The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-10 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 10.

We may be very thankful that the late wet
created a supply of gunboats, which may now be of
as great service to us as they would have been
against any European enemy. They have given we
great advantage in China already. We mint
also set them plying actively on The great
Indian riven. Some correspondents of the Leaden
journals have pitted out sewed ef the many
objects add& might be answeesktrem day to day, if
such Teem*. Iligethee with stereos of various taw
citiesoreee SSW rig up sal down the Osage'
and its did lelbabies. The rivers are by Aim
time filling mew the wino owl even in the driest
weather the sir Ilse! it am rebests might go very
high up, carry*, begs esil blip to hundreds of
Europeans now suffusing swim intolerable Ins-
pewit. It is of the simeek importance to our
success in the gam* ebb that the native
population should see Met vithery and wretched-
TOM are the week aft wiethum while protection
and justice ems Ma Se braid tale Feringhoss.
The Tillages see eiliketwg auk hem dr ehe.
flicted by the aabiai. whin the sielbsam Yoe
set at Loge. The banks of this Ganges we aims
with seals, glee, and ether articles fres the
native boats which have been sacked by 111•11111111111.
Wherever one of our steamers appears the Pop

stops. A sufficient force on tie rivers, gunboats
following each other, or rsuoning backwards and
forwards at short intervals, might do more to
attach the natives to us as protectors than any-
thing else at present in our power to do.
It is a matter of even mare immediate interest,
however, that we may thus help many of our suf-
fering countrymen and their families to comparative
security, or means of escape. As many as can be
received on board the Ganges Navigation Company's
steamers are crowding into them, even from distant
stations, distrusting the security of the forts in com-
parison, while no officer can tell whom to trust
among the people within and around the walls.
Our gunboats can protect the passage and embarka-
tion, cover the ferries, mount guard over the
delivery of stores and men into river-side
forts and stations, carry messages, facilitate
supplies of ammunition, and, in short, render
the manifold services of a communicating and defen-
sive agency at once. On the rivers we may be su-
preme. There is no Sepoy force there ; and the very
first aim should be to remove to the cafe element all
the Europeans who cannot fight on land, or whose
duty does not attach them to their posts there. Pro-
fessional and volunteer soldiers should have the field
of action to themselves. It is natural for the young
officers who write home, end for their Mends, to be
thankful that they are single men ; but, though the
anxieties of the unmarried officers arc less over whelm-
ing than those of their seniors, their action is almost
an much impeded by the presence of women and
children. There was scarcely a party of fugitives,
in the first days of the outbreak, that was not
rendered helpless, and cruelly humiliated by the
necessity of yielding, because resistance would have
been avenged upon the women. High-spirited
officers with arms in their hands were stripped and
disarmed by villagers, who were merely overpowered
by the temptation, when but for the presence
of women and children the pillagers might
have been profitably chastised. All this needs
no explaining or proving. Everybody admits the
blessing it would be if India could beat this =anent
clear of all Europeans but fighting men ; of all but
soldiers and sailors, and such civilian" an can keep
emir heads with their own right arm. It may be
as well to inquire, however, whether complete
arrangements have been made fee bringing back
women and children, the aged sal the darkly, in the
vessels which are carrying out troops. Mire mast
be a considerable number of families already within
reach of the great river commiaisatione, as well
as collected in the chief twins ef all the
Presidencies. The sooner they are brought away
the better. The Calcutta people have been wanted,
it seems, to protect themselves, and not rely on the
authorities under present difficulties:, and each a
community is no place for women and children.
When every man has his pistols and and ea hie
bed every night, end his dog tied to the bsdpeet,
the presence of the defenceless must be most de-
pressing.

The assemblage of go many women as will be crowd-
ing into Calcutta, as the way thither opens more and
more, will be a direct incitement to the fanatics to
fall on where they can do most mischief. No other
relief could be comparable to that of sending the
defenceless home as fast as they arrive. This is so
obvious that we trust to hear that transports,or all the
beet of the ships now taken up for that service, are ap-
pointed to return with the women and children, the
aged and sickly; and that notice is sent to the Pre-
sidencies to have sa many as possible ready to em-
bark. We would earnestly press on the attention of
Government the desirableness of sending out stores
of clothing, if not of other comforts, for these desti-
tute creatures. All the fugitives that we have heard
of have escaped with only the clothes on their backs ;
and they have been pillaged of half those, or have lost
them in their Bight through the wilds. If the cloth-
ing should by chance not be wanted, it is easily
brought home again. But it will be wanted, and
most cruelly, by those who go to sea. The break-
up took place in the midst of the heats ;
and it is not likely that one in a hundred
of women and children can be clothed far a sea-

voyage, or be at present able to procure the never
sassy comforts. The loss of property ham been
immense; and such resources r remain mast be
auranged end dispersed. It is for us at home—
heavy r ear hearts are at being able to do so little
—to mart ourselves to relieve our gallant country-
men in India of the heaviest of their solicitudes, end
to being home the seared sufferers whom all
the world is longing to see in miry. There is no
east et which we should not all rejoice to nee this
Ikea. We cowhide it will be dope. If, under pre-
sent circumstances, our gallant brothers over there
sea write of themselves, as a multitude of than do,
BS "in good spirits," "in gm spirits," what
might not be hoped if their ineantreaces wore
re-
moved, and their hearts sheered by the knowledge
that all the helpless were on their way hero P Let
Calcutta and other Bengal stations be relieved in
the ant isetame• ; and then let the ladles of the
other Presideoesies have the power of main home.
And let them get bone: as India esa be no phew
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