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LONDON, itATCRDAT OCTOBER 10.

Ot r of the great evil of this Tatham mutiny great
good must ultimately arise, if the stern teachings of
experience are not thrown away upon those to
whose wisdom is committed the responsible and
arduous work of reconstituting our Eastern Empire.
(Me thing at ad events seem too clear for
argument, and that is that for • lengthened
period we most be prepared to take into our
own keeping the great majority of those offices
both of civil and military trust which have been no
Improvidently committed to native functionaries, and
so grossly abused by native treachery. As far as
regards the Bengal army system no one now doubts
that it was from first to last • grand mistake, nor is
there any danger that an error whose fatal results
hare been so fearfully demonstrated will ever be
repeated even by the most inveterate opponeats of
change or the most blinded devotees of routine.
But it is not the military system which is alone in
fault if we wish to be safe in India, if we would
preserve and perpetuate our supremacy there, it is
absolutely necessary that a sweeping revolution should
be eft. cted in the inferior branches of our civil

administration. We can no longer entrust, in the
same degree as we have hitherto done, the
subordinate functions of government, or the
working machinery of civil life, to the craft and
plausibility of the native races. We must have •
Large infusion of the Anglo-Saxon element, in the
shape, not only of soldiers, but of civilians. Liber-
ally, frankly, and confidingly we have tried the
other experiment, and it his proved a dead failure.
We have tried to work a European Government by

Asiatic agencies ; the Government of a conquering
ee through the medium of the conquered; tho
government of a people singularly truthful, straight.
forward, and unsuspicious. by the most intriguing
members of " degraded commuoities, withering under
" the intluence of a corrupt half-civilisation." The
result is before us.

The Daily News publishes a very interesting
communication from one well qualified by length-
ened experience and close observation to
speak with some authority on this point. It is
an opinion generally entertained in Calcutta—an
opinion fully borne out by many ascertained bets
and strongly corroborated by the Wilma geeba-
Waifs of the ease—that this military mutiny dill
riot break out without the active, though carefully
disguised, complicity of the natives employed in the
Civil Service of the Company. These best acquainted
with the character of the natives and the history of
the revolt, entertain no doubt that the precise infor-
mation evidently possessed by the mutineers as to
the exact numbers of European troop., the quantity
of ordnance, military stores, and treasures at the dif-
ferent stations, war principally supplied by the
treachery of the natives holding responsible situa-
tions in Government offices. Apart from those in-
stances of proved complicity which have already been
visited with prompt and terrible retribution, the
more experienced European residents of British India
argue from the known treachery and corruption of
the native tinplopls in the ordinary routine of official
life, to their probable ecrruption and treachery in
the extraordinary crisis which has now overtaking'.
They know their men, and they form their own con-
clusions. They know that for years these native
officials have flattered and cajoled the co-
Tenanted Civil Servants of the Company with
whom they more immediately came in contact,
into a firm reliance, even now only abandoned with
the cotremest reluctance, on the fidelity and attach-
ment of all classes of the population. Number, of
those official., by whom these representations were
habitually made with every outward symptom of pro-
found conviction, must, as facts have since proved,
have been habitually lying with the intention to
betray. The utter untrustworthiness of these blindly
trusted men was matter of common notoriety to
every Englbibman in Bengal. " It had long ago
" been proved," nays the Correspondent, " that
" copies of any documents in the government or
▪ private offices in which natives were employed,
had always been procurable through them, even
v. from the secret minutes of the Supreme Commit
" down to the most trifling document in a Lank or
" house of business ; and that from this impure
`source many nf the native eirip4nyils derived larger
• incomes then would have secured the faithful
" and threefold more efficient service of a well-
" educated European. Had half or even a
" third part of the number of Europeans
" been employed in thoir place, Government
" would never hare been so foully betrayed, and,
e had en insurreetios been attempted, they would
" have had the services, even at the rate of one for
" every three natives employed, of several thousand
" faithful and gallant young Britons, equal in the
" strife to fifty times the number of the false and
" treacherous dastard. at present employed." It is
nerdli vs to pursue the train of illustration further ;
the tort luvion is obvious. As in the army, so in the
civil administration of the Bengal Presidency, we shall
be driv en, if we w ish to keep • firm getup on India, to
substitute the reliable and incorrupt service of the
Anglo-Salon for the unreliable and corrupt service
of the Asiatic. To dispense altogether with native
agency would, from financial and even from political
cousidtrations, be in both ewes out of the ques-
tion ; but it will be a point of trite wisdom
to contract the sphere of native service,
both civil and military, into the narrowest compare
that may be found compatible with a sound state of
the Indian Exchequer, arid the safe absorption of
those reifies. energies which, if not employed by ma
may be directed air.Onst us,
We would not be misunderstood. Nothing can be

further from our intention than to deny the fact
that, among the native servants of the Company,
intelligent, upright, and honourable men are to be
found. We simply speak of the clan as a class, and
so regarding them, there can bo unhappily no doubt
of the general truth of the disparaging character
which they have earned for themselves amongst
those who are most familiar with India. The fact
is that the pushing, restless, and adventurous clan
who principally till the subordinate offices of
our Indian administration are, in point of

morality and respectability, by no means an
average specimen of the Hindoo. It would
'be about as fair to select the police agents of
Vienna and Milan as a fair type of the Austrians
or the Lombards. Being what and as they are, it
is plain that unless a clearance is effected no safe or
satisfactory Government will be possible in India.
' Their removal will, of course, constitute a very con-
siderable demand for European service—a demand
created not only by the public, bat also by the
private, employers of the higher classes of skilled
labour. As an immediate and most beneficial means
of supplying the material for this ultimate demand,
the correspondent suggests, almost in the same terms
as ot hers have done before him, the formation of a body
of gentlemen volunteers, to be enrolled, on the pro-
duction of satisfactory certificates, for a service of
three years in India; to be provided with • free pas-
sage thither; and at the end of their period of ser-
vice to have the option of remaining in the country,
under an engagement by Government that, as va-
cancies occur, they shall be employed in the public
offices on the same terms ae the uncovenanted ser-
vants of the Company. The correspondent is of
opinion that 3,000 respectable and educated men
may be advantageously enrolled on such terms, it
being certain thst if at the end of their military ser-
vice Government could not find employment for all
of them, there are abundance of private establish-
ments that would. Without, of mune, committing
ourselves to details, we cannot help recommending
the general outline of this scheme to the earnest
attention of the proper authorities. To us it
seems admirably to combine the two objects of fur-
nishing a very efficient auxiliary to our regular
forces in India, and a valuable method of providing
for • most pressing exigency of our civil adminis-
tration.

FUND FOR THE. RELIEF OF THE SUF•
FERERS BY THE MUTINY IN INDIA.

We are requested by the Lord Mayor to give
publicity to the statement that the number of letters
which are daily received by him from all parts of the
kingdom, containing remittances in aid of this fund,
is so great that two or three days must necessarily
intervene between the despatch of the remittance
and the receipt of the acknowledgment of the com-
mittee.

fix Court.

BALMORAL, Ocr. 6.

The Queen, the Prince Gannet, and the Prince
Royal yen meant at Divine sarrice yesterday at the perish
ober* of Crathia.

la Miesamace sere LestyLCltsrehal, the Hoe. Floes
MTV, the Duke of Artyll, Major-General the Hon. C.
Oten sot Coked the H. C. Phipps.
The Rev. A. Anderson performed the service.

The Lard Mayor bad an Interview with the Chancellor of
Oa Exchequer yeat,rday at his official reaklesce is Downing-
eirest.

Cant NS late Metawl bad an interview with Mr. Seale
levy Lebo.bin yesterday. Sir E. Head sad Mr. OM-
bans bad Woo interviews with the right hen. gentleman at
ths Coiswisiwies.

Dewlaps wags sent yesterday from the Colonial-DM. e to
the Geyer. ~ of the North Alberto= Psoriases. Despatches
were meshed dose the Governors of the Colonise on the
West Coast of Africa.

Him Excellency the Count Kichunnecgge, nano-
mho Misdate, et this roast, ham arrived at the essidente of
the Memoveriaa Laredo', ia Grosvenor-Owe, from a Matt to
Ms Moan i• Holames.

His Excellency the Proairian Minister and the
Osaalan Berneterff are expected in toss, in a few day&
tram BeWitco. . .

His Excellency tho Portuguese Miniater and the
Counters de Larradio have tel town, on their way to Ger-
many, anwompuried by the beeretery to the Legation,
Chime Mar d'Oliveirs Sara.

The Countess of Clarendon left town lust evening
ere the Grove, seer Watford.

The Countess of Roden and Lady Maria Forester
hays arrived at the Quren. Hotel, Upper Norwood.
The Countess (Dowager) of Vernlam will leave
lowa on Monday, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of
Clarendon at the Grove, near Watford.

Viscount and Viscountess Newport are staying on
a visit with the Earl and Countess of Wilton at Heaton
Moue, near Manchester.

Lord and Lady Harry Vane leave town on Mon-
ay !or their war residraca, B►th Abbay, near Ilastiags.

Lard Broughton arried in town a few days sin(
teas Erboiok• Park, Wilts.

marriage of Mr. Wilbraham Egerton, eldest
ma of Mr. sad Lady Charlotte Egerton, at Tartan Park,
Ottoldro. to Ht. Lodi Maly itotketA. Wart daughter of
to. Uri Amherst, Wilk& vas ism tams dace unavoidably
posimmsd, will Mika place at Montreal, mar fkommasks, on
Tbarsday amt.

The liuke and Dachau of Sfontpenaier arrived at
Tarin on the ith.

The convocation of the prelates and clergy of
the Previous of Canterbury wee yesterday Fomented in the
Jima= Chambers, Westetiseter, by the Vicar-General,
Dr. Towers Twine, ender a rottusimicie from his Grace the
lard Arehilebee of Ceaterbeuy, Pauses end bletrvplinus,
preen* to the ml al aril of %twiny, Nov. 7.
_ _

The seam of University College, London,
Paseley at Arts and Laws will commence next Tuesday,
whim Prelims, Creasy, A.M., will deliver a lecture of " The
Scholl& mind Praetkal Study of History."
The vicar end churchwardens of St. Pancras have
convened a meeting of the inhabitant. for Wtdessday neat,
In sewed of the laden Relief Fund.
The Bishop of London his presented the Her. Dr.
fealkimg to the rectory of St. Mary Somerset, I pp.r Thermo-
seeest. Dr. :Mobbing was personally a stranger to the bishop,
W we /library Gaultr) believe the appointment has been
nods Airily in recognition of his Weli•10101111 literary zeal
sad industry. . _

The wawa Ba!attars dinner will take place at
the Loodoe Tavern, c the 26112, Sat lamas Scaziati, K.C.8.,
ha the awl,

The carriage entrance into Hyde-park and Ken-
etagion-raolesA, dope to Kensington turnpike, le about to
to removed see Women throw nearer town, the old pis
Lewd, sad the barracks adjoining rentored to Church-lona,
Kensingtce.

The-Marquis of Westminster is building a palace
at Foothill, from the designs of Mr. Bun, the Edinburgh
architect. It is .total that arrangeteista hers been made by
the Duke of %weleach for the rebuilding of Montagne
Howe, Whitehall.
The new edition of Lord Mac►ulay's " History of
Eaglead," "reeked and corrected," will be Mood in 7 vols.,
ale e►illiege a .dome.
Witia Aso Briarvirs.—The will of the Right
Ref. Willl.m Skiener, D.D., Bishop of Aberdeen, was
I proved la Loodoo, under 7,0001. pneoesity within the pro-
Wore of Canterbury. Lieut.-Colonel 6. R. Warne, lith
Dragoose, 10,000.. Dams Jams St. John Mildewy, of Dog-
merefiald Park, 36.0001. W. W. Lewd, Ext., of Witham
Lodge, Esser, 45,0001. John Healy Notting, Esq., of
Olosacwiter-terrace, Hyde-park, 31,0001. Thomas Nunn,
Esq., of Lawfurd, 30,0001. Mrs. Dorothea Boyer, of Vitro&
li wroth, 23,0001., sad ham bequeathed to the Pastoral Aid,
Society, Wischester Church building, Church Missionary
sod Society for Propagatioa of the Gospel, 3001. each. The
will of the law Right He. William Pole Tyleey, Baron
Maryliceough, Viscount Welksley, Earl of Morniegton,
Lae been administered to is the Loudest Prerogative Court.
under a nominal rue —lllsistratid LOMA.* Non.