The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-18 00:00:00

EAST INDIA COMPANY VERSUS HER

MAJESTY'S MINISTERS.

At the moment that a controversy of the last im-
portance le going on with newt to our vast Indian empire,
whether it shell be pommel exclusively and directly by
her Majesty's Ministers or whether the East India Company
shall matinee to exercise the infit111101) that it still possesses
as a counterpoise to the exclusively home adminietration, we
offer no apology for directing public attention to one glaring
Instance in which the opiztiou of the East India
Directors, derived from local experience, has been
proved by events to be correct, as against a directly
opposite opinion, derived from anything but local experience,
expressed and acted upon by her Majesty's Goveranient in a
matter et paramount importance to India. We allude to the
establishment of telegraphic ocaustualcation with our East
ladies empire. It ia a matter of public nettelety that in the
summer of BIM the Cant of Dirsekse ecesnannioated to the
preemptors of the Indian Telegraph rid the Red Pen their wit-
/lames to groat it pecuniary aseletanon It is a matter of
notoriety that the Treasury unhesitatingly refused to mimics
say such assitance. There was threhre an sod to it, as no
set al the Beat India Company le valid without ruck mac-
Ran. The Turks, however greeted all the powers for the
ethetrection of the line. The Treasury and Board of Con-
trol, which really represent one and the win governing
power, then granted pecuniary that thee to en Indian Tele-
graph me the Euphrates, end emend the Rant India Direc-
tors into a temporary adhesion to that line. The Turks,
whose Asiatic territory It wee to traverse, refused to sanction
its cordraMion. The East India Directors, theredore, and
the Tarim, who reepeteivoly have local knowledge of Mew-
petunia, Egypt, and the Rd Bes, agreed perfeelly se to
whisk wee the practicable and which the latpreceicalsie Ban
The Treasury and Board of Coated, without any local
knowledge, agreed also upon • line which they have oboe
bed to ehaadon, after delaying the establithenent ef a Tele-
graph thr two and a half years, one of those ran Wag the
year of the mutiny. Now, with this example beim us,
whet am we to expect as to matters which still mime depend
open • knowledge of the localities ? If there be one thing
mare than smother which will wars to us the
deeelnion of lad* It im the estalallahmeat of Rail-
way' in OM country. The Railways will in these of
essamedea enable us to move troops and storm thrash
star eanalay with a rapidity which Moths of no amputees
with weeskireg and carrying along the present roads under •
trepieal am, lad equated to the frightful diseases emporia-
' dual by Wive la sack • climate. In ordinary times the
Railway will employ the lehabitents, will give additional
vales to tisk We and crops, and enormondy stimulate
prodestion and iminstry of every mai. The Hindoo will be
banal le as betemee he looks to as be payment for his labour
end his Fein* and kw iaceseelag the mike of his yea-
llnglead wW isseame Ida market, end lag**,
ass his beehive, eves to • greener extent then at poseent.
New the rind* if gvasseassing • meads rats of Were*
apes Inaba Railways bee been established sad seinast be
readied. Bar Majesty'. Mebane will, ender the prep:wed
cheap, be the persons to decide what Miss of Railway are to
M 111 amomed—i. s., ere to he allowed to be cominsetwL It
may be esid that the Board of Control will have an Weeks
of sea with local eagierienee is it. Bat the canatection of
that body with the Ministry will be too intimate, their de-
peniemse open it tee gnat sad too direct, to make it
pandlako presticelly ix them to give an Independent
*mks, or to insist apse It. No personal communication

ma be hod with the GovMder-Generk or the authorities la
lad* mid do died he dr ham of Railway detenniaml
open by Urban who Mu eat the ellibtor know's* of
dr lemlitho, sr the eardramethe et the inhabiteata. At
puma& than re the Best ladle Dlntern, a body of mat of
wiromthe reearity are emperor hombre llethoty's Madaten,
who thee sheer all load knowledge Of lade mod Ile is-
barium, sad who me mar aimed to ewer a dlf-
threes et 'pinks thou tamely cordon lea say fr-
oth= of btor llaretre gounment„ U say reform le
veered, let the Ear India Company be matiared more en-
eionA bed de ast lit WS egempt Is gems ladia to Engand
by meths of a body of mm tithe ere dorthre of kcal eape-
domes, mad whet era If the Nord of Control to to coattail'
on etheittan of mm bettor Indemed, will waver be able to
are themoolvee t. Indeperient 'Oran end actin. Let is
take wars* by what hr happened with rageot to the
Telograpb, and what is amtata to sow with weeper to the
Railways, and not sweep away a body of mm with hey
Inhowiedge and capable of upcoming as ladepeadiat
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nur Or rsz HUNCH or *Amu ro THE arr.

The Frisco of Wales, accompanied by Frederick
Charles Prism of Pruett, Albert Prince .f Prussia, Adenoid
Prism of Prose* and the niece of Hohenaollers, Winded
by their WM, visited the Lord Mayor, at the Maasimphosse,
es Saturday, her whams they proceeded to inspect the In-
ternal arramommeate and peculiar machinery of the Beak of
England: eller which the royal party Wild to the Guildhall,
whore they von received by the Lord Mayor, sad Aldermen
unison sad Capelead. AMmesum likkasy, Finals, Hale, seed
beriff Ain, Cabe limrith Perim end Millard,
mad aemeal iambus of the Omega °assail ware also Is
dead cis The Primes of Wales sad the ledge
Prior, with their gob, awe &IS INIVIMSIOII throvil
the Courts of Mlinsea sod Comeame Cesare, the
Imattagetr Chgestor, and all the public aloft la the
bulbar by the Lord Mayor, who kindly explained veer
sWr I. the yang Prince. In the Chamberlain's Ace the
Prince appeared hemmed with the Lord Mayor's sceptre,
be gadget *do perm, cad city rash. Hie royal Witham
*gimbal to the Prisms of Prune which was flog, gad
which Magog. Mow vlawbeg the crypt, in which bar
Majesty supped la the yew of the Great listdbition, the
Ayr party peemedel to the library, where " Schlegel's
Nuremberg Chronicle of the World," dieted 1493, ask •
speeries estegmb to a her of the ground me which the
Glebe Thiele steed, sad the sword (premated to the
Corpagetke of Leedom by Lord Nana) of the
admiral laft 4 41111111 read of the Fran* fleet attar
the battle of the Nile, abode& atteaden. Hie
royal hiatuses wag meek gamma is being shown the
bill of bra provided b her Mobity ea the ameba of bar
bit to the City, to M. The visiting book was then
signed, end the semi mregesay of letnclaosion laving bra
gene ugh, the royal blame meowed thole carriages,
gat ewe away milt gatheeleetic treetop frees mum
hembede of ponces emboli es moa as the rumour weed
of the passage of a masker of the Royal be

Ba WILLIAM Rose.—We regret to hear of the
very =km Mame el We most amiable sad estimable gen-
tlemen esd memeeilehel miletere pater. His samerom
limb eel igniters cem mereely mstarele bops that be wtll
~be die le MUM the peek, at We gorilla breach of
ert seek.