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London, England, 1857-10-06 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, OCYOJEE I.

Tee more we Welt of the vane of the opportu-
nity which to-morrow will offer for interesting all
manner of person in our present great duty and
common obligations, the more anxiously we desire
that the clergy of all denominations may use this

opportunity to the very best purpose. We hovel
already respectfully entreated them to speak plainly,
remembering the literal cast of mind of a large class
of their hearers—to use the old LATIMER style of
speaking to the point, in the most omelette way,
with illustrations frsm the every-day life of the
persons addressed. ROBRIT RUBINSON'S pulpit
manner, again, is a perfect model for such
an occasion as to-morrow—and who could show

evidence of a more cheering success in preaching to
the multitude? To read hie village sermons now is
as good as going out to the milking-field in the early
mornieg, or spending &sunny Sunday at the cottage-
door. All these most effective preachers—the LATI-
MERS, WEALETS, and ROBlN*X.N—have found their
sermons as welcome to the most instructed order of
hearers as to the simelest ; and fain would we hope
that so it may be to-morrow in many a church and
chapel in town and country. It has happened to
become known to us pretty extensively how this
Indian subject is regarded by different classes of
thous persons who have hitherto heard least about it,
and we see how much to-morrow might do in turn-
ing that ignorance into knowledge, and vague
amazement into practical activity, if their state of
mind could be fairly met from the pulpit. The
churches and chapels will probably be unusually full
—a multitude going to hear what will be said
about the events in India who seldom go on ordi-
nary occasions. Of these, a very great number have
asked or heard the commonest question of all among
those who have not particularly attended to oar colo-
nial affairs What good is India to ua? If we
do lose it, how should we be worse off ?" It would
be uo desecration of the occasion to show what India
is to us in even a commercial sense, seeing that our
trade there has actually created, and constantly sus-
tains, a population of millions in England and India.
Taking into the account the state of society under
our rule in India, and under such an industrial
reginut as we have established, it is no exaggeration
to say that millions of human beings have existed,
and have lived out their average span of life, wbo
would never have lived, or would have been early
cut off under the devastating rule of the native

races. t home more and mono of our in-

dustrial population is yearly employed and
maintained by our eastern commerce, engaging
as it dot a many millions of our capital.
So much foe the lowest consideration, which, how-
ever, is quite tufty enough to be a pulpit theme. As
foe the further scope of the question—" what pod ?'
we are on the ground of FRANK um's capital remark,
" What is the use of a new-born babe ?" " What is
" the profit of duty ?—what is the convenience of
" responsibility ?" HMI the preseheltrit she •
,neared teat from poor Loar—" 0! not the
" need:" and raise his hearers above such grovelling
views by showing them the relation the most advanced
people in the world bear to the comparative chil-
dren of the human race, who have passed ■nder
their guardianship, as 130 millions of Asiatic' have
eider OUR

But the classes whose fate to-morrow we have
most at heart is that of the labourers—the husband-
men in the country and the journeymen in the
towns. It is really remarkable how tdoesly and
evidently the noral feelings of these dams ds•
peed on the degree of their knowledge en this
particular occasion. It is well known how
difficult it is to give an Mee of the extent of a
country, and the number" of a people, to persons
who here not yet caught the idea of a map: and
how few of our agricultural labourer', or of any
other clam from which our recruits for the Line
must ease, understand asps, or have any notion of
the extent and population of empires! If they are
told that our Indian territory is aa large as Europe
without Russia, what do they know about Europe,
and what is a hundred millions of people bat a mere
word Such coeceptions may be conveyed by re-
peated courena•ions, but can be only most dimly
shows, by the most familiar modes of illustration, in
a single pulpit discourse. Hot there is encourage-
ment to attmspt this for all will hare seen the effect
of the dawn of the idea of our great dependencies
beyond the KA on minds which are merely unar•
motorised to thoughts so far out of the range of their
daily bruiser. It is nest interesting to see how the
conceit and knowingness, and critical tarn, give way
tint, and then the 'elfishness ; and then how pa-
triotism and benevolence awaken, and the clown or
the alehouse pedant W elevated into the citizen.
" Now," says such a man, in the first instance," I
want to know t►is about our people in India. If
" they had come away in time, would them others
hare come after them " It is woeth while to have
patience to answer even such a question as this, and
sufficient reward to hear at length the long "0""
which shows that the view is expanding. Next
comes the knowing selfishness—abundantly disgust-
ing, but still worth dealing with. You hear two or
three such people agreeing, with node and winks, that
they will be wise to take care what tea and such like
they buy, because, " them people will likely try to
poison es." They are comforted by hearing that we
don't buy our tea of the &pays. After this, a very
little conservation may make a very great difference
in the mind and moral tone of the inquirer..
When they hear of the hardships of our
countrymen and countrywomen, they get upon
easier ground. It is observable (and it is highly
important to observe the fact) that the least in-
formed elms arc more moved by the tale of the hard-
eh f^of the lisind thin the slanghter of the dead.
It Inuit he a tit:et to everyone who his to deal with