The Express.
London, England, 1858-08-02 00:00:00

words. Tnere is nothing like the plain truth ; and
the plain truth ii that India is not now tranquil and
happy, as England desires that it should be ; and in
order to make it more peaceful and satisfied, the
=Trams Power of the Empire has joined its remoras
with the resources of the Company to bring about a
happier state of things. While the wisdom and ex-
perience of the Company, and the institutions
founded by them, will continue to operate for the
welfare of India, the most beloved and fortunate of
Monarchs will take India under her express care,
and bring to bear on it her condemnation of trea-
chery and violence, and her protection to loyalty and
peaceful industry. This seems to be the footing on
which the Sovereign should be presented to an em-
pire on which she virtually enters for the first time.
At the head of the announcements of practical

measures should properly have been that of a new
Native Army, levied and organised by the methods
which have been tried and found so successful
in the case of the Scinde Horse. If each a new
force had been raised from the hoar when the old
one failed us, the QUEEN would have entered on her
new domain of rule with • higher prestige, and with
brighter prospects. The only thing to be done now
is to lose no more time, and to make use of the occa-
sion to present India with the security of a reliable
Native Army. The next point, if indeed it be second
to any, is to set the native mind at rest in regard to
all the various Religions of India. The Company
have steadily endeavoured to keep their promises on
this head ; and they have succeeded better than
might have been expected, though perpetually
thwarted by well-intentioned ignorance, and by •
narrowness of zeal truly Mohammedan in its in-
tellect and temper, though bearing tho Christian
name. Perfect freedom for all religion; within the
bounds of their common liberties should be solemnly
promised to all the inhabitants of India, from the
European and native Christian to the fanatic of
the mosque, the devotee of the temple, and the
idolater of the mountain. This promise, once made,
must be kept with the infallibility of the Royal
word. On this point Lord Srenter's declaration
et Friday night shows that the present Government
has an adequate sense of the duty cast upon it.
It might be well to announce the attributes of
Sovereignty, as they will be disclosed to the peoples
of India:—the fidelity of the Sovereign's word ; the
vigilance and certainty of the Sovereign's power,
by which guilt is sure to be tracked and punished,
end innocence protected—a practice which the
Company can teach the new Administration to make
good; and the power to elevate whole communities
by putting them in possession of knowledge, and the
arts of life. It might be well, also, to announce the
settlement of more and more Europeans in the
1 country, where it can be done without injustice to
Natives, and %about any risk of an undue prepon-
derance of the more intelligent race over the less.
But on points like these we have not the heart to
say much at the moment of the inauguration of a new
period. There is so little knowledge at home of the
people and the country ; there is so virulent a spirit
against the Natives on the spot ; all history tells se
dismal a tale of the fate of appropriated territorial✓
for the first few generations ; and we seem to be
so insensible to the absolute newness of our relation
to the people of India at this moment, that it would
be presumptuous to reckon on a success for which
we have but too little qualification. It may be
better to announce simply the new relation of India
towards British rule, and the sacred attributes of
the new sovereignty, with the pledges which grow
out of it.

As to the form and style of the Proclamation,—it
should be ever remembered that all attempts to write
down to inferior or alien minds, or to speak to them
after their own supposed manner, invariably fail.
This document is intended to operate strongly and
immediately on the minds of more millions of people
than our imaginations are accustomed to deal with :
and it should hare a dignity worthy of its office,
and of the immortality to which we may hope It is
destined. For these purposes, and also in accordance
with common sense, it should be addressed rather
to the highest than the lowest order of minds.
If we can impress and attract and engage the
higher minds, they will bring after them
all the rest ; whereas if we attempt either to coax or
to bully, or by any affectation whatever to meet any
supposed state of mind among races whose minds
are as unintelligible to us as ours are to them, we
shall incur the contempt of all the educated classes
in liindostan, and obtain nothing better than vague
wonder from the rest. Oar chance of being under-
stood and trusted is feeble at best. We should
make the most of it by speaking the simplest truth
in the simplest way. Let us try if we can make
that group of nations and tribes see things as they
are : that the gorgeous old barbaric empires are
altogether gone by; that Vicroma is a greater
Sovereign than any former one, because knowledge
has given her more power than the kings of old, and
wisdom prevents her being • tyrant; that she
desires nothing for herself bat their obedience and
attachment, whereas she intends to bless them by
repressing the evil and protecting the good, and en-
couraging the wise: that as long as they obey the
laws nothing more will be required of them; and
that their religion especially shall be free. Such
announcements, supported by a regenerate native
army, and followed, as vapidly as possible, by the
public works which every native of India must ne-
cessarily learn to value and admire, may posibly pre-
pare for use noble new field of empire. The chances
against our rule being successful for generations to
come are sufficiently grave to render it a very solemn
duty that our SOVEREIGN'S first words to the vast
people with whom she is now brought face-to-face
should be spoken wisely and well.

We are requested to state " that Peers and Members
of Parliament who may go to Cherbourg wili be fur-
nished on application there with tickets for the best
reserved places."

SOUTII DEVON ELIICTION.—The leader of the
COLISITTSth• party,lo. Baldwin Felted, °coveted a meeting
of the principal conservative *lectors of South Devoe, et
Newt Abbot, en Satwday. Sir Walter Carew reed' a
letter from Mr. S. T. Kekewie, who bed beard of an
Ossetic, on the of the conservative electors to brie him
forward, es hie willingorat to stand if the ineetior
was taanimous to Is favour. The hoe. become atibesed
Mr. Kekswich as s true and continent ormasrvative, and
proposed that he be Invited to become a candidate. Dr.
Bose seceded the motion, sad It wee carried noartimonaly.
Lord Courtesy and 8441.Deokworth spoke warmly in favour
of Mr. Kekswich, and it was the resolved that subscriptions
be entered into to defray tbs oast id the election. Mr. Kee-
wich is • tory, and it is reported a tractarian also. Hee
however, personally very popetsr in she county. The dial=
is lied for Friday eat, a Exeter._

LONDON Rowllto CLUB.-The SOollolll' is.. for
Mantra prises, amoopt the zsembers of this dubs mates of
to-day over the usual rostra from Papery to Rearomeesith
bridges. The souls Include some of the bat sett of the
club (barring the who're at Utah, end the thempletee
swan ea the Thames), sad drawees mart is expected for the
priest~ handsome wirer trap tar the Ira, mad a matestte of
the Peace of Wales is sailor's costume, is • gilt psdastai,
for the wood. Pita heat seam at 6.30• competitors,
Imbed, atehlachmidt, Paterson, Raphael. tisernad hest at
6.611; Reeve, Shard, Terror Debesbeen. PcD4l but at
7.46, between the two Stet wiLiers of each of the previous
beats. The akimbo of this Glob over some of the best crews
of Word sad Cambridge have rased It to Its presort pops-
Yttq lagerlease es the nob cm the river, sum-
being Meet W members, sad ftlag most of the Bra
mesa of he dry bath ss mien sad earessa.
MANOlLlinin UNITY OP ODD FaLLOwe.—To-day
sad toononew the metrepelitan districes of Odd Pillars,
Maneitssier Unity, have their weal excerske to the
Cryan! Palace, so aid of the widow end orphan mad distress
band.