The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-24 00:00:00

THE WEEKLY PUSS.

. The Saturday Rerietti taking. b teak bribe
writer. on the Indian quads, semesks :—..The vary
"who, three years age, clamoured et the Ml d *5 new that
the middle clam of Englishmen' ewe ass in their owe
country•, shut oat from their jute share is its prvernment by
the greedy exclusiveness of the aristomeey, en now insisting
that the middle classes should be neared from the only
field in which they have essayed this eposeity for adminis-
trative action. Whether the middle chum can govern at
ail must be proved or disproved by the &greeter of Anglo-
Indian policy. In the East, they have had the country to
thenuelvec They founded the empire by their enterprise,
end extended It by their arms. They have supplied the hit-
MUM majority of its generals, and all but two or three of
Its statesmen. They still administer It with barely

• noblemen or a nobleman's •on among them. And
now the very persons who were for giving them
England to ruts ars making • proverb of ' Indian
misgovernment.' It le pretty well known that we 4111

our best to decry the movement of two year. einem
We celled it unwise, ignorant, precipitate, and barely boned.
What better lamination could we look for than that which
I. furnished ns by the ramp of the administrative reformism
who are for taking India out of the hands of the middle
elms, and making it over to the oonnexions el great noble.
men with great interest, to venal Lama, to the hacks of
parliament, and to the underlings of political clubs t"
The Press makes a strange statement in reference
to the Mate of feeling in Calcutta. It is that signs of mutiny
have made theamelvee apparent among the European troops.
" We hoar that the commending officer of one of her Majes-
ty's regiments hes cionununicsted to the Governor•Gemmil
the fact that bid men are not to be depended on unless their
demands are submitted to, and that the rest of the European
troops have sworn to uphold them if tho government should
venture to resort to force. Wo do not vouch fur the state-
ment, we only my that it has reached us from a source on
which we think we mut rely ; and there can be no indiscre-
tion in thud publicly bringing the matter to the notice of the
euthoraics, Immure it has already been alluded to in terms
minciestly intelligible by meet the koding morninglounrals
Isere. We hope that, with • man like Sir Colin Campbell at
the head of the army, them sparks of mutiny, if they exist,
will be speedily pot out. Still the intelligence that such a
spirit has been exhibited at this early period is not very re•
sewing, more particularly when we remember what a simi-
lar spirit led to nit Cabal when the outbreak occurred."
The Economist observes that the policy of the
Adak of England during the last three years of governing
the rate of interest by the foreign exchanges, and the pres-
sure which exchange trendertione, rather than domestic
transactions, hea brought upon it, te at once a sound and, sio
farm the home trade is concerned, • truly conservative
policy. "It is of infinitely lam importance to the home
trade that a high rate of intermit should be paid fur a time,
than that our resources should be drained so mach to feed
epeculetion in foreign countries, that the ordinary went. of
our merchant. and manufacturers must be curtailed to
en inconvenient and ruinous extent. The lose *ea-
dioned by the depreciation of property under much
circumstances would be much greeter the from any

difference in the rate of discount, even when at the
highest. We have seen the time when healers have
nominally fixed the rata of discount at five per cwt.,
but when their sources of supply were measly dried up by
foreign drains. At the present moment it would be but little

satisletion to the hone trade to awe the rate of diroorit kept
down et 5 or 6 per cent., when the effect would be to drain
. . . . . . .

coariutt of Intllion inoeder to feed a demand &beret, to be

won followed by a Nate of Dutch sore severe restriction at
home. A bigh rate of ruined, Iles a high peke of 4:commo-
dities, is the only true correction of scarcity. AN in the
case of commodities, it acts ae a security fur the future In
three ways —first, r we have shone, it presents the ex-
portation of bullion --neat, it encourages its imp:videos,—
" " "

sad, lastly, it tends to economHse the om of capiiel by modi-
fying transactions already undertaken, and fur the time in-
ducing to past caution in entering into new ones. In every
way in edermately high rate of interest is the beet, nay the
only real comersator of the home trade at a time NE the
resent when, fo almost every great commercial country,
enterprise and speculation have outrun the legitimate mesas
of conducting them."

The Learkr says :—" There is a corps of volunteir

cavalry in one of the diviaime of Kent. Eighty men sae
required, each finding his own hover, but being supplied by
the government with arms uniform., and equipments. The
temp has been organised several month., and numbers
scarcely forty. Infantry volunteer., of course, are mon
wily procurable; but even an artillmy militia might be
Mead on a much lamer scale than at present, if the
mangers knew how to set about their work. In
18.52 certain farm labourers and mechanics of Suffolk ,
worked out a plan by which: they proved how
much might bs effscted in this way if adequate
facilitiee were &Bolded. Five hundred of them masted,
being originally destined for the light infantry branch of the
militia. Ultimately, it was determined to make artillerymen
of then. They assembled for a month's exereiee Ina camp
on the seamy of the Orwell, and after dime weeks' training
want through the envies admirably, parrot med manual and
platoon excrete. and the ordinary evolutions, were capable of
manning the battery guns on Lang.rard Fort, could keep
their tents and themselves it mediae.. end order, could (im-
pish two detacl'eenta for Weld awns could cook well, and
submit under mime, hardily and oboe, fully, to rainy and
windy weather. It would be an excellent thing wen all the
maritime countiee provided with similar organiesUogia; but
we do not hear that the experiment boa been repeated in
more than two or three localities."
Notwithstanding," say. the Jobs Boll," expen-
sive attempts to render it efficient towards the security of the
public, general opinion hem pronounced the pollee force in
that respect a failure. Something is evidently wren either
la the character and constitution of Oa balky, se la the mos
at its deposal for the certain end speedy ieleetiwa If act pr
nation, of crime. We seemed to have armed them with
every weapon of abusing authority and trenching on the
rights of individuals, whilst an increasing conviction of the
insecurity of life and property atteeta our opinion of their
usefulness to be at the very lowest point. A policeman enters
a home of ill-fame in the neighbourhood of Ratcliffe-highway
and ltotherhithee, wakes up the inmates, and threshing to
break down doors if his ingress be impeded, all the while
that he has no ground of suspicion, but merely that he may
exhibit the haunts of vice and profligacy to peregrinating
philenthropiati, or expes ;mentalism upon infamy, at four
o'clock in the mot ring. Ile may take up any gentleman
who witnesses his brutality to an unfortireate homeless one,
who cannot pay her footing to be unmolested in her
frequently self-loathed walk of Mee, end the next retaining
have a dozen of hie division who were never near the cot,
prepared to dovetail evidence, and square inconsistandes be
the total diaconate» of troth. AU this, we say, end steak
more, the Felice may do, yet when a foul murder is etme-
omitted, with strong circumstantial evidence pointing le •
home of ill-fame aa the moue of bloodshed, Wert of
prancing at once epos every bad house In the amalaspila
when the discovery Is fresh, and probably the tram un-
washed out, they have nevem to the dilatory, tad to a
free people ilaapicable, system of spies in plain clothes In-
form the culprits by mean. of the public channels of every-
thing they think or do, and chiefly rely for One/MU upon •
government reward, offered long after the first traces of the
hue Dave been obliterated."

The Literary Gazette observes, in connexion with
a secret case is the Westmluster County Coat :—" It bee
bees always the usage fur authors to Bead to managers their
plays for amoral. The conesel might show how Goldsmith
and others hays complained of the long time that elapsed be-
fore a work was decided upon, bet contemptuous silence about
even the receipt of a work is riot allowable on the past el •
masseger. Editors of newspapers and periodicals advertise
that they do not undertake to return manuscripts. If Mr.
Buckatose and other managers bad published ► similar ad-
vartisamaat, Mr. Foublanque might not hare had ground for
adios, bat the usage of the dramatic profession is on his side,
la the absence of a 'Feria' notice of the kind referred to. At
all events, the result of the trial reeds the lemon that civility
as wallas twenty is the best policy."

1)r. Latham, who has horn engaged by Mean.
Lammas to edit an edition of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary, in
the.. vela.= "wren founds his edition on that which LW
prod maw the wow's eye—the edition of 177& This
nadwiekhig to one of national importance.
Mr. Murray announoes for publication, in two
volassa, Lettere, Deeystahas„ and other Documents relat-
ing to India, by Field-bLershel the Duke of Wellington,"
edited by the present duke. Thew papers hare not been
hitherto published, and have barn enly discovered since the
duke,* death, and eubowpseut to the pritilkatiost of the Wel-
lington, elsepalchoe, edited by Colonel 0 arward.

BRPORT OP THE
.00MMISSIONERS OP WOODS

AND I'OIZSTS.

This morning wee Mined the 25th report Elt the
Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods, Forests, sai Lad
Revenues, together with the accounts, *cholla,. ea It
appears that in the year ended March 31, 18,57, there ham
been granted 38 lessee of land or of houses belonging to the
crown in different counties in England, and not Ming within
the boundaries of any of the royal forests. The property
demised my be divided into three classes, viz. i-1. Farts
or lands for agrieultaral purposes; 2nd. Houses •
3rd. Land fur building imposes The total number
of leases of the lit class amounts to 17. The toted
acreage of the lands comprised in these leases, in
the teenage of Ears, Kent, Lineolo, Southampton, and
Soeses, amounts to about 4,841 a. 3r. 24p. ; and the rents
reserved by them amount, in the whole, to 5,9391.75. 5d.,
subject, in several cages, to a future increase, in consideration
of buildings to be tweeted, or of improvements in drainage to
be made, at the cost of the crown. Of the 2nd Class, 10
keees have been granted of 13 houses in London, one of
three houses at Hampton Court, and one of Cosa Castle, in
the Isle of Wight, at rents amounting in the whole to
1,9711. 10s., and upon payment in four ems of tined amount-
ing altogether to 1,729!. Of the 3rd clan, one lease has
been granted of the site for three houses at Windsor, and two
of the sites for two email tenements which had been erected
en land inclosed from the waste of the manor of Portland;
one lease Ms been granted to the Secretary of State for the
War Department of the site of the old Stationery-Aloe, In
Jams-stnet, Pimlico, and of a parted of ground adjoining the
Wellington Barracks, for the erection of additional barrack
acemmodgion ; and • lease has also been granted to the
trustees of the Junior United Service Club, of the site of the
house in the occupation of that club, the rebuilding of which
has been eseented at the expense of the club, on the sites of
the former clubhouse and of several homes in St Alban's-
place. The leases of these several hoaxes were surrendered
to the crown before the execution el the new lease to the
trustees. Two leases bare 61113 been granted of the sites of
two new bonne in Postern-row, Tower-hill ; and in all
these cares suitable buildings ;have been erected at the ex-
pense of the several lessees before the grant of their respec-
tive leases. The rents reserved under the leases in the 3rd
clan amount in the whole to 9671. 14s,