The Express.
London, England, 1858-06-08 00:00:00

TO TOO IDITOU Or ?Xi WI PLIII3.

Bia,-1 deem proper to publish the subjoined ex-
tract from • private letter received by me, hat mail,
beet General Jacob. Its style is rough-hewn, but
it gum to the root of the matter. Let its truths be
acted on in India, sod faction may squabble here to
its heart's content.—l am, Ac., C, 1). L
Jur.. 8.

•
The proposal to hold Italia by the bodily power of Hagfish
sokbere—by force of muscles instal of by force of braise—
which seems at present to be widely accepted, wars to me
go
unwise, that I ate only accout for is prevailing
by supposing that it her been eatertained without interidiag
reeily to act m it, to order lo double the strength of the
Xnerlish army for Rusepriaa service without exciting &term,
gad Unseat directly tunas Ragland for the: purpose. If
the attempt be actually made-nu malt he the total ruin
of the empire. Nothing mama more certain than that we
can only hold this great empire of India by our m. rot supe-
riority. The lababimets of India are not berbmieme
ideate, knowledge, motel cambia& administrative
Madam, to., itc., were in ladle, wader Aar:, r
adverted as la lagigged reader Elisabeth. No amount
°lsere bride force could coerce two hundred =Mose of
each people. The Mina of large numbers of the lower clam
of Ragffehmea, of teas of thousands of Reglash bodies with
eery Mlle Regina maid la these, will more than anything
elms teed to destroy the reputation and the reality of our
saperkeity is moral belay. Cures rice sad brutal manure
—es the oriental esteems them—will then be chicly appenal
le the Asiatic& ea the ehmacterktio attribetes of Smallish-
mea, whe wW the very seen be boat bated and demised,
In Mort, the idea of bedding India by as army of Emilia
private sadism appears to tee to be so impracticable that It
is dikes& to deal with the question with becoming gravity.
We could hardily obtain recruits for the Crimea ; h )w, them,
am we must, under the present mama, to obtain tints for
tbs. ountry in greater numbers ? Without the assistance of
a tarp amber of Dative Indian troop so army of Europeans
oonld set in India mom or subsist la the field. The enemy
would only hem to keep a little out of the way at first, Is
leave the In to follow their own strange devleea,
and the latter would all dig. Aided by inapembe, crew
Orin and pipeclay, the sea sad the climate would do the
hostages most effectually. Indeed, the helplessness and
ignorance of such a free* would be tragically hadkroos.
Apia, mamas frequently recur (I have known many
✓uck) when almost every nuns is disabled by fever. At such
times our military fore, mold be temporarily ant:Whiled,
sad we should dad ourealves without a native Indim army,
ameng peopiee wham we had placed In the position of con-
quered armies, restreleed by physical form only—i-.• teed of
their Ming, ea they really might ban remaiud, and
misdat yet biome, our fast frleads.

Fee:aller, all, w►at is it that bee failed us in India, and
ceased all thie eatery for Baropme bodies?
Not the people, for they have mentheed quiet. ac-I seen
frisadly, everywhere. Not:the Wive qualities emu f the
Severe la our ranks who have been murdering one ironies
mad children, for 1/11310 of our native bedbug soldiers, who
moot seedy remained la the Pate of raw saaterlal, who had
Imbibed the lesot of what we have been phenol 'o gall
didpllas, have bathed the best. On, regulation men have
rebelled. Nothieg Mated has failed us, nothing tuned
ageism as except our own wise proceedings.
We have optimistically degraded and correpti,l the
Serape= mind in ladle, sad ►am deatroyed all its am-
waft power OTIr the regular flepoy ; while at the else
time, for a quarter of s century peel, we have bean latter*:
the eepoye, sad pottier: them most when they most deferred
seven pwatehment. We ►awe been perpetually tall ug them
that they are the damn fellows ou eart►, instead of
nay =skies them decent people, and rale' them in t►+
meth of leetly, ws were always afraid of lookier truth
It the fess ; sad brawl of correcting what was 'mi.s with
them, we always forced the other armies—lanes c0..0 were
tree sad well behaved though—to sasimilate with the prac-
tice la Bengal, however ormasous snob a practice might be;
than bedspring all Mao working men, sad offeiii.c the
kleheth premium on ineepecity.
We cea deport absolutely with oirtalaty sad safety an
the power for good which Fee oat hem our own
minds, sad which we bare accumulated is the
Wail of oar Asiatic soldiers sorb power never bap
Laud, rad saver am fail as at our utmost reed. But If we
give bath as such morel power we shall find none at our
seethe le the Sepoy when we require it.
Our regulation oysters bee merely corrupted the raw ma-
teriel eel car Mare way, ark the ma think us afraid of
them, rod made tam drag ably for evil. A system (Amity
adapted to the asters of the men would have made mar-
derma and mutinous reams Oral of Beropeeas, as this has
&me wit► the Asiatics.

BM there an many millwes of um among the yarns et
India Meted to make se good and faithful soldiers ea any
ari as earth. There is no fault to be Justly found with the
raw meteriale

Mask, it is quite claw M ais that the army of India must
be s salve ladies army ; dal pest unrebeni of Eun.pesa
pnvelis Wars so sot required for India, aad would siva
be injurious le ear Isla.

W►at &trepan weeps we have, other than artillery,
abash be mead et weds placer where the climate iv (Avow-
able, and whom ponds West mak the troops re diiy 1•
be deapalebed to say pet et do empire reti shine their per
seem Tile Europe= reginotte proeneutty babe ries le
awl bruin • pert of the Lam arm. iiteold bare lb&
rattlatuest beei-trerrtin ha Wk.

Ths east of ths Irdien Goverameat should be rem:n*l
from Oaleatts, sod established either in Bombay or at Agra;
saw pease has seam pseahsr advantages.
A new Preabieway sheuhl be formed, which should have
Newts Gewesmeste, Army, &c., &c., while the newel%
comenment eiteald hare se casneuon with say Presideits/
peolefease.

Thaw inseam" dent'd be lib, North-western PR-
aidemr. ma k woo weeds ta. Paejeeb, the Ci•-autisigot
Mak Ihmite, Demelpode, Ind the Thaw; Wee Delld ma ihe
gherkin elleideg. Ilie Udine Peeehlesolem wild the be

Bawl, 1111dras, Bonabsy, mit Lime; villa tko

itemerarent a Air or
!cry thereat Eases 'shaky rail be ars* ix .1
Irk& Of tree I root quor to theemed et Unarm,
r the beet eat mist rtitalat stair h Irtle it Eeea
PM trope. lir therm! Nigh sear it tY Iterstry
l'resitisacy, ad elle swabs kr Mohr ; la ham( hr
Bertal, o. reeskiag to tberrod I woad 'hes et

liarepste emley I void him little or none of; snort
ow good resiwont wbe with the Oaswitor-asasnil.
Ms whole et dr Astilkafla Wit sitssill to liersyss,
with it isairitsa of s towtsseps =di instwiss, lbeird fist
"Ida& sunk* is pithier iscelithe woe lame= tromps
amid sat Iw, sash as this ilnallir of Maas.

She skew* shim Artery la Leda sbeeld be inward,
V the meths gram la the armies of the three
Peeeldeethe shield be wired by Europeans, the gun
Lamm aelatesi le seine thesid be replaced on their old
beds* se they genie 111111; a lUD sad complete company of
gee Leman biUg aillesbed newish European company. These
teen en meth real, sod sew the European artillery men
ism keel eagesere sad des; while they themselves are
Mss this ever le busses dangerous to us.
Is seal Preslikesy then thosid be a fell regiment of En*
repia mappers smil maw" ell the sera of whit* should be
geed erasers, strwigen, ka, emelt company of European
wipers her* a essepeay of satiate attached to, and
mate( with it. Seth earth wold be invaluable for the
sethetethethese sod szscution of public works. For the
user rwidemay et Lawn the Artillery might omelet of
six banal late of the thud strength, and one brigade of four
reefs of bane seethery. Time bur troops with twelve

MU-bettorks ebeeld Wirer be bop eceeploie, billy boned
sad maßaed, for Geld aerobe

The reserve Artillery galena, &lily posted at IC earaches
mil Inhere ; at both whirl pima *ere should be grand
ordinate depts.
A native easy for teed Preddency ad* be dinood and
organised, as described by ins in the printed Nelms for the
rworgentastion of the Indian array, &e.
The roast strength of the native troop should not, 1 think,
be reach reduced.

No alteration se le numbers appears requisite in the
Meares army, sad the tires snots* of the other Peed%
lieneies might shoot equal ha umbers the old armies of
Bagel and Bombay together.

he all internal Publle duties, inch es viol guards, &c. a
properly organtiod polka should be employed, emeething
sinner to that which hoe been found to answer se well in

The frontier dad faro, so often recorazemeled by me,
amid be embodied tar smoke in this gainer, end no other
Wags are required be &irk.
BUN room should be frond for commas sums is the audit
department, and the paralysing edict of oentralteation should
lee pertly reardiall by • system of local audit.
If arm necommadations ware followed, and the principles
Ise heti is my lather to —, of the 12th of December lust,
were sated um, sad carried out in pnbotios, our Indian empire
would waft be brought into the soundest and strongest
«make be

The greatest dangers to which that sceptre is now exposed
are t►e consegnences of European violence sad folly.
As regards religion, if we attempt to govern by patronising
any particular nets or creed we shall inevitably bring about
revolution. It seems to me that to hstroduce our State Re-
ligion at ell into oar rubs in the East, ha very great error. The
Government of suc► an empire, which comprises hundreds of
millkese of men, holding twenty diftennt faith* and creeds,
to which they are atisched ea to their lives, masa, osmaia-
meetly with ay sort of ostke, patronise or acknowledge say
caw of three creeds rather than another. The oily safe,
honest, and righteous course la, se a Govenanent, entirely to
ignore all.

No minister of any religion should be appointed, pa-
tronised, or directly paid by the State. Let private peruse,
committal** or congregations. make their own arrengeosente
to provide for their rerpective spiritual wants, and all
will be well ; while the moat fearful and deplorable mischief
must and will assuredly ensue from the contrary preluding.
I am sending to my friend, Captain Polly, now to Emu
land, some correspondence, which may, I think, interest you,
and will ahow you what can be made under the most difficult
cirenmetancee, ens of the Hindostanere of Delhi—fathers.
brothers, and oons, al the Serie of the mutinous districts.