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LONDON, FRIDAY, OCT. 1.
I SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
A SPECIAL EDITION el the " EXPRESS ,"
sustaining the results el the day's Races, is pub-
lished every evening during the Sporting Sessea, at
I six o'clock.
Twa most liberal sad enlightened member of Lord
DERBY'S Administration has just delivered a brief
but pregnant address, which shows that he is
t thoroughly penetrated by the true principles that
should guide him in the arduous and responsible
dim that he has undertaken. Lord STANLIT, at
the Fishmoogers' Hall banquet, expressed the belief
—end we are quite ready to indulge the hope—that
I the transfer which has taken place of the Indian
Government from the East India Company to the
Executive of this country, may on the whole be
o productive of benefit to India. As our readers are
aware, we opposed that change, especially in the
i form under which it was at first proposed to the
consideration of the Legislature. In the progress of
the measure through Parliament it experienced
many important modifications; and we are quite free
to admit that, if the time had indeed come when the
transfer of power from the hands which had so long
wisely and successfully wielded it, could no longer
! I be postponed, that transfer, in the shape it finally
aseuened, was effected in the manner least liable
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to serious objection. Every new scheme of
government depends mainly for its suss en
the mode in which it is worked, and none who
witnessed the ability with which Lord STANLEY
eionducted the measure in its final stages through
Parliament, or have marked the fairness and
discrimination which have characterised the nub-
.
eequent arpointmenta to the Council, can refuse to
ashnowledge that the administration of Indian
t affairs can hardly be in better and safer hands
than those of the present Secretary. The address
!
firm the favourable impressions so generally enter-
tamed of Lord STANLEY'S eminent fitness for his
difficult and responsible poet.
i While expressing the hope, in which we cordially
concur, that the change of system may tend to
I. a larger introduction into India of European
energy, enterprise, and thought, Lord STANLEY
does not conceal from himself the increased
responsibilities which are thus thrown upon the
Government of this country. "We have to guard
" against a double danger. We have to protect India
" from the Snot tuitions of Parliamentary volition, end
" to protect England from the more indirect and
111 " remote, but perhaps not less real, risk which may
0 arise from the connexion of its Executive with en
" Executive which is necessarily despotic." These
are wise and well weighed words ; it would not be
easy to describe in tannage more terse and mope,-
bassi we the true nature of the double difficulty which
arises from the usumption by the British Crown
of the single government of India. It is the
e difficulty which has been repeatedly pointed
out in these columns, and against which
we rather indulge the hope, than entertain the
1 conviction, that the firmness of Government and the
wisdom of Parliament will be found adequate to
prevail. Those who consider the amount of power
I now vested in the Secretary for India, will find it
diflieslt to regard with equanimity those possible
sonsequeoces of the parliamentary conflict of parties
which might transfer in a moment the supreme con-
trol over Indian affairs from the capable hands of
Lord STANLEY to the incapable hands of a VaILNON
• SMITH. It is probably, however, not too much to
hope, even from the most reckless of Governments,
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that their chiefs will in future show some adequate
ones of the great importance of rightly filling the
arduous post of Secretary for India. If it is to take
the rank which from its difficulty and responsibility
It ought henceforth to assume in the official hist-
,
itchy, it will generally be regarded as a worthy
I prise of the highest ministerial ambition, the test
and the reward of the most consummate capacity for
serving the State.
It is not only in his correct appreciation of the
difficulties and dangers likely to arise in this
country from the working of the new system, that
the young Seoeretary for Ind:. ,vines his perfect
comprehension of the true relative position of Eng-
land and her great Dependency. His remarks upon
the effects likely to be produced in India by those
mistaken efforts to do good which have been
in some quarters to inconsiderately urged on
Government, are by no means the least
statesmanlike portion of his address. These
observations are or well expressed—they are so
t highly deserving of attention in themselves--rio
doubly deserving of attention as coming from the
• . Indian Minister—that it would be unpardon-
able not to give them all the prominence in oar
power. Lord STANLEY, after expressing what we
trust is a well-grounded hops that the timer
pennon of feeling which prevailed in this
t country aping the natives of India is
• in course of gradual extinction with the
cause to which it owed its origin, proceeded
in the following strain of wise and elevated liberality :
" I think, however, we should remember that it is
. " not only from ill will or ill feelings on our part,
" but also from uninformed and misdirected Mitres
• • "for doing good, that our bdienos
and
fin,
i 1 " moot in India have been exposed to danger.
" We do, I believe, regard—and uudonbeedly
'we ought to regard—the natives of India as pee-
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