in this country ; and, eves when allowed for,
leaves a large balance in favour of India, which would ea.
toaly tele • nom America the command of the cotton market
—provided only that the cotton when grown csuld find a
ready 'moping to the pert of shipment. It is here, however,
that Leda lah airs under disalventages which give America
an uncontrolled supremacy. While by the steamers on
the Mississippi, and its tributaries, the produce of the
whole of the interior regions of America is transported
cheaply and expeditiously to New Orleans, to be
thers put on board the ships which carry it to this
Country, the cotton of the Deccan has to be carried on
bullock: backs a dinette* of three or four hundred miles,
before it can be shipped at Bombay. The expense of this
male of conveyance is greater than the total cost of the
cotton at the plus at which it is produced; and as cotton
does not grow promiscuously over India, but thrives only in
certain localities, the most eligible probably of which is the
heir: of the Deccan, now so difficult of approach, it is quite
clear that the Improvement of the means of internal tom-
metrication in India, must precede any increase in the sup.
ply of eaten, from that country. The scat of cotton at
Berar and Hyderabad in the Dinars Is aline lid. per lb.,
and this cotton, in its present unimproved condition, is
suiabie in quality for about 60 per cent. of cur ma-
nufacture,. These districts at present supply only
about 31 per cent. of our total consumption, and even this
supp 4 is liable to interruption from epidemics among the
cattle, and the premature setting in of the monsoon rains ;
but they could easily supply 60 per cook of our total oon-
eumpti-n, it the means of USollOrt were suitably anielio-
mad. Recent inveatigelons have shown that this ameliora-
tion may be accomplished by the establishment of steamers
of *heroes draft upon the principal Indian rivers, whereby
the whol, of the produce of the brinier would ho as effector
silly drained to the east as the water itself is drained thither;
cad a pre'jeet for the establishment of suitable steamers upon
the price pal riven of India has recently been submitted to
the Esst ladle Conspaay, and is new about to be broug In under
the notice of the Dublin. Unlike the Mississippi, the riven of
India are shallow during the dry mum and
full of sandbanks, me that it is neernery to carry

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